Easter Seal #14 ‘God Bringing Forth Jesus Christ’ June 19, 1991 Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we’re grateful for Your Presence of love and glory and majesty, and all that You are Lord, we know that You’re here, and all that You are fulfilling for this present hour, You are here already having done part of it, and the rest is in progress knowing that He which hath begun the good work in us and in His Own plan shall perform it until that very day of the Lord Jesus Christ, which we believe goes right into the New Jerusalem, when the Lamb is on the throne and Father, You in the Pillar of Fire above the throne and before there is a call there is an answer. And we believe that is true tonight Lord, we now see the ultimate and we appreciate that very much and trust that it is our actual life. We’re talking about it, we’re believing it, we’re doing everything in that regard that we believe we can, but Lord we’re looking for You to actually do it, because we know it is of grace, and may we be more and more aware of the truth. So help us tonight in our study, may we be very somber Lord, sincere, very attentive, and very much appreciative Lord, and tender hearted in all things, as so as not to miss any of the grace of God that’s ministered to us in this hour, in Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen. You may be seated. 1. Now we’re on Easter Seal #14, and of course time goes rapidly. We’re not anywhere near finished yet, but we’ll just keep moving along. Now in our studies of this message we have seen that in dealing with the resurrection, Bro. Branham has attributed the resurrection to the power of God and called it the quickening power of the Holy Spirit. Actually they are synonymous. In going back to the Old Testament and in using certain illustrations of God quickening various men to mighty manifestations and accomplishments, and even to tremendous prophecies that came to pass and are still coming to pass, we are made to realize that the power of the resurrection always actually lay in the Holy Ghost through the ages, and was only waiting to manifest at a certain precise time and season to bring the dead forth from the graves and thereby fulfill God’s ultimate. Thus quickening power is simply God manifesting Himself according to His Word through many biblical events, and as I see it Bro. Branham is pointing us to God, the eternal God in our midst, quickening His Word and His servants to the prophecies of this hour. God is here manifesting in signs and wonders in this hour of the second half of the resurrection, so that’s evidently exactly what Bro. Branham’s ministry and what we have seen is all about. 2. Now what lies behind this is exactly the nature of God. He is omnipotent and omniscient. In His omnipotence, or power, by way of His wisdom or omniscience lies the resurrection. I hope you’re catching what I’m saying there, because if God can do anything, He will do anything, and this is the anything that He is doing. So therefore you have to understand that God Himself is already categorized. Same yesterday, today and forever, can never change, and He’s laid it forth in His Word. So we’re looking at this. Now what lies behind this is exactly the nature of God. He is omnipotent, both omnipotent and omniscient. In His omnipotence or power by way of His wisdom or omniscience lies the resurrection. Hear what I’m saying? Understand then carefully, it’s been carefully worded. This is what Abraham saw the nature of God to be; “God Who quickens the dead and calleth those things which are not as though they were.” In other words God deals always in the present tense, even though it is future, that’s why prophecy is written in the past tense, because the prophet has seen it, and it’s projected to the future. So then this is exactly how God is and you’re looking at the resurrection, not as something new, but you’re looking at the eternal God or the becoming God, as we brought out many times according to what we study from Bro. Branham. 3. Thus within God or the Holy Spirit God Himself lies the resurrection and all manifestation points to it, that’s from the beginning, and has always pointed to it, from the Garden of Eden where man died and the entire plan of God was interrupted, until death will be destroyed and man comes forth immortal in this resurrection. So you see the ultimate. And at this time according to a quickened prophet, quickened unto the time of the resurrection of the just, we have seen the signs of the resurrection, and the prophet is bringing them to our attention. After speaking of Elisha, whose bones were so full of power that a deceased man was raised from the dead by falling upon those bones of Elisha, Bro. Branham speaks of his own hope of the resurrection. In paragraph 153 on page 29 he mentions having always preached it. Then in paragraph 154-155, he testifies to the reason of his hope. 4. Now we’re going to go back and start then on paragraph 153. [Easter Seal, 04/10/65] [29-1] Ever since I was a little bitty boy I stood here to proclaim this, but I know that in me... Nothing good I have, nothing that I've done, but in me is that quickening power. Or the resurrection manifestation, which will be the Holy Spirit literally, manifesting His omnipotence according to His omniscience. And there again I’ve mentioned that many people think that they know better than God. Well the Bible already admits that people feel that way. And he says, “The wisdom of man is utter foolishness with God,” and he said, “The foolishness of God is wiser than men.” So always you’ll see man in antithesis, direct antithesis to the things of the Spirit. 5. Now Bro. Branham of course is seed. That’s why it says in Gal 4:6, “Because you are seed God has sent forth the Holy Spirit into your hearts.” And of course we’re talking now about the royal seed, which is the seed of Christ. 154: [29-2] It quickened me one day from the things of the world as a young man unto Eternal Life. All the things that's happened... I've seen visions, foretold things; He never let them fail yet. Now let’s stop right here and just look at something that we must not view casually as though we can apply this to everybody. [29-2] It quickened me one day from the things of the world as a young man unto Eternal Life. (That is for every single solitary seed, make no mistake about it. But when he says:) I’ve seen visions, and foretold things; He never let them fail yet. He’s not talking about everybody. He’s talking about his own experience as a person like you and me, then he’s speaking as a vindicated man with the authority to lead. Now remember when he stood behind the curtain of time, the One who came to him said, “You were born a leader.” And that’s what you are looking at here. [29-2] I've spoken in other tongues. (Anybody can do that.) I've prophesied. (Anybody can do that. But) I've done those things by the Spirit of God that dwells in me. There again you see he’s equating himself to everybody else. But at the same time he is inserting himself amongst all these heroes of faith, these great people from the Book of Genesis right to the end of time. And right there you’ll notice that he in doing this is talking about the same resurrection that they have been talking about, manifesting the same power and proving it, and saying, “Now it is here for this day.” 6. Now back in the Book of Romans, which we looked at last Sunday, the 8th chapter, you will notice certain things I read there concerning what we are all like. Now in Rom 8:5, it says: (5) For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; (you’re born after the flesh, you can’t get away from it. But you must be born again.) but they that are after the Spirit (mind) the things of the Spirit. In other words there is with your repentance, which says, “Hey, I’ve got to have a change, I’ve got to have new thoughts, I’ve got to have a new life, I’ve got to be a different person.” So all right, that’s exactly true what happens, you become a different person, as the Scripture says in 2 Corinthians, “You are a new creation in Christ Jesus.” Now he says here, if you do not get born again, verse 6, For to be carnally minded is death; Now that’s exactly where Eve went haywire. She went right to the carnal. That’s why you call the word carnal knowledge when you’re dealing with sex. See, everything lines up and you can’t get away from it. And when Bro. Branham called her Eve the prostitute, I realize that I was shocked, and I realized every woman was shocked, and I realized everybody thought Bro. Branham was a hater of women. When you realize what she did and what she called, caused the world this interruption, that’s a very mild word. I think by now I have much more descriptive words than that. And you knowing me can well guess what some of them are, because you’re not exactly stupid and two years old, or blind, deaf, and dumb. But she’s a pretty rugged character when you look at it. 7. Now to be carnally minded is death. It tells you right there, and the carnal mind that she had was not only the carnal knowledge she’d entered into, but she went right against the Word of God as though Satan had a better plan, and she in cooperation with anybody outside the Word of God would bring a fruition which was identical to God’s, and it won’t work! See that’s why you got to have repentance, and repentance is a steady thing, see, that’s going on, the change of mind. Because the carnal mind, he says, is death; …but to be spiritually minided is life and peace. So people can say what they want, but your mind will determine exactly whether you have eternal life or not! A lot of people say, “Well, you know, he spoke before he thought.” Like fun, he thought, but he didn’t hold his thought back long enough, to really think it through. See your mind is involved in here, because the mind and the spirit go together and then there’s an influence upon the soul. But if the soul has that seed in there, then the soul will begin to put an influence upon the spirit, cast an aura, until there is a nature that evolves that is after the Spirit of God. 8. Now: Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: (Now watch,) for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So therefore anybody outside the baptism with the Holy Ghost hasn’t got a chance! All you can do is end up fighting God, even though you claim you are a hundred percent with God, and are doing everything in your power to be aligned with God, pleasing to God, satisfying to God, living in the Spirit, walking in the Spirit and being a hundred percent model Christian! Lead balloon, eh? Absolute truth. Absolute truth. You’re not going to change the Bible. This man’s talking by experience, and not only by experience, above all that, he’s only talking by experience according to revelation; which was vindicated. (7) …for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 9. A normal person with a normal mind, educated, a very compliant, lovely person, is just as death doomed to hell, perhaps not with the same extent of punishment as the most rabid horrible destroyer the world’s ever seen, some of men which are Hitler and Stalin. So Madam Lazonga, with her lorgnette, drinking her tea with her finger just out exactly so and being so nice and so sweet and going to her pew every Sunday morning, and being a lovely, lovely person, and oh she’s a model Christian. Like fun she is, she’s going to hell same as Stalin. I don’t want to put her there, but that’s the truth. Now she won’t suffer as long, because the point is you’re going to have to pay your debts, because the carnal mind is the enemy of God. Don’t try to use it, make sure of anything in your life that you feel that you have from God or want to have from God, don’t ever bungle into something or you will pay a price and the unfortunate thing you will cause others to pay a price with you. If I am wrong in this pulpit, if I never was called, if Bro. Branham is simply a liar, it did not confirm it, let me tell you something, I am highly detrimental to every single one of you. I’ve done nobody a favor, I’ve taken you a disadvantage, and I could cripple you and harm you. 10. If I followed my own mind, my own thinking instead of trying to get the mind of the prophet, which is the Holy Spirit in this Message, I could lead you a hundred percent astray, the same as Jones did with his polygamy. And yet he will not take the fact two places in Daniel’s Seventieth Week, Bro. Branham said in one place, he said, “Polygamy’s a thousand times better than Hollywood marriage and divorce, but we know it is wrong.” And if you think you can change and say, “Well we know this is wrong and that’s not, he also says in another place, he says, “Polygamy is better, but we know polygamy is wrong.” That man leading people into destruction will pay, I believe, as long as those others in their place of destruction. He said, “Double unto the church their sins.” 11. Now: So they that are in the flesh cannot please God. (But watch.) But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be the Spirit of God dwell(s) in you. In other words God will plague your mind, He’ll battle you till the last ditch. He will not let you go. The sheep hear the voice and they follow Him, and all of God’s children are taught of God. For the Holy Spirit is the great teacher. That simply means in plain English the nature of God is to be a teacher. So you’re not in the flesh, you’re in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells in you. In other words that resurrection power. In other words you will be getting your change here and becoming as you’re looking down the road to the future becoming, because everything in God is becoming! It is a progression, as Bro. Branham said there’s an evolution. And God started with the lower forms till He worked to the highest form. And the strange thing is that God created man and work with man a whole long time after He created even the cherubim and the archangels. So then where do you put man? Right in the image of God, nobody else can claim that. Now what does he say here? (9) (You’re) not in the flesh… Now, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. If you don’t hold the abstract, you’re not baptized with the Holy Ghost; you’re simply not Christ’s. Now we’re talking here of the Bride, because that’s always what you’re looking at. 12. Now it said: (10) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; Now watch, I don’t care how full of the Holy Ghost you are, and we take the picture of Jesus Himself, being completely immaculate, Mary wasn’t, being the sinless one, He literally died because our sins went upon Him. So I don’t care how full of the Holy Ghost you are, you’re going to die! That’s why it’s so asinine when people turn around and try to tell you that there’s no such thing as divine healing, because you could just keep on being healed and healed and healed and you never die. That’s a lie! Because it says right here, you die! Because sin dwells in every man. But notice: (10) …the Spirit is life because of righteousness. You go right on, because there’s another principle that is not a part of you, which is only a part of God! Righteousness. So if you have Him, you’ve got righteousness. And if you have righteousness, you’ll go right with the Word, because righteousness means the right act. (11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, (now he’s talking about the man,) he that raised up Christ from the dead (now we’re talking about the one that went down into Hades. The body didn’t go down there, the body went down to the grave.) shall quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. (12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. (13) For if ye live after the flesh, (you’ll) die: but if ye through the Spirit… (And only through the Spirit.) And that can only be the alignment with the Word, because many people, they claim they have the Spirit, and therefore they claim they’re in the Word, and there’s your Jones’ again, and your Woodriff’s, and the rest of them! That preach polygamy and all this other stuff and lead you right into sin. And don’t think your preachers won’t lead you into sin, what do you think if they’re not the true children of God, what do you think they’re put there for? Ha! Come on, you’re not a bunch of babies; think by now for God’s sake we’re off the bottle. And we can take a piece of stone in our teeth, and bear down. 14. All right, let’s go a little further. Let’s go here to Rom 8:28: (28) And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, (who love God?) to them who are the called according to his purpose. Now there again you’ve got the Word thrown in. According to His purpose, what is His purpose? It must be delineated somewhere, so God has a delineated purpose! And you know that purpose! See? And you love God! Because the love of God is shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost conduit is the Word! So it says: (28) We know that all things work together for good (what things? What’s in the Bible, what it tells you right here. And they’re working for what?) to them (that) are called according to his purpose. (29) For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (30) Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 15. Now that’s a picture of the Old Testament saint in perfection, and it’s a picture of the New Testament saint because God calls those things which are not as those they were, so therefore if you and I had been foreknown and elected and predestinated, we are already glorified on the principle of justification, which we have! And we have become the righteousness of Jesus Christ! Right? And therefore we have become the resurrection, because God doesn’t rise from the dead, He never could die! So now we’re resurrection. So well people think that’s awful crazy, I don’t. It’s awful true, and I wish I had exactly what it took, and by God’s grace I hope I do, that this will live in my heart and mind and my life the way it is proclaimed by God Himself because God’s Word doesn’t fail in His elect. (31) What shall we say (then) to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? (32) He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, (and proved by the fact that every claim was completely dealt with by the fact that Jesus Christ rose again.) how shall he not (also) with him freely give us all things? 16. Now listen, how could He freely give us all things with a dead Jesus? No way. You couldn’t have the Holy Ghost without a risen Jesus. So Paul is talking now about the risen Christ. Now he said here: (33) Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. In other words, who dares lay a charge against me? Nobody can do it, because God said we’re just, we’re righteous. Who can condemn me to death? Impossible. (34) …Christ died, (notice,) yea rather, is risen again, even at the right hand of God, (making) intercession… So therefore you see the resurrection has been in full effect all along, and we’re only waiting now for the second half of that first great resurrection. All right. 17. Now, he said: [29-2] That is quickening power. Okay, over here in Eph 3:20, 21, it says: (20) Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that (is at work within) us, Which simply means according to His Own working of His Own power that lies within us, there is no limit to what can be done. And Paul the Apostle is speaking concerning himself, and not necessarily the church! Although the church can partake in its own particular place. 18. And Bro. Branham at this time is also particularly speaking of Eph 1:17, (17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: (that’s Himself.) (18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, In other words, God’s side of the picture, which has not being known, and cannot be known until this hour, is revealed according to what is in the Word, but could not be revealed! That’s why a man like Paul could take Scripture out of here and Scripture out of there and put it together, and Bro. Branham could do the same thing, and nobody else can do it except a vindicated prophet in the stature of William Branham, which we’ll talk about later on, if we ever get there. 19. All right. (19) And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, (20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, Now you will notice here what I said in my preamble is a hundred percent true! That God is omnipotent, but it takes His omniscience to utilize correctly the omnipotence! And it says right here it is a Spirit of wisdom and revelation coming forward that exercises the omnipotence of God to raise the dead, the same as He raised Jesus Christ! Now you try to get away from the Word of God and revelation and see that, you can’t do it. You’ll never, never, never get past that. Now: …according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places, And that’s exactly what it says in 1 Th 4:14 that God will bring us forth with Christ. See? No other way can you get away from it. 20. Now: [29-3] I know that… My Redeemer's living now, and someday when He comes, these bones shall rise again to go to meet Him in the air. You may bury me in the (deep), burn it up, whatever you want, that quickening power is (life) eternal. Why? He’s talking now the quickening power is not as though you are taking a substance from God, not as though you are taking a derivative of God, but you are taking a portion of God Himself, which is the resurrection life in contradistinction to the life that is in you as a seed that comes from God. In other words, if you have a life from God within you, just the same as human life is within the womb, how is that baby nourished and brought up to full term of pregnancy? It’s brought up exactly by the way of how it was born. It’s got to have the elements which was there. And so it is when you are a true seed of God brought in the flesh here, you must have the Holy Spirit giving you that life constantly to bring you up to that measure of the stature of a perfect man which is in Christ. Now we got that from the prophet, it’s step by step. It goes in the church and goes in the individual. That’s why Word upon Word is piled upon Word, and the life of that Word is loosed in us, and we come to that place where the Headship of Christ is really a tremendous and marvelous thing. I don’t say we got it, I know the prophet had it, how much we’re to have it, how complete, I don’t know, but it is true. Now Bro. Branham here is giving a testimony to Christ our life, which he manifested to us in this great ministry. 21. Now in 156: [29-4] I feel a Easter right now. (In other words, I feel resurrection right now.) Yes, sir. I've had it for years. It's in me. It's in you, if the Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in your mortal bodies. It has quickened you from the things of the world to the Word of God only. It has quickened you from this life to Life Eternal. Now you notice what he’s saying here. He says, “I have resurrection feeling right now.” Now he admits that he’s had it for years. He admits it’s been in the church for years, but he’s pinpointing it now to this point where it’s coming into an actual reality where you might say this, that Christ is being born into this age via the resurrection! Because he hasn’t been born that way for the church in two thousand years. In other words we’re coming up to a headship. We’re coming up to the ultimate. So Christ is in our midst for one particular reason that He may be manifested as a resurrection Himself, which He said, “I am the resurrection and the life.” So therefore if He is here the resurrection is here, and if He is in the prophet, the prophet had better well feel the resurrection, or he’s past feeling and we’re going to need another prophet! Right? Well come on. If I can feel a fruit bug get in my throat, surely a prophet can feel God Himself indwelling him. Sure he must be aware of something. 22. So we see a progression. Always there is this progression of the church coming up, individuals coming up, Christ coming up, coming up through the Word, the measure of the Word. And he said: [29-4] …if that Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in your mortal bodies. So therefore the baptism with the Holy Ghost is given to you in a mortal frame in order that your mortality be affected, because you always were and will be a son of God, though a fallen one, and now you have an escape for your body. See? Now as Bro. Branham said there’ll come a day when you know you always were saved. Now watch: [29-4] It has quickened you from the things of the world to the Word of God only. Now if it’s quickened you from the things of the world to the Word of God only, you are going to have to understand you cannot be talking about oranges and apples at the same time without designating which are apples and which are oranges! 23. All right, watch what you’re looking at. He says here: [29-4] (You have been) quickened from the things of the world to the Word of God only. So now, evidently we are not talking of apples and oranges, we are talking of two kinds of apples or two kinds of oranges. So the things of the world are not in contradistinction to the Word of God, as though they are two separate and thoroughly unrelated things, you are talking about that which is not the Word of God, and one which is the Word of God, and you’ll be quickened to that which is the Word of God, and you’ll turn down that which is not the Word of God! Now that’s true! Otherwise I don’t know proper English, I don’t know anything, I’m just stupid dumb jerk. Because I’ve been taught in school many, many years ago, you don’t change your point of view, you don’t discuss elephants and in the same place talk about a rhinoceros and expect someone to follow you. 24. So you’re switching from one to the other. And that’s exactly what we find in the Scripture on every turn, that’s why the message for this hour is repent! And never mind your cock-eyed stupid feelings! I had that pulled on me in Canada, this guy named Cyril; if he was in the church tonight I’d rip him to shreds and throw him to the dogs. Don’t talk to me about your feelings; I don’t care two bits for your cock-eyed feelings, because some of you people got such cock-eyed feelings, if you don’t feel a certain way you’ll stay home, not even come to church! You’ll act upon an impulse instead of the Word of God. You won’t live consistently. Don’t tell me God’s one time a horse, and one time the devil, one time a mare and one time a stud. Changes genders like they got down in Florida, female Holy Ghost. Hey you understand what I’m saying? What is the matter with those people that say they understand the Word of God by a vindicated prophet? I’m reading you what he says here! And I’m doing my best to understand what he says. And not just for your sake, hey, I’ve got to think of myself. [29-4] It has quickened you from the things of the world to the Word of God. 25. That’s why at the end time – Hebrews 12. Now you know what it says here: (25) See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more (in other words there’s no escape,) if we turn away from him that (is) from heaven: (Doesn’t say he’s speaking in heaven, the one that is from heaven.) (26) Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. (27) And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made… In other words, you’re going back to what’s a hundred percent original, which is of God and no perversion and where did it all start? Word! And you got to get back to Word. So that which is going to be shaken down is absolutely every creed and dogma and every organization and everything that man has expressed by way of Word, and the expression comes by way of his thoughts and the thoughts of his heart are continuous evilly, and they’re against God, continuously evil. They’re against Almighty God. 26. So all right, let’s understand this then. So then the things of the world are Satan’s cosmos, because one word off, said Bro. Branham, is Satan’s Eden or Satan’s world and government. One word off until all is off and there’s no Word left. There is no doctrine in this Bible that is not polluted today, outside of William Branham’s ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’ message, and I’m going to stand on that, and if I go to hell, I’d just as soon go to hell believing that as anything. For one reason, it’s a whole lot more fun, it’s a whole lot more exhilarating, it is a whole lot more entertaining, and it has a whole lot more substance to it than all the rest of these jackasses coming together with their scrapings which are nothing, pooling their so-called resources, which are less than nothing, and saying, “Well we understand.” 27. Well I got news for them, they can have it. I may be not the happiest guy in all the world, I certainly am not the most handsome, although I could argue the point, my wife will argue the point. Eyesight’s getting very bad. I’m not the best dressed person, I’m not the most intelligent, best of anything, don’t claim any of those things, like these guys out there, but I believe the Bible, that every single thing that man has messed with, that is from God originally, is going to come down and even will dissolve in the fire from one word started by Satan, off and man took it! That’s their business; they can do what they want. Quickened to the Word of God only. Listen, it has quickened you from this life, which is mortal life, and listen, one word off is where Eve died! So where is death? In the perverted word. To life eternal. Where is life eternal? In the revealed received Spirit Word of a Spirit God! How can you lose? People go around and say, “I’ve got the Holy Ghost, hallelujah,” and turn down the Word? Oh, I don’t care what they do, they’re liars. They can’t do it at all. 28. Listen; therefore because of this it should bring forth only the Word when it comes to this resurrection power. Now perhaps this is our failing. We do not just want the Word in its framework, and say, “Let us move from there.” How many churches can honest to God prove word by word with the prophet in the Bible, and I try to do it, and I know that I’m at fault, I can’t prove anything, that they are really in the alignment with this Word and then go from there to signs that follow the Word! No! They want the signs that follow the Word, and any perverted person, even Judas, can do that. Because once the Word of God is unperverted and revealed before you, it’s up for grabs and you could milk it to the very end. “And many will come in that day and say, ‘Lord, have we not prophesied’?” “Absolutely.” “Cast out devils?” “Sure thing.” “Done miracles?” “No doubt. I never knew you.” They weren’t Word seed. You see? 29. Now, 157: [29-5] You, who were once dead in sins and trespasses (like I was, said Bro. Branham,) have now been quickened together (with me, and the other saints in the Bride,) to sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, feasting on manna from above, seeing the hand of God made manifest and prove the promise of this day. [29-6] (Which day is) as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man. (Or the Son of man.) All right, Bro. Branham categorically says: [29-5] You who were once dead in sins and trespasses have now been quickened together to sit in heavenly places in Christ… Now right away you’ll notice it says sit, not stand. Why is he sitting? Because he is feasting. Remember the feast is set at a table, the Wedding Supper. Even the Lord’s Supper, the last Supper, and one leaned upon Jesus’ bosom as they sat together. So they’re sitting, feasting. 30. Now they are in heavenly places, and he said we are doing the very same thing, and this is based upon 1 Corinthians 10. You’ll notice where Paul is saying: (1) Moreover, brethren, I would not (have you that you) should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; (2) And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; (3) And (they) all (ate) the same spiritual meat; (4) (They all drank) the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. (5) But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now you’ll notice in there that they ate the same spiritual meat. So Bro. Branham is referring to the heavenly manna as the heavenly meat, because we have the words and are eating on those words from the One Who is from heaven according to Rev 10:1 through Rev 10:7, which is the prophet. And all the mysteries therein are revealed as it says in Eph 1:17. This One, the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in our midst, and the Pillar of Fire is leading us to the Millennium. And we are sitting under God’s pavilion. And we are leaning upon His breast, and we are eating the heavenly manna. 31. Now let us look at something here, and you go to the Book of Revelation 2. Now don’t get confused when I read this, because this happens to be I think the Third Church Age. And the 17th verse: (17) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, (and) no man know(s) saving he that receiveth it. Now listen, in every single church age there’s a promise made to the church, but not specifically to that church only but to the Bride, all down the line. And so notice, right here it tells that the churches, the Bride, has available for her the hidden manna. Now that verse in the Third Church Age, because it is a promise, coming into being at that time, on record must have its fruition at the end of the age! Because it’s a seed! You understand? It’s the same life that’s coming up to the end. That’s why Headship is here and Headship is the Spirit filled Word Himself. God Himself is here because you can’t disassociate Rhema from Logos, I don’t care what anybody says, I’ve already got people mad at me because they think I’m too critical. Well I am too critical. If they don’t like it they can fly a kite. The truth of the matter is I have no time for any preacher that lets a man get in his pulpit that denies the prophet. And you got them all around here, all in Ohio, every place you go, I could name names, it won’t bother. So let her ride. 32. Now, it says here this feast which we are in is seeing the hand of God made manifest and the promise of this day. The promise of this day is what? Resurrection in full manifestation, because resurrection Himself is here! See? Now: [29-6] As it was it in the days of Noah, it will be in the coming of the Son of man. In other words, the revealed manna is going to be given to us under the same conditions it is always given, and you’ll see right here, on the way to the Promised Land, the Pillar of Fire was there to keep them hot in the cold times, and the cloud was there to keep them cool in the hot times, and they had water falling in a rock and they had the manna. In other words they had a stability in their journey which was absolutely foundational, rock foundation as God Himself, because it was God revealed, it was the Word revealed. So there you got it. 33. Now with that in mind let’s go to the Book of Luke 17. And in 17, you’ll notice it says in verse 30: Even thus it (shall) be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. Now go back to verse 22: (22) And he said to the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and shall not see it. It said you’re going to desire to see the day, but you will not see it. But that day will be seen, and it says it will be seen at the same time of a Noahic and a Sodom condition. [End of side one of tape.] I would not feel bad from this moment on, cutting off every single person outside of this church and all of these tapes, I’m not interested. You run your own boat, you run your own show, you’re your own man. I have no influence over anybody, and I’m not interested. At this point I’m interested in one person above every person in the world, am I going to make it? Say, “What about your wife?” That’s her business. What about you? Are you going to make it? That’s your business. What have I got to do with you and you with me? The Bible said we owe nothing to anybody except love. And there’s only one conduit for love and that’s the Holy Ghost! And there’s one conduit with the Holy Ghost, and that’s the Word. How can you not help but love each other, you that love this Message. A lot of people evidently don’t love it. They’ve got some cock and bull story up their sleeve. I don’t buy it. 34. So what I’m looking at here then is these first three pulls that are in the last day churches. We’ve come to the place of where Luther starts with the true definitive revelation of justification, the just shall live by faith, doesn’t have one thing to do with works. Abraham justified by faith, and David said, “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute iniquity, even though he does it.” And Bro. Branham came along and said, “You didn’t even do it.” What’s the difference between you didn’t even do it and you won’t get imputed to you? Huh? Well the fact that you did it, even though it’s not imputed, makes you know you need something. Huh? Right. From that time on God begins to work. The next thing that came through was the fact of the virtue. It begin to come now, and you begin to see the power of the Word moving in demonstration, the pollination, all these things going out there. Yeah, we got virtue, then we got the fact of knowledge coming up. 35. So what we’re looking at here then in my books, you have to have a repeat in a measure of these three which were there in the beginning and spoken of by the apostle Peter. And then when you get to the number four, which would be in my estimation Bro. Branham, you come to the place of your continence, where you’re perfectly dedicated to this Word. Now all of this happened in Bro. Branham’s ministry, so don’t worry, but there had to be a seed started way back there, it couldn’t come at this particular time, because nothing can come without a seed, you see what I’m saying? I’m just trying to get a continuity here, not trying to make the thing perfect, because Bro. Branham didn’t, I’m not trying to make it either. Now with this place we come to incontinence, we’re no longer trying to mess around, we’re fully convinced of the mind being fully impregnated with the Word of Almighty God and shut-up, no other seed can come in. 36. Okay, what then do you have? Patience. And that’s a peculiar type of patience, waiting as Bro. Branham said for the Word of God, and the revelation and those things that keep coming. To that patience you add godliness, and to that you add brotherly kindness, and that’s the age we’re in, which is fishhooks on your elbows, Bank Woods said, because he said, “We’re very, very prickly and sticky.” And it’s only the Holy Ghost Himself and His triumphant work is going to bring this to the place of complete subjection, subordination, which is indicated in 1 Corinthians 15, because that’s why He came down to do. To bring every one us into complete subjection to Jesus Christ. And therein at that time will be fulfilled every single Word concerning us as to obedience and to simple promise, because it’s got to be. Because no Word of God is void of power will fall to the ground. That’s when God takes over and God is that perfect love. 37. Now, so we were looking at those two verses. You escape the corruption that’s in the world through lust. Now be very diligent, he said, to watch this. To your revelation, absolutely Bro. Branham talking about himself, us and the church, right through the ages. You come to this very place, and you’ll come right up into Christ where Paul himself mentioned that you and I would be. Now talking of those first three ages: justification, sanctification, Pentecostal restoration of gifts. You notice in there the life was working itself up through that. And when the life went on, that doctrine became dead dogma, though the life being still there and manifesting at justification will never cease to manifest in the justification itself! But the people not having the living Word, no longer will justification manifest there! When the Lutherans left it, the life went on through the Methodist with sanctification. Try as the Lutherans want, they cannot recapture the justification that they had by the Holy Ghost and in the Word of the Holy Ghost, because they organized, they died! And God cut the branch off. Methodism now got full justification and sanctification, another measure of the Spirit. Soon as they organized it went right to the Pentecostals. The Pentecostal organized. Now what’s going to happen? There’s nothing left but the Giver Himself! 38. Now when a baby’s in the womb, it gets there because the life of the father has pregnated the woman, that little egg. Now he’s going to go through a series of processes of maturation! And that life, now get it, that life from the father, will not see the father until he’s mature and comes out of the womb, and comes to a place of recognition. No. How are you going to change nature? The life that was vindicated and given to bring forth the royal seed, the man-child, to bring forth Christ, see? That life was put in the Bride, and it’s got to come to the place where that life now, having gone through the whole period of gestation, one, two, three, has got to come forth and see its father! Not its brother! But to see its father! Do you understand what I’m saying? “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who hath begotten us again to a lively hope.” So Who is our Father? God is our Father. Who is our Brother? Jesus is our Brother. Now what does the Bible say? “Always beholding their Father’s face.” So there has got to be a Bride, a group, from this period of gestation, one, two, three stages, and if you take and study the human body, you’ll likely find three absolute marked phases, and then what happens? The baby has to have an absolute perfect position in the womb to come forth. And what comes forth? Head. You bring forth feet, you got a complete mess. The body grows up unto the head. 39. So all right, what do we see at the end time? Bro. Branham said, “When God went to Egypt, Moses, He not only appeared in signs and wonders, mighty signs and wonders, He Himself also appeared in a flame of fire upon Mount Sinai, so today we’ve got His picture.” So as the Father appeared, in order to start the impregnation, which did not get lost, but had to come right back to the original steps, the original Word, so that now there would be a Bride, a people standing right here, coming through one, two, three, could absolutely recognize Headship, and recognize her Fatherhood. Now keep this in mind as we study. Now if you want to sit here for about three hours, you’re not worried about dinner, we can go three hours. To try to cover a lot of points here. Time’s gone. Too bad, we just missed out. 40. Now look: [Things That Are To Be, 12/05/65] [86] …he opened (the shuck,) there’s no wheat there. (There wasn’t in any organization, they organized, because the life had gone on. See?) It’s the shuck, a carrier, (the chaff,) but that life is working on its way through (to the final fulfillment and he’s talking about a perfect place that has a perfect people.) So therefore what he’s talking about this life, he’s talking about this life producing a perfect people for the perfect place it’s already produced! In other words you’re getting a people ready that are already prepared for the prepared place! See? 41. Now here we start today’s lesson. [87] Those back there in the Luther’s age (accepted – they got e-x-c-e-p-t, but that’s not true. It’s a-c-c-e-p-t, they accept) Luther, that the Life came through, but it went and denominated out; the first thing you know it just became a denomination whose end is to be burned. Now the Bible speaks at the end time of the chaff burning. But the stalk is just as much to be burned. Anything that’s a carrier and dead is burned. [87] See? The stalk dries up; (See, he talks about that,) it was just a carrier. Some of them still try to stay in that old carrier stalk, know nothing about God, dead. They say, "Look we're a leaf. We’re the Lutherans." That's right, but look where it's at now. See? "We were the Methodist," and even, "We were Pentecostal." But look at Pentecost, (now watch,) how cold and formal it's getting… Or they’re the hot time, rag time, jazz babies of the religious world. Oh you think they ain’t hot? What married man and what married woman that’s a singer in the Pentecostal church in Nashville (huh?) got together and she’s pregnant? Oh it’s in every paper. Sure. Every paper. He had the big prizes for winning the great songs. What’s he now? I can’t remember his name, it’s plastered all over Newsweek, every place else. And she was a big timer. I’m not just telling you scandal; I’m telling you the condition of the church. They’re hot all right, in the wrong direction. All jazzed up, it’s been known for years that they’ve been rife with it. And that child would be perfectly illegitimate, according to Bro. Branham, got writ in one of my Bibles here. 42. Now they’re the souped up ones. “Oh hey, we’re not formal, man we’re on fire, we sing, we dance, we shout! Glory to God!” Bro. Branham said they’re cold! Yeah. And formal. Now how can a red hot jumping, jiving, dancing, hallelujah singing people be cold and formal? Well they’ve formalized the Word! “Why you get the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues, and the Holy Ghost is the speaking in tongues, that’s it, all over, nobody else but us has it.” Now listen to me, if that were the truth that wouldn’t be formal. Uh-uh. No way, shape and form. But you see they’re not vindicated to say what we say, and we get by, because we’re right. Because listen, brother/sister, there is a truth. And I’m going to tell you one thing, everything stands still in the face of that truth, and somebody’s got to have truth! Because if nobody can have it, then God doesn’t give a rip! Because He proved it; He doesn’t care. 43. So all right. What’s this Pentecostal church that Bro. Branham says is formal and cold? 3rd chapter, the church in Laodicea. [Revelation 3:] (14) (Thus) saith the Amen, (the winder-upper,) the faithful and true witness, (hah! Who is he the faithful and true witness to, this Jesus? Almighty God. When He was here upon earth. Who’s going to witness to him now? He’s raised from the dead, God Himself that raised him.) (15) I know (your) works, neither hot (or cold): I would (you were hot or cold). (16) Because (you are just) lukewarm… (I’m going to) spue thee out of my mouth. (17) Because (you say), I am rich, increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not (you’re) wrteched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. See, they’ve left that Word, they don’t believe that, they’re cold to the Word. Absolutely cold to the Word and red hot adversarially! Uh? Come on, come on, come on. Ice cold to the Word, red hot against it. Well they’ve got to be, because they’re the end time chaff. Naked, and are not ashamed. Yep. (18) …anoint thine eyes with eye-salve… They don’t even have the eye-salve. What they think this is, “Well hey you got the eye-salve, now start using it.” It doesn’t say that, the Greek says they don’t have it! There’s no eye-salve there, like the oil ran out of the bottles. Why? The Lutheran oil ran out, why? The Holy Ghost left the dead Word! The Holy Ghost left the dead Word of the Methodists! It left the dead Word of the Pentecost’s! Where is the Holy Ghost now? He’s got to be in a carrier! “Oh it’s in the church.” Hogwash, He’s in the church, He’s in the Word! Because the Words that He speak are Spirit and Life. And the Rhema Logos God doesn’t change from Rhema over here and just forget it, and Logos over here, just look at it, hogwash, it’s a Rhema Logos God. Don’t you ever forget it. The prophet showed, and I can take my concordance right – do you want to waste the time? Let’s take my concordance right now, and I’ll show you it’s a Rhema Logos God. It’s interchangeable. Ha! Bro. Branham even said, “This is God in print.” Now you got a Rhema Logos print. I’ll buy that, no problem, I like it. 44. So here’s Pentecost, they’ve completely left! Now watch! He said, “This is the Pentecostal church, I’m going to stand at the door and knock! And if any man hear My voice and thereby hearing open the door, why I’ll certainly come in and sup with him and he with Me. We’ll become conversational!” Then after it’s all over, God’s going to listen in and see if the guy kept up the conversation. Malachi 3rd chapter. You’re going to find that most didn’t. Now they cannot listen! Because there’s no way they’re going to believe He’s standing at their door knocking when they’re convinced that they’re rich, increased in goods and don’t need anything. When the prophet came by with ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’ it merely confirmed that they had was right, “Hey we just need more, hallelujah, I’m glad he came and showed us.” Where are they today? Where’s the big tents? Where’s this? Where’s that? Where are the Roberts? Where’s the Hicks? I think he’s dead. …?... Jackson died a long time ago. Cole, the same thing. I think Erickson’s dead also. Where’s Osborne? Over in France vegetating I suppose, I don’t know, living on lots of money, having a great time, who knows what they’re doing. They’re the guys had all the answers. They didn’t have it. They didn’t know that the One at the door was the Judge and corrective! They didn’t know the Bible said, “Let us call upon God and see if He’ll come and leave a curse or a blessing.” He can’t come without both. You know why? Because He comes with the Word. And the Word is a Judge. 45. Now I’m looking at this the best I can to let you know what I see here, and what Bro. Branham is saying about these old carriers and the present chaff which is now a carrier and cannot recognize it. Let me tell you something, the Catholic church cannot recognize it was a carrier, though a carrier to death. The Lutherans cannot recognize they were a carrier, the Methodist cannot realize they were a carrier, the Pentecost cannot realize they were a carrier, and some of us do not realize today that we are carriers! “Well bless God; I hope I’m one of them. Yeah, yeah, I just hope I’m one of them.” Huh? Think it over. Think it over with our testimony this morning. Oh get kind of scared to say no one but us has life if we have the right revelation. Bro. Branham stood there and he said, “If we’re not Bride, there’s a Bride out there somewhere, and by the grace of God I won’t stand in her way.” He stood there and he said positively, he said, “No message outside of this will come to life.” And he said, “If He cast me into hell I’ll still love Him.” Why? Well he said, “You that love this message how can you not help love each other?” 46. And the Bible said, “How can you love God if you don’t love each other? God not having been seen by you and these lovely people having been seen by you, now that you see these lovely people and love them, then you love God.” Now we’re getting someplace. But they got the order all reversed and mixed up. And we come along and preach the truth, “Oh Lee Vayle, that’s his spirit, oh my, oh I know he’s got some doctrine, oh my that spirit, he preaches in hate.” Well I’m not as bad as David. He said he hated the enemies of God with a perfect hatred. I don’t say they’re enemies, but that old boy – I’m not going to take something from Scripture and try to change it, but the thing is this, why should I love what God has condemned? You know something? God condemns a man off the Word a million times more than the man that commits adultery. You say, “I don’t believe it.” You don’t believe your Bible, because David committed adultery under conditions that I’m going to tell you even an unthinkable heathen shouldn’t do. Just think that one over. 47. [Now,] [88] If you say, "I'm Pentecost." That don't mean anything more to God than if you were a Roman Catholic, or a Jew, whatever you might be. You've got to be born (again by) that Life (see?) that came through that carrier there... In other words you’ve got to remember Bro. Branham’s teaching justification, sanctification, follow what he’s saying, the life coming up, that same life coming up. Don’t look back and say, “Oh what a great guy Luther was, oh what a time, what a man, look what he did. Oh and that Wesley, man can you believe about Wesley, oh yeah, yeah.” Come on; just keep coming right to William Branham and ourselves. It’s that same life. It’s coming up now to the last stage, where the child is going to face the Father, the life within is going to face the Life Giver, the great Life. We’re already facing the Word by revelation given where the life is, piling Word upon Word, there is no way that this Bride will not come to full gestation and see God, she’s already seen Him face to face by manifestation and revelation, and she’s going to see Him immortalized, incarnate, and be joined to Him at the Wedding Supper. [88] You've got to be born (again by) that Life that came up through that carrier there... Don't stay in the stalk; don't stay in the (shuck, he said don’t stay in the) seed; (In other words, what it’s talking about, shuck that looks like a seed.) go right on out to the perfect part. (See?) 48. Now come by the Bible way. Keep building up, building up, building up. [89] Now, remember, in every reformation we've had in all those Lutherans and so forth, three years they organized. (That’s what he said, I believe it.) That's right. Every revival brought an organization in three years. Think how long this has been going on: twenty some-thing years and no organization! (Can’t. See?) Now, you know why? In three years you see there again they go to the fourth year. They never got to the fourth year where they got to the place of continence, dedicated virginity. We’re dedicated to virginity. This morning we say where would we go? You know I’ve climbed on the trunk of a tree and sawed the branch off behind me. And if God doesn’t keep me from going to kerplunk, the alligators are going to get me, because I’ve put my limb over the River Nile where the alligator is. And if the branch doesn’t break I’ve got a hangman’s noose and the shot gun handy to make sure that I ain’t going to live. Because who wants to live if this isn’t it, where are you going to go? 49. See people can’t understand my preaching. They want somewhere to turn. I’ve done turned! Now the point is: does He want me? I want Him but does He want me? Now …?... right there. Right there. Right there. “Well Bro. Vayle, if you want Him, you can come.” Is that a fact? Give me some Scripture. “Blessed is the man whom Thou chooses and causes to approach unto Thee.” Not blessed is a man who chooses Thee and wants to come. I’ve had some weird looking women wanting to marry me, but I picked the one I wanted. Pbbt, good heavens. People can’t even figure that out. You think God isn’t fussy? Well hallelujah. So okay. Never could come to temperance, continence, virginity. [89] Laying out there now, it's got to lie in the presence of the sun to ripen into glorious grain like the One that went into the first. The original. We’ve got to have Ephesians again. And this time there’s no marking off; it’s going right up to the full stature. And Headship is already here, so therefore Headship will bring forth the stature! Come on! I’ll prove it to you! The child doesn’t have any genes but what comes from his parentage! Then all right, we already got the genes that God wants us to have. You say, “Just a minute, there’s a male and female…” Just a minute you buddy! Eve came from Adam! Bro. Branham said, “You were in your father, and your mother was too, and it’s all of God.” 50. Oh I love the prophet, he could give those sinkers, believe me, he fed the people actually cake donuts and they thought they were concrete sinkers. Man, I’m glad I got the teeth and the taste that love the donuts the prophet handed, and they aren’t concrete either. They just put that way to kind of make you whether you want it bad enough or not. Now he said, “Lie in the presence of the sun.” Some wag in this message said, “He didn’t say lay in the presence and rot.” Now I know he didn’t say it. He said it. You said it, whoever you were said it. Why didn’t he just listen what the prophet said? “Lie in the presence of the sun.” What does the wheat do? Lies in the presence of sun. Dries out. Lets the shuck break away. Gets ready for the pounding of the patience, gets ready for the garner. Going to take away. Yep. 51. You know they tell me today, and I understand somebody else claims this, but I don’t know, I understand there’s only one true unhybridized wheat in the whole world anymore, it’s called kamut and they found it somewhere way over in the east. And it doesn’t look like the rest of the wheat; it’s a pretty big full wheat with a kind of nice hump on it. And it’s a good tasting wheat. You grind it and dip your finger in, tastes kind of good, like a nut like flavor. Yeah. Someone says they’ve got another original – I don’t know that I can believe that. I could tell you one thing, when it comes to this Message there’s only one original. There’s always somebody trying to fool you and tell you they got the real thing. Phooey, we’ve got the real thing and now the thing is do we believe it? Do we let the Word now work within us? That’s the great gift Bro. Branham had. That’s the gift we all have this morning, lying in the sun and ...?... what’s in it, let it begin to work, fully committed to it. And the first thing you commit is your soul! Yeah. Other things follow that, brother/sister, because the Bible said, “Fear Him Who can destroy body and soul in hell.” My body will follow my soul. [89] …lie in the presence of the sun to ripen into the glorious grain like the One that went into the first. The real church that went down first; (See? Ephesus, and Ephesus got to repeat.) It's coming right back up through the stalk to come out another church. (But now it’s another Ephesus, Bro. Branham said so.) When the combines come to pick it up, the Life that went down in Luther, the Life that went down in the Methodism, the Life that went down in the Pentecostalism will come into the grain, and it'll go right into the grain and go out, forming the perfect Body of Jesus Christ. 52. In other words, this predestinated Bride is going to be there, not one missing. Not one added. And he talks about the wedding garment later on. [90] Just like the sun comes up with the morning. You can't look at nature but it testifies to God. You don't need even the Bible to know there's a God. The little sun born a little weak baby. About 7 o'clock, goes, off to start school; 10 or 11 o'clock it's out. Twelve o'clock in its strength; three in the afternoon it's getting old. Five or six o'clock in the afternoon getting stoop-shouldered, it dies. Is that the end? No! It resurrects again the next morning--life, death, burial, resurrection. [91] Look at the leaves come on the tree. It comes up a good, fine leaf, brings shade, puts out its fruit. First thing you know autumn comes, strikes with death, runs down through the roots into the ground again. Is that the end of it? (No.) Next spring she comes right back again to testify. Oh, that's perpetual life, but brother, sister, we’ve got Eternal Life. In other words, we don’t have transmigration of souls or reincarnation, all that hogwash, forget it. We have eternal life, a life that never had a beginning, and never had an end. Now keep that in your mind, we won’t get to that today, but keep that in your mind. [91] …we’ve got Eternal Life. We've got Eternal Life through this great One who came, and is gone, and is able to prepare us a body. And these growing pains we feel, like you women feel condemned of what you do, you men that hang onto seminary doctrines and so forth, and all you want to say, "I recite this creed; I do this,"... 53. Now listen, let’s face this, Bro. Branham hit the women, but he hit the men. Now where did these women get these lousy clothes from? Where did they get all this junk they’re doing? They got it from their husband’s seminary creeds and doctrines, because the man is the head of the woman. And a woman doesn’t teach, the man teaches. And when the man lets her get this far, she becomes the teacher, then she leads him around by the nose. Oh he liked it. Like they asked old Gus Hall, he’s the father of Tony Hall, you know, what’s he? A congressman, yeah. And old Gus, they asked about the women with the miniskirts. Well he winked his eye, he said he liked it. Well, Tony claims he’s born again, so I’m sure he couldn’t like miniskirts, he sure must hate peddle pushers, and he must abominate slacks, but I doubt very much. I imagine his wife cuts her hair and runs around like all the rest of do, not condemning them, just saying hey, I don’t think his Christianity’s anything we want or interested in. You say, “Maybe a foolish virgin.” Hey I got no problem with that, I’m not even interested. You know. That’s like having two wives, you got one ugly one you keep in the corner somewhere, and the other one you parade out in public. I ain’t got two wives, I parade mine in the corner and out of the corner. So, who wants women – don’t worry about foolish virgin and this and that and the other thing, forget it, I’m not interested. I’m not interested. I’m interested in me and Bride, you and Bride, see? 54. See here: [91] …we’ve got Eternal Life. We've got Eternal Life through this great One who came, and is gone, and is able to prepare us a body. (Now notice he’s going to back to the individual, and the individual make members of the Bride of Christ, and individually have all their own homes and make a beautiful collective city.) And these growing pains we feel, like you women feel condemned what you do, and men that hang onto a seminary doctrines… (recite this, that.) But there's something right down here when you see the eyes of the blind opened, and the deaf (hear it. Now what if they don’t?) all these things that's promised; see the Word (of God) preached in Its power, (now he’s talking vindication,) see a prostitute off the street meet a lady… What’s he talking about? Women in shorts, miniskirts, slacks. Prostitutes. Hmm? Slit your skirts and don’t put a …?... in there. Be real snaky, like you go to these restaurants and the women the big slit up here. And notice how they do it? They sneak it around toward the crotch, don’t they? Take a good peek. Sleazebags! Where is the old gals that used to take axes and chop down the beer kegs? Why they’re out there in miniskirts! Or no skirt at all. What about the back? That’s bigger perversion in her. [91] See a drunkard come out of there and be a real saint of God. (What kind of a drunkard? Drunk on the world and things like that, not just booze. Not just a woman lying in bed with any man off the street.) Oh, my. See, there's something, a life in there. And you begin to feel. "Well, maybe I ought not to do that." (He’s talking about the dress code now and these things.) But see, what is it, it's something your body yonder is a-needing. Come on. But God's got the vitamins right in Here (that’s the Word,) every bit of that body. Jesus has gone to prepare the place in the bosom of God. Yes, sir. A little germ, a son of God, a little son or daughter of God. 55. Now what’s he telling you here? He’s telling you right here that you hear this Word and something strikes you that you know that your dress is wrong, or you hear something about it, say, “Hey, just a minute, I better go into this. Don’t let this get over my head, there’s something here for me.” He said, “There’s something in you letting you know that you’ve got that temple over there, that body over there waiting for you, and if that doesn’t strike you then you don’t have it!” “Well bless God, Bro –” don’t Bro. Vayle me, I read a vindicated man’s Word! Say, “Well you’re just interpreting!” I am not! I’m telling you what he said right here! Because that’s what he’s talking about. 56. Now notice: [91] (He’s) gone to prepare a place in the bosom of God. Where is Jesus? He’s in the bosom! What does the word ‘bosom’ mean? It means ‘a harbor’, thoroughly protected, surrounded by God! Is it too much to change your dress for that sisters this morning? Is it too much to call off the sneering, “I’ll tell my wife and kids how to dress.” If that’s all I’m asking, I’m asking tiddlywinks and you’re giving nothing. That’s all. So ended the session. Not a sour note. If that’s all it costs me and that’s all it cost Israel, a few pots and pans and the blood of a goat and they turned it all down, God have pity; can’t we see it’s the Word that counts? It’s all that’s required of the Bride to put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Word by Word, and she doesn’t even …?..., starts right here and goes down here, He doesn’t ask for miracles, signs and wonders and walking on water, and doing the impossible, just listening and believing and letting the Word have right of way. Let’s rise and be dismissed. Heavenly Father, what a privilege it is to be in Your house Lord, to come together on a Word that’s a living Word of Almighty God, that’s been vindicated, proven, and strikes us in our heart till we know it is right, and in our minds it says there’s no place to go, hook, line, sinker I’m stuck, in a belly of the whale, seaweed around my head and I’ll die unless the whale comes to the beach. I feel this morning that’s the way a Bride is, she’s stuck right down there in the belly of the whale as it were. Many people don’t find it too pleasant, but the whale got Jonah where he’s supposed to go, and Lord we know we may have our whale, we may have our ark, and I don’t believe the ark was the most beautiful smelling thing under high heaven either. Every exit and every transit in the exit may cause a problem but thank God for the transit and the exit, getting out of the pest house, getting into the glorified realms of our God. We bless Your Name this morning, and thank You from the bottom of our hearts for Your wonderful, wonderful Word this morning, and we’re piling it Word upon Word, God we’re believing it, and that Word is going to do what the prophet said, and this morning we’re more full of the Holy Ghost than we were last Wednesday, and Sunday and Saturday night. And if we come together Wednesday, even more full of the Holy Ghost again, more and more as Word upon Word is piled. And the repetition thereof, because we know a fruit tree can have thousands of one kind of apples, and a peach tree have thousands of one kind of peaches, and down the line, and Lord we know Your Word great fruit tree of twelve wonderful fruits and twelve seasons of thousands of them coming forth, just beautiful panoply of what is ours this morning; feeding on the living Word, the body Word of the Lord Jesus Christ. Same Word that came into flesh, same Word coming again. Hallelujah. Ever more Lord let us eat of the Tree of Life before us, in Your kingdom here upon earth until we get translated. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be all power, honor, and glory through Jesus Christ our blessed Lord. Amen. ‘Take the Name of Jesus with you.’