The Projecting of Love #2

Taking a Stand

February 8, 1984

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we’re very happy to be in this house,
Lord, that You’ve given us to hear Your Word, Lord, to understand It,
to hopefully arrive at that great place the ages have looked forward to,
to be in the image of that One who was the first fruit of all, and we
believe, Lord, we’re a part of that tonight. We have faith to that
end, oh God, and we’re grateful that it is Your doing, the Lord
building the house that the house might not be in vain. The storms come,
and let them come, but we know that whatever comes will not bring that
house down, will not even cause it to be distraught, but it’ll stand
at this end time. We commend ourselves tonight, Lord, that we may know
of Your truth, and we pray that it shall do us good. In Jesus’ Name we
pray. Amen.

	You may be seated.

1.	Now the other Saturday night before communion we took on “The
Projecting of Love” based on Bro. Branham telling us, “When love
projects, then divine grace takes over.” We studied that for a bit,
but I want to get into some more of the background of that same subject
in order that you may know what this love is that has been spoken about.
Now there are several scriptures we’ll read just to begin with, and
one is a portion of 1 Cor 13:8, the first part: “Love never fails.”

	And again in 1 Pet 4:8: 

(8)	And above all things have fervent (love) among yourselves: for love
shall cover the multitude of sins.

	 And again in 1 Corinthians 13: [1 Cor 13:13]

(13)	Now abideth faith, hope, and (love, and) the greatest of these is
(love).

2.	And then, I want to read over in the Book of Matthew, the Sermon on
the Mount, chapter 5; and It says here: [Mt 5:43-47]

(43)	You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shall love thy
neighbor, and hate thine enemy.

(44)	But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you, pray for them (that) despitefully use
you, and persecute you;

(45)	That you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for
he makes his sun to (shine) on the evil and on the good, and sends rain
on the just and the unjust. 

(46)	For if you love them which love you, what reward have you? do not
even the publicans the same?

(47)	And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more than others?
Do not the publicans (even do the same)? (All right.)

3.	With Luke 10 we read verses 25-37: [Lk 10:25-37]:

(25)	Behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master,
what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

(26)	(And) he said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest
thou?

(27)	And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thine heart, with all thy soul, with all thy strength, and…all thy
mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

(28)	And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou
shalt live.

(29)	But (the questioner) willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus,
Who is my neighbour?

(30)	And Jesus answered (and) said, A certain man went down from
Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his
raiment, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

(31)	By chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he
saw him, he passed by on the other side.

(32)	Likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on
him, and passed by on the other side.

(33)	But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and
when he saw him, he had compassion on him,

(34)	And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine,
and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care
of him.

(35)	And on the morrow when he departed, he took (a tupence) and gave
them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever
thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.

(36)	Which of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that
fell among thieves?

(37)	And he said, He that showed mercy on him. Then said Jesus, Then go
thou and do likewise.

4.	 And Romans 13 says: [Rom 13:10]

(10)	Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the
fulfilling of      the law.

	Now, over in 1 Jn 3:14-17:

(14)	We know that we’ve passed from death unto life, because we love
the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

(15)	Whosoever hateth his brother is a murder: and you know that no
murder hath eternal life abiding in him.

(16)	Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life
for us: …we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

(17)	But whoso hath this world’s good, and see his brother have need,
and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love
of God in him?

	And then, back over to Gal 5:14:

(14)	For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself.

5.	Now you can see there is a pretty full coverage here because, if you
love the brethren, if you love your enemies, if you love those that do
you good, and one another, there is nobody that is left out. There is
just nobody that is left out! Now these Scripture verses that have been
presented, have been presented with a deliberate purpose of giving a
humanitarian view of what love is suppose to be all about, rather than
presenting them in the framework of the Scripture from whence they came.
Now that’s what I am doing. I am looking at these scriptures, because
these scriptures are arrested by do-gooders and preachers of love who
eulogize men like Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King—and I’ve got
nothing against them. But there is a misuse of scriptures like this,
because they’re not presented according to how they should be
presented. And I’ve read them, because these are the scriptures that
present a humanitarian view, what is suppose to be love, rather than
presenting them in the actual framework of the Scripture from whence
they came. 

6.	Now, that doesn’t mean these Scripture aren’t legitimate. These
Scripture are legitimate, and we don’t discard them. Now, that’s
what’s wrong with just about everybody that preaches and everybody
that’s preached to. If there are certain things that have been brought
to light, usually then, people go so far they want to just to discard
what is brought to their attention in a controversial manner, when it
shouldn’t be. You don’t discard the Scriptures. We keep them, but we
keep them in their context; that is, we must know how and when to act
according to the Scripture that is presented, so that you don’t get
fouled up. 

	Now, to keep them in their context or framework is to study the
conditions under which the actions of love were taken, and we saw lots
of actions of love here, and we’re told what action of love we are to
do, and that will tell us whether it is love or not. So, we get the
picture. 

7.	And we come up with this in Rom 12:9: 

(9) 	Let love be without hypocrisy. 

	Let love be without hypocrisy. Now, that let’s you know that love can
be pretty hypocritical. The very thing that we are told to manifest
under the conditions that we see here in Scripture, you can come right
around and have a love, which is deliberately a hypocritical love. 

	Now I think that is exactly what Mt 5:46-47 is talking about. So,
let’s go and take a look at It again. It says: [Mt 5:46-47]

(46)	For if ye love them which love you, what reward have you? do not
even the publicans the same?

(47)	And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more than others?
do not even the publicans (the same)?

 	And with that 1 Cor 13:13, and just that first part of It.

(13)	Now abideth faith, hope, (and love, and, of course) the greatest of
these is (love).

	But I want the third verse is really what I do want. Now here it is,
the first part: [1 Cor 13:3]

(3)	And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and (have not
love, it doesn’t) profit me (anything.)

	And yet, we’re told in the Scripture there we’ve got to feed those
who need help. And let’s go to Rev 12:11:

(11)	And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and the word of
their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto death.

8. Okay. Let’s go back to 1 Cor 13:3 again.

(3)	…and though I give my body to be burned, and have not (love) it
profits me nothing.

	So, you can see here that there can be a vastly mistaken love that’s
hypocritical. It’s not the love that the Bible is talking of. And you
can go through the same actions that the real love goes through, but
it’s still not the same thing. Now it can be noticed immediately that
what is simulated love is mostly, if not all, self-seeking. There’s a
self-seeking thing in there. It is hypocritical. To say the best of it,
it’s psychological far more than spiritual. Never forget that every
true law of psychology has to be someplace in the Bible here, because it
is the only authentic book that deals with the psyche or the
‘sookay’, the soul of man. Now there is also a zeal for God that is
called ‘love for God’, and it is a terribly mistaken thing. 

9.	Now, let’s go over here to Jn 16:1-2:  

(1)	These things have I spoken unto you, that you should not be
offended. (“I am warning you,” he said, “the time come you’ll
know that ‘don’t get offended by what happens, because I am telling
you it is going to happen.’”)

(2)	They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh,
(when) whosoever killeth you will think that he’s doing God service.

	Now, that’s zeal. Now we’re warned it’s going to be there. Now
this misguided love of God doesn’t necessarily end in killing and
persecution, but could actually end in dying for God and personal faith,
and it is of no avail. So, it doesn’t necessarily lead you to kill
people. But it could lead you to suffer and sacrifice and doesn’t do
you a bit of good.

10.	So, let’s go to Rom 5:6-8, and I think we might see something
there:

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the
ungodly.

For scarely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a
good man some would even dare to die.

But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us.

	Now you can actually, as Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13: Give your body
to be burned; you can be a martyr. It tells you over here, too, that you
can be just as mistaken because you might hopefully intend to prove a
loyalty toward God as a part of your salvation, when your salvation has
been bought, and you can’t do one thing for it. See? So, you can be in
bad shape. Now, there is very little to be gained in using our time
defining what Christian love really is not, and we are looking at that
when we can get right to the basics.

11.	So, we are going to get to the basics of what Christian love really
is about, where it is founded, what is the true foundation of it. So, we
go to 1 Jn 1:1-7.

(1)	That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we
have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have
handled, of the Word of life;

(2)	(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness,
and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was
manifested unto us;)

(3)	That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that you also
may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the
Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

(4)	And these things write we unto you, that your joy (might) may be
full.

	Now, that’s the family of God. Now you’ve got to know something
about your Father. Now here is what you’ve got to know about your
Father, because you’re supposed to love your father and your mother.
You’re supposed to love your brothers. You can’t hate. Now, what is
it? It tells you. [1 Jn 1:5]

(5)	This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare
unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

	The same light that rose in the east comes all the way to the west. We
are talking about light, illumination, which is revelation. [1 Jn 1:6]

(6)	If we say that we have fellowship with him, and (we) walk in
darkness… (that you walk outside the revelation of the Word of God,
you are a liar, and there is no way you can do truth.)

	There is no way anything will be counted to you. Give your body to be
burned. Go ahead. Sacrifice everything you’ve got. See where it is
going to get you. Now, this is the primary that people don’t want to
listen to. See?

12.	Now: [1 Jn 1:7]

(7)	But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light…

	Now, remember; He is the… Now, what is He in the light? [1 Jn 1:1-3] 

(1)	That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we saw
with our eyes, …looked upon, our hands handled, of the Word of life 

(2)	(For the life was manifested, and we (saw) it, and bear witness, and
show unto you that…light, which was with the Father and was manifested
unto us;) 

(3)	…which we have seen and heard we declare unto you, that you…may
have fellowship with us, and truly our fellowhip is with the Father and
with his Son Jesus Christ. (And, if you understand this, your joy is
going to be full.)

	Now, what is it? God is light; in Him is no darkness at all. Now, if
you ‘walk in the light as He is in the light’, what are we talking
about? We are talking about the fact that Jesus Christ is absolutely the
manifestation of the life, the revelation, the truth of Almighty God.
Now: 

(7)	If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship
one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses…from
all sin.

	 Now, that tells you categorically there, concerning the basic fact of
Almighty God, which is: He is a God of light.

13.	Now, let’s go further. We go to 1 Jn 4:7-10, because we’ve got
to get these things lined up. All right.

(7)	Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one
that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

(8)	He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

(9)	In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God
sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through
him.

(10)	Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and
sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (All right.)

14.	Let us go back to John 3, the gospel, so we can put the thing
together exactly as the Word of God says It, beginning at verse 14. [Jn
3:14-16]

(14)	And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must
the Son of man be lifted up:

(15)	That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal
life.

(16)	For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

	Now, notice the key to the thing. [Jn 3:17]

(17)	For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but
that the world through him might be saved.

	Now that has been categorically done. The sacrifice, the propitiation,
the whole thing is there. 

15.	Now, how do you get it? [Jn 3:18]

(18)	He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth
not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of
the only begotten Son of God.

	Now, watch. This is the condemnation. Now there is a condemnation in
spite of the fact of the death of Jesus Christ, the propitiation for
sins, the Resurrection, the high priesthood, the mediator ship, and the
whole thing. There still is a condemnation. The very condemnation that
the God of love, Who was impersonated in this one who is love, came down
and gave us all of these great things—that did not eliminate
condemnation, because condemnation is still there. [Jn 3:19]

(19)	(Now) this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

	Now It tells you right there. There is no such a thing as loving God
apart from truth. I don’t care what anybody says, the man’s a liar.
Except for the revelation of the hour, there cannot be any such thing as
love, because God and love is the same thing, and truth is the same. [Jn
3:20-21]

(20)	For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to
the light, lest his deeds…be reproved.

(21)	But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be
made manifest, that they are wrought in (Christ). 

	Now you keep that in mind as we get back to Cain later on. 

16.	Now, if we split love and truth apart, we are lost and undone liars
and fit for the Lake of Fire. Now, I am sorry, but that’s the truth.
Now, a lot of people don’t believe that. There’s nobody believes it
but the Bride. Nobody but the Bride ever believed it, because the Bride
has always come out. They have never come out because of virtue; they
have come out because of truth. They never came out because of adultery.
They never came out because of persecution. They came out for one
reason, and that was truth. Now, let’s understand that, and get it
flat. Be it known, and never forget: God is light, God is love, God is
Spirit. (Okay.)

17.	Let’s go to Jn 4:24. Now I am going to tell you, brother/sister,
what happens: People take the pendulum of everything in this Word and
swing it too far every single time. They don’t know how to reconcile
and bring things right down the middle. Now Jn 4:24 says:

(24)	God is a Spirit: (but God is love; God is truth) and they that
worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

	Now It tells you that. So therefore, you’ve got to watch. You can’t
say, “Well, God is love,” and you let it go at that and say
“That’s it.” Then, you might as well go to see where God is
Spirit. 

	“Well, hallelujah, we’ve got nine gifts, and that’s it.”

	You’ve got to divide the Word right. The Holy Spirit baptism is the
Spirit of truth coming upon us, and that’s what the Scripture said,
“When He the Spirit of truth has come…” It didn’t say ‘the
Spirit of love’. It said, “The Spirit of truth.” See? The Spirit
of truth has come upon us. That is the revelation, and the revelation
brings love of truth, and He is the truth. “I am the way, the truth,
the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me.” [Jn 14:6] So, He
lays it out there categorically.

18.	The great fruit of the Spirit is love, the love of God, and for God
in our hearts shed there by the Holy Spirit. See? Now love can’t be
love, real love, unless it is one with the Word. Now that’s the whole
thing. See, there’s always a plum line. Everything has got to be
judged by something; and, when you judge something, there has to be
specifications, and there is only one book of specifications, and
that’s the Word of Almighty God. 

	Now we can read the Scripture and see It. So, I am going to go to 1 Tim
1:4-6 and read.

(4)	Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister
questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

(5)	Now the end of the commandment is (love) out of a pure heart, and of
a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

(6)	From which some (have) swerved having turned aside unto vain
jangling.

	Now according to everybody, you can be a vain jangler and still have an
awful lot of love, and that is going to get you someplace. You could be
off the Word of God by a mile. You can still go back to Luther and
Wesley and Pentecost. “Oh, that’s fine.”

	Well, it’s not fine. It’s just not fine. [1 Tim 1:7-11]

(7)	Desiring to be teachers of the law; (understand) neither what they
say, now whereof  they affirm.

(8)	But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

(9)	Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for
the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly, for sinners, for unholy
and profane, for murders of fathers, murderers of mothers, (and)
manslayers,

(10)	For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for
menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other
thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

(11)	According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was
committed to my trust.

	Now, look; you can bypass all of that stuff because you’ve got a
glorious Gospel. Now, that’s where you start. From there on you’ll
go to your love. And notice what It says here: the end of the
Commandment is love out of a pure heart. [1 Tim 1:5] So, love of the
Gospel. The end of the Gospel will have love out of a pure heart, which
means your love will be based entirely and consistently with the Word of
God, so you’ll end up doing what love really is.

19.	Now: [1 Tim 1:12-14]

(12)	I thank (the Lord Jesus Christ…) I thank Jesus (Christ the) Lord,
who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into
the ministry;

(13)	Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I
obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

(14)	And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and
love which is in Christ Jesus.

	Now He is telling you there, because faith is a revelation.

20.	So, now let’s take that and go to 1 Jn 2:15-28.

(15)	Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If
any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

(16)	For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust
of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the
world.

(17)	And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth
the will of God abides for ever.

(18)	Little children, it’s the last time: and as you’ve heard that
antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we
know (it’s) the last time.

(19)	They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had
been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went
out, that (it) might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

(20)	But you have an unction from the Holy One, and know all things.

(21)	I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but
because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

(22)	Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is
antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

(23)	Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: …

(24)	Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the
beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain
in you, you shall also continue in the Son, and in the Father.

(25)	And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal
life.

(26)	These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce
you.

(27)	But the anointing which ye have received of him abides in you, and
you need not that any man teach you: but as the…anointing teaches you
all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you,
you shall abide in him.

(28)	Now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, you
may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his (presence).
(All right.)

21.	With that we go to 1 Jn 4:1-10. [1 Jn 4:1]

(1)	Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they
are of God: because many false prophets are gone out unto the world.

	Now this man is talking to the family, and this family is the one that
knows the truth, because they are in the truth. Just like he says in 2
Jn 1:1-2.

(1)	The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the
truth…

	How can he love outside of it? You see. There is a different kind of a
love he is talking about. [2 Jn 1:1-2]

(1)	…Not only I, but also all they that have known the truth;

(2)	For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us
for ever.

	See, notice how he… Now he talks about that. Okay. 

22.	Back to 1 Jn 4:1-6, second verse:

(2)	Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that
Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

(3)	And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof
you have heard that it should come; and even now already is in the
world.

(4)	You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because
greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

(5)	They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the
world heareth them.

(6)	We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God
heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of
error.

	All right. We could keep reading like we did before. [1 Jn 4:7]

(7)	Beloved, let us love one another…

	Now this should begin to make you understand why Bro. Branham said how
that you don’t click, don’t clan, don’t separate, but you stay
together. Now, understand that. Many people sing the song, “We are all
one body, not divided we.” They can sing it, but it doesn’t mean two
bits if they got fifteen different doctrines among them. It won’t
work. Now: [1 Jn 4:7-10] 

(7)	(Now) every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
(Notice, the knowing and the loving, they go together.)

(8)	He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. (You can’t
separate the two.)

(9)	In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God
sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through
him. (Then he turns right around and said, “But hold it. That’s
aborgated if you are not in the light.)

(10)	Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and
sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

23. 	Now, what did He do next? He sent the Spirit of truth that we might
know it. All right. Now, that’s 1 Jn 4:1-10. Now we are going to keep
reading 1 Jn 4:11-13.

(11)	Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

(12)	No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God
dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

(13)	Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath
given us of his Spirit. (All right.)

	Look at that verse right there: [1 Jn 4:12] “No man has seen God at
any time.” That is exactly true. No man hath ever seen him. Now he is
telling here, because you haven’t seen him, but you saw him manifested
in a human body, and you saw what love really was; you saw what truth
really was; you saw it all. This gives you to understand that God has
worked out the entire precept of His life, which is love and truth, (Put
it whichever way you want, truth and love.) and also the same thing is
handed down to us so that He might be out worked in our lives.

24.	Now, let’s go here to first to John 1, “No man has seen God at
any time.” That’s exactly right. John 1:18:

(18)	No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in
the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. (That’s ‘made Him
absolutely plain and visible by words’.)

	Now, all right. You come into the understanding that you cannot
understand God in no other way, but by revealed Word; and then, if
you’re against that Word, you’ve got to be antichrist; and, if you
hate that Word, you’ve got to hate God. There is no other way. And the
minute you come against the very thing that God manifests in the hour of
manifestation, and you turn around, and you say you love God, you are an
absolute liar.

	Now, let’s get that flat. Now I’m sorry, but that’s flat.
That’s John 8, John 6, and John 15. In John 15:24 he said, “If I had
not done the works (no) other man did, they had not had sin: but now
they both seen and hated both me and my Father.” And anybody that
comes against divine healing or the ministry of William Branham, which
was programmed in order to prove the truth, which is the Word, which
clearly brings God into view, and says he loves God, he’s a liar, and
the truth is not in him, and he is going to hell; or I’m going to
hell, one of the two.

	Now, let’s get the thing straight. I’m sick and tired of mealy
mouth people that don’t put their heads on the chopping block. They
can talk about love, love, love, love, love, and be with…nothing but a
bunch of Pentecostals. One is hypocrisy and self-seeking, which can go
plumb to inhuman murder. If you get too zealous, that spirit will take
you over—become a spirit to you; and then, you’ll love God, and
watch how you’ll destroy.

	Now I know what I am talking about, because I got the Word behind me.
God is only known by revealed Word. He was the living epistle to God
only because He was the Word made flesh, and we likewise. All right. 

25.	Now we can see how Paul had to withstand Peter in Gal 2:2-5. Now,
here are t   wo men that are brothers. Okay. Paul says here: [Gal 2:2-4]

(2)	I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them the gospel,
which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of
reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. (It is
good to check up with people where you stand. It’s not wrong.)

(3)	But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to
be circumcised:

(4)	And that because of false brethren unawares brought in… 

	Now it sounds like here they tried to circumcise Titus, but no go. Paul
stood in the way. Now I want to find one place where you’ve got to be
circumcised in order to have any way in to the Kingdom of Almighty God.
[Gal 2:4-5]

(4)	(They) came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in
Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

(5)	To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the
truth of the gospel might continue with you.

	Now Paul stood for the Gospel. Now that was the love of Almighty God,
because it’s the truth of God. Then, he stood with his brethren,
because Peter listened to Judeaisers and began to bring something into
the congregation, which was absolutely according to the Word. In other
words he made the mistake of trying to put an old patch on a new
garment. That’s right.

	You say, “Haven’t I got it reversed?”

	No, I haven’t got it reversed, because Peter was sold out, but he
wasn’t sold out all the way. He thought he could bring something over.
That’s what’s wrong with Pentecost. In this Message you bring
nothing over, because every table is full of vomit. You’ve got to have
your minds purified; get your minds lined up. See?

26.	Now, let’s go to Gal 2:11-14.

(11)	But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face,
because he was to be blamed.

(12)	For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the
Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself,
fearing them which were of the circumcision.

(13)	And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that
Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation.

	That is, no doubt, why Paul threw him out. He said, “What kind of
training did you get under me?” 

	People say, “Well, I want to tell you something, that Paul should
have been nice and easy, because you see, God said, ‘You join those
two together.’” 

	I’m going to tell you something: Paul couldn’t afford to be easy.
Paul died for what he believed—withstood every man in the country, but
don’t tell me the man didn’t have love. Right? [Congregation
replies.] Okay, good. Now, have I got far enough? I think so. Oh, yes,
[Gal 2:14]

(14)	But when I saw tht they walked not uprightly according to the truth
of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew live
after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why (do you
compell) the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? (See, we’ve even got two
different natures.)

27.	Okay, let’s go to Gal 5:1-14. Now, watch. [Gal 5:1-2]

(1)	Stand fast therefore in the liberty where Christ hath made us free,
and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

(2)	Behold, I Paul say unto you, if you be circumcised, Christ shall
profit you nothing.

	He is right back to that text on circumcision. You can’t bring an old
patch on a new garment. You can’t begin to place into the Word of
Almighty God for this hour the Word of another hour. That’s why Bro.
Branham said, “When Moses came on the scene, he didn’t say,
“Let’s float this ark down the Nile like Noah did”. He didn’t
get the thing messed up. Jesus never came and got the thing messed up.
John never got it messed up, and Paul never got it messed up; and this
hour, you can’t add this Message to anything, or you have lost your
foundation with God; and then, what good are you to anybody else? Where
is your love now to your brothers? 

28.	What does it matter what you do? Give your body to be burned. Do it
sincerely. Do it honestly. Give everything you’ve got to the cause. Do
it sincerely. Do it honestly. Yes. I know a Pentecostal guy; he was so
sincere as a Pentecostal. They taught him it was wrong to take medicine.
He wouldn’t even take an aspirin. He endured excruciating headaches
year in and year out, and wouldn’t take an aspirin. Then, Bro. Branham
came along. He said, “Boy, all the misery I went through, because I
was taught wrong.” 

	I’m going to tell you, people are going to the Lake of Fire for being
taught wrong, too. Let’s get that down flat, because that’s the
whole thing. Why? Because that’s where Satan got in—teaching wrong.
He taught the woman wrong. That’s how Jezebel got her power. She
brought in her false priesthood, her false prophets. See? 

29.	Now I am going to keep reading here. Now, Gal 5:3-6.

(3)	For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a
debtor to do the whole law.

(4)	Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are
justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

(5)	For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by
faith.

(6)	For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor
uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

	Now, just a minute. What kind of love is your faith going to work by?
The love of the truth, or your faith’s not worth a plug nickel,
because faith is a revelation. But tell me, what is a revelation?
Something’s got to be there ahead of it. You say I got a revelation.
What’s your revelation of? “Well, I just got a revelation.” 

	Well, just a minute, stupid, what is your revelation of? 

	“I just got a revelation.” 

	Oh, goodbye jerk. Goodbye! Look we’re not we’re not dealing with a
bunch of idiots and jug heads anymore. What was your revelation of?
Truth! Word! Okay, now your faith is going to work by that. You can’t
separate love and truth. The minute you do you’re messed up. It
won’t work. Not the way I see Scripture. I can’t see it; you can’t
split God in all kinds of parts. [Gal 5:7]

(7)	(Now) you did run well; who did hinder you that you should not obey
the truth?

	Now It tells you right there. Watch. [Gal 5:6] In circumcision avails
nothing, but faith that worketh by love. You did run well. Now you
don’t have it anymore. Why? Because you don’t obey the truth; so
faith and love goes down the drain. You can’t separate it. There’s
no way. [Gal 5:8-10]

(8)	This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.

A little leaven leavens the whole lump. (Now where have you gone to?)

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you (may) be none
otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgement,
whosoever he be.

30.	Now you say, “What love is that?”

	Well, Paul said, “Let an angel be cursed. Let anybody be cursed that
touches this Word.” [Gal 1:8]

	What love is that? You fool around with this stuff and put psychology
in here and your own do-goodism in here, and I’ll tell you… Oh,
brother… Don’t… Look. Forget it. I ain’t got time for you. Just
don’t come around me. [Gal 5:11]

(11)	And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer
persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

	What offence of the cross? He said, “I preach nothing but Christ and
Him crucified. I preached a Messiah hanging on a cross and dead for
sins.” Now, if he’d have preached Messiah and gave a little, bent a
little… “That’s wonderful, Paul. You’re a great guy.” 

	The minute he hit the truth, it was over. 

	“Paul you’re a scum.” 

31.	Now, where was Paul’s love of what he taught before he got born
again? He had a zeal for God without knowledge, and he went killing
people, and he had love. Uh, let’s go back and read what Paul said
over here in Philippians. Let’s find out just what can go on in
people’s hearts and minds, until they’re put right. Now he says here
in Philippians. [Phil 3:4-6]

(4)	Though I might have confidence in the flesh. If any…man thinketh
that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more.

(5)	Circumcised the eigth day, (There’s his circumcision.) of the
stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of the Hebrews; as
touching the law, a Pharisee;

(6)	Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness
which is in the law, blameless.

	Huh! Oh, he had a very convenient religion. What did he do? Wash his
pots and pans or wash his face or something; then, go out and kill. Boy,
he had a set up. Didn’t he? 

32.	Let’s read back in Galatians here again. [Gal 5:12-14]

(12)	I would they were even cut off which trouble you. (That is ‘they
be castrated’, no seed. What it really means: their mouth’s sewed up
or their heads chopped off.)

(13)	For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty; only use not
liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
(Now that word ‘love’ is in there again. See?)

(14)	For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shall
love thy neighbor as thyself. (Who’s your neighbor? The man that did
you good. The man was helpful. See?)

	 Okay. We must realize that all the while the whole church world talks
about the love of God, it is going straight to the antichrist. 

33.	Let’s go to 2 Thessalonians 2. [2 Th 2:7-12]

(7)	For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he (that)
letteth will let, (or allow) until he be taken out of the way (or
prevent, rather).

(8)	Then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with
the spirit of his mouth, and destroy with the brightness of his coming:

(9)	Even him, whose (presence) is after the working of Satan with all
power and signs and lying wonders,

(10)	And with all deceivableness of urighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved.

(11)	And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they
should believe (the) lie:

(12)	That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had
pleasure in unrighteousness.

	Now you can see right here the truth supersedes love, that you
haven’t got a clue about anything until you have truth. Until you have
a revelation, you simply don’t have a clue. And It says at the end
time they positively believe the lie because they turn down the truth,
and there is no love of the Word in them. There is no love of the truth
in them, and consequently, they will do the will of Satan, which is not
necessarily mass murder, but every trick in the book is seduction to
bring the people in. They won’t even know there in it until it is too
late. You can’t have a better church than the Roman Catholic Church
for that one. You can even pay for your sins ahead of time. Pay an
indulgence, and it’s love. It’s fine. Got enough money you can buy
an annulment to your marriage.  

34.	Let’s go to 1 Jn 3:11-13. I want to weave the Scripture back and
forth to see some of these things. 1 John 3:11-13:

(11)	For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we
should love one another.

(12)	Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And
wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his
brother’s righteous.

(13)	Marvel not, my (brother), if the world hate you.

	Now, who was Cain? The world. Who was he? Serpent seed. Now he hated.
Now It says right here a brother is not going to hate. Now then, the
minute you find an organization hating those that pull out for the
truth, they’re serpent seed. I don’t care what anybody says. The
Word of God says so.

	“Oh, Bro. Vayle there are some nice people.”

	Don’t you understand Eve was seduced, not raped? Merciful God, I will
preach a thousand more years and the people will still think she was
raped, that such a thing happened. They’ll still think that love, that
that this misguided love, can end up in anything but total disaster. No,
because they’ve got the wrong conceptions of love.

35.	Now he said, “This is the message that you heard in the beginning,
that we should love one another.” Just a minute! There are two
messages from the beginning. One is Word and one is love, and you
can’t have one without the other, or you don’t know what love is.
You don’t know what zeal is. You don’t know anything, because there
is only one way to find out about the unseen God and that is to have
somebody tell you out about Him. Then, from there on, if you fall in
love with Him, you have fallen in love with the truth. That’s what the
Bible says.

	Why was it that Cain hated this man that was his brother in the
community spirit?

	“Oh, say that’s a brother.”

	Hogwash. Don’t give me that brother stuff about Cain and Abel being
brothers. They didn’t have the same father. Jesus wouldn’t take that
nonsense about Him being a brother to those Pharisees. He said, “I
know you’re Abraham’s seed, but you’re not his children,” [Jn
8:37-42] because it lay in election. No, somebody’s messed up, but
we’re not by the grace of Almighty God. 

36.	Let’s begin to see the truth of it, standing up for the truth,
standing up with a strong stand, taking your stand even unto death and
defying the antichrist forces. Brother/Sister that is not hate. That is
love. Then, you watch who turns on you and pulls you down and kills you.
It’s not going to be the guys that are left with you. Oh, you’ve got
a mixed multitude that came out, and there is always a mixed multitude,
until the final line of declension.

37.	Now then, we might also read Tit 3:5-11, and begin to see where we
stand.

(5)	Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to
his mercy he saved us, by washing of regeneration, and renewing of the
Holy Ghost;

(6)	Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

(7)	That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according
to the hope of eternal life. (All right. It tells us here very…
Let’s read on further.)

(8)	This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm
constantly, that they which have believed in God (may have) be careful
to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
(Now, watch.)

(9)	But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and
striving about the law; for they are unprofitable… .

(10)	A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition
reject;

(11)	Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being
condemned of himself.

	Now he tells you right there that you’ve got to check the watch. No
matter how much you walk in love, there is one thing that comes ahead of
every action. That’s truth. Now It says, “Get rid of that guy.
Reject him.” Why? Because he’s plum off the Word of God.

	Now someone could say, “Well, that’s not love,” and say, “You
just work on that guy until you win him.”

	Then, why didn’t Moses work on Pharaoh? Why didn’t Jesus take time
with Herod and Agrippa? They wanted to know certain things, and he just
passed them right on by. See? Now then, the church must be kept clean.
Love does not let things slide, because love is corrective.

38.	We go to Hebrew 12. [Heb 12:1-5]

(1)	Wherefore seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of
witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin (that) easily
beset    us, (That’s unbelief.) and let us run with patience the race
that is set before us,

(2)	Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the
joy set before him endured the cross, despised the shame, and is set
down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Now, remember; we are
suppose to be set down with him in the in Revelation 3. Now, watch.)

(3)	Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against
himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

(4)	Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. (Now sin
is unbelief.)

(5)	And ye…

	And I’ll tell you…lot…and people died for their belief. See? Now,
remember; Jesus said, and He caught them in a trap “For which good
deed do you stone me?”

	And they said, “For no good deed. We love it all. But you opened your
fat mouth, and you declared yourself to have a relationship to God,
which we don’t have; separating yourself as though you’ve got it and
we don’t. And we are going to kill you for that.”

	Come on, smarten up people. You weren’t born yesterday. You weren’t
born in a haystack; animals are. Oh, that’s right.

39.	Now: [Heb 12:5-11]

(5)	…have you forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto
children, My son, despise not chastening of the Lord, nor faint when
thou art rebuked of him:

(6)	For whom the Lord loves he chastens, (He’s got one message at the
end time. Repent and get ready for chastisement.) and scourges every son
he receives.

(7)	If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what
son is he whom the father (doesn’t train)?

(8)	(If you’re) without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then
(you are illegitimate), and not sons.

(9)	Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and
we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjecion unto
the Father of spirits, and live? (Now, what is the great Spirit? Spirit
of teaching, spirit of truth)

(10)	For they verily…(took) pleasure; but he for our profit… (In
other words they got mad at us, and they whopped us; but now this one…
God never does things like that.) 

(11)	No chastening (of ) the present seems joyous, but grievous: (there
is after) the peaceable fruit of (the spirit, them that exercised
thereby and so on right on down the line.) righteousness unto them which
are exercised thereby.

(12)	Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

(13)	And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be
turned our of the way; but let it rather be healed.

(14)	Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall
see the Lord:

(15)	Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any
root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be
defiled;

(16)	Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for
one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

(17)	For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the
blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though
he sought it carefully with tears. (All right.)

	But, watch this. The sinner can hate you because of your faithfulness
to God. The old sinner, Cain, and every sinner like him, will hate you
because of your faithfulness to God, and you cannot correct him. You can
only defend your faith and, then, walk in love. In other words you
don’t want to do him any harm. You don’t wish him any harm, and you
will not do him any harm, but you stand for the way you’re going, or
you’re an idiot. You stand up, and you’re counted. You don’t join
with him. You’ve got to make a separation.

	It doesn’t mean either that he can walk all over you, whoever he is,
reprobate or whatever. Paul appealed to the law. Jesus said, when
persecution got too hot in one city. “Go to another.” [Mt 10:23] God
always had martyrs. Paul died for him. Peter died for him. Thomas died
for him. Polycarp died for him. Millions like us died for him.

40.	Let’s go to Heb 10:30-39: [Heb 10:30-33]

(30)	For we know him that hath said, Vengence belongs unto me, I will
recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

(31)	It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

(32)	But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you (are)
illuminated, (Notice, you are illuminated.) you endured (with) a great
fight of afflictions;

(33)	(And) partly, while you were made a gazingstock both by reproaches
and afflictions; and partly, while you became companions of them that
were so used.

	Now he tells you right here: When you’ve got the truth is when they
stepped on you. Now, that shows just what love you’ve got and what
love you don’t have.

	Now, number one: the love goes to God and to His Word, so you don’t
say, “I’ll compromise with you dear people. Oh, I know you love the
Lord like me.”

	No sir. If you get clobbered, you’ve got to stand up. Now then, if
you defend those that have the right to stand up for the truth,
they’ll clobber you. That’s what old Nicodemus said. He said,
“Just a minute,” he said, “our law doesn’t judge a man until he
gets into the courts.” 

	“Ah,” they said, “Shut up, fat head; are you one with him?” 

	“Now, what for?”

	“For the truth.”

	Oh, let’s understand that Satan is not going to… He’s not going
to fight you for good works. He is not going to fight you for all this
love that’s out there. He won’t fight you for one thing that you do
outside of ‘you stand for that Word’. Then, when you stand for that
Word, he will do everything he can to make you look silly.

41. Now Heb 10:34-38.

(34)	For you had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the
spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves you have in heaven a
better and an enduring substance.

(35)	Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great
recompence of reward. (What confidence? Your faith in your revelation.)

(36)	(But) you’ve got need of patience, that after you have done the
will of God, you might receive the promise. (What’s the will of God?
Stand still.)

(37)	For a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not
tarry.

(38)	Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul
(has) no pleasure in him.

	Then, he never was in the purpose of God, if he drew back, because It
says, “The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hands; not
somebody drawing back.” He said, “I’ll lose none.” Then, Paul
said, [Heb 10:39]

(39)	(It proves that) we are not of them who draw back unto (chaos and)
perdition; (going to hell. We are) of them that believe to the saving of
the soul.

42.	Okay. With that we go to Peter, 1 Pet 4:1-2.

(1)	For then as much as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm
yourselves likewise in the same mind: for he that suffers in the flesh
(ceases) from sin;

(2)	That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to
the lusts of the men, but to the will of God.

	How do you know the Will of God? How do you know anything except by the
revealed Word? You talk about the Word. You just can’t go to the Word
and call it revealed. You got to have someone that God talks to reveal
It. What about those Seventh Day Adventists out there and Armstrong and
that bunch? They’re plum perverted. It is a spirit of hell. Come on.
Smarten up. 

	“What,” you’ll say, “Look at their great programs.”

	Fine, they got programs, absolutely, and they’ll die for it.
They’ll send missionaries. Look at your two by twos. They’re so
cooped up, only God knows how cooped up they are and stupid. They send
them out two by two and said, “Now you can’t get married; can’t
have a home.” 

	What nonsense. They’re Roman Catholic. They talk about being born
again. Oh, they’ll read you scripture. They’ll do nice things, and
they’ll go to hell doing it. There’s a criterion somewhere down the
road. The prophet laid it out. Absolutely. [1 Pet 4:3]

43.	(3)	For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the
will of the Gentiles, when walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of
wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: 

	Well anybody knows you shouldn’t do that, except the idiots who say,
“Well, why don’t you do some of those things? What’s wrong?”
Verse 5: [1 Pet 4:5-8]

(5)	(Who shall give) Who shall give account to him that is ready to
judge the quick and the dead.

(6)	For for this cause was the gospel preached unto them that are dead,
that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live
according to God in the spirit.

(7)	But the end of all things is at hand; (wherefore) be sober, and
watch unto prayer.

(8)	And above all things have feverent (love) among yourselves: for
(love) shall cover the multitude of sins.

	Now, what multitude of what sins? Unbelief. Hogwash. It is going to
cover the attributes, because you’re in the flesh. I don’t care how
perfect you and I believe the Word of God. There is no perfection this
side of the Resurrection. That’s what he is talking about there, but
there will never be any excuse for anybody off that Word. 

	One Word off is Satan’s kingdom. Either believe it, or tell the
prophet to shut up, and drop dead. He’s already dead. Do you think God
killed him in judgment because he lied to us? If you don’t think one
Word off is Satan’s kingdom, how one Word took Eve and the whole human
race out, “Thou shalt not die.” [Gen 3:1-6] “Thou shalt die.”
She added ‘not’. She said ‘not’. That was it. That was it. Six
thousand years of almost hell on earth. [1 Pet 4:9]

44.	(9)	Use hospitality one to another without grudging. 

	 Hospitality, that is one thing everybody in this church ought to know
right from A to Z. 

	You say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, I have a hard job.” 

	Well, get over your hard job. 

	“Well,” you say, “I believe the Message.” 

	That’s fine, then, do this. That’s why I commend you people to
learn to be good cooks, bring good things to eat for people coming in.
You think that doesn’t go down in God’s record. I got news for you:
the very Garden of Eden, Eve looked and she said, “Why, it was
pleasant to the eye.” [Gen 3:6] Put the thing in the category of food.
Sex is not the only thing that’s pleasant to the eye. Eating and
drinking is pleasant to the eye. Hospitality. 

	I’ve seen hospitable people like this: they kick you out the door. I
understand there are preachers’ wives who are so hospitable, they
might know you come in… I’ll forget that one. [1 Pet 4:10-16] 

45.	(10)	As every man that received the gift, even so minister the same
one to another, as good stewards of the mainifold grace of God. (That
takes in the whole Word whether you know or not.)

(11)	(Now) If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; (What
God said or shut up.) if any man minister, let him do it as of the
ability which God gives: (That’s the Holy Spirit Himself will take
that gift and use it.) that God in all things may be glorified through
Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

(12)	Think it not strange concerning the fiery trials (that) try you,
(my beloved) as though some strange thing happened unto you:

(13)	Rejoice, inasmuch as you’re partakers of Christ’s sufferings;
(then) when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with
exceeding joy.

(14)	If you be reproached for the name of (Jesus), happy are you for the
spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on (your part on) their part
he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

(15)	But (don’t) let none of you suffer as a murder, or as a thief, or
as an evildoer, or as a busybody (or) in other men’s matters.

(16)	(Yet) if any man suffer (do it) as a Christian.

	Now, what is it? Right back to the Word, right back to the Word. See?
You just can’t get away from it. However, never forget: they died for
truth, which is light for God is light, and in Him is no darkness. He is
the truth, and in Him is no lie. Thus we set the record straight. Like
Moses we bear and forbear, but once that Word is struck at, we are
engaged in mortal combat and may be struck down by Cain, the serpent
seed. 

	All men who deny the Word are not serpent seed. Foolish virgin don’t
have oil either, but they just missed the Word for the hour. They
don’t have the Holy Spirit. They can’t get it. But, watch the two
groups: Cain and the foolish virgin. Now they’re different. We know
there are. 

46.	Now, let’s look at the Book of Revelation through the Church Ages,
and we’re going to see what I am talking about, so no one here can
miss it, unless there is something radically wrong with us. Okay, Rev
2:1-7, verse 2:

(2)	I know your works, your labour, and your patience, (you can) not
bear them that are evil: (Now, how?) Thou hast tried them which say they
are apostles, and are not, and have found them liars.

	Now Bro. Branham said, “They stood before those men and said,
‘You’re false apostles.’” 

	You say, “That went over like a lead balloon.” 

	They said, “Just a minute, why do you call us false apostles?”
Because you’re not saying what Paul said!

	Now we’ve got guys running through this country… And people hate
me, because I raise my voice, and I know the men they go to, and they
make Bro. Branham a false prophet. And I am supposed to be nice to that
guy? You give me one reason I should be nice to that man. I’ve got a
job to withstand, to uncover his lies. 

	“Oh,” you say, “Bro. Vayle would you help him—give him
money?” 

	I would give him money to get out of town, but not to come to town. I
would not give him one nickel to go out and do the work of the devil.
Now, if he were starving or injured, I would help him, but I can not
shake his hand and say, “God bless you.” 

	Get that flat in this church. We’re too loose. We’re not like
people out there. I’ll tell you, we all may go to the Lake of Fire,
but I tell you: we will have more light getting there, I believe, than
the rest of them. Yes, we’ll come a lot closer to reality than
what’s out there. I don’t believe we are going to go to the Lake of
Fire. I think…I believe we are going to go straight to the Marriage
Supper. 

47.	Now, Rev 2:3:

(3)	(You have) borne, and (had) patience, and for my name’s sake (and)
labored, and not fainted. 

	Now, listen. You bore, you had patience for my Name’s sake, you
labored, and you didn’t faint. Now the love was toward Him, because He
is love, and He is truth, He is light. Now, how are you going to have
any love for God and any love for the brethren, if you don’t stand
with the truth? because that is where deception is, that’s where all
of sin is. I said “all of sin,” and that is exactly right, because
sin as we view it is, smoking and drinking, are the attributes.

48.	Now, let’s go to the same Book, same chapter. [Rev 2:13-15]

(13)	I know your works, and where you dwell, even where Satan’s seat
is: (you) hold fast my name, (have) not denied my faith, even in those
days Antipas was my fathful martyr, who was slain where Satan dwelleth.

	All right. Now, this man died for what? For Christ? Only on the grounds
of the Word.

(14)	I have a few things against thee, because you have there (those)
that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a
stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed
unto idols, and to commit fornication. (Now see, that’s not the Word
of God.)

(15)	(You have) them that held the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which
thing I hate.

(16)	Repent; or I’ll come unto you quickly, and fight against them
with the sword of my mouth.

	Now he tells you. What is it that brings judgment? Anti-word. What is
He judged by? Word. Okay.

49.	 Now, here is my point in these two messages I have been preaching.
For the first time in all our years we are standing for a revealed Word.
We see the light. We believe it. We are here to defend it, to preach it,
and hopefully have the grace to die for it; that our stand and our fight
is the fight of faith, and it is not a personal fight. Now I know
everything that people spread around the world is going to be: “Well
hey, it’s a personal fight.” Believe me it is not a personal fight,
except for this one thing: God became a person, Satan becomes a person,
and we are persons; and the truth is in us, or the truth is not. We are
either the bastards of truth or the bastards of the anti-truth. That
demands a showdown. Now, let’s understand it.

	In this precious plateau that we’ve come to, we can project love to
all on a united front, one body and no divisions, only correcting our
conduct in the presence of the love of God, Who is love, Who is the
Word.

	Now, what I am trying to say there is this: that it is easy to take
sides, and you have people taking personality sides, and that’s
what’s entirely erroneous. If there is something that is wrong where
the Word is right, then you’ve got to take your stand with the Word,
or you’re wrong. And it doesn’t have a thing to do with personality.
See?

50.	Now we’ve come to a place where we haven’t been previously,
which is an understanding of the Word, which was not amongst us. Now I
can’t say any thing for any other group, and I care less. I am only
interested in us. That is why you have your sessions, and you have been
doing it where you talk the Word, where you bring your questions, and I
am available to answer any question I possibly can, because we have a
united front on the Word. See? 

	Now, that’s the only thing you stand for is the Word. The minute you
make it a personality, you’re wrong. Now the person himself can be
stood for only because of the Word. 

51.	Now you may say, “Oh, this fellow’s a wonderful man.” 

	Well, go and have him. Be my guest. That’s your business. We’ve got
a different principle here. Our principle is this, that we fight for the
Word, which means we stand for the Word. Then one day the Word is going
to stand for us. 

	Now, remember that man, that fellow that came before God in Bro.
Branham’s little message that little illustration… His name was
Daniel Carry. They couldn’t find his record, and just about as soon as
he was to go down in defeat there was a voice so sweetly he heard behind
him say, “Father, He stood for me on earth. I’ll stand for him
now.” 

	Now, just a minute: Let’s get that flat. That wasn’t Jesus a man,
per se, that Daniel Carry liked, and talked about, and did so much over.
It was because of that Word, because Jesus Christ can excuse nobody,
nobody, but nobody. No way. There’s got to be a judge. There’s got
to be. He is the Judge, and that is the Word. We saw the Word in our day
reveal every thought and every intent. Now I hope you see It.

52.	To stand for Christ is to stand for the Word even unto death, the
loss of friends, the loss of family or whatever. Now I know some may
say, Bro. Vayle you’re really pushing it pretty hard when you talk
about family. A minister I know is hated by his relatives today. His
brothers are into worldly sin, and his father still spits on that kid,
and wants his son to be like those that are turning into bums. He is the
one that had the brains and the money to start where the family is
today, but they can’t stand him. They hate him, because he believes
this Word. 

	Now, let’s get this flat. That’s why we take a strong stand here.
He can’t talk to his parents about the Word. I’ve got children,
there’s no use talking… If I slip something in it’s… [Bro. Vayle
hits pulpit.] Where is it? I’ve got sisters who say they believe this
Message. How much? I’ve got one sister that believes, I believe, right
down the line, but I don’t think two could be utterly weaned out of
Pentecost; and so, if we have conversation, we go to a blank, to a
place, and I slide off over here. Sure.

53. Communication breaks down, brother/sister, and love breaks down, and
everything breaks down when it comes to this Word. This is where this
group, the Bride has the edge. They are the only ones who can manifest
true love, because the Scripture says, “How can you say you love God,
whom you have not seen, if you hate your brother?” That’s right! You
can’t hate your brother; because, if you’ve got a revelation of this
Word, you’ve seen God. Your brother has, too.

	That’s why I talk to young people: You get married, you better have
the right wife. You better, because if she doesn’t love this Word, or
he doesn’t love this Word, you’ve got problems. You’re asking for
trouble. You’re not equally yoked. You’re unequally yoked.

54.	The day of talking about love apart from the Word is gone. Listen,
the day of talking about anything apart from revealed Word is gone,
because either we have access to the entire mystery, or William Branham
is going to have to come back, or God is going to have an eighth
messenger or something. That doesn’t cut. The prophet said,
“Everything under the seals, which the thunders were entailed in, gave
us rapturing faith—everything to put us there. We’ve got everything
to withstand the wiles of the devil, to stand united, to be indivisible,
to be one in Christ and one with each other.” That’s right exactly
where we stand.

	Listen, my brother/sister, Rev 18:4 has not yet finished coming to
pass: “Come out of her, my people.” How many times we might have to
come out of God-knows-what, I don’t know.

55.	Now I am going to quote two things the prophet said, and we’re
finished for tonight. Paragraph 112 in “Oneness”: “Can a man who
believes in all the Word of God have unity with them who just believe a
part of the Word of God?” Well, no way. God wants separation. Now,
let’s get to “Total Deliverance”, paragraph 58: “Then we’ve
got to have a man that we believe that preaches the Word of God. If the
man don’t do it, then get somebody who does do it” That’s the way
you must stand. People don’t like that. They say, “Where is the
love?” Do you want a deceiver in your pulpit? Now, what about if the
deceiver doesn’t get out? Now I’m not talking about us. I am talking
about just anybody. There is only one thing you could do. You get out.

	If I come to the place that I am off the Word of Almighty God, and I
won’t get out, and I got ways to keep in here, then you get out, or it
shows you’re an idiot. Then, all of my talk, and all of your talk, is
just a bunch of hogwash.

	You say, “Well, I’m…I’m going to do this thing by love.”

	Then, you are a way ahead of God. Because God so loved the world He
gave His Only-begotten Son in Jesus…loved those sheep. He died, and
yet It says, “In the volume of the Book it is written concerning
me.” It was already written. So, whatever love is, as an action, which
is projected, it had better be the Word.

56.	Now you say, “What about William Branham? He stopped those insects
from biting him.” 

	There could be even a devil could do that, brother/sister, because that
wasn’t the proof of very much. The bull never got up and attacked him.
That doesn’t need the proof of too much either. I’ll tell you where
the big proof was, as William Branham stood there and that demoniac
came, and He said, “Satan,” He said, “because you have tempted
God, come against a servant of the most high God, I command you to fall
at my feet,” and there is love for that man in Christ Jesus as he
preached the Word of God. Now we’re getting somewhere. Yes, you can
deal with nature; that’s fine. But you start dealing with the human
race, which has a human nature, and there is only one way that God ever
dealt with anybody, this One that’s called love, and that is by truth,
which is that Word, which is a revelation.

57.	So, all I am trying to get you people to understand why I preached
what I preached on Saturday was this: I believe that we have a unanimity
here, which is something to a degree we haven’t had previously,
because we stand for the same Word. We stand with the same
understanding, and as long as you will stand with the understanding and
stand with that Word the best in your heart and the best in your mind.
You are not going to go too far, because all you will get into are the
sins of the flesh, your weaknesses and those things; and, if you’re a
true child of God, you’ll be wanting to have them corrected. You’ll
be praying about them, because you don’t like them any better or as
much as anybody else likes them. I like my bad points a whole lot less
than anybody in this building. You might not believe that, but it is the
truth, and I believe you are in the same category.

	These things that you and I can get wrapped up in that don’t come
from the reality of that which lies within the soul, but you’ve got
that nature you’re dealing with, which is in the flesh, to want to
take it a little bit easy, a little bit soft, little fears, and those
things come in. Sure. They’ll come in any place, brother/sister.

58. I am going to tell you something. You watch the people out there
that fight real truth. They always go right down the line and talk about
their great love.

	I’ve been criticized by Mr. Jones. This won’t go off the tape. If
it does go out it doesn’t bother me at all, because I’ve got his
tape that said it.

	He said, “Lee Vayle ain’t got any love.” He said, “That’s his
trouble.” 

	I don’t have a harem either. I don’t have two souls and blaspheme
the Word. I don’t pull the stuff that he pulls off. Yes, because I
don’t shoot my mouth off to make myself some seducer to the
congregation. You can go anytime you want, and stay if you want. I talk
tough, but I love all of you like I’ve never loved any group of people
in my life. And the fact that I’ll stick around here shows I’ve got
love I’ve never had in my life before with a group of people, because
I’m always down the road. Mr. Jones and these guys can say what they
want; but, if I’ve got a manifesting in wanting a sixteen-year-old
girl to satisfy my lust… You see, you might not have much left. 

	I might have needs—fine—and get a whole lot back with shots and
things, if I wanted to. I don’t have any appetite for it. Not because
I am a virtuous person, but there is a love of Almighty God that says
you don’t defile that person. Now, you say you love God. That man’s
a liar. 

	Let’s get this flat, brother/sister. There is something wrong with
the people that will have a minister that preaches so off the Word of
God, so far off the truth, and hang around him, then pull a
self-righteous act later on. I can’t quote this to be the truth,
because I don’t believe the man who said it. He said, “There is a
tape where Bro. Branham said, he said, ‘If a feral preacher leaves the
Word you leave him, because God has already left him.’” I don’t
know that Bro. Branham said it, but I can really believe that Bro.
Branham did say it. 

59.	Sure love is great. I believe in love. I believe in being kind. I
believe in being generous, hospitality, all these things,
brother/sister, where we extend ourselves and play ourselves out, and
even lay down our neck for the brethren. But, what good is it, if
you’re not in the race? because the blood of Jesus is no good, if
you’re not in the light. Then, what do you think you’re going to do
with your blood and your life? Come on. 

	Now, that’s why it is so important to be in the truth, to stand with
it, and to keep standing, and keep standing, keep standing, in this
truth. And believe me that this Word is going to get a hold of
you—that as you stand with this Word, this Word is going to stand with
you, and the illumination coming more and more. You’ll find what it is
to really walk in love. And you know what you’re going to find?
You’re going to find that a lot of fears you had, a lot of foibles,
and a lot of weaknesses you had—where you maybe didn’t have the
gumption to stand right up, and be counted—you’re going to find
you’ll be able to go, not in a spirit of hardness or a spirit of
rottenness, but you’ll be able to go in a meekness to talk to people,
help people, because you know yourself you haven’t arrived, but you
know you’re standing with what is going to get you there.

60.	Remember, Bro. Branham categorically said, “The camels that
Rebecca watered got her there to the bridegroom.” All right. We’re
doing the same thing with that Word. Now Bro. Branham is no camel.
It’s that Word. Bro. Branham said, “It is the wife who ministers to
the husband what that husband provides,” and that Word was provided
for a Bride to minister. Let us stay with this Word and understand, and
keep our spirits down. We’re not fighting people. No way, shape, and
form. They’re not nes… They’re not serpent seed.

	I’ve been told I said that certain people are serpent seed. I
haven’t said that, but right tonight my message tells you, as “The
Ones in Between” told you, there’s a people in between who don’t
know the good people that are turned aside. They’re not in the
election. Now they may raise and kick they’re heels, but I want to
tell you something: you got to leave them, brother/sister. You got to
leave them, because the wise virgin doesn’t have a thing to do with
the foolish virgin. I am sorry, but understand what I am saying. See?

	I am not trying to make you hard. You don’t get hard this way. You
soften down to understand. See? I believe I’ve covered everything I
need to cover to let you know this. I believe we’re growing in grace,
the knowledge of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I believe we’re
growing in love. Don’t let it slip. 

61.	Now I am going to tell you another thing. I have stuck my neck out.
I have given everybody in this church a chance to rise up now. Did you
catch what I said? You didn’t understand me, did you? Once I have said
this and stuck my neck out, Satan will try to use every single person
from the pulpit down, in this church, to prove this statement wrong,
that we haven’t got it. So, you better watch. You better watch your
hospitality, your kindness, where you’re proofed. 

	You have just one thing to hold on to, precious brother/sister,
tonight: that’s the revealed Word. And I am banking on that Word to
produce everything that is to be produced in us, to give us the
strength, the character. As Bro. Branham said, “Let me find a woman of
such character to stand still, listen to that Word, to stand still unto
the waters of separation, to be dressed” In other words, to begin to
come forth according to Word.

	I tell you, I’ve got faith enough to know tonight this: if we’re
not Bride there is somebody out there that is going to produce, (You
bet.) that will walk in love—that will walk in real love.

62.	 Ministers are criticized. Oh, yes. They get up, and they defend the
people by setting maybe a deacon down. The deacons get mad, or they
bring a couple in and say, “Hey, you watch that kid of yours. That
child is old enough now to know better. He speaks under your table,”
some of the teenagers. That’s what… No, I am not talking about
babies. Don’t worry about babies. I can handle babies. They get old
enough where they are too big for their britches, both boys and girls.
The preacher hauls them in and says, “Look, that boy obeys in your
home, or you’re no longer a deacon, or you put him out.” Oh, love
wouldn’t do it. The preacher says, “Hold it. [Bro. Vayle taps
pulpit.] I’m not dealing with your boy and you. I am dealing with the
whole church, and it starts right there.” Oh, people don’t think
that’s love. That is love, because love is corrective.

63.	Love is a standard. There is a lot more to love than people think.
It’s not this wishy-washy stuff where you take psychological rules out
of the Bible and use them. Let me tell you something, brother/sister,
you can use love like a Christian Scientist, like a Unitarian, like
anybody you want, a Mohammedan, or like a Hindu, and you can bring
tremendous things to pass, but it will not get you the Kingdom of God.
It is the blood of Jesus Christ coming to you by the Holy Spirit
revelation that’s going to get you there, and nothing else will. So,
whatever then, if that’s where it starts, then that’s where it
continues, because you can’t add or take a word. You can’t change a
horse in midstream.

	The first message, brother/sister, is God is light and in Him is no
darkness. And, if you don’t believe that, you don’t believe
sovereignty. Yes, yes, in the beginning was the Word; the Word was with
God, the Word made flesh. And Bro. Branham said that was the attributes
of love made flesh from that Word. If there a Word that is true, it’ll
be in a vessel, and that love of God will come, brother/sister. We’ve
been taught wrong. Now that we’re taught right, let’s go on with our
living.

	Let’s rise and stand and be dismissed.

 

	Heavenly Father, We praise you again for love, mercy, and grace, your
kindness unto us. Gracious heavenly Father, we do thank you for the love
of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. We don’t claim to
have a corner on it, Lord, in this place, and you know that we don’t,
even so we mention our own names and talk, we don’t claim to have any
tremendous thing within ourselves. We never have. Always we moan, and
bemoan the fact, that we always get in the way of this great impulse of
the Holy Spirit where this Word would come forth in a greater way, Lord.
We do moan and bemoan that fact. Forgive us, Lord. We are not here to
aggrandize our self, but to set forth a rule that there, Lord, we
believe that absolutely, light and love are one and the same, same
soul…[End of the audio media.]