Future Home #12

Redemption; Sanctifying Process

June 5, 1988

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we’re grateful that You’re here in
our midst by the Holy Spirit, dealing with each one of us. And we pray
also internally, having made, we trust, Your abode within us, we might
be directed by Him whom to know Life Eternal. We pray You’ll help us
in these studies that we might at this time come to the place where all
these things are possible. They’re not just here, Lord, and they’re
not just commands, not just the dictum that we have to be looking
at—we’re judged by it—but the very power of God giving us the
strength, the ability, to live the lives we ought to live. We pray for
further sanctification this morning by the ministering of every Word to
our minds and by the power of God in faith to take that same Word, Lord,
and see that it comes forth in lives that are dedicated to You.

	Help us to be very conscious of the efforts that we need to set forth
in this hour, and not shun them, and not try to take another course but
to follow along with what You have said and the prescribed manner in
which we are to follow. We know we have grace for it this morning,
because You are the God of Peace and Grace and Love and Faith—all
these things we have in You. So, we know that whatever we hear, if
it’s Your Word, it’s Your Life, that it can come forth in these
lives here in this hour, and all the more so in this last great day of
enrichment when You are here with Your own Presence, giving the great
Light of all Ages.

	Bless each one, Lord. May there not be one sick amongst us, not one
feeble one, by the time the service is over. We hope that can be true.
And we’re believing to the end that that will be true, my God, some
day, and it could be this very day itself. So, lead and guide us into
all truth. We’ll give you the praise in Jesus’ Name. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now, we’re in lesson number twelve on “The Future Home of the
Earthly Bride and the Heavenly Bride Groom”. And, of course, you know
that this message, then, is concerning New Jerusalem itself as to what
it is, what it contains, where it is, and other great information
pertinent to it. Now, in this Message, “The Future Home”, Bro.
Branham has continuously taught that the entire New Jerusalem, that is,
the City itself and all its inhabitants and also all other forms of
life—because there’ll be animals and birds there, and there’ll be,
you know, the various things in the air, in the atmosphere (There’ll
be planet and stars and all those things.)—that all forms, even the
earth’s crust, the very atmosphere, are the end products of redemption
wrought by God and the Lamb. 

	In other words we are looking at God’s ultimate as concerning
redemption. Now, you notice I say “as to God’s ultimate concerning
redemption,” because I wouldn’t know if there have been other things
that God has done before man was set upon earth. We know that there were
evidently angels and cherubim, archangels. And we know that some of them
became disobedient (Many of them did.) and there was a war in Heaven.
Michael prevailed, which was Christ, of course, in an angelic form, an
archangel form. And we don’t know, from what we have read so far in
the Scripture, what all lies ahead after the Kingdom is handed back to
the Father, and He, then, is clothed in a Pillar of Fire above the
Throne, where the Lamb sits in this New Jerusalem.

2.	But you’ll notice that I said that this is the end product or the
ultimate wrought by the process of redemption by God and His Lamb,
because everything we’re talking about has the status of redemption.
It’s a redeemed status. And how far that redeemed status goes beyond
the original, no one can have even a guess, except, I think, as Bro.
Branham put it, that “If you could suddenly be changed from an
animal…” perhaps the lowest mentality, if you want to call it that,
or intelligence or knowing “and then, suddenly, become a person, would
you ever want to go back to that form again?” The answer, of course,
is ‘No’. 

	Then, you begin to realize how that you come from the imperfect and
very minor, in the sense of a greatness or largeness or quantity of that
little life that we have from Christ, into the great sea of divine
omnipotence and omniscience; then, you see you get a little
understanding or comparison. And at this particular point there isn’t
one of us who has even the least idea of the greatness of the complete
redemption of God. Now we have a little understanding—very little. All
of that is clouded by the doubts and fears that are in human nature and
all around about us. But, when that’s all gone, and we’re going to
find perfection working within the realms of perfection, everything
harmonious and wonderful, you’ll say, “How in the world could this
be?” 

	So, we’re looking at what? The study that Bro. Branham brought us is:
the end result or the ultimate of redemption. And, of course, that
redemption was threefold: justification, sanctification, and the
cleansing of the Holy Ghost in order to bring us to the place where God
could inhabit the human vessel.

3.	Now, concerning this great redemption of which brings the New
Jerusalem and what pertains to it—and that pertaining to it is the
ultimate—only that which was originally of God and in harmony with God
and His divine government will be there. That’s right. In other words
everything that was in the thinking and the planning of Almighty God is
going to be there. And it will have His divine government in a way that
it hasn’t had it before. Because, all along we’ve had divine
government; but the tragic thing is, it’s something like getting a
good President in the United States, and he’s got a bunch of cabinet
members that aren’t worth a plugged nickel. God’s got to put up with
the people the same as the President is a crony to those people. 

	And now we got ‘cronyism’ where it looks like Reagan’s having a
problem with Ed Meese. And, if either one was sincere concerning the
country and not cronies, Ed Meese would walk off the scene. 

	You say, “Well, if the man is under a cloud of suspicion, but he’s
a good man, why should he walk off?” 

	Well, walk off until he proves he’s not under a cloud of suspicion. 

	God’s got the same problem. He hasn’t got cronies, but He’s God
of the universe. Nebuchadnezzar saw that. He found that out for himself.
God is sovereign, but He’s got problems on the grounds of what He’s
dealing with. But, of course, all that’s necessary for the welfare and
the training of us as we march up higher.

4.	Everything else but what was in God’s original thinking is going to
be annihilated—just pure and simple. See? Where did those seeds come
from that were in the earth when the earth brought forth the tares and
the thorns, and the briars and the sun became unbearably hot, and no
longer was the ground watered by a mist rising up? Well, where’d all
that come from? Well, that didn’t come from God’s original plan. So,
you see, that’s all got to go. Now, it will be a recreated earth and
heaven that will be the resting place of God and His people—the
resting place in the sense of an absolute definitive
location—everybody has arrived; there is no further movement from it.
If there would be a movement, it would only be that movement which is
already coming out of it ...would be a higher and higher status.

5.	Why the earth will be redeemed by God is no longer any mystery,
because the prophet told us that God’s Own Body, like ours, came out
of the dust. Now that’s something you won’t find the theologians
tell you; but nonetheless, they might have thought of it in a certain
sense of the word; because, had they really thought of it, (And no doubt
they did in a certain way.) they had to know that, when Mary was the
chemical factory, (you might say the factory or the incubator that
brought forth Christ) she would have to use in her body the same
chemical processes that would be used in any woman’s body, which would
take the elements that are in the earth here. See? And then, they’re
taken from the earth, and they go into plants and what-have-you, because
they can take the inorganic and convert it to an organic and the human
body, then, because of that life… That life is like the Creator
Himself, and it has a real creative power there that causes those
elements there to come together in a figure. 

	So therefore, this earth supplied God with a body. So, you can see
right there why God, then, would redeem the entire earth, because, as
Bro. Branham said, “He took a part of the earth and made His Own Body.
So, it’s no mystery why God redeems the earth, for the prophet told us
that God’s Own Body, like ours, came out of the dust.” So therefore,
the Blood fell on the earth to claim it, and the Holy Ghost fire
cleanses it, so that God and His people can now live on it.

6.	“It will be a race of second Adams.” And, as I mentioned
Wednesday, that was a new thought to me. I like it very much. We usually
think of Christ as the second Adam. The theologians use Adam’s federal
headship as “all are born in the lineage of Adam”, but that really
isn’t true, because Cain was not in the lineage of Adam. He was ‘of
that wicked one’, and he was a son of the serpent, as all Israel knows
today. It’s right in their books. The Gentiles are so blind, they
don’t know their left hand from their right. But the Hebrews, they all
know, as in the time of Christ, that Eve and the serpent copulated and
brought forth Cain. And there’s where the giants came from, the men of
renown, the smart ones, the big ones, the hunters, the fighters, the
gruesome ones—because they’re the gruesome ones. They’re the rough
ones. They all came from that; they never came from Adam.

7.	But there’s going to be now, as the Scripture says, “As in Adam
all die, even so in Christ all are made alive.” If you were in Adam,
you have the guarantee of eternal Life—either wise or foolish virgin,
in the New Jerusalem or bringing your glory into it. You’ve got a
part, because they’re going to be redeemed. But now... I like what
Bro. Branham said, “Like a second Adam—as God created from the dust.
And just think... from the earth and what lay in there—those abstract
inorganic minerals, everything in there to make a body—God, by His
great power will now create again.” And, I believe, He will literally
bring back what you and I and everything ever was in the flesh out of
the earth by the plan of God. God’s going to create again. That’s
like a second Adam. “Create again.” I like that thought. I like it
better than the theologians’. It makes sense. It’s very beautiful.
See? It will be a race of second Adams as we all come back recreated
from the elements of the earth. Not one hair from the elect heads will
be lost. God will raise it all up. Like Bro. Branham’s little joke:
His wife said, “Bill, you’re losing your hair.” 

	And he said, “I haven’t lost a-one.” 

	Well, she said, “Then, pray tell me, where they are.” 

	He said, “Wherever they were before I got ‘em.”

8.	“You came from the dust; you go back to the dust. I’m going to
get you out of it again.” And you know, I like the fact that the Bible
speaks of ‘every hair’, because hair is one of the toughest things
to destroy. You know the Hindu... (I don’t want to rattle on this
morning. You know, I want to get to the Word here.) But the Hindu
philosophers, they’ve got these fakirs, you know; they got a crazy
idea that they can become so mystical and so God-identified by their
breathing up this nostril, breathing up that nostril and, you know,
saying the secret word ‘ommm’ and stuff like that, and concentrating
on the middle of their nose up here, until they think nothing. (That’s
what they do think, ‘nothing’, too.) And pretty soon now, after all
these years of meditation and consecration and solidification, (I could
keep going on and on.) [Bro. Vayle laughs.]—and finally now, they’re
at a place where they can be put into a rock tomb. So, they gather all
the hair they can gather, and they put it in this rock tomb. Then, they
seal the tomb up. And a smart wise man, knowing the power and presence
of the great ‘Ommm’ will come one day and with a little needle (a
little bit) he will drill into that rock tomb, let a little air in
there, a little more in there, and then, pretty soon they’ll cut the
door open, and here will step out old grandpa—the great fakir. Well, I
want to tell you, that’s the biggest fake message I’ve ever heard in
my life.

9.	Yeh, they all got their ideas. He’s lined it with hair because, you
see, hair is indestructible, literally. So, when God says, “You
haven’t lost a hair of your head. I’ve got it somewhere waiting for
you,” He’s telling you, basically, “You are indestructible!” You
don’t need to worry about being annihilated. Now He never said that
about the Pharisees and Scribes. Serpent seed, that’s the same as dog
hair. I don’t want to be vulgar. Let’s face it; he’s an animal.
God didn’t say anything about dog hair. He didn’t say anything about
any hair except human hair. See? These philosophers, they understand a
little bit. Don’t ever sell them short on a little bit, but just make
sure it’s a little bit. All right.

10.	On page 61, Bro. Branham, teaching on this great and tremendous
eternal City, which won’t be Rome… They call themselves the eternal
city. I can’t wait for the bombs to drop, till I find out whether it
is or not. We’re going to get ours, don’t worry. I’m not
blood-thirsty; it’s just the truth. You open your mouth and come
against God, God’ll shut your mouth, unless you open your mouth with
God on what God said, and you’re in agreement. Nebuchadnezzar exalted
himself, and he was the head of gold. Nobody else ever has or ever will
touch him, because now it’s from the feet ‘up’ until the Head,
Himself, comes. Four kingdoms from the head down to the dust of the
feet, and they can’t get along, because it’s iron mixed with clay.
Now the Head’s here in the form of the Holy Ghost. And one day the
Church will rise to meet Jesus and come back and take the world over.
All right.

11.	Bro. Branham, before we get to paragraph 283, mentions:

[281]  [paraphrased]…the former things all having passed away by this
new and different order of Almighty God, coming upon the earth; heavens
and earth have embraced just as when the dove came down upon that part
of the earth which was Jesus the Christ—he was…the earth; he was
man, ‘earth’,—God coming from that one little Life germ by
creative power.

	Now, remember; God is not creating God. Nobody ever created God. God
was. He is Creator. So, he’s saying here that, “God took on this
form by an act of creation which was to create an egg and a sperm in the
womb of Mary and infuse it with His Own Life.”  It’s just the same
as conception. As the male sperm, through sexual intercourse, can cause
an infusion of life to the egg and bring forth a child, that’s exactly
why God is a husband and has a Bride. That’s why He marries a Bride.
And that’s how He has children. Marriage is a type of the whole thing.
And, remember; everything here speaks of God, and you go back to the
original. And, remember; the original was, “Be fruitful and
multiply.” So, all right.

12.	Now, that Life... Now, let’s look at that a minute. God is Life,
Holy Spirit. And He took a little teeny bit of Himself, bringing about
an infusion that was able—the Life being able—to take what was
allowable to fuse into a body. That did not constitute God per se, as
though God were now entirely drained, because the same body that came
forth from Mary stood in the river Jordan thirty years later, and the
entirety of God came down and indwelt Him. 

	So, what I’m trying to show you is this: When Bro. Branham said,
“The Life that was in the Blood, the sanctifying Blood that redeemed
and sanctified the earth at that particular time setting it apart from
God,” so that no matter what judgment would ever come upon it, would
finally be reconciled and perfect with God one more time in the place it
should be. All right.

	Now, that Blood fell upon the earth, but Jesus said, “I return to
God. Into Thy hands, O God, I commend my Spirit.” He said, “I came
from God, and I go back.” And here’s what you’re looking at, then:
That same Life that went back is the same Life that comes down upon you
and me. 

	You don’t get all of God; nobody ever did get all of God. The closest
anybody comes to that is a prophet. If you had all of God, you’d be
Jesus Christ. That’s when Bro. Branham said, “The token of this day
is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. And I make a categorical statement: if
you say you have the Token, you’re a liar. The Token is with the
Church, and we have a part of It.  If anybody says, “I have the Token,
the Lord Jesus Christ,” I want you to come up here and tell us all
about it. Then, if you prove it, I’ll likely become an idolater. No, I
couldn’t believe that, you see, no matter what you did. There’s no
way. Even with Moses… When God filled Moses… And Paul says that God
was in the prophets—it was transitory; it was ephemeral. When God was
in Moses, the Pillar of Fire inside of Moses, and he’s speaking the
Word of God, he was God to the people. But the minute That left him, he
was Moses again... For they (prophets) could make some pretty rough
blunders. When God was in them, there’s no blunders a person could
make, because God had charge of the vessel. 

13.	Now he said: [Page 61]

[281]	...the Blood dripped upon the earth to claim it.

	Now, down here at paragraph 283, after the resurrection, after the
White Throne, complete restoration, ready for its new place.

[283]	...God comes down to reside upon the earth which He is a part of
it—His Own Body.

	Now he’s talking about God in the form of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Remember, God disincarnated Himself in the Garden of Gethsemane. And
there is no place, in my understanding, where He reincarnates Himself
until the Wedding Supper. As Bro. Branham said, “That Spirit that’s
in the midst of us now, when He becomes incarnate to us, we’ll crown
Him King of kings and Lord of lords. That will be the son of David, the
son of God, the son of man, the Lily of the Valley, the Rose of Sharon,
the Altogether Lovely, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the
Counselor, the Prince of Peace,” Elohim-Jehovah, El Elah—you name
it—every one. All right.

14.	[283]	...He raised it, that’s the body, for our justification, and
we’re justified—by believing that and accepting that.

	That’s true; he was. If God hadn’t raised him, you and I wouldn’t
be justified. It would’ve meant that the Sacrifice was not acceptable.
And, if the Sacrifice is not acceptable, you’re like Cain: You’re
finished. You’re a wanderer, you’re a roamer, you’re out there
somewhere in a never-never land. That’s what happens when people die;
they leave here and they go to a weird…something between light and
dark, never-never land. The saint of God doesn’t do that. Why, Paul
said, “I’m just so glad to get out of here and be with Christ,” in
a certain way—out of this world. And he said, “There’s a
spirit-body waiting for me.” You don’t have that, never-never land
to go through, if you’re a child of God. All right. 

15.	Now:

[283]	...In the type, Jesus becomes man God ...Now, I went over this
last night to see if this was written down right. It is. And this is a
tough one…In the type, Jesus becomes man God, are
predistinated…takes his place to redeem us; to make all these things
possible. Now, what in the world is he talking about? All right. Let’s
just go back and read again.

[284]  …God comes down to reside upon the earth, which He is a part of
it—His Own Body.

	So therefore, he’s talking about the earth being redeemed and the
earth giving a part to the body of God, Himself, which it was. So, now
he’s talking about… And he says about this body being raised up in
justification. So, he’s setting a type forth here. And, as I
understand this type, he is simply saying here that, “As God raised up
Jesus Christ, so He raises up this earth.” And the raising up of Jesus
in his perfections, the earth will also be raised up in its perfections.


	Now, he said, “What do you want out of Jesus? Tell me.”

	 “Oh,” you say, “I want this and that...” 

	“If that’s according to the Word of God, you’ve got it. What do
you want out of the earth? You get identical what you got out of Jesus.
The same God that raised up Jesus with the totality of perfection, (Now,
understand what I’m saying.) raises up the earth again with the
totality of perfection. Do you see where the type lies? Now, that’s
what I understand here. You understand anything you want, and we’ll
compare. But I am not going to listen to you, because I’m quite sure
I’m right.

	Now, basically, as he is talking about an earth body… Right. Well, if
God raises up the body, and it’s going to be like Jesus, what kind of
an earth is He going to raise up to put us on? See? That’s what he’s
saying in plain English, I’m quite sure.

16.	[284]	Notice, outside of its beautiful walls of this City... Now,
have you got the City right in your mind and understand it? ...It’s a
holy mountain. And he quotes: “Nothing shall hurt or destroy in all my
holy Mountain, saith the Lord.”

	So, New Jerusalem… Nothing will ever hurt or destroy. That’s why
the lion will eat straw like an ox. A child can poke his finger down a
hole where the asp is... come up, smell the finger, look the kid in the
eye, pat him on the head and go on his way. 

	Now you know they’ve got a bad situation in Africa. My good friend,
Doc [Jeffers] (He’s dead now, but he) tells me that in Africa, “I
don’t know how they don’t seem to learn over there many times.” He
was in Nigeria, I guess. 

	And he said, “You know they realize they can reach in a hole and
maybe pull out a rabbit or some little animal, and they can eat it. But
(he said) they’ll reach in there, and a snake will grab ‘em. And
they’ll die with the snake bite.” 

	Now I don’t know why they don’t seem... I’m not saying it’s any
bad culture they’ve got, but he bewailed the fact that they never seem
to learn: “Don’t poke your finger in the hole; poke a stick in the
hole.” See? Of course they figured that, if they reached in and
grabbed the animal, that he couldn’t get by. But, if you poke your
finger in there, and it’s a snake, you won’t get by either.

17.	But, what I’m trying to show you here now, see, (Now the Holy City
and the Holy Mountain are one and the same; not two different things. He
hasn’t got a Holy City over here and a Holy Mountain over there.) is
that nothing hurts in either one. He’s telling you, It’s Mount Zion
upon which the pyramidal City sets. See? But it’s hollow inside, kinda
like you know, just a little bit so it fits down over the top—solid
gold with water bringing forth fruit? My! That’s interesting. I’ve
heard of gold shots curing arthritis, but didn’t know it could do
this. Well, maybe that’s just the streets; we’ve got a lot of good
earth there, round about it.

18.	[284]	Now, the City is not a cube; it’s a mountain. And the width
by the breadth and heighth are equal. See? Fifteen hundred miles this
way; fifteen hundred miles that way; fifteen hundred miles all around. 

	Now it doesn’t mean it’s 1500 miles all around. It’s 6000 miles
all around. It means all around, whichever way you look at it, there’s
1500 miles. You look this a-way; you look that a-way; you look up
a-ways; you go to the top and look down, fifteen hundred; stand at the
bottom and look up, fifteen hundred. Go this way, 1500 miles; go that
way, 1500 miles. It’s all 1500 miles. It’s a pyramid. He said: 

[284]	Now, it’s just a great mountain like the pyramid, and the City
is on the Mountain. Glory! There you are. There’s the paradises of
God. The Light of the world. The perfect Kingdom. Not the seventh day,
the Eternal one. See, not the Millennium, the New Earth.

	Now the reason he’s talking about this so many times is because the
man could feel in his spirit that people didn’t understand the
difference between the one thousand year Millennium and the eternity of
God that’s by and beyond it. So, this is after the Millennium, which
we’re coming to. 

	“While it’s going through the Millennium…” This is paragraph
285, and we’ll stop here to talk a bit of something else. 

19.	Now, listen. 

[285]	While it’s going through the Millennium, (Listen carefully.)
it’s going through its sanctifying process.

	Now, that sounds a little ridiculous on the surface, doesn’t it? A
little, to make you puzzle. 

	“Why would you suggest this is a sanctifying process?” 

	Well, I’m going to tell you something: When God sanctified you, (And
He did it by child-training, to bring you to a certain place.) did He
burn you all up, or did He just rear you up? In other words, by degrees.
So, here is a period of a degree of time of sanctifying the earth by a
series of experiences—just like you and me. So, the earth is getting a
sanctifying period here, but it still must be burnt.

20.	Now, you and I... Let me go and show you something here. Let’s go
to Romans 8.

	Now in Romans 7 this fellow is going through a lot of growing up pains.
He’s having a problem, “What I’d like to do, I don’t do; and
what I don’t want to do, I do.” And he said, “It ends up (he said)
by me following myself instead of following God, (He said) it is a bad
deal. How do I get rid of this body of death? How do I get it? (He said)
I get it by the rebirth, by the Holy Ghost coming in and giving me power
and understanding and the things of God, whereby I begin to walk in the
spirit.” And he says: [Romans 8]

(1)	(Therefore, there is) now no condemnation to them which are in
Christ…, who walk not after the the flesh, but after the Spirit.
(Well, that referring to the word ‘now’ should not be there; should
be: “There is no condemnation to them which are in christ.”)

(2)	For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free
from the law of sin and death.

(3)	For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the
flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for
sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

(4)	That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us.

	And that’s Christ in us, the Righteousness. He is it. That’s the
Holy Ghost. And therefore, we do not walk after the flesh; we war with
the flesh. We don’t walk after; we fight. If you walk after the flesh,
you are no more born-again than an animal. But, if you’ve got a fight
going on, you’ve got a bit of an understanding right there—“You
know, I’m in the right side of the fence.” Now, if you’re a
legalist and not born-again, you could have a worst time than anybody.
My God have pity on your poor soul! Verse 6: [Romans 8]

(6)	For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is
life and peace.

(7)	Because the carnal mind is (the enemy) against God: …it is not
subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. (Now Bro. Branham
preached  on “The Greatest Battle Ever Fought” in order to teach us
how to get the minds under control of the Word and get away from this
nonsense.)

(8)	So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. (Now, watch.)

(9)	But (you) are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be … the
Spirit of God (dwells) in you. (You’re above it. But, who said you
don’t get child-trained? Who said God doesn’t work on you? See, the
sanctifying period? Like the Millennium. You say, “Man! That’s a
long time.” “It sure feels like a long time.” I’d say that when
I was eighteen years old—fifty-five years ago.) Now, if any man have
not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

(10)	(Now, watch.) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of
sin: (I don’t care if you are born-again. You are going to die, or get
changed at the end time. See?) but the Spirit is life because of
righteousness.

	And we have the lovely Spirit of Life in the Millennium, but the
earth’s still got to die. So, during Millennium is a sanctifying
period. Don’t try to figure it; just believe it. Do you follow what
I’m teaching now, though? Do you understand why I say what I’m
saying?—why the prophet said it? 

	That’s all you’ve got to do is understand and say, “Well, I’ll
thank you, Lord. That’s a sanctifying period. I love that; I’ll go
right along with it.” 

	In other words, you’re going to see the earth grow under you, for a
change. How nice! ... I can’t even get the bugs to stay off of my
plants. 

	Why, last year we’d have thought, “Look! The roses won’t die from
last year.” 

	That’s the year they died the worst. Even the men that are expert in
roses—you ask, “What happened?” 

	“I don’t know.” 

	Got no more control, bless God, than I got over a Brahma bull. But
there’s coming a day when you and I watch the earth go through
sanctification. Then, one day we see it die, then come back. 

	You say, “I like that.” 

	I do, too. Let’s be there.

21.	[285]	...See? Which the Blood redeemed the people. It showed its
memorial…All right, here it is. As the Blood redeemed the people, the
earth is redeemed, there’s a memorial going on. And that memorial
we’re taking right now, and so does the earth take its memorial for a
thousand years, because we do drink the wine and eat the bread. The
price is paid for that thousand years. But then, it has to be cleansed,
that’s by fire, just like you were His delegates and you were
cleansed, and you are His delegates of the City—you’re the
delegation. So, if you die or if you live, what difference does it make?

	Now he’s bringing out the fact there, I would say here, he is saying
here, “Look, concerning the world... Concerning you and me, what does
it matter if you and I live or die? Then, what does it matter about the
earth? It just follows the same way as you do.” It’s going to get
there, and we’re going to get there with it. It’s a marvelous thing
we’re coming into.

22.	[285]	...If He comes today or ...comes in a hundred years or a
thousand years, I’ll only rest till my change comes. 

	Remember that fellow that came by here, over on [State Route 47—the
Bellefontaine church location]? He wanted to teach in the church that,
if you died, you weren’t Bride. Now, look; I’ve got a promise to
live. Doesn’t mean I’m not going to die; I just got a promise. So, a
certain dear friend of mine, he believed it; got down with cancer. 

	He lies dying. His son said, “Now Doc, what about it?” 

	He said, “I guess I made a mistake.” 

	God help mistakes coming over this pulpit, brother/sister. You can’t
afford them. See? If you’ve got a man’s mind made up on wrong
teaching, how do you come around and change his mind back? Death! Death,
except...”I show you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall
all be changed.” The body is dead because of sin. You and I have sin
in our mortal bodies. There is no way we’re going to stop from dying.
We have got to die until the day when God says, “We’ve come right
back full circle to the Tree of Life,” and those people can’t die.
That’s the opening of the Seals, Rev.22:10. 

23.	Now, a lot of these things I repeat, and I’ve tried to be like
Bro. Branham, unconsciously, of course, in this respect: Those things
that I know that are so important, I repeat and repeat and repeat and
repeat, until you couldn’t shake me if you tried. You’d have to sit
here as an unbeliever. You’re going to learn it--perfectly.

	You say, “Well, I’m a make-believer.”

	Same difference. Who cares? There are some believers here somewhere.
Yes, there’s a Bride at the end time. Nobody’s going to deceive me.
No way, shape and form.

24.	Now Bro. Branham mentioned this great sanctifying of the earth. Now,
look; the earth’s sanctification begins in total earnest with the
presence of a glorified Bride. Therefore, we ought to possess a
sanctification in this hour due to the presence of God, ready to go to
the Millennium, as I believe no other group has been privileged to enter
into a sanctifying period. Now I’m sticking my neck out. I don’t
know that I can prove that, but I can say this, without fear of
contradiction, that, if the Cornerstone brought forth what It did in the
first age, an Ephesian Church, then the Capstone has got to bring forth,
not just what the Ephesian Church brought forth, but what it failed to
bring forth. See?

25.	Now I’m going to take a little time from this paragraph 285; maybe
just even read it. Bro. Branham speaks of a sanctifying process, and I
would like to think of a sanctifying process going on now in these last
days. (It’s going on in this last day.) And my thoughts come from Bro.
Branham speaking of the kings who continuously walk in the Light of the
Throne and constantly proffer leaves from the Tree of Life, signifying
peace. 

	There is a Peace emanating from the God of Peace. And you’ll notice,
that’s a very strong Scriptural assessment. There is a peace emanating
from the God of Peace in and all through all creation, (That’s New
Jerusalem.) so that the kings and priests constantly manifest this
divine harmony, even to the use of a memorial rite, like Israel who
bound the little boxes (They’re called ‘phylacteries’.) around
their head with a leather thong. Each little box contained a little tiny
scroll. Every time they walked, it went ‘bong, bong, bong, bong,
bong’ reminding them of the Word of God. They bound them upon the
wrists, and I think upon the ankles, so that every time there was a
movement, it would remind them of the Word of God. So, therefore, you
will notice, that these kings, from, and because of, the presence of
God, constantly kept taking a little leaf from the Tree of Life or maybe
trees of Life scattered around, constantly proffering that to each
other—in other words, the true keeping of the Peace.

26.	Now, since we are the final part of that great throng, we are just
one breath away from that wonderful life, because the shadow’s coming
closer and closer to the reality. Therefore, every line of definition
should be clearer than at any other time. That’s right. You can’t
get away from it. See? We’re coming closer to our image, too. This
being so, we ought to be closer to that positive realm than any of the
others that ever lived—the shadow giving way to the real. That’s
right. That’s what’s happening to you and me. Not of works, but of
faith by grace. 

	Who believes in three gods? Can’t maybe explain it; but it’s simple
as A-B-C. God is God and He had a Son—just like we have sons. But He
only had one, like that One. See? That’s why they killed Jesus, when
he told them flat and said, “God is my Father like He’s nobody
else’s Father.” Well, that did it. Every time there is a new light
strikes the earth, the people have to consciously or unconsciously say,
“Nobody has light like we’ve got light!” O God, they hate you for
that! Oh, that’s a cult. Well, I’m called a cult. I’m a
cult—fine! Who cares if I’m a cult? I’m a heretic. That’s fine!
Who cares? Let’s wait and find out what happens. Six thousand years
it’s been going on. No trouble to wait another thousand, if we had to.
I don’t think we will, but we’ll have no trouble waiting.

27.	Therefore, peace should be flowing as a river in our midst, (because
we’re coming to that great realm of peace) until all who enter among
us feel the unique harmony of this peace and love. By now we ought to be
well-versed in manifesting this New Jerusalem ceremonial rite of
proffering peace to all. And I spoke of that on Wednesday—took a bit
on Sunday. [End of the first side of the audio tape.] It ought to be a
part of our nature, for we are being sanctified by the Word of this hour
for this new Kingdom, as no other one was, because we’re going to walk
into it. Each has the Word and is a part of the Word, (the Bride today)
and we can extend our ‘heart’ Word (That’s in here [Bro. Vayle
taps his chest—heart area.]—that source.) as our reason for the
unity and harmony and peace. In other words, if that Word is dwelling in
us richly, and the mark of the Kingdom is one of peace and harmony,
there of necessity will be a harmony amongst the Bride as has not been
formerly; It’ll be greater. 

	Well, you say, “Bro. Vayle, what if a church is not all Bride?” 

	Show me one that is! Somebody’s going to take it up, and going to
stand with it, until the rest of the people begin standing. 

28.	Let’s just take a look at this in John 17. Here’s this great
chapter on sanctification. Now I won’t read it all. The first three
verses: [John 17]

(1)	These words spake Jesus, … lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,
Father, the hour is come, glorify thy son, that thy son also may glorify
thee:

(2)	As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give
eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

(3)	And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true
God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

	It doesn’t say, “That they might know thee, the only true God, who
is Jesus Christ.” Jesus Christ is somebody God sent. Now, if I come
here, I don’t send somebody else; I’m here. When I’m here, I
haven’t sent somebody else. Well, God sent Jesus Christ, then He came
down and indwelt him. He said, “As the Father has sent me, so send I,
you:” in identical manner. Then, read a little further on, to verses
12-17, because we haven’t got time to read it all. [John 17]

(12)	While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those
that thou gavest me (have I) kept, and none of them is lost, but the son
of perdition; that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

(13)	And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that
they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. (My joy in themselves...
See? Essentially one.)

(14)	I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because
they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. (Perfect
identification.)

(15)	I pray not that thou (should) take them out of the world,
but...thou shouldest keep them from the evil (one).

(16)	They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

(17)	Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. (Verse 22)

(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;
... that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them,
as thou hast loved me. (Now, listen; they’re not in the Millennium.
They’re right here in the world. Two kingdoms going on at one
time—God’s Kingdom going on, and this worldly kingdom, because His
Kingdom’s in the hearts of men and women.)

(24)	Father I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me
where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for
thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. (Now, that
prayer’s just going to get answered right now.)

(25)	O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known
thee, and these have known that thou has sent me.

(26)	And I have declared unto them thy name, (surely, absolutely
revealed it and lived it) and will declare it: (make it more and more
evident, manifest) that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in
them, and I in them. (Now he said:) [John 14]

(27)	… my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth (it) unto
you. Let not your heart be troubled (nor) be afraid.

	He lets you know right there, that God, the God of all peace and
harmony... And, remember; Alpha is now Omega. This is the Alpha, and
they could not get it, except in that predestinated measure. See?
Because he said, “That where I am, there they may be.” Now we know
that they’re not in the First Resurrection; those people are still
waiting. They’re in that place in their own spirit-body waiting for
God to come to them and so on. All right. Now, we are in the Omega;
we’re, therefore, closer.

29.	Now, last Wednesday I read from James 3, and I’m going to read
again. (That’s right past the Book of Hebrews. I never seem to be able
to get the pages unstuck. I should read, I guess, James a little bit
more. That would do it.) Let’s start, verse 17 to 18 and read on.
[James 3]

(17)	But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable.
(In other words the knowledge that God brings down here is, first of
all, the pure knowledge of God; then, watch the first fruit–peaceable.
Watch the next.) ...gentle (Watch the next.)...easy to be entreated,
(Watch the next.)...full of mercy... good fruits, without partiality and
(no) hypocrisy. (Not trying to get something from anybody, but just
being a jolly-good fellow; because you are a jolly-good fellow. In other
words the essential nature that has been redeemed will show forth the
qualities that once fell and are now redeemed.)

(18)	And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace (not of them) for
them that make peace. 

30.	Now, let’s read further. [James 4]

(1)	From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence,
even of your lusts that war in your members?

(2)	(You) lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot
obtain; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

(3)	(You) ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may
consume it upon your lusts.

(4)	(You) adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship
of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of
the world is the enemy of God.

	Now I didn’t need to read number four there, really; but, what
you’re looking at here now is not just two people with two different
natures, you are looking at two different people who do two different
things. Notice, they’re both sowing. Now, what I read here, in James,
the first few verses (17-18) in Chapter 3, these are the peacemakers of
whom the Bible said they are the children of God, of whom the Scripture
says, “The meek shall inherit the earth.” This is their
distinguishing characteristic—footsteps of peace—because they follow
in the footsteps of their Master, according to Heb 13:20-21.

(20)	Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord
Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the
everlasting covenant,

(21)	Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you
that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom
be glory for ever and ever.

	Now, what does he call Him? He says, “The God of Peace, that brought
again the Lord Jesus from the dead.” 

31.	Now, why did He bring him again from the dead? To bring peace,
because he’s the Prince of Peace. That’s one of his great redemptive
titles. All right. They follow, then, the Prince of Peace, the God of
Peace. They go not in the way of Cain and do not follow Jas 4:1-3 (which
we read), but rather, they follow Rom 8:6.

(6)	(For) to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

	And, as in Rom14:19:

(19)	Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and
(the) things (even the things) wherewith one may edify another.

	There never was any edification in war. It’s tearing down, tearing
down, tearing down. John F. Kennedy had a wonderful thought in mind when
they organized the ‘Peace Patrol’—this little group that he wanted
to go out there as converts to peace and show what peace could do—to
come extending, not the white feather of surrender, but showing the
palm, advancing with the palm-frond, or the olive leaf, to show that
they wanted to do people good and build them up and not drag them down.
See? And then, he says here: [Romans 14]

(17)	For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and
peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. (You’ll notice that peace comes
after righteousness, because it is from the God of righteousness.)

32.	Now there are many, many things said about peace in the Word of God.
I could take sermon after sermon on it, that’s for sure, because the
Word is full of it. Just to mention some and not read the Scripture...
The Scripture tells, of course, in here concerning peace: It is a state
that we ought to enter into and earnestly strive to maintain. It’s a
state that the Bible tells us to enter into and strive to keep therein.
Paul prays that God will fill us with joy and peace, over here in Rom
15:13.

(13)	Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
that you may abound in hope. (Now, notice; the God of hope fill you with
joy and peace in your believing that you may abound in what He is called
the God of Hope.)

	Look at it again. What’s He called? The God of Hope. What’s He
going to fill us with? Joy and peace through believing, in order that we
may abound—in what? Hope!—the same thing that He’s the God of,
through the power of the Holy Ghost. In other words we may gain what God
in His intrinsic nature desires for us and out of us, and we can have
it. Now, just hold it. Let’s go to Ephesians 1 and really see
something here that should rock us. And this is Paul praying for the
Holy Ghost to come at the end time into the Church: “the wisdom and
revelation and the knowledge of Him.” Watch, verse 18 [Ephesians 1]

(18)	The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that (you) may
know what is the hope of his calling (not our calling, but his
calling)...

	So, what’s the God of hope want from this Church? He wants a
peacefulness, a serenity. He wants peace jumping out of us onto each
other, not our nerves jumping out of us onto each other. 

33.	Remember the woman that had that dream?—she was in white sand and
everything. But, look; she was so afraid for her family and all. He
said, “Seeing it is white sand, the omen is good. But, (he said)
you’re a nervous person, and the people are picking up on your
nerves.” See? Now you keep in mind what I am saying, brother/sister.
Paul told the rowdy Corinthians to live in peace. And, since we believe
God is here, we want to keep always in our minds that He is the God of
Peace. And, remember; we know He is here as Judge, and the Judge is the
Justice of the Peace. What about it? Let it sink in. Do something with
it. He is the God of Peace through our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is here in
the form of the Holy Ghost. The Pauline epistles are full of this
truth—the God of Peace.

34.	Look again to Jas 3:18:

(18)	And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace (for) them that
make peace.

	Now the determination of the believer must be that he or she will make
peace, for reconciliation to God and brother is a must, for in 2 Cor
5:20, we have been reconciled—and reconciliation with the Lord Jesus
Christ, our Savior. And, notice what It says in Mt 5:24.

(24)	Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be
reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. (He also
says:)

(25)	Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with
him; lest at any time the adversary (turn you over to the Judge, Who is
here now: the Justice of the Peace.)

	Now, if you and I don’t make the way of peace amongst ourselves, (The
righteous Judge is here, and He’s guaranteed to fry this earth to
sanctify it.) He could fry you and me, too. And, if you haven’t been
through what I’m talking about, it’s costly! You’re going to get
it. 

	I’ve been through some of it, and I haven’t learned my lessons yet.
Now I speak as a seventy-four year old man (very, very soon), and I can
look all of you in the eye, the same as I am. I told you, “I do not
look down the road; I do not look back; I look now!” I am one
five-fold minister of God in this Message that does not fool with this
Message. What the rest do is their business. But I can tell you, Jack
Bell doesn’t fool, and Bro. Palberg doesn’t fool, and Bro. Roger
Smith doesn’t fool. But there’s a whole lot of them do fool. Look at
it now, with the presence of the Judge, the Justice of the Peace. And He
says, “You will pay! I will put you in a prison of your own making,
and you will not come out, until you’ve paid the uttermost
farthing.”

35.	Let’s go to 1 Pet 3:7. We ought to live in godly fear concerning
these things, because, brother/sister, this is a part of the Message,
because the prophet said it. Now I merely take my cue from the prophet.
He said it was a type.

(7)	Likewise, ...husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge,
(That’s the wife.) giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker
vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your
prayers be not hindered.

	How many peoples’ prayers in a rowdy home are getting anywhere?
Let’s put it this way: Some of you have had a lot of luck to date.
Right! No man and woman can really get down on his and her knees with
the husband and kids the way they should, if a rowdiness is going on;
they’re constant clipping and fussing. Now, keep listening to me,
because... Look, I’m here to talk about these things, because they
need to be talked about. And I’m not saying I’m perfect. Don’t
ever think that. I’m saying this whole church needs it. I can see why
the Bride hasn’t got out of here. What’s He going to do to take us
out of here? 

	Let’s look at the picture. The world is going to have one thousand
years before it burns. It’s a sanctifying process. We are in a
sanctifying process now, missing the fire, in the literal sense of a
dissolution. I don’t know we’ll even realize we’re changed, except
suddenly we’re changed. Bro. Branham said, “A breath goes over
you.” So, there ought to be a quickening, sanctifying process. Now
I’m not fussing; but, if we just lay the thing out, because that’s
what God said. All right. 

36.	Now, looking at Jas 3:18 again (because we’re into it), I find a
very fascinating thought. [James 3]

(18)	The fruit of righteousness is sown (for) them that make peace.

	In other words, when you sow peace deliberately, when you go out of
your way to be peaceful, you hold your temper and your tongue and your
actions and your responses. I call them ‘reactions’. 

	I’m not one of these fine-talking people that want to put
‘responses’… I don’t respond; I react!

	You say, “Well, I thought He is a God of love.” 

	He is. He’s trying to straighten you and me up, because “He that
suffers in the flesh ceases from sin,” and some of us, in fact
ninety-nine percent, if not the whole one hundred percent here—and I
don’t care how old any of you are, sitting here—you and I simply
don’t stop, until we get lambasted or knocked down. What a horrible
thing to say from a pulpit! But, what do you expect out of a world
that’s rich, increased in goods, and doesn’t lack a thing?

	“Bless God! Whether, God, You like it or not, Hallelujah!, we’ve
got you! (Amen!) ...Jesus.” 

	Nonsense! That’s for your Marjos and your Swaggart’s and your
Bakker’s and the whole bunch of them, who only think they know God.
That’s your Pentecostal error. It’s for the Baptists, the
Methodists—the whole bunch are full of it. You tell me one group of
people that believe as we believe. But the world’s condemned—rich,
miserable, and doesn’t even know it. See?

	Now you’ve got to sow. The command is to sow in peace. The constant
objective is live in peace. And we do so by actions and word and a
nature that is conducive to it; because we’ve got that nature in us,
and it’s just waiting to see if we’ll do it. 

37.	Now, here’s where I’m going—and you know it, of
course—it’s over in Galatians 6. And this has a lot to do with
everything. [Galations 6:7-9]

(7)	Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap.

	Now you’ve got to ‘sow in the spirit’, which means, ‘in the
Word of God’. You have to know the hour in which you live and what is
incumbent upon you. But there never was a time when God said, “There
was a certain hour for love and no other hour. And peace… It’s
always the same. But now it’s getting greater.

(8)	For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption
(Christian friend); but he that soweth to the Spirit of the Spirit reap
life everlasting (Christian friend).

(9)	(Christian friend)... be not weary in well doing: for in due season
we shall reap, if we faint not.

(10)	As (many as therefore) have... opportunity, let us do good unto
(everybody) especially unto (those that) are of the household of faith.

	Now, verse 7 is an axiomatic principle. It says, “Be not deceived.
Whatever a man sows, he’s going to reap.” Now, that’s what God
says. God in His universe stands behind It. It cannot be changed. In
verse 8 and 9 It says, “If you sow to the flesh, you’re going to get
corruption; if you sow to the Spirit, you’ll get what’s in the
Spirit.” Like James says, “If you sow in peace, God is going to
return the peace back upon you,” but it’s got to be the
righteousness. Now you’ll notice that Abel sowed in peace. He sowed
righteousness. He obeyed the Word of God which was relevant for his hour
and has always been relevant, because faith is predicated upon a
revelation. And everything, then, contingent to it, is predicated upon
that revealed faith. But, what happened? Cain killed his brother.
That’s what happens. Sow to the spirit, you bring the spirit; sow to
the flesh, you bring the flesh. 

38.	Now I want to make some points here. Listen to me carefully:
Disrupted lives are not exclusively and always the consequences of what
has been perpetrated upon us. You were born in sin because of Adam. Do
you have to sin? If you say you do, you’re a liar. You don’t have to
steal, lie, chisel—I don’t say that you do. I’m just saying, you
know that you don’t have to do it. Do you think that Pharaoh had to
kill those babies? In no wise. That’s why he’s judged. See? There is
no compulsion, my brother/sister, to the end that God demands sin of
anybody. They will do it, because it’s in them. They don’t have to
do it. Disrupted lives are not necessarily lived because of someone
else’s influence, although that’s many times the cases. 

	“Well, my parents... Well, my this, my that...” 

	Hogwash! You can stop any day and start all over. You can’t blame
anybody. Disrupted lives come from within us, even as peaceful lives
come. 

39.	Let’s find what the apostle Paul said about outside influences...
Rom 8:35-39.

(35)	Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation,
or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword? (Did you bring those on yourself? No, somebody else did.)

(36)	As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; (Are
you killing yourself? No, somebody else is) we are counted as sheep for
the slaughter. (Who is? You or somebody else?)

(37)	Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him
that loved us.

(38)	For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

(39)	Nor height, nor depth, nor any other (creation—Nothing whatsoever
in creation, that is formulated by creation, that happens while I’m in
this creation—there is nothing that can separate me from) the love of
God (I’ve just got to believe it.)

	Now it’s up to us. It’s a conscious act of sowing peace. It’s a
conscious act of what Ghandi did to show the world what the Church
wouldn’t do—passive resistance. That’s right. Martin Luther King
thought he could do it, but he didn’t have the spirit of Ghandi. See?
And the white man killed him. Never should have done it. It cannot
change. There is no way we can change this. Why? We don’t want to
change.

40.	Now, watch. What about what Peter says over here in 1 Peter 4 Now,
let’s read this and be very careful. [1 Peter 4:12-19]

(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 (you’re) partakers of Christ’s
sufferings; (That’s providing you’re suffering for Christ.) that,
when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding
joy.

(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. (Now, you listen
carefully.)

(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)	… 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:
(It’s started right now. It can’t start before the Judge is here.
The Judge is here. See?) and if it first (begins) at us, what shall the
end be to them that obey not the gospel of God? (The fire! Annihilation,
destruction.)

(18)	And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where (will) the ungodly
and sinner appear?

	Now, what’s he saying? He is telling us what James told us. We’ve
got to have a reconversion on our conversion, and a resanctification on
our sanctification, and a rededication (if there ever was one)… And
rededication is not foreign to the Word of God. Remember, the temple was
destroyed at the time of Ezra and Nehemiah. And they came back and
rebuilt it, and they rededicated it. See? God’s not interested so much
in dedication, as He is in rededication. Many people dedicate, and they
think they’ve done it, but they haven’t. We’ve all been through
it, and we go through it. Rededication what’s necessary. 

(18)	If the righteous scarcely be saved, where (will) the ungodly and
...sinner appear? (Nowhere!)

(19)	(Wherefore... Now, notice his conclusion—from what we have
read—the whole thing) 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.

	We have not yet come to the place of the first, true line of defense:
God is my defense. I know it. I could talk with each one of you, and you
can talk with me. And I can point out exactly where you miss it, and you
could point out where I miss it. 

	And then, we say, “Well, isn’t it great. The pot can’t call the
kettle black.” 

	I’m going to tell you something: neither pot nor kettle should be
black. We’ve got to begin to see we are an end-time people. Now, maybe
I’m aiming too high. Maybe I’m teaching you wrong. How could I teach
you wrong, if we haven’t come as far as the first century? 

41.	What does It say in 2 Corinthians? We’ve been over this so many,
many times. I… Remember my preaching this sermon the first time with
such determination, literal anger, but I got it across, because I knew
this is something you people had to have. And by the grace of God,
I’ll preach this till Kingdom comes. And, if I’m forced to recant,
because I can’t stand the blows and the pressure of burning in the
flesh and the oil poured upon me (whatever they want to do), I’ll
still believe It. It says: [2 Corinthians 3]

(16)	When the vail (is lifted—when that’s taken away from the mind)

(17)	(...and the Spirit of God brings the liberty...)

(18)	We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the
Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even by the
Spirit of the Lord. (And it comes by a ministry.)

	That couldn’t happen any hour but this hour. Then, “What manner of
people” (as Peter said) “we ought to be” based upon the
imminency—yes, the literal entering into and the partaking of the
Resurrection, immortality, the Rapture and the Kingdom, where the earth
goes through a further process of sanctification. And I think you and I
have a hand in it, because we’re growing crops, and we’re living a
rural, pastoral, beautiful life out there, helping the earth—only to
see it plunge into fire, and be glad and rejoice, because it’ll come
forth the way God wants it. 

	I’m not saying that others cannot make a shambles of your life.
However, they can do it only if we let them at this present
time—unless we were too young and couldn’t have any control over it,
and now we’re suffering. 

42.	Let us go to the Book of Matthew, Chapter 18, and see about such
things as those. Jesus called and put a little child in the midst...
And, let’s go to verse 6.

(6)	Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it
were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he
were drowned in the depth of the sea.

	There never has been a time in history that we know of—at least
bringing it to the surface—where child-abuse and molestation has taken
place. Let me tell you, society protects these dogs and these fiends
that we call our uncles and our fathers and our grandfathers and our
brothers, and so on. The Bible said a millstone would better be hung
about their neck. See? Oh, yea, you can be harmed by this. [Matthew 18]

(7)	Woe unto the world because... (offences must come! Let’s
understand this: You are going to be disturbed; you’re going to be
harmed; you’re going to be hurt.) for it must needs be ...offences
come; but woe to that man by whom the offence (comes)!

	You’ve been offended, so now you want to offend back. 

43.	Where do you stand this morning, brother/sister? How many of you
bite the bullet? It’s a hard job. I have a terrible job doing it. My
quickness at retaliation is just like the philosophy that “Whom the
gods would destroy, they first make angry.” There is never a fight
until the second blow is struck. Do you want a millstone hung about your
neck? You’re going to get it. 

	You say, “Well, I’ve been hurt; I’m going to hurt back.” 

	You just killed yourself right there. Listen to me, you people: You
think this is a small church. It knows every word every one of you says.
It all gets back to me. Guard your mouths, or I’ll be seeing people in
a condition a million times worse than you are now. Yes! I wish I was
the kind of man that could really preach this kind of sermon. I’m not;
I’m not a real pastor, but I’m a teacher. And I can teach. And
I’ve not led you astray. Maybe many times I’d say, “I don’t do
it; you’d better do it.” I’ve never told you that. I’m telling
you, you’d better do it, and I, above all, had better do it. 

44.	If there’s an offense… [Matthew 18]

(8)	If thy hand offend thee, cut (it) off. 

	In other words, bring yourself to a position where even where you ache
and die within, you will not perpetrate that upon somebody else.
You’ve been stung? Don’t sting anybody else. 

	This is where marriages go completely wrong. Always male are male,
females are females. They never were meant to be each other. Any man
that tries to be like a woman is a complete non-entity. And any woman
who tries to be like a man is completely sick. And any man that wants
his wife to act like a man, he’s insane. And I’ll keep on saying it
until you get the whole category, the whole catechism outlined before
you. If you’re a man, she’s a woman; boys and girls, the same thing.
That very difference causes problems. 

	I just read where Peter said, “Listen! You can’t even get your
prayers answered, because you don’t recognize male from female.”
Funny, man just wants that wife of his to be sweet, gentle, and kind and
loving and frilly petticoats and negligees and all that; then, suddenly,
“Out in the yard and hoe the cucumbers and milk the cows and make the
living— everything else.” Oh, you bunch of flatheads! If I’d do it
over again, I tell you, my kids would live on apple box and on
branch-water and a soda cracker, and I’d do every single thing; and my
wife would not climb a plow or a horse or anything else. 

	You say, “Well, what if she had to?” 

	Ahhh! Don’t bring that up, Don’t bring that up. Just say, “She
never will ...or I’ll be dead, or crippled or something.” Or do the
next best thing better than that: Go on relief, bless God. Sure that was
a nasty thing to say, but I’m used to saying nasty things. [Matthew
18]

45.	(9)	...if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, ...cast it from thee:
...better for thee to enter into life with one eye, ...than having two
eyes...

(10)	Take heed ...despise not ...these little ones; for I say unto you,
That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which
is in heaven.

	Listen, you’ve got a heavenly Father, and there’s special angel up
there that is always with you, comes when a little tiny child is born.
That one takes care of you. And I know we all have problems. What my
mother did, what my father did, what your mother did, what your father
did—all of those things. I know they can cripple you. But, let me tell
you this: the answer is: begin doing peaceful things, and watch how
peace comes back on you. You can’t defeat what people did to you any
other way. You go to some stupid psychiatrist or psychologist and bring
it out—could get worse. 

	Look, we’ve got a son—we had two of them with a psychiatrist. And
you know what? When they found out what was making them tick or not
tick, they still couldn’t put it together. This is what puts it
together, honey! You don’t need a psychologist. I don’t need a
psychiatrist. 

	The idiots told me, they said to my wife, “Well, Mr. Vayle needs a
psychiatrist.” 

	She said, “No. I’m a psychiatric nurse. He needs a good doctor.” 

	There wasn’t one of them… But I paid a price just the same, and I
believe those bugs got hold of me, because I didn’t control my nature
to sow peace and harmony. And a body that’s full of peace and harmony
will not be full of bugs. 

46.	Most everything in this life is caused by stress. And we’re not
taking God’s recipe, and we’re at the end time. When will we do it?
See? This is the tragedy of this hour! God came down and manifested. 

	The world said, “Forget it! He’s of the devil. He’s this; He’s
that.” 

	They’re going to die for it! Now the God of Peace wants to do
something for you and me. Are we letting Him do it? You can’t undo
what people did to you. Where’d you think my complexes came from?
I’m finally to the place where I really don’t give a rip; just
don’t bug me. What I mean by that... Look, I don’t worry anymore
about those stupid things that happened. I can’t help it. I can help
this. So, if you want to pry and get nosey and bug and this and that,
you aren’t going to do anything but cut your throats. Face what’s
happened and say, “It’s all over. I am going to start sowing. And
I’m going to sow it in the Holy Ghost, and I’m going to reap a
fruit.” 

	Well, did God fill us with all this rottenness? No! Somebody sowed for
it. And for six thousand years we’ve been sowing. Now, for the first
time with the pure Word of God, we can start re-sowing. My
brother/sister, don’t you see there can come a time in the Church when
there’s not one sick person anymore; but there will be, if we
perennially grouch and grouch and grouch and grouch and grouch. It
isn’t going to work. And I’m not saying that everybody’s grouchy.
That’s just part of it. See?

47.	Let’s go to Matthew 5. Read It for yourself: Mt 5:38-48,
Lk.6:27-49. Our time is gone. I was afraid it would take long. But,
brother/sister, you see what I’m talking about. We’re not doing it.
We need to get up a little earlier in the morning, put on some
tape—Christian music, not this rock and roll, but good old songs that
weren’t meant to be sung at funerals, like ‘Nearer My God to
Thee’. Why do they play that at a funeral? ‘Nearer My God’ He may
be the farthest he ever was from God and going to Hell—already there.
‘Nearer My God’... Let all my song to be ‘Nearer My God to Thee’
if I go to the valley, if I go to the shadows… Some good music...every
morning with prayer, every morning with positive thoughts…

	You know something? I’d get up in the morning and do my exercise, and
for the longest time a certain thing would come into my mind, and I’d
get mad every single morning—mad in the sense I had my hackles up.
I’ve got to watch it with my wife very closely because—not her
fault—she’ll ask a question, and I don’t want to be asked
questions in the morning. 

	I’ve got to think in myself, “Now, look. She’ll ask me some
questions which are legitimate, which is very fine. If she didn’t ask
questions, and she should have, then I’ll get mad because she didn’t
ask questions.” 

	Now, what about your marriage? You’re the same way. I’ll get up
here and confess it; you’ll sit down and won’t. You’ll laugh and
you say, “Hee, hee, hee.” But you know very well you could be
rottener than I am. [Congregation laughs.] At least I’ll confess it.
How many of you guys buy your wife everything she wants and everything
she doesn’t want? My wife doesn’t want anything; she’s even hard
to buy a present for. [Bro. Vayle laughs.] 

48.	This living... This life, from the minute you’re born, is full of
influences that must be combated by an inner influence. Not join hands
with it, but fight it. And there’s only one way to be an
overcomer—and I’ve talked about it this morning: You’ve got to sow
for it. You’ve got to sow for it. Now, if you’re sowing (And we’ll
talk about this next Sunday.) when you’re sowing wrong, I’m going to
show you, you are going to come to a dead-end and find yourself in
prison. And that goes for everybody alike.

	You say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, I pray.” 

	I’m going to say, “That is an insult in the face of God. Your
prayer is sinful, utterly sinful; and your action is antichrist.” 

	We’ll talk about those things, because they’ve got to be talked
about. You know why? Because we’ve got to start sowing, my
brother/sister. And, when the Church begins to sow, it’ll begin to
reap. See? We lose ourselves in the mainstream of God, not the
essentiality of man anymore. Forget it! It isn’t worth having, except
God put a little star-dust in there, a seed; and that’s all He’s
interested in. Remember, the essentiality of God, Who redeems,
justifies, sanctifies, brings on a growth. 

49.	Now, we’re right at the very end. Don’t look at the mud anymore,
brother/sister. God knows the world’s a complete flesh-pot of mud, but
that One came, manifest through a prophet. Nobody can change it. Nobody
can change it. But, do you know something? We can change with it. 

	Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	Gracious Heavenly Father, we want to thank You again for Your goodness
and mercy, giving us at least this time together where we could talk
about this, what the prophet brought to us. Here’s the earth. Look at
the lovely shape—further sanctification, and this time not a people
defiling it. But this time a people… Perhaps they’re the ones
blessed of you to make it blossom like a rose. Roses have thorns. Could
be the Millennium is a place with roses and thorns? I don’t know. I
know New Jerusalem won’t have it. But we think, Lord, of the great
sanctifying elements in the great sanctifying time.

	O God, help us to be sanctified unto you as never before. You know that
(I think I would speak for every single person here today.) if we had
just one desire to get out of life, it would be, Lord, if not exactly
like You on this earth, to be more like You than ever before, and have a
constant growth every step forward and no step backward. That’s all
we’d ask. And we know, then, everything would fall in place, just the
same as John said: “I wish above all else you prosper and be in health
even as your soul prospers.”

	Help us, Lord, in this great and mighty battle that we’re in, to
evermore do the right thing, because it can be done, and it must be
done. And unto You we’ll ascribe the honor and the glory, as we look
forward to that great peace in our midst in this Church, in the love of
God, and every sick person amongst us healed. In the Name of Jesus
Christ, we pray. Amen.

	Do you love Him this morning? He’s worthy of all of our love, and all
of… [End of the audio tape.]

 

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