Resurrection Proves: 

Perfect Four-Fold Deliverance by the Blood

Bro. Lee Vayle - July 8, 1976

a)	Thank you, I certainly glad to be back here in the house of the Lord
with you, and just enjoy the fellowship around the Word, and in the
singing and just feel the Spirit of the Lord. You know you've got so
many good singers here and all that it wouldn't be hard to people to
raise the roof, and just have a tremendous time singing until everybody
who came in said, "My those are the most spiritual people in the world."
Well, it's possible you are, but that wouldn't make is actually you sang
so well. So, I like to hear you sing the way you do, you have a nice
spontaneous spirit, but you just don't take that to satisfy your hearts
that you have all the Spirit of the Lord. You know, there's a little
thing in the world today…that…in this end time that people get kind
of a little mislead on. They do a very wrong thing, they judge the Word
by the spirit, and that's exactly wrong. You judge the spirit by the
Word, is what you do. To find what spirit is in the place, you judge by
the Word. And then you know you're really right. But you'd be really
surprised how many people today just in this Message still don't see
that. 

b)	When I was over in Europe and we were showing them the church order
was a requisite that Bro. Branham obliquely under the 'Unveiling of the
Mighty God', put it under the Seventh Seal. In the Seventh Seal's
revelation. And they wanted everybody to have a great time shouting and
rejoicing, and (you know) having a real sort of a Pentecostal jubilee,
and a lot of talking in tongues and all. And so, when I was showing them
that what Bro. Branham said, a man jumped up in the meeting, …very
much out of order, which is what they'll do.

	See, once you get one place out of order, you're out. You're just out
of order. Now, Dr. Davis will tell you that. You just get one vertebrae
like I know, and you is out of order. [Bro. Vayle chuckles] Because you
need the doctor to put you in order. And Bro. Branham was the great
chiropractor of the Age. He came in to adjust the neck. (Ha, ha)
And…they got mad about the adjustment. Yes sir, so you're in good
business there, Doc.  Bro. Branham was the great chiropractor, and so
what you do in the physical, he was doing in the spiritual. And they
screamed out, they didn't want the adjustment. (See?)  He's getting the
neck ready for the Head to come down, he didn't want it.

c)	So, this fellow got on the floor and he said, "Bro. Vayle, I was in
Branham Tabernacle two years after Bro. Branham died." And he said, "Oh
the spirit there was so dead."

	I said, "Well brother, are you trying to tell me that those tongues and
interpretations on the floor is what made the Spirit of God on Bro.
Branham's Message?" He couldn't answer me. (See?) 

	No, it's good to have a good feeling we appreciate it. We appreciate
spirit. But you can't prove that you're in the right spirit, you're to
go to the Word. (See?) And the Word is what is important. And then you
see if you go to the Word judging every spirit, and that checks out with
the Word, then you have the right spirit. See, like how in the world
could the Holy Spirit justify Bro. Branham as being that messenger of
the end time? How could he do it (you know) with vindication, and then
the prophet be off the Word? (See?) It wouldn't. It wouldn't work.

	How could the Holy Spirit as Bro. Branham come and say and teach you
something against 'Thus saith the Lord’ that been vindicated?  But he
said, "If you had the Holy Spirit you would say, 'Amen', to every Word."
(See?) 

d)	So, I just thought I'd kind of pass that along to you, because I
won't be here very long, Sunday is the last two services, and there is
so many hundreds of things to say that maybe will never would be said.
And not perhaps necessary to be said. But one thing I've noticed so much
in this last while, is that so many people fail to check the spirit by
the Word. But they're always happy to check the Word by the spirit. And
if it doesn't quite make them feel good this way or that way, and then
they don't like it. But I know you're better taught then that, but just
thought I'd drop it in to sort of help you to realize a little more than
you have realized. And that's the thing that we must really watch.

	And then of course there's another thing to watch and that's the second
thing, and that is to watch always the spirit of the man that's in your
pulpit. And you have a pastor here, so you don't worry about him, but
you worry about me. And so, you should. Always check the man's spirit.
What does he want. As Bro. Branham said, "Does he want our people?"  And
of course, he brought a very strong horrible point, does he want our
women? Does he want our money? Does he want to get a following? Does he
want you make you attracted to him? And you'll ask…well. 

e)	Now, if I've made myself attracted to you, and attracted you to me,
I'm going to break it right tonight, because I'll just rip you to
ribbons, so get rid of that nonsense. But I don't think I've done it, so
therefore I won't have to do it. But anybody comes near me we'll just
use a four-by-four and just [snaps fingers] fix you like that. And I'm
not ordained to see you through, nothing like that. (See?)  That's…we
know I'm getting these things straighten up. So, I've got no claims on
you period.   I want nothing to do with you, except to bring you the
Word of the Lord. And perchance God gracious enough to let me say the
right thing to help you, then that's it. I'm 'good-bye, hello, good-bye.
 

	I'm not one of those fellows here today and gone tomorrow. I'm here
today and gone today. And that ends it. I don't receive letters,
telephone calls, or nothing. I want to just lay the record flat, nothing
to do with anybody, your pastor is your boss. And I'm also very smart, I
don't want you on my back, get on his. I just got back trouble. [Bro.
Vayle chuckles] I hope you're getting what I'm saying now, I'm doing the
best I can to put it nice, and yet, heavy enough to understand. The man
in the pulpit, what does he want? What is his spirit?  Well, I want just
one thing I trust, and that is that while I'm here, I'm doing you some
good. If I'm not doing you any good, well, let's get away tomorrow. I've
got a nice place here, but it's not that nice. [chuckles some more]
(See?) 

f)	Now, then the third thing Bro. Branham brought to our attention is
the thing I go by, he said, "Once you see this Message that's all you'll
see in the Bible." So, I maintain if I'm really seeing this Message
right, I'll got right to the Bible and I'll say, "There It is, there It
is, there It is." 

	After, what he did when the seven Angels came. Seven embodiments of the
Holy Spirit came in that room. He didn't say, "Hallelujah, I've got it
made, this is it." He said, "I took my Bible and concordance and said,
'There It is, there It is, there It is', and so it's okay." (Right?) So,
three, three things you want to watch: Check the spirit by the Word.
Don't ever get carried away. Now, I just don't want to be rough about
anybody. Not running anybody down. But people go by, and one fellow I
know, (maybe you might know him for all I know) and he was in a meeting
our way, he began telling the folk the great things in his life. And by
one o'clock in the morning they're all falling on the floor. That was a
wrong spirit. Bro. Branham said that spirit was not of God. He told me
privately that he knew where it came from, but he wouldn't tell me. I
got my own ideas where it came from, who started it, (it's back in
history as I can see it) not of God.

g)	 Now, you can build person's …?... towards you, no, forget it. No,
no. See, there's no leaders, (uh, uh) nobody to track you. No. In Moses'
day God designated Joshua. (Right?) And Bro. Branham said, "Joshua today
was the Holy Ghost." (Right?) So, everybody…must watch constantly no
leadership, the pastor's ordained to take you through. (Right?) So,
that's number two: get the spirit of the person. (See?) Check the spirit
by the Word. Check the spirit of the man, what does he want? Thirdly: If
you think Bro. Branham's saying a certain thing, you'll be able to go to
the Bible and place it. If you can't do it, wait. Just wait. May take
you…it's taken me as much as eight to ten years to find one point.
Now, of course I'm no example to follow, but I'm interested. I love this
Message. Literally a commission I got from William Branham was to
explain him to the people and his Message. 

	Oh, I can't do that, except I know who he is, and then I can see in
this Word what the prophet taught. The only way I've got any hope, of
believing, that I'm believing and understanding what he said. Here it
is, because he never taught one word outside of this Bible. (See?) He
never. It had to be in here. And It had to be for our day. There's lots
of things in this Word that is not for our day. Many things, had nothing
to do with it, forget it.  You haven't to worry about. (See?) But he
said, "Once you see the Message, that's all you'll see in the Word." 

h)	And that's right, I get alarmed at myself sometimes, I'll start
preaching a thing, and suddenly my heart will just flop down in my
boots. And I'll say, "Where did he say it, where did he say it, where
did he say it?" I might have preached a two-hour sermon on it. And then
my heart smite me, and he'd say, "Where did he said it?" Then check, one
part of a second, one sentence. I'll see I preached two hours on one
part of a sentence, the prophet said. And I get a little happy. And I'm
honored too, I mean don't begrudge me that. Because he said that
"revelation is steamilation", And I get steamed up. Even the way he
pronounces his words was fantastic. Most fantastic individual, but he
had to be. Let's face it, it was God working in the man, dwelling there,
see?  So, just thought I'd tip you off that little bit. 

	Now we're going to go into the Word again, this will be message number
four, on 'The Resurrection Proving efficacy of the Cross'. Or proving by
His Resurrection what Christ accomplished in His death. Which is tonight
a 'Perfect Four-Fold Deliverance by the Blood'. A perfect four-fold
deliverance that is given us by the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And
before we read, we'll just bow our heads once more in prayer.

 

	Dear Lord Jesus we approach Thy Throne of grace and mercy again
tonight, knowing that grace is extended to us for every time of need
that's been proven to us visibly shown. How grateful we ought to be and
how happy we ought to be, and how boldly we ought to come, because it is
true and we can see it. So, we just come in that spirit tonight and ask
You now, Lord, to help us in order to lay out briefly which we know,
Lord, should be covered actually many sermons, because there should be
so much said about each point. But, Lord, You're able tonight to just
cut through so much by Your Spirit, and just lay it in there in such a
way, Lord, that it'll become life to us, a genuine reality and just will
be by revelation our faith, our inspiration. 

	Lord, may It be visible to us tonight, real, O God, experiential is
what we want. We a part of It, Lord, recognizing that we're a part of
It. "Word becoming flesh, and flesh becoming Word, and Word becoming
Word," as the prophet said. And I know he didn't say it in vain, and I
know it's there. I'm confident it's there, I thank You it's there, and
by Your grace I believe tonight I am with these people a living part of
It. And we just thank You for It now Jesus' Name. Amen.

1.	So, we're going to study the 'Perfect Four-Fold Deliverance by the
Blood'.  Now, Bro. Branham said, deliverance was four. (See?) Always
four came with the number of deliverance. We're going to read then in
Romans 3:21-26, Romans 5:9-11, and then we'll get back to Romans
4:21-25.	. So, here we read: Romans 3:21-26

		(21) 	But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, 
					being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

		(22) 	Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ 
					unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no
difference:

		(23) 	For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

		(24) 	Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that
is 						in Christ Jesus:

		(25) 	Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in
his 						blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins
that are 					past, through the forbearance of God;

		(26) 	To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might
be 						just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

	Now, we go to Romans 5:9-11

		(9) 	Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be
saved 					from wrath through him.

		(10) 	For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the
death 					of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by
his life.

		(11) 	And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, 					by whom we have now received the (reconciliation. It's not
atonement, 					it's reconciliation.) 

		Romans 4:21-25

		(21) 	And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was
able 					also to perform.

		(22) 	And therefore, it was imputed to him for righteousness.

		(23) 	Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed
to him;

		(24) 	But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on
him that 					raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

		(25) 	Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our
						justification.

10.	Now, in three former messages we have been viewing the sacrificial
atoning, expiating shedding of Blood death of Jesus, saw what It
accomplished for us by Its acceptation before God. Now, we saw Its
absolute perfection which was proven by His Resurrection. Viewing It, a
little bit here in Hebrews 10:16-22, and 12:18-24.

	Now, Hebrews 10:16-22  

		(16) 	This is the covenant that I will make with them after those
days, 						saith the Lord, (I'll) put my laws (in) their hearts, and in
their minds 					will I write them;

		(17) 	And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

		(18) 	Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for
sin.

		(19) 	Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest
by the 					blood of Jesus,

		(20) 	By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us,
through 					the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

		(21)	And having an high priest over the house of God;

		(22) 	Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
having 						our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our
bodies washed 					with pure water.

	You can see here that what…the only the high priest could do, that is
stand in the very Presence of God. We have been invited to do so by the
Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, come to the very Presence of Almighty
God.

	Also, you'll notice what the Blood does in Hebrews 12:18-24

		(18) 	For (we) are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and 
					that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and
tempest,

		(19) 	And the (voice) sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words;
which 						voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be
spoken 						to them any more:

		(20) 	(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so 	
				much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust 		
			through with a dart:

		(21) 	And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly
fear 						and quake:)

	We don't have that.

		(22) 	But (you) are come unto mount Sion, unto the city of the living
God, 					the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,

		(23) 	To the general assembly (even the) church of the firstborn,
which 						are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to
the spirits 					of just men made perfect,

		(24) 	And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, (even) to the
blood 					of sprinkling, that speaketh better things of Abel.

	Now, I use the word 'even' in there, because it's the same word 'kai'
in the Greek the people used as the conjunction 'and'.  I don't like it,
because it doesn't signify the depth that we have by using the word
'even' in here, because they are literally in apposition to each other.
Now, you can see here that Paul tells us that through the Blood, we come
actually boldly to the throne of grace, which we'll be talking a little
bit about later on. And then he said, "That's not only so, but by the
Blood we actually come right to New Jerusalem through what means the
mediation of the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ which has made this
purchase for us."

11.	Now, the redemption of fallen sons through Blood, because that's
what we're talking about goes all the way from Genesis 3:21 where God
made them skins to put on by the shedding of the blood of animals. Right
to Revelation 22:1-3 which is the New Jerusalem.   

		(1) 	And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal,
						proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

		(2) 	In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the
river, was 						there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of
fruits, and 						yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the
tree were for 						the healing of the nations.

		(3) 	…there shall be no more curse: …

	Now notice, that the first step toward removing the curse was the shed
blood of the lamb in order to give Adam and Eve covering, that they
could stand even though condemned for what they've done in the Presence
of God, looking forward to the time when they'd be fully restored back
to God. And here you find it here in the 22nd chapter of Revelation,
which is the same as the 12th chapter of Hebrews, (which I read to you)
Paul and John saying the same thing. And there's verse 3. 

		(3) 	And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of
the 						Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:

	The actual participating with God in eternal life and the things of
immorality that are ours eternally. This is done by the Blood. The
greatest prophetic revelation of all history. And I speak in terms of
history. That is man here on earth. 

12.	 The greatest revelation of all history is Daniel 9:24-27, now let's
look at It. We saw It the other night, Sunday night.

		(24) 	Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy 	
				city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make 	
				reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, 
					to seal up the vision and prophecy, …

	Remember, the vision of prophecy went all the way to New Jerusalem.
(See?) And if you follow New Jerusalem, Revelation 21: to chapter 22,
you're going to find exactly how the kings bring their glory in, and
those who are in it are written in the Lamb's Book of Life, and so on.
Now then It says,

		(24)	…to anoint… (them …?... entirely).

		(25) 	Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the 
					commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah 				
	the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: 					
(and) the street shall built again, and the wall, even in troublous 				
	times.

		(26) 	And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, 			
		not for himself: and the people (and) the prince shall come…					
(and so on.) 

	Now, you notice right here It says there's only Seventy Weeks left for
history. And the history is dealing with the Jews. But the secret of the
whole thing is Messiah is cut off. And in Messiah's cutting off the
promise to Abraham of the Royal Seed in whom all nations of the earth,
(which means) all the Gentiles and all Israel in the election are going
to come in, and they'll come into New Jerusalem. (See?) 

13	There's just seventy weeks left. And remember, Israel is the
calendar, not the Gentiles, Israel. (See?) Allotted to them, and all
this must transpire. So, the greatest prophecy in history is what I just
read to you here, and Messiah is cut off not for Himself, but for the
people. He died in order to see that the purpose and plan of God could
be fulfilled in redemption.

	That fallen son could be redeemed back to God. It's just not son, it's
fallen sons. They're going to be redeemed right back to God. Now, Paul
corroborates this. He sets forth in Ephesians 1:1-23, which is the whole
chapter, (and you know I won't read It to you) the complete and eternal
purpose of God wherein we see that the ultimate and never ending
Headship of Christ in and over the Bride, can only be realized by the
Blood that was shed. You see, you can have many wonderful things
brother/sister, but there's got to be the Blood shed. (See?) It's got to
be.

	The seed must fall in the ground and die, or it bides alone. God
Almighty had to have a way to die, in order to bring forth the life of
the sons, or God would just be alone. The eternal purpose of God could
never be consummated, and the eternal purpose of God was, that the
fallen sons would come back. That all the attributes of God would be
forth coming and manifested, (see?) in these sons. And it could only
happen if Jesus Christ died. There's no used trying to understand it,
just believe it.

	As Paul said, "Don't say, who's going to bring Him down, then when He's
dead, who's going to bring Him up." [Rom 10:6] What does faith say?
Faith just believes It. Why? Because it's demonstrated, and proved to us
even in this very hour. (See?) 

14.	Now, let us look at our Scripture reading again, in order to see
exactly what is ours by His death, and made effective to us in His
Resurrection. And of course, we're sealed into It, by the Holy Spirit. 
All right, we go back to the Book of Romans again chapter 3:21-26.

		(21) 	But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, 
					being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

	In other words, it was already in the Old Testament.

		(22) 	Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ 
					unto all and upon all them that believe: …

	In other words, this righteousness of God can only come to us through
Jesus Christ. You’ve got to believe that He's the One that gets this
to us. You see. Now,

		(22)	all and upon all them that believe: (there's) no difference:

		(23) 	For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

		(24) 	Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that
is 						in Christ Jesus:

		(25) 	Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in
his 						blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins
that are 					past, through the forbearance of God;

		(26) 	To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might
be 						just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

	Now, in there you'll notice in verse 21 we have the word
'righteousness', in verse 24 we have the word 'redemption', and in verse
25 we have the word 'propitiation', and in verse 25 also, we have the
word 'remission' which means 'forgiveness'. And then over here in verse
26 we the word 'justification'. They are five tremendous words that
we're going to consider. (See?) 

17.	Now, reading Romans 5:9-11 we're going to add another one. And that
is we can just read verse 10.

		(10)	 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the 	
				death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, (we'll) be saved 				
	by his life.

	All right, the sixth word we add (making a sixth) is 'justification'.

	Now, and in Romans 4:21-25 we have the proof that all of this is ours
by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ Who is High Priest to His Own Blood.
 Now:

		(21) 	And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was
able 					also to perform.

		(22) 	And therefore, it was imputed to him for righteousness.

		(23) 	Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed
to him;

		(24) 	But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on
him 						that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;	

	Now, It tells you right here that we have every right to believe this,
that this is ours, because God raised Jesus for this very purpose.
(See?)  He died for it, and God raised Him showing that He has accepted
everything that Jesus was to accomplished for us, because Jesus is High
Priest to His Own Blood, He is living in order to implement everything
that is ours according to what He died for. And in this our day the
Melechisedec Priesthood proving It openly, blasting It across the
heavens for all to see. (See?) And the Melechisedec in full view proving
Himself openly to us that He is Hebrews 13:8, "He's the same yesterday,
today and forever." And He is that Word expressed. We have absolutely
the evidence in this our day that everything that God said concerning
redemption is absolutely in effect at this hour, and he's just winding
the whole thing up. (See?)  

18.	Now, looking at those six great words, 'righteousness,',
'redemption', propitiation', forgiveness', justification', and
'reconciliation' has to do with Ephesians 1:23 wherein It set forth the
eternal purpose of God relative to the placing with Himself of those
sons that were fallen away by sin, and is called redemption by the Blood
in verse 7. Redemption by His Blood. And this great redemption for
fallen sons. 

	Now remember, one of the words is 'redemption'. And this great
redemption by the Blood for fallen sons requires and includes
'propitiation', 'forgiveness', 'righteousness', which is
'justification', and 'reconciliation'. (See?)  Now, thus through His
death by the shedding of His Blood this must all be given to us. And His
Resurrection Melechisedec Priesthood through His Blood guarantees It to
us. It proves that It is so.

19.	So, as I brought out the last time, (now let's watch carefully) the
Melechisedec Priesthood to His Own Blood, as Bro. Branham said, "That
Blood scatters sin, until there can be no trace of it whatsoever." And
how can you call a man a sinner when the Blood of Jesus Christ will not
let the man’s sin get between him and God? 

	Now, then what did we see then? We saw thorough the Melechisedec
Priesthood the actual, absolute, realization that we can literally stand
in the Presence of Almighty God, whose Presence was there through the
Blood, and not one single one of us be denied. No sir! Not one denied.
Now, I want you to understand that, the Melechisedec Priesthood which
was revealed in Bro. Branham's ministry conclusively proved that every
single one of us could stand in the Presence of God through the Blood
and not be destroyed, but be accepted. Because we were in His Presence.
Because the Scripture said as I reminded you Sunday, that there would be
a mighty revival arrive from the Presence of the Lord.

20.	As Peter said, “When times of refreshing shall come from the
Presence of the Lord." [Acts 3:19] And that word 'presence', means
anything visible to the eye. Now, you cannot see God, because He's
Spirit. No man can see God. No man can ever has, no man ever will. He
has got to have a covering. And the covering could be 'fire'. (See?) The
covering could be 'human flesh'. Jesus was not God, He was a man. He was
only God, because God indwelt Him. But when you looked at His flesh, you
did not see God. You saw God by the mighty works which were being done.

	So, we saw the mighty works, God Himself vindicating His Word. We
actually saw God! Now, that's something you might not want to understand
tonight, but I'm going to keep hammering till you get it.  I saw God,
you saw God, if you saw it. If you saw the film, you saw God. You saw
that part of God which can be seen, which were the mighty works, as
Jesus said, "If I had not done the works which no other man did, then
had not sinned. But now they both seen and hated both Me and my Father."
[John 15:24] (See?) It was that which could be seen of God was seen.
Because you cannot see God per se, He is a Spirit. He has got to be
veiled.  Now, at the end time He was veiled in a man. And no man's word
will produce what the words of William Branham produced, because they
were not William Branham's words. They were the Words of God.

21.	So, we saw the Melchisedec Priesthood, which is the Priesthood unto
His Own Blood come now. (See?) Where man could talk to God, and God
would talk back. And men could come boldly. Paul said, "let us come
boldly to the throne of grace." [Hebrews 4:16] And we saw the boldness
that was allowed it. Do you realize the Pentecostal preachers stood
before William Branham living in adultery with other men's wives, and
were not struck down, nor could be struck down, because of the availing
Blood that stood right there? Right, I know what I'm talking about.

	You don't associate with him as manager and work in his meetings
without knowing a few of those things. It's true. The only time they're
struck down as I recall was try to lie to the Holy Ghost. Just like in
the days of Peter. When a man brought a prayer card in, (Church of
Christ minister) brought in, in Windsor, Ontario, come from Detroit. And
deliberately tried to fool him. That's right. And the man that sat in
the balcony, they were trying to defraud the prophet with him. They made
it up. 

22.	Sat in the preacher's library where there was a green table cloth
over the table in the study. He stood in the prayer line. And Bro.
Branham was very tired, and he said, "Sir, there's not a thing wrong
with you."

	"Well, (he said) didn't you look what was on my prayer card?" 

	He said, "Sir, I never look at those prayer cards, they just get you in
the prayer line." 

	"Well, (he said) I got all these diseases," he said.

	"Sir, (he said) you have none of those diseases, you're alright." 

	The man wanted to argue.

	"Well, (he said) sir, many people by great faith in these meetings they
just get healed before they even come in the prayer line. Maybe you're
one of them."

	Then the guy went too far, and tipped his hand. Something about…he
said to Bro. Branham,            I forget all the whole story. But he
said, "Oh, so that's how he does it."

	Bro. Branham just woke up within, and said, "What did you say? Sir, (he
said) I perceive this afternoon you came here to try to defraud me, to
fool me, to expose me." He said, "The man in the balcony, right up there
(he said) was sitting in your office and you made it up with him. Your
office had a wooden table there, your study on, a green cloth."

	And the man [in the balcony] got scared and he said, "Sir, I'm sorry,
that's right."

	Bro. Branham said, "Now, (he said) the disease that you put in that
card are now on you."

	When he grabbed old Bro. Branham's feet, he said, "Forgive me, take
them off."

	He said, "I didn't put them on you." The man died.

23.	See, you try to make a fool of Melchisedec's Priesthood where He is
dealing with sins, and showing redemption. And a man come in and try to
make it a fool and a fraud. Tramples underfoot the covenant, the Blood!
I hope you're beginning to see what I'm trying to bring in these
messages here, what we saw, and what was going on. Not to scare, but to
understand we could stand there. We couldn't stand there without that
circle of Blood. (See?) Couldn't! But you try to call Jesus the devil,
or fortuneteller, you watch what happens. And you try to call a Church
Age messenger the devil, or fortuneteller, see what happens. (See?) It's
wrong. Now I just wanted to show you these things.

	Now, what we see here is what the blood redemption bought us. So that
everything that comes under redemption, tonight we are heir to, and we
should just receive with gratitude. Now, of course the rest of this
message I should really deal in several messages for the benefit of
repetition in many, many scriptural illustrations. But I won't do it.

	There's these four great tremendous things which God has wrought
through the death and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, first
of all we want to consider the great truth of Christ giving His Life by
the shedding of His Blood, and thereby becoming a propitiation for our
sins.

24.	Now, the word 'propitiation' in the Greek signifies and expiatory
sacrifice. That is, something that expiates. Well, the word 'expiate'
means 'to atone', it means to 'do something' to acquit the guilty', it
means 'to make amends', or it means 'to make reparation'.

	In other words, something's got to be done. Something's got to be
substituted in other words. Like war reparation. You say, all right now,
you blew the country to smithereens, and we weren't even at war, now you
come and build the country up. Do something about it. Make a correction.
(See?) Get the thing out of the way that's wrong. (See?) So therefore,
Jesus is our propitiation, the expiatory sacrifice.  

	Now, this word 'propitiation' is the same word used throughout the
Septuagint, (which is the Old Testament in Greek) which is what Jesus
used, Paul used, and the rest of them used, (so It's a good one, it's
the right one to use) is the word which means 'mercy seat'.  So
therefore, every time we think of propitiation it's really mercy seat.
Christ is our Mercy Seat, He is our Propitiation.

25.	Now, thus if we understand something about the sprinkling of the
Blood over the Mercy Seat, we might understand somewhat of this great
doctrine of propitiation. We can know how Christ atoned for our sins. 
Now, to begin what is the Mercy Seat? Well, the Mercy Seat very simply
is the lid which was over the Ark in which the Covenant, or the Word of
God lived. Now, I know there was the Manna, (golden pot with Manna) and
Aaron's rod that budded. But finally, Aaron's rod that budded
disappeared and so did the Manna. But the Word always stayed. It was the
Word of God given to the people, and It was placed in this vessel made
(I think) acacia wood, and so on, perfectly overlaid with gold. And then
there was a mercy seat over It.  And on this mercy seat there were
cerebrum that faced inward. And this mercy seat was a place where God
would come down and meet with the people. And always they had to
sprinkle it with blood. See, that was the idea.

	So, it was the lid over the Ark that stood in the holiest place, to
which only the high priest could come once a year for the sins, and
iniquity of the people, the uncleanness's.  And God dwelt  on that mercy
seat by His Spirit, and there He would meet with the people and dwell
amongst the people. (See?) And once a year, (as I say) that priest came
with blood.

	Now, this atonement that the high priest made was by taking two goats.
Now, one goat he killed, and he took the blood and he sprinkled the
mercy seat with that blood. Then the other goat he laid his hands upon
and confessed the sins of the people and they led it out to the
wilderness and became the scapegoat bearing away the sins of the people.
That's exactly what took place.

26.	Now, in this act which was done by the high priest we see the living
sacrifice was actually a victim to the sins of Israel. (See?) Because a
sacrifice means a victim, usually. It's something given up that is not
related to it, but will make a payment. Something you've taken exchange
for.

	So, we see the living sacrifice was a victim to the sins of Israel. We
see this life of the sacrifice was not chargeable with the sins of the
offeror. Now, that a high priest offered the animal. But the animal was
not related to the sins of the sinners. What I'm saying is, the
sacrifice was not the one who sinned, nor could he be charged with the
sin. That's what we've got to understand here. (See?) The sacrifice was
a victim. He didn't sin. Nor could you at anytime ever accuse him of
sin. (See?) Impossible.

	In other words, a guiltless life was given in exchange for the guilty
one. And that's exactly true. A guiltless life was given in exchange for
the guilty one. And because of the life of such an offering for sin, God
was able to accept the people in His sight and pass over their sin. 

27.	Now, right back there you know it wasn't the goats that sinned. The
goats were innocent of any sin. It was Israel that sinned. And you
couldn't charge the goat with the sins of the people, because the goats
didn't do it. So, you see the basis then, and the type, is that a
guiltless life must be offered for a guilty life. And the exchange is
made. Now, let it sink in, let it sink in, the guiltless life was given
for the guilty. The guiltless One had nothing to do with the sin. He
never sinned. He was guiltless. But God accepted the guiltless life when
He couldn't accept the guilty life. (See?) And remember, it's a
substitute, the guiltless One stands in the place of the guilty one.  

	Now, the shed life of the goat did not keep the people from sinning,
but it did cover their sin so that God could deal them as a people, and
they could live in His sight. In other words, the blood came between
them and God and hid their sins, that's what we're thinking.

	Now, from this we learn that the very nature of God is the reason for
the atonement. (See?) There's something about God that will not allow
sin to enter there. And that' true, because He's holy. And the Scripture
tells us there's no sin will enter now in the New Jerusalem, there is
nothing evil will get there.  So, the very nature of God demands an
atonement, demands something to stand in the place of the guilty one.

28.	Now, sin cannot, and consequently no sinner can stand in God's
Presence. Now that's the whole truth. Sin cannot stand, therefore the
sinner cannot stand, because he's the one that's doing the sin. So, the
shed blood signifies an acceptable life, (that's the life that can be
accepted) that's guiltless has been given in substitute for the
unacceptable. You see? Something acceptable has laid down the life for
the unacceptable. In other words, the good has died for the bad. The
godly has died for the ungodly.

	Now, the ungodly can draw near and stand in the Presence of the Lord,
because of the godly Blood. And that's the whole thing about it. Now, I
know that many people try to dress themselves up, and say, "Now, Lord, I
realize that I'm coming to You, and I thank You for the little trickle
of Blood that trickled, and not this other great thing that has come
along, and these other great things that will come along, in all this
life that I'm doing, and all these other things, now, Lord, I'm assured
that I can draw nigh."  And that is a hundred percent wrong. You come
nigh to God, one reason, because the Blood made the way. 

29.	There is nothing under high heaven, either above the heaven, on the
earth, or below the earth, or any place that'll take the place of that
shed Blood. There was only one way a person can draw near to God, and
that is he has got to be absolutely guiltless to get there, or he's
never going to make it. So, there's got to be somebody guiltless to do
it for us. (See?) Now, sin demands a penalty of death. So therefore, the
guiltless one must shed the guiltless Blood in order for you and me who
are guilty to stand before the Lord God.

	It's as Scripture said, "We have been made nigh by the Blood of Jesus
Christ." [Ephesians 2:13] We've been made nigh. Didn't make ourselves
nigh. Didn't even come as it were, but made nigh through the Blood of
Jesus Christ. That was proven to us through the Melchisedec ministry
right before it. (See?) 

 	Now, the closed door to God has been opened. Remember, God shut the
door back there in the Garden. Man was gone, all the seeds was gone. All
the sons fallen were gone. God has opened the closed door. (See?) Now,
above all let us get this clear: this laid-down in death's life. Every
word is hyphenated. This laid-down in death's life of Jesus witnesses
that all approached to God on our part is forever impossible. Otherwise,
why did He lay His Life down?  (See?) Get the picture. It's absolutely
impossible on our part to ever get to God. Can't be done. It cannot be
done. On our part, we cannot get to God. Can't be done. It's forever
impossible.

30.	Let's look back here again in Hebrews 10:19, what we looked at.    

		(19) 	Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest
by the 					blood of Jesus,

	What way are you going to come? By the Blood of Jesus. Is there any
other way? No! Except by the Blood of Jesus. Never can make it. Never
can make it. (See?) Can't do it. Only one way, just one way to God and
that is by His Blood. (See?)

		(20)	By a new and living way, which is consecrated for us, through the
						veil, that is to say, his flesh. 

  	In other words, His flesh was rent, torn asunder, as it were, death
(you see?) taking place, wound side, riven [split] hands, so on. Crowned
brow. That veil rent, Christ dying, shedding His Blood. Now:

		(21)	(And) having an high priest over the house of God;

	What happened? He died, He rose again. 

		(22) 	Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
…

	Why? Because of the sprinkling of the blood. Now, we like to have some
other way of assurance. I know, I know we're human. We like to come at
night and say, "Dear Lord, I feel so good, because hallelujah, I've been
a good girl and a good boy." Hogwash. You are a sour lemon and so am I.
It hasn't got a thing to do with you or me drawing near. (See?) Someone
say, "Well,   I know won't hear me, because I got iniquity in my heart."
Well fine, how are you going to get rid of your iniquity gets back? It's
got to be by the shed Blood. (See?) 

31.  There is no way we must understand this. Because listen to me,
outside of this, there is no rest, and there is no peace. There isn't,
because you're here today and gone tomorrow by yourself. (See?)  But by
the Blood, that's a different story. (See?) Because you know you're
guilty, but He wasn't. (See?) 

 	Now, we therefore see two things that are brought before us: the
innocent Lamb dying for the guilty. (See?) Not His sins, but ours.
(See?) There it is. Now, a price has been paid. Then if our sins were
taken care of by Him, (the guiltless One) and that is fine. Secondly:
there is no approach to God, but by this the shed Blood. (See?) 

	In other words, we must learn to disassociate ourselves from it all,
accept recipients by grace. A free meal. Yes sir! Free! Because that's
what grace is, it's free. Now remember, there is no such thing that
which is free. Somebody paid a price. It's only free to us, because it
is freely given Jesus having paid that price.

32.  Now, no sin of man can ever shut the door to God. Let's just take a
look at It, we go to the Book of John 10: (that's a good place to start
and we go to verse 7, and we read a few verses.)

		(7) 	…Jesus said …Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door 
of						the sheep.

	Verse 9,

		(9) 	I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and 
					shall go in and out, and find pasture.

	Verse 11,

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

	Verse 15,   

	

		(15) 	As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay 	
				down my life for the sheep.

	Verse 18,

		(18) 	No man (takes) it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have
power 					to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. (Why?)
This 						commandment have I received of my Father.

	If God hadn't said It, we couldn't have done it. 

33.	Okay, let's read 27-30.

		(27) 	My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

		(28) 	And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
neither 					shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

		(29) 	My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man
is 						able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

		(30) 	I and my Father are one. (See?) 

	Right there, now you can see He's the door of the sheep. Right! Why?
Because He absolutely died. And it's by His death that we have access to
God. The sheep come to God by Him through His death. And there isn't any
other way. But you know what? Theology will not let us believe that.
(See?) Theology is always getting mixed up, they'll bring in this, and
play that against that. And say, "Well, this verse says this, and this
verse says that." 

	Well, that's fine, supposing we made this building up here, and the
fellow said, "Now, you get arches that are being made, there's a certain
specification. That floor is a certain specification, looks like oak. I
want to tell you, I don't believe those arches are made of oak, I
believe they're made of spruce or pine or something."

	You've got two different things entirely, with two different stresses
on it, but everybody wants to make everything up. You can't do it! Don't
do it. Keep the Blood, the Blood. Keep the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost.
Keep things the way they're supposed to be. (See?) 

34.	Keep mediation, mediation. Keep intercession, intercession, but
don't mix them up! Though we've got a mixed-up theology. That's why the
prophet came to unravel the theology, get it unmixed, to correct the
errors so we know where we stand where our faith can be. How can you
have faith and a mixed-up faith, if the fellow is going read the
blue-prints. "Well, I'll put the arches in oak." Oak doesn't bend worth
a plug nickel hardly. It's a tough hard wood. I guess you can get it to
bend, but this stuff up here bends a whole lot better. I think it's
laminated, but if it's not laminated, most stuff is laminated, you get
the stuff that can bend. 

	By the way laminated wood is better than steel. Steel bends in a fire,
laminated wood will burn slowly if you got it in time. Get your Bible
lined up right. Get your stresses right, get everything just right. Don,
should preach this better than me, knows all about building. But I think
I know that much, maybe I could just say a few words anyway.

	The fact of the matter is, there isn't anybody can come to God except
through the death of Jesus Christ the way prepared. It's by the Blood
that gets us to Almighty God, that Blood has got to stand there between
you and me, or we can't come and the Melchisedec Priesthood proved it.
How rich and great is that Blood. My, to stand there and see it proven,
it just rock It.  (See?) Men coming by in Jerusalem, and everything
else. Fellow thinks he knows God sitting in Bro. Branham's meetings
because he's some big shot that God used in New York, said, "I can't
take anymore of the nonsense," and walks out. To see Melchisedec
revealed open, "He's the same yesterday, today and forever." [Hebrews
13:8] God in human flesh, and somebody sneer and walks out. (See?) You
know what? He'd have been dead [claps his hands] just like that, except
for the Blood of Jesus Christ. Yes sir.

35.	Oh my, can't you see what it's all about how the prophet's vision
showed it, and to lead at that time? You'd be gone too, except for the
Blood. Men approaching standing in the presence of God, and he said,
"How come you didn't tremble in My Presence?" Because we didn't even
know His Presence was there, didn't know what was going on. You talk
about the Blood brother/sister, it gives me a new revelation of It, to
understand what that Blood does, access to God. Yes sir, thus we have a
peace through the Blood.

	So listen, we have a peace through the Blood. But listen: but It is
such a peace that leaves for us in our right no place at all. There's a
peace through the shed Blood tonight, concerning the forgiveness of our
sins the approach to Almighty God, a propitiation having been made.
There is a place for peace, but in ourselves, no place at all, It is all
in Him. Yes sir, if any man is going to glory, let him glory in Jesus
Christ, and let the starting of the glory be in the Cross. There is no
place for any peace in ourselves outside the Blood. But we want it,
can't have it. Can't have it. There's a peace made between God and man,
and that peace is absolutely on God's side through the shed Blood of
Jesus Christ.

36.	As the Bible says, "Therefore having been justified we have peace
with God." [Romans 5:1] And that word in the Greek concerning peace, is
not you and I having the peace of God, but it's this: it is the peace of
amnesty that the King grants toward the rebellious servant. He is no
longer angry at those who rebelled against Him. Why? Through Jesus
Christ's Blood. 

	People say, "Well God, You just got to get mad at them." 

	He said, "Can't get mad."

	"You got to be put out."

	He said, "I can't be put out."

	"Well, you've got to do something."

	"I don't got to do a thing, the Blood of Jesus Christ stands there."
(You see?)

	Now, we're dealing with the basic tonight, what the Blood of Jesus
Christ does, (see?) that's what we're talking about. And let's keep it
right there, because that's the subject, that's why I'm preaching this
way to swing the pendulum back. Because we're getting too mixed up on
the Word. (See?) People talk about victory. All right, that's great, we
have it through the Blood too. But we're not talking about that thing,
we're talking about how to get to Almighty God. (See?) How that we can
come right to Him. Judgment passed over and so on.

37.	Now, as I said again here, thus we see we had peace through the
Blood, because we do. But, it is such a peace that leads to us in our
right, no place at all. Peace only by and through the Blood. We had
nothing to do with that which we enjoy. Nothing to do with it. Nothing
to do with it. It was all done by Jesus. (See?) Just like we had nothing
to do with the sin of Adam that put us here. Neither do we have one
thing to do with the Blood of Jesus Christ that brings us back. Gives us
access, no sir.

	Now listen, that is propitiation, (see?) to turn away the wrath of the
offended one from the offender. So, we can come right now with open arms
receive Him like the prodigal son that the spoils, the very creation of
God. Here we are at the end time when the Bible said, "God is going to
destroy them that destroy the earth," and we're part of it. But here
He's proven to us, opening the Book of Redemption. Melchisedec standing
there and say, "Look, my Blood avails, come on in. Come on in, the Mercy
Seat is opened."  A Mercy Seat. Mercy. What's mercy? Man that's got
mercy said you won't have to pay for your crime. Something is going to
take care of it. You see?

	Now, that's under propitiation, the Mercy Seat. Secondly, we're going
to consider forgiveness by the Blood, because that's exactly what the
Bible says is under redemption. There's a forgive-ness, we've read it.
(I think about verse 26) The shed Blood now sprinkled on the Mercy Seat,
and which opened the door to stand in His Presence also brings us utter,
or complete forgiveness of sins. How utter that forgiveness is, can be
seen by the study of the various root word meaning of the two words
'forgive' and 'remit', because they're the same word. Forgive and remit.


38.	Now, I wish I had time to preach a whole sermon on this, because
I've done it before, but not tonight. Together they add up to these
thoughts: listen, to bestow a favor unconditionally. When do you need a
favor? When you can't do something for yourself, you've got to have
help. All right, when you do somebody a favor they said, "Well, it's
your turn to do me." (See?) Or, there's a string laid down. Go to the
bank when you need money. "Oh, (they'll say) certainly, it's going to
cost you maybe…what they say eight percent, by the time you're
finished it'll run you twenty-four percent, don't worry.  So, that's not
the way it is with this. It's an unconditional favor.

	In other words, when you need help there are no conditions that God
lays down for every condition has been met, unconditional. Now, what is
this, what does it need help for? Sin! How…what kind of help you need?
Forgiveness! Somebody do something about it. And God says, "Certainly,
unconditionally, I will do something, I will wipe it out." (See?) 

	Now look it, secondly, it needs to completely cancel. Now, when we
forgive people it's always on contingent, don't do it again. That's
right. When the law forgives, then you better be a good person. Well, we
all want to be good people, but that's not what the Bible says. It's to
cancel completely so that there is no record whatsoever.

39.	Thirdly, it excludes all ideas of future judgment and punishment,
nothing held against him. Now, let's face it, we're all of us tonight,
are a little worried about what's going to happen in the Presence of
God. The answer is nothing. That's how thoroughly sin is covered. We can
never be judged for our sins, it's impossible. It cannot be done,
because the Bible says otherwise. For It excludes all ideas of future
judgment, or punishment. There cannot be judgment or punishment by God
coming up when we come up in a resurrection. Absolutely impossible. 

	Here on this earth, they'll treat us as children and train us. That's
right. And child training is correction. When it comes to the judgment,
there is no judgment. Supposing, it deals with the guilty as though they
were innocent. As though they had never done it. Now, what do you think
of that? For that's the Bible. That's not Lee Vayle making up something,
that's the Bible. 

	I repeat: to bestow a favor unconditionally, to completely cancel
excluding all idea of future judgment, or punishment, and to deal with
the guilty one as though he were absolutely innocent, as though he had
never done it. This is the basis of future justification. Do you realize
what the Blood does?  And yet, people still come to God and want to
rehash and rehash and build their lives on the old foundation. The Bible
distinctly says, "Through the Blood of Jesus there can be no
consciousness of sin." [Hebrews 9:14] That's right. That's what the
prophet had, I mentioned the other day. (See?) 

40.	It's something brother/sister that we are not appropriating by the
correct revelation, which is what lies in forgiveness. This is what lies
in forgiveness. Now, this leads us to see, that forgiveness of sin by
the Blood of Jesus is of such perfect grace, that the mostvile of
sinners can come to the Mercy Seat, and there through no personal
qualification you can receive absolutely free complete cancellation of
his sin, and be guaranteed he will not be judged or punished in the
future, and he'll be dealt with as though he had been innocent of any
sin whatsoever all of his life.

	Now, that's either true or it's a lie. It's either the Blood, or it's
not. Now, do you realize right tonight that's where we stand, in the
Melchisedec ministry right there proved it. That you and I could come,
every night Bro. Branham would say, "We'll ask Him to come." And then
say, "He's here." And then as that Judge standing there Who could
discern every single heart and know every single person, everyone
protected by the circle of Blood. And yet, you couldn't hide if you
tried.

	What made the difference? The Blood, because Melchisedec is High Priest
to the Blood. He was the heavenly calling, the heavenly origin, doing
the heavenly works, is Melchisedec based upon coming down here as a man,
and dying and shedding His Blood. God Himself, reducing Himself to a
human form, and in that human form dying.  Jesus, the Blood of God,
God's Own Blood propitiating for sin. Makes that man, the vilest sinner
as though he had absolutely never sinned and received as though innocent
and righteous all of his life.

41.	Now, that's what the Blood of Jesus Christ does. It must never be
forgotten that all this lies in the power of the shed Blood. And though
the sinner is the recipient of this grace, he does nothing for it. He
has no part in producing it. His only part is to believe it, and accept
it. John 5:24.  

		(24) 	Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and
believeth 					on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not
come into (the 					judgment); but is passed from death unto life. 

And It goes on to say, "He'll be there in the First Resurrection. And in
the First Resurrection it is no judgment. In fact, they become the
judges of the world. Why? Because men and women did not receive the
grace of Jesus Christ. And they'll stand there as trophies of grace,
say, "look it, this is what could have been, this is what is, because of
the shed Blood of Jesus Christ." People receiving It, coming to God.
(See?) Claiming the forgiveness of sin, standing before Him. (See?) And
thereby sealed in by the Holy Ghost.

42.	Let's just take a look on some Scripture on this. We go to the Book
of Acts 5:31, It says here:

		(31) 	Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a
Saviour, 					for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

	Israel why don't you change your mind? That's what he kept on saying.
Why, they had a way to what they thought was right. They had the blood
of bulls and goats. They had their ceremonies depending on this, and He
said, "Israel I'm trying to show you in the Word of God, change your
mind." (See?) What about, could Christ fulfill it all and thereby
receive forgiveness on sin?

	Now listen, you know and I know Israel was a pretty mucky bunch of
people at times. Their leaders even were very poor examples. And yet God
stood there on the Mercy Seat, and the high priest every year could come
there and God identified with those people. Even there when God
was…called it their God in Jerusalem when Rome was over them, and they
had the hierarchy of the priests and all, and teaching continually
wrong.

43.	Remember, when they went into Babylon they had a Levitical
priesthood. And when they came out they had a Rabbinical order. They had
a synagogue and they had a Talmud. And yet God had to listen to those
people, and He had to send His prophets, because they were His people.
And James and Peter stand and he said, "Israel can't you let your minds
go?" As Paul said, "Get the veil off of your mind." Turn you mind to
God. That's repentance, a real change of mind, that's repentance is.
Just let you mind go and start thinking in a real way.

	And then He said, "You will come to a forgiveness of sin through Jesus.
And you know, the same cry of the Laodicean Church Age is: "repent,
repent, repent, unclutter your mind, and get a new mind which is the
revealed Word of God. And quit mixing up your doctrine. Quit mixing up
your understanding. Begin to see what the atonement is all about. (See?)


44.	Okay, Romans chapter 4:7-8      

		(7) 	Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose
						sins are covered.

		(8) 	Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

	Blessed is the man to whom God will not make a record of his sins.
(See?) Remember, the sins are forgotten as well as forgiven. They're
blotted out entirely, they can never be recovered. Never taken into the
judgment by anybody. (See?)

		(7) 	… Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins
are 						covered. (How do you cover sin?  By the Blood. See?) 

		(8) 	Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

	That's a part of forgiveness. (See?) It tells you there. Deals with the
guilty as though innocent. No record, like Hebrews chapter 11. What a
beautiful record that is. That's not the record of those men's lives
here on earth. That's the record of their lives with every single
failure blotted out. Now, how are you going to blot it out? Through the
Blood of Jesus Christ. There can be no record in heaven of the righteous
those under the Blood. Any record of sin they're completely free.

45. 	Okay, let's go to Ephesians 4:32, look at this, here we are:

		(32) 	And be ye kind (hearted), tenderhearted, forgiving one another, 
				even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

	How are you forgiven? For Christ's sake. Not for our owns sake. (See?)
Not for our owns sake. It's for Christ's sake. (See?) That's the idea.
It was there that something happened.

 	Okay, let's go to Hebrews 9:22, 

		(22) 	And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and
without 					shedding of blood (there's) no (forgiveness.)  

	So therefore, with the shedding of Blood there is forgiveness. And
again, over in 1 John 1:9 

		(9) 	If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins, 						and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (See?) 

	And then over here again in [1 John] 2:2

		(2) 	And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only,
but also 					for the sins of the whole world.

	And verse 12,

		(12)	 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are
forgiven you 					for his name's sake. (See?) 

	Forgiven, the body raised up as a memorial as Bro. Branham said to His
death. He is the High Priest pleading His Own Blood. Every single sin is
under that Blood absolutely, that's the way we put it, that's the way we
want it. So, there we see propitiation forgiveness of sins.

46.	Thirdly: we're going to consider righteousness which is
justification. The reason we consider these two together, because
justify means to declare righteous. All right, the Scripture we're
looking at right now is in Romans 3:21-26, which we've read a couple of
times already.

		(21) 	But now the righteousness of God without law is manifested,
being 					witnessed by the law and the prophets;

		(22) 	Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ
unto 					all and upon all them that believe: for there is no
difference:

		(23) 	For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

	Everybody's a sinner. Everybody's got to have the Blood. No different,
no Blood, nobody gets there. If there's Blood anybody can get there.
(See?) 

		(24) 	Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that
is in 					Christ Jesus:

		(25) 	Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation…

	You see right there It shows that if there's no Blood, there's no
redemption. And It's free, because He paid the price. Gratuitously given
to us, and by It declares His righteousness. (See?) Not ours, His
righteousness. (See?) Now notice, the key verse in verse 21.

		(21) 	But now the righteousness of God without law… (now, that
little 						word 'the' is not in the Greek, it should be just crossed
right out 						of your Bible.) 

	Because it doesn't mean 'the law of Moses', it means 'any law
whatsoever'. Any law whatsoever, His righteousness apart from law.
That's what the Greek says. "But now the righteousness of God apart from
law, has been manifested." We must note instantly that once for all the
true scriptural definition of the righteousness set forth here. It is
God's righteousness, and it is apart from law. That's the thing to
notice. It is God's righteousness, and It is apart from law. In plain
unvarnished language that means it is God's Own attribute, and we can't
have it unless He gives it to us. Now that’s simple. It's God's and
you can only get it from God, and you can only get it if God wants to
give it to you. You only get it from God if God's made a way for it.
Because God's always had it, but everybody didn't get it. It just wasn't
there to be gotten.

47.	Now, even more perfectly defined, it is a part of God Himself. And
we can only have it if He sovereignly wants to impart Himself to us, or
indwell us. It is a measure of His Spirit. (See?) And It cannot be
gotten apart from Blood. The shed Blood. (See?) 

	Now, look how he put it. Now apart from law, God's righteousness has
been manifested. Apart from law means 'without any law whatsoever'.
That's what It says. That means 'apart from any law whatsoever'.

	Now listen, we know there is nothing outside of God that is apart from
law. Why? All things are by some sort of law, except God Himself Who
institutes all laws and maintain them. There's only one thing in this
world that doesn't have a law and that's God. Because He's a Creator and
Maintainer of all law. (See?)  So, this is an attribute of the Eternal
Creator Himself. That's right, an Attribute.

	Now, Paul says this is witnessed to, or prophesied to by the law and
the prophets. Now, let's find out what the Bible says about it. Let's go
back to Jeremiah 23:6, because that's where we find the Great One. All
right: 

		(6) 	In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely:
and 						this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR 				
	RIGHTEOUSNESS.

	What is he saying here: that God Himself is the righteousness of the
people.

48.	All right, let's go to the Book of Psalms 71:2.

		(2) 	Deliver me in thy righteousness, …

	Verse 15,

		(15) 	My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness…

	Verse 16, 

		(16) 	…I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

	Verse 19, 

		(19) 	Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, (thou) hast done
great 					things: …  

	Verse 24,

		(24) 	My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long:
…

	Okay, out to Isaiah (notice it's God's righteousness, not ours) 53:11  

		(11) 	He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied:
by his 						knowledge shall my righteous servant (declare righteous
the) many; 					for he shall bear their iniquities.

	If the Blood had not been shed, there would have been no place for the
righteousness of God to be given as a substitute for yours and mine, of
which we had none, but filthy rags. (See?) 

49.	Okay, with this we look back where all the law and the prophets are
shown us to be typed to Christ in Hebrews 10:1-14, notice:

		(1) 	For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the 	
				very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they
					offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

		(2) 	For then would they not have ceased to be offered? …

	Now, he said, "If any of those sacrifices could have made any comer to
it perfect, you could stop right there. But it didn't work, 

		(2)	…because that the worshippers once purged should have had no 			
		more conscience of sins. (See?) 

  	If sins been taken care of then it answers the question. I'm a
sinner, but it's been taken care of. (See?)  

		(3) 	But in those sacrifices, there is a remembrance again made of
sins 						every year.

		(4)	For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should
take 					away sins.

		(5) 	Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and 
					offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared (for) me:

		(6) 	In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no
pleasure.

		(7) 	Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is
written,) to 						do thy will, O God.

		(8)  	(And again) when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt
offerings 					and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst
pleasure therein; 					which are offered by the law;

		(9) 	Then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away
the 					first, that he may establish the second.

		(10) 	By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the
body 					of Jesus Christ once (and that's) for all. (Because that's all
it took.)

		(11) 	And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering
oftentimes 					the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

		(12) 	But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins
forever, sat 					down on the right hand of God;

		(13) 	From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his
footstool.

		(14) 	For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are
sanctified.

50.  And that's what I've been telling you every time here, that's what
Melchisedec was showing us. The perfection by the Blood. Why would he
show Himself otherwise? Tell me, Who is Melchisedec? The High Priest of
you and me. High Priest to His Own Blood that prevails for you and me. 

	Then does He come down and say, "I'll show you how do a war-dance, and
if you're in Sioux country, we'll do a Sioux war-dance." Now, I've got
to ask like this, and talk this way, I've got to get my point across,
for I'll never get it across. Did He come down to play some kind of
choo-choo train? Or put on an act, or some little drama?  No!!  He
proved "He's the same yesterday, today and forever." [Hebrews 13:8] And
that shows Who He was, He's risen from the dead, High Priest, His Own
Blood which perfects everyone of us. Come on, get ready. Come on, the
people prepared, He's getting ready the Elected. (See?) Showing us so
that we can have our faith, not in ourselves, but in Him. There's not
one of us my brother/sister can ever make this Rapture outside of the
Blood of Jesus Christ no more gets you in or nothing. Then showed us in
His High Priesthood, the circle of Blood prevailing. (See?) 

51.	 You realize what's happened to us down here brother/sister? I hope
you're getting it what has happened to us in this ministry which has
been vindicated witnessed to, by those who saw it, and you yourself can
see the film. (See?) There It is:  

		(14) 	For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are 			
		sanctified.

		(15) 	Whereof the Holy Ghost is a witness to us: … (See?) 

	Yes sir, open the door for the baptism of the Holy Ghost. That's why
Bro. Branham after this great Melchisedec ministry preached the [Token
63 09 01M], and he said, "This is the great climaxing Message." And sure
It is, when Israel began to see that Jesus was that Word, manifested,
revealed that they saw in Him was a sacrifice for sin. They said,
"That's it." And walked right into the water, came out to get the Holy
Ghost.  Sure. 

	Why? Because you have had a complete change of mind, (See?) Mind opened
up and see faith, there it is. Everything else is out of your mind. And
Bro. Branham said, "When that true seed gets in the mind, (which is the
womb of the spirit, then he said) the womb is closed to anything else."
How can we then stand and understand any perfection outside the Blood?
(You see?) Can't be done. Oh my, we are in certainly some place here.

52.	 Now, let's begin to see how Paul set it forth. 2 Corinthians 5:21, 

		(21) 	For (God) hath made (Jesus) to be (a) sin (offering) for us,
(this Jesus) 					who knew no sin (Himself) that we might be made the
righteousness 					of God (by our union with) him.

	In other words, this became so perfect, that we born as we are can come
right to God redeemed by the Blood perfectly, guiltless before Him, and
the Holy Ghost come into a temple sanctified by the Blood of Jesus
Christ. And now, and we declare to the very righteousness of God by the
baptism with the Holy Ghost implementing what Jesus died upon Calvary
for. You know that's the truth. That's the truth. That the Scripture
said, "We have become the righteousness of God." As Bro. Branham said,
"He became us, that we might become Him." He took our place. Then
brother/sister if He took our place then we take His place. 

	And what is it? The Son of God by the Holy Ghost. That's why we're
called the body of Jesus Christ, right in there.  That's why we're
called 'the Bride', taken out of His side by the Blood. (See?) The very
life that He shed coming back upon us. Why?  Because that sacrifice was
so perfect, a substitution, I have a substitution. Ever had substitute
coffee? Pretty lousy stuff. You want a drink of the real thing,
…substitute coffee is horrible. Why? Because it's a substitute. Now,
you reverse that and put the Blood of Jesus Christ there, a substitute
for you and me. How wonderful, but it's a substitute. Doesn't say it's
you and me, it's a substitute for you and me. That stands for you and
me. He has been made the sacrifice for sin, that we might become the
righteousness of God. The Blood made it so, come boldly right through,
right the Pillar of Fire where the Spirit of God can come in now, and
set up a throne in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, and stand there as
righteous as God Himself.  And it's a gift my brother, my sister, it's a
gift, a gift, a gift, a gift, a gift. "For did you receive the Holy
Ghost by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?" [Galatians
3:2] By faith, right? Faith in what? In Jesus Christ. (See?) My, it's
just all so clear if we just throw away our own thinking.

53.  Look it, 1 Corinthians 1:30, look what It says here:

		(30) 	But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us 		
			wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:	

	The whole things in there. So he said, 

		(31)	(If anybody glory, let him glory in Jesus Christ.) 

	Say, "Hallelujah, He did it all, He's mine and that's it." You know the
best thing you and I could do in the world? It's just to do that very
thing. Throw our hands up and say, "Hallelujah, let the glory be to
God."  It's either Christ or I'm lost anyway, so I'll let it be all of
Christ and just stand there. Then watch what begins to happen. That's
when the change begins to come. You bet, yes siree. 

54.	Now, let us not fail to see the full scope of this great Truth. Here
It is, so, listen: The Blood sacrifice of Jesus was so complete and
perfect in Its redeeming power, that It far eclipsed giving us a
standing before God. Because many people teach that, 'State and
Standing' it’s partly true. It gave us Christ Himself Who into us is
our righteousness. Absolutely God Himself became our perfection by the
perfection of the Blood dealing with our sins. It was so complete that
God said, "Listen, I’ll just stand right in there Myself for them."
(Uh?)

	God Himself standing for us. Then if God is the Judge is standing for
us, as Bro. Branham said, "Who's going to make us guilty?"  Why, He's
the Judge, the Jury and the whole show, and He says, "Case dismissed."
And it's not political shenanigans. It's not because you and I bought
the judge off, or had a corrupt politician as our friend to influence
the lawyer, It's the righteous God Himself Who judges. (See?) Judges
righteously. My, I hope we can see it. It is not an accomplished work
that we are heir to, no, that's not it. There was an accomplished work,
but that was not the end result. The end of the accomplished work, or
the perfection of the sacrifice gave us Christ Jesus, Who Himself is our
standing before God. I have no other standing than Christ Himself. And
His shed Blood gives me that right, because It took away sin forever. So
now, I am not only approached unto Him, I am in Him, and He in me.
(See?) It is Christ Himself, the sacrifice, the atonement was so
perfect, and so perfectly satisfying, that God Himself is pleased to be
our righteousness.

55.	Now, you see, we look at ourselves and say, "Well Lord, I don't know
how you could indwell me?" Well, it's very simple, it has nothing to do
with you. You're just a guest. How would you like to operate on
yourself? You say, "I wouldn't, I …"  How would you like to take out
your own spine or something, you couldn't do it? See, I'm dealing with
impossible things. So, get your eyes off yourself entirely. You're not
in the picture, I'm not in the picture.

	Notice what Bro. Branham said, "When you see this, where is
organization, denominations and creeds and dogmas?" It's not even in the
picture anymore. You see how compatible this teaching is with the
Message and what It does through the Word? The same Message that Bro.
Branham preached, to show us Christ our redemption. (See?) The power of
the Blood, God Himself our righteousness. And I repeat it, he said, "He
became us, that we might become Him." Did He become us? He certainly
did. Then are we become Him? Certainly are. (See?) I know that's beyond
the mind. Forget the mind. Who's going to plumb the depth of God's
wisdom? Nobody, so just receive it. (See?) 

56.	Now, let's read in Romans 3:24-26 again: 

		(24) 	Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that
is 						in Christ Jesus: (that's the price paid)

		(25) 	Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation (and turn away the 
					wrath of the offended one, the offender) through faith in his
blood, 						(by the blood) to declare his righteousness for the
remission of sins 					that are past, through the forbearance of God;

		(26) 	To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might
be just, 					and the justifier of him which believeth in (God.)

	There It is, by the Blood. Redemption is to deliver by paying a price,
God sent His Own propitiatory, and was so perfectly satisfied with a
solution to the sin problem in man, said He could now declare as
righteous the very ungodly, because the Bible says, "God justified or
declares righteous the ungodly, not the godly."

57.	Let me tell you something, it's a little parable that Jesus said one
day. He said: 

	Which man (He said) having a hundred sheep and loses one, doesn't leave
				the ninety and nine, and goes out and gets the one that's lost. And
lays it upon 				His shoulder, brings it back and rejoices more over the
one lost that's found, 		 		than ninety and nine that are there?
[Matthew 18-12-13]

	Now, you know as well as I do, that parable is a bunch of humbug if you
try to translate it in modern thinking. Because I'm a farmer and I've
got a hundred sheep. And I find the one lost, and       I could be very
tickled. But don't tell me I'm happier over the one that came back then
the ninety and nine that insures me of a wool crop and mutton, and
chops, and living. Because one doesn't compare to the ninety-nine. It's
only one, ninety-ninth.

	I as a farmer could say, "Thank God I only lost one, but I still got
them ninety-nine, hallelujah." So, you know he's not saying that. He
says, "God rejoices over one lost sinner that comes in, then ninety-nine
that need no repentance, because they're just in their own sight." And
they don't know they need salvation. They don't know it's by the Blood.
They think they've got something to offer to God. But when you become a
sinner lost and undone, and say, "God, I don't have a thing, never will
have a thing, save me O God, or I am lost."  That's beautiful.

58.	He loves that, but the ninety-nine that say, "I don’t need You, I
can work it out, I'm something myself, …You give me something and I'll
take care of it." Oh, forget it, those ninety and nine don't mean
nothing.  Why? Because they turned down the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
When He went to search us by His Blood, and declare us righteous. He
declares the sinner righteous. "Yes, but Lord, see that was my trouble."
That's still our trouble. "But Lord, I know my heart. Oh, I said a bad
word, I thought a bad thing, and I did a bad deed." Certainly, who do
you think you are, the angel Gabriel?"  Are you in the First
Resurrection, Gabriel’s not? Certainly, He justifies the ungodly. That
means to declare righteous.

	On what basis can God declare a sinner righteous? Through the Blood!
Because the Blood scatters every sin. And God looks down and says, "I
can't find one sin, must be righteous, must be okay."  The Holy Ghost
fills a man proving it so.  (See?) That's what we're talking about. Now,
there it is see? 

59.	Now, Romans 4:5-8

		(5) 	But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth
the 					ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

	If you can honestly believe tonight that God Almighty can declare you
righteous on the grounds of Jesus Christ even though you're a sinner,
you're free. Now, to call ourselves otherwise is to make God a liar,
pure and simple. (See?) Now:

		(6) 	Even as David (describes) the blessedness of the man, unto whom
God 					imputeth righteousness without works,

		(7) 	Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose
sins 					are covered. (Doesn't say, the fellow hasn't sinned, says
they're taken 					care of.)

		(8) 	Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute (iniquity). 

	So, the man does it. See, there's got to be something there
brother/sister, that's going to take us all the way through. There's got
to be something, because man's fallible. Even if he misunderstands one
Word of God, is the state of unbelief to a degree. (See?) There's got to
be something there. Got to be something to take us through. Sure it is,
this is all by faith. (Now, that's number three)

60.	Now, number four: The fourth one we will think about is
reconciliation. That's over here in chapter 5 of the Book of Romans
8-11.

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

		(9) 	Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be
saved 					from wrath through him.

		(10) 	For if, when we were enemies…

 	Sure, that's right. If the Blood did so much in the death of Jesus,
then how much His Resurrection do when He ministers His Own Blood? How
are you going to miss? How are you going to miss when He proved It?
(See?) Now:

		(10) 	For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the 	
				death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved 			
		by his life.

		(11) 	And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus 	
				Christ, by whom we have now received the (reconciliation.)  

	Now, the word 'reconciliation' properly denotes 'to change', we have
been changed. Hence, a person, it means to change from enmity to
friendship, or from enemies to friends. As Abraham Lincoln said, "I
don't have any enemies, I change them into friends." That's exactly
right.

61.	Now, we must be careful to note here, that this change is attributed
to the death of Jesus, so leave it there. I have been made a friend, I
was an enemy and was made a friend through the death of Jesus. Now leave
it there. (See?) We must be also careful to note that God has
accomplished it. (See?) Not us, it was His doing, not ours. We must also
see that the change was wrought in man, who is the enemy of God, the
change was not wrought in God, for He cannot change. It was not God who
was reconciled, but everybody seemed to think it was. Everybody seems to
think that Jesus shed His Blood and God was reconciled. Said, "I’m
reconciled." That's a lot of absolute stupid nonsense, because God
cannot change.

	It is not God who was reconciled. Now, I know this sounds like strange
doctrine, that shows you how much repentance we need to do. We need to
understand what the Word really says. It was not God Who was reconciled,
it was man who was reconciled. It was not God who was the enemy, it was
man who was the enemy. "For God so loved the world He gave His Only
begotten Son."  [John 3:16] (See?) It was man. In spite of how it looks
to the contrary, the death of Jesus has made human enemies into human
friends of God. This is most certainly to be believed when one used what
has been accomplished in the death of the Son.

62.	Look at it, propitiation, forgiveness, justification, all freely
given, heaped upon us. Surely that would make any fallen son the true
friend of God and not the enemy of God. How could you be an enemy of God
with all those things freely given in Jesus? 

	…say, "Lord, I'm guilty." 

	You're not guilty. 

	"I don't have a sacrifice." 

	You do have a sacrifice. (See?)

	 "Well, I'm - I'm - I'm righteous." 

	Now, you're not unrighteous. 

	"I'm a sinner."

	You're not a sinner. (See?) 

	All this done by Jesus makes us to be friends. Friends, not enemies.
(See?) 

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

		(9) 	Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be
saved 					from wrath through him. (See, He's standing there.)

 		(10) 	For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God…

	If and when we were enemies. In the enemy state, we were made friends.
(See?) Now, that's hard to get to the head, but we must get it there.
The death of Jesus has made me the friend of God. (See?) It is I who am
reconciled. It is I who am changed. It is not God reconciled. It is not
God changed. It is I, because the Bible said so.

63.	Now, here's an example: how could the old Saul of Tarsus be viewed
as an enemy of God in the face of what great redemption of what God had
wrought in Christ?  Did God speak to him as an enemy? No indeed, Paul
was his own enemy, because God said, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute
Me? It is hard for you to kick against the pricks."  [Acts 9:5b] (See?)
For God saw him already as a full partaker of all the accomplishments of
Christ, and had already granted him repentance unto Eternal life. He was
already reconciled, and was a friend of God, and God was bringing His
friend in. Every child of God that became an enemy has become the friend
of God through the Blood of Jesus Christ. 

	Now, let us try to see this more clearly. Let us ask ourselves why are
people enemies one to another? Because there are clashes through some
obstruction that keeps the person from coming into a desired end. Why
aren't we friends? Because somebody gets in our way and gets what we
want, or does something that we don't like. But you try to show one
obstruction now between man and God, there is none. There is none.
Right? So then, how can we be enemies?  There is nothing there to
produce enmity. Nothing there to produce it. It has been cleared away.

43.	Now, let's take a look at this again in 2 Corinthians 5:18-21, which
we were reviewing awhile ago, but didn't read all the verses. 

		(18) 	And all things are of God, who hath reconciled…

	Well, let's read the first part:

		(17) 	…if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: (all) things
are passed 					away; behold, all things are become new. (Every bit of
that is of God, 					nothing you did yourself.)

		(18)	…who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, (the
reconciliation 					was wrought in us, through Christ Jesus) and given
to us the ministry 					of reconciliation; 

	Proclaiming that God is no longer at war with His subjects, peace hath
been declared He loves us, and we are His friends, come in. Come in
friend. (See?) [verse 19 omitted]  

		(20) 	Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did
beseech 					you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be reconciled to
God. 

	Realize the way of friendship is here, it's made and you are called a
friend of God through Jesus Christ. Why?

		(21) 	For he hath made (Jesus) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; (the
guiltless 					One to become a sacrifice, or propitiation, (see?) pay
the price, become 					a sin offering) that we might (become, or) be
made the (very) 						righteousness of God (buy our union with) him.

	Now, brother/sister if that isn't reconciliation, I don't know what is.
How could a man possibly look toward God and then say in the face of
everything that God has done, laid it out completely perfect, no
obstruction, no anything in our way, and say, "I am not a friend of
God?" Because this would certainly make us a friend of Almighty God.

65.	 Let's go to Colossians 1:20-22

		(20) 	And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to
						reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be
things 					in earth, …  

		And you know what that is? That includes the redemption of nature, of
all creation. (See?) In reconciliation lies the fact that your body and
my body is going to be changed, like unto His Own glorious Body. No
corruption in a place where sin will never enter. (See?) 

		(21) 	And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind 	
				by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

		(22) 	In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and 
					unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

	It tells you that, the very thing that I've been saying here to you.
How could anybody be an enemy of God in the face of what God's done if
you continue in the faith? In other words, if you believe what God has
done through Jesus Christ our Lord. (See?) It's a faith proposition.
See, no faith in ourselves, it's in Jesus Christ Who died and rose
again. There it is, "Friendship with Jesus, fellowship divine, oh what
blessed sweet communion, Jesus is a friend of mine." And I finally have
learned I am a friend of His, because He made me one.  There is no use
saying I'm an enemy. I'm a friend. You say, "Well, Bro. Vayle I'm not a
very good friend." Well, He didn't say so. How good of friend are you if
it was made through the Blood?  You're a perfect friend of God. (See?) 

	Now the devil may come along and give you a lot of trouble. But he's
not our friend, and we're not his friend. We're friends of God. That's
exactly right. (See?) Friends like Abraham, and proved it out at the
last day.

66.	Let's go to James 2: here and…let's look at It, because this is
the fourth point I'm going to cover. Now, It says here:

		(23) 	And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed
God, 					it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called
the 						Friend of God.

	Abraham believed what God what God said was true, and He was his
friend. Now, can you believe tonight that Jesus died, and now you're no
longer alienated but you're one with Him? They said, "You're a friend."

	Now listen, in the end time remember that God said, "I am going to
reveal to Abraham, because he is My friend what I am going to do." And
so, He came down in an Melchisedec ministry. He came down and showed
what was going to happen to Sodom and Gomorrah which was necessary as a
type to this end. Now Sodom and Gomorrah is right here in the world,
we're in a Sodom and Gomorrah condition. And it's under that condition
that Melchisedec comes back and reveals Himself as our High Priest. And
in the High Priesthood proved that we are His friends, because He
reveals the hour in which we live, and what's actually happening in this
earth right now. The two messengers gone down, the Lord descended by a
Shout, this first third of the Rapture, the first half of the
Resurrection. Here It is right here, proving it all out, proving His
death, proving His Resurrection, showing It right here. Oh my, and we're
friends of His. Yet, people don't want to say, "Look at myself, and say
how can I call myself a friend?" 

67.	Well, my brother, my sister, how could Abraham call himself Abraham,
when he was the father of nothing?  He was Abram, which is called 'high
father', that was bad enough. That was certainly bad enough. Just like
you and I are sons. Fallen sons, that's bad enough, even call ourselves
sons.

	But the day came when God said, "Abram you are Abraham." And Abraham
began calling himself Abraham, that old white hair, long bearded man sit
at the gate, pretty spry old fellow for his age, and a man come by and
say, "You're the mayor of the city." 

	"Well, I'm not just the mayor of the city, I'm the patriarch here, I'm
sitting in the gate to welcome people and all, help the city go on like
a days-man and so on." [end of side two] … 	And the fellow said,
“What’s your name? Oh, that’s a very lovely name, it means
‘father of multitudes’ 

	He said, “Yes, it certainly does.”

 I suppose all these people around here are your children?"

	"Well, (he said) no they're not really. Actually (he said) I don't have
a son."

	"Well, (the fellow said) you know, people usually change their names to
suit the occasion. Why don't you change your name?"	"Well, (he said) I
did."  

	"Well, what was it?"

	"It was Abram."

	"But that meant 'high father', and you changed it to 'father of
nations'?"

	"Well, you see what it is sir, it wasn't I who did it, it was God who
did it."

	"Well, I've heard of God, (he said) and I understand He's done some
great things. And I never met Him myself of course, so I wouldn't really
know. But I supposed that you just…well enough that you figure that
you'll be a father. And I supposed, I've been thinking, maybe you've got
that kind of a health that you'd have a son. I supposed that you've got
some very young wives?"

	He said, "No, I got one wife and she's about ten years younger. I'm
about a hundred, that make her about ninety." 

	"Hmm, so you're Abraham?

	"Yep, sure am, and God said so. I'm calling myself Abraham, and that
makes two of us and we agree, so that's exactly right.

68.	Now, that's what we're talking about tonight. I'm not talking about
something that you and I are producing. I'm talking about something that
God did and He said, and God cannot lie. And so, Abraham was a Abraham.
Didn't matter what he looked like, or Sarah looked like. And it didn't
even matter concerning her conduct and his conduct. Because he took
another woman to get a child, and she laughed at God. But you see, the
sacrifice is so perfect, the Blood so perfect, and Christ Himself so
perfect, not only standing forth, but in us. So now, it's you in Me, and
I in you, according to that Word, then how are we not friends in this
end time. Can't you see my brother, my sister what God has done at the
end time? He has proven that we are His friends by coming to us before
Sodom and Gomorrah revealing that He is Melchisedec, to show us the hour
in which we live at the election, the coming Son and we going to the
great banquet, to the great Resurrection. Being changed like in that
day, showing that this is the hour, the end time.

	Now, brother/sister, to whom is He showing it to? To a friend. You mean
to tell me then, that somebody outside of this covenant of the Word is a
friend? No, we are the friends, proven we're friends. We could say,
well, I'm not much of a friend. Look, we're not here to argue we're
friends. "Friendship with Jesus, fellowship divine, oh what a blessed
sweet communion, I am a friend of Jesus." Everybody sings, "Jesus is a
friend of mine, I wish I were a friend of His. Jesus is a friend of
mine, I wish I were a friend of His."

69.	 So, God's Word is not good, throw you Bible in the gutter, don't
bother coming back Sunday for church, because it's foolish for you to
come back? If you want to take a smoke, might as well smoke. If you want
a drink, go ahead and drink. You want to go wild, go ahead and get wild.
You're just fooling yourself anyway, right? Well, let's understand the
Word of God, there's just no time to fool any longer. He said we are His
friends, then we are His friends.

	Bro. Branham said, "I don't call you church anymore, I call you Bride."


	"Me, Bride, me Bride, me Bride?"

	Yes, you Bride. 

	Remember the songs of Solomon, I like it: There she met him, she was
pretty, she was glorious, she was beautiful, (hallelujah) oh she loved
him and he loved her. And pretty soon he goes away. And she just…oh,
wants to see her lover, he comes tapping at the door. And she hears his
voice. She just runs to him to throw herself in his arms, and it's a
love scene you can just tell how she's excited and all emotional, to
grab him to get hugged and kissed and everything else. And she gets
there, and he's gone. Where's he gone? Well, she's not going to sit and
just wait… no, she's was so excited she begins running after his
voice. She runs after his voice, she can't find him she can't find him,
she can't find him. People try to grab her, molest her, dogs chase her,
dogs try to bite her. And her hair gets all down, her clothes gets all
messed up, and her coiffure is un-coiffed, and her face is
un-faced…she's a mess. And that's just about the time he finds her. 

70.	He says, You're beautiful."	

	She says, "What, me?" 

	"Yeah." That's the time He says, "You're beautiful."

	She followed His Voice. (See?) And that's what the Bride doesn't
understand today. She wants to think you know, she's going to make
herself so lovely, everything is so hoitie toitie, sure, it is through
Jesus Christ our lovely Lord. But in ourselves, nothing. In ourselves
nothing. (See?) Because the riches of the inheritance in the saints
concerning Him is what He has made her in Himself by the Blood. And
filled her with the Holy Ghost to seal her in, so she hasn't got a
doubt.

	Brother/sister let me tell you flat, the evidence of the Holy Ghost is
the Holy Ghost teaching us all truth and sealing that truth to it, until
by revelation we see what He sees, and knows what we are, because He
said so, what He's done. Yes sir, that's why the charismatic moment is
all messed up, they haven't got the Word. They've got a lot of power out
there. That's not it, Bro. Branham said, "We've seen the Word of God
demonstrated in power for a long time, but never seen It demonstrated in
revelation." Oh God tonight, let me see It demonstrated in revelation.
And we're going to see something, you're going to see the real thing.
You'll see a church, you'll see a Bride, spotless without wrinkle. 
You're going to see the real thing, because she is the Word, and she
will be that Word manifested. Sure, she will, but it's going to be
revealed. Not a demonstrated Word in power, but a revelatory Bride. Oh
yeah.

71.	I'll tell you what brother, she'll be sitting there with peace and
quietness and confidence. She'll be sitting there something like
Whistler's mother sitting there just so calm, just looking the world
over. Or that Mona Lisa's smile, she's got something under her sleeve,
(so to speak) tucked up on her sleeve. Oh yeah, the rest of the world
going by there, putting this act, and that on, but she's smiling there
because she's knows. You bet, that's revelation, a knowledge of Him my
brother, my sister. Yes sir, that's what this is all about. Not
something out there creating a three-ring circus, that's been condemned.
Women preachers and all that nonsense. It's a Bride who know who she is.


	And Bro. Branham said, "You get ten people, (I think he said) or a
dozen, (he said in one place, he said) that have that same thought (he
said) there'll be a Bride gone."  Pinned her down to the revelatory
Word. That's where we stand brother/sister, it's got to be revelation,
you see, because it was done two thousand years ago. But notice, it came
right back and proved it. Yes sir, see what I'm talking about?  My, this
redemption through the Blood, It's not a dead thing, It's not historical
my brother, my sister, it's Christ ministering His Own Blood right
tonight showing what He accomplished, and I’m proving it to you. Stand
up and be counted that you're Abraham's, that you're friends of God.
I'll prove it to you, what more do you want?  (See?) I've made you my
friend.

72.	I want to tell you what, we know we're friends of God, because we
were friends of this Message. You know, Jesus one day said to His
disciples, He said when the people were turning away, He said, "Will you
also leave me?" [John 6:67]

	They said, "No, no we're not going."

	"Well, you could go back there."

	They said, "What for, we've been there."

	"Well, you could look forward," he said.

	"Ah, (they said) what's the use there's nothing better than this."

	I'm sticking, I'm not looking back, I've had it. Forget it. You think I
want to turn the clock back? Phooey on the clock. You think I'm looking
forward?  What for? It's like whatever comes forward is the result of
this very thing I've seen manifested and proven by 'Thus Saith the
Lord', so I'm going to stick with this.  See, I know what He said, so do
you. 

	Now I’ll see, let these minds begin to take on the unadulterated Word
of God, about the bleach of the Blood of Jesus Christ. Christ dying and
that body raised as a memorial to His death. He mediating, interceding,
not going to lose one, executor to His Own will. Open the Book, send It
down here, came back and showed Himself Melchisedec, our High Priest,
come boldly showing us the hour and day in which we live, friends of
God.  Oh brother/sister, can't you see redemption's all about? It's
about Him. It's an open Book about Him, and you and I looking and say,
"This is ours."

73.  There It is, no wonder the Psalmist said, "Salvation belongeth unto
the Lord." [Psalms 3:8] And constantly cried, "O Lord my salvation,"
[Psalms 38:22] for that is right. Our salvation is all of God. He
demanded it, He made a way for it, and that eternally and we have it
tonight, for we have eternal life through Jesus Christ the Lord. May God
give us a true revelation of what Jesus and His death accomplished for
us. And in His Resurrection now lives to ensure It's efficacy to us, and
seals us all into it by His Own Life indwelling us through the baptism
with the Holy Ghost. And proving it by the fact that we are heirs to His
Word in this hour, and know that we have seen Him. Know Him as He is,
the High Priest ready for a change.

	Oh brother/sister, I believe that we're oh strange. It was strange when
He said to Abram, you're Abraham, "You'll have a son by Sarah."

	"Well, (he said) we're both dried up, we're finished."

	He said, "That has not got a thing to do with it. Not got a thing to do
with it. I promise, It’s My Word that counts. See, My Word is going to
accomplish what I send It for, I'll never return to Me void."

74.	You see, It'll turn back, and that Word went back to God with
Abraham a young man, Sarah a young woman. There's a Word in our hour
It's going to go back to God, a Bride standing right here and the dead
coming out of the ground and everybody going up to a Marriage Supper.
Yes sir. Because that's the Word of the hour. On that 'Rapture' tape,
Bro. Branham said, three times where he said: "Thus, It has been Spoken,
and Thus It shall be." And that's right.

	Listen, and He has been manifesting it to be so with irrevocable proof
from 1946. Oh, what great redemption we have this day. Let us rejoice in
it and be glad. Propitiation. My, forgiveness, how beautiful. (See?)
Righteousness, reconciliation. (See?) What is there left? Nothing but
immortality. That's all we're waiting for is our change. Earth is
waiting for it too. And It said, "If by His death this was done, how
much more by His Life?"  Can't you see brother/sister, that God always
adds?  It's the much more by His Life, the Resurrection ministry right
in this age that you and I live in, it was demonstrated. If what I said
is true tonight) and I know it has been by the Word concerning His
Blood) then brother/sister then what about His Life, as He ministers
what was accomplished for us? How can He lose one, how can He fail?

75.	 It's not you and I say, "How can I do something or this or that?"
You and I can fail, but He cannot fail. You and I can lie, but He cannot
lie. You and I can wander, but He cannot wander. You and I can change,
but God cannot change. (See?) How wonderful to know the redemption that
is so perfect by the Blood of Jesus Christ and proved that He's living
that It's ours ministering to us. Oh my, there won't be one good Word of
His promise fail. There won't be one Elect that's going to miss the
Resurrection. There won't be one Elect that's going to be deceived.
There won't be one that's going to fall short. As Paul said, "Don't you
ever dare believe it you come too late to get the promise." Don't you
ever dare believe it's too late. It's only too late my brother my
sister, when the dead come out of the ground.

	But what's going to bring them out? That Bride you and I who have the
Word. Because Bro. Branham said, "This Message is going to bring them
out of the ground." Is he going to preach the Message to them? No sir,
that's not it, although it could be in the sense that he's up there with
some of them. Sure, but that' not it. I believe that Message is in the
Bride, and It's going to bring forth a Bride, because it's a Bride
Message.

76.	When God said, "Let there be light," there wasn't blackness, there
was light come forth. When God said, "Let there be wheat," it wasn't
oats, it was wheat. When God brought this Word here and proved it in
order to bring forth a Resurrection and a Rapture, I'm going to tell you
flat, there's going to be a Resurrection, there's going to be a Rapture.
There's going to be a Bride standing here who is going to walk into
immortality right to that Tree of Life. Because the cherubim are going
to be all gone. Going to walk over and in immortality what Adam could
not do. Remember, the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ does do
walking over to immortality. And that's right in this day my brother, my
sister and it's proven. Proven.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, are you going somewhere?" 

	"No, staying right here." 

	"Are you going to go back?" 

	"No, it’d be silly."

	"Going to look forward?"

	"No, I'm not looking forward, I got it right here. I want to look at
this, because this is going to do that."  (Uh?) 

	Didn't know Lee's a tool box and run to get a new tool box, stay with
the tools. The revealed Word. (Uh?) You follow me? Do you love the Lord?
Sure, we should love the Lord. 

77.	 Are you a friend of God tonight? Certainly. Who made you a friend?
Jesus made you a friend. I've been changed, I'm not an enemy, I'm a
friend of God. Get away from that nonsense we got the devil trying to
beat us down all the time and tell us lies, lies, lies, lies, lies. 

	God said, "You'll die if you do it!"

	He said, "You shall 'not' surely die."

	Now, God said, "You're a friend if you do."

	The devil said, "You're not a friend, you know how you lived." 

	Say, "Shut up devil, don't give me that nonsense you liar from hell.
I'm a friend of God." 

	Dare to say it. Certainly, you got to confess with your mouth about how
He died for, and what He's living for. I'm a friend of God. 

	Well let's put it this way, "Are you a friend of the world?" (Huh?) 
No? "Are you a friend of the devil?"  Then what's left? God!  I hate to
do this by elimination, but sometimes we just have to. Right? A friend
of God. Well I am a friend of God, and don't even bother modifying it.
"Well, there are better friends." No, there's no better friend. No,
there's no better friend than you and me, because it's the Blood. It'
the death. You mean to say He had a better death then this fellow over
here?  He didn't have a better death. He didn't have a better
resurrection. It's just that fellow believes it a whole lot more than
somebody else does. Sure, see? I am the Way, the Reality and Life of
that Truth. I am the Way, He was the Word.

78.	What is this here reality manifested, what is this? The living of
It. That Word Living. I believe It tonight. I'm a friend of His. He
said, "I'm not an enemy, no siree. No sir, I'm sometimes a disobedient
child, but I am not an enemy. No sir. Neither are you. We're friends of
God through Jesus Christ perfectly reconciled. Yes siree, God's not mad
at me, can never be mad at me, no siree. People say, "Well, God get
angry at you." God cannot get angry, "He's angry at the sinner all the
day long," [Psalms 7:11] He's not mad at me. He says, "I have
peace…through… Jesus Christ who justified me. And God cannot be
angry.

	You say, "God, you must be mad at me?"

	He said, "I'm not mad at you."

	Now, we correct our children in a wrath, but God never does. We need
correction, there's never a bit of wrath, He's never mad. Never, never,
never is God angry. How could He be an angry God if He cleans up the
fellow that won't obey Him to take Him away in a sweet death, so he's
going to make it? He's not an angry God, He's not mad at anybody. Not in
His Elect, no sir, He's perfectly at peace.

	"Well Lord, You cannot be happy by this son."

	"I'm very happy about you."

	 Because He's happy about the Blood. Happy about the Resurrection, He's
proved. You follow what we're dealing with tonight now? The message is,
is what Jesus did, what He accomplished by His Blood, and It was proven
in our midst that He's living and His High Priesthood of Melchisedec,
the heavenly calling all inspired of God proving what is wrought up in
His death, and His Resurrection He said, "Here it is, all you got to do
is believe." Why? Because it's the believer that has it all. "Not of
works, lest any man should boast." [Ephesians 2:9] So, now we can say
with Bro. Branham, "I see Bro. Branham, grace is what He's done, and
works, let me try to show a little appreciation, because I realize what
I am because of Him." 

79.	 You don't remember that one that Bro. Branham told about that
African slave that was over here and he was head and shoulders above the
rest, and he carried himself with such dignity and such calmness. And he
was such a real man amongst men, the fellow said, "I want to buy him."

	He said, "You're never going to get him from me."

"Oh, at least tell me the secret (he said) what makes him different? Is
it because you treat him different, or give him better food?"

	He said, "Nope." He said, "I'll tell you what, he used to make me kind
of worry too. I was very puzzled, but (he said) one day I found out that
back in his homeland he's a son of a king, and he's never forgotten it.
He's just…keeps that in mind and that's why he is that way."

	You know something? When you and I will really take into our minds and
put everything else out of minds, and say, "I refuse to hold any other
thought." Then that which is true, which is the Word of God,
brother/sister, It will transform us, because we're transformed, or
changed from caterpillars into butterflies by the renewing of the mind
which is the womb of the spirit.  

80.	That's why this age has one message, repent. And that's why the
prophet came with eye, to bring it to the mind. Right? Simple as ABC,
it's just so simple, it's just so simple. (See?) Thank God that He died.
"All to Him I owe, sin left a crimson stain, but He washed it as white
as snow." Guilty, guilty, guilty, blood upon my hand, death in my life,
but then Jesus washed it all away. And sealed it to me by the baptism
with the Holy Ghost. The eagle's cry came forth, reality looking up we
saw Him, and we saw nothing but a fountain of grace opened in our midst.
(See?) 

	No wonder Bro. Branham said, "In the Millennium when you hear a little
old crack voice singing somewhere out in the distant, (he said) 'Amazing
Grace' you'll say, Bro. Branham's made it, and I believe that's the
truth."  It's 'Only Believe', 'Amazing Grace', two of the greatest
songs. Why, it's singing, 'They Come From the East and West'. Well,
that's nothing compared to 'Only Believe' and 'Amazing Grace'. The only
reason they come from the east and west, is because they only believe by
amazing grace. Yes sir, yes sir, that's how it is. So, the Lord bless
you, shall we rise at this time.

 

	Dear heavenly Father, we've just been happy to be in Your Presence to
see these things, Lord, that are brought our mind by the Word of God to
see it's Jesus and Jesus only. To see the salvation is of God, all of
God. To see that it's true that "nothing in my hands I bring, it's
simply to Thy Cross I cling." To see that the Good Shepherd could lead
the ninety-nine that didn't want Him, that couldn't recognize His death
and Resurrection. And take the little old lost one out there, so He
could bend over and pick up and lay on His shoulder. Oh Lord, I know the
worse sin of a sinner coming in, that's what glorifies You. And here we
are, Lord, as children, only too willing to glorify you. We are sinners
saved by grace. We are undone, but now made real by You, Lord. And we
give you all the honor and the glory, say, "Nothing in our hand I bring,
simply to the Cross I cling. Rock of Ages, cleft for me, I'm going to
hide myself in Thee."	

	Yes, that's how it is tonight, Lord. There's nothing we're going to
talk about but You. There's nothing we're going to see but You. There's
nothing we're going to claim but You, Lord. Yes sir, nothing at all. And
then, Lord, if there's any way you can use it, it's still going to be
God in us, willing and doing of His good pleasure. Oh, Lord, we know
that. We know there's going to be a Bride here that knows the Word, and
knows what to do with It. But that's right, we know that, Lord.  It's
coming, there's no doubt, Lord, it's going to be here. There's going to
be a Bride of that caliber going to be taken away. By grace we count
ourselves a part of It, because we're beginning to see things that You
showed us here on earth.

	Simplicity is beginning to dawn, Lord, Light beginning to come in. And
we're not about, Lord, according to our faith in You at this hour and
Your love for us are we going to be taken side and fooled for one
minute. No sir, the Elect are not going to be deceived. They're going to
see as Jesus only Jesus.  They're going to keep seeing Melchisedec the
risen One ministering His Own Blood. We know that, Lord, and then It's
going to be You come back here on earth. That same Melchisedec in that
same human form to human people. Yes sir, to me it's in clouds of glory
to the Wedding Supper, and then You're going to say, "I'm Husband and
your Bride." Yes sir, yes sir, the transformation is going on. That's
right, going to some type of virginity to the real virginity which is
sealed in by the Word, and not one more little creed, or dogma is never
going to come in there. No sir, because the womb's been closed up and
now the Spirit of God working on it, is going to bring forth this virgin
Bride.

	I believe that, Lord, because the prophet said so. I know it's being
done, Lord. Yes sir, we know that's being done and we thank You for it
and we praise You and give You all the honor, and all the glory for this
great grace that's been bestowed upon us. Not, Lord, that we had our own
eyes opened, no siree, we've never seen these things by ourselves,
nothing for one minute. But You opened the eyes, you gave the eye-salve,
Lord. You anointed, and we saw ourselves poor, wretched, miserable,
blind and repented, Lord, and because You gave the repentance. Because
You gave insight, Lord. You gave that poultice to put upon our eyes.
You're clothing us, Lord. You're giving us the gold. You're giving us
all these things, Lord, and we want to thank You for it. And You're
giving it to us, Lord, because Jesus purchased them. And it wasn't…we
were nothing, but You gave it to us, Lord. And now we're going to stand
up and be counted. 

	Yes sir, and thank You for it, Lord, and honor Your great and Holy
Name. And we're not afraid to call a spade a spade, be called crazy and
muddled up and everything else. Lord, I know that it may cost us
tribulation, for us to keep on talking about God veiled behind a skin.
Talk about the things that we see, the seven horns, the seven eyes, the
seven spirits come right down here and messengers. To talk about an
angelic force coming down, counterparts of the men down here to use. See
them all come down as the Holy Spirit bringing an end time Word. Lord, I
know that people are going to call us crazy. Yes sir, that's fine by us.
That's find by us, Lord, because we know the truth. We know the truth,
Lord. Yes sir, we'll not be swayed.

	O God, just thank You for it, Lord, thank you for this moment in which
we live. This hour by visitation, that our eyes have beheld the glory of
Him, Lord, Who is the all together lovely One. And now following His
Voice, we don't look like a thing to the world, and care less, as long
as we look like the right thing to You, Lord.  As long as we look like
Bride to You. O hallelujah. Yes, Lord, we can hear our Father calling.
We can hear Him calling and we're going through the judgment of that
Word right tonight. We're standing with it, Lord. Why shouldn't we? Why
shouldn't we? That's the vindicated Word. What a privilege. How
wonderful in this day and this hour to stand with the vindicated Word.
Not somebody's ideas. Not somebody's thoughts, but the real vindicated
Word. And we praise You for It, Lord. May we ever be true to It. 

	God inspires us by such revelation, like Peter did, just died crucified
upside down. To be  glory, happy to go to Rome and die like Paul did,
Lord. O God, just to be counted worthy to share in the Resurrection,
because we see what's in Your death, and being counted as part of it.
Hallelujah, Lord.  Our Heavenly Father, we just praise You for that. We
just praise You for that. To Thine be the honor and glory, Lord, because
it is Yours. And You're worthy, worthy is the Lamb that opened the
Seals. Worthy is He that was slain, coming to open the Book in the last
day. O blessed Lamb of God. Blessed Lamb to have Holy Ghost come down
and testify to You. Just like John the Baptist did testify to You.

	Now, we've got the same thing, behold the Lamb of God. Behold Him our
Redemption. Lord, it's been wonderful, it's been wonderful. It's been
wonderful and it is wonderful, Lord. Yes, it's true, "we've come from
the east and west. We have come to dine in the Presence of the King, to
be seated in heavenly places, Lord.  O God, how joyful these pilgrims
are, how blessed they are. Beholding His hallowed face, aglow with love
divine, Blessed partakers of His grace. Yes, and one of these days like
gems in His crown to shine." 

	O Heavenly Father, how blessed. Lord, it's too much for words, it's too
much for emotions. It's enough to just stand back and wonder in the
Presence of Jesus the Nazarene. And just wonder how He could love us,
sinners condemned, unclean, but O how wonderful. We accept tonight, Lord
what You've done for us, Who You are, what You are for us. We accept,
Lord, exactly what Your Word said concerning all of this great grace,
and we thank You for it. And it certainly does bring us relaxing time
under the Seven Seals. It brings us to peace, Lord, because we're not
fighting with ourselves any longer. Nor fighting with You, nor fighting
with the devil. It's all over, it's settled by Jesus Christ the Lord and
we believe it.

	Yes, Lord, Yes, Lord, by grace every foe conquered by grace tonight,
faith in Jesus and by Him. And so, we thank You for it, Lord. And unto
the King eternal, immortal, the only wise God, be all power and honor
and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Amen.

i)	Now, let's just sing a little bit. What will we sing? I think a nice
song would be, "I Can Hear My Savior Calling."  And remember, Bro.
Branham said, "When you sing the part, "I'll go with Him through the
judgment, that is the Word of this hour."  I'll take the Word and I'm
standing in the judging Presence, showing…what is it?  I've been
judged righteous. To stand in His Presence through the Blood of Jesus
Christ.

	Oh my, oh the Blood that washed us, and the Resurrection ministry to
prove it. All right, let's sing it, "I can hear my Savior Calling."

	[congregation sings]

	Now you know, when Bro. Branham said, "That Rapture is in three parts.
It's the Shout, the Voice, and the Trump." He said, "Jesus does all
three in descending." Brother/sister, the sheep hear the Voice and thy
follow." And if we followed it in the first part, we'd have to be sheep.
So therefore, in the second part we've got to be in the Resurrection.
The third part, we've got to be in the Supper, because we have seen Him
as He is. We recognize it and we know Him, and remember, we know Him,
because we know Him after His might works which He did before He died,
and the disciples did not know Him according to His body. They didn't do
it when had said, "I'm going to meet you in a certain place, you come on
down there." 

j)	They just got there by accident, because they didn't go on their own
will. And then they're out there fishing and they saw Jesus and they
didn't recognize Him, and then He said, "Have you got any meat?" 

	They said, "No."

	He said, "Put you net on the other side." 

	And, how wide is the boat? As Dr. Price said.

	Well, they ought to do it, they somehow knew something should be done.
They put it in and they got all those big fish, a hundred and
fifty-three, the net began to break and they said, "That's the Lord."
See, they recognized Him by not what they could see, (as His physical
feature) but the recognized Him by what He did." And that's exactly what
was proven here in the prophet’s Message.

 	So, if He's done the first thing, (and we listen) He'll do the second
thing, He'll do the third thing, because the prophet said, "Thus it has
been written and thus it shall be." I believe it. You know the hardest
thing for me to do, where that night when I heard that Message on the
Rapture,   I sat there in Yuma, Arizona  and Bro. Branham said, "The
Message is the Shout, and Jesus does all three in descending." 

k)	I said, "Oh, oh, uh, uh, oh that's too much, that's too much. Oh,
that is too hard, how could he say it?"  Then like I suddenly said,
"Well, when has he ever been wrong?"  So, I said, "Hallelujah, the
Shout's the Message glory to God."  Nothing to It, from then on.  All
you've got to do is receive It. You don't have to fuss about these
things. Now, this fussing is driving us away from God, not to God. Quit
worrying! All you've got to do is like I said, "When has he ever been
wrong?" So, I say, "Hallelujah, the Shout's the Message."  From then on
It began opening up. I got the Greek out, got a hold of Hogg and Vine's
study I guess, (one of the only books around the country, I think
they're back in print now) I begin to seeing, it said, "The Lord Himself
will descend with a military command."

 	Oh my, the great Leader of the Host of Israel the Covenant Messenger,
our Leader, our Conquer, mighty King with a Shout descending, a military
command. And He said, "Get lined up, we're ready to go." And we'd been
having all those westerns, I remember years ago we'd look at TV, Wagon
Ho! Come on we're going to move out west. Yes sir. Everything points to
the fact we've heard the Shout the Word of God, get lined up, yes sir. I
tell you, I just don't know. It's just so simple. And you know, we're a
bunch of simpletons. The sheep, he's the most foolish of all. They tell
me one sheep leap in the fire, they all leap in the fire. He's so
foolish, take an old goat to lead him up to the place of the slaughter
and all. And it was a goat that led the Lord too. (See?) Sure.

l)	Now listen, I want to tell you that simplicity's there. Right! Now,
He said, "Take your calls." Well, I said, "Take His Word."  "Take My
Word and follow Me," and I'll go with Him. Are we with Him tonight?  Do
we see the Shout?  Has It been proven? Then let's keep on going. What's
the next step? The Resurrection. Well, take It when you get there.
Certainly, don't just try to dig out a grave and things. Oh, come on, oh
listen: No listen, Bro. Branham said, "The grave's opened."  

	Not like people going to open graves, say, "I think I'll dig him out."
You won't even see where the grave's open. Nobody is going to shovel
from beneath. No, no, no, some have already got to gasses in the
atmosphere, eaten by lions, completely decayed not even a bone. But God
takes that original, just brings it right back a brandnew body. See,
that's the theophonic body up there, is going to come on down and pick
up the physical body here. And you and I standing here, that old
theophonic body is going to slip right in. Oh my, that's going to feel
good. Yes sir!

m)	You know, I'm a funny kind of a guy. And my mother will tell you,
she's living, she thought I was really nuts I guess. But you know, I
could be all so tired and so kind of disappointed, and I said, "Do you
know Ma, I think the happiest day of my life and the best rest I'm going
to have is when I die, and whatever leaves me goes on, I'll suddenly
feel good. But you know I was wrong, I believe I'm wrong. I believe it's
going to when He comes in. I'll go ohh! Like a little wave we're off.

	I'm not telling you lies, I'm not trying to get you happy and all
enthused, I'm telling you the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
And there's no happier people than a free people. (See?) And what's a
free person. A free person is a man who has within his power to be
always right and do right. And we have that right now, and not ourselves
my brother, my sister, but In Jesus Christ the Lord. Why, isn't that
wonderful? 

	So, we've heard His Voice, we're hearing His Voice, we're going to hear
It all the way. You say, "When is it going to happen?" I'm going to tell
you flat, I believe in my heart any given ninety to a hundred and twenty
days will put us into a Marriage Supper. And I'm putting a limit on it
any given ninety.  You say, "Why?"   Well, I'll tell you why, because
Bro. Branham said, "The Resurrection will take a minimum of thirty
days." Now, what if It ran longer? 

n)	I know, but I say it easy, it's from the time that the world could go
into orbit, the financial system collapse, the whole thing any given
night to a hundred and twenty days could put us in there. And I'm just
saying that from the top of my head, because I feel…see certain
things. But like Bro. Branham said, "He could come a hundred years from
now. He could come twenty years, or what if tonight?"  Say, what if
tonight? (See?)  What if tonight? What if He should suddenly cut short
some things? Well, I don't know what He's going to do. But I know one
thing: what He started He's going to finish. And He came down and
witnessed, He witnessed closing like He did at the beginning. This time
to the Gentile friends, the Gentile age is finished.

	I don't care what anybody says, it's finished, it's finished, it's
gone. It's got to go back to Jerusalem. Got to go back to Israel. (See?)
And remember, already the world has turned on Israel, because Israel
doesn't have the oil, they got the paper. The Arab's got the oil, so
everybody says, "Phooey on Israel, forget it." Everybody's ready to take
tomahawk and put on a war bonnet, just go after Israel, so bong, bong,
bong. Yes sir, going to get rid of her. And see what can happen, just a
little bit of oil made the difference. Right?

o)	Aw yes brother/sister, never sell the Word of God short. Here we are,
right? We better just stay here, because it could happen right now. (Ha,
ha, ha) Well, it won't quite that way, because the dead got to come up.
(Right?) The Seventh Church Age got to come up. That's true, Bro.
Branham's got to come up with those that are with us, and then they'll
come and they'll be amongst us. What if that went on for several days?
That would be giving us what? Resurrection faith. (See?) Sure, because
they appeared. the appearance. Bro. Branham said, "When those disciples
saw those risen dead Abraham and Sarah, it gave them Resurrection
faith." (See?) Right, …?...

	We have faith in Melchisedec the High Priest we're beginning to see
what it's all about. And now, the next thing will be., we'll have to
enter right in to the very Resurrection He had. Yes sir, that's what It
said and let out, when those mighty signs and wonders came. And when
that Word was revealed the Spirit of wisdom and knowledge in the
revelation of Him came, It said It would be followed by the
Resurrection.

	What if Bro. Branham would appear tonight? Now, I would, I would…just
because I loved him, and he loved me and I worked with him doesn't mean
that he would come to see me. Ha, but it sure would be nice if he did.
[laughter] Yeah…I got a right to believe I'll see him. Yeah, I believe
I've got a right. I believe that you have a right too. Because if I saw
him and witnessed to you and could show you this what was here, when his
ministry and you believe it, you're just the same part I am. Because
we're all eating on the same Living Tree.

p)	So, here it is anytime at all. Oh my, I believe it's time to look up
and rejoice. I do, I believe that it's time to forget the crooked trails
and all these things going on, and just forget everything. But we have
seen Him whom we Love and we've heard His Voice, we hear His Voice, and
we know that we've got to be like Him to marry Him. Now, we've got to
have the same bodies, so we just press in now by faith to believe that
same body. The Word is coming in us, and in us, and It's just changing
us. (See?) It's a metamorphous going on. We're no longer, caterpillars.
(See?) I think the chrysalis is around us now. And that's breaking
the…that little crust off, (Bro. Branham said, "We're too crusty)
breaking that crust off and the butterfly comes right out. It's a
struggle. (See?) What's a struggle? To believe Him.

	As Bro. Branham said in prayer, "Prayer is not bombarding heaven to get
answers from God. Prayer is bringing yourself not changing His mind, but
it's letting Him change your mind to the Word. That's that struggle
going on. (See?) Putting the old mind under. Putting your old thoughts
away, breaking up. And what's going to happen? The butterfly is going to
come forth. And you know something?

q)	I want to tell you something, the butterfly is a pretty as a thing
can be. But before he's a butterfly he's just about as ugly thing that
ever lived. (Uh?) Sure, we're looking forward to that great thing. Why?
Because our Father was a butterfly. Fallen son caterpillars turned into
butterflies. Now, this is not imagination, this is nothing to make you
make you feel good and just whomp you up, I'm not in that mood, don't
worry. My mood is sober with the Word. Absolutely, because I've seen Him
risen amongst us, I know it.

	What was He risen to? Oh brother/sister, see that, you begin to lose
all track of things down here. Forget it, it's all over we're going home
to Jesus. I'm on my way home, my heavenly home. I'm on my way home to
the Savior, all trials are over. Yes sir. All the old candles are burned
out. Yep, it's coming into eternity, and that's wonderful.  All right,
now I'm…I see, what else we got here…ten o'clock, two hours to
go…[laughter] 

	Yes, how about singing, 'Blessed Assurance Jesus is Mine." 

  

 

 

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