What Happens When the Holy Ghost Comes # 4  

Bro. Lee Vayle   -     March 1, 1981

     …Your Presence here, and Your love and Your mercy, and all that
is attendant upon Thee, and all that is within You, Lord.  And it is
certainly, hard upon our minds, to really look into this and see the
truth of it, Lord.  How great Thou art, that You are here to take us
through.  This is really something, Lord, to see by the understanding of
the mind, what is laid before us, and yet we know that this is how we
see it, and we can see You.  And because we see You, we shall live.  So,
we thank you tonight, Lord, for this.  And we pray now that You will
help us to understand some of the things that might have been a little
bit difficult to understand  things, Lord, that which have been a little
bet maybe…legitimate, and yet, not quite a hundred percent legitimate,
and that’s what we want.  We want us to be a hundred percent right.  I
know you can help us, we leave ourselves here, open to You, in Jesus’
name we pray.  Amen.  You may be seated.   

1.   Now, there is a thought I want to bring before I read just a couple
verses of Scripture.  And that is where  It  says in Matthew, Jesus
speaking, Elijah must first come and restore all things.  And that is
also repeated in Acts 3: so, you know exactly what is going to be.. is
restored.               And he says here,

	(19)	…when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence

                        of the Lord.

	(20)	 (Even God) shall send Jesus Christ, which (is) preached unto you:

	(21)	 Whom the heaven must (retain, that’s receive and retain) until 

                         the (restoration) of all things, which God hath
spoken by the mouth 				of all his holy prophets since the world began.

     Now, we know there, that the Scripture is very distinct, as to who
does the restoring.  Jesus answered unequivocally, that it was Elijah
who was to do It.  So therefore, we see that before Jesus Himself, can
come back to earth, they are most definitely set forth, the restoration
by Elijah.  So, Elijah will be here in his flesh, previous to the Lord
coming down in His flesh, and   this is going to be the restoration of
the Word.  Now, many people have an idea that restoration at this point,
has specifically to do with gifts.  Now the gifts were restored a long
time ago.  Even Amy McPherson understood that, when she preached her
sermon on restoration and gifts in London, many, many years ago.   Now,
Bro. Branham categorically stated that, “This restoration would be of
that Word.” In other words, we would have the true interpretation of
the Word for this hour.  

2.   So therefore, when you talk of gifts, there is only one thing you
can think of.  And that is, that those gifts must now be right according
to the Word, because the revealed Word alone can set things in order. 
And that is what I showed you this morning, is going on at this point,
that God is setting everything in divine order, to bring everything
under the feet of the Son.  And that would take a whole series of
messages, but believe me, I wouldn’t say that, if that was not exactly
true.  

      Now, the sovereign Word puts all things in order.  Where gifts are
rightly placed.  As Bro. Branham said, “Complementary to the five-fold
ministry.” There is no place where Bro. Branham said  that the
ministry must have those gifts in operation, because they are already
gifted men.  He said in regarding those gifted men, in contra
distinction, to the elders, he read in both Titus and Timothy said,
“You notice that it’s required of these men to have qualities that
the five-fold ministry does not have.”  Because, you see these men are
not gifted men.  And by that, I mean, that a character and a life will
not do what a gift of God will do.  Now it will enhance the gift.  It
will make the gift acceptable, hopefully. It will be…the gift will be
more impressive, than if the person was not a proper person.  See?  But
these ministers are gifted.  

3.   Now, the other people from the pew, they are also gifted, and their
gifts are complementary.  That’s why Bro. Branham said, “If anybody
has a gift, he goes in that room.”  And then, that we saw this
morning, that gift was used even if the person has it, at the discretion
of the Lord Himself,   otherwise it would not be used.  It is not
something you bulldoze into, and you bulldoze with.  That is entirely
erroneous, it just is not that way.  

      Now then, you use those gifts in the way the prophet suggested. 
Especially, in the realm of the prophetic.  Where you wrote down what
was said, then brought it before the congregation after it was already
judged in that room.  Now, Bro. Branham made another statement that so
many people overlooked.  And He said, “You can’t even go in that
room, unless there’s a gift            of discernment there.”  That
is; the discerning of spirits, not discernment as he had it, but
discerning of spirits, so you would know just instantly, you could pick
up which way  that was.  So, when you hear people talk about these
gifts…see, you can quote yourself plumb into hell with quotes.  Just
the same as you can be a Seven Day Adventist, and use this Bible, and
you’re not going to end up in the Millennium.  No way, because it’s
a cult.  There’s no way.  Jehovah Witness, is the same thing.  

     And it’s got to the place where people think in this Message, as
long as they quote the prophet, everything is all right.  Now, that
isn’t true, because you can take the things the prophet said,  quote
them to your advantage, sometimes your disadvantage, and come out
entirely wrong.  And that’s bad so, when he mentioned these gifts are
complementary, and how they are to be utilized, then that is the way it
must be done.  Then, if there’s anything there, it will come out. 
Now, you’ll notice also, … I think I sort of mentioned this morning
in 1 Corinthians 12:27-28. 

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

	(28) 	And God hath set some in the church, …

     Actually, he set everybody in the church.  But he’s naming some
of the members, and all members have something.  

	(28)	… first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers,  (then
he 					stops numbering.  You’ll notice that other gifts like)
…miracles, 					(and) healings, (and) helps, …

4.   Now, where do you find helps?  What are they?  Where do you find
governments?  What are they?  See?  Now, they’re legitimate.  If you
believe in a five-fold ministry, you’ve got to believe in the other
gifts.  Then if you believe in healings, and you believe in a word of
knowledge, you’ve got to believe in helps.  You’ve got to believe in
governments.  But you’ll notice It says,

	(28)	…after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps,
governments,

                        diversities of tongues. (But it doesn’t number
them.  See?)

       Now, only the five-fold ministry is numbered.  And then, after
them, there’s two more which makes up the seven, because God deals in
seven's.  And they are allowed on probation, of the character of the men
who are desirous of doing something specific to help the church along. 
And they are only complementary…these gifts are only complementary to
the men who bring the Word, and they go no further than that.  But you
get gifts operating in a church, …we’ll talk about that tonight now,
…how they can cause a great deal of dissension.  And it’s pitiful
that it does.  

5.   Now, I’m going to read from Scripture, Isaiah 40: 4-5, and that
will be our Bible reading for our introduction.  And then we’re going
to go to the other Scripture in the New Testament. He says here,

  	(4)	Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall 
				be made low: the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough

                        places plain:

	(5)       And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh
shall see

                        it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath
spoken it.

       Now, I’m using these two verses here, to set forth a true
principle concerning the lateral relationship of the Holy Spirit in the
Bride.  Now, first of all, we read that the Holy Spirit 	is the great
leveler.  All the valleys are brought up, and all the mountains are made
low.  Crooked places made plain…or straight, rough places made plain. 
In other words, everything is open and above board, and everything is on
a level keel, everything is open there, because God is the great
Leveler. Has leveled all men down on the same plain.  And then He also
in the next verse,

	(5)	(I see) the glory of the LORD shall be revealed…(And that is
true.)  

	(5)	…all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath

                        spoken it.

     And in there I see, God finishes or perfects and transforms His
Bride, and then He presents her to the world as He glorifies Himself in
her before the world, because there is no place that you are going to
see the glory of the Lord, outside the glory of the Bride.  Now, they
have to work together, because that is the promise that is laid down by
Jesus Christ Himself.  

6.   Now, let’s just take a look at the great  Leveler.   So, we go to
the 1 Corinthians 12: to begin our study.  And taking verse 18-21,

	(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 thee: nor

                        again the head to the feet, I have no need of
(thee).  

 7.   Now, we compare this with Ephesians which is a little more
glorious to our liking.  Because one is doctrine, the other is
corrective.  This is doctrine, 22-23.  

	(22)	And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the

                        head over all things to the church,

	(23) 	Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all (things, 

                         with) all (things).

      Now, what a tremendous difference in the two chapters, to the two
churches.  In here  the statement of the glory revealed in the church,
is overwhelming in its simplicity, of the understanding of the
magnitude, of the beneficence, of Almighty God to His Bride.  Over here,
there’s a Bride that doesn’t even know what it’s all about. 
They’re mixed up.  

8.  Now, Galatians 3:26-29  

	(26)	For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

	(27) 	(And) as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put 

                        on Christ.

	(28)     There is neither Jew nor Greek, neither bond nor free, neither
male 					nor female: (you're) all one in Christ Jesus.  

	(29)	And if ye be Christ's, then  (you're) Abraham's seed, and heirs 		
		according to the promise.  

       There again, is the glorious statement.  And there’s no
conflict here.  It’s a statement of fact.  As these people realize,
exactly who and what they are.  

9.   Now, let’s go over here in Ephesians the 4th chapter again.  See
the leveling, see the great leveling in here, that we see, in those
verses that I read.  Now with this we read also concerning the Bride
herself, Ephesians 4: which we read to before, verses 8-16.  How the
Holy Spirit comes down, and will bring the Bride to perfection, who
increases with the increase of God, who is the receptacle of the
increase of God, who is all of God, and nothing but God.  This, lines up
with also what we read over in that Ephesians 1:  also in Ephesians
1:11-12

	(11)	In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated

                        according to the purpose of him who worketh all
things after the

                        counsel of his own will:

	(12) 	That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted
in (Him).

     See?  The praise of His glory, glorious church without spot and
without wrinkle.  So, the precepts here are very, very true.  That
God…when you’re full of the Holy Ghost, baptized in the body of
Christ, the great leveling experience, is the experience that everybody
should know.  Now, I realize that the preachers and the people in the
church, are not remiss in telling the sinner who was on the dung heap,
that he’s now a prince with God.  There is nothing wrong with the
teaching, that is to say, that people are not remiss in the teaching of
identification of the individual with Christ, as I showed you this
morning.  What is remiss, it doesn’t go to the place where it must go,
and that is, the full counsel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who brought out
the reality of the Bride in a unity.  See?  

10.  And also, here we see, that this Bride is having the perfect work
of God done in her, and bringing her up just the same as God works in
the individual, so that he can be shown as the adopted or the placed,
son.  So, the Bride is a whole composite, of adopted and placed sons. 
And she herself together, also becomes that adopted and placed one, and
is actually presented to God as the wife.  

      Now, at this point I think we ought to consider again how we all
stand as a part of the Bride, and as a part of each other, because you
can’t do one without the other.  For that is indeed what John 14:20 is
all about.  You know, “You in me, and I in you.  And in the Father.”
 And also, over in John 17: 21-13. 

	(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.

	(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;
…

      See?  That’s the same thing that It says in Ephesians.  Now Paul
couldn’t see any less to the Ephesians, and Jesus said to the
original.  

	(23)	… and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast 	
			loved them, as thou hast loved me.  

     Now immediately, we must understand that John 17:21-23 which I
read, is definitely a part of 

Luke 24:49, which says,

	(49)	…tarry in Jerusalem, until (you) be endued with power from on 		
		high.

     then It says, [Act 1:8]

	(8)	… (you'll) be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, Judaea, 

                        and in all Samaria, and the uttermost part of
the earth.

11.  Now, I know that right away people have said, “Now look, that
there is the sign when you receive the Holy Ghost, that’s what He’s
given for.  He’s going to make you a soul winner.”  But  It
doesn’t say that.   It says, you’ll be witnesses, and I read in
John, how you’d be a witnesses also.  Now, you can throw that in on
the individual, but I’m going to throw it on the body.  Because
that’s what Jesus does.  Now, we can’t take part of the Word, and
leave the rest of the Word lie there.  There’s no way.  There has to
be the full concept, or the conception within ourselves, the
understanding, as to the individual within the composite.  And the
composite standing there, as that same witness and testimony.  And
that’s what the whole trouble in the world today is.  And you know how
they’re going to get together, they're going to get together on this
little love bit.  

      It doesn’t matter what anybody does.  It doesn’t matter what
anybody says.  Just as long as you love each other.  But you see,
there’s a union in here, and if you’re catching what I’m saying,
and placing it, you’re understanding how Bro. Branham said, “It’s
a union with the Word.”  See?  Now, that one with God in that union,
and what I read this morning is showing you how that only God Himself,
works with His power within us through the vessel according to what that
vessel and all is.  You get to the place where you stand with that Word,
then it will be a witness to the Word, as oneness with the Father,
that’s going to bring down the squeeze.  Because if that’s what it
was with Jesus, it’s going to be the same thing here.  See? 

12.  So, you might as well understand that this revelation here, is
going to prepare you for a squeeze.  Because  Bro. Branham categorically
said that when the time…as I brought out to you last Sunday…that
when the Pharisees heard Jesus said, “I and My Father are one,” they
pulled away.  And he said, "When the Bride of this hour says, I and my
Father are one, the shuck will pull away."  So therefore, these messages
as I’ve been showing it, and I’ve been trying to show it, you will
never be the same again, you’ll either go backward, or, you’ll go
forward.  

      Now, I don’t like talking like this, but I know what happens. 
I’ve seen it, and I’m seeing it happen.  So, and it’s based upon
the prophet’s Message.  And if it’s going to happen with my word,
and the prophet said, “Thus it has been spoken, thus it shall be.”
If it happens with my word, it’s got to be the same word, as the
prophet’s word.  Because I don’t have any word that is going to come
to pass. See?  There’s no way, that what I’m saying is going to come
to pass.  All I can say is what he said, and then, that’s it.  I’m
showing you here, from what he said, that these are the Scripture.  So,
whether you want  It or not, you’re in for it.  Whether I want  It or
not, I’m in for it.  

13.  Now, I’ve had this feeling for sometime, that I wasn’t really
quite ready, but hopefully, sort of ready.  That I might just lie down
in the ditch and die, if that is what God wanted for me.  Now, I’m not
to the place where I think that I really come there.  I think that at
this point, that if I am to be there, then I’m quite certain God will
give me enough grace to handle a situation.  But the fact is I’m
looking at the thing here, that that could actually happen.  So, there
is the witnessing of the individual, but there is a consummate
witnessing of a Bride as a unit, with the Vertical has gone into the
horizontal.  

      And remember also, the same Vertical that went into a horizontal,
when Jesus announced that He was the Son of God.  And He told the
disciples on the same occasion, now He said, “The servant isn’t
above the Lord, but if they call the Master, ‘Beelzubub’ what are
they going to call you?”   Now, He said, “You can’t even put a
finger on me.”  But He said, “Boy, they can put a whole fist on
you.”   You see?  

14.  Now, the Scripture that we are a part of with Him, and with each
other, is 1 Corinthians                    12:12-14.  Now, we’ve been
looking into that, and we just keep looking.  

	(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.

     So, It tells you why. 

	(13)     For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether
we be Jews

                        or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and
have been all made to drink

                        into one Spirit.

     Now, it tells you distinctly the Baptism with the Holy Ghost does
that placing, it is the One that does it all.  And of course, with that,
we could read, but, we don’t need to.  

     1 Corinthians 6:19 

	(19) 	 … know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, 

                         (so, you’d better be careful who you’re
joined up with.)

       Now, here is the Vertical and the horizontal relationship, we
have through the Baptism with the Holy Spirit.  So now, we can
immediately see in 1 Corinthians 12: that the human body in its various
parts and functions, is used to illustrate and make clear the
functioning of the body of Christ through the Holy Spirit.  Now, Bro.
Branham said the same thing.  I think we read it this morning, as I read
that portion.  

15.  Now, because this is so, you’ll find that the devil does the very
same thing.  You go over here in the Book of Revelation 13: you’ll
find that he has a body also that he works in.  And  chapter 13, verses
14-15…

	(14)	And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those 

                        miracles which he had power to do in the sight
of the beast; saying

                        to them that dwell on the earth, that they
should make an image to

                        the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and
did live.

     Now, Bro. Branham said, the image was the replica of the Roman
Catholic church, which had to do with the ecumenical movement. You see,
what it was the Roman Empire got killed and almost died, but was revived
through the false religion under Constantine.  Because he was a phony.  

	(14)	…which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 

	(15) 	And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that
the

                        image of the beast should both speak, and cause
that as many as

                        would not worship the image of the beast should
be killed. 

     Now, I believe that this is the church that John saw, and he said
it was beautiful.  The church that Bro. Branham saw was beautiful, but
terribly, terribly hard.  So, you see, Satan has a body, the same as
Christ has a body.  

16.  Now, in 1 Corinthians 15: he speaks of the foot.  And 16: he speaks
of the ear, and the eye.  

In 17: he speaks of the nose.  In 21: the head and the feet.  In 22: the
feeble parts.  And in 24: the strong parts.  Now, all parts of the human
body with their various functions, made one integrated, co-operating
unit, under one life.  Now, that’s true.  All together make one
integrated unit, co-operating, and under one life.  The human life in
the body is responsible for the functions of each.  

     That is, if you know the life in our bodies, is responsible for the
fight to be integrated part.  See?  And you show me a non-integrated
part, and I will show you something that is causing a terrible amount of
trouble.  But that’s not the way it is in the Bride of Jesus Christ. 
There's an integration in there.  Now, the Holy Spirit and the Bride is
responsible for the proper functioning, or the manifesting or the
revealing of the Son of man, through that body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
 

17.  And we saw that over here in Ephesians 3:20

	(20)	Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all 			
	that we ask or think, …

   In other words, unto Him who in the exercise of His power that is at
work within us, is able to do infinitely more than what we’d even ask
or pray for.  You see?  That’s the thing, then if this is the case my
brother, my sister, that you and I understand Bro. Branham where  he
said, “It wasn’t what I did.” And he said, “It was just what I
yielded myself to.” That you can understand, that your receiving
anything from God, that is going to be good for anybody else, is a
matter of what you yield yourself to.  So therefore, if the person is
not of such character, as yielding himself for the benefits of others,
but doing that which is irresponsible or contrary, that person would
hardly ever qualify as a functioning member of the Bride of Christ.  But
could qualify as a false anointed, if he got moving.  See?  

     Now, a special note here, and we see how the Word and Spirit are
one.  They're absolutely one.  And actually, there’s a lot of common
sense discerning, that goes on amongst us, because you start with that
Word.  And if it’s all based with the Word, then you leave it entirely
alone, until it gets back on track.  

18.  Now, this is seen in 1 Corinthians 12: 4-7.  It said:

	(4)	…there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

	(5)       (…different) administrations, same Lord.

	(6)       …diversities of operations, but the same God which worketh
all 					in all.

	(7)       But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to
profit withal.

      Now, in verse 4, it says there are different kinds of gifts. 
Gifts that differ one from another.  And they are distributed …now
listen, they are distributed different one from another.  Such as, we
have two eyes, we’ve only got one heart.  See?  One eye is on one
side, and the other eye is on the other side.  Got two ears, one on each
side. Got two feet, you see.  So, you’ve got organs, and they’re
absolutely different, and they differ from each other.  And they’re
distributed different.  And in verse  5,  It says, there are different
ministries in the body, and various kinds are placed there.  Like each
member of your own body, has its own legitimate function.  In         
verse  6,  It says gifts and ministries operate different from each
other, according to what the            gift is. 

     That lets you know, that there is no such thing as a stereotype. 
You don’t stereotype anything.  That’s why there’s got to be
people there to judge it.  If you could stereotype it, put it through a
computer, as it were, with a set of records and fingerprints, you could
say, “Hey, that’s legitimate, that’s legitimate, that’s
legitimate.  But you can’t do that.  The gift of tongues might operate
one way in one person, another in another person.  And all these things
be so diverse, that  you’ve got to have something there that you can
go by.  Now, the ministries, … gifts of ministries, operate
differently from each other, according to what the gift is.  So,
remember that as we go down a little further down the line.  Now, in
verse 7, but all is so integrated, as is the human body.  That it is
very evident a life is there manifesting itself through flesh.  No cross
ups, no foul ups.  No interferences.  See? 

19.  The primitive early church had that Spirit manifesting Himself, so
there were no cross ups.  Then, if anything came along they went right
to those who were in the authority who had revelation from God, and
cleaned the matter up.  And verse 11, that’s the one down here.  

	(11)	But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing

                        (or giving individually) every man as he will.

     Clarity says that God is sovereignly responsible for placing each
member, and designating responsibility…and designating one part each
has, and how each part is to operate, or manifest the Spirit of God. 
And at what time and what the conditions are, and how often.  In other
words, God has delegated it to Himself, the right to place every single
member in the Bride, in every single age, in exactly the right place,
and demand that person an exact manifestation, in every way, shape and
order, as to concerning what He wants.  And He’s sovereign, concerning
It.  Now, please note immediately, verses 4-7 which I read.  And verse
11, should have cleaned up the picture.  Now, that’s what It
should’ve done.  It should have put this church the same place as
where the Ephesian church was.  But I want you to notice, It didn’t
clean it up, it just tells the story.  See?  

     Now, there were problems right in the First Church Age about the
lateral concept of the Bride being living members one of another.  And
that problem is with us today, because people have still not listened to
the man that put the church in order, the same as the first man put the
church in order.  Now, if the First Church Age had to be out in order,
it is more than necessary to believe the last church has got to be put
in order. Now, the key to understanding the body correctly, is
sovereignty.  Now, it is sovereignty… that is, when you talk about
sovereignty, you talk about God taking counsel with nobody, but doing
exactly what He wants, and how He wants to do it. Now, it is sovereignty
that brings you to God. 

20.  Now, we go back to Psalms 65: 4, (I think it is.)  

	(4)	Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach 

                        unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we
shall be satisfied with 

                        the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy
temple.

     Now, that lets you know that sovereignty brings you to God. 
Sovereignty places in the body, each one. 1 Corinthians 12:18  

	(18)	But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body,

                        as it hath pleased him.  

      Now, this is a strong word that Paul used, that makes every man,
woman, and child that is born again, to know that that person has had
the intimate care of God, and the proper placing, in that body. 
Thirdly, sovereignty in the Spirit working in each member.  

21.  1 Corinthians 12:11

	(11)	But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, …

     In other words, what is doing it, is that Spirit, that gave these
things, that put you there, that gave you gifts, and He is doing it,
absolutely as He wants to do it.  It is a sovereign principle.  Now,
Bro. Branham brought that out very clearly in Philippians 2:13

	(13)	For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his
good 

                        pleasure.

     Now again, Bro. Branham mentions the bond slave.  And that’s
true.  

22.  Now, in Ecclesiastes 3:14-15, and It says,

	(14)	I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever: nothing
can

                        be put to it, … anything taken from it: (even)
God doeth it, that men 

                        should fear before him.

            (15)	That which hath been is now; and that which is to be
hath already been;

                        and God requireth that which is past.

      In other words, you’ve got to go back as Bro. Branham said, and
see what God did originally.  And that’s how He always did It. 
That’s how He’s doing It now.  And He’s returned to originality,
restoration.  So, what we’re seeing here brother/sister, is what the
prophet taught, and what Paul laid out here.  Now, iI was just what the
Scripture said.  “Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain
that build it.” [Psa 127:1] 

23.  Now, we’re going to stop and consider a moment, the willful use
of gifts, that are not to be tolerated.  Okay.  I’ll go back to the
Book of Psalms 68:18, on this.  

	(18)	Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou 
				hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the 
				LORD God might dwell among them.

     Now he’s telling you and placing you at the time the Lord dwells
amongst the people. Which He did in the first and the last Ages.  There
would be rebellious people, who are using gifts that God Himself,
allows.  Now, that goes back to the Book of Numbers.  Where Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram, and those men began stepping out of order.  Which
they certainly did, in rebellion against the one who was given by God,
in order to lead the people.  And you can see right here, that the same
thing that’s mentioned over in Ephesians 4: “He led captivity
captive. He gave gifts.”  In one place you’ll notice, what he gave
to the church, was a group of people who were destined by gifts, to lead
the Bride on.  And over here, He gave men gifts that would rise up
against the gifted men, to lead men.  And with their gifts, they say,
“Look at me, I have something too.  And, I’ve got every right to
tell you how you’re going to do things.” Now, that’s just what
you’ve got today, amongst us as the so-called ‘believers’, and out
there in the Pentecostal world.  

24.  Now, you will note, that this misunderstanding I talked about
sovereignty, caused Paul to rectify it in 1 Corinthians 12:19.  Now, we
set the picture, there were two groups of people, but we’re talking
about a Bride. 1 Corinthians 12:19. Then he said:

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

     Now, right away he tells you that what he said over here, in the
verses 4-7, different gifts, same Spirit.  Different ministrations, same
Lord.  Different operations, same God.  But whatever is coming forth, is
given by the Holy Spirit to every man.  In other words, there was none
who doesn’t have something whereby the Holy Spirit is contributing
through Him to all.  You see?  

     Now, we must take heed, that this is very important. The lack of
true understanding of the lateral, or the horizontal work of the Holy
Spirit, making a true union of the Bride, was causing some terrible
misconceptions.  Because you see, they didn’t take it right, verses
15-16.  

	(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?

25.  Now, carnal comparisons were literally destroying a personal faith
in Christ. Just like people said, “Hey, you’ve got to talk in
tongues, or you don’t have the Holy Ghost,” brought disastrous
results in Pentecost.  Then it got the people into fanaticism, from
fanaticism into devil power.  And a real mess, just like the first
church.  So, carnal comparisons destroyed personal faith in Christ.  

     Now, I know that people don’t want to admit that.  They say,
“Well Bro. Vayle, I’m struggling for gifts.  We don’t have this,
we don’t have that, and there’s something wrong.”  I’ll tell you
what you’re telling the world; you’re telling the world that some of
the people here, and you included, are not born again.  Now, don’t
tell me anything different, because you’re the liar, and I’m telling
the truth. And I’m going to pin you down.  Because you’re going to
change tonight by going forward, or, going backward.  

     I know you think that Lee Vayle is fooling.  I’ve got news for
you.  I’ll come back again and visit to see what’s happened.  I’m
not afraid to come back and see what’s happened.  Because I’m
standing on this fact.  Either I’m telling you the truth as a servant
of God, or I’m lying to you.  And I’m telling you here, that they
lost personal faith in Jesus Christ.  They call themselves
‘un-regenerates.’ Because if you deny…see? ...because you seem to
be different from your brethren, that you are no longer a part of the
body, then you cannot be full of the Holy Ghost.  Because to be a part
of the body, you must be full of the Holy Ghost.  

26.  Now, make up your mind.  Shall we dance?  If you’re real
happy…pfft…who cares?  Or should we get real sour now and destroy
ourselves.  Because I'm going to put you right on the spot.  Because
you’ve had gifts hammered at you, if at the same time, when there
should have been somebody here to help, and there was nobody here to
help.  I’m not talking about your pastor either.  So you can forget
that.  If you think I’m making a comment there, you’re entirely
fooled.  But you’ve had gifts thrown at you, and gifts thrown at you. 
And I say, “Where are you?”  Now, you’re sitting here and I want
one person to tell me, that you are not gifted.  If you’ve got the
guts to do it.  I’ve got no problem, I’ve got gifts, …period.  

     Now, the minute you deny it, you’re denying that you’re born
again. Because everyone was set there, and every one members as God
pleased. And he's talking of the fact of the differences.       Look,
everyone of us has characteristics.  Everyone has qualities within his
own human body.  See, and as they came down, down, down, until you got
where you are, Bro. Branham said, “Your great, great, grandmother,
your great, great, grandfather, bringing you on down.  To bring you the
same with God and His Word.  Because, you’re part of the Word for this
hour.”  

27.  Are you catching what I’m saying tonight?  Are you catching and
understanding?  If you deny, “Oh, I don’t talk in tongues.”  So
what!  “Oh, I don’t have this gift.”  Certainly, you don’t. 
Show me one guy with the gift of healing?   I’m not  saying somebody
hasn’t got it, I’m just saying, “Show me.”  See?  I’m going to
show you…now, we’re pinning it down.  This is what was in the First
Church Age, and it’s right in this Age.  And it can be right in this
church.  See, most of you came out of Pentecost.  It’s too bad it
didn’t come out of the Nazarene’s, or was a heathen Catholic. 
You’d be a million times better off.  Million times better off.  

     Just leave beating on the tom-toms out there, get a bunch of 
ya-hoot's you'd have a better time. I’m not kidding.  I knew what was
happening in Pentecost.  I’m not a happy person, and you know in that
sort of way, anyway. This is the best I’ve ever had.  See?  You
don’t have to struggle and strive anymore.  You’ve got God’s Word
that says He’s placed you as an individual member, like a foot, or an
eye, or an arm, or this.  Everyone!  You say, “I’m not that one.”
Then you don’t belong with Him. Go up and tell Him.  Have the guts to
tell Him.  You say, “I’m going to go off, and go insane Bro.
Vayle.”  

28.  That’s exactly right, because the next step is insanity. The next
step is devil power after this.  Let’s get the thing ironed out. 
There's a record right back here.  See?  Don’t be so quick, you
don’t you smarten up, and just listen. I’m not telling Lee Vayle,
twhat Lee Vayle says, I’m telling you what the Word of God here.  

     Tells you right here, It says,  "If the hand says I’m not of the
body, is it not of the body?”            [1 Cor 12:15] Someone trying
to identify some big ministry? Trying to identify this, and identify
that.  How do you identify certain things?  How do you identify if
you’ve got a gift of giving. or a gift of exhorting, or something? 
There’s a lot of things, you simply can’t identify.  

     It was already known way back in Ireneaus’ day, some had a gift
of music as it were.  See?  And  Bro. Branham leveled the whole thing. 
He put motherhood, and obedience in a wife, as a tremendous asset or
gift in the church.  Which we’ll talk about.  See?  Now, listen: 
Carnal comparisons destroyed personal faith in Christ.  The foot member
seeing what appeared to be the exalted office of the eye, felt, and
spoke and believed himself to be literally un-regenerate.  Now, how are
you going to compare a stinking foot with toe jam, to the exalted eye? 
See?  

29.  Why do you people feel useless?  Let’s answer the question. 
Because, you feel God hasn’t given you something.  Or, God has, you
know all about it in such a way, you can manipulate.  True, certainly
it’s true.  There’s where gifts will lead, if you don’t know what
I’m talking about.  You’ll suffer consequence.  You think I don’t
know about people going in that room.  One woman confessed she went in
that room, and she said, “I hope it doesn’t happen to those people
that go in there with me.”  Because she says, “There is a spirit of
blackness upon me, driving me insane.”   How do you like them apples? 
Shall I tell the name and the place?  I’ve got the name, honey. 
Don’t push me.  And I know the place too.  That’s why I play all
these things down.  Let me tell you flat,  God spoke to my heart, I’ve
got a gift of prophecy, I’ll not go in that room, as far as I’m
concerned.  

      That’s right.  I’ve got a gift of teaching, the prophet said,
that’s my ministry.  So, I stick to my teaching, that’s what the
Bible said.  Now, you’re not teachers here.  But so what!  What has
that got to do with it?  See? What has it got to do with it, if you
don’t speak with tongues or have this or the other things?  But I tell
you, you get pushing these things, you’ll have to a problem.  See? 
Then in…now, they believe in themselves in it.  

30.  Now, feeling unworthy, brings on complexes.  See?  Brings on
complexes.  These people had a bunch of complexes.  Now, let’s
understand, I would be different if God wanted me to be.  Everybody
wants to be different.  You would be different if God wanted you
different.  Because  It says, “He puts you in there, and He does the
spelling out as to what place you’re going to be effective in.   

   And remember, every part of the body is effective.  Because there’s
a better life behind it, and there is behind you and me as members. 
I’ve been talking about us as individual, only in human flesh.  So,
when you deal with the Bride of Jesus Christ, then you’re a member; 
by the grace of Almighty God, the evidence is staying with this Word.  
And there’s only one evidence, and that’s the Word.  Look it, I told
you what’s wrong with New York, and I care less, you can send them
this tape or anything else.  They’re so messed up it’s pitiful.  And
I’ll tell you why.  Coleman, and the whole bunch, keeps on saying,
“It is the Word, plus.”  It’s not the Word plus, it’s the
Word!!!  You start shoving that Word here, with that plus in there,
under a gifts situation, and you’ll never have all the gifts in here. 
And you’ll have a false anointing.

31.  You start talking about manifestations, and what you’re doing,
you're right back.  I told you, let me show you again,  about where New
York is all messed up.  Bro. Branham categorically said, “There is a
razor blade difference between the two spirits.”  And what is spirit? 
Life!  Right, everything is spirit life, and every life is a spirit. 
So, now we’re going to find out, life is a spirit. [BV draws on the
board] Here’s a spirit here, here’s a life.  Here’s a spirit here,
and here’s a life.  It’s got a razor blade.  Now, this is the wrong
spirit over here, we’ll say.  Now, it can outwork the horse, the old
mule.  See?  It outworks the fruit, over here.  It has more souls than
over here.  So, it you’re going to take a life, and find out what it
is, you’re then going to have a Word, plus, then brother, my sister,
the plus, can certainly overcome this anytime of the week.  Because
you’ve gone off into manifestations in all living.  No sir.  

      Over here, you’ve got proof.  You’ve got manifestation,
you’ve got souls, you’ve got everything in the Book like over here. 
But you give this the Word test, it lines up.  You give this the Word
test, it won’t line up.  So, you see, it’s not the life, or the Word
plus a life.  It’s the Word determining what life is in this.  You
see?  Now, you understand then when it comes to manifestation, it’s in
the Word here what the Word says about it.  And It says, every single
person’s born again and to be full of the Holy Ghost, there is no
manifestation. There is no sensation.  There are no tongues.  If you
believe the Word.  Now the question, do you believe the Word tonight, or
are you still trying to look for something to prove something?  

32.  Yeah, I told you about that guy from Michigan said to me.  Said,
“You hurt my feelings, when you said you were suspicious about people
doing these things.”  Why shouldn’t I be, when they’re not
supposed to.  You see a man with a glass cutter on the window. “Oh,
I’m not suspicious, I’m not suspicious.”  Well, I am!  [end of
side one missed some on the turn over]

     [1 Corinthians 12:23-24]

	(23)	… (for) 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.   

      Now, He sets the church in order by more illustrations, as well as
the body.  Paul puts it, then as Bro. Branham put it now, “There are
no great ones amongst us.” Then Bro. Branham gave us an example of
great men, in contra distinction to those who are no so greatly
recognized, he said, “When you are in the presence of truly great men,
such as kings, etcetera, the they make you feel important.”  He
pointed that out as a sign of greatness.  

      Now, let me just suggest this.  If the great person God Himself,
is here tonight, you ought to feel important.  He’s not the one
that’s draining you, He’s not the one that’s making you feel like
a sick tom-cat, that can’t drag himself.  He’s not the one, the
devil’s doing it.  Now, I want to ask you a question:  Am I lifting
you up, or hurting you?  

33.   Oh, you still look at me like a bunch of people that can’t
answer a question.  Come on, don’t play kids with me, I’m not
Pentecostal.  You may be, but I’m not.  Don’t play with me.  I said
you’d be different after these meetings.  I want to ask you a
question, is He here?  You still look doubtful.  Is He here?  I said,
“Is He here?” Did the prophet say He’s here?  Then are you
different then shut your mouth.  Is He here?  You still can’t say it. 
Come meet me after church, I’ll beat the spots off of you.  You sit
there pampering yourselves, because you want to feel low, you want an
excuse.  Now, shut up with that kind of nonsense.  I asked you, I said,
“Is He here?”  The prophet said so.  He said, “I tell you by
vision, what your eyes cannot see.” See?  

     All right then, did He come to make you feel low down?  Did He come
to make you feel like a skunk?  Listen my brother, my sister the fact
that He could stand here in our presence, and we not be destroyed; shows
the efficacy of my Christ, and His Blood, and the power of the Holy
Ghost in the individual.  Then you ought to feel important.  Don’t get
puffed up now.  I’m just talking to you about what’s important.  He
didn’t go someplace else.  You know, we’re getting down to the nitty
gritty of this thing.  Now, He pointed out that that was the sign of
greatness.  

34.  Furthermore, in [1 Corinthians 12:] verses 23-24, we are to
understand all as a whole, and are considered, and not individuals, for
if God grants comeliness, it is in the lateral to all.  All right 23 and
24.  

	(23)	And those members of the body, which we think to be less
honourable, …

     What does God say about it?  Why did God tell you in that Word,
“Don’t pick any high and mighty person when there’s trouble in the
church.  Pick the little lowly guy.  Little lowly guy knows he needs
God.  Like the big-shot doesn’t know he needs God.  Ha! They didn’t
catch that one, buddy. They didn’t catch that.  No one needs it. 
I’d have to name names.  Who is it that usually comes in to settle
things in the church?  The bigger-shots.  Right?  Contrary to the Word
of Almighty God.  Stick the little fellow in the corner.  And God will
show you what comeliness is, to the uncomely parts.  He’ll give him a
wisdom, that the higher so-called guy couldn’t even begin to get out
of his craw,  because he ain’t got in the first place.  Because God
didn’t say He’d give it to him.  God said that little fellow.  Now,
what about the hairs that you clip off, the fingernails you bite off,
the toenails that fall off, or you clip off, the hair on your legs you
rub off?  What about it?    

35.  Very, very important.  Very, very important.  What about the time
He said, “Go on down there, you’ll find an ass and a foal of an
ass.”  He said, “Tell them the Master needs them.”  If God can use
a jackass, He can sure use us.  You know why?  Because, it never was
God's purpose to use jackasses.  Only to the world, were they the off
scouring, the Elect of God is not the off scouring.  You're going to
turn around and say, "Hey, hey you poor stupid bunch of jerks, you lousy
bunch of goofs?  You ain’t fit for nothing.  But I picked you to show
my  children this grace  that I had" [said sarcastically] Huh?  Known
before the foundation of the world. In the love having predestinated. 
You think He looks down at His own seed, and calls them a bunch of bums?
 Sheep gone astray.  Fallen children.  See, brother/sister I’m trying
to show you.  You get messed up with these end-times on these gifts. 
Now I’m not against gifts.  But they’ve got to go right with the
prophet, or forget it. Got to have the same Spirit the prophet had, or,
forget it.  Got to be right.  See?  

36.  Now, He says here, 

	(23)	…(the) uncomely parts …

     Naturally, we have to put an effort on that which is a little bit
…you know, …can’t sort of take care of itself.  Just like the eye.
 There’s got to be an eyelid and lashes.  The nose has got to have
hairs in it.  What’s that for?  To get the dirt out of the air to get
down in the lungs, and the nasal passages to warm the air.  The whole
body is integrated.  Now, you say, “What about them little hairs in
the nose?” They bug me, I pull them out.  Hey, nose hair member.  Come
on, smile, nose hair member, the whole bunch of you.  Yeah.  Up here,
eyebrows, they sort of get shaggy.  “Hi shaggy eyebrow.”  How’d
you like to be the shaggy eyebrow?  How would like to be the wax in the
ear, even?  

      Come on, the whole thing’s important.  The doctors came along
and said, “Your appendix ain’t necessary.”  Bunch of liars. 
Appendix is necessary, they say it comes from a little bit of evolution,
that it should’ve dropped off.  Hogwash, you need your appendix.  It
lubricates.  Why they say, “The tonsils are no good,”  Fap.  You
take those tonsils out, you haven’t got a purifying system.  Then they
say, “Take out the adenoids.”  Now, they realize that was wrong. 
They took out women’s breasts in sepsis, and now they know that was
wrong.   When are they going to smarten up?  Never do it.  People the
same way right today.  See?  You better change tonight.  You might as
change tonight, as later.  I don’t want to make another trip.  

37.  Verse 23. 

	(23)	And those members of the body, which we think to be less
honourable,

                        upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and
our uncomely parts 

                        have more abundant comeliness.

      The verse 23, illustrates how human things and human ways are
examples of how God Himself, has worked in the Bride.   See?  Bringing
out the best in her.  Bringing out  Himself in her, as Bro. Branham
said, “Even a smart man will work to improve his weak points in order
to enhance his whole being.”  He doesn’t have to work on what has
already the appearance of strength and ability.  So, by the time he puts
his attention and energy on his weak points, and on the small things of
life, he really looks great.  Just natural.  God’s got special care
for those who need the special care.  Don’t be a cry baby, and a
howler and a negative. You’ve got something legitimate, God is sure
going to take care of it for you.  Your faith is finally rising.  Thank
God. 

      I’ve been rougher than a cob tonight.  But it’s paying off.  I
got a good response, so I can go home now.  Shall we quit.  We can dance
now, that’s the response.  Okay. Now, you’re coming along, the way I
like to see you coming along.  

38.  Now, I want to try to place this in the Spiritual.  As in 1
Corinthians 12:27-30

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

     In other words, you are a particular ordained special member to Me,
even though you are  in the composite of the whole body.  

	(28) 	And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, ...prophets,

                        …teachers, miracles, gifts of healings, helps,
governments,                           			diversities of tongues.

	(29)     Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all
workers

                        of miracles?

	(30)	 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all
interpret?

      No, positively not.  Now, in verse 27, we are warned to expect
differences.  Right off the bat, you are told there are differences.  We
are all members one of another in Christ, but we are particular.  In
other words, we’re set apart just the same, though there’s the
perfect affinity.  Each one still stands there as an individual.  There
are differences.  Each member of Christ is different from other members.
Don’t expect it otherwise, this would even go for characteristics that
we are born with, and certain natures,  because, Bro. Branham said so.  

39.  Over here…verse 28.  Here is what is Divine order.   

	(28) 	And God hath set some in the church, (this that and the other.)

     The ministries of gifted men that are called ‘five-fold
ministries,’ come first of all in this verse.  This has to be because
of Ephesians 4:8-16 which you know, and Hebrews 13:8 which constitutes
them, the rulers of the church.  But let us be careful here.  These men
may seem to be number one, in 1 Corinthians 12: and in Ephesians 4: but
it is not so.  These men are actually in the body as number two.  For
there's a seven-fold group among them called the Seven Church messengers
of Seven Ages.  And …?... Revelation 1:16-20, Revelation 1:1, 7:2,
8:11 and Revelation 5:6 and I’m not going to take time with It.  But
you know what I`m talking about.  

     Now, this group in turn, is headed up by a member, one above them. 
Which is Revelation 1:12-18, and Ephesians 4:15-16 which the headship
alone belongs to Jesus Christ.  And even now, if we want to praise Jesus
as the Christ, we go one step further in 1 Corinthians 11:3 the top of
the pyramid is Almighty God, Holy Spirit, Himself.  And the genes of
Almighty God, Holy Spirit Himself, is in every individual to respond to
that same Holy Ghost.  

40.  Why are the genes of life in your body?  To respond to your head. 
Because that’s where it comes from.  Where do we come from?  We come
from the head.  Every one of us gets something from the head.  Every one
of us comes from the head, every one of us gets something from the head.
 And the life in it, is the response and show forth what is in the head.
 Now, listen brother/sister, God did it.  God did it, whether you and I
know it many times.  There are many, many, many, times that you’re
showing forth God, and we don’t believe we are.  And we don’t think
we are, because we think it`s got to be some very special thing.  When
the Scripture distinctly says, “The steps of a good man, are ordered
of the Lord.” [Ps 37:23] 

     Now, while we’re at it.  Let us understand that male and female,
are distinguished between, when it comes to members in particular.  And
you can find over in 1 Timothy 2:11-15, where he talks about Him.  And I
think it’d be fitting here, just to drop a thought.  The Bride, is the
woman.  Her earthly head is in each Age, is the Church Age messenger. 
He alone teaches, and has the Word.  And all others come under, and say
nothing, because, the woman is supposed to say nothing, and be under a
headship according to 1 Corinthians 11:1-16.  

41.  So now, we`re seeing something here in 1 Corinthians 12:23-25.  We
read It , the comely parts… It said, 

	(24)	… our comely parts have no need: but God … tempered the body

                        together, having given more abundant honour to
that part which lacked.

	(25)	That there should be no schism in the body; …

     That means, the body won’t fall apart.  The plan of God will not
fall apart.  The whole thing will be absolutely in order.  And Bro.
Branham, all he had to do with that Bride in that squeeze, “Get in
step.”  That’s all he needed to do.  She just needed a little help,
just a little guiding, and everything was absolutely wonderful.  And
there’s a body will not fall apart, because God had tempered that
thing together. He’s made every one of us just exactly right to fit
in, and be perfect before His eyes, so she will not fall apart.  Now
remember, the church of Bro. Branham saw, the world was a mess.  Not,
the Bride, see? 

42.  Now, we are seeing something here 1 Corinthians 12:23-25.   We need
the full ministration of the Spirit, and it comes through every member.
All are a part, and add a portion to that which is in the Bride.  In
other words, there is a cementing here, the cementing of the individuals
to God.  The cementing of individual to individual.  And that is working
in the Bride at this moment, and you are going to see what Bro. Branham
saw in his vision, is a hundred percent right.  There is an American or
a North American common enemy, a Bride which had to be put in step, and
she is beautiful as the First Church Age.  See?  

      Now, we need the messenger of the Age.  We need the five-fold
ministry.  The five-fold ministry needs us.  And I speak from your point
of view.  Now, there is a pre-eminence that comes automatically to the
five-fold ministry, and to gifted men.  You’ll notice that in the 28th
verse.   

	(28)	…God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily

                        prophets, thirdly teachers, …

     Now, that’s put in the church, like the ordinary, average, every
day run. But there's a…  seven ministers above it, and one in each
Church Age.  And then above him is the Spirit of Almighty God.  See?  It
always comes down.  

43.  Now, this pre-eminence, is a precarious place to be in. 1
Corinthians 4:1-8 

	(1)	Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and

                        stewards of the mysteries of God.

	(2) 	Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

	(3)        But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged
of you,

                         or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own
self.

	(4)	 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but
he

                         that judgeth me is the Lord.

	(5) 	Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who

                        both will bring to light, the hidden things of
darkness, will make 					manifest  the counsels of the hearts.

     Now listen, I’m going to tell you something brother… Bro.
Branham said that One in the … clouds was the Judge, right? …here He
is.  

	(5) 	… judge (not until) the time comes (when he appears as judge),
and 				bring to light the hidden things of darkness, (the great
mysteries) and 				will make manifest the counsels of hearts: then shall
every man have 				praise of God.

                                                                        
                                                                       

      That’s our hour, that man has what of God?  Say it! Praise! Say
it! [crowd answers back ‘Praise’] Then are you important, or
aren’t you?  See?  It’s about time you got your exclamation right. 

	(6) 	And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to
myself 					and to Apollos for your sakes; that  (you) might learn in us
not to 					think of men above that which is written, that no one of you
be puffed 				up for one against another.

	(7) 	For who maketh thee to differ from another? (There’s your body) 
				and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? …

44.   I’m talking about these five-fold ministry, and these people who
know that they’ve got gifts and, “Watch my smoke. You listen to me
kiddo.”  Ha! You see why I always say, “Don’t listen to Lee
Vayle?”  I’ve got nothing for you.  I get up and preach, and I get
off.  Get away, forget me, and I forget you.  I don’t write you
letters.  I know once in a while you send me a card wishing I’m well. 
I thank you for your cards, but you’ll never get an answer.  And you
never will.  Unless it’s such a beautiful, beautiful card, I feel like
a dirty dog if I don’t say something... so,  please don’t send
beautiful cards.  I feel like a dirty dog anyways, because I ain’t
going to answer.  I’ll bark at you.    

	(7) 	… who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou
that

                        thou didst not receive?  now if thou didst
receive it, why (do you)

                        glory, as if (you had) not received it?

     See? The pride acts as though, “Oh, look what I am. Look what I
got, oh, ho, ho. Ain’t I something?”  Yeah, you sure are. The cat
forgot to cover it up.  

	(8)       Now (you're) full, now (you're) rich, (you) have reigned as
kings 					without us: and I would to God (you) did reign, that we also
might 					reign with you.

45.  Now, it’s a precarious position, that the great gifts put upon
men, these gifts turn men from God.  Popularity, money, women,
autocratic, dogmatic, dictatorial.  Bro. Branham said, “It would sure
be good to be subject to the pastor, and the pastor be subject to the
church.”  	 He also said the pastor is the spiritual husband of the
church, but don’t carry that too far.  Because in no place is the
husband subject to the wife…He said both statements, …he said both
statements, so don’t take them apart.  Don’t leave one to aggrandize
yourself.  Be very fair, the pastor must be subject to the church. 
Wherein  he can be.  See?  And if he can’t be, he can't be.  

      Now, often these men forget that, without the sheep, there cannot
be a shepherd.  Now, I’m going to tell you something.  I never forget
this. That without pastors, I am nothing, and nowhere.  Do you
understand why I fight for the pastors now?  I’m fighting for myself,
I’m not fooled.  But I’m fighting for you too.  Absolutely.  I’ve
been …?... for pastors. Look, even for me to found the work, I’m
almost duty bound to turn it over to somebody else, or take somebody in
my confidence.  Because look, I’m on the road.  See?  I realize that
there's no way I can function without the body of Jesus Christ.  And I
thank God for that part of body that I function with.  And I thank God
for you because without you, there wouldn’t be a pastor.  Because you
see, often you see these men forget, without the sheep there cannot be a
shepherd.  And the sheep without a shepherd, are a prey to the devil,
whether they admit it or not.  Now that’s absolutely true.  Even Bro.
Branham was warned in a vision by the angels, don’t try to do without
the ministry. You see?  But  the ministry is not a man, it is a
commission.  

46.  Galatians 1:10-12

	(10)	For do I now persuade men, do I seek to please men?  for if I  			
	pleased men, I should not be the servant of (God).

      Now preachers aren’t men pleasers. And yet, they’ve got to
work with them.  So, there is a way in which they’ve got to be
pleasurable, and it’s got to be presant.  See?  

	(11)	 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached
of

                         me is not after man.

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

                         revelation of Jesus Christ.  (It is a divine
commission.)

      Now, we must become very serious here, and make an indelible
print, upon our minds and hearts.  God’s Word very plainly tells us
what causes schisms in the body.   .  

47.  [1 Corinthians  2:] 24-25

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

	(25)     That there should be no schism in the body; …

      In other words, the body has equal strength every single place as
Bro. Branham so correctly said.  He said, “A chain is only as strong
as its weakest link.”  There are no weak links in the body of Jesus
Christ.  Because it can’t be broken.  He said, “I shall lose
none.” Well, if He’s not going to lose none, He’ not going to lose
none.  “Oh Lord, You’re going to lose me, because I’m just going
to do something.”  Okay, so I’ll clean you up and kill you, is that
the way you want, Good.  See? 

      All right.  So, therefore, we must learn to act toward one
another, based on the understanding of our own truth, that there are no
schisms or divisions, it just isn’t so.  So therefore, we will begin
having, or inculcating in our lives, a living with each other. A process
that must be followed, …not a social kind, but a real living with each
other,  on the understanding there’s a real Bride, I’m a part of it,
and whatever that function is, that is needed of me and God, I am well
able to handle that function.  And I don’t care even if I’m even
being used without knowing it.  In fact, I hope that I could be used
without knowing it.  So then, I wouldn’t get puffed up, that’s
absolutely possible.  

48.   And here we got a perfect example of the vertical and horizontal
work of the Holy Spirit. Complete unity. You see?  Jesus Christ the same
yesterday, today, and forever.  Was back there   and it's still  the
same. The same Spirit that gives us the rebirth, and places us as
equally useful, and necessary members and all both honourable and
honoured of God.  Now does the same through human flesh in a Bride,
where each member now holds each other as honourable and honoured
equally, because that’s what God does.  

      No big-shots.  No little shots.  Just one big One amongst us, the
Holy Ghost.  In                             1 Corinthians 4:6-7 which I
read a little while ago. 

	(6)	And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to
myself 					and to Apollos for your sakes; that (you)  might learn in us
not to think 				of men above that which is written, …

      Above that which is written, what’s written in the Word?  Obey
them that have rule over you.  Do those things that are right, because
these men have to give account for your souls.  Do you know even the
pastor has got to account for your soul?  Huh?  Then why are some of you
folk receiving letters?  (Thank you.)  The rest are kind of silent. 
Some of you should be getting your conscience really worked on right
now.  Do you see why Lee Vayle doesn’t write a letter?  He’s
accountable.  You want to make me accountable?  You’ve got to be nuts.
 I’m going to tell you something brother/sister, any man that comes
into your church and makes himself accountable by letters, or telephone
calls, let him be accountable, that’s fine.  Let him be accountable. 
And when you’ve got trouble, let him be accountable.  

49. When you get messed up, let him be accountable.  Let him be
accountable. And when the day comes and you cause trouble in his church,
you’ll be accountable.  You look  pretty serious, you better be. Now,
you think I’m going home and going to write you letters?   Ha! 
Don’t bother writing honey. Tell him, he’ll write if he does like
it. He's got a broken arm, if he writes with his left hand that's broken
the right arm tied behind his back.  He hates to pay-phone bills,  that
takes care of that.  Thank you.   

     Don’t think above any man what is written, here's the Word of
God.  The Word of God is assessment.  I could go along, and I could tell
you people right now, I’m a teacher.  Bro. Branham said I was.  But
you know what the proof  is ?  I handle Scripture back and forth, like a
whirling dervish, and you know it.  That’s the test.  Don’t look at
me Lee Vayle, for compassion, and sweetness, and niceness, and wonder. 
I’m a marvel all right.   Sheee…I marvel myself, I get away with it.


      But there’s one thing I do.  I handle Scripture, and I don’t
do it deceitfully either. Because It lines with the Word as the way the
prophet taught It.  I’ve been lining for six sermons here steady and
you know it.  Get the tapes out.  If you don’t believe it, challenge
me.  And I know the anointing is here, because this message is coming
very, very clear, and I’m bypassing my notes.  I just look a little
down here, and I can bypass them, because I am learning things myself
that I didn’t learn before.  I got some wrong information, I can tell
you that.  Had to bypass it.          I don't always go by notes, just
some little old kind of guy there. But I'm reading get these things
that's said here.  Don’t you think about men, what is written.  You is
ready? Aint no big-shot.  Little girl, little woman, little man.
You’re just bigger than the big-shot.  You're needed too.  How’s 
the man going to be a shepherd without sheep?  I’ve seen some pretty
squirrelly sheep, oh brother, have I seen some squirrelly sheep.  Ha. 
Makes you wonder.  

50.  Let no one of you, be puffed up one against another.  I know people
can accuse me of that.  I’m not puffed up against any man,  I get
madder than a firecracker when I find people pulling deals.  I’ve
said, and I’ll say it again.  If you are less truthful with me,
you’re a liar, less honest,  you're  a crook.  And I’m not being
smart.  I just know myself.  You go around lying and pulling deals and
think you’re somebody.  You think I’m going to lower the boom?  Come
on.  Come on.  You’re looking  at the man that would have followed
Bro. Branham, if God ordained such a thing, because I was number
one…right?  Certainly, number one.  Ask Sis. Branham.  Go ahead,
I’ll check with you.  Do you think I want to see somebody responsible?
 You got to be kidding, I’m trying to get to be irresponsible... Well,
I don’t really mean that.  Irresponsible means you don’t even care
about anything. 

      I’m trying to get away from responsibility.  I will bear my
heart and let you know the truth.  I don’t want to stand up here.  Do
you realize on judgment day I will be judged if I teach you wrong.  You
will not be judged, I will be judged.  I’m going to be a prophet?  So
therefore,  then would you think of people and ministers in this Bride
of Jesus Christ, is what is written in the Word concerning it.  That is
what you are taught to think, is what is written.  It’s right here. 
The prophet taught it.  What makes you different from another?  “What
do you have that you didn’t receive, and it you did receive it, why do
you glory as if you didn’t receive it.”  [1 Cor 4:7] In other words,
there is no place for anybody to ever point his finger at himself as
though he were somebody.  And someone to listen to as though he were
somebody. Because we are all somebody’s.  

51.  There’s no debutantes among us.  There’s no ‘coming out’
party.  There’s no big corporation binge.  No way.  The lowly man of
Galilee.  We are at peace with ourselves, and with each other.  And
there is a fellowship.  To respect God’s ministers and gifts, in no
way gives anyone any leverage over anybody else.  There’s no leverage
in this.  Now, I talk about myself concerning Bro. Branham at times. 
It’s not to give me leverage, it’s to clear the air.  I talk a
certain way, because I’m entitled to talk a certain way.  Especially,
since I went to God and tried to talk another way.  I can’t do it. 
Now you know, if you meet me out on the street here, I don’t even talk
things of God to you.  No, we just talk nice, ships passing in the dark,
away we go.  

     You come to my home, I’m not going to say much.  You get me mad I
might.  That’s my privilege, that’s my home.  But I’m not going to
bother anybody.  But up here, it’s a different story.  I’m not going
to have your blood on my hands if I can help it. See?  Because you’re
going to get changed, because this is the Word of God.  There’s no way
you’re going to leave this place and not be changed.  No way.  If
God’s Word is not void of power.  You say, “You call that for
yourself and nobody else.” If you want to take my attitude of faith
towards this, and listen to God, any man can say the same things I’m
saying.  I go to church services, and I become changed by the preaching
of the Word . See? 

 

52.  Now, it’s impossible not to be blasphemous, to read 1 Corinthians
12:28-30, and Hebrews 13:7-17, apart from 1 Corinthians 12:27 and 31,
and the context of each. 1 Corinthians 12:28-30, it’s impossible to be
blasphemous to read 1 Cor. 12:28-30.  

	(28)	…God hath set some in the church, (and tells what they are. 
(And 					then It says, do all have) gifts of healings, (do all speak
with) tongues. 				(lets  you know, no sir they don’t.)

     In Hebrews 13:7-17, that has to do with obey them that have rule
over you, speak through the Word of God, apart from 1 Corinthians 12:27 

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

     In other words, I don’t care what authority is vested in the
church, in a member in the portion, or a part of those that have to do
with the ministry above the people, you are just as important to God. 
And you in your way, have your own ministry that God will require just
as much as theirs. And I don’t mean now, big-shots with nine gifts,
and this and that.  I’m telling you simply that you will live a life
in the Holy Spirit, and walk in the Spirit, just the same as anybody
else will.  You see?  Now, and in verse 31. 

	(31)	…covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet (I) shew you a (better)
way.

       And the better way is to have not just the desire to have gifts,
and to say, “I’m going to have gifts.” I'm going to go in there
and see that I have gifts.  But to go with the Spirit before God, and
say, “Lord, is it possible that you have dealt with me, that something
lies there, that I can help somebody?”  But if you want something just
for yourself, forget it.  Because you’ve already got what you need for
yourself.  Sure you have.  Doesn't  the Bible says so?  And doesn't he
say if it doesn’t look too good, God just heaps it on so it'll look
good. Then alright,  who's a liar, you or God?  

53.  Now, let’s get to understand this.  See?  Bro. Branham said,
“Let there be true, and every man a liar.”  That even made the
prophet out on a limb,  which is good.  And in the context of the Book
of Hebrews, the same thing is pointed out to you. You can read It
yourself, I won't take time.  And one might also read, if he is so
chooses, 1 Timothy chapters 4,5 and 6, not all the way through whether
you find it.  But in there you will see some very, very important
things, concerning the pastor and how he conducts himself, as one
ordained to see you through.  As one who is the supreme authority in the
church, that’s local church.  You will see, that he’s not some big
bumptious fellow, that’s got all the answers.  He’s a very humble
person.  See?  

      Now, notice again in 1 Corinthians 12:24-25 

	(24)	(The) 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; …

      In other words, there’s so much strength in the body, it cannot
be torn apart.  Every member that’s born again. Why listen, the
Scripture says, “When you receive the Holy Ghost, dunamis comes upon
you.”  When you receive the Holy Ghost asuzia? comes upon you.  One is
power, and one is authority.  You tell me a person with power and
authority, is some little weak chicken?  Now, he may look like it, but
not in the eyes of God. See?  

54.  Now, let us notice that these verses I read, are the equal
treatment of God, toward each member, Is to be carried on amongst us
personally.  And if we get the right idea we will do it, because you
see, we understand there’s equality there.   See?  This does not mean
that each cannot have its own, or more particular friend.  But the
moment any one of us, defends one member above another, because of
personal love we are dividing the body causing schisms.  Not discerning
the body.  See?  Ministers must be careful of families and family
relationships.  When did Bro. Branham ever stick up for his family? 
When did I ever stick for mine?  Oh, you say, “That, that, that, could
hurt the kids.”  Hurt the kids, better than the Bride of Jesus Christ.
 Oh yeah.  People like to stick up for each other.  Now, it’s good to
defend each other.  Sure it is.  But you cannot defend the indefensible
position.  If something is wrong, something is wrong.  It’s got to be
dealt with. 

55.  Now, pastors have got a hard job.  People have got a hard job
there.  But when you see every single one is important, then you will
begin to see that nobody is different from each other, and where
correction is necessary, it’s the right thing to do.  See?  And where
building up is necessary. Like the Bible says in one case, when a person
is corrected, now you go behind and show mercy.  And they’re people 
got that very ministry.  They lift up the hands that hang down.  They
make straight paths with a feeble knee. What’s He talking about? 
People that went astray and had trouble, now you're helping him.  The
recognition of human weakness, with the strength of God, is a must in
the Bride of Christ.  Because that’s what it is.  That’s what it is
brother/sister.  There is also the warning right here, when the
pastor/elder must correct a member, the other members must step aside,
and cannot accuse or excuse.  But let the Word of God have Its way.  You
see?   That’s a must.  

56.  It is emphatically noted at this point, as shown in 1 Corinthians
12:17 let’s look at It.  

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

                        whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

      It is emphatically pointed out here, that no one can usurp the
office or gifts of the pastor, or elder, or deacon, or any five-fold
minister, or trustee, or any other person.  In other words, offices are
not interchangeable, and they cannot be usurped.  Anyone that denies,
that takes any undue authority, is like Diotrephes.  And John said,
“The elder Diotrephes, has taken the pre-eminence, and he’s caused a
lot of havoc.  You read it for yourself, it’s in 3 John verses 5-11.  

     Remember also, how Absalom sat in the gate.  And was determined to
take over a trap of death by making the people like him.  I want to tell
you, that is the worst thing in the world.  Everybody that has given me
an ounce of trouble, …and I know it’s the same with you, at least I
could imagine it could be the same as you…I have had a  check,  and
then they start being nice, and I want to tell you…  Oh, brother just
like a gift you know someone gives you, closes the eye, and somebody’s
nice, just like the Scripture says, “Have friends  must show himself
friendly.” [Prov 18:24] So they come along so friendly,  and just only
to sort of hew me down at the end.   What are you going to do?  Absalom
did the same thing, he sat there, and his love was hypocritical.  The
Bible says, “Let love be without dissimulation”. [Rom 12:9] At least
the simulators come in, they show a lot of love, and it sets a trap.
That’s what Absalom did, he set a trap.  Remember Numbers 16:1-35, men
with ministries like Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.  They set a trap.  And
right today, people try to run the church by gifts, and women especially
try to do that.  I don’t know why it is.  But some of the men are just
as bad there.  But they're  trying to run the church, they try even in
this ministry, this Message, they try to insinuate,  their way in.  And
it’s not right.  

57.  Now, I want to get to a very serious subject.   It is based on 1
Corinthians 12:14-21.  

	(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; 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?

	(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. (Sovereignty)

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

     How would you like to be just one big body, one arm and one leg? 
What a mess.

	(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 thee: 

                         nor again the head to the feet, I have no need
of you.

      All right.  These verses refer of course, to 1 Corinthians 12:27

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

      This sounds very strange, that truly Spirit filled saints who are
predestinated members, should carp and wail, in dissatisfaction against
God, for their places and designations, in what is ultimately the New
Jerusalem, the glorified and …adorned Bride of Christ.  What’s the
destination of the Bride?  New Jerusalem.  What’s her condition? 
Glorified and adorned and adored.  And yet, people are carping.  "Well
you see, I just happen to be a little footsie wootsie."

58.  Isn't that too bad. It’s very smelly down here where I walk
around in horse manure.  Didn’t have shoes in those days.  If you
weren’t looking, you could just get up to your ankles in it too.  Oh
boy, I hate …?... I’ve got to wash those horrible diapers, you know,
with my sweet little fingers.  Fap.  I changed the kid’s diapers, got
my fingers in it too.

     I helped bring them on. why shouldn’t I helped take care of them?
Too many people think they’re eagles, but they should be picking
manure with the chickens.  Won’t hurt you none.  People right today,
don’t even want to get jobs.  But there's lots of jobs in the world. 
Sure, it’s tough in some respects.  My God, during the depression I
was glad to get two bits an hour picking caragana leaves out of the
caragana bushes, ruining  my hands everything else. Making …?... out
I'd have dug sewer ditches, and been thankful.  Oh, my goodness, we are
hoitsy- toitsy aren’t we?  Here we are bemoaning what we are. 
Bemoaning what we are not, and making a mess by trying to be what they
want to be, in their own thinking.  I’m just telling you the truth. 
I’m just putting it in Twentieth Century Newfoundland language, which
you can understand very thoroughly.  

59. This is what the Bible is saying.  See?  Want to go over that again?
 Here’s truly Spirit filled saints who are predestinated members, they
are carping and wailing in dissatisfaction against God.  For their
placing and designation in what is ultimately the New Jerusalem, the
glorified and adored Bride of Christ.  Yet here they are bemoaning what
they are, bemoaning what they are not.  And making a mess by trying to
be what they want to be in their own thinking.  That’s exactly true.  

      On top of that, a whole section is puffed up with pride and
arrogance, and a spirit of dictatorship, or have become glamorous
actors,  because of their charisma.  Maybe by name dropping, “I knew
Bro. Branham, I knew the apostle Paul,  oh, we are very good friends you
know. ”   And they have some empty pre-eminence, which they enjoy.
Which means they rob Christ of His, because, He’s the pre-eminent One.
 But, it doesn’t end there.  Verse 26, 

	(26)	And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer… 

                        one member honoured, all the members rejoice
with it.

      It doesn’t end there, it goes to verse 26, any disjointed member
in the body, is not only a pain, …I didn’t say ‘in the neck’…I
said, “Pain in himself, and to himself.”  Unless his suffering is
the kind that is truly one with the Word.  

60.  Now let’s see what suffering one with the Word is, where one
member suffers and all suffer with him.  Okay, 1 Peter 2:11-20…oh man,
that’s a lot of reading here.  Okay, we’re still living.  

	(11)	Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims,

                        abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against
the soul;

	(12)	 Having your (behavior)  honest among the Gentiles: …(or the 			
	heathen, those people around you.) that, whereas they speak against 			
you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall 				
behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

     He’s visiting right now.  

	(13)	 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's

		 sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

	(14) 	 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the 

		 punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

	(15)	 For so is the will of God, that with well doing (you) may put to

		 silence the ignorance of foolish men:

	(16) 	 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of
maliciousness, 

		 but as the servants of God.

	(17) 	 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
				(Pay your taxes)

	(18)	 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to
the

                         good and gentle, but also to the froward.

	(19)	 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God
endure

                         grief, suffering wrongfully.

	(20)	 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults,
(you)

                         take it patiently? but if, when (you) do well,
and suffer for it, (you)

                         take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
 

61. You say, “Bro Vayle, if a man gets buffeted for his own faults,
can he take it patiently?”  I could name a guy right now.  Oh yeah. 
Oh man.  I’m hot tonight.  Just keep looking kid, you’ll learn a few
things.  

      1 Peter 3:8-17, 

	(8)	Finally, (all) be of one mind, having compassion one of another,  	
			love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

	

	(9)	Not rendering evil for evil, railing for railing: contrariwise,
blessing; 				(knowing even them that are called, that  (you) should
inherit a 					blessing.

	(10)     For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain
his tongue

                       from evil, and (tongues from) speak no guile:

	(11)     Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and
ensue it.

	(12) 	For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are
open

                        unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is
against them that do evil.

	(13)     And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that
which is 

                        good?

     A little further.

	(14)     But and if (you) suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye:
and be not

                        afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

	(15) 	But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to
give

                        an answer to every man that asketh you a reason
of the hope that is in

                        you with meekness and fear:

	(16)     Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of
you, as of

                        evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely
accuse your good 

                        (behavior) in Christ.

	(17) 	For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for
well doing,

                        than for evil doing.

     62.  1 Peter 4:11-19

	(11)	If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man

                        minister, let him do it as of the ability which
God (gives him): that

                        God in all things may be glorified through Jesus
Christ, to whom be

                        praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

	(12)     Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which
is to try

                        you, as though some strange thing happened unto
you:

	(13)     But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's
sufferings;

                        that, when his glory shall be revealed, (you)
may be glad also with

                        exceeding joy. (That’s today.)  

	(14)     If (you) be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are
(you); for the

                        spirit of glory and of God (rests) upon you: on
their part he is evil 

                        spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

	(15)      But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or
as an

                         evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's
matters.

	(16)	 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed;

                         but let him glorify God on this behalf.

	(17) 	 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of
God:

                         and if it first begin at us, what shall the end
be of them that obey not

                         the gospel of God?

     Now, you know that’s this day, because, the tribulation sets in. 


	(18)	 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly
and

                         the sinner appear?  (The lake of fire.) 

	(19)      Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God
commit

                         the keeping of their souls to him in well
doing, as unto a faithful 					Creator.

63.  Now, let us know immediately that there are two kinds of
sufferings.  Here, and in 1 Peter 4:14-15, and we can balance this with
1 Corinthians 12:26 and Hebrews 10:32-33.  And that is, there is a
suffering which is legitimate, and righteous and just.  And there is a
suffering we bring on ourselves, because of our evil doing and we are
paying a penalty.  But now I’m putting 1 Peter  4:4-15 with 1
Corinthians 12:26, that’s that first part of it there.  Does not the
local part of the Bride, that’s the local church, part of the Bride,
suffer real shame and agony, when it’s members bring reproach upon the
body?  That’s right, they do.  See?  What did it look like to the
world in 1 Corinthians 5:1-8, the man living with his step mother, a
young woman.  This man, and the leaders  of the assembly, did not care
one iota, for the suffering that it was causing the brethren.  No way. 
They just didn’t care about it.  

64.  Then over here in Philippians  2:1-4

	(1)	 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort

                        of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any
bowels and mercies,

	(2) 	Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love,

                        being of one accord, of one mind, (one to
another.)

	(3)       Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in
lowliness

                       of mind let each esteem other better than
themselves.

     Now, that doesn’t say you’re going to put yourselves in the
bottom and say, “I ain’t got nothing.”   It just means that you
are in honour prefer your brethren.  And I’m going to tell you
something.  I have no regrets  that I have done it in the legitimate
sense of the word.  But it will bring you pain.  You’ll get kicked in
the teeth for it.  But do it anyway.  Never stop doing it.  

	(4)       (Let) not every man on his own things, but every man … on
the

                        things of others.

65.  Now, here is a direct command.  To think about the body, not
ourselves.  This is the same over there, in Matthew 7:12, which
considers…let’s read It. I never can remember that verse, but every
time I read It, when I look It up, I feel good about It.  

	(12)	Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to
you,

                        do ye even so to them: for this is the law and
the prophets. 

     Now, you like to be held in respect.  You like to be honoured, and
honour preferred.  Everyone wants some attention.  Then, start doing it.
 You see?  That’s what we’re looking at.  

66.  Again, over in Galatians 6:2,  I want to bring this all together
here.   

	(2)	Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of (Jesus)
Christ. 

     Ephesians 4:28

	(28)	Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour,
working

                        with his hands, the thing which is good, that he
may have to give to

                        him that needeth.

      Not, to hog it all yourself, but to give it to somebody else.  

      Now, I want to make it exceedingly clear from these verses, that
God forbids us to be a part of the problem, but rather we are to help
solve the problems.  Now, I’m trying to show you here, that there is
an illegitimate form of suffering that happens to the Bride, because
people will not do what is right.  Now, when they do what is wrong,
certainly, there must be a penalty. In some way, shape or form.  The
Scripture abundantly sets forth, that we are to live in such a way, as
to be non burdensome, but able to lift the burden.  

67.  Paul sets up terribly strict laws, even about helping poor old
widows.  Which I’m going to read in, 1 Timothy 5:3-10, and he
doesn’t stop there, he goes on to 2 Thessalonians 3:8-10. 

	(8)       Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought
with

                        labour and travail night and day, that we might
not be chargeable

                        to any of you:

	(9)       Not because we have not (have the authority) but to make
ourselves 				an ensample unto you to follow us.

	(10)	 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if 

                         any would not work, neither should he eat.

     Now, how many times have you seen where you had to help people and
you did not obey that Word.  Bro. Branham himself, had to set down on
the people because of this very subject.  They were running around in
his meetings, and they were buying from store keepers, everybody else,
borrowing money, and never paying back.  And they thought, oh, they
thought we got to be in his meetings to make the Rapture.  Bro. Branham
had been dead for what…fifteen solid years coming up… and the
Rapture still hasn’t taken place.  I wonder if they ever paid their
debts?  But it sure was a slap in the face to him, because when the
people phoned Bro. Branham, and said, “Do you know so and so?”  He
said, “No, I’ve never heard of him.”  They’d say, “They go to
your church.”  You see?  Bro. Branham said, “Clean your debts up.”
 

68.  Doesn’t mean pay your house off all in one shot.  He meant, just
as long as you were trying to do something legitimate, you’re in the
clear.  I know people who would just descend on you as if they actually
said, “Here I am, take care of me.”  Ever have it happen?  Come on. 
If you haven’t, you were born but you’re no dead…you’ll get it. 


      People run around on nothing, or a shoestring, break down and wait
until strangers, help and blame it on being brothers.  Who ever gave you
the right to run around and call on me?  Sure, it’s right.  Where do
you get this stuff you can call on someone to suffer, because of your
stupidity or foolishness?  Huh?  I’m not saying you do it.  Look, I
know what goes on.  I know what goes on, don’t worry.  I get very hurt
sometimes, literally, my notes, I get torn to pieces …and I have, when
I see carelessness.  See where they could’ve helped themselves and did
not.  Now, they need help. 

69.  Read the Book of Proverbs 6:6-11, 10:26, 20:4, 26:16, and you’ll
find what God says about the lazy burden, the guys that don’t work. 
Some just don’t work.  Sure.  Some, overspend on non-essentials.  Some
like entertainment, and take big vacations.  Some won’t budget and
take care of the bills.  Others won’t spend on real necessities, so
they have something to fall back on.  Then, watch the local Bride
suffer, people get torn up.  They have to sacrifice needlessly.  Then,
if they’re not careful, bitterness comes in.  I’ve seen it.  I’ve
seen it.  People won’t work.  They’d sooner run around ‘gassing
off’, they’ve got hoof and mouth disease is what they got.  They
blame it on the Holy Ghost.  Absolutely a nuisance, but boy, when
there’s no oil in the tank, …and there could be lots of oil in that
tank.  I want to ask you, who’s going to foot the bill?  

The Bride.  You show me one place where she’s obligated.  

     The apostle Paul said, “If they don’t work, they don’t
eat.”  And if they don’t work, they don’t heat.  H-e-a-t…I’m
not being ‘Newfie’ right now.   You say honions and heat, for onions
and eat.  I’m talking about h-e-a-t, and e-a-t.  Yeah, you said eat,
e-a-t, heat…I know you do.  See, I’m talking about that.  And I know
what it is, because I’ve seen it.  And you talk to those people,
“Oh, Hallelujah, God takes care.”  I’ve been bilked for so many
hundreds of dollars, I could have a…well Bro. Branham said, “A
Hottentot knows about an Egyptian knight.” Could have several Egyptian
knights’ or whatever they were, with all the money I’ve given, that
I should not have given, according to Scripture.  

      You say, “Bro. Vayle, you’re hardening your heart.”  Well,
if I’m not supposed to look at a well stacked woman, and turn my face
like a son of God, am I now supposed to indulge in this?  As a stupid
something, or other?  The same balanced son of God, will turn his head,
and the church will put its foot down.  When the church puts its foot
down, the person won’t like it. But the first thing you do is put the
foot down, they’ll say “Here, boy, you’d better stop fooling
around.”  See?  

70.   Now listen people, the squeeze is coming on.  Don’t be of a
nature in your personal economics, to tear people up now, or what would
be later.  Now, I want to go further.  This is something that really
bothered Bro. Branham.  It was the toe trying to be the eye.  They would
not let him carry the ball, but tried to grab it.  Instead of running
interference for him, they interfered with him.  He also mentioned no
evangelist or minister can come by and take authority over the pastor. 
How often we get out of our places, one member interfering with another
ministry, and so on.  Let’s start with elders, and deacons, and
trustees, and secretaries, and song leaders, etcetera.  We’ve already
mentioned the pastor.  It is easy for deacon or elder, to start
counselling folk, or to become a problem solver, above the minister.  I
read a letter where one person was told to stand by to be a great help
in the church.  Ah, am I telling tales out of school?  Read them the
letter, Bud.  Show him the signature.  Yeah, come on right down.  You
say you believe this Message.  Then believe it.  Who told anybody to
interfere with him?  

     To run interference.  Yes.  Like a good football player.  Who said
that anybody can come by and set this church in order, and take any
authority?  The pastor, not the apostles…so called.  Not the
prophet…so called.  And not the teacher…so called.  And not anybody
so called, or called.  Coaching people on the side.  I just say one
thing, “Let him take over.”  Let him have it.  See what happens. 
Yeah.  Yeah, I know a few things.  I talk out of school too.  I don’t
give a rip if I do.  I’ll stand before God for being a skunk.  I
don’t mind.  I’m trying to help you.  Look, I can go home and stay
there, I get a pretty good pension even right now.  I’ve got ways, to
make a living.  I don’t even have full pension, but, my wife and I
between us get over six hundred dollars.  I get about a thousand, I
could sell our home, anything we’ve got, put it out with seventeen
percent interest.  

71.  I can live on twenty some thousand dollars a year.  I just
wouldn’t give it away anymore. I’d keep it.  Yeah.  I could tighten
right down too.  I can be like a lot of people.  Sure.  So, the deacons
start counselling.  They’re the problem solvers.  It could easily
start as a favour, to keep the load from the pastor.  But it ends up as
a mess, because pastor alone is the day's man called of God.  We do not
need local ramrods, for those that deal in doctrine, that Bro. Branham
said, “The doctrine comes from the pastor.”  When somebody wants to
know something, he’s taken to the pastor.  You see, this will stop
cliquing and other things in the church too,  to do what’s right.
Because, it puts, not to make the pastor get all the attention.  Look,
he doesn’t even want it.                  

      You know, it’s just like the Bible says, “Where there are no
oxen, the crib is clean.” [Prov 14:4] When you get a bigger bunch of
oxen, you’ve got to get a bigger shovel.  And there’s a bigger
manure pile.  Shoo,…It's not an easy.  I like it the way I am.  No
pastor, oh man, you pastors.  I feel sorry for you, but I just laugh.  I
have a good belly laugh, over it.  Listen, I have had years of
pastoring, come on.   That’s why I appreciate the pastors.  Many, many
years of pastoring.  Listen, run interference for the pastor.  Don’t
interfere with him.  He is the man of the doctrine.  I realize when the
pastor successfully trains some of you, you have the privilege and the
right, because of his sanctions to teach a certain amount of doctrine. 
But Bro. Branham so wisely said, “When it comes to doctrine, go to
your pastor.”  See? 

72.  Or maybe the deacon, will become a pulpit committee, and invite a
preacher. And even the members do it.  I remember one fellow told me,
that a certain preacher came by, and he heard a lay member saying,
“Hey, when are you going to come by and preach us a red-hot sermon to
stir us up?”  Sic-'em. Make the pastor feel like a two-bit piece of
nothing.  You watch him perform for you.  Treat him like a dog, and
you’ll just get a dog’s performance.  Ha!  “Preach it Bro. Vayle,
that’s good preaching.”  Good preaching, sure it’s good preaching.
 You bet your sweet life.  It’s time people smarten up.  You think I
haven’t had that ‘pulpit committee’ stuff pulled on me?  I’m
going to tell you something flat.  The minister, the pastor, is
responsible for this pulpit.  And if I make a boo boo here, he’s
responsible, because he brought me in.  

     Keep your nose out of the preacher’s business.  Nobody in the
church has one thing to do with this pulpit, outside that man.  And
I’m not here fighting for him, that’s just the truth.  See?  I’m
getting a little bit weary, of being on the road.  And I must admit,
I’m beginning to feel good, which I don’t know if I like it or not. 
Which means I got to hit the road all the time. Then I get feeling
rotten again.  But if I get home, if I ever get to a place again where I
have a work, I won’t turn it over to anybody.  You better believe,
I’ll be the supreme authority.  You better believe it.  I’ll know
what’s in that pulpit.  Or, someone’s going to know a whole lot more
than me, then the one who has that pulpit, ordained of God.  Not because
I want to be some stiff-necked guy.  But point is, if I’m going to be
responsible, then let me be responsible.  

73.  Yeah, a pulpit committee.  In some cases, we see businessmen, or
ministers of so-called repute, acting as though they’re some great
leaders.  The trustees want to run the money, instead of doing a job. 
Bro. Branham said, “It’s the trustees job to get the money if the
church needs some.”  The trustees want to turn around and spend the
money.  Or, the song leader wants to preach.  Find out what singing has
to do with the Word of God, and you’ll find out it’s not necessarily
in the pulpit.  Read for yourself 1 Corinthians 15:1-2, 16-22; 2
Corinthians 5:11-14; 2 Corinthians 20:20-25.  I’m not going to read
It, because I want to get out of here. See? Because it gets late.  I
don’t want to leave really…my voice is fine, and  I’m feeling
good… but you know, when too much is too much.  

     Or the soloist just has to testify, and takes all day long doing
it. Even oral prayer requests, become talk-a-thons.  Then others are out
there preaching to teach doctrine amongst, and take over somebody
else’s fruit.  Proselytizing.  That’s what this Branham Message is
so famous for.  They can’t win souls, but they’ll run in there and
take over people. I want to tell you something.  I didn’t know this
about this church, now correct me if I’m wrong. I'm going  to make
Nelson a liar, then  make him tell the truth, one of the two.  I always
thought that the Rev. Manuel started everything, and did everything. 
Understand now by the history, that there were three men doing things
here.  Bro. Nelson, and Bro. Manuel, and Bro. Bill Haggett.  Now, a lot
of people come along and say, "Well,  Nelson come along and say that he
just came along and took someone else’s fruit over."  That’s
legitimate if God ordained it.  But, he didn’t do it.  

74.  See how word gets all around the country.  I know one guy that you
know, he said that he started a work in Toronto.  But he didn’t.  See,
‘Newfies’ did.  And he didn’t even know the ‘Newfies’.  See,
I’m a blabber-mouth, I’ll tell.  You know what I’ll tell?  “They
did it.”  And if they do it, I’ll lower the boom.  If I do it,
I’ll lower the boom on me.  I know I’ve got to face judgement. 
Listen, there’s one guy, he’s not kidding himself.  I’ve got a lot
to answer for, one of these days.   It’s going to be a good one.  So,
if you’re going to die as a dog, die as a good one.  It’s not really
true, but it’s what’s going to happen to me.  It’s not the thing
to do.  Yeah.  Proselytizers.  Thank God, we don’t have the gifts on
the floor.  There’s some churches that want to practice them.  How do
you practice a gift?  You establish them.  You refine them.

     In other words, you learn how to conduct yourself in such a way,
that the gift gives God pre-eminence.  How do you practice a gift? 
Gifts of God are perfect.  How do you practice a Romans 12:7-8?  Which I
read about.  As it says in Corinthians, helps and governments and all
those things, in there.  But then it talks about showing mercy, and
giving, ministering and so on.  Then there are those in the church that
let the other fellow do it, and they dragg their feet.  Now, these are
things I say that goes on, and it goes on, because there’s a
non-recognition of the truth of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Now,
when people are convinced they haven’t got anything, or they’re
nothing, that’s what will deny the faith of God.  And make the church
just set empty. But you just start seeing what God said in His Word, and
you identify with It.  Then if there’s anything there, brother/sister,
that should manifest in that room, and out of the room in other
ministries that don’t have a room, it will be there.  And let me tell
you something, there’s a whole lot more going on than you and I even
begin to recognize.  See?  

75.  Now, let’s go back to 1 Corinthians 12:4,7-11; this tells you
what?  I read it to you.  There’s different ministries, different ways
they operate, this and that.  All kinds of gifts, but God is responsible
for every single gift and every single performance. That which lies
therein.  And that which is practiced.

       Now, then verses 12-31 tells how.  And we read that so many
times…we won’t read It,  again.  All members united pulling for each
other, pulling with God and for God.  All recognizing each other and
Himself.  As united in Christ, and in each other.  And doing whatever is
allotted, with no great claim as to personal…abilities.  But a careful
eye of co-operation.  That is why Paul wrote 1 Corinthians 13: and ended
up with the perfect way of the Bride being the Word.  See?  So we want
to close soon.  Not just right now, but pretty soon.  

     If all other thoughts today leave you, let not this one go.  I am a
Bride member with all other Bride members, and I must not ever do
anything, that will cause something to happen in that Bride, that I
would not want to fall on me. And if I am not Bride, as Bro. Branham
said, “There’s a Bride out there somewhere, and by the grace of God,
I won’t get in her way.”  

76.  So, there’s a carefulness here.  You see?   And I say that
carefulness, cannot possibly come until you understand the estimation of
your worth, in the eyes of God.  Then, when everyone understands, the
estimation of God, in your personal dignity and placing, and ministry,
which you might not even know anything of.  Because, he said to the
women, “You’ve got a ministry to your husband and children.”  And
you can testify to the milk-man, the bread-man and so on.  And you can
pray all of those things lie there, when you begin to understand those
things, then is where co-operation begins to flow, and people go on. 
See? 

      Now, I’m hitting gifts along this line, because these Messages
were not written for you.  These Messages were given first of all, for
the local church, then they began around the country.  And of course,
everything I try to preach, is strictly corrective, and beneficial.  And
I do have a great interest in gifts and how they are supposed to
operate, according to the prophet.  And the prophet did want to have the
gifts in order in the church but there was no church that wanted them in
order.  His own church wouldn’t take him, they became illegitimate in
the sight of Almighty God.  Because they would not take correction. 
Now, let’s get the picture here.  Illegitimacy, is marked out by the
inability, or the passing away or passing aside of correction.  And
correction, is the Word.  

77.  Prophet said, “We do not come to church to have fellowship. We
come to be corrected.”  And this Word here, is a correcting Word. 
Especially the Book of 1 Corinthians.   And Bro. Branham placed the
whole thing in confusion.  He said, “The Ephesian church, didn’t
have to have this written, but they had the gifts in order.”  You see?
 They understood the pre-eminence of the Word of Almighty God.  And so
that the signs which followed the Word, brother/sister, the signs which
followed the Word, did not validate the Word.  The Word, is already
valid.  So, what are people talking about so much about that?  Signs
simply follow the Word.  It doesn’t even say they are a part of the
Word.  It says they follow the Word.  It is something that God has
allowed.  

     But you see, remember, we do not stop with just nine gifts, and a
five-fold ministry, and a few deacon/elder, thrown in, and a few
trustees, and things.  No, you don’t stop there.  You’ve got to go
the whole gamut, where every single person, who may never speak in
tongues, who may never prophesy, may never do this, or may never do
that.  Actually, have a ministry.  In other words, they are
contributing, they are a part.  But you see, people get carried away,
because the latter rain came along and messed the thing up even worse
than Pentecost had it messed up.  So, they prophesied over people,
“You are this, you are that. You are the other thing.” And, it never
did come to pass.  And women got prophesied over, they were made
preachers and everything else under high heaven.  

78.  I remember years ago, I used to discern an awful lot. And almost
every woman, not every woman, but a lot of women came under my hand, and
I could tell their nerves and their affliction, and I said,
“Listen…” I said, …you see I didn’t know any better, I just
knew the root cause of it. And I said, “You were called to preach. 
But instead of preaching, you went and got married.”  It was the right
thing they should have done.  But you see, the fact that they thought
they were to preach, when they weren’t supposed to preach, put a
burden upon them.  They’re nervous wrecks.  Now, you see where these
things go to.  I wonder how many of you are nervous wrecks just tonight?
 You’re so upset and everything else, because, “You’re not doing
something…you’re not doing something.”  What, are you coming to
church?  

     You’re doing something.  That’s what the prophet said.  Are you
paying tithes?  You’re doing something.  The prophet said, “Everyone
should go to church, and pay tithes.”  But hallelujah, you’re on the
right track.  Now, what else can you do?  Well, you can begin to realize
that you’re a chosen member in Jesus Christ.   And give Him credit for
it.  And, give yourself credit.  And you can give credit, and other
chosen members in Jesus Christ.  Don’t try to segregate in the sense
of trying to pick out who they are.  And don’t try to synthesize as
though you could put them together.  Give credit that you are one, and
there’s others out here too.  See?  Everybody gets the understanding
here, as Bro. Branham said, “Look,” he said, “If there’s going
to be one person in town, and you’re in that town, you just believe
that you’re that one.” 

   Now, if there’s five hundred there, you all believe that you’re
there.   See?  Now, so you say I’m a Bride member, with all other
Bride members, and I must not do anything that'll cause something to
happen in that Bride, I wouldn’t want to fall on me.  And then if
we’re not Bride,               Well,  there’s a Bride out there,
certainly.  And I’m not going to have something happen to that.  See? 


79.   All right.  Let me so live my part that I can contribute to
others, lest there come a day, when I cannot, and some may contribute to
me.  And I will have the satisfaction of knowing, that I have already
sowed the good seed, and I am reaping.  That’s where I stand tonight
brother/sister.  I have stood that way since 1957, and there is no way
God’s going to let me down.  

     I’ve had roughly twenty-four years of practice.  Started when I
went on the road, and I had to make some commitment, I had to start
doing something.   The Word of God said to begin to pay back, it would
do something for me.  I did the same thing with Bro. Branham, I  gave
very single thing, except my wife to Bro. Branham.  He'd have wanted
her, I would have been glad to say, “Lord, let me die, and let his
wife die, and he can have her.”  I’d have done it.  You have to
understand my heart.  I’m rough and I’m tough, but I have a
dedication to Almighty God, that few people know the first thing about. 
I gave Him everything, lock, stock, and barrel, to become His servant,
that I might serve Him.  This is the exact reason my ministry is where
it is today.  Understand these things and know these things.  I paid a
price for it.  But the price was nothing to the dividend and to what has
come back. 

80.  Let me tell you tonight, brother/sister get your ideas where they
belong.  Get your understanding where it belongs.  Begin sowing for the
future.  Because there’s no such thing as reaping without sowing.  But
listen to this.: Whether you want to or not, you are sowing, and whether
you want to or not, you are reaping.  The question is, what are you
sowing?  And what you’re sowing, will absolutely make what you’re
going to reap.  Now, if you sowed the way the world does, with all these
things apart from the world, you’ll just reap your creeds and your
dogmas.  But if you sow to the Word, you will reap the living Word of
Almighty God.  Yet, I know what ever I sow, I’m going to reap.  “For
whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap”.   [Gal 6:7]

       And if I sow to the Spirit, I will reap the things of Eternal
Life, but if I sow to the flesh, I’ll reap corruption  and the
whirlwind.  God helping that promise myself, I’ll be a dedicated
member of the Bride, do my share, and when necessary, take the load for
others.  Now that doesn’t mean, that when they get into this thing and
that thing, you take the load off them, you’ve got to be one that
stands there and says, “Now look, I’m willing to do what I can, but
remember, the Word of God says this, and this, and this, and you must
show that you are just as responsible as I am.” You cannot afford to
have habit patterns set up in the church here, which are negative, which
are wrong.  And women, you already are a gift, you not only have a gift,
you are a gift.  Bro. Branham said, “The greatest gift that God could
give outside of Himself to a man, was the woman.” 

81. Your home, …you have a great ministry just because you are what
you are.  You are already liberated whether you know it or not, because
now your husband can take over and do all the dirty work.  You can sit
home like the queen, where you belong.  Your place is so defined by the
prophet, that you can and will sing your song in the night.  Husbands
appreciate them as God’s gift, and be like Christ, and provide for
them to be a covering for them.  And produce in them, the gems of grace,
that will adorn your crown.  Because that is what Christ does. Do you
get the picture tonight brother/sister?  Look, let’s understand this
about the members of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ.  The most
important thing to understand is this, that God called you, and God
placed you, and He gave you.

     And whatever He gave you, you’ve got.  And He’s big enough to
help you use it, whether you know it or not.  You see, I've learned this
thing long ago.  I’m a very carnal person in many ways.  Except I do
admit that I felt a distinct…I wasn’t going to come here, I’ll be
honest with you, I was going to keep putting Bro. Nelson off, and
putting him off, up until, well I got so far down south he’d have to
take several telegrams and a footman and a horseman to catch me.  But
suddenly I realized I’ve got to come out this way.  So, I come out
this way.  And it was not part of my plans whatsoever, to come out here,
because I didn’t have any intention.  I figured maybe I’d never be
back here again.  Because I have been cutting my circuits down.  

81.  And yet, on the other hand, I feel that I’m going to have to
start going other places where I haven’t been. Simply got to move out,
I don’t know what’s going to happen.  But the thing is this
brother/sister, I use my carnality, except in this case it wasn’t a
carnality. Usually God must use my carnality, to get me where He wants
me to go.  Other times, He just makes me to go, and I have no hand in
it.  I’ve been literally picked up and transported.  I don’t mean
that literally in the sense (look) He took me by the neck and took me. 
But I mean, the thing was so out of my hands, that people literally
opened doors, and they didn’t open doors, they opened a house full of
brand new furniture, and plunked me in it.  Well, you say, “I’d like
that kind of plunking”. Not if you’re bewildered when you’re
plunked.  It’s like a little kid going in a hospital.  The best
hospital with billions of dollars of equipment, and the finest doctors. 
That kid’s bewildered.  Because he’s a kid. 

 

      Well, I’m pretty childish, and childish is the word, not
childlike. Pretty child-like.  I’ve been picked up and plunked places.
 But normally, I find this one thing, if God wants me somewhere, He’ll
get me there. Whether I even want it or not.  And He’ll work these
things out.  And He’ll work a way of grace, that you couldn’t
believe possible.  I was thinking, all the time along, hey, if a person
really felt good, he would be a better minister of Christ.  He really
felt good, he would have the better revelation.  The better I feel
again, the least my revelation is. When I was the sickest, God came on
the scene with the depth of revelation, I have never had in my life. And
I have felt the rottenest I’ve ever felt in sixty-six years.  See? 
I’m only talking about myself to encourage you.  To let you know I
know what I’m talking about in this case.  

82.  But you must begin to identify with the Word.  As Paul said,
“…Not to think… (other than what the Word has said).”  [Rom
12:3] Now, if you believe that you are born again, on the evidence which
we showed you there was the faith and the Word for this hour, is the
prophet.  I only know of one evidence, the baptism of the Holy Ghost,
and that is faith in the Word for this hour.  If you have identified
yourself with this Message, there is only one way you can identify, “I
am born again.”  Then, if you are born again, you are a legitimate,
imbued and endowed child of God, with the respect of God, and you must
rise in your own self respect, in the respect of God.  

      In other words, don’t deny what God said, and done.  Otherwise,
you end up saying, “Well,         I just wish I was Bro. So-and-so.  I
know… nobody would say, "I wish I was like Bro. Vayle.” That's one
thing I really know that nobody knows that I say that.  And I understand
it, they’re smart.  I personally, even though I am a very peculiar
person.  I don’t think I’d want to be somebody else.  I wouldn’t
want to be Bro. Branham.  There’s no one I’d sooner be than me,
myself.  But I said, the other day, “I want to be me, myself, under
the conditions that make me happy and satisfied, in the relationship of
the Presence of God.”  Now, the first step to that, is believing what
God said about you.  Wouldn’t it be something brother, if you said,
“My I think you’re really beautiful.”  I know you’ve got a funny
nose, and funny things, and the day will come…bless God, when you
begin to believe your wife, you'd have that funny nose and those funny
ears, and you wonder why you married her.  Why don’t you just be
quiet?  Huh?  

83.  You know?  There’s a comic strip called; ‘Hagar, the
horrible’, I love it.  Because he’s as crazy as I am.  When the guy
looked at the pretty girl, he looks at her with adoring eyes, and he
said, “You’re beautiful.”  And she says, “I know I am.”  

      God said to the Bride, “You’re beautiful. Beautiful, within
and without, all beautiful.”  And she without being a smart-alec,
could well say, “You said it, because You know it's true.”  Because
God said it.  God can’t lie.  See?  But when the Bride members,
…?... as I say, “Grunt, groan growl, bemoan, fuss, agitate, cause
problems.”  Moaning, because they don’t feel they’ve got
something, or they’re not somebody else, or this and that.  All the
while, not realizing what they were predestinated to.  See?  Where does
it leave God?

     It leaves Him in a place where if there’s no confidence in what
He said about you personally,  based on the irrevocable evidence of a
prophet, who stood there and told you what it was all about.  Now, how
in the world, can that person come to a place of maturity?  There’s no
way.  See?  Now, this is what I contend from the Scripture, what Bro.
Branham taught, is going to set that Bride, in the unique position, of
the change in her life, that she’s going to keep going on.  He’s
going to start going on.  Because listen brother/sister, if you and I
cannot believe what we see in the Word, what the prophet taught, how can
you see Christ formed before your very eyes, His flesh being that Word,
which you must see, if you’re going to get your change, your
metamorphosis.  

84.  There will not be one person go to the Tree of Life, and enter into
that Rapture, without what I’m saying tonight.  I don’t care what
you try to tell me.  I know the Word of God, from what the prophet
taught.  And it’s all lined up in here.  No way, without seeing Him,
who is invisible.  No way, without you seeing Him in the vision of your
mind, through the hearing of the Word.  No way will you be changed,
unless, that happened to you.  

     Now, if you stand back and say, “Well, dear God, I can see here
these gifts that that got us upset the preacher so and so, with that
thumb. [blank spot on tape' Are you going to believe the rest? No way.
[not clear on tape[ The people stand back and by the very words,
they’re almost blaspheming the Christ that saved them, trampling
underfoot the Blood of the covenant, trampling underfoot the Son of God.
 Pinning their hopes and lives on what the prophet said, “Don’t you
dare, go into that.” It's some kind of evidence, but they do it
anyway.  

     Where do you stand tonight, brother/sister?  I’m not leaving you
go yet. I want to ask one question.  Did you change your mind?  You know
something. That’s what this age is all about,  repent, and change your
mind.  Repentance is not some funny feeling you get.  God may show a
work of repentance, but God restores, and not repentance.   Money buys
groceries, but money is not groceries.  Godly sorrow works repentance,
but not repent.  I hope you have worked up enough sorrow tonight, to get
you to begin to change your mind.  Agree with me now, don’t think I'm
standing here in the driver’s seat letting on that I’ve got this
thing all down pat.  No way.  There’s only in my lucid moment and they
are getting more numerous, thank God, that I admit what I am, by the
grace of God.  And I admit what I could be, by the grace of God.  And I
admit, by my own foolishness, when I frustrate the grace of God.  I
don’t mind that in you.  I don’t mind that in me, because it's
extent as long as we’re going on to the day when we no longer
frustrate the grace of God.  

85.  Now, there’s coming the day we won’t, God took me over already.
 But you’ve got to begin to see this Word, and Christ in that Word. 
You know something folks?  Do you realize what I preached tonight, I
preached Christ, pre-eminent.  You betcha.  I preached Christ
pre-eminent.  This is why we know, we are just a knock, a foot, a breath
away from the Resurrection.  Because revelation, pre-eminence, and then
the change, the Rapture, back to Eden.  Never have I ever given God
pre-eminence, I’ve given Him pre-eminence today, because never have I
known before, Who He was, and what it’s all about.  And I’m only
beginning to scratch the surface.  

     Never have I known, until just a few hours ago, of what it was to
see Him revealed, and know what that Shout is. I’m not lying, I’m
telling you the truth.  And you know something?  When you hear what I
say, you are just as deep in It, as I am.  Which isn’t really too
deep.  But  it actually, it’s you having heard, and begin to
assimilate, you know what I know.  And you are where I am, if I know
anything, and am anywhere.  And you seem to think so, because you're
here and listening,  then you see, we are not way down the road, down
there.  We’re very close, because I tell you sincerely.  I’m not
talking about character, I don’t have any.  I’m not talking about
winning souls, because I don’t think I’ve ever won any.  I’m not
talking about fruit, because I gave up on that years ago.  There’s one
thing that I don’t give up on.  That’s revelation.  I see Him, as
I’ve never seen Him before.  

86.  And I’ve got one thing to tell you.  If you can’t see Him, in
spite of my language, and in spite of my ways, open your eyes a little
wider.  Because you’ll see Him.  When you see Him, you’ll give Him
the pre-eminence.  And from pre-eminence, comes immortality.  Back to
Eden.  Follow me?  All right, remember from now on, you cannot go
backward.  If you do, it's your business, not mine.  It’s going
forward.  I have seen where churches will not listen.  Do you know where
you're going to go back?  Pentecost.  Because that was the life comes
out of the shuck, and shuck is Pentecost.  You say, “I was a
Baptist.” I care little what you were, you’ll go back to Pentecost. 
You know why?  Because you see, it's most Pentecost that embraced this
Message.  It was Pentecost that was the last. You can’t go back
Baptist  You can back to …?... You go out there and backslide and cut
your throat or something, sure.  But are you going to go back, …?...  
 You go back to Pentecost.  What is Pentecost?  Charismatic.  What is
Charismatic?  Roman Catholic.  Anti-Christ.  Okay.  

      All right.  Lord bless, let’s rise.  I don’t know if I’ll
see you again, but that’s something that we both don’t know.  By the
grace of God, we can believe we’ll see each other on the other side,
if we don’t on this side.  This side’s not important, anyway.  You
know how it is.  I don’t  like just talking  about a steak dinner, I
like to have a good steak dinner.  I don’t want to talk about heaven,
I want to go there.  I don’t want to just talk about a Rapture, I want
to get Raptured…not ruptured.  I don’t want to just talk about life,
I want to be in its fullness.  See?  So, this side’s not too
important.  Though it is in this respect, you get the training ground
here, to make you fit to take over for the kingdom.  And that’s worth
it all.  

     Heavenly Father, we thank you again tonight for leading us to come
here for these services, Lord.  And I am of a firm conviction, Oh God,
because it is Your Word.  And it is Your Word, Lord, that is best lined
up with what the prophet said.  Even going beyond in this respect, that
I broke it down to help the people that they might understand even more
what You did say in Your Word, especially by the mouth of the prophet. 
And I pray, Lord, You have been pleased in spite of me…You look beyond
me, and see Your Word helping the people, Oh God.  Giving them a peace
and a hopefulness, Lord.  And getting to understand, where they must
stand, Lord. 

      If they just got to come to the place where You have come down
now, we’re rallying around that great gift which is God Himself.  Just
the way Bro. Branham talked about, the Queen of Sheba coming out there,
talking about rallying around Solomon, that great gift.   And, Lord,
here we are rallying around that Great Gift, which is the Word Himself,
which is the Third Pull.  That which no one else could handle.  The
devil couldn’t do a thing with It.  Can’t handle that Word, but here
It came down here. And now here are Your people, Lord,  becoming the
very living Word of God Himself.  Because we are admitting today, what
this Bride is all about, and it is Bride season.  Oh God, may Your
people see that. 

      Father, You Yourself said, “In the form of the flesh down here,
through Your own Son, the only begotten One, that there would come the
day when He would teach us all things.”  Bring all things to our
remembrance, and, Lord, this is what we’re banking on tonight.  And we
know that years ago, we could pray this way and it wouldn’t happen,
but we prayed this way, and now it is happening.  So, Lord, tonight
we’re encouraged.  Greatly encouraged, Lord, that this is one time the
devil will not come back and take away the seed that has been sown. 
This is one time the devil cannot follow behind and re-sow a seed, that
has already been sown.  Ain’t no way, Lord.  It isn’t going to
happen, because the Bride is now, she’s locked in by the Word, and
become pregnant in her mind, until no more seed can get in there.  But
she can accept the water which waters the seed. 

      Bring it out to pass. Lord, we covet every single one here, that
names the name of Jesus Christ, as part of the Bride.  And covet
tonight, Lord, every single person who stands up in this audience
tonight, and in his heart, that faith is rises up and says, “I am a
part of Him, and a part of each other.  And I am no longer a problem,
but I am part of those that bear the problem itself. Lord, there is a
new life, not because I say it, not because I pray it, but Lord, because
of Your Word that is here in the mouth of a prophet who said, “Thus it
has been spoken, and thus it shall be.”  Lord God, we believe we’re
in the midst of the very thing in this very hour.  And there is no
turning back.  There is no way, history has run out.  It’s all run
out. 

      And therefore, Lord, we believe tonight that we are that part,
that you have designated in this hour.  So, Father, we thank you for
health and strength.  We believe You’re working in the dear people
here who  need help in their bodies.  We don’t know what all people
need, but, Lord, we know one thing, that there is a balm in Gilead,
there is a physician in Israel, that there is healing in Your stripes. 
And these things are ordained, and by the simple Word of faith in Your
Word, call the elders and they anointing with oil, lay hands upon the
sick, and the prayer of faith shall save the sick.  And shall raise him
up, and any sins that are involved in him shall be forgiven.  And, Lord,
we stand on Your Word tonight, that it’s all in You and Your Word,
what You said.  

     And men do not need to get their eyes upon anything but You, Lord. 
For God Himself is Present, what else is necessary?  So, Lord, tonight,
we present ourselves to You, and the members of the body in this place. 
And we believe, Lord, that You accept us and sanctify us, unto Yourself.
 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be
all power and honour, and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.   

      Instead of singing ‘Take the name of Jesus’, let’s sing the
little song, ‘Til We Meet,’ Bro. Branham always sang that, I never
ever sing it myself, I usually sing the other, but who knows, who
knows,' till we meet'. God be with you… 

       

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