Christian and His Attitudes # 2

Bro. Lee Vayle

January 22, 1978

	We just pray…Heavenly Father again we come into Your Presence again,
by means of prayer…through our intercessor, Jesus, who lives and
abides for us continually…the High Priest…saluted as Melchisedec. 
We know that He who was revealed to us and made Himself known in this
last day now is with us…so we…as it were…are doubly
fortunate…realizing what a great hour we are living in and not only
that but…how great Lord is Your Word and Your ministry to us at this
moment.  So if that…we ask anything concerning Your will…we know
that you hear us.  We know we have the petition therefore we desire of
you which is that You Yourself would break the Word to us…bring our
hearts and minds…very low…Father so that there would be no danger of
any other control but Yours.  We give ourselves unreserved in Your
hands…therefore in Jesus Name…Amen.  You may be seated.

1.	Now last week…last Sunday morning we were taking the attitudes and
behavior of Christians and we were looking at one that seems to be
tremendously vital in this hour where it says…”Agree with thine
adversary very quickly whilst thou art in the way with him…lest at any
time the adversary deliver you to the judge deliver thee to the officer
and thou be cast into prison.”   And we saw that this is not really a
corrupt court and an immoral nation…but it is the Word of the Lord in
admonition…to us…that there will always be problems in the Church
because people are people and we learned the most important thing is to
get our spirits under control and to get good attitudes…because this
Scripture actually refers to a misdemeanor or a confrontation over
understanding the Word.  Now you can apply this just about in any way
you wish to apply it…and what I mean by that is…that there something
legitimate has come within the Church.  

2.	Now…what if there is misdemeanor?  Well it is the same thing as a
confrontation over what the Word says.  You know…Bro.Branham brought
us a vindicated Word.  Now there is no doubt about it.  We saw that in
the meaning of what…”Thus Sayeth the Lord is.”  And anybody who
doubts it…I would feel needs to…take some time for pray and fasting
or something.  Because as Bro. Branham brought out his own
interpretation of the Pillar of Fire over here…he said that the eye of
the camera caught it and science cannot now deny it…and that is
right…it has been proven.  Well when you realize that the message has
been proven…authenticated by God…to be the interpretation of the
Word…as Bro. Branham said,  “ The same Spirit that brought is now
here to interpret it.”  And by Gods grace we have the perfect
revelation of that Word at this hour.

3.	Well now…it is strange but even with this tremendous vindication of
this message it is a fact that you can hear Bro. Branham and I can hear
Bro. Branham and we will draw different conclusions.  Now that is just
factual…you will draw a different conclusion.  One reason is because
you are trained in your spiritual thinking already and if you have been
trained in a certain way to understand certain Scripture then it is very
difficult to jog your mind and to realize that Bro. Branham was not
speaking in ordinary…well terms of what modern day theology is.  I
came to that conclusion happily quite a time before he died.  So it
isn’t too difficult to stand back and wonder…am I hearing him
according to my understanding or am I hearing him according to his
understanding and that is really what you have got to do…is to just
listen to what he is saying and try to put your own thinking aside. 
That is difficult. 

4.	 Now because it is…we have this problem amongst us where we
are…not at odds with each other…temperamentally…although I got my
tongue in my cheek when I say that, don’t worry…hopefully we’re
not.  We are at odds and sometimes it is temperamental… it is little
personal things, rather than that which is judicial and something that
is really meaningful, but we have schisms amongst us…over the
Word…now how are we to conduct ourselves over those schisms which
sometimes take a whole…lot…more…meaning than that which is over a
moral situation. 

5.	 Now Bro. Branham brought us to the point…if we would only listen
to him…where he says, even concerning a man that just simply never did
see this message…to see Bro. Branham in the light of,  “Thus Sayeth
the Lord,” and the vindication…he said concerning that Brother, 
“he believes this message just as much as we do.”  Bro. Branham was
not lying…the man did.  In other words, I believe Bro. Branham was
telling us…that fellow was just as strong in his faith as we are in
ours.  Now what do you do?  Take clubs and annihilate each other?  No! 
He said if your eating cherry pie and you run across a pit…that’s
kind of hard on the tooth…you know…a little jar on the skull…what
do you do?   You don’t throw the pie away…you just spit the pit out
and keep eating.  If you are eating chicken…you don’t throw the
chicken away…you just eat carefully around the bones and put the bones
to one side. 

6.	  Now…I see here…what we need…is a proper spirit, which I been
talking about it last Sunday…is to get the right attitude toward our
brethren so that we realize…they’re fighting for their lives the
same as we are fighting for ours…and this being a democracy…people
have every right to believe the way they feel led, but we have one bad
problem and that is that people who would go along with this statement I
have made still continue to bore in.  Now that is bad.  If we give a
reason of our hope and can sit down and look at this message in many,
many facets, which we should be able to do.  It should not separate
us…and the reason the separation is there is because somebody won’t
back up.  And the people that won’t back up…feel if they do back up
they are betraying the message.  But how come Bro. Branham could
say…well you could be right…I could be wrong…tape after tape…oh
you could be right…I could be wrong.  Knowing he was right.  Now that
spirit that stands up and fusses is absolutely diabolical…I don’t I
don’t care how right I am or you are right…you and I have ceased to
be right when the spirit is wrong.  Because I’ll tell you why…I may
never get to preaching but that is all right.  I want to illustrate…I
got a hand here…it’s got a little power…not much…getting too old
but if you were in a river and hanging on to a little branch and the
currant was swift and you could drown and I could put my hand out and
take like this and pull you up and go wack…right on the face…there
is no difference in the strength applied…it was the attitude and the
motive.  Now…all power is of God…and I don’t care if the devil has
got it…all power is still of God…it depends on how you use it and
for what reason…or if there is any spirit amongst us that would
attempt to make ourselves right and separate…that spirit is not of God
or I don’t know what the prophet had for a spirit.  

7.	I’m just going to clear the air as far as I am concerned…if
you’ve got it or if I’ve got that spirit that is not the same as the
prophets in bringing this message then there is something wrong.  Now
that is what I tried to make clear last Sunday…there has got to an
understanding spirit.  I will go to any Church…unless they get too
rough in there doctrine…I’ll go to any Church and preach and not cut
across their doctrine…on purpose…cause I have not been set in the
Church to be a guide to anybody.  No siree…the best I can do is beep
my little signals and walk off.  Now if there is gross
immorality…that’s different thing but it is very strange if there
are those that would look upon immorality and wink at it as long as the
person went along with their ideas of understanding.  If that’s not
organization and Babylon…I’ve never heard of it. 

8.	 So…get the right mind toward the individual and that is…he is a
Brother…he may not believe what I believe but that’s all
right…we’re both eating chicken…we’re both eating cherry
pie…we’re both brethren.  See…and that’s not hard to do as long
as the person is not obstreperous.  If he becomes malicious and a
liar…then you better watch him because I have discovered this, and
perhaps if I wait long enough I will find Scripture for it…I know
every word has got to have clothing…every word has got to take a form
on it.  If there was a word called spoon and no spoon, then there would
be no word called spoon …there just wouldn’t be.  So when I find
people lying…then I couldn’t believe their doctrine any more than I
would try to fly to the moon…I’m sorry, but there has got to be a
form for everything…just like Spiritual fornication has got to have a
physical…trace it back in the Bible as wrong doctrine…and Bro.
Branham said a lie is nothing but the truth perverted.  Then if you see
a fellow lying about a lot of things…you better believe there is
something perverted back there…you got to trace it back would be a
truth…which would be a wrong thing…see?

9.	  But we have to look at all these things…yet maintain a right
spirit and the right spirit is always keeping the door open and never
saying…never.  Now that’s one thing I’ve learned.  If there is one
thing I’ve learned…I’ll say never…I said unless the Lord changes
my mind…now if the Lord changes my mind, I’m open for it…then you
see it is not never…but you see if the Lord doesn’t then it could be
never.  But the door must be kept open and there must always be a right
mind, no matter what has been done.  You’ve got to keep a right mind
and the right mind, of course, is remembering that we ourselves are
fallible…there isn’t one of us who couldn’t be a sinner or a
bigger sinner in the realm of that individual sin than the person we are
condemning and we see that in the light of the Apostle Paul who thought
he was just about the finest man living when he was actually killing the
very Bride of Jesus Christ.  That is why he called himself a chief
sinner, because he was doing that terrible thing.

10.	 So there is nobody who is too far gone that the door cannot be kept
open to and a right attitude maintained in our own mind…especially in
wonderment as to why, a person would do certain things.  Now here is
where Bro. Branham was task master, course, I realized being a prophet
he was in a far superior bracket than you and I ever will be as far this
life is concerned.  But he always kept his heart open to put himself in
that fellow’s shoes and look to see why the person did it.  Then he
could…with honesty and integrity be rougher on a little so called sin
than what looked to be a bigger sin…because he was watching the
motive…watching why people did certain things.  

11.	So when we see something come up which is legitimate and this is
based on legitimacy, not…think so and some little silly thing amongst
us…make up stuff but something that is in our midst and it is a moral
thing or it is something to do with the Word and differences we must
always realize that we have got to have a right mind…gear ourselves
down…get a right spirit, and learn to look at it…if possible in the
light of the other persons understanding. 

12.	 Then the next thing is not separate ourselves.  That’s usually
what comes when there is something that goes wrong…a spirit of
separation gets in.  Now there is only one spirit of separation and that
is from the world unto the Lord.  But soon as we get with the Lord…it
seems that we now become critics of the highest order…judging before
the time and thereby we move ourselves asunder…and that is not right. 
Because the Scripture warns us to restore. 

13.	 You know…I’ve been involved in…OHHHH…different…things in
the Church which have even to do with even immorality…and I want to
tell you…I’ve looked for the Church that had thee…gracious spirit
to restore and I haven’t found it.  Sorry about that…I wish I could
come and say Bro. Vayle travels around…maybe I should travel
more…yeh I guess I really should…fifty-two weeks out of the
year…hit about two Churches per week and I would hit a hundred and
four Churches in a year and that would pretty well cover everything in
two years in America and I could come back and say…well I found or
haven’t found.  Well the little traveling I have done and I haven’t
found the Church that’s willing to restore. 

14.	 Now I want to know what is wrong with our hearts.  You say,
“Well…Bro. Vayle…we look at that sin as though we can’t trust
the person anymore.”  Then you have put yourself above God…and so
have I.  Something is wrong somewhere and it simply lies in the spirit. 
There has got to be that.  Now I’m not saying you shouldn’t be
couscous.  Like one fellow said, “If the dog bites me that is the dogs
fault and if the dog bites me again…that’s my fault.”  
True…true, you know…you know, you’re not a bunch of dummies.  You
know in the Bible it says that love believeth all things…you say,
“well I believe the moons made of green cheese and that a five dollar
bill is worth twenty-five dollars…I mean…nobody asked you to be a
nut.”  But what it is trying to say right here…love believeth all
things…that love puts itself in a position that never gives up and
keeps looking to help…but not become foolish in doing it.

15.	So… we’re looking around to see…that we’ll be able to…in
the future hopefully… come to positions of restoration and
reconciliation and faith that the person is going to come to this level
that the Scripture demands of him and we ourselves are hopeful that we
are arriving in also.  So…we don’t want to separate…get the right
mind…don’t separate and of course there is reconciliation and there
is reconciliation you wouldn’t separate and then if there is
reconciliation there would be attitudes of forgiveness.  Which would be
divine and remember that Paul the Apostle…Bro. Branham said the same
thing…that there is none of us that can forgive…it has got to be the
spirit of Christ in us…so just get yourself off the hook right now and
don’t try to forgive…just let God in you have His way.  Because you
and I are not going to get to first base.  So we saw that last Sunday.

16.	Now…there is one point I didn’t cover and I want to try to get
this across in a way that doesn’t erase and eradicate everything I
have said.  But what do you do when you come across a situation where a
person is pressing all the time and you got to admit the guy has rights
and the other person has rights and yet there is a conflict where one is
pressing.  Well…that is something in the spiritual realm…there is
something wrong with the man’s spirit.  Now…I just can’t say too
much or I would give away everything I’m talking about here and I
don’t intend to…we would name names and that wouldn’t be nice but
what would you do about a person who pressed…and the pressing was
legitimate in the sense of something mechanical but illegitimate in the
sense of the person demanding it when he should have backed away.  Now
what do you do?  Well I’ll tell you what happened.  This came up in
the Prophets life and he said to this brother…by the grace of God I
will never mention your name again.  You see…because the church and
nobody could do anything.  Somebody has to finally turn back and walk
away and say…look…I’m sorry.  We simply can’t keep this up. 
I’m not going to abuse myself any longer and your not going to abuse
me any longer but by the grace of God…it’s quit.  You say, 
“What’s, what’s happened?   It’s been turned over to God.  And
the man with the wrong attitude will pay a price and the man with the
right attitude will be blessed of God.  Now I hope that little
illustration hasn’t hurt you.  I hope that it helps
you…because…look…as long as we’re this side of the resurrection,
we don’t know what people are going to do…see?

17.	A woman tried to trap me one time and she said Bro. Vayle, “What
would you do…she…because her husband committed adultery on her…ah
she said what would you do if your wife committed adultery on you?  Well
what would my wife do if I committed it on her of course?  But the
question was…what would I do…being a preacher…and she asked me and
I said,  “I don’t know.”  Because I know my nature but by the
grace of God, I hope, and boy that’s a mighty big hope, that I might
just do the right thing.

18.	  Now look…see…we just keep showing you here…you get under a
wrong spirit and I don’t care how right you and I are we have ceased
to be right that very minute.  Ceased to be right. Because you see it
was the Holy Spirit that brought the Word and He would have to have a
right motive with the Word, which is mechanical.  Now the Bible [says
to] inculcate in ourselves the right and true spirit and if we have the
right and true spirit I believe we can meet any issue within the church
and it will come out beautiful.  But if we have the wrong spirit I
don’t care what is done, it will backfire…see?  So that was the
important thing about last weeks message.  To get ourselves lined up
with the right spirit…the right attitude and then God will begin to
work it out for us.  Otherwise it will never ever work, no matter what. 

19.	Now we’re going to continue concerning the Christian and His
Attitude’s and we’ll take another Scripture, which is also in
Matthew but I won’t quote it just at this moment, and before I read it
and take up this portion, I want to repeat what I said on many, many
occasions and that is…as far as I know, and I think I know pretty far
in this respect, that there is no true basic law of psychology that is
not found in the Bible.  Now the psychologist and the psychiatrist help
us to understand ourselves.  They help us to bring out what is in us to
see where we went wrong and the only way anybody can be wrong is when a
law is broken. Now if there is no law there and that law is broken, then
of course, how can anything be wrong?  But there has got to be something
off center, something missing, or something in conflict.  Now if it’s
something like that…then, of course, things will happen in our lives
that will be bad, and we don’t like them.  But I find…by studying…
myself, that there is no definitive law, psychologically…no definitive
law in human nature but what is already in the Bible.  You will find it
somewhere if you look for it.  And one of the greatest is over in
Matthew 6:19-21.

Matthew 6:19-21

(19)	Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust
does corrupt and where thieves break through and steal.

(20)	But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth
nor rust does corrupt and where thieves do not break through not steal. 


For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

20.	Now…Doctor Crain…one of the great Christian psychologist and
psychiatrist said,  “Go through the motion and the corresponding
emotions will come.”  Go through the motion…a law of psychology…go
through the motion and the corresponding emotions will come.  And he
said this to every family that is in difficulty…especially to those
whose marriages are fading…loosing out and even on the rocks.  Because
to every person who says the old original love and joy of marriage is
gone…he replies…act as you first did…when you first courted, fell
in love married act as you first did, no matter how you feel, whether
you even hate to do it, embarrassed, everything else…do it.  And the
old will renew itself as great or greater than ever.  Now…that’s
what he said, which is go through the motions and the heart will catch
up.  

21.	Now I know that people will say   “Well I’d feel like a
hypocrite, I’d feel like an idiot.”  Well you are one already so
don’t feel bad if you feel it.  Because you are not a hypocrite if you
have a genuine goal in sight.  Now I’m going to read it again and tell
you.

(19)	Lay not up for yourselves treasures here upon earth,where moth and
rust does corrupt and where thirves break through and steal.

(20)	But lay up for yourselves treasure in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust does corrupt. And where thieves do not break through nor steal.

For where your treasure is there will your heart be also.   

Now you notice what it said…it says the heart follows what you are
laying up…as important…what you are doing.  Now lay up treasure in
heaven.  A person says,  “Well I don’t feel like it.”  There is
something missing in the spiritual…there is something missing in the
emotional…there is something missing in the mental…there is
something missing in the ego…the psychic.  All right…do what the
Bible said…do it anyway.  Do it anyway with the understanding that
there is a guarantee that what you lay up…the heart will then begin to
fall in line with…the ego…the emotions…the psychic…the whole
person will begin a new concept…a new relationship…a new life, if
you begin to do certain things.  Many people have no great desire for
heaven…they have no great desire for what is to come and the reason
is, because they haven’t laid up toward it. 

 Now you know Bro. Branham told the old story, which is very famous
about a man who was…actually this came from France, where a Catholic
Bishop one day went to visit a prisoner and the man was boasting, what a
great fortune he had made.  He said,  “ I want you to look North
Bishop…as far as your eye can see…that’s my land.”  He said, “
look to the West as far as your eye can see…look to the East…and
look to the North as far as your eye can see…that’s my land.” And
the man had great prosperity…he had worked hard…been skillful, even
the little towns and village belonged to him.  He was so mighty.  And
finally the Bishop said,  “Sir…I want you to look up…how much do
you own up there?”  And the fellow said,  “Nothing.”  He said, 
“That’s your trouble.”

22.	Now that is what the Scripture shows here…that if a person wants
to enjoy…to love…to be motivated…then there is a way to do it. 
When that emotional aspect and motivation is not there…start doing
something because it is right.  And it hasn’t got a thing to do about
your feelings.  In fact the Bible condemns working on feelings.  Instead
if a person comes by and he is poor and doesn’t have clothing and
all…it don’t get a big smile on your face…pat the guy on the back
and say,  “Now God bless you buddy…you go down the road and I’ll
pray for you.”  The Bible says,  “You rotten hypocrite.”  Your
prayers aren’t worth a plug nickel…they don’t even go past your
nose.  If you had enough brains you wouldn’t have even said it.  It
said…give the man something…do something for him…see?  Not saying
you should put your prayers on legs, that’s fine…you can put your
prayers on legs if you want.  Sometimes you haven’t got any legs to
put your prayers on.  We’re not just saying that.  We’re saying
where the Word of the Lord is…and that Word is remedial…because now
you are on God’s level and God’s plane by utilizing that Word.  It
doesn’t have one thing to do with what you think about it. 

23.	 That’s where this Message went haywire to the people.  They began
thinking about it…what their Creeds and Dogmas say and their preachers
said.  If they would just stop thinking and looked at the Message and do
what the Prophet said…they would have been a million miles down the
road towards restoration and recovery.  No…what your thoughts and my
thoughts have to do with the ‘Word’ is nil…except to agree with it
and start putting it into practice here.  So…the doctor was completely
right.  He said…you start building up your marriage…in other words
you start doing those things that you know to do…that you used to do,
you just do them and pretty soon the heart will have a complete change. 
The heart will have complete new life.  It’s what the doctors tell us.
 They say there is no such thing as breaking an old habit…you build
new ones.  And that’s true…you reprogram your life.  And so you take
these computer lives of ours and you reprogram them by deliberately
doing those things that you know should be there and they’re being
missed…because of personality conflict or something is broken down. 
You can rebuild it by doing that which the Scripture tells you to do. 
Let’s go back and just see this marriage affair a little bit, in the
book of Ecclesiastes…this is Scripture here is very nice Scripture…I
like it very much myself.  And it says here in verse 9.  

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyfully (or enjoy life) with the wife whom you love all the days
of the life of your vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all
the days of your vanity; for that is your portion in this life, and in
your labor which you take under the sun.    

Now…it says…repeating,  “Live joyfully with the wife whom you love
all the days of the life of thy vanity.”  Now of course, vanity here
could be where a person doesn’t have much experience, where he
actually has not come under the discipline of life, but it’s been a
good life…he’s loved it…he’s enjoyed it.  And the Scripture says
here that, that is what we are to do.  There is a command there.  Many a
person says, “Well I don’t know if I can actually live with my wife
or my husband.”  You are wrong.  I know Bro. Branham said, some of
you…he said, “You couldn’t live with each other and so therefore
if you separated I wouldn’t have you go back.”  That’s true and
yet it’s not true.  Did the people follow the Word of God?  The answer
is “NO”.  Under human instrumentality, there could be few marriages
really exist, but under God, there shouldn’t be one marriage that
falls apart.  And if anybody places himself under the Word…there is a
command promised here and the command is…go ahead and live as you are
and be happy about it.

24.	 An old fellow was once on the Art Linkletter program and he was
about the most jovial fellow you ever saw, way up in his eighties.  He
was a joy to behold and Art said,  “How in the world he said, why are
you so happy?”  He said,   “It is just a matter of wanting to be.  I
find I can be happy or not happy…I choose to be happy.” You see! 

25.	Now I realize it would take two people to tango as they say.  It
takes two people to really make a go of it.  Well I’m talking this
morning to Christians so therefore I trust your all married in Christ. 
But here is the truth…and we find many marriages even in this Message,
where there happens to be great flaws and the marriage is not doing too
well and the trouble is…the people aren’t working at it. 
See…that’s the whole thing.  They’re not laying up
treasure…they’re not doing those things where the heart can follow. 
They’re all the time hoping that the heart will set up a condition and
then things will begin to brighten.  Well…that’s simply
“Attitude” and the attitude is if you’re right toward God, you
will do what the Word of God says, and you will begin to make your
marriage a whole lot more successful than it ever was before.  Galatians
6:9 brings this out.  

Galatians 6:9

(9)	Be not weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we
faint not.  

26.	Now the Bible says here there has got to be a sewing but remember
people got there eyes on the harvest but the Bible doesn’t say one
sewing brings a harvest.  The Bible says sewing and sewing and sewing
and sewing and sewing and it just may be the last time you sew because
it would be really…that’s the time you get the harvest.  And if you
don’t get a harvest you got to keep on sewing because it says right
there your heart will follow.  And I’ve seen some marriages where one
side of the family was absolutely beautiful and and the other wasn’t
worth a plug nickel.  And I’ll tell you how it was…is because
somebody applied himself or herself in that marriage.  It’s like one
person said,  “There is never a fight until the second blow is
struck.”  And that’s exactly true.  That’s why the Bible says to
turn the other cheek so you’re not the one that takes the blow…you
know…gives the blow back…you know. 

27.	 So therefore we see in Scripture here that Doctor Crain is right
when he said,  “Go through the motion, and the corresponding emotions
will come.”  In other words there must be a heart set.  Do I want to
make a go of it?  Do I want to have the life that I believed I was going
to have?   And the answer is…when people decide to make a go of hey
can make a go of it and it is not merely sticking together for the
kid’s sake.  How often you hear that.  Then the psychologist comes
along and says,  “It’s better you two fighting leave and pull apart
and let the kids go someplace else to get love and affection because all
you can do is fuss at each other.  See?  

28.	 Well there is no rebuilding a marriage under those
conditions…there is no laying up treasure.  There has got to be that
laying up of the treasure of the heart will follow.  Then have to…if
the Bible gives us a Word of Command promise on it…I like the command
promises best of all.  Because that means if you do, God sure to answer.
 You got your hands on something if you understand.  Then God will help
you.

29.	  So…none of us therefore require a passionate motivation or
feeling or a gift or special dispensation to bring back into the Church
love, but an understanding mind concerning the Scriptures.  Now we’re
going from marriage in the home to marriage in the Church as the Bride
of Jesus Christ.  So…while people are bemusing themselves…befuddling
themselves, waiting for this momentous dynamism to come down, which we
often speak of…Christ’s Love Capstoning the Bride, and everybody
hanging around and not going through the motion.  Well I got news for
you…I don’t think it is going to come down…at least on the
people…that think they can go on a certain way and do what they want
and not lay up for it.  We will go to Ephesians the 5th 

Chapter…25th verse.

Ephesians 5:25

(25)	Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the Church and
gave himself for it.  

Now we see in here the Church and Christ as husband and wife. Now
remember…Christ Himself being perfect.  That leaves the woman
imperfect…that leaves the Church imperfect.  Now…we want to find one
place where Christ has not laid up for the Church.  There is not one
single place or time where Christ has not laid up for the Church. 
Therefore it’s the Church time to begin to seek out to properly do
those things amongst themselves that will cause the love of Christ to
sweep into the Church. 

30	Now…as far as I see the Scripture here this morning…it is not
love that brings the act in this case…the act that brings the love
renewed and better than ever and more enduring because it is built upon
the Word. You see?  We’re looking for ‘love’ to do something. 
We’re all the time looking for something as though God is going to
give us something more…whereby…then something special is going to
happen.  And that’s not true as I see the Scripture this morning.  And
it is not true as far as I understand what Bro. Branham said.  Because
when he spoke of that Spirit of Love amongst us, which would put the
gifts on the shelf as it where…didn’t say they would be on the shelf
…said,  “as it where.”  He was speaking about the people
themselves…see.  And as I showed you here, I’m sure, oh maybe about
sixteen or eighteen months ago…talking about the wittiness to the
resurrection…every time Bro. Branham mentioned there would be gifts of
the Spirit in that room…it was always contingent to a need of
somebody.  Like…Sister Brown, you live too near the railroad track and
if you stay there…well the old train is going to come through wreck
your house.  And then here is a Brother that needed some kind of
betterment and the reason he wasn’t getting it was because there was
something in his life that shouldn’t be there.  Now along come the
Word of the Lord and ministry and it brings out what is necessary.  

31.	Well…what I’m trying to show you here is that God Almighty in
His Spirit is trying do people good, so therefore there ought to be a
watchful eye, because of the Eagle Eye…the Shepard Eye…of the Holy
Spirit is amongst us and know really…then…that same thing ought to
be in us where we have an eagle eye and a Shepard eye for each other. 
For the Bible said, “Look not on your own good…but on each other.”
 Well that doesn’t mean I’m going to be looking to see if I can grab
somebody from this fellow…he will try to grab from me…it
means…I’m looking out for you.  See?  Trying to help each other.  

32.	So what we need is a militant campaign of good deeds amongst us now
to bring the Love of God sweep in the message.  That’s what I can’t
stand and I repeated all this hogwash I’ve seen amongst the five-fold
ministry.  And I’m part of the five-fold.  I abhor what goes on.  If
they can jerk you this way and jerk you that way that’s doing God a
favor.  Why can’t they come in and do you a favor.  Instead of trying
to get a bunch of satellites around about and make some pretense out of
it.  Brother/Sister let me tell you flat…he that is greatest of
all…is servant of all.  See?  There ought to be a campaign amongst
us…not to rend or to tare but to serve and to help.  Because let me
tell you…if I make a show in your flesh, I’m shot.  I better make a
show in my own flesh, which means to come on down and become a servant
and to betterment of somebody. See?  Now we are just going to nail the
thing the way it is, and if you think different…the Lord bless
you…you see what you want to see.  I’m trying to get as clear a
picture as I can in order to help you this morning to see that if
you’re simply looking for Christ’s Love to come on down and make a
great big climax and you and I are not in obedience to God’s Word and
laying up those treasures…I believe it is going to pass right over to
somebody else.  

33.	Bro. Branham always talked of the little old washerwoman with one or
three tapes.  Why?  Because she was a picture of perfect servant…a
picture of humility and of abnegation, [A giving up of rights…self
denial…renunciation], where she could just wash over her old tub and
try to help somebody.  That’s why he always said the woman has a
tremendous ministry…she ministers to her husband and serving him.  But
too many got a grandiose idea of…give me gifts…do this oh God, some
great tremendous thing in the midst of you…hallelujah!   Hallelujah my
foot.  You will be as lean a soul as anybody ever was.  It’s to get in
there and realize the things that should be done and do them.  In other
words, start looking around and say, “Oh God what can I do to lift
somebody up.”  What can I do to say a kind word…what can I do to
encourage somebody…what can I do for this situation here?  Lord make
me aware…begin laying up.  You say,  “I don’t feel like it.”  It
has nothing to do with feelings.  In fact it is like paying income
tax…if anything, I’ve got a feeling against it, but I got to do it. 
There is no way to get out of it.  Oh I suppose if I fought hard
enough…but I’d end up a mess anyway, wasting all my strength.  Why
waist your strength, against a stacked deck of cards, or a system like
we got?  The thing to do is to cooperate…see?  That’s what the Bible
said.  It said,  “Don’t resist evil.”  It said start doing some
good thing.  Now we are not saying there is evil in the Church…we are
just saying that what we want is the love of God sweeping in our
midst…and I believe it will come by a militant campaign of good deeds.
 As Bro. Branham said,  “Say good things.”  That’s how the woman
got the devil cast out of her daughter.  Say good things, that’s true.
 A militant campaign of building up people, see?

34.	  Helping…that’s what exhorter is.  Did you know there was an
exhorter in the second chapter of the Book of Romans?  What is an
exhorter?  He is a man that draws near…draw near to what?  To
Christ…by coming in…like a fresh breeze…like a warm breeze on a
cold day and a cool breeze on a hot day. Like a hot drink on a winter
day and a cool drink on a summer day.  In other words he is a man
that’s got answers by the Word to lift and to build you up, you see? 
And I’m telling you, a man that is a builder upper will never be a
tarer downer.  Because you see, you can’t exert the same strength at
the same time in two different directions.  As I said, my fist can go
whop and hit that guy in the nose to destroy him or that same fist can
grab him by the hand and give him a little pull.  Depends on what you
got on your mind, see?  Just like when I…I know you know this story,
it’s right on the tape…Bro. Branham mentions Ernie Fandler.  Poor
old Ernie was having trouble with his wife and he knew she had a devil
and I suppose everybody else did, right at the time he got through, but
I don’t know the people that knew him when she had a devil.  But
anyway Bro. Branham said,  “Well I can tell you how to cast the devil
out of her and Ernie got real excited and said,  “Yes sir…just tell
me how Bro. Branham.  “Well,” he said, “I’ll tell you what to do
Ernie…he said…next time you go home, you just buy about a 5 pound
box of the best chocolates and a big bouquet of roses and knock on the
door and when she comes to the door and opens the door just give her the
candy and the roses and grab her in your arms and kiss her…he
said…he said that will drive the devil out of her.  Course she might
have got real suspicious for a while.  That’s OK…I think woman like
that kind of suspicion.  After a while they get used to it.  After a
while he gets used to it.  Pretty soon they love each other again.
See…that’s what we find here.  Now…Paul brings this to our
attention also…what we are talking about in Philippians the 2nd
chapter 1-4.

Philipians 2:1-4

(1)	If there be therefore any consolation in Christ (There sure is) if
any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and
mercies. 

(2)	Fulfill you my joy, that you be likeminded, having the same love,
being of one accord, of one mind. ( Now he tells you that.)  

(3)	Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of
mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

(4)	Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the
things of others.  

 

 35.	 Now…that’s what I said a while ago…Paul lays it down very
flat, see?  He wants us to understand that.  Begin looking out for your
brother, see.  Begin seeing what can be done.  Now I know that this is
not a habit in this present world, because it’s Laodacia, see…grab
while the grabbing is good…get while the getting is good…everybody
make a million, see.  Even Churches want to grab converts.  Converts to
what?  To Satan’s kingdom not to the Almighty Word of God.  But to
begin looking for the good of somebody else.  We read over here in
Galatians the 6th chapter the 10th verse.  Well I didn’t read
it…here it is.  

Galatians 6:10

(10)	As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good to all men, 
especially to them who are of the household of faith.

36.	How often…through carelessness, we miss opportunities to do nice
things for people.  You know…it is not enough to admire people to do a
nice thing.  I don’t know about you…but I’m sure that…that well
I’m sure that you’re a lot like me in this respect…you got friends
that remember your birthday and your anniversary.  Why…I don’t
know…I wouldn’t…but I should.  I really do know…because they
care.  You know the old hallmark card says, “You get the very best
because you care.”  Well what about us as Christians?  You know
sometimes a card could make the difference.  A note could save a
suicide.  A kind word could stop a person that’s regressing and going
down hill.

37.	What would I have given years ago, when I first became a preacher,
that people would have helped me?  But I have learned a lesson in that. 
I don’t say that I’ve done this all the time but when ministers, at
least some that I know are leaving their job and they’re going to go
preaching.  The first thing I would try to do is to send them a good
some of money [to or through] some Church.  In order to encourage them
down the road somewhere.  To let them know right off the bat that God is
faithful. Because look…God is faithful to you and me not to somebody
else.  God is not going to open the heavens and rain down carloads of
wheat.  You know…remember back in the days of Elijah…was prophesied
by a prophet…that as there was scarcity there would be plenty.  And
the man said,  “Well if God opened the windows of heaven…he
said…and let it rain down we might have that.”  Well God did not
open the windows of heaven and let it rain down.  But there was piles of
wheat and oats and barley and everything the people had need of and God
saw to it that what man had put his hand to by raising, what man had
labored…Israel got it.  And the same thing holds today.  Somebody’s
got to labor a little harder to help somebody else.  Somebody’s got to
work a little more in order to get more to help.  Don’t you know
that’s what the Apostle Paul said over here in the book of Ephesians? 
Wonder if I can find it…I know that it is there.  If I can’t find
it…I will sort of half way quote it to you.  And the quoting is pretty
punk but anyway the idea is…0h the 28th verse of 4.

Ephesians 4:28

(28)	Let him that stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working
with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to (
his family, put a lot of money in the bank and retire and have a ball. 
Didn’t say that.)  It said , that he may have to give to him that
needeth. 

38.	 Doesn’t say that the person doesn’t need it…it says the
person that does need it.   You’re not obligated to help anybody who
can help himself and has already got help.  There is too much of that
going on amongst us right now…you scratch my back and I’ll scratch
yours, you give me a nice gift and I’ll give you a nice gift…forget
it.  And I would think woman are worse than men on that.  Cause they
have sweeter ideas and passions and get carried away quicker…and a man
is more hard headed.   Look for somebody that needs something, see. 
Start looking around.  Start rolling your eyeballs in that
direction…right?  Instead of inwardly.

Now…we ought to help each other and look for opportunities and if
there are opportunities, we should certainly avail ourselves of those
opportunities.  Again…Romans the 12th chapter, which I eluded to a
while ago.  We will see what it says here…12 to the 20th verse, what
I’m looking at.

Romans 12:20

(20)	Therefore if your enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him
drink: for in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.   

39.	What’s the first thing somebody needs when there is a problem? 
And they’re obstreperous?  Do something nice for the person, see…try
to do it.  I know, I know that is more difficult but the Scriptures says
here, “Vengeance is mine…I will repay.”  Now…if we are to do
something for those who are against us for no reason…how much more
should we do something for those who are with us, you see…trying to
help people.  Let’s see if we can find something over here in Luke the
6th chapter.  Now…giving us an understanding.  Beginning perhaps about
verse 27.

Luke 6:27

(27)	But I say to you which hear, love your enemies, do good to them
which hate you.  

(28)	Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use
you.

(29)	And to him that smite you on the one cheek offer also the other,
and him that takes away your cloak forbid not to take your coat also.  

(30)	Give to every man that asks of you and of him that takes away your
goods ask them not again.  

(31)	And as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them
likewise.  

	Now that’s carrying this to a very far degree, because no man in his
right mind would want to be doing all these rotten things that’s going
here.  Taking what’s not yours…or hitting somebody in the
face…cursing somebody.  That which would…you have a picture here
given us to show the extremity, of how far we are to go.  We’re to go
a long, long way.  In other words [bad spot on tape]   

(32)	For if you love them which love you, what thank have you?  For
sinners also love those that love them.

(33)	And if you do good to them which do good to you what thank have
you? For sinners also do even the same.

(34)	And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thank
have you ?  for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.

(35)	But love you your enemies and do good and lend hoping for nothing
again; and you reward shall be great, and you shall be the children of
the Highest: for He is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.  

40. 	 I haven’t gotten that far.  I’ve gotten as far…if I we’re
to give thousands of dollars to some minister, or ministry and I find
that thing go sour…I have no regret.  I have heard people and they
told me…man I sure regret giving…I wish I could get it back. 
Hogwash…you got to be sick.  I thought you given that money for the
sake of Christ…I thought it was from the Lord.  Well you might as well
tell them…Bud…look…I’m giving this to you…this is for
me…God’s not in this thing.  Hewn your hallelujahs down, not worth a
plug nickel anyway, see.  Now I’m just being very kind…you don’t
know that  (……?…..) but we are just spreading it on where it
belongs (…?)  it says and be kind…be like God…the children of the
highest, where He is kind to the unthankful, and He is kind to the evil,
but the Bible says, “Be ye kind, one to another.”  Speaking of
Christians forgiving, and doing good things.

Be you therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.  

Judge not, and you shall not be judged: condemn not, and you shall not
be condemned: forgive and you shall be forgiven:

Give and it shall be given unto to you: good measure, (Now it says, when
you start giving with the right attitude, when you’re doing the right
things…it’s says watch what is going to happen to you.)  Give and it
shall be given…good measure, pressed down, and shaken together and
running over, shall men give into your bosom. 

41.	In other words…when we do these things that we have already out
lined in Scripture here…very poorly of course.  You start doing it and
you know your motive is right because God said so and you’re looking
to see the changes come…the Bible said that old hearts going to begin
to swell and God’s going to heap that all back on you.  Remember Bro.
Branham mentioned a sister Bell dying…and she died with such peace he
said she must have paid for her sins before her final hour…she went in
such peace.  I know that you can’t tack Scripture on that all the way.
 There are sinners that die in perfect peace too in the sense that they
have no problems…they live old lives…you know like the old green Bay
Tree spreading themselves and it comes time to die…they just die so
pretty peaceful.  And some saints’ die in agony…that’s something I
just don’t understand.  God understands and Bro. Branham being a
prophet knew that she paid a price somewhere.  And I believe the
greatest paid, is to sew in peace and reap righteousness to be one of
these people.  And it said give and it said, “ men will give to your
bosom.” 

For with the same measure you mete withal it shall be measured to you
again.  

42.	Now that’s just not money…that’s everything.  It says if you
continually do this…there will come a time when it will come back on
you.  And I know that’s the truth Bro./Sister, because what a man
sews…he will reap.  If you sew oats your going to get oats, if you sew
wheat your going to get wheat, you simply can’t change it.  It’s the
same in the resurrection…a man goes down a human…comes up a
human…a bird goes down a bird…comes up a bird…the lion goes down a
lion…comes up a lion.  The fifthteenth chapter of I Corinthians says
so.  So is the resurrection…that flesh is coming up again.  So what
you and I plant, we- are- going- to- reap.  Now where we going to reap
it?  Right in here where it really counts.  If you want an enlarged…a
great big fat heart and you know fat around the heart is no good but a
fat heart is wonderful, see.  In other words a big…a great big
heart…what you want to do is start making room for the goodies that is
going to come in that big heart.  So what do you want a big heart for? 
Say, “Well I want a big heart so everybody could give me.”  Well,
you’re nuttier than a fruitcake; you got a tiny weenie heart.  You get
a great big heart for the goodies coming back, that’s how you get a
bigger heart, that’s how you put an ‘L’ shape on you…a second
story on it…by doing these goodies for people.  Look around
Bro./Sister, there is lot’s of things we can do for each other.  Even
a glass of cold water is going to…you know…going to get a reward. 
Absolutely…that’s what the Scripture says here.  Now let’s go
to…let’s see I think I’ve covered this here now.  Now…let’s be
careful to know here…it’s going to cost us something…that’s what
I wanted…Hebrews the 10th chapter…I knew that had to be the next
little note I was going to bring you.  Hebrews the 10th chapter…it is
going to cost us something…don’t think for one minute it is going to
cost us nothing…it is going to cost us something.  [Chapter] 10:34 to
37.  

Hebrews 10:34-37

(34)	For you had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the
spoiling of your goods, Knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a
better and an enduring substance.  

(35)	Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompence
of reward.

(36)	For you have need of patience, that after you have done the will of
God, you might receive the promise.

(37)	For yet a little while, and He that shall come will come and will
not tarry.  

43.	Now…I know that it is going to cost us something…the Bible says
so.  It says right here, “you took joyfully the spoiling of your
goods.”  Now…sure people will come along and take what we got.  We
haven’t seen it in this age…they saw it back there.  And I’m going
to tell you…the very fact that you and I can bind the strong man
within us, “Our will”,  “Our character”, bind it by the Spirit
of God through the Word, keep that old fellow down and then deliberately
go out of our way to do the things which we wouldn’t do normally. 
That’s real genuine Holy Ghost Love…do it!  Lay up treasure in
heaven and lay up treasure right here and watch how men will give it
back to you.

44.	There’s a friend of mine…this fellow is about forty years old
now and I have the greatest compassion for that kid because I loved him
the minute I met him.  He married very young…married a lovely
girl…but there wasn’t any help for him as there should have
been…and so the marriage went on the rocks…I’m sorry about that. 

 But in his early hours of marriage, when there was so little in the
house, he was going down to buy a little bit of bread and some milk for
the baby and I think he had about $2.00.  And he met a man, coming out
of his house…he used to visit and he said,  “Cox…he said…I
wonder if you can help me…he said, I haven’t got a thing in the
house…now he said, if I could just have a little bit…he said, I
could live.”  Well the kid felt so sorry for the old boy that he gave
him the two dollars that he had.  He said, “Oh my…what am I going to
do now.”  And the fellow said, he said,  “Cox, he said, I got a
little old Buggie Bird in here…he said, I don’t even have any seed
to feed him, why don’t you take him home.”  He took him and sold him
for five dollars. 

 So you see…give and it shall be given…of good measure, it tided the
kid over.   You say, the old man could have done that.  Sure he could
have done it but it wasn’t in God’s plan…God made that boy a
little test and I don’t believe he would have sold the bird for five
dollars   I wouldn’t give somebody two bucks for a Buggie Bird back in
those days.  Like you couldn’t give me one…I had all I want to do
with them.  But you see…God knew there was somebody that would pay
five dollars for that bird.  And he did…and the boy got it back.

45.	  I remember years ago the same principle in my life…cause being
on the road I knew I had to trust God...and that was difficult but God
of course was good to me. Because He got me out of debt…I had $1200.00
owing on the car and I prayed to the Lord would He send me on the road
but not in debt…and a voice within me said,  “Don’t worry…your
going to get the money.”  And from that minute on I knew it and I got
it.  Just like God sent one nice lump like that and paid it off.  Now
not nickels and dimes…twelve hundred dollars cash…see. 

46.	 And that’s the way God does…but now I’m telling you…I’ve
always believed in the tithing the tithe, you do what you want…maybe
you can’t afford and when you think you can, but you didn’t live as
low as I did on $45.00 a week.  Course that’s some time back…and you
took $9.00 out of that and that was before you took a nickel out in
expense and that was quite a bit of money.  But I got out one day…I
had a little money saved up so I sent $20.00 to a preacher and I sent
$20.00 to a widow and exactly twenty twenty-dollar bills came in and
died, I had exhausted my…. Give and it shall be given to you…now
that twenty never came because the tithe belongs to God.  Now there is
one thing that you must understand…when a person pays tithes, he gives
nothing.  That belongs to God.  That’s not mine that is not yours that
is Gods.  Nothing to do with you and me that’s the way I like it
because it is in His hands…see?  But when it comes to
giving…that’s in your and my hands, and the Scripture distinctly
says…you either do it because you want to or you don’t because you
don’t want to or you haven’t got it.  If you don’t have it,
you’re not obligated.  If you do have it…your not obligated but you
want to do it. Well I said, “Sure I want to do it Lord.”  That’s
when the money came in…I got twenty twenties for a twenty.  And I’ve
always found this…that God honors those who give.  But you know what? 
It’s going to cost you something to give.  So therefore I like what
the man said, he said,  “It’s not what you give…it’s what you
got left over.”  And that puts a different story on it now because
most of us are in a position now that we never were in a few years
ago…there is more and more.  Course we know taxes eat it up and
let’s face it…we’re still the best feed and best taken care of
people in all the world.  Never fuss about America…the only reason
America is going down the drain is because she had the prophet…for no
other reason cause we’re no different than anybody else in fact I’ve
been around the world…different places in the world where I think they
are a whole lot worse than we are.  You know really…you wonder how
that could be…well I wonder myself really.  It’s a bad mess. 

47.	 But anyway, God never lies in His Word and He always encourages us
to give.  That’s just exactly what the Scripture says,  “That God so
loved the World He gave His only begotten Son”…then John said,
“This is the Love of God that He loved us first.”  Then because He
loved us…now we are able to reciprocate.”  So therefore we look
around and we do our best to find those who need help and any time of
need.  And we help them and behold…the same blessing comes back upon
us.

48.	So…it will cost us something to lay up those treasures, but look
at the reward…breaches are healed, breaches are healed.  You know
that’s one of the titles that God has given Himself…the healer, the
breach-man, the one who makes amends.  That’s like the days-man…Job
cried, “Is there not a days-man.”  Is there somebody that can take
the hand of God and my hand and bring us back together?”  And of
course the Holy Spirit did it.  Jesus is our days-man and through Him
all breaches are healed and we being as Bro. Branham said, “Little
Messiest…little Mrs. Jesus’.  We are to have the very same ministry.
 Breaches are healed which give us a reward on earth and treasures laid
up in heaven.  It gives us a testimony to Jesus Christ.  Let’s look at
John the 13th chapter.  Remember what the old fashion…the old people
in the early Church said?  “Oh behold how they loved each other.” 
John 13 and 35.

John 13:35

(35)	Let this alone let you know that you are my disciples, if you have
love one to another.

What is love?  You say, “Well that’s not just saying,  “Well
you’re a nice fellow…I love you and you love me.”  Love is doing
something. And it is not doing when the person doesn’t need doing for.
 It is specifically doing when the chips are down.  But it doesn’t
mean you ignore him when things are going good…you’re on the look
out to see that things will go better…see.  If the Church could get on
fire…especially the ministry…the men…could get on fire to begin
looking out for the people that need looking out for.  What a difference
there would be.

49.	I remember a few years ago I was living in this little town in
Ohio…there was a lady up there, her name was [Mrs. Longerneck…?].And
her husband was a very nice Presbyterian Christian and she was like a
lot of peoples’ wives…you know…very saucy and very smart and
very…you know pant-ish and short hair-ish, and you know.  And so I was
talking on how it was that if I was a Pastor again I would train my
Elders and even Deacons and anybody I could to go to the homes and help
the homes that didn’t have family worship…to institute it and solve
their problems.  She said,  “Hmm Hmm I ain’t going to have anybody
come into my house.  I said, there ain’t nobody going to come in to
your house and I said,  “Nobody is going to come to your house.”
(?…and so I said, “I’d be only too glad to.”  I didn’t mean to
put her down so I didn’t say anything.  But you see…that woman and
the world is so far offbeat and the Churches, that it is pitiful.
Because it is the duty of those that are strong, to help the weak.  
There is nothing weaker than a home that doesn’t have the prayer and
the Word and those things that belong there.  How can people ever get
anywhere except they’re helped? 

50.	 Well look at the very fact that so many marriages are on the rocks.
 Now I mentioned this before but I’m always puzzled.  The Bible says
that women are to love their husbands.  In other words there should be a
preparation for marriage.  That’s why the world is such a mess right
now over your sex problem out there because the subject was not taught
at home according to the Scripture.  As old Doctor Bell…Billy Grahams
father-in-law said, “You don’t need these books, the Bible tells
you.”  But nobody runs to the Bible…you see?  Well I want to know
where the women are that taught their daughters?   Now women I’m not
fussing about you this morning but you know what’s in the land out
there amongst your sisters in the flesh.  They want to be woman
preachers.  They want to run the office, they want to run the world,
they want to run everything.  But they haven’t got enough brains to
teach their daughters because they are the same miserable prostitutes
that there daughters have turned into.

51.	  As Bro. Branham said, “The flapper of his day and mine have
become the strip tease of this hour, until it is a horrible thing and
the best any woman can do today is to give her daughter birth control
pills.  Well that is a fine substitute for the Word of God.  Huh and
what are the Christian homes doing this morning?  I want to ask you. 
What are you doing about your daughters?  Now I’m going to ask you
flat and it is a good time to do it.  In other words where is your love
this morning for your kids…and you say, “what about yours Bro.
Vayle?”   Mine wasn’t so hot…that’s why I’m trying to help
you.  I know I’m not a pretty guy to talk to.  That’s why I am no
Pastor…I just don’t have that knack, I’m sorry.  But what I tell
you is the truth of God just the same as though I came down and you know
gigged you with an ice pick.  So don’t look at me this morning and how
I say it.  Look at what I am saying…see…I’m not excusing myself,
I’m trying to tell you something.  That you are responsible for the
marriages coming up.  What are you doing about it?  See!  Now I know
some of you parents have done the best you can and your kids have still
gone haywire.  All right…it’s out of your hands. 

52.	 But how many of us heeded the admonition where the Scripture laid
it out.  No!  It’s always been…well if he doesn’t treat you right
daughter…you better come on home.  Now why in the world now would she
marry some kind of a bird that wouldn’t treat her right?  Men who slap
women around…I even hear of men in this message who slap their wives I
would like to slap them with a 4 by 4 if you [if it would let them know
I love them.]  If you got to slap your wife, there is something awful
wrong with you.  Not that there isn’t something wrong with her but
there is something awful wrong somewhere.  No siree…no siree.  Bad
enough you have sharp words, and that is pretty easy because we
haven’t learned to glue our mouth up.  Some of the finest glue in the
world is lip glue that had a little timer on it.  You know…they have
that crazy glue…they say if you ever get it on your fingers it would
take a doctor to get them apart.  Might be good to do the same thing
with the lip.

53.	  You know way back in the days of Siam, way, way years ago there
were heathen but they weren’t very heathen…if somebody got out of
order…I don’t mean to throw off of mother-in-laws because my wife if
a mother-in-law…she is a pretty good girl.  And…but they said they
sewed the mother in laws mouth up if she talked too much.  Do you
realize you don’t need that kind of glue in the house of God…cause
you got the Word.  Soft words…turning away wrath and all.  

So you see here the Scripture teaches,   ”by this shall all men know
you’re my disciples”, when we conduct ourselves in a certain
way…we are to have certain attitudes and certain behavior qualities. 
Now…this is the only fool proof method there is.  Let’s go to Romans
the 13th chapter and read in verse 10 here:

Romans 13:10

(10)	Love works no ill to his neighbor therefore love is the fullfilling
of the law.

(11)	And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out
of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.  

Now listen…awaking now out of sleep is found in another place…it is
also in Ephesians and remembers it is those that were sleeping, were
lying amongst the dead.  And in this age then there is a message for
us…

(12)	The night is far spent, the day is at hand:  let us therefore cast
off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 

54.	But what is he talking about?  Works of love.  So when I said awhile
ago…I just can’t believe for one minute we’re to sit around here
and talk about coming up on a pyramid smacking our lips that we’ve got
all the things here and other churches don’t have it…I want to ask a
question this morning here in Beaumont.  I want to ask you how much time
are you putting aside in your life to find people that you can help and
be nice to and kind and decent and look for something nice to do?  Well
that’s when the chips are down because it is proven a whole lot of
hogwash that’s already transpired.  I know your history and what goes
on around America and around the world.  Boast all you want about love
and I’ll laugh in your face…you know why?  I want to see it.  I’ve
heard these guys that preach on love and they nauseate me.  Cause it is
always high falutent, to take some advantage.  When the chips are down,
they blow their stack like anybody else.  I would sooner tell you
flat…I would sooner try to act in love and blow my stack…rather than
you catch me in an uncountable position…around so sweet and nice till
the pressure is down.  Than to become some kind of a vendetta against
me.   Hogwash…no man has a vendetta against me…no man can hurt me
unless I let him that person do it.   And nobody can if I get so big I
try to do nice things for people.  See?  So let’s talk about love by
something.  Yes serrie…I believe you’re doing…but I want to get
you to do a whole lot more.  I found the most satisfying experience in
this whole life are the days I would deliberately put aside to attempt
to do something for somebody.

55.	We dedicate a day at the first day of the week to worship Jesus
Christ, and six more days wouldn’t be too bad to dedicate to somebody
else…to put in action.  See?  Yes siree…I was talking to one man not
long ago…oh it’s years ago now.  This fellow…his wife wouldn’t
leave British Columbia to go out to Saskatchewan where he lived.  And
you know some had the idea because she didn’t believe the message and
she smoked and a few things like that…that it was a good idea that she
be away from him. I said,  “I want to tell you something son…you go
up and tell your wife if she will come to Saskatchewan, she can smoke if
she wants to, she may never go to Church, you won’t even talk about
the message, but you love her, and you want her and the children.”  He
did that…they got as happy a home under the circumstances that is
possible.  What if he had left her alone?  She could have gone with some
man and he with some woman.  You say, “Well Bro. Vayle…I want my
wife saved.”  Who doesn’t?  But who says she is going to be.  But I
tell you if you can live with her and she would do a decent people, if
you put the right foot forward…if there is anything there at all.  But
somebody has got to do something about it…you just can’t sit
around…I believe in times like this you don’t pray as much as you
put your prayers on wheels or on feet…whatever it is to do it.  And a
box of chocolates may be for a whole lot more than just a sweet tooth. 
They may sweeten up her heart, and that’s worthwhile.

56.	Now…it’s guaranteed to bring victory.  We’re not dealing in
something that doesn’t work…it brings victory.  We go to the 7th
verse and 8th verse of I Corinthians and 13.

I Corinthians 13:7-8

(7)	Beareth all things, believe all things, hopeth all things, endures
all things.  (In other words it just keeps that before…it is going to
work…it is going to work…it is going to work…it is going to work.)

Love never fails, but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; 

 	How often do people Prohesy?  Oh…that’s Pentecost.  Prophesy you
know the…oh my listen…thank God this message got over prophecies of
the diabolical things that tongues and prophecy done.

57.	Out they’re in um…in um…where is it, Wilcox Arizona where they
went underground.  A family came to me later on because they prophesied,
she should marry this boy and he should marry her and the thing blew
higher than a kite.  Oh…what is done in the name of prophecy.  I would
no more get suckered into that than I would believing that an elephant
was a battle ship.  Yet there is more than an elephant being a battle
ship than there is in this I can tell you that flat.  Because prophecies
will fall flatter than a flitter…but love won’t fail.  See?  Bro.
Branham said the proper marriage is where you prayed out to know
that’s your wife and the same with the girl.  You prayed out and know
that is your husband.  You say,  “Well look at that girl that came and
said, “What do you see in that fellow?”  She said,  “Oh he’s got
such cute feet.”  God have pity.

(8)	 Where they have tongues they shall cease, knowledge shall vanish.  

Because they only know in part, but it says here there is one thing that
works.  Now you and I in other words, don’t need to know about the
future.  Don’t need to know all the conditions, don’t need to prob. 
Now that’s an unkind thing.  Do your realize even men and women sit
down…husband and wife and start probing.  If a person is under
stress…don’t pretend you’re a psychologist or a sychiatrist.  Just
say, “Look…I don’t know what is bugging you but it will work
out.”  You know the worst thing you can do in a Church fight is start
probing, probing, probing.  Bury the hatchet and not in some bodies
skull…in the ground and leave it there, don’t dig it up.  Bro.
Branham said if you dig up what’s under the blood…God will bring
that back on you.  You’ll answer for it…not the person’s sins as
though on judgment day…but the trouble that comes out of it.  See? 
Probing, probing, probing.  Probe what?  Nothing to probe…there is a
problem…help the person…say,  “Can I help you?”  “What can I
do?”  Do something, then if it needs discussion that’s the time. 

58.	 That’s why doctors go ahead, you know the way they are at times
just give you a little something to relax you.  Then after they relax
you they can deal with you.  Sometimes they give you something like, you
know…that…truth serum like uh sodium penethol uh chemical…get you
relaxed down.  How do you relax people?  Be nice to them.  Show them
something.  A little kids in a hospital.  Little kids that had such a
traumatic affect in his life, he couldn’t get know where and so some
nurse stopped and you know what?  Maybe that kid needs something to
love.  Brought him a puppy dog…you know what a puppy dog is
like…like Bill Carnegie said, “A dog is the best example of what to
be like.”  They just do nothing but show love.  I don’t know that
there is…a person has got to be really…ah not very happy about dogs
if he doesn’t love dogs.  Maybe he’s Hindu or something where they
[have something] against them.   But you know…you can look at a
puppy…the way he is.  That little puppy dog just opened that child up.
 What about an adult?  What about someone who just has a problem?  Well
you just simply help the person.  You can quote all the Scripture you
want and all the prophesying you want…it won’t do the trick. 
Galatians 6 again.  We’re going to read two verses this time.  The 9th
and the 10th.  

Galatians 6:9-10

Let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we will reap if we
faint not.

As we therefore have opportunity, let us do to all men, especially to
them who are of the household of faith.  (In other words, keep doing
it.)

Ephesians with this the 5th chapter verses 15 to 17…and it says
here…

Ephesians 5:15-17

See that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise.

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. (How do you redeem time
because days are evil?  Do something good…do counter balance)

Wherefore be you not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord
is. 

 See?  What is the will of God?  What is His will…that we should live
in love and help each other.  And that doesn’t mean to run ahead of
the Spirit and be unwise with the Word of God…it’s a general
admonition.

  Now…I hope we see it.  For how often we want to posses love and
manifest it.  We want to posses it in order to manifest it.  But the way
is to do it.  See?  And so that is what we should do all together.  In
fact…do our first works over again.  Revelation the 2nd chapter and 4
to 5…and it said…

Revelation 2:4-5

(4)	Neverthelsess I have somewthing against you, because you left your
first love.

(5)	Remember therefore from where you are fallen, and do the first
works. 

59.	Now these people began to drift, they didn’t feel that they needed
to keep on helping.  Often times they say well I’ve done
enough…somebody else can do it.  How often have we thought that? 
I’ve done my share.  You know something…it is well said, if you want
somebody to do something…ask a busy man…never ask an idle man…he
will never get it done.  True!  Why do people always hold up as public
examples…men who do things?  And when you do you find out they not
only got a full time job but they are doing fifteen other things on the
side.  A busy man.  You know…somebody said, “The devil always finds
things for idle hands to do.”  That’s true.  But if your so busy
looking for something to do for somebody…I believe that you’ll have
no time for the enemy.  But we have to make our minds up…and that’s
to get back to the first works.  Sincerely…though void of all else but
the obedience of faith.  What if we were void of everything but the
obedience of faith?  I don’t feel like doing it.  I hate to do it.  I
wonder if I even should do it…will it backfire?   Forget it…do it
anyway.  What if it backfires?  Oh how people get sour.  You know that
is true…especially in the Church. Then when a thing backfires it gets
so sour.  

60.	I went preaching one time and it backfired and I got sour and the
Lord whipped the hide off me…so I knew better next time.  I don’t
care how sour it gets, just keep on preaching.  That’s what Bro.
Branham said…preach to the four walls, preach to the poles, if the
walls fall down preach to the poles if the poles fall down, get out and
preach to the side walk.  I don’t know…see…sincerely.  Through the
obedience of faith and then we can watch and see it happen.  Let’s go
to Titus…we’re going to look at the 13th and 14 th verses of chapter
2.  And it said…………

Titus 2:13-14

Teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldly lust…to live soberly and
righteously in godliness…….looking for that blessed hope and the
glorious appearing of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ who gave himself
for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself
a peculiar people zealous of good works. 

 Zealous….lot’s of zeal.  What is our zeal?  It seems amongst us we
have a zeal to know the Word and separate…there aught to be a zeal to
stay together and do something good for each other…see?  Now we’re
going to get somewhere.  Let’s go to Romans the 13th chapter…a zeal
to see good in each other too.  That’s good.  Eight…the 13th
chapter…yes…no I’m going to far…8 to 14. 

Romans 13: 8-

(8)	Owe no man any thing but to love one another: for he that loves
another has fulfilled the law.

(9)	For this You shall not mommit adultary, You shall not kill, You
shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet;
and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in
this saying, namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

In other words how in the world can you do anything wrong if you’re so
busy doing good…see?  Now…

Love works no ill to his neighbor  

It doesn’t say love does’nt work…it says love doesn’t work
(ill).  Love worketh.  Many people think love doesn’t work…love does
work…love is a workhorse…love sent Jesus to the cross…love bore
the cross…love is the fulfilling of the law and the law is do, do, do,
do, do, do, do, you see?  Now….

That, knowing the time, that it is high time to wake out of sleep: for
now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand  (see I read that) put on the
whole …put on the armour of light.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day;  not in rioting ( in other words it
says walk as though someone is looking at you all the time.)

61.	I remember I used to have some friends back in Canada.  They were
real sweet girls and I used to always admire this one girl and her
sister because they were just so plum sweet and I said you know, I said,
“I’m just amazed at you kids…I said…you must have had a real
sweet childhood.”  Auh, she said, “Don’t you believe it Lee…she
said…they thought we were just little angels but she said…soon as
mothers back was turned, we pinched each other and we didn’t dare
scream though so we could pinch each other back. 

62.	 That’s what it says here…as though someone was looking at you
all the time…see?  If you and I lived when people   [something wrong
with the tape] see,  “not in rioting    and drunkenness, chambering
and wantonness.”   In other words people do that at night when they
can’t be seen…oh what a mess…but God sees.  Now he says you act at
all times as though this was in your consciousness that God is
here…and that is something that I am looking at today having brought
the message on the, “ Presence of the Lord”…that He is actually in
a way He has not been here in roughly two thousand years.  So He is in
us and with us and over us.  You see…that should be a tremendous
temptation, and I use the term there on purpose…a tremendous
temptation, to tempt us to what?  In the way we’re talking about this
morning.

(14)	But put you on the Lord Jesus Christ and don’t make provisions
for the flesh 

For the flesh will say…feed me, bath me, keep me, powder me, pet me,
make me feel good.  But the love of God will say, “Look…I don’t
care about me…I care about that fellow…and in caring about that
fellow, it comes back apon you with the blessing of almighty God
manifested.

	I think of that story of the Star of David.  I wish…I’m not a
fellow that (………?…………) because I like to go to the Bible. 
But I remember this cause I heard [the author of] “Star of David”,
tell it himself.  You know he was a prisoner and the Lord got him out of
prison and had His hand upon him and he became an author and um I
believe he tells of how he was came to this town and he always believed
in loving and showing love, but he knew that in town there was a woman
who was named Mrs. Beam and she had a mouth on her like a buzz saw and a
crocodile, you know where she would amputate or chew off any limb,
gossip wise…she was a real mess.  And so they were very happy that she
had never come to their place. Because they knew jolly well the minute
she came they would just tare down the way the curtains were, the way
the house was, the way they were…nothing would be the truth…you know
exaggerated [………?……..] this so they where thanking the Lord
that she had never come around,  But one day they saw her coming down
the street and they were very glad she was going to go by,  they thought
she was, but she opened the gates and of course the hinges didn’t
buckle so she couldn’t get in…they swung open…and she come up the
pathway…the walk and they saw her and man they got very scared and
they thought what we will do…we will just put on a good act.  We will
just put on a real good act.  And so they talked to each other one
minute and one said, he said, “Now look here…we can’t do that.” 
Said, “If we are going to do it…we are going to do it right.  We are
going to do it right from our heart, in love…do the right thing, and
be honest  Well they said they brought out the best China, the best
things, the best cookies,…..she was all smiles, she said I’m going
to come back…the very thing they didn’t want, you know, but she came
back.  So after a few times, they could bring the subject around to the
Lord, and the woman was saved and the upshot was that because of their
love and how they conducted themselves, she became the most notable
Christian in town so that from that time on she was never known for what
she did harmful but only for what she did good.  So that whenever there
was a sickness or a case where someone would set up all night or anyone
to be charitable you could count on Mrs. Beam to be the one who
exemplify Jesus Christ.  

63.	So you see…the thing is that we’re saying that if we want to see
these things we have got to do something about it.  You just simply
can’t pray…prayer won’t do it…won’t do it.  It just won’t
work.  Praying will only work this far…it will help you to come under
the influence of the Holy Spirit whereby you will do it.  Where prayer
is not twisting the arm of God…praying is coming where God can twist
your arm, then come under the Word to do what the Word says.  So…we
must go back to our friendships, our communions, our fellowships, our
associations, and delight in each other’s company and the Lord will
bless us.  Because even the jewels are made up of a very peculiar
people.  Hard working […?…] people and over here in the book of
Malachi…this is one of my favorite passages also where it says…verse
16 of chapter 3.

Malachi 3: 16

(16)	Then they that feared the Lord spoke often one to another
(Doesn’t say they are talking to God now or praying…they are talking
to each other) and the Lord hearkened and heard it, and a book of
remembrance was written efore Him for them that feared the Lord and that
thought upon His name.

64.	Now those that feared God and thought on His name where talking a
certain way, and I know the way they where talking.  They where building
each other up in the Word of this hour.  And staying with what the
Prophet said so that there would be no schisms and no problems [that’s
coming off?]. And it said they are going to be a part of the Bride.

Now…this plan for the Church is a constant one and not seasonal unless
it is for all seasons and it is.  So look no longer for our own needs
and desires that we have but to fulfill others and see that the bread
cast upon the waters and will come back, because it will

65.	Now the Bible says that they that go forth and bearing precious seed
reaping…will come again rejoicing bearing [seed….?….]  Now if you
understand the orient at all you know that many times in the orient they
have a complete disaster and the food is so low that here is this poor
old fellow there and he’s got these sheep.  Now he don’t know if he
is going to get a crop or not but he’s got to plant it.  Now he’s
thinking my children ate this what I’m going to plant, then he said we
might tied ourselves over till some food came from somewhere but I’ve
got to rob my children knowing that they could use this.  I’ve got to
plant it and expect God to water it and give the increase.  Now that’s
the way you are and I am this morning with our lives and what we do.  We
have the ability to use our lives for ourselves but the Scripture says,
“He that seeketh to save his soul…and that word is ‘Soul Life’
in the Greek.  It means…what we do here until the day we’re taken
away…if we seek to save it…we loose it, but if we loose it, which
means we deliberately planed with the Word of God…to do what the Word
of God says…it says we will save it.  See?  And it says if you are in
a position where you find it hard…deliberately steel yourself by
cutting off your hand, cutting off your arm, plucking an eye.  In other
words the constant realization that life is not made of what pleasures
can I have but what pleasure can I give.  See…then we’re getting
somewhere.

66.	Now…that’s what we aught to do.  Them that have bread cast upon
the waters but rain as it where that we wanted to save for ourselves
will come back multiplied as certain will.  There is a picture there of
Jesus Christ giving his life.  Now remember the early Church gave it’s
life for you and me?  Hadn’t have been for the early Church we
wouldn’t have been here.  The Church before us gave something for us. 
That’s why Bro. Branham said don’t unchristianize anybody.

67.	Now…the day of constant asking for our self should be a thing of
the past for it is a day of building an ark.  The Ark was not built for
Noah alone but for his family.  And today we ought to apply the token
for the sake of the family of God and live lives that are dedicated in
order to build up into or unto Him.  See we are all building…what are
we building for?  During the war years there was a motto,  “Service To
Others”.  That’s right…it was one of the great mottos of the
Second World War  “Service To Others”.  That motto aught to be
amongst us…as saints, for it is the last war, for the last Trumpet has
sounded declaring war.  Then if we are to return to the Ephesian Church
which Bro. Branham promised, in being the Ephesian Church, then the
first works should be amongst us.  In other words…that great
earnestness to show forth His praises by serving Him, by bringing in
souls and building those souls up into Jesus Christ.

68.	I’ll never forget my own existence in Christ many years ago.  My
sister was dying and nobody was helping her.  By prophesy…myself, I
don’t know…hears the thing about a false anointing, you see, it can
really work.  I was no more a child of God than nothing.  I was a wicked
little heathen reprobate so to speak…you know…by all outward
appearances.  When my sister was dying I told my mother she wouldn’t
get better till she was prayed for…by two women…you know…they had
been healed of cancer.  Because she was dying, we called in the women
and God healed my sister just like that. The prophecy came true…and I
wasn’t even a prophet. 

69.	 Then I began looking around and I wanted salvation.  Nobody asked
me to get saved and I said, “How do you get saved?”    “How do you
come God?”   So I was told and I believed it and I got it.  So you
start with that.  And the first thing I saw was everybody in the Church
fighting each other.  The Deacon was out behind the barn smoking
cigarettes and fighting the Pastor. And the Pastor had daughters that
were running around that weren’t fit to be running around…they were
literally prostitutes.  Now if you have daughters like that you better 
[club them out of commission] or something.  Not that I advise clubbing
anybody but I know you just got to take a firm stand [ …?… its no
doubt that we’re rotten.]  See she was a pastor, can you imagine that?
 A woman pastor (…?…)just scurvy.  So I look around and I said,
“Well if this is it…forget it.  So I promptly forgot it for a few
weeks, fortunately I left that town and moved where they had a
Pastor…was a man...for this I thank God and some good brethren.  A
fine man came through preaching one time…[that struck a responsive]
cord to my heart, so I hadn’t quit the Church or anything I just said
hey that’s…you know, such a mess.  But you see if those people had
of watched their homes, trained their children right…TAPE RUNS OUT AND
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