The Lord's Supper - Communion # 3

 

 Bro. Lee Vayle   -    July 2, 1983

	Heavenly Father, one day when that glorious Son in Whom You incarnated
and walked on this earth, He said, "Whosoever liveth and believeth in
Me, shall never perish." He proved already that day that there was that
power to bring them forth from the dead, and forming a resurrection on
Lazarus. But, Lord, we're looking now to that one step between us and
immortality, and we have no hope but It, Lord. We have no plans but It.
We have nothing but It.  And trusting You, Lord, that You are going to
see that we accomplish It in You, because of ourselves we will never get
there, but in You, Lord.

	Now, that You are here all things are possible. And this is that one
thing that was left, that a group of people would be immortal and walk
right into Eternal life physically without losing one step, one wink of
the eye, one beat of the heart, or whatsoever; one breath, but just
going on in. And we know that that's at the door. Maybe a little while
off as far as men count years, but we know that in Your time It is right
here now. This is the season, this is the hour.

	In the meantime, Lord, we are admonished by Your Word to stand in the
Presence of the Son to be still as He rises with healing in His wings
that we might enter into that place where He is. And, Lord, we take the
admonition tonight. We're grateful that we can stand still, waiting for
that First Resurrection and that immortality to come upon us. We're
glad, Lord, we're of that number, and we cannot praise You enough,
Father, there is no way that we can praise You enough. It falls upon our
souls in awe, and overshadows our minds and all things, O God, there is
nothing that can compare with it.

	Now, be with us in our simply study tonight, give grace and glory in
Jesus' Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.

	[Local announcements]

1.	Sure glad to see you all, very happy to be with you tonight. Now, you
know the way that I sort of conduct myself in the services. I sort of
preach and teach, and I get on to something and I don't leave it alone
usually. More or less just look at it and keep coming back to it and see
what I can see. And when you're not a prophet it's hard, because you
know that there is something lying there and you haven't the ability to
get it the way a prophet can just go to God, and like Bro. Branham
could.

	You know, most people don't appreciate that fact, the way he could go
to God and speak face to face with God. You know, the Bible tells us
that God rebuked Miriam and Aaron for Moses' sake, because of the
position He'd given to Moses. And that position was one which was
superior to other prophets, even other Word prophet's of those
generations back there. And He said, "Now, (he said) a man, a prophet,"
He said, "I can speak to him in vision and dreams," but He said, "my
servant Moses it is not so. I speak with him even apparently." Which
means, He spoke in a form that Moses could actually see. And He spoke
face to face with Moses.

2.	Now, Paul was that kind of a man. In Bro. Branham's own testimony was
that we hadn't had a prophet like that for two thousand years when God
spoke face to face until this hour.	

	Now, I don't know if you know what that means. But that means that the
Word of God, and the Word of the prophet is one. See, a lot of people 
don't even go that far, they just think, "why hey, we had a great man."
You didn't have a great man, you had God on the scene. Not that that man
is God, but when that man spoke, God had one Voice, God had one Word,
and that prophet was one with God and he had one Word with God. Now, a
lot of people don't understand that. Therefore they lose the impact of
his ministry, which came by the Word. They got carried away with the
signs and wonders.

	I remember, I think I might have mentioned here, (yes I did) a little
while back one Wednesday night I guess it was that a certain great man
was in Bro. Branham's meetings, and he wasn't a great man at that time
in the Pentecostal movement. But, he had seen this great thing happen,
were this insane man that was devil possessed challenged Bro. Branham,
and Bro. Branham said, "Because you've challenged the servant of the
most High God, Satan, I command you to fall my feet." And the man wove
just like a snake back and forth, and just fell on Bro. Branham's feet.
Right over his feet, and he couldn't move, he was so heavy on his feet.
So, they had to have the policeman come and different ones to pull the
man off, so Bro. Branham could be free.

	And the man said, like a voice spoke to him, I don't know if it was a
voice or what it was, an indelible impression. But, the voice spoke to
him said, "See, that's the way it's done in the Bible and you can do
that."

	Now, I saw Bro. Branham, but the voice didn't tell me that. What spoke
to me was, "If any man would be listened to, that's the man you listen
to."

3.	"Well," you say, "You didn't have much ambition." Thank you, that's
exactly right. I don't have much ambition and ideas. [laughter] (You got
Morris [Ungren] preaching, he's a good preacher.) So, I'm not a prophet.
I look at things, and I don't have that ability to just right to the
heart of it. But, as He shows me things in the sense of the Word here,
as I sort of get a hold of them in my…I kind of stick with them. What
I have been doing on the nights of the last Foot-washing and Communion I
went into the Lord's Supper. And I want to go into that again tonight
and sort of pastoral more than teaching, but I'll be like a little
teaching message as if it's a pastor would give . And I'm not
denigrating pastor's, it's just that you might have come here looking
tonight for me to be teaching on the Godhead, or on the Presence of the
Lord and those things whether we're moving from Judge to the King. And
while I'm doing that Sunday morning, and this is not Sunday morning. And
I just can't get in the frame of mind to do it, and the frame of mind is
the simplicity of the Word of God in the Lord's Supper. 

4.	And I want to read It from 1 Corinthians 11:17-33, that would be
best.

		(17) 	Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that (you
are)						come together not for the better, but for the worse.

		(18) 	For first of all, when (you) come together in the church, I hear
that 						there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

		(19) 	For there must be also heresies among you, (that sex, that) they
						which are approved may be made manifest among you.

		(20) 	When (you) come together therefore into one place, this is not
to eat 					the Lord's supper.

		(21) 	For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and
one 					is hungry, and another is (drunk).

		(22) 	What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye
the church 					of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say
to you? shall I 					praise you in this? I (shall not) praise you.

		(23) 	For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto
you, 					That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed
took 						bread:

		(24) 	And when he had given thanks, he (broke) it, and said, Take,
eat: this 					is my body, which is broken for you: this do in
remembrance of me.

		(25) 	After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, 
					saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as
oft 					as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

		(26) 	For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, (you
declare, or 					proclaim) the Lord's death till he come.

		(27) 	Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of
the 					Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the
Lord.

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

		(29) 	For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh 
					(condemnation or judgment)  to himself, not discerning the Lord's 	
			body.

	Now, even has we've looked into the Lord's Supper last month (as I
said, we're going to look into it tonight, this is the first of the
month the Communion and Foot-washing) so first of all we want to note
its simplicity. That's the first thing to note its simplicity.

5.	In verses 23-26, he said:

		(23) 	For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto
you, 					That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed
took 						bread:

		(24) 	And when he had given thanks, he (broke) it, and said, Take,
eat: this 					is my body, which is broken for you: this do in
remembrance of me.

		(25) 	After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, 
					saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as
oft 					as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

	Now, this what he said is actually very, very simple, it doesn't need
any elaboration, it just needs it, it should be done. Now, what he said
here is a direct revelation by Jesus Christ to Paul. Now, a lot of
people reading this don't class this as a direct revelation.

6.	Now, let's go to Galatians 1:11-12, you'll notice:

		(11) 	But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached 
					of me is not after man.

		(12) 	For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but
by the 						revelation of Jesus Christ.

	Now, he says here: [1 Corinthians 11:]

		(26)	For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto
you… 

	So Paul is actually claiming here that nobody taught him concerning
what he is setting forth in this Scripture. This is uniquely and
absolutely something which was communicated to him by the Holy Spirit
absolutely directly and no doubt face to face. Now, we read in the
Gospels what verifies this portion of Scripture.

7.	Now, I want to take you to the Gospels because we'll be using them.
In Matthew 26:26-29.

		(26) 	And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and
(broke) 					it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this
is my body.

		(27) 	And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them,
saying, Drink 					ye all of it;

		(28) 	For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for
many for 					the remission of sins.

		(29) 	(For) I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of (the) fruit
of the vine, 					until that day when I drink it new with you in my
Father's kingdom.

8.	Okay, we turn to Mark 14:22-25, and we'll see what Mark has to say.

		(22) 	And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and (broke)
it, 						and gave (it) to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.

		(23) 	And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to
						them: and they all drank of it.

		(24) 	And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament,
which 					is shed for many.

		(25) 	Verily I say unto you, I will (no more drink) of the fruit of
the 						vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of
God.

9.	All right, we go to Luke 22:15-18, to get all three accounts.

		(15) 	And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this 		
			passover with you before I suffer:

		(16) 	For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be
						fulfilled in the kingdom of God. 

	Now remember, the Kingdom of God is not only meat nor drink, but no one
can possess the Kingdom of God until they're in an immortal stage. For
corruption does not inherit incorruption, nor mortality, immortality.
Flesh and blood of itself cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. So, let's
get that straight. Many people not understanding that or confused about
the Millennium, there's no confusion. Just read your Bible. See, all you
got to do is follow the prophet, there's no problem with this. All
right, "…the kingdom of God." 

		(17) 	He took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and
divide it 					among yourselves:

		(18) 	For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine,
until the 						kingdom of God shall come.

	Now, the Kingdom of God is not possessed by anybody that's flesh and
blood. And Jesus said, "Handle me, and see a Spirit has not flesh and
blood." [Lk 24:39] It's flesh and bone, but it wasn't blood. See, you
got a different picture there entirely.

10.	Now listen, this simple direct charge of the mechanical performance
of this ordinance was botched up by the Corinthian church. Now, I read
three places in the Gospels: "This is the bread, eat it. This is the
wine, drink it."

	This is what It means: Paul got by revelation this is what you should
do: You take the bread, (now He wasn't handed bread, the disciples were
handed bread) they saw the example and then He described the precept.
Paul got the precept and then he was taught what the example was.
Precept and example stood together.

	Paul by revelation said, "Now listen, you take bread, you take wine.
You break it, you eat it, you drink it. This is what it means." And the
Corinthian church botched it up. Now, you wonder why kids get in
trouble. Now Christians are supposed to be smart. They're supposed to
have something a little more than what the world has. But they botched
it up. They couldn't even do this right. See?

11.	Now, can you believe that such a simple thing as this could be so
perverted as to be made simple, and thereby cause sickness and death.
Now you see, that's what you're looking at. Simplicity. A simple thing
as this could be perverted, and thereby cause sickness and death. Now,
we got to let that sink in. That's true.

	Now, could something be done to this simple commemoration of His death
as to make it an act of sin; and thereby bring the judgment of God which
is sickness and premature death? And the answer is "yes," and it could
and it did, and it can and it does. See?

	You say, "How simple is the Message?"  As simple as a-b-c, but people
botch everything up.

12.	Bro. Branham after preaching the Seals, he stood up there and he
preached "God in Simplicity," to begin with and at the end of the
Messages, the Seventh Seal, he said, (and he just seemed to faint away,
and he said,) "And I've preached God in simplicity, and did not know how
simple It was." 

	And I said, "Oh, merciful heaven, merciful God."

	Simple, I never read anything so complex in my life. And the people
came by and they got even more complex because the read between the
lines. 'Till, as I said, it would take a telescope that could count the
fleas on Mars, to read between the lines of people's revelations when
it's very simple. Simple, simple, simple. See? Now, I'm giving you an
illustration tonight to show you that the simple things, the Word of God
is very simple. That's what's wrong with It, I start this in 1975,
that's eight solid years ago. And I haven't changed my tune. There's
something wrong somewhere, because It's simple. But believe me I'm
simple, but I'm not a fool. The Bible said, "A wayfaring man though
fool, will not err therein." [Isa 35:8b] Maybe I'm too smart. Maybe
you're too smart. See? Don't look for big things and great big things.
Bro. Branham said laid out so simple, people just…goes over their
heads. Now, this was very simple, but they botched it up.

 	Now, to further probe our understanding we ask: is it possible for
those rites established in the church by Jesus Himself, be so performed
as to dishonor God and degrade the participant? Now, that's the
question. Can these simple rites be brought to the place where God is
dishonored and the participant degraded? Absolutely true. Now, let's go
over it again: Is it possible to have a little ceremony so common place
that men can come right by, dishonor God and degrade themselves? The
answer is, "yes." 

13.	Now, I'm going to read a little more enlarged translation of 1
Corinthians 11:17. But first of all I'm going to take you to 1
Corinthians 11:17 in your King James version, so that you'll just know
what I'm talking about when I read the expanded translation. (Now, I
didn't bring the book with me, I didn't intend too, because I didn't
want all of it.) Okay:

		(17) 	Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that (you)
come 					together not for the better, but for the worse.

	Now, we read that and It goes over our heads. Yeah. We read It and
what…huh? We're too anxious to get down below to where we read
something else.

	Now listen: [Expanded version]

		"Moreover when giving you this charge I am not praising you, because 	
			you are not coming together for the better, but for the worse."

	I don't even like that language. I like the simplicity. "You're
botching it up." You are messing things up. Now, no wonder the church is
where it is today. Right back there in the Corinthian church. No wonder
Paul had a time, and this is a repeat of the Corinthian age of the
tongues and the gifts and everything else. Everything is botched up. And
this was botched up.

	Now, they were to come together and be commended for what they did, and
Paul said, "I cannot praise you for coming together, because you're
messing everything up." He said, "You're leaving in a worse shape than
when you come."

	How would you like to come in this service tonight and have Communion
and Foot-washing and leave here in worse shape than when you came in?
And there's something wrong somewhere, because that's exactly what's
going to happen. And I'm not excited about it, I'm just telling you the
truth.

 	Here is a local assembly who after partaking with each other what was
commanded are all in worse shape when they stopped than when they
started. Yeah. It's like the Seven Church Ages. Started back there as a
woman that had been untrue to her husband, and ends up a filthy
prostitute with daughters. So degrading and degraded, that there's only
one place for her, and that's burn her to annihilation. They were not
helped, but rather they were harmed by their participation in this
ordinance. 

14.	Now, there is not one of us here tonight, but can see that this is a
re-run of Genesis 4:3-12. Now, let's go right on back. Okay:

		(3) 	In process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the
fruit of 						the ground an offering unto the LORD.

		(4) 	And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of
the fat 					thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his
offering: (Now, 					here's simple little offering they're going to
give.)

	Now, somebody say, "I want to  bring a sheep, and you're man enough to
kill it, (I don't know if I would be now, I can't stand the sight of
blood, mine or anybody else's sheep, or anybody's else's) but if I had
to I'd do it I guess.) Now he said, "All you have to do is bring sheep."
That's wonderful. The next page read, "All you got to do is bring some
vegetables, fruit and so on." Now, let's see what happened: 

		(3) 	In process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the
fruit of 						the ground an offering unto the LORD.

		(4) 	And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock,  the
fat 						thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his
offering:

		(5) 	But unto Cain and his offering he had not respect. And Cain was 	
				very wroth, and his countenance fell.

		(6) 	And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is
(your) 					countenance fallen?

		(7) 	If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest
not 					well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire,
and thou 					shalt rule over him.

	Well, it tells you in the Septuagint there, there's a little different
translation which I like a lot better. It tells them there that: "Thou
has offered right, but thou hast not rightly divided." And when you
don't rightly divide it becomes sin unto you. See?

	Now, you know that's the Scripture. It's got to be rightly divided
before you're approved, and this was not a right division. Now, the
Bible categorically tells you that Abel offered unto God a more
excellent sacrifice than Cain's, so therefore, Cain's offering was
excellent. It was, because it was a first fruit offering, but he botched
it. He blew it. Now, he could have been right, but he went wrong. Now,
Abel brought the right offering. He didn't blow it. 

15.	Now, in the time of Paul there were people who didn't botch it, and
there were people that did. There were people that took Communion as we
call it, though table of the Lord, and it was perfectly right. They just
took the simplicity and abided by it. The rest of them botched it. See?
Now, you can't do that.

		(8) 	And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when 
					they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother,
						and slew him.

		(9) 	And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel (your) brother? And 		
		he said, I (don't) know: Am I my brother's keeper? (I certainly don't 
				feel like I am.)

		(10) 	And he said, What (have you) done? the voice of (your) brother's
blood 					(cries) unto me from the ground.

		(11) 	Now art (you're) cursed from the earth, which hath opened her
mouth 					to receive (your) brother's blood from thy hand;

	Now, there's the shedding of blood is in the topic tonight which is the
emblematic (the wine is emblematic) and we know that the Blood fell upon
the ground. Certainly It did. You say, "Well, it was removed from the
ground and taken the Mercy Seat, It fell on the ground first." Thereby
purifying the earth in this extent, our bodies can come forth in a
resurrection, and so can the earth be purified in its resurrection. So
alright, so the blood is at stake. See? Now, the blood, this blood fell
upon the ground. The Blood of Jesus Christ is spilled too. Abel being
the first type of the great antitype Jesus Christ.

 	Now, notice what He said here:

		(12) 	When thou tillest the ground, it (will) not henceforth yield her
strength; 					a fugitive, a vagabond shalt (you) be...

	So in the Lord's Supper when It is not taken correctly the value which
lies within it through the offering of the atonement does not come back
upon the one that performs that rite.

16.	Let's go to 1 John 3:7, Okay, It says:

		(7) 	Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth
righteousness 					is righteous, even as he is righteous.

		(8) 	He that committeth sin is of the devil; the devil (sins) from the
						beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested… (and 
				thoroughly proven who He was. That word 'manifested' means 					
brought into full view. You get the word 'manio' to show 							forth.)
that he might destroy the works of the devil.

		(9) 	Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed
remaineth 					in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. (It
does initiate sin.)

 	Show me where God initiates sin? Show me were a Christian ever
initiates sin? He can be caught up. That's why Bro. Branham came back
from God and told us why Eve was the one who had to start the ball
rolling, because it was not complimentary to God to have a Son of God
fall, and He couldn't fall actually. So, He had to take the
sub-creation, (so to speak) or the step down creation, because she was
in the image and glory of Adam, as Adam was in the image and glory of
God. And so therefore, she could be tested. See? 

	Now, she could not originate sin, because she was in the image of him
who was in the image of God. Now, you're getting to a Bride and to the
Christ. So, it took the serpent (under Satan) to initiate sin. No
Christian initiates sin, he can fall into it, because he doesn't
initiate it, because that which is born of God, that Seed cannot, which
is born cannot do it. And the Blood of Jesus Christ scatters sin until
you couldn't pin it on him.

17.	All right:  

		(9) 	Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed
remaineth 					in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

		(10) 	In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of
the devil: 					whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither
he that loveth 					not his brother.

	Now watch what he's talking about. Then notice:  

		(11) 	This is the message that (you) heard from the beginning, (What  
					message? What he's dealing with. What is he dealing with? 						
Unrighteousness and righteousness, the righteous and the wicked. 					
And he's telling you where it came from,) that we should 							love one
another.  

		(12) 	Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. 	
				And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, 					
and his brother's righteous.

	Now, what was the evil work? Worshipping God contrary to the
revelation. That's right. The first fruit is the true offering, but
you've got to be born again to present it. He was wrong. Now, you know
our studies on this, there isn't one of you that doesn't understand this
thoroughly the same as I understand it. The original unrighteousness is
not what people think it is. It is what Bro. Branham said it was,
unbelief, and anything else is the attribute of it. Why don't people
bring their deeds to the Word, to the light? Why are people running
scared all the time? I've run scared myself for years, I've stopped
running scared. 

18.	Now listen, righteousness and unrighteousness, see, that is what
we're dealing with. Now, when you're dealing with that you've got to go
back in the beginning. See? And every time you're going to find it a
perversion. See? You are going to find it a perversion. It is not a
black and a white. As long as there was a black and a white where man
and woman stood here, and a serpent stood there it was all right. But
it's when they got together, now there's a perversion what we're talking
about right here. See? He willfully offered the sacrifice when he knew
better it was misplaced. Now, he had no faith in a revelation.

	Now, the saying says here: 

		(12) 	Wherefore slew he him? Because his (deeds) were evil,.. (The
evil 						deed was a willful worship of Almighty God when he knew
better.) 

	Now, Bro. Branham categorically pointed his finger in this hour and he
said, "They know better." You bet they knew better. You don't tell me
for one minute that these spiritual or religious historians that write
books, there's not one of them that can denigrate Bro. Branham. Now some
tried, because the man's been dead for quite some time. And that's only
recently there's been anything said against Bro. Branham, except by some
of these foul mouth Trinitarians that are serpent seed in the first
place. (Now, I'm not going to strike that off the tape, don't you strike
that off any tape of mine going out of here, because that's the truth.)
Now, let that sit. There's many a man paid the price already for coming
against William Branham a prophet of God, let's get that flat. If you're
going to speak, you better keep your tone soft and toward the prophet.

19.	All right, this man's deed were evil because he absolutely knew
better, but went on in willful self worship toward God in his unbelief.
And he said, "I don't care if the revelation of the Blood is there, I'm
going to get there just the same and I'll prove it." And he offered the
first fruit offering which cannot be offered apart from blood. 

	No way, because, "In Adam all died, only in Christ are all made alive."
[1 Cor 15:22]	So, he offered his own, showing you categorically
brother/sister, that when you and I deal with sin, we don't even
understand the first bit of sin unless we understand what the prophet
said, that sin is unbelief, and swearing and smoking, and drinking, and
killing and all those things are merely the attributes there of.	 And
the unbelief, there's only one type of belief that counts, and that is
faith in Almighty God. And this was the faith that those men had in that
day. And this man turned his back on a hundred percent. Now, that's why
when it came to the Corinthian church they could botch up or de-botch a
simple little ceremony that God had laid before them.

20.	Now, be absolutely sure that there is nothing, not even this simple
and beautiful ordination that cannot be perverted by the enemy and cause
division thereby. That is exactly why It is said in Revelation 3:15-16,

		(15) 	I know (your) works, (you're) neither cold nor hot: I would (you
were) 					cold or hot.

		(16) 	So then because (you are)  lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I
will spue 					(you) out of my mouth.

	All right listen, three kinds of people, hot, cold, lukewarm. God said,
"I'll take the hot and the cold, but the lukewarm make me sick."

	 Bro. Branham said, "There's three kind of believers. The believer, the
unbeliever, the make- believer." And the make believer is your lukewarm
regurgitating type of Christian so-called. He'll make you vomit every
single time. Bro. Branham said, "That old unbeliever will stand right
there and look that thing in the eye and he'll say, 'I don't get it, he
said, I don't understand it, I guess ain't nothing to it', and walk
away."

	That red hot fellow jump up and down screaming praise to God, he'll do
anything to show his happiness and his approbation in what he knows to
be of Almighty God, because he's got the revelation. And the make
believer, he just sits on the fence teetering and tottering, just
waiting for the time that he can cut your throat. Just like old Cain.

	"Oh," you say, "Cain was a real unbeliever." You're wrong! He was a
make-believer. Because the blood offering laid there and God brought it
to his attention and said, "There it lies, use it." And he walked right
off, and he cussed God right to His face and he refused it. He wasn't an
unbeliever, he was a make-believer. You got them right today, three
kinds of them.

21.	Look at 1 Corinthians 11:18-19 again.  All right, now he says:

		(18) 	For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear
that 						there be divisions (that's sex) among you; and I partly
believe it. 

	Oh sure, he believed it, but he heard so many things he didn't know
which one was going which way, so he could only partly believe it. He
knew a part was true that he heard, and he just doubted some of the
others things were exactly right the way they were told.

	Well now, he said, "Listen, I'll tell you why I partly believe it. For
I know that I'm not just getting a bunch of gossip." 

		(19)	(There's got to) be heresies among you, (there's got to be schism
						and sex and what have you.) that they which are approved may be 		
			made manifest… (See?)

	Now remember, though this is true, it's got to come, (see) because it
started there. There's no way that you and I today can get around it.
But remember, Matthew 24:24 holds good. "The Elect will never be
deceived." They will never be guilty of 1 Corinthians 11:29.

		(29) 	For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh 
					damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

	I don't believe they're going to be into that, because in this church
there were those who were right, and there were those who were wrong.
There were those who took their simple formula, and they went the wrong
way, and those that took the simple formula went the right way.

22.	Now, you cannot give blanket coverage to the church. Because the
Word is a discerner and It separates, and He takes one and leaves
another. Now, the foolish virgins are just like the wise virgins, except
they don't have the Holy Spirit. So, He leaves the foolish virgins and
takes the wise virgins. You say, "I don't believe that's true." Well,
you don't believe the prophet then, because the prophet said so. He
said, "there's no difference." 

	He said, "You take a piece of cloth and lay the pattern on it, and cut
the garment according to that pattern." He said, "What is left over is a
remnant, and is identical to what that garment is made out of." He said,
"So is that foolish virgin." That's why you've to five of one, and five
of the other, comes out equal. Five wise, five foolish. He said, "Same
thing, but just one thing, they didn't have the revelation." 

	And that's exactly why they come out of the denominations. Because you
see, the oil has leaked out of the Word of the hour. Nobody can say,
"Well justification is right." It is right. But you see, It was
everything it had for that hour in there laid the Holy Ghost, and the
Holy Ghost moved on to sanctification. And they had It. And It moved on
to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Then It moved on to the Holy Ghost
Himself standing here, bringing us the Word. That's where It came to.
See?

	And the people stood by and they say, "Well, hey…"  There's hey,
nothing to it, right back in those denominations. Those that believed in
justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, I believe
they'll stand there as a mighty army of that unwise, or foolish virgin.
Locked into organizations, they'll come up in the Second Resurrection.
But you see, there's a perversion there. Something went wrong. But, this
group here that's really born of God I do not believe are going to be
guilty of what It says over here. I don't see how they can be guilty of
the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, because they're told exactly what
they're to do. And they do it, and they won't be guilty, because they're
doing the right thing.

23.	All right, now we make known of 1 Corinthians 11:20-22 what was
going on. 

		(20) 	When (you) come together therefore (in) one place, this is not
to eat 					the Lord's supper.

	Now, look, it sounds like he saying, "when you come together you
shouldn't eat the Lord's Supper." 

	He's not saying it, he said, "When you come together in the way you're
coming together, that is not eating the Lord's Supper, so forget it,
start over again."

	Now, let's get you minds disabused, because you really didn't, because
you say, "Well, what does it mean here?"

	"When you come together therefore in one place this is not to eat…"
What does it mean? I'm just telling what it means. "You are to come
together in one place, but you're doing it a certain way." And he says,
What you're doing is not the Lord's Supper." You understand what I'm
saying? That's exactly what he said here.

		(21) 	For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and
one 					is hungry, and another is drunken.

		(22) 	What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye
the 						church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say
to 						you? shall I praise you in this? I (do not) praise you. (Why? 	
				Because they're wrong. They botched it up.)

 	Now, you can't say they weren't taking it, but that wasn't the table
of God, because it's perverted. Now, that simple as a-b-c, anybody can
understand that. Even I can understand that, and man I sure ain't smart.
See?

24.	All right, they were having a regular church social evening and
making it with the bread and wine to be the true Table of the Lord's
remembrance. Now that's what they were doing, they were coming together
in a social evening. They laid out the chicken and the lamb and the dove
and everything they had there, the carrots and the rhubarb and all the
pies and things that's set out there; and they had the flagons of wine
and some of them had some good old scotch of some description, it'll
really brewed stuff that was really potent. And they were guzzling away,
and people sitting at one of the table had an old dried piece of crust
of bread or something. Oh, they didn't mix it up and had pot-luck, they
brought their luck with them, and some were out of luck. Yeah, that's
the kind of goings on they had in that church.

	It was their own, they called it the 'agape' feast, the love-feast.
Says a lot of love there. Like the old fellow I knew back there, old
bishop Payly(?), he was in a colored church in New York one time and he
said they took up seven offerings six offerings ahead of his. And he
said by the time they took up his love offering there wasn't much love.
[laughter] That's the way this supper was. There wasn't any love-supper
there. It was a social to do, it was condemned by Paul. And then they
went ahead and took the bread and the wine and they said, "Well now,
this is the way to do it. This is the way we've got it figured out."

25.	Now, before you get carried away to condemn them, let's find out why
they went wrong. Now, I believe you might have caught it when I read to
you from the Gospels. So, let's go back to Matthew 26, if you didn't
catch it. I'll read it so you will catch it. 

	All right, [verse 21] "As they were eating…" Now, as they were eating
already in progress of eating a supper of some sort.

 		(26)	Jesus took bread and blessed it, and (broke) it, and gave it to
(His) 						disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

		(27) 	Took the cup, gave thanks, and (said,) Drink ye all of it;

		(28) 	This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many
for the 					remission of sins. (And so on.)

26.	Okay, let's go to Mark 14:22. Now we'll put It together.

		(22) 	And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and (broke)
it, and 					gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.

	All right, now they were eating the Passover, because that's what they
were doing. That is when Jesus took bread and wine and used them. The
question now arises, if Jesus and his disciples did it, why not everyone
do likewise? Now, that's the question, you see. Because, when Jesus did
it they were eating the Passover.

	Now, the Passover lamb with bitter herbs and unleavened bread and what
was laid up by the Old Testament doctrine under Moses was what they were
doing. Then He [Jesus] added extra the bread and the wine. 

	Now notice, 1 Corinthians 11:20-21.  

	"See, when you come together therefore in one place, what you are doing
is not taking 		the Lord's Supper. For everyone of you is already eating
your own supper, you come 		to the place where you…one doesn't have
anything to eat, but he's there to take the bread 		and wine. Another
has got too much and he's a glutton, another is drinking too much and 
he's a drunkard. See, don't you know this is what you do at home and you
don't do 	concerning the Lord's Table?" (But they were doing it.)

27.	Now, I have a feeling here (and it could be erroneous,) but these
people were listening to a lot of people, and when Paul brought the
revelation (which was strictly by revelation because it was something 
God gave him), others rose up and said, "Hey, have you asked Peter about
this?"

	 "Well," they said, "No, I haven't asked Peter, what should I have
asked Peter about?"

	"Well, if Peter was there when the Lord and he were eating the
Passover, and you see, they just didn't have bread and wine, they had
meat and other things."

	Now, you see brother/sister, what I'm looking at here is, Paul is
denying the use of anything other than the bread and the wine, nothing
else is included. And this is based on 1 Corinthians 11: 23.

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

	And again, we're reminded of Cain and Abel, that if you don't have a
revelation, (see?) you don't understand the simplicity which God has
laid in His Word; it opens the door to every type of interference with
the things of God in your life that could possibly come.

	Poor old Eve, all the serpent had to do is, say, "Say," he said, "did
God really say that you can't eat of every tree?"

	She said, "That's exactly right. Why, He said, 'You can't even touch'."

	"Why?" He [the serpent] said, "don't you know that's not exactly true?
Why the thing is this: God knows that the day that you do what I'm going
to tell you do, you're going to know good and evil, and you're going to
be like God."

	Well, he lied. But you see, she was deceived from the simplicity of
God's Word. You got the same with Cain and Abel, deceived from the
simplicity of God's Word. It takes a revelation of the Word, even from
this simple ordinance. Paul did not ever take any Word without a
revelation, and neither can we do so.

28.	Now, that's what I want to see tonight and understand, that every
single thing, every part of this Message and everything that is done in
It has to be according to the Word of God which has been revealed. Paul
did not ever take any Word without a revelation, and neither can we do
so.

	Now, one might ask, why did Jesus eat the Passover as He did? Well, I'm
not certain. I never heard Bro. Branham preach on It. But, I would
suppose that because Jesus Himself was the true 'Lamb' at that Passover
time, but not yet sacrificed, He was actually partaking of the type,
even as He went to water baptism; the washing of the sacrifice, and then
setting the ordinance in the Church with no more sacrifice, because it's
over, only emblems pointing to it. Because the sacrifice was
consummated. So now, since Christ is our Passover, and He is our
Passover, "His sacrifice is once and for all," [Heb 10:10]  what is left
but to commemorate that death except by symbols giving us.

	Now, that's the thing, you see, people always want to make something of
something which to me there is no necessity. He told you, "This is my
body broken, eat the bread. This is the shed blood, drink the wine." One
is an emblem of the broken body, one is an emblem of the shed blood,
together they absolutely pertain to the commemoration of His death.
That's it.

29.	Then why should anybody go further? See, why should they go further?
Pentecostal people came along, I think it was the ABC bunch. I'm not for
sure, but I think it's what they call the ABC, a Oneness group. And they
said, "Listen, the Word is the body. The blood is the life, which is a
spirit. I'm full of the Holy Ghost." Were they? Well, they said, "Well,
I'm full of the Holy Ghost, I've got the Word. Who needs these emblems?"
  

	The Bible didn't say that. Well did it? The Bible said, "broken body,
shed blood. Broken body, shed blood, eat, drink, it's concerning My
death." Then why do people want to change it? "Well," you say, "Bro.
Vayle did they botch up?"  You bet they botched it up. Every service the
left in worse shape than when they came in, or I don't read my Bible
right. [raps on the Bible] Get out of here and forget it. Don't bother
coming back here, and I'll get out and never come back here and preach
again. 

	Let's get the thing right, [taps on the Bible] when they did wrong,
they left in worse shape than when they came. And I'm going to tell you
it's the same thing is with prayer, you pray in unbelief and you get off
your knees in worse shape than when you got down. It's about time we
begin to understand that the prophet came. Listen, the door is open.

30.	Old song my mother used to sing in Hungarian, "Now the door is
open." Used in English too, "Enter while you may." 

	One fellow found the door locked and he thought he'd make a good joke,
he said, "Now the doors locked and we will go away." That's exactly what
the virgins found out too. We can make jokes, but God doesn't make
jokes.

	According to the history that I read in the 'Archko Volume' it was
said, "that Jesus Christ never smiled, but he's often known to cry." I
don't believe he didn't smile, you can't see little kids and not smile.
It's impossible were created, stand there in a human form and not smile
at little kids, that's ridiculous. I don't care if they do have some
messed up flesh like you and I got, there's no way. There's no way you
can…somebody's messed up. That Volume must be completely nuts. I know
the fact that he would weep over, he had wept alright. But you know,
even the Bride weeps at times too, but there's a glorious morning
coming.

 	All right, so now since Christ is our Passover, (and He is) and His
sacrifice is once for all, what is left but to commemorate that death
except by symbol? Because what are you going to do concerning his death?
Nothing, He died for you. Are you going to bring Him back and say, "Now
Lord, I wish you hadn't died for me, and please don't die anymore? You
see how ridiculous a person can get with a simple review Word of
Almighty God.

31.	Let's go to 1 Corinthians 5:7-9.

		(7) 	Purge out therefore the old leaven, that (you) may be a new lump,
						as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed 	
				for us:

		(8) 	Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither
with the 					leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened
bread of 					sincerity and truth.

	Okay, and with that, now you'll notice what, Christ is our Passover,
that's the main thing right there. Now, you can't eat his flesh or drink
his blood, that's symbolic. See? Going to spiritual you've got a
different thing entirely. And because there is a spiritual, you can't
apply it to this and say, "forget this, we'll go to the spiritual."
That's what Pentecost did in this late hour in Latter-rain. And Bro.
Branham said, "Latter-rain was the closest to the real thing yet,
outside of his." His was the real thing. But he also said, "The most
damning lie of the world is ninety nine percent truth, one percent
false." So, we go with the prophet. I will anyway. 

	I'll tell you what, I'm not prejudice against the Pentecostal's, I'm
just prejudice for the prophet. Haw, you can figure that out if you can.
Oh come on, listen, light is not dark. I'm for the light bless God,
let's get this down pat. Oh yes, we have.

32.	Okay, we go to Hebrews 10:12-14,

		(12) 	But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for
ever, 						sat down on the right hand of God;

	A man died, rose and sat down at God's [right] hand. Didn't say, God
died, said, a man died. How many gods are there? I'd like to know.
Jesus-only is wrong. That's the entire wrong doctrine we've heard all
these years. That was a scarecrow that pulled across our path, because
anybody can read knew positively that God of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
they knew the Lord Jesus Christ as that One that died upon Calvary and
rose again, and is now High Priest.

	And they say, "Well, just a minute…" That threw them a loop. And
somebody came by and said, "Well you see, there's two of them." Somebody
came by and said, "There's got to be three of them." Well, if you got
three, why not have four? Why not have forty? Why stop? 

	Irenaeus put it right, hundreds of titles and names, but one God, and
you get baptized in His Name, the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Don't
blame the Catholic's for this, listen, the Protestants added their
share. The Catholic's might have started the 'whoopie' game, but they
got in it, the Protestants got in it. Absolutely, they were just too
happy.

		(12) 	But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for
ever, 						sat down on the right hand of God;

		(13) 	From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his
footstool.

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

	By what offering? The offering of Himself as a sacrifice, paying the
penalty for you sins and mine. Now, God couldn't accept you and me, no
way, but He did accept him.

33.	All right, now we want to notice something here that's important;
that is: the time or the hour that Jesus instituted this ordinance. It
is seen in 1 Corinthians 11:23. Now, this is important as far as I'm
concerned, as well as the other things I've said, or I wouldn't be
saying them.

		(23) 	For I have received of the Lord that which I delivered unto you,
						That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took 	
				bread: (Yes sir.)

	Now, watch what I'm looking at, "the same night that he was betrayed."
Now, what does the word 'betray' mean? Is 'to treacherously expose'.
Now, it doesn't mean that you're revealing something that is wrong that
should be brought to light. That's not it, that's not the word. To
betray is to treacher-ally expose. He was pointed out to His enemies and
everything He said, though true, was used against Him. That's treachery.
"Didn't you say, 'Pull down this temple, I'll build it in three days'?
Why, (they said,) you've got to be nuts. Didn't you say, "God is your
Father? You're crazy. You got a devil in fact, you're a Samaritan. In
fact we know your history. Didn't you say you were that prophet? Come
on, no prophet comes out of Galilee." They didn't bother look at the
record, because he's born in Judaea.

	Now, who could have forgot so quickly that this is of the wise-men? Who
could have forgotten so quickly the purging of the youngsters as Herod
tried to kill them? You talk about spiritual amnesia brother/sister,
they had it then and they got it now. They had it then, they got it now.
Oh yeah, betray is to treacherously expose. In other words, to bring to
life for the reason of destroying. To twist, to pervert, to circumvent.
What He said was true, but they used it against him. His revelation of
God was denied, then they killed him. That was the hour of the
institution of Communion. That was the Alpha. But, in that hour He set
that ordinance in there and He said, "Keep it. Keep it and do it until I
come." 

34.	Now, with that we're going to add Matthew 26:29.   

		(29) 	But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of
the vine, 					until that day when I drink it new (in the kingdom) in my
Father's 						kingdom.

	So, that puts It in it's proper place. The Table of the Lord must be
constantly before the people. And Bro. Branham said, "Branham
Tabernacle, you do wrong." In the early church they took Communion every
time they came together. We do only here once a month, but he never told
the church to do It more often. But, he said they did wrong. There are
those, who for years come together, never once do they refrain from
taking the Table of the Lord. Never once. 

	It is to be taken until the time when we will not be here to take It
any longer. You say, "Bro. Vayle, what if we were to meet here after the
Resurrection, and we're to be transformed, and we're standing here?"

	Well, I believe this one thing: I could eat a piece of bread and drink
a little bit of wine. If I were standing here, I don't think I'd break
my routine at all. What I'm trying to tell you is this: this is
instituted and never passes out. It never goes into disfavor. But, not
only does it not go into disfavor, but He said, "I'll do it new," in the
Kingdom which is coming upon earth.

35.	Brother/sister, let's read Hebrews 6:4-6. You know what I'm going
after now.

		(4) 	For it is impossible for those who were once (for all)
enlightened, 						and have tasted of the heavenly gift, were made
partakers of the 						Holy Ghost,

		(5) 	And tasted the good word of God, the powers of the world to come,

		(6) 	(Having fallen) away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing
					they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an
					open shame.

	In other words, the hour of betrayal is upon us this hour, because this
Word is gone forth. The once for all Message, the once for all
revelation has gone forth, they never come again. There won't be any
believers after this hour. Now, believe me brother/sister, I tell you
the truth. After the Bride is sealed off, there will be no more Bride
Gentile come in, and there will be no more Jew Bride come in, because
the 144,000 sealed are eunuchs and they follow the Bride, they are not
Bride. But, there will be a first-fruit unto God. They will be in the
First Resurrection, they will be in the Millennium. They will no doubt
be in the Holy City, but they will not be Bride. I'm sorry, but that's
exactly the truth.

36.	So, when the last Bride is in, it's all gone. This is the hour for
it what's happening now. They are crucifying to themselves the Son of
God afresh. That's right.  "They are crucifying to themselves the Son of
God afresh." He is being betrayed once more. His very Presence is here,
for the prophet said, "The Lord Himself descends from heaven with a
Shout, the Voice of the Archangel, the Trump of God," (and he said,)
"Jesus does all three in descending." 

	And he told us Who was here in Revelation 10:1, and the same time, the
prophet was here in Revelation 10:7. He was to descend with a Message,
(you know I've read It time after time,) you know, the 'Anointed Ones at
the End Time', [07-25-65] I just keep reading this: He said, " I want
you to hear this tape, you might have thought today that I was trying to
say that about myself, seeing I was packing this Message. I've got no
more to do with it than nothing, no more than just a voice." That's all
he was. 

	The Scripture distinctly says, "That voice is not the voice of the Lord
Jesus Christ." And who’s voice is it? It would have to be a prophet.

	You say, "Why?" Because that's the way the Bible runs. Who would you
make it, some pope, or some genius. Forget your genius', they can't
abide me and I can't abide them, so that make it equal. No, the genius
has no place here, God doesn't choose the wise and the smart. And if the
prince of the world known they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of
Glory. And had the known the truth  of William Branham, prophet of God,
the Elijah of this hour, the Presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in the
form of the Holy Ghost, they would not have done the same thing, but
they're crucifying themselves the Lord Jesus Christ, he's being
betrayed. And Communion is in Divine Order right now as never before,
and they are going to take the Communion. 

	And the Catholic's will say, "This is the body, this is the blood." And
they're going to drink it.  And the Protestant's, he won't be offended
anymore. He'll say, "Well, I don't quite agree with you, but you see, I
sit and take It with you, and they condemn themselves. They condemn
themselves and they die prematurely, because God will wipe them out. 

37.	Let me tell you something brother, that first age died prematurely
when they turned down the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and did despot,
Titus came in there in 70AD and they died. The last plague in Egypt was
spiritual death. And the last plague is this hour, and they're stopping
right now, and the prophet distinctly said, he said, "they're haggling
right now over the Communion." They're haggling right now over the Table
of the Lord.

	But, you know what? The Lutheran's have already got together with the
Catholics, and they said, "It's perfectly alright, I can do it without
offending my conscience."

	Where's the Lord's Table gone? Where's the Lord's Supper gone, my
brother/sister? It's has been degraded to the extent It must be
degraded, as everything in the Word of God must be degraded. See,
everything has become perverted. "But in evening time, it shall be
light."

	See, the trouble is they look down the road and they saw that period
where was neither light nor dark, and God said, "I wish it were dark, I
wish it would be light. I wish they were hot, I wish they were cold, but
I can't stand that lukewarm, I can't stand that light-grey color
anymore." He said, "I can't take it." And God sent a Light, and that's
how He came amongst us. 

	And He's crucified amongst us right now, because Bro. Branham said, "I
indict this generation." Not that generation, this generation. Why? For
crucifying themselves afresh the Lord Jesus Christ. They couldn't get at
Him brother/sister in His flesh, because no, that's gone.

38.	I want to ask you a question: why did the crucify him in the first
place? I'll tell you why: because He came with a different Word, a
different revelation. And if he'd have come and matched their revelation
they've have said, "Hallelujah, this is that one, glory to God!" If
William Branham had come preaching Trinitarian doctrine and exposed
himself to the church of this world and said, "Hallelujah, I'm here to
back you up," they'd have screamed, "Glory!" And there wouldn't have
been a pope, and they'd have kicked off the throne and put William
Branham on it. Because he was actually Roman Catholic, Irish Catholic.
But no, he wasn't, he was born in that mess, but he wasn't of it. Yep,
that's the way it is, and that's the way it's going to continue to be.
He didn't stay with it, he came out through the Lord Jesus Christ. 

	When they brought the Word, they crucified the Son of God afresh. They
crucified Him afresh at this end-time by betraying the very Word that he
brought to bring them into reality and into restoration. Thus, all the
more we commemorate his death in this manner until the Bride and Groom
drink It again in the Kingdom of our God.

	You know, people go around and they say, "Well…" and they been saying
this for years. Listen, there's one fellow taught, (and I guess he still
teaches) "why," he said, "look Bro. Branham said the Lord is here, (I
think he said this fifteen, sixteen years ago) why," he said, "then who
needs to take Communion?"  We do. Every person's born again needs to.
Everyone of us needs to take it. See?

39.	Now, this brings us to the words "until I come." It said right in
here, Paul said, "Why, you are to do this until I [Jesus] come." 

	As I said a month ago, [Communion # 2] "dead men don't come, only live
men come." No, but he said… What am I trying to get to you? These are
emblems that commemorate a death that bring you to the sanctity of the
Blood that was shed for you and me. The Life that was given. The body
that was almost pulled asunder, they whipped him so tragically, there
wasn't a bone broken, but neither was there one blood vessel (I
understand by doctors and scientists) that didn't give forth blood. Even
they pierced the heart through the side, the pericardium [sac enclosing
heart] which was full with blood and water. And they say great sorrow
and pressure can swell the pericardium until the blood and water is
there, and the thrones upon the brow punctured the little vessels that
cause the blood to flow out, until the blood completely left his body.

	He didn't need to be embalmed as people try to embalm today. They get
the blood out whatever they do. He was gone. He shed every drop of blood
for you and me. There is no place my brother, my sister that I know of
anywhere in eternity where we ever forget the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
What a tragic thing it is for anybody to deny the simple little
ordinance that God set in His Church. I don't understand it. It is the
Living One that is coming.

40.	Let's go to Revelation 1:17-18. 

		(17) 	And I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right
hand 						upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the
last.

		(18) 	I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for
evermore, 					Amen; and have the keys of (death and hell.) 

	All right, Let's go to Revelation 1:4-8.

		(4) 	John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, 
					and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; 
				and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; (Now you 			
		know that's God.)

		(5) 	And from Jesus, who is the (Christ, who is the) faithful witness,
the 					first begotten (from among) the dead, the prince of the kings
of the 						earth. (Now notice, It doesn't say King of kings, It said
prince of 						kings. A prince is a son of a king.) Unto him that loved
us, 							and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

	Why is He going to be King of kings when we crown Him? Because He's
been incarnated, see?  Okay:

		(6) 	And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to
him 					be glory and dominion for ever and ever.  

	See, people get mixed up when they say, "Well, if He's not God can I
worship him?" What do you think that is here? What is that here? That's
worship. People get so scared. Why get scared, listen to what the
prophet said. He laid it out, he said, "I'm not Jesus-only." He said,
"They're wrong." Yeah, where does the doctrines come from? Same place
Eve got hers.

	You say, "Then you make those people devils."

	I never said they're devils. I said, "It's doctrines of devils." But I
didn't say it, I'm saying it now.

	You say, "Have you a right to do it?"

41.	Sure, because Paul said it. What was it that brought Eve her
doctrine? The devil. Where do false doctrines come from? Do you think
they come from God? Haw, there's only two spirits. Spirit of beasts
doesn't do you any harm. No, you're not going to get any problem from a
dog, or an elephant, or a horse or anything else. It's the devil. That's
the spirit that you got to watch out for. Doctrine of devils. Doctrines
of devils, sure. They transform themselves into angels of light. Satan
came in the serpent as a supreme authority. Why he took authority over
God. You know what he did? He even used the power and might that Satan
was given by God Himself to come against God.

	Then do you think for one minute a preacher who is not ordained of God
will not use the very Word of God to come against God? Certainly he
will. Well, that's the name of the game. You know, people get so naïve
when they don't go back to the beginning. What happened at the
beginning, it's going on now. Who is the original deceiver? Satan. Who's
the deceiver now? Satan. What did he get into? He got into as a serpent.
What's he into now? He's into people. He's got his own church. He's got
his own doctrines.

42.	What do you think of the pope going to Poland now? He's entered into
politics. Yeah. Now, It says, "Who can make war with the beast?" [Rev
13:4b] I told you that program I saw where that bishop sat there (this
morning) because I forget I was someplace in a motel, turned the news
on, sure I'm glad I didn't turn the news on. I don't even like to bother
with it, here sat that handsome Catholic bishop, very handsome man, lot
of black hair, some grey and he sat there and just told them flat why…


	They said, "Well, is the pope going to go to Poland now that the
Russians are there ready to move in?"

	He said, "Certainly not, (he said) he's not going in."

	"Oh, we heard he was."

	"Well," he said, "why should he go in?" He said, "the Russians are not
going to go in."

	They said, "How do you know?"

	"Well," he said, "we got contact with them."

	He named the very name of the legate from Rome that's in with Moscow,
and the Moscow legate that's in Rome. And the bargain was this: "Mr.
Pope, keep your mouth shut and don't denigrate us, and we won't walk in.
But if you start to get too scurrilous [offensive] we may attack."

	"Well," he said, "that's easy, I'll just keep my mouth shut to a
certain degree." And he done it.

 .	Now, at least is he going to step down? I don't know, I'm not a
prophet. I just look at the news the odd time. Put two and two together
and come up with five. So, I come up with five this time that the pope
went to Poland. And it was political, because he went to Zaluski didn't
he? (However you pronounce it, Zaluski anyway. Well he's not a very
Loose-ski to me, very lucid.) But anyway, he's there, he's no doubt a
very clever wonderful person in his own way. But he sat with the pope.
There's no war. Now, a pretty soon a scum is going to come who can make
war with the beast? Things are moving in brother/sister. I'm glad they
are. I'm glad they are.

43.	Now listen, He is here in Revelation 1:4-8. 

		And made it kings and priests unto God and His Father, to Him be glory
					and dominion forever. Behold, he comes with clouds, and every eye
is going 				to see Him, they that pierced him. (See, the Jews are going
to see Him. 					Listen, Rome pierced him too, let's not forget that.)
The kindred's 						of the earth shall wail because of Him. I'm the
Alpha and 							Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the 							
Lord, which is, which was, and which is to 									come, the Almighty.

	Now, the dear dying Lamb re-incarnated by God is coming back to earth
and we with Him, "and we will drink it new in the kingdom of God." [Mk
14:25] See?

	Bro. Branham said, "When that Spirit that's in the midst of us now is
incarnated unto us, we will crown Him King and Lord of lords." That
means: at this time when the Holy Spirit's work is, bringing the
Message, is over. The last one is in, and child-trained, the last one
fully restored by the restored Word of Almighty God. The last one purely
a virgin Bride, no more coming in. The dead will come out of the ground.
That Spirit will take us up, He'll go ahead of us, and as Jesus that
great Man descends, that Spirit [that is among us] will incarnate
Himself in Him. Yes sir! Exactly what is taught in the Word of God, the
prophet taught it. And at that time we'll crown Him King of kings, and
Lord of lords. We're going to come back here, and we'll drink It anew in
the Kingdom of God. It's exactly right. It'll be greater than ever
brother/sister. In no way can you ever diminish what God left us in
ordinances, in no way.

44.	Now listen, I want to go to Matthew 5:33-37,  (we're still in the
Lord's Supper, the Table of God) and It says:    

		(33) 	Again, (you) have heard that it hath been said by them of old
time, 						Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the
Lord 						thine oaths:

		(34) 	But I say, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's
throne:

		(35) 	Nor by earth; for it is his footstool: (nor) by Jerusalem; for
it is the 						city of the great King.

		(36) 	Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou (cannot) make
						one hair white or black.

		(37) 	But let your communication be, Yea, yea; (and) Nay, nay: for 			
		whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

	Now, that's the verse I want to look at. When anyone begins fooling
with the Scripture and goes beyond the simplicity of what God has said
and demanded, that person has fallen into evil. Absolutely, he's left
the faith, he's denied the revelation of the hour.

45.	Now, let's go to Revelation 22:18-19 and see the very same thing
there. Because it's right manifested under our very eyes. The prophet
used this time after time after time.

		(18) 	For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the
prophecy 					of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, (the
Lord will)						 add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

		(19) 	If any man shall take away from the words of the book of this
prophecy, 					God shall take away his part out of the book of life, out
of the holy city, 					and from the things which are written in this
book.

	All right, make an application of this to the Message of what I'm
talking tonight. Jesus said, "Eat and drink." He didn't say, "Get your
own revelation, get your own idea." Now, you notice man always wants to
spiritualize. That's the most dangerous thing in the world, is to
spiritualize. Because, when you do that you're going into allegory,
extended parables. You can't do it.

	That's why Bro. Branham said, "Nobody can interpret a dream but a
prophet." unless it is so outspoken that you just…(you know) there's
no interpretation needed, because there it is. You can dream and see
someone being carried away in a hearse, you say, "that person is going
to die."  And the person carried away in a hearse, well so, that's
exactly. That needs no interpretation.

46.	There's certain things come to you in a vision. I never did know
what one vision meant, until I met Bro. Branham. I had a vision and
didn't know what it was. Twenty years of age about, maybe twenty one. I
don't think I was beyond that, twenty years of age. And I saw that
Mighty One that came down from heaven just in a vague way, like a man.
You couldn't tell it was a man, yet it was a man you knew it was. And
I'm going to tell you something: the earth was like the size of my fist,
like a man standing on it. That's how big this earth is in the sight of
God. (Footstool is right, brother/sister, footstool, barely a footstool.
The barest of footstool.) Here in    a Spirit form. Never knew, I just
knew one thing, stay away from prophecy, because it would take a
prophet. It's paid off.

	Now, God said here, "Don't get your own ideas, don't get your own
revelation." 

	Paul came on the scene and he said, "I was like one born out of due
season." He said, "I wasn't with them. They ate with him, they slept
with him, they fished with him, they did everything else. But he [Paul]
said, "I didn't need that, and I didn't get that, I got a revelation."
Then he said, "When I went up fourteen years later to check it out, I
was a hundred percent right on. In fact (he said) I was so right on,
then when I saw Peter who should have known better listening to a
Judaizer and demanding circumcision of Barnabas who fell for it, (he
said) I created smoke (he said) and ate him up." [Galatians 2:]

47.	Now, you wonder why Paul and Barnabas had a fall out. You say,
"Well, I don't think preachers should fight." I do! Because [if] this
ain't worth fighting for you better go home and shut up. I don't mean to
get a sword and lop each other's ears off, that's what Peter did in a
flurry and God had to put the ear back on. Now, I don't believe in that.

	But I want to tell you, Paul stood up for the Gospel, and when he left
the scene, was ready to go on his road of eternal life out of this body
and go to that body prepared, he didn't only say, "I fought a good
fight," he said, "I have got myself clear from the blood of all men, for
I have not shunned to declare unto you the full counsel of God." [Acts
20:22-27]

	He didn't say, "I went out and healed all the sick." He didn't go out
there and say, "I preformed miracles." He said one thing, he said, "I
declared the counsel of God." And when Peter was fooling around, (after
Pentecost even) Paul stood up there and he said, "Listen, Peter it's
time to get up and be counted." That's why he came to this Corinthian
church and he said, "I don't praise you for what you're doing," he said,
"I'm going to tell you something, every time that you come in here and
do what you're doing you're leaving in worse shape than when you came
in."  [1 Corinthians 11:] 

	Why? Because they were confirming themselves in an error. That's why
you let your own thinking go! I was going to tell you about that, after
three quarter, I'm going to bring you back to it. (I lost my thought way
back there.) I was going to tell you how it was, I told you before, I'd
be scared stiff of some of the things Bro. Branham said. Because, (you
know) I felt… What is it, where does it lead me? I don't know of it.
What have I got? 

48.	So, one day, I said to myself, "Well, you got to face it sometime,
it might as well be now." Tell you one thing, if he's wrong, you're a
whole lot worse off than he is, because he's a whole lot more right
[than] you are. Already God has spoke to me, I knew that He was right
and He never was wrong, because the Word of God and the Word of the
prophet is one. So, I began looking, I brought myself to the Word that
the prophet preached. And you know what I found out? I found out that I
was not hearing what the prophet had said, until the hour I came to the
Light.

	Now, some of you folk by sitting right here tonight, you heard this
Message and you've been sitting here scared, because you think I'm going
to talk about condemnation. And all I told you to this point, and that's
all I'm going to tell you is this: He said to those who were His own
disciples, and if we're born again we are His children, and he said,
"Look, this represents my body, eat it. This represents my Blood, eat
it, and don't add to it, and take from it. When you come together that's
all you do. You take a piece of bread and you eat it. You take a drop of
wine and you drink it, and you don't do anything else. You don't eat,
you don't drink anything else. That's it!"

	You say, "Well, um, um, um…I just don't know, I think I should read
something very elevating, because that is not so elevating." See, you
just blew it, you're too spiritual for God.

49.	Listen, brother/sister, do you derive what I'm trying to get across
to you tonight? I've been telling you all along, (the folk that come
here) that there is nothing in this Message, the Word of God that
doesn't come to Life in this hour. Everything is coming to Life. Water
baptism, Communion, everything, call it what you…it's coming to Life.
There's a reality. See? I've preached for some time now, and I lay it on
the line, that when you do what God said tonight, something is happening
to you.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, how can it be?" Why Bro. Vayle, and ask me how it
can be? You don't believe the Word of God is never going to be to you.
Now you say, "Bro. Vayle you're mean." I am not mean. I'm telling you,
it's time to wake up! Is this some meaningless things? When Paul said,
"If you it wrong, you're getting worse, then if you do it right you're
getting better." Right? Right!  Uh? And we're not in a death trap
anymore. We don't have to wonder anymore.

50.	That's why…now, people tell me the prophet said, I don't know who
he said it to, he said, "Therefore, I don't know if I believe it. But,
then again I don't necessarily do not believe it." But, it's supposed to
be, he said when he took Communion at night, he went home and never ate
another thing. And I can understand why he would say that if he did say
it. Because, he didn't mix anything with it when he took It. He 
wouldn't mix anything afterward, although I don't say that that's the
way it should be. But, I'm telling you in church if you do what we're
talking about, if you're born again, and as far as you know that you are
a born again Christian, baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and you're not here full of hate and malice I can tell you one thing:
this little ordinance makes you a better person simply because you used
your faith in obeying Almighty God. Because faith is obedience to the
Word.

	I don't have to explain things, because things, because I can't explain
them. All I know is I've taken this stand for years, that this Word I
preach is got to come back on me, and it's doing it for the Glory of
God, not for Lee Vayle. And what I say here tonight, I know has got to
come back on me, because there's nothing in economy of God, not one Word
that is void of power.

	There is not one step of faith that is void of power. There is nothing
in God that is void. "In Him is Light and there is no darkness at all."
[1 Jn 1:5b] By faith brother/sister we believe this. Just eat, just
drink. We don't need revelation or ideas of our own, it's just what Paul
laid out here. Do it for what It is, because of what It is, and for
nothing else. Anything else leads to condemnation.   

51.	I remember years ago we had a very dear friend, and she got in with
some Latter-rain people, and I'm not against them, because I don't care
for them, you know, care one way or the other what they do, they mind
their business, I mind my, a least hopefully that's the way it goes. And
anyway, she was told that you should get like they told me, if you get
baptized in a certain way, for a certain thing, then you watch how real
it becomes. Sure it can, but it's phony as a three dollar bill.

	You mean to tell me it wasn't real when Satan got Eve messed up? Do you
think it's not real when a guy goes out there and gets drunk and kills
somebody? Sure, it's real, but so is this real. This is the Real, real.
The others is destructive. 

	You see, when the added to It, like…I remember there's a fellow out
at the coast, his name was Bush, I think it was, I'm pretty sure that's
his name. You know, down at Parker Thomas', and he told everybody down
there in Latter-rain, why he said, "When our people got baptized unto
gifts, (he said) you should have seen the gifts flourish." Everybody ran
to get baptized unto gifts. So what are you going to do with
Latter-rain? It's doctrines of  devil. I didn't say they were devils, I
said it's the doctrines of devils. Now come on, let's be honest. You
see, you're not going to make yourself a fine Christian by denying it's
a doctrine of devils. You're not going to make yourself a wonderful
Christian by saying it. But, I'll tell you one thing: you're going to
start getting grounded when you look at the thing in the eye.

52.	Now, what is this Lord's Table about? He said, "Look, take this and
this, because you see, I am the last sacrifice. And from now on there
isn't anything else you can do, except this: it points back that I died
for you." Now, He said, "Don't add to It, and don't take from It, [Rev
22:19] just do it in memory of me. Should I die, my body broken, my
blood shed."

	You say, "Is that what It is?" That's what It is! I'm not going to add
or take from It. How should I, why should I destroy myself and destroy
others? No way. By faith and love, It will bring us to and keep us in
health and strength and life. The Bible says so, I didn't say it, the
Bible said so. 

	You say, "Well, just a minute, It says something about judging here and
this and that, and the other thing." Go back to what did it. Go back to
what did it, they were eating and drinking and guzzling. They weren't
sharing, they were setting themselves apart. Now, when you come with a
true heart toward Almighty God, and how true that heart is, is only as
the Holy Ghost makes it true. What you think is true is not true, it's
what you think is true. It's what God says is true.

	You, full of the Holy Ghost and faith come and partake, what more can
you do? It says here, it keeps us in health and strength and life. And
soon we're going to see Him physically, and the whole Bride and Groom
will come together for the Millennium. See, that's what it's all about. 

53.	Let's go back and read It again. 1 Corinthians 11: (The sun has but
gone down.) Now, remember over here, watch in verse 2. Now watch:

		(2) 	Now I praise you, brethren, that (you) remember me in all things,
						and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

	Now, he praised them, because they did what he told them to do. Now
watch over here: "I don't praise you." He said, "I'll tell you why I
don't praise you, (he said) because every time you come together to do
what you're doing, you go away worse than what you were when you came
in."

	Now, Bro. Branham said, "We go to church to become better." Right?
Then, how's the Lord's Supper going to make us better Christians, better
people? By coming with a true heart. Put aside your creeds and your
dogmas, put aside everything. Put aside any animosity. Just come as one
for whom Christ died, and let the person next to you come as for whom
Christ died. 

	Say:  "This, I take in honor of the One who's body was broken, this is
the emblem 				    of his shed Blood. Lord, I believe Your Word. I
believe I'm going to leave 				    here a better person. I believe I'll
have better health for doing it. My life 					    will be more
satisfied, more consecrated." 

	You say, "Can it do it?" What does the Scripture say? You haven't done
one thing. Not one thing really, you just took a little wine, a little
bread in a memory. But the memory of what he did brother/sister, is
Eternal, because it's real, by one sacrifice forever, and there isn't
any more.

54.	Now, he said, "Look, I'm going to tell you something, you shouldn't
be that way, you don't need to be that way." Let me tell you the
revelation, verse 23. [1 Cor 11:23]

		(23) 	I have received of (God, what) I delivered unto you…

	He said, "I didn't see him do it, I wasn't there when he did it, but He
came and He told me what He did. And He told me it was the night that he
was betrayed." The squeeze is coming down brother/sister, and it's not
going to be on Jesus, it's going to be on a Bride.

	During the time of the Covenanters [Scottish movement: 1638] when the
Roman Catholic's were out to kill every Protestant, and they were doing
it quite successfully. And anybody caught outside at night was
questioned and tortured. And one night a little girl went to meet with a
Covenanter friend, she wanted to take Communion. She wanted to take the
Lord's Supper, and the soldiers caught her, and they said, "Where are
you going wench?"

	"Aw," she said, "leave me be, I go to celebrate the death of a friend."

	"Oh," they said, "pass on poor girl." So, she went to the church and
took the wine and the bread and went home. [laughter] Saved her life.

	Now, what if the pressure comes down in you and me? Bro. Branham said
they'll close these as far as they knew. See? What will it be, to sneak
in just to hear the Word? No, to take Communion too. Maybe more often.
Knowing, brother/sister, I mean it was. You see, to me, I want to keep
repeating to you. To me there isn't anything that doesn't have a meaning
anymore. And I'm not going crazy, believe me, I'm in far better sense
then I've ever had in my life. I don't have a memory at all, and yet
sometimes God…normally I just flip the pages back and forth and know
just where the Scripture is. Ask me the next five minutes, forget it.
And I've preached as much as an hour and a half, and know where they
are, and the next day I won't know. Hopefully, I know a little better
than I did before but, I don't bank on it.

55.	Listen, no, my mind hasn't gone, no way shape or form.        

		(23)	(When he giveth, he said,) the same night he was betrayed (he) 		
			took (that) bread:

		(24) 	He (gave) thanks, he (broke) it, this is my body, (take it) in 	
					remembrance…

  		(25) 	He took the cup, (he said, this) is the new testament in my
blood: 						as oft as (you) drink it, (how often? As oft, no matter how
many 						times, you do it to remember) me.

		(26) 	For as often as (you) eat this bread, drink this cup, (you
proclaim, 						you preach a sermon about) the Lord's death (until) he
come. 

	And you do It, until He comes, and He hasn't come the way He's got to
come before you quit. Now, let's get that flat. The way He's come now is
not the way you quit. It's the way you better do It, as never before.

		(27) 	Wherefore whosoever (eats) this bread, and drink this cup of the
						Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of
(Jesus).

	What were they doing? They were adding and making a mockery. You're
sincere, and no doubt you are sincere. A born again child of God
baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. You have every right to
the full access. Not just a symbolic meaning, but the full power of God
that lies in It. 

56.	What Jesus Christ accomplished is yours and mine tonight.
Brother/sister, it isn't by hearsay, let's face it, it is not by hearsay
only; that many a person has been absolutely healed of incurable
diseases at the Table of the Lord. It's true. Let's bow our heads in
prayer.

	Heavenly Father, God of all grace and mercy we know that we're just
like so many, many people as Bro. Branham said, "The things of God
become too common." The discernment that he had which was true
discernment became so common, that men sat there as though they were in
a side show. And he was there as though he were a man in the side show,
and we know that so much was lost, because people didn't sit down and
think. They didn't stand still in the waters of separation. They didn't
stand still for this hour, when they should have stood still they
wandered off.

	Now, Lord, we've been standing for quite some time in the waters of
separation, and we know that we're not nearly as separated as we want to
be. We realize potentially that we certainly are, because we've been
separated from sin by the wonderful Blood that scatters sin till there
be no evidence. We've been baptized into the body, the Bride of the Lord
Jesus Christ. We just do not denigrate that, nor take from it for one
minute, Lord. We only know that as long as we are here, we lack a depth
that we cherish and would love to launch into as the prophet designated,
we ought to launch into It.

	And, Father, tonight I hope before you, before the holy angels, Lord,
that would bear witness, that what I have said has not been without
impact upon myself, and every single one here; that there is nothing
here that doesn't have life within it. And when It is truly revealed,
which It is, because the revelation is so utterly simple, "that a
wayfaring man, though a fool could not err therein." There would be no
way whatsoever. We see it clear, that we do this, the availability of
what lies there to us as Christians such as healing virtue and a good
life, a long life. Not being cut off, but given strength for every hour.
We go on as those who are faithful servants and soldiers in the army of
our God.

	And, Lord, I love that tonight. I love to know that It's reduced Itself
to such simplicity, that if would just give way to It. That the Message
itself is as simple as the performance of taking the emblems. The
elements that designates such truth. This very Word, just to believe
that, that was, and it was God speaking in a man. It was truly the Word
of God, though He used another one's voice, it was His Voice, Your
Voice, Lord. Just as you borrowed a manger, you borrowed vocal cords, as
it were. And You used this man, and now we've heard and we know that in
the Shout it was the gathering together to Christ. And we're just
waiting now for the Voice to raise the dead, and then the Trumpet to
take us home. Lord, may the simplicity,…and thank You, Lord, that it
is reaching us. It is coming down to the…within the context of the
soul that's illuminated. 

	And, Lord, I believe tonight, as I've never believed before, of which I
certainly thank You. There is a simplicity that is coming to bear as
never before. And I praise You for it, Lord, because You know that my
own thinking has always been in the complex. I've never thought too much
of simple things. I like the complicated questions in arithmetic and
geometry, algebra, and all those things. Looking to see where
entanglements come and go, but, Lord, finally getting to the place
hopefully a long way into it, where the simplicity has overridden
everything else, so that noting intrigues anymore knowing that wisdom of
simplicity makes us wise under the things of God. Not enticing speech,
not man's wisdom, but knowing the Word that was demonstrated. And It has
been, It is, and It's ours.

	Bless each one tonight, Lord, as we partake, which we will eventually,
Lord, shortly and soon. May the grace of Almighty God  be resting and
abiding upon each one, healing and helping, Lord. Healing and helping.
And may our desires now, Lord, be such, so that the virtue  that lies in
Your Life that is available, because of what you have done and we
commemorate begin to be taken seriously by us. And not looked upon,
which we so often look upon, and think within ourselves. Well, even if
we don't get help we're not too bad off.

	Lord, let us lay that all down tonight, because I don't believe that's
the way to take the Table of the Lord. To lay it all down tonight in
sincerity. Absolute sincerity. Partake, that we might have what You said
was ours. We pray it in the Name of Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.

	'The Lord bless you.'

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