The Projecting of Love – Recap

May 29, 1985

	Shall we pray: Heavenly Father, we’re very grateful that You’ve
given us the ability, Lord, through Jesus Christ our blessed Lord, to
stand before You and now without condemnation, although we know that we
are in ourselves worthy of condemnation. But we thank You, Lord, that it
has been told of us, that You do not see us; You only hear our voices,
and that through the Blood, and see our representation in Jesus Christ.
And, Lord, that brings great comfort. 

	We know, however, that also we must, because of ourselves, judge
ourselves and, then, if we’re not judged, we know that life here is a
purgatory. It’s a purging place. And we trust, Lord, that we will be
very, very amenable to varying desires in our souls, to accept whatever
You have for us by way of training because we know that it is in love.
For, Lord, if you started us in love and being Your way of doing it and
everything from start to finish, the one way, it would also have to be
love. So, we appreciate that very much. 

	Help us with our thoughts tonight. Guide our thoughts and our minds,
Lord, and give us the ability, Father, in our lives by the Holy Spirit
to live what we talk about. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now, I kind of thought that… I was hoping that I might have
finished, at least for some time to come, concerning my thoughts on love
now—that subject of love, and I find I ought to sort of recap tonight
and, then, bring out a point or two further, which I know will come into
your minds if I don’t talk about it now. So, I might as well bring it
to your attention.

2.	Now, we’re going to read in 1 Jn 3:11-12.

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

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

	Now, if we quote these verses, these two verses and isolate them from
the rest of the epistle that deals so much with love… You recognize
this epistle and all three deal with love, but this in particular. If we
isolate these two verses from the rest of the epistle, then, that deal
with love, we will not place love correctly with the Word.

	Now, that’s the great danger of the promise box. Remember, the old
promise box? Made of a loaf of bread, and you picked a promise. And
look; what you picked out was the Word of God, but not necessarily the
truth because you put a misinterpretation on It. You know, you isolate
It from the context. You could be, you know, in great danger. It’s
like playing Bible roulette. And so, you mustn’t isolate these two
verses. But there’s a propensity to do so because of the magnitude of
the subject—and not only the magnitude of the subject, but the actual
reality of the subject. See?

3.	So now, first of all, in isolating these two verses, and making love
what I’m talking about here, ‘the beginning, the message from the
beginning, this is it,’ which I don’t deny, but you got to watch
where you’re going. See? First of all, people tend to make it the
evidence of the rebirth. See? Now, that’s not true. See, it’s just
not… It sounds good, and personally from a humanistic viewpoint, I
appreciate people thinking that, but they’re wrong. They’re just
wrong; that’s all. See? It is not the evidence of the baptism of the
Holy Ghost. See? Now you start taking this subject of love, isolating it
and you get in that kind of trouble. The evidence of the rebirth is
receiving and believing the Word of the hour.

4.	Now, let’s just go to 1 John 4, and It says… We’re going to
deal quite a bit in John, but we’ve got to go other places, too.
Let’s look at chapter 4.

(1)	Beloved, believe not every spirit…

	Huh? Say, “I got the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and I got love, and I
see that person got love. I feel that is a loving spirit.” 

	Now, hold it, hold it, hold it. You see, it sounds great. I’m all for
a loving spirit now. Don’t get me wrong. But you see where it leads
you? See, now…

(1)	…try the spirits (There’s love in a loving spirit.) whether they
are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

	Now, right off the bat you’re hit with something there. You’re hit
with the fact that spirits don’t stand alone, and they’ve got to be
judged, and that spirit that’s got to be judged came originally from a
prophet, who can be true or false. And prophets bring the Word and
reveal the Word. See? [1 John 4]

5.	(3)	And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh (Now, that’s a present tense thing.) is not of God.

	Now, that’s where the Roman Catholic Church is right and we’re
wrong, but they’ve perverted it. They got a pope for a vicar. Now,
remember; Bro. Branham distinctly said that Peter was the Holy Ghost to
the people that he went to. Right? He…Bro. Branham was the vicar of
Christ for this age. You don’t vote him with a college of cardinals. A
vicar means ‘instead of’. Paul was a vicar of Christ. He was instead
of, in fact, if you boil it right down to you and me, he said,
“We’re ambassadors, instead of Christ.” So, see what we’re
dealing with here now, that Jesus Christ is not come in the flesh. See?
The idea is that…with what the Catholic Church said, they’re right,
but they’re wrong. Now Bro. Branham said, he said, “Sure, the church
can forgive sins, if you do it Peter’s way, ‘Repent, and be
baptized.’” See? 

6.	(3)	…every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, (This is
the spirit of ‘instead of Christ’, see. ‘Anti’ is ‘instead
of’) whereof ye have heard that it should come; 

	You say, “Well, just a minute. You said, ‘Instead of.’” 

	I did, but I’m putting it in the right sense. This is in the sense
where a man usurps an authority. See? 

	(3)	whereof ye have heard that it should come; …even now (it’s)
already…in the world. (Jesus said Himself, “You’re going to accept
one that comes in his own name, and it’s going to be too late.”)

(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, It tells you right there that you’re able to judge. You’re
able to know what is true and what is false. And the Word comes from a
prophet, so you’re perfectly safe. On what grounds? Because “greater
is He that is in you”…than what? The Holy Ghost… “than he that
is in the world.” And that fellow out there that’s making a mock of
it… Why, what church could fool us? What person could come by and fool
us? 

	I’m not boasting right now. I’m just laying it out here because
we’ve got the prophet’s message. Now, if we don’t want to check
the Word out, what these men are saying, with the prophet’s message,
well, then fine. I mean, if you can make a, you know, a certain kind of
cake without a recipe, go ahead. But you just try and match that chef
over there in the Marriott out over there in Columbus when it comes to
cooking with chocolate. You just try and match it without his recipe and
even with his recipes. See? 

7.	(5)	(Now) they are of the world: therefore speak they of the world,
and the world heareth them. (Now, see; the world in there is a certain
order. They don’t speak of divine order. They speak of their own
order.) 

(6)	We are of God: he that knoweth God (How do you know Him? By the
baptism of the Holy Ghost. …He that is of God heareth us.) he that is
not of God (does) not hear us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth,
and…error.

	Now here It tells you right here the great One within you picks up
right now when it’s off the Word because you know whom to listen to.
You know that’s the One that stands there, just as though Jesus
Himself was standing there, because God’s in the prophet. So
therefore, you can talk about love all you want but you’ve got… And
that’s a beautiful spirit, but you’ve got to check it to see what
spirit it’s of. So therefore, there is no way that you can possibly
say that love is the evidence. See? There’s no way you can do it, but
people will do it just the same. 

8.	Now It says: [1 John 4]

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

	Now It tells you a little key right there, that, if you are born of
God, you will love. But It doesn’t say because you do love you are
born of God. It said, “If you are born of God, you’ll know the
Word.” See? You’ll know the manifestation of Christ, the Word.
You’ll know Messiah. You’ll understand what He is in this hour. 

9.	Secondly, to isolate 1 Jn 3:11-12 is to make love the criterion of a
Christian walk. Now, that’s the next thing: you make it the criterion
of a Christian walk. And that’s true: it is in many sense of the
word—a criterion. But, let’s just go back to 1 John 1 again and read
the first seven verses.

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

	In other words, ‘absolutely proven to be God’. In other words, this
word ‘was manifested’, or ‘phaneroo’, means that it is ‘seen
without a mask’, ‘in its true character’, ‘not hypocritical’:
‘what you see is what you get’. Yeah. Now, just think about that for
a second. All right.

10.	(3)	That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, (We bring
it out in full view; tell you about it.) that ye also may have
fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and
with his Son Jesus Christ. 

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

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

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

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

	Now It tells you right there the criterion is not love; it’s the
Word. That’s why I said this church and anybody that listens to me…
And I’m a lousy example; please forgive me. I’ve just got to preach
what’s on my heart and my mind, and even if I’m a hypocrite… Well,
I’m not a hypocrite. I do my best to tell the truth. If it comes back
on me and slaps me in the face… 

	See, the thing is this: a church, and especially from this pulpit like
I’m preaching… So, pardon the personal expression. You’ve heard me
always say that, if we love the Word, then we have to love each other.
You’ve got to start with that Word, and from there that Word never
leads you into a place that’s wrong. And, if we do go wrong, that Word
brings us back. See? 

11.	So now, John tells you here that your fellowship and your walk
depends upon the Word. Now you can be just so loving and wonderful in
being attentive to certain things and be just religious and entirely not
spiritual. So, you see there’s… You just can’t go ahead and say,
“Well, all right. It’s a criterion of a Christian walk.”

	As Paul said, “If we live in the spirit, let us walk in the
spirit.” Well, It tells you what it is: how to do it. You’ve got
Light; you’ve got Word. You know if you’re in the Spirit or not.
See? And, if somebody else comes along and says, “Well, you got a
nasty spirit,” well, just a minute, check it with the Word—or
“You’ve got a loving spirit.” Check it with the Word. See, very,
very important. We’ll get to that. Don’t worry.

12.	Now John also said, “We ought to walk as Jesus walked, as He
walked.” See, which…and then Jesus who was the Word said, “Which
of you convinceth me of sin,” or finds me off in one word. They found
him off on a lot of things. They called him crazy. They called him full
of the devil, mad, a babbler, and a guzzler, glutton. Sure, and look at
Jesus’ life: it was one constant confrontation on the Word—one
constant confrontation.

13.	Now, let’s be honest. Let’s go back to the Book of John. Now
I’m not trying to rabble rouse for my own opinions here; I’m just
trying to get some things straightened out in our minds, and then,
we’ll get back to the softer side, but this is the hard facts of the
Word of God, and the Word will not change. [John 7]

(37)	In the last day, (the) great day of the feast, Jesus stood and
cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

(38)	He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his
belly shall flow rivers of living water.

(39)	(And) (this spake (Jesus) of the Spirit, which they that believe on
him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because Jesus
was not yet glorified.)

(40)	Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of
a truth this is the Prophet.

(41)	Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come
out of Galilee?

(42)	Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of
David, …out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

(43)	So there was division among (them)…

(44)	And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on
him.

(45)	Then came the officers to the chief priest and Pharisees; and they
said, Why have you not brought him?

(46)	The officers (said), Never man spake like this man.

(47)	…the Pharisees (said), Are you also deceived?

(48)	Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?

(49)	But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. (How much did
they know? They had their own cursed Talmud, and for Jesus Himself said,
“You make void the commandments of God by your traditions.” They
didn’t have one blessed thing, but they had a certain type of walk, a
legalistic walk.)

(50)	Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being
one of them,)

(51)	Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he
doeth?

(52)	They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search,
and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.

	Why didn’t they search and look? I tell you it’s awfully, awfully
easy to forget certain things that transpire right under your nose. What
about the slaughter of the children in the time of Herod when the wise
men came looking for a little baby, about a two year old, I guess it
would be about? Is the slaughter of the children so common that you
suddenly forget? Where were those wise men headed for? See? Nobody
wanted to find out, I guess. That was the truth. 

14.	Now, these verses here are based on Jn 7:14-19.

(14) 	Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up (to) the temple,
and taught.

(15)	And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, never
having learned? (He’s ignorant.)

(16)	(And) Jesus answered… My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent
me. (Now, that held good with Jesus. What about you and me? We need
teaching.)

(17)	If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether
it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 

	Know it’s the will of God. See? Have faith in the One that was sent.
The faith is to be 	baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and you’ll know the doctrine.

(18)	(Now) he that speaketh of himself seeks his own glory: but he that
seeks his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness
is in him. 

	Now, “no unrighteousness.” See, you couldn’t possibly be wrong.
Now, listen; he said, “Search the Scripture for in them you think ye
have eternal life that you’ll know the right way, and you’ll find
they plumb testify of me. You’ll find me there.” [John 7]

(19) 	Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keep the law?
Why (do) ye go about to kill me?

(20)	The people answered, (You’ve got) a devil: who goes about to kill
you? 

	You talk about barefaced liars, unless they all had a bunch of beards
or something; they’re just a bunch of barefaced liars. Because
that’s what It says right over here. It continues, says, “Why did
you bring us? We can get away with it, do him away.”

15.	Now, never let us forget that God said, “Your thoughts are not my
thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.” That’s Isa 55:8. I just
quoted that one verse because I know that verse. Let’s go back to
Isaiah 55 and read 7-9 with It.

(7)	Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his
thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon
him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

(8) 	For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways, saith the LORD.

(9) 	For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 

	The thoughts of God and the ways of God are synonymous. Now, how are
you going to know the thoughts of God, unless you’ve got the baptism
of the Holy Ghost according to 1 Corinthians? So then, you wouldn’t
even know the first thing about love that you and I are supposed to walk
in without the baptism with the Holy Ghost giving us the correct Word of
God. Now, that’s just as plain as the nose on your face. It’s
absolutely scriptural, absolutely perfect. 

16.	Thirdly, we fail to identify the source of love when we isolate
those verses. Let’s go to Romans 5, and It tells us clearly:

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

	Now It tells you right there, you got to have a special kind of love.
It’s shed abroad by the Holy Ghost. And the Holy Ghost has one great
mission; it is to bring the Word of God. That’s after the rebirth. The
rebirth is necessary for that Word because remember; they’re going
into Palestine, the Promised Land. And they say, “What makes this
people so different?” Because they got the law that God laid down
through a prophet. Nobody else has got such a wonderful Word. And Jesus
said, “Sanctify them by thy Word; the Word is truth.” …by the
washing of the water of the Word. See? All right.

17.	1 John 4:19, saying:

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

	Let’s go to Malachi 1, a couple of verses. 

(2)	I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou
loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: (and) yet I
loved Jacob,

(3)	And I hated Esau…

	Now He loved us first, and that love went plumb back before the
foundation of the world, and then, you have then a love from before the
foundation of the world when there was only thought and not Word even.
Go on, say, “Where are we going?” 

	Do you see why I preach the way I preach? You’ve got to stay with
this Word, brother/sister, I don’t care if it’s mechanical. There
comes a day when God’s got to do something with the mechanical Word in
a human vessel that’s born again. See? He doesn’t change. All right.

18.	Fourthly, we judge love by the spirit of a situation rather than the
Word, for we fail to realize there is a false love as well as a true
love. Rom 12:9, “Let love be without ‘dissimilation’.” That’s
‘hypocrisy’. Let love be without hypocrisy. 

	Let an old hypocrite come down here, and he just throws love around
like, you know, snow falling on the ground. You say, “Oh, what a
lovely, lovely person. What a marvelous man.” 

	Love, love, love. Hypocrite! He could be a perfect hypocrite. See?
Seducer: that’s the word. So that’s the name of the game. It
doesn’t have to be sexual; it can be any kind of seduction.

19.	1 Peter 1:22-23:

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

	What makes you as righteous as God? God Himself, the Holy Spirit. We
become the righteousness of God. Where’s that? I don’t think I got
that quote written down here so. I suppose it’s no use even looking
for it. No. It’s the one out of “The Feast of the Trumpets”.
It’s all right. Now: 

(22)	…see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

(23) 	Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever. 

	It says now that you’re born again, see. That you are an
incorruptible seed that … Somebody told me one time it was,
‘sperma’, ‘spora’, like seeds that’s on the ground,
see—you’re incorr… …of the incorruptible Word. In other words,
the spirit of the incorruptible Word, see, of God; you’re born again.
Then you have an unfeigned love instead of a feigned love. See? It’s
right. 

	Now we’re talking in terms of the extreme reality. That’s right.
Now, remember; everything has a gradation. That’s why I have to sort
of not re-preach Sunday night’s but to give you further information
because we have to be very careful. I find myself where I preach things,
and I’ve got to say I’m very, very sorry that some people take it
and they run with it. And it just kills you. You want to just quit
preaching, get off the…and just get out of everybody’s way and
forget it. See? 

20.	1 Corinthians 13:1-3:

(1)	Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not
(love), I am become (a) sounding brass, (and) a tinkling cymbal.

(2) 	And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all
mysteries, and all knowledge; and…have all faith, so that I could
remove mountains, and have not (love), I am nothing. 

(3)	And…bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my
body to be burned, and have not (love), it profits…nothing.

	So, you can see that there are certain things that there’s a spirit
around it that would seemingly prove love, but it’s not—seemingly
prove a relationship to God, but not so. And do we want another
illustration? Let’s take the one Bro. Branham always used about the
moneychangers. He knotted the ropes and beat them up, kicked them out of
the temple and the priest come and say, “Well, now listen; you follow
that renegade down there. Why, remember your kind old priest. He’s the
one that blessed the babies and loaned you money, or got you money in
the times of trouble, visited you when you were sick. He’s the one
that helped you.” 

	See? And you’ve got to watch that there’s a true love and a false
love. See? There’s a hypocritical love. It’s in the Bible. It tells
you. 

21.	So, we don’t need to think for one minute that we’re immune from
these things. 

	“Well, oh, that’s all right.” 

	Listen; it’s not all right. Because the time you think it’s all
right, it’s the time the devil’s got you when you think you can’t
be fooled. Now you won’t be deceived; you’ll make it. We’ll all
get there. But this doesn’t make us foolproof in the sense of
moment-by-moment. It’s moment-by-moment we walk (See.) in the light of
that Word. People say we walk in love. That’s true, but you better
watch where the love’s coming from. Is it your love or the love that
came from the Holy Ghost (See.) that made the love of the Word? And Word
always has to be manifested. The Word of the hour comes before you: What
do you think of it? 

	Brought it out Sunday night, like Jack Bell phoned me today and
mentioned how that he keeps remembering the verse I always quote in John
15, “If I had not done the works no other man had done, they had not
sinned, but now they’ve both seen and hated both me and my Father.” 

	You say, “Well, you hate God.” 

	“What do you mean, ‘I hate God?’”

	“Well, you crucified, you killed his prophet, you turned down the
Word.”

	“Oh, that junk, phttt!” You can’t get people to acknowledge the
Word we talk about. 

22.	Fifthly, we fail to consider that the passage of Scripture in 1 Jn
3:11-12 is followed by verse 13. So, let’s go back and look at verse
13.

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

	All right. You notice in here he’s talking about the twins. We see
the twins, Abel and Cain or Cain and Abel. I put Abel first. All right.
They are twins. Cain killed Abel, his twin half-brother. All right.
There’s always been twins: truth and error; love and hate; worship in
God’s will, worship outside of God’s will; God receiving worship and
God rejecting worship. What do you think of that one? Yet every knee is
going to bow and every tongue’s going to confess. There’s going to
be a forced worship and a forced right worship that He’s Christ to the
glory of God. 

	See, that light that lighteth every man. There’s no light but His
light. I used to puzzle that until last week, about last week or so, I
wondered, “How can He be the light of every man when everybody and
nobody… Well, it’s just very few ever hear the Gospel when you
consider, what? close to five billion people in the world today. Well,
it’s over four billion, about five billion people. How many have
really heard, pay any attention, know anything? See? It’s the only
light there is. There’s no other light that will give life, and no
other life that will give light. See, it’s all creeds and dogmas and
ethics and morals as Bro. Branham said. 

23.	All right. It’s twins: good works, evil works; true church, false
church; Bride and make-believer. See? Now, again notice in verse 13 that
Cain is identified with the world. He is not identified as a brother.
No, It says here now, “who slew his brother.” That’s natural but
also types spiritual because it’s an actual killing. Remember; in the
Book of Revelation It says they dealt in the souls of men. The Roman
Catholic Church, absolutely, condemned. The Protestant churches, the
same thing. Pot can’t call the kettle black; no way shape and form. A
woman goes down the street, she’s a prostitute, says, “Well, I was
born in a house of prostitution. Well, you can’t expect me to be
anything but.” 

	That’s exactly right. Mother and daughter same couple of prostitutes.
So, don’t try to give the Protestants a pedigree they don’t own.
See? The donkey doesn’t… Well, the mule, he doesn’t have a
pedigree. It’s the horse that’s got a pedigree.

	Cain is not identified as a brother, although he was a brother after
the flesh—half-brother, but as an example of the world, clothed in
religion, creeds and dogmas and traditions instead of clothed in Christ,
Holy Spirit, living Word. 

24.	Now, let me all read you a paragraph 58-59 out of “Events Made
Clear by Prophecy” [65-0801E]. I hope to maybe study this with you. 

[58] 	Now, every time that the church gets mixed up, and God foreknew
they would, for He foreknew all things, therefore He has His certain
prophet ready for that age, to call His electing by His a-vindicated
Word of signs and wonders, and confirmation of His Word, confirming the
Word with signs following, as He promised. He gives the true
interpretation after the prophet himself has been vindicated. See, first
of all, you get something to attract your attention, then you get it
explained. Then you get the Word brought, now that you believe It.

[59] 	All but those, the elected to whom he is sent, hate him. 

	Now, if they hate the one that was sent, they hate the One that sent
him. Now you can say what you want, because he’s a…the prophet’s a
manifestation of the living Word of God. It sounds very crazy to say a
thing like that, but it’s very true. It shows you just how far our
minds were off the Word, until the prophet came. He threw the bombs
amongst us, and, believe me, they were atomic bombs.

[59]	Now, examine every instant and see if that’s right or not. Only
the ones…He’s sent to! “He came to His Own and His Own received
Him not; but as many as did receive Him, to them gave…power to become
the sons of God.” or the authority to be. Notice, …every examination
of the Word, in every instance, and…the end of every age or climax or
junction, as I’ve preach(ed) on…many times.

	See, they’re not going to go for the things of God. They just
haven’t got it in them to do it. They will turn the Word down, just
every time.

25.	Now, all right. I’m sure by now we all have the point of view
I’m speaking from. Now, this, then, is only for the Bride. This
Message would be like a lead balloon in any church, except churches like
ours, and this is for the Bride. She is not deceived. She does not add
or take from the Word, and she walks in the light and has fellowship and
cleansing by the Blood, totally sanctified by the Word because the daily
separation is through the Word of God—you, knowing the Word, and you
walking in the light of that Word, enabled by the Holy Spirit, that
spirit in your heart.

	Furthermore, we now see very clearly we’re dealing with true religion
and not politics or morals or ethics. Now, that’s the thing, you see,
most people don’t understand when you read the Bible. They think that
they’re dealing with a worldwide order. You’re not. You’re dealing
with orders within orders, and this Bible is against clubs and ethics
and morals per se, and lodges and churches per se. This book is not only
an exposition; it’s an exposure. See? 

	As you see, you’ve got to understand we’re dealing in religion. A
lot of people don’t want to admit that. That’s what you’re dealing
with. That’s why they get mixed up with communism and Catholicism and
can’t understand that where the Catholics are that’s where communism
goes; that they’re the forerunners of it, the cause of it. Communism
was raised up to burn the harlot. You’ll never convince them of that,
but that’s all right. They don’t understand the Bible. See? They
don’t understand. It’s not a book of politics and so on.

26.	This is the Bride love, not society love, or social love, or social
life, but Christ life. However, let’s do a little further searching in
order to deal with what I feel I wanted to deal with tonight to make a
little more progress on the subject. Now, first of all, we’re just
going to go back and read two passages of Scripture. One is in Mt
7:15-23.

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

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

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

(18) 	A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt
tree bring forth good fruit.

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

(20)	(Therefore) by their fruits you shall know them. (Now, that’s the
Word.)

(21) 	Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in
heaven.

(22) 	Many will say to me in that day, Lord…, have we not prophesied
in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done
many wonderful works?

(23)	And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from 
me, ye that work iniquity.

	[Bro. Vayle comments on breeze going by, possibly from air conditioning
system.]

27.	Matthew 25:31. I might not read It all.

(31)	When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all (his) holy
angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

(32)	And before him (should) be gathered all nations: and he shall
separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the
goats:

(33) 	And he shall set the sheep on (the) right hand, …the goats on
the 	left.

(34)	Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye
blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world:

(35) 	For I was an hungered, …ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, …ye
gave me drink: I was a stranger, …ye took me in:

(36) 	Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, …ye visited me: I was in
prison, …ye came unto me. 

(37)	Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we…an
hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 

(38)	When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and
clothed thee? 

(39)	Or when (did we see) thee sick, or in prison, and (visited you)? 

(40) 	And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto
you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my
brethren, you have done it unto me.

(41) 	Then…he say…unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye
cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

(42) 	…I was an hungered, (and so on…)

(46)	And (they’ll) go away into everlasting punishment…

	Now you will notice in Matthew 7 there is a total rejection, and you
will notice gifts were pleaded in that total rejection. See, they stood
up, and they said, “Well, we had ministries. We had gifts. We had
callings.” They were able to do things. They’re the false prophet
class. There’s no doubt about it. And those blind leaders of the
blind, they’re all falling into a ditch. All right.

28.	But in Matthew 25 there is an acceptance where foolish virgin, or
maybe we could say just those whose names were in the Book of Life,
remaining there, not having been taken off… [Bro. Vayle speaks to
someone on the side.] So, you will notice in here in Matthew 25, wherein
seven, there was a total rejection— (And, by the way, this is
judgment, the White Throne judgment, in both cases.) a total rejection
on one hand and an acceptance on the other hand of those who were not in
the Lamb’s Book of Life but remaining in the Book of Life, evidently.
Now there could be more than foolish virgin there because I don’t know
how you’re going to place Israel and the church all the way, although
they’re quite synonymous. I’m not smart enough to place it, and I
don’t have a revelation. But I do have this much of a revelation that
I know the names can be taken out of the Book of Life, and these
evidently have their names remaining. So, all right. One place a total
rejection; one place there is an acceptance.

29.	So, here’s the sum total of these series of messages that close
with the White Throne scriptures which I’ve read to you. Let us watch
our spirits by watching our motives and let our motives be of love
because, in Matthew 25, it is evident that these people are only doing
what was in their hearts to want done for themselves were they in the
same position, a prison, sickness, or destitution—bar none, friend or
foe. These people had something in their hearts to do for others. They
weren’t born again. They aren’t part of the Bride, but they’re
allowed to come in. And there’s only one thing I can place it to, and
that is to a love. 

	Cain had no right to hate, but he did. He killed his half-brother, then
he rebuked God for rebuking him. There is no hate like religious hate or
hatred like religious hatred as is seen by Esau and Ishmael and their
descendents and the Catholic Church with its millions and millions of
martyrs: sixty-eight million just named in one book; never mind the
others, and never mind the ones that died within her. See? 

30.	There is only one right way to live life, and that is by love.
That’s right. So, you see we’re coming down to the line where if
anyone wants to dispute the subject, dispute all they want, argue all
they want; that’s their privilege. I haven’t finalized it as though
I’m any great authority, but I’m doing my very best to lay it all
out in front of us all on this subject of love, that we can understand
it. 

	And I’ve described the love that comes through the Bride. That is
very true. Its source is the Holy Spirit, and you cannot have that love,
no way, unless you’re elected to it, foreknown of Almighty God,
you’re born again, because it comes by the Holy Spirit. And the
evidence is being one with that Word, and so, therefore, the love,
whatever love you manifest…although you could because you’re human,
betray yourself and the Word, and I can do the same thing; I’m not
pointing any fingers at anybody. But the Bride alone is in a position to
be an absolute when it comes to the things of God, and that is because
of the absoluteness of God toward her. She didn’t start it; He’s the
one that starts it. 

31.	Now, let us love exactly as in 1 Jn 3:16-24. So, let’s go back and
look at It. This is our chapter.

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

	Now It says in one place I can give my body to be burned, I can die for
somebody, I can do everything I have to the destitute and not have love.
Yet at the White Throne judgment, there had to be something there that
caused those people to do something for the Bride of Christ, and that
went right down in their record. See, they were predestinated to it, and
they walk in. They’re allowed to come in. Others turned right aside
that might have been looked at as though, “Hey, these people really
got it.” Don’t have it at all. 

32.	You see, I work on that one Scripture: “If I had not done the
works no other man had done, they had not sinned, but now they’ve both
seen and hated both me and my Father.” Now you can’t get away from
that no matter who you are, no matter who I am. And that condemns just
about ninety-nine and ninety-nine one hundreth percent of the five
billion people in the world, if not the whole ninety-nine and
ninety-nine one hundredth percent because when you deal with five
billion, one percent is a lot of people because that’s only one
one-hundredth of five billion. Remember; that’s nine zeros, not six.
Knock off two, there’s nowhere near Bride in this age. If you take a
hundred of that again, keep bringing it down, where are you going to?
Maybe just about right at that five hundred Bro. Branham talked about.
Did you stop to think of that? I didn’t think till just now, but my
mind’s not that good without crayon or chalk. I’d have to kind of
work that out. I’ll let you engineers do that. All right. 

33.	[1 John 3]

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

	On the other hand, give all that to the poor; you don’t have it, you
hypocrite. Right down the line. So, you see where this puts us? It puts
us right back to the real rebirth with the real evidence and the real
Spirit of God moving through you and your motive, your spirit, right.
That’s what Bro. Branham said, “The new spirit given in Ezekiel is
one you have to have ahead of time to receive the baptism of the Holy
Ghost because your spirit is just plumb no good to begin with. You get a
new spirit, and then the Spirit of God can come in.” Whether that’s
an actual spirit or whether it’s an aura, I won’t argue the point.
It could be either one in my books, although I think it’s an actual
spirit which creates, then, its own aura. All right.

34.	(18) 	My little children, let us not love in word, neither in
tongue; but in deed and in truth.

	Now, this is true Logos, when the heart and the tongue is one with this
Word by the Holy Ghost. Now you’re logos. That’s right. James says
so; a man that’s lined up is perfect. Now John said, “Don’t you be
a hypocrite. You’re lined up.”

(19) 	And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our
hearts before him.

(20)	For if our heart(s) condemn us, God is greater than our heart(s),
and knoweth all things. (It tells you, you know what you’re doing.
“Don’t try to fool me,” says John. He said, “Don’t fool
yourself either.”)

(21)	Beloved, if our heart(s) condemn us not, then have we confidence 
toward God. 

(22)	And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his
commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. 

	Now, notice; he doesn’t say that the keeping of commandments is the
doing of those things pleasing. It says, keep his commandments and those
things that are pleasing. So therefore, you keep the Word of God always
before you no matter what you do; it’s the one vital way to check.

(23)	And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of
his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, (Now It doesn’t say
they’re synonymous. There’s two things there.) as he gave us
commandment. 

	So therefore, all these commandments up here are given in love; we do
them because we love them, see. “Thy loving kindness is more than
life.” Now It says:

(23)	And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of
his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another,…

(24) 	And he that keeps his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him.
(There again is the proof of the baptism of the Holy Ghost.) And hereby
we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit…he hath given us. 

	You know that you belong to God, and you’re in Him and He in you by
the rebirth. The rebirth answers to the Blood. The old Pentecostal
phrase; “The spirit answers to the Blood,” is one hundred percent
correct because, if you’re thoroughly cleansed by the Blood, the Holy
Ghost will come in. That’s what it’s all about, to be thoroughly
cleansed. All right.

35.	Also, 1 Corinthians 13, looking at what love does.

(4)	(Love) suffers long, …is kind; (love doesn’t) envy; (love
doesn’t) vaunt itself (put itself first), (love doesn’t)…is not
puffed up (not proud and acts as though it is somebody).

	I remember one time I was in an elevator in a certain city where Bro.
Branham was, and I was doing a little work with him. And there was a
young man that named himself the youngest and greatest evangelist in the
world. He called himself, he really named himself, you know, like we got
a paper man that said, “You’ve heard the rest, now hear the best.”
So, I went over to hear the best, and he wasn’t even there and there
was maybe three people sitting kind of in an empty room, and he said,
“Nobody in his church wore glasses.” And I said, “Yes, because
there’s nobody there.” [Congregation laughs.] 

	I don’t want to be, you know, nasty about things, but I’m just
telling you the truth, what we’re going through. And so, I was in this
elevator with this slim kid, and I won’t mention his name, but he
later on got to handing out, you know, golden spikes or something, with
a big offering, (You can hang your faith on it or something.) and
anointed pocketbooks and, you know, all those things. And well, you know
how they do those things, and he was so puffed up he couldn’t even
look at anybody. Well, I didn’t want to be looked at anyway, you know,
because they can’t come and look at the queen here. So, didn’t
bother me anyway. But you know, I just… You say, “People can’t be
that way.” Are you kidding? Come on, listen; he’s puffed up.

36.	(5)	Doth not behave itself unseemly…

	Like Bro. Branham said concerning women, according to the Bible, how
they’d be…how they should be so, you know, unassuming, what have
you. Don’t have to be a shrinking violet necessarily, but you know, be
real ladies; but today they’re pretty rough. And men… I guess men
have made them that way.

	(5)	…seeketh not her own, That’s a tough one right there. Always
people like to push and get ahead of the other fellow. See?) is not
easily provoked, (That’s a good one right there: shows real patience.)
and thinks no evil.

	In other words, can look at things and not impute a wrong, a bad
meaning to it, even though it’s right in the open, just say, “Well,
just have to pray for that person;” won’t speak wrongly either.

(6)	Rejoiceth not in iniquity, (That’s something like saying, “Well,
it served the guy right,” or when something bad hits somebody. We’ve
all had streaks of that.) but rejoices in…truth; (See? Notice what it
first rejoices in: truth.)

(7)	Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,
endureth all things. 

	Dr. Wuest translates It, or Wuest whatever you want to call him, he
always puts in his translation of love, ‘self-sacrificial’. I
don’t think he’s got a right to do that according to the Greek, but
he made it what they called the expanded version, where he put it into a
paraphrase, and by the paraphrase I would say he is right, because love
is not expendable. But the person with love is expendable, evidently.
He’s got to put himself down.

37.	You know, if you look at Jesus’ life, you’ll see a perfect
picture of love. And yet every time when the Word came up that love he
had caused a confrontation from which he wouldn’t back down. Paul was
the same way. All servants of God are the same way. A true servant of
God will stand with that Word and won’t fight about It, but he’ll
stand for It. And as Bro. Branham said, “If you’re real brothers you
can quarrel bitterly and still part loving each other.” And he said,
“I like people to disagree with me; it makes me examine the subject
again afresh, so I know where I really do stand.” 

38.	Now, so, in preaching this message tonight, I trust it helps our
minds and our souls to such an extent that it makes us—helps us—to
be living epistles of Christ. I know that that’s our hearts’ desire.
I don’t say that we have any perfect love here, except the love that
God gave us, and that perfect love is just like the Garden of Eden. It
was perfect but can be marred by man’s free moral agency. That’s the
reason that God will take people off this earth; the Scripture says,
“They die prematurely.” You can’t trust them; take them away
early. That’s why people have many things that befall them; they’re
corrected. On the other hand, there are many things that befall us that
are very rough and rugged, but they simply are there to make us aware
that God has an answer, that the question is only there because there
was an answer in the first place, that all things are in Him. See?

39.	Now, looking at that White Throne takes us also back, I suppose
it’s the Sermon on the Mount, I’m not quite sure, maybe it’s a
little further on, I didn’t bother looking this up. But, remember; the
Beatitudes, “Blessed are the merciful, for they’ll be shown
mercy.” Bro. Branham told us about visiting an old doctor one time.
And I don’t know that Bro. Branham knew that man was saved or believed
him to be born again, but, as the old doctor lay there dying, Bro.
Branham said, recalled, some of the things he had done as a doctor, for
years and years, how he put himself out to help people, and he said,
“Remember,” as the man was dying, “blessed are the merciful for
they will be shown mercy.” Now Bro. Branham didn’t say ‘the born
again’, he said, “That man was merciful.” 

	See, there are qualities that God respects, and that person may not be
Bride, that person’s name in the Book of Life, not Lamb’s Book of
Life, because the elect never get deceived, taken out of there. But love
is an important subject and I have to preach this way tonight although I
don’t claim anything for myself, any love, any great love, no, I
don’t claim anything on that line. 

	To make the record clear that I am not against sentimentality or sloppy
love; I’m not against love that weeps and howls in its grief for
others, is easily touched, is sentimental, that backs away, that’s
timid. I’m not against any, although Bride love is not a timid love.
No, because she’s not afraid to act this way because she knows that
God’s behind her. She knows He’s with her. She’s not afraid to
cry. Although she knows crying doesn’t do the work, but she’ll work
along with her tears. 

40.	So, I want it known… And I know these tapes go a lot of places.
They’ll even be…an interpreter translate into other languages.
It’s not my will that they’re being done that way; in fact I’m
scared of it, because I don’t figure that I know that much about the
Word of God. But the record will be absolutely clear, because we got a
record right here in three tapes, trying to sum up that love
emphatically is based upon, first of all, the born-again experience,
which number one, the evidence is receiving the Word of God for the
hour. And to turn that down shows: 1) that the love which should be shed
abroad in the heart of a Christian cannot be there; there’s no way it
can be there. 2) that that love is actually not love at all, but is what
I said awhile ago, a sloppy sentimentality, perhaps, (not always in
every case, but could be) a religious spirit, (definitely, in many
cases) or simply a code of ethics or an upbringing of some description
and the person unwittingly, unknowingly, absolutely blinded by the enemy
is a hater, not realizing that perhaps, of the very things of God and of
God Himself. 

41.	So, do you see why I talk about love? You cannot talk about this
subject knowing anything of a spiritual valuation without having been in
this Message the prophet taught and reading the Word of God from an
understanding what the prophet gave us. So, we believe in love. We
believe in being emotional in love because it is an emotion in the sense
of the word. 

	But we don’t believe in a love that’s of God that backs away from
the Word, and we don’t believe in a sort of love either that
compromises, but we do believe in a real genuine love that can love a
brother and love anybody, actually under any condition, if we only will
believe, because it takes a faith to do it. As Bro. Branham said, “You
can love your enemies.” And I know that to be true. He said, “You
don’t think you can but”, he said, “you can.”

	You can be like he was, and men of old, like Saint Martin praying for
his detractors, not praying against them, not rejoicing over anything
that might happen to them, not being carried away with some Scripture
that has been changed since the time of Jesus Christ where He said,
“Once you were taught to hate your enemies, now I say, love your
enemies. Once you were taught an eye for an eye, but, he said, that
doesn’t hold anymore.” See? Once people were taught to withhold, but
now it’s a promise of giving. 

42.	So, we want the record totally cleared that we believe that what
Bro. Branham had, that Jesus Christ had, that the great men that God put
upon this earth had in Christianity and the rebirth, they were just
merely epistles read and known of men, that they belonged to Jesus
Christ. And we in no way are withheld from the same love, the same
things that were given to them, given to all of us—not the position
now, not their gifts, but what comes out of it, you know, is ours. 

	Remember Moses, the great gifted man. God said to him, “Stand upon
the rock, and then strike the rock and we’ll bring water out of it.”
They did it. Next time He said, “Speak to the rock,” and Moses
wouldn’t do it. He stood on the rock and struck the rock, the second
time the water came, but you see, he glorified himself. “He got to the
Promised Land;” as Bro. Branham said, “he was on Mount
Transfiguration with Elijah and Jesus.” He got there. Don’t worry,
but he paid a price. He couldn’t walk in with the rest of them. Of
course, you see, the law can’t lead you in. It takes the Holy Spirit,
Joshua, our Joshua, our Holy Spirit. Our Joshua, rather, is the Holy
Spirit leading us in. “The Pillar of Fire,” Bro. Branham said, “is
going to lead us into the Millennium.” 

	But, you see, Moses lost out. Why? Because he got angry with the
people. He flared up, and he said, “Must we draw water out of the rock
for you rebels?” Well, I think if Moses would have looked into his
heart… And he was the meekest man that ever lived. Man, what a
pressure of two million people…what a pressure it must have been on
that man. 

43.	Look at poor Sis. Branham. I think that was really an example for
all of us. She was a faithful and good wife. Every wife needs her
husband to help her rear the children, bring them up right, but Bro.
Branham was an instrument especially in the hand of God, and he
couldn’t be home. Like a restless wind, he had a call, but he also had
a nature. And so, when she flared up, she ought not to have flared up,
but no better woman ever lived than Sis. Branham—no finer person ever
lived, a very wonderful person. 

	See, look at Miriam. See? So, when you consider love, you must consider
the full broad aspect of it, Don’t ever rule it out, no matter who is
giving it under what condition. And even if it’s a hypocritical love,
don’t even fuss about that. See, we’re not supposed to have it. We
got a real love. Bro. Branham said, “Why grasp for the counterfeit,
when the heavens are full of the real.” So, we don’t have a wrong
love. We got a true love because we start being born of this Word.

44.	Let me go back to 1 Peter 1 and read It again so we understand just
exactly where we’re at, and then, we’ll just let you go home because
I’ve preached about an hour now. It’s almost an hour. That’s more
than enough for me because it wears me down.

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

	You’ve got it. Now the next thing is just as Bro. Branham said, he
had “the gift of getting out of the way...” And that’s the
greatest gift in all the world, to learn to get out of the way and let
Christ have his way. We’re always a little afraid of Christ having His
way, and yet it’s the best way there is. We’re always a little
worried about what position we’ll be in, but it’s the best in the
world. That’s why Moses got in trouble; he didn’t realize. 

45.	The best position in all the world is the position you are in with
God, no matter what that position is. How do you feel when… How would
you have felt like when the fiery furnace…if you would have been there
confronting those three Hebrew children? Best place in all the world. It
likely was the coolest place in town—in the fiery furnace. You could
use that in the vernacular of modern day or just the way I meant,
temperature wise. 

	What about Daniel? Best place in the world was in that lion’s den.
The only lions in all captivity or out of captivity that really had
their mouths closed; they couldn’t hurt anybody. Now, that’s the
best place to be around a lion when he can’t open his mouth, because
God shut it. No, Daniel just walked back and forth. That’s the way it
is. 

46.	[1 Peter 1]

(22)	…unfeigned love of the brethren, (comes from the rebirth) see
(now ‘see’) that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
(That ‘fervent’ means ‘white hot’. Real…this is one place not
to be cold but make sure that you got a real love there. See? You’ve
got it; you just put it in action. Why?) 

(23)	Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible…

	…means you’ve got a genuine, true love; you’ve got a genuine true
temperance, a genuine true patience, whatever you’ve got is real, and,
if you want to know the intricacy of each of those things, you simply
take it to the Word and you know where your patience belongs and
everything else. Listen to Bro. Branham what he said about patience and
those things. See? 

(23)	…not of corruptible (word) seed, but of incorruptible, by the
word of God, which lives and abides for ever. 

47.	Now, remember; Bro. Branham said—the voice said, “All that ever
loved you and you loved are going to be with you here.” Now, that’s
easy to see that tonight when you understand about love. Sure, they’re
born again. Why did we love Bro. Branham? Well, he was a very loving
person, that’s true. There’s no two ways about it, but he was
strictly human. We love him because of one great reason; he was a
prophet with the ministry of the Word, and, if you can’t have love for
that or understand what I’m saying on that point of why we love him
and where the real love is, then you don’t understand the ministry of
Jesus Christ, because when he said, “Will you also go?” Bro. Branham
said, “They answered, ‘Well, sink, or swim, live or die’.”
That’s the exact words he said: “Sink or swim, live or die.” 

	Well, that’s what the apostle said, “We know that You have the
words of eternal life, if anybody’s got It, You got It. We’re
satisfied that You’ve got them so we’re not looking any further.”
Now, if a man gave you words of eternal Life, would you love him or
wouldn’t you? See? 

48.	Now, what’s the first major ingredient of love? Respect, right in
the Greek: respect. Now, you start… Now, let’s talk about love in
our own lives: number one thing is respect. You say, “I want my
rights.” 

	No, respect the other person’s rights. 

	Now, let’s go a little further. Let’s respect His rights. That’s
why I said you love His Word, and the things that please Him. Love His
commandments. See, It doesn’t say… Now you can take the Greek
‘and’ there…you could use…it’s ‘ki’. You can say, well,
that it is a preposition at times. That’s true. But this case, uh, uh.
No, there’s no direct command to visit anybody in prison, as far as I
know, that’s in the Bible. But these people did it. 

	But you see it’s in the human heart. There’s something there from
way back, if the devil hadn’t just crept in and messed us up. We’re
made in the image of God to express those qualities. But, you see, a
born-again person is back in that image, but the trouble is, there’s
an earthen vessel. Right? That’s the bad part: the earthen vessel. So,
we just got to learn to gear ourselves down and realize what real love
is. 

	Bro. Branham said, “Compassion was doing the will of God.” Love
embraces compassion. Why? Because you can’t stand to see the other
person suffer unless you suffer. The Bible says, “One suffers, all
suffers.” All one in Christ, one in each other. So, that’s what
we’re talking about: love. 

49.	So, if anybody misunderstands from this point on, I’m sorry I
can’t express myself any better. I’ve laid it out the best I can to
show you from the Word of God and to let us all understand, we all have
something in this realm from God, and it’s just exactly like faith: it
will increase as we use it. It will begin to go further and further and
further until it, like Bro. Branham said, “Wesley said, ‘The world
is my parish.’” There’s nobody that… What was it? Will Rogers
once said, “I never met a man I didn’t like.” 

	How about the day coming when we can say there’s not a person I
don’t love in the name of Jesus Christ. And we don’t have to use
little worldly sayings like “The Bible doesn’t say you have to like
them. It says you have to love them,” which is true, but it’s not
God’s Word. You have to love them. If you love them, you will like
them somehow, somewhere down the road. At least you say, “Well,
they’re like me; there’s something in there.” See? Like in those
people’s hearts. They didn’t know they’d done something for God.
They didn’t know they had ministered to the Lord Jesus Christ, but
they went... There was love there. They saw themselves in the same
position. So, that’s the subject at this point.

50.	I’m not going to preach Sunday morning as far as I know, so I
won’t continue the subject. I think we’ll change to “Events Made
Clear by Prophecy” if I have enough, you know, energy to preach. So,
the Lord bless you. I trust that you’ll have received, then, a little
more understanding. I hope so, because my own understanding is clearer
than it has been, and I believe, if God gives us something that is here
in His Word that made clearer to us, we have the prospect of performing
His Will. 

	Shall we just rise at this time? 

	Our heavenly Father, we thank You again for Your love, and we thank You
particularly, Lord, with faith tonight in Your Word that this love has
been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. It’s not our own
love to begin with. We don’t need to worry about it. We don’t need
to, to even consider quantity, quality, depths, anything else. It’s
like Paul said, “I’m persuaded the love of God, nothing can separate
me, neither height, depth, things that exist, things that don’t exist,
no matter what it is, nothing separates me from that love.” He had a
view of it. We have that same love shed abroad in our hearts, so
there’s nothing beyond us. We recognize that. We have to admit to it,
tonight, Lord, and we do confess the same as one day all the world is
going to have to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. They’ll worship
You. They won’t be worshipped that’s received. No. We know that
because a lot are going to be rejected, but it will be there and
received in that sense because they have to do it. They’ll do it.
They’ll know, and they’ll know too late. 

	And Lord, tonight we know that we have this love that is shed abroad in
our hearts by the Holy Ghost. And I pray, Lord, that we’ll understand
that this love has every right to the preeminence in our lives, that
since Your love and the Holy Spirit is You shed abroad in our hearts, we
can absolutely walk like You in that measure that’s granted to us in
this hour because we know that we’re not perfect in the flesh, but we
can grow in grace in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
So, help us from this time on Lord, to let every barrier down because
people who know…learn how to swim, commit themselves to the water,
just to learn to rest upon it, to float. 

	As people learn to commit themselves to instructors who would teach
them, Lord, tonight, we want to know in a greater measure as we’ve
never known before how to commit ourselves to the love of God shed
abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost that we might in turn shed it
upon others, and that’s what we want to do. And Lord, if it’s a
humbling thing, all the better; and if it’s a giving thing, all the
better. If it’s a losing thing, we’ve got to lose face, and this and
that, our pride, our creeds, our dogmas, this, that and the other thing.
I don’t know what we all have to lose, but Lord, we’re going to lose
something, to get out of the way, lose ourselves in totality. That’s
what it will amount to, let it be, Lord. I know that in our prayer
tonight, Lord, we’re saying things that open the door to…great
problems of temptations, tests and trying, this and that, but there
again, Lord, we know that we’re not opening our mouths with a bravado
or some type of insolence towards You. What it is, we’re pleading
Lord, that with Your help… And You’ve helped us thus far, and
we’ve seen Your mercies, seen Your grace, seen Your love, seen Your
manifestations of Yourself, all these things we’ve seen and know, and
know without a doubt it’s God. 

	Lord, we’re just trying to come to You in such a way that that
leaving here we will have assured ourselves in Your Presence and the
presence of each other that we can and will have an expanded life, that
our lives are not constricted by anything outside. It’s absolutely
totally controlled by what’s inside, it’s up to us. And Lord, I just
pray now, from now on that—I’m praying for myself, I’m praying for
the people here, Lord—that every barrier goes down. And even
though…no matter what it takes, we’ve learned our lesson that this
is a great lesson: to love no matter what, to turn away the ear, the
eye, the mouth, the thoughts, passions, whatever they are, anything
whatsoever, the emotions, reactions, all those things, turn them right
away and just let love come forth. 

	Father, this is what we hungered for anyway. And when we get there,
we’re going to see perfect love, Bro. Branham himself went there,
Lord, somehow in the spirit or how, he doesn’t know, but he came back
saying, “Everything there is perfect love.” And Lord, we’ve got a
measure here that needs exposure, so we’re pleading tonight against
ourselves. Not pleading with You, Lord, as though You haven’t done
enough, (No, no way shape and form.) but pleading, Lord, against
ourselves that somehow we can open the door wider and wider, the
soul’s gates wider and wider to You, Lord, and Your attributes and
especially that of love. Once more it can be said above the world how
those brethren love each other, and it won’t be a feigned, it won’t
be ecumenical, it will be a genuine ‘I and my Father’, my brothers
and sisters, are one love. That’s the kind of love, Lord, and we
realize it and walk in the light as He is the light having fellowship
with You and with each other, the blood of Jesus Christ cleansing every
step, going on until, as Bro. Branham said, “A prisoner of the Lord
Jesus Christ.”

	Father, that’s what we all long for and we know, Lord, that it’s
always been with us. It’s with us now, Lord, the full potential.
Self-confessed we stand before You and give You glory, Lord. Every Word
you say is true. That we came into the world, born in sin, speaking lies
Lord, just there’s nothing Father in our hands we bring tonight
nothing in ourselves. We just say Father, all Yours is the glory and
whatever is going to be done is going to be done by You and Your
attributes working in and through us. So, that’s why we pray for what
Bro. Branham had in our own measure, in our own way, the gift to get out
of the way that You might have the rights, give You Your rights, Your
respects. 

	We ask these mercies, Lord, because time is closing out. We need the
greater sincerity, the greater respect, and that great love. May it
settle upon the congregation tonight, every mind here and those that
worship with us, though they’re not here, may it settle down upon
their minds, down deep in their hearts right within the soul until it
comes forth anointing upon their spirit and they’re walking in
scriptural holy love of God. Unto Thee Lord, we’ll ascribe all the
honor and all the glory, because we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen. 

	The Lord bless you. We’ll just sing “We’ll Walk in the Light.”