The Christian and Civil Government #1

Bro. Lee Vayle

March 12, 1986 

	Let us pray. Heavenly Father, again we are grateful to know that we can
talk about it, we can sing about it we know it’s in the Word that You
are here, last day visitation. We’re very, very grateful that You in
the form of the Holy Spirit, in Sonship, but through the Pillar of Fire,
giving us a prophet, having given us a prophet, the Word leading us into
the Millennium after the wedding supper in the air. Lord, we’re
thankful that these are ongoing now and we are aware of it. But, Lord,
we are not yet to the point of the sincerity and sobriety we ought to
be, not ripened to that particular understanding, Lord, we’re still
perhaps, trying to ripen up in virtues and graces and fruit and all
those things which we know are admirable.

	Lord, we know that there can be all of that in this world. There can be
gifts even; there can be a running commentary in people’s lives as
though it were absolutely formed after the life of Jesus Christ,
patterned right down to the last little iota. We know they can be a
hundred percent wrong because they turned down and crucified themselves
the Son of God afresh. We know that Lord, if we don’t know then what
do we know? We know that, Lord, we believe with all of our hearts. And
so, we are very grateful this morning Father, that we can stand in that
position, we don’t have to flinch, we don’t have to draw back
...?... It’s not incumbent upon us due to anything whatsoever but to
believe and stand steadfast in the revealed faith which we have in this
hour, which the prophet has promised us, even taking this Message for
healing going far beyond, because it is restoration. 

	So, Father this morning we know that all things have been opened to us
and as we talk about certain things in Your Word Lord, may it be opened
to us in such a way that we’ll only be too glad to adhere to it deep
within our souls and then our actions come forth, manifesting what lies
within us. We shall give You the praise, in Jesus’ Name, Amen. You may
be seated.

1.	It’s certainly fine to be here, with you this morning and I want to
take a little subject this morning that we’ve covered to a degree
before when we took the series on priorities, over there in Quincy, and
it’s called The Christian and Civil Government. And I don’t pretend
to have the last word on it and answer every question but I believe
it’s my obligation to bring this message to you this morning in order
to give you proper light and understanding, as I believe it is in this
hour. 

	Now, concerning then the Christian and civil law or civil government, I
wish to say to begin with, unless a person is a regular Robinson Crusoe,
he’s on an isle all by himself with nobody else, he will have too, you
and I will have to contend with relationships. Now, even if you’re on
an island all by yourself you’d have to contend with your own
relationship, because you can talk to yourself, think within yourself,
agree with yourself and disagree with yourself. You can love yourself
and hate yourself, but now when it comes to more then one person then
you can see it’s multiplied. So not, I wouldn’t say even Robinson
Crusoe was free, but you’d have to be on an isle with Robinson Crusoe
to get away from contending with somebody other then yourself. 

2.	Now, there’s positively no way that even two people can avoid
conflicting with each other and have a conflict of some sort. Now,
there’s a lot of good marriages and that’s wonderful, but there’s
always a conflict even if it’s the taste of certain food or the room
temperature or how many covers you want to pile on your bed. There’s
conflict, I don’t care who it is there positively is conflict. Now,
Cain went so far as to kill Abel over a religious difference, that’s
where his conflict went. And there never has been and never will be two
mortals who think as one, desire as one and act as one. 

3.	Now, Adam and Eve proved that because at one time Adam and Eve were
one, in a spirit form, and then God began to move from creation to
formation where He formed a body that they both were separately endowed
with. He in the masculine body and she in the feminine. And we know that
they loved each other with a love perhaps that no one ever had outside
of those two people and their innocence in the Garden of Eden. And yet
you will notice there was a conflict where she chose the word of the
serpent, or Satan, over the word of Adam who had the Word of God. Now
Eve did not have the Word of God, it was Adam who had the Word of God
and relayed it to her. Now you see there was a conflict there, even in
the realm of what we would call perfection. 

	Now there’s only one example in all eternity where one physical being
was in absolute harmony in every respect, with another being. I never
said physical being, I said physical first then I said being. There has
only been one example in all eternal history, where one physical being
was ever in absolute harmony with another being. Now, no man has ever
attained to that and never will actually, from what we’re talking
about. And that was the man Christ Jesus, as he says in the Book of
John, “I and my Father are one. What I see the Father do, that I do
and what I hear the Father say, that is what I say.” The reason they
were one, of course, was because Jesus was the Lord from Heaven.

4.	Now, that makes a big difference right there, Adam was not, and the
studies of theology, I know the theologian always talks the federal
headship. He talks of the federal headship of Adam and the federal
headship of Jesus Christ and both have separate kingdoms, they are
separate entities and they have separate ways. For as in Adam, “But in
Adam all died even so in Christ all are made alive.” So, therefore we
see here the reason they were one is because Jesus was that Lord from
Heaven. So much was he God that his body was a part of God or so much
was the body God that it was a part of God. Which means the fullness,
physically, of the Godhead attributes or the Godhead attributes were in
a physical form. 

	Now look, I know that sounds mysterious to some of you and you have
never heard anything like this in your life. That’s all right. If you
stick around long enough you’ll get used to it and you’ll understand
terminology. Now, I don’t expect to explain this too much but if you
understand what I showed you, facts and figures of science, what lies in
the human genes, you can well see how God can take His life, create an
egg and a sperm and through human instrumentality of Mary, being like a
physical factory or an incubator, bring forth, literally a manifestation
of pure God in human form. Now, it’s not as hard as you think, if you
let your thinking go, but if you want to be stereotype then all right,
it’ll be a little difficult. But, all right, you’re able to bend
because the Holy Spirit can help you.  

5.	Now, until our mortal bodies change to immortal, we will always be at
variance with true oneness or unity amongst ourselves and here is a very
surprising note, I will read to you from Revelations 22, and I’m hung
up on it, I’ve got to admit it.

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

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

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

	Now, why did they need healing? Bro. Branham said, “That was giving
peace.” You ask me? Don’t bother, I haven’t got the answer. But
it’s there, and so therefore, there will be a harmony but as I say, I
cannot answer you as to what extent harmony is going to be except it’s
going to be a harmony, we know nothing else, and it’ll be perfect and
it’ll take care of everything. But, I wanted you to notice this, that
the conflicts of ego, the community of men, it is rough, there’s
always problems. There are always problems. Now, it is this individual
ego that every person has that causes both God and man to put community
restraints upon people or the population would be decimated by murdering
Cain’s, wolves devouring the sheep. 

6.	Indeed fratricide, which is the killing of the brother that took
place by Cain, fratricide has progressed all the way to genocide. That
is killing out the roots, taking away a whole nation or a whole tribe, a
whole people. It is indeed fratricide has progressed all the way to
genocide as men inflict their wills upon others. And if they can’t
make them do it they say they’ll kill them. And soon the antichrist
will impose his will on the entire inhabited earth and destroy all those
who disagree with him, if he possibly can. 

	Thus, we see God has laid down laws that man is required to obey and on
top of that, men have laid down laws that they expect to be obeyed. All
these laws are regulatory and you understand they are trying to regulate
the ego or the moral precept within man or perceptive, a life within
man. That’s where Bro. Branham said, “Animals don’t have souls.”
Now, if you want to argue, they say, “Well go ahead, say they got a
soul but they don’t have a soul as far as I am concerned, but if they
have a soul it is another kind of soul, it’s sure not like mine.”
Because an animal cannot be immoral, he cannot do it, he hasn’t got a
reasoning process. That’s why man has a living soul, has an inner
soul. 

7.	Now, if a beast has got a soul or some kind of soul, who gives a rip,
he hasn’t got an inner soul. He hasn’t got soul as we know soul.
See, it’s just another attempt for people to get messed up. And so I
try to explain all these things, somebody comes to you and says this or
that, well just brush it off. So, the animal doesn’t have a soul, see?
But man has a soul and that soul, you see, that’s why it’s got to be
born again, because there’s a corruption lies within there and that
corruption that lies within there can be animated by the spirit and come
through the human body. Then you see, the human body is such a marvelous
vehicle that it can go from one extreme to the other, which would be
murder to loving and kindness, niceness, all those things in there. They
could all be there, but they got to be, there’s always some regulatory
principle laid down by God and men. It’s to the inner man we’re
looking at it now. 

8.	So, thus we see God has laid down laws, man’s laid down laws and
God and man both expect those laws to be obeyed, because they’re
legislated upon man. Now, God knew His laws were necessary or every man
would be a law unto himself. Now, there you see you got to watch. Why
did God give people laws? Well, because every man, because of the ego,
because of his soul, starting right from the very Garden of Eden and
going to the first two children, twins, man has always wanted his own
way. The creature comfort way of life and then throw into that the ego
of lust and pride, all those things in there. 

	God knew His laws were necessary or every man would be a law unto
himself. Men feel their laws are necessary. Most laws come from
community legislation, not the singular. And what I am saying is this:
that you may have a despot rise up and force laws upon you but most
laws, such as in America, which is called the democratic principle,
those laws come from the legislative bodies which are made by many
people which are supposed to reflect what the community itself knows is
necessary in order to be competent, and not just competent but to be
morally competent.

9.	Now, all right. In every case, every law of God was meant for the
true good of the people and when obeyed brings forth good and suppresses
evil. In other words, it makes things nice, eliminates the not nice. In
a country like ours, men make laws that they feel are right and good,
but in many cases they are not because of the greed and self adulation.
And I speak of greed and self adulation because why do you think the
doctors have organized? “Oh, because, Bro. Vayle they’re dedicated
men, they’ve taken the Hippo…,” you mean hypercritic, not
Hippocratic Oath, they’ve taken an oath whereby they swear they will
do this and that. You mean they cuss. 

	I think doctors are fine, I believe they’re of God, but so was Adam
and Eve of God, so what did that get you? I am not denigrating anything
just telling the truth. Why did they organize? To protect you and me?
Ah, that’s on the surface, what’s underneath? Let the government
bring on social medicine and watch how those doctors operate. They
forget the taxpayer’s money and money from men of repute and renowned,
our great merchants have put billions of dollars into their education.
That’s right. There’s not one person here educating the college, let
me tell you right to your faces. I don’t care who you are and you’re
good friends of mine and I love you. You’re a rip off on the community
when you want to look at it.

10.	So, don’t talk about this fellow and that fellow getting into
somebody else’s pocket, you got in your pockets too, the same as I did
and every kid here, you got in some taxpayers pocket. Now you see, I say
that’s perfectly all right. You’re not sinners any more then I am.
But you see, a lot of these, the things of man don’t come from the
purity of God. Now, don’t get upset and defy the things of this world
because I am not finished I am just starting. See, I can get my nature
riled up too when I see what’s going on out here. I can tell you one
thing, you’re never going to socialize medicine, or it’s ever going
to be truly socialized except for the Tree of Life giving off healing
for the nations. And the leaves that they yield of it, they do eat. 

	But I just want you to see here that the next thing above greed is self
adulation. “Why, look who we are.” Well, who are you? Well, who are
you? Two and a half bucks worth of dirt, maybe it’s up to four eighty
now. But it’s going down because interest is going down. So, you’re
not worth quite so much and yet you’re worth enough internally for God
to die for you in the form of Jesus Christ and shed a Blood that
contained eternal life. But, if its greed and self adulation that lies
within the soul, that causes these laws to be passed and the legislators
know they’re passed wrong, then you got to have the judiciary try to
explain it. Can’t do it, because if the legislators are corrupt it’s
going to take a corrupt lawyer to explain it. Now where are you? I got
two sets of corruptions. Then you get an honest, a real honest lawyer
and a real honest judge you watch how they’ll fight, but they’ll be
put down. Oh you got it right here in Ohio according to the papers, the
fight between the supreme justice and the other men. So, what are you
looking for? Now, I’m just telling you how things are. 

11.	One of God’s laws, meant to be pure and good, are pure and good
will bring forth good, as one law says, “Honor your Father and Mother,
you’ll have good health and long life.” The devil tries to then rope
you on it, why don’t you say, “Hey Mr. Devil you back off, I’ve
got God’s Word.” But man’s laws are not in that category yet they
are expected to be good and bring forth good and to be obeyed or they
wouldn’t be processed by our legislative assemblies. From what we have
just set forth it is evident then that there are two governments and two
sets of laws in force. Right? 

	Two governments and two sets of laws in force, number one is God’s
government, number two is man’s government. Thus there are two
kingdoms, not nations, two kingdoms, because there are two headships.
One is the headship of God; one is the headship of man. These two
kingdoms are world orders and I want you to understand what I am saying,
they are world orders. Now let it sink in, because my language is
perfectly correct. They are two world orders. One: God is over the
kingdom of God, it is God’s world. Number two: man is over the kingdom
of man, it is man’s world. One is the world of the godly or of God,
the other is the world of the ungodly or of Satan. This is set forth in
Scripture which I’ll now read to you. 

12.	The Scripture I will read is in 2 Pet 2:5 so we understand, if I can
finally find it for you. All right, 

(5)	And spared not the old world, but saved Noah…

	“Spared not the old world, but saved Noah.” He’s talking about
men because Noah’s name is being saved but the other is not saved. Do
you follow me?

(5)	…a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world
                             of the ungodly;

	Not water on earth, it didn’t hurt the earth one bit, it did it good.
It took all the corruption that was laid up there. Remember, the earth
was corrupt, Gen 6:19. I don’t know let me go back and find it for
you, Gen 6:19 or something in there, maybe it’s 6:11, who knows.
It’s [Gen 6:]11

(11)	The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with    
                        violence.

	It was not the corruption of the earth that caused God to put water on
the earth, ...?... a major factor; it was the people who were filled
with violence. Now, what brought about the violence? Now listen
carefully. What brought about the violence? It was because the earth was
corrupted, full of pesticides, full of poison, full of chemicals that
our chemists have made that our greedy industrialists have made that
people have not reckoned with and that brings on violence. Take a kid
off of sugar and all the junk that you feed him, he’ll settle right
down. Take people off this junk, the schizophrenics will settle down.
You’ve got an earth that’s full of violence. Why? Because of
corruption. 

13.	Now, people would not be violent without corruption and corruption
is bred by greed and pride. Remember, the devil fell by pride. It was
Cain’s pride that killed Abel and he was brawnier, because his dad was
a beast and the gene’s were there, muscular, strong, powerful. And
you’ve got a serpent race right today; look at the size of people. The
human body, perfectly beautiful, should be around ...?... now this might
startle you, about 5' 8". Right? Let’s go back and find out from the
article and things. I learned that as a kid, where you been? You say,
“Your education was faulty.” Don’t you kid yourself; it’s been
pretty good, in that respect. 

	All right listen. He saved the world of God through saving Noah.
Remember, the earth is merely something to stand on and live on, that
was made for man, the earth is a jewel and the Garden of Eden was a
super jewel and man and woman was put in there. All these things were
made for man, so He destroyed the world of the ungodly. And listen, Noah
was the only generically perfect physical man of that hour. His wife was
not, his son’s were not and their wives were not. He was the only true
human being, that’s why you got election. And it’s more wonderful to
think about, birth of God brings to pass through natural election and
even talk about a virgin birth, because if God can do anything He could
have a million virgin births and think nothing of it. Just create sperm
and egg and put them in a mother’s womb, just like they do invitro and
things like that now and then transfer them.

	Oh, everything is beautiful in types, you just can’t blink your eye
and not have a glorious type appear before you. I mean, open your eye
and look around, everything is beautiful in this hour, there is nothing
that is not fulfilled. And we are fulfilled, and you might not think so,
and people think, they think we’re empty or gross but hallelujah. Who
cares what they think? If we are in the thoughts of God and have His
Word and come by way of regeneration as He specified in these things
here, then we have not a problem. 

14.	Now you see, that was the world of the ungodly, it was people. So,
therefore there is an ungodly kingdom and it is right here on earth.
Now, “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son” [Jn
3:16] and yet we know that begotten son was given for His own. He never
gave him for serpent seed, He never gave him for reprobates for wolves.
He never gave him for the hog and the dog. Oh, you legalists that you
think that when He said, “The sow returns to the wallow,” that here
you were a sow for a sheep for awhile and now you are a sheep go back
and turned into a sow. Well, you’re, what are you? You belong to
Darwin, spiritually speaking. Go and sit at his table, don’t come
around mine, I got nothing for you. No sir, hog always was a hog and
always will be a hog. 

	He’s talking about a moral reform, the same was Peter that set that
forth, that had the same Holy Ghost that Jesus had when he categorically
made that law and set it down before him. Certainly, you never gather
grapes from brambles, it can’t be done. And so we see that “God so
loved the world he gave his only begotten son,” shed His Blood for His
own. “As in Adam all died, even so in Christ are all made alive,”
and there cannot be one person in Adam made alive until the blood was
shed. So, all right, He did it. 

15.	Now, that word ‘cosmos’ means an order, an order. So there is
the order of man, of Satan, of the world and there is the order of God,
there are two kingdoms right here on the earth at this particular time,
absolutely. And those two kingdoms exist one with the other. We go to
Matthew 13, now I know you are already way ahead of me, thinking of it
already, 24-30.

 (24)	Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of   
                             heaven is likened unto a man which sowed
good seed in his field: 

 (25)	…while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the
wheat,                            and went his way. 

	Now, how are you going to have any man get up into heaven there and sow
something? It’s on earth, like the thunders weren’t in heaven, they
were on earth. “Then bring them down to earth.” They were brought
down to earth, no problem. 

 (26)	And when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then
appeared the tares also.

	Now, when did those tares really appear? They really showed up in the
end time. That’s why they have to, that’s when they really show up.
Well, so does their ripe grain really show up too. They got planted way
back there but this is the hour of a peculiar, particular manifestation.


16.	Let’s watch it:

(27)	So the servants of the householder came and said, Sir, didst not
thou                                sow good seed in (your) field? from
whence did come (these weeds),                                these
tares? 

(28)	He said, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt 
                                 thou then that we go and gather them
up? 

(29)	(And) he said, (No); lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up
the                               wheat also,

(30)	Let them both grow until the harvest: and the time of harvest I
will                                     say to the reapers, Gather
together first the tares, and bind them in                              
 bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.               
                     

Okay   [Mt 13]:36-43

(36)	Then Jesus sent the multitude away, went into the house: and his   
                               disciples came unto him, saying, Declare
(that is tell us, you know,                                    to
explain, “Tell us now in very clear words, let us know perfectly      
                             about this,”) parable of the tares of the
field. 

(37)	He answered and said, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of
man;                          (Notice Son of man, what about Son of man
today, takes you right to                           Hebrew 6:)

(38)	The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the
kingdom;                                but the tares are the children
of the wicked…

	Cain was of that wicked one. People don’t want to believe in a
physical serpent seed but you’d better believe it or there is no such
thing as a physical seed of God. “It’s all spiritual, Hallelujah.”
Hogwash! There’s none of my Hallelujah’s going with that nonsense. I
want, listen, I am in a physical form right now and I hate it. I used to
like it at one time because it didn’t cause me any trouble. The older
you get, the worse off you are and the more trouble it causes you. Not
the kind of trouble you young people have, I went through that too. Wait
until you get to my age and have these other troubles, oh brother, you
ain’t got a care in the world, you just think you have. But you know
what? I want to come back in a new body.

17.        (39)	The enemy sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the
end of the world;                               (if that’s right,
it’s curtain’s for both sides) and the reapers are the angels
(messengers).

(40)	(And) As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire;
so shall                                   it be in the end of this
world. 

(41)	The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather
out of                       his kingdom all things that offend, and
them which do iniquity; 

(42)	And cast them into a furnace of fire: and there shall be wailing
and                                gnashing of teeth. (right here on
earth is where this happens.)

(43)	Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of
their                               Father. Who hath ears to hear, let
him hear. 

		When’s that going to be? After the Wedding Supper, come on right
back here and a purged  earth. Now there’s your two kingdoms, one
kingdom Jesus died for and though he could have affected salvation for
all men, men will not accept it, because it’s not in them to receive
it, you see? All right. Now, though they exist together and the one has
nothing to do with the other, both are under divine sovereignty.
Remember. 

18.	Let’s go to Daniel 4. Now this is very important because this is
an end time Book, 34-37.

(34)	And at the end of his days Nebuchadnezzar lifted up his eyes
(Remember                          old King Neuchadenezzar?) mine
understanding returned unto me, and                                 I
blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for   
                      ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion,
and his kingdom is                              from generation to
generation: 

 (35)	And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and
he doeth                           according to his will in the army of
heaven, and among the inhabitants                                 of the
earth: and who can stay his hand, or say unto him, (Why doest           
                     thou this?)

	There you are. Also, the Bible tells us, most clearly, “He makes the
wrath of man to praise him, the remainder of wrath he does destroy”,
or “restrain.” He also says concerning... “Blessed is the man who
thou chooses and causes to approach unto thy throne.” It doesn’t say
they do it on their own. So God in His sovereignty is over both of these
kingdoms and a permissive will. He allows these things to go on
temporarily, until one day He calls a halt, which of course is what He
calls a ripening of the harvest. 

19.	Okay, now listen carefully. Though the world cosmos, the world order
or world system of the ungodly, is not a part of the cosmos of God, that
is the real kingdom of God, they are not a part of it, it is absolutely
under the divine authority of the cosmos of God and will be judged
according to the very same Word given to the kingdom of God, because God
only has one Word or God has only one Word. 

	Now, I’m trying to tell you there the two kingdoms are here,
intermingled. You don’t pull up one without the other; they are
separated through divine judgment. See. The process of death keep taking
them off. At one time there will be a final step of death of the saint;
they will all get out of here except a few standing here that will be
made immortal. Then God’s judgment will come upon the entire earth and
there won’t be anybody left after that, after the 144,000 Jews are
taken, they’ll be nobody left. It’ll be a complete annihilation so
to speak, but yet not annihilation as finality, just a complete
obliteration for the time being.

20.	Now, let’s go on, I made this statement, “That the world cosmos
or world system, the world order of the ungodly is not a part of the
world order of God or of God’s world” They are here temporarily and
as they are, they are under the divine authority. In other words, they
are still responsible to God and things must run according to God for He
says, “He makes the wrath of man to praise him, the remainder of wrath
he does restrain.” And Nebuchadnezzar knew, by divine revelation,
having been thoroughly converted unto Christ, and remember that’s
Jehovah, back in the spirit form there, the same one being Messiah and
physical, absolutely said, “I know that God reigns in the armies of
the heaven and the earth.” And he was the great man of that day, the
head of gold of all ages and he said he do’s what he doeth or does
what he wants, in the affairs of men.

	So, men may go their way denying God and thinking they are this and
thinking they are that and God’s running the whole show regardless
He’ll bring it all right around. And you watch and see; now they think
we’re crazy. Well, fine, I enjoy my little insanity, I hope they enjoy
theirs as much as I’m enjoying mine and will enjoy mine. 

21.	All right. We’re looking at Acts 17 and-- we don’t have to read
it all. Paul, here, is on Mars’ Hill and he absolutely says, “Now,
you people,” Well, look it here, he says in that verse 21. [26]

(26)	Made of one blood all nations of men to dwell upon all the face of
the                            earth, and hath determined the times
before appointed, and the bounds                              of their
habitation; (See?)

 (27)	That they (might) seek the Lord, if happily they might feel after
him,                             (doesn’t say they all will just some
of them will) and find him, though                               he be
not far from every one of (you:) 

 (28)	For in him we live, and move, and have our very being;…

	Sinners and all, now they’re not in Christ born again, they’re just
telling you where it all comes from and who’s controlling it. All
things were made by Him and all things consist, which means they’re
maintained by Him, God never took His hand off of anything at any one
moment. People say, “Well God, what did I tell you. He just put
everything in order and then Jesus died and God just stands back,” Oh
hogwash, God just stands back. Don’t ever talk to me like that or give
me any thought from anybody of that nonsense. You think that God is
stupid? Now you’re stupid and I am stupid, but God isn’t stupid, God
never took His hands off. He even told the prophet, “Our thoughts
speak louder in heaven then our words on earth do.” And you try to
tell me God’s just stood back like some kind of machine or computer.
I’ve got news for you, the old songwriter’s right, he said, “He
lives and moves within my heart.” 

22.	Now, he said here, going on:

(29)	Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, (God’s production 
                                not necessarily His generated children)
we ought not to think (of)                                       the
Godhead is like silver and gold, or stone, (or) graven art in           
                           man’s (image.)

(30)	And times of this ignorance God winked at; but now command(ed)     
                              all men every where to repent: 

(31)	Because he hath appointed (the) day, in the which he will judge the
                              world in righteousness (now that’s
cosmos and cosmos but mostly                                  man’s
cosmos) (that) he has ordained; in rightousness by that man             
                 who he hath ordained, whereof he has given assurance
unto all men,                                     in that he has raised
him from the dead.

	It tells you right there that God is making the whole system,
everything absolutely responsible to Him and He’s going to judge it.
Otherwise, why would He obliterate that which is productive toward Him?
Now just ask yourself the question, let us find the legalist people and
let’s find the Armenian and Calvinistic people who tow the line and
deny the very Word that has been manifested in this hour. Why will they
be destroyed? The answer is right there and you know it. 

23.	All right. Now listen to this, we go to John 18 and we read verse 36

(36)	Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom     
                              were of this world, then would my servants
fight, and I should not                                   be delivered
to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

	He tells you right there, He said, “My kingdom is not on this earth
at this particular time, I will not be here to run and rule it but
don’t worry, I am going to come back and take it.” Don’t worry,
that kingdom would never bring him back upon earth if his kingdom
weren’t here right now but it’s in the perverted form, because
he’s running and ruling, it’s just the same. Well, how can he say,
“His eye is on the sparrow”? As the songwriter said, “God sees
every sparrow fall.” Don’t think He doesn’t, He feeds the
sparrows, clothes the lily. That is why you and I shouldn’t be
occupied so much with feeding the birds as feeding God’s people and
taking care of the indigents and those that really qualify for it, not
the unqualified but those that qualify.

24.	Now let’s go to the intercessory of prayer or John’s prayer in
John 17. I am going to read a lot of Scripture here because I’m
getting, I’ll be getting into the heart of what I want to bring you.
It’ll be Wednesday night before I finish so we’ll just close off
whenever we get there. All right. The 9th verse.

(9)	I pray for them: I pray not for the world,…

	Well, I thought he just died, was going to die for the world, what kind
of nonsense is this? Two worlds, two worlds, two orders, two orders.
Now, I hope you’re thinking, you’re not thinking so I’ll tell you
how to think. Didn’t I tell you something about 1Corinthians 15? That
He’s doing some subduing right now, which is bringing into order,
which the word ‘subdue’ comes from the word ‘kelusma’ which is
‘a shout’. Huh? Are you thinking, oh you could be by now if you are
dear children of the Lord and friends of mine because I’ve been
teaching here a long time and your mind should be clicking just like
that. Huh? I’m not bawling you out, I’m just telling you, be on your
toes. Let your thinking go, we’re into a subject this morning; let
your thinking go follow right along. That’s nice, appreciate it,
you’re following me, I appreciate that very much. 

25.	He said, 

(9) 	I pray for them, I pray not for the world ( I pray for my own
order,                                           I pray don’t pray for
Satan’s order) but for them which thou hast                           
            given me (Did He ever give any serpent seed to Christ? Hah,
come                                 on. He said,); they are thine. 

(10)	And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in
them. 

(11)	And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world,     
                                 (What world? This out here, physical
and mixed amongst all these                                   people out
here. The Word is supposed to shine its lights out.) and                
                I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own
name. (Well,                                     what is His name?
Father, Son and Holy Ghost? You’ve got to be                          
       kidding. He said, “I came in my Father’s name.” What name
was                                   it? Emmanuel, God with it, Jesus,
Jehovah Saviour, See.) …

(12)	… I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept,
                                     and none of them is lost, save the
son of perdition; that the scripture                                 
might be fulfilled. 

(13)	And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that
                              they might have my joy fulfilled in
themselves. 

	Now who is He talking to, the wheat amongst the tares. Oh listen, when
the time is just right, you watch those tares multiply. Oy, oy, oy. Has
anybody ever seen one of these natural gardens that they don’t use
pesticides and inorganic fertilizer on, you ever seen those? Anybody
ever... Gene have you ever been around them? Ever notice how it is that
amongst the good fruit oh the weeds are so luscious, they are way up
here, and you should see the bundles of seed just shoom, back in an
ordinary place, oh they struggle but they get along beautifully. But
there you see, they get the same water, the same sunlight, the same
fertilizer and boy with that fish oil that they bring in and those good
organic fertilizers, just so wonderful and you can, here is the turnips
in there and the beets in there and the radishes and the strawberries
and everything else boy, but you ought to see those weeds. Man. That’s
what John saw at the end time, the beautiful church system, corrupt
rotten bunch of weeds. 

26.	Poor old fruit down in there, but it’s full of the goodies. Both
having the same goodies, but you see what it was one was food for
God’s table, so to speak, and the other was of the wicked one sure.
You just go out some time, I had the privilege of seeing that, man, my
jaws almost dropped my eyes opened up, what in the world is with this
guy anyway? And I thought, “Well, why doesn’t that bird pull those
big weeds out?” Listen, those weeds went down so far and all scattered
out like this spread out like this. You know, you got two kinds of root,
a tap root and another root. I forget what it is, it doesn’t matter,
but anyway, they’ll spread out there, you give them a jerk. You watch
where your spuds and your turnips and your beets and your radishes go,
shoom, they’re gone with the wind. “So what do I do?” Just pour it
on, leave them be. Have no truck or tree. See; just go through the Word
unscathed. Just realize who you are and where you’re from. Okay,
that’s just a thought thrown in there. 

27.	All right.

 (13)	And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world,
that                                     they might have my joy
fulfilled in themselves.

	Now notice, I want you to watch here, there’s a world within a world
and He’s speaking to His world in the world. See, you are in the world
but not of the world but you are in that world, His world to be
manifested here one day when the other’s gone. In the meantime the
only manifestation you have of being in His world, is properly indicated
by Bro. Branham and vindicated by God is believing the Word for the
hour. Because if you want verger, growth, so called dynamics, so called
fruit, I’ll tell you one thing, I’d settle to be a weed any day if
that did it because boy have they got it, but they don’t have it. Not
what I want, I want that real fruit of God, which is that Word. 

	Because, you see, they can never be anything but weed but one day, our
mortal frame can change, theirs can’t. A dog is a dog is a dog. And
you cross breed him until you get back to the dogs of the Inca’s which
were purple and without any hair and it’s been done right today,
they’ve got him right now but he’s still a dog. But you try to do
that with human beings, you can finally end up like the commies wanted a
tea colored race. Black and red and white and yellow. Is that enough of
them? Brown, there you are. What is it, black, brown, red, yellow.
That’s four, thank heavens, that can be destruction not five which is
grace. Get a tea colored people; forget it, they’re still people. And
the more ...?... the rottener they get. You know why? Because the first
one born was manipulated. Huh! Serpent seed, mankind, yeah. 

28.	Now, I think you’re in a good mood now, your getting to understand
this message. Now He said, 

 (13)	I come to thee and these things I speak in the world, (right here
He                                      aid, now) that they might have
my joy fulfilled in themselves.

	What was His joy? I have done the will of my Father, I have kept them
in my name, I am not going to lose anybody or anything, no sir. Now, He
said, “I want them to know that.” Right. 

(14)	I have given them thy word; and the world hate(s) them (oh yes,    
                                         that’s what Abel did and Cain
killed him), because they are not                               of the
world, (because I am not of the world) …

(15)	I pray not that thou should take them out of the world, but thou   
                                  shouldest keep them from the evil
(one) (while they are in the world.)

(16)	They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 

(17)	Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. (What is the   
                                       difference between weeds and
tares? Truth.)

(18)	As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them 
                                     nto the world. 

(19)	And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be
sanctified                               through the truth. (What is
that? He said, “I’ve lived the Word, given                          
      them the Word, now they’ve got the same thing.”)

(20)	Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe                                 on me through their word; 

29.	Why? Because their Word is his Word which is God’s word. There’s
vicarage again. See? 

		(21)	That’s they all may be one...

	That’s why this church is built the way it is and will remain this
way and it’s up to you and me as a congregation, as a part of it, to
live as a family of God and see it produce or go down the drain. Now,
you’ve got your choice. I’m not hard, not at all, I’m in a good
mood, I feel relaxed, happy in the Lord, as much as I can, you know me
and I want you to face up to it. Now, it may be difficult for some
because you’ve already got your mind set; now we’re going to unset
your mind. Yeah, that’s the thing to do, unset your minds and bring
them to Christ. 

	Okay. He said,

(21)	(We) all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, 

      Of course, He’s going to take this simplistic rebirth by the
Holy Spirit, that is the life of this  Word that is given in this hour,
to do this within us, and He’ll do it to all of us, just got to just,
lay in the presence of that Son, lie in the presence of that Son,
it’ll come. Now,

(21)	They may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, they
also                                 may be one in us: that the world
may believe that thou hast sent me. 

(22)	And the glory which you gave me I have given them; that they may   
                                 be one, even as we are one: 

30.	Now what was that glory? Well, it must have been the glory in the
fact that he was allowed a human body to come down and demonstrate
Almighty God. And that same privilege which made him the assessment of
God, God manifested, we can have the same thing. Now listen, the world
will not accept it. Don’t you give a care about that, the world cannot
accept it, the theologian cannot accept it. God accepts it and you
yourselves, amongst yourselves, all of us amongst ourselves must accept
it. See. This is where family comes in and you got to learn more trust.
What if I was doing things kind of behind your back, but you were
watching me because I was real open and you misunderstood me and it’s
been done and it will be done and I’m a pretty prime target for that. 

	Now, what about the day when it proves that  I was working for your
good and trying to help you? Now, I’m not speaking of myself right
now. Ah ha, caught you right over a barrel. Now what if that was going
on in some of you folk’s lives? Oh, this message goes out on tapes, so
maybe I’m not talking to you, maybe I am. Where you going to be down
the road? What about you young people and your parents, just think about
that. When did they ever try to hurt you? Because they wanted to keep
you from sin? 

31.	Let me tell you something. You’ve heard of oh what’s his name,
not Joel McRae but the other one, the good singer. Ah, anyway, his wife,
you know, Sheila, she’s very clever. She could imitate Zsa Zsa Gabor,
pretty woman, nice looking daughters. You know, I’m just as big a nut
as anybody else; I can enjoy a little entertainment. I want to tell you
something, when she got on that broadcast on TV and let the people of
the world know it came out to the fact that her daughters could
literally be prostitutes, it was okay by her. And I don’t mean taking
money for it, although they’re fools not too, if you’re going to
sell yourself for a kiss or something, you might as well get the fifty
dollars or a hundred that goes with it, if you’re a virgin you might
get the thousand bucks or better. I’m going to lay it down on the line
and just tell you flat but I’ll tell you what, that woman, I
wouldn’t be in her shoes for billions of worlds on judgment day, what
she’ll pay and she’ll pay for every sin of her daughters, the mess
they’re in. 

	I’m talking about you kids now; you think your parents are tough on
you? They want to help you to gear down, to live right and all, hold it.
They haven’t legislated laws to hurt you. Restraint, restraint, my
brother my sister does not hurt anybody; it is the lack of restraint,
because the humans being though born of God is an animal. Oh we’ll get
to this, oh yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, we’ve got time to get to it too,
we’ll take the full hour and a half likely.  

32.	All right, listen: [End of side one of tape]

(23)	I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one;

	And that’s true, there’s only one headship in this church, that’s
the Word, it’s not Lee Vayle. And you know why I consistently throw
things back on you, I want you to recognize that it’s the Word that
does it. Now, I’ve got friends here, I believe that are willing to die
for me and I think I’d be willing to die for them. In fact, if it
weren’t for the love of the people here, and of course, I have the
ministry, I consider the ministry that goes around and visit places in
the world, I think that’s fine. But I’m going to tell you one thing,
I stand with Bro. Branham, ain’t no place like home. I don’t care
where I go and I don’t care if it’s just a few people, there’s
nothing like it here. And, there is a love and there is a oneness that
we must go into and that oneness and that love must have a headship in
the Word of God, that I must have, you must have, you must obey and I
must obey. See, that’s all there is too it. 

	We’ve got to come to it, we have already come to it, now we must
display it as Bro. Branham said, “The token must be displayed.” You
just hold it in your hand.  

	You say, “Well, I’ve got a token.” 

	What good is you standing there and the train’s coming and you say,
“I’ve got the fare, I’ve got the fare, I’ve got the fare.” 

	“Well, where are you supposed to be?” 

	“Oh, I’m supposed to be way up at this next stop.” 

	“Well, jump on the train.” 

	“Oh well, I’ve got the fare,” and you step ...?... and the train
goes by. Try it, make use of it. Sure, we can do that; sure we can do
that, absolutely. 

33.	All right, he said here,

(24)	Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me
where I am;

	Now they couldn’t go for a while. And the New Testament Bride can’t
be there. Old Testament Bride can be there, not New Testament, not until
the second part of the first resurrection. But, there’s a promise
there, we’re going to be just where He is. That’s when Bro. Branham
got up there in a vision, beyond the curtain of time, they said, “You
can’t see Him.” Well certainly not, how could he and this Word of
God be fulfilled?  My, you show me one jot and one tittle that’s going
to fall.

(24)	…where I may be, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast  
                                   given me: for thou lovedst me before
the foundation of the world

(25)	O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known
                                   thee, and these have known that thou
hast sent me.

	And that’s enough right there. Oh, we often think we have got to know
God simply in the realm of a theological discourse and this and that. 

	Listen, if you know the man that God sent, you know God. You stand
right there, Tommy Osborne had that right down pat, I would to God
he’d gone all the way, maybe he will, I’m not his judge. 

(25)	…I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 

(26)	And I have declared unto them (lived, manifested, laid it out
there,                               proved it, showed it declared it in
thy name…)

34.	In other words, the name of God is actually the Word manifested and
revealed. “Right,” you say, “That’s God.” If you didn’t know
anything more than to say, “Lord God, whoever you are, whatever you
are, the God of William Branham, I’m talking to you.” You’ve got
it made right there. But you’re way beyond that, you’re way beyond
that. Your … nobody is Elijah right now saying, “Lord God of Elijah,
where’s the Lord God of Elijah?” That was good for that day, oh, He
knew all about it. But, I tell you, it’s been indentified now, you
know Him. 

(26)	I have declared thy name, and will declare it: that the love
wherewith                                thou loved me may be in them,
and I in them.

35.	All right, now listen. Having read this far and gone as far as we
have gone, let us see if the Bride is subject to the world cosmos of
human government as is the world cosmos subject to the God cosmos or the
Word of Almighty God. And to address ourselves with that question,
it’s good to see that the apostle who revealed the two governments,
which is Peter, had the faith. So, we go to 1 Peter 2 and we read the
whole chapter, verses 1-25, all right. It says,

(1)	Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies,
and                                envies, and evil speakings, 

(2)	As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may  
                               grow thereby: 

(3)	If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is good.

(4)	To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men,   
                                  but chosen of God, and precious, (see,
that’s election.)

(5)	Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy
priesthood,                            to offer up spiritual sacrifice,
acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 

(6)	Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in
Sion                                        a chief corner stone, elect,
precious: and he that believeth on him                                  
 shall not be confounded. (There is coming a day when it’s the        
                              headstone, which is now, see, but not
physical.)

(7)	Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which
                              be disobedient, (Well listen, to the Word.
See?) the stone which the                            builders
disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, (In spite          
                     of everything, nobody can stop Jesus coming back,
appearing in this                                  hour and taking over
physically in the flesh, nobody’s going to do it                      
             because that’s ordained.) 

(8)	And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to those which
                                 stumble at the word, (You tell me how
many people stumble at Jesus                            Christ or God?
They don’t, it’s the Word, of Him and about Him the                 
                     Word preached) whereunto also they were appointed. 

36.	Now look it, that’s just a fact, the name ‘Jesus’ means
‘Jehovah Savior’. So, therefore when Paul or anybody talked to
Jesus, oh they said, “The Jews could say, Hallelujah, that’s Jehovah
Savior, That’s exactly right, that’s what he is. He’s our
savior.” They said, “Now, hold it. When did he give you the Word
about it?” Ready to kill him and they would kill him. Oh sure,
that’s the way it is, why’d you think they killed the prophets? Come
on. Word. See? 

(8)	…whereunto they were appointed. (These disobedient were appointed,
                               it didn’t say they were elected like
you and I, they’re appointed.)

(9)	But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation,
a                             peculiar people; that ye should show forth
the praises of him who hath                               called you out
of darkness into this marvellous light;

(10)	Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of
God:                             which had not obtained mercy, but now
obtained mercy.

(11)	Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain
from                              fleshly lusts, which war against the
soul;

(12)	Having your (behaviour) honest among the Gentiles: that, wereas
they                               speak against you as evildoers, they
may by your good works, glorify                                  God in
the day of visitation.

(13)	Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake:   
                             whether it be to the king, as supreme;

(14)	 …unto governors, (like ...?...) as unto them, (He’s alright,)
as unto                                    them... (You want to tell me
about Rhodes?) 

	What does it say? Oh you ought to write your own Bible. Well, I
wouldn’t help you but I would be interested in knowing what you can
get away with, because I’ve got a lot of feelings sometimes about
these things, really do. I know we get pretty steamed up, because I told
you, the laws of men are not laws of God, they are based upon I, but
they pervert them when they do it and you’ve got a lobbyist in there.
They just passed the bill now that will help us reduce the deficit and
get the budget balanced. But do you think they are going to do it? No
way, there is lots of loopholes. And, they’ll take it to the Supreme
Court and they’ll find somebody that’ll annihilate that.  I hope
they don’t, I hope they don’t but who knows, I’m not a prophet but
I wouldn’t be surprised and if they do it won’t do any good anyway,
we’re not going to balance that budget and get out of trouble. No, the
money’s going to keep going down, it’s started on down now and
everybody’s happy because it means better things ahead, does it? What
if this were the big tumble? I don’t know, I’m just wondering but
you got to wonder sometime, [Bro.Vayle chuckles] you know, “How they
going to be?” 

38.	It says, now, [2 Peter 2:]

(13)	Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake:   
                           whether it be to the king, as supreme; 

(14)	Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the
punishment                          of evildoers, and for the praise of
them that do well. (See, restraint,                             
restraint, all of this spells restraint.) 

(15)	For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to
silence                               the ignorance of foolish men: 

(16)	As free, and not using your liberty as a cloak of maliciousness,
but as                                 the servant of God. 

(17)	Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. 

(18)	Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the
good                              and gentle, but also to the froward.
(In other words, they are haughty                               and
they’re rough.)

(19)	For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure 
                                     grief, suffering wrongfully. 

(20)	For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, (not
                                    obeying the law) you take it
patiently? but if, when ye do well, and                                
suffer for it, you take it patiently, that is acceptable with God. 

(21)	For hereunto even we were called: because (Jesus) Christ also      
                              suffered for us, leaving us an example,
that ye should follow his                                  steps: 

(22)	Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 

(23)	Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he  
                     threatened not; committed himself to him that
judgeth righteously: 

(24)	Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that
we,                          being dead to sins, should live unto
righteousness: by whose stripes                                   ye are
healed. 

(25)	For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the   
                          Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

39.	Okay, now, thinking of this here, which we’ve just read, we’re
going to look at this chapter, pretty well in its entirety but, we’re
going to look at who it’s addressed too. Now, who are these words on
secular government, civil government, addressed? All right. We read in
verse 9, 10 and the first part of 11,  [2 Peter 2:]

 (9)	But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy
nation,                                     a peculiar people; that you
should show forth the praises of him                                
(under His Word and His government) who hath called you out of          
                      darkness (out of the world) into this marvellous
light; 

 (10)	Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of
God:                              which had not obtained mercy, but now
have obtained mercy. (You                                mean I obtain
mercy under this human law? Oh, don’t worry about it. )

 (11)	Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, 

	Who’s He talking to? Us, the Bride of every single age. Now, these
Bride members are the Bride only through Jesus Christ our blessed Lord.
And, you can see that over here in verses, well what are they? The
beginning of, well, you can take verse 1.

 40.       (1)	Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and
hypocrisies, and                                 envies, and all evil
speakings,

 (2)	As newborn babes, (Who are we? Newborn babes, born again,         
                          Jn 3:16) desire the sincere milk of the word,
that ye may grow                                   thereby:

	You take the simple things and begin growing. There’s where your baby
fat is, then you got to get the heavier Word that puts on your muscle
and you begin exercising. Now, I surely hope we’re all passed the baby
fat, you know, the cobbling and the knee bouncing and all that sort of
stuff. We must, all of us, come to the place of maturity and if I
can’t make it then I’d get out of here and you go on, get somebody
else. And if you can’t make it, you stick around until you make it but
I’m telling you, you know that we’ve got to understand a lot of
things here. 

	All right. 

(4) 	To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men,  
                               but chosen of God, and precious,

(5)	You also, as lively stones, are built up to a spiritual house, an
holy                                    priesthood, to offer up
spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by                              
 Jesus Christ. (Now it tells you who you are.)

41.	All right, let’s go to 1 Peter about that, in the 1st paragraph
[chapter] and see what he says in verse 22-25, which precedes these
verses.

(22)	Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through
the                                 Spirit unto unfeigned love of the
brethren, see that you love one                                    
another with a pure heart fervently: (red hot.)

(23)	Being born again, not of corruptible seed, (Out there with the
tares,                                     your own home made religon,
your own conscience, your own ideas                                  
but the unadulterated pure revealed word and vindicated Word of         
                         Almighty God), but of uncorruptible, by the
word of God, which                                    lives and abides
for ever. 

(24)	For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower
of grass.                               The grass wither(s,) the flower
thereof fades away: 

(25)	But the word of the Lord endures for ever. And this is the word    
                                                            which by the
gospel is preached unto you.

	Now, that should read in tares again. Now here, look at these lovely,
lovely, lovely, luscious looking tares? Hey, has anybody ever seen wild
oats, outside of me and my wife? Wild oats? Good. Wild oats looks just
like tame oats and there’s certain times of the year it looks better.
It’s greener, it’s nicer, oh it looks great, nothing in it. Feed
your horses, why they’d die, there’s nothing for them. See? Now look
at the tares out there. Oh they look beautiful, great. Oh, they got
great fruit, sure, they don’t want that. It looks very great, why?
They’ve got a certain seed. We’re born of the uncorrupted seed that
lives forever. Now, at the time that they both mature, what happens? God
bundles the tares and burns them and He bundles up the Bride and she
lives forever. Now, what is it? He went forth sowing the seed. 

42.	Now what seed have you got in your heart today, denominational seed?
Your own thinking, your own ideas or do you know you’ve got a
vindicated Word? Now people scoff at the vindicated Word, they think,
“Oh well you know, since Jesus died, if he really did, and if he rose
again, which we don’t know he did and went back to heaven, it’s been
going on and on and on and who knows.” “Oh,” they say, “We
don’t have prophets.” Who said so? The Bible said we do. 

	Now, where’s your preacher today, he’s a liar. I don’t care if
you always said, “My preacher’s nice, he’s nicer than me.” I
don’t care how nice is nicer then me, I’m not a liar. And liars are
usually the nicest people in the world; they’re so nice they got to
lie. Because their lives are lies, they’re seducers.  Sure, I’ve got
no use for liars. Then you’ve got the bluff guy that lies and you
don’t believe him, he hits you in the mouth.  It’s all right; they
can do what they want. Bride member’s, ...?... through Jesus Christ
our Lord, born again by the Word of God, they chose the Word of God, not
corrupted. You notice what it says here, “Being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, which is the Word of God.”
What is the Word of God? Not the corrupted Word of God, yeah, the
uncorrupted which is the true revealed Word of God. What is truly
revealed? Who brought it? A prophet. Then get a prophet and tell us all
about it. Go on. No Mary Baker Eddy’s and Joe Smith. Not even Dr.
Spurgeon, they’re good but that’s not good enough, not in this hour.

43.	All right. Peter states that these people have a transparent inner
motivation that is apart from carnal motivation.  Look in verse 1.

(1)	Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies,
and                                 envies, and all evil speakings,

	Now, this is not what they’re going to be acting on. They’re going
to be motivated by something else which is spiritual. What is it? 

(2)	As newborn babes, desir(ing) the sincere milk of the word, that you 
                                  may grow thereby:

	Now, these people are going to stand with the Word. See? Now, notice
their spiritual problems are no less then the temptations of all
mankind. 

44.	Let’s go to verse 11, the 2nd part.

(11)	…abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (Who
abstains.) 

(11)	[First part] Dearly beloved (born again) strangers to the world,
pilgrims                            (trying to get out of here.)

	  Watch it. Put aside your malice, put aside your guile, put aside
hypocrisy, put aside envies, put aside evil speakings. 

	In other words, don’t join the parliament of man, keep out of
politics, unless you know what you’re doing and you’re really led of
God. Listen, these politicians are all claiming to be born again and the
popes speaks with tongues and now they all the politicians running to
talk with the pope. And they’re the ones that, “Oh, all church and
state stay apart. Oh church and state stay apart. Oh my the
constitution.” And they-- deceivers, mockers, liars, who is? These
fine born again men? These fine born again men that tell you what Bro.
Branham didn’t say, “He said you don’t send the missionary
offering you take care of your own people.” 

	They want to give all of our money away, back there, the bankers did. 
How can Brazil get, what is it? Thirty billion, a hundred and thirty, a
hundred and thirty billion dollars. So the farmer goes bankrupt, maybe
some of them did ask for it but a whole lot didn’t ask for it. Who did
it? Who are these men, what were they? They were malicious, didn’t
...?...  admit that he ruined the farmer to get the money back for the
banks? Who knows one thing about the Federal Reserve System? What I
learned years ago, fifty years ago, when I got into all that stuff that
I don’t have too much respect for because it makes you a racist and a
Jew baiter and a hater. They’ll tell you, make your hair stand on end.
As a kid, I could have been in politics. Thank God I was just a little
bit too young or I’d have been in government, youngest man in history.
Sure. 

45.	They told the truth, banks create money. They take your ten thousand
dollars and somebody says, “I want to borrow that, I know a man
brought in ten thousand and I want to borrow that.” They say,
“Certainly.” And what do they do? They write it on a piece of paper
and put on this over here, “This man can draw ten thousand dollars in
checks.” Then write maybe a hundred more guys on the same ten thousand
dollars. Study and find out. You say, “What am I supposed to do?”
Live right with it kid, hang in there. 

	Oh the weeds, they’re all around and they’re mighty big and
luscious. Oh, David got all fussed up one day he said, “Those
unrighteous birds, they flourish out the green bay tree everything they
do is profit. They’re healthy as ticks, feeding on my lovely sheep out
there.”       “Oh,” he said, “Why doesn’t something happen to
them?” One day God took him alone like He took Job and He took Moses,
took him into a little inner chamber a little quietness and he saw the
end of the wicked and he said, “Oh my,” he said, “oh my, my” he
said, “my, my. I tell you what,” he said, “If I could just be a
doorkeeper in the house of the Lord,” he said, “I’ll stay away
from them tents of the wicked.” Yeah, see, David smartened up in one
big hurry. Oh, may God smarten us up too. Brother/sister, we need it, I
may speak facetiously at times, although I’m light I’m not inside,
I’m very sincere and somber concerning these things, because I’ve
been all through them. You don’t go through fifty years for nothing,
brother/sister. Don’t ever let anybody tell you, unless you are
completely ridiculous. 

46.	Now listen, I am going to tell you,

(11)	Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain
from                                 fleshly lusts, which war against
your soul;

	You’ve got the same problems, but their commission is to show the
cosmos, the order of God, that that character from Him is within us in
verse 12

(12)	Having your (behaviour) honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas   
                            they speak against you as evildoers…

	“Oh, those stupid people believe in serpent seed.” They should have
killed that man that said that. Bro. Branham was hardly cold in the
ground, he wasn’t cold in the ground, he was cold over in the morgue.
No time at all the women rose up because the Church Age book got in
people’s hands and they read about serpent seed. It’s a good thing
it was in his name and not mine or I’d of been tarred and feathered.
They couldn’t do a thing for him because he was dead. And they said,
“A man to write a book like that, we hear he’s dead.” But they
were ready to take him and put him in prison and literally destroy him.
Women did it. And not one word was said that a great big four footed
beast went plump, plump, plump and grabbed her and raped her. She was
charmed to be seduced and men are stupid and women are still stupid,
because they won’t open up in their minds to truth without knowing
where truth lies and then watch the perverted ways of mankind. There’s
no glory in being a fool brother/sister. 

47.	Even the Jews were fooled when they took the Talmud. And I had a
young half Jew and half Gentile boy said, “Doesn’t the Bible say,
Reverend Vayle, it’s better to spill your seed in the belly of a whore
then to spill it on the ground?” And I said, “Oh brother, let me see
son, I never read that.” 

	“Oh I know, it’s the Talmud that said it.” 

	Young men, I got news for you, that’s a lie from the pit of hell. 

	I saw a man in a restaurant... night and didn’t prod my friends in
the restaurant and say, “There’s a candidate for AIDS,” but I
could smell it. It’s easy to get AIDS with the very thing that I’ve
got. It went into fungi in my blood. There’s a fork in the road, it
goes to one type of cancer and from that to AIDS. You won’t catch it
by coming near me because I don’t have it,   but every one of you is
susceptible. 

	You’re not human beings anymore, you’re vegetables, so to speak,
almost you’re animal. You weren’t meant for the bugs to eat on you
but we’re all corrupted. One day we are going to step into
incorruptibility so hold your peace and role with the punches
brother/sister, and begin to love like brethren. The gift of suspicion
is not in order today, it’s at a disorder. I trust we have discernment
and not suspicion.  Most people that have the gift of discernment,
it’s really suspicion. It’s not discernment. 

45.	The 11th verse I read, “Dearly Beloved, having the same
passions...” absolutely. To show forth the cosmos and the position of
God, they call us evil doers but just keep on doing good that one day,
in the day of visitation, God will glorify you. See? Now, listen that
what we’re talking about brother/sister is only for the Bride,
that’s submission. And, that submission, I have already given you the
clue too, is in 1Corinthians 15, where it says at the time of His
Presence of His Coming, that Presence, there goes a process of
subjection where God, Himself, is here working in a Bride to bring you
into compatibility of the Word, which will manifest certain aspects of
morality. And we’re talking about the laws of two kingdoms. 

	And, the law of God is the Word of God. Wherein His commandments are
His enablements. If God said through Jesus, “Be you perfect, even as
your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” And Bro. Branham said,
“If God gave a command for He must make a way for it.” And he did
through the Blood, “For the Blood of Jesus Christ scatters sin until
there’ll be no evidence.” Then how can you call a man a sinner? That
doesn’t mean you grow roots around here living in sin, and say,
“Well praise that’s eternal security of the Baptist and the
Presbyterian.” It’s the hogwash of man. If you’ve got eternal
security you won’t be rooting around for sex and filth and lying and
stealing and everything else and defrauding. But, if you should do it,
you’ll be condemned mightily.  There’ll be no rest in your soul till
it’s dealt with by Almighty God. Certainly. 

49.	Now listen, they are strictly commanded to live under the two sets
of laws, strictly commanded to live under two sets of laws. For as it
tells you to submit to the Word of God and live under it, it says
“Submit yourself to every ordinance, every ordinance, of man, for the
Lord’s sake.” Every law that man put in there. “That doesn’t
sound good.” I’m sorry it doesn’t sound good but it is good.
Serpent seed didn’t sound too good, no evidence concerning the baptism
of Israel.  “No sensations, no this no that, that doesn’t sound
good.” 

	A lot of things don’t sound good. I’ve got to die, it doesn’t
sound good. I hate it. I’ve learned to get away from coffee, ice cream
and all that stuff that’s no good. At least I get some health in my
body. Don’t tell me you can’t walk past Baskin Robbins. Don’t tell
me you can’t lose the sweet tooth. Look at Bro. Pallberg, could have
died with that infection in his teeth. Where did he get that infection?
I don’t know, but he got it. He sure suffered with it. Beats the
gallbladder trouble, I’m telling on him. Beats smartening up and he
can get rid of the coffee. Might get rid of a lot of other things, like
get rid of his gallbladder and there’s no Bible for that. Oh, a lot of
things aren’t pleasant. No, they’re not pleasant, for the sake of
the Lord. 

50.	Now listen, 

(13)	…whether it be to the king, as supreme;

(14)	Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the
punishment                         of evildoers, and for the praise of
them that do well.

	It has come to the place where nobody is praising anybody for good
anymore. Evil is held up, the Bible speaks of it. The day will come when
they’ll kill you thinking they’re doing God a service and
righteousness is the reputed evil and evil is reputed righteous.  And
everybody’s so messed up with illicit thoughts, and I’m hitting a
little bit on sex but don’t think I’m carried away, I just want to
get these things across to you. Because that’s the element of  this
world, young boys dealing in inordinate passion, because it’s
inordinate. And girls, they’re even worse then the boys. Don’t tell
me, I  know what I’m talking about, I’m not seventy one years of age
for nothing.

	 It’s got to the place where sex between husband and wife is as
though it was or a dirty thing and Bro. Branham said, “That is a
righteous act.” A righteous act, I doubt there is one person here who
understands that and has felt it. I doubt it that any male understands
that’s and feels it and God said so through a prophet. But keep it
righteous. Marry when the time comes. Be honest before God. You’ve
been messing around? Clear your skirts, stay content with your wife, get
down on your knees and pray, instead of fussing with each other. Best
thing I ever learned is to pray with my wife. 

51.	Where you standing? You fuss with the laws of man don’t even obey
the laws of God? And I’m just like you. “But we’re going to get
there, Honey.” You bet we’re going to get there. I’ve got a faith
in God, He’ll get us there and you’re not going to get us there as a
bunch of unredeemed skunks. Redeemed lambs, led by doves. But let’s
get the record straight, you young people and get it straight, I’m not
riding herd on anybody, but I watch and I watch and I know. You get
right with God. Righteous act. I got news for you, when I hit marriage
and divorce you’ll find out something; not ready for it yet. It’ll
blow your mind because your mind’s a million miles away from truth,
same as everybody else’s. 

	There wasn’t one table when the prophet came, that wasn’t full of
vomit. There wasn’t one mystery, one thread of the Word of God that
had many threads opening up, that wasn’t fully polluted, because the
root had been polluted. Every fruit, listen you’re going to eat spuds
that are  full of poison. In Main, and every place they put poison in
the ground, systemically goes into the plant and gets into the plant and
the leaf and the bug eats it, bites it and he shudders and he falls
dead. You don’t think it gets in the tuber? Somebody’s nuts, there
isn’t any intelligence in the plant, as far as I know that’s smart
that cooperates with any chemist or any guy that’s greedy for money. I
don’t about God cooperating and turning nature around for some guy
that wants to make a name for himself or be greedy for money. I don’t
know. Any more than the guy that was in the-- what did they call that, I
can’t remember, my memory’s not too good but he took the plane up
and bombed Hiroshima. Once that thing left the bomb bay, brother
there’s no calling it back, he got out of there scat. I know in the
‘Enola Gay’ they call it, I don’t know. I’ll get names later on
but I’m not up for names today, I’m up for the Word of God anyway. 

52.	The attitude towards man’s cosmos is the same as towards God’s
cosmos, 16-18. All right listen. Let’s read it then. 

(16)	As free, not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but
as                                     the servants of God. 

	How many people would like to disobey the laws of man and the laws of
God and say, “I’ve got a liberty”? Now, you think that’s
Pentecostal, it is too but it’s everywhere. Where do you think they
got it? You think Pentecostal people brought something new in the thing.
Oh, come on now, ain’t nothing new under the sun. They just put a
twist to it. How many ways can you tie a rope? Same old rope. And they
draw sinners with a card rope. Certainly brother/sister, don’t be
fooled by this. Listen, be free and freedom is always doing what is
right. When a man has done what is right, it doesn’t matter if they
burn him at the stake or anything else; take away all that he’s got.
It doesn’t matter once he gets right, it doesn’t matter. 

		(17)	Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king. 

	Hey, why didn’t that guy with an ounce of brains say, “Fear God
first”? Let me tell you one thing, if you didn’t fear God first, you
wouldn’t do the rest of it.  

		(18)	Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to
the 						good and gentle but also to the froward.

	You know the guy that wants to boss you around, he’s the boss and
he’s takes advantage. You say, “I’m going to let that ...?... I
don’t care if he is my boss.” You don’t? Maybe there’s something
wrong with you. I know there’s something wrong with me because I
didn’t like it either. 

53.	Now, we got some men here that are supervisors, we’ve got Gene and
Joel and we’ve got Joe also and we’ve got Lee Vayle and we’ve got
Pete. Now I ain’t much along side you guys, you’re the brass.
Bill’s a foreman. I am sure they love you. They can’t wait to see
him, “Oh, we’re so glad you got here.” And I know the way Gene is,
I know from his background, he’ll be nice but he’ll be demanding
because he demands himself. And I understand, well I think that Joe’s
a little bit quicker on the trigger then Gene is because of his
background. Weren’t you a Baptist or something? Oh yeah, an old
Mennonite or Amish type of guy, ...?... along side of you and me because
we’ve got a lot of that in us. 

	I’m not going to talk about Joe, he’s just, he’s a different act,
he knows how to handle the rough and tough and all the rest, you know.
And you could tell Pete’s when he’s up here on the pulpit he comes
forth and he comes right back. I just keep boring in you, I haven’t
enough brains to pull back. A lot of you guys are getting good, they
want to make Dave a supervisor. We’ve got enough guys around here to
almost set the world on fire, supervisory. But do they just love you
coming in? Oh come on, you know, you know that there is a distrust there
right away because you can go to the King Pin. 

	Oh, I forgot Lloyd, he’s a bit of a boss, kind of a straw boss, very
little straw, very little boss, but he’s in there, you know. He’s
like me; we got no boss’s at all. But you get the picture I’m trying
to paint for you. All right, let’s apply it right down today. Well
where are we? It’s not manly to stand up there and slug it out. Only
manly if it’s a spiritual precept. Let me tell you, one day a fellow
quit his job and he phoned Bro. Branham and said, “Bro. Branham, I
want you to pray for me.” 

	He said, “What’s the matter son, what’s the matter?” 

	“Well,” he said, “I quit my job.” 

	“Well,” he said, “why did you quit your job?”

	“I’ll tell you why,” he said, “I just cannot go against my
conscience any longer.” 

	He said, “What do you mean?”

	“Well,” he said, “I  am the man here who is quality control and I
set everything up for customers that come in and I say ‘Look it,  you
will get this much in your rugs, you will get this much of this and this
much of that and this much of this and this much of that, in that
quantity in that shape and in that form.” And he said, “When I get
out of there and I charge them a certain price and it’s a good price,
it’s a good profit.” And the boss says, “Hey now, we’ll just
change that to this, this, this and this”. And he said, “He makes it
inferior and they can’t tell.” 

	He said, “Go get your job back. They’ll answer to God; they did it,
not you.”

55.	Now, what if you’ve got a supervisor who works under a supervisor
and you don’t like the man that tells you to do what you’re doing.
It isn’t the fellow’s fault. Look, if everybody here, I was just
kidding Lloyd there because he does have a little supervisory job which
would be the lowest in the sense of power of a clout. But he’s got to
work so close to his boss or I miss my guess it’s pitiful. Now Gene
will  have more latitude, because he has more experience he’s worked
up in the ranks, higher echelon and knows the ropes so therefore he will
confer less. 

	Now Brian Kocourek a very bright boy. Now Brian’s a buyer, what
happened to him? Why he showed him he was so good in no time at all, I
guess within the week, the main boss said, at the plant, “Look, you
don’t report to anybody but me” And when you report to top dog, you
become a top dog; they’re grooming you for something, right?
Absolutely, you go through all the channels. Now, the big shot from
Japan comes over and he meets Brian. “Oh, Mr. Kocourek,” he said,
“We’ve been hearing good things about you in Japan.” That’s the
next step; groom him in Japan, if everything goes right. What’s the
next step? He becomes authoritative universally, wherever Fuji Tech is.
I don’t know how many are going to love him? I hope he has better luck
than what has happened... to other places. [Bro. Vayle chuckles] 

56.	Now, what does it say to Christians? Honor the straw boss. You say,
“It doesn’t say that.” It sure does because I’m saying it and
that’s what it says here in the jungle language of America. Sure,  [1
Peter 2:]

(18)	Be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and 
                                gentle, but also the froward. 

	In other words, those that are a little bit tough on you, you knuckle
under. Why? There’ll be promotion there, it doesn’t say knuckle
under in a way that’s bad. No, no, no, no, nobody wants that. Now of
course, if somebody tells you that you’ve got to go peddle beer and
stuff as part of your job, I think I would just kindly decline it and
get something else. But I’m talking like where this other man was
right in a big organization. You see, he had done his job, he didn’t
stand there by the looms and by the producers and say, “Now this,
this, this.” But when it was done, they came back and he made a test
and he said, “That’s not it.” But he didn’t do it, there’s a
difference there. You go to war. Bro. Branham was not against going to
war, he’s not a conscientious objector,  but he admired the man that
was and he said, “Be the best one.” Why? Because if the nation made
you do it, you didn’t do it. 

	Now, see what we’re talking about here. There are times, you’ve got
to understand the Word, but there is the definitive understanding that
you are in obedience to civil authority. Now a lot of people don’t
want it. Like a guy driving his car at seventy miles per hour and he
says, “When I get in that car,” he’s says, “I’m not under law,
I’m under grace.” It’s good for a joke but I’m going to tell you
something, Bro. Branham said, “A man doing that is guilty of murder
and should be taken off the road and put in prison for twenty five
years.” And you know Bro. Branham was killed by a drunken driver. Bro.
Branham was doing the speed limit which was allowed, the speedometer
locked right in at that point. 

57.	Now, we’ve got to understand these things brother/sister because
this is the Bible, I’m just preaching what I see here in the Word of
God. Now, look at here in 16-18. I read it to you, but now watch we go
back to verses 1-3.  [1 Peter 2:]

(1)	Wherefore laying aside all malice, (don’t get mad) all guile, (you
                                       haven’t got some wrong motive
in mind) all hypocrisies, (you’re                                  
very sincere, your not envious.) 

	How many people get envious of the boss? Now, I’m the last guy
anybody should be jealous of but believe me, I’ve been a target. You
know, my language could be flawless and beautiful, my manner suave,
because you know how it was, I’m born under a certain tree with a
certain spoon in my mouth ,which was, you know, kind of a hogwash spoon,
a bologna spoon. I eat a lot of scrambled egg, you know, in bologna
dishes and you know, ...?... to spread it and I could at one time. Make
no mistake about it, in spite of everything there was certainly this
thing that people didn’t like because I was able to be near some of
the greatest men of God living. I don’t say it rubbed off so don’t
say I’m saying it rubbed off, but I had the privilege. 

	You’d be surprised how many people don’t like that which doesn’t
bother me any, because I don’t mind where they go and what they do,
really, just as long as they leave me alone. But there again now, you
see, I’m not talking facetiously, I’m not talking foolishly but
there’s an error in what I’m saying because I’ve got to be nice to
them if they’re not nice to me. I’ve got to be kind and generous and
I try to be too, because Paul said, “As much as lies within you, be at
peace with all men.” And a lot lies in us through the grace of God.
And now we see right here, 

 (2) 	As newborn babes…

	Little kids are the sweetest things in the world. I love little kids
and everybody loves little kids, almost everybody, and little puppy dogs
and everything little and tiny. Why? Because they’re so innocent,
their so sweet, as newborn babes. Now, can a newborn babe have malice?
No, he’s just got it there in a seed form, doesn’t get big enough,
but in the meantime no malice, no guile. Now, let me tell you, little
kids can sure spot people too. 

58.	Now, our first child, a little girl, she was easy to get along with.
She loved everybody that loved her except one woman and she wouldn’t
go near that woman, she got near her to pick her up she wanted to grab
her hair and just scream. That woman hated kids and would never have
children. How did that little kid know it? Don’t ask me; she ain’t
that smart right now, I’ll tell you that. I never was that smart.

(2)	Newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may
grow thereby. 

	In other words, you’re always hankering to come on and come on with
the sweet nature of Christ. Now, the moral law is laid out completely in
verses 19-20. [1 Peter 2:]

(19)	For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure 
                              grief, suffering wrongfully. 

	Now, that’s the moral issue. Are we willing to suffer and do what God
said even though we don’t like it? And the answer should be,
“Yes.” 

(20)	For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye  
                              (should) take it patiently? but if, when
ye do well, and suffer for                                        it, ye
take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

	Now listen, we are all in the same boat, we say, “I’ll only take so
much and that’s it.” And, the minute that you say that and I say it,
God puts you right where your mouth was. And, if you want to suffer,
open your mouth brother/sister. The trouble, I said it many years ago,
with us is we got fat lips and thin ears when we ought to have fat ears
and thin lips. But you just say, “I won’t take it.” You just
voice, “Well if that’s it, I’ll quit.” And what you find out if
you’d better not quit? Now, you’ve got to eat crow, ah huh,
goodie-goodie gumdrops. But no you won’t you’ll quit anyway and
you’ll make a fool of yourself and your family and everybody else
because you’ve got too much pride. 

59.	Now, what kind of a Christian are you? What kind am I? Now, let me
look at it. What kind am I? I’m going to point one finger out there
and five back toward me or whatever it is. Oh, brother/sister, listen
let’s get, face this things on the moral laws of the nation never mind
the moral laws of God. But the moral laws of God and the spirit of
God’s involved in our attitudes towards these things. Now, look it, we
haven’t been taught this, we haven’t been brought up in this
atmosphere. The closest thing is the Amish and Mennonite spirit and
it’s wrong. And yet, it’s right. There it is, there’s your false
anointed again brother/sister, you get a beautiful fruit in a wrong
heart. You get the love of a Christian Scientist manifested out here.
Bro. Branham said, “They just work to the death they are just such
wonderful people.” They’re wrong. What about us and being right? How
can we stand up and say that we’re right with the revealed Word of God
and have all these things messed up? Just gear down, that’s all, just
gear down. As Bro. Branham once said, “If it skins you alive, do
it.” Get the thing right. Read the 20th verse. Well, I read the 20th
verse, 

(20)	 …ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently?...

60.	What is there if you put your hand in the meat grinder and you get
your fingers cut off? “You got to be patient.” Well, you deserved
that. What if sometime an accident happened, not your fault, and your
hand was cut off? Has your life soured? It could be but it doesn’t
need to be. I’m going to tell you something, I pray everyday for
certain people that lie there, one in arthritis, and you know what,
really? I don’t understand how she can live. They had to wire her jaws
open or they’d close and she’d never be able to have food again,
maybe through the nasal passage or some hole in her throat. And she’s
still living and every little movement hurts her body and I don’t
understand I, but she can smile so sweetly and praise the Lord.  I’d
almost think the girl has an evil spirit, just make her sit there and
grin kind of and feel nice about everything. It’s not; it’s the
Spirit of God. Somehow, it’s got to be.

	Another girl, she almost lies in bedsores so much of the time, she got
married in the condition, I think it’s MS she had and she was going to
have a baby. And you know something, I don’t remember just how the
baby died, but I’m sure it was the doctor’s fault. It seems to me
the case was the doctor’s fault and then they sterilized her so she
wouldn’t have another just in case she might have. They took
everything from her and she lies there with trust and faith in God. You
and I sit and stand here with everything, I with a few aches and pains
and my wife and I feel rotten at times and this thing kind of blows your
mind, because this Candida gives off seventy nine different poisons in
the blood stream and it could just drive you almost completely wacky and
your temperatures and everything else goes haywire on you. 

62.	But you know I don’t have anything along side those people.
Nothing, nothing and some of us men can’t even stand our wives to say
one word. What kind of people are we anyway? And some of you are going
to get married, what kind of husbands are you going to be? Woman are so
nervous right now, man, you ain’t got a chance at a happy marriage
unless you settle right down. Some of you are pretty healthy so you jaw
each other out and fight day and night, but you do it in such a crazy
way, you kiss and make up at night, that’s great but it ain’t great.
Because don’t tell me it’s not hitting your nerves and messing you
up. It’s got to, there’s no way out of the thing. And don’t tell
me, I’m like Dr. Menninger, he said, “Don’t you tell me that
people can be taught sin and get away with it, it runs along all your
nerve lines. That’s why you are the way you are.

	That wasn’t some stupid Freud, although Freud was right. All sin came
from sex originally, but all sin is not motivated by sex in this hour.
Every sin came out of it; it’s not motivated by it. The constant
misapplication of these lives of ours make us what we are and we’re
trying to get us out of it. We’re trying to see there’s laws laid
down here, moral laws, the kingdom of God laws, that swing into the laws
of men and the laws of men swing back toward God, because they they’re
all put there to do us good. Now, we know men’s lives don’t always
do us good but the principle is there and so we should respect it and so
the moral law is there. And I read you this now in 20. And you want to
read, Heb 12:3-7 it tells you everybody’s got to suffer chastisement. 

63.	Everybody’s got to have that pattern there. And this pattern is a
pattern of Christ to get in His image, because it says down there in
21-25, “Even Christ was called - don’t throw it off yet I’m going
to quit – Christ suffered, leaving us an example and this example will
bring us into His image” and if it’s the hour of the image of
immortality, this Bride will suffer. But she will be different from
every other person out here in the world, not from the first church age
Bride, no siree, they died as martyrs and what have you but she will
have pressure and her pressure will come from the authority outside. And
men say, “I won’t take that authority.” We have got to learn to
live with that authority. I don’t care what you’re doing to us. 

	Now, I’m not finished but I’m finished today. That’s 5 pages out
of  8, we should get through Wednesday night ...?... just right. All
right, the Lord, bless you. I hope you begin to see where we go. May God
have mercy on us all, He already has had mercy may we accept it and
accept His…

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