The Projecting of Love #7

Agape Love

Evidence of the Holy Ghost

March 31, 1984 

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we’re very grateful that the Spirit
of wisdom and the revelation of the knowledge of Yourself as It comes
into the church in order to set that church in order, that we might have
that which is a portion to us which we know is necessary before the
ripening of the grain in this hour to bring these mortals bodies that
have corrupted and gone down to, even to gases and ashes, Lord, going to
bring them out and, then, going to immortalize us. And we realize, Lord,
that You did not say that it might be possible or just might happen, but
we know this is going to happen. And we know, Lord, that we’re not
going to falter or fail because You’ve already told us that, except
the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. But then,
Lord, if You’re building the house, there will not be any labor in
vain because You’ve already said that Your labor would not be in vain,
that Christ would see to the travail of His soul answered, and see his
Seed, and all these things would come to pass which we are a part of
tonight. 

	So therefore, we put our whole faith in You, Lord, and in no place
else. We look to You for grace and mercy tonight in the study of Your
Word. In Jesus’ Name, we pray, Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now this message may be a little longer tonight than I want it to be,
unless I can sort of cut back and, then, of course, we have service
tomorrow which will be continuing with the thought on ‘the paradox’.
And “The Paradox” is a tremendous message. It’s a wonderful
message that Bro. Branham brought… Again, though, I believe it was one
of those that was predestinated to go over our heads for awhile until it
could come to the day of reckoning, where we are now to really
understand what was before us.

2.	Now in “The Projecting of Love”… (And you want your amplifier
there Bill. I’m going to…I’m not…I’m going to try to keep my
voice down so make sure you get plenty enough volume there.) For several
services, now, we’ve been studying about love. That’s a tremendous
subject, and those studies, for you who have already heard what we have
gone into, and, of course, there’ll be some people later on who will
be able to hear the tape. And from what I’ve preached previously,
I’m not at all, you know, surprised if the warnings that we utter
concerning love could be misconstrued, so that people think we don’t
believe in love. Now I’ve already been charged that, that I don’t
believe in love. Now that’s a very grave error for anyone to think
that because we do believe in love, but we want to try to get you to
understand what we believe about love. 

3.	So now, to begin with there’s about three hundred sixty verses of
Scripture in the New Testament that use the word ‘love’, l-o-v-e,
‘loved’, l-o-v-e-d, ‘loveth’, l-o-v-e-t-h, ‘beloved’,
b-e-l-o-v-e-d, ‘well-beloved’, w-e-l-l b-e-l-o-v-e-d, and
‘love’s’, l-o-v-e’s, as in love’s sake. 

	Now then, three hundred and thirty-one times out of the three hundred
and sixty times the root word is that word we all love so much which is
the ‘agapao’ [25] which means ‘to love’, which is a verb, and
then as the noun, the ‘agape’ [26], which we call agape love whereby
we differentiate it from ‘phileo’ [philios-5384] love. So, those two
words are very familiar: ‘agape’ and ‘phileo’. Now it’s become
common to believe that ‘agape’ love is a divine, and only a divine,
or spiritual concept, and ‘phileo’ is a natural or more carnal. Now,
that is the concept. And I’m sorry, but you couldn’t tell me
different if you tried because that is the concept. 

	Now the word which is phileo-based is used twenty times and does not
even speak of true brotherly love but only of friendship as when one is
fond of a friend. So, where are you going now? So, somebody is off
track. The Bible can’t be off track. See? ‘Philadelphos’ [5361]
which is ‘love of brethren’ is used only four times, and there are
few words that are compounds that speak of love of wife, love of
husband, love of children, and that’s it. That’s all. 

4.	So, the question arises: why, then, is there so much preaching about
love in which it gives phileo love a position, and especially a bad one,
in a bad sense, that it makes it seem that phileo love is used more in
the Bible than agape love? Because naturally, if you go to your old
thinking and the agape love is that real, real, real, real thing, then
you shouldn’t see it very often in Scripture —shouldn’t know too
much about it —and there would be an awful lot of the phileo. But
that’s not true. It’s the opposite. Now the reason for it, I
believe, (I could be wrong.) is John 21. And Jesus is speaking with
Peter. 

(15)	(And) so when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son
of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? (And) he saith…, Yea Lord;
thou knowest that I love thee. (And) he said unto him, Feed my lambs.

(16)	He said to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest
thou me? (And) he saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest…I love thee.
He said unto him, Feed my sheep.

(17)	(And) he said unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest
thou me? (And) Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third
time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all
things; (and) you know that I love you. (And) Jesus said…Feed my
sheep.

	Now, of course, the Catholics say, “Rule my sheep, rule my sheep,
rule my sheep.” And the Protestants, “Feed my sheep, feed my sheep,
feed my sheep.” They’re both wrong. It’s “Rule my sheep, feed my
sheep, rule my sheep.” You rule by feeding. 

5.	Now, actually here what has happened is, by using John 21, we have
brought ourselves to believe that the agape love is a true divine love,
and then, of course, as I’ve said, we mistakenly think that the Bible
uses the word only to describe that love which is truly divine, and
therefore, it is a very scarce love, and it’s actual usage in
Scripture is very limited as to the times it is used. But that’s not
so. 

	Now, let’s face it, ‘agape love’ is simply ‘agape love’ every
time it is used in the Bible. Now, when I say that, you can’t try to
make it a spiritual divine love: you can’t because it won’t work.
Now you keep listening. I’m going to have a hard job tonight to get
some things across, and you’re going to have to follow me carefully
because I may have to go almost plumb around the world to get you to
understand what I’m driving at, but just hang in there with me. And
you’ve got to let your own thinking go, or I can’t do you one bit of
good because, if you’ve already got your minds made up with what the
rest of the sermon is about, just sit here and pick your nose or read a
book or something. I’m pretty vulgar, but that’s all right. I
don’t mind one little bit. You can only get your point across by
hitting the thing hard. 

6.	Now you listen to me because I’m going to read a lot of Scripture,
and you’re going to find some things that you did not believe were
there. I have a purpose in doing it. Not trying to hurt anybody, but
look; it’s time that we understood: if He Who is loved is here, we
better know something about love. See? Now you don’t call a man a pig
who eats like a little hummingbird, eat like a bird. A man who eats,
[Bro. Vayle makes gulping, slurping sounds.] In other words, you
understand a few things if you’re going to describe. Right? A person
that eats like a bird, eats like a bird, not like a pig. A guy that
guzzles and burps and slops, eats like a pig. Right? Not like a bird.
Right? And if love is here, we better know a little bit about love.
Right? Well, that’s what we’re talking about. Right? So, we’re not
too hard to get to, are we? Okay. 

7.	Agape love is simply agape love every time it is used in the Bible,
and it doesn’t refer inherently to any special divine love. Now,
let’s just take a look at it because we can’t afford to
misunderstand things. And then again , too, I’m tired of being
criticized. Let’s lay it on the table. Joy and joy. It’s later than
you think. Matthew 5:43-46. All right, if I got this done right. It says
here:

(43)	Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour, and hate thine enemy. (Thou shalt agape thy neighbour, and
hate thine enemy.)

(44)	(And) 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 (the) sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain
on the just and unjust.

(46)	For if you (agape) them (that agape) you, what reward have you
(got)?

	Now, if I gave you divine love, and you gave me divine love, is there
anything wrong with that for Pete’s sake? Then this can’t be that
divine love. Right? So, ‘agape’ is ‘agape’. Then what is
‘agape’? You got to find out a few things. See? Now: [Matthew 5]

(46)	…if you (agape) them (that agape) you, what reward have you? do
not…the publicans (agape each other)? (Is that divine love?
Politicians kissing? Oh, brother. Phttt! Come on, there’s something
wrong somewhere. Not with God.)

(47)	…if you salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others?
don’t…the publicans (do the same)? (All right.) 

8.	Now, remember; I didn’t write the Bible; neither did you. Luke 11:

(43)	Woe unto you, Pharisees! For you (agape) the uppermost seats in the
synagogues, and greetings in the (marketplace).

	And you can see right here that they’ve got something perverted
because they’re giving their highest and their utmost of their finest
sensibility in a wrong way. There’s something going wrong here because
they’re agape-ing. Okay. 

9.	Luke 16:

(13)	No servant can serve two masters: for…he hates the one, and
(agape) the other; …(you) hold to the one, and despise the other. You
can’t serve God and mammon.

	The love of money is the root of all evil. I suppose that one is agape.
I’m not sure. I didn’t look it up, but ten to one it is. 

10.	Let’s go to John 15.

(12)	This is my commandment, That you (agape) one another, as I have
(agaped) you.

(13)	Greater (agape) hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life
for his friends.

	Romans 5:

(5)	And hope maketh not ashamed; because the (agape) of God is shed
abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. …

(8)	But God commandeth his (agape) toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.

	Romans 12:

(9)	Let (agape) be without (hypocrisy). 

	You think God’s a hypocrite? We can be, but not God. Are you
thinking? Are you confused? Good. Then, let you own thinking go.
Galatians 5:22. I’m not trying to brainwash you. You believe what you
want. I know what I believe. I hope I do.

(22)	But the fruit of the Spirit is love (agape)… 

	Ephesians 5:

(25)	Husbands, (agape) your wives, …as Christ…(agaped) the church.

	I’ll use that in there. I’m not getting it according to the Greek,
but for what we’re trying to accomplish, it doesn’t matter. The word
is the basic word; you know what I mean. You know I can’t worry about
all those words. I went through in my concordance and my books, and I
just jotted them all down, so that’s about all we’re in for. 

11.	2 Timothy 1… There’s many more, of course. I’m not going to go
into them all. I just want to show you these things in here. 2 Timothy
1:

(7)	For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and…of
(agape).

	1 John 4:

(16)	And we have known and believed (that) the (agape) that God hath to
us. God is (agape); he that dwelleth in (agape) dwelleth in God, and God
in him.

	Remember again, I’m using the root word which people call that
divine, tremendous love. Now, don’t falter. Don’t falter. We’ll
show you some things here as we go along by the grace of God. I hope I
can. I can’t make everything clear I suppose. I’m not meant to.
Revelation 2:

(4)	Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left
thy (agape) thy first (agape). (You left your first love.)

	All right. In those words then are basic to that word that people have
always called that divine love in which even Wuest himself says, “The
divine and self-sacrificial love.” And I am not fussing at that. What
I am fussing at is people don’t even understand what they’re saying,
and I think, brother/sister, we should know some things. 

12.	Now, let’s consider on the other side of the ledger, Jn 16:27 and
Jn 5:20. John16:27:

(27)	For the Father himself (phileo) you, because you have (phileoed)
me, and believed that I came out from God. 

	Now is that a dirty word? Is that a bad word? No, it isn’t a bad
word. Now just keep these thoughts because I want to… I keep warning
you, I’m going to be doing something down the road. We just got to
look at them. That’s all. Just look at them. 

	Let’s look at Jn 5:20. Well, you say, “I heard Bro. Branham say
so-and-so.” 

	Did you know what he was saying every time he said something? I sat
four and a half hours on one point, and I’m not exactly stupid,
because even then I couldn’t believe my ears. I was bound to interpret
him in my own understanding, rather than what he was saying. John 5:

(20)	For the Father loveth (phileo) the Son, and sheweth him all things
that (He) himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these,
that you may marvel.

	The Father hath ‘phileo’ love, a great affection for you because
you have shown phileo love for me, and you believed me. 

13.	John 20:

(2)	Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other
disciple, whom Jesus (phileoed),…

	Now you wouldn’t think that Jesus, being God in human flesh, would
have phileo for anybody. Would you, according to what people tell you?
But He does. The Bible says so, and I’m not going to change the Bible
for anybody. 

	Now, see this Scripture in 2 Timothy 3. Okay.

(4)	Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of
God...

	All right, now both have their root word in phileo. Now, watch!
“Lovers of pleasure,” ‘phileo’ for pleasure; not ‘phileo’
for God. Now both words, one word, ‘phileo’, is used right there
terribly carnally. Right? The other, the same word, ‘phileo’, is
used beautifully. So, let’s keep moving. 

14.	Now, what I’m driving at is this: when we talk about love, whether
love of God or love toward God, love of others in the sense of
brotherhood or society, we find this word ‘love’ is exactly like the
word ‘life’. Now I’m going to run a parallel, so watch what I’m
doing. I’m going to take you now to another word that is thoroughly
misunderstood, and I can take you to another word that’s thoroughly
misunderstood, and every time prove it right by Scripture, and I know
where I’m going, and it aligns with the prophet’s message one
hundred percent, or I don’t know what I’m talking about. Maybe I
don’t know. According to a lot of folk I don’t, but that’s all
right.

	Just like the word ‘zoë’ which is not the life of God per se. Yet
Bro. Bosworth and Bro. Branham both said, “Every time you see the word
it means eternal life”—only, my brother/sister, if it refers to God.


	Well, you say, “They didn’t say that.” 

	Did they have to say it when Bro. Branham said, “There is no eternal
hell”? Well? Do we have understanding, or don’t we? I’m going to
tell you something: this age is a perfect picture of the understanding
of Scripture. Men and women in university can’t even read worth a plug
nickel. Everything types and shadows. 

	So, just like the word ‘zoë’ which is not the life of God, per se,
but can be used that way, though all it is basically is life, from which
we get the word ‘zoology’. Life is life regardless of what or to
whom it pertain. It’s the same word, but it takes on a far different
meaning when you talk about the life of a dog and the life of a man and
the life of God, but it’s zoë: just the same as you publicans, you
agape each other. 

15.	Now, let me show you about ‘zoë’ that will bring us back to
agape, love, life or life love in those channels. We go to John 1:

(4) 	In him was life; and the life was the light of men. (Zoë! John 3:)

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

(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
(Zoë) life.

	John 10:

(10)	The thief cometh…but for to steal, and…kill,…I am come that
they might have life (Zoë), and…they might have (Zoë) more
abundantly.

(11)	I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the
sheep.

	I want to ask you a question: Can you kill God? Dozens of times it is
used the same way when it comes to the giving of life, and so on in
redemption. 

16.	But watch also, now, please. Let’s go to Acts 17, and It says:

(25)	Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any
thing, seeing he giveth life (zoë to all)…

	Acts 20:

(24)	But none of these things move me, neither count I my (zoë) dear
(to) myself.

	1 Corinthians 3; just taking a bunch of them…

(22)	Whether Paul, or Apollos or Cephas, or the world, or (zoë), or
death, or things present, or things to come; (same word)…

	2 Corinthians 2:

(16)	To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other
the savour of (zoë) unto (zoë). 

	And he was writing, as I showed you in a figure, which Dr. Ironsides
brings out. The Roman general having conquered, he’s riding upon his
great white stallion, and in front of him are slaves that will get their
freedom, behind him are slaves who will die. One is life and one is
death. Same word.

17.	2 Corinthians 4:12, saying:

(12)	…then death worketh in us, but (Zoë) in you. (Just talking about
one contradicts the other.)

	Philippians 1:

(20)	According to my earnest expectation and my hope, …in nothing
shall I be ashamed, but as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified
in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. (And he’s talking
about his time on earth, his Zoë.)

18.	Let’s go back and see something else now, the very same root word
but with a little different structure. We go to Luke 15.

(13)	And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and
took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with
riotous living.

	The same basic root word of zoë, zoa, z-e-h-o.

	Luke 20: Say, how much eternal life was that? See?

(38)	For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live
unto him. 

	Same word again. Now, that’s talking about everybody, period. Christ
died for the living and for the…I mean for the quick and the dead. He
bought them all. Whether you live unto the Lord or die unto the Lord, it
doesn’t matter. You’ve got to be accounted for, or you got to count
for yourself there. Living is living. 

19.	Luke 24:

(5)	And they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they
said…, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

	Romans 12:

(1)	I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, ye present
your bodies a living sacrifice… (See?)

	1 Corinthians. I’m trying to show you that these verses don’t
necessarily mean what people say they mean, invariably, because they
don’t. They’re basic, but let’s just keep watching it because I
say keep remembering: We’ve got a point to bring out here. By the
grace of God, we’ll do it. 1 Corinthians 15:

(45)	…The first man Adam was made a living soul; the (second)…(a
life giving) spirit.

20.	Okay, let’s go to Galatians 2.

(14)	But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the
truth of the gospel, I said (to) Peter before them all, If thou, being a
Jew, livest after the manner of (the) Gentiles, and not as do the Jews,
why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as…the Jews?

	And he’s talking about what they ate, circumcision, and how they ate
things: same word, ‘zoë’. See? Same base. Acts 26:

(5)	Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after
the…straitest sect of our religion I lived (as) a Pharisee. (Zoë.)

	How much Zoë was there? How much fruit did he have the way he lived?
Going around beating up Christians and killing them: that’s a great
manifestation isn’t it? No. See, it won’t hold.

21.	We go to Titus 2. Now I’m drawing a parallel here to show you the
same as with love, there are words in the Bible that you just say,
“Hey, I got my mind made up; this is it.” And you watch where you
go. See, that’s with the concordant version, the people tried to do,
and they ended up completely botching the Scripture because they changed
the Scripture to fit their thinking, and it ended up by the fact that
men died and, therefore, they were sinners, instead of men being sinners
and, therefore, they died. 

	Did you hear what I said? Did you hear what I said? They perverted the
Scripture. They said, “Why do men sin? Because they’re dying.”
That’s a lie from the pit of hell. They’re dying because they’re
sinning. Don’t change the Scripture around. What you need is a
revelation. I’m showing you right here: there’s a revelation
required, and a prophet’s got to give it, or people will botch every
single time. See? Let’s just keep moving on. Titus 2:

(12)	Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should
live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.

	That’s the conduct. Oh, that’s zoë. Sure! But the publicans agape
each other. So, you’ve just got to watch what’s going on here.

22.	Matthew 4. I want to keep our hearts right, so, by the grace of God,
we can come to where we want to be tonight. Because, listen; I’m going
to tell you something: what we believe is going to make all the
difference on whether we get there or not. See? Because as a man
thinketh in his heart, so is he. And the spirit of revelation in this
hour is to illuminate the heart: “the eyes of your heart being
illuminated that you might know.” And I’m not trying to corrupt
anybody’s thinking here—not for one minute—and make you think like
me. I just want to see some things myself.

(4)	But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live (zoë)
by bread alone…

	What’s he talking about? If you don’t eat you die. You Zoë, you
conk out, your no more Zoë. A dog he’s got zoë. You don’t feed
him, he dies. I’m not trying to pervert anything. I’m just telling
you what it says here, so we can watch and see where the thing’s
going.

(4)	…but every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

	God breathed in Adam the breath of life and man became a living soul.
Something came out. 

23.	Acts 17. Go back to Acts again, and we come to verse 28.

(28)	For in him we live, and move, and have our being.

	Now he said that’s to all those heathen people out there. He said,
“You got a zoë from God; God is Zoë and you got a zoë from God.”
Now, has the sinner got a zoë from God? Yes, he’s got a zoë from
God. But what kind of zoë has he got from God? See, you got to keep….
Well, look; I could just throw my Bible in the garbage if I believe what
people believe and not inquire and try to see what is going on. I can
throw my Bible and say, “Aw, forget…, phttt. Forget it. Nobody knows
anything. Let’s walk out. Just get out of here. What’s the use?
Nobody’s going to know anything.” Now if my preaching drives you
there… Well, I don’t believe it does. 

24.	Now my point is this, and I’ll take it from 1 Cor 15:45, which is
‘zoë’, and you already know my point because I’m careful to take
you each step of the way what I’m into. 1 Corinthians 15:45.

(45)	(It is, as it is) so it is written, The first man Adam was made a
living soul; the last Adam a (life giving) spirit.

	Now, that’s ‘zoë’ there. That man was a zoë-life person, living
soul, and in this particular case you could actually say, as the Bible
said, “There were eight souls that were saved.” This could be that
type of usage of the word ‘soul’. I’m not saying it is, but I’m
just saying it could be. All right. But He’s our progenitor, so it
goes a whole lot deeper than that. 

	Let’s go back to Acts 14. You know, of course, the devil is a liar;
he’s just trying to beat us out of this.

(15)	And saying, Sirs, why do you (do) these things? We also are men 	of
like passions (unto) you, and preach unto you that you should turn from
these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, (Okay,
that’s zoë. They’re both zoë.)

25.	Now, let’s go to 1 Corinthians 15.

(22)	For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

	I beg your pardon, ‘made living creatures’; the same as the living
creatures of Revelation, the four beasts, the four living creatures.

	Let’s go back to Acts 1. Now, keep your thinking caps on. Don’t go
wandering around in your minds, if you’re doing it. Just don’t do
that. Acts 1:

(3)	To whom…he shewed himself alive (a living creature) after his
passion by many infallible proofs…

	Let’s go to Acts 9: Now, that’s basic the same word, so we’re not
just twisting or changing anything, 

(41)	And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he…called
the saints and widows, presented her alive (a living creature). 

	Christ dead, come back living creature. This woman had died, come back;
she’s a living creature. The body’s different. A lot of things
different, but that word’s the same, ‘a living creature’. That’s
what It said. 

	Acts 20, same book.

(21)	Testifying both to the Jews…

	Maybe, I wonder if I got this one right; might have got this one wrong.
No, I’ve got a little mistake here. Don’t worry about it. There’s
more verses the same. Acts 25:

(19)	But had certain questions against him of their own superstition,
and of one Jesus, which was dead, (which) Paul affirmed to be alive (or
was a living creature).

26.	Now, with this we go back and read 1 Corinthians 15.

(20)	But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits
of them that slept. (All right. He’s risen, Resurrection)

(21)	For since by man came death, by man came…the resurrection of the
dead.

(22)	For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made (living
creatures, a living creation).

(23)	But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits. 

	He’s the first living creation, the first living creature from the
dead, and at His Presence there will be others. And remember; there were
not anymore living like Him, except He was present. And He was present
first in the Spirit before He came flesh. So, watch your types. It never
fails. See? 

27.	Now, don’t stop. Revelation 20:

(4)	And I saw thrones, and they (that) sat upon them, and judgment was
given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the
witness of Jesus, and the word of God, which had not worshipped the
beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their
foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived… (Resurrection, see.
Creatures.)

	Now, get what I’m saying. This life that we are living here in the
flesh, which life was from the beginning… Or was it? See, that’s the
question. Is it the same life that will go into the Resurrection? If you
weren’t back there in the beginning a part of Him, how will you be in
the First Resurrection? Were you alive back there? What were you?

	However, and note carefully, it is a redeemed life, a redeemed zoë.
‘Redeemed’ means ‘bought back’, not changed, ‘bought back’.
Now, watch for changes in the right places. Zoe was wonderful and of
God, but fallen. It either was or wasn’t. It is now a life that has
received an infusion from God, a seal, a placing, but it is the same
life and no longer fallen, and it is now one that is destined to
glorification even as it was from the beginning for Jesus, who did not
bypass the theophany said, “Give me the glory that I had in that
beginning.” We will have the glory we were predestinated to, though we
missed the theophany. 

28.	Who’s ‘we’? 1 Corinthians 6: 

(17)	…he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

	Do you believe that? All right, listen; Galatians 2.

(20)	I (have been) crucified with Christ: nevertheless I (zoë); yet not
I, but Christ (zoës) in me: and the (zoë that) I now (zoë) in the
flesh I (zoë) by the faith of the Son of God, who (agaped) me, and gave
himself for me.

	Let’s read It again without throwing anything in there.

(20)	I (have been) crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; (and) yet
not I, but Christ lives in me.

	I’m in union with Him. I’m living, but I’m not living. 

	You say, “The guy’s nuts.” 

	No, he’s not. You get a man that totally enthralls you and takes you
over body, soul, and mind through various processes, you’re living,
but you’re not living because somebody’s living through you. 

29.	(20)	I (have been) crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet
not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life I now live in the flesh
(Where was he before? Same flesh? Same person.) I live by the faith of
the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 

	He’s telling you that through Calvary he was allowed through
redemption by the Blood to be sealed back to God, and now, in this life
there is somebody living in Him and through Him. But He’s still
living. Now be careful and get this: “You, the person, you, the soul,
and the body and spirit, sure do, you in that body and spirit possess
attributes of love, memory, conscious, conscience, faith, prayer, and
all,” that Bro. Branham said, “lay in the soul and the spirit,”
quoting Larkin. Larkin must have had a genuine revelation, and I can
prove by Scripture that Larkin is right concerning the soul because the
rich man lifted up his soul in hell, and he had memory, and he had
affection. He loved his brother, and he had a memory, and he had
feelings, and he understood worship. You bet. So, let’s not sell Bro.
Branham and Dr. Larkin short.

	But you and all of it, whatever you are constitutes you, were in a
fallen state. Now, when you are born again those attributes or whatever
you were intrinsically and basically are still there, but now your love
and faith and worship and conscience, etcetera, etcetera and etcetera,
leave the realm of the human or the fallen nature and begin to operate
by the Spirit of God which is itself motivated to the Word because it is
the Word, actually living Word. See? That’s why it took Zoë —and
love the same way. I want to show you how they run. If you are reborn,
then you and what it is that makes the real you are reborn and you got
an infusion of life. 

30.	This is the transformation, as It says over here in 1 Cor 15:45b.

(45)	…the last Adam was made a (life giving) spirit.

	See? You had lost something. Now you’ve got something replacing
—something that’s going to take you there. Now, remember that. Now,
let’s read on 46 to 48.

(46)	Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is
natural; …afterward that which is spiritual.

	Now, is he telling you that something came in or trucked everything out
and put something else in there? Or is he telling you very flat that you
had those things in there, and you were by nature a certain way until
the life came in there, an infusion came in there, and now what was in
there changed per se in its way? 

31.	Well, let’s keep on going.

(47)	The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord
from heaven.

(48)	(And) as…the earthy, such are they…that are (also earthly): and
as the heavenly, such are they that are also heavenly.

(49)	And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear
the image of the heavenly.

	Now, is he telling you, you got to go way down the road and wait for
the Resurrection? Or is he telling you right there that, when you are
born again, you can expect a literal change in everything that was you
naturally? 

	Now I want to ask you a question. What have you got since you’re born
again that you didn’t have before? And I’m talking in terms now of
something which is very basic and intrinsic and also very material. Or
did the Blood cleanse you and therefore what was there was cleansed and
then what came in gave you an absolute new direction of what you had?
Well, you got to look at these things to see where they go. I don’t
claim to have all the answers, but I’m looking for some answers.

32.	Now, we read verses 46 and 48 and we are coming to, of course, the
image of the physical, one day going to be changed. Now, Bro. Branham
said, “If I drop this handkerchief and it comes back a book, that is
not resurrection; that’s replacement.” Then, if I’m going to come
back in a Resurrection, I will not come back as a replacement, and Paul
will still be a little, hook-nosed, stooped-over Jew. I don’t think
he’d be stooped over. He’d be straightened up, but he still will be
hook-nosed. If you think the Resurrection is going to make you a
beautiful creature… Phttt! If I’m not beautiful now, forget it,
because I never will be. And if you’re not beautiful now, phttt,
forget it. That’s right. I’m just kidding. 

	I’m not kidding you; I’m telling you flat, there’s a perversion
where people’s minds are still messed up. I don’t go into shock
looking in a three-way mirror. I look in a three-way mirror and laugh
now and say, “Hey, not bad for an old goat. Seventy years old, still
got some hair.” They say when you start to see you’ve lost some of
your hair, it’s seventy percent gone already. Watch it there Gregg.
You’ve got a lot of hair right now. Well, hair’s looking at you.
Phttt, might as well… 

	Might as well relax, kid. You ain’t meant for heaven in the first
place, if you think you’re going to win some beauty contest. You’re
still loused up; you still need a rebirth somewhere down the line. See?

33.	Now It says: [1 Corinthians 15]

(49)	…we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall…bear the image
of the heavenly. (We’re supposed to be living epistles; same thing
right now.)

(50)	…this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God; (and so on, but we’re going to come to it)…

	Now, I say as we got an infusion of life, watch this person new now.
Watch this person now. 

34.	Let’s go to Galatians 5.

(16)	This I say…, Walk in the Spirit, and you’ll not fulfil the lust
of the flesh. 

	Well, you better have a spiritual walk then. Now, evidently I am not
under a complete compulsion, as Bro. Branham said, “Within my soul
there is one thing: a choice. And I have that choice to receive Christ
or reject Him. I have the choice now to walk in the Spirit or simply
live in the Spirit or live in the Spirit and walk in the Spirit,” for
Paul said… And get this; I’m not lying. He said, “If you live in
the Spirit, walk in It, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the
flesh.” So therefore, there is still plenty in you that could go
either way. You’ve got what it takes now to go the right way. What’s
the right way? That’s what we’re driving at. See? That’s what
we’re talking all about this phony stuff about life and love and
everything else; let’s find the right way. Let’s find where we’re
going. But the prophet made some strong, strong statements. I’ll read
them.

35.	(17)	For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, …the Spirit against
the flesh: (Ha! Did that ever do that before you were born again?
Hogwash! Fap! You ran to riot. The spirit and the flesh were both
willing. Good heavens.) …(they) are contrary the one to the other:
…you cannot do the things that you would (do).

(18)	But if you be led of the spirit, you are not under…law. (That old
law.)

(19)	Now the works of the flesh are manifest, …Adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lasciviousness,

(20)	Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife,
seditions, heresies,

(21)	Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like:
of…which I tell you before, as I have…told…in time past, that they
which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

(22)	But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith,

(23)	Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

(24)	And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts (thereof).

(25)	If we live in the Spirit, let us walk in the Spirit.

	Now It tells you right there, the rebirth positively changes things
around. It changes what you might call the fount and the manifestation
of the fountain because that fountain has been washed in Blood, has been
sanctified and powered by a life. So therefore, that fountain will come
forth as the same fountain He was. But remember; you weren’t born the
way He was. You’re born with sex; with the same sex drive and the
whole thing there. Freud was more right than people thought he was.
It’s too bad he went back on what he said —maybe not all the way,
but there’s a lot there. All right.

36.	The evidence of the baptism or infusion of life is belief of the
Word. Now we’re looking at It. And as a man thinketh in his heart, so
is he. Whatever spirit you’re lead by, infusion or non-infusion, you
watch how you go there. Then, let’s see if we’re born again. If
you’re born again, you’re going to go right to that Word. You’re
going to have a belief in the Word. Okay. Let’s start working on it.

37.	We’re going to read in page 15 of “Anointed Ones at the End
Time”, paragraph 59.

[59]	Notice, but it’s what they produce that tells you the difference.
“By their fruits, Jesus said, you shall know them.”

	Now here’s the stuff about love and everything else people talk
about, and they say, “Fruit is the evidence of the Holy Ghost. And if
you’ve got love, it proves you have got everything because, you see,
everything according to 1 Corinthians, which is mentioned in love in
Galatians 5, is in there. So, that is agape.” Bro. Branham himself
taught it. It was wrong.

	I said, “Bro. Branham, it is tongues because it is supernatural.” 

	He said, “It can be imitated.”

	“So, you’re trying to tell me that love cannot be imitated.” 

	He said, “That’s true.”

	I said, “Bro. Branham, tell me one thing, would you not consider the
highest form of love would be for a man to give his life for another, or
for a cause?” 

	And he said, “Yes, Bro. Vayle.” 

	I said, “My Bible tells me, though I give my body to be burned, I
still don’t necessarily have love. Where is it now?”

	He said, “You got me, Lee,” and laid his Bible down.

	I’m not lying to you. 

38.	Twenty-one years later… I beg your pardon, seven years later, he
said, “By vision, God showed me, the evidence was believing the Word
for the hour.” Why? Because that is the evidence! 

	Oh, you say, “Bro. Vayle, I believe the other.”

	You believe what you want. Be my guest. You don’t belong here anyway.
You’ve got no time for my message. You’ve got no time for me.
You’ve got no time for Bro. Branham, no time for the Word of God. You
just say you do, but you don’t. You don’t believe the prophet, if
you come against that. Listen! 

[59]	“Man does not gather grapes off of a thistle,” even though the
thistle be right in the grapevine. (Here’s your Book of Life and
man’s book of life coming out.) That could be possible, for the fruit
will tell it. 

	What is fruit? It’s the Word for the fruit for the season. That’s
what it is, their teaching. The teaching of what? The teaching of the
season, what time it is? Man’s doctrine, denomination doctrine, …or
God’s Word for the season? (Now he tells you right there.) 

	Now I knew the day would have to come when Bro. Branham would say it. I
sat waiting for him to say it. He said it back in 1965 about July 25th,
I think it was, somewhere in that area. 

39.	Let’s go further, let’s go to page 25, “Anointed Ones at the
End Time”. They said:

[104]	And so they went out and made a yoke, he did, and put it upon his
neck, and went before the people. And said, “Oh, we are the great
people of God. Why, we are Israel. (That’s that phony prophet, see.)
We are so sincere in our synagogue! We attend every Sunday, …we offer
sacrifice, …we pay in our money. How can Nebuchadnezzar ever hold the
holy things of God?” Huh! He said, Your sins…did it.

God said, “If you’ll keep My commandments, I won’t do this. But,
if you don’t, it’s coming to you.” That’s exactly right. Still
the same. Keep His commandments, His Word for the hour, what He
promised.

	And that means, the divine prescription; in other words, the prognosis.
Anybody has got an half an ounce of brains knows he’s a sinner away
from God. What’s the prognosis? Okay. It tells you. “Keep that
Word.” 

40.	Now, with that we go to where Bro. Branham read. It’s Matthew 7.

(15)	(But) beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s
clothing, (which is, outwardly they’re one hundred percent sheep.)

	Oh you say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, you see, what it is, those fellows
that are one hundred percent sheep, you see, what they do, they pretend
that they’re not adulterous, but you see, they sneak around a house of
prostitution.” 

	You’re nuts! You’re stupid! They don’t sneak anywhere. They live
godly lives. They don’t have women. They don’t knock over banks and
mug old ladies, curse and swear and get drunk. They’re sheep on the
outside. So, don’t twist it. Sheep doesn’t run with sheep and commit
adultery. They hate it. They hate the spots; they hate this flesh. These
guys aren’t a bunch of jerks. They’re one hundred percent sheep
looking, but inside they’re ravening wolves. 

41.	(16)	…by their fruits (you know them). Do men gather grapes of
thorns, or figs of thistles? 

	Now, watch it! Sheep, wolves, animals. Now he goes to a plant, changing
his metaphor so to speak, his horse in midstream. All right. Don’t you
know what he’s talking about? The original wolf was the devil, and he
perverted the Word of God.

(17)	Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; a corrupt tree
bringeth forth evil fruit.

	Who was the original human evil tree, so to speak? Cain! Because his
deeds were evil; he took the Word of God and perverted It. Had there
been a people come to Cain and say, “Cain, you idiot, there’s no
God?” 

	“What do you mean, there’s no God? I’ll get you for that, you
stupid… Don’t tell me there is no God. There is a God! I know
there’s a God!” 

	But he’s wrong. He was a wolf in sheep clothing; he killed
—destroyed. As far as he could be at that time, he was a wolf in
sheep’s clothing, but you see what the devil is.

42.	(18)	A good tree can’t bring forth evil fruit,… (The elect
cannot be deceived. There’s no way the elect go off the Word.
There’s no way the others can be on the Word.) 

(19)	Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and
cast (in) the fire.

(20)	Wherefore by their fruits ye…know them.

	And if they’re speaking in tongues and performing miracles and
they’re off the Word, they’re false prophets. 

43.	Let’s go to Matthew 24 where Jesus said It. Now he said:

(24)	…there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, …shew
great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall
deceive the very elect. (very elect) 

(25)	Behold, I have told you before. (Where did he tell them? In Matthew
7. That’s where he told them. They already knew about it. Okay.)

	That Word spiritually-revealed is the same gauge or plumb line for love
manifested as it is the plumb line to let you know if you’re born
again because a walk in the Spirit goes with it. Now, let’s get this
down tonight. How do you know anything outside of that Word? Then, how
do you know anything, unless It’s divided correctly? You’ll never be
approved. That’s the very thing that the Word of God says, “Study to
show thyself approved unto God. A workman needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the Word of truth.” And he said…back there in the
Septuagint again, he said, “Thou hast offered right, but if thou hast
not correctly divided, hast thou not sinned?” There’s your original
concept.

44.	Now, listen! Cain was a murderer from the beginning. He never killed
and made himself a murderer; he was a murderer. When are people going to
get this through their heads and their hearts? Cain could; Abel
couldn’t. But don’t think he didn’t stand for the truth. “Oh,”
they say, “well, you see, when Cain came against Abel, Abel said,
‘Oh, Cain, it’s okay; it’s okay. It’s okay. Oh, this brother
Cain, it’s beautiful. Oh yes, it’s lovely’.” 

	He said, “Cain, let me tell you: the fire came down and took my
sacrifice. I’m vindicated.”

	“Well, let’s see where your vindication goes when I slash your
throat with this jagged rock.” 

	And the blood cried out. Don’t think for one minute we’re playing
some kind of goofing off that you had a prophet in the land that told us
these things and that took us right back. Took us right back, and this
prophet told us of things hidden before the foundation of the world.
Come on, I want to show you what a great prophet really we had. Not that
I can do too much, but neither am I too afraid that I can’t do
anything. All right.

45.	The same where that Word Spirit revealed is the same gauge or plumb
line for love. It lets you know if you’re born again, lets you know if
you’ve got life, lets you know if you’re changed. Then it’s got to
be the same for love and for everything, if it’s the plumb line of
life, because we’re involved with our works and our fruit to let you
know if you’re reborn because ‘walk in the Spirit’ goes with it.
If your life, you, the soul life took on the Word, then your attributes
did also; it can’t do otherwise.

	Soul love is love even as life is life, but as with life… Now, watch!
As with life, the union of the Spirit… Now, watch! Romans 5: and
here’s where I believe I’m right in what I am teaching. I go to the
Bible. Of course, you can prove anything by the Bible, you know. Phttt!
I’ve never kidded you. I’m not kidding you now.

46.	Let’s go to Rom 5:5.

(5)	And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad
in our hearts by the Holy Ghost.

	See? Now, listen! The Life that redeemed you back, the Life that stood
there literally replacing and yet not replacing… Paul’s not saying,
“Hallelujah, I got born again. Old Paul went up, bless God, now
here’s his lovely corpse standing here. Jesus, come here and take
over.” 

	Oh, we’d all like that wouldn’t we? Phttt! Zombies. No, God
doesn’t deal with zombies. You’ve got to stand there and get used to
what you are, brother/sister, redeemed. You’ve got to stand right
there with that same Spirit, that life, life to life.

	Now, listen! That life of God has attributes the same as your life has
attributes. Now this time there’s a love by the Holy Ghost (Right?)
that stands there right with your love, joined as an attribute that
needed redeeming because, if you got redeemed, then all of you got
redeemed, and your body’s waiting for it, and that has already been
redeemed by the fact the Blood fell on the earth and you are earth. So,
it’s just waiting merely for the time sequence. It’s all yours.
We’re ushered into the Millennium already. The ushering in is going
on, and people don’t believe nothing anymore. All right.

47.	Then all that was in the Holy Spirit, see, love, joy, peace,
meekness, temperance, all those things, like Bro. Branham said in
“Stature of a Perfect Man”: “Take the blood out of a man, put in
the blood of Jesus Christ. That sounds good. When did your blood ever go
out of you?” He’s telling you one thing: it’s time for your blood
to step aside.

	Now, listen! I said that a couple times, a little while ago, concerning
love, that love was the very thing that Bro. Branham talked about, he
said, “I’ve got a little gift to get out of the way.” And Paul
says the same thing: with the Holy Spirit baptism you can get out of the
way, and all the attributes that lie in you can get out of the way so
that the love of the Holy Spirit that’s shed abroad in your heart has
now put you in a place of redemption so that you will no longer have a
phony love, but you’ll have a genuine one hundred percent love, and
your love will be different. This is what the church doesn’t want to
understand. 

48.	Let’s keep moving. Now, the unsaved can out-love the saved any day
because one is broadcast apart from the renewed mind and the other is
confined exclusively to the renewed mind which you get by the Word of
God. All right.

	Let’s keep going. The rule ‘of narrow is the gate’ does not
change; it always stays narrow even after rebirth. The children of the
desolate, the chaotic, the wilderness, those left apart from God, are
many more than the children of the married woman. Then aggregate wives,
they’ll produce more works. Bro. Branham said, “The mule outworks
the horse ten to one. Then, if you’ll stay around long enough, it’ll
kick your head off, too.” You see? 

	So, what about works and fruit? There are many more. There’s your
kind old priest in contradistinction to that renegade Jesus that broke
the bruised reed and quenched the smoking flax. Yeah, He broke the
bruised reed. He said, “It’s over.” He took the life out of their
ceremony, put it in the Holy Ghost in a Gentile Bride. He didn’t do
that with us; we’re still here. The oil and the wine did not decrease
and get put away. That was that renegade Jesus did that while the kind
old priest was there. The kind old priest lifted his eyes up in hell,
too. See? Now, Bro. Branham said that. Before he died he literally
belabored the point of a phony love that everybody thinks is so great.
All right.

49.	We want to start to wind down, hopefully, which I don’t know the
last two pages are going to be the roughest of all. So, let’s go to 1
John 4.

(10)	Herein is love, not that we loved God, but…he loved us, and sent
his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (Well, let’s look at it.
Now, watch!) Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved
us. 

	Now, let’s get to the Scripture that I’ve quoted time after time:
John 15.

(24) 	(Jesus said) If I had not done the works (that) no other man did,
they had not sinned: but now they (have) both seen and hated both me and
my Father.

	You’ve got churches today that send out missionaries, and they die.
People deny themselves left and right. They go to every manner of
extreme. 

	And to turn down God, and that man says you hate God. 

	“Oh, but I love God. I….”

	Listen to me. For God’s sake, people, listen! [Bro. Vayle pounds the
pulpit!] Quit making God a liar for once. Just once quit making Him a
liar. Quit making Him a liar. Just once in your life, quit making Him a
liar. I’m shocking you tonight; some of you can’t take it. Fine by
me. 

	I’m going to tell you something. Let’s get this flat: Jesus said,
“They hate me.” 

	“We love you, Lord.” [Bro. Vayle screams this out!]

	Then, so much for your stinking, rotten love. What you call love is
hate of God. 

50.	Now, where do you stand? That’s all I’m trying to teach in this
series. I’m not trying to take something from you, brother/sister.
I’m not trying to take your sweetness and your kindness and your
goodness and all these things. I’m trying to show you something!
You’re different. You’re born again. 

	They hated William Branham. They couldn’t wait for him to die. And
when he died, they had a great wake, a great Irish wake, so-to-speak,
Pentecostal wake. And the Oneness said, “Well, I’m glad that lying
false prophet died.” 

	There are people right today, brother/sister, that are in the never,
never land, right today. The never, never land of death that Bro.
Branham said; “Don’t go there. Don’t go there. Falling, falling,
falling like an eternal hell.” He said, “I’d sooner…I’d sooner
be trapped in a hell of flame than go through that.” 

	They’re there now, my brother/sister. They’re there now! Oh, they
sware they love God. They have altar calls. They pleaded; they wept.
They also stole and robbed and lied. Yeah, don’t you understand?
They’re off the Word. And you do what you want. I believe I believe my
Bible. 

51.	You say, “Bro. Vayle, I went to that lovely Church of Christ. They
had a lovely spirit. Oh, they were so nice.” 

	I’ve been fooled, too. Oh, the nice, nice people, oh beautiful
people, oh, they’re lovely, lovely people. Yes, I’m talking about a
real man that I met. I say, “I believe that man’s really got the
Holy Ghost.” That man was filth and blaspheming. 

	Oh, yeah. Oh, you’ve got the Pentecostal spirit of hell on you,
haven’t you? Because you judge what? The Word by the spirit? 

	“Oh, Lee Vayle, he’s a rat. He’s a skunk. He raves and he
does…” 

	Oh, like my good friend Bro. Branham… 

	A very fine Pentecostal said, “Oh, Bro. Vayle, I can’t take it. He
rants and he raves all the time. I can’t stand his ranting and his
raving.” 

	Where is he tonight, brother/sister? because he’s dead. You better
shake yourself tonight, brother/sister. I’m not trying to scare you. I
just want… I just want to get… You think I’m… Listen, I’m
preaching to Lee Vayle. I want to be straightened out and not by an
undertaker either. I want to get right in my heart and my life. I want
to know I’m not kidding myself. All right.

52.	Verse 19 of the same chapter. [1 John 4]

(19)	We love him, because he first loved us.

	But the Holy Ghost has got to be shed abroad in your hearts. And no
Holy Ghost says, “Ha, who’s he anyway?” Let’s find out more
tomorrow. I could be wrong, sure. Wrong tonight, wrong tomorrow. Just
don’t argue. And you say you believe the prophet, but I’ve got you
over a barrel. Yeah, I’ve got a gift, and I could be used of the
devil, too. Oh yeah, I’ve got a gift; I’ve got no problem. I don’t
have a problem; people have a problem with me. It’s true…but it’s
not mine. Let’s go back now: John 1.

(1)	In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God.

	God is love. Then, if your God is love apart from the Word, you hate. 

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, don’t say that because I don’t.” 

	You’re a liar. Let every word of man be a lie, and let God’s be
true because you’re going to have to believe something too before you
die. That’s it. It’s no more than Mt 7:15, ravening wolves inside of
sheep clothing. What is it really? Let’s find out. 

53.	Let’s go find out. We go to 1 Peter 1.

(18)	Forasmuch as ye know…ye were not redeemed with corruptible
things, as silver and gold, from your vain (behavior) received by
tradition from your fathers; 

(19)	But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without (spot
and) blemish…:

(20)	Who verily was foreordained (from) before the foundation of the
world, (and) was manifest (brought into obvious view) in these last
times for you, (He was brought into view for us for our time, too.)

(21)	Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and
gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

(22)	Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through
the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren.

	You can love your brother with a phony, two-bit, denominational,
political, welfare love and hate a true son of God with a passion. God
healed us, little children. He became flesh to have fellowship. Do you
know one day you’re going to see God in a form? Pillar of Fire? No,
that’s for a prophet. Prophets don’t want that Pillar of Fire form,
either. They want to see Him. First thing Bro. Branham was filled with
—the man with the Pillar of Fire —he got there in a vision, and he
said, “Well, I’d like to go to Him and see Him.” 

	“But I’m sorry, but that’s not right for this time.”

	“It isn’t?”

	“No, that’s later.” 

	“When do I come to Him?

	“Oh, don’t worry. He’ll come to you.” 

	“Is that so?”

	You don’t have to go to Him; He’ll come to you. That’s all. So,
who is this coming down to meet him? Oh, come on, brother/sister.
Listen, you’ve got a lovely God…if we just listen. 

54.	All right, listen. [1 Peter 1]

(23)	Being born again, not of corruptible seed, (It’s a rebirth, and
it’s incorruptible) by the word… (I always thought it was sperma,
but it’s not; it’s the actual word ‘seed’, like a man planted a
seed, spora…) which lives and abides for ever.

	 So, now you know something. You know whether you got genuine love,
genuine meekness, genuine temperance, genuine anything. You don’t have
to worry anymore. That renegade Jesus that cleansed the temple… That
renegade Jesus that stood there, and a woman was taken in the act of
adultery, and he turned, and then he said to those lovely, righteous,
wonderful Pharisees, “You bunch of birds.” And took the hand of a
little, fallen, rats-scallion, who-done-it prostitutes. They didn’t
know the first thing about love. He loved His Own, brother/sister. I’m
trying to tell you something: a fallen son is a fallen son, and there is
no depth he can’t go to as a fallen son, but God’s going to get him
back. And when He gets him back, he isn’t fallen anymore, and the only
thing he’s got to do is learn to get out of the way.

	Everything in Christianity, brother/sister, born again is a battle, and
love is a battle, the same as everything else. Yeah, and in the soul
lies one thing which is choice and in the baptism is revelation. So, if
you want and I want, we can walk in the Spirit and demonstrate real
love. You look around and you say, “Bro. Vayle, there’s people I
know that… They’re real nice people, but oh, my God, the stuff
they’ll pull off.” 

	That’s exactly right. That’s exactly right. You’re looking at the
thing I’m looking at tonight, and it’s always somebody accusing or
excusing, isn’t it? Why don’t we just go to the Word of God and find
out? Why don’t we take a look at It? and understand that the very
thing that we often think manifests the great love is a manifestation of
statehood towards the One who came down through a predestined prophet
and stood there and proved that He was there, and gave the Word?

55.	And oh, these sweet, kind people. When the prophet went to one
certain man, (whose very name has to do with love, but he’d sooner
live in his traditions and his creeds and his dogmas) when Bro. Branham
told him… I don’t know what he told him. I understand by witnesses
that stood there, (And he wasn’t allowed to listen.) he said, “The
brother… Tears rolled down his cheeks, and he kicked his toes into the
sand, hung his head and walked off.” 

	Oh yes, men say they love God and love the prophet. And you know, a
woman: you can’t trust her too much [a few unclear words]. Old
‘Squeaky’ over there wrote a letter, the preacher that really,
really was supposed to be a real friend of Bro. Branham, and Bro.
Branham always names him, almost always in every so many tapes. You’d
be surprised. And so she… He went the whole way. He wrote the letter
in the name of her son-in-law, and a letter came back, and the man said,
“I’ve always believed in three gods and still will.” 

	Come out and start thinking, brother/sister. Start thinking. Start
thinking, brother/sister. Start thinking. Bro. Branham said, “That man
had to be a pagan and idolater.” Come on, come on, come on, come on,
come on. Where’s the love? Where’s the love? The phony love you’ve
got—you took the agape love, your supreme love, and you put it on
something not there, but something else.

	“Listen, Bro. Vayle, don’t do it.”

	Then I’ll tell you, the church closes tonight. There’ll be no
Foot-washing and Communion. Forget it. You go home, and I’m going home
and don’t come knocking on my door because, if I go to hell, I’m
going to preach what I preach because the prophet said so. The Word of
God said so. I might not know too much, but there’s one thing I know
this. 

56.	Okay, there’s no more. Then 1 Jn 4:5.

(5)	They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the
world heareth them. (And the agape he’s got…oh yeah.) 

	1 John 3, here’s the good one.

(11)	For this is the message…ye heard from the beginning, …we should
love one another. (I heard another message from before that beginning.) 

	Yes, yes, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God before there was a speck of stardust or one person to
manifest love, there was that Word there. Don’t you get these messages
mixed up. God had three beginning messages. Huh? So, don’t go around
and say, “Bro. Vayle, you’re mad at us.” 

	I’m not mad at anybody. I’m preaching against principles that are
wrong, brother/sister.

57.	(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.

	What was Abel’s righteous deeds? The Bible tells you: shedding the
blood. What was Cain’s unrighteous one? Obeying the Word of God
without a revelation, offering fruit, and fruit signifies Resurrection.
“Oh, I’m fine, hallelujah. Who needs the blood? Who needs the
prophet? I’ve got you, Jesus. Oh, Jesus. This… Bro. Vayle, this
prophet, oh, spare me, please spare me because hallelujah, I’ve got
Jesus.” 

	You’re a liar! I could die for it. I pray…I hope God, I’m ready.
I don’t know. I need prayer, brother, you know I need prayer for
something like this. I stuck my neck out a million yards in this church
and a million yards every place I go because I’m a jackass. I hope
I’m a fool for Christ. I don’t know. I can’t boast. I can’t know
anything, but I know this Word. If I die and go to hell, this Word will
judge me and the same It is going to judge you because whether It’s in
my mouth or the mouth of the doorknob, or anybody else; it’s that Word
that counts. This is what it’s all about, a wolf in sheep’s
clothing, a murderer.

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

	And so therefore, Cain was of the world. But he’s a brother. Phileo
him, fine; but don’t phileo him like you phileo your dear sisters in
Jesus Christ and your brothers in Jesus Christ. And men don’t phileo
the women as though they’re little pawns you can lie in bed somewhere
and have intercourse. Marriage and divorce are serious things because
men do not treat their wives as sisters. [New tape added to record;
results in blank spot of about 15 seconds.] That’s not even phileo;
that’s erotic. Erotic love. Merciful God.

58.	Yes, it is 1 Jn 1:5-7. This is what it’s all about. 

(5)	This then is the message…we have heard of him, and declare that 
God is light, and in him (was the Word and the Word was with God.) 

	Now He’s light; now He’s love. And if He’s not God in you,
there’s no light, there’s no love. And if He is, there is a battle.
I’ve been crucified. I’ve been crucified. 

	“Bro. Vayle, I was dead in sins and now I’m crucified. I’m dead
again.” 

	Yeah, you’re dead again. Twice dead in the right way: wonderful! Now
we’ll get somewhere. Now the old love gets replaced. Now the old
temperance gets replaced. Everything gets replaced. You’re redeemed;
you’re brought back. 

59.	Listen, brother/sister; I believe we’re going to get there! I
believe this Word I preach. I believe It is so true that God’s going
to do something within me and you people, or I wouldn’t be preaching
It. I stand on It! If I die, I die. Nobody came back yet. There’s a
record. But I believe they’re standing amongst us now. 

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, I don’t know that.” 

	I don’t either, but I believe it. Oh, yeah. I know I shock people,
but to me there’s neither time nor space left anymore when I talk
about a Bride. I don’t see a Bride here and in Africa anymore. I see
one Bride. I don’t see time. I don’t see space. I don’t see
anything anymore. I see Him. 

	You say, “Who do you think you are?” 

	I ain’t nobody. I could go to hell tomorrow. I ain’t going to go.
You do what you want. 

60.	[1 John 1]

(6)	If we say…we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we
lie, and do not love the truth: (Cain.)

(7)	But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood (and only then does it
cleanse; then it scatters sins till there be no manifestation of that
sin.) 

	I ought to close now, maybe. Not necessarily. Nine o’clock; not too
late. We can always cancel tomorrow, if I’m too tired. 1 Peter 1:

(22)	Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the
Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren…

	You say, “How did you do it? What obedience?” 

	You were a child; the father called and you came. “Oh, honey, I’ve
got a lovely ice cream cone for you.” 

	“Oh Mommy, I’m coming.” 

	That’s all it was. The child obeyed. Listen, when I came to the Lord,
I said, “Oh God, I’ve got to have help.” 

	He said, “I’m the One to help you.” 

	I said, ‘Goody, goody, goody.” Obedience, nothing to it. 

	Don’t you obey your appetites when there’s a lovely chocolate
sundae there? Don’t you obey your appetite when you get tired [Bro.
Vayle makes snoring sounds.] and you want to sleep? So, what’s the big
deal? Get rid of the… My, my, my, what is this anyway? It’s just
what it is. Oh my, my, my. Let me read something. I don’t want to be
foolish up here but sometimes I’ve got to spread it on thick with a
trowel to get it across because it’s… I know we all live in this
crazy, God-forsaken land today where everything is almost impenetrable
concerning the things of God. 

61.	[2 Thessalonians 2]

(13)	But (Listen!) we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, 
brethren (because…) beloved of the Lord, because God hath from 	the
beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit
and belief of the truth.

	You see, you’re already chosen to it. So, when the eagle screams you
just… “That was it.” 

	What obedience? It’s instinctual in Christ. You were meant to be, so
you obeyed; you obeyed the truth through the Spirit. It had to take the
Spirit with unfeigned love of the brethren —with the unfeigned phileo.
There’s no kooky amongst us anymore. There’s no buttering up anybody
anymore. No. You don’t have to. No more politics anymore. 

	It’s what Peter spoke of. I read It to you in 1 Peter [1 Pet 1:22].
What you see is what you get. No more hypocrisy. Nobody’s perfect,
except in Christ. But you, you’re ‘you’: “being born again not
of corruptible”—that seed that was sown wrong, that spora—“but
of the incorruptible,” which does what? It brings forth thirty, sixty
and a hundred, depending if you get out of the way. Watch how the Spirit
will do things when you surrender your mind, when you surrender
yourself. You watch It begin to move. Yeah, when you make up your mind,
you’d be surprised, the realms you can enter into, the realms of
glory. Okay.

62.	A purified soul alone can bring forth unfeigned, brotherly, family
love amongst us. Now, if you’re not born again, you’ll be a con
artist. You won’t pull… You won’t pull your share. That’s right.
Now Bro. Branham said… Now, let’s get this flat, church, because
I’ve had a little something against some because some of you haven’t
been on your toes the way you should. I’m not holding it against you,
I’m just letting you know that look, you better…we’re in it
together or we ain’t. 

63.	Bro. Branham said, “Now, look,” he said, “it’s Johnny’s
turn to bring the wood in, but Johnny doesn’t bring the wood. Now
momma says, ‘Now George, get the wood.’ And he says he ain’t going
to do it. It’s up to him to do it.” And Bro. Branham said, “You
step in. Don’t wait for somebody else.” 

	Now we had that over there. Now I bide my time, and I watch, and I’m
letting you know, brother/sister, the same as I know and you know, if I
cannot lift ten pounds today, tomorrow morning I will not miraculously
lift fifty. I won’t be able to lift it now. God’s not in that
miracle kind of business. The miracle is when you dedicate. I’ve often
told you, too, and I’m not mad at anybody. Let’s get and understand
this flat. I’ve got to keep warning you, this church can die under my
ministry because I preach way over people’s heads. It takes sometimes
ten years, five years, four years, to even begin know what I’m saying.
I’ve had one preacher tell me, “Bro. Vayle, came through ten years
ago; we never understood a word of this.”

	No, we watch and we learn. This kind of teaching you can die under
because I’m laying out principle, right down the line. And, if all it
is, is a principle which you do not literally eat and drink and come
into what stands here before you, you are like the church I spoke of,
we’re all like the church I spoke of, when Paul, the Apostle said,
“You do not come to church for the better; every time you come, it
gets worse, and then you take the communion and confirm it unto
yourself.”

	Now nobody here’s doing a lot of sin and all, but there’s a lot of
carelessness. Yup, too much, and I don’t ride herd; I just tell you
things. Love you people, good people, I couldn’t love anybody more or
be loved more by anybody, but you see, I got to let you know my ministry
and tell you very, very sincerely, that you can die under it, or you can
live under it. 

64.	But I’m going to tell you something: this Word, I believe with all
my heart, in the right soil, properly fertilized will bring forth a
fruit unto immortality. We’re looking at it now. We’re looking at
genuine love. We’re looking at genuine love that’s there. No more
phony; no more beating the drum. I don’t pull for a crowd. It’s a
big crowd tonight; I don’t pull for it. You do what you want. I’m
not trying to hurt anybody. I’m just…understand, please, I’m
talking about a principle. I’m speaking in terms of principle. If
you’re hurt, I beg your pardon. I don’t mean it that way, but I want
you to know a purified soul alone can bring forth unfeigned, brotherly
love, a real family amongst us. 

	That’s why I said I stuck my neck out several weeks ago preaching on
this subject when I said, “I believe a love has developed amongst us,
and I said, when I do, you watch the devil do everything to destroy,
because I stuck my neck out.” And I haven’t called you to tears and
repentance around this aisle like other brethren did, and everybody
screams and shouts and everything else and goes plumb off the Word.
I’ve led you to the Word and no place else. Do what you want, the same
as I will do what I want. Yeah, right down the line. I love you really,
very dearly.

65.	Now, listen! It’s the same purified soul and renewed mind that
brings forth Rom 12:1-21. Now I’m not saying you can’t get right
there. I’m saying you can get there, but don’t think you get it only
because you sit under Lee Vayle’s ministry. That’s the biggest bunch
of hogwash in the world. It doesn’t rub off. I haven’t got the
‘rub off’ anyway, anymore than the prophet had it. 

(1)	I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, (and) acceptable unto God, which is
your reasonable service (or sacrifice).

	How could your body be sacrificially given to God, except God has
already approved it? The same as He approved the Lamb to die, He’s
approved you and me to live for Him. 

	You say, “Do you mean to tell me the same approbation?” 

	Yes, the same approbation: sheep are sheep.

66.	(2)	And be not conformed (that is, ‘fashioned after’)…this
world: (and Bro. Branham taught on that) but be ye transformed
(‘transfigured’, ‘go through metamorphosis’) by the renewing of
your mind.

	This is the age of the mind. Yeah, it’s the age of the mind. Bro.
Branham said so. The last moving part is the eye. That’s the eye,
single eye, an eye single, the whole body full of light, going to bring
the dead up. This Message is going to do it. Not that we’re going to
call them out, but if this message is required, they without us cannot
be made perfect. That’s finished, polished off, the whole thing. 

(2)	(Now,)…that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and
perfect, will of God. (It’s been done. That which is perfect is come.)

(3)	…I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is
among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think;
but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the
measure of faith.

	Now, that’s what It says in 1 Thessalonians, that we which are alive
and remain shall not ‘prevent’, ‘go before’, and the literal
translation is ‘take a precedence over or any preeminence’. So, in
this hour, when He is here, descended with a Shout, the head of the
Church to raise the dead: don’t anybody get high-minded. Now, let your
mind take in the Word of God, and don’t get high-minded. Think
soberly. 

67.	And Bro. Branham said the thing that bugged him was the fact that
we’re not sober and sincere enough. In this mind age: repent, change
your mind. Not serious. Now he said, “Be sober.” 

	And God had dealt the measure of faith and the measure of faith is
what? Elohim before Abraham; the full assurance of faith! You don’t
look anywhere anymore except to Him because you found out there’s
nothing to look to within or without of yourself. Bro. Branham said,
“Abraham, under the covenant of grace, he didn’t even look at his
works, didn’t look at his conduct, considered not his own body dead
nor yet Sarah’s.” All right, right to that area. 

68.	[Romans 12]

(4)	For…we have many members in one body, and all members have 	not
the same office:

(5)	…we, being many, are one body in Christ, …every…(member) one
of another.

(6)	Having…gifts differing according to…grace that is given (unto)
us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of
faith;

(7)	Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on
teaching;

(8)	…he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that gives, with simplicity;
he that rules, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

(9)	Let love be without (hypocrisy). Abhor that which is evil.

	What is evil? Off the Word! I’ve got no controversy with men; I
don’t care what they do, really, but when they start infringing on us
and say we can’t say so and so and do so and so which is the Word of
God, then I rise up in my high horse, and of course, I’m a very bad
person for doing that. Then why don’t you condemn Jesus and Paul? Paul
got so mad at Barnabas after the Holy Ghost separated them, he said,
“We’re finished.” And God said, “That is very good. I’ll give
you a better guy than ever.” So, He gave him Silas. Nobody heard of
Barnabas again. 

69.	Do you like the way God does things? No, nobody does. But God does.
No, because we got our own smug, stupid ideas just like when God spoke
to Moses, He said, “I’m going to send you down there and I’m going
to deliver you with a high hand.” And then, He said, “I’m going to
destroy Pharaoh.” 

	And Moses said, “Wonderful.” And he went down and he said,
“Let’s hold a prayer meeting. But how do I love you old Pharaoh.
Back in those days he treated me so good. I was brought up at his
daughter’s knee, and I just can’t turn Pharaoh over, and so,
Pharaoh, we’re going to pray, and he’s going to get saved.” 

	Why, Moses had more love than God! He could teach God a few things. 

70.	Where… How do you think Bro. Branham, how did he go before the
public when he said, “I don’t pray for America anymore?” 

	“Oh, you don’t? Oh, nnn, nnn, nnn.” 

	You’re blinking your eyes? Go ahead. Blink them. Are you getting
second thoughts? You can say what you want to. I told you what the
prophet said. I’m not trying to be mean to anybody. I’m just trying
to get one thing lined up. Get the Word lined up, and then you’ll see
where love really goes. You’ll see where it takes you. You’ll see
that love is ‘meekness with a backbone’. It’s not wishy-washy
corruption. It’s not hard-nosed dogmatism. How hard-nosed was Jesus
when that fellow was there, there by the pool and needed help? How
hard-nosed was He when the little woman came in and she’d been in sin,
a woman of the streets, and then she cried and cried and washed his feet
with her tears? How hard-nosed was He? 

	“Get out of here.” 

	Or that woman they caught? 

	“Okay, boys, I’ll throw the first stone. Everybody throw a
stone.” 

	Ha! Took her part. Where was His hard nose? He was hard-nosed with that
Word, brother/sister, because he set his face like a flint to go to
Jerusalem. Paul was in the same image; I don’t say that I am, too
much, but hopefully, I’ll get there. 

71.	[Romans 12]

(9)	…(hate)…evil; cleave to that which is good.

(10)	Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love…

	So, it’s not a dirty word after all, is it —this phileo love? Why
should I phileo you and you phileo me? Real brothers and sisters, like
Bro. Branham said, “Branham’s fight in the backyard. That’s fine,
but you know if they fight in the front yard; it’s a little different,
but…don’t ever try to step in or you’ll find that we’ll turn
around, and you won’t be so happy.” Sure, you get so busy fighting
for the Word, and loving the Word you won’t have time to fight each
other. Let the Word have Its way. 

(10)	…in honour (prefer) one another.

	“Well, I’ve done that, Bro. Vayle. I just let the other fellow do
the work.” 

	And he will get all the credit. Now, that’s nice of you. Who are you
going to elect to be that fall guy? That’s a nice little thought.

72.	(11)	Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

(12)	Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in
prayer;

(13)	Distributing (unto) the necessity of (the) saints; given to
hospitality. 

	Are your homes open? Where do you get the word ‘hospital’? It’s a
building where people come in and you take care of them. Ha! That blew
it, hey? We had… We had about ten people sleeping in our house at one
time, and they had the nerve to stay up and laugh, merry and crack jokes
and Brian laughed his fool head off with all the rest of them. And my
wife and me and our little health regimen we take… I ain’t going to
tell you about it; that’s our business. But they thought they had a
ball. We didn’t mind. We would tell them more jokes the next time, and
they could come back, and we’d have some more fun, except I’d like
to sleep a little more than I used to, kids, so just, you know, be a
little nicer. Will you? Don’t…you know. I could turn my nose and
make…and can’t sleep either. You know, hospitality. They felt good;
we felt good, sure.

73.	(15)	Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that
weep. (If you can’t mingle your tears there’s something wrong. If
you can’t be happy for somebody, there’s something wrong.) 

(16)	Be the same mind one (to) another.

	“Oh, I could really slop that love up, but I’m not too good at
giving it.” 

	Well, okay, sloppy, you’re a hog; you ain’t a sheep. I’m going to
get in trouble. Call the meeting… Call the meeting off, Bill, while
I’ve got time. [Congregation laughs.] Well, It says that: 

(16)	Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not
wise in your own conceits.

(17)	Recompense…no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the
sight of all men.

(18)	If it be possible, as much as lies (within) you, live peaceably
with all men. (Now he knew it would be tough, but it can be done.)

(19)	Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place (to)
wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the
Lord.

	In other words, if you blow your stack; get over it. Get over it, and
do something about it, so you won’t do it the next time, or you will
taper off, or something’s going to happen.

74.	(20)	Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; (How can your enemy 
be your brother?) if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing (you
will) heap coals of fire on his head.

(21)	Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

	Now It tells you on thoughts of love here. Now you can’t do that
without the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You wouldn’t know what to do,
unless God’s Word told you. You see? But a lot of people think,
“Hey, that love bit, you know, you’ve just got to be wishy-washy and
go to pieces.” 

	No, you hold a standard. You hold a standard, but then you treat people
the way that you want to be treated yourself under the same conditions.
Not like the justice and the cops and everybody else; we’re a
different breed.

75.	Oh yes, there’s a false fruit, but never forget there is a true
fruit. And listen; don’t forget now in the beginning, the very Genesis
of all things, is Word. Remember; it was that one in flesh that fell; so
therefore, when God restored you and brought you back, He brought back
all that fruit and everything in your life and mine that could make us
living epistles read and known of all men, if we only wanted. 

	And you know something, brother/sister? It’s easier to go God’s way
than go your own. That’s where the devil has always had us on the run.
He’s always convinced us, “Oh, this is hard. Someone might laugh.
Oh, this wouldn’t work out.”

	Believe me it does work out. I’ve told you time and time again: I
thought I was badly abused when I had to pray food on the table. What a
jerk I was to ever stop it. How many of you have prayed food on the
table for a wife and a little baby? You don’t know the first thing
about it. And I thought God was not nice to me. 

	Oh, brother/sister, how stupid can we get? Don’t answer the question.
There isn’t any answer to it. You and I are just as stupid as we make
up our minds against God. And remember; Bro. Branham said, “That
person (although you and I are not that person) is the same as an
atheist.” He is a fool before God; it’s where he is because he turns
down the Light. 

76.	In the beginning the very Genesis of all things is the Word; He made
all things by Word. And spirit and fruit and gifts and all of it are so
close that only the wise can understand and discern. You know why
they’re so close? Because in the beginning it was the real McCoy, and
they began just shifting it and shifting it and shifting it. But one day
it’s all going back. It’s all going back. Yes sir, only the wise
will understand. That’s not the foolish, but the wise virgin. The
unregenerate works from an unborn soul… That’s right, unregenerate
works come from an unborn soul, but the regenerate works will come from
a Word born one. 

77.	I’m supposed to read something here, but I guess I didn’t do it.
Let me read it. He said: [STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN JEFF.IN V-2 N-18
62-1014M, pg 48]

[1]	“In the evening time it shall be light. That’s when comes
Christ, the Holy Spirit, Jesus comes down to set Himself…Head of the
church, then He will resurrect this church being His own body. In
there’s the body and the way God is expecting us as individuals to
grow and the way He’s brought His church in to grow. Every Church Age,


	How did they come in? By a messenger with the Word: Holy Spirit
bringing them right in line. See. 

[2]	“These fellows were not required, what those fellows were. Now,
come on. This wasn’t required what this was. See, but He brought His
church up the same way. He brought His church up the same way He’s
bringing His people up. Then Peter here said seven things: ‘faith,
virtue, (see, coming up) knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness,
brotherly love, and brotherly kindness and then the love of God.’ The
Holy Ghost, Christ in the Person of the Holy Ghost comes upon you in the
true baptism of the Holy Ghost.”

	Remember, Bro. Branham said, “Justification gave way to
sanctification, sanctification gives way to the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, and the baptism gives way to the Holy Ghost Himself: Headship is
here.” The prophet left, but Bro. Branham said, “God doesn’t take
the Spirit; the Pillar of Fire is going to lead us in.” 

78.	He’s here, brother/sister. So, there’s no phony amongst us. What
you see is what you get. No more hypocrisy. You know, people have
hypocrisy so much, if little sister so and so would stop just being
sister so and so, and would be prissy and nicey the way they think it
should be, then sister so and so will be so welcomed to our club. But
sister so and so doesn’t understand that kind of life because she’s
just a transparent goofball, like brother so and so up here. What you
see is what you get and worse. If you don’t know it by now, I’m
sorry for you. You’re a nice kid, but you’re naïve. 

79.	The Holy Ghost in the person of the Holy Ghost… Listen! 

[2]	The Holy Ghost, Christ in the person, the Holy Ghost comes upon you
in the true baptism of the Holy Ghost, and you’ve got all these
virtues sealed in you, then God lives in a tabernacle called the
building: the living tabernacle of the living God’s dwelling place.

	Listen, what is the virtue of this age? Brotherly kindness, a real
phileo; love worketh no ill to his neighbor; doesn’t say, “Hey
we’re going to be political. We’re to stand around and scratch each
other’s back and this and that.” No, that’s not what it’s all
about. 

[6]	But when we, not in an imaginary way—not in an imaginary way, but
we, not in our imagination, prostrate ourselves before a living God, a
living virtue, a living knowledge, a living patience, a living
godliness, a living power, come by the living God, makes a living man in
a living image, the stature of God, there’s no counterfeit there. 

	This was the hour when there is no counterfeit. Real came forth!
William Branham was not the Son of man; the Pillar of Fire was not the
Son of man: we saw the Son of man in the form of the Holy Spirit come
forth in ministry. We’ve got reality. 

80.	Now he said, listen, I quoted a part of this. [“Stature of a
Perfect Man” continued—pg 50.] 

[3]	If you die…and take the blood out of a man, you embalm him.” The
trouble is a lot of them never get embalmed. You take the blood out of a
man; he’s gone. Then the only thing you can do is put another blood
back in him, if he’s going to live again and you took his blood out.
Now if we put the blood of Jesus Christ in, and that brings the faith of
Jesus, the virtue of Jesus, the knowledge of Jesus, the temperance of
Jesus, the patience of Jesus, the godliness of Jesus, and brotherly
kindness of Jesus Christ, the love of God which is Jesus Christ, He’s
the head that controls you. …Your feet are the foundation of
faith—Amen!—controlled by the head. That’s the hour. 

	Listen, brother/sister, phony is over. No more phony love; no more
phony nothing. Now Bro. Branham before he died, you know as well as I
do, he came against this phony love stuff. And believe me, it took
something for him to stand up in the face and the faith of what is
denominational dogma outside of Pentecost that the evidence of the Holy
Ghost is love.

	And he said, “I’m sorry. It is not gifts, it is not love. It is the
Word. And everything you have, if you’ve got the Holy Ghost, give it
the Word test. If you’ve got virtue, give it the Word test. If
you’ve got a gift, give it the Word test. If you’ve got anything,
give it the Word test.” 

81.	And so, what I’m trying to get across to you tonight… Listen!
Words have been abused by people, misused, and everything else. There is
a genuine phileo love that God Himself had and wants us to have, and
there’s a genuine agape love that God has and He wants you and me to
have, and He wants it in the right places in the right way, and we can
do it because we have it. Now, that’s what communion and foot-washing
is all about. It’s significant.

	Time’s gone—more than gone, but I’m finished. Let’s rise at
this time.

	

	Gracious, heavenly Father, we thank and praise You for love and mercy,
and, if we’ve overstepped ourselves, Lord, You know how to correct it
because, Father, You give us the Word. If we overbalanced on one side,
You help us to come on back. We realize, Lord God, that we do not want
to have anything which even is set forth as the truth and that truth be
surrounded by ice, which is certainly better than luke-warm, but You
would sooner have the truth which is surrounded with heat: living,
pulsating, vibrant, coming forth through the living seed of God. 

	Now, Lord, we want above all else, as Your Scripture says, which we
know is definitely a part of the aura of the love Itself, which is
absolutely Word based, to be: tender, kind-hearted, merciful, showing
sympathy, giving our strength when necessary, being weak with those that
are weak, strong with those that are strong, adapting ourselves, in
honor preferring each other, knowing that this is a part of Armageddon.
It’s a part where the mind steps out from what it ever used to believe
and wanted to do and now steps out to the Word and dedicates the body to
follow the Word. 

	Lord, tonight we can preach this way and know we’re on target and yet
be so far off. We don’t want that. We don’t want to be those who
come in, as the prophet said, “They sit there and enjoy the manna but
they die in the wilderness.” We don’t want that, Lord. Father,
there’s… If I’ve preached to vindicate myself, You know that’s
not going to get anywhere. It’s going to backfire on me. But if I’ve
preached Lord, because I’m seeking and want something real, believing
there is something in there that is so genuine that the full compassion
and all the fine gestures that go with it will come forth in a reality.
And as, Lord, in that great journey over into Canaan’s land there
wasn’t one sick amongst them, neither will there be amongst us any
phony love, anything Lord which is false to Your reality that You have
amongst us. 

	Father, we look at ourselves and we know there’s no use looking at
ourselves. There’s just no use, but we look to You and say, “Here we
are, Lord.” Maybe we’re a whole lot closer and further than we
thought we were; maybe we’re a whole lot further away than we thought
we were. We can’t assess these things too good, but we do appreciate
the Word and love It —love to stand with the truth, Lord. But we
don’t want to be outside that realm of beauty which the apostle Paul
said, “If you live in the Spirit, then walk in It.” 

	And Father, as we pray for an increase of understanding which we know
is this hour, but we’ve also admitted that, if there ever should be
fruit, this would be the hour for it. That ever be these things that are
set forth, this is the hour, and Lord, we present ourselves a living
sacrifice tonight. Maybe this minute, this second we can’t go all the
way, but, Lord, we do want to go all the way. We wouldn’t want to come
up there in Your Presence and be a part of the Bride and stand to relish
the glory, even though there will come a time when memory’s completely
gone, if we know even for a little while we’ve been very abysmal,
negligent, delinquent in these things, Lord, that You set before us. We
want to know that we’ve given a little honor and glory to You, just a
little bit anyway. When we think of these things, Father, everything
just fades away just like the prophet said, “Everything fades but
Jesus; it’s been Him all the time. He comes into the full view.” 

	So, help us tonight, Father, that’s all we can say: just help us.
Just keep working on us, Lord, just keep purifying our minds and our
hearts by this revealed Word, Lord, to know that we don’t have to be
in the realm of the penny class anymore. I don’t believe we do, Lord.
Your prophet said, “Lot was, maybe, just a penny, somebody else was a
dime, and he couldn’t be a silver dollar like Abraham.” And I
don’t want to be like William Branham, Lord. I don’t want to be a
silver dollar like him, but it would be nice to come up the way even
like old Jacob came up, that he wrestled with You, and You wrestled with
him is really what it was, I suppose, and in that wrestling he shrunk a
little. He got more and more out of the way, until he was a prince of
Israel. Lord, that’s what we’re looking at tonight. We’re sheep
that went astray, sheep restored, and we’re looking to You. 

	Help us tonight, Lord, as we partake of these emblems. We know it shows
forth the death of that lovely One who died, the Blood scatters sin till
there be no evidence of it. We know that there’s a spotless, virtuous
Bride for the spotless Lamb of God. We know that. We appreciate that.
But how we long to, because of something in us that longs to, just fit
into that mold, all the way down to have that genuine love, that
meekness that Moses had but that strength that went with it. Lord, we
know the meekness is not weakness. It’s real character. 

	So, You’ve got to help us. We throw the whole thing back on You,
Lord. We got to put it all back on You. You’ve got to build this
house. You’ve got to watch us. Forgive us of our sins of admissions,
commissions, the thoughts of our minds, the intents of our hearts. Lord,
tonight we believe we are going on, onward and upward through You, in
You.

	In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen.

	Lord bless you. [Communion and Foot-washing service begins.]