That Day on Calvary

Bro. Lee Vayle   -   April 20, 1984 

	

	Shall we pray: Heavenly Father we're again very happy to be in this
place that You've given us to come together to worship You, Lord, to
study Your Word and study hopefully that we might be approved unto You,
Lord, knowing the doctrine being correct in our understanding, and then
doing those things which come from a proper understanding; having
objectives and motives right, Lord, in all things in divine and due
order. Be with us therefore tonight in the study of the Word, may good
come, Lord, of this service, knowing that there's a Communion service. 

	Knowing, Lord, that these things have been written of in Your Word when
Paul said when you come together, you don't come together for the
better, but you come and you get worse doing what you're doing. But,
Lord, we don't believe that's our lot tonight, we believe that we come
together we are better by the doing of the service, Lord, the hearing
the Word, participating in It, and then the Foot-washing and Communion,
Lord, all of these things. We believe that we'll leave here better
people for it, Lord. We're trusting You, because, we know it's got to be
one way or the other, and this is the way we believe, we're convinced of
it.

	So, we thank You now, Lord, for the measured grace, the goodness of
Almighty God that is our portion this evening hour. We appreciate it, we
respect it, Lord, and we're very, very grateful. We thank You for it in
Jesus' Name. Amen. You may be seated.

1.	Certainly nice to be with you folk, and certainly nice that the folk
could be with us. Bro. Branham said, "You've got to wait for the
Millennium to get together, then you'll have all the time in the world."
	

	Well, that's true, so I won't be telling anybody to move down here.
Wishing you could move down here and all that. Of course I do wish it,
but, I'm not going to be caught saying it out loud, especially putting
it on tape. But, anytime you come on down it's wonderful. Appreciate
everybody being here with us tonight.

	[Bro. Vayle goes through the Easter itinerary] 

 2.	Now, going to the Message that Bro. Branham preached on this 'Day on
Calvary', I'll read the Scripture beginning in Matthew 27:27, where he
read:

		(27) 	Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common
hall, 						and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.

		(28) 	And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.

		(29) 	And when they had platted (or they braided) a crown of thorns,
they 					put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they
bowed the 					knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of
the Jews!

		(30) 	And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the
head.

		(31) 	…after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from
him, 					and put his own raiment on, and led him away to crucify him.

		(32) 	And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name:
					him they compelled to bear his cross.

		(33) 	And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to
						say, a place of a skull,

		(34) 	They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he
had 					tasted thereof, he would not drink.

		(35) 	(Then) they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting
lots: that 					it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,
They parted 						my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they
cast lots.

		(36) 	And sitting down they watched him there;

		(37) 	And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS 	
				THE KING OF THE JEWS.

		(38) 	Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right
						hand, and another on the left.

		(39) 	And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,

		(40) 	And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in
three 					days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from
the 						cross

		(41) 	Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes
and 						elders, said,

		(42) 	He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of
Israel, 					let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe
him.

		(43) 	He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him:
for 					he said, I am the Son of God.

		(44) 	The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same
in 						his teeth.

		(45) 	Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land
unto 						the ninth hour.

		(46) 	And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
Eli, 					Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why
hast 						thou forsaken me?

		(47) 	Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This
man 					calleth for Elias.

		(48) 	And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled
it with 					vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.

		(49) 	The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to
save him.

		(50) 	Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the
						ghost.

		(51) 	And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from top
to 						the bottom; the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

		(52) 	And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which 
					slept arose,

		(53) 	And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into
the 					holy city, and appeared unto many.

		(54) 	Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching
Jesus, 					saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they
feared 						greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

3.	Now, Bro. Branham says:  [That Day on Calvary 09-25-60]

[12] 	If this day being so important, one of the greatest days, let us
look at three 					different things that that day meant to us. We could
take hundreds. But this 				morning I have just chosen three different
vital things that we want to look 				at for the next few minutes, that
Calvary meant to us. I pray it will condemn 				every sinner that is
present, that'll make every saint go on to his knees, it'll  				make
every sick person raise his faith to God and walk away healed, every 			
sinner saved, every backslider come back and be ashamed of himself,
every 				saint rejoice and take new hopes. 

	So, there's three things involved there: there is the sinner, there is
the backslider, and there is the Saint walking in victory. And he's
praying of course, that every single one will get something from this
Message in order that that person may be helped.

	And of course, there's something else included there which is across
the board, which is in the atonement, which is healing, which comes by
faith. And anyone can reach out and be healed, saint, or sinner, or
backslider. And of course, that's one of the tragic things that we have
to admit to be true. 

4.	And I say tragic in this respect: somebody comes along and say,
"Well, I was healed wasn't I?" Sure. 

	But Bro. Branham said,  "The prostitute can come off the street after
peddling her wares, and she'll be healed while some saint sitting there
begging God to heal. And she'll be healed, the prostitute, and the old
saint will stand there and she won't get a bit of healing, because,
she's banking on her good works."

	 Now, that's in the 'Atonement'. And if a good work could perform it,
then Jesus would have died in vain. There'd have been a duplication.  

  		Man was found guilty of sin, and sin has a penalty that no man could
pay. 					The penalty was so great until there wasn't anyone that could
pay the 					penalty. I truly believe that God ordained it that way,
that the penalty would 				 be so great that no man could pay it, so He
could do it Himself.

	Now, of course this would shock many people, because, they're quite
convinced that God did not really want it that way. It was merely an
accident that things got out of control. And there was one way of course
to bring man back, and that was by the Blood. But, it was Irenaeus who
said it so perfectly, "God being a Savior, it was necessary that He
predestinate a man who would require salvation in order to give Himself
reason and purpose of being." And the prophet is exactly right. Exactly
right. I believe that God ordained it. God did ordain, or how was Christ
crucified from before the foundation of the world? 

 5.		Now, the penalty of sin was death. We were all born in sin, shaped
in 					iniquity, and came to the world speaking lies. Therefore, there
wasn't none 				of us that was worthy, nor could find no one on earth
that was worthy. 

	And Paul said, "For all have sinned…" Really, It says, "For all are
sinning and fall short of the glory of God." [Rom 3:23]

	And as Dr. Newell said it so beautifully, he said, "That's like a man
standing on the shores of New York trying to jump over to France. Why,
(he said,) the tragic thing is, the man who jumps the furthest is in the
worse danger." Think it over. "Nothing in my hands I bring…" [Rock of
Ages quote]

		…sin did not start on the earth. (Where did sin start?) It started
in heaven.                             		(…?... Why, shame on such a
thought, no? Started in heaven.)

 [13]	Lucifer, the devil, (son of the morning) was a condemned creature
for his				 	disobedience before he ever struck the earth. Sin began in
heaven, where 					God put the angels and so forth upon the same basis
that He put human beings 				on. Knowledge, the tree of knowledge... The
Tree of Life, and the tree of 					knowledge, where man could take his
choice.

6.	All right, here we see where that the prophet takes us back to our
first day of responsibility in the Garden of Eden. Let's go back to it.
We go to Genesis 2:15-17, and notice:

		(15) 	And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of 		
			Eden to dress it and to keep it.

		(16) 	And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of 			
		the garden thou mayest freely eat:

		(17) 	But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt
not eat 					of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die.

	The issue was 'knowledge'. The issue was knowledge. That day was as we
see a day of knowledge. And man had a choice as to whether he received
his knowledge from God, or from the devil. You listening? I'm going into
some of this thing, Bro. Branham said, "Man had a choice as to whether
he received his knowledge from God, or from the devil."

	This is absolute fact. But, humanism denies this. For humanism believes
that man discovers and learns on his own from the world. That's from
nature and its laws, and what they are about, and what he is about. But,
that's not true. Now, man would like to feel that he has a way of
knowing on his own. But, let us understand, that man can only choose
right if he knows right or good, and this enters into the realm of
omniscience, knowing the end from the beginning.

	How many of you have made choices that you've thought were very good,
and they ended up the worse choice you've ever made in your life? You've
made choices in your life that you thought were good, because you were
in a hot-box.

7.	The Bible distinctly says, "That God has made a way of escape." [1
Cor 10:13] And the way of escape in bearing our troubles. 

	But, you may be like some of you like I did years ago, you ran. And you
made a decision, you felt awfully good. And you said, "Hey, should have
done this years ago, feel so great." Went on for years until lighting
struck. Because, you see, you couldn't tell the end from the beginning. 

	So therefore, knowledge to be good, you would have to have a
predetermined course, which could not be thrown off, or it is not good.
Now, Satan is not omniscience, nor omnipotent. No way! He is a liar! And
he sold Adam and Eve the idea they could choose apart from true
knowledge, and the choice still be the right one. They'd still come all
alright.

	Man therefore follows Satan and is fashioned by him. Because he
believes that he can make right choices. Hogwash!! 

8.	You say, "Bro. Vayle, I made a right choice this morning, I washed my
face." Ah, I don't know too much about that, even being anything in the
book. But, you see, man will bring up any piddley-thing to make anybody
believe he can make a proper choice. That man can possibly do something
that is going to turn out right. Don't you know that man proposes, and
God disposes, that the casting of the lot maybe in the hand of the man,
but, the disposition thereof is in the hand of God?  "There is a way
that man thinketh is right, but the ends are the ways of death." [Prov
14:12]

	Satan has sold man a bill of goods, because he's a liar. Man cannot of
his own make proper choices. Then people say. "How can I make a choice?
You couldn't make a choice for God if you tried, unless you're Elected.
Because, you've got to have what's inside in the first place. You know
that as well as I do to understanding sovereignty.

	Now, but you can see exactly what Bro. Branham kept stating. God put
man on a free moral agency. See? Choose Me and My knowledge and every
decision and every consequence will be of God and therefore, perfect.

9.	Now, we go to Psalms 103, which you'll see this, because we want to
understand something that…just about everybody does understand, yet
they don't understand It. A simple quote verse 7. and It says here
concerning Moses:

		(7) 	(God) made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children 
				of Israel. (Israel saw the great acts of God, but they never
understood 					God's ways.)

	Now, if you read Psalms 119, you will find that the Word of God is
listed everything in the human category in life, whereby man may make
the proper decisions, because, the decisions are already laid out for
him by God, and God has to keep His Word. See? So, Satan sold him a bill
of goods, got him off course. But man chose the knowledge of the enemy.
And ever since, every decisions and every pact and every way has ended
in destruction as the Bible says.

10.	Now remember, when Satan comes on the scene and he says, "Well look,
you can get this by experience, you can get this you can get that." Let
us understand something: Satan never created anything, and Satan does
not maintain anything. All Satan can do is use the things that God has
put here on earth, and he cannot use them right. And ever since man has
listen to Satan, he has never been able to use the things of this world
right.

	That's why the Bible said, "God is going to destroy those that destroy
the earth," [Rev 11:18] If we were to take a doctor's test just tonight,
we're not going to do it; we're not smart enough, we're not able. Just
take a bunch of allergy tests, and there isn't one of us I suppose that
doesn't have an allergy, they're one, two, or half a dozen, or several
dozen.	

	And you begin to find as I have found out by your …?... of toxin
tests and all the rest of them, that there may be synthetic things in
your home. Where just a carpets on your floor driving you mad and you
don't even what's doing it. Man can't control nature. Nature controls
man. And the minute you get nature out of control then man, everything
else is out of control. But, you see, man went out of control first.
Upsetting in nature.

11.	All right, let's keep reading here: 

		…when Lucifer was given the preeminence to make his choice, he
wanted 					something better than God had. That started the trouble.

	Now remember, Bro. Branham says there are three things, he said,
"Revelation, preeminence, back to Eden." And remember, when He descends
here upon earth with the Shout, let's go and look at It. 1 Thessalonians
4:15, and It says here:

		(15) 	For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that (they) 		
			which are alive and remain unto the (presence) of the Lord 						
(Jesus, 	the Lord) shall not prevent (or take a preeminence 							over)
them which are asleep.

	In other words, this is the hour when God gets a preeminence as the
Holy Spirit has descended to take Headship over the Church. Now, Bro.
Branham said, "Lucifer was given preeminence to make his choice."

	Now, at the end-time in grace the Bride doesn't have a choice. Now,
let's get this flat, God Himself  has said, "Behold, I send you Elijah
the prophet before that great and dreadful day of the Lord." And He
said, "He will turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers, lest
I come and smite the earth with a curse." [Mal 4:5-6.]

	Yet, how people have made up their minds they do have a choice? They
don't want Elijah. "Oh," they say, "hallelujah, I love you Jesus, who
needs Elijah?" So, that rubs it off. 

	You go to say, "Now look Lord God, I'm a very loyal devoted person, and
I'm going to give You the preeminence, hallelujah, I don't know a thing
about this Elijah bit, and I don't want to know, because Jesus, I just
want to know You."

	Well, let's go back to the days of John the Baptist, how many would
have known except for John the Baptist? Preeminence. At this hour there
is a preeminence, and the preeminence does not lie in our choice, it
lies in His choice, and God is doing it and that's where Bro. Branham
said in 'The Paradox', he said, "Yes, you've got something to put into
it, and that's put yourself into it." Put your will into it. Just be
dedicated to principles of Almighty God.

12. All right, we'll just keep reading here: Now he said:  

		…he wanted something better than God had. 

	And you turn around and say that God will look it Lord, "I'm satisfied
with You, hallelujah, I love Jesus, I'm waiting for Him to come. Who
needs Elijah?" So now, you got something better God has, because, God
has Elijah.

	"Well, ain't that wonderful, you see, God is stuck with Elijah and I'm
stuck with God, hallelujah, it's so wonderful."  You just got stuck with
the devil. Truth. Men don't want God's way, it becomes a parody actually
of the truth when man gets his way. 

	Now, without doubt knowledge must be the basis of choice. That's true.
What if you've got a wrong knowledge? Man made his choice when he said,
"Well, I want God, I don’t want Elijah."  I thought you had to have
them both. Somebody's got a wrong knowledge. "My people perish for lack
of knowledge." [Hos 4:6] People can't make a choice, because there's a
wrong knowledge.

	Well, man got off on that, he got a wrong knowledge and he got into
this sin, because that was the great day of the knowledge when He was
under the great perfect knowledge of God, perfect guidance of God,
everything was under God. He gave it a way for the devil's lie, he
turned aside.

13.	Now: 

		…there was a requirement for sin. (Now remember, of course we
understand 				sovereignty, God knew this would happen.) There was a
requirement for sin. 				The requirement was death. The death was
penalty. We could go into great 				details of this, because I do not
believe there is but one death. There is one life 				however. I believe
a man that has Eternal Life can never die, and I believe there 				is a
complete annihilation of that soul that sinned, for the Bible said, "The
soul 				that sinneth, it shall die." 

	Now, this is the verse that the people that believe in two-souls put
forward, to say one of your souls has got to die, because you got two of
them. Now, Bro. Branham didn't say that did he? He said, "annihilation."
And he put it down the road. Not restoration. Not universalism, but
annihilation. So, we know that somebody taught not what the prophet
taught.

 		…not the man, the soul that sinneth. So Satan must surely die to be
completely 				destroyed. How I disagree with universalist that say,
that Satan will be saved. 				He sinned, and he is the originator of his
sin. (Now, what did it? Pride!)   

14.	You know, the strangest thing in all the world is the Bible is so
simple we all miss It. But, isn't right, the Bible said that Satan fell
into sin by reason of pride? That's exactly right. Yet, a lot of people
don't want to believe that. They don't want to believe that the cardinal
sin is 'pride'.

	What keeps a man from receiving Jesus Christ as Savior? He's a
legalist, his pride. He said, "I can do it myself." See?

	What keeps people from accepting the simple Word of God that Elijah
must truly come? Pride! Because, he's got it all figured out. Peter
himself said, "When that hour comes, know that a prophet must be there
to interpret and reveal, the same as it took a prophet to bring it." And
he stood on the Mount of Transfiguration, there's stood Elijah.

	They came down, they said, "Lord, we thought Elijah must first come."

	He said, "Elijah will come first."

	Now, people turn around, they say, "Well, I don't buy that."

	Well, that's fine. But, somebody's wrong. It's not the people that
believe this Message I can tell you that. We're not lifted up with
pride. People think we are. People think we work upon the principle of
fear. That's the furthest thing in all the world.

15.	I learned years ago, I could take any one of my kids in disobedience
and literally draw blood from his bottom if I used a switch. And that
fear did not deter those kids from doing what they really wanted to do.
Show me. Fear my hold a person steady for a while; when he marks time.
But your fear does not save you. It's the grace of Almighty God.

	I don't care about the Bible schools that make these tests and they
say, "How many people got saved because you're scared?" Sixty percent
raised their hands. They say, "There it is."

	I say, "That's a lie from the pit of hell." That's statistics. "The
goodness of God leadeth to repentance." [Rom 2:4] Something's messed up.
None of the prophet's said one Word off like we got.

	One Word off, why? Another Word off, another Word off, another Word
off, another Word off… I tell one lie today, tell another lie
tomorrow, another day after tomorrow, the next day, the next day more
and more lies. If I set the ball rolling for stealing, I'll steal more
and more, and more, and more, and more. If I mess around, it's more, and
more, and more, and more. Take one Word, just take It away, away, away,
away, away. See?

 [14] 	…when sin struck the earth back in the beginning like a sheet
of blackness 					 falling from the heavens, it literally paralyzed the
earth. It threw every 		  	      		creature on earth, and all of God's
creation, in bondage. Man was under 					bondage of death, sickness,
troubles, sorrows. All nature fell with it. Sin 			      		was an
anesthetic that actually paralyzed the earth. we was set here 				
hopeless, because every creature on earth was subject to it, and
everyone 					born on earth was subject to it. So it had to come from
someplace where 					there was no sin. It could not come from the earth.
(True, your salvation 					couldn't.) One of us could not redeem the
other one. It had to come from an 				outsider. And when man realized
that he was separated from his God, he 					become a wanderer. 

16.	Now, he's going back, to way back, you know, men wandering, Cain
wandering, and different ones.

 		They wept; they cried; they toiled; they wandered about through the 	
	      		mountains and through the deserts seeking a city whose Builder
and 					Maker was God. For he knew that if he ever got back in the
Presence 					of God, he could talk it over with Him. 

	Well, when are you going to have a chance to talk it over with Him?
Well, you do in prayer, but that's not it. Millennium. But, in the
Millennium that's from very short order now, because we're in the
ushering in. We'll be able to talk to God in the Person of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and this will  not be simply a Person Who stands there as
representative, This will be He. That's what I just…it's very
difficult to get across today how I preach the Presence of God. I used
to preach It so many ways till I came to the definitive understanding
He, God is here. 

	I'm not worried anymore about this, that, the other thing that
designates. This, that, or the other, I know He is here. Elohim is here.
Jehovah is here. Almighty God is here in the form of the Holy Spirit.
That same Jesus Who was in flesh, which: "he that has seen Me, has seen
the Father." [Jn 14:9] "I and My Father are one." [Jn 10:30] That same
One, God, that left Him in the Garden of Gethsemane, God is here.
Manifested Himself by a Pillar of Fire to the prophet. Manifested the
Son of man to us through the ministry. 

	The prophet was not the Son of man. The Pillar of Fire was not the Son
of man. It was in the form of the Holy Spirit. And I think you saw that
when you heard Bro. Branham's prayer on 'The Token', from Bakersfield.

17.	Now:

		But there was no way back. (He wanted to get back and talk with God.)
He 				was lost. He didn't know which way to turn, so he just took out
wandering, 				trying to find somewhere that he could find a way back to
that place. 					Something on the inside of him told him that he come
from-a place that was 				perfect. 

	Now, how in the world could something inside tell him, unless it was
back there in that place? Well, that's what Bro. Branham taught. You
always were a son. A lot of people don't realize that a fallen son can
be just as bad as a hog. There never was a son that fell. Do you know
that a fallen son can out-hog the hog? [laughter] You know, you got to
wake up and understand  brother/sister, there isn't any difference,
except little seed in here.

	Now, how would you like to take Bro. Branham if you'd have had the
chance and put him on a some sort of a machine that analyzes and take
his blood count, and take his flesh, and then take the biggest… well
come on, why don't you just go ahead and take one of his brother's? I'm
not running down the Branham's. How come you don't hear on tape Bro.
Branham talk about his kinfolk? How come he didn't visit them? …?... 

	Why don't you take one that denies, a literal brother that would deny
what Bro. Branham really was, that we know him to be? Put them on a
machine and analyze them. Could you tell the difference? Uh, uh. Now,
what makes the difference? Germ. Down in the soul, that little old gene
there. See? 

18.	All right, now:

[15] 	There is not a person here in this visible audience, or in the
audience of 			      		the magnetic tape, where it'll go around the
world; there's no one here or 					anywhere, but what seeks for that
perfection. 

	Why he wants it, but who's going to get it? Something down in here.
He's the only one. Because why? He's going to seek the Kingdom according
to God. Now, watch it, he's illustrating here now how the people just
try so many things you know to try to get back, or to get some kind of a
control in their hands. All right.

	Now, he said here, "Everybody's seeking, they're trying to do something
that'll give them a little bit payback."

		You get your bills paid; you think that'll settle it. When you got
your bills 					paid, then there's somebody sick in your family. When
the sickness gets all 				right, then you got more bills to pay. The
first thing you know your hair's 					turning gray, and then you want to
be back young. (Too late. Shoe polish 					and a bottle of 'Grecian',
isn't going to do anything for you.) …there's 					something all the
time, constantly, because of that wave of sin. But in your 				heart,
because that you seek for that, it shows that there is a perfection 				
somewhere. Somewhere there's something going on.

19.	Now, in the following paragraphs, he goes into how that you try to
do things to make yourself better, but, it doesn't work. 

[15]	That's the reason many times today that a sinner is still wandering
about. 					A beautiful young girl will cut off the locks of her hair to
be popular, paint 				up her face to make her look pretty, put on
clothes to show the form of her 					being, because it's the only thing
that she can find, finding somewhere, to 					try to find something to
come back to her; when she can cause men to 					whistle at her, wave at
her, flirt with her. Young men will do the same thing 				to the woman:
try to make himself attracted to her. Neighbors will build a 					house
look in a certain way, (neighbor's try to make theirs better.) It's all
the 				time. We are seeking for something, (something we want to go
back to.)

[16] 	A young lady will find another young lady's more popular than she.
Neighbor 				will find a house that looks better than his. Woman will
find another woman 				dressed better than she does. It's something in
us that's seeking out for 					something, and it shows we're lost. We
want to find that something will bring 				us to that satisfaction,
that'll fill that spot of hunger in there; but it 	seems 					like we
can't find it. 

20.	In other words, he's saying here self improvement has never done the
job. It never has done the job, or will do the job, it's got to be by
faith. And that's what it says over here in Romans 10:1-3.

		(1) 	Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that
						they might be saved.

		(2) 	For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not
according 					to knowledge.

		(3) 	For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about
to 						establish their own righteousness, have not submitted
themselves 						(to) the righteousness of God.

	Again, It says, "All our righteousness is as filthy rags." [Isa 64:3] 

21.	Okay, now:

		Human beings have tried it through the ages. They wept for it. They
cried. 					They done everything they thought they know how to do about
it, but still 					they don't find it, they wander around the world
trying to get it. (But, there 					is a way of a cure. Now watch.)
Finally one day, that's that day at Calvary, 				there was One came down
from glory, One by the Name of Jesus the Christ, 				the Son of God came
from glory, and Calvary was formed. That was the day 				the price was
paid, the sin question settled, and  opened up the way unto 					this
thing that we're hungering and thirsting for. It brought a place of 				
satisfaction. There is no man that's ever visits Calvary and saw it the
way it 				was, that can ever be the same. Everything that he ever
desired or longed for 				is met when he reaches that place. It was such
an important day and such an 				important thing, it shook the world. It
shook the world like it was never shook 				before when Jesus died at
Calvary and paid the sin question.

[17]	This sinful world had a blackout. The sun went down in the middle
of the 			      		day; it had a nervous prostration. The rocks shook,
the mountains rent, the 		      		dead bodies burst from the grave. What
did it do? God zeroed in on Calvary. 				He wounded that animal called
Satan forever. Now, he's been more vicious 				since then, because it
brought Light to the human race; and anyone knows 				that a wounded
animal is the most vicious, crawling around with his back 					broken.
(An animal will fight the hardest knowing it's dying.

22.	Now, he has been more vicious since then. 

		Now, Satan was knocked out at Calvary. The earth proved that it was.
The 				greatest price that was ever paid, and the only One that could
pay it, came 				and did it at Calvary. That's where the great price was
paid. That's one of 					the things. God had required it. No man was
worthy. No man was able. No 				man could do it. And God came Himself,
and was made human, lived a 					human life under human desires, and was
crucified at Calvary (now, he said, 				God did it) there, when Satan
thought He wouldn't do it, He wouldn't go 					through it... He went to
Gethsemane, and every temptation that any man ever 				stood; 

	And that means exactly what it said. So therefore, sex mixed up
generation of godless people. I hold you with William Branham the Word
of Almighty God responsible. That's right. We're still a legalist bunch
of people thinking, we'll if we do it, somehow we'll get away with it.
Let me tell you, sons of God don't mess up. Not the way the world does,
that's a thing of the past. Now, we understand these things, but, we
don't understand these things, it's time that people understood them.
Yep.

		He went through Gethsemane, and every temptation every man ever had. 	
			He went through it just like all men; 

23.	You say, "Well, I believe He didn't go through some."

	That's where you're wrong, He did.

		…but He paid the price; and that's what blacked the earth out like
an 					anesthetic for an operation.

	Now, a lot of the Adventist's, they say, "Well you see, when Jesus
fulfilled the law, it meant that He lived a perfect life." That was not
true. He did live a perfect life as the perfect Lamb, but when He died
upon Calvary, that's when the law was fulfilled. People get so messed up
it's pitiful. Oh, for the good old Presbyterian's that once had it, when
the John Knox's were living, and the great men of God. 

		 When a doctor gives a man an anesthetic, he first knocks him out
before 				 	he can do it. (That's the operation.) And when God gave the
operation for 				 	the church, the world got an anesthetic. 

[18] 	Nature had a convulsion. No wonder, God in human flesh was dying. 

24.	Now, what does it mean for God in human flesh to die? It's the
Logos. God manifested Himself, He out-rayed Himself. Whatever knowledge
by presentation to a prophet, or to whomsoever. He was presenting
Himself in a form of visibility. This was an out-raying from God so that
people understood. Though, this was not God per se, yet, It was God,
because, It was the covering of God.

	What did He do in Jesus Christ? The Bible said that "He was the
fullness of the Godhead bodily." [Colossians 2:9] So therefore, every
attribute that was in God, God was able to out-ray through Himself
literally taking these genes as you might call them, and these
out-raying fantastic attributes and reducing them to receptacles which
was a sperm and an egg. And bringing forth that Man-Child, Jesus Christ,
you literally saw God. See? So, God in the form of human flesh, and God
indwelt Him as that One, because, He contained the attributes. 

		God in human flesh was dying. It was the hour that the world had
looked 					for, yet many of them did not know it. Like it is today,
they look for many 					things they don't recognize them. They don't
realize the way out. They're 					still trying to seek pleasures and
things of the world, trying to find them.

 	Now, there isn't one sinner that doesn't want something better. But,
that doesn't say that every sinner wants salvation. It's only if it's
down in here, the gene.

	Remember, two thieves were on a cross. One said, "Get out of my way, I
don't want you."

	The other said, "Remember me, when You come to Your Kingdom."

25.	Now:  

  		There was been many sign posts that pointed to that day, many great 
				foreshadows. It had been foreshadowed by the lamb, by the bullock,
by 					the turtledove, and all these things; (in other words, types the
head and 					the slayings of the sacrifice,) but yet it could not break
it. It could not 					break that death hold. For Satan had the earth,
the very rocks that he once 				walked up and down on the earth, burning
brimstones. Lucifer was the 					son of the morning, and he walked on
the earth when it was a burning 					volcanic. (I think he's taking that
from Ezekiel 28.) Those same rocks that 					cooled off, when Jesus died
at Calvary, (Now, he said, those same rocks 					that had cooled off,
when Jesus died at Calvary,) belched forth out of the 					earth. (That
was through the earthquake, Matthew 27 no doubt.) The price 				that was
paid, and the bondage of Satan was broken.

	What he's trying to tell you here is, that the effect was upon nature.
This is why the earth will come back to its pristine purity sometime. At
least to a vast degree when we walk upon it for a thousand years, and
then we be completely remolded as in a resurrection.

		God put back into the hands of man a way back to what he was looking
for. 				He had to weep no more. When He broke the backbone of Satan
there at 					Calvary, the back bone of sin, of sickness...it brings
every mortal being on 					the earth back into the Presence of God with
sins forgiven. 

	You say, "Well, is he saying, 'every single person'?" The potential is
there. But, why doesn't the Blood become effective, because, they will
not take the Light. See? "The preaching of the gospel is foolishness,"
[1 Cor 1:21] because It tells about Calvary. 

26.	Paul said, "I'm determined to bring to you one thing only," that was
the preaching of Calvary.

		Hallelujah. Our sins are forgiven. No more can Satan black us off from
					God. (In other words, keep the curtain down.) There's a highway
made. 					There's a telephone setting there. There's a line to glory.
It brings every 					person in reach of that line. (That's true,
potentially everybody. Potentially. 				See, in other words, it's vast.)
If a man is full of sin, it connected him in "old 				central." He can
be forgiven that sin. Not only that, but that sin is paid for. 			
Glory.

[19] 	You don't have to say, "I'm not worthy." Sure you're not. You
never could 					be. But a worthy One took your place. You're free. You
don't have to wonder 				anymore. (See? You don't have to wonder, or
wander.) You don't have to be 				a pleasure seeking man out here on the
earth. 	

		For,

		There is a fountain filled with blood,

		Drawn from Emmanuel's veins;

		Where sinners plunged beneath the flood,

		Lose all their guilty stains.

		You don't have to be lost; there's a highway and a way, and it's
called the 					way of holiness. The unclean don't pass over it, for he
comes to the fountain 				first; then he enters the highway. 

	In other words, our understanding of what he's saying here is a thing
he said in the Seals. How can you make a man guilty when the Blood of
Jesus Christ scatters sin, till there be no evidence of it? He said,
"Bible tell us, be ye perfect." Matthew 5:48. "Be ye perfect, even as
your Father in heaven is perfect." 

	Now, he said, "If God required it, then God has to make a way for it." 

	Now, a lot of people don't like that, because they're legalists. They
say, "Well, I believe we've got something into it."

	Sure, you got something into it, take what He gave you. Take Elijah
with his coming. Who wants it? 

27.		He broke the powers of Satan. He opened the prison doors to hell.
To every 				man that was shut up in this earth in the prisons, fearing
that when he died, 				what death would be to him; on Calvary He opened
those cell doors, let 					every captive go free. You don't have to be
any longer torn down by sin. 

[20] 	You don't have to no longer yield your members to sin: drinking,
smoking, 					gambling, and  telling lies. You can be honest, just, and
upright; and Satan 				can do nothing about it; because you got hold of
a line, a lifeline. It's 					anchored in the Rock of Ages. Nothing can
shake you from it. No winds can 				shake you from it. No nothing, not
even death itself can separate us from the 				love of God that's in
Christ Jesus. That's what Calvary meant. Men that were 				in bondage
were set free. Men that were once under fear of death can no longer 			
fear death. A man who longs for a city whose Builder and Maker is God,
that 				man can step on the highway and set his face towards heaven,
because he's 				free. Hallelujah. He's redeemed. He doesn't need to
wander any more, for 					there's a way of knowing whether you're right
or not. God gives us Life. 					Our sins are gone. That day at Calvary
paid the price. 

	So you see, the power of 'the tree of knowledge of good and evil' is
over with. There's a way for a man to know the ways of God. And walk in
those ways and know just where he's going. See, we've left too much of
this Word in our own hands, rather than putting the Word back in the
hands of God. God made a promise. He's got to deal with it. You and I
don't.

28.	Well, what if I made a promise, and I made a promise  pulpit, and
somebody came to one of you and said, "Hey, you do something about Bro.
Vayle."

	You say, "Just a minute old boy, I never made the promise, Lee did, go
to him."

	Now, you're smart enough to do that. I'm smart enough, you're smart
enough. How come we're pretty stupid when it comes to the things of God?
Bro. Branham is correct, we didn't need a prophet to tell us that.  

	Remember one thing: where were we for the last six thousand years when
the promise was first made? "The seed of the woman." [Gen 3:15] Wasn't
one child even born yet. Two were on   their way. You talk about
predestination. Predestination is nothing more nor less than the family,
the father and mother wanting to provide the right things for a proper
child. And it's going to be a proper child, because they're going to
have them. Well, tell me how God comes less than we do? I don't see God
falling behind us. The price was paid.

 [21]	When we see all of that, no wonder the poet wrote,

		Mid rendering rocks and darkening skies,

		My Saviour bowed His head and died.

		The opening veil revealed the way,

		To heavens joys and endless day.

	Now, he's talking to sinners, but he gets into the Christian too, but
he gets into the Christian more down the line.

29.	Now:

		Abraham didn't have to wander any more across the country seeking a
city. 

	No, he plainly declared he was seeking a city, but the days are over.
He knew he was going to get it, and where he was going to get it. In the
Resurrection. I've been telling people for years, the Resurrection must
be fantastic. It must be monumental. Must be tremendous, because that's
it. 

	People all the time fuss and they say, "Well, you know, this is of the
open Seal, you know, the Seventh Seal and the Coming of the Lord, and no
man knows the day, and no man knows the hour," Just read the rest of it.
And it tells you about that time you better be careful. Because, the
time when He comes you better be right. How can you be more right than
be resurrected? I got no worry.

	Now, people may think I'm crazy. Well, I plead guilty. I've listen to
the prophet. And if he messed me up, then he messed me up good. I'm not
worried anymore. Why should I worry about meeting Him in the sky and
when He lowers Himself to meet a Bride in the air?  Why should I worry
about that when I'm already resurrected? I don't understand some
people's thinking.

	You know what's wrong with their thinking? It's there thinking. They
won't let it go. It is you ain't, it is you is. Same thing you ain't
…?..., says you is. We are. We're in the ushering in of the
Millennium. You don’t have to worry anymore.  

		 The sick man doesn't have to wonder whether he can be healed or not. 
				(That's true he doesn't.) The opening veil on that day at Calvary
revealed 					the way to total victory. God give us the powers of His
Spirit to live 					triumphantly over all these things; asks us only to
believe it. That happened on 				that day at Calvary. (Now, he said,
"the sick man doesn't have to wonder.")

30.	We had a meeting up here in Lima in 1957. We prayed almost around
the clock, from five o'clock in the morning to ten o'clock at night. We
had prayer chains going. We had meeting every night praying. And we just
set our hearts open before God, that God would do things. And I'm going
to tell you what: I was in that meeting, people in that meeting, and
people sat in that meeting went out healed and hadn't even come for
healing, and didn't even know that they got healed. And I met them in
the street and they talked to me and my wife, and there wasn't one time
that Bro. Branham called out somebody that wasn't exactly right in the
sense of being healed. He never was wrong in discernment. But, how many
people got healed when he called them? Very, very few. There wasn't one
miss. There was hundreds. What did it? Calvary. 

	In other words [blank spot on tape] which shows that our faith can be
responsive to the Word of God if we only want It to be.  

		There never was a day like it. There never will be one like it. It's
not necessary 				anymore. (Once for all.) The price is paid, and we are
redeemed. 

[22] 	Thanks be to God; we are redeemed. 

	People get mixed up there. You know why? Because they have been saved,
they haven't been saved, and yet to be saved. Are they cliché's of the
truth? I don't like that. I like that I have been redeemed, and I'm yet
to be redeemed.

	You say, "Just a minute, how do you make that?"

	My soul has been redeemed and my body is just about there. When the
Blood sprinkled on the earth, the Blood sprinkled on the Mercy Seat,
took care of the soul, and the Blood on the earth took care of my body.
So therefore, I have been redeemed and I am about to be redeemed. And if
I hadn't been redeemed on the inside, there wouldn't be too much hope
for the outside to be in that First Resurrection. There never was a day
like it.

31.	Now:

[22]	… no way do you have to wonder about it; there's no more guessing
about it. 				It's all took away. The veil pulled back the curtain and
we're set on a highway, 				not to wonder anymore, but to believe and
just walk right on. We walk right 				into God's great Presence. Abraham
knew, and others knew that while they 				were seeking the city, they
knew they were from somewhere. 

	Now you see, that's the big thing right there. The others don't know
that. I brought that out at the very first…begin talking, they knew
they were from somewhere. That's what I keep on saying  brother/sister,
when it comes to being a son, I do not have a representative in Christ,
I am a son. I was a son, a fallen son. When it comes to sin, I have a
representative. When it comes to all the rest, I have a representative.
But, according to Bro. Branham, you and I stood there somehow, someway,
"when all the Morning Stars came together and shouted for joy in the
Presence of God." [Job 38:7]  

	That He was the One that took upon Himself a theophonic form, but, we
didn't get ours. So we can't remember. 

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, I don't know if I like that."

	"I like it."

	You say, "Explain it."

	"I can't, but I like it."

	I've had a lot of good things in life I like, but I can't explain them.

32.	You know, years ago, we didn't have electricity. We didn't even have
indoor toilets. Anybody know about those? Outhouses? They weren't very
comfortable. Running water. Sure, it ran in the summer time when it
didn't freeze. We hauled our water in barrels, tasted horrible too.
Prairies with alkaline water. You got iron and junk around here.
Alkalized I think is worse than iron. But, you know what? We got
electricity finally. Didn't know the first thing about it, except plug
[makes a noise] hit a little button. I sure liked it. I didn't know the
first thing about a car. I sure like cars. I know a lot about God. By
grace, by help, we know we're from somewhere.

		Something happened. They were living in a paralyzed earth. Earthquakes
came; 				storms come, wars and killings. The wolf and lamb fed on one
another, or the 				wolf fed on the lamb, and the lion eat the ox. It
don't look right. There's 					something wrong. …there was something
wrong. Man, brother kill brother. 				Father killed son; son killed
father. There's something wrong. He's getting old. 				He's dying. He's
withering away. Sickness is on him. He's in bondage. Trees grow 			but
not immortal; they die. Mountains change. Seas dry up. (They sure do dry
up.)

	How come they've proven there's seas literally on top of some
mountains, because there's all kinds of shells up there? Upheavels? Call
them what you want. I care less what people say. He's right.

 		Waters fail There's something wrong, he sought a place, a city, that
that 					didn't happen anymore; He knew if he could ever get back into
the Presence 				of the One that made it right, he could talk it over
with Him. (Now, He invites 				a sinner though to come, doesn't He?)

33.	All right: "Come let us reason together saith the Lord: though your
sins be like scarlet, white as snow." [Isa 1:18]

[23] 	Oh, what a privilege, sinner, it is this morning to know that you
got the 					way now. That day at Calvary opened up the way. For all
those patriarchs 				hunted for and sought for, Calvary gave it to you
free. 

	Now, that's true, because remember, even the patriarchs were in prison
in upper Sheol till Calvary. And Bro. Branham said and so beautifully
when he screamed out. That scream penetrated to upper Sheol which was
not a cry of death, but a cry of fulfillment! And that shook them down
there, woke them up to reality that the Mighty Conqueror is on His way.
See, death was not abysmal. Abysmal means 'chaotic'. Death didn't
scatter, This death gathered, all in heaven and earth through the Blood!
All the fallen sons brought back to God, everything once in harmony.
That scream there made the very lower Sheol tremble and upper Sheol
rejoice with joy, because they knew the Mighty Conqueror was on His way.

	That day, Calvary opened up the way for all those patriarchs hunted for
Him, sought for it, Calvary gave It to you free. How do you turn It
down? How would you turn It down and join a denomination? How would you
turn It down to substitute something for the price of the world? Why not
accept It? And I say, "They all tried different ways, this person tries
this, another person tries that. 

34.	Oh, now they've got books out in geriatrics, how we live to be a
hundred and they're going to be like Rodale(?). At age seventy, he's on
a TV program, Dick Cavett I think it was, and he's telling everyone I'm
going to live to be hundred. Poing, he has a heart attack and passes
out, he's gone. I thought that's great myself. I'd like to die. Hey,
just a few months to go. (See, what would that be? This is April, May,
June, July, August, five months to go. Five, lucky five. Lucky old five
coming up.) Get out of here, fall over dead. I don't mind that. I won't
have to worry about my shoes hurting me anymore. Don't have to worry
about getting too fat. Which is never one of my great problems, but, I
don't like it if I put on weight more than anybody else does, because I
got to stay thin. Won't worry about my hair anymore. Should always be
the right length. Yes sir. Won't have to worry about getting…well you
know, look at the roses do to you.  Go out in the garden and plant
roses. See, they're not even nice. One of the prettiest flowers, one of
the meanest natures in the world. [said with laughter] Watch them pretty
women boys, exactly what has hit us. Many a scorpion under a pretty leaf
of a tree.

35.	All right listen, it says: All right,

  		The opening veil brings a man right back in the Presence of God
without 					sin on him of any kind, sets a road before him to the thing
that he's seeking 				for: heaven, glory, peace, Eternal Life,
everything right before him. 

	Now, he's going to make some strong statements about that, because down
the road, because people say, "Well, if that's the case, why are such,
and such, and such?"

	See, that's the whole problem brother. They don't believe the premise
of what the prophet is saying. See, we've been going to church all these
years and seeing what is supposed to be Christianity and is not! It's a
rake off, or a put on! Is denominational creeds and dogmas and tenet's,
but when you get to that Word and you're dealing with sin, then sin has
been dealt with, or it'll never be dealt with because God lied.

	Now, Paul brings it out might flat. Now God didn't lie. He did not lie.
Now, he'll bring these things together later on, because he's going to
talk about the fact how Calvary opened up the door for the Holy Spirit
to come. So, you look back to Calvary for that too. And that's the exact
truth, the old Pentecostal's always screamed out and said, "The Spirit
answers to the Blood." And that's exactly what the Bible teaches in
Hebrews 10. That we know that the Blood is there, because the Holy Ghost
answers to It, or becomes a witness. And if the Blood has cleansed our
hearts, and we are walking in the Light of Calvary in the sense of
perfect redemption by the Blood, there is no way you cannot be baptized
with the Holy Ghost.

	What keeps people back? Bro. Branham said it clearly, he said, "It is
[corrected] a repentance that is not a thorough repentance is why people
don't get the Holy Ghost." And what's repentance? It's not you feeling
sorry brother/sister, it's about you getting that Light strike you.
Because, "godly sorrow worketh repentance." [2 Cor 7:10] And godly
sorrow is not repentance, it works it. Now, when that godly sorrow was
there, and God leaves a man, God takes that mind and illuminates it, and
puts it right on the Word. Puts it right back on Christ where it
belongs. 

36.	All right: 

		That day was the death blow to Satan's power. It ended everything. I
can 					see Him there. He was Eden's Lamb from the very first shadow
that came 					of It, when Abel by faith offered unto God a more
excellent sacrifice than 					Cain. He must have tied a grapevine around
a lamb's neck, drug him up to 				the rock, took a rock in his hand for
a lance, and pulled his little head back, 				and chopped and hacked him
until he died and his wool bathed with his 					own blood. 

[24] 	He wallowed in blood. 

	Now, where did he hack him? In the throat. And that's where they
understand the original Bible says about what Cain did. He cut Abel's
jugular vein with a jagged rock. Typifying the lamb. He didn't smash him
in the head as a lot of people think. You know, we often thought that;
when Abel turned his back, he just went 'bong'. He wouldn't be a lamb.
You don't bong a lamb. [makes a cutting sound] Throat! Blood has to be
shed.

	They didn't hit Jesus with a club. Hands, feet, spear, blood. The blood
flowed, you bet. You see, a lot of things makes sense when you
just…actually, it's really a pity that we have to be told so many
things. I didn't find this out on my own either, don't worry. It's a
pity we have to be told so many thing, when by now we ought to just
know. You know, just because it falls in line.

37.		It was a shadow. But on that day at Calvary, there wasn't a Lamb of
this 					earth, but it was a Lamb of God that was dying, wallowing in
His own 					Blood. He was hacked, chopped, beat, spit on, slammed,
smacked and 					everything by the world and the Blood dropping off of
his locks... (Right 					there, the temple's punctured.) When Abel's
lamb died, it died speaking 					in a language that Abel could not
understand. It was bleating. And when 					God's Lamb died, that day at
Calvary, He spoke in a language that no 					man could understand, "My
God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me." It 					was God's Lamb, hacked
to pieces, chopped up. He was the very Lamb that 				Abel had in mind
when he saw the promised seed of the woman. He was the 				Lamb that
Daniel saw that was hewed out of the mountain without hands. 					He was
the wheel in the middle of the wheel for the prophet. All they had 				
foreseen was met on that day, that day at Calvary. That brought the
great 					thing in. That broke the back of Satan.

[25] 	First, we should seek what that day meant. Second, we should see
what that 				day has done for us. …what it did for us… third, let's
look at what we ought 				to do for today, (yes) what ought we to do.

38.	All right:

		First, we'll look into it, for it's a great day, greatest of all the
days. Sin price 				was settled. Satan's power was broken. Now, we want
to see what we should 				do in return.

	Now, there's what we're looking at here now. We're looking at the fact
that what is going to come out Calvary, what we looked for concerning
ourselves, because we are talking of Calvary in terms of settling our
sins.  This is not merely in the sense of: hey listen, Calvary was a
place where sin was settled., it is now the place where we need Him; our
sins are settled and what is happening and what is going on. All right:

		Now, in return, is when Jesus died at Calvary, on Calvary that day He 
				not only paid the price for our sins, but He also paid the price and
made 					a way that we could follow Him. For we, as the fallen Adam had
been 					redeemed, as the Spirit led Adam, the first Adam, by the
Spirit that had 					control of all nature... 

	Now, he's telling you here there is a spirit that has control over all
nature, and he still has it, although it's leased out, has been for six
thousand years to Satan. But God has kept the absolute because He's
sovereign.

39.	All right:

		Then we the second Adam--or the man of the earth has been redeemed by 
				Christ from the day at Calvary, can follow Him. (Now, he's telling
us set 					free from the penalty of sin, and set free from the power of
sin.) Now, when 				He died at Calvary, He made a way. He gave up the
Spirit, the Holy Spirit 					that sent it back to the earth for you and
I to live by. That's what Calvary 					means to us to follow Him. 

	So, you notice that he is quoting actually the Book of Galatians. Let's
go to Galatians 3:13, no prophet could do anything by quote the Bible.

		(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: (Notice:)

		(14) 	That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through 
					Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of faith.

	There It is, It tells you right there, that the Holy Spirit could not
be given except for Calvary. So therefore, Calvary meant two issues.
See, met the issue of sin. It met the issue of binding back, and thereby
producing a resurrection so that man could now go back to Eden.

40.	And Bro. Branham said concerning the Millennium, he's talking to
Charlie Cox, they were discussing about… Charlie said, "Say, (he said)
we like hunting squirrels, do you think maybe we'll hunt squirrels in
the Millennium?" 

	Now remember him, Jesus rose from the dead, Bro. Branham said, "He ate
a fish sandwich." But, that's on earth here, that's not Millennium. So,
Bro. Branham said, "Charlie, they're be nothing killed in the
Millennium."

	"Well," he said, "I thought, maybe because we kind of liked it,
wouldn't be maybe, too bad a thing if we did some shooting out there."
And he said, "You know why, we've had so much fun and all, I just, you
know…"

	And he said, "Charlie the trouble is (he said) you're looking at life
down the road by compared to what it is now, what you like here now.
Now, he said, listen (he said) what would it be like if a hog could
suddenly be turned into a man?  Why, he said, the difference would be so
fantastic, why (he said,) you couldn't comprehend it. Now, (he said,)
neither can you comprehend has a human being what the Millennium is
going to be to you as a glorified being." So that's what we're looking
at. That's what we're seeing here that Calvary did this, It opened the
way for it. See?

41.	Now:

		He died at Calvary, He made a way. He gave up the Spirit, the Holy
Spirit 					that sent it back to the earth for you and I to live by.
That's what Calvary 					means to us to follow Him. First, look into it.
See what it did for us, now 					what must we do in regards to it. What
must you and I do? 

[26] 	Now, we say, "Well, I appreciate that. That's very fine." We've
got to accept 				it. And to accept it (that's Calvary, the death,) is
to accept His Person, Christ, 				in our hearts. 

	Do you know something? I don't know, this business of modern preaching
that came out of Germany, this humanism, modernistic teaching that said,
"Hey, you shouldn't teach anybody that they need a Savior, you give them
complexes. You shouldn't tell anybody that there's anything about God
producing a sacrifice, that's absolutely heathen. It's degrading, it'll
destroy the person."

	There has been a sweep around the world: who needs salvation? Who needs
a Savior? Who needs One that died? Now, I admit that's not as strong as
it once was, because it's something like the three 'R's, the teacher's
have finally found out that this modern system that Dewey brought over
from Russia is for the pigs. And even a good pig wouldn't take it. It's
been a complete farce and folly, that system, which was the enterprise
system. Never worked, never will, because everything is under
discipline.

	 Go out there and tell the rose not to prick you. Go sit in the cactus.
Say, "Hey, you can't do this to me." Well, it'll do it. Tell the dog
that bites you not to bite you. Tell the wind that picks your house up
in a tornado, say, "Hey, stop it. Hey, hold it." No way. No way.

42.	All right, now this thing that people have foisted on us has brought
many people to a place where they cannot take a Savior. Now, that ran
its course. What was the next thing? The next thing was, 'sure we need a
Savior'. And they turned down the Light of the hour. The next thing they
said, "Well hey, you get the Holy Ghost when you believe, so now, that
takes care of it."

	So, now they don't have a Calvary, they don't have a Word, they don't
have Light, and they don't have a Savior, they don't have anything;
except the bad luck, the bad position of having failed in all those
counts.

	Now, Bro. Branham is saying here categorically: if you are going to
look at this thing right, you are going to know that at Calvary It
didn't only pay for sins, It opened the door whereby man may be joined
back to God spiritually. Born again, come up in a resurrection and be in
His Presence eternally. Not just the Millennium, but the great Eternal
White City.

	Now, he's saying here: you must accept Jesus Christ into your hearts to
be free from sin. The perfect sacrifice made us perfect. 

		For Jesus said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in
heaven is 					perfect." Then there is no more to be done, but we are
made perfect in the 					Presence of God. (And that's exactly right.)

43.	That's one reason I say when people are talking about Bro. Branham's
Message, the Blood off the Mercy Seat, this, that, and the other thing.
The Blood and the Bride, and the Blood and the Word. I say, "Look, I
appreciate all those things, I like it, but just hold your horses, I
want you to know one thing: I believe in Blood. I believe in the shed
Blood, and I care little or nothing for all the arguments I know one
thing, if Bro. Branham told us the truth and He is here, then the Blood
has availed, and is still availing." So, I look at the Blood in the
light of my understanding that It does bring a perfection for His
Presence. Now, there is where we lose our positions.

	Now watch: He says:

		 Now, there's where we lose our position.

   Now remember, we have a state and a standing. The standing is a
position. The state is what you are. I am not perfect, you are not
perfect, not one of us is perfect.

	Bro. Branham said, "You backslide a thousand times a day, you'll do
many, many things that are wrong in error." That is true. That is your
actual state, but your standing before God is one of perfection. It's
the old doctrine of 'eternal security'. And I'm going to tell you, even
a legalist understands this to a degree. But, his mind has been so
messed up, he can't understand that we are in a literal state here right
now; that is literally abject when you consider what we want in the
resurrection. But, that does not stop us coming to a resurrection. It
won't do it.

44.	Now, he said here:

		Now, there's where we lose our position.

	In other words, this is where we lose the Light, we lose the
perspective, you don't lose your position per se, you lose your
relationship to it on the grounds of the understanding. Now:

		 If we don't watch, we try to look back to what we were; and as long
as 				we look back to what we were, the sacrifice means nothing to us. 

	Now, he's trying to tell you something here, and that is: your faith
must be channeled according to the Word, because, faith is a revelation;
and to have a perfect conception of Calvary is to have a perfect
conception of perfection of righteousness, the totality of the dealing
with sin. So, that the Blood has scattered sin till there be no evidence
of it. Till the man stands there in a perfection which is wrought of
God. That's what he's trying to tell you here.

		Oh, can't you see it, church? I would not try the job; I can't,
neither can 					you. There is no need of trying. You're lost to begin
with, as long as you 					look to what you've done. But don't look to
what you've done, look what 					that day on Calvary did for you. (Now,
he's talking to Christians and to					backsliders, and to raw heathens
that are sinners.)

45.	I like what Rolf Barnard(?) said. He said, "I would give an altar
call, except you might put your faith in one step you took to this
altar. Stand where you are and receive Christ, so you know nothing you
have done."

	The old song writer said, "Nothing in my hands I bring." That's very
good. If you bring nothing, then there's nothing to be taken from you.
So stand there and get something. Most people don't even know the word
'consecration' do…most people consecration means: "Here I come Lord
with my hands full, and I'm going to give it to You." That's stupid!
It's here I stand with my hands empty, fill them. That's exactly what It
says in Hebrews. You know that before? You should have, because I've
done preached it different times. Your memory is getting as bad a mine.
Shame, I'm seventy years old, just about.

		It paid your price. It settled the question. Your sins be as scarlet,
they're 					as white as snow: red like crimson, white like wool. Then
you have no sin. 					You're perfectly sinless. (Who thought of that?
Yeah, you know what people 				are afraid of? They're afraid if they
open up their mouth and say it.) 

46.	Remember Aesop's fable? There was this frog who decided he didn't
like the cold climate. Now, he knew about the geese, you know, they flew
south every year. So he said, "My, (he said) I would sure like to fly
south, and I could go down there in the warm climate and come back in
the summer time."

	They said, "How are we going to do it?"

	They held a little consultation and a couple of geese said, "Look, I
tell you what, you got a pretty strong mouth?"

	He said, "Yeah."

	"Well, I'll tell you, we'll put a stick in our two beaks and you grab
on with your mouth and your two paws, your two claws there and we'll
take you down south with us."

	"Well," he said, "Hey, I like that."

	And don't you know they got going real good. And pretty soon a big bird
came by and he said, "What a clever thing, what a clever thing, who
thought of it?"

	And the frog opened his mouth to say, "I did." [laughter] And he fell
to the ground and he exploded. 

Aesop's fable is a story with a moral. And this is a moral: when you
open your mouth and think you've done one thing for Calvary, or for
yourself, you are the frog that opened your mouth. Frog's pretty low on
the totem pole too. Story fits pretty good.

47.	Listen:

		You're perfectly sinless. No matter what you did or what you do,
(presence 				tense) you are  sinless. As long as you have accepted
Christ as your Saviour, 				your sins are forgiven. 

	That means, you're really born again. You're not in process. You have
been processed. You name verified as being on the Book of Life, ticked
off, he came in, she came in. Amen, everybody in heaven rejoicing,
hallelujah.

		What does it do, then?

[27] 	It gives you, after that condition, His Spirit to follow Him, to
do as He did, 				for others who is following on. He was just one Man,
the perfect Man. He 					gave His life, and He made an example for you. 

48.	Now, you'll notice he's going to be going into the spirit filled
life. And this is where you've got to watch, because, he's going to talk
about a spirit filled life as a natural life, the same as we had an old
natural life. So, you're not going to be helping me studying and
wondering, and mesmerizing yourself, putting on a little hypnosis, or
God knows what. You're going to be the you, the transformed you. 

	Like the apostle Paul said, "I've been crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; (that's Calvary,) and yet not I, but Christ liveth
in me: and the life that I now live in the flesh I live by the (life) of
the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me. [Gal 2:20]

49.	So, let's watch:

 		Now, what must we do. Now, the first thing I want to say is: Jesus
never 					lived for Himself. 

	Now, remember we talked about love? I said, "Love is a battle, like
everything else is. Love is getting out of the way." Just like Bro.
Branham said. Okay:

		  He never lived  for Himself. He lived for others. And you receive
Eternal 					Life by receiving that day, (on Calvary) and you don't live
for yourself 					anymore. You live for others. 

	Because, you have entered into His death, because you claim, and I
claim we've entered into His Resurrection. And you can't have a
resurrection unless there's a death. That's right. That's why  the
strange thing is coming on earth, some people are not going to die to
get a resurrection. No way, shape and form. Going to be quite a bunch of
them.

50.	Okay, now:

		You live for others. Someone said, "How can you stand and let anyone 	
			call you such bad names?" You don't live for yourself. You live for
others 					that you might redeem that man. 

	"Watch," he said, "you might redeem him." Now let's watch these things
here, because, we're talking about sinners now. This is entirely
different when you dealing with a Christian. Yet, it's the same
principle.

		You become sons. And the trouble of it is that the church has forgot
that 					they were sons. You are sons. You're taking Christ's place.
You are sons; 					(then taking Christ's place,) you don't live for
yourself; you live for others. 				"Well, Brother Branham, I can live
for this brother because he sure is such 				a nice man." That's not it.
Live for that man that hates you. Live for that person 				who'd kill
you if they could. That's what they did to Him. They killed Him, 				
and He died that He might save them. That's Eternal Life. 

[28] 	When you get that in your bosom, you are facing heaven then. But
you sacrifice 				your own things, give them up like the sheep gives its
wool. You look on towards 				Calvary. I hope this helps you to get in a
place... (Now, over here he mentioned 				position, we lose our
position. Now, he's talking about place.) That's what the 			
Tabernacle, that's what all people has got to do, is find out what you
are and 				what's the purpose. 

51.	Now, he said, "Here then: what we're looking at is that Calvary has
done it, and with His death, we enter in, dying to ourselves. Then we
rise with a newness of life which is a different nature."

		Church isn't going to church just to play music, and sing songs.
Church is 					for a  correction... Judgment begins at the house of God.
We must reckon 					ourselves dead and alive to Christ. Then He made the
way that we could 					sacrifice ourselves to His service to follow Him.
If we follow Him, we lead 					the life that He led. That's wonderful.
Jesus said it, He spoke of it. Let me 					give some quotations. (Now)
Don't miss it. (Now, here's this naturalness,) 					Jesus said at that
day He would separate the sheep from the goats. He would 				say to the
goats, "Stand on the left side," the sheep, "Stand on the right side." 	
		He said to the goats, "Depart from Me, because I was hungry  you
didn't feed 				Me. I was in prison, you didn't visit Me. I was naked,
you clothed Me not. I 				was thirsty, you gave Me no drink. I was sick,
and you didn't visit Me. So 					depart from Me."

[29]	 And on the sheep, He said, "I was hungry you fed Me. …naked you
give Me 				clothing… sick and you ministered to Me." And notice,
don't fail to get this, 				church. Keep this in your hearts forever. It
was so unconsciously done. 

52.	Now, I'm a hundred percent for this. This is where real love it.
Because, it's a Word coming out. We preach some pretty hard things on
love that people don't understand, because we haven't gone all the way
talking about.

	But, you see, when I drive on a subject, I come to the place where I
believe I know it thoroughly, and I believe that God does something for
me. You think what you want. I'm up here, this is my job. I tell you
what I believe, what I got faith for, you listen, do what you want. Now,
it sounds pretty rough, but, I'm not rough. Because look, I can't give
anybody anything anymore than you can give me some. I can't give you a
revelation. You can't give me one. Everything is in the hand of God. The
Sovereign God. Now, he's telling us some things here. Let's watch this
very closely.

		Keep this in your hearts forever. It was so unconsciously done. The
people 				don't do it for a line of duty. A man that gives you
something or other because 				he ought to do it, a man that feeds you
because he ought to do it, he's got a 				selfish idea. It should be
your very life, and your actions. 

53.	Now, old Bernard Shaw, (George Bernard Shaw,) [1856 – 1950) was a
Nobel-Prize-winning Irish playwright,]  I hope I can tell the story
fairly straight. I'd have to fine it to give it to you exactly. He was
going down the street during depression when a nickel was just about a
loaf of bread. And there was a beggar on the street, and he [Shaw] was
walking with a man of like caliber, which was well known, plenty money
and so on.

	And George Bernard Shaw reached in his pocket and gave the man a
dollar. And the man complimented George Bernard Shaw. And Shaw said, "My
dear sir, that was nothing but hypocrisy and pride." Shaw knew he didn't
have what this man was talking about.

	Now, it doesn't mean that you give every beggar something. If you do,
go to India. I'll write you a rubber check for fifty billion dollars.
(phfftt!) Your fifty billion bucks would be gone before you got out of
Bombay, or Calcutta.  

54.	Now listen, if you've got the Holy Ghost and there's something
moving in you, or the Holy Ghost that is naturally doing it, they
naturally saw Jesus somewhere in their doing. They had to, because, I
just can't take this sermon here and line it with everything else Bro.
Branham said. And just make this something that, well hey, let's just do
everything we can for everybody, or let's try to get in a happy comatose
way; or let's smoke some hashish, or take a little LSD, or God knows
what, what we need, you know, to make it float a bit, then we just…oh
no.

	We're not talking about that. We're talking about a genuine Life of the
Holy Ghost. Like Abraham, but …?... Now, he's telling you therefore
here, that this person has become literally like another person. Like
Paul said over here in Galatians 2:20. I'd quote It, but maybe I didn't
get It right, so I'll quote It now:

		(20) 	I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but
Christ 						(lives) in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I
live by the 					faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself
for me.

55.	Now, this man is a changed person inside his nature, so that he's
not selfish anymore. Now, he's not a spendthrift, he's not…because,
look it, freeloading is a sin, and conning is a sin. I'm sorry, but,
you're going to have to get this flat  brother/sister, and I can't pull
punches. We're not talking about that. We're talking about what James
said, and John said. This, the prophet is talking. There's something in
here that's real, and you don't do it, because it's something contrived.


	But, he spoke to me one day and he said, "Well Bro. Vayle, he's going
to ask you one more question." We were talking about love.

	I said, "Sure, Bro. Branham anytime." I said, "Any time."

	"Well," he said, "Lee, did you ever do anything that you wouldn't do
except for the Lord?"

	And I said, "Yeah, sure."

	He said, "That's love."

	So, you've got to put these things together here. I've seen people say,
"Well, you know I just feel that I should give everything away and just
trust God."

	Hold it,  brother/sister, I've seen him do it, then they go around
begging. Earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can. But make
sure your motive's right.

56.	This is a naturalness here.   

		It was so surprising to these sheep and they said, "Lord, when were
You 					hungry and we wouldn't feed You? When were You hungry, and fed
You? 					…naked, and we gave You clothes? …and thirsty, gave You
drink? When 					were You sick, and ministered…" It was automatic, out
of love, just 					their life lived in them.

	Sure, they know to do right. You can't read your Bible and not know to
do right. Bible says, "How can you see a man hungry and needing of
clothing, and you've got clothes and you've got food, and just say,
'well, be you warm and fed old boy, I'll pray for you, and give him
nothing'?"

	"Aw, fap," he said, "what kind of religion is that?"

	You got an instruction. But, if there isn't a well-spring in here, well
it's nice, but it's not that life. Now, if it's there, it'll be there.
And there'll come a time when it's going to manifest.

	Look at me tell you something: You can be a grain of wheat born into a
most cockle-lee-burr, or the cockle-lee-est burr. One day, that life is
going to start coming through, because your son is being trained, you're
being brought up.

57.	 One day, you're going to find a naturalness. That's why we start
here with this Word and everything hinges on the Word. Then, you see
what begins to happen in a church, and I must say I'm very happy with
the things that happened.  

		God, let the people see what Calvary did for us. So automatically, "I
don't 					know when You were there, Lord. We didn't know that." Look
what Jesus 					turned and said, "Insomuch as you have done unto these,
you done it unto 					Me." Unselfish life, 

	The Bible says, "In honor prefer your brethren." That's not hard. If
you've got a speck of honesty you'll see things in people you so far
admire, so far more admire in them, then what you admire in yourself
that you think, "Oh my God, what have I got anyway?" And you won't be
trying to look pretty as Bro. Branham said this woman running around,
"Oh, I'll put some paint on, I'll cut my hair, I'll look this way and
that way." I could say something here, but it wouldn't be nice. And I'm
determine to be nice, so many nice people here. Pretty good so far, so
I'll keep it that way. See?

58.		Unselfish life, not the second thought, not to think about it; but
you are so 					dead to the things of this world, and so alive in
Christ, and so walking on 					the highway, that these things are just
an automatic.

	And Bro. Branham said, "At the end-time it would be like an automatic
thing."

	People say, "He done told me I'm going to have that beautiful spirit of
love."

	People look at me and I look at myself and I say, "Well, he doesn't
tell lies, so I'm going to get it."  I say, "Well, if it's not this
side, it's the other side." Bro. Branham got his the other side. That
the healing, I can get mine the other side. I don't care which side I
get it on. Personally, I don't give a rip in a way. To be sure, nice to
be nice here. [laughter] I say, "I said, "It's automatic the other way."
Eh?

	Not this:

[30] 	Now…the Lord would want me to do that." It's not that. you are
just part of 				Him. His Spirit's in you, and you act the way He acted.
Do get it. "There is 				a way that seems right unto  man, the ends are
the ways of death. Not all 					that saith Lord, Lord, enter in, but
they that do the will of My Father," just 				from their hearts, just
freely. 

	Now, that's the power of the Cross that I preached on. Haven't preached
It here. Maybe years ago you heard me preach It. People talk about the
power of the Resurrection, but, there's the power of the Cross that we
lay our lives down, God comes right on the scene and takes over. And
that's Calvary, that's what he's talking about.

	All the things that you and I struggle for so desperately, there isn't
any struggle if we just consider ourselves dead, dead, dead. (I'm going
to have to close, because our time's gone on. Well, there's not too much
to go.)

59.	This fellow said one day…one student came to the old professor in
a Bible college and he said, "Sir, what's the meaning to be dead?" 

	He said, "I'll tell you what son." He said, " Go down to the grave
yard." And he said, "There's a man down there Reverend Doctor so and so,
and he was a great man of God, (he said) you go down there and you tell
him how marvelous his sermons were, and what a great influence, and what
a great man he was; how he lived the life. You go down and just…you
heap great accolade upon accolade, upon him and laudatory remarks and
you just flower him. Go down and spread the flowers."

	He went down to the grave yard and he just talked to that man left,
right, what a wonder guy. He came back and he said, "Professor…"

	He said, "What did the man say?"

	He said, "Nothing."

	"Oh," he said, "there's another man down there, he was the biggest bum
in town. He was a man hated, he was a drunkard, I guess he ended up
murdering, beating his wife and kids and God knows what. He was a
terrible person." Go on down, just tell him how bad he was. Tell him
what a skunk he was."

	So, he went down to the grave yard and told him what a skunk he was. He
came back and the minister professor said, "What did he say?"

	He said, "Nothing."

	He said, "Certainly not, they're dead."  You get the point? They're
dead. How are you going to answer? 

60.	The power of the Cross. That does not abnegate [renounce] your
command as a soldier to fight the good fight of faith. And stand for the
Word, and if they want to take your life worth, they'll take it. Until
they take mine, I don't know if they will, or anybody will; you got to
stand for this Word, I got to stand for It. But, we're not abusive.
Standing for the Word does not make us abusive.

		Now, that day at Calvary paid that price so we could be that way. Not
to say, 				"You know, widow Jones one time was out of coal, and I went
and bought 					her some coal. Saw a brother that needed clothes, I gave
him clothes. Bless 				God, I'm a Christian."  My, you selfish, poor,
miserable person, you 					hypocrites. Don't let the right hand know
what the left's is doing, nor the 					left know what the right's is
doing. 

61.	I'm going to tell you a little story here, and I might as well,
because it got out anyway. It wasn't supposed to get out.

	There's a certain man had a very bad loss. I didn't have much money,
but, I did have a little money, so I sent a few hundred dollars to that
man. I told a certain man, I said, "You give him this money, but don't
you let him know who gave it, by no consideration must you let him know,
because (I said) I'm not interested in him knowing. I don't want him to
know." The Bible does not like that.

	This man told Bro. Branham and Bro. Branham wept. He said, "That's the
way it ought to be done." Then the man turned right around and told this
fellow. So this fellow did come and thanked me.

	Now  brother/sister, it wasn't that I had to give that man a plug
nickel, because I didn't. I wasn't obligated. That was one of my softer
moments you might say. It was one of my right moments. Because it was
the thing to do, because of a life. Now, I'm not boasting, because look,
this could happen to Christian Scientist's, not just a born again person
even. Not from a rebirth, but from touching the spirit out there,
because a spirit can anoint your spirit. Right?

	So therefore, even a spirit anointing could give you the insight. But
Bro. Branham a hundred percent right, the left hand is not to know what
the right hand is doing. That's why Paul had a common collection pot, in
order to help the wayfarer and those that needed help. 

		 It's just the life that lives in you. You're completely yielded to
that Spirit, It 				just lives in you lives Itself. Oh, do you feel that
blessed Spirit, that life, "Not 				me that liveth, (Gal 2:20) but
Christ liveth in me." Just  automatically. "Well, 				I tell you,
Brother Branham. We are Christians here. We help those people. 				Help
them people." Oh, my, shame on you. That's not Christianity.
Christianity 				is just automatically…to be done. 

62.	I told you the time we were in Indiana together, Indianapolis. This
man was in a car, in the hot weather. Bro. Branham was there. Didn't
have a stretcher, couldn't bring him in. It was brought to my attention.
I said, "Oh my, he can't get to Bro. Branham, Bro. Branham will sure get
to him. So I said, "Bro. Branham there's a man out there, he can't get
in, there's no money to get a stretcher and so on, he's disable. Could
you pray."

	Ran over and prayed. And then Bro. Branham just reached in a pulled out
a twenty dollar bill. And I said, "Oh merciful God, I could have done
that." Didn't do it though. Just natural. Just natural. Talk about an
automatic response. See?

[31] 	Christ just completely surrendered His Life to God. He gave
Himself as a 					public Servant to the people. He gave His Life freely.
He didn't have to do 					it. He didn't begrudgingly do it. He didn't
say, "Now, brother, you all ought 				to think a whole lot of Me,
because I come to die for you." Never said a 					word about it. He died
anyhow, because was God in Him. It's God in you. 					It's God in me
that makes us look at others. (That's to help them.) Sheep on 				one
side. Said,  "Lord, I did this, and I did that." (He said,) "Depart from
Me, 				you workers of iniquity, I never knew you." If the church ever
come to those 				fundamental facts, that's not something you try to do,
or work yourself up to 				do; it's something that's born in you. 

63.	Let's go to 2 Corinthians 9:7, (just a little second here.) Okay:

		(7) 	Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him
give; 						not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful
giver.

	What's he saying? As there's a cheerful love in your heart to give, you
just give. Like the little brook, the spring that Bro. Branham talk
about. "Little, little brook, little spring, what makes you just bubble?
"Well," he said, "there's something pushing up there."

	And Paul said, "Not of necessity, not of grudging, nothing doing. Not
like that at all. No sir, God loves a cheerful giver." Oh, just so happy
to do it.

	Now listen: there's people that just give away their shirt. No more
saved than nothing. Anything can be counterfeited. But, there's a real,
and there's real Christians. Now, everybody is not alike. You might want
to do one thing, I might want to do another thing. Sure, because one
person over here needs this thing done, you wouldn't think of it. And,
this person needs one thing done, I wouldn't think of it. Uh? Certainly,
somebody's going to take care of it. Someone is going to do something
good for somebody. You got to be on the old lookout. Just live. On what
foundation? The Cross. It took care of it. I'm taken care of.

64.	Let's go to 1 Corinthians 9:16, just for fun. That is to mean for an
interest here. Paul says:

		(16) 	For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of (it):
for 						necessity is laid upon me; woe is unto me, if I preach not the
gospel!

	And here's a man says, "Hey, I've got to do this thing." He lets it be
known. That's natural too. 

	"…?..."  he said, "You want to kill me for it?" He said, "Listen
Agrippa, (he said) you're here at Festus. Now (he said) you know the
prophets, you know about the Resurrection, (he said) my people say I'm
in heresy, because I say, 'Jesus rose from the dead', proving the
Resurrection they say they believe, and they won't take the proof. My,
(he said) I'm ready to die for, so I'll go to Rome and die."  [Acts 24:
into 25:] What's that? Same spirit. Couldn't help himself. The other man
couldn't help but give.

65.	Do you know people pay tithes. I'm not, I'm going to talk about
tithes. I could never understand this. I'm really a half baked Christian
along side of most you dear people. I never could figure why people say,
"I pay my tithes, and he better watch what he does with them." I don't
care if you go out and get drunk if I give you tithes or anything else.

	One man told me I had to ride-herd on people, become a Nicolaitan. And
I said, "Hey buddy, do you want a prostitute tonight? I'll get you a
good one and pay hundred dollars for her, because that's what you want
and I'll help you get it."

	You say, "Bro. Vayle…"

	Don't Bro. Vayle me, I'm committed. I'm committed. I don't care what
you do and I do in certain respects. There's something wrong with that,
that's Pentecostal hogwash. I'm tired of Pentecostal hogwash. I came out
of it, thank God, washed in the Blood by the Spirit, see? Got to come
out of something. That Babylonianish garment ain't for me, neither is
the silver, neither is the gold. (phftt!) Who needs it! You really
don't. You know, the funny thing is, you think you do and you don't.
"There's a fountain filled with Blood," that's what counts 
brother/sister.

66.	All right:

		Forgive me, my Pentecostal friends. I am Pentecostal, but my
Pentecostal 					friends has got a spot to where there has to be a lot
of fast music, beating 					of bands, or clapping hands, and tambourines
to bring up a shout. That's 					only emotions. They play the bands
before they go to battle to get people 					in the emotion of battle. I
believe in music. Believe in clapping hands, I 					believe in these
things. That's exactly true. We ought to have that, but you 					have
left the great things undone...?... that self-sacrifice Life that God
lives 				in you, automatically doing what is right, which is right,
just going on, don't 				even think anything about it, just living it. 

	What did the Pentecostal Business Men do? They want right to the limit.
They had great big meetings, the millionaires. And they advertised:
'Millionaires so and so will be there'. Millionaires so and so will be
there. One man gets up and he said, "I'm Bro. so and so." And he said,
"I'm probable the riches man here, I'm worth four million."

	And I thought, "well, bully," what's that got to do with it? You could
lose your shirt by tomorrow morning for all I know and for all I care.
So, when I got home I got a letter there just almost ahead of me, it
asked me for money. And I thought, "now, this is really strange, those
guys got all the money and they want mine." So, I know what their
meeting was, a con-artist meeting.

67.	You know what? I'm going to tell you something, I'm very serious
now: they could miss the Rapture. They will miss the Rapture.

	You say, "Why Bro. Vayle?"

	Because, I told you, before the Rapture there were two sins: sex out of
order, and conning. Yeah. Read your Bibles. I got the proof, oh yeah, I
got the proof. First Thessalonians. Bro. Branham's right.

	Calvary opened the door for sins forgiven, and opened the door for the
Holy Spirit. A Life,   a ha.

		…don't even think about it, just living it. Then watch... You see
what's going 				on, you you're on the highway. What Calvary meant to
you: on the highway--				opened up that day for you.

[32] 	Now, now remember, you cannot be half goat and half sheep. 

	How about that? Well the sheep on one side said, "Hey, when, when, was
this anyway?"  And they done right. The other fifty percent of time,
they didn't do it.  

	[Bro. Vayle sings:]

	"Oh, consistency where art thou tonight?"  Beautiful, beautiful isle
somewhere.

		…can't be half goat, half sheep…won't mix. …a lot of people say,
"Yes, you 				know what? We got a organization in our group. We help the
poor. We do 					this." That's all right, but you're tooting your own
horn about it. You don't 					do that. You do your alms in secret; Jesus
said.  Automatically  just something 				to you; it's no more going than
getting a drink of water. You're thirsty. Next 				man's thirsty, think
about him too. The next man's need, you think about him 				the same as
your own need, and don't pay no attention to it, just live on. 

68.	In other words, he's trying to say here that, Christianity is not a
creed, or dogmatic thing that's worked out by your church, wherein you
do this, you do that, it's the life within you.

		Now, you can't be half sheep and half goat. (See, no way.) Paul, 1
Corinthians 				13, "Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, my
body burned as a sacrifice, 				it profit me nothing." Now, that's hard
but it's truth.

	Now watch, you see, these people now, see where it's going. Same place
we're going and projecting a love. Give your body, give your goods, no
profit, unless there's a reality down in there.

	 	You say, "Oh, yes that's fine." That isn't. If that Son of God had to
go to 					Calvary for crucifixion, every son that comes must go to
Calvary. You must 				also have a Calvary. You must have that day of
Calvary. I've got to have 					that day of Calvary. That settles the sin
question. Not shake hands with 					the preacher, not be shook into the
church, not come in by letter, not come 				in by profession, but come
in by birth. (That's the true Church of Christ.) 					He never gave a
letter. He never gave a profession. He gave a birth. This 					is how we
come. Then from that automatically we live Christian lives.

[33]	 Now, another remark... Half goat, half sheep, don't have such a
thing. 					You're not half goat and half sheep, you're either goat or
sheep. Now, if 					you're just doing good things, and think you can get
in by that, then there 					wouldn't be any day of Calvary. 

69.	Now, of course right here he is talking to people who definitely
have not been born again, but they're like balancing their good deeds
against their bad deeds, and they find they are really fine people.

	Let's take a Christian Scientist, better still, Unity, because they're
not so far off. Mary Baker Eddy she went plumb on the west field. Plumb
out of the ball park. These others didn't. They talk about Christ as
Savior. They talk about a lot of things to a degree.

	Now, they live a life of meditation, of service, of listening,
communing, communicating. And if they tallied up their lives, (Bro.
Branham mentioned in Christian Science, Unity, same thing,) they would
show more love than you and I manifesting so called, would ever show.
The same as the mule can work the horse to death. But, he ain't got it.

	Now, he must have been preaching to a lot of folk right in that church,
that sat there cold as stone, stood the Word of Almighty God, would
never come to Christ. Say, "Well, I'm a pretty good boy."

70.	Now, my mother had her way, she said, "What do you mean be baptized
for, you were baptized when you were a little baby." Ha! What does a
baby know about a baptism? He's not responsible for it. And then you've
got to repent before you're baptized. How can a baby think?

	You're trying to make it like that little baby Bro. Branham spoke of.
Mother comes along and said, "Now baby, listen here, I want to tell you
babies cry for years to get what they want, but you're different, we're
going to use some psychology, this little bell here, you ring it." See,
how far would you get there? [laughter] Won't work. But, evidently there
were people there thought they could make it counting one against the
other.    

		But He had taken the day of Calvary to bring that in, that we could
not be 					just church members, but be sons and daughters of God. 

71.	In other words, Calvary stopped hybridizing. Calvary put a stop to
everything, but one way. 

		Now, that day was at Calvary. That's what it meant to you… act like
Jesus to fall 				in. Now, the river doesn't run up and down at the same
time. The river runs 				one way, Spirit of God runs one way. It doesn't
mix with things, it runs the 				same way. Watch Jesus, in closing.
Jesus said, "The works that I do shall 					you do also, and greater
shall you do, because I go to My Father." 

	Now, watch carefully here what he's weaving in, and it goes right over
people's heads.

		I'm not saying this so much to the church here; you understand; but
these 					messages are taped. Tens of thousands hear around the world.
I'm going to 				answer that question for the critics right now. I've
often been told, they said, 				"Like, you believe the Bible?" Jesus
said, "These works that I do shall you do 				also, and greater than
this shall you do, for I go to My Father." (That's what 				critics say,
"Hey, no way.") How bad can you get, mister? How far away from 			
discernment can you wander with your intellectual theologies, with your 
				mental conception of anything? 

[34] 	My gracious and lost friends, can you not understand that this
Bible is 					spiritually interpreted? 

72.	All right, now the Bible says, "The wayfaring man though fool, shall
not err therein,"               [Isa 35:8b] 

	Now, Bro. Branham comes around, he said, "The Bible can't be just read
and anybody interpret It, It's got to be spiritually interpreted." And
you know where he gets it?  

		Jesus thanked the Father He'd hid it from the educated, the wise, and 
				prudent, reveal such as to babes as would come to Calvary.
(Paradox.) 					Now, watch (the paradox).  Watch how He stated it. "The
works that I do 					(He's doing it right now.) 

	Now, Pentecost says, "Whoee, hallelujah, we're doing it, glory to God."
Oh no, got news for you. One man!

		--the works that I'm doing now, healing the sick, raising the dead,
opening 				the eyes of the blind, these works shall you do. You'll do
these if you believe 				in Me. You do these works, and then a greater
than this shall you do, for 					I go to My Father. A little while and
the world won't see Me no more. You 				will see Me. I'll be with you,
even in you to the end of the world. I will not 					leave you
comfortless. I'll pray the Father. He'll send you another Comforter, 			
which is the Holy Ghost, Whom the world cannot receive, yet you can
receive 				Him."

	Now, He's looking right down the time to this hour right here, and he's
going right to the church, and he said, "You got to spiritually
understand what I'm saying, and if you can't get it, it's because you're
trying to apply education." There is a revelation, and the revelation is
this: "He's the same yesterday, and today and forever." [Heb 13:8] He
doesn't change. Wonderful!

73.	So therefore, the sick have been healed all through the ages.
Wonderful! But the same One Who cannot change is obligated to come to
the Gentiles in the form of the Holy Spirit, at the Head of the Church
and take a prophet, and do works that no other men did outside of
Christ, and more than Christ. And they say, "Oh heavens, horrors, I
can't believe that."

	If you're at Calvary, you'll believe it, because you got the Holy
Ghost. The Blood could avail for billions and trillions, and trillions,
because Eternal Life is infinite. And any number, no matter how big it
is can go into infinity any number of times. If the letter 'A'
represented the greatest number, the world could conceive. And the
letter 'B' represented infinity, A could go into B an infinite number of
times.

	So therefore, it was not that the Life was insufficient for all. It was
the Life was only meant for the many. And only the many at the end-time
will see what we're talking about in this great paradox.

74.		…notice, the greater works that has…that's to have the power in
the church, 				not only heal the sick by prayer, cast out devils…but
impart Eternal Life to 		      		believers. (Now watch, He's going to
impart Eternal Life to believers. How 				is It going to be done?) The
Holy Ghost was coming and given into the 					hands of the church to
impart life.

[35] 	…that's what Calvary meant. It took stooped, degraded men and
women 					lifted to a place to be sons and daughters of God to heal the
sick and to 					impart Eternal Life. By giving the Holy Ghost to
obedient believers, men 					who were once unbelievers  to be made
believers and impart spiritual Eternal 				Life. (Now watch it, Catholic
church says it can do it.) How much greater to 				say to the sick woman
laying here, "I can pray a prayer of faith," and she'll 				be healed.
That's a great thing. That is what He was doing then, but said, 				
"Greater this you'll do. I'm going to give you power, not only to raise
up to 				life, but to give Eternal Life, to be eternal forever." Poor,
wretched, blind  					people, how do you miss that? Don't you see what
the greater thing is? That's 				the greatest thing that could ever
happen to impart Eternal Life to people. 					(Now watch, he said,
Church can do it.) What is Eternal Life? The Life that 				He lived, the
Life that was in Him: impart that to others. Can a man do that? 				A
Son of God can. Jesus said, "Whosoever sins you remit to them they are 	
			remitted. Whosoever sins you retain, to them they are retained." 

75.	[36] Now, here's where the Catholic church and many of the others
made their 				big mistake. They go out and say, "I forgive your sins."
That wasn't it. How 				did they get sins forgiven in the Bible? Peter
answered that question on the 				day of Pentecost. "What can we do to
be saved? How do you get this that 					you got?" He laid down the
prescription. He told them, "Repent, and be 					baptized everyone in
the Name of  the Lord Jesus Christ." What for? 					"Remission of sins."
that's the greater works. 

	Now, the greater works of course was standing there as the servant of
God full of the Holy Ghost with the true Word of Almighty God. A man
…?... a black man. 

	Sat there and Bro. Branham said, "You're so and so, you got trouble
with your so and so and so and so."

	The man said, "That's exactly right."

	He said, "By the way, (he said) and you've been backslidden too."

	He said, "That's true."

	He said, "You're healed." And he stopped, he said, "By the way (he
said) your sins are forgiven."

	Right there, shock when through the whole body. It didn't shock me at
all, because I knew what Bro. Branham was saying. Because, I knew what
he'd heard from. And he just stood there, and he said, he said, "You
people resented that. I caught your spirit." He said, "Let me tell you
this: the same One that told me his name, told him his disease, and told
him he was healed, and told him that he was a backslider, that same One
told me his sins are forgiven." Greater works. See?  Rome doesn't have a
pope, that is, it doesn't have a vicar. We had a vicar, we still have
the Holy Spirit. 

 		How many of you preachers this morning, how many of you listening
this 					morning, listen to the tape, are willing to go to Calvary this
morning… 			      		(Calvary, what for? To tell people, to know that
It works. To know you're 					a vessel.)

76.	Go to 2 Corinthians 3:18.  (We're just about finished. But so,
that's alright, no church tomorrow night. I can afford to keep you.) 
All right:

		(18) 	But we all, with (unveiled) face beholding as in a glass the
glory 						of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to
glory, 						even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

	[2 Corinthians 4:]

		(1) 	Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received
mercy, 					we faint not;

	Paul, is telling them right here, that if that was hour of the
Resurrection, which It wasn't, the hour of immortality, he would stand
there with this Word, giving those people immortality. Not that he gave
it, but, he gave the Word of the hour that God was bringing into
reality.	

	People can't understand that… withstood William Branham was God
veiled in a Pillar of Fire. And he gave us this Word that we look at and
see Christ unveiled before us, and see Him fully formed. And when we see
only Him, and we are looking in a mirror, the Bible says when you look
in a mirror my brother, my sister, all you see is yourself. But, when
the Light strikes and brings that One, our Christ into view, we looking
in that mirror, we don't see ourselves, we see Him, because we are in
Him. And we see what God sees, and we're coming into a resurrection,
into  immortality, "because they, without us cannot be made perfect."

77.	Yes, it lies in the ministry. The Catholic's said they had it, but
they don't. The Protestant's said they had it, but don't. The denied the
Catholic's. The Catholic's started on the right foot. The Catholic
church started with Junius and Priscilla I guess it was. Two Jews, and
when they turned on the Jews, the Jews had to escape Rome and the
Christians left there on their own, went right to paganism. You know,
don't go blaming Constantine for everything, it started right back.

	Polycarp was on his way to tell them what was wrong, and a voice from
heaven thundered, (though he went, very sick old man going to see them,)
It said, "Leave them alone, Ephraim is joined to his idols." The
Catholic church …?...  The Catholic church says, "We have a vicar."
And that was exactly right. But the vicar was not Peter, it was Paul.
And it wasn't the Catholic church, it was the Church of the Lord Jesus
Christ of a virgin Bride.

	Then they had another vicar, and his name was Irenaeus. And they had
another vicar, his name was Martin. Another, Colombo. And Luther. And
Wesley. And William Branham. Which means what? 'A vicar, one standing
here personally'. A messenger, and when you hear him, you hear the Holy
Ghost. 

78.	And as Paul said, after Ephesians chapter 4, "If you have so heard
and been taught by Him." That was Jesus. Says right here, "we have heard
and been taught by Jesus."

	"Oh blasphemy, oh that's horrible."  No, it's not. Paradox. Can't stand
the explanation. 

	Oh, bring on ye jolly miracles, bring them by the tub. 

	I love thee jolly miracles, but herein lies the rub.

	I cannot stand your preachment.

	I cannot stand your words, they burn into my very heart

	And make this virtuous one squirm.

	Oh yeah, can't stand it. Stood right there to Bro. Branham. Paradox.
And they say they love God. Jesus said, "They hate Me." Let a man deny
healing. Let them deny Christ in this hour manifesting.

	"Oh, we love You Lord!" Liars!

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, you're saying something the prophet doesn't say
here, because he says all this stuff here."

	Honey, you must be reading the wrong books. You must be reading the
wrong books.

79.		What does Calvary mean to you? What did that day do to you? Did it
stuff 					you with some theology?

[37] 	Did it make you a stuffed shirt, or make you a Christian, (keep
thinking) 					sold out (Hallelujah.), sins remitted? (Thank You Jesus)
Greater works 					than this you'll do. You see where the needs are,
don't you? Greater works 				than this, remitting sins in the Name of
Jesus Christ. But through creeds, 					denominations, and so forth,
binds you to a place where you're  flirting the 				world. 

	Now, what's he telling you? You haven't got the world, you haven't got
the Word. You're not giving anything to anybody.

		Tell me any man, tell me, any women can come to Calvary, and try to be
					a big somebody because somebody said something. 

	How come Bro. Branham didn't run around the world like everybody
thought he should? How come, he said, you know, he said… I said,
"These great men like Bro. Roberts you see, (he said,) they've got this
huge tent, and they've got this huge office, and you know, they got
these great ministries and it cost a lot of money. And of course…" 
Why? "Well, you see, they couldn't come, because there's no way they
could come to a little place like this." 

	But he said, "You see, I just have a little ministry. You know, my
office is…I don't need any money, and you know, I don't have much like
it. Just a little place like this."  

80.	Well, I'm not trying to be mean or hard on anybody, but, I'm just
telling you what I'm reading here, and I'm looking at what I know to be
going on; and I want to ask you: did they go to Calvary? Well? Maybe we
better call the communion on and just go home. Because, this sure
rattles you brains doesn't it? What does anybody got? Somebody's got it.
Somebody's right. 

		How can you have your day on Calvary and come out a stuffed shirt? …
				come out and be a puppet for some organization, preach manmade
doctrine? 				Why won't it humble you to do the Word of God? [Bro. Vayle
whistles] 					(That's it.)

80.	Lady come to my door and she said, "Sir, (she said) could you give
to the heart-fund?"

	I said, "I pretty well like to." I said, "But we do a lot of giving,
giving right to our church." If this church wanted to give to the
heart-fund, that'd be up to you. I don't have one thing in my heart to
give to heart-fund.

	You say, "Why, you couldn't have the Holy Ghost."

	You find me that in the Bible. Give to the cancer-fund all you want,
it'll kill the people with cancer. They take in hundreds of millions of
dollars. I think it's four percent gets to the poor people that need it.

	What did they say preceded the Rapture? Scams, mooching, conning, and I
should do that? You do what you want. I don’t think it's anything
to… Why should I give there, what I don't give to a brother? Is Christ
in it? I thought He healed the sick. I don't know, something's wrong
somewhere. They'll back all this, I don't mind. I don't mind if we want
to give and do this to. Say, "well help them out, do this do that." Is
something in there saying it? Something in there real? Is it our nature?
Or, is it because somebody else gave, and somebody came to the door and
you being a little bit shamed that you don't give? Or, the boss put
pressure on you.

81.	The put pressure one time during the Second World War to buy a bond,
so as soon I bought it, I turned around and sold it. [Bro. Vayle laughs]
I was backslidden in those days, but I knew how to play their game.  

		If you ever go there, you'll come out humble. How can you want to be
some 				big something in your organization with a feather in your hat,
when Jesus 					Christ the Son of God humbled Himself to a hacked-up
body and a spitted 					face, until shame and disgrace, and they
stripped His clothes off, crucified 				Him before the world, despising
the shame? How can you go to Calvary and 				come out anything different
than what He was: a disgrace, a shame? You 					say, "Well, they'll kick
me out." Let them kick you out. Have your day at 					Calvary. God will
have His way with you.   

	They did that to me in organization too, and I'm glad they kicked me
out. I was so mad when they did it. Praise the Lord. You know, you ain't
too smart most of your life. [Bro. Vayle chuckles] No, let me quote that
again: "Have your day at Calvary, and God will have His way with you."

	You see, that's what he's talking about. Calvary isn't just a day 
brother/sister, where Jesus Christ died, the world knows that. They're
going to celebrate Resurrection morning Sunday. They're celebrating Good
Friday, how He died. Lift up the earth. And they're going to go back to
all their creeds and dogmas. They won't receive any Holy Spirit. They'll
laugh at us, they say, "Well, come on man, I got that when I believed.
I'm changed, I'm this I'm that." Take every creed and dogma in the book.

82.	Calvary  brother/sister, produces fallen sons into risen sons with a
risen Life. Back on track, not wandering anymore, not roaming. Not
calling anyone to a perfection this side of the Resurrection. No! I
can't go beyond a prophet. The prophet said it. There isn't one of us
isn't bucking something until the day we die. But, I'm going to tell you
something: in it all, there is a stream of Life flowing. And I will say
this: we cannot be half-sheep and half-goat. And a sheep will literally
manifest sheep, although he will have problems. And it will be a
naturalness, and this is the thing that I agree with Bro. Branham more
than anything, perhaps the whole Message. And that is because of our
training, or background, which you understand by the preaching we have
in 'The Paradox'. Eight sermons to cover it.

	That the roughest thing in the world is to let your thinking go. Is to
realize that your thoughts and your concepts are wrong, and listen to
what the prophet said in the light of who is saying It. Then believing
It, and watching It open up and manifest.

83.	All right, we got the same thing today, because of our backgrounds
and our lives. We really don't know what it is to be real natural. But
you know, I believe before too long, Calvary that Bro. Branham speaks
of, that took care of the sins, that brought in a Life that's steadily
progressing to a manifestation. That not only do we know we're sons of
God on the grounds of our faith, which is a revealed faith, but, we
actually find that over the period of time that we've been coming up to
this tail-end which I think is about to expire we'll soon be out of here
by the grace of God.

	There's something is happened in our lives which is a naturalness that
never was there before. And that naturalness is moving more and more
into the Word. Not world, but out of the world and into the Word. But,
you find the thoughts and the desires, the heart, the inclinations,
though fought by the enemy and even our own selves can rise up at times,
because of conditions. But, there is that onward flow.

	And I'm looking to see as Bro. Branham talked to that Bride at the
end-time having the Word, knowing what to do with It. I'm looking for
all of these thing, and I believe Calvary purchased it. And I believe
that's the essence of this Message that Bro. Branham brought way back in
about 1960. 

84.	That day on Calvary something happened, God caused it, that healed
every sin, that mended every breach that opened every road that gave
perfect access. And with the access It gave absolute ability to come
Home.

	Calvary is a triumph much more than a sacrifice; that we talk about
that one that Bro. Branham said. (I forget his name over there in
Switzerland he gathered the spears in His bosom and then men fought
valiantly,) his death was a mighty victory.

	Jesus Christ's death was a fantastic victory, and we're part of that
victory if we only understand our position and let our thinking go. Dare
to stand with what the prophet taught tonight. Don't take it negative.
Don't look at yourself and say, "Well, I guess that's not me, because
this happened." That's what he warned! That's what he warned! And the
more he warned, the more stubborn we got. The more he beseeched, the
more we said no.

	And you know something? I've got news for you: if you can only lift ten
pounds, and you want to lift a hundred pounds, you had better start
practicing with your weights. If you want to get to where the prophet
said in recognition, you had better get with this Word how he taught It.
And make that the Meat of your mind and your soul.

	Look at it. I told you some time ago God spoke to me, not audibly but
inside in indelible impression more than one time. He said, "I don't
want you to look at anything, but this Word. Nothing else but what's to
the Bride. Don't mind what the church is doing out there. Don't watch
anything, just look on what's the Bride's."

Now listen: that's the Bible. That Voice was the Voice of God, because
the devil could have not said It. Uh uh. Right? And, let's look at
Calvary tonight. Let's rise for a minute shall we. 

	Kind heavenly Father, giver of every gracious gift, Author and giver of
Eternal Life, Father of sons, great Procreator and source we stand with
You; greatly praising Your great Name. Singing with melody in our
hearts, joy in our minds, worship on our tongues. Just praising You,
Lord, and thanking You that we were reserved to such a time as this to
hear the great prophet that You sent in the land. To bring us this Word,
what a day was Calvary. What a day.

	And every time, Lord, Your people celebrate that day, when they could
do it every day, drinking the wine, eating the bread. One symbolizing
broken body, one symbolizing the bloodshed forth and out of the life
that would return. There had not been the broken body, and the shedding
of blood there wouldn't have been the other. 

	So therefore, we know as Your old theologian always talked about the
centrality of the Cross. What a day was Calvary. When God out-rayed, all
caught up in those genes so to speak and brought in a human body bursted
forth, become the perfect antidote for sin, the perfect way to glory,
the perfect Life.  By grace, because he told us to say it. Because You
told him to tell us to say, because it was already told and said in that
Word, time after time, after time. Get to know your position from
Calvary.

	Casting out every thought, bringing every thought and high thing into
submission to Your Word, Lord, as never before. Refusing to countenance
anything outside of this, because we know when the chips are down, we're
going to want to scream about it. Think it, Lord, like when those goats
on the one side said, "My, we didn't know You were anywhere near in the
neighborhood. When in the world did we see You?" 

	Father, I don't believe there's going to be one Bride stand there and
say, "Well, we didn't know what Calvary's about." God help us today. We
raise our hearts, Lord, and our…what can we say, our inner most being,
and our soul unto Your compassion, and unto Your help.

	Thou, that was a discerning sword, the Word, discerning the thoughts
and intents of the heart, dividing joint and marrow. Stand amongst us
tonight, Lord God, and let that sword now dismember us from everything
that is against Calvary in the magnitude and the glory of its conception
in Your mind, way back there, it's Your production, and It's power of
this hour.

	God, hear our prayer. I believe the Blood can do It. The Holy Spirit
come in like a gusher-like. You fought Satan to a standstill, Lord, for
the whole world. I believe You fight him to a standstill right now and
every child of God, not just fight him to a standstill but throw him
out. Break his back anew as it were, Lord. Why not, why not should we
believe tonight, Lord? Why not, why not go all the way and see that
Calvary covered it all, and covers it all. Fountain loosed, a life
loosed, a power and we willing to see the full complexity, and yet
simplicity that we too at Calvary; to simply give our lives over.
Because, that's what we want to do anyway.

	Father, this meeting is not in vain tonight. This service is not in
vain, the preaching, everything is not in vain. We're here tonight for
this purpose, Lord. For the great correction of Almighty God to flow in
like a river upon us now. Separate everything that should be separated,
let it go down into the chaff and destroy.

	Cleanse us, O Lord, we pray, burn us out by the Holy Ghost tonight,
until as never before we can see the tremendous advantage, the great
clarity, O God, that has been obscured from so many, for so long come
back now to pristine purity of the realization, the revelation that it
pays to get out of the way, and we can get out of the way. We can be
crucified with Christ, nevertheless live, yet not us, but Christ lives
in us. And that Life is worthwhile, and that Life is that One that's
worthwhile, because, it is easy. The yoke is easy, the burden is light.
Why not?

	The old song, Lord, that said, "Why not come to Him now?" We come to
You with another song, "Why not believe tonight, and why not accept?" 
Why not receive It once and for all, O God, into manifestation in these
lives?

	Help us, Lord. If there be any sinners amongst us, let the Blood was
him or her, clean perfectly, absolutely. Anyone among us faltering,
stumbling, Lord. People call it 'backsliding'. We just faltering,
stumbling, failing. Give the strength tonight, Lord, through Calvary. It
was for that purpose. We claim, identify, we have It, O God. Somehow
it's not enough or to talk about it, or hear about it, we want in the
inner man all the way in this naturalness.

	We're willing to receive It tonight. Coming to You with thoughts of
grace, Lord. So, we commend ourselves to You. Thanking You for Your
help, in the Name of Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.

	[Communion service commences]  

	 Heavenly Father, these emblems that are here before us, we know that
we have been commanded by the Word of God. This says: "Paul himself 
having receive the revelation."

	He really didn't know about it. If he knew about it, he would, like the
rest misunderstand, but You spoke, and that same time that You gave
revelation, You told him by command that we were to take this
bread-broken and eat it. And drink the wine showing forth Your death
till You come.

	And now, Lord, we know that it does show forth a death, but it's
greater than ever before, because it shows forth now a Life came from
that death. And we in that Life puts us in a position that is so awe
inspiring, and yet so wonderful, and yet is believable.

	We can take the paradox tonight, Lord. We've taken emblems, we've taken
Calvary. And now tonight we what's said about It. It isn't impossible.
It is possible. We receive It now, and thank You for It in the Name of
the Lord Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.

	[Communion service continues]

 

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