The Lord's Supper - Communion  # 3a

 

Bro. Lee Vayle   -    July 6, 1983

	Let us pray. Heavenly Father we're so grateful that we can sing that
tonight knowing that He is here Whom our soul loves the…You're the
Devine, the bright and Morning Star, the all together Lovely One, in
Whom there is nothing but joy and rejoicing and peace, and in Him there
is nothing but goodness. We do appreciate that tonight. We're grateful
for it, Lord, and we know that that's our portion, because Christ is our
portion; full identification, full measure. We thank You that One Who is
the Son of man in this last day ministry has been revealed to us,
completely unveiled.  Appeared amongst us and now at the Head of the
Church ready to take us in. Bringing us right back to the Word, to be
real Word believers and we're grateful.

	Now, help us in our studies tonight, and we give You the praise in
Jesus' Name. Amen. You may be seated.

1.	Now, we're sort of back to where we always are which is the constant
acknowledgement, and keep reminding you how that I minister, if I do
indeed minister, which is I start with something I feel is pertinent and
I look at it and I start teaching on it, and then as time goes on
hopefully we begin to see more and more what we're into in the sense of
proving the rightness of our understanding of Scripture.

	Now, for two Saturdays and also for one Wednesday we've gone into the
"Lord's Supper." and we looked at it to see just what lay there for us.
And we sort of backed away from what has always been the more or less
attempted exegesis of 1 Corinthians 11:17-34. And what has really been
the thing which I believe has more or less persuaded people to put
emphasis on this ordinance in a wrong way is here in verses 27 to about
33.

2.	It says:

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

	And of course the emphasis is always been on: "are you worthy do it?"
And it's not even that in the Greek. It's "in an unworthy manner."

	But you say, "Well, I think we should be careful to be so, so, and we
should be so righteous, and we should be so everything."

	Well, I don't doubt for one minute you should be. But, it doesn't say
that. Let a man (I think he said) actually be guilty of the body and
blood of the Lord.

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

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

	Now, there again the emphasis goes there to...by people that…well
see, you just don't see the Bride, you don't see this, you don't see
that, you don't see the other thing; and you got problems with each
other, and you've been doing some nasty things. And It says:

		(30) 	For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, many sleep. 	
				(And that of course compounds the thought.)

	Because, people say, "Well, (you know) you're getting the axe falling
on you because you're a naughty person.

		(31) 	For if we  ( judged) ourselves, we should not be judged.

		(32) 	…when (we're) judged, (we're) chastened of the Lord, (we're
trained, 					also corrected; sometimes we suffer) that we should not be
condemned 					with the world.

		(33) 	Wherefore, my brethren, when (you) come together to eat, tarry
one 					for another.

3.	Now, the explanation of this have always gone way, way out into the
never-never land by many people who when the preach (and I'm been guilty
myself) of putting the people under bondage. So that you don't come
together and partake of It on the grounds of exactly what lies there.
And when fear is inculcated you will find that even preachers refuse to
serve it because they're condemned. Silence, except for shuffling. And
you should be silent too.

	Now, I'm a tough preacher. I gave orders to this church under it, if I
went out and did anything at all, the deacons are to carry on [taps on
the pulpit] and override me at anytime. This is the Word of God. Now
see, we're not babies anymore.

	Now, what if I fell into sin? Bro. Branham said, "The only time that
you can restrain anyone from partaking is in gross immorality." Raw,
wrong sex, fragrantly performed with the knowledge of the people. So, if
I should be at odds with somebody, or I don't feel exactly nice through
something, and I see even preachers fall under this spell, but they just
say, "Well, we'll do away with it." Haven't got a thing to do with it. 

	See, It says here that in verse 34:

		(34) 	…if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that (you) come not
together 					unto condemnation…

	It is evidently they were eating at a place they shouldn't be eating.
In a manner they shouldn't be eating, and they got it messed in with
this. Now, that's what this is talking about. See?

4.	Now, let's look at 1 Corinthians 11, beginning in verse 1.

		(1)	Be (you imitators) of me, even as I also (imitate) Christ.

	Now watch:

		(2) 	Now I praise you, brethren, that (you) remember me (or imitate
me) 					in all things, (keeping) the ordinances, as I delivered them…


	Now, watch in verse 17:

		(17) 	Now in this I declare…I (will not) praise you…(because when
you) 					come together (for this ordinance, you do it wrong and you
leave in 					worse shape than when you came.) 

	Now, the worse shape was in doing what they did when they came, not
what they did before they came. Right? Then why not read It that way.

 	I've been hearing of churches back in my part of the country years ago
where (and this is true too) the guy went into soul-mating and they had
actual sexual intercourse up in front of the altar. I'm not talking
about that. You see, you mind gets (phfft) [makes a noise] like that.
Phfft, out in space. Stick with the Word. 

5.	Now, he said, listen: "I praise you when you do what you're told to
do in the right way. And when you do it in the wrong way, I won't praise
you.

	Now in verse 23:

		(23) 	For I have received of the Lord (what) I delivered (to) you…
(He 						told them what to do and how to do it.) 

	Now, you think anybody would have enough brains to do it. But, not
them. "Oh no, no, no, no. Oh heavens forbid. Oh glory hallelujah, bless
God. Ho, ho, ho, ho, we're free in the spirit."

	Uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah.

	"Oh, we have a great time the way we used to do it."  Yeah.

	Now:

		(18) 	For first of all, when (you) come together in the church, I hear
						(there's) divisions among you; and I partly believe it. (He said, 
					"They're schism.")

	Now what are those schism? [divisions] Now, he said, "There's got to be
heresies, there's sex making the schism, because (he said) amongst you
just the same there are those that are approved." So, they must have had
believers, make believers and non-believers in the whole bunch. And you
don't question anybody taking the Lord's Supper, that's just between him
and God. Unless they're gross immorality. Like this fellow over here,
that had his father's young wife. Now what did he say? Now, he tells you
what's going on.

		(20) 	When (you) come together therefore (in) one place, (you're in
the 						church, what you're doing is not) the Lord's supper.

	Now, watch the schism:

		(21) 	…every one taketh before other his own supper: (he's got his
own 						little private party, his own little way of doing things and
he does it 					his way. See?)

	Then It says, they break the bread and drink the wine. Now he said:

		(22) 	What? have (you) not houses to eat and to drink in?... 

	You don't come together to have a club sandwich, or turkey dinner. And
have an agape love feast, so called. See? Some fine little fare, so
that, well, you know how it is these people here they can afford caviar
and pheasant under-glass. So, they wouldn't even have a pot-luck dinner
where we put it all on one table. You talk about stupidity, right under
the nose of the apostle Paul. You know, I shouldn't ask this question,
because there's really no answer to it, but how kooked up can the church
get? It's supposed to have the Holy Ghost, and haven't got enough brains
to come in out of the rain and blow their noses.  Haven't got enough
brains to come together and simply break a little bread and drink a
little wine in the proper attitude of understanding what they're doing. 
And you know a lot of people still can't do that. Because, it's too
simple. Oh, it's way too simple. 

6.	Now listen, let's get down here where everybody gets all frantic.
Now:

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

	Okay, now that's what was their guilty of it. "What do you mean
guilty?" Well, if you're guilty of It, then you're participating in the
literal crucifixion. You're the killer, not the receiver. You're Cain,
not the Abel. Now, that's simple as a-b-c. But everybody gets scared
when you talk to them today. "Oh, there's got to be some great deep
meaning behind it." What is a great deep meaning? Oh yeah.

	Now, pardon me, I'm needling you for a reason, and I'm laying this on
thick, because I know where I'm going. But you don't, but you just wait,
you're going to find out.

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

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

7.	Now, you tell me where there is condemnation outside of a Word that
demands a proper presentation, or fulfillment? You didn't catch it, did
you? Okay, we'll go a little further.

		(29) 	…he that (eats) and (drinks) unworthily, (eats) and (drinks 		
				condemnation) not discerning the Lord's body.

	Now, we're talking about blood and flesh. The life was in the blood,
the body was broken, the life came out of the blood.

	All right, the life is in the blood, but life is before blood. Right?
Life is before blood. No two ways about it. Life was before blood, and
life is before blood. So life needed to have (needed to have) and had
blood. So, God put life, Adam life into a vessel that had blood. The
blood's got to have flesh. Right? So therefore, God made Adam flesh and
blood. Now, God has life. So what does God do? The Logos becomes flesh
and blood. So Christ becomes the Life of God. Right? He is the Blood of
God. He's the Life of God, He's the Blood of God.

	Okay, now, what was it that became flesh? The Word. And it was the Word
that had the Life. Right? Alright, that's what we're talking about here,
not discerning the Lord's body.

	Now, let's look at what they were not discerning, so we begin to see
what is going on here. These people that came together, these people
that were given simple ordinance, they couldn't even do it in
simplicity. They wound up on abject mockery. They came together to do
what was right, and thereby leave in better shape than when they came,
they came and did wrong; and left in worse shape than when they came.
See? The local assembly were not helped, but they were harmed by their
participation in this ordinance, and they became guilty before God. They
became literal Christ crucifiers. Right!

8.	Now, there's not one of us but can see as I mention on Saturday, that
this  another example of Cain and Abel. Why? Because, Cain would not go
according to revelation. Shed the blood then take the other sacrifice.
And Paul said in here, (now listen,) "Here's what you do, you come
together. And when you come together you positively will simply take
that bread and drink that wine and that's all you will do. Nothing
else." 

	See, that's what you're supposed to do, but they began messing with it.
And they took this beautiful simplistic ceremony and turned it into a
mess. Now, let's see that this whole Book is a correction of every mess
that was in the church by reason of messing with the Word.

9.	Now, let's go to 1 Corinthians 12:and read 1-3.

		(1) 	Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you 		
			ignorant. But, you're a bunch of dumb do-do's. Because you're 					
willfully stupid.)

	 Aw, come on now. "Woman shut up and sit down," said William Branham.
Thank you Bro. Branham. I love that kind of language.  

		(2) 	(You) know that (you) were Gentiles, carried (awaaay!) unto these
						dumb idols, even as (you) were led.

		(3) 	Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the
Spirit 					of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that
Jesus is the 					Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

	Now, they were willfully ignorant concerning the gifts in the church.
They messed them up. And when they did, they caused division. I'll prove
it to you. Why It says over here verse 13,

		(13) 	For by one Spirit are we all baptized (in) one body, whether
Jews 						(and Greek)… 

		(14) 	…the body…one member…  

		(15) 	…the foot shall say, (I'm) not the hand, I am not of the body;
therefore 					not of the body?

	(Verse 18)

		(18) 	But now God hath set the members every one of them in the body,
as 					it  pleased him.

	They didn't discern the body in gifts. Oh, did they? No! Well, did
they? No! Did they discern the body in gifts? No! Did they discern the
body here in wine and bread? No! 

10.	Let's go further. Let's go back, 1 Corinthians 1:1. (You still love
me? Hang on to your chairs. I ain't going to hurt nobody. I'm getting to
where you go in to see again daylight now.) Okay:

		(1) 	Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of
God, 					Sosthenes our brother,

		(2) 	Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are
sanctified 					in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in
every place call upon 					the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both
their's and our's:

		(3) 	Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the 	
				Lord Jesus Christ.

		(4) 	I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which 
					is given you by Jesus Christ;

		(5) 	That in every thing (you) are enriched by him, in all utterance,
and 						all knowledge; (and therefore you've got everything that can
put you in 					the Rapture!)

	"But-but-but-but, Bro. Vayle. It doesn't say that!" Aw, shut up! All
knowledge! And the Rapture is part of knowledge! Uh? (Thank you. Nice
people.)

		(5)	That in every thing (you're) enriched by him, in all utterance,
and 						in all knowledge;

		(6) 	Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

		(7) 	So that (you) come behind in no gift; waiting for the
(apokalupsis 						His Appearing amongst us…) 

		(8) 	Who (at that time) shall confirm you (to) the end, that (you) be
blameless 					in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. (When the Husband
comes to take 					the Wife.)

		(9) 	God is faithful, by whom (you) were called unto fellowship of his
						Son Jesus Christ our Lord. (Now, these were enriched in all
knowledge. 					How? By revelation.)

		(10) 	Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, 					that ye all speak the same thing, and that thereby be no
divisions… (but               				a perfect unity; one revelation of
one Word.)

	Making what? One body of the Word, because He Who was the Word became a
body. We are His body, so therefore we're Word. You cannot take a
cat-cell and add it to a dog-cell, and the dog-cell to a horse-cell and
make a human being. You cannot take a Bride and add any cell but a
Word-cell. If He is Word, we are Word; and He is one Word, we are one
Word, one bread, one life.

11.	Okay:

		(10) 	Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, 					that (you) all speak the same thing, (but therefore) there
be no divisions, 					(you'll) be perfectly joined in the same mind and
in the same 						judgment.

		(11) 	For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them
which 					are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among
you.

		(12) 	Now this I say, every one of you… I am of Paul; (I'm) of
Apollos; 						(I'm) of Cephas; (I'm) of Christ.

		(13) 	Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you?... 

	Was Paul baptized in my name? Then how many words are there? Baptist,
Methodist, Presbyterian, this interpretation, that interpretation, this
interpretation, that interpretation. One Word. That's what John said.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God." [Jn 1:1] The same thing tells you over there in 1 John, that
that Word is one in Heaven.

		(14) 	I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;

		(15) 	Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.

		(16) 	…I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I 						
know...	(none of it.)

		(17) 	For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not
with 					wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of
none 						effect.

		(18) 	For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish
foolishness; but 					unto us which are saved it is the power of God.			

		(19)	(God said, I'll) destroy the wisdom of the wise, bring to nothing
the 					understanding of the prudent.

12.	All right. [1 Corinthians] 2:1.

		(1) 	…I came not with excellency of speech or wisdom, declaring the 
					testimony of God.

		(2) 	…determined (nothing) among you, save Jesus, and him crucified.

		(3) 	…with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

		(4) 	…my speech and preaching was not with enticing words of man's 	
				wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and power:

		(5) 	That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, in the 			
		power of God.

	And the wisdom of man got in there and no doubt said, "Listen, I got it
straight from Peter, right from the horse's mouth. I know that the night
that Jesus broke that bread and he drank that cup they feasted on the
Passover. Which was the flesh of the lamb, and unleavened bread and
bitter herbs." And said, "There it is, now we should sit down and eat
too."

	"Well," they said, "that sounds great, Oh, that sounds great."

	And one fellow said, "Well, I'm a very rich man (you know) it wouldn't
be very nice if I just brought an egg omelet (you know) and cold at
that. I couldn't bring something like that. Why, (he said,) my dignity
and my friends I would have to bring pheasant under-glass, no corn on
the cob, oh heavens no, it would have to be a soufflé at the very
least." Very fine something or other. And he said, "I wouldn't drink
that sour old wine, (he said) I got the very best." He said, "Why, (he
said) I got the finest vintage forty years back, (he said) we'll crack a
crock of that." he said.

	And they put it down, "Well you see, you honor the Lord with such
lovely extravagance, beautiful, and divineness." Why didn't he say when
they put the ointment over his feet? "Why, he said, "You got the poor
always, but (he said) this is under my burial." And he was very happy
that they took the beautiful crock of the ointment and put it on his
feet. "Oh we'll just have this lovely wine and we'll drink it amongst
ourselves and the pheasant under-glass. And the humming bird tongues,
and the frog's eyebrows, we'll put them all in here with a lovely
sauce." (Madeira sauce, whatever it is.)

	And somebody say, "Well, you see, but you know there was also the poor
shepherds and they could only bring a little tiny thing." And that's the
time the wrote the song about the 'Drummer Boy', trump, trump, trump,
you know. Shee, merciful God.

13.	 So, the poor old crock, he said, "Well," he said, "The Lord he was
born poor (he said) in a stable, so I'll just bring some little measly
thing." So much for interpretation. They blew it. I'm not telling you
lies. I'm telling you truth. And I'm sarcastic as I can be, because I
want to get this thing right. Division! What is a division? Off the
Word! What is a sect? What is a schism? Off the Word!

	You say, "Well, Bro. Vayle, let's prove that thing by Bro. Branham
that's a sect." 

	Well, I'll tell you, I'm glad you want me to prove it. William Branham
preached on Sovereignty of God, amazing grace of God. He preached on
predestination and he preached it hard. And Israel at the Red Sea, he
preaches that and he comes home and he said, "I left the church here, I
came back to a cult." Because they didn't believe predestination.

	And predestination to Bro. Branham was, He knew exactly how many fleas
there would be, and how many times the fleas would bat his eyeballs, (if
he had eye balls) and how many there are that would take to make a pound
of lard. (Or tallow from fleas) That's infinite. That's predestination.
That's God.

	And man says, "I can't take that." He's a sect right now. (See?)  Not
discerning the body. Not discerning, not judging by the Word. Not going
according to the Word. That's what's wrong. It's always been what's
wrong.

14.	Now, look at those verses over there is 1 Corinthians. I won't read
anymore here, because… what I was reading here it comes by revelation,
by the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost gave the revelation. And Paul
simply said in 1 Corinthians 11, he said, "I received the revelation
from God." Not that he sat down and ate the Passover, but that he took
bread and he broke it, and wine and he drank, and he said, "You do it in
memory of my death."

	Now, somebody comes along and says, "Well, that's very, very nice, but
you know, here's the thing about it, you see, it's till He comes." And
so he puts emphasis on 'His Coming', never mind the fact that he died.
"Oh hallelujah, come Lord, come Lord, come Lord, come Lord." SHUT UP!
Death! Death! Death. Commemorating his death, [raps on the pulpit] until
He comes. And then we'll do it again on the other side in the
Millennium. And no doubt the New Jerusalem for all I know, because the
Lamb is on the Throne. And a lamb speaks of sacrifice, and sacrifice
speaks of blood. And remember, Jesus is the Blood of God. And It was a
Life that had to have blood, and blood has to have flesh. So, He became
flesh and blood. See? And you remembered that he died. You remembered
that he died.

	You say, "Why?" Because I'm a sinner. I'm a sinner. I'm a sheep gone
astray, I'm a lamb that went to the city dumps. I'm a prince. In the
interim I was a beggar on the dung heap, till He took me off. The Blood
did it. He perfects a Bride by the Blood. The Blood scatters sin till
there be no evidence of it. I want to honor His death. And when you
honor His death, you don't add or take from It either. You leave It
alone. See? 

15. I'm not mad at anybody, and I don't get carried away so far that I
can't come back either. Because, I'm preaching this for the fourth time
and I'm preaching it more right than at any other time. Because I know
what I'm saying and why I'm saying it, because I'm not a prophet.

	But,  I did recall, he said,  “This is not withheld from anybody,
except under gross immorality,” which is fragrantly disobedience,
flaunting against the Blood that cleanses him. Doing despot to the
spirit of grace. See? Do you see how they crucified the Word back there?
And they're crucifying It tonight, because they don't care what the Word
said.

	Paul said, "You got everything to put you in a Rapture." 

	Bro. Branham said, "That'll put you in a Rapture."

	And they…, "Oh, no, no, no, oh, look it here. Look it there, it's got
to come, that's got to come, this is got to come, that's got to come."
SHUT UP! 

	There'll be no resurrection for you, unless you learn to stand still.
None for me, unless I learn to stand still. Oh listen, there's
everything He gave us to put us in the Resurrection and the Rapture.
We've got It. It's in our possession. We don't have to work it up. We
don't have to mess with it. No way, shape and form.

16.	Okay, I said we're over here in 1 Corinthians 11:18-19. He said,
"There's divisions, heresies." Do you know that they were heretical?
Truly heretical. Not heretical to a heretical church, but heretical to
the true body of Jesus Christ the true Bride by messing with the Lord's
Supper. Yeah. They become a sect.

	They talk about the 'agape' feast. The love feast. Bro. Branham said,
“Love is corrective.” So what do you think of that? Heresies, that
they which are approved may be made manifest. In other words, there'll
be those that will stick to the Word. Those who mess with the Word,
those who disbelieve and walk off from the Word. Three kinds of
believers. Oh, that church. You say, "Bro. Vayle, I just can't believe
it's all the serious." That's because you're an unbeliever, make
believer, one of the two of them. Sorry, but that's the truth.

	Look at this church at the end-time that left her first love, got
messing with the Word. Couldn't even get an ordinance straight. Yeah.
Give a little tiny kid a handkerchief and you say, "now blow your nose."
And the kid wants to wipe his nose before he even blows it. But, you can
teach a kid to blow his nose and wipe in due course. But, you couldn't
even get these Christians supposed to be full of the Holy Ghost to do
it. They can't even wipe their noses. Huh? They departed.

17.	You say, "I just can't believe that…I just can't believe that
doing that would do it." You see, because you're an unbeliever or
make-believer. Because, it did it. Well, didn't it do it? Well did it,
or didn't it? Oh come on. I'm looking at a bunch of zombies am I? I'm
not looking at anybody, I hope, I'm trying not to. Because, I love you
too much. Don't get scared of me, because, you know, I don't scare
anybody really. My bark is up here, I'm teaching. I must… I'm a
different person, but, I'm going to lay it on the line here. You do what
you want. There's nothing to be afraid of if you're not in gross
immorality, and you don't nether with it.  You simply come and say,
"broken body, shed Blood, he died, hallelujah, He died for me." And you
know the Word concerning It.

	You're not like the Pharisees who said, "Well, that in Isaiah 53 is a
broken spirit of Israel." (Poor Israel bleeding and dying; they're still
bleeding and dying.) "But one day we'll take over." Hogwash! They'll
take over? We're taking over with Jesus the Christ. We're the Bride, and
He's the Groom.

18.	Listen to this church: "I know your works, you're neither hot nor
cold." [Rev 3:15] Certainly not, because you're piddling around even
with the Lord's Supper. Take it, or leave it!

	You say, "You mean to say I'm red hot if I take It, this?" Yeah. "Then
I'm cold if I leave It?" Yeah. And if you mess It, that you're luke-warm
and you're nauseous. You make God vomit.

	"Well…," you say… Listen, don't talk to me, It's in the Bible. He
said, "they became a sect over It."

	And I'm supposed to say, "Well, you see Bro. Paul you made a mistake,
dear saints of God I love you Bro. Paul, but you made a mistake dear
friend?" Shut up! Paul didn't make a mistake, he got it by revelation. 

	He didn't go running to Peter, James and John and say, "I hear there's
a sort of thing called the Lord's Supper, clue me in on it." 

	The Lord appeared and told him, "Paul, listen, call the Church together
in memory of My death and tell them to take broken bread, eat a little
bit, take wine, drink a little bit, that's it. Teach them what it stands
for, it's My death and tell them the church will do it until I Come."

	You say, "What if we're here for at least thirty days in the
Resurrection?" Well, take It. Jesus ate fish in the Resurrection. (Yeah)
He did, He ate broiled fish and honeycomb. Yum, yum, yum. And he said,
"We'll have wine." Somebody's appetite is going to be too weak for this
one I can tell you that. They'll want something else other than just
that.

	What you it be if the Marriage Supper was sitting down up there with a
loaf of bread, with bread broken in a glass of wine? "Say, I don't think
I like that, I was all set for pheasant under-glass at least. Who sent
myself out they took the Tree of Life. Or least, Manna." Was the man
that was broken, and some wine poured out. "My, my, see, my thoughts
were far grander." That's your trouble, you luke-warm bird you.
[laughter] buzzard coming to the feast of God. 

19.	I don't say that's what it is, what if it was? Oh, you get them
disappointed. "Oh, ho, no, I couldn't that."  You're right, you won't be
there to take It. 

	So, He said, "You're luke-warm, wretched, miserable, blind, naked,"
[Rev 3:16-17]  but you sure can boast as though you got a lot of things.

	Now He said, "I tell you what…" Now, how does He correction the
situation? Through a Word. Through a Word. He said, "You think you're
rich and you got this and that. But you're wretched, miserable, naked
blind." Now, He said, correcting,  "Come to Me and I'll give you the
Word on it."

	You say, "I just don't know if I really believe that." You don't have
to believe it. 

	The Bible says, "The Bride has made herself ready." What with? Well,
what's the Groom provided? The Word. (See?) We're suppose to drink and
honor the Blood, the broken body of the Lord Jesus Christ. See? 

20.	Okay, now Matthew 24:24, tells us the Elect are not going to be
deceived. So therefore, the true Elect, if they are guilty in this hour
as they were in that hour, they will be corrected. And when they're
corrected they are no longer guilty. 

	For It says here: "Let a man judge him, he that drinks unworthily,
he'll drink condemnation, not discerning the Lord's body." [1 Cor
11:28-29]

	Now, what is the body of the Lord? Word! Bro. Branham said, "You're not
eating on the Body-Word, you're not living on the word of a man, you're
living on the body-Word of the Lord Jesus Christ."  "Eat my flesh, and
drink my Blood." See? 

	Now, we are literally using the Word of the Lord Jesus Christ, the
vindicated prophetic Word of this hour. Now, he says here: because you
cannot discern the Lord's body, you cannot discern the Word. That's what
he's talking about. He said, "You simply turned your nose up at the Word
every single time. You cannot judge the Word." 

	Now listen, you're supposed to judge that Word a hundred percent. As
Bro. Branham said, "If you're full of the Holy Ghost, you'll say 'amen'
to every single Word," that comes from that prophet. And you'll bring
everything to the Light, and you won't be afraid to do it. Now, it'll
throw shivers down your back for awhile, till you get to understand how
God operates. There's condemnation to every person, I don't care who he
is until he comes right to that Light. And when he comes to that Word
the condemnation goes. 

21.	You say, "Bro. Vayle, I think I'm a horrible person." So bring it to
the Word. You'll get help. Now, if you try to defend yourself, you'll
get nowhere. If you're scared, you'll get nowhere. You got to just bring
it to the Word. You bring it to the Word they'll be no trouble. Now,
that's what he told them here. He said, You're all mixed up." He said,
"a simple bread, a sip of wine and you take it in a memory," and that's
what you do. And these people had been (they had) been messing with
every single bit of the Word that Paul laid out before them until he
said, "You're worse than rawest heathen I've ever seen." He said,
"You're so messed and cooped up its pitiful. There isn't one thing that
you haven't messed up." They messed up on tithing, they messed up on
giving, they messed up on gifts, they messed up on baptism. They did
give it, they were baptizing wrong; they messed up on Communion, they
messed up on everything. They were messed up period! And so was messed
up Pentecost. So was messed up church. A wanton whore. Oh, you might
like the word 'harlot', but the Bible uses the others, so get used to
it.

22. [1 Corinthians 11:]

		(30) 	For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, (certainly)
and 					many sleep.

		(31) 	(Now) if we would judge ourselves,…

	How? If we would apply the Word to ourselves. If we would take the Word
the way It is laid out by a vindicated prophet, and just say, "that's
right, that's right, that's right," and stand with It. And one day
there's going to be a people who stand with that Word and they won't be
sick. They're suddenly going to feel great, hallelujah. They're going to
look right through the 'curtain of time' and see the dead. They're going
to walk where nobody's ever walked before. Do you hear me? They'll walk
where nobody has ever walked before, because a company of living people
have never, ever left this earth without dying. Because of the
discerning Word. Because they know what the Word says. Because they know
what the Word means. Had a vindicated prophet.

23.	All right, now you can see what's going on. They came together to
eat the Lord's Supper. And it wasn't the Lord's Supper. No! "Oh," you
say, "but Bro. Vayle, you see my dear brother at the end you know they
took the bread, they took the wine." You're nuts! You understand what
I'm saying? Do you understand what I'm saying people here in this
church? You don't mix anything that's not supposed to be mixed. No! No!
No! You can't eat one thing [knocks on pulpit] this is separate.

	Now, you've been baptized, but not in the Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ. You ain't baptized. "Oh," you say, "I'm baptized." No, no,
you're not baptized. And if you got a doubt, you're not baptized. "Oh,"
you say, "I went down in the water." This is not to eat the Lord's
Supper, this is not baptism, this in not gifts. [raps on pulpit]  Uh?
Uh? Come on, oh come on, is it? I lost you again, you're looking at me
like zombies.

	If you crud up and mess up this Lord's Supper, it is not the Lord's
Supper. If you mess up gifts, it is no longer gifts, it's a false
anointing. Then if you've got a water baptism messed up, you are not
baptized in water, you're simply immersed somehow and God knows, and God
cares less. You are not baptized. No, you're not baptized. You think you
are, but you are not. You have not obeyed God. And Bro. Branham
categorically said, "If you've not been baptized in the Name of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and you baptized any other way, it is 'Thus Saith the
Lord', it is commanded you must be re-baptized." Then you weren't
baptized to begin with.

24.	Now, somebody said, "Well, you know, I really don't know how he was
baptized, but I kind of think I might have been baptized right."

	"But."  you say, "Bro. Vayle, the thing is this, I don't know that I
trusted that man that baptized me in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ."
I don't care two-bits about the guy, you were baptized right. You see
how nuts we can get? Always applying our own understanding, forget it!
The prophet gave us the understanding. Look like natural people, we want
to out-God, God, out- Word the Word, out-prophet the prophet, out-Jesus,
Jesus, out-Spirit the Spirit, (phfft!) we're out. Yeah, we did it, we
got out. We weren't in it in the first place. Divisions amongst us, not
discerning the body. It's a body of the Word. You follow me? It's a body
of the Word that we are. Because, His body is the Word. The body of the
Lord Jesus Christ, the flesh is the Word. And He is Word and we are
Word. 

	He was Logos, and we were in Logos. So therefore, we were always
miniscule Logos. And now we're coming to the full manifestation what lay
in Logos. That's not hard. We're coming into full manifestation of what
lay in what? Adam and the beast. One of which lay in God and the other
only lay in creation, Haw, we've been in God, always were. Creation was
something made. (phfft!) Not that I'm against it, praise God for it. But
I mean, when I said "phfft!," that's to let you know that there is no
comparison.

25.	Why, my goodness me, here sits something somebody made, does that
compare with a man? No, the man is a billion, billion, billion, billion,
billion, trillion, trillion more than that of anything made. Then man
came along and he began worshipping the creature more than the Creator.
He began worshipping his creeds and dogmas instead of going by the Word.
No wonder things got messed up, and are messed up today. But the true
Bride, he's not going to be guilty. No sir, he's not going to be guilty.
Why? Because he's been brought back to the Word.

	Now listen, Paul said he gave them everything to put them in a Rapture,
and they messed everything up, they couldn't get anywhere near a
Rapture. Then if you get un-messed brother/ sister, if we should get
un-messed we go in a Rapture. We're not condemned. We're not guilty
before Him.

	"Well," you say, "I'll tell you what Bro. Vayle, the  guys at this end
though, I just don't know how they qualify." 

	Bro. Branham said, "That's brotherly love." You see, we're pretty
sticky, so Love Himself comes down. "That which is perfect is come." [1
Cor 13:10] And people don't want that which is Perfect is Come. Oh they
say, "It's not here." That's true, for them It's not. That's why this
never was true to these people back there either.

26.	Now listen, let's look at this picture here: Paul says in here, he's
talking about the whole, the whole shebang, and then he said, "Love
never fails. Prophesies fail. Tongues fail. Knowledge vanishes away,
everything. We only know in part. We prophesy in part. Well when that
which is in part is over, its full fruition, perfect is come, in part is
done away. [1 Cor13:8-10] Just like the Ages of the Old Testament. In
part, in part, in part, till here was the Word. The New Testament, part,
part, part, here's the Word. Perfect has come. God is love. He's here.
Not some virtue like these thunderbirds try to make it. God's not a
virtue, He's virtuous, but He's not a virtue. (Fap!) What ignorance,
trying to reduce God to a virtue. Haw, you can't do it. It's a good
thing He's virtuous, but then again, who know what virtue is? 

	Virtue back in the old Roman days in Corinth when they taught the young
pure virgins to go down to the market and there the first man that
proposed intercourse they were to subdue themselves to him, and that was
virtue. Yeah, that was virtue. 

	What is some syphilitic ugly filthy slob got with some beautiful young
virgin and she gave her body? Because that was religion, that was
virtue. Is it virtue? Hogwash, that's from the pit of hell. If God is
virtuous He would have to define what virtue is, and a prophet defines
us. And the Word defines love. And the Word defines it all. And
everybody goes their own way and says, "Well, I think this, I think
that, I think…" What does it matter what you and I think? (Fap!) And
God's going to do it. Restored Word. See?

27.	Okay, we saw what was going on at the table of the Lord. Simple
remembrance, that's what it was. Okay, Cain and Abel all over again.
Everybody knows that. You can see the whole trend. See?

	What did John say? "In Him was Light, and there's no darkness at all."
[1 Jn 1:5] In Him, and if we're in Him, there's no darkness. How can a
man say he's Bride and be off the Word? How can a woman say she's Bride
and be off the Word? (See?) And the simplicity is what Bro. Branham
brought us. (Now, I'm not going to take too long, because we've been
here quite a while already.)

28.	But now, Jesus is our Passover. That's exactly why we're to
celebrate It. That's why He ate as the type, ate the type, being the
antitype and gave the ordinance in commemoration, because that's all you
can do is commemorate. Because, he dieth no more in that he died as a
sin offering, He can't die again, He can't be offered again, no way. So
what do we do? We make Him a memorial. Christ is our Passover. He's been
sacrificed. So, if Christ is our Passover, (see?) you and I can't do it.
No way. So, we just eat and we drink. Broken body, shed blood. He died,
he gave his life. See? That Life comes back upon us.

	Well, a person say, "Well, here's a beautiful thing you see, you see
now that we die, you see, we're dead indeed unto sin. You and I are
never indeed dead unto sin unless the Holy Ghost is in it. Unless we're
born again there's no way. There's no way, there's no way. Because that
which is born of God alone cannot sin. (See?) You got to be born again.
See, they always get mixed up on everything. They want to apply this,
they want to apply water baptism to regeneration. They want to apply
this to something else. They want to apply everything.

	Like I said the AMA, I think it is, that Pentecostal bunch, they said,
"Hey, who needs the bread? Why we've got the Word? Who needs the wine?
We've got the Holy Ghost." Shut up! It doesn't commemorate a special
spiritual understanding of Word, or that you've got the Holy Ghost, It
commemorates His death. It has to do with sin.

29.	Now, let's go over here to the Book of Hebrews 6:4-5. "At the
end-time it's impossible for those who once were all enlighten." The
last time the Light strikes, It'll never strike again. At that time they
"tasted the heavenly gift, partake of the Holy Ghost; taste the good
Word of God, and the powers of the world to come."

	William Branham demonstrated it, through the spirit of Moses, Elijah,
Christ and Samuel. Showed it, and they said, "Now, go ahead, turn It
down this time, never again." At this time comes harvest. At this time
it's all over. Why? "Because they crucified to themselves the Son of God
afresh, put him to an open shame." [Heb 6:6] 

	It's exactly what they do. Can't deny it. There's no way they'll ever
come back. See? Why? "The earth which drinketh forth the rain that
cometh oft upon it. (The rain is the Word of God.) Brings forth
herbs…" [Heb 6:7] 

	Brings forth what? Brings forth that which was seeded there by God to
receive His blessing. "But that which beareth thorns and briers is
rejected." [Heb 6:8] The same rain ripens the tares. 

30.	Now, Bro. Harold came here the other day and he came just before the
rain came. And the wheat was looking pretty good. We went by and we
looked at the green grain, and I said, "Now, Harold listen, you watch,
with this rain within just a matter of twenty four hours (you watch)
it'll begin to turn yellow. Turn gold. Within forty eight hours that
thing was getting ripe, red-brown." What did it? The rain did it. The
grain in the presence of the sun with the rain that fell on it turned
golden. It was ripening. That's what the Former-Rain is doing right now
and at the same time it's bringing forth the briers.

	You know what time you got to really hit the weeds? You got to hit them
right now, and some of you are a little bit wondering whether you hit
the wheat and you're going to the weeds just right. If you don't hit
them just right now in this rain when that wheat is ripening you're out
of luck. You're cultivators won't go there unless you get them way up in
the air, or you'll just spray, whatever you're going to do. And if you
don't cultivate to get that rain just right, then the roots will be
exposed everything else, shook up, you ain't going to get nowhere.

	At the time the wheat begins to ripen, that's at the time of the
Latter-Rain, and the Former-Rain hits it, and the grain gets golden
ripe. It's beautiful to look at it right now. What's it doing? It's
going to the stages. It's filling out nice and plump.

 	God's not going to take a wizen bunch of old goats into the Rapture.
He's going to take a nice bunch of pretty plump kids, sixteen years of
age in the dew of youth in the glory of God. You don't believe me? Stick
around and find out. Look in the mirror for the last time that you're
dying, you're living. "Briers and thorns will come at the same time to
gather the wheat in the garner, burn up the chaff with fire
unquenchable." [Heb 6:8] Certainly He'll do that. That's what It says,
because you're at the very end-time. You're at the harvest time when all
things are coming to the very end.

31.	Okay, now back here again. He said, "I have received a revelation
the night which he was betrayed." [1 Cor 11:23] That means: to expose
with bad intentions. He was exposed with bad intentions. He was brought
out in a light which was a hundred percent incongruous, or opposite to
what he was really in.

	Now, what about those guys who preach and practice polygamy? "Oh," they
say, "I believe the Branham Message." Like fun they do. We're betrayed.
You say, "Well, just a minute now Lee Vayle, do you believe the Branham
Message?"… Sure do.

	I get a little paper called 'Martyr Call' from the seer prophecy,
Melcine is the fellow's wife, (Wayne's wife) and she ought to shut her
mouth. She's a nice gal, but she's a big yappy preacher-ess. Baptist.
Now, they got the whore mark, right? But, they were talking one time
about antichrist sect, and they said, "The worst of all down here is the
Branham bunch." Because, they ran across a bunch of kooks that made
William Branham  God. But, they didn't bother to come up to America here
to find out if guys like Lee Vayle had made him God. See?

	Now, we've been betrayed, because it's brought to light that people
like us believe in William Branham, prophet of God. So now we're
idolaters, whore-mongers, kooks. Don't think we aren't according to
them. Betrayed. William Branham fulfilled the very Word of Almighty God
he was supposed to fulfill. The prophet is the Living Word of God made
manifest. 

	But, what happened? The Pentecostal's turned on him, betrayed him.
That's why they're going to burn as chaff, so don't make them anything
but what God said they were. Bro. Branham said they were the shuck. Now,
some well intended soul will come along and say, "Oh I couldn't possible
say that!" Well, don't bother saying it, get out. Forget it. Who told
you to be nice? I thought you're supposed to be righteous.

	Like one fellow said, "The Bible says love your wives, you don't have
to like them, just love them." That was a nasty thing to say, [laughter]
but you know I don't believe that's the right thing to say myself. I
think you got to love man like them, if you didn't like them, well
shucks what's the use? You couldn't love them either. But I said,
there's a sort of a point there you know, but maybe it's on top of the
head, but it's anyway.

32.	All right, he was betrayed, set forth in a wrong light. This
end-time ministry of William Branham was betrayed by Pentecostal's.
Crucified the very Oneness people that's supposed to know so much about
Godhead hated him the worst. Therefore they have the worst error.
Jesus-Only is a sadistic doctrine that blasphemes the Holy Ghost.

	Water baptism in Jesus' Name is entirely wrong. You say, "How do you
know?" The prophet said so. "For this cause many will die prematurely."
[Heb 6:30] Now, It says, "if we would go to that Word," that's all it
takes.

	Now, brother/sister, I'm going to close. (Now, I'm not half as mean as
I sound. I even left my notes here.) A man comes along and he says,
"Now, I want to tell you something, (he said) I think we ought to have
foot-washing before we have Communion, because you see it types." What
does it type? "Well, you see, we should get ready, it shows that we (you
know) wash each other's feet. We're nice, we're this and that."

	You tell me why, the prophet didn't do it. Well did he? Who's in the
prophet's meetings and saw it, time after time? Never. It was Communion
then foot-washing. Then why would you reverse it? "Well, it's just some
nice little connotation." Well, you may have your connotation, don't
bring it in this church.

33.	Like the fellow came by, I told him, I said, "Don't come here and
try to…" I said, "Why do you want to visit me?" I asked him flat.
Because I was pretty…pretty ouchy in those days. You think I'm pretty
ouchy now. Oh, come on, I'm sweet as a cucumber that's been made into
pickles. [Bro. Vayle laughs] Ha, ha, ha. Oh, mellows of marshmallows
that has been set on fire. No problem. So I said, "Why do you want to
come and visit me? You want to come and tell me something? To tell me
I'm wrong? To correct me? To teach me?" I said, "Forget it!"

	But, he came anyway. Then he wants to tell me and you, "why now if
anybody dies, well you're not Bride." Get your own soap-box, don't come
around here.

	You say, "Why?" Because, Lee Vayle is in this pulpit. This is His
pulpit. Did you know that? This is my pulpit, this is not yours, this is
mine. Now, I'm sorry about that, but this is the truth.

	You say, "Who are you?" I'm an elder, and that makes me next to the
Holy Spirit. You say, "Bro. Vayle, hold it?" No, you hold it, the
prophet said so. A lot of people don't believe that. They think that's
nonsense. "Oh, the pastor's some great authority." Hogwash! God's a
great Authority. And I've been pointing you to Him Who liveth amongst us
all these years. And I told you, if we go to a Lake of Fire and I'm
responsible taking you there, don't worry children, you won't stay there
too long, because you still got your eyes on Him, not on Lee Vayle. If
you have, I'm sorry, I hurt you, I didn't mean it. Because I've talked
about Him, and He's here brother/ sister. But I love Him and He loves
us.

34.	Oh listen, we're not getting mixed up. No, no. We're not trying to
spiritualize, no, no. We just come and celebrate his death. We do what
the prophet  did. We do it, and we stand guard and watch it. You say,
"Why?" Because, Abraham stood guard over the sacrifice, and the Pillar
of Fire came down in between and consumed them. One day that same Holy
Spirit, Pillar of Fire, He's going to consume away all the flesh that's
left. And we're going to come forth as pure gold immortal. Yeah. And Lee
Vayle is going to be sweet, sweeter than honey in the rock. Because, be
just like Jesus.

	You say, "I'm waiting for that day." Not half as much as I am, forget
it kid. You do your own longing, never mind me. I'm glad you pray for
me, I pray for you, and we pray for each other.

	That's why It says here, why, It says here distinctly, "Let a man
examine himself... [Heb 11:28] …tarry one for another, [Heb 11:33] so
on and so forth. Tarry.

	Then he says, correcting: "If any man hunger, eat at home…[Heb 11:34]
then come here, take a little bread, drink a little wine and say,
'praise God for his death', and I'll do it until I do it with Him
immortal." 

	Thank God for the death of the Son. Brother/sister, let's get this
flat, the man who said, "The centrality of the universe of God is the
Cross," I believe is right. I believe those books tell us or redemption.
And I believe redemption is by Blood, and I believe when you talk about
Blood brother/sister, you leave the Blood as blood that was shed. A Life
that was given, a body broken. He died that you and I might live, and
you're only full of the Holy Ghost because of the Blood, or you wouldn't
be brother/sister. There wouldn't be one gift; there wouldn't be a
marriage; there wouldn't be a Supper; there wouldn't be a Millennium;
there wouldn't be anything. We've be out there in a never-never land,
and that little eternal part of us, that Seed in the soul would be out
there somewhere clothed in a never-never land, except for the Blood that
allowed the Holy Ghost to join us back.

35.	So, He said, "Listen, I want you to take emblems, and when you do, I
want you to tarry for each other." [Heb 11:33] What for? To get the
revelation right. It's not to fuss and argue who's got the revelation
and to cause division, but to pray one for another, that each one may
have the proper revelation to understand the Word. 

	You see, you can begin to see now why Bro. Branham preached 'God in
Simplicity'. And then when he preached 'The Seals', he came back the
last night and he said, "Oh, when I preached 'God in Simplicity', I
didn't know how simple it was." And I said, "Oh brother, if that's
simple…" (shoo) you talk about knowing a-b-c's for algebra. And, but
you know, he's right. 

	I remember a certain brother he sat in the meetings in Chicago, I told
you Bro. Hoyer, a great man of God. Greatest Greek student, Hebrew
student perhaps of this age, protégé of Ivan Pannin, and I remember
the night I was preaching on "Serpent Seed" and I didn't think he'd be
there, but he was there. He got in just a tiny bit late. And don't you
know, I thought "oh boy, just my luck. I'm not very smart and there's a
smart one, I don't know any Greek and he knows all the Greek. But I
stand up here and preach 'Serpent Seed', because I can't change my mind
and then started it." If he'd have walked in before I might have changed
the subject. I saw him looking at his wife, looking back, shifty eye
boy, she shift the eye back, never saying a word. You know, that
expression (you know) that doesn't betray stuff, but the eyes were, (you
know) give me the old back and forth; and I thought, "Well, that's
something." 

36.	That night he left the church, shook hands, "good night Bro. Vayle."
We're to have supper together the next night with the Abacola's(?) So,
we get together and we have supper.

	And he said, "Bro. Vayle," he said, "last night I heard you preach on
Serpent Seed." He said, "My wife and I go home and go to bed. We talked
for many hours. We talked back and forth, and Bro. Vayle, you know, you
are right!" I'm right about this too. Just like the prophet.

36.	He didn't make a great song and dance out of it, he laid it there,
"this commemorates a death, the Bloodshed, the body broken." And he
said, "You don't dare stop anybody, except for gross immorality."

	How could we tolerate a man eating and drinking with us who was grossly
immoral? Because, that means he is wantonly, wickedly, willfully doing
what he doesn't have to do, but he's going to do it in spite anyway,
then kick him out. Get rid of him. But, why do the others take it?
Because, they know somebody had to die for them. See?

37.	Now listen, you tell me how anybody can deny anybody these elements,
these emblems on the grounds that we believe and they believe the
perfect Word of God revealed today? We do discern. We do judge by the
Word.

	Friend of mine one day phoned me after his Gethsemane to get him back
to God and these things straightened out, and he said, "Lee, I got to
apologize to you," he said, "because all these years I never could
understand why you took the stand you did." He said, "I always had my
eyes on the men and what I thought they were doing, but, you always look
right at that Word and judge by It." And he came to that place too.

	Now, brother/sister, I am no paragon of virtue, you know that. I might
be a paragon, 'long gone', I might be more than a paragon, I don't know,
and I care less. But, the virtue, forget it. But you know one thing,
that in this church we stick to a Word the best we know. It's got to be
this Word. And it doesn't matter about you and me, and this is the
beautiful part of it, we are fast coming to the place… well look, it
doesn't matter what you and I think or believe. The point is what does
it say.  Because, here's the thing, we're not going to duck it anyway.
So, you might as well at least get prepared. You know how it is when a
person knows he's going to get shot, he ... what… he does this you
know, [Bro. Vayle demonstrates] well, he might as well get prepared. And
you can't unless you look right…and where it's going to come from.
It's going to be judged by this Word revealed. Going to be judged by One
Christ Jesus Who is the Word. 

	In other words, when you're talking about that, you're talking about
the fact, look, this is proven. This Word for our hour, and there's no
more proof to come, it's over. We're going, we're as good as gone if
we're part of It. Don't be afraid of It, embrace It, love It. Take It to
your bosom, don't loath It. Love It. Open your heart to It. It's not
going to hurt you. It's going to help you.

38.	I went to a doctor one time, I was so…by second or third night, I
sat up with arthritis (bursitis) man alive, I could…the only way I
could sleep, then I could only sleep fitfully, and he said, "This is
going to hurt."

	I said, I'll tell you what, if you cure it, you can rip it off and beat
me with the stump." I was ready for it, and it hurt. Now, he could have
prescribed some strong pills, he didn't give me one pill. So, I had a
few aspirins, that didn't do any good. That night I was really in pain,
because it still hurt. I went back the next day or so, (whatever it was)
he gave me another treatment and then he knocked it plumb out a hundred
percent. And I was suffering, it had all frozen up and messed up and
real agony. But you see, he said, "it's going to hurt."

	"Well," I said, "hey man, let's get the hurt over with." Everybody's
got the idea (you know) that you can cut the dog's tail off by inches
and make the dog feel good. No, one swipe of that tail, is a whole lot
better than by inches. 

	You know that sheep are born with long tails? I think there's only one
type of sheep that doesn't have long tail. Every  has a long tail. I
don't know how long, but it's fairly long. Now, the farmer doesn't say,
"I'll just clip his tail off one at a time." The shepherd says, "Hey, I
think that's really cure."  He goes zip, and then some more, then zip
the next day. Well the poor sheep he's go right… why, he'd jump on the
first cloud that's not anymore a hundred feet over his head. 

39.	Oh, come on, that's what we're trying to get with this Word here.
It's simple, it may hurt a little bit, it may jar us. But look here… I
had a good friend of mine phone me today, and he said, "Lee," he said,
"I'm glad you brought that up, (he said) because I want to talk to you."
He said, "A certain brother, (he called him by name, said) well look it
here, Bro. Branham said this about the baptism with the Holy Ghost, and
he's saying over here now, (he said) about the fact that they thought he
was saying they were two different things." The baptism of the Holy
Ghost and the rebirth.

	"Well," he said, "you get the rebirth by the baptism with the Holy
Ghost."

	I said, "My brother, he was talking about the man being saved." See? It
isn't that the work wasn't being done. He was believing unto it. And
when you believe unto it, you're foolish virgin, and you'll come up
saved. Yeah, what drew that man to salvation, but not rebirth? It had to
be God. His name was in the Book, Who put it there? "As in Adam all die,
in Christ all are made alive," somewhere. [1 Cor 15:22] Now this man
wants to argue, and you know what I told that preacher? I said I'd throw
him out. I said all he wants to do is argue, it's too late in the day.

	Now, if he argues about that, he'll argue about something else. I said
doesn't he understand I argued for four and one half hours for his good?
Now, you people sit and say, "Well, Bro. Vayle, I don't believe you."
Fine, drop dead! You've just made me a liar. You've made the 'Church Age
Book' a liar. You tell me a prophet lied to me. Because, I believe you
are born again then full of the Holy Ghost by some spirit that was first
of all God's Spirit that bores, that saved, bored me again and Jesus'
Spirit that filled me, or was it vise-a-versa, I forget what I believed,
but I had two spirits. For four and a half hours I argued with the
prophet. Not that I wanted to argue, but my God, I couldn't believe what
I was hearing. There's no way I could believe what I was hearing,
because you see, I heard it the other way. Now, make up your mind. Make
up your own, so much for your thinking.

40.	One fellow tried to tell me something up in Canada. I preached the
Presence of God, and he was so busy about something else, he never…It
went over his head. And I said, "Tell me Dave," I said, "would you had
known the baptism with the Holy Ghost and rebirth is one and the same
thing, except you read in the Church Age Book?"

	He said, "No."

	Then I said, "How do you know this is right?"

	I don't get a revelation between the lines the prophet wrote. I get a
read…a pre…I get the revelation that the prophet preached. I believe
I've got it.  

	You say, "Well, thank you that's nice, I'll believe what you have to
say."

	So no, forget it, you don't believe what I have to say, you believe
what the prophet said. Check what I say with what the prophet said and
run it through the Bible. Where did the prophet get it? Outside of this
Word? Then the prophet didn't get it.

	"Oh," you say, "but the prophet said, you believe everything a prophet
said even if it's not in the Word?" Show me in the Word where it says
Hitler is going to invade Poland? Show me in the Word where it says,
Communism is going swallow up Nazism and Fascism? It isn't there, but it
is. Show me those seven visions in the Bible about that egg-shaped car?
It certainly isn't there. Not in the word egg-shaped, but it is there,
is understanding of science progressing to where it is today. Show me
the atomic bomb there? It's not there, but it is there, because Bro.
Branham explained what they were doing in science way back there that
brought the flood. A man brought it on himself. Anything a prophet says
in the Spirit of God is "Thus Saith the Lord', and it doesn't have to be
in the Bible. But, when he comes to redeeming grace and Word of God and
revelation concerning redemption and our eternality, it had better be
here Word by Word. [raps on the Bible] Because it is.

41.	Now, he may explain how, but It's here. Because this Word is has
been sown brother/sister. It's this Word that's going to come to pass.
Not what I preach, but I'll tell you something: I might have sounded
rough tonight, that's okay. When I preach up north I'm worse than ever.
But, I'll say this, I'm right as far as I'm concerned. You can do what
you want, go shake you heads and say that I'm right, because that's not
the way to do it. Look for yourself, and see if I'm wrong. Get the
continuity, because that's what counts. Because you cannot have a chain
unless every link is there and it its place.

	"Oh," you say, "Bro. Vayle, I have a chain it could break." 

	We need an unbroken chain. Not in pieces that you may forge and weld,
but an unbroken. And he starts out by saying, "Listen, I brought you to
a place where you could have walked right in, but look what you're
doing. I brought you where you fell behind in not one revelation. Not
one gift, not one nothing." 

	The prophet put us under the Seals, the Thunders, not one thing
missing, and they say, "Let's have this, let's have that. Let's do this,
let's do it this way."

42.	Well, maybe I'm an old fuddy-duddy. But you know, years ago when I
was in about grade four we had a teacher who had on our report-card
'crafts and arts' or something. "Well," she said, "every kid must learn
crafts and arts." So, she made every kid bring some knitting needles to
school and I learned how to knit. Haw, I learned how to knit, (phfft!) I
was dropping more stitches, (haw, you know) than stitches should be
dropped. I never, ever made anything, no way shape and form. 

	And there are a lot of people like that teacher they think they got to
be doing something. They think they got to be adding or subtracting, or
making something here, or making there. Brother/sister, it's already
made for us, as Paul said, "Look, you've got everything to get you
there." And then he said, "Now watch it, you've taken step number one,
and step number one is always two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
It's always the same step, it is always away from the Word." It started
that way, it ends that way. And there's only one way to get back, and
that's get back with the Word.

 	When will people smarten up? When will the learn that the prophet was
a hundred percent right? "That which is perfect has come." [1 Cor 13:10]
Who is perfect but God, and what is God but the Word? And by His grace
we have the perfect revelation, the Revealer has revealed Himself,
Himself personally and His ways, and we have nothing left but the
Rapture. "For the Lord Himself has descended with a Shout, the voice of
the archangel, the Trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise. [1 Th
4:16] And we're getting out of here with Him.

43.	Now, brother/sister listen: I don't care if I feel anointed, and I
don't care if you feel anointed. I care less, because that's what the
devil like to say, "Well, now Bro. Vayle you didn't feel too anointed,
the people don't feel too anointed." It's that, it hasn't got a thing to
do with my feelings. I'll tell you why: this was here trillions of years
in an unwritten form before I was made even sperm and egg to come into a
consciousness that one day we'll go back to my super consciousness. Huh?
Yeah. A full fledge member of Logos. Yeah.

	It hasn't got a thing to do with my feelings. Nope. It's got everything
to do with my soul's ability  to comprehend the revelation. To realize
that the prophet said true, "everything lays in those Seals and under
those Thunders to put us in a Rapture." Why? Because, "The Lord Himself
shall descend with the Message."[1 Cor 4:16]  To put Himself at the Head
of the Church and bring us in harmonious relationship to Him.

	Listen brother/sister, (I'll get you out of here right away) a woman
wrote to Bro. Branham and she said, "Bro. Branham, I just don't know how
to submit to the Lord."

	He said, "Didn't you marry a man you knew who were seed? Didn't you
marry a man and submit to him?" We're talking about the marriage night,
we're talking sexual, so let's get it flat, you have to give or you
don't give. And he said, "You do the same with Christ spiritually." 

	There is, in other words, a union of love, of melding, of molding of
submission. It's marriage, and that's what we are doing now, we are
being subdued. The word 'subdued' is not a good word. It means a
submission of love, a happiness to know of a union, one with Him the
Word. He is now the True Head of the Church, because all we do is look
to the Word. 

	That's the 'Shout'. The next thing is the raising of the dead. And He
does it! The next thing is changing us, and He does it! The next thing
is taking us up and He does it! The next thing is the Marriage Supper,
and the next thing His coming down to take over.

44.	You see, look, when He came down it was out of our hands, because He
is going to…that's why you see it is not virtues; it is not fruit; it
is not charismatic; it is not nearness to God; it is not obedience; it
is none of those things. It is God! The eighth one is not of virtue
which is love after brotherly kindness, because that's still a bit
sticky. See? But, He isn't. He is He, perfect, which is to come; which
is God; which is love. 

	And then some church says well, "We know when that happened to us."

	And I laugh and I say, "Hogwash." 

	I know when that happened, when those Seven Mighty Angels came down,
flaming fire, and He taking vengeance and the Bride screaming, "Avenge
me, avenge me my Inheritance, my Inheritance."

	And He said, "I'm here with your inheritance, and that inheritance is
my inheritance. I call you Mrs. Jesus.!"  Oh bless God, let hell rise up
in a fury of the enemy come against us. They're not going to have a
thing to do with us, we already won the battle. "For He has risen
victorious, and the same One has risen over us with healing in His wings
to bring us forth Mighty Conqueror. Those old heathen… (Aw, shut up
and sit down Vayle, I can't do it.) Those old heathen back there under
the perverting of the Zodiac. 

	You know, they had a woman and this woman had the foot on the snake and
people say, "Well, just a minute, that's real heathenism, because you
see, it's Jesus' foot that is on the snake." 

	I've got news for you, It said, "the Seed of the woman will bruise."
How are we going to do it? With Him, coming back as a Bride Warrior.
They say those Amazons years ago, heathenism, there's a real Bride
terrible as the sun, fair as the moon and she's coming back with Him to
reap vengeance on those that hated the lover of her soul.

45.	My wife always says, "I love anybody that loves my husband." You
know, that woman she's just too much for me, I'll tell you, she's really
scriptural on that one. So, one woman said, "I love him, I love him."
And that's nice. You keep it up 'babe', I tell you what, you're a good
girl. A hundred percent scriptural. Tell you what, we just don't love
anybody that doesn't love our Jesus. 

	Now, we can feel sorry, have compassion and a million things. But, I'm
going to tell you brother/sister, there's something about love that's
unique and different. To have love, really, there's got to be something
there that actually terribly worthy, or something has gone haywire. Only
He can qualify, then how can you really love anybody but Him Who is the
Word? Compassion, try to help, do good, but that's reserved, the heart's
reserved for one. See?

	So, there it is tonight. They messed up the Word, even simple Lord's
Supper. Simple foot-washing. (Man, let's talk about it some other
night.) Let's rise. Talk myself out, sort of.

	Heavenly Father, we cannot praise You enough for Your goodness, mercy
and grace. There's no way, Lord, that we could possibly ever tell it,
and I know we're not going to really tell it, until that day, and here
in this hour, Lord, there's so many things that seem almost mundane,
seem almost just mechanical. Seem almost critical, but, Lord, we know
that isn't true. We know that, Father, as we partake of those emblems,
we will have good done to us. There's something mystical, mysterious and
wonderful and beautiful, so health giving, it's strength giving,
everything lies in there, Lord, because we do what You said, and how You
told us to do it, and what end, and then, Lord, before God we know that
You don’t fail. For Your Own Word says, "repent and be baptize in the
Name of Jesus Christ, remission of sin, and you shall receive the gift
of the Holy Ghost." And we know that there were thousands…and that's
what happened, and millions since.

	And so, Lord, we know that Your Word never fails, and here we are now,
partaking and we're partaking till You come. And You're already here
ready to go into incarnation again, and then we're going to in glorified
form do it on the other side. And, Lord, we're so grateful for it. We
just now get our eyes on the fact that we've done it all these years and
now the most wonderful One of all is going to happen on the other side.

	So, Lord, we…like Bro. Branham told us, "Branham Tabernacle, you do
wrong." Every time they came together, they did it. And, Lord, if we
don't do it every time we come together, because we weren't expressly
told by him, let it be in our thoughts and mind, that there never be a
time when we don't think of the broken bread and the wine representing
broken body, shed Blood, the Life given. And we're just ready to move
over to the other side to do it anew, in a new way. 

	Wonderful, we just thank You for it, Lord God, as the people stand
here. We know, Lord, that You sense that many people are sick, many are
weak. That's shouldn't be amongst us anymore, Lord, because God hears
the people that…and we're trying, Lord, to be one with the Word, right
with the Word, I trust, Lord. If I have said one thing tonight wrong,
Lord, You've got to correct me. And if my spirit's wrong, and it could
be in certain areas, I pray that You'll forgive me, and correct us,
because we want it under the Blood. We want it right down exactly right,
Lord, that You should be tonight, O God, healing virtue flowing amongst
us.

	As Bro. Branham said, "and that sweet Spirit comes into the Church."
What sweeter Spirit would there be than to know we're talking about Him
who died, that sweet Spirit move amongst us. Just like a…He's already
moved and we've got a spiritual resurrection. Father, we're looking for
help tonight. We're looking for help tonight, Lord, just like request
for Mary's sister, Lord, we're looking for help for ourselves too. And
here we stand, O God, for You to minister to us. That Spirit come into
the room, talking about Him Who loved us and gave Himself for us. Who
called us "Mrs. Jesus," in the room tonight. Moving amongst us, touching
us. Father, we thank You. 

	We thank You, Lord, that we can discern the Word. We come to that place
for the Great Discerner Himself came, laid it out before us. He
descended, Seven Mighty Angels of Fire bringing us Word. Bringing us
under Divine spiritual loving glorious submission of union. Thank You
for Your help. Thank You for Your care. We can't praise You enough,
Lord. We can't praise You enough for truth prevails. And You are the
Truth, You're the Reality.

	Lord, let this night be memorable. Every night is we meet in Your Name,
every morning. Wasn't there something in Your Word, Lord, that said some
men would make a mark concerning that time, and that time would stand,
because of that mark. And that mark would be there, Lord, I believe
that's this, and we thank You for it.

	Now, unto the King, eternal, immortal, invisible the only wise God, be
all power in honor and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

	'The Lord bless you.'     [Service ends]

 

 

 

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