Greatest Battle Ever Fought #4

Get a Grip on the Reality

 October 21,1987

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we want to thank You again for Your
mercy and grace, Lord, bestowed upon us at this time. And we pray, Lord,
as we enter into this service the ministering part of Your Word that You
will be with us in a most supernatural way, a way, Lord, that must come,
must be with us ere we understand, know where we stand, know what
we’re doing, oh God. We know we come to a place Lord, where we cannot
turn back. We must go forward, and we must go forward with Your blessing
and expanded power and grace, oh God, in our lives. We know, Lord, that
can only come by You, as the prophet said, “If you ever send Your
power back in the church, it would be by grace, not by obedience.” 

	And so, Lord, we’re claiming Your grace tonight to help us to
understand Your Word to know wherein we stand, Father, that we might do
what You would have us to do, and live in a way that You would have us
to live to honor and glorify Your great Name. So, help us in the study
tonight, Lord, because we know it is very important to know what You
said through Your prophet to help us to apprehend It, Lord, and to act
upon It. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.

	You may be seated.

1.	Now, this is the “Greatest Battle Ever Fought #4”, and for a
preamble: it is not likely that any promise in the Bible is more
startling in its implication to the life of a Christian than in Mk
11:23-24. 

(22)	...Have (the) faith (of) God.

(23)	For verily I say unto you That whosoever shall say unto this
mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not
doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith
shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

(24)	Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when you
pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.

	Now, I might say instantly here that this Scripture that Bro. Branham
used and quoted from Mk 11:23, was the very Scripture that Jesus Christ
used relative to him cursing the fig tree. And they were marveling at
It. So, this is what he said concerning himself, and that is, “Have
the faith of God,” which, of course, he did have, which was able to
call things which are not, as though they were and so on…raising the
dead. 

2. 	[Mark 11:23-24]

(23)	(He said) verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this
mountain, (this fig tree, henceforth bring no more fruit or) Be thou
removed and…cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart (which
he said, of course, I did not do) but shall believe the things which
(have been said, which he did say, they) shall come to pass; (and)
he…have whatever he said.

(24)	(Now he said,) Therefore I say to you…

	So evidently, this portion of this Scripture here is not so much
binding upon us, as I see it. It is binding upon us to understand this
took place; therefore, this will happen to you and me. Therefore, I say,
“Whatever things you desire, when you pray, so that when you come to
God knowing that this is established, then, when you pray for those
things which are available to you, you know based upon this, which is
the whole, the part is included, and therefore, you can have it.” Now,
take it for what it’s worth; that’s how I see this. 

3.	According to Bro. Branham, the attainment to this happy position,
which we read here, comes only by a desperate battle. Now, he is not
going to put us in the ring and him walk out of the ring. His career as
a professional boxer, I think, is demonstrated here and in his life,
having won seventeen professional fights…I don’t think ever knocked
out. The vision he had where he could bind Satan and loose him, (You
remember the serpent that turned into a crystal type of glass.) lets us
know that he has fought this great battle, and now we, in turn, are
fighting our battle, which will be not exactly replicated upon his, but
more or less it will be simmered down, watered down, trickled down to
us—the desperate battle.

4.	This position, this happy position, comes by a desperate battle.
That’s why he preached “Desperation” also. This desperate battle
would be the greatest battle in our Christian lives, and it is going to
be fought in the mind, or this desperate battle, which is the battle, is
fought in our minds. The problem herein is this: can we literally bend
our minds away from natural normal human reasoning and exercise those
same minds by willingly and willfully accepting the judgments of the
Word of God, or the truth of the Word of God, and judge according to
truth and not according to sense knowledge, reasons and experiences? Can
we say, “Yes, I believe, and mean it when the Word contradicts the
senses?” Now he went through this. Can we deny what we call life
itself as we know it and live it and record it as history for the sake
of the Word? Now you’re getting into a problem there with your
churchs, what you think you know, which is hogwash. 

	The answer has to be “yes.” For it is more than unlikely that a
vindicated prophet would present a problem without a solution. This
message must somehow not only deal with a way the problem is handled,
but must also show us how to receive strength in handling it. We must
follow the prophet Word-by-Word in precept and step-by-step in example.
It is fearful to contemplate in the negative. This Scripture is fearful
to contemplate in the negative, but world-shaking in the positive. In
other words, you turned It down, it’s fearful to contemplate, but
you’ve missed. But what you will gain is world shaking. It is
imperative to recall that this Scripture was fulfilled in Bro. Branham
and, therefore, is a specific omega fulfillment of the alpha which was
Christ cursing the fig tree, as I’ve already mentioned. 

5.	To gain further knowledge on the subject, let us go over a few
informative passages which we went into previously, and hopefully I can
find them right here. Page 15, paragraphs 3-5 again.

[15-3]	Now, there’s where the battle begins—right in your mind…
Now you remember, it’s not Christian Science…mind over matter.
…The mind accepts the Life which is the Word of God, and it’s the
Word that brings Life. 

	Now Bro. Branham is quoting his own experience and telling us about it,
because the teacher or the prophet in this case, must be partaker of the
first-fruit before he can pass it on. He’s got to know what he’s
talking about, because he comes with a vindicated ministry.

6.	[15-3]	Just your thought doesn’t do it…the Word of God brought in
the channel of your thought is what does it. See? It’s not the
thought, as Christian Science makes it, mind over matter. No. That
isn’t it. But your mind accepts it and grasps it. What is your mind
controlled by? (Actually, basically from the depth of the soul. So, the
spirit has a great deal to do with it.) And that catches the Word of
God, and that’s the thing that’s got Life in it. It brings Life unto
you. 

[15-4] 	Oh brother, when that takes place, when Life comes down that
Word channel into you, the Word of God is manifested in you. 

	Which means this: you have now become a part of the Scripture that
admonishes us; “If we abide in Him and our words and His Words abide
in us, then we ask what it will and it’ll be done.” Now you can see
that he is passing on to us Mk 11:24 as predicated upon Mk 11:23, which
he has already come through, and we will get into some of that tonight
hopefully because I don’t think you’re going to sit here and believe
for one minute that this message will not follow every other message
which brings forth the prophet vindicated and the message based on
vindication.

7.	[15-5]	 Then what does that do? From the middle of the heart, which
is the soul, there goes the living Word forth, feeding every channel.
The trouble of it is we’re standing in here with a lot of doubt trying
to accept what’s out there. (In other words, what’s out there for us
if we’re going to…what we want to get from the Word.) You’ve got
to stop that and come down that channel with the true Word of God, and
then It goes out, Itself, automatically.

	So, you’re looking here at the prophet giving us a statement that
what you and I are laboring for and what we are looking at as the
desire, this fantastic verse of Scripture that gives us literally the
World in a bucket is right here, how it’s done. It’s got to be the
outworking of the Word of God within the individual and I want to watch
that statement that I made because I think you might be getting it
wrong. You would be looking at something that you have to do. At this
point it is not necessarily something you have to do; it is something
that you have to receive. See? For instance, they said, “What we would
like to do the works of God.” He said, “This is the work of God that
you believe on him, who we have sent.” Well, you see, now, that’s
the great battle right there. So, let’s watch this carefully what we
are getting into, because this sermon is a fantastic sermon, and it is a
difficult one. All right. 

8.	“You’ve got to stop that.” Anything from the outside, you got
to stop all of that. You got to let loose on what’s being put on the
inside which hopefully and, not only hopefully, but must be the Word of
God. And that gets down there in the true channel, which is the soul;
then, it comes out through all those other channels, which can receive
wrong input. Now, you’re not becoming a receptacle; you’re becoming
a flowing river. You’re no longer a sponge, as it were, trying to get
something in there, but you’ve got something in there, like Bro.
Branham mentioned that little brook. He said, “Little spring, why is
it you bubble?” Because there is something in there pushing it out.
So, that’s what you’re looking at. Okay.

9.	With that we go to page 16. Fortunately it’s on the other side, and
paragraph 5.

[16-5]	That Word, if you can get everything out of the way—all
conscience, all senses—and just let that Word come in, that Word will
produce just exactly.

 	Now, what does he mean, ‘just exactly’? Just exactly what the Word
says, which, of course, in this particular case was very definitely the
omega of Mk 11:23, and we come into Mark 11 and 24. Now, Bro. Branham
makes it evident that we cannot do this of ourselves. In other words,
there is no simply opening ourselves up, as it were, of ourselves, but
he said, “It takes the Holy Spirit to do it.”

	And in this particular case where he speaks of the Holy Spirit being
the One that is going to really be the Subject Who is working with you
and on you and in you is taken from the fact a woman came with her
daughter—the daughter dying of Hodgkin’s disease—and he looked
down and knew they were unsaved, and he said, “Well, now look; how can
you expect healing on the grounds that you’re not born again? Will you
come and be baptized in the water, the pool here, and claim Jesus Christ
as your Savior for remission of sins in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ?” And they said, “We will do that.” And the little girl was
positively one hundred percent healed. 

10.	 Now, speaking on the child and the mother, then, he says:

[18-11]	…You had to open the channel first! You’ve got to get the
Soldier, the Holy Spirit placed at the battle front to take God’s
Word. He is the Word and He stands there; and there is nothing going to
stop it then. There is nothing. Every…other channel is cleared out.

		Now, in other words, when you’ve got the ‘Strong One’ that
combine the lesser one, which in our case is: “Greater is He that’s
in us than we ourselves,” and we are definitely on the carnal, because
we are born into that element, which we will read, I hope sometime, in
Romans 8, and bring It out with 1 Corinthians 2. You have that One,
then, which automatically has cleared the way for us to receive the
Word, even as Bro. Branham said, “Pile Word upon Word and feed the
Christ within us.” So, if we are truly born again—and there would be
no way we could be born again and not receive this Word of God, or at
least be seed and not open to It. So, now we have the One who is able to
help us get what we need in order to come this distance here.

11.		 Now, this paragraph 11 I read on page 18, and then, Bro. Branham
is continuing here. But before I go into that, I want to go into
Ephesians 3, and we are going to see here that this verse we use, I’ll
bring it into a better understanding of it, and I’m using with the
understanding here, that Bro. Branham is talking of an end-time Bride in
the sermon of “Spoken Word Is Original Seed”, and he is speaking of
the Bride having the Word and not using It, except at the command of the
Lord. She knows what to do about It.

12.	Now It says here concerning this Christ within us [Ephesians
2]…because that’s what you’re looking at. You’re born again that
Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, and that’s not a faith
proposition that says, “Well, I think he’s in there; by faith I take
him there.” That’s not true. He is there, and faith gets him there.
It is a literal, real experience. Now, it’s so real, as Bro. Branham
said, “Can a woman have a baby and not know it?” Certainly not,
unless she is comatose or under some type of anesthesia. But he said,
“The actual baptism with the Holy Ghost is without sensation and any
evidence whatsoever.” And the evidence, therefore, comes later down
the line, as Bro. Branham said, “What were you before? What are you
now?” See? And remember; when you talk of impregnation, that’s what
you’re talking about by the rebirth. An impregnation is simply one
cell on another until a child is produced, and that bringing one to the
maximum growth that can be at that time so the child can take a status
it didn’t have before. 

13.	Now, that’s where you find 2 Peter 1, where you’re piling virtue
upon virtue. And you’re not doing it; the Holy Ghost is doing it in
you, until you come to that place where Bro. Branham said, “You are
ordained to be a living, moving statue for Almighty God to live in and
dwell in.”

	Now, here is what he says here: [Ephesians 3]

(17)	That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith… (And he certainly
does.) (and) you being rooted and grounded in (the) love (of
God…certainly.)

(18)	May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and
length, and depth, and height;

(19)	And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that you
might be filled with all the fulness of God.

	Now, that’s an utter impossibility until this hour. Because the power
released upon us to bring forth the dead which causes the transformation
was not released at any other time. Now, it was to bring forth the dead,
but not to bring forth immortality. This here literally is Eph 1:17, if
you want to look at It.

[(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.] 

	Now, in all the fullness of God, because that’s what he talks about. 

14.	Now, keep with me. I hope your minds are alert, because what I am
preaching is life and death, the same as Bro. Branham preached It. And
I’m a little fearful at times with some going on, and I see and I
believe there is some of you going on beautifully. I’m a little
worried about some other. And I’m not trying to hurt anybody. I just
want you to be alert and know that we are not fooling, because these
things open up to us. 

15.	(20)	Now… (He) that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all
that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. 

	That’s not really right, although it is right. The literal
translation which is really, ‘really right’, is unto Him, Who in the
exercise of His power that is at work within us. Now, there you see
again the church in subjection, (See.) under the influence of the Holy
Ghost, knowing the things of God. And, brother, I believe that sometimes
we know the things of God, and we don’t back away from them. Now, I
speak with fervor there because I’m thinking of something that
doesn’t have anything much to do with you, but it does, because I base
my faith on certain things, and I just believe. That’s all. I just
believe, and from that standpoint I talk. 

16.	Now, Bro. Branham says here with the Holy Ghost standing there: 

[18-11] 	There is nothing in the way, every one of the other channels is
cleared out. 

	In other words, we can exercise our senses unto godliness and
everything then can be an adjunct, or be an impetus to us, rather than a
detraction and a put down. Now he said:

[19-1] 	Just like an old boiler with the flue stopped up. …(Now,
that’s what you were before the Holy Ghost.) You put a fire in it and
it will blow…up. It will blow your furnace plumb up. That’s what’s
the matter with so many so-called Christian… because…they don’t
clean the channels out. Or even so many…Christians…they don’t
clean the channels out; they don’t go down the inside.

	Of course, you’re a Christian if you’re not even born again.
Let’s face it, what else are you? Not a true core Christian, but
you’re a Christian. Not Bride anyway.

[19-1]	You got to clean it—conscience, memory, thoughts, laying aside
everything and coming from the inside out with that unadulterated Word
of God, that It’s the truth. No matter…ten thousand died on this
side today trusting, ten thousand died on that side tomorrow…, that
has nothing to do with me. I’m the individual; I’m the one that’s
trusting; I’m the one that believes It.

	Now, he’s speaking here of an individual baptism with the Holy Ghost
and what would happen. It would begin to give you the power of faith,
and that Word begins to open up to you.

17.	[19-2]	And we see back yonder, if we want to open up our channels
then, if we can and see…

	In other words, we can stop with Hebrews 11, which says, ‘We’ve got
perfection coming to us; they without us cannot be made perfect.’ And
then, It goes on to chapter 12 right on there, and It says, “Looking
unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, (and It says) seeing
that we are compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us
go on.” So, that’s what you’re looking at here. And he says here:

[19-2]	…if we can see, we find this one and that one…, and thousands
are testifying, but the devil will try to come right back. 

	Now he says here all through the Old Testament there were witnesses and
witnesses and witnesses and witnesses and witnesses. There is a
testimony to reality, but the devil will never stop working on you
through your senses no matter how real that you know reality is. You
will still have a problem. 

18.	So, he says:

[19-2]	If he could get in there at all, he’s got your army routed…
That’s the devil. (Now, it doesn’t say the word, ‘if’ in there:
‘if’ you’ve got your senses’. I believe he really means
‘since’: ‘Since’ you got your senses. Well, if you haven’t got
senses, you’re a zombie. There is nobody doesn’t have senses. There
is nobody doesn’t have these things) see, taste, feel, smell, hear.
They’re all right, See? (So, that’s what he’s saying.) but don’t
trust them unless they agree with the Word See? They’re all right, but
if they disagree with the Word, don’t you listen to them. 

	[19-3] Now, imaginations… (Here’s where we left off.) imaginations,
conscience, memories, reasonings, affection, they’re all right, if
they agree with the Word. But if your affection doesn’t agree with the
Word, get rid of it; you blow the flue right quick. Now, the word
‘affection’ there is a little lesser word than the word ‘love’,
but it is a good word just the same because it has to do with love. See,
if your reason disagrees with the Word, get away from it! Or get into a
right view. If your memory, if your imaginations, if your conscience,
anything disagrees with that, what’s on the inside, get rid of it!

	All right, now what he’s saying here to my estimation is this;
senses, though of God, are not in themselves spiritual and discerners,
nor receptors, of spiritual things. So, they must never be credited or
used as though they had any input to our faith. No way, shape, and form.


	Romans 7, part of verse 18:

(18) 	For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good
thing; (That’s in my flesh.)

	Look at Jn 6:63.

 (6)	It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profits nothing: the
words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

 	It doesn’t have one thing to do with the flesh. This is an intrusion
by God. This is not something that you and I have naturally. This is God
intruding and taking over. 

19.	Let’s go to Col 2:18-23.

(18) 	Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and
worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not
seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind. (What am I supposed to do?
Listen to the man that’s got the real McCoy, like the prophet.)

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

 	Now he’s telling you here, church order according to Ephesians: the
Holy Spirit came down and blessed the church with ministries. Who is it
that absolutely brings the Word of God? The prophet. Who sets the church
in order? The apostle. Of course, he can’t do it outside the prophet.
Who is it does the pastoring? But these fellows here, they got puffed
up. Oh, if you got puffed up today. Why is Joe Coleman, Michael the
Archangel? Goofball, with a flat top or something. 

	Now he’s letting you know here, watch where it comes from, and
don’t think you got something if you don’t have something. You know,
humility is the greatest thing in the world. 

20.	I’ve got enough smarts to shoot my mouth any day of the week. I
know I do it. I went to the prophet. He gave me everything; I have laid
it all at his feet. That’s where anything I’ve got comes right
today, brother/sister. It takes a lot from the pulpit on down for people
to recognize where they are and what their input is, if they got any.
The greatest input I had toward William Branham’s ministry was faith
that he was the anointed of Almighty God. And that’s growing and
growing and growing. That’s the way it’s going to go from…. 

21.	(20)	(Now,) wherefore if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments 
of the world, why as though living in the world, are you subject to
ordinances, 

(21)	(Taste not; touch not; handle not;

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

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

	So, you can see right here what we’re talking about: it’s an input
from Almighty God. Now, the things that we have in our nature in our
bodies, they were given to us to use, but not in this respect. And
remember; in the Garden of Eden the physical use of Eve’s body
absolutely brought her down where she destroyed everything; she gave
into it. She never should have done it. Now, of course, she gave in. We
know what she gave in to, but you and I can give into the same thing
with our eyes and our touch and our taste, or anything else. And Paul
said right here: here’s the thing you got to watch concerning yourself
because you don’t have an input. And you’re not in the category
where the input is. 

22.	What kind of a church would we have here, if we had what I’m
talking about tonight? Providing I was an asset in being right with God
and with the prophet what God gave, what would we have? A tremendous
church. But I don’t know how humble you are. Now, look; I don’t beat
you over the head; I don’t split your families. I warned you, don’t
you dare split a family nor walk apart. I don’t ask you for money or
anything else. I’m with you tonight, looking for the Millennium and
the great Holy City, New Jerusalem, standing right with the prophet
before the White Throne, knowing this is a sacred hour, brother/sister.
The clock’s running out. 

	All right. We are looking at these things. 

23.	Now, let’s read Romans 8 and see what we’re talking about here.

 (1)	There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ
Jesus, (Just read the rest of the verse to down below.)

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

	That sin working in the flesh and through the flesh for the
gratification, for the input. Now, what’s the great input of Satan?
Pride. That’s what he had: all three by reason of pride; blew the
whole thing. Eve got puffed up the same way—and Adam, the whole bunch.
Now:

(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…

	Now, here were two innocent people, fresh from the hand of God, knowing
the Garden of Eden, knowing the power of God, knowing communications;
Adam knew when he was in Spirit form, like the Holy Spirit ruling over
the land, the beast of field, the fowl of the air, flowers, everything
else; communicating with God, through God. What was it that brought the
down fall? Flesh. Now, there is the input; there is the danger. See? 

24.	Now, what did God do? 

	(3)	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, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

	Now, he said, “Don’t you touch it.” In other words, there was the
understanding of ‘don’t give way to the sensual’. And that word
‘sensual’ doesn’t simply mean ‘sex’; it means ‘senses’.
It’s not a bad word; it’s only been degraded. Now, they gave into
it. We are way ahead of them (see) at this hour, and they were in the
Garden of Eden, God’s government upon earth—the Kingdom of God in
the midst of you. Do you follow what I’m saying now?

25.	Christ was that One… He, God manifest in flesh, instituted again
literally an ‘Edenic’ situation, except for one thing: it wasn’t
time for immortality. This time it is. So now, we’re here. We are way
ahead of what Adam was. As the Garden was defiled and he still
couldn’t reached forth and touch immortality, the Tree of Life, (He
couldn’t do it.) we have that privilege, my brother/sister. Therefore,
we are a billion miles ahead of what they where there. Don’t ever
attempt to just get back to Eden. I want immortality. We are back to
Eden now, and it doesn’t suffice, not enough, because it’s a fallen
state. The Bible does not point us to Eden. The Bible points us beyond
Eden to the City which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
All right.

26.	[Romans 8]

(4)	That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (Now, let’s watch what the
Bible says about this)

(5) 	For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh;
but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. (We are not
after flesh anymore.)

(6)	For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is
life and peace. (We don’t have enough of that yet. You know why?
Because we don’t believe enough.) 

(7)	Because the carnal mind is enmity against God (The carnal mind is
the enemy of God.) …it is not subject to the law of God, neither
indeed can be. (But there is a mind which is not carnal. See?)

(8)	(For you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, no.) So then they
that are in the flesh cannot please God. 

(9)	But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, (On one condition,
if God’s Spirit dwells in you.) Now, if any man have not the Spirit of
Christ, he is none of his. 

(10)	And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the
Spirit is life because of righteousness.

(11)	But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell
in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also 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 you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through
the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.

 	Now, we could go on and on; we won’t bother. But you can see what
we’re looking at. Now, learning concerning this, what we’re talking
about, is not enough. It’s like Bro. Branham said, “We must apply
the Token.” So, we must apply this also. We must believe exactly who
and what we are in Christ and, then, set our hearts in that direction so
that the channels, open now by God, will begin to flow in reverse,
whereby we’re mighty over comers in Christ Jesus, our Lord. 

27.	I’ve got a thought over here, I think, in 1 Cor 9:24-27.

(24)	Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one
receiveth the prize? Run, that you may obtain.

(25)	And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all
things. (Now, that’s the gift of the Holy Ghost, too: temperance.) Now
they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

(26)	I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that
beats the air: (Now, that’s what Paul says right here: with the Holy
Ghost we’re able to do this. We know the battle we know where we’re
enjoined in, and we’re working on it. Now, notice:) 

(27)	But I keep under my body… 

	Now, he doesn’t keep his body under… He keeps under his body like
the old airplane whirl in the wrestling ring. Grab one guy and put him
above his head and whirl him around and he’s…shooo…chuck him.
That’s what Paul says. He doesn’t get on his body and try to pin it
down and hold it there, but he picks his body up and just… In other
words, his spirit is in control. [Bro. Vayle, in later messages, made a
correction to this explaining that ‘keeping under your body’ is
‘getting out of the way’ or ‘presenting your body as a living
sacrifice to God’.]

(27)	...I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest by any
means, when I have preached to others, I myself…be a castaway.

 	Now, there’s a danger here. No matter if you’re baptized with the
Holy Ghost and these channels are free, there is still the danger that
people will not realize that the great satisfaction, I say, the great
satisfaction of life, is to walk in the spirit and not the flesh. You
can’t get people to do that. No they won’t do it. But a real
Christian will, and this is the hour to see it done. 

28.	Now, he says here:

[19-2]	Now, imaginations, conscience, memories,reasons, and affection,
they’re all right, if they agree with the Word. But if your affection
doesn’t agree with the Word, get rid of it…

	First of all, we will go to Mk 9:43-50, and we will read that and just
see something here about getting rid of these things. Mark 9:43-50:

(43)	And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off : it is better for thee to
enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the
fire that never shall be quenched:

(44)	Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

	Now, that tells you simply doing the things you shouldn’t do. A lot
of people do things they shouldn’t do, and they know it, and they
think, “Well, this is a short cut. People are doing it; I can get away
with it,” because the hand represents what you do. But remember;
Christ’s hands were crucified upon the cross, the same as the thief
was, and they couldn’t do. So now, you’ve just got to quit those
things.

29.	(45)	And if thy foot offend thee cut it off…

	In other words don’t let your feet carry where they shouldn’t be
going. Like Bro. Branham later on tells about this young girl who got
converted and went to the dance hall, and the devil took a hold of her.
He had to cast it out. We will get to that later—some time later.

(45)	... cut it off : it is better for you to enter halt into life, than
having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be
quenched:

(46)	Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

(47)	And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee
to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to
be cast into hell fire:

(48)	Where their worm dieth not, …the fire is not quenched.

(49)	For everyone shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall
be salted with salt.

(50)	Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith
will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one
another.

 	So, you’re looking at here is the fact that many people want to go
places and do things that they have no business entering into. And the
Bible says, “Cut it off because you’re looking at higher stakes than
just a gratification or a self-will or an indulgence.” You’re
looking at something that forms a blue print in your life, and you would
be judged, and the White Throne judgment, of course… (not the White
Throne but the Mercy Seat and the judgment seat of Christ) is where
positively the deeds of everyone…(It might be the White Throne at
that, or part of it.) where all the deeds are brought into
manifestation. And those people that have not lived victoriously will
not get the rewards that they could have had. Now, that’s the thing
right there to look at. 

 	In other words, cast not away your recompense of reward. There is
‘sufferings and trials’ involved here, but do not go the way of the
senses. And remember; that’s the route that was taken by Adam and Eve
in the beginning. So, this holds good all the way through Scripture.
Watch it very, very carefully. 

30.	Now, let’s go into Luke 16, and we are going to look at this rich
man in hell again, and he lifted up his eyes being in torment, and he
wanted certain things done. And he said, “Send Lazarus here,” and
Lazarus, of course, couldn’t come. And then he said, “All right. I
will tell you what: Why don’t you send him to my father and to my
brethren because I would like to see them helped.” Now, you notice in
there that Jesus answered and said here:

(29)	…They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

(30)	And he said, Nay, father Abraham: …if one went…from the dead,
they will repent.

(31)	And he said, (No way)

 	Now, what you’re looking at here is this: that this man had
affection; he had reasoning; he had a lot of things that you could say,
“Well, hey, that fellow is not a bad egg. He’s doing everything in
his power to try to get those people help.”

	No siree, he’s not, because he left the Word of God alone. He talks
about God; he talks about this; he talks about that. He wants all kinds
of things done, but the Word is missing. He didn’t take Moses and the
prophets, and that’s what is wrong at this hour. And that’s what
we’re looking at in this sermon tonight, the same as we have always
looked. You’ve got to start with the Word of the prophet, and you’ve
got to be imbued with it—one hundred percent sold on it. It’s got to
be your conversation; it’s got to be your thinking; it’s got to be
everything. That’s what the Bible says, “You will put It before your
eyes.” Make a little thing up here go bang, bang, bang, on your
forehead to remind you of the Word. He’ll put It in your ears; go
bang, bang, bang every time you move reminds you of the Word. Little
bells upon the feet, anything, reminds you of the Word. How many folk
criticize this Word? Try to get around It? See, we will talk about that,
too. 

31.	Now, remember; when we act on our own, the input will be of the
devil. And we read the Scripture over here many, many times in 2 Cor
10:3, Paul is teaching. And he says here:

(3)	For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
(Now, that doesn’t mean we don’t have problems with the flesh, but
It simply means we can’t use the flesh to fight.)

(4)	(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through
God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

(5)	Casting down (reasonings) and every high thing that exalts itself
against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought
to the obedience of Christ; (And just standing ready to use that Word to
correct it.)

 	Now, there’s your picture. There’s your picture. Now, I want to
ask you question: how many do’s and don’ts did Bro. Branham ever
tells us? Very, very few. As a holiness preacher, he certainly was not
my pick of holiness preachers. Why, we had guys who could… Boy…man
alive, if one look out of the corner of the eye, and you’re going
plumb to hell with bells on. Of course, he could commit adultery, but
anybody else couldn’t. That’s legalism. 

32.	 Now he said:

[19-3]	If your memory, …imagination… or anything disagrees with the
Word of God or what’s on the inside here… (And what’s on the
inside? God and His Word. God in His Word.)

	Like Bro. Branham said, “Where is God? In His Word.” 

	Priest said, “It’s in the church”

	He said, “Hogwash. It’s in His Word.”

	Now, we get rid of it. How? By conversion. And conversion is a daily
thing. Repentance. See? “Many I love, I rebuke.” 

	Now, again you’re looking at this thing here. You’re looking at
everything Bro. Branham brought concerning his ministry, even the
creation of squirrels, which we didn’t see. And not us. We’re not in
the category, I’m sure, but so many people invariably always try to
reason things out. Now, they all want some kind of evidence. They want
something, you know, that they’re going to put their fingers on. What
does It say over here in John 20, when Thomas said, “If I can just
reach forth my hand and touch, and I’ll believe”? 

	And Jesus came right and said, “Okay Thomas, reach forth your hand
and touch, thrust it in my side. There is a hole there. Find out for
yourself; reach right inside my body.” And I suppose Thomas did it. 

	And Jesus said, “Thomas, because thou seen me thou has believed;
blessed are they that have not seen and yet believe.”

33.	Now, Bro. Branham came on the scene and told us about those
squirrels. That’s a difficult thing to take, but it’s true because
the creative Word of God must come at the end time. We’ve just got to
keep at it. How many people believe the fact that I saw that microphone
cord wrapped around him two times at least and just suddenly stood…was
right by him? Now, you see, they say, “Well, you blinked, you did
this, you did that.”

	See, try to explain everything. You can’t explain anything, what you
do is believe it. See, believing is what we are interested in, because
that’s where the Word comes in, because any time the Word comes in
it’s predicated upon faith. And faith is the ability, the coin of the
realm, the legal tender that gets you what you want, or simply stated,
“Faith is the ability to receive.” And unless a man is receiving,
he’s not having faith; he’s just kidding himself.

34.	Now, I know faith takes a battle sometimes before it brings forth
something. But people just won’t be talking, talking, talking. They
will be getting answers. See? What have you got then?

	Bro. Branham said, “When you get to this place where the Word is on
the inside, the Holy Spirit is there filling that Word up and the Word
filling the Holy Spirit up and moving through every channel now in
reverse.”

	 Not something coming in, coming in, coming in, but it’s buffered
from coming in. When a man is embattled, but he’s not beleaguered, he
just keeps moving and says, “Listen, I’m fully armored, and I’ll
just take your head off,” like David said. And this old giant out
there with all the armaments on, great big, old, gassed up Sherman tank
about 14 feet tall, fingers spread 15 inches across, he comes lumbering
down and said, “Who’s that oxen coming down there?”

	 “Why,” he said, “I killed a bear. You ought to get this ox out
of here. He ain’t nothing.”

	 He said, “I killed a lion, what’s this jerk doing anyway, this
heathen Philistine.”

	 And he was but the seed with something that that fellow didn’t have.
What was it? This fellow had weapons of contact. David had a weapon, a
missile. Original first missile in the Bible, Word of God. Explosive
right arm of David, just whirling, just ‘wham’, got him right
between the eyeballs. That took care of Goliath. Man, he must have hit
that earth with a whomp. Felt good. The bigger they are, the harder they
fall. Yep. 

35.	What have you got? Bro. Branham says:

[19-4]	What you got then? (Bro. Branham says,) You got a solar system.
Hallelujah! God set the stars in order and said, “Hang there till I
call you.” …stay there. Nothing is going to move them. When God…
(Now here, he’s talking about himself.) when God can get a man in His
hands till he can get senses…conscience…(In other words,
consciousness. I think he means consciousness of things, ‘what appears
to him’.) everything cleaned out, so that it stands with God behind it
in the Spirit, there’s not a devil in the world can poke a doubt in
there! That’s right.

 	Now, that’s what this Shout has got to do for you and me, based on
Bro. Branham, as It says in 1 Th 5:23. 

36.	Let’s go back to 1 Thessalonians 5. You know 1 Thessalonians 5
follows 1 Thessalonians 4, and the chapter 5 is falling right on the
fact of the appearing. He said:

(1)	…brethren…the times and the seasons you have no need that I
write…

(2)	…(You) know perfectly (well) …the day of the Lord…comes as a
thief in the night.

(3)	…When they…say, Peace and safety; …comes sudden
destruction…as travail upon a woman with child; …they shall not
escape.

(4)	But you…are not in darkness, that (the) day…overtake you…
(Then he says, we’re not appointed to wrath, right down the line.)

37.	And then, he says: in verse 23.

(23)	…the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your
whole spirit…soul and body be preserved blameless unto the (presence)
of the Lord Jesus Christ (at that time).

	That’s why he could stand there in every single meeting…take every
spirit under control. A lot of people say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, I think
that was just some little clicker, like on a shutter on a camera.”

	Don’t you kid yourself. He stood there positively knowing. I believe,
brother/sister, you can have a trickle down in this till you have a
five-fold ministry at the last day that’s absolutely a five… [Bro.
Vayle demonstrates five fingers.] that may be more than a hand. I
don’t know. I don’t know how many there’s going to be. I hope
I’m one; can’t prove that I am. I believe that I am. That’s all I
can tell you. They’ll have that. They’ll know they’re speaking the
truth, what’s going on.

38.	[19-5]	 If he comes around say, “You don’t… (Understand.
Let’s bring this down to our level now on healing.) If he comes around
and says you don’t feel any better and your conscience has even gone
to that. (No, your consciousness of those things is gone. See? In other
words, you give it no credibility in your confrontation… because
“Let every man’s word be a lie, but God’s be true.”) The flue is
so clear it shouts, “Hallelujah.” (In other words, the channel is so
clear.) The channel blows a whistle: “Glory to God!” It sounds out
just as clean and clear for the Word of God to work through, the power
of God. See?

	In other words, we are one with that Word.

39.	Now, evidently, this man here we’re talking about, (Bro. Branham
is talking about) is one who dies daily and actually moment-by-moment.
See? He’s not like Mt 13:10-17. No. He’s got more on the ball than
that, more than the parable. All right. Matthew 13:10:

(10)	And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto
them in parables?

(11)	He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to
know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not
given.

(12)	For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more
abundance: But whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even
that he hath. (Now, how are you going to know the Scripture without the
Holy Ghost? So, It tells you here when you start with the Holy Ghost,
more is going to be added to you.)

(13)	Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing (they)
see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

(14)	And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By
hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall
see, and shall not perceive:

(15)	For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull
of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they
should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should
understand with their heart, and should be connverted, and I should heal
them.

(16)	But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they
hear.

(17)	For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men
have desired to see those things which you see, (That’s us.) and have
not seen them and to hear those things which you hear (Seven Seals), and
have not heard them.

	See, there’s no parables to you and me. The Seven Seals were opened;
the Word of God has been made clear. It’s only the obfuscation of
preachers and people that think they’re in the five-fold ministry that
mess things up for people. It’s pure and simple; that’s the truth.
Now you get a person here, they will be the Bride under this condition,
as Bro. Branham was, but we will not have the status he had—no way
shape and form. See? 

40.	Those channels are clear. It just sounds out the praises of God.
[Bro. Vayle paraphrases what he read previously from paragraph 19-5,
then continues with:]

[19-5]	And it sounds out just as clean and clear for the Word of God to
work through the power of God. See? That’s the main thing; there’s
your battleground. Your battleground is back here at the beginning, back
here in the soul, back in your mind that opens up. The mind is the gate
to the spirit…(It’s to the soul also, eventually) Your mind opens up
and accepts the Spirit, or it rejects the Spirit.

 	In other words, Bro. Branham puts this all right down to the beginning
as it was in the Garden of Eden: the appeal to the mind. Many people
talk about the appeal to the heart. The appeal to the heart has to come
by the appeal to the mind, because the Word of Salvation is a preached
Word, which Word is preached through the sensibilities of the man. In
other words, the man has the power of speech, which comes after the
power of thinking. The thinking is anointed of God; therefore, the Word
is anointed of God that goes to the man and brings the man in. Now, you
can see here that there will be very few that come this far.

41.	Now, he says here, “Your mind opens up and accepts the spirit or
it rejects it.” In the Greek, here’s the definition of ‘mind’:

	‘The organ of the mind is the organ of mental perception and
apprehension; the organ of a conscious life; the organ of a
consciousness preceding the act, or guiding and judging the 	fact; the
organ of thinking and knowledge, and understanding, the organ of moral
thinking 	and contemplation.’

	Now, the last reference to the organ of thinking and knowledge strictly
comes under the power of the Spirit of Almighty God. Up here, that’s
against the Spirit of God.

	‘Mind takes cognizance of external objects and denotes the reasoning
faculty.’ (That’s bad.) ‘Its chief material organ is the brain’
(That’s okay; that was given of God). ‘But all the senses serve it
actively or passively.’ 

	See? But when you get the other side of mind, there’s where God moves
from the inside. Outside moves in to give you perception and knowledge;
also, it can trick you and give you judgment. See? It’s no good.
You’ve got to let the Word be your judge.

42.	[20-1]	 Now you can have little consciences, (or you can have output
from all these channels right to your spirit.) …little feelings,
and…sensations, and all these things; that has nothing to do with it.
They are just sensations and things. (In other words, transitory,
temporary) But when it comes to reality, (That’s permanent.) your mind
opens up to it.

	Now, Rev 3:14:

(14)	…unto the angel (or the messanger) …of the Laodiceans write,
These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the
beginning of the creation of God; (Now, in their natural translation, it
is, ‘The reality’…the reality, “Thus saith the Reality.”)

	Now he tells you here that your mind opens up to reality, your mind
opens up to Christ. How many minds open up to that picture on the wall?
How many believe that is true, ‘the Cloud’ in Arizona? Not very
many. And many who do, have it as a form of an idol; they don’t have a
reality, talking about these things as though they were so, then denying
an infallible Word from an infallible man of God, who in the office of a
prophet was infallible but as a human being he was as fallible as you
and me—which goes to show how the mind can be under control of the
Holy Ghost—absolutely under the power of the Holy Ghost—till even
the tongue talks what is not in the mind normally. 

43.	[20-1]	Now…See? It’s your mind that opens up the door (or closes
the door) and listens to your conscience, …to…memory,
…to…affections. But when your mind closes itself to these things and
lets God, the Spirit of His Word, come in, It blows the rest of the
stuff out. Every doubt is gone; every fear is gone; (Now, Bro. Branham
said he didn’t know the meaning of fear after the stopping of the
great blizzard in Colorado; no fear after the meeting with Christ in
Arizona.) every sensation…is gone; every feeling is gone!

	Every feeling is gone? That’s what he said. How do you feel? I got no
feelings about it. 

	You say, “How did that little baby feel in that well?” 

	I haven’t got the slightest idea. I wasn’t down there. But your
mind would start to say, “Well, I think it could be this; I think it
could be that.” Oh, we got big fat heads and big fat mouths—skinny
spiritual minds, cruddy big fat human minds. What a pity. Isn’t it
funny to have a real thin mind in one spot and a big fat mind at the
same time? Sure it is. It’s got two sides of it; too much feeding the
carnal. 

44.	[20-1]	There’s nothing standing there but the Word of God, and
Satan cannot battle against that!

	 Satan cannot attack a mind that’s already full of the Word of God.
As Bro. Branham said, “When you become pregnant with the Word of God,
then nothing else can make you pregnant.” Well, how pregnant are we
with the Word of God? Depends on how full of growth the mind is, because
it takes a period of gestation. 

 	So, the prophet is saying here, essentially, to put the memory laden
with experiences away from us. Bro. Branham did it, and he said, “We
can do it, too.” In other words, we can make our minds work for us the
same as William Branham did, and the apostle Paul. 

45.	Let’s go to Philippians 3 and begin to see that. Now, we are
trying to work a pattern out here for you and I hope it begins to come
alive to you, and that is, the great thing is to get this Word in there
first of all what the prophet taught: Word, Word, Word, the doctrine,
the doctrine, the doctrine, know exactly what it is about. See? Now,
Phil 3:10.

(10)	That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the
fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

(11)	If by any means I might attain unto the (out) resurrection (from
among) the dead. (That’s for today.)

(12)	Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect:
but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am
apprehended of Christ Jesus. (Now, what does he do?)

(13)	Brethren, I count not myself to have appehended: but this one thing
I do, forgetting those things which are behind (That means
‘immediately behind’.) and reaching forth unto those things which
are before,

(14)	I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in
Christ Jesus.

 	Now, this is a battle of the mind. So, what does Paul put behind him?
Every single thing he knew from Judaism, and everything that he was. And
he said, “I count it but dung.” He said, “I turned my back on
it.” What does he say here? [Philippians 3]

(7)	What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ (his
great theological seminary training)

(8)	Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of
the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord. 

	How did he get it but by the Word? You don’t get that by a feeling. 

	“Oh, hallelujah, I love the Lord. Oh, hallelujah, I feel; Oh,
hallelujah, I...”

	Hallelujah, shut up and listen! What do you know about God, period?
Nothing, except it’s been taught us by revelation from somebody who
knows what he’s got. And we only take it if there’s any vindication
there, or we’re a bunch of fools. It’s got to work. 

46.	Now, he wants…

(8)	...the excellency of the knowledge of Christ…: for whom I have
suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may
win Christ,

(9)	And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of
the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, (Not my own
faith, but the faith of Christ; not faith ‘in’ Christ, but faith
‘of’ Christ) the righteousness which is of God by faith.

 	Now, he tells you that. Now we’re standing in the same place he is
standing. Okay.

47.	With that, let’s go to 2 Peter. Bro. Branham is speaking of the
virtues, and he tells you how they’re built up by the Holy Ghost in us
until the crowning is God Himself taking over. Now Peter speaks in verse
10. [Chapter 1]

(10)	Wherefore…, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and
election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fail:

(11)	For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the
everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

(12)	Wherefore I will not not be negligent to put you always in
remembrance (keeping in your mind) …these things, though you know them
(work on them, keep them there, talk them, so you will) …be
established in the present truth (or the truth that is open before you
in your hour).

	What is a truth open today? Seven Seals, the Thunders, Malachi 4, Rev
10:1-7, Rev 22:10-22, right down the line: 1 Th 4:16, Eph 1:7-23,
Scripture after Scripture. That’s what you’re looking at. You must
understand It.

48. 	Now then, with that we can understand again Romans 5.

(1)	Therefore (I) being justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ:

(2)	By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we
stand, (What do you mean have access into this faith? What do you know
about it? The only thing you know about it is what you’re taught and
what you know to be vindicated. Now, notice:) and rejoice in the hope of
the glory of God. (Rejoice in the promise for the hour set before you.)

(3)	And not only so, we rejoice in tribulations: knowing that
tribulation (works endurance—or experience. And what does patience do?
It works character.)

(4)	And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad
in our hearts…

 	In other words, it is a continuing, ongoing cycle with this Message.
Why do you think Bro. Branham preached literally hundreds of sermons,
the way I’m preaching tonight, and bring them all to your
attention—the prophet, the ministry, the vindication, the Word of God,
‘here it is’? Why? Because he hoped somebody… I don’t know if
anybody, if any of us sat there and got it. Tell me that Colemans and
Hunts sat there and got it when they buy the kind of junk they preach
today?—with the rest of them preach: the hogwash! I’m going to tell
you flat: I wasn’t getting it, but I knew something had to be given to
us from God, or nobody would make it. That much I did catch. 

49.	How are you going to have spirals and plateaus? Because you’re
piling Word upon Word. Now, Word upon Word is like a bonfire. He said,
“I wish you were either hot or cold.” He said, “You’re lukewarm,
and I want to puke with the whole bunch out—make me nauseous, sick and
tired.” He said, “Be an iceberg or be a volcano.” How many of you
has got lava guts? Not enough of us. Play tiddlywinks about this
Message. How much fire these guys got that go around picking on it and
saying the prophet made a mistake here? They would no more believe what
the prophet told me than nothing. No use in even talking. Ain’t going
to believe nothing. Haven’t got a clue. 

50.	 2 Corinthians 4. That’s a great chapter. 2 Cor 4:8-11

(8)	We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed,
but not in despair; (That’s the mind.)

(9)	Perssecuted, …not forsaken; cast down, (Ah) …not destroyed; 

(10)	Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, (also
in the mind) that the life…of Jesus might be made manifest in our
bodies.

(11)	For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’
sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal
flesh.

(12)	So then death worketh in us, but life in you. (So on.)

(13)	(Now he said,) We having the same spirit of faith, according as it
is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe (or
you believe) and therefore speak.

(14)	Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us
also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. 

	That’s for this hour. We believe what the prophet said. We talk It.
We know this Christ was raised from the dead. He is present amongst us,
doing the works that he did in the flesh, proving who it is, and because
of that, God will raise us up and present us. We’ll all come into the
presentation. This is presentation, brother/sister; not back in the
First Church Age. This is this Age. The Bible is written for this hour. 

51.	But Bro. Branham talking; it’s not Paul. Bro. Branham tells you
right here: [2 Corinthians 4]

(7)	…we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of
the power may be of God, and not of us. 

(8)	We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; …perplexed, but
not in despair;

(9)	Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

(10)	Always bearing about in (our) body (knowing we’re ready for the
presentation. Now, he said in verse 15:)

(15)	For all things are for your sakes, (said Bro. Branham) that the
abundant grace might through the thanksgiving…redound to the glory of
God.

(16)	For which cause we faint not; …though our outward man perish,
(And he actually died.) yet the inward man (being) renewed day by day.
(God even gave them a photograph of that—talking about William Branham
here, not Paul. That’s the Holy Ghost. Paul said you been taught by
Jesus Christ not by a man.)

(17)	Our light afflictions are but for a moment, working for us a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

(18)	While we look not at the things which are seen, (the senses of
conscience, all that junk, from memory) …but…the things (that) are
not seen.

 	What don’t we see yet? Him in full manifestation in glory. But
we’re going to see it, because the Shout is on; the Voice is next;
then, comes the trumpet; then, the reincarnation: crown Him King of
Kings and Lord of Lords. All these things are going to pass away, and
the things that are seen are temporal. Look; let me tell you something
that’s not temporal. William Branham was. He died. That was temporal
insofar—and that insofar, it disappeared, but it’s still here. The
healings, all the things gone, temporal—establishing the eternal. So,
if we have any thoughts in our minds, we will major on the major, and
not on the minor. All right.

52.	[20-2]	These battles has raged since the day of the garden of Eden,
the battle in the human mind.

 	That’s Satan versus the Message. God came down with a Message. 

	He said, “This is this and that’s that.” 

	The devil said, “Well, I don’t believe that.” He said, “I
don’t think that’s really true. Didn’t He tell you to multiply,
and so on?” 

	“Yeah, sure he did.”

	“Well, did he tell you how it’s done? You got everything right
handily to you. Go ahead and use it.” 

	Well, there’s nothing wrong with the fact they were going to use it
later on. It was wrong with the fact that they got their instruction
from the devil, and he’s still giving them instructions. 

53.	I’m going to bring something to church and let you open your eyes.
I’m going to read it to you from Colonel Dunner, outstanding Christian
Colonel. And you will quit going to McDonalds for your cup of coffee;
you will quit gong to Sears Roebuck; you will quit patronizing Proctor
and Gamble and a whole bunch more. Because they put a film on, to let
the school kid know positively that homosexuality is just
great—nothing wrong at all. Even AIDS… Don’t worry about that. Why
buy their stuff; why go in there?

	You know, Sears has got a nice ad in the paper right now. You can get a
real wool coat. Set a match to it as far as I’m concerned. There goes
my wife’s silk stockings. What if she buys from them? No more, no
more. Yeah, there’s a petition on it, too. Everyone of you should
sign. I’ll send them in. Let them know, ‘you bunch of antichrist
heathen’. 

54.	They’re trying to clean up Macon, Georgia—Henry College is. Hah!
Forget it. That bunch will never clean up anyway. They’ll all die with
AIDS—the whole bunch of them. You think it’s not going to happen?
You read your Bible. Eve never got pregnant eating fruit. You get AIDS
from sex—illicit. Oh, I know, sixty-five, seventy-five percent of the
kids and the adults say, “Well, it’s not going to happen to me.” 

	It’s going to happen to you. Don’t worry. You think Jessica Hann
got persuaded, getting AIDS, by eating off of Liberace’s plate?
You’ve got to be naïve. Really, she lied. She never met him. What’s
this got to do with this Message? Everything. Everything. The prophet
taught what was wrong in the Garden—showed exactly what it was.
We’re not brainless.

55.	[20-2]	These battles has raged since the day of the Garden of Eden,
the battle in the human mind. It’s raging right now. Satan started it.
What did he do when he met Eve? He didn’t deny God’s Word, but he
white washed it—watered it down, he coated it, dressed it up, whatever
you want to do with it, changed it. That’s what he did. He stopped up
some little channels here somewhere, and he said, “But surely
God…(reasoning now)…Surely God…All these things…He (Now,
they’ve got this capitalized as though it is the Holy Spirit, but I
don’t think it is. And now It says,) All these things that
he—he—he promised…” He (Satan) knew the Word was right, but he
knew he couldn’t just come right out…blast It…blaa…like that.
So, he sugarcoated It. (In other words, he denied the penalty.)

 	Now, brother/sister, we are back in the Garden of Eden today and in a
position, this mind age, like paragraph 2, which we just read. We’ve
come right back here where your mind accepts or rejects; it’s your
mind opens the door, closes the door, or listens to your conscience and
memory, listens to your affections. When your mind under any condition
closes itself to this Word of God and goes for sensations or anything
else, you’ve lost your battle. You’re finished. Now, I’m sorry,
but that’s the way it is, because there can’t be any transformation
according to Romans 12, which is the transforming by the renewing of the
mind—and it’s 2 Cor 3:15, the same thing. You’ve got to get the
veil taken away before the Spirit of God works. But it’s all here for
the doing of it. But we are in a position now, because we are in the
mind age, for the eye age has just passed—the eagle, the soaring
eagle, the eagle age. The eye age passed. Now, …prophet age. Now
you’re in the mind age. What’s your mind doing tonight? See? Now,
Satan just doesn’t blare like that. He’s going to come and try to
mess it up. See?

56.	Now, preachers are like Satan. They called Bro. Branham a prophet,
then they deny it. It shows their mind hasn’t taken anything in. Okay,
here’s some more…

[20-3]	 Like mama used to do to get us to take medicine: she’d try to
put castor oil in the orange juice. I’d…rather take the castor oil
without the orange juice. Too hypocritical. See? She… We used to…get
up at night time, and she’d give us coal oil for croup. She’d put
the coal oil on a lump of sugar. See? Kind of hypocritical. …it would
just burn your tonsils out nearly going down after the sugar left you.
(Well, it’s just… You know, they did those things.) 

[20-4] 	Well, that’s the way it is, friends. Satan tries to be
hypocritical about it. (He’s the deceiver, see, the angel of light.)
He tries to show you something better, a easier way, a more sensible
plan. But there is no more sensible plan than that which God laid down
at the beginning: His Word… Hold to that Word; get a grip on It. Let
It get a grip on you! Stay there with It until It does get a grip on
you. That’s the thing. That’s the secret.

57.	This is just like the power of confession in Prov 18:20-21. So,
let’s read It. This is one of my favorites. It’s the truth. I would
to God we practice it daily.

A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with
the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it
shall eat the fruit thereof.

	It tells you right here, exactly what comes out of your mouth, goes
into your ears, goes down into your belly, comes out through your mouth
and this time larger. The old fish story, well you know the fish was
this long, first time around. He hears it, it was this long really. He
hears it; says … “mmmm, that’s good.” It comes out this long. It
goes in, comes down, this long. Pretty soon it is three feet long. The
old fish story. This actually happens, brother/sister. Life and death is
in the power of the tongue. They that love it shall eat the fruit
thereof.

58.	Either we love life, or we love death. Death is in the Word we have
left. Then leave it! Life is in the Word, which we have taken. Bro.
Branham says, “Nothing outside this Word will come to Life.” So
therefore, the constant talking and the constant hearing enlarges It and
enlarges It. And so have his sermons, and so has the sermons in this
pulpit.

	I start every one of these sermons not knowing where I’m going and
how I’m going to see this thing work out. I can no more sit here in
your presence, before I hit this pulpit, this thing comes to life, and I
know it’s the same, wonderful, glorious story: one God, one Word, one
people in Christ. And that’s how the church will grow. It’s not
going to grow how you think.

	I’ve tried to show you for years. I’m not yelling to be mad at you.
I’m just trying to get my point in so you never raise your hand to
your heel and never go off in a tangent. If you do, it’s your tough
luck. This Word is the conduit to the Holy Ghost to God Himself.
That’s what you need. If you haven’t got the proper mechanics you
will never get the dynamics. And if you shun the mechanics, you’re
done. 

	Don’t try to guess a prophet, and don’t try to guess anyone in the
five-fold ministry. You start doing that, you’ll have your problems.
Many times I tried to second-guess Bro. Branham. It doesn’t work.
You’ve got to humble yourselves; get down and know he’s telling the
truth. You’ve got to know this works here. See? Now, this is how it
works. This is exactly what It says in Phil 3:12 that I read to you.
See? It is the channel, brother/sister, that Bro. Branham speaks of. 

59.	Now, let’s go back all the way to Revelation 3 and the Seventh
Church Age, and It tells us (Rev 3:19-21): 

(19)	As many as I love , I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and
repent.

 	Then, what will the rebuke be? Where the people are wrong in their
theology. Where they’re off the Word. Christ didn’t have to come and
tell Israel where they were wrong morally; they knew it. The Bible says,
“Their conscience bares them witness.” Anybody knows that. Even
heathen know what’s right, and heathen got far better morals than you
and I’ve got in many cases. 

60.	(20)	(Now,) behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear
my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with
him, and he with me. 

	What did that mean, ‘just sit down and have something to eat’? No,
that’s a place where you refresh yourself by conversation. This is the
Christian, true, social drink, drinking the wine of revelation of the
Word of Almighty God.

(21)	To him that overcometh…

	Overcomes what? Overcomes his thrust against correction. Listen;
what’s this age all about? Reality comes on the scene: the Amen.
Who’s the Alpha? Comes on the scene; this is the Omega period. “I
know your works; you’re lukewarm. I wish you were red hot. If not,
then be ice cold, but get off the fence.” Now, because you say,
(Here’s this lukewarm bunch of birds.) “I’m increased with goods,
need of nothing,” you don’t know “you’re wretched, miserable,
poor, blind, and naked.” I counsel you to come to me to get the gold
tried in the fire to get the real faith. You may be rich, the white
raiment. You’ve got dirty stuff right now. Eyesalve, which you
haven’t got. Come and get it, which is broken cracker crumbs—broken
bread of Almighty God, the true body, discerning the true body broken
was the Word. They’re doing the same thing right today. We’re living
on it—growing on it. See? 

61.	Now, that’s what we’re looking at. And remember; this Word is a
sword. It cuts. So, we don’t try to make It hypocritical. Now, if
somebody comes here and doesn’t understand the Message… And that’s
really tough for my kind of preaching. You know the thought is: you get
a new church and a lot of people come to see what was in the new church.
They aren’t going to stay long. Except for Stan [Bro. John McRae] to
come and do some preaching that’s different than from mine, then
you… You saw what few come, and they’re going to go. The women
can’t stand it; the men can’t stand it. 

	Well, you say, “Maybe the fellows got something, but we don’t want
it.” 

	Sure, they don’t think we got what’s real.

62.	Listen; the Word of God is a sword, and It cuts. There’s no such
thing as trying to dress the thing up. There’s no such thing as trying
to make it pretty. The Word of God the way the prophet brought It is the
Word of God, period. And to change It, it is no longer the Word of God.
And to preach It without a thrust, is no longer the Spirit of God.
It’s just no good. You can’t have it that way. And It says, ‘Stay
with It until It gets a grip on you.’

	Now, that’s what happened to Bro. Branham. He stayed with what God
gave him until one day in his grip was a sword. He had a grip on it. And
the voice said, “This is the Sword of the King.” He said, “There
is only one ‘the King’ and that’s God. There is only one Sword,
and that’s the Word.” And that Word had become a part of him.

	The Bible said, “Cursed is the sword that doesn’t draw blood.”
They couldn’t stand it. Oh, how the women hated him. Oh, that serpent
was that… When the serpent had intercourse with Eve, that’s what
really got them down. They thought it was a great, big, four-footed
elephant or something, [Bro. Vayle gives ‘the raspberries’.) not
knowing the same slimy snakes that think they are men, crawl in bed with
them at a drop of a hat, and they think it’s great—Jessica Hahn,
Tammy Faye, and all the rest. Oral’s [Roberts] 900 foot statue; nine
million dollar ransom. God have mercy. ‘Stay with It,’ he said.
[Bro. Vayle checks the time.]

63.	[21-1]	The battle raged when Eve opended up her mind to listen to
her reason. That’s the flue it come in; that’s the channel it ran
down: her reasoning. She in her spirit she listened and her soul right
down… She listened; she took that word. Her eyes, with sight she saw
the serpent. He was beautiful, handsome, far better than her own
husband. (They’ve been saying that thing for years). He was the most
subtle of all the beast of the field. (Wasn’t a man at all.) He was
probably a fairer man than her husband; he looked like a great masculine
beast standing there. How great he was, and he was trying to tell her
what a great thing it was. And the first thing, she opened up her mind.
And when she did, human reasonings caught it “Why, wouldn’t that be
a thrill. 

	That’s where her thinking was. She reasoned or interpreted it or
decided from her senses as being allowed of God and favorable to her.
So, that’s what she did: she went for it. See?

64.	Let’s take a look at Rev 17:5, the whore.

(5)	And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON  THE
GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

(6)	And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of these saints, and with
the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with
great admiration. (“Great admiration.” She was really something to
marvel at.) 

(7)	And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell
thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her…

	This is the great ecumenical move today. And the little woman, the
church looks at her and forgets instantly the Roman Catholic Church and
the Protestants, all going to be in one big mess, are guilty of the
Blood, from Abel right down, down to the last person. Oh, it’s so nice
and wonderful. Look at the Catholic Church accommodating itself now. But
it still stands there and says, “We are the Catholic Church, and we
don’t change certain things.” And they won’t ever. Don’t you
ever think they will! But they must have come knuckling under, when they
have to tighten their belts. 

	We’ve got a little stock market jittery now. I don’t think it’s
going to amount to much. It could be. Who knows? LA had a little jitter
out there. It’s not the big thing yet. Nah. One day the bouncing
around will bring the big thing on, though. She’ll bounce around.
Don’t worry; she started it. 

65.	Sure, that’s the way it is with this great ecumenical society.
Looks good, looks great. Doctors police themselves, so that means ‘any
doctor commits murder, that’s fine and dandy’. Lawyers police
themselves, and now they demand of the doctors; they want more money.
Now they are mad at each other. Now the preachers… And they police
themselves. I’m out of business as soon as they police themselves. 

	You say, “Vayle, you’re no Trinitarian.” 

	That’s right. I’m no Trinitarian. Out! I’m always that way,
trying to tell me, I been out all these years. So, what are you guys
trying to tell me? I done walked away from you and the devil years ago.
Oh, Yeah. See? 

66.	[21-2]	That’s the thing he does to women today. Some woman with a
lovely little husband finds some great, big masculine man; (He’s
illustrating now. See? How this works.) this man will try to open up the
reasonings. Remember, that’s Satan; that’s the devil. Or visa versa,
man to woman, woman to man either way. What does he do? Work in that
reasoning power, conscienceness (or the feelings and those things)
…something begins to move, but give God’s Word first place. (Never
mind that.)

[21-3]	(Now, listen. Here’s his punch line here:) A man can’t even
sin. Hallelujah. Here it is, this coming fresh. A man cannot sin until
first he casts aside God’s Word. He can’t even sin, (That’s
‘disbelieve’.) until first he gets rid of the Word of God, the
Presence of God; he cannot sin.

67.	All right, brother/sister. What is that? Okay. Let’s see if we can
get that finished. If not, we will start there back the next time.
Ephesians 5, let’s take a look at It. Now verse 23:

(23)	For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head
of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

(24)	Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be
to their own husbands… (Now, this is cast back and forth here, I could
just read about Christ.)

(25)	…Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

(26)	That he might sanctify and clease it with the washing of water by
the word.

(27)	That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having
spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and
without blemish.

(28)	So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that
loveth his wife loveth himself.

(29)	For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and
cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

(30)	For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones, 

(31)	For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall
be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

(32)	This is a great mystery: …I speak concerning Christ and the
church.

 	Now, what we’re trying to see here at this particular point is this:
that the washing of the water by the Word to present her, the Bride,
that she fell, from being back in the time of Paul and the Corinthian
Age is here, right at this moment here. That’s exactly right. See?
Now, the presence of God is here, the Word is here. 

	Now, It says right here; “A man cannot sin until he casts aside the
Word.” Now, if we receive the Word and stay with It, and the presence
of God imminent, which it is now, being then, we can cannot sin. You
can’t go into disbelief. We can lose some of the great things that
could be ours, because we’re not practicing this strong enough. But,
if we would consider our strength, (Never mind the weakness.) instead
consider the strength like Abraham, we would get by a lot better. 

68.	I’m going to close this with Psalm 119. Maybe we will have to go
back into this again starting on Sunday, because it is kind of a bad
place to quit, but the times run out. Ps 119:11:

(11)	Thy Word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee. 

 	There it is right there: the keeper at the gate, the power of the
Christ within the Word. 

[21-4]	Eve could not sin, until she laid aside God’s Word, opening up
her channel of reasons to her soul and begin to reason. “Why
certainly, my husband’s never told me these things, but I believe that
you… He told me I shouldn’t do this but you know you make it so
real; it’s so plain. I believe it would be wonderful, because you’re
making it so plain to me.

	There you’re looking at the fact of reasoning power, what begins to
happen: one little Word, one little step down, and then, it’s all
over. Satan has the wedge in there. That cannot happen to the Bride.
Cannot happen to the Bride.

69.	Brother/sister, listen; the door is wide open for the Spirit of
Christ to come to the church with the gifts on the shelf, all the
sensations, all the things out of the way, and the sick be healed
amongst us—every one. I have a vision for this church, whether it
comes or not, that’s up to us, not God.

	 You say, “Why not God?”

	 Because I believe this; there has to be Bride here. And I believe this
church can qualify for receiving the Word, and I believe the prophet
said categorically, “The gifts, as it were, were put on the shelf, and
that sweet Spirit of Christ coming in, the sick would be healed.” I
believe that is in our potential. I believe it is in our grasp. It is up
to us, brother/sister, to take this Message for life, not death. For
life, for healing, for the Resurrection, for the dead coming out of the
ground, for our change, for our catching away, for the Wedding Supper,
for everything. This is It! This is that seed, that conduit, and we are
a passage also. You may believe what you want. I hope you believe with
me, because it just takes two to be grievous concerning the kingdom of
God.

	Let’s pray; let’s stand, arise and be dismissed.

	Heavenly Father, we ask you again now to go with us as we go, and Lord
God, may it be that these words are not dampened within our souls so we
a nervous people. We go here, we go there, we do this, we do that, we
have many things, oh God, we look at, and it’s true. But they don’t
add to us, Lord, but we know this Word does. This Word does not diminish
us. Many people might think it does diminish, to take away this and take
away that, but they are entirely fallacious, they are entirely wrong,
Lord God. But they could be imbibing the great Word of God. We pray,
Lord, that people would never hold this Word below anything else. It is
more than our necessary meat. It is more than everything to esteem your
Word more than necessary meat. It shows that we have something that is
really real.

	God, I thank you, that you have allowed us to a degree to come this
far, Lord. Now we even want to go all the way. We know, Lord, that way
is pleasant, that way is great, the way is wonderful. Your way, Lord, is
the Garden of Eden. It goes beyond that it is the Millennium and
immortality; it goes beyond that. It is New Jerusalem, with you up
there, Lord, sitting on the throne the Pillar of Fire. Oh God, we cannot
hardly wait for that, Lord, and yet we will. But we know it’s within
our grasp; we know what is there, Lord. We believe, Father God, and if
we go to rest, we go over there to the ground with others; we go with
that hope we’re going to come out of this ground. We’re going to be
standing here in that great day, just means we see the prophet and those
in the Seventh Church Age a little quicker than we do other wise, but
Lord we see them eventually, all together and all those years.

	So Father, may we have this great hope of this Word this great life,
this great Word, oh God, that you gave. We know what the prophet’s
trying to tell us; we know what he showed, what he had himself, Lord
God. He stood right there, and just like Christ went to the cross that
time, we believe it’s the same Spirit though not… We understand the
difference in the two, but even like that same Spirit that led Christ to
the cross, where he could just give himself, the prophet knew he’d be
delivered unto death—smeared across the road as it were, make people
get their eyes off him, perhaps. I don’t know what it’s all about.

	But I do know this, Lord: that man could stand right there know he was
going, know he could face death in that tragic particular manner and,
Lord, we know that we’re facing life. And Father, help us to face it
with that same great, marvelous strength that comes out of that Word,
Lord. Help us to open our minds as never before, oh God, for this is
that mind age, Lord. We need it as never before. Oh God, we need it as
never before. So, let it be, Lord, in the saints as never before. Let it
be as never before in this great hour Father and help to this end. We
will give you the praise in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

	“Take the Name of Jesus with You.”