Romans 8:35-39  

                                  'The Law of the Blessings of God'

Bro. Lee Vayle   -     February 6, 1982

 

	…The promise of this last hour, such grace Lord has always been in
Yourself, but not known in this way as it is at the end-time of grace,
Lord, to restore back to the Tree of Life, to immortality.  We’re
thankful, Lord, for what You’ve given us.  But above all, we’re
thankful for Your Presence here tonight.  For we know that in You, lie
all things, even to the very Millennium.  Eternal life and all those
things, Lord, abound, and we’re grateful for it tonight.  May we
realize as we never have before, may we be, Lord, more circumspect in
Thy Presence, than ever before, to be more conscious and sincere, in
Jesus name we pray.  Amen.  You may be seated.  

1.  	Now, I remember Bro. Branham used to say, “He had a few
scratching of notes.”  And I heard other preachers sort of copy him,
and whether he had a few scratchings or not, you had better believe that
I have.  And they could get me in trouble, because I didn’t really
perhaps think them all the way through; as much as I might have, in
order to condense the material, and make it a little more concrete, and
understandable.  However, I think we’ll be able to get something from
the message, ‘The Law of the Blessings of God’, I want to call it
that, whether that’s a good title or not.  The Law of the Blessings of
God.  And it’s my purpose to read quite a bit of Scripture, and I hope
that I don’t hope too sincerely, to comment less than normal,
because…my comments could be less than normal, if I could keep them
that way.  

	Because I think much of the Scripture will be quite obvious to us, as
to Its meaning and impact, when we get into this subject.  Now, we’re
going to read in Romans 8: that will be pretty well our Scripture, that
we’re going to look in, and then, take off from there.  And it begins
in the verse 35, 

		(35)	Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? (should)
tribulation,

                         or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword?

		(36)	As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we
are 						accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

		(37)	Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him
that

                        loved us.

		(38)      For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor 						principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor
things to come,

		(39)      Nor height, nor depth, nor any other (creation), shall be
able to separate 

                         us from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.

2.	Now, in the first part of verse 35 the question is asked, …or we
have the question asked us. "Who shall separate us from the love of
God?"  The question says 'who'.  It does not say 'what', but 'who'.  And
It says, who has the right or authority to cut us off from the love of
Christ, or to cut off the love of Christ, from us? Now, perhaps you
haven’t thought of it that way, but it might be good to think of it
that way tonight.  Who has the authority?  Who has the right?  Who has
the power, to cutoff even either us from the love of Christ, or, to
cutoff the love of Christ from us?

	

  	In other words; One: Who can isolate God from us, so He cannot get to
us?  Two:  Who can isolate us from God that we cannot get to God?  Now,
I suppose carnally thinking, we think in terms of a young boy and a
young girl in love, or supposed to be in love.  And how are you going to
keep them apart?  How are you going to keep her from him, and him from
her?  But we’re not dealing in the terms of a carnal love affair.  But
the spiritual marriage union of Christ and the Bride, even of Christ and
each member of the Bride, as in Ephesians 5:25-27. 

		(25)	Husbands, love your wives, …as Christ also loved the church,
and

                        gave himself for it;

	Now, who was going to stop Him giving Himself for the Church?  And
could the Church stop Him from giving Himself to the Church?     

		(26)     (To the end) That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the
washing 					of water by the word, 

		(27) 	That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not
having spot, 

                        or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it
should be holy and without

                        (blame).

 	Now the question rises, who is going to stop Him doing it?  And who is
going to stop Him from doing it to her?  You’re kind of buffaloed,
aren’t you?  Well, think it over.  Can anyone stop Him from doing it? 
And can anyone stop Him from having it done?  That’s why It says,
‘who’, not ‘what’.  Think of this when you think of
organizations, and churches. You’ve got to come through the holy Roman
Catholic church.  You’ve got to come through some denomination.  No
way.  

3.	No denomination can keep God from anybody.  It doesn’t matter what
anybody may try to do.  There is no way that you will destroy this which
God has purposed to do.  Nor can you even go to 1 Corinthians 5:1-8 with
which we’re all familiar. 

		(1) 	It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and 
					such fornication (this is very titillating) as is not so much as
named 					among the Gentiles, (you've got a new brand of syphilis here.
A 						new brand of a social pleasure, that even the filthiest of the
filthy 						didn't indulge in, man) should have his father's wife.  

		(2)	(But you're) puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that
hath 					done deed might be taken away from among you.

 

		(3)	For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have
judged already, 

                        as though I were present, concerning him, that
(have) done this deed.  

		(4)	In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when (you're) gathered
together, 					and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

		(5)	To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the
flesh, that the 

                        spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus
(Christ).

 	You know, …we’re all prudes.  We’re not pure, we’re just
prudes.  We’re very ‘judging'.  And we’re very vociferous, and
we’re very minded to pounce on people, to bounce them.  

 	Now, this fellow was a skunk.  He was a sheep in sheep’s clothing,
acting like a wolf, in wolf clothing.  (Yeah) He was a bounder.  And
there could be animosity and a multitude of feelings, and you say,
“Get rid of him.  Put him out.”  What if you do it?  Are you going
to keep God from him, and him from God?  To deliver such a one unto
Satan, to get that flesh under that the spirit might be saved.  

4.	You know, remember years ago, we had a church fight, and I learned
one thing in that fight.  Because it was over a person who wasn’t
supposed to be too exceptional, in conduct. And I will say that person
wasn’t too exceptional.  Yeah, I found out that they were no more
concerned about restoration than a dead dog.  They wanted to spill
blood.  So, I moved up from Independent Pentecost…(Phfft)… up to
that enough, to Baptist.  That’s much nicer.  So, they attempted to do
something about another woman in the church.  And I said, “Drop dead.
Because not one of you want restoration, you want blood.”  Shed your
own blood.  Do your own dirty work.  Don’t look to me, I was caught as
a sucker once.  Who shall separate us?  You think God didn’t get to
that bird?  Do you think he was ever away from God?  He was just taken
away from the sanctuary of the church, so that God could move.  So,
that’s why Bro. Branham seldom used the expression, ‘turning one
over to Satan,’ But turning one over to God.  

 	You mean to tell me that we have the authority as a church, to take
that person away from God, or God from that person?  Who shall separate
us?  Nobody’s got a chance to do it.  So, we saw verse 5, to deliver. 
Temporary necessity.  To get rid of this thing that was destroying this
man.  Wasn’t destroying the church, it was giving the church a bad
name.  It was hurting the poor fellow.  Messing things up, bad light. 
But the reason was not to make the church look good, although that’s
fine.  But was eventually to bring him in to greater grace of God, than
there ever was before.  Because he’d be a cleaner, finer person.  Who
shall separate us?  Who’s got the authority to keep God from me, and
to keep me from God?  There is no way can be done.  

5.	Now, let’s go back to Romans [8:] again.  Notice, 35 and 36 .

		(35)	Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation,
 						distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or sword?

		(36) 	As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long;
we are 						accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

	And with it, we compare 38 and 39.  

		(38)	For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,  		
				principalities, powers, things present, things to come,

		(39) 	Nor height, nor depth, nor any other (creation), shall be able
to 						separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

 	Now, here we see that neither that which is created by God, for in
verse 39, It speaks of creation.  No creation.  Now, let me repeat. 
Here we see that neither that which is created by God, as verse 39
speaks of creation, nor the circumstance, or conditions that arise, from
or through these creations of God, can keep me from God, or keep God
from me.  There’s nothing that God has made, then can keep God from
us, or us from God.  None of these creations, can in any way evolve or
manipulate.  Or do anything that can keep God from me, and keep me from
God.  

6.	Now these verses 35-39 which we read, is what verses 28-34 is all
about.  

		(28)	(For) we know that all things work together for good to them that
love

                        God, …

	Now It tells you right there, contrariwise to even the adult mind,
thinking in terms of angels, particularly Satan and fallen angels, and
diabolical tyrants and authorities, which have risen up as creations of
God.  Or even that which they can perpetrate and do.  I say contrary to
adult minds thinking this way, that that has anything to do with the
relationship to God, it’s a million miles from it. For it cannot keep
God from us, nor us from God.  We know that in the economy, all things
must work together.  Both that which is created, and that which springs
from creation.  

		(28)	…(For) them who are the called according to his purpose.  

		(29)	 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
conformed 

                         to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many

                         brethren.

7.	So, there is nothing that is going to hinder the plan of God.  This
helps you to understand why Bro. Branham could speak of those preachers
that got into sin, and drank liquor.  And he was going to see them over
there in the Promised Land.  His own brother who disobeyed God,  and God
finally took him away.  He’s going to see him.  And he could speak
with assurance about people that you and I could not speak with
assurance.  And he could say those things which you and I would feel we
had to condemn in a person.  And he would say, “Back off. Just back
off.”  Because you see, you and I are looking at those things that we
think can stop God, or stop us.  And there’s no way.  Because He had a
plan to have many sons in the image of ‘The Son’.  He would be the
first born.  First born always means first fruit, and many more just
like him.  

		(30) 	More over whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and
whom

                        he called, he justified: whom he justified, them
he also glorified.

		(31) 	What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who
can be 

                        against us?

		(32)	 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all,
how

                         shall he not with him also freely give us all
things?

		(33) 	Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God
that 

                         justifieth.

		(34) 	Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather,
that is 

                        risen again, who is even at the right hand of
God, who also maketh

                        intercession… 

	That’s why I said, ‘who’ shall separate us from the love of
Christ?  All these ‘who’s’ up here.  These who’s, as Dr.
Waite's(?) translation says, “Who dares arraign me in God’s
court?”  God says I’m righteous.  You say, “Well, … I’m
guilty, I sure don’t like the way that fellow conducts himself.” 
Scripture says, “Who art thou oh man (to judge) another man’s
servant? Unto his own master he standeth or falleth.  Yea, … for God
is able to make him stand.” [Rom 14:4] The righteous fall seven times
in one day, God lifts him up.  Who is he that condemns me to death? 
Now, if anyone is going to do it.  The only man who stood the test, and
could pass the sentence was Jesus Christ.  But, It says He died.  

 	Now, I realize that death…you think of Calvary.  And so you should. 
But that’s not really it here.  The fact is, it isn’t so much how
and where he died, at this point.  The point is this: He died, that you
and I don’t have to die.  This is the law of double jeopardy.  If He
died, condemned, or died for condemnation, there is no way that you and
I can be condemned. See, this is what this 35-39 is all about.  

8.	Now, to understand this very clearly, we go back to Genesis 1:24-31.

		(24)	And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature(s)
after his

                        kind, cattle, and creeping thing(s), (upon) the
earth …(and so on)

	And in 26; the highest order.

                        

		(26) 	And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and

                        (everything) that creepeth upon) the earth, …

		(30)	… (when I’ve given) life, I have (also given every) green
herb for

                        meat: and it was so. 

 

	Now, listen.

				

		(31) 	And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was
very

                        good, (not just good, it was perfectly good.  It
was very good.) …

                        the evening and the morning were the [sixth]
day.

	Then we read over here in, 

	Genesis 2:1-9

		(1)	… the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
them.

		(2)        … the seventh day God ended his work … he rested on the
seventh day

                         from all … he had made.

		(3)	 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: (put his seal
on it) 

                         because that in it he had rested from all his
work which God created

                         and made.

		(4) 	These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when
they 

                        were created, in the day that the LORD God made
the earth and the 

                        heavens,

		(5) 	…every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every
herb 

                        of the field before it grew: for the LORD God
had not caused it to rain

                        upon the earth, and there was not a man to till
the ground.

		(6)       But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the
whole face of

                        the (earth).

		(7)       And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed

                        into his nostrils the breath of life; man became
a living soul.

		(8) 	And the LORD God planted a garden … in Eden; and there he put
the man 

                         whom he had formed.

		(9)	 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that

                         is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;
the tree of life also in the

                         midst of the garden, and the tree of (the)
knowledge of good and evil.

9.	All right.  Notice what I read.  In that garden, was the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.  How does that line up with verse 31 of
chapter 1? 

 		 (31) 	And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was
very

                        good, …

	See, a lot of people think that that tree was evil.  That tree was
dirty.  That tree was wicked. I don’t remember Bro. Branham saying
that that tree was shoved in there afterwards.  I don’t see any
Scripture for it.  You say, “Well, how does that line up then with
verse 31b. “Everything was good?”  Well I don’t know any way to
line it up, other than taking you to Romans 14: and then into Titus, and
reading what It says over there as if you might get a picture. 

	Romans 14:20 (the middle part)

		(20)	... All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who
eateth

                        with offence.

	All things indeed are pure.  In other words, there wasn’t one thing
that God made, that wasn’t pure within itself.  That wasn’t all
right within itself.  

10.	Let’s go to Titus 1:15

		(15)	Unto the pure all things are pure: but (notice) unto them that
are defiled

                        and unbelieving is nothing pure; …

  	Now, there never was, and never will be anything wrong with true seed
of creation, that God created.  Bro. Branham took us back to those
originals.  He said, “They never change, they’re right.”  But what
is wrong is what is done with what is there that is pure within itself,
to begin with.  

11.	So, let’s go back to,  Genesis 3:1-7

		(1)	Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field…				
	(Though God made him, and He made him very good) And he said 					unto
the woman, Yea, hath God said, (You) shall not eat of every 						tree
of the garden? (Nothing wrong with the trees,we’ll show you 					
later on.)

		(2)	…the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the

                        trees of the garden:

		(3)       But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the
garden, God

                        hath said, (You) shall not eat of it, neither
touch it, lest ye die.

		(4)       (And he said), (You'll) not surely die: (Now here comes
what’s wrong.

                       ( See?)  

		(5)       For God doth know in the day (of your eyes shall be opened,
and 						(you'll) be as gods, knowing good and evil.

		(6)	…the woman saw that the tree was good for food,  pleasant to the
						eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,  (Notice,
pleasant, 						desirous,) …took of the fruit thereof, gave (to) her
husband …

		(7)        …the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that
they

                         were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together,
and made 							themselves aprons.

	See?  Now, watch carefully again, 

12.  Genesis 1:31

	(31)	And God saw every thing … was (good, very) very good…

        Now this time, we’re going to take that against Genesis
3:17-19.

	(17)	And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the

                        voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree,
of which I commanded

                        thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed
is the ground for thy

                        sake; in sorrow … eat … all the days of thy
life;

	(18) 	Thorns also and thistles (will) bring forth…thou shalt eat the
herb 					of the field;

	(19) 	In the sweat of thy face (you’ll) eat bread, till (you) return
unto 

                        the ground; for out of it (you were) taken: for
dust thou art, and unto

                        dust (you will) return.

13.  Now, if you want to know more about what we have here, which we
read in Genesis 9: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was there.
God having pronounced everything to be good, you go to, Deuteronomy
1:39.

	(39)	More over your little ones, (this is in the Exodus) which (you)
said 

                        should be a prey, and your children, which in
that day had no 

                        knowledge between good and evil, they shall go
in thither, …

      So, you can see what we’re talking about.  It wasn’t what God
created, that was wrong. It was what was done with what was there, that
became wrong. (See?) 

14.  So, with this is mind perhaps we can see more of what we’re
talking about in Romans 8:           35-39.

	(35)	Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?...

      Now, that’s the question.  Who can do it?  Who can keep me from
Him and Him from me?  Now, It mentions not just creation, but arises out
of that creation.  Tribulation arose out of it. It wasn’t meant to. 
The land was supposed to give forth its food.  The fish and all the
animals were to be in obedience.  There was to be a harmony.  But
because they did something that was not supposed to be done, with that
which was perfected, right within Himself, then, nature was thrown into
a chaos.  Now, watch what comes out: 

	(39)	 … tribulation, … distress,  persecution, …famine,
…nakedness, 					… peril, … sword.

     How any of you were sitting here tonight because of sins of your
parents, you’ve got bad eye sight. You’ve got nerves that are
driving you crazy, like William Branham.  A drunken father.  (See?) How
many of you have got tempers you can’t cope with, from something you
inherited? I’m talking about conditions that have risen in nature. 
Then of course, from the preacher on down to aunt Sally…she’s the
biggest foghorn under God’s high heaven, they ought to get rid of her
horn …you’re condemned.  You not only condemn yourself, but
everybody else condemns you.  And of course, there’s always the
thought, your sins are separated between you and God, and everything
under high heaven.   

15.  Just keep reading.  

	(39)	…famine, nakedness, peril, or sword?

 	(36)	 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long;
…

	(37)	 (No), … we are more than conquerors … 

	(38)	 For I (have a persuasion), …neither death, nor life, angels, 

		 principalities, powers, things present, things to come,

	(39)	 …height, nor depth, nor any(thing can) separate (me) from the 	
			love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

      Well somebody says, “Yeah, but you see, those things in there
are something that somebody else is doing.  Whereas you’re supposed to
be, in a peculiar position of absolute righteousness and judgement, and
faultlessness, and so on.”  Well, here we go again. 

16.  Let’s go back to Genesis 3: again.  And in verse 19,

	(19)	In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return
unto

                        the ground; for out of it (was) thou taken: …
dust thou art, and (to)

                        dust shalt thou return.

      Now, then just rip the rest of your Bible out.  But I’d advise
you to keep on reading from verse 21.  

	(21)	Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of

                        skins, and clothed them.

     Who was it that sinned?  Well, it wasn’t the cows down there in
the pasture.  It wasn’t the hummingbird flittering from flower to
flower.  It wasn’t the bees, it was Adam and Eve. (See?)  

      Now, Adam is credited with bringing every single sin into this
universe.  Now, Bro.  Branham went back, and he saw how the woman was
used.  Because it wasn’t becoming for God to have a son of God that
would fall.  So, He took a by-product who would initiate the fall.  But
that doesn’t mean you can find any Scripture that holds a man
guiltless, the man, is still blamed.  “For as in Adam all die, even so
are all in Christ made alive.”  [1 Cor 15:22] It doesn’t matter if
she did the initiating, on the grounds that she brought death to every
single one. And that is true, that is exactly what happened.  He was
brought into it.  

17. But notice: God made them coats of skin, He gave them a blood
sacrifice, and He clothed them.  Now,

	(22)	 …the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us,

                         to know good and evil: …

     Certainly, when he was there in that pristine beauty of …not
righteousness, but innocence, and he was being manifested as a son of
God, while God took the animals, and led them all by, and was giving him
a knowledge that only God could impart to him.  (See?) That’s why I
said before, there’s no such thing as ecologically, finding a balance
in nature again.  They’ll never, never, get it.  Because man never
stood still long enough, for the brain and fount of all knowledge
concerning ecology, to keep this world running right.  He got as far as
the animals.  That’s as far as he went.  

18.  He didn’t name any birds as far as I know.  He didn’t name any
insects, he didn’t name any plants.  He didn’t know the working
between the two of them.  And as one man says, “Man cannot solve
problems, all he can do is create them.”  Now, here’s Adam.  He's
botched everything up under high heaven.  Now, he has within his power
to take that which is absolutely right in creation, and begin to bend
and turn it around.  Which he started doing by wrong multiplication. 
Because God wanted man to supply the spirit, while God supplied the
bodies.  So, since man supplies the bodies, God has to supply the
spirit, but He’s going to bring them out of the ground. (See?) He’s
still going to have His own way of doing it. (See?) God worked it out. 

     But what I’m trying to show you here is: He said, “Alright now,
this man has come to the place where he has departed from the living
revelation of the living Word.  It’ll bring forth death every time. 
He began right here.  He couldn’t stand still for God to reveal.
(See?) That’s what’s wrong right today, where people are going to
miss the First Resurrection.  They can’t stand still for It.  They
can’t do it.  And you’re going to see more and more people fall away
too.  They’re going to go back to Pentecost pretty soon.  More than
ever.  

19. Now, He says here, “He has become as one of us.” [Gen 3:22]
(See?) He handles things, but he doesn’t handle things right.  It’s
only God, can handle things right.  But man stepped into it.  Now He
said, “He’s put forth, his hand, and if he takes and eats of the
Tree of Life and live forever, he’s going to keep botching up, and
botching up, and botching up. So, I’m making it, so that there’s
going to be a stop to it one day.  

     Now notice, what had happened here. I don’t care how you paint
this, there was nothing that could separate God from Adam.  Because God
came right down and dealt with Adam.  And there was nothing that could
stop Adam from getting to God.  Now, let’s put it this way. Adam hid
himself in the bushes.  And he said, “I’m going to stop God getting
to me.”  God got to him.  Now he says, “I’m going to…I don’t
know how this thing is going to work out” he said.  “I’m in a trap
here.” So, what did God do?   God got Adam to Him, by putting a blood
sacrifice there.  (See?)  So, there was no way you could change this.  

20.  All right.  Watch what happens in, Genesis 3:22-23. [correction]

	(22)	… Behold, the man is become as one of us, … 

     Now, we have got to stop him from taking, and living this way for
ever.  

	(23) 	There fore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden,

                        to till the ground from whence he was taken.

      Now notice, God kicked him out of Eden. (See?) And it’s in Eden
where there’s immortality.  Because He put a cherub in there, to stop
him getting to the Tree of Life.  He’d already got to the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil.  He’d already gone off on his own. 
That’s exactly what it means.  He was already using that which was
good and right, and using it wrong.  So, God said, “I’m going to put
a stop to it.  I’m not going to let him get there at this time, there
is no way.”  

21. Now watch what happens.  We go over here to Galatians 3: read in
verses 13 and 14.

	(13)	Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a

                        curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every
one that hangeth on 

                        a tree:

	(14) 	That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through

                        Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise
of the Spirit through

                        faith.

	

     All right.  Now this is instituted to cover what happened back
there in the Garden.  And it was done by Jesus Christ.  

22.  Now, who is Jesus Christ?  Let’s go and find out.  John 1:

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

                         Word was God.

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

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

                         made that was made.

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

	(5)	 And the light (shines) in darkness; and the darkness (comprehends)

		 it not.

     In verse 14.

	(14)	And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld 

                        his glory, the glory as (it were) the only
begotten of the Father,) full

                        of grace and truth.

     Now, that’s who this One is, but we don’t stop there.  

23.  We go back to the Book of Revelation.  And in chapter 3, verse, the
final revelation of Him who has Appeared amongst us, in this hour.    

	(14)	…(Thus) saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the

                        beginning of the creation of God;

     That’s who He is.  And what does He say, in verse 20-21.

	(20)	Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: (that’s the beginning of

                        The creation of God. I'm am standing at the door
knocking and if

                        you’ll) open the door, I will come in…and
sup with (you),and (you) 				with me.

       Now, listen:  Adam couldn’t do that, lest he eat of the Tree of
Life and live forever.  No way!  Now at the end-time, the beginning of
the creation of God, God creating Himself, in the form of human flesh. 
(See?) God starting, all started back there.  Now, that same One is
here, and He stands at the door.  And He says, 

	(21)	To him that overcometh (I will) grant to sit with me in my throne,


                        as (I'm overcome,) and (now) set down with my
(Father’s)…throne.

24.  All right.  Let’s go further, Revelation 22:13-14

	(13)	I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and 

                        the last.

	(14)     Blessed are they that (wash their robes), that they may have
(the)                    			right to the tree of life, and may enter in
through the gates into the 					city.

     (See?)  Now, you can see that God creating Himself in the form of
human flesh, takes upon Himself, all the responsibility for both
creation, and what creation was wrongly turned to. That’s right.  Now,
that’s what Paul said.  He said, “Who can separate me? What can
separate?”  Neither the 'who' nor the 'what', has anything to do with
it.  No way.  Can anything stop God from getting to you, and you getting
to God, in a holy union of this hour, unto immortality?  

25.  Now watch:  Back again to, Romans 8:35-39.

	(35)	Who shall separate us…

     Then, can that which comes from the ‘who’ do it?  No way. 
Nothing created, nothing that comes from creation, No way, shape or
form.  Now, that is as I said, Romans 8: 28-34.  And remember, 33-34

	(33)	Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God

                         that justifieth.

	(34) 	Who is he that is risen (it is Christ, God in human flesh, that
died. He

                         rather, risen now ) …at the right hand of
God, …

     All right.  What do we see here?  We see this is God standing for
His creation, and verse 32. 

	(32)	He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all,

                        how shall he not with him also freely give us
all things?

     This is God standing for all restoration, because of the fall.  You
see first of all, God standing for His creation, of which He is the
beginning of the creation in human flesh.  God standing for, and with
it, God standing for restoration, which is necessary because of the
fall.  Now, watch   28-34…and I won’t read It again.  "We know all
things work together for good."  And this tells you His great purpose.  

26.  Now, this is based upon, Romans 8:18-23  

	(18)	For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy

                        to be compared with the glory which shall be
revealed in us.

	(19)     For the earnest expectation of (creation waits) for the
manifestation

                       of the sons of God.

	(20) 	For … (creation) was made subject to vanity, (that’s
uselessness, not 

                        fulfilling its original purpose. See? Nor was
man, did man do it.) not 				willingly,  but by reason of him who hath
subjected the same in hope,

     In other words, he says here, God was in this whole plan.  And at
the end time He will restore to originality, exactly what His purpose
and plan was.  Now, He said;

	(21)     Because the (creation) itself also shall be delivered from the
bondage

                        of corruption into the … liberty of the (glory
of the) children of God.

   	Now, he tells you that flat. (See?) "Who shall separate us?" 
Nothing, no way.  No individuals.  No power, no authority.  Nothing
coming up in anybody’s life or your own life is going to literally
cause you a separation.  It cannot be done.  Now,

	(21)	… the (creation) itself shall be delivered from the bondage …

	(22)     For we know that the whole creation (groans) and (travails) in
pain 

                        … until now.

	(23)     And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the
first-fruits of

                        the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within
ourselves, waiting for the

                        adoption, to wit, the redemption of (the) body.

     And this is the thing that bugs everybody.  They can’t understand
that what has transpired, is the first-fruit has occurred to you, which
means that you are waiting to be like Christ.  Now, I know that people
look at everything under high heaven.  But the thing…but that, they
don’t realize that until you get there, you are fallible, and you are
literally open to everything anybody can do to you and with you,
yourself included.  You’re not a hundred percent a pawn of the devil. 
That is true.  But, there is no perfection this side of the
Resurrection.  Let’s get that flat.  It’s in the Resurrection it’s
coming. Now, all right.  Our subject was, ‘The Law of the Blessing of
God.’  That’s what we’re looking at, in all this we’re talking
about, a sort of preamble.  In that law, we saw One: Good.  In that law,
we saw Two: Evil.  In that law, we saw number Three: Return to good.   

27.  All right.  We saw in Genesis, right to the Tree of Good and Evil,
He said to the man: 

	“You shall not eat of it.  Cursed is the ground for thy sake.  In
sorrow, you’ll eat 			of the ground all the days of your life.  Thorns
and thistles, it’ll bring forth. Neither 		herb of the field.  The
sweat of your face, you shall eat bread. Until you return to 		the
ground.  For out of it you were taken, for dust you are, and to dust you
shall 	return.”  

But we saw, Genesis 3:21 

	(21)	Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD … make coats of

                        skins, and clothed them.

     Now, Bro. Branham, the prophet said, “This whole plan of God, was
revelation, pre-eminence, and restoration.”  That was 'Christ the
Mystery of God [Revealed'] It was a plan where all the attributes of God
were made known.  It was a plan of redemption.  Now, that’s what
we’re talking about here.  That’s what Paul was talking about. 
He’s talking about redemption.  He’s talking about getting right
back from that fall.  And he says there is nothing going to stop it. 
There is no way it’s going to be circumvented.  You see?  No matter
what comes against the Church.  Against His Bride.  There is that faith
there. That though they are given as sheep to the slaughter. And if they
come to the place of being slain, as Job said, “Though He slay me, yet
will I trust Him.”  

He said, “Those skin worms eat this flesh of mine.  They eat this body
up. Yet, in my flesh I’m going to see God.”    

28. This is the Exodus…the verse I wanted has to do with God dealing
with Moses in the Exodus, concerning the fact…(and I really only need
one verse)…where he says, “Show me Thy glory.” [Ex 33:18] And He
said in there that, “I will have mercy, I will show you My glory, and
I will have mercy.  And I will have mercy, upon them, to whom I will
have mercy.” [Ex33:19] And I only wanted to read It to take you over
to Romans 9: where Paul uses the very same understanding, because,
we’re in the Book of Romans.  Beginning at verse 9.

	(9)	… this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and

                        Sara shall have a son. 

	(10)	And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one,

                        even (her) father Isaac;

	(11) 	(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any
good

		 or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand,

		 not of works, but of him that calleth;)

	(12)	It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

	(13) 	As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

	(14) 	What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God?

		 God forbid.

	(15) 	For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have
mercy,

	            and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

	(16)	So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth,
but of 

                        God that sheweth mercy.

	(17)	For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose

                        have I raised thee up, that I might shew my
power in thee, and that

                        my name might be declared throughout all the
earth.

	(18)	 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom 

		he will he hardeneth.

	(19)	Thou wilt say then (to) me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who

                        hath resisted his will?

	(20)	 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the

		 thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

	(21) 	Hath not the potter power over the clay, the same lump to make

                        one vessel unto honour, and another unto
dishonour?

	(22)	What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power
known,

                        endured with much longsuffering the vessels of
wrath fitted to destruction:

	(23) 	…that he might make known the riches of his glory on the
vessels

                        of mercy, (that) he had afore prepared unto
glory,

     And then Romans 8:28

	(28)	(For) we know that all things work together for good to them that
love

                        God, … 

29.  Now listen, the emphasis has invariably been put upon them that
love God.  But that isn’t true.  The emphasis is upon those that are
called according to His purpose, are the only ones that love God. 
Because the others don’t actually have the necessity to love Almighty
God, because they have not been compassionated.  

      Now, this as I said is the plan of redemption, that we were
looking at.  In the plan of redemption, wherein God has mercy on those
that He will have mercy upon.  And He is going to see them through, so
that nothing is going to stop them from being seen through.  

30.  Now, I’m using lots of Old Testament Scripture here.  So, I’m
going back to Deuteronomy 11: now.  Now, we’re talking about this law
of the blessing of Almighty God.  Now, this law of blessing, you can see
He blesses whom He will.  He takes, and brings in whom He will.  It’s
all of Almighty God, there’s nothing going to stop Him getting to His
sheep.  And there’s nothing going to stop the sheep getting to Him. 
And there’s nothing going to separate them. There is no way under any
shape or form, it’s something like one person said, “God will pull
you through if you can stand the pull.”  Now, that’s a little bit of
the vernacular, that’s not really true.  Even if you could stand the
pull, it doesn’t mean that at all really, it’s just a little of the
vernacular.  

    Okay. Deuteronomy 11:26-29

	(26)	Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;

	(27) 	A blessing, if (you) obey the commandments of the LORD your 				
God, which I command you this day:

	(28) 	And a curse, if (you) will not obey the commandments of the LORD

	            your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you
this 

                        day, to go after other gods, which (you) have
not known.

	(29) 	(It’ll) come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee

		in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt

	            put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon
mount 					Ebal.

	

      Now, I hope you’re beginning… you'll  see what I’m talking
about.     

	(30)	Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun 		
		(goes) down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the 				
champaign over against Gilgal, (towards) the plains of Moreh?

	(31)     For ye shall pass over Jordan (and) go in to possess the land
which 					the LORD your God (gives) you, and (you’ll) possess it, and
dwell 					therein.

31.  Now, Deuteronomy 27:9-14. We’re still on the proper
subject…don’t worry I’m going to get it for you.  

	(9)	And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel,
saying, 

                        Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou
art become the people

                        of the LORD thy God

	(10) 	(And) Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God,
and 				do his commandments and his statutes, (as) I command thee this
day.

	(11) 	And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

	(12) 	These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when
(you) 				are come over Jordan; Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar,
Joseph,   				Benjamin:

	(13) 	And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad,
Asher, 				Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

	(14) 	…the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel
with

                        a loud voice.

	(15)	Cursed be the man … (and so on)

      Then He lines up a whole lot of curses in there.  Now, that’s
Mount Ebal.  Now, just opposite, is Mount Gerizim.  [Deuteronomy] 28:

	(1)	(It'll) come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the

                        voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do
all his

                        commandments which I command thee this day, that
the LORD 

                        thy God will set thee on high above all nations
of the earth:

	(2) 	And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if

                        thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD
thy God. (And so on.)

      Now, right on down there are many, many blessings that are
outlined there.  

32.  All right.  Then see how God deals with His own, in taking us over
to Numbers. Now, just keep your fingers crossed, and we’ll just see
what we can do with all these Scriptures.  All right.  23:5-12.

	(5)	And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return

                        unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

	(6)       And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt
sacrifice,

                        he, and all the princes of Moab.

	(7) 	And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath

                       brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the
east, saying, 

                       Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.

	(8)      How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? how shall I defy,


                       whom the LORD hath not defied?

	(9)      For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I
behold

                       him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall
not be reckoned

                       among the nations.

	(10)    Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth

                       part of Israel? Let me die the death of the
righteous, and let my 

                      … end be like his!

     He never got there.  Never made it.  Jacob made it, but, this guy
never made it.   

	(11)    And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I
(told)

                       thee to curse mine enemies, and, (lo) thou hast
blessed them

                       altogether.

     So, here we see the law of God’s blessing.  What I’m trying to
drive to your attention.  

33.  Let’s go back again to Genesis 1:28-31

	(28)	And God blessed them, and God said … Be fruitful, and multiply,

                        and replenish the earth, and subdue it: have
dominion over the

                        fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, and over
every living thing 					that moveth upon the earth.

	(29) 	And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,

                        which is upon the face of all the earth, and
every tree, in the which 

                        is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it
shall be for (food).

	(30) 	…every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to

                        every thing that (creeps) upon the earth, (that
has life, (I've) given 					every green herb for meat: and it was so.

	(31) 	And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was 

                        very good. And the evening and the morning were
the sixth day.

25. And the next three verses.  He sanctified it, and He blessed what He
had made, He said, “That is all wonderful.” 

34.  Now, what is this?  We’re going to go back to Revelation 22:1-7
…now I’m talking fast, and I hope you’re putting this together. 
(See?) I’ll help you a little bit… 

	(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, (bearing) twelve manner
of fruits, …yielding

                        them every month: the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the

                        nations.

	(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:

	(4) 	And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their
foreheads.

	(5) 	And there shall be no night there; and (there’ll be no need of)
candle, 

                        Neither light of the sun; for the Lord God
(gives) them light: and 

                        they shall reign for ever and ever. (See?)

       Now, what we’re seeing here is the New Jerusalem.  

	(6)       (These things He said are) true: and (they are going to come
to pass.)…

     Now, what I’m trying to get your attention is this, for every
Mount Ebal of trial, and pain and sorrow in every life, there is a Mount
Gerizim of blessing.  One does not exist without the other.  They
co-exist.  Now, we took it right from Genesis, there is blessing.  God
made everything good.  There isn’t anything wrong with anything per
se. It’s what was done with it, that set nature against nature.  Now,
God has guaranteed that it’s all going to go back to original.  And
it’s going to be better than ever.  And everything that you see in
Scripture, you see runs in a parallel.  Blessing, curse.  Curse,
blessing.  Every time it runs in a parallel.  There’s nothing that
doesn’t run in a parallel.  Jesus died, He rose, He suffered. He
brings about righteousness.  

35. There is nothing that you can look at, but there’s two sides in
every coin.  And I’m looking at Mount Ebal which is evil, and I’m
looking at Gerizim which is blessing.  What I’m trying to show you
tonight, that there is a law.  And that law is this: that these two run
parallel.  The good and the evil, the true and the false, the righteous
and the unrighteous.  Trials, all these things run in a parallel.  But
when all the Mount Ebal's are cast into the sea, the Mount Gerizim's are
going to be going on.  (See?) Because there is nothing that is going to
separate God from us, nd there is nothing that is going to separate us
from God.  There has to be an indissoluble coming together.  And that
indissoluble coming together means, all right, he said, ‘let the world
rise against me.’ 

      He said, “Look, let them kill us even.  We’re going to die
anyway."  He said, “If they’re going to kill us, they’ll kill
us.”  He said, “We’re counted as sheep from the slaughter.”  He
said, “Go ahead, count us the sheep for the slaughter.  Bless God,
we’re sheep.”   We’re not cows, we’re not pigs.  (See?) The two
always run parallel. Now, so there’s a lesson here tonight. God has a
law of blessing superior to any circumstance.  God has a law of
restoration, that’s coming to pass in this very hour.  And people
don’t even know it.  

36.  Over here in 1 Corinthians 15:  and I keep reading It to you.  

	(20)	But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits

                        of them that slept.

	(21)	For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection

                        of the dead.

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

	(23) 	But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits;
afterward

                        they that are Christ's at his (Presence).  

      Now, here’s the thing:  He is present, but you try and convince
anybody that He is here. You see His wonder working power, where Bro.
Branham said, “Where are the gates of hells tonight?”  Why he said,
“It’s not against denomination. It’s not even against divine
healing.  It’s not even against Acts 2:4. It’s not against Acts 28:
No way is it against that.  It’s not against any of those things. 
It’s against this one thing, that He’s here.  And He’s the same
yesterday, today, and forever.” (See?)  

37.  Now, the question comes up:  What is accompanying this?  Everything
under high heaven, that the devil can throw at us, is accompanying it. 
(See?)  But listen now, …they that are Christ’s at His Presence, the
Resurrection.  Now listen, with Him here tonight, there is going to be a
Resurrection.

     There is nobody going to stop It.  Why?  Because, He is here.  He
has come to us, and we have not gone elsewhere. This is uniting time
through the Word of Almighty God, where He came to us, and we came to
Him.  

     You just hold your finger there, and I’ll show it to you.  It’s
in 2 Thessalonians [2:1]

	(1)	Now we beseech you, brethren, by the (Presence) of our Lord Jesus 

                        Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

     There is a gathering. (See?)  

38.  Now listen.  That gathering my brother, my sister, comes under,
Romans 9:

	(16)	(That)…it is not of him that…runneth, (or him that willeth),
but of 

                        God that sheweth mercy.

     Which was written on the way to Promised Land, where he said,
“Show me Thy glory.” And He said, “I will show you My glory. But I
want you to know one thing: I will have mercy and compassion on whom I
will have mercy, and I’ve got it on you, because I’m going to let
you stand right in My Presence and live.”  At that same time, there
was a guarantee of two mountains.  Blessing and cursing.  And parallel
Scripture, the Bible is full of it, curse, curse, curse, blessing,
blessing, blessing.  Curse, blessing, curse, blessing, curse blessing. 
Until people get so mixed up, they can’t read their Bibles anymore. 
They’re so mixed up, they give everything to the Jews.  And let me
tell you something.  I’m going to tell you flat, until you understand
what I’m talking about tonight, and get into the truth of the mystery
of Israel, you are not going to ever understand 'The Feast of the
Trumpets', preached by Bro. Branham. It’s not going to mean a thing to
you. (See?) 

 

39.  Now listen.  Here he says right here: “At My Presence, there’s
going to be a Resurrection.”  That same Presence, is whereby God
Himself, now that’s the Logos being right here to raise the dead.  The
last enemy is death, that doesn’t happen until after the lake of fire.
 But at present, He’s standing right here, so the death cannot even
take those who want to move to the Tree of Life, and will move to the
Tree of Life.  Now remember back there, He said, “He can live in this
condition, in harmony and in balance, but Adam moved out.”  

      When Adam moved out, God moved in.  When Adam moved out, he moved
out the entire human race, and when he did, God moved the entire human
race back in.  For as in Adam all fell, even so in Christ, all are made
alive.  And this is that hour, that He is here now, as the Logos, the
beginning of the creation of God.  Where God started way back there, to
begin to manifest Himself, then begin to create through that
manifestation.  Which manifestation became the Son in whom He lived and
died, and shed the Blood of Almighty God, and rose again so that same
Spirit could come back.  So, that Logos could come here and gather all
the spirits, because the last ones are being gathered in now.  And I
know it looks pretty bleak. Yep, and there’s nobody more mixed up than
people in this Message.  

40.  In fact, I’m the fellow that originated the saying, “This is
the Mess–Age, not the Message, but, the Mess–Age.”  That went
around the world, but it deserved to.  After a crack like that.  But
I’m going to tell you something: There’s nothing that’s going to
stop God, who stands here to change a people.  And there’s nothing to
stop a people to being changed.  You say, “What’s it going to
take?”  It’s going to take God.  What circumstances are, don’t
mean one thing.  Because the hour of final redemption, is in the land. 
The Mighty One of Revelation 10:1 has come down.  The suitable
messenger, has brought forth the Word, and we’re now waiting for the
consummation of all things, which has started.

     In spite of degenerated creation, in spite of the devil, and above
all, in spite of ourselves, see, we’re still legalists. You quote John
10: “No man can pluck him out of My Father’s hand.” Quote that to
a legalist, he’ll say, “Yeah, no man can do it, but you can do
it.”  

	You say, "I thought he was a man?" No, you’re not a man, or you’re
a duck, or a dog, or a horse or something.  A legalist believes that a
pig can be turned into a sheep.  A legalist believes that a dog, can be
a born-again dog, and go back to vomit.  Legalism is the curse of hell. 
No book of any legalist, ever stood the test of time.  Because he could
stand the test of nothing it stinks, with a scum of hell.  Doesn’t
deserve to stand.  Because it denies the very Word of Almighty God.  It
says something, can stop God.  

41. "What man of you having ninety-nine sheep, and has one out on the
wilderness; does not leave the ninety and nine, and go find the
hundredth, and bring him back rejoicing, on his shoulder;  more
rejoicing over, than the ninety-nine that safely lie there."  [Matthew
18:]

 

      Do you realize, that’s the stupidest parallel that God ever
said, if you take it the way you think it means.  I’m a farmer, I’ve
got one hundred sheep. One sheep wanders off and the wolves get him.  Or
they tempt him…[makes a crying type sound]…ninety-nine saved
sheep… Oh see,  hundred bucks a piece.  "Ninety-nine hundred dollars,
but that doesn’t mean a thing, I still lost my hundredth dollar. "

      He was hitting at the Pharisees, who thought they were safe, with
their own self righteousness.  The little sheep knew he was lost, and
wanted a savior.  And not even hell, … because that’s where he went,
…would stop the shepherd getting that one sheep.  And he rejoiced,
because ninety-nine legalists, Armenians, figured that someway somebody
could stop God.

42.  You know, it wasn’t Darwin.  It was somebody else, I forget.  He
never would tangle with old Dowie  though, [Ninetieth Century, Scottish
evangelist and faith healer]  But they said this atheist harangued, when
he would stand on his public podium and said, “If there be a God,
strike me dead.”  Was the same as a peanut on a railway track saying,
“If there be a Santa Fe railway train, let it come down and smash
me.”  In fact, there’s more stupid than that.  Who shall separate
us?  Who’s going to build the wall?  Who’s going to dig the ditch? 
Abraham, your bosom, who’s lying in there?  Lazarus.  Who’s that
fellow there?  That’s the rich man.  Well, he wants to get across. 
It’s too late.  There was a way to get across, you didn’t take it.
(See?)  Too many people don’t give him enough pre-eminence.  This
Message, is accused of giving William Branham too much pre-eminence. 
Because, I wrote ‘Twentieth Century Prophet’ I’m accused of being
a Branhamite, who doesn’t give Christ enough pre-eminence.  

     I challenge any man living, to take these sermons, never mind one
little book, that was just written for a purpose.  I don’t think any
man living, attempts to give Him more pre-eminence than I do at this
hour.  For as long as I’ve been preaching, I don’t try to give
myself something, because I don’t have any.  In spite of degenerated
creation, I don’t care what has been made, in spite of the devil.  

43.  In the Presence of God, the nations are going to look down at the
devil some day, and they’re going to say, “You don’t mean it.  You
don’t mean it.  You can’t mean it.  Is this the one that made the
nations tremble?”  They’re going to say, “You talk about fools. 
You talk about fools.” And the glory of God covers the whole earth. 
In spite of ourselves, and man makes himself awful big, and thinks he
can hinder God.  

     Nothing, no nothing, can keep God and all that He is, from us.  And
nothing can keep us, needy and lowly as we are from God.  And all that
He wants us to be in Him.  No way.  So, there’s your law of the
blessing of God.  In this hour, planets are lining up. I care less.  You
say, “Well, could rip off the coast of America.”  Yeah, it could, I
wouldn’t doubt it.  “Well, there’s a huge depression coming.” 
Yeah, I agree with you.  It’s scary, I’ve been through one, and I
don’t want to hit another one.  But I don’t know.  There’s nothing
ahead but problems.  That’s exactly right.  But you forgot the other
parallel, Mount Ebal, Mount Gerizim.  There’s cursing, there’s
blessing.  We’re going to get back to original brother/sister. 
Because we’re on our way, and we’re getting there faster than we
first believed.

44. I’m just going to read one more time here in Galatians which I
read before in chapter 3, 

	(13)	Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, …

     That doesn’t just mean the curse of the law ‘Thou shalt not
wash too many pots and pans on Saturday’, or something like that. 
That’s the curse of the law, the law which brands every single one of
us as sinners, because we are.  The law of God, has condemned every
single one of us.  But,  God Himself did not.  There’s a big
difference.  The woman was taken in sin, and they said, “Master, the
Bible said if you’re caught in adultery, you’re supposed to be
stoned.  What do You say?”  He looked at them, looked down at his
feet, looked at her, knelt down and wrote in the sand, there’s got to
be something to what I say.  “I think you’re perfectly right, we
ought to stone her.  Just one thing, let the first person without sin,
do the stoning.”  Because every sin demands it.  They all snuck out.  

     Same thing holds today.  God made the law.  We broke the law.  What
does, He do?  He destroys the law.  For, where there is no law, there
can be no guilt.  Amongst the Eskimos for years there was no law that
you couldn’t kill, … they killed.  And I suppose, (in fact I know
for sure) there were laws in America here, there were no laws in America
that you couldn’t make a U-turn with your car a certain place,
there’s those laws now.  But the very One, that made it all, made
complete coverage, to bring it all back. (Yep)  

	(13)	…Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: (Christ was
cursed.)

45.  Notice, that out of the curse, there flowed the blessing, that you
and I might be born again.  And that Christ might visit our Gentile camp
in person, as He came to Abraham.  That’s true.  When did He come
down?  In a Sodomite, filthy, murderous, (no use to go any further)
worldly condition.  When it should be just as it was in the days of
Noah, and will be.  But as Abraham stood there, he said, “I know
it’s going to hit.”  There’s no way you’re going to stop it
hitting, but, he said, “Will you destroy the righteous, with the
wicked?”  

      He said, “I will never destroy the righteous, with the
wicked.”  No way.  "Who shall separate us?"  [Rom 8:35a] Nobody.  The
Holy Spirit was given us, that we might be made one with Him.  And now
He is here, to consummate it, into a more perfect oneness.  Now, we can
look at ourselves all we want.  It isn’t going to do us any good. 
Except this one way, and that is, this look, I’ve reached My zenith
the apogee of my imperfections.  That’s right, we’ve heaped sin upon
sin, until we become so proficient, there is nothing left but sin. 
Because justice is no longer justice.  It’s finished.  At the same
time, because we’re like satellites we’ve reached our nadir, we’re
right down at the lowest.  

46.  Brother/sister when you’ve arrived, you sit there.  And you say,
“Where do we go from here?” Do you know there’s only one place to
go? Well, there’s two places.  But if you’re one of His, there’s
only one place you can go, you can’t get any lower.  Because this is
that age.  This is when God is taking the final generation.  That’s
our generation, four generations roughly make close to two hundred
years, (something in that period) we’ve have twenty years already,
waiting for it.  

      We’re the last bastion, the last little bit.  It’s all over. 
And when it was, what did God do?  He came down, and do you know
something?  Nobody could stop Him getting to Abraham. And nobody could
stop Abraham getting to Him.  And when He sent those messengers down to
Sodom and Gomorrah, …I’m going to tell you something…there was
nobody could stop those messengers getting to Lot, and his wife and
daughters.  And there was nobody could stop Lot and the wife and
daughters getting to those messengers.  Nobody.  "Who shall separate
us?"  Who’s going to make a barrier?  Who’s going to dig a ditch so
wide, and a pit so deep, a fence so high, that God is not going to get
to me?   Now, you can squirm a little bit right here if you want to. 
Because it gets to me too.  What if I’m not living the life I should
be living?  You think He’s not going to get to me?  

     What if you’re not living the life you should be living?  You
think He’s not going to get to you?  If you’re fooling around
tonight and you’re not serious concerning this Word, do you think one
day you won’t be serious?  You’ll be serious, don’t worry.  You
will be.  Because there’s no way.  

47.  You say, “Bro. Vayle, will that Bride be hunted down like wild
dogs?”  Prophet said something like along that line.  “Will they
have to face his accumulated treachery, as we’ve got to face the
accumulation of sin?”  We sure do,  all die a diabolical cunning, he
said, “It’d be a repeat of it.”  Do you know something.  God
doesn’t get smarter, but the devil does.  God doesn’t learn new
tricks, but the devil does.  He’s always in there pulling something.  

      Well, I’m going to tell you something.  He’s not going to lose
any.  He’s not going to lose one.  And I think that tonight, is what
Communion is all about tonight, if you want to carry this just a little
bit further.  He was crucified, and he died.  That’s where the curse
was.  But He rose, and that’s where justification came in.  Because it
was His Spirit, it made the difference.  And do you know something?  Is
believing the Word for this hour, that proves you’re born again.
That’s tame, you know.  That’s tame.  (See?)  We’ve come the full
round, of every type of experience.  Until the Pentecostal said, “Well
there’s just no way, that you can speak in that tongue, unless
you’re full of the Holy Ghost.”  But it turned out they were gifts. 
Wasn’t the Holy Ghost.  We’ve come full circuit.  Until you name it,
they’ve named it over the two thousand years.  

     But now, it’s come to the place, where the gates of hell have no
trouble at all accepting one place.  That’s with those who believe
that He's here, and He’s "the same yesterday, today and forever."  And
that doesn’t have one thing to do with the eyesight.  Doesn’t have
one thing to do with the ears.  And I’m talking in the literal sense
now.  It doesn’t have one thing to do with the sensation.  It has
everything to do with a spiritual revelation.  And if you haven’t got
it, you won’t believe He's here.  You can’t do it.  And if you
don’t believe He’s here, I want to ask you: what hope have you got
with the ends of the world coming upon you?  

48.  I’ll let you go.  It’s always dangerous to ever let me start
preaching.  You might get foot washing in the morning.  I didn’t say
which morning either.  Wonder if I can find it for you.  All right. 
Listen.  Isaiah 54: He’s talking about New Jerusalem, and the Bride
here, 

	(12)	… windows of agates, and … gates of carbuncles…

	(13) 	And all thy children … taught of the LORD; …

     He didn’t say a prophet was going to teach them.  Prophet can’t
teach you anything.  He just brings you the Word, it takes God to teach
you.  That’s why John said, “You’ve got an anointing, don’t need
any man to teach you.”  Nobody can give you a revelation. No way.
God’s got to do it.  

	(13) 	… and great shall be the peace of thy children.

     That’s that relaxation, Bro. Branham spoke of in 2 Thessalonians
1:7.

	(14)	 In righteousness shalt thou be established: (That’s 1
Corinthians

                         1:7-8.)  thou shalt be far from oppression; (No
Great Tribulation 

                         for you.) … thou shalt not fear: and from
terror; … (it’s)… not

                         going to come near (you. Uh uh, you’re not
going to be in that.)

	(15)	Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not of me:
(that’s that 

                        bunch that’s going to try to squeeze, before
we get out of here. 

               	Ecumenical) whosoever shall gather together against thee
shall 

                        fall for thy sake. 

   

49.  See, “I don’t think you say there's going to be a big
ecumenical council going to come against a little Bride.”  How come
Rome came against a few thousand there in Jerusalem?  How come they
couldn’t stand three Hebrew children back there in the days of
Nebuchadnezzar?  It’s the same spirit…it’s the same spirit in Rome
today.  It was one spirit, one life that came down through four beasts,
ended up in Rome.  That’s the fourth one.  Now listen.  

	(16)	Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the
fire,

                        that bringeth forth an instrument …; and I
have created the waster 					to destroy.

     What’s he saying here?  He’s telling you, that these idolaters
are making an image to the beast.  Now, watch carefully.  He says here, 

    	(16) 	… I have created the smith, (He said, I'm making these
to...they’re 					going to blow) coals in the fire … (Yep, He said,)
… I  created the 					waster to destroy. (All  that thing He said,
“I brought it down here, 					it was in My plan.”)

	Now listen:

	(17)	No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every 

                        tongue that shall rise in judgment thou shalt
condemn. (They did it 

                        back there, who dares arraign me in God’s
court? The Prince) of 					the Lord… their righteousness is of me,
saith the LORD.

50.  Now look brother/sister, if I know anything here at the end-time,
it’s going to be Word against Word, not gift or power against power. 
Those who believe there’s going to be a great manifestation needed
once more, I cannot buy it.  Bro. Branham said, “You’ve seen your
last sign.” It’s going to be our word, against their word.  

	We’re going to say, “He is here.”  

	And they’ll say, “Prove it.” 

	And we’ll say, “You say He’s not here. You prove it.” 

      Word against Word.  We believe in a vindicated Word tonight.  We
believe in a Christ that died, and He rose again.  And since we died
with Him, we are now risen with Him in those heavenly places.  And the
law of the blessing of God, holds good tonight. There isn’t one
negative that doesn’t have a positive.  There isn’t one besetting
factor of this end-time that doesn’t have a counter balance and more
than a counter balance in Almighty God.  

51.  What I trying to get across to you tonight, I hope you’re
catching it as this:  It’s time to take the opportunity to turn every
negative into a positive, if we'll only do it.  It’s time to rely
wholly, and solely upon Almighty God.  Because we’re going to need to
more and more. 

      It’s not what the government can do.  It’s not going to be
what your boss can do.  In fact, it never was and never will be.  And
it’s getting more and more down to the showdown.  Just as poor old
Adam was there in his sin. it took God to get him out.  Is
Israel…rather, is Jacob mourned and skew over the impending
destruction his brother could bring.  It was God, that got Jacob out. 
It was God that got Joseph out of prison.  It was God that got Israel
out of Egypt.  It was God that got Hebrew children and Daniel, out of
the firey furnace and the lion’s den.  It was God that got Jesus out
of the grave.  And it’s God here tonight that’s going to get us out.
 That’s where we stand tonight brother/sister, but you notice what I
said?

      Adam in his sin.  Jacob in his trouble.  Joseph in his dungeon. 
Israel in their Egypt, down there struggling.  And you and I at the
end-time.  (See?)  He said, “When all these things come down, begin to
look up.”  But He didn’t say, “When you see nine planets come into
conjunction, ninety-seven degrees, forming what on one side of the sun,
or something?”  He didn’t say, “Look up, hallelujah, you know you
got it made.” He said, “Behold, I send you Elijah the prophet,
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.  He shall
turn the hearts of the children, back to the fathers.  Lest I come and
smite the earth ...”  [Mal 4:6]

52.  Brother/sister, there we are today, I don’t care. (See?) God told
me, said, “Never mind what’s out there in the world. Never mind
what’s going on down over there.” There’s lots of things, and
I’m still pulled.  I’m a little bit too human yet.  Which I will be
until I die.  You’d be surprised, before it’s all over, how human I
am.  How fallible, how everything.  But He said, “You get your eyes,
on what God said is here.” And from what I see tonight, he said,
“Who shall separate us?”   Who’s going to stop God from coming to
get me?  Who’s going to stop me from getting out of here?  Do you
believe that tonight?  That’s what it’s all about brother/sister. 
That’s what the blessing of God is all about.  (See?)  

     Hell can rage, and it’s going to rage.  Everything is going to
accelerate, it’s accelerating now.  But as Moses neared the Red Sea,
and it looked just as if maybe the plan of God, would be thwarted after
all, because the battle was being pressed severely.  He said, “Stand
still, and see the salvation of God.” [Ex 14:13] Your strength tonight
lies, in what I’m talking about.  That’s where it lies, it doesn’t
lie in miracles and powers.  Doesn’t even lie in the past anymore,
concerning Bro. Branham and being that prophet.  That’s established. 
That’s here.  The Word has been delivered.  It’s, are we standing
with that Word?  The Lord Bless you.  Let’s rise.

     Gracious Heavenly Father, we thank you again for love, mercy and
grace.  Your kindness, Lord, when you have shown us more and more
conclusively as time goes on.  And we know that we are in that very
space, Lord, that it's going to behoove us to walk more and more
carefully. To be more circumspect, Lord, to be more aware of all the
things, the cunningness of the devil can bring upon the land.  We know
that that lies there, but we know that something else lies there
greater, that if God be for us, who can be against us?  What does it
matter?  Who can separate us?  No way.  Not anything in creation, and
not anything either, which creation might get together itself to form,
it shall not prosper. 

     We believe that tonight ,Lord, but we’ve got to believe it more. 
We’ve got to believe it more to the place, Lord, where we become wise
as serpents, and harmless as doves.  To be much, much, more circumspect.
 To be much, much more foolproof.  Lord, to be truly aware, and, Father,
we haven’t been.  The philosophy and the vain deceits of this world,
have crept in until our philosophy and our judgements, our motivations,
our incentives are too carnal.  They’re much, much too physical. 
We’ve got to come back to seeing the unseen.  Not counting anymore,
anything of this earth.  Except to know gratefully, what we lose, for
Your sake we gain back.  What we so gladly sow, even weeping, will be
multiplied, bringing back sheaves. 

     Lord, if I ever realized a time that I need to be more sincere,
more respectful, more circumspect, this is that time.  Not good, any way
shape, or form, to walk with a crowd, to drift with a current, to lazily
go the meandering circuit.  It is time to be within the straight and
narrow of that Word.  Lord God, we’re more than ever able for it
tonight.  It’s not as though we stand here, pleading that which cannot
be gathered unto us.  No way.  We’re here, Lord, with the power of
God.  Christ is in our midst.  Father, just forgive us we pray as
we’ve never been forgiven before.  Reach that Great Hand down within
minds and hearts that at this moment, as the Master Artist can take the
clay and form it.  Because that’s what You likened it to.  Form us
anew tonight, O God, into the serious and the sober. 

      We are tired Lord, tired to death, of what creation, so perverted,
is doing.  We want to be shuck of it all.  At least to that part where
we have anything to do with it.  So, we can say with Him whom we love,
“I have nothing with the world, and the world has nothing with me.” 
Father, we don’t want to press this to the place of perfection, or
Resurrection.  But we want to press it to the place, wise as serpents,
and harmless as doves. Blameless, heeding Your Word, careful to the
inner urgings of the Holy Spirit, filtered through that Word, Lord. 
Help each one tonight, Lord, because this is serious business.  Forgive
us, O God, cleanse us we pray.  And with Your grace, Lord, to stand up,
the Spirit of Jesus Christ, not our own spirits, Lord, but the
transforming, transfiguring Spirit Living Word, moving us.  

     Then, Lord, standing as we know we can stand, and then at that
time.  And say with Paul, “Who can separate us?”  Nothing created. 
Nothing that comes forth from creation, can do it.  For God is come to
me, and I have come to Him, and I and my Father are one.  Heard Him
knocking at the door.  Open the door.  Lord, I know that we haven’t
prayed in vain tonight.  I know, Lord, things have begun to change on a
higher level.  And I’m so grateful, Lord, because I’ve been so
tired.  So many under levels.  Not for one minute thinking we would gain
that top level, heaven.  But, Lord, there’s something about Your
Presence, and Your Reality.  And who cannot be changed, and who cannot
be helped in that great Presence tonight?  Now, Lord, in the rest of the
service we go to commemorate the death, which we’re so glad.  We know,
Lord, as there was a curse there, there was a death.  And we in Him
died.  

    Yet we know the other side of the coin, we’re risen together with
Him.  In the foot washing, Lord, we believe without a doubt, also
we’ve come to the place to realize, this is not something hollow. 
But, this is a common element of common Christians, of a common
brotherhood.  When we kneel to wash and wipe, it is not at somebody
else’s feet.  It is at Your feet, Lord, and Your obedience.  And we
recognize each other, and we’re looking, Lord, for Your Spirit, to
bring that recognition, into what we talked about tonight.  When they
took that man, we know they didn’t have the right spirit, because Paul
had to beg them to take him back and say, “Be careful now.”  

    Lord, we want the right Spirit.  How foolish it would be for us to
pray, Lord, if we couldn’t have it.  What can stop You giving it, or
us receiving?  If that could be done, Lord, then, we’ve wiped out the
whole Message.  So, Lord, tonight we’re believing as never before, for
that Spirit, O God.  It’s not something we simply saw in a prophet,
and admire.  It’s gone past that, Lord,  we covet earnestly, that
Spirit.  If You would give us gifts, that’s fine.  Be nice.  But
we’re not asking for anything like that tonight.  And if we’re
wrong, forgive us, and lead us right.  We’re asking for that other
thing, Lord.  The proper motivation.  The proper Spirit.  So, whatever
then might come, would  be truly workable in our eyes.  So, we commend
ourselves to You this evening hour.  In the Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ we pray.  Amen.  You may be seated. 

[ Communion and Foot Washing Service]

1.   We won’t read any Scripture at length, except that tiny bit in 1
Corinthians.  So, if the deacons come forward at this time, prepared to
serve you.  And then you know how you come from one side, to the other
side, coming from this side first, as you usually do.  And then
understand, the women will remain up here, the washing of feet, so you
can go through that room to the rest room.  And the men will be going
downstairs, and they can use the back entrance up, for that very
purpose.  We won’t take long time.  Will just give the business of the
Lord.  

Paul said, [1 Corinthians 11:]

  	(23)	For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto

                        you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which
he was betrayed

                        took bread:

     See, there was an urgency there.  

	(24)     And when he had given thanks, he (broke) it, and said, Take,
eat:

                        this is my body, which is broken for you: this
do in remembrance 

                        of me. (See?)

      He did the thing that was necessary, that was typical to show
forth His death.  Do you realize what He did to show us that He is here
tonight, in a great prophetic ministry.  Jesus didn’t do that until
the night it was necessary to show it.  Was the sign of the prophet here
before, the indication of His Presence to raise the deat? By no means,
it was that hour.  

	(25) 	(In like) manner … he took the cup, when he had supped,

                        saying, This cup is the new testament in my
blood: this do ye, as                				oft as ye drink it, in
remembrance of me.

	(26)	 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, (you) do
shew

                         the Lord's death till he come.

     Bro. Bob Brown brought out a thought on Melchesidec, …which I
preached on, but I don’t think I belaboured this point the same as he
did.  We know that the One who was Melchesidec in theophonic flesh,
stood before Abraham, then He became flesh.  And that same Logos,
Messiah came back as the Logos.  In other words, the greatest Communion
of all is at this hour.  With our spiritual Melchesidec, that One Who
became flesh, went back to the Spirit and came down here, in the heat of
the battle.  At the end of the day, communing with us, teaching us
Himself, revealing Himself. Then He said, 

	(27)	 … whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of

           		 unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of 
(Jesus 					Christ.  That’s true.)

	(28)	…let a man examine himself, let him eat of that bread, and drink
					of that cup.

	(29)	 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh

                         (condemnation, and judgement), not discerning
the Lord's body.

	(30)	 For this many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 				
(That’s true.)

      I don’t believe that simply taking emblems as many churches do,
that this is going to be the panacea, this is going to bring you free
from all sickness, and all those things.  But I believe that
understanding the truth, should be doing this in truth, opens the door
whereby we can be healed.  

      In other words, what we do tonight, we must do in faith and
sobriety.  Knowing that when a man dies, he doesn’t do anything else
anymore.  It’s all over.  We nearly do not associate, the taking of
these emblems with the fact that he died.  We must remember, that we
died with Him. “Bond slaves of Jesus Christ,” as Bro. Branham said,
fill the bill beautifully.  We judge ourselves how far have we come.  I
believe we’ve come quite a ways. I believe we’re on the threshold,
of going much deeper.  I believe if we take these emblems tonight with
that thought in mind, Lord.  As the old song writer said, “I wandered
far away from God, and now I’m coming home.  Paths of sin too long
I’ve trod, now, I’m coming home.”  It gets kind of weary, self
striving, all of these things are fine for the world.  And they do very
well for the denominational Christian.  The relaxation under the Seventh
Seal of His Presence. Honouring Him in these ordinances, is a million
times greater.

     Heavenly Father, we trust now as we partake, we not only trust, we
believe, Lord, You opened a way for us.  Spirit of God raising up a
greater standard than ever.  That we’re coming into the rest,
there’s nothing else that’s worthwhile.  We’re glad, Lord, to be
at that place where we can cease from all these things.  No matter what
the striving is.  No matter what the desire is.  Down here, it just
isn’t worth it.  But to enter more and more into the ‘Thee and I’
unity, O God. This is what we believe we’re in for tonight.  And we
thank You for It, in Jesus Name.  Amen.

  

      

     

      

	

                                                 Romans 8:35-39 (0382)  
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