What Happens When the Holy Ghost Comes #1A Bro. Lee Vayle - Feb.22,1981 1. …that wasn’t the real thing. The real thing is; are you full of the Holy Spirit, or are you not? Have you been baptized with the Holy Ghost since you believed? That’s why Bro. Branham preached that Token. You can talk all you want about all the goodies that go with it. Oh, I admit that, I admit this. Yes, yes, this, here. But are you full of the Holy Ghost? He said, “Listen Branham Tabernacle, most of you I believe, are full of the Holy Ghost. But some sitting here, are not full of the Holy Ghost.” Now he said, “Without that Token, the life of the Word in you, as an individual, you cannot have the life of Him Who stands here, to take you through.” No way will you make it. See? He put the Church in order. He put the gifts in order. Now he said, “I’ll go there with you.” And they walked out of Junior Jackson’s. That's no way to do it. Man alive, I've been tickled to death if I was living down there and I said, “Okay, Bro. Branham I'm here, you’re here, let’s go.” I wouldn’t have any trouble right now. I’ve seen gifts operate in my life, absolutely, right down the line. I wouldn’t be afraid to go into any room and see if anything happened. Well why…it’s not necessary. In my understanding, as far as I am concerned, unless I was very definitely lead there. Now, if someone’s very definitely lead, that’s great. See? Okay. 2. Let’s go a little further here. Growth is essential. The Scripture sets It forth. No way, is there not a growth. No way is there not a life. But the life is not the evidence. It is not the reason. If it’s not the evidence, it is not the reason. Now, life should be there. That’s where New York got all messed up. Where’s a piece of chalk? We’ll take our time, I’ll scratch this, I’ll take this any time I feel like it. Look, what is life? According to the prophet, it is Spirit. Every life is Spirit. [BV is drawing on the chalk board] Spirit’s life. Right? Okay he said, “There’s two lives.” Yeah. Two Spirits. One over here, and one over here. Now, he said, “At the end-time, they’re razor blades,” …he said, “So close”, …let’s put this one here in the negative, over here. All right. He could imitate, and he did. There goes the gifts of the Spirit. Now, why can he impersonate, or imitate? Bro Branham used the word ‘impersonate’, so, maybe that's better. In other words, he can be the person anointed to carry any single gift. Five-fold ministry, deacon and elder, nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. And anything else in there. In Romans 12: It talks about giving, and forgiving. And loving, and certain things. So, there’s just multitudes...as Irenaeus said, he said, “There’s multitudes.” Now, he can get any one of those. Now, he’s got all the fruit. Christian Science teaches us to a draw, they say Jesus, was just a man. Well, he was just a man… But, when God filled Him, He was God. When God left Him, He’s a man again. Now, what is He today? Melchisedec, maybe tell you about that another time. 3. All right. So, we’ve got over here, all the gifts, and all the fruit, and all the souls. See? "Many more are the children of the widow." All right. Over here…manifestation. Over here…fruit. Over here…soul. Now, both are lives. Do you follow me? And this one, can outdo this one. So, right away, where would you go? Right over here, fine. That’s where the world went. That’s the devil. People still don’t realize, if Jesus…if Jesus is God. Now, what was God? Biggest flop the world’s ever seen. Because He could have stood there and emptied every graveyard. He could have stood there, and who cares about water into wine? Let’s turn the desert into blossom. Let’s feed the world. Let’s take the devil and choke him. And bring back the serpent seed to natural and make him a lovely beast again. Hallelujah. He’s God. Huh? Did He do it? Biggest flop there ever was. If you want to talk as a man. Because He came as Bro. Branham said, “According to the Scripture, but not how they interpreted the Scripture.” He said, “I can only do what my Father tells me. And it’s my Father in Me doing It.” So, you look it here. This is a life. This is a life. Manifestation proved. Soul, everything the same, and over here, more. So, who are you going to run to? See? Now, New York said, the evidence or how you tell, this from this is the word ‘plus’…aha…this plus, is bigger than this plus. See why New York is the mess they're in? Why their preacher could say, “We’ve walked in darkness nine years.” Maybe he did it, I didn’t. I’ve got no doubt he did. Come out with junk like that in 1964, before the prophet even died. Word ‘plus,’ my foot. If it's plus the life, then you go here. And he did, three times he said, “Thus Saith the Lord,” and it flopped. Now, where are you people this morning? You people, you want This, or, you want This? This is light, this is light. Which light do you want? Which light have you got? You’ve got the super abundant over here, and the phony-phony. Or you’ve got the one that’s lesser, and of God just the same. And the real one, see the one that’s told by the Word here. See? So, you understand what I’m talking about this morning? Now, …where was I? 4. I read over here in Ephesians, was going to go to Ephesians 4: we’re going to have growth. See? This is growth. This is growth. We’re going to have what’s right. Now, let’s watch it. And see this, 11-16, I’m going to read a little before that, because I have to because, I’ve seen something here I never saw before last week. Says here [Ephesians 4:] verse 7, (7) But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. (Wherefore he said, because there is given us a measure of grace, rather a gift of grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ) (8) … When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. (now I explained that.) (9) (he that ascended) descended (first)… (10) (And) He that descended (is the One that went up, came back as the Holy Ghost) that He might (fill) all things. Now, you just think of that for one second…He might fill all things…now watch where Paul put it. He starts over here in chapter 1. And It says here, when this Spirit comes into the church, then it’s taken into a Rapture, because all things are under His feet. (Oh God, I wish I had time to explain all this, and show you where the Scripture dovetailed, and dovetails this.) If only taking place now. It did not take place previously. It couldn’t. It just started. See? Because worlds which are coming, the Millennium, the whole thing was building to it. And now, it’s here. See? There’s a difference. Put all things under his feet and gave me here all these church, see, that is potential. But now at this hour, which is His body the fulness of Him, that filleth all things with all things. Now look it, he’s telling you about the day of the Bride, where the whole Word of God is fulfilled in her, and It says, at that time, He came down at that time to do it. Now, I always used to preach, that that’s when He came at Pentecost and separated Himself. That’s not true. He came down to Paul in a Pillar of Fire. Set the church in order. Now, He’s come back again, to do the same thing. Proved that by the chronology of the two ages. 5. Now, listen. (11) And he gave some, apostles;…(and so on, the five-fold ministry.) (12) (To perfect) the saints, … the work of the ministry, edifying (building up) the body of Christ: (notice) (13) (At what time until) we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, (that’s no more to come in) unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: Everything poured into her, with God standing here as the Capstone. See? That’s why this is a million times greater than Pentecost. To what end? Hallelujah. All the gifts, all the fruit, all of the show, glory, glory. Shut up! Time to shut up and listen. (14) (There will) be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, (even) cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; (15) But (holding) the truth in love, … Loving the Word of God. Loving the truth. And it is the love of the error, that brings the anti-Christ into power and sends all men to perdition. Now, where are you? The same Holy Ghost that says, “I’ll separate by the false Word at the end-time, and the true Word at the end-time. The judging God, that was in that circle of Light. It came down those seven mighty messengers, that came with Him. That sent the judging Word at this very minute to separate even at this hour a Bride from the non-bride. To call out a Church. See? (15) (Holding) the truth in love, … grow up…(unto him.) Not into Him, cross it out of your Bibles, you’re in Him, and coming unto Him. But first He had to come unto you. “Behold I stand at the door and knock”. [Rev 3:20] (15) … (into) all things, … 6. And all things are all things. Even when the all things really take place with you and me? And the wheel moves. But when you and I get in the Resurrection, when we hit that brother, we’ve got her made. Actually, if you’re a part of this Bride, with the Shout, you’ve got it just as much made. If you see it this time, you’ve got to wait. That’s why New York can’t say, "The rest of you only hoping to get what we’ve got." I ain't hoping for what they got, nooo…nooo…I don’t even want it. Not interested in that, I've see it. Don’t play footsie with me. (16) From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, (all Seven Church Ages, it’s all over) according to the … working and the measure of every part, (now the measure of every part brother/sister, was a measure. But at the end of the Seventh Church Age, the all in all, the entire measure, comes into the church.) … unto the edifying of itself (building itself up, the last one, was what? (Capstone, love.) Love of the truth. No longer lukewarm, no longer wishy washy, say, “This we live or die,” forget it. You say, “You’re cold.” No, we ain’t cold, we’re getting red hot…Hallelujah. 7. First Corinthians 5:3-5, all right: (3) …verily, (being) absent in body, present in spirit, judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath done this deed, (4) In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with power of our Lord Jesus Christ, (5) To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. I’m going to tell you, that day of the Lord Jesus, that’s a tough one, you’d better be careful. Because you could have everything else destroyed just miss that one. All right. It tells you right there, the church must be clean. Bro. Branham said, “God sent a five-fold ministry to keep the church clean.” What five-fold ministry and the end-time to keep the church clean? Word. Then if they’re denied, what the Word says they’re denied, the church has got to stand with it. Let’s try to get the women to come under subjection. I just love to see a preacher’s wife that’s one with the preacher. God, I hate the one that isn’t one with her husband. I tell you people something: you don’t appreciate your pastor’s wife. You just think you do. You just think you do. You don’t even know what goes on, because she’s subject to her husband who loves him, and just lets everything go with him. I'm going to tell you: If she was a type, and let me tell you flat. I’m not going to use the word that sounds like ‘witchy’ but you know what they call women today. You’d have divorce all over this church. We’d have families breaking up. That spirit getting right in among you. Now, take a bow Audrey, you’ve got it coming to you. My wife the same way. I have seen where preachers’ wife’s spirit got right into my home. And I’m killing it deader than a doornail. Not with me, you don't pull it. Keep the church clean. That’s why the preacher here, keep it one with the Word. Many time people don’t understand me. I’m loyal to the pastors, because without the pastor, I wouldn’t have a place to preach. Sure, I would, do you think I'd stand in a street corner? Come on, what for? Teach a bunch of foghorns out there. I’m not here as preacher to jackrabbits, I’m here to preach to sheep. Sheep have bad enough time without the jackrabbits getting in on it. 8. All right. This Paul said here, he said, “Hey”, he said, “You guys got all the gifts, but you’re so messed up on what it’s all about." He said, "you’ve got adultery, and you’re sanctioning it." Doesn’t the church sanction adultery right today in the form of multiple marriages, everything else? Complete mess. Bro. Branham, cried out against it. Philippians 1:6. The Church is supposed to keep clean. We've got no problem with the church growing. No problem with these things…we’re for them. But you understand, you’ve got to keep it in place where God put in the place. And don’t argue all around the hill, just say, “This is it.” (6) Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of (the Lord) Jesus Christ: Now, that lets you know there is going to be problems in the church. Problems with you. There’s going to be trouble, there’s going to be ups, there’s going to be downs. But as the Bible said, “A righteous man falls seven times, and the Lord picks him up.” [Prov 24:7] Seven times…completion. He’s down, just stay down. No, he ain't down to stay down, I’m going to get him up again. See? All right. The Church will be kept clean. There must be a growth. All these things must be there. 9. Now, let us ponder, our union with Christ. To begin, remember John 5:18. Now, let’s take a look at this thing, because here’s where it starts in John 5: (18) Therefore, the Jews sought … to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but also that God was his Father, making (him) equal with God. Now, the Dr. Wuest translation, expands it by saying this, Jesus said, “God is my Father, in a way that He is nobody else’s Father.” Which was right. Oh man, that killed them. That started the fight right there. They said, “We’re going to kill Him.” Now, that doesn’t finish the fight. 10. Let’s go to, John 10:30, I read It to you. (30) I and my Father are one. (31) Then the Jews took up stones … to stone him (again). They said, “Hey, in no way has He got a special claim.” And in no way, is He unique. In no way, is He one with the Father. Now, Bro. Branham categorically said, “That is the time that they pulled away from Him.” See? Now, keep reading. (32) Jesus (said), Many good works have I shewed you (of) my Father; … which of those works do (you) stone me (for)? (33) (And they said,) For a good work we (do not) stone (you); keep raising the dead, bring on the wine made from water, bring on the bread multiplied, bring on the fishes, Hallelujah. We like it, we’ll take all that,) …because (you), being a man, (make yourself) God. (34) (Then) Jesus (said,) Is it not written in your law, (that) I said, (You) are gods? (35) … he called them gods, (in) whom the word of God came, (that’s the prophets) …The scripture, cannot be broken; (He was that prophet.) (36) …whom the Father sanctified, and sent into the world, (without blaspheming); because I said, I am the Son of God? (37) If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. (and so on.) 11. Now, Bro. Branham said, “That’s the time the people pulled away from Jesus.” The Pharisees, the whole bunch. He also said, “When the day came that the Bride, said, ‘I and my Father are one’ the shuck will pull away, the same as it pulled away then.” Now, do you see why I’m preaching this? Because if you’ve got all this here, and you are not settled, that you and the Father are one, I don’t care what it means. In the sense that I can explain it all the way down the line. I tried to show you. But if you don’t come to the mechanical realization, that you and the Father are one, …I don’t care how you feel, I don’t care how many on you, I don’t care what you can’t perform, …that’s not it. You’ve got to start here. You’ve got to start here. That’s where it all starts. Because that’s where it started there. Now, if you’re going to be like the Master, you better get with it. See? Now, the same prophet said, …at the end-time, is when the shuck is going to pull away from the seed. 12. Now, we’re going to go to, Matthew 10:32-33, It says: (32) Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. (33) But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. You notice the word ‘therefore’ draws a conclusion. Now where does that conclusion start? What was said to make Jesus say ‘therefore’, and to throw it on to you? That if you don’t make a confession before men, you’ll be sadly neglected. 13. All right. Maybe, [Matthew 10:] verse 16. (16) Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. You get all this stuff here, you’ll think you’ll own the world. (17) … beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, … (scourge you in) synagogues; (18) …brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. (19) But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what (you'll) speak: (it'll be) given you in that same hour what (you) speak. (20) For it is not (you) that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. And I’ll tell you one thing, He’ll speak according to the law of the prophets, if It is the Word, or the Father’s not in you. (21) … brother deliver up the brother to death, father (to) child: children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. (22) (You'll) be hated of all men for my name's sake: … Now, if you can pin that on the Jews, there’s something funny somewhere. Because they can’t stand the name themselves. (22) …he that endureth to the end (the same) shall be saved. (23) (Now) when they persecute you in this city, flee (to) another (part): verily I say unto you, (You) shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come. 14. Oh, the Son of man has already come, according to Luke 17: that’s not to Israel, he’s talking concerning the people that believe on these things. He's talking to the fathers, to turn the hearts of the children to God. Those fathers that had the Word. (I’ll explain that sometime, when I have the time.) Listen, now here it is, (24) The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. (25) It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord… Now, he tells you that. Now, he doesn’t go ahead and say, “Now, there’s a slight resemblance between you and me. And I’m giving you this great credit, like I’m writing a little …I think about you, and I’m going to put a little thing in there that makes you look good.” He doesn’t say that. He equates the individual to Himself. What I am, you are. I’ll prove it to you after a bit, just hold it. Now listen, (25) …If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household? (26) Fear (not them) therefore: there's nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. Enough of this in plain English, says, “There is nothing that hasn’t been covered, except it be covered in order to be revealed. …In other words, he’s telling you, I’m going to take the lid off of this at sometime. And I’m going to let you know what it’s all about.” 15. Now, (27) What I tell you in darkness, (I) speak (in the) light: and what (you) hear in (here), preach ye upon the housetops. (That’s Revelation.) (28) …fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (That’s God.) (29) Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father (knowing it) (30) But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. (31) Fear not therefore, (you're) of more value than many sparrows. (32) Whosoever therefore… (because, of what’s being said here,) (32) … shall confess me before men, … Now, let me give you the actual rendition of what It really says, It doesn’t say that. Here’s what It said, “Now you’re not above the Master. You are expected to live in that realm. If they called Him Beelzebub for a certain thing, they are going to call you that too for that same thing. If they get Me for it, they’re going to get you for it. ” 16. Now, listen to the therefore. "Therefore everyone, who is of such a character, that he will confess Me before men in the realization of, and testimony of, his oneness with Me, I will also confess him before My Father, who is in Heaven, in the realization and testimony of My oneness with Him. That is exactly what It said." Now then, if you’ve been made one with Him, and don’t confess it, and you get over here, here, and here. And say, ‘Well, hallelujah,” this one makes me one, the Holy Spirit, well hallelujah, ain't it nice, I can have all the gifts, and I can have all the fruit, and I can have all souls, because hallelujah, A- I- C. You see, He gave me what it takes to make it." Well, you better get down to where it is. They said, “Beelzebub!” Okay, if He’s Beelzebub, I’m a little Beelzebub If He’s rotten, then I’m pretty rotten. Who was He? One, with the Father. Who am I? One, with the Father. That’s the trouble. Now, He says, "At the end-time, when all this is going on, that’s where the confession lies." Bro. Branham said, “When that happens, the squeeze comes down.” So, I don’t think I can say it, we'll it's up to you. 17. Now notice, Bro. Branham said that, “John 14:20 takes place three times.” That’s what we’re looking at. At that day, ‘The Father in Me, and I in you.’ He said, “That took place at Pentecost.” It takes place at this hour, and at the White Throne Judgment. I don’t know whether God ordained a conversation with my wife this morning or not, I don’t know that He ordains too many of them. We gaff a lot. There was a day, years and years ago, we used to live with these people, and they had a …he was kind of crippled, and she was very sweet, and had a good love affair going on there, in their fifties and sixties, sixties I guess. They’d sit there and yak, yak, yak, all day long. And if we would never tell my wife, but I’m thinking to myself, …my, my, my when my wife and if we should live that long, and get that old, I know we’ll have nothing to say to each other. You’ve got to be kidding. Oh, I’m going blah, blah, blah, and she’s going blah, blah, blah. I like it that way. Yeah, and it’s gotten better all the time. See? All right. At that day, you’ll know I’m in the Father, and you in me, and I in you.” [Jn 14:20] Okay. He said White Throne. [Bro. Vayle draws on board] Okay. Do you know what the Bride’s going to do? The Bride’s going to stand there, in the Throne, judgment. Now, everybody else is going to stand before that Throne. You’re going to see the people that had ten times more fruit than you. Twenty times more manifestation. Hundred times more soul. Etc, Etc. Etc. And you’re going to have to stand there and judge. How are you going to do it? "Well, I was a great lawyer in my day, and I was so meritorious, that people elected me, hallelujah, so, there's why I'm qualified. Well, the thing was, I had a little better fruit, it was bitter, and the standard you see, it wasn’t that much, so I got …?... …?... Come on. 18. "I and My Father are one. " See? Sometimes, it takes time to even your wife can help you out. Got a good wife, you’ve got everything good. Bro. Branham said, “If God could have given a man something better than a wife, outside of the Holy Ghost, He'd have done it.” See, I think a wife comes second to the Holy Ghost. I think sometimes…a lot of times, she feels even better than the Holy Ghost, because you get treated rough by God sometimes, you know, because you act up wrong. I’ve had my head beat in so many times/ My wife never has done that. She’s always been very good. In fact, I was paid a compliment the other day. One fellow he didn’t want to admit it. But he said, “I think your wife loves you, better than she loves God.” I said, “Well that's possible, I kind of hope not, maybe in different ways.” I thought it was kind of a nice thing for him to say it. All right listen. White Throne judgement. Now, today at His Appearing, the Bride must be of such character, that she will say, “I am one with the Father.” See? Now, one with the Father, …now that's what the Bible said, character, …Bro. Branham used the right word. See? 19. All right. 1 John 3:2 (2) Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; … If you’re going to be like Him, you’ve got to say what He said. "I and My Father are one." 1 Corinthians 13:12 (12) … now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: know in part; but I (shall) know even as also I am known. I know Him like a book. Your wife can say, “I know my husband like a book.” Husband can say, “I know my wife like a book.” I can say, “I know God, like a book.” This Book. Face to face. 20. Now listen, 2 Corinthians 3:18, we’re moving up now. Because this is getting where the meat is. This is the truth, I didn’t write It, He did. (18) But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, … The same image… now listen…the same image. What was that image? 21. Get over here now to, Hebrews 1. (2) (Have) in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom he made the worlds; (3) Who being the brightness of (God’s) glory, the express image of (God’s) person, upholding all things by the word of (God’s) power, when he purged our sins, sat down … And if we’re made in His image, we’re in God’s image, upon the earth. “I and my Father are one.” [Jn 10:30] Where was your seed? Listen, she recognizes who she is. She’s over here in Ephesians 5: with this peculiar identity. We are each and every one, in our place of God. And in the same measure, that same manner, the same everything after pertaining to that one point. Nobody is more than another. Not when you get set in the church for an office, that’s another thing entirely. Then if you’re born, you’re no more born than somebody else. See? 22. All right. [John 17:] (22) …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; that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. (24) Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; You know something? That is already happened, He’s already here with us, therefore the oneness is complete. The Bride maybe not all in, maybe she is all in. If she’s all in, she’s being child trained. That’s all that’s left. See? (24) … which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. (25) O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. So, could you know, He’s returned and come back? (26) …I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: Has the Name been declared? (26) … that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. Now It tells you right there, it starts first with the Name. Pardon me. First of all, it starts with the realization of that union, and then that Name. Because you see, the groom give the name to the Bride. I don’t have time to go into that. But that’s one of the richest things that ever came to me. And I’m not even telling you what it is yet. See? Now, verse 26, It says: (26) And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: 23. Now, lets’ go to Hebrews 12: and find out what He says there. That’s why people don’t keep up ‘modern’. They’ve gone way back in the boon docks. It says: (25) See that (you) refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that (spoke) on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that (speaks) from heaven: That’s that mini tribulation under Titus, they got it. (26) Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. (27) And this word, Yet once more, (signifies) the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. (28) Wherefore we receiving a kingdom… He’s telling you when this speaking takes place it’s right on the verge of the Millennium. And the Seventh Seal ushers in the Millennium. Therefore, under the Seventh Seal, Revelation 10:1-7 comes to pass. And God speaks through the prophet. Now, (28) … (wherefore) we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: And the first reverence in godly fear is to start what He said. If you are baptized with the Holy Ghost. " I and My Father are one." You see? I and my brother are one, right down the line. You can begin to understand. Now, the prophet did not take us back to Pentecost, he said, “We’re a million miles beyond it.” 24. Now, this lines with John 14:21-26 where we read to you those very things over here. Already, or some of them. (21) He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Now, the commandment He gave first there, is to be baptized with the Holy Ghost. (22) Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that (He will) manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? (23) Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and (we'll) come unto him, and make our abode with him. Now, It tells you right there. It says that love toward God, which God placed in your heart will bring on the Holy Spirit. (24) He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: (he doesn’t care for My Word) and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. (25) These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. (26) But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Now, when did He come down, to put that in the Book form? It was through the prophets. Pillar of Fire came down. God gave the Word to the apostle Paul. 25. Now, we’re flying. We’re into Ephesians 1: that Paul says happens at the end-time. The Holy Spirit coming into the Church. (15) Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, (16) Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; (17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: (18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, (not your calling, His) and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, (19) And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, (20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead… (and so on.) And It tells you right there, that Spirit comes into the Church. And when He does, He comes with that great teaching ministry. And the teaching ministry will reveal exactly who He is, and what He is in you. See? So, we’re getting there. Coming more and more into view. 26. Now, this aligns of course, with Revelation 3:20 (20) (I'm standing) at the door, and (knocking): …I want to have...sup with (people), … And Revelation 10:1 the great Pillar of Fire comes down, to anointed prophet of Revelation 10:7. This takes us right back again, to Ephesians 5: that we talked about in the Bride there, 29-30. "That no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the Church." What's He doing there? He is telling the fact of how He loves and nourishes that Church. Why? Because He is the Husband. "For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones." [Eph 5:29-30] There is the literal guarantee that God Himself is nourishing, that He is the life of that Bride. See? And therefore, being the life, it cannot possibly go down the drain. 27. Now, you’ll notice that Jesus is the Groom. Why? Because, He is the Kinsman Redeemer. And remember, the Redeemer was a Kinsman, He was related. See, like Adam. Eve came out of Adam, he married her. So, the Bride was taken out of the side of Jesus Christ. Taken out of the Logos. So therefore, she was Logos, just like Him. See? And therefore, to marry Him, she must have the same flesh that He had. And what is the flesh of the Holy Spirit today, as He consorts with the Bride? The flesh is the Word of God. So therefore, the Bride must have the same flesh, which is the Word of God. Because you see, He is that Word. And Bro. Branham said, “When you receive the Word of God, you become the Word of God, in your flesh.” Okay. 28. First John, let’s take a look at It and understand what Bro. Branham said about this very Scripture here. 1 John 4: are you’re way ahead of me, because you know what It says already. (1) Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. (2) Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: Now, he’s put that right in this present hour, and he was not talking about William Branham, being God manifested in flesh as if that were himself and nobody else, but it was concerning the Bride. (3) And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: … 29. ‘I and My Father are one’, can only be said when He was in the flesh. Why? Because before He was in the flesh, He was just one with One. But now when He’s come into that body, He became one. And this is the hour that the Holy Spirit is coming more and more into the Church. Until He is that happy Bridegroom with the Bride. See? Who has received the Word, and become the Word of God in her flesh. So therefore, the Word today is becoming flesh. That's what Bro. Branham said over here in the Book of Revelation, and the last Age, concerning the Laodicean minister, the Spirit of God said: [Revelation 3:] (14) These things saith the Amen, … (but they who were at) the beginning of the creation of God; God who could make Himself in the form of human flesh. And now is the time to manifest. You see? We are to that period. In 1956 in November, Bro. Branham preached 'The Uniting Time', Message, 'The Mystery Union of the Bride,' Today, chapter 14 and 17 are coming to pass in the Book of John. The Bride is coming together, according to 2 Thessalonians 2:1. (1) Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming (that’s the Presence) of our Lord Jesus Christ, (even) our gathering together unto him, And He was talking to the living. He is not with the dead. He is with the living, to raise the dead. “They without us (could) not be made perfect.” [Heb 11:40] We’ve got to come to that place. And that place is the union. Then how can death stand before her? Death must be stopped in its tracks. 30. Listen: This is also 1 John 4:16 the Lord Himself, descends from heaven with a Shout. It is also over here in Matthew 25: 6 (6) Behold, the bridegroom (come …) out to meet him. For as the prophet said, “Christ has Appeared, in order for the Bride to know her mate, the revealed Word.” Christ the Word, that magnet is drawing all that which is magnetized up to Him, for the Rapture, and the Wedding Supper, at this very hour. Today, we are uniting more and more, with the One, who is the Word. Who is made in the Bride, even Jesus Christ, the righteous. Remember, Bro. Branham said, “The wedding garment of the Bride, is the Holy Spirit.” And the man is the covering to the husband, he is the head, he stands here to take over for her. Now, and rounding out this thought. Remember, back in Matthew 10: which we said, He is such a character, that He will recognize He’s one with God, and confess It, God will do the same thing before Him in heaven, before the holy angels saying, “This is My beloved, this is My Bride.” See? 31. All right. This is the famous Matthew 16: where Jesus said, “Who do men say that I the Son of man am?” And he said, “Thou art this and that.” “But who do you say?” He said, “Thou art the Christ.” And when you can say “We are one” as God said, God, answers back. "I say you're Peter." See? 32. All right. We are now in union. In union with the Lord Jesus Christ. Over here, in the Book of Romans [11:36] (36) For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. … How is the Bride going to get past that? She can say, “Well, look at all the souls I won. Look at all the fruit. Look at all this, look at all that.” Now, how I tell you brother/sister, amazing grace to me is a fact that God can stand right here, and I can stand here too, that signifies the Blood. So, if the Blood of Jesus Christ can do, that signifies the power of the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, where God stands and calls Him justified, and righteous. See? That's where God can stand back and say “They’re mine, I'm married to them. I am married to the harlot. Said, "Just spread your legs out there and sit in a row, there'll be a rape in every skunk under high heaven. Ain't now if you turn to me.” But I want to tell you at this end-time, Bro. Branham categorically said, "A woman can be forgiven for adultery, but she cannot be justified." She'll come up in the Second Resurrection, …?... unless you stand in Him, as never having done it.” Because, you were in Him as sheep that had gone astray, and the righteous One stands there. That's why the Holy Spirit came. This is what happened, and is happening. Today, we are one. Tomorrow the same ones will be magnified, manifested in glory. So now, we have a tremendous basic truth at the end-time. He is here, the Head, or the Husband of the Bride. God uniting them, even as the Father was in the Son, even God is now to this point, making ready a Bride. Absolutely, in that Bride, started to get ready with the opening of the Seals, when the Book could not close. And at that time, when the Seals are opened, positively, “He that is righteous, is righteous still, and he that is filthy, is filthy still.” And It says, that those who stand right here, are going to go to the Tree of Life. And God just says the rest are whoremongers and dogs outside the city. 33. Brother/sister, you’re at the end-time. Listen, let’s get this flat. In this hour which we live, I don’t maybe take the consolation I should take. But I want to tell you, I've got great consolation in as far as I can get consolation, at this point. He said we are heading into the place of perfect righteousness and perfect hellishness. And since there’s at least four billion people, and maybe hardly ten thousand Bride; then the multiplicity of anguish and destruction disorder, sin corruption and you name it. There'll be millions of times greater, in manifestation, that what we see. That doesn’t matter. The Word of God still stands true. So, we’re going to be swayed here, and swayed there. That’s why at the end-time, you take this Message, and it doesn’t matter if this seducer and that seducer, and that fella and that fella. You just stand there with the Word of God. “I and My Father are one.” [John 10:30] It’s uniting time. Yes sir. I and the Father are one. What’s He going to do? He’s looking for that Bride He can take back. And then when He gets that Bride up there in the Presence of Jesus, Who is the Son of man, Who is that son of David. I’m not going to call Him ‘Son of God’ because, that’s Holy Spirit. But when you see that One in Whom God Himself incarnated Himself, at that time when He gets there, He will actually, slip into the body of Jesus. Presenting to Himself, the Bride without spot or wrinkle. And they’re one, never did by. See? You get to the Resurrection brother/sister. It’s already transpired, brother/sister. The proof is here. Because we had a prophet at the end-time, the Son of man has been manifested. See? It's uniting time. 34. Now listen, I hope you caught what I was preaching. Alpha, alpha. It started back in the First Church Age, Alpha. God uniting. God coming down Himself, and setting the Church in order. And for Seven solid Church Ages, He has been bringing those lost sheep back to Himself, Ii an indissoluble union. See? Now, in that First Age, they had that which made people know that they were one, and one with God. Let me tell you, that this Age is way beyond the First Age. And there will come a time, though the Bride may be here, and the Bride may be there. There’ll be something in that Bride, that is so much greater. See? Because once more God has come down, and this time He does not go back without us. This is the end time. See? Standing here to raise those very dead. This is uniting time. It is invisible. Oh, I showed you my chart. All the fruit over here, everything, but almost nothing here. It’s completely wiped out, by the millions which will go to billions. As they flock to the false Word. Because that’s what the Bible says they'll do to. Now remember, the flood waters that saved Noah, destroyed the earth. The same Message that saves us, destroys the rest. But the Bride stands with Him, united. But this uniting, is uniting different from all other Ages. This is Wedding time. The gathering of the entire Bride, to the Wedding Supper. "And He which hath begun a good work, will not fail to perform it." [Phil 1:6] 35. But the Bride has got to have her testimony. See, she’s not going to be out there flirting with the world and everything else. She’s not going to say, “Well…I, I, I, I…really I think I am prepared to marry John, he’s the one that proposed to me…. You know marriage, …you know that little boy with cute feet.” Remember Bro. Branham? Well, he had cute feet. Why does't she marry someone that’s decent, a real man. Well, he’s got cute feet. She’s got the sweetest freckles. She talks in tongues, beautiful. I’m not against that. Where's she doing? How does she stand with the Word? Find such a Bride of such character. But listen to the Message. What’s …?... from the waters of separation. She gets dressed. He said, "I believe I've been called to dress a Bride." See, man standing right there. The manifestation. The flesh of the Holy Spirit is one and the same thing. That’s right. What are you putting on today? You putting on something other than a Word? I want to tell you one thing, God will only answer back. As Bro. Branham said, “You say the right thing, then, God answers back.” He said, “That woman Hattie Wright, well he name's really Mrs. Mosher, she said the right thing, and God answered back.” I understand Dalton said the right thing, God answered back. And I guess, right today, Dalton’s girls are saved, they're going on. I don't even worry about Hattie’s boys, I just know one thing, if they’re out there fooling around, they’ll get tanned, they’ll come back. Sure. God doesn't lose any. God’s not going to say something down here, and seal that thing, and then say, “Well, that wasn't sealed in heaven.” See? That Voice's got to answer back. There's got to be, the Voice here that says the right thing there. 36. There is only one thing that can be said. That’s that Word. The Bride listens to that Word. And she said, “I and my Father are one.” See? We’re one today. One because of the indissoluble union, of the personal Baptism with the Holy Ghost. One because of our oneness with the Word, there is a Bride that is complete. Don’t ever get that in your head there's not. Bro. Branham said, If we're not Bride, then she's out there somewhere, and by the grace of God I won’t stand in her way.” See? Understanding it, and then you go the third step, because He does it in three's remember. Take a look, I’m right here. I’m not going to leave you till we to go back. She may have a really tough time. There may be a bit of problem. But nothing but what's common to all men, from all ages. Remember this brother/sister, when you and I come to that place where we really admit it. The squeeze is going to come on down. Because nobody, in that little thing that’s to come, the Tribulation, that whole squeeze, is going to be able to say, “I have a relationship to God.” That nobody else has. They say, “Who do you think you are?” They’ll get you, they’ll cut you down. Do you know something? They'll just try to. They’re not going to succeed. Bro. Branham said, “They'll shut those doors. They’ll stop us as far as they know.” They're not going to stop us/ Though, because she's got Him, “I and my beloved, are one.” Heavenly Father, we know that your Word is truth, and we know, Lord, that may take some time of confessing, and watching, but we know, Lord, that the prophet said, “If we’re not Bride, there’s a Bride out there somewhere.” And she will be saying, “I and my Father, are one.” We know that. We know that even during the squeeze, whatever all that is, that we believe that will be the time, because he said, "The shuck will separate from the wheat at that particular time." We believe, Lord God, as it was in the Alpha, it's in the Omega, and there is a Bride that is one, and she begins to recognize this is what the Holy Spirit is all about, is to draw us back, to bind us back to make us one with Almighty God and with each other as that great company that'll stand in His Presence, and as one glorified and honor Him. Now, Lord, in Heaven, may you receive honor and glory today, as the people begin to register the mechanic that lies within your Word. At the end-time we are one. And we didn't try to prove it, and we didn’t try to do it, it was You, Lord, Who came down, at that hour. Even as Bro. Branham illustrated with the rich man going for the little girl out west. She just stood there waiting, and he came along. And, Lord, here we were in this hour, knowing by the atmosphere, something is happening, that we know today, and we might not see it with our eyes, but we know it by the Word. By the real eyes, the eye of faith, You are here. And you are here for a Bride. And may we be faithful to You, because You have been faithful to us. And faithful together, enter in to eternity. Bless each one here in divine Presence, Lord, may the unsaved be saved. Those that are not filled, Lord, seek a true baptism with the Holy Ghost, and know that they are filled. And know, Lord Jesus by the evidence of the power of that Word, energizing, dynamizing, in their very lives. God, we pray for all Your people, and thank You for what You’ve done. And what You are doing, and what You’re about to do. We came to glorify Your Name, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Let’s sing that song ‘Take the Name of Jesus With You.’ What Happens When the Holy Ghost Comes #1A (0381) Page PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 1