There is a Real Body

Bro. Lee Vayle   - November 30, 1979

1.	Now for the last few messages, dealing with the subject of what
happens when the Holy Spirit comes and been focusing our attention upon
the fact that there are two major things that the Holy Spirit
accomplished. The first of which of course was what we call the
'Vertical' of the Spirit of God which is God uniting Himself with the
individual. And it's always in the singular, it's never in the plural.
As the Scripture tells us, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see
the Kingdom of God. [Jn 3:3]  

	Now, over in Matthew 13:47-49, we read concerning that same Kingdom,

		(47) 	Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast
into 						the sea, and gathered of every kind:

		(48) 	Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and 	
				gathered the good into vessels, but the bad cast away.

		(49) 	So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come
forth, 						and sever the wicked from among the just,

	Now, in here we have a plurality where the Gospel is likened to a net
which is being cast, and you'll see the ones coming in are in the
plural. But if we go back to verses 18-23 of the same chapter, you will
notice the singular is what is referred to, that though many may come at
one time. Such as on the day of Pentecost, three thousand, five thousand
later on, they were all one at a time. So, in verse 18, It says:

		(18) 	Hear…the parable of the sower.    

		(19) 	When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth 
				it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was
			            sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the
way side.

		(20) 	…he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he
that 						heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;

		(21) 	Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: when 		
			tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by 			
		he is offended. (Notice the persecution comes by the Word.)

		(22) 	He also that received seed among the thorns is he that
(receiveth)

                        the word; and the care of this world, and the
deceitfulness of riches, 					choke the word, and he (becomes)
unfruitful.

		(23) 	But he that received seed into the good ground is he that
heareth the 					word, and (understands) it; which also beareth fruit,
and bringeth 						forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 

	Now, always in the Vertical, God deals with the individuals. Like they
say in business world, from the top down, God uniting each person to
Himself individually, one to one confrontation.

2.	Now, we also mentioned the Vertical union by the same baptism with
the Holy Ghost. And this is what is a little more difficult for people
to apprehend, because the emphasis has never been as it ought to have
been put upon the union of the individual with individual. But this same
baptism with the Holy Ghost wherein each person was individually filled,
making each member a member of one, that is one God. 

	Now, and also not of men, or of man but of God, though some sow, some
water. There is no such thing as anybody ever becoming a part of the
Kingdom of God, the Bride, the true Church, except it be by God Himself
in that person joined to God. So, it's a one to one wherein each member
is a member of one, the one God, even as the Scripture said, "I and my
Father are one." [Jn 10:30] That's exactly our case for one plus one,
makes one. When one is joined to God, it does not make him two, it makes
him one.

3.  There is the understanding here that a man is no longer himself.
That's why Paul could say and I don't have time to go into Galatians
2:20.	  

 		(20) 	I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; (and) yet not
I, but Christ 					(lives) in me: and the life which I now live in the
flesh I live by the 					faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave
himself for me.

	The absolute identification of God with the individual is a one to one.
For anybody to spit on a child of God is to spit on God. There's no way
out. They, everyone is accountable. "Whosoever offendeth one of these
little ones, better he had a millstone hanged about his neck and were
drown in the sea." [Lk 17:2] There is no way that there is any way that
you can separate a child of God from the Father. And neither is there
any way that we can separate member from member which constitutes one
body. Now, we must be just as adamant in our thinking upon this portion
of the subject as we're adamant upon thinking the other portion subject.
   

4.	In John 17:11, 

		(11) 	And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world,
and 					I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those 
					whom thou hast given me, that they (plural) may be one, (even as I 
				and each individual in the singular am one, because Jesus and God 		
			were singular, one.)

 	Now, this is a little difficult to begin to believe I said the other
night, because of our Pentecostal negative background. But let's say It
together: "I and my Father are one." 

	Say It:  [Congregation says with Bro. Vayle ] "I and my Father are
one." That's exactly true. And remember, we found that Bro. Branham
said, "When the Bride says that, the shuck begins to separate from the
wheat." Pulls right away.

	Now, I realize amongst us, there are those who say, "We separate."
Because some don't believe that Bro. Branham's coming back a certain
way, or he's not this, or he's not that. I have news for you, stay with
the Bible, will you please.  [Someone says something] Thank you! Word.

5.	John going back further, John 17:21-23.

		(21) 	That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, … 

	Now notice that, "As Thou Father art in me." One! That union goes far
beyond anything we have ever hoped to express. Except the prophet said,
"Just get ten people in one place with the same thoughts, they'll be a
Rapture." In other words, the body will go:

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

	And we get into Christ, the body with the very same baptism with the
Holy Ghost that's makes us one with God, and the promises we are one
with each other. The union is no different as to its oneness, and we'll
find as to its durability. 

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

		(23) 	I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one;
and 					that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved
them, 					as thou hast loved me.

	And this is the great key that has been lost through the ages, but must
reappear, because God is faithful. There has got to be a people
sometime, somewhere that fulfills this that the world may know that He
was sent. And that One was sent at the last time. That's why the Holy
Spirit had to return to the earth. It has to be in this hour. And if it
is going to take ten, praise God for the ten. I'm not a statistician,
but Bro. Pearry Green is a pretty good one. And I think if I'm right on
this, he said, "There's roughly seventy-five thousand people believe
this Message." Right? (What's the number? Seventy-five thousand I think
he said. Well, you've got double figures since then. Well, that's
alright.) 

	Bro. Branham heard there were ten thousand. He said, "I got to shake
some off, it's too many."  I don't care if there's a hundred and fifty
million said so, but don't worry there won't be that many.

6.	All right. As God and the individual is one member with no schism, no
breaking point, eternal security personified,  so by virtue of that
union of the Vertical, there is the lateral, or horizontal union making
all members one body. (See?) As in the individual so in the group, no
way but Christ. John 10:1-9. 

		(1) 	Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door
(of) 						the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a
thief 						and a robber.

		(2) 	But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

		(3) 	To him the porter (opens); and the sheep hear his voice: and he 	
				calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. (This is a 				
	picture of Jesus Christ being the good Shepherd in the sight of the 			
		Father God, Who is the great Eternal Spirit.

		(4) 	And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them,
and 					the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

		(5) 	And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for
they 					know not the voice of strangers.

		(6) 	This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what 
					things they were which he spake unto them.

		(7) 	Then said Jesus unto them again, (Truly, truly) I say unto you, I
am 					the door of the sheep.

		(8) 	All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the
sheep 					did not hear them.

		(9) 	I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and
shall 					go in and out, and (shall) find pasture.

7.	[John] 14:1-6

		(1) 	Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also 	
				in me.

		(2) 	In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I
would 						have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

		(3) 	And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
receive 					you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

		(4) 	And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

		(5) 	Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and 
				how can we know the way?

		(6) 	Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no
man 						cometh unto the Father, but by me.

8.	Ephesians 4:1-4, the same verses we've read before.

		(1)	I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that (you) walk
						worthy of the vocation wherewith (you're) called,

		(2) 	With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing 	
				one another in love;

	Now notice, with lowliness, meekness, longsuffering, forbearing one
another in love.

		(3) 	Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of
peace.

	Now, right here there's a warning to us, that this does not come
automatically. Although it is automatic in the sense of the perfection,
of the perfections of the one who gives it. It is incumbent upon those
who are within the Bride to begin to formulate and to have a spirit
within them of lowliness, meekness, longsuffering, forbearing and
endeavoring. (Well, I could blow my stack right here about present
condition, but I'm determine not to be too negative.  

		(4) There is one body, …

	Now, they couldn't have believed that, or He wouldn't have said this
above it. Or if they did believe it there was a constant danger of
falling from it. (See?) 

		(4)	…one Spirit, even as (you) are called in one hope of your
calling;

9.	In other words, what I've said all along is true, the horizontal is
no different from the vertical. No different. We are just as much bound
to each other as we are bound to God if truly we are born of His Spirit.


		(5) 	(There is) One Lord, (there is) one faith, (there is) one
baptism,

		(6) 	(There is) One God (even) Father of all, who is above all, and
through 					all, and in you all.

   Now, It doesn't just say, "in all," It's says, "through."  So, that
constitutes a mighty element. That the Bride personally, (individual
rather) is not only full of the Holy Ghost, but the Bride itself is
permeated by the Holy Ghost. In other words, it's an in and out baptism.
It's an in and out immersion. The Holy Spirit is immersed in me, and
I've been immersed in the Holy Spirit. It's the same thing with the
Bride. There is no difference whatsoever.

10.	Notice in 1 Corinthians 12: 12-14

		(12) 	For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the 					
members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also 						is
Christ.

		(13)	For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether 				
	we be Jews or Gentiles, bond or free; and have been all made to 					
drink into one Spirit. 

	Spirit in and into. Spirit in us, and we in the Spirit. And this is a
literal sense in which we're talking. This principle goes even unto the
whole redeemed body of the Old and New Testament. 

11.	And the Scripture is very specific in Ephesians 2:11-22. We read
these before. 

		(11) 	Wherefore remember, that (you) being in time past Gentiles in
the 						flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called
the 						Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

		(12) 	That at that time (you) were without Christ, being aliens from
the 						commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of 		
			promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

		(13) 	But now in Christ Jesus (you) who sometimes were far off are
made 					nigh by the blood of Christ.

		(14) 	For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken
down 					the middle wall of partition between us;

		(15) 	Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of
commandments 					contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of
twain one new man, 					so making peace;

		(16) 	…that he might reconcile both unto God…

	Now, it's the making of the new man individually with God that gives
this man peace between him and God. And it's the same things that gives
the peace of God in the Church, when they understand it is Christ in the
Church. No difference.

		(16) 	…that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the
cross, 						having slain the enmity thereby:

12.  Now, you just keep your finger there a second, and remember these
verses over here in Ephesians 4.  "With all lowliness." In other words,
the word 'vocation' is your true calling. We've got a true calling in
this world. And our true calling is to be Bride. Your job is an
'avocation', it's a by-calling. Even the ministry is a by-calling. 
Five-fold ministry is a by-calling. The avocation of everybody in the
body is the true calling, which is called to be sons. Now, It says,
"with all lowliness, meekness and long suffering and forbearing one
another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond
of peace." [Eph. 4:2-3] 

	Now It says here, "the enmity was slain." How in the world if enmity
slain in Christ, we've got enmity in us which puts each other out? 
We're going to get to the nitty-gritty tonight. How many is going to be
Bride before it's all over, I don't know. I'll end up saying "There's a
Bride out there somewhere, and by the grace of God I won't stand in her
way."  

	Whatever was done in Christ, in the individual has to be in the Bride
also. Because it's considered one body. There is one body, not a dozen.
(See?) 

	   	(17) 	And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, (in) 
					them that were nigh.

		(18) 	For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the
Father.

		(19) 	Now therefore (you) are no more strangers and foreigners, (and)
fellow-					citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

		(20) 	And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus 					Christ himself being the chief corner stone; (not Capstone
right now, 					but corner.)

		(21) 	In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an
holy 					temple in the Lord: (Were looking to New Jerusalem.)

		(22) 	In whom (you) also are builded together for an habitation of God
				through the Spirit. (Presence tense, not just future, presence
tense.)

	The Bride of Christ, the body of Christ, the true Church is the
habitation of God. So therefore, as we have already said, we have not
only the Holy Spirit immersed in us, but we are immersed in the Holy
Spirit. (You see?) 

	How in the world then can anybody come in the judgment? No, I'm not
talking generalities, I'm talking specifics. I have not made one general
statement tonight, because I am not interested in general statements. I
am interested in specific statements. (See?)  It's not like if I had
cancer I'd bring the subject up, "Can cancer be got rid of?"  I would
say, "Can I get rid of my cancer?" It's personal, it's specific. So,
there's a total immersion of the Spirit of God in us, and we in the
Spirit, buy this one baptism with the Holy Ghost.

13.  Now, also John 10:27-30.

		(27) 	My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, they follow me:

		(28) 	And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
neither 					shall any man pluck them out of my (Father's) hand.

		(29) 	My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man
is able 					to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

	Now, if he can't pluck any individual out, you'd never pluck the Bride
out. Even as God will lose none, the Bride will positively be an entity
and none will be lost to her. (See?) This makes me wonder why we have
been, I'm not going to judge you, but I'm judging myself. And as I look
around I'm afraid I get reports that I can't really appreciate too
deeply. And that is brother and sister that when you consider the
disciplinary measures that can be taken in a church, and men glibly talk
about losing members from the church, there's not much of this Spirit of
Christ, because it should be the very last resort with pleadings and
tears and prayer.

	As Bro. Branham so carefully put the emphasis when somebody ask Lady
Petras, (you know) the leader of the Independent Pentecostal church in
Sweden: 

	"What do you do when someone gets out of order?"  

	"We pray."  

	"But what do you do if somebody goes and talks to the man and he
doesn't listen?" 

	"Well, we pray."

	And he kept on saying, "We pray. We pray."

	Here we got a beautiful gorgeous spirit called, 'kick him in the teeth,
knock him down, drag him out, take him out of the church." 

14.  Something wrong somewhere, not with you, with me. Maybe you too.
(Uh?) Now, I'm not there saying there are times…not saying there's
aren't times when you'll have to be pressed. But,  as I read Ephesians
here, chapter 4, our calling with all lowliness and meekness, humility
endeavoring to keep that unity. That spells out something to me, greatly
tremendous.

	Now, let us know it immediately. So, after thisdissolves all doubts and
disabuse our minds that are cluttered by reasoning, that destroy faith
and reality. And I say let us note and indelibly imprint on our minds
this truth, the Bride of Christ is one with Him mystically, and one with
each other mystically, and there is no difference.   

	And we read those verses already in Ephesians 4:1-6. Especially noting
that are great calling in this life is to be Bride, is to be sons,
children of God and we are to walk worthy. And the worthiness lies in
the atmosphere we create in the church for lowliness, meekness, long
suffering, forbearing has nothing to do with the act, per se, as though
it is the act, but the atmosphere any act. Then if you had to come to
the place where someone is put out of the church, how would you do it? 
With fear and trembling, and the utmost crying, and the lifting up of a
heart for pity. I've reason for talking this way, I get phone calls I
won't tell you what. But I'm going to tell you something brother/
sister, we don't have half the spirit of Christ among us as we have a
oneness spirit amongst us. Which is the preacher to grab all the tithe,
own the building, beat very body over the head. Make one step and
crucifies the individual to beat him into submission.

 	Where do you find that here, I want to know? Where do I find it? Same
Spirit of God, no difference. Now, that's in the Bride somewhere. The
Spirit of God doesn't change. Word of God doesn't change. We have our
union with each other as individuals in Jesus Christ, have that same
union.

15.	Back to 1 Corinthians 12: 12-27.

		(12) 	For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the
members 					of that one body, being many, are one body: so also, is
Christ. (Notice 					the emphasis, many members, one body. Just the
repetition.)

		(13) 	For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, (not two
spirits, 					not three, one Spirit.) …Jews or Gentiles…bond or
free; …made to 					drink into one Spirit.

		(14) 	For the body is not one member, but many.

		(15) 	If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of
the body; 					is it therefore not of the body?

		(16) 	And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of
the 						body; is it therefore not of the body?

	Now, notice this person here has a personal testimony, that’s very
negative. But he said, "Just because you say something, or somebody else
says something, does that make it so? Does that disrupt the body? And
what if I don't believe a certain thing about this Message, because It
hasn't rung to me?  "Oh, you're out!"  Is that so? I neither can put
myself out, or anybody put myself out.  If I judge myself harshly in the
light of somebody else, I still can't be put out. 

	And let me tell you flat, even though somebody puts another member out
of the church because that person's obstreperous, you cannot put that
member out of Jesus Christ. It simply means that that person is taken
away from protective custody. And because he wouldn't listen to the hand
of God, God will put him through the mill with Satan, and he'll come
back, because he was always God's child, because He said, "None can be
lost." 

16.	 And when we're dealing with each other, we're dealing not with each
other, we're dealing with God's property. And a steward must be faithful
concerning somebody's property.

		(17) 	If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the 		
			whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

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

		(19) 	And if they were all one member, where were the body?

		(20) 	But now are they many members, yet but one body.

		(21) 	And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of (you, 		
			believe it my way or else. Do it my way or else. Who said so?)

	The Holy Spirit has many operations and many ministries. You can't
stereotype him. You just go by the Word.  

		(22) 	Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be 					
more feeble, are necessary:

		(23) 	And those members of the body, which we think less honourable, 	
				upon (those) we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely 					
parts have more abundant comeliness.

		(24) 	For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the
body 					together, having given more abundant honour to that part which
						lacked.

		(25) 	That there should be no schism in the body; … (You see,
there's no 						schism in Christ with the individual.)

	And notice what God does here: He Himself by example comes behind, and
if anyone should feel that he is less important a member, then what
seems to be the most important member, he said, "I poured upon us a
measure of grace that more than makes up." So that nobody has any kick
whatsoever. Nobody can come back upon God. Nobody lacks anywhere.

		(25) 	That there should be no schism in the body; (and) that the
members 					should have the same care one (of) another.

	You say, "That will be the day." No, that day's right here. It's going
to be. Bro. Branham said, "If we're not Bride, there's a Bride out there
somewhere."  You bet, "she's glorious, without spot, without wrinkle." 
[Eph 5:27] All glorious within, and all glorious without.

17.	Now, he said here:

		(26) 	And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it;
(and) 					one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

	And one person gets it wrong, and all are stigmatized. If one person
goes out and commits all kinds of boo-boos, and says all kinds of things
about the Message here, we're all stigmatized. You can't help it. I'm
going to tell you, If I stick my finger in mud, my body's got mud on it.
If I take sip of something sweet and delicious, my whole body responds.
If I put my hand on the stove and my hand gets burnt, my whole body
responds. 

		(27) 	Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

	And Jesus said right here, "Every one of you is a particular member,
because you're joined to Him."  Now, that's the Word of God.

18.	 We found our verse back here in John 17:21, reading It over again:

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

	Now, a moment ago I used the word 'reality'. And that word 'reality' is
found over in the Book of Revelation 3:7 

		(7) 	And to the (messenger) of the church in Philadelphia write; These
						things saith he that is holy, he (that's) true, he that hath the
key of 						David, 

	And that word 'true' is He that is the Reality. (See?) 

19.	Now, I'm going to read a bit from the ['Seven] Church Ages', you're
all familiar with it. In page 292.

		"These things saith He That is true." Now this word, 'true', is a very
wonderful 				word. It does not mean true in just the sense that it is
opposite to false. (You say, 			this is true and that is false, it
doesn't say that in the Bible.) It expresses the 				Perfect Realization
of an idea as contrasted with its Partial Realization. 

	In other words, there's a fullness that's here, that overlooks anything
which is partial. And anything that which is partial then simply is
like…points to the fullness. Merely like an illustration here.

		For example, we recall that Jesus said in John 6:32, "Moses gave you
not 				that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread.
(That's 					the real bread) John 15:1 (says,) "I'm the true vine."
(Which is the real vine)			 		Hebrews 9:24, "For Christ is not entered
into the holy places made with hands, 				(but) the figures of the true,
(that's the real place) into heaven itself, now to 				appear in the
presence of God for us."  [1 John 2:8] "Because the darkness 				is
past, and the (real) true light now shineth."

	And that's where we stand right tonight, the real Light is shining,
because the Light shines in the west. The same Light in the east appears
in the west. And we showed you that in the Parousia message. Exactly how
we identified it. 

20.	Now:

		Since this word, indeed, expressed Perfect Realization as against the
idea 				of Partial Realization as illustrated in these verses, we can
now understand 				as never before antitype contrasted with type, and
substance with shadow. 				Take the example of manna from heaven.  God
sent down angel bread from 				heaven for Israel. But that bread did not
satisfy. It was only good for a day. 				Those who ate it were hungry
again the next day. If it was left around it 					became contaminated. 
But Jesus is the TRUE bread from heaven, whereof 				manna was just a
type. And if any man eats of that BREAD	that came from 				heaven he
will never hunger again. He does not need to come back and eat 			
again. The moment he partook, he had eternal life. Here indeed was
REALITY. 				No need any longer for a shadow. Now need for a partial
salvation. Here is 				the WHOLE of it. Just like Jesus isn't a part of
God; He is God. 

		Now one could deny that Israel had light. They were the only people
who 					had light as a nation. It was as when Egypt was so dark that
one could feel 				it. But the homes of the Israelites there was light.
But now true light has come. 				The light of the world is Jesus.
(That's exactly right, because Christ came 					back without corporate
body, right at this very moment.) Moses and the 					prophets brought
the light by the means of the Scripture relative to the Messiah. 			
Thus Israel had light. But now the Fulfillment of the light has come,
and what 				was the glowing Word has now broken forth in the Brightness
of God 					manifested amongst His people. 

21.	And Bro. Branham said, "The Lutherans potentially had the Holy
Ghost. Wesley potentially had the Holy Ghost. Pentecostal potentially."
But now He is here. Brother/sister, do you realize I'm speaking of
Christ and the Bride? I'm not divorcing this thought from a Bride who is
surrounded by Him, and who surrounds Him. (See?) 

		But now the Fulfillment of the light has come, and what was the
glowing 					Word has now broken forth in the Brightness of God
manifested amongst 					His people. As the pillar of fire gave light at
night, that was wonderful, now 				light and life were manifested in the
fullness of the Godhead bodily.

		Israel used to take the red heifer and sacrifice her upon the altar
for the 					remission of sins. For a year the sins of the guilty one
was covered.  But that 				covering could not take away the desire for
sin.  It was not a perfect offering. 				It was a shadow (of) the real
thing (to come.) So, each ear the man would 				sacrifice and each year
come back because he still had the same desire to 				sin. The Life of
the animal atoned for sin, but being animal blood that was 					shed and
animal life that was given it could not come back upon the man. 			
(Because the man wasn't an animal) If it had come back, it still would
not 					have availed.  But when Christ the perfect substitute was
given, His blood 				was shed, then the life that was in Christ came
back upon the repentant sinner 				and that life being the perfect life
of Christ, sinless and righteous, then the 				guilty one could go free
for the had no desire to sin. The life of Jesus had 					come back upon
him. That' is what we (see) in Romans 8:2, "The law of 					the Spirit
of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and 				
death."

22.		But the Jews back there in the time of Jesus did not want to accept
that 					sacrifice. The blood of bulls and goats made nothing perfect.
It was once 					God's ordained method. But now Christ having appeared
in the flesh, and 				by the shedding of His own blood has put away sin
and by that offering of 					Himself has made us perfect. The Jews would
not take that. But what about 				the Philadelphian Age, and, yes, the
other ages too? Did they really accept 				this reality in Christ? No
sir. Even though Luther brought the truth of 					justification the
Roman Church, and its eastern counterpart, the Orthodox 					Church,
still clung to works. Now, works are fine, but they don't save you. 				
They don't make you perfect. It is Christ or perish. It is not even
Christ AND	 			works. It is Christ alone This age began the years of
Arminianism that does 				not believe in (God) as the REALITY. It does
not sing of "Nothing but the 					Blood," for it sings of "Nothing but
the blood AND my own conduct". Now 					I believe in good conduct. If
you are saved you will do righteously. We have 				already gone over
that. But let me tell you now, salvation is NOT Jesus 					PLUS. It is
Jesus ALONE. SALVATION IS OF THE LORD. From start 					to finish it is
all GOD. 

23.	 Now, with that understanding you apply that to this end time to a
Bride, what kind of a glorious Bride will she be? She cannot only be
conscious that He Appeared, but she's got to be conscious that we are
appearing. You can't get away from it brother/sister. 

	Now, I don't mean to be rough on you tonight, as though I'm denouncing
anything here, but I just got a very rough way of presenting truth. But
my mechanical truth is exactly what the prophet taught with the Word of
God brings out here. And you receive that up here, then it'll become
real down here. But you've got to get it right up here. But if you're
mind is a million miles away from the reality that we have in each
other, we'll never overcome these schisms. And frankly I don't know how
much longer I can preach, because I can't take it, I'll be honest with
you. I try to get some sun this summer, just get away from everything.
And I get away from nothing. Instead the Lord gave me this series of
messages. And I knew when I preach it, something in my heart said, "This
people will either go for ahead from this moment on, or they'll go
backward. And I believe it's the same with you. You cannot be the same
again after the series of messages. If you are, it's just too bad.

	You're going to have to be a changed people. You are going to have to
literally discern the body of Jesus Christ and understand what I am
saying about.  And this will give you a Spirit that will not rise up
against anybody, though anybody rise against you, you'll just say,
"Well, praise the Lord." You won't be blown off of a balance sheet,
you’ll just walk off.

	Remember, I learned one thing from Bro. Branham he's the fast back
peddler I ever saw. Not because that man learned boxing, like old
Muhammad Ali. Now, he's a good lesson. I think everybody ought to get a
hold of a tape of his boxing, and apply it to Christianity. Learn to
back pedal.  Learn to stay out of people's reach. Learn to do the old
'rope-a-dope-a'.  (See?) Don't get caught up in that stuff. Now,
you’ve got to take a stand, but that stand has got to be one of love.
Because that's exactly how we're supposed to conduct ourselves according
to the Word of Almighty God, see here.

24.	Now, we want to point out here quickly to be in Christ by the
baptism with the Holy Ghost is real. It makes us a part of reality, or
realization, which is a present tense. Earthly life realization, not the
future now, because it's the same Eternal Life we take with us. Over
here in Ephesians 1: 13-14.  

		(13) 	In whom also (you) trusted, after that (you) heard the word of
truth, 					the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that (you)
believed, 					(you) were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
(sealed into Christ 					and sealed into each other,) 

		(14) 	Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of
the 						purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

	And in [Ephesians 4:] verse 30, 

		(30) 	And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby (you) are sealed 
					unto the day of redemption.

	And remember, you can't separate redemption from adoption, because the
end of redemption is the age of adoption. So, we're looking for a
glorious church without spot and wrinkle. Just like It says over here,
who understand our vocation. And our vocation is to be Bride members
manifested, (some members) who are here at the Appearing of the Lord and
our day of salvation, lowly, meek, longsuffering, forbearing in love.
Now, he wouldn't say, "to forbear in love, unless you got to forbear."
Bear and to forbear. And that word 'forbear' doesn't mean 'to come
against' anybody, it just means to take it nicely, nicely. Just hold
your ground nicely, nicely. "But endeavor to keep the unity." [Eph. 4:3]


25.	Now, what kind of talk do I hear from some people who say, "I can't
fellowship with him, because he doesn't believe like me." You talk about
a cruddy testimony. But a very specific illumination of the person's
heart. I've always said, "You hear a man talk long enough he'll spill
his guts, and if he doesn't, you listen to his wife, and she'll do it
for him."  (You know?)

	Now, this realization is shared by every Bride member personally unto
each believer, and it is granted as a fact to each and everyone, single
one that holds the same hope. Whatever I have from Christ must be
granted to the other. That's why Bro. Branham said even concerning the
unbelievers in your home, your children and all. He said, "You had faith
for yourself, didn't you? Well alright, can't you have it for them?" 
Evidently not, if we're just going to have that problem.

26.	Now, I'm going to read some 'Church Ages' some more: (This time over
here in 254-256 and I'll explain this, because this may be a little
difficult. Not to understand in a way, but to what we're talking about.)


		In spite of Luther's constant teaching against outside interference in
local 					church matters he was not able to clear men's minds of the
"Bishop, Archbishop" 				concept of church government. Thus, the church
took one step in the right 				direction but still remained shackled, so
in short order she was again imprisoned 				in the same dungeon whence
she had attempted to escape. Still the cup of the 				abominable works
was not yet full. Not only did Luther through poor judgment 				incite
to battle and thereby cause the death of multitudes; (literally
thousands of 				peasants, see?) but Zwingli's party persecuted unto
prison the godly Dr. Hubmeyer, 			and though it did not commit him to
the stake, it was actually responsible in great 				measure for his
eventual death by fire. And Calvin did no less, for he demanded 				the
arrest of Servetus who had seen and taught the oneness of the Godhead. 	
		The State then tried this brother, and to Calvin's dismay he was
burned at 				the stake. 

	But you see, why did Calvin do it in the first place? "You got to
believe like me, or I'll annihilate you." Whoo, you think that this is
something new? Oh, there's nothing new under the sun. He put that to
music too, but don't put any verses to it. Now, I got you off to a bad
start there. I just want to break your attention a bit, don't worry.

		If there was ever a time of denominational zeal it was at this tragic
time. The 				words of Comenius describe much of this era. Comenius
wrote the "ONE 					THING NEEDFUL." He compares the world to the
labyrinth, and shows that 				the way out is by leaving what is
needless, choosing the one thing needful—				Christ. The great number
of teachers, he says is the reason of the multitudes 				of sects, for
which we shall soon have no names left. 

27.  And do you know, the curse of this hour is teachers? Peter says
there were false prophets in the old days, so there'll be false teachers
at the end time.

		Each church reckons itself as the true one, or at least as the purest,
truest 				part of it, while among themselves they persecute each other
with the 					bitterest hatred. (Hmm, where have I heard that before?
Hmm, is this a 					rerun?) No reconciliation is to be hoped for between
them; they meet enmity 				with irreconcilable enmity. (I don't see much
difference between meeting quote 				with quote.) Out of the Bible they
forge their different creeds; these are their				fortresses and bulwarks
behind which they entrench themselves and resist 				all attacks. I will
not say that these confessions of faith—for we can admit in 				most
cases that they are so—are bad in themselves. [Bro. Vayle whistles]   
                			(I like that, I've been preaching that for years. I
got nothing against this person 				believes that thing for himself 
…?..., unless it's downright heresy) They 					become so, however, in
that they feed the fire of enmity; only by putting them 				away
altogether would it be possible to set to work on healing the wounds of 
			the Church.    

		"To this labyrinth of sects and various confessions another belongs;
the 					love of disputation… What is attained by it? Has a single
learned strife ever 				been settled? Never. Their number has only been
increased. Satan is the 					greatest sophist; he has never been
overcome in a strife of words… (That's 				why the Bible says,
"Overcome by love") In Divine service the words of 					men are usually
heard more than the Word of God. (Whoowe…that fellow 				was really a
fellow) Each one chatters as he pleases, (sounds as sarcastic 				as I
do) or kills time by learned disquisitions and disproving the views of 	
			others. Of the new birth and how a man must be changed into the
likeness 				of Christ to become partaker of the Divine Nature (II Peter
1:4), scarcely 					anything is said. 

28.	 We have a repeat after four hundred years:  

		Of the (binding) power of the keys, (that's been brought up too) the
Church 				has almost lost the power of binding, only the power of
loosing remains…The 				sacraments, given as symbols of unity, of
love, and of our life in Christ, have 				been made the occasion of
bitterest conflict, (the) cause of mutual hatred, a 				centre of
sectarianism… In short, Christendom has become a labyrinth. The 			
faith has been split into a thousand little parts and you are made a
heretic if 				there is one of them you do not accept… What can help?
Only the one thing 				(is) needful, return to Christ, looking to Christ
as the only Leader, walking in 				His footsteps, setting aside all
other ways until we all reach the goal, and have 				come to the unity
of the faith (Ephesians 4:13). As the heavenly Master built 			
everything on the ground of the Scriptures so should we leave all
particularities 				of our special confessions and be satisfied with the
revealed Word of God 				which belongs to us all. 

		He's saying right here, "Look, if you're full of the Holy Ghost and
that Word is revealed, why aren't you just satisfied with It?"  Looking
to Christ at this man is, not looking Christ, you say, "Well, forget the
Word."   

	Oh, like a lady in Florida said, "Bro. Vayle the trouble is we just
need Jesus, it's always fussing over the Word." 

	I said, "Sister, on the contrary Christ is the Word! And we need a
definitive revelation of Him Who is the Word."

	As Bro. Branham said, "The Bride may know her Mate." 

	Now, we do know, then what's the fussing? (That's right, see?) 

29.	Now:

		With the Bible in our hand we should cry: I believe what God has
revealed 				in this Book; I will obediently keep His commands; I hope
for that which 					He has promised. Christians, give ear! There is only
one life, but Death 					comes to us in a thousand forms. There is only
one Christ, but a thousand 				Antichrists… So, thou knowest, O
Christendom, what is the one thing needful. 				Either thou turnest back
to Christ or thou goest to destruction like the Anti-				christ. If thou
art wise and wilt live, follow the Leader of Life.

		But you, Christians, rejoice in your being caught up, hear the words
of					your Heavenly Leader, 'Come unto Me.'… Answer with one voice,
'Even 					so, we come'."    

	And brother that Call is to the Bride at the end time based upon this
Message. We don't need to elbow, or to shove around it's just to come
together. (See?) 

	Now, the denial of the Spirit of 2 Timothy 2:17-19.

		(17) 	And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus 	
				and Philetus;

		(18) 	Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the
resurrection 						is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

		(19) 	Nevertheless …

	Do you realize that that has been said right today that the
Resurrection is over?  There's nothing new under the sun. And It said
it's overthrown the faith of some, and will continue to               
do so. 

	Now listen:

		(19)	Nevertheless… 

	Now watch this, in spite of everything which I read which Comenius
said, which I have read in the Bible and commented upon, which I brought
a thought or two concerning what Bro. Branham said. It says:

		(19)	Nevertheless the foundation of God (stands) sure, (He will lose 	
				none, and the Bride will not be decimated, stands) sure having this 
					seal, (what is the seal?) The Lord knoweth them (which) are his. 		
			And, (His knowing, He has sealed every single on in.) Let every      
        					one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
(See?)

30.	Now, the refusal to accept 2 Timothy 2:19. That this is the great
Seal amongst us.

		(19) 	Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this
seal, 						The Lord knoweth them that are his…. 

	Now, just stop here one second, and let's go back to 1 Corinthians 2:
verse 15, which is one of my favorites. 

		(15)	 But he that is spiritual (full of the Holy Ghost) judgeth all
things, 						yet he himself is judged of no man.

	If there is no outward evidence, or manifestation of the Holy Spirit,
how then can anybody judge anybody else or tell anybody else? Only God
would know. Then how could there be a true division in a true Bride?
Well you say, "There' isn't one." That's exactly true, but the people
still haven't learned to have the right spirit that goes with it. (See?)

	Now, yet people will not stand for 2 Timothy 2:19 and believe this is
what God's Word said, "That the foundation stands sure, having this
seal, the Lord and only, the Lord knows who are His."  Is not give to us
to know.

31.	We can look back at Colossians 2: and begin reading:  

		(1)	 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, for 
					them at Laodicea, (ha ha, that's way down the line, this Laodicean 
					Church Age. Right?) and for as many as have not seen my face in 			
		the flesh;

	We saw the manifestation and knew that it was God, but we didn't see
the face.

		(2) 	That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in
love, … 

	Will there come peace in the Bride until that time? No! She has got to
forfeit her prejudices, and her sectarian thinking, her devises
schematic tactics knitting the hearts. (See?) 

		(2)	…together in love, unto all riches of the full assurance of
under-						standing, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and
of 						the Father, and of Christ;

	Now, let's look at that, (I didn't write this brother/sister, but I can
tell you one thing, I believe It, and I don't see any way out, except to
believe It and take It.

		(2)	 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in
love, 						(even) unto all riches of the full assurance of
understanding, to the 						acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and
of the Father, and of 						Christ.

		(3) 	In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

	And that's our day, right here. And how is it going to come? Is to
admit to this right here, and begin walking in that calling, which
we’re called according to the Book of Ephesians, with all meekness and
lowliness, and humility, and temperance and forbearing. (See?) With
attitude.  

		(4) 	And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing
words.

32.	Oh, I wish I didn't have to read this. I wish I could look back and
say, "Well, you know folk, that was the Colossian church. Isn't it nice
that we don't have a thing to do with that?"  Isn't it…? Oh, God have
pity. I got to read this way it's written, and I can't help but feel
accused by the Word. Enticing words to beguile, titillated as Eve was.

		(5) 	For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the
spirit, 						joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of
your faith 						in Christ.

		(6) 	As (you) have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk
(you) 					in him:

		(7) 	Rooted and built up in him, stablished in the faith, as (you've)
been 					taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

		(8) 	Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit,
					after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and
not 						after Christ.

		(9) 	For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

		(10) 	And (you) are complete in him, which is the head of all
principality 					and power: (and He's the Head of the Church.)

		(11) 	In whom also (you) are circumcised with the circumcision made
without 					hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by
the circumcision 					of Christ:

		(12) 	Buried with him in baptism, wherein also (you) are risen with
him 						through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him
from 					the dead.

		(13) 	And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your
flesh, 					hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all
trespasses;

		(14) 	Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us,
which 					was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to
his cross;

		(15) 	And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of
them 					openly, triumphing over them in it. (And He did the same thing
here 					today.)

		(16) 	Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in
respect of an 					holyday, new moon, (and) sabbath days:

		(17) 	Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
(When 					it comes to the body, you got to stop judging. Yes sir.)

		(18) 	Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility
and 					worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he
hath not 					seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

		(19) 	And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and 
					bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth 
				with the increase of God.

	Now, that's the same thing said in Ephesians. It comes down from the
heaven. How does it come down? Comes down by the Holy Spirit.

		(20) 	Wherefore if (you are) dead with Christ from the rudiments of
the 						world, why, as though living in the world, are (you) subject
to 						ordinances,

		(21)	(Touch not; taste not; handle not;

		(22) 	Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments
and 					doctrines of men?

		(23) 	Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and 	
				humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the
satisfying 					of the flesh.

33.  Now, right here he's telling us that the Bride's job is to actually
hold the head. To look to Christ. (See?) Now, brother/sister when we
talk and look to Christ, we immediately talk of the individuals who are
baptized with the Holy Ghost, because He is only their Head and nobody
else's.  And then in a compositive way, corporate way, He is the Head of
all of us. And so hold Him and say, "There is my brother in Christ, here
is my sister in Christ, we are one together."

	But you see, we cannot hold each other, until we hold looking at Him.
That's the trouble, we stop looking at Him, at His Word and seeing Him,
and we in Him, and therefore we have chaos. We have got to see each
other in the same place we see ourselves, with the same understanding
until we realize it. As Bro. Branham said, "They are my kids, they have
gone to the desert, they're disobedient, they're wrong, but they are my
kids."  He said about those who believe you as Jesus Christ. "They are
my kids." He fostered them in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Then the
spirit of the Bride is absolutely no less. 

34.	Again, we go to 1 Corinthians 10:16-18. 

		(16) 	The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of 	
				the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the 					
communion of the body of Christ?

		(17) 	For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all 		
			partakers of that one bread.

		(18) 	Behold Israel after the flesh: are they not which eat of the
sacrifices 					partakers of the altar?

	Now, notice right here, if Bro. Branham were right here this evening,
like he was many times at the Tabernacle, and stood there as the head of
the group, (not just prophet of the day, but a man related with the
group that was there, because that was his church, founded it) and he
stood there and served Communion. I wonder, would those who today decide
that there are certain people who don't believe quite right, so they're
out? Would they push them to one side and say, "Out of the way you can't
take Communion." 

	Now, as long as anybody here believes this Message and takes Communion,
you are admitting that there is one God, by Who's Spirit you have been
baptized into Him and each other and you are one. One day God is going
to hold everybody responsible, because He said, "You better not take
that unworthily. 

35.	[Now,] 1 Corinthians 11:17-18,

		(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.

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

	Compare that with 1 Corinthians 1:9

		(9) 	God is faithful, by whom (you're) called unto the fellowship of
his 						Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

	And that fellowship is not just a one to one basis, it's a body to body
member to member basis.

		(10) 	Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, 					that (you) all speak the same thing, that there be no
divisions among 					you; (you) be perfectly joined together in the same
mind…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, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I
of 						Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

		(13) 	Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? (Did Bro. Branham
						die for us?) or were (you) baptized in the name of (William
Branham,) 					Paul (or somebody else?)

	Now he said:

		(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) 	And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know
not 					whether I baptized any other.

		(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) 	For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and
will bring 					to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

		(20) 	Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of
this 					world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

		(21) 	For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not
					God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them
that 					believe.

		(22) 	For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

		(23) 	But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock,
and 					unto the Greeks foolishness;

		(24) 	But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the
						power of God, and the wisdom of God.

		(25) 	Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the
weakness 					of God is stronger than men.

		(26)	 For (you) see your calling, brethren, (now watch, see, your
calling 						brethren, you people over there in Ephesians, meek, mild,
lowly, 						forbearing, so on, temperance) not many wise men after the
flesh, 						not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

		(27) 	But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound
the 					wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to
confound 					the things which are mighty;

	That's a pretty good thought right there, that nobody should strive to
be a big-shot. Any big-shot amongst us are going to be all down flat. If
I try to be a big-shot it'll be manifested before it's over, don't
worry. I'm going to tell you people something flat, let's get this
straight, I'm not hiding behind anything up here as a curtain, I'm
telling you flat, before it's over Lee Vayle and each one of you will be
manifested, as to exactly what you are before anybody's taken off this
earth. You're not going to hide.

36.	 Bro. Branham said that One with the beard up there in that long
robe was a Judge. And a judge brings to light. Bro. Branham stood up
here, stood before the people with discerning, which means 'to judge
between' and to 'bring to light', the Word brought to light. And the
people knew right then whether he'd come or not. Because they wanted it
to be right or wrong. Now, the same One is judging the thoughts and
intense of men's hearts. You think for one minute there's anybody
sitting here tonight that won't be made manifest?  Are you kidding? 
Look around and realize what's already happened amongst us that's been
made manifest. And it's going to be made more manifest. There's nobody
going to hide. Now, you show me one big-shot here. 

	"Oh, I knew the prophet Bill."  	"You believe it my way." 

	"Oh, I'm a friend of some family." (Or something else.) 

	"I slept in the prophet's bed."

	I did too, it doesn't rub off. And it wasn't the bed out in Tucson, his
own bed back in Jeffersonville. And three nights in a row, didn't do a
thing for me. (phfft) Nothing against it, I appreciate the fact the man
did it. Couldn't get any motels, see, went down there, and the Kentucky
Derby was on, within a hundred miles there were no motels. So, he was
very gracious and gave me a place to stay. I really appreciated and love
it. But I'm going to tell you something, baptism with the Holy Ghost is
not lying in somebody's bed is the answer whether you're going to make
it or not.  

37.	 And that same man who was used of God at this last Age said,
"There's no big ones amongst us, no popes, no cardinals, no bishops, no
this."  He said, "The big one is the Holy Ghost." And right here It
tells you there are no big ones. (See?)  And he took:

		(28) 	(the) base things…and things which are despised, God (had)
chosen, 					and (the) things which are not, to bring to (nothing those)
that are:

		(29) 	That no flesh should glory in his presence. (Now, listen:)

		(30) 	But of him are (you) in Christ Jesus, …

 	Now watch: the same thing Comenius said, the same thing Jesus said,
Paul says, the same thing to the Scripture. What's the division for?
Only in Christ and by the baptism with the Holy Ghost are we going to
make it. Then dispute all you want, and quote, quote, quote all you
want. Are you full of the Holy Ghost? (Huh?) And I got a little evidence
as Bro. Branham brought about the fan man with the inkhorn. My evidence
I ask, and do we have the evidence are full of the Holy Ghost, that we
are with all lowliness, and humility… oh, I got to read It
again…let's not fumble this, you know if you watch football you see
them fumble the ball. But I'm not going to fumble this, no sir, I'm
going to read It just the way It is in the Bible. 

38.	 And It said, 

		(1) 	I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you (to) walk
worthy 						of (your) vocation… (where everybody is a little-fellow,
and at the 						same time is a big-follow, because there ain't no
little-fellows, and 						there ain't no big-fellows, they're members in
particular in Christ.)

		(2) 	With all lowliness, meekness, longsuffering, forbearing in love;

		(3) 	(And) endeavouring to keep (that) unity… (in that Bride.) 

	But he said over here, "You're fussing and you mustn't."  

		"I'm of this, I'm of that. I am this, I am that. Here there, they're
there."

	And I read over in Timothy, didn't I what was going on over there?
Wrong doctrine, philosophies, ideas, puffed up heads, big minds, big
mouths with no minds maybe. Paul said, "But of Him are you in Christ,
but of God are you full of the Holy Ghost in the Bride in Jesus. Who of
God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, redemption,
that according as It is written he that glorieth let him glory in the
Lord, Who is the Holy Ghost. [1 Cor. 1:30-31] (Uh?) Now, maybe you
appreciate it more why he preached 'The Token', giving us far more
insight.

39. Now, will you please note, "So far we've seen the failure of every
age to recognize the mystical union of the body, though all claimed to
acknowledge the Head." Beautiful put, I'll read it again: "So far we've
seen the failure of every age to recognize the mystical union of the
body, though all claimed to a knowledge of the Head."

	A bodiless head is not the trouble, because there's only a Head. That's
wonderful, that's God, no problem. Though it might seem that there is a
bodiless head, (you know) because all claim a relationship to the head
with nobody else there, so if that body is segmented here and all
claimed a part, there's no body whatsoever, because the body's one. Yet
if anyone, and I repeat, anyone dares to try to honor the head, he
immediately has to be in his own mind an adjunct to the head and a part
of that which joins it. (Uh?) It has to be. The minute that anybody
claims to honor the head.

40.  Now, here's where we get into the good part; preaching strong about
the fact there is a Head and He must be recognized, true recognition of
the Holy Spirit causes recognition amongst us, that's right. So
therefore, the recognition of the Head will positively cause the
recognition of other parts, because anything that joins to the head must
be a part of the body. It can't be otherwise.

	Now, none of us is the head. Paul killed that, William Branham killed
it. Anybody kills that, we're not head, we're body. Therefore the minute
to recognize a head, (let's get this flat) the minute we recognize a
head is to recognize each other with the understanding,"the foundation
of  God  standeth sure, having this seal, the Lord knoweth them which
are His. [2 Tim 2:19] 

	Before Bro. Branham died, people going around saying, "Bro. Branham
knew everybody's name that was in the Lamb's Book of Life." I doubt that
very much, I would see no reason for it. Another fellow had it all
figured out, he knew all the names. Of course, I'm quite sure mine
wasn't there, because I didn't believe in him. That took care of that.
And of course, I would never believe in him, so that more than took care
of that. I still believe the Scripture that says, "The foundation of God
standeth sure, the Lord knoweth them that are His." And we know we are
of Christ, because we believe the Message. Now, the point is, what part
of the Message or how much, or how. That's never answered, it's just to
believe. (See?) What's all lowliness and humility, and so on.

41.	Ephesians 4:15-16.     

		(15) 	But (holding) the truth in love, may grow up into him in all
things, 						which is the head, even Christ:

		(16) 	From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by 
				that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working
					in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the 
					edifying of itself in love.

	Now, It says right here the body will come to perfection to a complete
conclusion of all members, and a final growing up which is a maturity,
by what? "Holding the truth in love." Doesn't say, speaking, that word
in the Greek is 'holding' [Darby's English Translation] truth in love
grow up unto. Not 'into' Him, they're already in Him. You can't go into
what you are already into. "You grow unto Him, in all things."  In other
words, "the whole Word of God who is the Head, even Christ."  And from
Him is the vast supply of all things.

     Now, we know what is said of the body here, and make no mistake
about it, there is a Head and there is a body. And the Scripture makes
only two divisions in this particular instance, although the body itself
has many members. But the body of Christ has two divisions which is
Head, and body, not other members mentioned, but It just says, "there's
a head and there is a body." So, there's the recognition of the Head,
there's a recognition of the body. So, we recognize the Head. We
recognize therefore many membered body, and we recognize that the Head
is real, then the body is real. We recognize that as Jesus Christ was
manifested, that Head in flesh, there must be a manifestation of that
same body in flesh. In other words, it'll be a spiritual body, it'll be
a body of the Word. 

42.   Now, the lack in believers today to discern the body started in
the very beginning. We go back to the verse in Scripture to 1
Corinthians 11:29, (and I think I'm right in using this verse here,
according to what Bro. Branham also said.)

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

	All right, and this lack has different manifestations. First of all,
for not discerning the body and understanding the Word of God to obey
It, to obey Ephesians, the Scripture we found out leadership sprang up
and took the people in tow as to set the people against the people.
(Right?)                     1 Corinthians chapter 1, I read It to you.
Now, Paul says right here:

		(10) 	…I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, 						that (you) all speak the same thing, and that there be no
divisions 						among you; (you) be perfectly joined together in the
same mind…						the same (manner.)  

	Now, I don't know if they understood every word with the same
intelligence, or spiritual understanding, each understood the Word. But
I believe that he was telling them to have the same spirit of
understanding. (See?) The same attitudes.

		(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, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I
of 						Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

	We've got the same problem right today. You see?  Now what divided the
body? The spirit of leadership. 

43.	Now, what's happened around the world? Let me tell you flat if
you're unaware of it. Certain men have set themselves up that they will
interpret the Word to the people. It got so bad in Europe, that the man
over there had to have the books first, if someone dared to put a book
out, he'd he was excoriated, because he was supposed to be the man to
tell what books to go out.

	Now, that was way back in 1970 when I was there. You slip in the back
door you learn a lot of things. Come around to my place sometime the
kitchen door is just ajar, you might get surprised. I don't mind these
trips. I don't like to be called somewhere, I'd sooner go somewhere on
my own and sneak in the back door. You can find out a lot of things.

	Therefore, Europe will be divided from America. You give me one
Scripture that justifies it. Now, Bro. Branham said before he passed the
scene, (I forget the number he said, but I think he said out in Tucson
alone there was what, seventeen or fifty-seven, or some different
interpretation in this Message.) Now, that's not right, because right
off the bat constitutes some kind of leadership. That's one reason I
make myself…every place I go, I am not a leader, I am not an
authority, don't try to listen to me and believe me. Get off my back. I
wouldn't be responsible for you for all the gold in the Vatican. (Or
wherever they got it.) Bad enough to simply preach and teach a little
bit.

44.	But the early church was split by the spirit of leadership. And say,
"Let me interpret it." Isn't it enough to just say, "Well, I'll look at
it this way, this wonderful great Message, we've had a vindicated
prophet, but you're my brother."

	Now, that's fine, I don't care what a man believes. (See?) That's fine
by me what he believes, as long as his spirit's right. Because a man's
got a right heart, his doctrine will be pure eventually. Bro. Branham
said, he said, "I'd soon have a right heart, or right spirit, (he said)
then a right doctrine." Because he said, "If I got that wrong heart, and
that wrong spirit, and a right doctrine then it ain't going to do you
much good."

	But if you've got a right heart, you'll be corrected. Then you can be
corrected. So, we see in the First Church here schism came in the body,
because of leadership. Secondly, we saw in                     2
Corinthians 2: doctrine. And then thirdly without reading this in 1
Corinthians 12:1-21, gifts split the church. And then in chapter 4 of 1
Corinthians, read It for yourself   8:1-13, people taking personal
liberties, split the church. In chapter 5 of 1 Corinthians 1-13,
immorality split the church. 

45.	Until it's come to 2 Corinthians 10:12,   

		(12) 	For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare
ourselves 					with some that commend themselves: but they measuring
themselves 					by themselves, and comparing themselves among
themselves, are not 					wise.

	And finally, we get that far. (See?) Let's read on verse 13.

		(13) 	But we will not boast of things without our measure, but
according 					to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to
us, a 						measure to reach even unto you.

		(14)	(And) we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though 				
	we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also 						in
preaching the gospel of Christ:

		(15) 	Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other
men's 						labours; but having hope, … (then what's this
proselytizing about?)

	Why would a man leave United States and run all over Africa, God knows
where else, to try to proselytize and split men's works and take over. I
wonder, what makes them do that? Would they go back there and be
responsible? No, but they can come back blowing, what a great time they
had.  Did they, if they didn't win souls and merely split congregations
and proselytized? That's a denominational spirit of hell, let's get that
down flat. How do I know some of you folk aren't run from someplace
else, run around trying to even split this congregation?  "Whoopee,
glory to God, look at me."  Yeah, I'm looking at you. And so is God. And
my look doesn't mean a thing, but the look of God does brother, don't
ever kid me. Your stand for the truth doesn't split anybody, unless
there is literal sin there some, that's a different story entirely.
(See?)

46.	[Now,]

		(16) 	To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast
in 					another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

		(17) 	But he that (glory), let him glory in the Lord.

	Right back to my theme all the time. Vertical to the horizontal,
Vertical to the horizontal. And if the Vertical is there, there's got to
be in the horizontal. Why? Because the Bride has to manifest Jesus
Christ, because she is the Son of man manifested in human flesh. In
every Age, the Bride is the Son of man manifested in human flesh. 

	Now, that doesn't mean we're going to be such a tremendous people like
go and raise the dead all over the place. And it doesn't mean a sinner's
perfection, but it means a proper spirit while we strive. Not one of us
is beyond a failure in some description somewhere. But by the Holy Ghost
we're way beyond this, the Vertical to the horizontal. It's Christ
cherishes a Bride individually member wise. The same Holy Ghost then
will reach and cherish each member in the Bride. (Right?) Certainly,
it's got to be that way. Brother/sister, we got…to renew our minds,
and begin to say, "yes, this is accepted truth of the Word of God." Now,
because It's in my mind It's starts to go down here where the Holy Ghost
can work on it. And from the mechanical, or the physical it goes to the
spiritual. Just like a fellow can’t figure how in the world we were in
Adam. 

 	He said, "We were in Christ." Is that a fact? Where, how did you get
here? I'm sure I know some got here under the gooseberry bush, there's
no doubt in my mind. There's a hybrid gooseberry bush at that. I don't
want to be too unkind, but since they make these statements that are so
ridiculous, I'll make a few of my own. How did you get here? You know
how you got here, through Adam and a serpent, and Eve, mama Eve, the
mother of all. There is a natural election, there is a spiritual one.
"As in Adam all died, even so in all Christ we're made alive."  [1 Cor.
15:22] Not coming this time now through the sex of the womb, but from
the dust coming back. Hard to understand why people get some funny
ideas. I got my funny ideas too. I don't think mine are to be laughed
at. Some times at least.

47.	Let's read on here: [2 Corinthians 11:]

		(1) 	Would to God (you) could bear with me a little in my folly: and
indeed 					bear with me.

		(2) 	For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have
espoused 					you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste
virgin to Christ.

		(3) 	But I fear, lest by any means, as (Satan) beguiled Eve through
his 						subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted…

	That's why this Age must repent, and keep bringing the mind, bringing
the mind, bringing the mind, bringing the mind, because it doesn't have
sensation. (See?) It doesn't move. It watches that Word. (See?) That's
the danger place. Now, if you get heady and high-minded you got a
problem. (See?) Just sit back and watch.

		(3)	… (the mind be) corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

		(4) 	For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, …

48.  A man gets up and says, "William Marrion Branham is the same
yesterday, today and forever." That's another Jesus. Well, come on, I'm
going to take stand whether you like it or not. That's your tough luck,
I was asked to preach here. I'll throw it back on Bro. Guenther. Tough
luck there, brother. Except I'm pretty sure he believes just like I do.
I think he knows the same Jesus I know. The same Holy Spirit.

		(4)	…or if ye receive another spirit, which (we) have not received,
or 						another gospel, which (you) have not (preached), (you) might
well 						bear with him.

		(5) 	For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

		(6)  	(For) though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; (this
fellow 					didn't stick his chest out, he just said a few things that
were true.)						(though) we have been throughly made manifest among you
in all 						things.

		(7) 	Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that (you) might 		
			be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God 					
freely?

		(8) 	I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

		(9) 	And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable 			
		to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which 					
came from Macedonia supplied: in all things, I have kept myself 					
from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

		(10) 	As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this
boasting 					in the regions of Achaia.

		(11) 	Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

		(12) 	But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from
them 						which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be
found 						even as we.

		(13) 	For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
them-						selves into the apostles of Christ.

		(14) 	And no marvel; for Satan himself, is transformed into an angel
of 						light.

		(15) 	Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also be
transformed as 					the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be
according to their 					works.

49.  Now, It doesn't say you can find these things, people do a lot of
evil things. They can be just as fine as anybody walked in shoe leather.
But they come and try to take your minds over. 

	See, see, see, see, see, see! And you'll sit around and listen till you
get taken over. I'm going to tell you flat, I'm not smart. When that
'two soul' stuff came to me, I said, "Boy, that guy sure can quote." 
One of my good buddies he took it lock, stock and barrel. Something
didn't ring a bell, because I knew Bro Branham did not say the soul was
a nature.  "Oh, (you say) he did say?" Well, you better hold your
tongue, I bet you'll find out what he really did say. And you go back to
the Church Ages, (that is to say, the series) on the revelation of Jesus
Christ, and he said, "The soul is a nature of the spirit giving an
atmosphere." So, the soul gives the atmosphere, because he said, "The
soul and spirit and the body were three different things though in one."


	And he got the wrong circle on the inside and changed it by the Holy
Ghost, so he put the right circle on the inside, (which was the soul)
and the Holy Spirit's got to get past the spirit and into the soul. And
when He gets down in the soul, it works on the spirit giving in to
nature to come to the flesh.

50.  So, I got all these quotes and heard all the sermons of him, and I
went over and over, and over, and finally said, "Dear Lord God, this is
pretty pitiful, You know I ain't smart, but I've got to have help. I'm
not going to argue with anybody, fight with anybody. But Lord let me
know, if this is right or wrong, because I don't know. Now, you can take
what you want, you can believe it right, and bully for you, that's fine.
I've got no fuss with you. But a voice within me said, "It's wrong,
leave it alone."  I could argue all day and all night. And then maybe
later on it'll pound on my mound and pound on my mind, until pretty soon
I'm caught in a trap.

	Brother/sister, if we need someone to pound on our minds, there's
something wrong somewhere. The reason I'm pounding that is with the Word
of God. Not trying to sell you a bill of goods of Lee Vayle, I'm trying
to sow an atmosphere here, though I'm doing a lousy job, I know, because
I'm pretty rough. I'm trying to sow in you the understanding of an
atmosphere, that you can take a strongest stand as you want if you're
like the prophet. A spiritual Muhammad Ali who can back pedal. 

	When somebody say, "Oh Bro. Branham, I don't believe that." 

	"Well, you can be wrong. I mean you can be right, I could be wrong."

51.	Do you think Bro. Branham was pulling my leg one day? I don't know,
I just kind of don't believe that. He told me one time, I'm sitting in
every meeting and he said, "Listen, so you'll know what I'm saying." I
sat down there taking notes every day, one day he said, "Brother I'm
going to ask you…yeah…" He said, "I see you taking notes all the
time, (he said) are you putting down my mistakes?"  Try to think that
one out. Oh, go ahead, think it out, I’m not lying to you, so go ahead
think it out. Some of you folk know so much, or some of your friends
know so much, you got all the answers you're so smart, and so brilliant.
Stick around awhile. It's interesting, isn't it?  Oh, what was I doing?
I was making notes so I wouldn't forget what he said. I didn't figure he
had any mistakes, I was trying to correct my mistakes. The grand master
of back-pedaling, and humility.

	And you know something, he could come on faster and further with God by
going backwards than any of us would by trying to go forward. I'm
talking now about a Spirit. The same man who said, "It's good to
disagree."  On one ground? That it refreshes you mind, makes you look
deeper. We're not here for brainwashing brother/sister, we're here to
get a real spirit of understanding and love, what this is all about.
Because look, if I am with Him, I am with each other. And the same
Spirit that joined and deals with me, is the same Spirit deals through
all of us.

52.	 That's why we all will have the same care for each other and the
same love, the whole thing. I'm not saying we don't have the Holy
Spirit, I'm just saying what was back here brother/sister is evidence
that people full of the Holy Ghost, can have a mighty rough time and
makes some terrible boo-boos, unless they begin to smarten up to see the
broad spectrum of what it's all about. And the broad spectrum is this:
there is one God Who joins each one, the same God joins each one of us,
and that indissoluble union to Him makes each one of us a part of each
other and indissoluble.

	I wonder on resurrection morning where the great Resurrection, I
believe it's going to be…what is It going to be? Shall I try to
describe It? No, I won't. Shall I try to give you some thoughts? I
cannot give you thoughts. But just start thinking yourself, what it be
if everybody in this Message, (all a hundred and fifty thousand, or
seventy-five thousand) you knew they range from everything to
everything, suddenly all were changed and all made it? Or suddenly
nobody got a change, and nobody made it, it was somebody else. Think
about it. You say, "Could it happen?" You know jolly well anything can
happen. "Because the foundation of God stands sure, knowing this seal,
the Lord knows them which are his." (See?) Not told for you and me.

53.	Now, a real Bride is not a hypocrite, she doesn't wear a mask. A
hypocrite always boasts in her marriage and demeans others. She is
simply a club an organization, but the true Bride my, there is a
difference there. Over in 1 Timothy 2:9.

		(9) 	In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest
apparel, 					with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair,
or gold, or 					pearls, or costly array;

		(10) 	But (which becometh women professing godliness) (and) good
works.

	I take the description of the woman here for the Bride. That she is
bashful, timid, reverent, worshipful and sincere. 

		(11) 	Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. (Uh?)

	Well, if the Bride's a woman she's going to learn in subjection,
doesn't learn by arguing, and fussing.

		(12) 	But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over
the man, 					but to be in silence.

	You know, one of the best things in this world and this Message is just
remain silent when people, (you know) get kind of feisty over certain or
something. Just get silent, just get quiet. I mean, just get quiet and
go in. I had to wait ten years for an answer on something, just one
little point, ten years. I waited for thirteen years to hear the prophet
say, "The flesh of the Holy Spirit this hour was the Word of God." The
one thing I wanted to hear more than almost anything in this world so I
can could place it exactly what he was saying, and why he was saying it.
Thirteen years out of the fourteen. And when you go back to '63. That's
sixteen solid years. All that time, fifteen, I waited for. All that time
waiting to get that one thought. And how many times I had have heard it?
I don't know how many times I'd heard it, it's just choom, choom,
…like that actually.  But evidently that was the hour to get it.

		(13) 	… Adam was first formed, then Eve.

		(14)	 …Adam was not deceived, (you can't fool Christ) the woman
being 					deceived was in the transgression.

		(15) 	Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, … (and so
on.) 

	 Now, knowing she was made to go wrong, but through Him to be lifted up
and restored back even to Eden. She knows that through Him, then she
will be quiet before Him. He revealed, He                     
pre-eminent, she restored. That's a very spiritual love affair. Now
that's the Bride. (See?) That's her prerequisites. Bro. Branham spoke of
her, little lovely creature. Not proud, docile. Now, one mind.

54.	Now, let's go to Revelation 22:8-17. I like going back and forth in
these verses, because it brings us up to this hour in which we live. I
read this the other night.

		(8) 	And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had 				
heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel 				
	which shewed me these things.

		(9)  	(And he said,) See do not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy
brethren 					the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this
book: 						worship God.

		(10) 	And he (said,) Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this
book: for 					the time is at hand.

		(11) 	He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he (that) is
filthy, (is) 						filthy still: and he that is righteous, righteous
still: and he that is holy, 					(is) holy still.

		(12) 	…behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give
every 					man according as his work shall be.

		(13) 	I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and
the last.

		(14) 	Blessed are they that (wash their robes, not) do his
commandments, 					(that's an entire misrepresented statement, that wash
their robes) that 					they may have right to the tree of life, and may
enter in through the 					gates into the city.

		(15) 	For without are dogs, and (so on.) …and (that) maketh a lie.

	Now, brother/sister does that sound like proselytizing? It sounds like
soul winning to me. It sounds like in this hour since we have come out
to warn others to come out. To witness a good confession and a good
witness amongst the people of the world. It doesn't sound one bit to me
as though he said, "Now that you're coming out, come on see who's camp
you can get, and see who's got the biggest camp." It won't work, (see?)
because that's not the Spirit of God.

55.	Look at Revelation 3:15-18.

		(15) 	I know (your) works, (you) art neither hot nor cold: I would
thou 						wert hot or cold.

		(16) 	…because (you're) lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will
spue 						thee out of my mouth.

		(17) 	Because (you say), I am rich, increased (in) goods, and have
need of 					nothing; and knowest not that (you're) wretched, miserable,
poor, 						blind, and naked:

	Just a minute brother/sister, I've heard some people talk about in this
Message is as though they fill that pretty good. "I've got it made,
bless God. You believe it this way, bless God. You've got it made."  Is
that a fact? (Hmm?) I suppose, would you like to be honest with me and
that, would you be honest with me, if I'm honest with you?  (Uh?) Let's
have a little bit of sweet…letting our hair down, a little confession
of the soul. Let's just find out something.

	If you people had not read the Church Age book, would you have known
that the baptism with the Holy Ghost and the rebirth is one and the same
thing? Now, you who would have known raise your hands, show me. You're
ahead of the rest of us of course if you did know. It took me four and a
half hours for Bro. Branham to get that across. I told you about it.
After four and a half hours, I said, "Are you trying to tell me that the
baptism with the Holy Ghost and rebirth is one and the same thing?"  

	He said, "Now you've got it Doc." 

	But I didn't. I said, "Hold it right there." Well, I was burnt up, not
at him, I was just burnt up. I 'shoo' I was shot.  "I said, "What about
your two experiences?"  

	And he was just as soft, he said, "What two experiences?"  (Shee!)

	And he told all over about his experiences. "What two experiences?" 

	And I said, "You know, you had them?" I said, "The one where you jumped
up and down with joy sins forgiven. The next time in a woodshed or
somewhere, rain pelting your body, the baptism with the Holy Ghost."

	"Boy, (he said) Bro. Vayle, (with his finger under my nose) we don't go
by experiences, we go by the Word of God." 

56.	Now, tell me, how many of you people, raise your hand, have the guts
to do it, I'll challenge you, I'll call your bluff. How many of you knew
before you read that Church Age book, that Bro. Branham absolutely was
teaching all along the baptism with the Holy Ghost and the rebirth is
one and the same thing? Nobody? I'm sitting on my hands too, because I
didn't know.

	Then I want to ask a question tonight, what make us think we know so
much? Now, we know plenty, because you can know this much with your one
little tape, if that little washer-woman, or somebody like her, and make
it. And you can be way up here with your knowledge (and it's carnal) and
quote a hundred and ninety-nine, or nine hundred and ninety-nine tapes,
and that's all your doing is quoting. Could be, you know,
brother/sister.

	Now, you see what Bro. Branham preached 'The Token'. In the light of
what we see today, I want to ask you, how many people really had
received the Holy Ghost through William Branham, …now I’m not trying
to be mean now, or hard, I’m just asking the question. Did Bro.
Branham preach that sermon, knowing what was down the road. I
could’ve, you know.  I want to ask you a question, are you full of the
Holy Ghost? Are you truly baptized with the Spirit of Almighty God?  If
you are, you're joined to your brother. Are you confessing that you're
joined to Him, are you such character to be joined to Him?  Are you
further character that you confess you're joined to that brother? I got
quite a job, but I'm doing it every day in prayer. I'm giving back to
God, till He gives it back to me like He gave to Peter, "And I say unto
you, you are Peter." For the wife gives to the husband, what he gives
her, and he blesses it, and they both sit down together with it.

57.	That's where be both stand tonight brother/sister, I can't change my
preaching for anybody. Yes, there's a real body, there's a real Bride,
not a cold, proud, dead, but living, loving, vibrant Bride that's in
love with Him, and love with each other. A part of Him and a part of
each other. You know, my finger loves my thumb? And my thumb loves my
finger. Boy, when that thing got hit by that table saw, my whole body
loved my poor finger. And my wife loved me so much, she about fainted,
so she was no good to me. [laughter] 

	But listen, I'm making a point, though I'm laughing at my wife. I'm
making a point. If I am a member, and you're a member and I suffer, you
love me so much that you suffer so badly even Jesus feels for that whole
body. Didn't my head go into action the minute my finger had trouble,
and my whole body? 

	Then listen, tonight from now on we have a new spirit amongst us. From
now on we have a new spirit. I'm not worried anymore. Bro. Branham
said…"That new spirit He gave was not the Holy Spirit, (he said) you
had to have a new spirit to receive the Holy Spirit." 

58.	What if tonight we need a new spirit amongst us to receive Him Who
is amongst us now. New attitudes. I want it. You know frankly, I wanted
this all my life. And I told you, forty-two years ago it wasn't the
hour. A voice said to me, and I said, "Lord, I wish I were a clean
person, person, a real good Christian." 

	And a voice thundered in my soul, "Call that not common unclean which
God has cleansed." [Acts 10:15] And being a wonderful Pentecostal boy
with such intelligence and such wisdom. It's a pity God didn't call on
me many, many years ago, I'm so brilliant. And I said, "Lord, it's nice
of You, but I know better." I'm dirty, mean, I couldn't take it, but
forty-two years later, I'm only too glad to take it. And I don’t care
if I'm still mean, and saucy, impertinent and rougher than a cob, and
you treat me nice and I've bopped you over the ears. "I am the
righteousness of God," because He said so. Yeah, I got no problem, it's
His problem.  (Hee, hee, hee, because He said so.) I'm happy, tonight I
believe it.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, is there any evidence?" Who needs evidence, He
said so. And He swore by Himself, and He came on the scene to prove it.
I've got no problem, because you see, God accepted His Life, instead of
my life. (Yep) He became me, that I might become Him. As Bro. Branham
said, "Today all that He is, we are." And he was only quoting John. [1
Jn 4:17] "Even as He is, so are we in this world."  Now brother/sister,
the same thing that gave me that after forty-two years. I've waited too
long in the sixteen years since the opening of those Seals, it's more
than long enough. I'm claiming the spirit, that takes in my brethren. Oh
sure, we'll have differences, no problem. And I'll be just as tough when
it comes to this sin that I see around, not because I don't do it, and I
do something else. I'll be just as tough on myself and tougher.

59.  You know why I'm a lousy sleeper, I never could sleep all my life?
Because it always worried what a dirty louse I was. I worried all my
life, stayed awake, cried, everything else about it. But I'm getting
over that, that's His job, not mine, I'm not worried anymore. And the
same spirit toward my brethren,  I refuse any other concepts in my mind,
day and night, my prayer, my mediation. You say, "Bro. Vayle, how long
will it take?" Who cares how long, I've claimed it now. Abraham felt
pretty stupid I'm sure when the said, "Father of nations. Well, I got
one, you know out there, he ain't nothing much, you know, ha, ha, yeah,
sort of a mess." 

	"You're a father?" 

	"Yep, I'm a father of multitudes, God said so."

	So, this same Spirit in the Vertical is the same Spirit in the lateral,
I've got It. I've given It back to God till He thunders down the
corridors of my soul. Yes, you are a lover of your brethren. Hattie
Wright could sit there at the prophet's feet and say, "Bro. Branham,
that ain't nothing but the truth." 

	And he whirled and he said, "You ask what you want, you got it."

	I'm asking, and I've got and I believe it's going to manifest what His
Word said that I've got. You understand me? 

60.	So, listen, don't let anyone think that I'm being negative tonight,
although many times I teach positive from negative. For this Message is
not negative, it is in harmony with the other messages to make you
realize why Bro. Branham said, "If we are not Bride, there's a Bride out
there somewhere, and by the grace of God I will not stand in her way."
The same prophet who could look at a Christian Business Man's meeting
and say, "Oh, how wonderful that I am here with the Elect."  Little
white lie?  No, he didn't know who they were. He said, "I never
un-Christianized anybody," he said the prophet. 

	The same one who said, "I don't call you church, or saints anymore, I
call you Bride." This is the Bride age, that marches on for the Bride.
"We're marching on to Zion, beautiful, beautiful Zion." And the song
says, "Come ye that love the Lord." And our group say, "Come ye that
listen to me." (Huh?)  If you're uncomfortable, squirm it's good for
you. See, I'm way ahead of you, I told everybody, "Don't ever follow
me." I told them what, "Don't ever follow me, kid," I said, "If I ever
stepped away from God, let me tell you one thing, you stay with God."
Don't you ever fool with me. Say, "I love my wife." I think the Spirit
that can say that to me, can say the same thing about you folk too.
Don't fool with Lee Vayle, you get your eyes on Christ. I can't help
you.

61.	Remember, Bro. Branham talked about that fellow who went and stood
before God and he couldn't make it, his mother wasn't there and his
father wasn't there, there's nobody there; and looked like he just was
going to have to go down, and a sweetest voice under heaven said,
"Father, he stood with me and I'm going to stand with him."  He looked
to Him. But when look brother/sister, remember this thing:  He never
joined you to Himself alone, He joined you with the innumerable company
of angels, that you are just a part of that great Life is being
manifested in flesh. And if I love my own flesh and cherish it, which I
do, and I pop my vitamins, my minerals and my protein, and my enzymes,
and my goody goodies, brother/sister I want to open your mouth  tonight
and pop you full. Just as full of the good vitamins and minerals and
enzymes that I want from God, I want you to have it too.

	And I want you to have everything I've got, because then I'll know that
I've got something real. But I want to shove it down your throat, and
I'm talking about a good spirit now doing it. See, Bro. Branham he could
say, "Look, I hold your nose, open your mouth, I push the medicine down
you spit it out."  Prophet can do that, but Lee Vayle can't do that, and
no living man can do that. Because see, neither one of us is a messenger
of this hour, but Bro. Branham was. He could teach those strong things. 
Bu,t you and I come behind and we say, "I believe that Message."  If I
don't believe this Message. I want to ask a question: what in the world
do I believe? Now, I might not quite believe it the way somebody
believes it, but then he believes it. If he doesn't, what does he
believe? He believes the Message. You see, so we've got to get the good
spirit.

62.	Now, Bro. Branham also said, "If one person in that town is going to
make it, you be that one person." But doesn't mean only one person is
going to make it. He cried out, "Oh, to find a Bride with such character
to stand long enough in the waters of separation to get her dressed."
And today we stand not in ourselves, but in Him and soon to be taken to
Him even with the true Bride, and that true Bride saying, "Come,"
because we're going together. We're going to take our families, because
it's a lamb for a house. We don't have to worry about God, what He's
going to do because this is the day of Abraham, "Should not the Judge of
all the earth do right? Will God destroy the righteous with the wicked?"
[Gen 18:25] Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh…no, no, no, no. (Huh?)  Will
God save my family? Sure, unless they're absolute serpent seed. If
they're absolute serpent seed, they're not part of you anyway. (See?) It
all boils down. (See?)

	We must let loose all reasoning and misunderstanding and behold Him.
For that's what Matthew 25: said, "Come out and meet Him, behold Him,
for He's Appearing." (See?) He's Appearing to all of us. And the Bible
said, "We all beholding Him, should be changed from glory to glory." [2
Cor 3:18] I want to ask you, who's beholding Him? If you listen to the
prophet and you saw Him manifest, that is Christ manifest, the Holy
Spirit. And you be held Him, and He appeared. You're going from glory to
glory to be changed, ready for the Rapture. And it will be an entire
Bride all of one spiritual flesh of the Word. All of one mind, and one
heart toward God and each other. And no spirit of fear is going to that
Wedding Supper. Nope.

63.	I'm going to close now, it's time to get moving. (Didn't mean to
keep you this late) 1 John 3:2.

		(2) 	Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it (never came into 				
	existence) what we shall be: (this thing we're looking to has never 			
		yet happened, but it's going to) but we know that, (that) when he 				
	shall appear, (which is now, He's already done Appeared) we shall 					
be like him; (because we already seen) him as he is.

	Look, brother/sister, if I've seen Him, and each one of us has seen
Him, we ought not to worry about looking too much at each other, except
to help each other along. Be kind, generous and sweet. (Right?) 

	So, listen, I don't want you to leave here and say, "Bro.Vayle got
negative now for the number five message of the five he preached,
because I'm not negative." I've tried to show you that in the Bible
everything we're seeing today has already been there. But this is the
hour when we've had our spiritual resurrection, and this is a different
hour, and therefore we must be more sober and sincere as we've never
been before. 

	And I believe the place must start right in our spirits. Right in our
spirits of humility, and meekness, and tolerance, and forbearance, and
faith, and love. And let it be that qualitative thing within us. Then
when you've got something that you disagree with your brother, it'll be
perfectly alright. Then like Bro. Branham said, "Ah ha, now we'll talk
it over, and it'll do us good, because we'll begin to look at the whole
thing all over again in fresh." But is won't be somebody saying, you got
to see it this way. You got to do it that way.

	I'm going to tell you something brother/sister, Paul the apostle was
the only man that could stand up and say, and William Branham was the
only man, but look how each one just stepped back. (Uh?)  Now, the Lord
bless you. Let's get a new spirit from now on. 

	Let's believe that this night before God I am a changed man, I'm a
changed woman, I'm a changed child. From this moment on, there is a
difference, because I'm giving back to Him what He has given me, and I
will not rest, I know He has got to dynamize it in my life till I stand
here as that living Word of that hour. The Lord bless you, shall we
rise.

	Gracious heavenly Father, we thank You tonight, Lord, that always in
the eye of the hurricane and the tornado there is a silence and a peace.
And, Lord, we may be in the midst of the last storm of this hour wherein
Bro. Branham categorized this as the most deceitful time of all ages.
Lord, we would raise a voice and a church here of utter sanity in the
Holy Spirit, that we will not bow to any spirit outside of that which is
a true spiritual atmosphere of a Bride. Who will be meek and lowly, and
temperate, always endeavoring to keep the unity in bond of peace. The
sweet Spirit of Almighty God which we already have, but perhaps are not
recognizing. And, Lord, forgive me for saying perhaps because in my own
case I must admit I have not recognized it, even though I knew it was
there, and I have not majored in it. 

	But, Lord, tonight we are making milestones as never before. Tonight,
we recognize as never before this great atmosphere that lies right
within us. And, Lord, we will see that atmosphere come forward, because
we believe it, and, Lord, we expect You as we give it back tonight. You
that gave it to us, we minister it back until we're sitting together
supping on it, Lord. 

	God in Heaven, I believe this people as a part of Your Bride. I believe
with all my heart, Lord, the Judge of all the earth standing here would
say, come on, we're going. And, Lord, I thank You that there will be in
this people here that spirit become manifest. Lord, I believe it. I
cannot see otherwise, Lord, because there is going to be a Bride at this
age who holds the truth until it comes right up unto Him, a super race
that has the Word and knows what to do with It, to know what to do about
It, or keep still. That real little timid shy beautiful Bride that's in
the presence of Christ.

	And Lord in Heaven, and since the days of miracles have not passed, and
You are the God that You are of all flesh. Lord, I count myself with
thoughts of faith amongst them, that You're taking my life and changing
it too. Absolutely, Lord, that that same thing I'm giving back to You,
morning and night, Lord, and then sometimes more than that as I ponder
and think about giving back to You, Lord. I believe You're going to
breathe on it as You said to Peter, "And I say, you're Peter." I believe
You're going to say back to me and the people here tonight, Lord, Yes
you are that Bride and you do have that spirit of love and grace amongst
you.

	And, Lord God, it's going to manifest. We've seen good evidence already
of it here, but I believe there's coming a time, Lord, when it's just
going to be all over the place. Like, Lord, we see in Your Word that You
said what a thing it will be. And the prophet said, “Oh when that
Spirit comes amongst us”. He didn't say, perhaps it just might maybe,
He said when that Spirit comes amongst us.

	And, Lord, I believe that Spirit is here tonight ready to possess the
people. And, Father God, we open our hearts and our minds, possess us,
Lord. Possess us, Lord, just as old Paul could say, "I have been
crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives
in me, and the life that I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of
the Son of God that loved me and gave Himself for me." As I am one with
You, Lord, I am one with this Bride. And, Lord, as You are one with me,
You are one with them, and we are all one together, Lord.  And that same
Spirit, that same Spirit, Lord, is ripening us, up to the
Seed-Word-Church, the revealed Word Church. 

	God bless the pastor here, Lord. You have blessed him. The Lord in
Heaven, I pray now from this moment on it's a milestone in his life.
Such a dynamism, a sweetness, Lord, in the congregation of the righteous
that it just be wonderful, and people marvel. And the people, Lord, so
responding, that it be just a marvel. Lord God, if You can do that back
there in the day, Lord in the Queen of Sheba came to Solomon, Father,
what can You do at the end time when the Holy Ghost Himself is here in
fullness. The Word here and the people ready to fulfill every Word.

	Lord, I pray for this church tonight. God in Heaven, I believe that the
Word's given for one purpose to take him on, not to take him back.
Father Lord, tonight this Word's been planted. This Word long time been
planted down here is watered again tonight. Father, I'm trusting that
this people, by the grace of Almighty God will manifest that sweet
Spirit, until the Holy Ghost comes in His fullness and magnificence. I
believe that, Lord, with all my heart.

	Now, unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible the only wise God, be
all power and honor and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.  
Let's sing, 'O, how I love Jesus'.

	And remember, to love Him, is to love your brother. Do you see, that
helps you realize tonight what He meant what He said, "How can you say
that you love God, if you don't love your brother? And by this shall all
men know you're My disciples, you have love one for another."           
 [Jn 13:35] See, that's the thing we're shown tonight, brother/sister.
And it's not out here in some great mystery. It's giving back to God
what he gave us. Let Him breathe on it tonight. Believe me,
brother/sister, if I had something else to tell you, if I had something
else to show you, I would do it, but I'm preaching and giving the best I
can in my heart is to my knowledge is what lies in this Scripture, and
what lies here. Bro. Branham said, "The Bride ministers to the Groom
what He has provided." 

	Why, that they may sit down and sup together. And he said, "When you're
in that Presence, (he said) he doesn’t smoke a cigarette, he doesn't
drink, he doesn't curse, he doesn't sin, he lives." Now, that's what I'm
trying to preach tonight. Follow me?   "Oh, how I love Jesus," and when
you do, don't put it in one direction, as it were be a little
'semaphore' signal. One had there and one hand out here in your heart.
Amen.   Let's sing it, 'Oh, how I love Jesus'.

 

	

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