The Projecting of Love #8

“From the Beginning”

Light-Love; Darkness-Hate

June 30, 1984 

	Shall we pray: Heavenly Father, we thank You again for life and
liberty, Lord, for the good things in life that You placed within
vessels here that have become sacred unto You, known before the
foundation of the earth, all things having been prepared and all things
now coming to a great climax in this last hour. We cannot praise Thee
enough. We adore Your wonderful Name. Be with us in this service, Lord,
that You might receive honor and glory because You are worthy. In
Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	[Beginning is cut off for announcements.] We’re going to go into
the “Projecting of Love” again, and this is will be number 8. And I
want to take it from a couple phrases in Scripture, especially starting
with 1 Jn 3:11. And we’re going to do our best to show you what I have
in mind here, and you just try to follow me as basic major principles
are laid out. And remember; I’ve never ever tried to fool anybody.
I’ve always stood here and told you the truth, and I’ve said, and
people don’t understand this, say, “Bro. Vayle, how can you say that
people will die under your ministry?” 

	Because they don’t understand it. If you don’t understand what I
say especially when it comes to projecting love you get an erroneous
idea entirely, and you substitute your own thinking, and you can just go
plumb off course. 

2.	Now we’ll look at this subject very carefully tonight from reading,
first of all, one little Scripture in 1 John 3:

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

	Now we’re going to go over here to Matthew 19. Bro. Branham preached
“Marriage and Divorce”. 

(8)	He said unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts
suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not
so.

	Now those two verses of Scripture you understand already, that I have
read them in order to bring out the phrase that’s contained in both:
‘from the beginning’. Now in the case of Mt 19:8, which was
concerning marriage and divorce and remarriage, really divorce and
remarriage, Bro. Branham took us back to Adam and Eve and showed that it
was the introduction of sexual intercourse that brought about divorce
and remarriage. In the beginning it was not so, for Adam had only one
wife which was Eve, and had he put her away, he would not have been able
to marry again. See? He wasn’t able to marry, so therefore; God had
not made any supply for anyone to marry, divorce and remarry. That is
not the original plan of God. In the beginning it was not so. 

3.	And he told us exactly what it was that brought all the sin and
problems in the world. Now, so we see this is God’s way, God joining
together, and no man either putting himself asunder or allowing anyone
else to put the two asunder. But woman introduced the sensual act that
put the world into sin and brought about a divorce even from God because
there was a separation. In other words they did not have the communion
that they once had. Now, that is a beginning that Bro. Branham took us
back to.

4.	And you will notice in here that John takes us back to another
beginning, which we found in 1 Jn 3:11.

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

	Now, in this beginning that’s mentioned here in 1 Jn 3:11, we find
actually there is another beginning that is before that one in 1 Jn 3:1.
And we’re going to have to look at this, which John is presenting here
as a vital proposition. Now, what we see here is that it is the message
or revelation of how unrighteousness and hate entered, though it was not
that way before, because this is what he is saying. 

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

	So, you’re going back to something that was in the beginning—that
propagated love—that had everything to do with love. Then something
happened, such as in the Garden of Eden, that began to work upon and
destroy marriage. We find something that began to destroy what was in
the beginning. Now, reading again then: [1 John 3]

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

5.	Now, there is a great danger in taking Scripture as a major premise
or a major principle that, when it is not that, and it should be either
subject to another principle, or it becomes, also, or it could be, a
minor principle. Like Bro. Branham said, “Healing is a minor doctrine,
and you don’t major on a minor.” Now, always this Scripture is used
in an isolated manner and has become a very major premise or thesis. And
this Scripture does appear to be a major premise or thesis, so the mind
stops and gives it its full opportunity for an acceptance on that basis.


6.	Now, what I’m telling you is this: If you say, “This is a major
principle; this is it; if we get this, we have this and this,” you
could be one hundred percent wrong because there could be a principle
before it that, in disregarding, you mess things up. It’s like sex.
Sex before marriage is wrong. After marriage, it’s fine. See? 

	So, what you can do, you can get yourself in a bad situation if you
don’t understand what we’re talking about. Now, the mind, therefore,
that accepts this verse without context and understanding is willing to
set everything else aside and view this one verse here as the original
message. 

	It says, “This is the message that you have heard from the beginning,
that you should love one another.” Then right there you say, “Well,
that’s the original message.” 

	By no means is that true. This is not the original one. See? 

7.	There is another verse in 1 John that speaks as of from another
beginning that we will find is literally the basis for 1 Jn 3:11 that
says this is the beginning: there’s another beginning. So, we look at
1 Jn 2:7-8. Now, listen!

(7)	Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old
commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the
Word which you have heard from the beginning. (Now, over here you’re
learning something about Word; so therefore, verse 11 of 1 John 3 is
contained in 1 Jn 2:7.)

(8)	…a new commandment…(again) I write unto you, which thing is true
in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now
shineth.

	Now he’s telling you here, “All right. What I’m doing is I am
going to tell you what was previously said, which was already on record,
but evidently, you don’t understand it.” He’s talking about the
light here that is shining. Now, so the original revelation that is set
before us takes us right back to the beginning of beginnings.

8.	(7)	Brethren, I write no new commandment…but an old commandment
which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word (that)
you have heard from the beginning. 

	Okay, let’s go back, then, to John 1 in the Gospels. [Jn 1:13]

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

(2)	The same was in the beginning with God.

(3)	All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made
that was made.

(4)	In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

(5)	…the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it 
not.

	Now, all right. Now you’re going right back to the beginnings, which
1 Jn 3:11 is set in, and we’ll show you that, because we go to verse
12 afterward. We’re not going to take It right now. 

9.	We’ll go to verses 10-13 and show you. Now: [John 1]

(6)	There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

(7)	The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all
men through him might believe.

(8)	He was not that Light, but (he) was sent to bear witness of that
Light.

	Now you’ll notice that John was sent as a light to bear witness to
the Light so that people believing John would believe the Light that
superseded John’s light, which John’s light was a witness to Him. So
therefore, there would be the superseding by Christ Himself which means
He would have the preeminence. And that’s what we’re looking at
tonight; we’ll look into It. 

(9)	(Now) that was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh
into the world.

(10)	He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world
knew him not.

(11)	He came to his own, and his own received him not.

(12)	But as many as received him, to them gave he (the authority)…to
(be) the sons of God, (not ‘to become’. You already are or you
aren’t. Predestination doesn’t alter anything. It only puts it into
the physical form—that which was already foreordained.) even to them
that believe on his name: (Now, remember; you don’t believe unless you
are ordained to believe.)

(13)	Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of
the will of man, but of God.

(14)	And the Word (became) flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his
glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace
and truth.

10.	Now, with this we go back and read, of course, 1 John, the epistle.
[1 Jn 1:1-5] We’ve got the very same thing.

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

(2)	(For the life was manifested, (That means ‘thoroughly proven as to
what it was’.) and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto
you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested
unto us;) (Now, that goes back to John 1.)

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

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

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

	Now, if you don’t get that, you don’t get 1 Jn 3:11. If you botch
this up, you will botch up 1 Jn 3:11, because this beginning supersedes
that beginning. 

11.	Now, let’s watch. Very carefully keep your thinking cap on, and go
with me. Now we can begin to see that revelation from God, and of God,
is the foundation of the church. Matthew 16: He said, “Whom do men say
that I, the Son of man, am?” 

	“Well,” they said, “some believe this and some believe that.” 

	But He said, “Who do you say?” 

	And he said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 

	And He said, “Flesh and blood has not revealed it unto you but my
Father which is in heaven, and upon this foundation—revelation of the
true God, I will build my church.” 

	Then every timber that goes into the church has to be built through
revelation. And the substance and the reality and the conduct, the
manner, and the decorum and everything has to be Word. Now Bro. Branham
said so. I’m just elaborating. All right. 

12.	Now, if we fail in revelation, we fail in everything else. Now,
let’s go right back to Jn 3:16 and begin to see It.

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

(17)	For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world: but
the world through him might be saved. (All right. That’s very good.)

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

	All right. Now, that tells you. It tells you what unbelief will do. It
will bring condemnation. Now, where does the condemnation come from,
which is essentially unbelief? What is it? It tells you.

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

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

	Now, ‘to come to the light’ simply does not mean, “Hey, I’m
going to bring this to you, and you check it over.” I don’t care if
you do check it over; coming to the light means you receive it. 

13.	A man said to Bro. Branham, “Well, if I saw you raise the dead, I
wouldn’t believe it.” 

	And Bro. Branham said, “It’s exactly right; you’re an
unbeliever.” 

	Are you getting the picture? Faith is a revelation, but it has got to
come from God. And, if you’re not in the position to receive It, if
you’re not one of the believers, you’re not going to. Now It says
they won’t come to the light. It tells you right here, for men love
darkness. Well, if they love darkness then what does it say? It says:

(20)	For every one that doeth evil hateth the light.

	Listen! Everyone that doeth evil hates light. Do you understand what
I’m saying? You don’t understand what I’m saying, and I don’t
understand what I’m saying, because we’re still back in the woods.
[Bro. Vayle raises voice emphatically.] We’re too nice! It’s
‘Never mind, God’. Spit in His face. Phooey on the Word! We got as
much understanding as a ‘God knows what’, and at this point our
praise and our attitude is just like dry peas falling on a dry cowhide
because we don’t accept It. You don’t accept It.

14.	People still don’t believe when Jesus stood there and said, “If
I had not done the works no other man did, they had not sinned, but now
they’ve seen and hated both me and my Father.” 

	And they said, “We... Oh, we love Him! Oh, we… Hmm.”

	Tell that to the Full Gospel Businessmen; tell that to Pentecost; tell
that to a Baptist; tell that to any Protestant or any Catholic. 

	“Well, how much I love Him. I’ll die for Him.” 

	And they do, too. Bro. Branham said, “Well, sure, …heathen mothers
throw their babies to crocodiles in love, too.” See? People don’t
believe this Word. I’m not finished, not by a long shot. I take this
Word by Word. 

15.	Now, let’s be real sober minded and full of awareness. We read
based upon our major thesis of original divine revelation, and remember;
Christ is the mystery of God: number one, revelation; number two,
preeminence; number three, back to Eden. Right? Don’t forget that.
See? All right. Based on the major thesis of original revelation, we go
back to 1 Jn 1:6 and listen to It.

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

	“So, I cast out devils.”

	“Depart from me.”

	“I prophesy.”

	“Get out of here.”

	“I did miracles.”

	“Go on.”

	“Oh, I brought in souls.”

	Many more are the children of the desolate than she that has a husband.
Now, listen to It. 

 (6)	If we say…we have fellowship with him, (We’re on speaking
terms, we’re communing. There’s a relationship, a
brother/sisterhood, and we are walking) in darkness…

	…which means we refuse to accept what is presented and to be known
according to scriptural ways of God doing it: the truth is there. And
they won’t take it no matter what happens. And they’ll say, “Well,
we love God.” 

	Liars! Do you want to go home now? You can if you want. Look, I don’t
give a rip. I’m ready to quit preaching anyway. Who believes? Believe
any creed, dogma, and hogwash, but don’t believe the Word; can’t
stand certain phraseology.

16.	(6)	If we say…we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness,
(We’re liars.) and…the truth (is not in us).

	Let’s go to Hebrews 2. Let’s see this, beginning in verse 9.

(9)	But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for
the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the
grace of God should taste death for every man. (No sir, ‘every son’.
The word ‘man’ is not in the original.)

(10)	For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all
things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their
salvation perfect through sufferings.

(11)	For both he who is sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all
of one (source): for which cause he is not ashamed to call them
brethren,

(12)	Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of
the church will I sing praise unto thee.

(13)	And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the
children which God hath given me.

	Now he’s telling you right there something. There’s your
fellowship. There’s the acknowledgement. There’s Christ, the Head.
And It tells you right there, there’s no such thing as headship
outside of a proper revelation. So then, how can He be back to headship
without the prophet in a true revelation? I want to know some answers.
People won’t acknowledge headship. They’re not interested. See?

(14)	Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he
also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might
(bring to nothing) him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

(15)	And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime
subject to bondage.

	You say, “Well, that’s great.”

	Only if you’re in the light; only if you have the truth. See? No
other way. You can’t do it. 

17.	Then we go back to 1 Jn 2:7-10 again, a little further than the last
time.

(7)	Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old
commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the
word which you have heard from the beginning.

	Now he’s warning you that everything he’s going to tell you about
went plumb back to the original which was the Word. Not something new.
There’s nothing new here at all. Bro. Branham said, “You add one
word; you’re finished.” Moses already said It, way back in
Deuteronomy. 

 (8)	Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in
him and in you: (Now, listen! Which is true in him and in you:) because
the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

	He puts you on par with light, which is revelation, truth, which is
fellowship and the whole thing on par with Jesus, “In the midst of his
brethren.” He said, “it’s true in him and in you.” He said,
“The darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.” That’s of
the hour. The other’s gone. 

18.	(9)	He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in
darkness even until now.

(10)	He that loveth his brother abideth in…light.

	Now they’re getting the cart before the horse. 

	“Well, I love. I’ve got light.” 

	That’s a lie from the pit of hell, because the minute you come
against Truth, you’ll blow up; you can’t take it. You say just like
the man said, “I don’t care if William Branham raises the dead; I
won’t believe.” 

	And the false prophets come right along and say, “Hallelujah, join
the crowd. We love Him, bless God, we love Him and He loves us. Don’t
you notice the miracles, what He’s done for us?” 

	Well, I’m all for it, but that’s not the criterion. 

19.	Now he’s putting hate and light, hate and darkness, and love and
light, right together. And he said, “If you’ve got one, you’ve got
the other.” And if you don’t have the one, and you’ve got the
other, one is spurious. 

	Oh, you say, “Bro. Vayle, I don’t believe love can be
counterfeit.” 

	You don’t believe the Bible; because It says, “Let love be without
dissimilation,” which is hypocritical. And a hypocrite is a man that
wears a mask to fool people. How do you think women get fooled? They
give sex for love, and men give love for sex. Phttt, on that! So do the
church members and the people in the pews, and the preacher and the
whole stinking bunch are in the filthy adulteries is what they are in,
as the Word of God says there are, and the shame of their nakedness has
appeared already. 

(11)	…he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness,
and knoweth not whither he goeth, because…darkness hath blinded his
eyes.

	You say, “Well, there you are; it’s a brother.” 

	Let me get to that, just hold your thoughts right there on what a
brother is. That’s a physical brother because he’s going to talk
about Cain later on and Abel and they were twins. 

20.	[Bro. Vayle comments on airflow.] Now:

(10)	He that loveth his brother abides in…light, and there is none
occasion of stumbling in him.

	Okay, we go now to 1 John 3.

(10)	In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the
devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that
loveth not his brother.

	Now, right in there we come to the thought that people would say,
“Well, there you are. There can be a person that calls himself a
brother, and he hates.” 

	Well, you hit the thing right on the head; he’s just calling himself
a brother because It tells you that: ‘He that neither doeth
righteousness is not of God, and he that hates his brother is not of
God.’ All right.

21.	From 1 John 2, we read It again.

(10)	He that loveth his brother abideth in light, and there is none
occasion of stumbling in him. (What was the stumbling that happened to
Eve? She got off the Word. It wasn’t her sex act. It was getting off
the Word. That brought the sex act. So, let’s get the principle
right.)

(11)	But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in
darkness, (contrary to the Word)…

	And the serpent came and said, “Yea, hath God said. No, that’s not
what God means.” 

	And he took her plumb off the Word. He was walking in hate, though he
got sexual satisfaction. And any one man that wants sex outside of
marriage hates the woman because he humbles her, the Bible says, and
makes her a pawn. No wonder women are risen up and said, “We’re no
longer sex playthings,” and so on. Women have got their bellies full
of it. I don’t blame them, but they went the wrong route. See?

22.	Now [1 Jn 3:10]

[10]	In this the children of God are manifest, (who’s a child of God
and who’s a child) of the devil. 

	Here’s something that they do, and what they do has to do with love
and hate. And there’s something beyond the doing. It’s the
revelation that prompts the doing, then the hate comes and the
manifestation of hate or the manifestation of love. All right.

23.	Then, from 1 Jn 2:10-11 and 1 Jn 3:10, it is axiomatic that truth
and love are Siamese twins, and darkness and hatred are Siamese twins.
And you cannot have truth and hatred; you can’t have it. Neither can
you have darkness and love. Right here It says It. It’s cut clear; you
can’t mix them. So, we see the principle. There is no way around this.


24.	So, we go back to 1 Jn 1:5-7.

(5)	This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare
unto you, that God is light, and in him (rebirth, as well as, in His
person) is no darkness.

	What was it that came out of God in the first place? Light. “Let
there be light, and there was light.” And that separated darkness from
light, and It began a separation in the sense It began to show
something. 

(6) 	(Now,) if we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness,
we lie, and do not the truth:

	See? You can’t do anything pleasing to God, no matter what the Word
says, if you’re off the revelation. And there’s no way that you will
show love, the love that God wants, for He has esteemed His Word above
His Name. Something’s wrong with people and with the church.

25.	(6)	If we say that we have fellowship…and walk in darkness, we
lie, and do not the truth:

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

	Now you’re getting to the place where you can do things in a wrong
way, be caught in traps, and the Blood will cleanse you because you’re
in the light. That’s why he says over here so clearly: It says, “If
we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar; the truth is not in
us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful to forgive us and cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.” In other words, the Bride stands perfect
through the blood of Jesus Christ, the Lord. Blood! What Bride? The
Bride that’s in the light that has the understanding! Okay. 

26.	[1 John 1] Now, notice verse 5 again.

(5)	This is the message (you) have heard of him, (This is the
original)…declare (we) unto you, that God is light, and in him is no
darkness…

	So therefore, we now come to another precept, and that is that darkness
is hatred. That’s right. There’s a hatred, and hatred is darkness.
All right.

27.	Now, in this message—this message we’re preaching—is about the
beginning. And we go back, then, and take a look at this beginning that
we started with, which is 1 John 3.

(10)	In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the
devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that
loveth not his brother.

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

	That’s exactly right. Now, is that a commandment? Or is it on the
same grounds as Mt 5:48: “Be ye perfect”? What I’m going to tell
you is this: there is no way that you can manifest love that is pleasing
to God toward anybody that you have a difference with on Scripture.
It’s a matter of life and death because you’re going to start
fighting for your life. You can’t do it because the Word of God says
so. That’s plain and simple.

(11)	…this is the message…you heard from the beginning, …(we’ll)
love one another.

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

	Now, that takes us back to the beginning. The beginning here has to do
with what did Cain do that brought about the death of his brother? 

28.	Well, let’s go back to Genesis 4. Now we’ve gone through this
time after time after time, but there’s nothing like every time to
renew our minds, to get our understanding. All right. [Gen 4:1-12]

(1)	And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and
said, I’ve gotten a man from the LORD.

(2)	And she again bare his brother Abel. (Twins. Adam Clark saw that.)
…Abel was a keeper of (the) sheep, (and) Cain…a tiller of the (soil
or the) ground.

(3)	And in (the) process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of
the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

(4)	And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the
fat thereof. (Now they’re both offering to God. They’re both
worshipping God. Now, let’s watch It.) the LORD had respect unto Abel
and to his offering:

(5)	But unto Cain and to his offering he (didn’t have) respect. And
Cain was very (angry), and his countenance fell. 

	Now he got mad. Now he’s really upset. Madder than a hatter. What’s
he mad about? He’s mad about what he did that displeased God, and his
brother did something that pleased God. So, his brother had a know-how,
a revelation about something from God, that placed him. All right.
[Genesis 4]

29.	(6)	And the LORD said to Cain, why are you (angry)? …why is your
countenance fallen? (Sulky and grumpy.)

(7)	If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? 

	Now he said here—literal translation from the Septuagint: “Thou
hast offered well, but thou hast not rightly divided therefore thou hast
sinned.” So, I don’t care what anybody does from this Word. I
don’t care two bits or one iota. If you’re off the Word, you’re
sinning. Your best intentions are going to take you down to hell. Your
finest motives will only betray you. You’ve got to know what the light
is, then you’ve got to come and say, “Okay, that’s the way it
is.” 

30.	That’s why people don’t like the understanding of saying… Like
this fellow from Chicago, goes around saying he’s very insulted by
people who say, “Are you in the message?” Well, I’m not insulted.
Ask me. I’ll say, “You better believe I am, if it’s the last thing
I’m going to accomplish.” I’d better be in It. Why does he talk
about Bro. Branham as a prophet of God that brought the truth? You know
why he does it? So, he can go around saying Bro. Branham was wrong. 

	“Well,” you say, “I believe Bro. Branham is a great man of God,
oh yes, yes, but he was wrong.” 

	Trying to trap both. You listen, you’ll get seduced. But I’m not
finished; you wait till I get the Book of Revelation on this.

31.	(8)	…Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when
they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and
(he killed) him. 

	Now, that’s a fine thing. Isn’t it? Two lovely Christians.
Absolutely. If you go back to the beginning, these are Christians in 1
John, see. We’re at the beginning, see: how the first two Christians
were, so-called. Yeah.

(9)	…Where is Abel your brother? …he said, I (don’t)
know…(Liar!) Am I my brother’s keeper?

(10)	…(So) what have you done? the voice of your brother’s blood
cries unto me from the ground.

(11)	…now you’re cursed from the earth, which…opened her mouth to
receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;

(12)	When you till the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee
her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shall you be in the earth.

	So, who’s bringing all this trouble here in the earth? Not your
shepherd farmers and the guy that loves the land; these bunch of
Canaanites out here that do it, because everything they do is going to
turn to destruction. God said, “He’ll destroy those that destroy the
earth,” then the Christian won’t destroy the earth. He won’t be
destroyed. These birds are.

32.	And Cain, what does he say? “Oh, I’m sorry. Forgive me. Why,”
he said, “You’re treating me like a dirty dog. No man can take what
You put on me. Why,” he said, “You drove me from the face of the
earth this day, and from Thy face I’ll be hid. Why,” he said,
“You’re turning me out. What kind of a God are You anyway? Well, all
I did was get rid of that bum there that gave a wrong offering as far as
I’m concerned.” 

	Now, if he had the wrong idea, Abel did, and Cain can get rid of him,
then Cain, he’s got to be the one that’s it. He’s got it made. Oh,
come on; get your thinking cap on. You don’t think that’s the truth?
You’re sitting here, you’re wondering if old Lee Vayle’s really
got that right? You just wait awhile and find out I do have it right.
Oh, you bet your life I have. I’m not standing up here giving you a
bunch of hot air. 

	Now he’s caterwauling. See? He doesn’t want to take it, and he gets
on down here where he gets married and builds a city. He is married and
builds a city, has a bunch of progeny, and then one of his descendents
kills somebody. Old Lamech: he kills somebody. A young fellow maybe took
a crack at him, and he killed him. The boy might have injured him
somehow; maybe accidently he killed him. 

	“Why,” he said, “if Cain is avenged seven fold, Lamech seventy
and seven fold.” 

	You know how that each generation gets worse here? Off the light. You
come to the place where you stand as though you knew it all, and
you’re going to take over, whether God wants it or not. All right.
That’s as far as I’m going to read there. Now, all right.

33.	In the light of what we read, let’s go back to 1 Jn 3:12.

(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 the evil work of Cain? Offering to God apart from a true
revelation of the Word, because the first fruit offering is in the
Bible. The Bible says, Thou… He said, … “Abel offered unto God a
more excellent sacrifice than Cain,” so therefore, Cain’s sacrifice
was excellent. 

	And God said, “Thou hast offered right, but you haven’t divided.”
So therefore, Bro. Branham set the church in order and put the gifts in
a room. It’s wrong to have gifts any place but in that room. Now,
until it’s set in order, it’s not wrong. When it’s set in order,
that’s a different thing. But William Branham could never get his
church set in order. So now, what do you have? Many will come in that
day and say, “Lord, we’ve cast out devils.” False prophets; and
they’re going to suffer for it. They’ll go to the Lake of Fire,
according to Scripture. 

34.	Now, notice in verse 12 It says:

(12)	…wherefore…because his own works were evil, and his brother’s
righteous.

(13)	(Now) marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate(s) you.

	Now, hold it! Look at it! Wherefore he slew his brother. So, if Abel
was a brother of Cain, then Cain was a brother of Abel. Yeah. Come on,
that’s no riddle. That’s the way it is. But notice, the next verse
doesn’t call him brother; It calls him ‘the world’. So, one word
off is Satan’s kingdom is the world. So, you’ve got a bad problem
there. 

35.	Now, Cain is the world. Right. It says so. 1 Jn 4:4-6.

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

	Now you got little children of the world. You got a brother brother,
and the brother brother goes to brother world: brother and world. Now
come on, just read the way the Bible is. 

	“Well,” you say, “I don’t like that.” 

	You don’t like it? 

	Well, let’s go back to Matthew 7, and let’s find something you do
like. You won’t like it. We got people sitting here that understand a
lot of the teaching.

(15)	Beware of false prophets, which come to you in (sheep) clothing,
…inwardly they are ravening wolves.

(16)	You’ll know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns,
or figs of thistles?

	How do you like a mixed metaphor there? You’ve got animals with
grapes hanging on them now. So, all right. We’re looking at the truth
here according to Scripture. ‘Brothers’—yet, what is ‘world’?
Sure, because they’re physical. That’s what it is. 

36.	Now. [1 John 4]

(4)	Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because
greater is he that’s in you, than he that is in the world. (Now,
listen!)

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

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

	Now we’ve got a spirit of truth and a spirit of error. We’ve got
two brothers. They become a brother and the world in contradistinction,
and now we’ve got truth and error. Now we’ve got one group listening
to one and another group listening to another, and it’s the same Word.
And one’s in darkness, which is hatred, and one’s in light and has
love. Now I didn’t make this up. I’m just telling you what the Bible
says. All right. 

37.	Notice, rejection of light inspires murder. Cain refused light. He
became full of hatred, and hatred gave way to murder. Let’s go back to
John 8 and find out. Let’s see if It runs true to form. 

(30)	As he spake these words, many believed on him.

(31)	Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If you
continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed.

	Now he said, “Listen, you’re believing, but,” he said, “I’m
going to tell you something: you can go off. You better continue.” 

	See. A lot of them listened, and then, they turned right away. They
wouldn’t go on. The seventy left him. The crowds left him. 

	He said to the twelve… He said, “Will you leave me?” 

	They said, “No way.” See? They had to continue. 

38.	(31)	…(and) if you continue…

(32)	…you’ll know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

	And freedom in the Scripture is the ability to be right; you’re no
longer in bondage. That’s why we’re getting to the place where
we’re going to leave these bodies, and we’re going to be glorified.
Do you understand what I’m saying? All right. That’s good. Now:

(33)	They answered (and said), We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in
bondage to any man: how sayest thou, (We) shall be made free?

(34)	(He said), Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin
is the servant of sin.

(35)	…the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son
abideth ever.

(36)	If the Son therefore shall make you free, you’ll be free indeed.
(Now he’s talking about is the truth. He’s talking about revealed
Word.) 

(37)	I know…you’re Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because
my word has no place in you. (Neither did the Word have any place in
Cain, so he killed Abel.) 

(38)	I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that
which you have seen with your father. (See? He took the world over by
sex, and now he wants to kill. Children becoming cannon fodder.)

(39)	…If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of
Abraham.

(40)	But now ye seek to kill me, a man that…told you the truth, which
I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

(41)	(You) do the deeds of your father. Then…they (said) to him, We be
not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. (They knew he was
hitting back there about Cain and Abel. They weren’t stupid.) 

(42)	Jesus said…If God were your Father, (They would have to trace
themselves back to Adam, see. Right back through Enoch.) ye would love
me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself,
but he sent me.

(43)	Why do you not understand my speech? even because you can’t hear
my word.

(44)	You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you
will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his
own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

39.	When did the devil back away? The devil didn’t back away from God
anymore than Cain backed away from God. And I’m going to tell you:
neither will people back away from God; the same as Eve, these
wouldn’t back away from God. And you would be… [John 8]

(45)	And because I tell you the truth, you believe…not.

(46)	Which of you convinceth me of sin? (Find me,…can confute one word
I say) And if I say the truth, why do you not believe me?

(47)	He that is of God heareth God’s words: (That’s exactly what
John said, quoting Jesus.) you therefore hear them not, because you are
not of God.

(48)	Then answered the Jews, and said…Say we not well that you are a
Samaritan, and hast a devil? (Fap. You’re not even of our religion;
get out of here.)

(49)	Jesus (said), I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and you
dishonour me.

	Now, listen! He told them flat, “You leave that Word, and you
dishonor me. If you failed to take the light, you dishonor me.”

40.	“Oh, we love you Jesus, hallelujah, we’re going to be there
worshipping you forever.” 

	This world is going up to cannon fodder, brother/sister, an atomic
power fodder, five billion people or better. You better believe it,
because they’re lined up right now ready for it. 

(50)	…I seek not (my) glory: (but) there is one that seeketh and
judgeth. (There’s One seeking right now; the Judge. Look; the people
honor and glorify Him, give Him preeminence.)

(51)	(Truly) I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, (he’ll) never
see death.

(52)	…the Jews (said), Now we know you’ve (got) a devil. Abraham is
dead, and the prophets; and you say, If a man keep (your) saying,
he’ll not taste of death.

(53)	Are you greater than Abraham our father, which is dead? …the
prophets are dead: (Who do you make yourself)? 

(54)	Jesus (said), If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it’s my
Father that honoureth me; of whom you say, that he is your God: (Bro.
Branham said, “The very God you say you worship and you love, is going
to come and destroy you.”)

(55)	…you have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I
know him not, I (should) be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and
keep his sayings. (That’s the same thing.)

41.	Bro. Branham would have been a liar if he would have been a
Trinitarian. If he’d have gone to Oneness, he’d have been a liar and
a blasphemer. His ministry had to parallel the Lord Jesus Christ.

(56)	…Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

(57)	…the Jews (said) You’re not yet fifty years old, have you seen
Abraham?

(58)	(And) Jesus said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham
was, I am.

(59)	(And) they took up stones to cast at him: (They wanted to kill him
and)…Jesus hid himself, …went out of the temple, an…passed by
(them).

	So, all right. There it is. There is, therefore, no life apart from
light. No life apart from light. Then, how are you going to be talking
about someone who proves he’s a Christian by love, when you haven’t
even got the truth? Your love is hogwash. It’s the same crud that a
man gives a woman to get sex out of her, and it’s the same rotten
reciprocation the woman gives because she wants a little fondling, a
little bit of love. That’s why the church is a whore. Let’s wrap it
up. She’s filthy. But the Bride keeps herself and doesn’t care for a
handsome Joe-blow coming by with the pretty mustache and all that
crap—little pretty feet, dance you plumb into hell. All right.

42.	Let’s go to John 1. That’s the Gospel. [Jn 1:4-5]

(4)	In him was life; and the life was the light of men. (That life will
shine light. If you’re born again, you’re going to have the truth.)
and the life was the light of men.

(5)	And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness…(couldn’t
take it.) 

	Why? Because darkness is hatred; it can’t stand it. So, if you’re
in light, you’ve got to have love. You simply can’t be bereft of
love, if you are in the truth. And if you’re in darkness, you can’t
help but hate. 

	Oh, you say, “Bro. Vayle.” 

	Don’t Bro. Vayle me because there are counterfeits—just
counterfeit, as sure as I’m standing here. All right.

43.	We saw Jn 8:39.

(39)	They answered and said …, Abraham is our father. (And he said),
If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.
(See?)

	God denies… Jesus Christ denies, that they are of God. 

44.	Let’s go to 1 Jn 3:12-14 now.

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

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

(14)	We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love
the brethren. 

	Now, what’s he talking about? Those that are with the beginning in
the revelation. Then a man say he believes this message and goes all
around through Pentecost with all the stuff we’re supposed to come out
of?

45.	There’s a man up in Canada tackled a friend of mine. He’s a
friend, after a fashion. He believes as we believe. So he began talking,
they cornered him on the Presence, they got real nasty with him, and
these real nice lovely brethren that talk about love and how Lee Vayle
and you guys got such awful spirits. So, they got real angry with this
fellow. 

	So, he said, “Just a minute now,” he began quoting what William
Branham said. 

	“That’s the trouble with you,” they said. “You always quote
William Branham.” 

	“Well,” he said, “All right. Let’s just nail it down.” He
said, “If you’re not looking for what I believe, then what are you
looking for?” 

	They said, “Gifts in the power of God in manifestation.” 

46.	Now, let’s take a look at that. Now, come on. Let’s not worry
and get right to the Scripture, and let’s find out who’s right. Now
It says, “Ask for rain in the time of the latter rain.” And that’s
the former rain. Now, listen, brother/sister. If you’re to ask for
bread at the time your house is full of bread, then God is warning you,
you don’t have the bread that you evidently should be having at that
time when you got a lot of bread. And the power ministry was the latter
rain, and the former rain is the teaching rain; so, if you ask for what
God tells you to ask for, you’re asking right. 

	Then, if you’re staying with what you have already had, rejecting
what God wants you to have, where are you? 

	“Oh,” you say, “Bro. Vayle, now you’re nasty.” 

	Oh, come on. Then let’s throw the Bible in the gutter, spit on it,
and do anything you want. Let’s burn It up. Let’s get out of here,
and burn this shack down, or turn it into some kind of a discotheque or
something and get some money out of it. For God’s sake, let’s do
something, because you can’t shoot your mouth off, brother/sister, in
four different ways out of four different corners. Either we’ve got a
Word, or we haven’t got a Word. I’ll tell you why I preach this way
after a while. Don’t get excited. 

47.	[1 Jn 3:14]

		(14)	He that loveth not his brother abides in death.

	Well, just a minute, just a minute. What can you offer that gives you
life? Nothing! The proof is God gave you something by the fact that you
believe a Word that’s been revealed. Now, you turn on that Word, what
have you got? Nothing! I’m not trying to be logical. Read your
Scripture. Read with unveiled face for once. It’s evident that
brethren, evidently, that you love, are of like-minded faith, and It
doesn’t say that you hate anybody. But hate is involved because I’ll
show you later. So, don’t get too nice.

	Now, let’s note carefully that Cain deliberately and
arbitrarily—Now, listen to me!—that Cain deliberately and
arbitrarily took authority over God’s revelation and God’s sons and
set out to destroy both. 

48.	You say, “Bro. Vayle, you see, ah…” 

	Don’t see nothing, honey-child. You’re ignorant and dumb and
stupid. I ain’t got time for you because you’re trying to make
something nice. This isn’t nice. Cain deliberately, arbitrarily
planned and executed his plan that he would, absolutely, take authority
over God’s revelation, God’s authority, God’s sons, and destroy
them in doing it.

	You say, “Well, well, you know, well, yeah, yeah, hmm, yeah, that was
Cain.” 

	That’s the world—one Word off. That’s his mother, the prostitute
Eve. So, that makes you shudder, that word ‘prostitute, Eve, doesn’t
it? You shouldn’t shudder so bad since I’ve explained this to you.
You should understand that it’s a spiritual context. She became a
prostitute to her husband, and he stood with her and brought every son
of God into bondage. Now with Christ having made sacrifice, then you
don’t sell Him down the river, or crucify Him to yourself afresh, or
there’s no more repentance. 

49.	Darkness and hatred and Nicolaitanism. Well, come on; come on,
what’s Nicolaitanism? Ruling somebody, taking authority over them
instead of God, making your own popes and your own elders and your own
junk heaps, presiding this and that. 

	Darkness and hatred and Nicolaitanism is the harvest of rejected
revelation. And what shall be our attitude about this if we are the sons
of God? 

	[Bro. Vayle says rather sarcastically:] “God, you know, well, you
see, Bro. Vayle, as long as they’re sweet and kind and gentle.”

	So, is a wolf to her babies. But beware the momma gopher and her
babies. There’s a different story, isn’t it?

50.	Let’s read Revelation 2, the first Church Age, which we’re back
to.

(1)	Unto the (messenger) of the church (which is in) Ephesus write;
these things saith he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who
walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;

(2)	I know thy works, thy labour, …thy patience, how thou canst bear
them which are evil.

	Cain! Perverters of the Word; women cutting their hair.

	“Oh, it’s all right. What’s that got to do with it anyway?” 

	Why, if they cut their hair, they begin taking their clothes off.
That’s what it’s got to do with it. It shows she’s a prostitute,
then she cut her hair, then she took her clothes off and proved it. Now
she can’t take her clothes off fast enough until men are embarrassed.
They can’t get their pants off as fast as the women get theirs off.
Pardon the language. I’ll just hit ’er just where it is. You talk
about… Oh, God. 

51.	[Revelation 2]

(2)	…and tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and
found them liars.

	And Bro. Branham explained it. He said, “Hey, those apostles came by
and the church of Ephesus said, ‘Hey, listen, you birds, you’re a
bunch of liars’.” 

	“Oh,” they said, “just a minute now. You dare to call us liars.
Why are we liars?” 

	“Because you’re not saying what Paul said.”

(3)	And hast borne, …hast patience, …for my name’s
sake…laboured, and hast not fainted.

(4)	Nevertheless I (got) somewhat against you, because you’ve left
your first love.

(5)	Remember therefore…whence you are fallen, and repent (from), and
do (your) first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will
remove your candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

	So, he’s telling you right here, repentance, a change of mind has
everything to do with the first works—has everything to do with where
they fell away in the first place. Something happened to their minds. 2
Corinthians 11. We’ll get to It later on. 

52.	(6)	But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the
Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

	Do you know God’s a hater? 

	“Oh, the Bible says, ‘God’s l-o-v-e.’” 

	Why? Because in Him is no darkness. He doesn’t get mixed up with His
Word. He doesn’t have to fuss with Himself. He doesn’t fuss with you
and me. “Makes the wrath of man to praise Him.” God’s rolling
gloriously. People don’t think He is; they think they’ve got God
stymied. 

	God’s not stymied. He hates the deeds of the Nicolaitans.

(7)	He that hath an ear, let him hear what (He) says to the churches.

	It is evident here that these people understood what we’re talking
about. 

53.	Again, let us understand Christ, the mystery of God: revelation,
preeminence and back to Eden. So, let’s read the two verses here.

(2)	I know your works, …your labour, your patience, …you can’t
bear them (that) are evil: (You can’t stand that bunch of guys that
are Cain.) You tried them (that) say they are apostles, and found
(they’re) liars:

(3)	…(you) borne, (you’ve got) patience, for my name’s sake (and)
laboured, and hast not fainted. (Well, there you are. See right there,
you’ve got the revelation. Now, notice in verse 6.)

(6)	But this thou hast, …you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which
I also hate. (You’re giving Him preeminence because you side with Him.
And watch verse 7.)

(7)	He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
churches; (he) that overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life,
which is in the midst of the paradise of God. 

	Immortality, back to Eden, revelation, preeminence, back to Eden. Where
do you stand tonight? See? Now we’re back to Ephesus, back to the
Ephesian church. Bro. Branham said, “There’s got to be an
Ephesus.” Now, where did Ephesus fall? It fell in verse 4: “You left
your first love.”

54.	Okay, let’s go to 1 Jn 2:18-29.

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

(19)	They went out from us, but they were not of us.

	They went out from us? Then it’s not the bunch we left; they were
with us, and I’ve tried to show people everywhere, if we’d only
understood the Presence as Bro. Branham taught it, these people would
not have made him God, would not have made him this, would not have done
this and the other thing. They would not have been into the errors
they’re into. [1 John 2]

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

(20)	But you have an unction from the Holy One, and…know all things.
(You know these things; you’ll not make a mistake. The elect will not
be deceived.)

(21)	I have not written (these things) because you do not know the
truth, …because you know it, and…no lie is of the truth.

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

	He’s telling you right there: they don’t understand that God had
made him both Lord and Christ. Already they were going to turn him into
a trinity. There isn’t any trinity. They still don’t understand,
“The Lord said to my lord, sit thou on my right hand.” Still don’t
understand it, and they’re not going to understand It. I can tell you
that.

55.	(23)	Whosoever denieth the Son, the same has not the Father: (and so
on)…

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

	Then, where’s your hate going to be? You won’t have it. Accept the
deeds of the Nicolaitans? You won’t stand their stuff. 

	If I’d of been any younger, I’d have thrown the three guys out of
my room in the motel that tried to pull that stuff on me. Oh, they want
me to be the king of the east.

	“Oh, Bro. Vayle, the people will come to you and ask questions.”

	They want to make me an authority.

	And preachers say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, you preach to preachers because
the crowd, the people, don’t understand you.” 

56.	If this church does not understand, let me tell you one thing, I
won’t be back next Sunday or the Sunday after, or the next Sunday or
the next Sunday. You’re finished. I’ve wasted my time. I’m not a
preacher’s preacher. I’m not some authority. That’s why you people
better start talking the Word together. 

	I’ve been after you to do it. When are you going to start doing it?
All of you! Not some of you, all of you. Get with it! I’ll tell you, I
stick my neck out here. I’ll tell you more about it. I’m not mad at
you; just telling you. You got all kinds of time for everything, maybe
you got big something out in the world. What if you gained the whole
world? Let me tell you: this is the hour that somebody can gain it, and
he’s antichrist. Well, join the antichrist. You cut your throat. Join
the crowd. See? 

57.	I’m reading. Okay.

(25)	…this is the promise…he…promised us, even eternal life.

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

	The son of the serpent—a seducer like his dad, a killer like his dad
because when he messed with her the human race died; spiritual
separation. Don’t you long to be in that realm of purity and be
something inside your heart crying for? The seducer did it. He took it
away from you. The great Emancipator is going to give it back. One lied,
and they believed he was truthful. One told the truth, and they made
them a liar. Same thing right today. Same thing right today:
photographed.

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

(28)	And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear
(be made thoroughly manifested), you may have confidence, and not be
ashamed…at his (very Presence).

	Sure. 2 Corinthians tells us about that: “I’ve espoused you to
Christ, but as Satan confused Eve, I’m afraid Satan’s got you to
your mind,” he said. And the secret of the Word is ‘repent’; get
that mind lined up. With what? The Word. Get the mechanics because
that’s the conduit of the Spirit. “You receive the Word of God, you
become the living Word of God in your flesh,” the prophet said It was
true. 

59.	And he said, [1 John 2]

(29)	If ye know that he is righteous, ye know every one that doeth
righteousness is born of him.

	What does that mean? It’s exactly what he said in chapter 8. He said,
“You can’t understand me, you people.” He said, “What I’m
telling you, I got from God; it is a revelation. And what I’m doing is
of God.” And he showed his love which was to stick to the Word of God.
And he showed his truthfulness. “Why,” he said, “if I deny knowing
Him, I’m a liar just like you.” 

60.	If you can’t stand here and know the truth tonight, then you’re
a liar with the rest of them. 

	You say, “Oh, you can’t know it.” 

	Well, I do know it as far as I’m concerned. 

	You say, “What if it’s not It?” 

	Then I’ve known It as far as I’m concerned. 

	You say, “Bro. Vayle.” 

	Don’t Bro. Vayle me. I’ve turned a corner, as far as the prophet
said so. I can’t look behind me anymore. Turn a corner and see how far
you can look. Come on; go on this building out here. That’s pretty
well east there. Come on, turn around and go on the south side, and then
you go ahead and look north. X-ray eyes won’t do it. The devil will,
though, if you want to get with him. 

	Now I’m trying to close off. Not too successful, but that’s all
right.

61.	Let’s go to 1 Jn 4:7-21.

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

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

	Oh, great. What’s love? An orgy? What’s love? Giving someone
everything he wants—doesn’t matter what anybody else wants? Is
somebody loving you, letting you do what you want, so you’re not
responsible? Well, there’s something wrong with this word ‘love’,
then, that people use it. Love evidently here is the highest form that
absolutely God Himself is into because He’s the highest form. It must
be essentially the character and the way the character brings out His
characteristics. Not a hypocrite.

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

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

	Now, let’s take a good look at that. “Herein is love, not that we
loved God, but that He loved us. Herein is love, not that we loved God,
but that He loved us.” So therefore, everything that we manifest in
love is contingent to the fact of His love. It must be a reciprocating
factor, or an attribute, that comes out of what He did in us. 

63.	Now:

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

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

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

	What’s that got to do with it? I thought you had a criterion up here
called love. Oh, we got another criterion back here, and he says in
here, “I’ve written these things, not because you don’t know the
truth, but you do know the truth, for you have an unction from the holy
One, and the anointing you receive teaches you all things.” Then It
must teach you about love. 

	It must put it in perspective, because Cain was serving God. Oh yeah.
He went direct to the Bible. He got the first fruit offering out of it.
He refused to listen to God. He took over God’s authority and God’s
revelation, and then he killed his brother. He was a real Nicolaitan.
You bet he was. “These Nicolaitans,” I said, “they try to get
me;” I said, “you’re just…not going to get me, boy.” I’m no
authority; I preach this Word here, and that’s all there’s to it. If
people want the tape, it’s their tough luck. They can do what they
want. 

64.	“Well,” he said, “we know because we got the Spirit.” [1
John 4]

(14)	And we have seen and do testify that (God)…sent the Son to be the
Saviour of the world.

(15)	Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in
him, and he in God.

	Now you’ve got something else here. Then you’ve got a confession.
You’ve got the Holy Ghost. You’ve got a revelation. You’ve got a
confession. Then what happened? Something happens to you. Love begins to
come out. You’ve got the ingredients.

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

(17)	Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the
day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

	Oh, that’s great. Can you get that from love? Try and get it. 

	“I love you, Lord. I love you, Lord. Never mind… Never mind it’s
in the Bible.

	“Well, sir, sir, listen; here’s the Bible…”

	“Oh, never mind. I love you, Lord, I love you, Lord, I love you,
Lord.”

	What about this?

65.	Now I’m reading. I’m… You haven’t got the point. You’ll
get it.

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

(17)	Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the
day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

	Now we missed the judgment and can stand there and say, “Well, I’ll
tell you why: because, as He is, so are we.” Now, just a minute.
Let’s watch a little further. William Branham stood there and in that
great drama beyond the curtain of time, and he said, “I want to see
Him.” 

	And they said, “No, you can’t see Him.” The voice, the man
talking, said, “You can’t see Him; He’s going to come to you, and
then He’s going to judge you according to what you preached.” 

	And he said, “I preached what Paul preached.” 

	They said, “We’re resting on that.” Boldness in the day of
Judgment. Now, where’s your love? 

66.	“Oh, Lord, I loved everybody. I was…” 

	God bless you. I want you to love everybody and be very nice. But when
it comes to this Word, you’d better have the guts to say what this
Word and know one thing: you’ll be condemned no matter what you do if
you’re off this Word. You can talk Jesus, Savior, Holy Ghost, gifts
and miracles, everything under God’s high heaven, and off of this
Word? And I showed you in Ephesians, there is no life, proving the
prophet one hundred percent true: “Outside of this message there is no
life.” You say what you want, and you do what you want. I’m
preaching that here, and that’s what I want you to understand. If you
don’t want it, go someplace else. And when you go, don’t come back. 

	You say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, what if I repent?” 

	Then you’re telling me right now: you’ve got a doubt as you go,
then why do you go? Why don’t you repent now? Huh? Did you hear what I
said? Want me to go over it again? I’ll do it for you.

	I said, “If you go, don’t come back.” 

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, what if I change my mind? What if something
happens?” 

	Then, if you think something could happen to bring you back to where
you are now, why are you going? You have left your ultimate. Repent now,
because, if you don’t go, then, why bother coming back; there’s no
way to come back. I don’t care about Lee Vayle and this church here.
I’m telling you the truth. I’m quoting Hebrews 6: there’s no
repentance. The Ephesian Church had to repent. And at the end time
there’s one message for Laodicea, “Repent, repent, repent. Change
your mind, change your mind.” See? All right. 

67.	We’re still reading in chapter 4 [1 John], and we’re coming
along. Let me see; I got down here.

(18)	There is no fear in love; (for) perfect love casts out fear:
because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

	Now It tells you something here. Now you’re getting fear and hate.
Now, why do these people hate you? Because they’re scared. And they
figure they can eliminate you in their dying. They’re going to do
their worse in their death condition. They’re going to try to get rid
of you because they think, if they get rid of you, then everything is
fine. Well, it’s not because God is still in the driver’s seat. 

	Now, what’s he say to you and me? “Well, let me tell you
something,” he said. Now he said, “There’s nothing for you to fear
because your love based upon the Word, knowing that He loved you first
and gave you the Word and fulfilled It, sent the Holy Ghost; you’ve
got a revelation, then you have boldness. You’re afraid of nothing.”

68.	Why are you afraid of dying? Now I would be afraid to die right now
if I looked at myself, but I don’t look at myself. I wouldn’t like
to be shot by a bunch of guys that are out there shooting me or
something, but it’s all right. I mean I really feel it’s all right.
If you stand here, close your eyes and blow your brains out, and
you’ll be gone, and hallelujah, on the other side. There it is. I’m
not afraid because I am going to the other side. I will not stop this
side of Jordan; neither will I sink in Jordan, because I’m heading for
the New Jerusalem because I believe the Word. I’m standing with John.
I’m standing with Paul. See? All right.

69.	(19)	We love him, because he first loved us. (That’s from Malachi
1, of course.)

(20)	If a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar.

	Now, what do you got? How are you going to hate God? You’re going to
hate what He loves and love what He hates. Well, come on, it’s in the
Word here. Just read the way It’s written. Didn’t God love what He
gave Abel? And didn’t He love what He gave Cain? And Abel loved what
God gave him, which was the revelation. And didn’t Cain hate what God
gave him? And then didn’t he try to kill? And did he kill? He
certainly did it. Abel didn’t have that trouble. Abel stood with the
truth because like the Book of Revelation says, “They loved not their
lives unto death.” 

	“If you kill me,” he said, “I’ve got to go, but I can’t
change.” 

70.	That’s what the Roman Catholic Church did. They did their best to
destroy people, to make them repent, because the great Saint
Augustine… Saint, my foot. Even the Catholics got doubt about that
bird. And not because he’s enunciated the saying… He said, “If God
stopped Paul in his raging, how much more, then, can the church convert
the sinner that rages against it,” by putting them through the
inquisition, burning at stakes and everything else. Good old Cain. 

	And don’t you know, ‘Vatican’ means ‘va-tee-ka-een’, which is
‘the house of Cain’. Go look it up. 

	Where do you want to put your lot tonight, with Christ or antichrist,
brother/sister? Not some sentimental hogwash.

71.	(21)	And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God
loves his brother also.

	And that’s exactly true. See? That lines with the Word. Okay. 

72.	Let’s look at verses 16 to 21 [1 John 4]

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

	Now, just a minute. You can’t get into Him except for the baptism,
and the baptism answers to the Blood. And the baptism is the anointing
so that you know the Word as It is given, if It’s the right Word or
not. You won’t give it, but you’ll know what’s given, because
that’s what It says the anointing is for. You don’t have the Holy
Ghost to give the Word. The prophets had that; then a five-fold ministry
takes on. But you can sit there and know something’s wrong, even if
it’s a misunderstood statement. You’ll balance out and say, “Hey,
well, let’s look at this thing.” See? 

(17)	Herein is our love made perfect, (and so on) (I won’t have to
belabor those points. All right. Now, listen! Verse 21 again.)

(21)	And this commandment we have from him, That he who loveth God love
his brother also.

73.	Now, if we are one in Word, we will love, or we are blind and only
think we are in the Word and the Word in us. Now, that’s my stand. I
said I stuck my neck out here. We have a people who has one thought in
mind which is the Word, and that Word will, consequently, make you to
destroy every barrier you have between anybody, so that no matter what
it comes to, your husband, your wife, your children, your aunts, your
uncles, your mother, your sister, your father, your anybody, the Word
takes precedence so you stand with the Word and not with anything
against the Word. 

74.	Now I hate to say this, but I’ve belabored it, and I’m going to
go over it. But I’ve left everything and told my wife, “Look, girl,
if I ever leave God, you leave me.” How much more fair can I get
before anybody? And when I started going through my private hell awhile
back, Marilyn stood there, the Dalton church, when I said to her and her
dad, I don’t know what they want, my language a little bit colorful.
And I said, “What do they want out of me?” 

	I’ll tell you what they wanted. They wanted me to deny what I preach;
then I’d be a nice fellow. Oh, I’d be the pope of glory, hallelujah.
But I’m not a nice fellow. But I’m a jolly good fellow, except I’m
not jolly, and I’m not good. But He is. And my stand is this: when
this Word that we stand with is real, there will be a love that you and
I barely know the meaning of because it’s in a Word, but a reality is
coming. But it starts with the revelation. 

75.	The revelation of a heathen mother was to feed the baby to a
crocodile; she fed it. A man heard a voice one time and saying, “The
offering of blood is acceptable. Kill your two little boys,” and he
killed his two little boys. 

	You say, “That’s idolatry and insanity.” 

	That’s true. Are you any less? Now, that you’ve got a sound mind,
you say you’re a child of God, where do you stand? What will you and I
do? Not run around the world or try to convert the world. The seed’s
run out. Let’s face it. How much good would it have done for the
apostles to go like a raging lion around the world, if they’re off the
Word? What good would it do the churches under the face of the man to
scatter the pollen, if brought forth a wrong seed? Then nothing holds,
except the true Word. 

76.	Now, I’m going to close off because I think it’s just about the
right time again. I told you many times how Bro. Branham and I talked
about this thing called love and he said, “Well, Lee, can I ask you
one question because we’re getting nowhere?” 

	And I said, “Bro. Branham, I’ve been through this hundreds of
times. I preached this dozens of times. You’ve answered nothing,
gotten nowhere.” 

	He said, “Well, Lee, I have one question.” 

	I said, “Sure.” 

	He said, “Have you ever done anything for God you wouldn’t do,
except you did it for Him?” 

	And I said, “Absolutely, that’s right.” 

	Bro. Branham said, “That’s love.” Is that love? That’s what
it’s all about. 

	Would Cain do it? No! Would Abel do it? Sure! See, there’s something
in there, brother/sister. Let’s get it. It starts with truth; it goes
to light; it goes to life. Then life answers back to it. And if your
life doesn’t answer back to it, there’s something wrong. 

77.	Now, listen! Can life do aught but love? Can light do anything but
love? I ask another question. Can darkness do anything but hate? And
there’s the answer. They say, “Aw, but Bro. Vayle, there’s such
love over there.” 

	Then go there. Go there. Go there. Judas stayed with Jesus for the
three and a half years. He suddenly saw the great love, the great
ministry, the great everything the Pharisees had, and he must betray his
Christ. 

	There’s an end-time Message in Hebrews 6. When that end-time Message
is given, the people can never change their minds again. They have put
the ear to the door saying, “I will listen only to this and nothing
else. I’ve become the bond slave.”

	Then, if the world does that, then what about you and me? [You don’t
need to change the tape.] I’m finished. There’s where your love is. 

78.	Now, brother/sister, I’m finished, except for the Communion
service and Foot-washing. But don’t worry; I’ll be back with number
nine. This is number eight. Because I want to weave in what is called
tender-heartedness, which is beautiful; common compassion, which is
beautiful; helping and sympathetic and empathic, which is wonderful, and
it’s all part of a Christian life. But it’s not that great thing
we’re talking about. It’s merely character and attributes, and for
years we’ve known of nothing…[Audio recording ends.]