The Blood of Jesus

      Bro. Lee Vayle

				           July 8, 1976

	…Now we’re certainly happy to be back here in the house of the Lord
with you tonight because the building is sanctified by praying worship
unto Almighty God and He’s pleased with our worship unto Him tonight.
I know because we’re doing our best to be in the spirit and truth of
what He has brought to us as vindicated in the last days. 

	Now we’ve been studying along lines of the Blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ, the great purchased possession of His Blood, and I was just
thinking that many years ago an old Scottish minister was approached by
a young brother who desired to be a minister and he wanted a little
consultation with his old pastor and a little advice. And the pastor
said, “Son, make much of the Blood.” 

	And I think that’s the best advice that anybody could ever give
because you’re safe there, because it’s by the shedding of his Blood
that we have remission of sins and we enter into the riches of His
grace. And grace is based on the Blood. Somebody paid a price in order
that you and I might have it free. 

	You know there’s a Latin phrase that says, “Something for
something,” which means there’s no such thing as a free lunch:
somebody’s got to pay for it, somebody’s got to work for it. You
know America here is great for the free lunch. They tell me that there
are several agencies that will take care of your needs. If you don’t
get satisfaction out of one agency, you go to another. They all want to
help you because it’s a ‘pork barrel’ scheme: if you don’t come
and get money from the government, then they don’t have jobs. And so
it’s something for nothing. Well, it isn’t ‘something for
nothing’ at all, the taxpayers are paying for it…somebody’s paying
for something.

	But you know that’s the way it is with the Blood of Jesus—that’s
the price paid. We don’t get something for nothing. There was a great
price paid, but we get something because somebody paid for it, and
that’s what we’re talking about in these services concerning the
death of Jesus Christ, the shedding of his Blood.

1.	So we’re going to continue now in another message, this will be
Message #3, where the resurrection is proving his death, or the efficacy
of the shed Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now we’re going to read in
the Book of Hebrews again, that’s really the great book on the Blood,
shows forth the redemption in a    wonderful way. Of course, Romans is
also a tremendous book. And we’re going to start in the ninth chapter
and we’ll read verses 19-28, and then we’ll just quote one verse
from the Book of Matthew.

	Now shall we bow our heads once more in prayer:

	Our dear Lord Jesus, again we come to You to speak to You tonight,
Lord, from our hearts, knowing, Lord, that without You we’re nothing
and we recognize that, Lord. We need Your help tonight, we’re never
able to be without You because You are our life, and that’s the way it
is with the body. When the life goes, the body is no good, and so we
depend on life as we walk and go round, and we depend on Your life, O
Lord. At this time we wouldn’t want to be without the spiritual life
that was in You, anointing us, and blessing us and guiding us, and
giving us the truth of Your Word tonight. Lord, let the truth of your
death, the shed Blood, what it means tonight and the proof in the end
time, let it just really mean something to us tonight, Lord God, to set
our hearts on fire with reality, and what we have, what we’ve
literally seen in this end time and has been witnessed to by those that
did not see it, and we know the witness is true. Father, just help us,
we pray, and we’ll give You the glory in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

2.	So we’ll read now beginning in verse 19:

19	For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according
to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and
scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the
people, 

20	Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined
unto you. 

21	Moreover he sprinkled with Blood both the tabernacle, and all the
vessels of the ministry. 

22	And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without
shedding of blood is no forgiveness.

23	It was therefore necessary that the pattern of things in the heavens
should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with
better sacrifices than these. 

24	For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which
are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in
the presence of God for us: 

25	Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest
entereth into the holy place every year with Blood of others;

26	For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the
world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself. 

27	And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the
judgment: 

28	So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them
that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto
salvation.

	Now there’s one more verse, we’ll just quote it to you from Matthew
5:48b:

48	Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is
perfect.

	Now this message will attempt to show that the resurrection of Jesus
proves that there is perfect deliverance from spiritual death by
Jesus’ sacrificial death wherein his Blood was shed, and the Bible
does actually set forth such a perfection. Now you might have noticed in
the First Seal when Bro. Branham commented on Matthew 5:48b,
“Therefore be ye perfect even as your father which is in heaven is
perfect,” he said, “And how could we start the thought of being
perfect?”

3.	Now that’s true. If you look around you, look at yourself, look at
history, there never was, or ever could be, anybody perfect. Humanity
does not bring forth perfection. The one man who was entitled perhaps to
show it forth was Adam, and God already warned him that he’d fall into
sin with his wife, and leave God for that sin, which we know that he
committed with her. And so you look over the whole gamut of history up
to the present day and it’s impossible for anyone to even visualize
anybody else being perfect. It just isn’t there. So the prophet was
right: how could anybody even start the thought of demanding or the
necessity of a perfection. Then he goes on to say, “But Jesus required
it.” And that’s right. The Scripture sets forth that Jesus required
a perfection, a perfection that is absolutely as perfect as God, and
then here’s what he said concerning it, “And if Jesus required it,
He (Jesus) has got to make a way for it.” And that’s absolutely
true. If Jesus requires it and we can’t produce it, then He had better
produce it, because otherwise it’s not going to be produced. The
requirement is not going to be met. Nothing is going to be done, it is
going to be finished. In other words, anything He wanted is stalemated,
is aborted, it is thwarted, it is finished before it has started.

	Now listen to what he says: “And He has His own Blood.” That’s
right. The prophetic statement that Jesus demanded perfection, the
righteousness of Almighty God Himself, that’s perfection, nothing
less, nothing will be accepted, and he said, “He that demanded it,
required it, sees that we get it, and it is by the Blood of Jesus
Christ.” That the prophet’s statement is absolutely correct is seen
in Hebrews 10:14:

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

	The Scripture says absolutely the perfection is there through the
sacrificial offering. Thus we see there is a perfection imputed, or
granted, or given, positively given to every believing sinner because of
the Blood. Make no mistake about it, it is the Blood that perfects the
sinner, the resurrection guarantees it.

4.	We go over here to Hebrews 10:15:

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

15	Whereof the Holy Ghost is witness to us.

	In other words, if you want to know if the Blood has wrought its
perfect work, if you have the perfection that God demands, has the Blood
absolutely been applied, there is only one way, “Receive ye the Holy
Ghost,” for it says right here that the Holy Spirit is the witness to
the Blood.

	I like the old Pentecostal saying that they had many, many years ago:
“The Spirit answers to the Blood.” And that’s the absolutely
truth, my brother/my sister. If the Blood has been applied, you will
receive the Holy Ghost. There are no ‘if’s’, ‘ands’, or
‘buts’, about it. There is no moaning and groaning and tearing.
There is no need for your sensation, your wonderings, your meanderings,
your amazements, just believe God because the Blood has been shed and
the Spirit of God comes right to it. Yes, sir, that’s absolutely
right. When the Dove came upon the Lamb, it meant one thing: when you
get under that Blood, the Dove comes. See? “Repent and be baptized,
everyone of you, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ”—there’s
your remission of sins—“You shall receive the gift of the Holy
Ghost.” See? You’ve got to believe it, you’ve got to believe it
because that’s exactly right. It is the Blood that makes the Bride
perfect—that’s exactly what the prophet said on another tape, “It
is the Blood that perfects the Bride.” Whatever other perfection She
has, and I know She has other perfections, let’s face it: this is
where She must start or She doesn’t have any of the others. It’s the
perfection of the Blood that has been shed and applied to Her.

5.	Now notice well Hebrews 7:1-19:

19	For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better
hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

	Now let’s look at that again: It said, “The law made nothing
perfect,” in fact nothing, nothing but perfection can make perfection.
There wasn’t any law, there wasn’t any means that could do it but It
said, “The bringing in of a better hope did bring us a perfection, and
by that perfection we are able to draw near to God.” But what is the
better hope that perfects, giving us the ability to approach God? That
which puts us into the holiest of all, ministering our lives to Him.

	What could do it? What could put us in the holy holies, the holy, holy?
 What could put us in the presence of God ministering our lives to Him?
What is going to do it? See? Well, Hebrews 10:19-22:

19	Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the
Blood of Jesus, 

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

21	And having an high priest over the house of God, let us draw near
with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure
water.

	What does it say? 

19	Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the
Blood of Jesus, 

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

21	And having an high priest over the house of God,

	Now keep in mind this thought of the high priest over the house of God,
see?

22	Let us therefore draw near with a true heart in full assurance of
faith.

	And remember: the key here now is the high priest. Just keep that one
thought in mind. You’ve come by the Blood, but the high priest there
sees that you have that Blood, sees that It’s efficacious, sees that
you get in, see? Don’t forget now. 

	Now, you can see how precious is the doctrine of the sacrifice of
Jesus. It’s absoslutely what people say: the centrality of the
cross…the cross is central to every single thing, crucified before the
foundation of the world. The antidote was there before there was a
serious problem; before there was a problem, God had the answer because
it was all bound up in God, it was foreordained, see?

6.	Now we know perfectly what was accomplished by the shed Blood of
Jesus Christ. It was a perfection given to us, the very perfection,
“Be ye perfect, even as your father, which is in heaven, is perfect.
Required of God, and supplied by God, and given freely, though the price
was paid. Somebody paid the bill, and now we are entitled to it by faith
in that Lord Jesus Christ. And remember, the resurrection of Jesus
proves this all to us. The resurrection proves it and we’ll show you
in the Scripture that I read the resurrection is proving the efficacy of
the shed Blood of Jesus Christ.

	We’re going to go back there to Hebrews 9 once more…we’ll read it
again. Now:

19	For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according
to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and
scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the
people, 

20	Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined
unto you. 

21	Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the
vessels of the ministry. 

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

23	It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens
should be purified with these. 

	Now it says right here that as Moses was in the mountain, God said,
“See you make all things according to the pattern I showed you in the
mountain.”

	 So therefore there is absolutely a temple or a tabernacle in heaven
that is identical to the one on earth. It’s a real one up there and
then there’s the one down here, because Hebrews said, God said, “You
make it according to the pattern.”

	Now It says that the things on earth, made according to the pattern,
had to be purified by blood—absolutely, had to be purified by blood.
So therefore Moses had to sprinkle blood over literally over the whole
thing in order to see that it could stand before God, that the people
could go in there, and thereby worship God. They could be received and
accepted.

	Now but it said:

23.	…But the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than
these. 

	And this tells you right here that Jesus had to take his own Blood
right up into heaven to purify heaven itself because heaven had been
defiled. Then if the heaven of heavens, the presence of God, the temple
of God, the throne of God, was purified from its defilement by the Blood
of Jesus Christ, how much more you and I. See? He’s showing us
something here.

7.	Notice:

24	For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, (He
never came down and entered Moses’ tabernacle, and Solomon’s temple,
or Herod’s, or anybody else’s), but he entered into…which are
figures of the true, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in
the presence of God for us.  

25	Now that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth
into the holy place every year with blood of others;

26	For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the
world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself. 

	The sacrifice was made down here and the Blood was accepted there, and
he stands, see, as a high priest unto his own Blood to absolutely see
and assure, that not one single person who’s entitled to that Blood
should lose the effect of it. You see? Absolutely guaranteed. Now, see,
he’s in that holy place.

26	For then must he have often suffered since the foundation of the
world, but now once in the world he appeared to put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself.

27	And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the
judgment: 

28	So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of the many; and unto
them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto
salvation.

	Now we clearly saw here, at least I trust we did, in 19-23, that Jesus
fulfilled every type of sin offering that was sacrificed in order to
remit the sins of the sinner. He is the antitype or the fulfillment of
every single type of ceremony which primarily was to do with blood, and
always you had to have blood for forgiveness. There wasn’t any other
way, see? You had to have the blood there. And so he fulfilled every
single one of those types, and this, in his death and the shedding of
his Blood, he was able to do that, see? He fulfilled it all.

8.	Then you’ll notice in verses 24-28, which I read, that it tells you
that he arose and delivered the Blood to the mercy seat, see? So it is
his resurrection that proves the efficacy of his Blood for he is now a
living high priest unto his own Blood. As we showed you before, he is
mediator and intercessor, and remember: the mediator gets you in, and
the intercessor keeps you in. Now that’s the whole thing we’re
looking at. See? High priest to his own Blood.

	Now this is perfectly Acts 3:26:

26	Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless
you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

	Now I want that to ring a bell because we’ve been using it and using
it, see, but many times people just maybe not only don’t appreciate
repetition but they don’t let repetition do its work. Now the work of
repetition is like an ax chopping into a tree: wham! wham! chop! chop!
until you get such a great big wedge in there that that…something’s
got to happen. See? That’s what repetition is doing.

9.	So now, listen: 

26	Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless
you, in turning away every one of you away from his iniquities. 

	When we begin to see that, we will see that sin doesn’t have one
single thing to do with us anymore because it’s been turned away and
we stand perfect before Almighty God and His perfection which Jesus
required and Jesus gave us. See? We just don’t spend enough time on
these things that it’ll get down, down, down, until it becomes our
very life. See? We need to know this, so I want to repeat it again:

	“Unto you first,” Peter said, after showing the demonstration of
the reality of what had happened, he said, “Unto you first, see, God
brought this one, raised him up, to show you your sins are turned
away.” See, Jesus had been approved, they turned him down, they killed
him. Then God raised him and the mighty miracle ministry, the vindicated
Jesus as approved by God, strung up amongst the brethren in the first
age, and they said, “What does this mean anyway?”

	He said, “I’ll tell you what it means, and you know jolly well what
it does mean: this one that was approved among you, this Messiah—you
killed him, but the fact that you knew he was approved, and the fact
that you could kill him, is that going to mean he’s
‘unapproved’?” 

	Don’t be ridiculous. Does God take His sign off those and His grace
off of those to whom it’s given. See, they knew better because they
understood David and all about it, and Moses. Sure, they understood, and
they said, “No, I’m going to tell you what: this miracle ministry is
the same ministry he had in his flesh is now upon us and this ministry
is proving his resurrection which in turn is proving his death was
acceptable to Almighty God, see? And he’s raised up to turn you from
your sin because, you see, the burning issue always was sin and Blood,
sin and Blood. See, God hated sin, there had to be some way for God to
deal with that sin so the innocent Blood was shed. And now Peter is
saying, “He raised him up to prove it to you.”

10.	Now, the manifested truth in A.D. 33 ½  in itself was the proof of
the perfection of the redemption by Blood. And now in 1946, and to ‘76
and beyond, his resurrection proven amongst us because it’s been
proven, once more testifies, and this time to the Gentiles, that only by
the Blood is there perfection. You see? Almost…I don’t know of any
church that actually has seen this. It’s always something else added,
but the Bible doesn’t say that. They’ve got their creeds and their
dogmas and their ceremonies, their formulas, their rites, and their
organization and their membership, and all these things, and they say,
“That’s it,” but it’s not it. You see, brother/sister, you could
clear your minds once and for all with just this one thought, “If you
were to meet God right at this moment in flaming fire coming down, what
would you tell Him?”

	“I’ve been a very good boy since I was saved.”

	Hogwash! You sin a thousand times a day and you’re backslidden a
thousand times a day. What are you going to believe, your church
membership?”

	“Oh, I didn’t do too bad, I wasn’t as bad as John.” 

	“Well, John wasn’t as bad as Bill.”

	What are you going to believe? See, when you bring it down to the
facts, you could plead nothing but, “Oh, God, is there something that
will help me out?”

	Now, what’s going to help you out? You say, “Jesus.”

	Yeah, but what’s Jesus? He’s high priest to his Blood but without
that Blood, you still can’t get there. See, he’s high priest but
what to? His own Blood. Mediator gets you in; intercessor keeps you in.
See? That’s exactly the truth, now proven to the Gentiles. 

11.	Now since there is so great a perfection given us through this
redemption by the Blood, we ought to know something about it. We ought
to look into it and study it a bit, so we go to Hebrews 9:22 and we look
at it this way:

22	And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without
the shedding of blood is no remission. 

	Now here we find a little negative statement. It says here without the
shedding of Blood, there is no forgiveness. Now put it the other way:
with the shedding of Blood there is forgiveness. See, the negative fools
you; the negative throws you, but the negative wasn’t meant to.
Without the shedding of Blood there’s no forgiveness—that’s
fine—but it somehow doesn’t ring the same bell as when you say,
“With the shedding of Blood, there is forgiveness, see, putting it in
the positive there. 

	All things that come under the sin line have to have Blood to answer
for, so God forgives our sins because Jesus died upon Calvary, for
“God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son in death,
that whosoever believeth in him dying, himself should not die but have
everlasting life, for God sent not His Son to condemn the world, or
judge the world, but the world through him might be saved.” (John
3:16-17) See? That’s what we’re talking about. Here is the one
thing, or the one act, that stands between God and the sinner so that
the sinner can come unto Mount Zion. It is the Blood of Jesus Christ
that was shed upon Calvary.

12.	Now we go back to John 3 for a split second and we look at the 14-15
verses and It says:

14	And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must
the Son of man be lifted up in death: 

15	That whosoever believeth in him (Dying and lifted up, himself) should
not perish, but have eternal life.

	Now that’s what it says right there. Okay. Let’s follow this to
conclusion which is in Hebrews 12 and in verses 22-24:

22	But you are come unto mount Sion, even unto the city of the living
God, which is the heavenly Jerusalem (Which is absolutely New
Jerusalem), and to an innumerable company of angels, 

23	Even to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, whose names
are written in heaven (in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and to God the
Judge of all (Come right up to the judge who knows absolutely right from
wrong in minutis details.) and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
(You’re right in the same bunch that the great prophets and the great
men of God, the apostles and all, the eleventh chaper of Hebrews), 

24	Even to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the Blood of
sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

	Now how are you going to get there? How are you going to make New
Jerusalem? It tells you right here: you’re invited to New Jerusalem,
right to the very apex, right to the summit, the very Bride of the Lord
Jesus Christ, the general assembly being identified with those whose
names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. How was it done? By the
Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. The very thing I said last
night—Daniel 70th week. People wonder how they’re going to make it.
How are you going to make it? You’re going to make it like everybody
else will ever make it: it’s through the Blood of Jesus Christ.  There
is no other way, my brother/my sister, and Jesus rose to insure it and
he’s proved that he’s risen amongst us to let us know that we’re
numbered in that number, see? To let our own thinking go and our ideas
go

12.	Now notice how Paul put it in Hebrews 9:22:

22	And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; 

	Now of course this refers to verse 23 where he is speaking concerning
the carnal instruments that were upon earth, though based upon the
literal pattern in heaven. Now, yet the way that Paul expressed it makes
us to realize there could be one place that we could fail in the Blood
covering in the human sin line—one place where the Blood would fail
and that’s exactly true, and we’re going to show you that one place,
and that one place only one place where the Blood will not cover some
certain sin.

	Now you already know what it is, so we go back to the book of Matthew,
the 12th chapter, and I believe it’s 31 and 32, somewhere in that very
area there. Now here is where Jesus is casting out devils, healing the
sick, opening blind eyes, and deaf ears, dumb mouths, and so on, and the
people said, “Hallelujah! This has got to be the Son of God, this has
got to be the Messiah, this has got to be that Promised One,”

	And the Pharisees said, “No, sir, this is not that promised One, this
is the other one,” which would be the devil…now, making Jesus of the
devil. And here’s what Jesus answered in verse 31: 

31	Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be
forgiven unto men: but (except one thing) blasphemy against the Holy
Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

32	And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be
forgiven him: and whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall
not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to
come.

	There is one place where the Blood does not apply and that is to those
who have committed the unforgiveable sin. Every single sin cataloged is
covered but that one.

	Now, let’s go to 1 John 5 and find what John by revelation says
concerning this sin. Okay, it’s the fifth chapter, and it’s verse
16-17:

16	If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he
shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death.
There is a sin unto death: I do not say you should pray for it. 

17	All unrighteousness is sin: but there is a sin not unto death.	

	And it tells you there is a sin there’s no use praying for, there is
no coverage, there is no intercession, there is no way to get out of it.
It is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. See? Now remember: Bro. Branham
said, “Be real careful now,” he said, “real careful,” He said,
“Anybody that went behind the veiled curtain, behind the Pillar of
Fire never came out calling Jesus a fortune teller…never branded that
spirit of the devil, never did.”

13.	Now let’s find out if the Elect can commit this sin. Let’s read
verse 18:

18	We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is
begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

19	And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in
wickedness. 

20	And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given unto us an
understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that
is true, even his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal
life.

	No redeemed person who has had the Blood applied and baptized with the
Holy Ghost could possibly commit the unforgiveable sin—absolutely
impossible. Why? Because he knows Him Who is true, and he’s in Him Who
is true. How could that which is in Him be true and identify the Holy
Ghost as the devil? Could never do it, could never do it. See? The
Teacher would never let you do a thing like that. The Elect of God
never, never, never blasphemed the Holy Ghost, they never do it. But
there’s just that one sin.

	Now this will never happen to you and me but I wanted to show you this
in order to make you realize that not one other cataloged sin comes
under the heading of unforgiveable, absolutely not one. I hope you
caught it—not one other sin. See? Many people get very worried but
there’s not another sin. Now, it’s not my intention to look into all
the sins that can be forgiven—that would take us too many years—but
why should we even look at those sins that can be forgiven, when we know
there is only one that cannot be forgiven. See? Yet the human mind is
prone to forget this truth and won’t apply the living, vindicated Word
to their particular problem. Many people right today have a problem with
themselves, and they say, “Well, is my sin covered? Has God really
done something for me which is of such stature and magnitude that
there’s nothing can be done possibly to shake me loose from it?”

	I’ll tell you flat, brother/sister: there isn’t anything, there
isn’t anything at all. No, siree. God has got us so under His control
through the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, the influence of the Holy
Spirit, that if anybody even notoriously desires to kick up his heels
and go from God, God will whip that man and even clean him up and take
him in death. But he said, “I will lose none,” and there’s no use
trying to make God a liar, brother/sister, that’s the rottenest thing
in all the world to do. You make God a liar one place in unbelief,
you’ll make Him a liar in another place in unbelief. Just like Bro.
Branham said, “You start adding one word, you’ll add another word,
add another word. If you deny one word, you’ll deny another, deny
another, deny another.” But you can’t do it. The Blood of Jesus
Christ avails. See?

14.	Now, that we ought to apply this revelation is plainly stated in
Seal 1, page 129, Bro. Branham said, “He that is born of God does not
commit sin, for he cannot commit sin.”Well, that’s what the
Scripture says. Now listen, here is what he says about it: “How can
you make a man a sinner when the bleach of the Blood of Jesus is between
him and God?” Now he’s going to explain that: “That would scatter
sin till there’d be nothing left of it. How can that pure Blood of
Christ ever let sin pass there? He cannot.”

	You know what that really means? Well, I’ll tell you in plain, vulgar
language: a bunch of cops in New York were picking up a bunch of
pushers, and they were confiscating the product—heroin,
marijuana…you name it. It was all safely put away in a safe,
so-called.

	Now it came time to convene the court, the judge said, “All right,
now bring in the criminals.”

	They brought the criminals in, and  they brought the police in. And now
he said,  “Bring in the evidence.”

	They opened the safe and the same cops that took it had sold it. There
was no evidence. So the judge said, “Case dismissed.”

	How are you going to make a man guilty if there’s no evidence? How
are you going to condemn a man when there’s no proof? This is what the
Scripture is saying here. It’s not opening a door where you and I can
sin any kind of sin we want and say, “Well, hallelujah! The Blood
covers it.” If you had that attitude, you never had the Blood covering
you in the first place. But we’re talking about a reality here that a
vindicated prophet of God said.

	Now let’s read it again:

	“He that is born of God does not commit sin, for he cannot sin.”

	Now how do you make of that, because John said, “If any man sin,
he’s got a propitiation…” and so on. “How can you make a man a
sinner when the bleach of the Blood of Jesus is between him and God?
That would scatter sin till there be nothing left of it. How can that
pure Blood of Jesus ever let sin pass there? He cannot.”

	Then if the evidence cannot be presented in court, how are you going to
be judged? Then there’s only one evidence that can judge you, and
that’s the Blood of Jesus Christ—“that speaketh better things than
  Abel.”  (Hebrews 12:24)

15.	Let me tell you a little story. You all know it, but it happened in
my part of the country—I go to Toledo because I’m only about a
hundred and twenty miles out of it. 

	Up there in Toledo Bro. Branham had one of these really great meetings.
And one night after not being able to sleep—and he slept very little
in those meetings, the pressure was so great—he went out one morning
to get a little cup of coffee,    go to some restaurant, sit down and
sort of get the weariness out of his head and have a little food. And he
walked in there, and here the jukebox went, “Wilee, wang, wang, bang,
bang, and some cop standing around, you know, watching the juke boxes,
and I guess the one-armed bandits against the wall, and here was some
poor little old woman sort of, you know, bloused all over, and you know,
her skin hanging down like wrinkles in a stocking or something, and she
was there with three guys burping and blowing her and all at the
breakfast table, and she was sort of burping and blowing back. 

	And Bro. Branham looked and he said, “Oh God,” he said, “I
don’t know how you stand the sin, I don’t know why You just don’t
blot everything and everybody out, you know that sin…” You know, he
said the same thing old Luther said, Luther looked at sin, and he said,
“If I were God, I’d just smash it all to pieces.” See?

	So a vision came right before his eyes and he saw a world spinning and
he saw a circle of Blood around it, and God said, “If I ever remove
that Blood,” He said, “that you’re asking for, you’d go too,
just like you’re wanting her to go.” Well, he had to…he went over
to her table, and he said to her, “Madam, may I sit down?”

	She said, “I have escort.”

	He said, “Well, I didn’t mean it that way,” but he said, “I’m
a minister and I was looking at you and condemning you and your
companions sitting here, and as I was condemning you, God gave me a
vision and I saw that world spinning and a circle of Blood around it,
and God said, ‘If I remove that Blood on account of her,’ He said,
‘Then the Blood gets removed from you.’ He said, ‘The whole thing
is gone.’”

	And she said, “You wouldn’t be Bro. Branham, would you?”

	He said, “Yes, I’m Bro. Branham.”

	Well, she said, “Well, I’m ashamed of myself. I shouldn’t be
doing this. I was brought up as a Christian. I was once saved, but,”
she said, “I got into sin and I went away from God.”

	And he said, “Before it was over the policemen were on the floor
kneeling, those men were kneeling on the floor, and she’d come back to
Jesus Christ.”

16.	Listen, my brother/my sister: we’ll never know till Judgment Day
what that Blood really means. We can talk all we want, we can pray all
we want, but I believe with all my heart, we’ll never know till that
day when that glory breaks through and we have to stand in His great
presence, and our hearts, with that blazing Light, we’ll claim that
Blood as we never claimed before. Then listen: It’s going to be worth
claiming then, It’d be worth claiming now. If the prophet needed that
lesson, God had to rap him over the knuckle to give him that lesson, how
much more do you and I, because he lived a better life than maybe all of
us put together, see? Oh, the Blood of Jesus that “washed us white as
snow.” It should be magnified, yes, that absolutely settles it. The
sin question, as far as God is concerned, is dealt with. There can be no
further dealing with it. Why? Because it’s dealt with.

	Say, “Well, God, how…will you deal with my sins?”

	He says, “They’re dealt with.”

	“Lord, can you heal me?”

	He says, “I done healed you two thousand years ago.”

	Everything, you see, God has done has been given to us through the
death of Jesus Christ, see, it’s settled. There can be no further
dealing. Why? Because there is no need, for the work of Christ was
perfect. Can one add to a perfect work and it still be perfect? Can one
take from a perfect work and it still be perfect? It cannot. The trouble
is, my brother/my sister, we don’t know what God is talking about. 

	We’re all like I was…years ago I was raised in the province of
Alberta, Canada. They had an agriculture college in the town in which I
lived…you know, like you might have one in yours, and every year the
men would come in and give us seeds. And of course I wanted seeds for my
garden, and every year I’d plant my seeds and I’d work on those
seeds and I’d look for the greatest, biggest rutabaga I could get, and
the biggest, long carrots I can get, and I was getting carrots with a
double carrot on it. And I would take my beautiful trophies to the
school fair and never get a prize. And I’d be burnt up. And other kids
there with products not near as nice and big as mine, and as beautiful
shaped as mine, and I thought… And they were getting prizes, and you
know I was burned up. It got to the place where I was hating the judges
and everybody else but I still wanted those seeds.

	Well, one year I got some seeds and we had a bad year. And you know
what? It didn’t rain worth a hoot and we didn’t have much water and
nobody could water their lawns or anything. So I took my produce in and
they were small and uniform and they looked so neat, and looked so yuck
to me, you know, so I put them in and I get first prize, first prize,
first prize! 

	I’m really mad now. What are these idiots doing?  They have got to be
insane. They’re giving me first prize for this junk, and they
wouldn’t give me first prize for my goodies. And I still didn’t know
what it was all about until finally it dawned on me: there is a law that
judges what is perfect and what is not perfect. And I thought if I could
get a carrot with another carrot on it, that’d be a perfect carrot.
Now that’s not a perfect carrot because it’s got another carrot on
it. Now if I had broken off the tip, it wouldn’t have been perfect
because it wouldn’t be all there. 

	Perfection is perfection, and you know we are like a bunch of foolish
little idiots, little kids, running around…that don’t have enough
brains to realize that when God makes something perfect and judges it
perfect, then leave it. Add a Word or take a Word, you’re finished.
Add a deed, or take a deed, it’s finished—you’ve lost it. The
perfection must be in Him so that He gets all the glory, He gets all the
honor, He gets all the wonderment. See? Yes, sir, but people don’t
want to do that. No…we all like to think maybe we could just do
something. Brother/sister, it is not works and grace, it is grace alone.
It is grace what God does, and if we want to show appreciation, we’ll
do a few works. They’ll be in line, they’ll be good things, but
remember: they will never save us, never save us, because the saving is
perfect by the Blood of Jesus Christ. The sacrifice was perfect—it was
absolute.

16.	Let’s just take a look over here at 1 Peter 3, I guess it is, and
verse 18:

18	For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that
he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened
by the Spirit: (There you see it.)

	 Hebrews 9. Go to Hebrews 9 and verse 26, another little verse:

26	For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the
world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself. 

	Now the thing is this: was sin put away, or was it not? Now the Bible
says, “Once in the end of the world, knowing that he is right in the
middle of the Old and New Testament, the Old Testament Saints and the
New Testament Saints, and He said, “Once he put away sin.”

	Now you know something, brother/sister? Do you realize that the
resurrection of Jesus and Abraham and those that came forth with him
absolutely proved the truth of it. He put away sin. 

	Oh, it was demonstrated that day it was put away; it was demonstrated
the perfection; it was demonstrated unto immortality. Then what are we
talking about today when it was demonstrated before your eyes and my
eyes—the resurrection proven. See? Proven to us. Why? In order to show
us that we’re a part of it: the sin question has been answered. It was
all done by the Blood of Jesus Christ, there is perfection there,
absolutely, truly there is.

17.	Hebrews 10:26-29:

26	For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of
the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 

	What is that? That’s the truth of the sacrifice—there’s no more
sacrifices, there isn’t any. Once you understand what that sacrifice
is all about, once that sacrifice was proven, once that sacrifice is
accepted, it should be a closed book, closed book. Sin has been dealt
with, sin has been dealt with, brother/sister, see, absolutely. Truly
that is the way God has done it. Now It said:

26.	…There remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

27	But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation,
which shall devour the adversaries.

	In other words, change it: you’ve just got nothing but destruction.
Add to it, take from it, deny it, repudiate it, what have you got?
Nothing. See, you’re held in judgment if you don’t allow the
judgment of Christ for us. If we do not allow him to answer for our
sins, then we have to answer ourselves. No use saying, “Well, Jesus,
I’m glad you died. That means I’ll have to answer just a little
bit.” You’ll have to answer for it all, for your sins. No, the sin
question is finished. You can answer to him for the works you’ve done
here on earth, whether you obeyed them or not—that’s fine and
dandy—but I tell you: you will never, never, never, come into the
judgment. That’s what the Scripture says: that’s the triple, not the
double now, but the triple: never, never, never—that’s what the
Greek says—“You come into condemnation.” Never, never be in the
judgment. God has said so. No, we must honor what Jesus did. 

18.

29	Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy,
who treads under foot the Son of God, and counts the Blood of the
covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done
despite unto the Spirit of grace?

	Turns down the very thing that God gives and said, “This is what
you’re standing on. This is the forgiveness of your sins. This stands
between you and God. Your sins will never reach you. You’ll go up
there guiltless because there’s no evidence. The evidence is smashed,
annihilated, you see? I’m going to tell you something, brother/sister,
it we ever get this revelation, there’ll be such gratitude in our
lives that our lives will begin to change to a Godly cycle toward Him.
It’s a lack of a revelation, my brother/my sister, that holds us down.


	People say, “Give them that revelation and they’ll sin.”

	That’s a lie from the pit of hell. Give them a real
revelation—they’ll live unto Almighty God, because that’s the
power of the church against the devil. Oh, how people slander the Word
of God, and His grace. Brother/sister, it’s wrong. That’s why the
world is going to be judged. That’s right, that’s why judgment is
soon upon this earth. They’ve turned down reality. You can’t turn
down reality and then get away with it. No, sir.

19.	Now listen, let us consider if we want to know why we speak so
highly of the Blood, and why It is so great concerning our redemption,
let us consider who wrought our redemption—this ought to help us.
Let’s find out whose Blood was shed, let’s get a picture from the
Scripture, for redemption was wrought by none other than the [Master?]
and only begotten Son of God who was God Himself in human flesh. Now
let’s see some Scripture about him and his work and his atonement unto
redemption. First, notice who is our redeemer, and to do this, we can
just go into this not too terrible long, but just look at it anyway. We
go to Matthew 1. I would take the one in Luke but I won’t do that this
time…we’ll take the one in Matthew, and we go to18-23. Now notice:

18	Now the birth of Jesus Christ (which is Jehovah Joshua Savior,
Jehovah Savior) Now the birth of Jehovah Savior (who was the anointed
Christ, Messiah) was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused
to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the
Holy Ghost.

20.	Now right away there is a great mystery here. This woman actually is
bearing a creation of Almighty God because the Holy Ghost does not enter
into wedlock with any woman. The Spirit of God brooded upon her and the
Word created an egg cell and a sperm cell in the womb. Now:

19	Then Joseph her husband, not wanting to make her a publick example,
was minded to put her away privily (or just let her go on her own). 

20	But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord
appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear
not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her
is of the Holy Ghost. 

	Now notice: conception must have an egg and a sperm, and the Holy Ghost
does not impregnate anybody. So therefore the conception was by an egg
and a sperm. Now remember: the whole conception was by the Holy Ghost,
not by Mary. A woman supplies a part but the conception is by the Holy
Ghost because the woman conceives but It said conception is by the Holy
Ghost. So therefore the Holy Ghost produced the egg and the sperm and
they knit together in the womb. And the woman became a chemical factory
whereby the chemicals needed for the egg and the sperm to get in there
in union for the fetus brought forth this child, this body. See?

21.	Now:

21	And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS
(which is Jehovah Savior): for he shall save his people from their sins.

	And there’s only one way sin can be met and that’s by Blood. Right
there she could have caught it; right there Joseph could have caught it:
this boy’s got to die. See, Simeon told her later on.

22	Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of
the Lord by the prophet, saying, 

23	Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son,
and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which interpreted: God with us. 

		Therefore God had to be with the people in a human form as Jehovah
Savior and die because all things must be, in the sin line, must be
answered to by Blood. There’s got to be a shedding of Blood, and
without shedding of Blood, absolutely the sin question remains. With the
shedding of Blood, the sin question is finished. See? Okay.

22.	We go now to John 1, first two verses:

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

2	The same was in the beginning with God.

	Verse 14:

14	And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, 

	Now we can see right here exactly what this: this was the Logos; this
was that Pillar of Fire; this was That which was absolutely visible of
God in other form, now is to come down in the form of a human being,
this Word in action, and He becomes a human form whereby we are able to
have salvation granted unto us by the shedding of Blood, because God is
a spirit and He cannot die. So therefore He must veil Himself in that
which can die so He prepares this very body for Himself, see, and then
God can die in that particular sense of the flesh. 

23.	Okay, let’s go to Hebrews, we’ll skip some of these here but
we’ll go to Hebrews 3…make that Hebrews 4, Hebrews 4:14-16:

14	Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the
heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 

15	For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we,
yet without sin. 

	Now It tells you right here that the sacrifice that Jesus gave for us,
that he as that sacrifice, was absolutely perfect—that he was tested
in every single point like you and me, and in my understanding, this
does not mean he was tested in three major fields, like the lust of the
flesh, the pride of life, and the lust of the eye, which some people try
to put that in the temptation on the mountain when he was led by the
spirit in the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. I don’t see that
at all. I agree with Bro. Branham a hundred percent, that Jesus had the
same instincts toward marriage that any man has or any woman has…that
there wasn’t one sin that he was not heir to in the sense that Satan
would come and tempt him physically in every single sense of our body,
our minds, our souls, and our spirit. 

	And the Scripture distinctly says to us that he was tempted in every
single point, yet he did not sin. And It also tells us that Jesus
resisted…the Scripture says, “You have not yet resisted unto
Blood…resisted the sin unto Blood,” and Jesus did. In the garden
when he was praying against his own nature, against his own self, drops
of Blood actually burst forth from the weaker vessels on his brow and in
his temple. He fought sin, he fought himself to such an extent. And he
was absolutely perfect, he was filled with every single temptation
anybody could ever be assailed with, and even in his passion where they
beat him so terrible—no man suffered like he suffered. See? And yet he
stood every single test, there wasn’t one failing.

24.	Now It says:

16	(Because of this) Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of
grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in every single
time of need.

	…Not because we did any single thing, but because He did it. You
don’t come because you’re anybody, even because you’re born again.
You come because of Him! See?

	“Oh, I’m a good boy.”

	Listen, come on, please, shall we go home before we vomit? There’s
nobody anything but Jesus. I don’t care if God gave you the world and
all of His Holy Ghost to live for Him, you are a human being born in sin
that took Jesus to die for you! It still takes his shed Blood. 

	Can we begin to see what the prophet saw? A prophet of God, who, one of
the highest orders, do you realize that we had a prophet, who, far
beyond the stature even of Daniel. Do you know Daniel knew one king’s
dream when the king forgot it and couldn’t tell it. He told one dream
and went down in history, but Bro. Branham could tell hundreds, and yet
God said, “Without that circle of Blood, you’re gone, too.”

	“Oh, great, mighty prophet, William Branham, what have you got to
tell the people tonight?”

	“Nothing but the Blood.”

	You better believe it, nothing but the Blood. How’s Daniel going to
make it? How’s Joseph going to make it? David? Abraham? Isaac? Jacob?
Abel? There’s got to be something better—the Blood, the Blood of
Jesus Christ that answers sin. And it says right here, “Because of the
greatness, the tremendous perfection of that sacrifice, God Himself in
human flesh, to bear every single temptation you and I have, in order so
that not one of us will be turned away because He understands and knows
it’s our frame that      doth not. The Blood stands there. He said,
“Come on boldly. You’ve got your grace, you’ve got it answered.”
See? It’s to take away fear, see, to take away all fear, certainly.
That’s what God wants of us.

25.	Now, let’s go a little further. Let’s go to Philippians,
here’s a little piece of Scripture Bro. Branham brought us, and he put
it in such a beautiful way, I’ve never seen a theologian ever touch
him. Philippians 2, let’s look at verse 5 to about 8:

5	Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ: 

6	Who, being in the form of God, thought it not a prize to be grasped
and retained. 

	Now It doesn’t say, “Thought it not robbery…” That’s
nonsense, that’s not a translation at all, because he was God. Now
look it here…well, here’s my wristwatch. If I take my wrist watch,
is that robbery? Well, how are you going to put robbery in here? He was
God, see, but he said, “I will not remain as God inviolate and apart
from My son—I will come down and be one of them. Now listen what It
says:

7	He made himself of no reputation… 

	Now that ought to be a smack in the face. Like Bro. Branham said,
“Jesus, born over a manure pile, the Son of God, born in a stable,”
and then some people going around with their nose so high in the air,
they’d drown if a rain storm came. True…think they’re somebody. He
made himself of no reputation, and you and I don’t have any, took all
his honor, and you and I don’t have any. 

	Oh, how the mayor struts, and the politicians, and look how deep
America’s in sin, to even suggest they’d run Teddy Kennedy as
president after what happened at Chappaquiddick. And Senator Hayes has
got the Republican nomination again in Ohio. God, have pity on
America—it’s sunk. Then people go around, “Oh, my.” Even
Christians don’t understand this. Jesus came down and became of no
reputation. And what reputation have you and I got?  What have you and I
got to offer?

	Say, “Hallelujah, now I’ve got God, I’m going to work something
out.”

	Brother/sister, I think that’s one of the rottenest things anybody
could ever say, if they didn’t understand the Blood. It’s like
saying, “Now, Lord, just give me a chance and a little bit here, and
I’ll work it out.”

	Oh, no, brother/sister, God have pity on our souls, we’re going to
need that Blood. Yes, sir. I don’t want to get near judgment, I
don’t want to even go near God, I want to see that Blood right in
front of me, and say, “I’ll just come tiptoeing in through the
Blood.”

26.	Yes, sir, people think they’re somebody. Oh, how they vaunt
themselves. He made himself of no reputation, nobody had a reputation,
nobody had a thing. You and I, we look at ourselves, let’s take a good
look, we’ve done it, we know what we are, we’re rotten, sure, but
I’m going to tell you, there’s an antidote for it. There’s a balm
in Gilead, there’s a Physician, yes, sir, in Israel, there sure is.
There’s an antidote for sin, and it’s the Blood of Jesus Christ. He
made himself of no reputation. He didn’t remain God inviolate up there
where nothing could touch him. He came right down here in the likeness
of man. We found that in Hebrews 2 the other day, “And being found in
fashion of a man, he humbled himself—he became lower than man.” He
said, ‘I’ll just take all the sin on myself and answer all the
questions,” became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross—crucified, crucified upon Calvary that you and I could have the
benefits of the Blood that flowed in his veins, the Life that flowed in
his veins, that perfect, wonderful, perfect sacrifice: God, reducing
Himself to human cell and Blood said, “I’ll give the whole thing,”
and let that Life come back upon you and me. What a tremendous thing
Jesus did. How we ought to pray and glorify His great Name for what he
has done. See?

	Now there’s many, many more Scriptures—we’ll just let them go.
Never forget now brother/sister, the resurrection proves him to be the
perfect Lamb of God, the perfect sacrifice. The resurrection proves this
out to us, that everything in the Bible that says concerning him and his
shed Blood is absolutely true, absolutely true. The resurrection proves
it and we’ve had the resurrection proven amongst us in William
Branham’s ministry.

27.	Yes, sir. Now let’s go a little further then, proving out Isaiah
53:10. Let’s go back to the great chapter on the death of Jesus Christ
where we can see him crucified amongst us. Oh, my. 10:

10	Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he
shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in
his hand.

	Why? Because every son was in captivity away from God but by his death
they’re freed, and by His life, they’re sealed in to be one with
God. Oh, who can pluck us out of the Father’s hand, brother/sister, it
just can’t be done, it can’t be done. There’s nobody can pluck us
out. 

	Somebody comes up, “Well, you can pluck yourself out, but then
you’re not a man.” 

	What are you? Some kind of a coyote or gyp, or something? Horse? Dog?
Oh, people, people, don’t, don’t, don’t ever be foolish and carnal
with the Word of God. Believe what It says! No man! Why? Because a man
put us in there perfect. 

	“By one man died, all men come alive”—the sacrifice of Jesus.
See? Yes, sir. He’s the Lily of the Valley, he’s the Fairest of Ten
Thousand to my soul, He’s the Altogether Lovely…two hundred
beautiful titles, and that’s not enough. No, sir. I tell you: the
praise of God…to praise God the right way man must speak in tongues.
He has got to speak in tongues. I am all for speaking in tongues. I’m
like the prophet said, “There’s got to come a day when you want to
worship God so bad you haven’t got one word to say, you just
suddenly—your mouth begins to… lips and mouth begin to stutter and
stammer, your lungs begin to fill. You just don’t know what but
suddenly it just gushes forth in an unknown language.”

	Sure. You know why? Because the Blood was shed, yeah, because the Blood
was shed. The Holy Ghost only seals you in to what the Blood has
accomplished, my brother/my sister. The Holy Ghost makes you sure that
you have a part of that what Jesus died for. Oh, my! Sealed unto
immortality in the New Jerusalem. How?  Because the Blood of Jesus
Christ answered for my sins. I’m off the hot seat, brother/sister, the
evidence has been destroyed. You can call me a sinner, that’s fine,
that’s wonderful, go ahead. I don’t mind being called down here but
up there they can’t do it, for Paul said, “Who dares arraign me in
God’s court? God says I’m righteous. Who dares condemn me to death?
Why,” he said, “Christ died!”

	How are you going to condemn a man when somebody already died for him.
How are you going to call him guilty when God says he’s righteous. Oh,
here…I’m going to start a Pentecostal dance. I feel like Bro.
Branham, he sat in that platform…he said, “I don’t like folk
dances.” Pretty soon his toe went “tap, tap, tap, tap,” and he’s
out there dancing, too.

	I want to tell you, I don’t get too emotional, but this is one thing
worth getting emotional over. Yes, sir. Peter screamed that day when he
proved the resurrection, proving the death of what God accomplished. He
said, “God raised him first to turn you away from your iniquities.”

28.	Oh, yes, brother/sister, that’s what God did to make sure our sins
couldn’t catch us. I like that. It’s back here again in Acts 2. I
like to keep reading it ‘cause, because, you know why? Paul said, he
said, “It may be tedious, you think I keep repeating myself but,” he
said, “you need it.” So I don’t say, “You do,” I say, “I
do.” I’m going to read it again, 22-24:

22	Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved
of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him
in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: 

23	 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God, Him, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: 

24	Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it
was not possible he should be holden of it. 

	You see, the resurrection is the proof that Jesus’ death was a
hundred percent accepted. It is in effect: the sin question has been
answered once and for all, Yes, sir. They’ll never come into the
judgment, they’ll never be confounded. No, siree.

29.	Now let’s begin to start thinking again of the Blood redemption
itself. We’ve looked at the perfect sacrifice, seen that God accepted
it, seen the perfection of it, so let’s look at the Blood redemption
again. All right. Let’s notice, concerning the sin question just a
little deeper. Let’s just take another little look at it. Okay,
we’re going to go to Hebrews 8, first of all the 12th verse”

12 	For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and
their iniquities will I remember no more. 

	No record whatsoever of sin under the Blood…no, none, none whatever.
Okay, let’s go a little further. This time we go to the Book of
Hebrews, the same book, and we find 10:17:

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

	There is no more remembrance of sin. Why? Because there cannot be
because the Blood of Jesus Christ has annihilated it.  As Bro. Branham
said, “You take a drop of ink and you drop it in a bathtub full of
bleach,” he said, “the bleach in the Clorox,” he said, “will
send that back to the original element,” which he told us was how that
God had judged sin through Jesus Christ and after the White Throne
judgment, all the sin is heaped upon Satan and then Satan is destroyed
with them. Yes, sir, no remembrance, no remembrance, no remembrance.

	You and I remember, our friends remember, but you know, that’s wrong
right there, that’s wrong right there, forget it. What are you going
to do to take care of your sin? What can you do to take care of
anything? You can’t do it. There’s got to be a remedy somewhere. God
required perfection. How did He get it? Through the Blood of Jesus
Christ. Let the Blood be applied then sin will be denied. You bet it
will.

30.	All right. Let’s look a little further. Let’s go to the Book of
Psalms. 103:10-12, and I know we’ve seen this, gone over this many,
many, many times. Listen:

10	He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according
to our iniquities. (If He has, what has He done about it? What’s He
done about it?)

11	For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy
toward them that fear him.

12	As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our
transgressions from us. 

13	Like a father pities his children, so the LORD pities them that fear
him. (Now listen:) 

14	For he knows our frame; that we are dust. (He remembers that.)

	Now listen, brother/sister, He said, “Your sins are removed as far as
the East is from the West.” Now how far is East from West? Now look if
you go north to south, then suddenly you’ll be going north again, then
you’ll be going south again, and go north again. So when you start
west, you never go east, you go west and west and west and west and
west—and there is no east. And if you go east, you never go west, 
just east, and east, and east, and there is no west. 

	And how are your sins ever going to catch you? Can’t do it. See,
that’s what Peter said, “He raised His Son to show you that you are
separated from your iniquities,” the same thing that Bro. Branham
showed us. It would separate the sinner from the sin and dissolve it,
annihilate it, till there’s no trace, no evidence. It doesn’t say
we’re wonderful, perfect creatures—there is no perfection this side
of the veil when it comes to the flesh. There is no perfection of our
flesh, my brother/my sister, until the resurrection. I’m sorry. If
anybody told you that, they’re wrong because the prophet told us
different. He told us flat: “There is no perfection this side of the
resurrection when it comes to your flesh.” 

31.	But there’s got to be an answer for it. What is the answer? The
Blood of Jesus Christ, see, the grace. And remember, brother/sister,
when people say, they say, “Well, that’ll make me a sinner.”

	It won’t do it because the Bible says, “We love Him because He
loved us first.” See, no place you make God a liar…only believe. You
can see why the prophet’s theme song was “Only Believe,” not for
healing, brother/sister, only believe the Word. Believe It. Don’t
worry about consequences, don’t worry about your own sins, just
believe It. That’s the secret of everything in the Word. Don’t say,
“How’re we going to bring Him down?”  Now, in other words, how are
we going to get God down to pay for our sins? Okay, He’s got to die.
Now we got Him down, now He’s dead. Who’s going to bring Him up? Oh,
my, my, my—you go crazy! Believe it! 

	That’s what…this Message is too simple anymore. Nobody wants to
believe it. They want this ramification and that ramification, this
between the line, that between the line, this idea… Forget it!

	The prophet stood there so amazed. He said, “It was simpler than I
thought.” And it is, because it’s  as simple as I’m saying this,
‘The Blood of Jesus Christ, the bleach of the Blood scatters sin till
there be no evidence.” Oh, my, how can you make a man a sinner when
the bleach of the Blood of Jesus stands there between you and your sins.
 [Sin, Satan?] can’t enter but you can, thank God.

	“Oh, I am the Door of the Sheep. If any man come in by me,” yes,
sir, “he’ll go in and out.”

	In other words, he’s got beautiful freedom. He’ll be living that
glorious life, just like coming back and forth, worshipping, praising,
just a natural existence. Oh, my, what a thing God says to those who
believe, and we better believe. You and I going to puzzle, we’re never
going to get anywhere. No, siree, I can prove that to you we’ll never
get anywhere.

32.	Okay, listen, Isaiah 53 again, that’s a tremendous chapter so we
just love going back to It and It says, I think in the sixth
verse…yes:

6	All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his
own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

	Now listen: if God laid on Jesus every one of our sins, then where are
our sins? They’re on him, not on us. In other words, he is
responsible, he is… Listen, you and I both know you and I are both
irresponsible, we are irresponsible people. My, how could we take care
of a sin question? But I’m going to tell you something: letting him do
it brings victory into our lives. That’s the secret we’re all
failing. That’s the failure right today in this world is a failure to
see the revelation. It’s the revelation that has the power to prevail
against even the gates of hell. Yes, sir. There’s where life is,
brother/sister, in the revelation: “I am the way, the reality, and the
life; I am the Word; I am the revelation of It, and I am the Life of
It.”

	Let a man bring that Word as the prophet brought It, let him get a
revelation. There’ll be a life coming forth, just can’t help it. God
does everything in threes, see?

33.	Now let us not fail to note that Paul calls it ‘redemption’.
That means to ‘buy back’, or to ‘loose’ all the fallen sons’.
Now let’s take a look at those fallen sons and see what God’s doing
for them. Let’s see about this Blood act, this act where he shed His
Blood, this great price that he paid for our redemption. Okay, we go to
1 Corinthians 15:22. Look at what It says here:

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

	Now listen: if we agree that everybody died in Adam, everybody went
into unbelief, everybody commits sin, then in Jesus Christ there’s
just the opposite: there comes life where there is no death; there is no
unbelief, there’s nothing but perfection. See? Now we see that,
that’s what Jesus did. Okay.

	Just reading through Scripture…go to Galations 3:13:

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:

	Now It tells you right there that we have been redeemed by Jesus’
bearing the curse for us and becoming a sacrifice. You and I cannot be
cursed when we’re under the Blood. Some, He’ll say, “Depart from
me, you cursed,” but He’ll not say that to you and me. Why? Because
the Blood has been applied, see, through grace, the Lord Jesus Christ
having done it.

	Okay. Let’s go a little further, we go to Ephesians 1, just checking
the Bible too rapidly, the 7th  verse:

7	In whom we have redemption through his Blood, the forgiveness of sins,
according to the riches of his grace…

	And Colossians, the same thing in Colossians, we see again, and I
believe it’s 1:14, yes:

14	In whom we have redemption through his Blood, even the forgiveness of
our sins…

	And then over in Titus 2:14 we see the same thing again:

14	Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity,
and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

	And you can see right there that the giving of himself for our
redemption and our purification that is our righteousness—the whole
thing lies right in Jesus. “Nothing in my hands I bring, simply to the
cross I cling. Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in
Thee.”

34.	Okay. Let’s go back to Peter, and Peter is a tremendous person to
look at. He seems to put things just exactly right. In 1 Peter 1:18:

18	Forasmuch as you know you were not redeemed with corruptible things,
as silver and gold, from your vain behavior received by tradition from
your fathers; 

19	But with the precious Blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish
and without spot:

20	Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, was
manifest in these last times.

	And he said right here, he said, “You’ve been following a Blood
sacrifice according to worldly tradition. You’ve been trained where
your faith is a lie, where your sins are forgiven. He said, “You’re
wrong! It comes through Jesus Christ dying upon Calvary. That’s where
it all is. See? That’s how you’re redeemed, that’s how you’re
bought back, that’s how you’re loosed, that’s how you’re helped.
Sure it is.” Okay. Notice the past tense in there.

35.	Let’s go then to Revelation 5, like we saw last night about the
Lamb, and here he is in the 9th verse:

9	And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book,
and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us
to God by thy Blood out of every kindred, and tongue and people and
nation.

	This was written two thousand years ago, then tell me the Blood failed.
Then God’s a liar. How can He be a liar? He spoke it all in the future
tense…He spoke the future in the past tense. The future of two
thousand years is put into the past tense:

9	And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book,
and open the seals (He saw it way down there.)…out of every kindred…

10	Made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the
earth.

11	And I beheld, and I heard all of the angels…and the tens of
thousands and the thousands, (And the Lamb, the whole bunch)… 

	And all singing about, of what the Blood did…and we weren’t even
born. Since the first church age was in existence, and six more to go,
and He saw them all. How? Through the price paid, see, crucified from
before the foundation of the world. The antidote was there before the
sickness, the penalty was already taken care of before the crime, see,
through the precious Blood of Jesus Christ. That’s what God did for
us, and we recognize it, see. There we are—how beautiful.

36.	Now let us just try to understand a little what is found in the
meaning of redemption, see, we see ourselves redeemed here, fallen Sons
redeemed back to God. What about this redemption? Now I’m going to go
through this very quickly because this would take a message on every
single point. First of all, there are five major premises of grace, and
two of them are almost identical showing the importance of one part of
redemption. [1] It is ‘to release by payment of a ransom. Now many a
person pays a ransom but the man’s not released. 

	We had a case not long ago in Ohio, a man named Emoff, a furniture
dealer. Some very terrible men came in, they abducted him, they threw
him in the trunk of his car, they asked for $200,000, they got it—they
found the man dead in the trunk. The ransom was paid but the man
wasn’t delivered. 

	[2] This tells you that you are delivered. You don’t need worry, you
don’t need to worry, because the emphasis is not on the price, it’s
telling you if you don’t believe that much in the Blood, then remember
this: you are delivered in spite of your unbelief. Now think it over.
The emphasis is on the deliverance of the person that’s kidnapped. Now
the price was the Blood.

	But many people just do not understand how great that Blood is, so
I’m putting it this way. You’re delivered whether you know it or
not. It was the Blood that did it, and when you claim deliverance—and
we do—it’s the Blood. And the Blood does deliver because the
emphasis is the deliverance. Many a price can be paid but it won’t
deliver, but this one delivered. That’s why he could say, “It’s
finished.”

	See what I mean? It’s to set free out of service or bondage. That’s
right—we are set free out of the service of the devil and the bondages
of sin into the liberty of the glory of Almighty God. Sin shall not have
any more dominion over us, and when people realize this is when sin
loses its power.

	What did Bro. Branham tell about that…was it a lamb, he said, was
chained one time. And somebody cut the chain, and the poor lamb didn’t
realize the chain was cut so he just kept going round and round in
circles. That’s right. When the revelation breaks, the sin doesn’t
have its power, then that’s where the freedom lies, and the Blood has
already done it. You see, we need a real revelation of the Blood of
Jesus Christ tonight, what It’s really done. It has delivered us from
the power of sin.    Sin doesn’t have dominion, it doesn’t, it
doesn’t have it. We’ve been freed through the Blood of Jesus Christ.

	Now thirdly [3] deliverance from guilt and punishment of sin: it means
you never did it. That’s how free you are, and if anybody can prove
you did it, you won’t answer for it, because It says right here,
“Deliverance from guilt and punishment,” there isn’t any. He shall
never come into the judgment, he can never be punished, nobody can have
a purgatory. You can be tried here but you can never be punished because
the sin has been dealt with, somebody else is punished, somebody else
bore the guilt. See? Remember that one because it’s going to repeat
[?].

	Deliverance—the fourth one—[4] deliverance supplied to the whole
being of body, soul, and spirit. It, the Blood, absolutely guarantees
the resurrection, that you’re going to get back where Adam was, and
even beyond it, absolutely guarantees New Jerusalem. You’re guaranteed
that the price has been paid. We talk about a city built upon streets of
gold. Let me say this in my own language: I believe the streets of gold
have been built upon a sea of Blood. Yes, sir, a price was paid for
those streets of gold, the precious Blood of Jesus Christ.

	Now, listen, fifthly, and this is just like the third one. It is
specifically [5] redemption from guilt and punishment by expiation.
Somebody had to pay a price. Jesus paid that price, you’ll never have
to pay it for yourself, now that’s redemption. Now that’s where we
stand tonight, my brother/my sister, actually truth. I’m not lying to
you, I’m simply telling you plainly as I can what lies in the Blood of
Jesus Christ in redemption. See? I want to say it again: it’s to
release by payment of a ransom, and the emphasis is, “You’re
free,” it’s achieved its purpose, and it proves it’s achieved its
purpose because Jesus is risen. It is to set free out of service or
bondage—sin doesn’t have any more power, it doesn’t, no, sir,
Satan can tempt us all he wants, with anything he wants, but sin has
lost its power. It is deliverance from guilt and punishment from sin.
Yes, sir. It’s deliverance applied to the whole being that’s going
to put you in the resurrection—body, soul, and spirit. It is
specifically redemption from guilt and punishment because somebody paid
the price. It was expiated, it was, see, atoned, somebody took the whole
blame.

	Now how full and free is this sacrificial death of Jesus? The full
merits of Christ and total loosing from sin and its consequences are
made available through his death. Now never forget: the resurrection of
Jesus proved it as It says in Acts 3:26:

26	“It is proven to you,” said Peter, “this ministry where you saw
the man raised, is the proof of Jesus’ death, which in turn proves
that the sin question has been dealt with, and you’re turned from your
sins.” 

	You are turned from your sins. I wonder if that could break over our
hearts and minds tonight once and for all: we’ve been turned from our
sins. Listen, we must never forget that and never forget that all
creation is restored with mankind.

37.	Let’s go back to the Book of Romans 8:20, we want to look at
something here. Remember, the Blood of Jesus dropped upon the earth to
redeem it. We know that, the prophet said so. Okay, look at Romans 8:20:

20	For the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by
reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

21	For the creation itself should be delivered from the bondage of
corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 

22	We know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain
together until now. 

	We’re all doing it, we’re all waiting for the resurrection. Now
let’s go to the resurrection because, you see, that’s what nature is
waiting for. Okay, then let’s go back and see it, oh, the whole beauty
of it as I see it. You don’t have to see this now, I’m going to tell
you what I see. Okay, Isaiah 65:25. Now this is what Bro. Branham said
was the New Jerusalem, the Pillar of Fire above the throne, “before
they call, He answers.” Here’s what It says:

25	And the wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat
straw like the bullock: and the dust shall be the serpent's meat. And
they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

	This lets me know here that the lion that used to kill the sheep,
they’ll be there together, the same sheep, I believe, and the same
lion…I believe that. I don’t believe that God is going to bring
about a new creation of animals, I believe He’s going to bring up the
old ones. I believe when Bro. Branham saw his horse and his dog, I
believe they are going to be there. I believe that’s what the
Scripture says: “Nature is waiting on us, all creation, and I believe
they’ll be there. 

	That, to me, shows the perfection of the Blood of Jesus Christ. There
is not one thing that is not covered when it comes to the sin question
which man has perpetrated through Adam upon the whole human race. No,
sir. The folly the devil put upon us by seduction of Eve, no, sir, all
of that is going to be gone, entirely gone. Its sole purpose,
brother/sister, in New Jerusalem when we sit down and when we remember
the things of the past, the Scripture said, “Every tear will be
wiped.” In the moment He wipes those tears, there’ll be no
remembrance of the former things, there’ll be none whatsoever. That is
what the Blood of Jesus Christ has accomplished. See, what a tremendous
sacrifice, what a wonderful thing He did for us, yes, sir. 

38.	And don’t forget the prophet also called the little book of
Revelation 5, the ‘Book of Life’. He did. He called it the ‘Book
of Life’, he calls it the ‘Book of Redemption’. But listen, what
redemption is all about is not about eternal life. See, even creation is
waiting for us, and we’re the ones who have eternal life—we were the
fallen Sons. When God breathed into Adam the breath of Life and Adam
became a living soul, and the Scripture said, “God breathed into Adam
the breath of lives.” We were all in him, and he with Eve, and Christ,
the Tree of Life, would have stood there in the Garden and brought them
out of the ground and would have…just like [Makes ‘blowing’
sound.] blown upon them and you would have seen the children come forth.
But, you see, they got into sin. And listen, I want to tell you
something: there’s  nothing wrong with a Son of God, my brother/my
sister, it’s the way he was born, and he couldn’t help that. Adam
did it and so God reached down after all His attributes could be fully
displayed and the Bride raised up so the Word of God could be fulfilled
in Her and God could look down…oh, my, that perfect sacrifice, look
what it does.

	Brother/sister, what perfections we have. Here we were: eternal, and
what is exemption all about, but to bring back those eternal Sons that
were lost and fallen in sin. And let me tell you something: a fallen Son
can be a very wicked person, oh, he can be  a very treacherous person,
but you know—nothing but the Blood. Murderer, assaulter, cruel,
wicked…what’s in the heart of man? I’ll tell you: sin, and God had
a remedy for it—the Blood of Jesus Christ. Yes, sir, and when that
Blood’s applied, the Spirit of God answers right back and seals that
person in. Sure, that’s exactly how it is. How wonderful is the Lord
God.

39.	Now listen, who opened that Book of Life so we could see our names
by faith in the Blood on its pages? Who but the bleeding, dying Lamb.
Let’s go back and take a look at him again. He’s back here in
Revelation 5—we can never talk too much about him. Now listen, reading
again, verse 5:

5	And one of the elders said unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the
tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and
to loose the seven seals thereof. (This is the one you see who was
prophesied.)

6	And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four
beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been
slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of
God sent forth into all the earth. (Now we know that the power of God is
resting in His Holy Spirit, coming from seven messengers which will
reveal Him in the Word, and when we hear those messengers, we’re
hearing the Holy Ghost, we’re hearing the true Word of God. Now
that’s what the church ages are all about, Bro. Branham showed it.)

7	Now he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat
upon the throne. (Sure he did. The Lamb took the book from the Pillar of
Fire. Now:)

8	And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty
elders and fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps,
and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. 

9	And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, to
open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us unto
God by thy Blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and
nation; (Now listen: what in the world is the book talking about with
this very thing? It’s the book of redemption of eternal life and It
just tells you there flat. And then He tells you here:)

10	And made us  kings and priests unto God: and we shall reign on earth.

	He tells you… Don’t you see what I told you Sunday night is
absolutely in the Word here? Daniel’s Seventy Weeks, we’re in it
right now. We’re on our way to the Stone made without hands, tumbling
down already, coming down, and we’re on our way up by grace, seeing
ourselves there, it’s loosed. Redemption finally loosed,
brother/sister, don’t you see it’s completely covered, starting with
the Millennium, going right on. It’s so simple, it’s going over
people’s heads. There’s no big, big, big, big thing because
there’s no big, big, big people, but there’s a big, big, big God.
Sure. 

40.	Now just recall what the prophet said.

11	And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the
throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten
thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; 

12	Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to
receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and
glory, and blessing.

	Listen, what is it all about? Don’t you see, it’s a cantata, a
great kind of opera, it’s a solemn, holy convocation to praise him,
who is the lamb that shed his Blood, and rose to apply it, and we’re
part of it, and what he’s done? That’s what it’s all about. I
wouldn’t want anything else. Now, you can have   mystery under high
heaven, my brother/my sister, you can take it all. Just give me Jesus
and let me see his Blood, and I mean it, I’m not trying to be
dramatic. I’m not trying to give away a kingdom, I’m just  telling
you the truth. My heart doesn’t ask for anything else, I don’t want
anything else. You may have all of it, just let me see him of whom
It’s speaking. This is to me the Book of Redemption open, the Seals
loosed, when I can see who is my redemption, who gave his Blood for all
seven church ages, see him as my redeemer. Sure, that’s what I see;
you see whatever you like, it’s fine by me. And they said:

12	Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and
wisdom, and strength, and glory, and honor,, and blessing.

13	And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under
the earth, and such as I heard (And so on) saying, Blessing, and honour,
and glory to him that sits upon the throne, and the Lamb for ever.

14	And the four and twenty beasts they just worshipped him.

	Yes, sir. Now what happens after that book was opened up there? See,
it’s revealed down here, all of these things begin coming out of it,
now revealed in the last day what redemption is all about, the beauty
and the glory of it. Sure.

41.	Listen, now, listen, And God came to us this age in His
post-resurrection form, the Pillar of Fire, and revealed Himself who is
our redeemer. Revelation 10:1-7. Now let’s go and take a look at it: 

1 	And I saw another mighty messenger come down from heaven, clothed
with a cloud: and a rainbow upon his head, and his face as it were the
sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: (Now here’s the Judge:)

2	And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot
upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, 

3	And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had
cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. (Now here’s the Pillar of
Fire come down, the book is open in His hand, the thunders are to be
revealed, all the mysteries of God are going to come into view. The
whole Word of God is going to be fulfilled. Now watch the 7th verse:)

7	But in the days of the voice of the seventh messenger, when he shall
begin to sound, the mystery of God should be completed and perfected as
God hath declared the good news of the Gospel by His servants, the
prophets. 

	That’s exactly what the literal translation says. The end time,
what’s he saying? Redemption has run out. It’s time for the whole
thing to come in view, and when it comes in view, you see the Lamb
standing there and he takes all the glory, and everybody round him,
praising and glorifying him. Oh, brother/sister, that’s what I’m
looking at. I don’t want my view changed, I just want to get a closer,
better look, that’s all. Sure. Not saying somebody, anybody else
isn’t right…believe what they want. I’m looking at it from this
angle. Yes, sir, and I want to keep it. 

42.	Now, when the veil of tradition was rent in twain and the mercy seat
came into view we saw, like Moses, the back of a man, and it was a
bleeding back, as Bro. Branham said. Christ, our Passover, in this age
of Jubilee, has appeared because this is the age of Jubilee, the age of
the Bride, the age of the adoption, the age of the inheritance, right
down the line. And we see it is the Blood-grace that calls us out of
Babylon to the marriage supper. It wasn’t any other grace that called
us out—we were stuck as bad as anybody else but we’d been redeemed.
How’re you going to stay down in Babylon when the Blood’s been
applied? The Holy Ghost is leading you into all truth to which you’re
part. You can’t do it. Separated! Yes, certainly. 

	Now here he has proved he has risen amongst us in order to prove that
we are now perfectly redeemed by his death and sealed by his life, and
are kept by the power of God unto absolute salvation. As the prophet
said, “I the Lord have planted and watered day and night, lest any man
pluck it out of my hand.” How are you going to pluck it out of His
hand? God sowed this Word, He watered It. How is this Word going to
fail, the Word of redemption? Can’t do it, no. The Son of Man
revealed…what for? That He is the mighty One, worthy as That One to be
our redeemer. Oh, brother/sister, everything just shows you
‘redeemer’. Would to God I could see it with my eyes spiritual!
Someday I shall, by His grace.

43.	Listen: may it become a true revelation that Christ our Life has
appeared and we shall soon appear with Him in glory. Let me tell you how
you’re going to make the Rapture. Let’s look at 1 John…we’re not
fooling ourselves tonight, brother/sister. If I don’t make it myself,
I believe a hundred percent I’m telling you the truth, how it’s
going to be made. Listen: 1 John 3:2:

2	Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it has never yet come into
existence what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we
shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

	Now listen: absolutely that would apply in people’s minds to the
Rapture. Now, look it, what everybody tells you in the modern
fundamental movement is this: you’re going to get changed here, then
you’re going to get caught up to see Him at the Wedding Supper. But
the Bible doesn’t say it. It says you see him as He is, then you get
your change, and then you’ll be caught up. Go read it for yourself, go
ahead, I invite you, and don’t be dull in reading, read it the way it
is. Don’t read it the way the fundamentalists read, read the way it
is. I’ll read it again:

2	…It has not yet appeared what we shall be, but we know that when he
shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

	To be like him is to be like him which means in an immortal body. Then
you’ve got to see Him as He is before you get your mortal body.
That’s where Bro. Branham says, “They’re all mixed up on the
Appearing and the Coming.” Christ has appeared! He has been revealed!
The Son of Man has been revealed, Christ, our Passover, into full view,
redemption open wide      in Jesus Christ our Lord.

44.	No wonder there’s no place for organization, or churches, or [?],
and creeds or handshakes , and     lodging, and all that nonsense. Oh,
my, it makes the prophet’s Message so simple, but we must not look for
the hard things, no sir. We’re like old Naaman…he heard there was a
man who could cure him of his old leprosy. He went down there and the
prophet said, “Well, tell him…I haven’t got time to see that
fellow,” he said, “tell him to dip in the Jordan out there.” 

	Old Naaman said, “I ain’t going to dip in that muddy old hole.
Phooey,” he said, “that’s too easy. I’m a man that does great
things…sermons…like that, my father. I’m sorry to tell you,
that’s your whole trouble. If he’d have said some great big, great
big, great big, great big thing like taking a kingdom and four elephants
and a white horse…sure, but just a little thing like that!”

	“Why don’t you do it?” 

	He went down to the dirty old Jordan seven times, come up like a kid.
“Well, he said, “well, hallelujah, I sure learned my lesson there,
didn’t I?”

	Let me tell you something, brother/sister, we ain’t got time to learn
no lesson, it’s time to learn them now—not some great big tremendous
thing the Pope, or some big church, has got to pass on. No, a little old
fellow with a seventh grade education with the Holy Ghost of the heart
and mind of a prophet, just come down and revealed Christ and just take
it all and showed us. Oh, sure. Yes, sir, brother/sister, it’s just so
simple.

45.	Let’s read a little bit more. Let’s go to Romans 5 and just take
a look at this, this great thing we have through Jesus. You see, if we
talk enough about this, we’re going to love him a little bit more,
because, you see, the Bible says we love Him because He loved us, and
the proof of his love was his sacrificial death, and we see him dying
for us and see that Blood and that’s when that heart’s going to
start looking at nothing but him. Yes, sir, going to fall in love with
him, and it won’t do it any other way. Now look at it here, the 5th
chapter, begin at the 6th verse:

6	For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the
ungodly. 

7	For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a
good man some would even dare to die. (See? If…somebody might say,
“That fellow is too good to die—let me die in his place.” Somebody
might do that, but look it:)

8	God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. (That ought to be the answer. If, while we were
sinners, he died for us, and now we’re under the Blood, try to walk
for Him and we’re believing His Word and just going along, see, as
Christians. How much more then is His loving grace poured upon us.)

8	But God commended his love towards us, and while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us

9	Much more then, being now justified by his Blood, (We’re carried    
perfectly righteous, perfect in the sight of God by His Blood) we shall
be saved from wrath through him.

	It tells you right there: you know how you’re going to get saved from
wrath? Because the Blood of Jesus destroyed every bit of your sin: it
destroys the guilt, and the Judge says, “What about this person
here…what’s he charged with?”

“Well, Judge, I’m sorry, we just can’t find the evidence.

“Well,” he said, “case dismissed.” 

How are you going to judge a man with no evidence? Well, how are you
going to do it? That’s what the prophet said—I didn’t say it—the
prophet said it. How are you going to make a man a sinner when the sin
is scattered? It didn’t say the man scattered, It said the sin is
scattered. Sin answered, see?

9	Much more justifed by his blood, we’ll be saved from wrath. (Sure,
we will, see, because he paid the price, the wrath of God on him.)

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

11	And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom we received that same reconciliation.

46.	Yeah. Okay, the same thing is in 2 Corinthians 5:18-21. Now let’s
go to Revelation 22:10-14, get back here in New Jerusalem. Okay, listen:

10	He said, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the
time is at hand. 

	Now right now, just before the rapture, before Jesus comes, the Book
has to be unsealed and nobody dares seal it. That’s why it’s very
dangerous to look down the road and say, “Bro. Branham’s got to come
back and unseal anything.” The Book’s been unsealed. See? He that
has been unsealed, has been unsealed. He said it was. Now if there’s
more revelation coming, that’s just great, fine, I’m all for it, and
I don’t deny there can be. I won’t deny anything, I don’t have my
mind in anything, but I know the Scripture says here, “Don’t you
seal it.” When this Book becomes understood, those seals broken,
don’t seal it. Why? Because the time is at hand.

11	He that is unjust shall be unjust still (Too late. These seals must
break just before the rapture): he that is filthy, filthy still: he that
is righteous, righteous still: and he that is holy, holy still. 

12	Behold, I come quickly; my reward is with me (See, just before the
rapture), to give every man according as his work shall be.

13	I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end…

	He said, “I told you, I told you what I did at the first, I do at the
end…you wouldn’t listen to me.” Remember, Paul came with a Pillar
of Fire to bring the Word, so at the end another prophet must come with
a Pillar of Fire or God is not Alpha and Omega. “Now I showed you what
I am—you wouldn’t listen. Oh, you had your own ideas, but you
wouldn’t listen, but I proved it—now it’s too late. I’m not
kidding you, I’m telling you the truth.”

	I told you Bro. Branham said, “It’s not so much it happens in the
middle,” he said, “you watch both ends.”

	And I told you, I said, “You got a board and two ends, you got a
board, don’t worry about the middle, you got the board. All right,
you’ve got it right here. He did it, he proved his resurrection, that
proved his death at the beginning, He did it at the end, He had a man
with the Word of God, the Pillar of Fire, he had a man with the Word of
God, the Pillar of Fire. The ends are identical. Right? Alpha’s Omega.
Oh, come on, perfect.

47.

14    Blessed are they that do his commandments…

	No, “Blessed are they that wash their robes” and Bro. Branham said,
“I want to find a Bride who has got such character who’ll listen to
the Message and stand still in the waters of separation till she’s
cleaned by that Word and dress.” And he said, “I believe I’ve been
called to dress a Bride.”

	I want to tell you something: a virgin Bride is a dressed bride, is an
oil Bride, because a virgin of the Word was the one that had the oil is
the one that had the dress, and all three is the Word, because when you
hear the Spirit, you’ve got the Word so therefore you’ve got the
Spirit. One of them, yes, sir. I’m not saying puzzles, I’m saying
very, very clear-cut things from the prophet’s Message, which by now
I’m sure you understand and know. Now:

14	Blessed are they that wash their robes that they may have right to
the tree of life, (Now just a minute now, “Right to the tree of
life”—who’s that? People standing right here. The very thing that
Adam couldn’t walk to, but the Scripture said, “I’m going to stop
Adam—I’m going to put cherubim there lest he eat that Tree of Life
and live forever in his sins,” but God said, “I’ll let everybody
die except the last little group on earth and they’ll walk right to
that Tree and they’ll live forever—immortality. And they won’t
miss one breath, they won’t miss one heartbeat, they won’t miss one
anything.”

	The seals are open, brother/sister, we’re already in it. I know, I
know we don’t feel like it, but we are. You know what’s going to
happen to us? I’ll tell you what’s going to happen to us: when the
resurrection hits, like Bro. Branham said, “When those apostles saw
those raised from the dead, they had resurrection faith,” and I
believe that’s what’s going to happen to us. I don’t say it is…I
believe it is, yep, because they’ve got to come up while you and I are
still here, and it might    be still puzzling a few things. Yes, sir.
Oh, we’re in it, there’s no use talking, saying, “Well, it’s
down the road.”

	No, it’s not down the road, my brother/my sister, we’re in it. Yep.
It’s just like we’re in life right now. I’m what? Eighty-five or
eighty-seven percent dead. I’m sixty-two years old, I suppose I’ve
got seventy years, if God    give them to me, and I’m about
eighty-five percent dead. There’s no use kidding myself. I could say,
“Well, I don’t feel that bad, I don’t look that old maybe…well,
I don’t know, but then I can’t tell… sometimes I look worse. But I
haven’t got a thing to do with it. I’m eighty-seven percent dead. I
could hop up and down, exercise and take tonic…and who says I don’t?
But I’m still eighty-seven percent dead.

	Now I can kid myself and go to some beauty salon and get the wrinkles
taken away if they want to do a monumental job on this puss of mine, but
I’m still eighty-seven percent dead. I want to get you the picture
tonight: we’re finished, we ain’t going nowhere—it’s over. The
prophet comes along, “I don’t pray for America, she’s gone,
she’s gone.”

	We’re right now with the Stone coming down cut without hands because
Jesus does all three in descending—the Shout’s here. No use kidding
yourself any longer, face up to it, it’s here, it’s here. The Saints
possess the earth here, but they go away so it gets cleaned up. Who
wants it, the mess it’s in? That’s right, that’s right, that’s
the whole story. We own it now, see? Proven to us. I’m not telling you
a fairy tale—this is the truth, and without are dogs, sorcerers,
whoremongers…that shows you this is not New Jerusalem yet, this is
right now. Oh, Lord God, have pity on the world. 

48.	Listen: the prophet understood what I’m talking about tonight. Let
me tell you something: this is not on tape, part of it is. In November
of ’64 I was with Bro. Branham in New York in the New Yorker Hotel, or
The American, I forget which it was…New Yorker, I guess, and I could
tell by looking at him, something happened to him. And I had not been
there when he told about the Colorado incident stopping the storm, so he
went into the whole picture and told me how it was, and he came to the
place where he told me how it was that the doe came with the two little
fawn, and he slapped them and he said, “Get out of here, I could kill
you but I won’t take your life. He said, “I made God a promise that
I would not kill anymore except under certain conditions,” and he
said, “I’ve kept my word, and then a Voice said to him, “If you
kept your word, how much more do I keep Mine?”

	Listen, this is not on tape what he told me but you can believe me
because I wouldn’t lie to you. And he said, “Lee, from that moment,
I have no consciousness of guilt.” And that’s what my message has
been all about tonight: no consciousness of guilt, as the Bible said.
Why? Because God keeps His Word. When you and I see that God keeps His
Word, and we realize at times that we have kept ours, then how much more
does He keep His? And he said, “From that time I have no consciousness
of guilt.”

49.	Now I’m going to tell you something: I was twenty-two years of age
when I started preaching, I was in the town of Red Deer, I believe,
yeah, up in Alberta, Canada. I was visiting some friends for supper,
they invited me over for supper. I was lying out in their lawn waiting
for supper and I was bemoaning the fact that I was a terrible person
because I’ve always had that complex, and I suppose you have, too,
that no matter what anybody could say, even God could say, that you
would feel that you were still unworthy, which is true in many a way,
that’s true, but the Blood does it. And a Voice spoke back to me and
said, “Call that not common, or unclean, which God has cleansed,”
speaking concerning me. And like a true Pentecostal idiot—well, I’ll
take that back—like a true pervert, because I must have been
perverted, I spoke back to God and said, “Well, Lord, that’s very
sweet but I know better.”

	See, I called God ‘a liar’. If I’d have just said at that moment,
“God, how grateful I am,” what it would have meant to my life. But
you see something, brother/sister? When you turn down revelation, there
is no victory whatsoever. But when the revelation strikes, and you and I
take it, that is where victory lies, and in no other place, because you
must believe God, you must believe God, you cannot make Him a liar.

	Now what I have preached tonight in these messages, what the prophet
said, I would stake my life on it…I am staking my life on it. Don’t
you stake yours on it. I’m staking mine on this, what I’m preaching.
You believe what you want, see? That’s your business, I’m just
talking to you tonight. But I’m going to tell you something,
brother/sister: the prophet had it, he said, “I haven’t got not one
consciousness of guilt.” 

	The same man, one week before he died, and I’ll tell you now: I
looked at his face again, he called me for an interview in Tucson
because he knew I was going home. He said he wanted to see me. I looked
at him once more in the face, and God is my judge once again: I
recognized something had happened to him. He said, “Yes, Lee, I was in
the mountain this week, I was with the Lord,” and he said, “It’s
the first time since I was a child I have no consciousness of fear.”
Perfect love casting out fear.

50.	Brother/sister, I don’t know what it means to you but nothing
means anything to me if I can have this. There’s nothing in my life I
want: I don’t want power, I don’t want might, I don’t want wisdom;
I want the simplicity of God. You’re true what you did, I believe and
I’ll stand in it, Lord. 

	I’m standing here tonight believing before this rapture takes place,
before it’s over, that revelation is going to break, that ‘he
that’s righteous is righteous still, and he that’s holy is holy
still’, and it’s not going to be because you and I have been good
kids, we’ve been good boys and girls, not even that we’ve been an
example of any description, or any good type of citizen. It’s going to
be through Jesus Christ our Lord, so that everything done, either by
Him, for us or in us and to us is going to be based upon the fact that
it is Jesus.

	As Paul said, “God, that I should glory save the cross of Jesus
Christ our Lord,” and then turned around and said, “The life that I
live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who lives in
me.” And he said, “No matter what it is, it’s God in you, living
and doing of His good pleasure.”

	Brother and sister, this, to me, is the secret of all the age, of
everything that that Word carries, it’s faith in God in that
revelation that He has proved at this end time to us.

51.	Now listen, I’m going to go a little further. I’m going to now
go back to the Book of Ephesians because there’s no services now until
Thursday night when I take the fourth message on the four great
fundamentals of redemption. We’re going to go into the Book of
Ephesians, and then we’re going to look at it, then we’re going to
go back to verse 15 again where Paul is praying for those who already
have the Holy Ghost, who are under the Blood, who are sealed in, and
he’s looking down to the end of the ages when the whole Word of God
will be formed in the Bride, which will be New Jerusalem, and it cannot
start until the resurrection—but the resurrection has already started,
because the first half of the resurrection is the Shout, and it’s
already here, so we’re in it. Never forget that, we’re already in
it.

	Now, listen:

15	Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and
love unto all the saints, 

16	Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my
prayers; 

17	That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give
unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. 

	Now Bro. Branham said that was the Spirit of Wisdom that came into the
church in order to let the church know the hour in which you lived. And
he said, “That Spirit came the same as the angel came to Gabriel.” 

	How did the angel come to Gabriel? In a human form in order to let him
know exactly the hour and what the world history was, and then seal it
because it wasn’t time for the thing to end because the seventy-weeks
was split. Two thousand years of Gentile grace was in there when He got
a Bride, and then it resumed, and from then on, it just tumbled, right
into the, just there, right into eternity. See?

	Now, listen, here’s what the prayer was: “That the God of our Lord
Jesus Christ may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of him.” Now the Spirit of wisdom is already here in William
Branham who brought us the Word.

18	That the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; 

	Now listen to me, what age are we in? We are in the eagle age. Now,
listen, what is the last part that moves? The last part is the eye,
right? Now who was the eye? “If thine eye be single, the whole body is
full of light.” Is that right? Who was the eye that was single?
William Branham, prophet of God, vindicated by THUS SAITH THE LORD,
thousands and thousands of times, never one error. And you could never
hide—proving that he was the Word of God for this hour in a human
form—not that he was ‘the’ Word of God, but the Word for this
hour, in human form, where nothing could be hidden, and he could take
six to ten thousand people, or multitudes—you couldn’t hide if you
tried—everything open to him. Nobody has that but the Word of God,
showing where the Word of God was in a human being. God, with a skin on
it, if you want to put it… Now some of you don’t understand it,
I’m sorry for you. I’m not blasting you, but I’m a little tough at
times, I’m just sorry, but I’m not changing one word of what I’m
saying, because I know exactly what I’m saying, why I’m saying it,
and where I’m saying it from. I have no fear whatsoever.

52.	Now listen, he said here, coming to it:

18	…That we may know what is the hope of his calling, (That’s not
our calling, that’s his calling, Jesus.) and what the riches of the
glory of his inheritance in the saints.

	In other words, the end time revelation, that precedes the
resurrection, that puts us into it, is absolutely concerning Him, where
our faith in Him is so great, brother, we just leave this world.
That’s how Enoch walked with God, and was not. That’s how Bro.
Branham has told us: “The Spirit said, ‘How would you like to take a
walk with Me?’”

	We’re coming to it now, we’re in it through the revelation, Christ
revealed. See? I’m not going to wait until New Jerusalem and the
heavenly supper—I can’t wait that long. I don’t intend to wait
that long. I want it here because I’m supposed to get it here to put
me in a resurrection, the revelation of Him, His calling. See? The
riches of the inheritance in the saints.

	Now we know we are His inheritance because “He shall see His Seed, he
shall prolong his days.” That’s in the resurrection. we are His
inheritance. He gets the Bride, He gives her everything, She gets
everything back, and in Her is fulfilled the whole Word of God, and the
resurrection power is in this very hour.

	Now listen: what about his calling? Okay, let’s look at the Greek.
The word ‘calling’ here is a Greek word ‘klesis’, with two
meanings: ‘used particularly of the divine call to redemption ‘,
that’s yours and mine: we’ve been called to partake of
redemption’; secondly, ‘it is always used to denote the calling of
that whose origin and nature and destiny is heavenly’. 

	Now that’s our origin and nature and destiny, too, but remember, that
was Jesus above all. Now we’re supposed to know that, we are supposed
to know him, see, this calling of that whose origin and nature and
destiny is heavenly. Do you follow me? Don’t try to think too hard,
just listen. It is always used to denote the calling of that whose
origin and nature and destiny is heavenly. Now whose origin and nature
and destiny is heavenly? Jesus. Right? Certainly, it is. All right.

53.	Now at this end time we are supposed to know that. Now let’s go
and look at his calling. We go to the Book of Hebrews 3. Now here’s
what I see, you don’t have to believe it. You believe anything you
want to believe, this is your business and your pastor’s.

1	Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling (That’s
number 1, used particularly of the divine calling to partake of
redemption—that’s you and me), consider the Apostle and High Priest
of our confession; (The high priest to our heavenly calling and a
partaking of divine redemption. Who is he? He is this one whose calling
is used to denote that of heavenly origin and nature and destiny. “I
came from God, and I go back to God. Now just don’t worry. Let’s go
now, and read a little further.)

2	Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful
in all his house. 

3	For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as
he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. (Jesus is
the builder of the house and he’s got more honor than us who is his
house.

4	For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things
is God.

5	And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a
testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; 

6	But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house we are, if we hold
fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. 

	In other words it’s that you stay with the revelation. In other
words, anybody that ever stays with this revelation is in there. It
doesn’t say you’re going to come to it and then just quit it. It
says you come to it, that’s it, you’re in it.

54.	I’m going to drop down to the fourth chapter, verses 12-16:

12	For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any
twoedged sword, piercing even to dividing asunder of soul and spirit,
and of the joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart. 

13	Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight:.

	It doesn’t say ‘its’ sight; it says ‘his’ sight. Now, who’s
the Word? Jesus. Right? And that is, being the Word, It discerns every
thought. Now listen: you tell me one time when Bro. Branham couldn’t
take the audience in his control when he said, “He’s here. In the
Name of Jesus Christ, I take every spirit under my control for the glory
of Almighty God,” and he said, “You can’t hide if you tried,”
and they couldn’t. All right. Then you saw the Word in action, right?
Okay, now listen:

13	Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but
all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have
to do. 

	You mean to tell me anybody but God could have a vision of ten thousand
people and tell what’s in ten thousand hearts? Only God can do it, it
was the Holy Ghost, God working in human flesh. William Branham, right?
But he’s not God; God was in him, the Word. Right? Okay. Listen:

14	Then seeing then that we have a great high priest…(What’s he
talking about? The Word, the high priest. Then who was visibly being
made manifest to us? The high priest. Now, come on, let your thinking
go) that is passed into the heaven, (How did he get there? Through
shedding his Blood.) Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our
confession.

15	For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities. (Remember, he’s the high priest of our
profession, our confession, right? And who is he? He’s the Word. And
what’s he doing? Discerning. And what did he do? Did he discern, did
he? He did it, right?    And nobody could hide. Is that right? And who
is he? High priest. Okay.)

15	For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we
are, yet without sin. 

16	Let us therefore come boldly (All right. Now who’s shying away? Are
you coming boldly. Now you saw it demonstrated, at least some of you
did, I did, you can take my testimony for it. By the way, how many saw
Bro. Branham? Let me just see your hands. How many saw the film then?
Well, you saw the film…that’s good enough. What more do you want?
All right.)

16	Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. (What’s the time
of need? We’ve got to make the rapture.)

	55.	All right, listen, let’s look a little further now. We’re going
to go to five and read on down.

1	For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in
things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices
for sins: (Now that’s what he’s for: gifts and sacrifices for sin.)

2	Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of
the way; for he himself also is compassed with infirmity. 

3	And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself,
to offer for sins. (Jesus didn’t have to offer for sin for himself.)

4	And no man takes this honour unto himself, but he that is called of
God, as was Aaron. 

5	So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he
that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. 

6	And said in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order
of Melchisedec. (Huh? Let’s keep reading now. Who is he? He’s
Melchisedec, right? Is that right? Is that what he is? Melchisedec? Sure
he is. Don’t be afraid to nod your head. I’m not trying to catch you
now.)

7	Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and
supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to
save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; 

8	Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he
suffered; 

9	And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto
all them that obey him; 

10	Called of God (In his resurrection) after the order of Melchisedec,
he’s the high priest. (Now listen:)

11	Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye
are dull of hearing. 

12	For when the time when you ought to be teachers, you have need that
one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God;
and become as such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. (And
that’s where Pentecost is right today. Absolutely, they can’t take
meat, they can only take milk.)

13	For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of
righteousness: for he is a babe.

14	But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age (Which are the
seventh church age Bride, because that’s the full age. Now, I’m not
pulling your leg, don’t worry. Just believe me.) and have their senses
exercised to discern both good and evil. 

	And you mean to tell me that anybody outside this Message knows good
from evil? You’re wrong, because the Scripture says they cannot
discern between righteousness and unrighteousness. Why? Because of the
anointed ones at the end time—only we have the answer. 

56.	Now listen, Bro. Branham categorically said, “Since Revelation
10:7 reveals all mysteries, and Melchisedec is one.” Right? And he
preached on Melchisedec. And then when he got through he stood with his
back between the two people, he turned his back and he said, “Now,”
he said, “as Melchisedec stood there with Abraham, God in human flesh,
a theophany really, stood there with Abraham, the Elect, and Sarah, in
the tent behind, He read her heart and told her, and we saw the High
Priest ministry of Melchisedec, right in our very eyes, verifying,
proving his death, that redemption is ours by the shed Blood, and he
said, “Come, everyone now,” he said, “you’ve seen it. This is
the proof that anything you have need of, here’s your answer right
here. Come, everyone come.” 

	Why? Because the church had thrown him out and he said, “Just please,
let me come in. Behold, I stand at the door and knock.” And there he
was, knocking with the mighty sign, the mighty Voice of Melchisedec, the
risen Christ among us, and people went their way and said, “Well,
witch doctor…”

	“Well, fortune teller.”

	“I think maybe he’s one of those psychics.” 

	Blasphemed the Holy Ghost.

	Now, brother/sister, you tell me the resurrection doesn’t prove his
death, you tell me God standing amongst us proving his own resurrection,
his own high priesthood, ministering his own Blood, mediator and
intercessor. It’s still going over our heads, it’s going over mine,
too. But I’m going to tell you, brother/sister, it’s getting realer
and realer, I know what I’ve seen now, I’m not doubting anymore.
I’m not trying to sell you a bill of goods, no, see, I’m even
keeping my voice down. No, I could even be selfish right now and say,
“Well, if you don’t see Him, then you missed Him. I’m going to be
sure to get the rapture.” But I don’t believe in that kind of
nonsense, because you saw Him, too.

	Yeah, they saw him, but they said, “I won’t take that,” they
said, “That’s Beelzebub.”

	They blasphemed the Holy Ghost, despised the Word, they kicked out the
Blood of Jesus Christ. Why? Because they had a little experience. 

	As one man said, “Well, I went alone with God one day and I was
fasting and praying for God to make Himself real, and a white light
entered my cabin…” I’m telling about a real true story, now, but I
won’t tell the man’s name…you might guess it though.

	And he said, “The white light appeared in the cabin and I ran out
afraid. And I said, “Just a minute now, I was praying to God.” He
went back in again and he spoke in tongues, he had a little phenomena. 

	I phoned that man and talked about Bro. Branham, and he said, “You
know, Bro. Vayle,” he said, “but Bro. Branham went off the Word.”

57.	Here Melchisedec stood, the high priest to his own Blood. I’m not
lying to you. Melchisedec stood right amongst us, brother/sister, high
priest to you and me, the one of our own calling, and they despised him,
and said, “Away with him.” I’m telling you the truth, I’m only
saying what the prophet said. It’s strange to you because Lee Vayle is
saying it, not the prophet saying it. I’m testifying to what was
there. He could testify the reality—he was in it. He was that skin
carrying it about. I’m just another skin. I could even be a goat skin,
but I’m going to testify to the sheep—you bet I will. Oh, yeah,
sure, tell you what I saw, what I know, because our hands have handled
the Word of life. 

	We’ve had reality—Melchisedec came right down here. We saw nothing
was hidden from him. What was He doing? He was proving His death, my
brother/my sister, proving His grace. Not the blazing eyes of judgment,
the feet of burnished brass that trap us under, but the one humbly
knocking at the door, saying, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock.
If any man hear my voice.” He said, “I got one message for you
people,” he said. What is that message “Repent and then change your
mind?

	Oh, people say, “Oh, Bro. Vayle, repentance doesn’t mean change
your mind—it’s a Godly sorrow.”

	You lie. The Scripture said, “Godly sorrow worketh repentance.”
Godly sorrow is not repentance. Repentance comes to those people, my
brother/my sister, who are like they were after the day of Pentecost:
they knew things, they were religious, they had an understanding. It was
a wrong understanding, and the Word of God cut across     and he said,
“Repent! Get rid of those wrong ideas. Throw away all your beliefs and
disbeliefs. Start over. There’s going to be a new seed planted,
demonstrated by the Holy Ghost. Change your mind.” See? Why? It’s
got to be a mental faith, and then a spiritual faith, and out of that
there comes a life.

58.	Oh, brother/sister, I stand here before you sure, I’m not changing
my tune ever again. I’m finished now with my preaching, any other type
of preaching. I have seen Him, I saw Melchisedec. I know in whom I have
believed. Brother/sister, I’ve seen Him face to face, as it were. I
believe, if I am right in my heart—I believe I am, you believe
whatever you want—I have seen Him, and that means there’s going to
be a change. If I’ve seen Him wrong, there’s going to be somebody
else who saw Him right and he’s going to go up and meet Him at the
Wedding Supper. Oh, you bet. We’re in it now, my brother/my sister.   

	Oh, I’m glad it’s getting all over. It’s been too shaky, it’s
been too long, it’s been too disconcerting, it’s too hard in the
mind and the body. [Bro. Vayle breaks down in emotion.] I don’t want
any more, I don’t want any more. I wish I could just get out of here.
I wouldn’t want to go any other way than what He wanted me to go.
I’ve seen the glory of God, my brother/my sister, see Him in His
calling, may the eyes of understanding be opened in the revelation of
Him, my brother/my sister, not you, not me, but to see Him. That’s
what’s going to change me and you, see Him as He is, and I saw Him as
He is, the high priest. I saw Him, I know I saw Him, was vindicated, and
no one is ever going to take that away.

59.	Brother/sister, listen, I know with all my heart, though I don’t
know it as well as I want to know it, we’re already in it, I just keep
repeating that Stone cut without hands, it’s come down,
brother/sister, not all the way, but it’s starting, the kingdom
belongs to the Saints and they’ll never take it, if you’re part and
I’m part, they’ll never take it away. They can kill our bodies, they
can dull our minds, they can do anything they want but they’ll never
take it away. No, sir, no, because he said, “He came right down
amongst us, like He did before, and said, ‘Fear not little flock.
It’s your Father’s good pleasure  to give you the kingdom’. The
meek are going to inherit the earth.”   

	Brother//sister, listen, I say with the prophet, “I might not be part
of that Bride, but there’s a Bride out there somewhere, and by God’s
grace, I don’t want to stand in the way, but I can say this…I’ve
got some gratitude left in my heart, I know that I saw it, I know that I
saw it. I know that my redeemer lives, I know there’s a Jesus, I know
there’s a God, I know this Bible’s true. I saw Him in action. Yep.

	Say, “What about you, Bro. Vayle?”

	I just only hope I’m part of it, that’s all. I can’t prove a
thing, no, sir. I’ve got anything but proof, but I believe in Him who
is my life, if He is my life, see? Do you follow what I’m trying to
tell you? His resurrection proved his death, my brother/my sister, it
did. He accomplished that he is risen, He came down and showed us.

	Oh, matchless lover! What more, what more, what more? I think…Him
saying to Israel back there, He said, “I took a good thing here, I
took all the stones out, I put the right fertilizer, I put a fence in, I
put in grape presses, I put the vines in.” He said, “I came back for
grapes and what did I find? He said, “I couldn’t find anything but
wild grapes.”

	And I say, “Oh God, You find me, and I’m so wild, so untamed, O
God. You came back and I sought You, Lord, and I know You‘re here.
What am I going to do? What would I do except trust in Him? Got any
idea? Brother, that’s what I want you to see tonight. God, be
merciful, we may see Him as He is because we did. We did! He’s
Melchisedec risen, great mystery right here. After the battle, He gave
the bread and the wine, showed us His death, showed us His life, and
then stands here…

	

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