Leadership #7

The Mark for the Prize

Espousing a Virgin

July 24, 1994

	Shall we pray? Heavenly Father, we’re grateful for Your Presence, and
we know the Scripture said that the Only-begotten Son, who is in the
bosom of the Father, hath surely declared You, Almighty God. And even at
this hour we know that the same is in reverse truth that You, today,
Father God, are declaring the Son, proving he is risen from the dead,
making intercession for us. And the very same ministry that proved who
he was, and Who You were, two thousand years ago, is doing the same
today. And we rejoice in that, Lord, knowing the truth as it has not
been known for two thousand years, and we thank You for it.

	May we not miss any of the richness of the depth which is in You and in
the Son, through the revealed Word by the Holy Spirit, moving amongst us
and within us at this time, lest we, then, would miss the first
Resurrection and the Rapture, which we know is guaranteed to us in this
hour according to Your Word, and not according to any covenant we have
made or any thoughts we have thought, but according to Your Sovereignty,
which we believe we are a part, and we thank You for it. Bless us,
therefore, in this service. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now “Leadership #7”. When we began to teach on this message, we
found Bro. Branham setting forth that this hour in which we are living
is an hour of great change, even to the extent that there is a radical
change in its course that could be compared to a brick layer coming to a
corner and turning that corner, which had not been previously turned,
and would, therefore, demand a very special revelation or ability, some
empowerment, some authority, even as we find over here in Hebrews 8,
where Paul is speaking concerning God’s commandments at a very special
hour, of building a worship center and a worshipful people going into
the Millennium, which is a very minor type of what we’re looking at
now: going into the Millennium as they were going into the promised land
of Canaan.

	It says here, verses 3-5:

(3)	For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices:
wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

(4)	For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that
there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

(5)	Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses
was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for,
See, saith (God), thou make all things according to the pattern showed
to thee in the mount.

	Now that was merely a shadow of what we’re looking at today. And yet,
you will notice that there was no worship, and there was nothing that
God would possibly agree to, except it was made actually according to
that pattern in the mountain.

2.	Now, with that in mind, we turn to Hebrews 12 and begin at verse 18:

(18)	For ye are not come unto the (mountain) that might be touched, and
that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest.

	Certainly not. They’re coming to the first time in two thousand years
of utter, complete non-confusion, of absolute, superb, perfect light in
which there is no error, but it is complete. As Bro. Branham said in 1
Corinthians 13, “What does it mean when It says, ‘that which is
perfect is come’”? And he said, “Who is perfect but God, and what
is God but His Own Word. And by His grace we have the perfect revelation
of the Word of this hour.” And the word ‘perfect’ means
‘completely finished’, ‘nothing can be added to it’, ‘nothing
can be taken from it’. It’s like a perfect bowling ball that is a
hundred percent round and one hundred percent finished with the
polyurethane upon it. And one little scratch, [Bro. Vayle makes
‘whistling zoom’ sound.] it’s gone—no longer perfect.

	You say, “Well, couldn’t we get by?”

	“Oh, my, what’s one little scratch going to do when you roll the
ball?”

	You are not playing billiards! You’re dealing with God, though my
illustrations must be perfect with the Word. All right.

3.	Listen; and It says here [Hebrews 12]:

(20)	For they could not endure that which was commanded, (There’s no
commandment of this hour. It’s all grace—grace that comes by faith.
And faith is a revelation, so you know if you are one with a vindicated
revelation, you are partakers of His grace, you’ve entered into that
perfect worship.) And if so much as a beast touched the mountain, it
(should) be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

(21)	And so terrible was the sight, (So terrible was the sight, Bro.
Branham said, “God came wooing, came to woo a Bride.”…even as
Eleazar produced the wonderful gifts that Isaac had, those gifts handed
down from his father, for which he had not worked, but he fell heir to.
Wooing a Bride.) Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:

(22)	But (he said:) you are come unto mount Sion, unto the city of the
living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, (Who is our mother, according to
Galatians.) and to an innumerable company of messengers,

(23)	To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are
written in heaven, (Of course, in the Lamb’s Book of Life) and to God
the judge of all.

	Never forget: the Judge is standing here. And, who is the Judge? God. 

	You say, “I believe the Lamb is.” 

	“You believe wrong.”

	There was a meeting up in Canada, and the question came, “Who came
down?”

	And they said, “The Lamb.”

	Well, the Lamb didn’t come down.

	“Then, who came down?”

	“Well, we really don’t know.”

	“Well, where is the Lamb?”

4.	One person says he’s comatose. Another one had, believing this
Message, the audacity to stand up and say, “Oh, no, I believe that
what happened to the body is it went back to the dust.”

	You see where my battle is all the time?

	Oh, let’s have a comatose Jesus. I thought he was my intercessor, to
keep me in, and without him, I cannot be kept in. I’m gone! Because He
can only look through that Blood; He’s looking at me. But, if He
can’t look at me… So, I go to court, and I’ve got an attorney, and
he’s [Bro. Vayle makes snoring sounds.] snoring.

	Man! What a great representative I have in court. There is an attorney,
an intercessor, even now on the Father’s throne who stands between you
and me and God.

5.	Now:

(23)	…God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made
perfect,

(24)	And to Jesus the mediator…

	We’ve got God and Jesus. God and Jesus aren’t the same person.
We’re not Oneness. This is the Only-begotten Son of God, which you
don’t even come near! And, except for him being the outraying and the
complete substance of God Himself, being genetically, essentially,
intrinsically a portion of God in a form. Bro. Branham called him
‘logos’, and you can’t be logos, unless part of you is actually
the reality, and it’s there. Never talk about God in logos, unless
some part is there. 

6.	So therefore, we’re looking at this:

(24)	…Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, to the blood of
sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

(25)	See that you refuse not him that speaketh.

	Who is speaking? The blood of God is speaking. Who is the blood of God?
Jesus! The man! who had a preincarnate existence, who called unto God,
“Restore unto me the glory I had!” And He said, “Not only that,
but greater.”

	Bro. Branham said we came exactly like him, except for one thing: we
bypassed our theophanic, or Word body, or Spirit body. 

7.	Are you getting what I’m saying this morning, what Bro. Branham
said? Because the preachers out there aren’t getting it. What do you
want? Donuts from the Donut House? They don’t even give them that;
they give them vomit. Where do you hear of a comatose Jesus, or a Jesus
that went back to the dust? I’d like to know—to have some answers.
They haven’t got an answer from them.

	The only thing they say, “Well, you see, it’s Vayle’s spirit.”

	So, a certain friend of mine called. “All right,” he said, “how
many spirits are there?”

	“Two.”

	“Yes, spirit of truth and spirit of error. How come Lee Vayle has the
truth, if he’s got the wrong spirit?”

	It’s the same old story: It’s hop up and down, dance and sing, and
make everybody think you’re walking in love. And that is a lie! And,
get that flat! Unless you’re full of the Holy Ghost, by the Word of
Almighty God, you will not have the love of God shed abroad in your
heart that you can extend to somebody else. And, get this flat: I’m
not giving you mincemeat and corruption. I’m giving you the truth.
This is just a preamble to Bro. Branham’s sermon, but you see what I
got out of his sermons?

8.	[Hebrews 12:]

[25]	…For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth,
much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him (It doesn’t
say ‘speaketh’, though that’s true.) from heaven! 

	Now, who came down from heaven? God! Jehovah-Elohim; Rhema-Logos. Not
the Lamb—comotose Lamb…no Lamb? What are they talking about?
That’s as stupid as when the Jews tried to say the disciples stole
Jesus’ body and cut it up in pieces and ate it. That’s as stupid as
the Catholics saying a little mumbo jumbo turns wine and bread into the
body and blood of Jesus, and you eat it and drink it. Have you heard
such hogwash? Pagans! Not because I raise my voice, but it’s the
truth.

9.	Now:

(25)	…If we turn away from him that (is) from heaven.

	The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a Shout!—with a Voice
of command, the authoritative Voice. And, if that little ark that
signified a temple had to be a hundred percent according to the pattern
of the Word, which was preexistent, then don’t think for one minute
that you and I will be outside of that pattern, for we are Word, which
was from the beginning. You never walked in there. You won’t even be
carried in there, and I’m speaking ‘you’ in terms of myself. 

(26)	Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying,
Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. (And, how’s
it going to be done? By speaking! All right.)

(27)	And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those
things that are shaken, as of things that are made, (Oh, that sounds
strange, doesn’t it? Once more:) signifies removing those things that
are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot
be shaken may remain. 

10.	In other words there is a separation. Now Bro. Branhams said, “We
are the ‘all things’ of God.” And where is the shaking? The
shaking is by the Word, the separating of the Bride from the non-Bride:
Matthew 24: one taken, one left. Oh, yes. 

	A certain preacher didn’t believe that. He said, “That’s Lee
Vayle talking.” 

	He didn’t know that was in the sermon Bro. Branham preached on “The
Future Home of the Earthly Bride and the Heavenly Bridegroom,” where
he said, “Matthew 24 was the separating by the Word.” And then, he
said in Luke 17, “That separation was the Rapture itself.” 

	Now Bro. Branham said, it; Lee Vayle just quoted it. But the man
laughed, “That’s just Lee Vayle,” he said, “It wasn’t William
Branham.”

	I wonder if he apologized to his congregation. 

11.	The Bride can’t be shaken. Do you know why? She’s built on the
rock of revelation, and the Bible said, “The man that builds his house
upon the solid rock, the winds come and the floods descend, and the
strong storm blows against that house, and can’t uproot it, built upon
a rock. [Mt 7:24-25]

	But another man built his house on sand. And, do you know what sand is?
Sand is disintegrated rock. It’s the Word in which the life has gone
out, the cement, the binding. There’s nothing there anymore. It’s
full of wiggle worms. It was the Word that was once for a time. And
we’ll get into that very shortly, if God gives us time this morning. 

(28)	We receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved…

	What kingdom? God’s Own Kingdom built upon His Own Word, God’s Own
people, His Own Word, and New Jerusalem, His Own Word-Church, all solid
rock. Because, if the first one was of the substance of God and, then,
received a glorified body down here, and he’s in the midst of his
brothers and sisters, (They’re called ‘brethren’.) then we are of
the same substance and the same glorified form in the allotment in the
place where God puts each one of us.

12.	Now It says:

(28)	…Let us have grace.

	Well, the point is this: Is he talking about God’s grace or our
grace? He’s talking now in terms of our grace, because this has been
extended to us. Now, where is our grace we boast in, as though we have
the grace of God, if we don’t have the grace to acquiesce to a
vindicated ministry? There is a picture of the Pillar of Fire, which is
the Shekinah Glory, which is the light attendant upon Almighty God
Himself and His Presence. It is not God, but God is there behind It. And
Bro. Branham categorically said that “is a picture of God.” People
wonder why we’ve got it there, hanging on the wall. There, you’ve
got your answer right now, because that’s the truth.

13.	Now he says here:

(28)	…Let us have grace. (Let us be cooperative; let us humble our
thinking and ourselves and come into this. See?) that we may serve God
acceptably with reverence and godly fear.

	Now It says this here: You cannot, absolutely cannot, serve God and
reverence and worship Him outside of this speaking at this time,
whatever that time is, that He speaks from heaven. There it is right
there. There it is right there.

	Oh, that’s in disrepute. A man that couldn’t understand, in drugs
and divorced his wife and everything, but they don’t know that Bro.
Branham told me about the time that really happened. And I try to tell
people; they don’t listen.

	“No, Lee Vayle is just a liar. He’s off the Word. He’s got a
devil.

	“Oh well, he gets truth, but that’s intellectual.”

14.	Now, listen. Without this, you cannot… Why? Because “our God is
a consuming fire!” Now you sit here this morning, and you tell me
after ten more solid years—or twelve solid years—I’ve preached to
you, that your mind cannot dart back and forth in the Scripture to
Malachi, cannot go to 2 Thessalonians, cannot go to 1 Corinthians,
cannot go here, cannot go there? You mean you sit here this morning,
under my ministry all these years, and your minds cannot pick these
things right now? Why have I been teaching all these years, then?

	I’m not trying to be rough on you. I’m just trying to get you a
little prick in there somewhere. You don’t come here to just sit here
and listen. I waste my time. There are people out there getting it. You
bet they are. Young men that stand right up and say, “Something’s
wrong somewhere.” Thank God for these people.

15.	So, here’s what we’re looking at, and what I bring to your
attention. When we began to teach on this message, we found Bro. Branham
setting forth that this hour in which we are living is an hour of great
change, even to the extent that there is a radical change in its
course—the course of the Church, that is, and the ministry of the
Word—that could be compared to a bricklayer, coming to a corner and
turning the corner, which had not previously been turned, thereby
demanding a very special revelation, even as it was back in the time of
the Hebrew exit. He said, “It was easy to lay the bricks in a straight
line, but it was difficult to turn a corner and proceed with the
building of the house, or even a wall, unless one was sufficiently
skilled.”

	Now, where did they get their skill to build the tabernacle? Where did
they get their skill to know what to do? Where did they get the skill to
worship God? Where did they get the skill to reverence God? Where did
they get the skill to worship, to serve Him? Only by the Word. So, if
someone is not sufficiently skilled, what happens?

16.	Now we know for a fact that he was talking about the Church coming
up from the Dark Ages, through Luther, Wesley, and Pentecost. It was
just brick by brick, in a straight line, but as justification gave way
to sanctification, and sanctification gave way to the baptism, and the
baptism gave way to the Baptizer, God Himself, Jehovah-Elohim. As it was
in the days of the young ruler, who had to confront God Himself in human
flesh, so it is today. Headship has returned. Jehovah-Elohim,
Rhema-Logos is here, even as He was with Paul in alpha Ephesus, where
Paul speaks of himself as the wise, master builder, laying a foundation,
telling them to be careful how they built thereon, because anybody can
build, anybody can worship, anybody can serve. But is God in it? See?

	That’s the thing this morning I want to get across to all of us. The
point is: We are in a state of elation that no other church ever knew.
We’re in the presence of God for a Rapture; we are accepted; we know
as we’re known; we understand our identification; all of these things
are ours. We are that peculiar people unto Almighty God. Not what they
had before. It’s what we have now, which is so particular and
wonderful. We are now, not a matter of what is built; it is how it is
built, because what has always been there, it’s always been out of
context, it’s always been misunderstood, it’s always been
misconceived and imperceived.

17.	But now Perfection has come, we’ve come to omega, the alpha, we
are now back to Ephesus, a small corner of Laodicea gives way to
Ephesus, the light—Paul, the master builder, laying a foundation. And
now we are at the omega where another master builder, even William
Branham, was used for the capstone ministry, the literal descent of
Jesus Christ to us—Him, in flesh, to meet the rest in flesh.

	This is what that Voice from heaven did. So, even William Branham was
used for the capstone ministry and return of the Capstone Himself. So,
the fitting of stone on stone, there has to be a perfection. You can’t
even put a razor blade in between the blocks of the great pyramid.
Nobody can understand it. Bro. Branham not only uses the illustration of
a building, as did Paul in 1 Corinthians and Ephesus, (You can read it
for yourself: chapter 3 and 4 and 5.) but he turns to nature, as did
John the Baptist in reference to this hour. The planted wheat has come
up all the way to where the original seed, planted for a harvest crop,
that one seed planted by itself, has gone through three stages of stalk,
pollen and chaff, and now the wheat appears, and the chaff pulls away. 

18.	Let’s get some Scripture: Colossians 3, and we’re going to go
verses 1-4. And It says:

(1)	If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above,
where Christ sits on the right hand of God. 

(2)	Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 

(3)	For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 

(4)	When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall we also
appear with him in glory. 

	Now, just a minute, and let’s see how you can get your mind so
confused. The first three verses you read, and you would automatically
say to yourself, (And I don’t blame us.) “All right, I go through
these steps here, and then, I come to this step, and the step is: when
Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then we also shall appear with
him in glory.”

	I’m going to suggest something: You don’t even have to go through
those first three steps, and Christ is going to appear. The point is:
Are you going to appear with Him at the time He appears? That’s the
point. And, if you’ve got your mind all prepared that this is
something the church can do, that the church does and brings this on,
you are wrong, because He’s going to come regardless. And, if
there’s no church, you better believe, as a Capstone, He will see that
there is a Church. 

	This is just what you and I go through in our active faith, because we
do have the passive faith. We do have the revelation: “If you, then,
be risen with Christ…” Tell me: What can you do about that? Did you
do it? Did you seek it? Did you bargain? Did you coerce? Did you do
something that brought it? No! “If you be risen,” it’s only
because God did it. Now It doesn’t only say that, but It says: “If
you be risen with Christ, seek those things that are above where Christ
sits on the right hand of God.” 

	Is he sitting on the right hand of God? Not at this point. He’s on
the throne of God, and God is down here, though still the right hand of
God.

19.	(2)	Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

	So, we’re looking right to the Mercy Seat. We’re looking right to
reality, not just in a type. And this comes down to the pattern of the
heavenlies, and the One from the heavenlies speaking: you and I better
believe, unless the time when Christ appears, there is no way we’re
going to have this, unless the one from heaven appears and the one from
heaven does the speaking, because you can’t separate an event within
an event and say, “Okay, I’ll put this part over here, I’ll put
this part over there, and I’ll put that over there.”

	You can’t do it! You put it all together. So, when you talk of that
Appearing, everything that’s in there, I don’t care where it is,
what Scripture you pick, it’s got to come together at that time. As
I’ve said, time after time, when you see the word ‘burning’,
it’s only at the last phase that the word ‘burning’ comes in. You
can’t put it miles down the road. You can’t put it miles back.
It’s right at this particular time and this hour that Elijah appears
on the scene that the burning must come. 

	That’s why all those old timers are dying off, and the young ones are
coming up who never heard anything but this Message. And they’ll be
the ones standing on their feet going in. You better watch and see.

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, couldn’t you be Caleb or Joshua?”

	Whoever said I was? You didn’t hear me say it, and you didn’t hear
Bro. Branham say it. I’m looking to what Bro. Branham said, “The
young ones will go in.”	

20.	Now, “When Christ who is our life shall appear, then we’ll
appear also.”

	Isn’t that exactly what 2 Thessalonians said? Then, why try to change
it? “Oh, I’ll pluck this up and put it here. Then, I’ll pluck this
and put it there.”

	You see, that’s the whole thing that Bro. Branham was trying to
teach: the Scripture for the hour! And, if we know one Scripture
pertains to this hour, then every Scripture that is part of it, in that
time frame, blends in one, and you’re getting the composite picture.
See?

	Christ appearing, the great Appearing, is no Rapture, brother/sister.
No way. Now you can read on this further, and you’ll find more
Scripture in there—what we’re looking at.

21.	But now I want to go to what I told you a minute ago: 2
Thessalonians 1, where It tells you: 

(7)	And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall
be revealed from heaven with his mighty (messengers). 

	And verse 10:

(10)	When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired
in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed )
in that day.

	Now, what was the Voice from heaven? The Voice from heaven had to be
identical to what Paul preached. So therefore, there is a repeat. Who
came down to Paul? The Lamb? No Sir! Who came down? Jehovah-Elohim came
down, the One Who said, (And His Name was called ‘Jesus’.) “I came
in my Father’s Name.” 

	So, now you’ve got two Jesuses. Which one are you talking about? The
one that left the flesh who was in his Father’s Name, and the Father
Who had His Own Name that lent it to His Son and still had it… That
One, the Father, left the flesh and went back to the Pillar of Fire. And
there It is!

	Only God is Messiah. Why? Because it was God in Jesus, the Christ,
reconciling the world. It wasn’t ‘Jesus, the Christ’. It was God.
And that Rock that followed them, that Cloud, was Elohim-Jehovah or
Jehovah-Elohim. You can’t change it that the Jesus of the New was the
Jehovah of the Old. And we’re talking about God, the One Who had a
Son, but we’re talking about Him before He had a Son, before there was
a breath of air, one atom, as Bro. Branham said.

22.	Now It tells you right here… Let me read It to you, as we have
read It. At this end time here, we are looking at the time of the
Appearing, the chaff pulls away from the wheat. Now, in order to make
this come to where I want it to come, (And I’m not going to work with
Scripture.) I’m going to read It. We’re going to go to 1 John 3.

(1)	Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that
we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not,
because it knew not him. 

	Now, listen. If they couldn’t recognize ‘the’ Son of God, they
aren’t going to recognize ‘sons’ of God. Why? Because it’s not
incumbent upon us. Do you understand what I mean? Vindication.

(2)	Beloved, now are we the sons of God, (in spite of it) and it hath
not yet appeared what we shall be: we know that, when he shall appear,
we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

	Now that tells you right there that, at His Appearing, you’re going
to see Him as He is. And, remember now; as Jesus led forth God,
exegetically, which is ‘to declare by words’, God has to do the same
thing for him, for he who said, “He that sees me, sees the Father.”
You cannot see the Father without seeing that Son. It didn’t say God
seeing Himself. I said, “seeing the Son.” I’m not Jesus-Only, you
see.

23.	And, as the Appearing, we shall see Him as He is. What’s His
Appearing? God’s Own Appearing! We’re going to see Him as He is.
We’re going to see Him face-to-face.

	How do you see Him face-to-face? Through the prophet. God’s Word to
Moses was in Numbers 12, He said: “I the Lord Your God will give
visions and dreams to prophets,” He said, “and these signs and
wonders…my Name,” but He said, “Moses is different. I’m going to
go him face-to-face.”

	And Paul was face-to-face, and William Branham was face-to-face. And,
when that man, the prophet, is face-to-face, then we are face-to-face.
Why? Because it’s representation! 

	“Don’t let God look at us, and we look at God. You do the looking.
God doesn’t… Look, you come back. That way we look, God looks.”

	Amen? It’s just the truth. People can do what they want, you see.

24.	Now [1 John 3]:

(3)	And every man that hath this hope in him purifies himself, even as
he is pure. 

(4)	Whosoever committeth sin transgresses the law: for sin is the
transgression of the law. 

(5)	And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him
is no sin.

(6)	Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not
seen him, neither knoweth him.

(7)	Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness
is righteous, even as he is righteous. 

(8)	He that committeth sin is of the devil… (And right. Down the line
It tells you. We’ve read this dozens of times.)

	Now, let’s just take a look at this: What does the word ‘sin’
mean? It means ‘to miss the mark’. ‘Sin’ means ‘to miss the
mark’. Yeah. Okay, what was the sin in the Garden of Eden? 

	“Well, what it was, Eve, she went and misbehaved with the devil,
through the serpent, and had coitus and brought forth Cain, and she got
Adam going with her, and brought forth Abel, and we’ve got this in the
world.”

	That sounds very good, but actually, what is sin? Bro. Branham said,
“It’s unbelief.” That’s very good. What is ‘unbelief’? Well,
if faith is received in a revelation, then, of course, unbelief is
rejecting a revelation. 

25.	Now, what is a revelation all about? Substance! Substance! Do you
follow me? Something that is there, and you cannot control it. It’s
out of control entirely and in the control of Almighty God, and it needs
a special revelation. And you, by the grace extended, believe and take,
and therefore, you are now a part of substance.

	So, the Bible tells us that Adam lost substance! He fell short of the
mark, and he ran screaming to the Tree of Life. It didn’t do him any
good at that time. So, now there’s an interruption. Do you follow me? 

	Sin is to miss the mark so as to not share the prize. See? It comes
from the word… Well, I guess it’s ‘maros’. Sin is the negative
part of it. And this word means ‘a division’ or ‘a share’, ‘a
piece’ or ‘portion’, and implies respect. 

	Are you thinking? I ask you a question: Who was it who didn’t have
respect? 

	[Answers from congregation.] No, that’s good; but it’s not that
fellow. The one that didn’t have respect? How do you spell that? Who
didn’t have respect, though? God has respect, but this man didn’t
have respect. You can’t remember? Who? Well, no, it wasn’t Balaam.
Balaam didn’t have respect, that’s for sure. Who didn’t have
respect? Now think straight. The lad I’m looking at is Esau. He’s
the major one, and there are others like him. They did not have respect.

26.	So therefore, what we are looking at… And you’re right when you
said, “Cain.” You go all the way back to the definitive that comes
from Esau. He did not have respect for the promise, for the inheritance
to the firstborn. And that’s exactly what Eve did not have, and
that’s exactly what Adam did not have, and that’s exactly what
people do not have. And without having that, you are in sin. But the
minute you come to the place of that respect, which means you receive
the revelation exactly as God gave it to the intent of the substance
which you are to receive from God, through God by His Word, and
delineated and clearly described in His Word, by the prophets, that’s
the time you don’t have sin. That’s the time that you don’t fall
short of your portion. That’s the time you don’t fall short of the
division or your share or place.

27.	Now, let’s go to Philippians 3, and we could read It all: Paul
saying that he rejoiced, and the dogs are without. He didn’t trust his
flesh; he gave everything away; what things he counted gain, or gain to
him at that time, he counted loss for Christ. And he said:

(8)	Doubtless, I count all things (for) loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord…

	Now, listen. That was the time of the confrontation: the One that came
down from heaven to give the revelation, which was Elohim-Jehovah,
Jehovah-Elohim, Rhema-Logos. Right?

	Now, that knowledge was given to him, and from that time he counted
everything loss and manure. Then, what will we be like in His Presence
through William Branham? Everything we ever believed is loss; everything
we banked on is manure.

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, what about justification, sanctification,
baptism with the Holy Ghost, and gifts?”

	The life has passed out of it!

	“Oh, I really don’t think so. I really don’t believe that.”

28.	You see, you’re missing of what Bro. Branham is teaching. He said,
“The life went through the stalk; it went through the pollen; it went
into the chaff which protected and harbored the wheat for the time
being, and at the right time, the chaff pulled away so the seed could
lie in the sun and ripen.”

	Now, either Bro. Branham lied, or he didn’t know what he was talking,
or he was a prophet of God! Now, make up your mind.

	Now, see. I’ve turned the corner. I’m not on the fence. If I’m
going to miss heaven, even miss the Lake of Fire by forty miles I’m so
wrong, I can’t change!

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, where does that leave you?”

	It leaves me dead. I’m dead, without emotion, without sensation.
I’m paralyzed, but I’m thinking. 

29.	Let’s keep reading [Philippians 3]:

(9)	And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of
the law, (Something I’ve contributed, something I’ve done, something
I’ve thought.) but that which is through the faith of Christ…

	It doesn’t even say ‘his faith in Christ’. It’s the ‘faith of
Christ’. That’s what Jesus accomplished for him, and he’s ‘heir
to’ by reason of accomplishment. Jesus only had heir to one thing,
which was the name of God and that Word. And he didn’t even become
heir to the Word, except in the sense he was heir to the Word that he
could fulfill, because he was that Word, all the law and the prophets. 

(9)	…(And) that which is through the faith of Christ, the
righteousness which is of (faith by God): 

(10)	That I may know him, (Now, listen.) and the power of his
resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made
conformable unto his death; (Now he has to throw that in there, but
that’s an interpolation. That goes with Romans 8.) That I may know
him, and the power of the resurrection… (Next verse.)

(11)	If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 

30.	Watch those interpolations. I don’t care how much Paul suffered.
If he wasn’t Seed and full of the Holy Ghost, he could give his body
to be burned, and he’d still go to hell. So, let’s not get any grand
ideas here. You know there are people who get the grand ideas here. A
little girl said to me one day, “Well, I’m going to this new church
now, Bro. Vayle, and I’m learning to pray and this and that.”

	Even the heathen do that: turn down the Message and learn to pray.
Fine. Great! Turn your ear away from hearing the Word of God; He turns
His ear away from hearing your mouth. I’m not trying to run anybody
down. I’m trying to show you something here. You think this light, a
bolt of lightning, didn’t knock the socks off of my feet? I’ve got
news for you: It killed me. Hallelujah. 

31.	(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.

(13)	Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one
thing I do, forgetting those things which are 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.

	Let me tell you something right there: You miss that, it’ll let you
know that you have sin in your life, that you are a sinner, because this
man says, “I don’t want to be a sinner. I want to share in the prize
that’s there. I don’t want to fall short.”

32.	Now here we’re given the opportunity by grace not to fall short.
“Little Bride, you didn’t even do it.” Standing by amazing grace.

(15)	Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in
any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
(You’ve got to come to the revealed Word, that’s all he’s telling
you flat.)

 (16)	Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the
same rule, let us mind the same thing. (Now he said, “There’s those
that aren’t going to go on to this. You just walk by your old rule,
whatever you are.)

(17)	Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so
as ye have us for an ensample.

	Now, what’s he mark them? Here’s a mark; here’s a mark. And I’m
going to tell you something: one mark is the Holy Ghost sealing, the
other is the antichrist mark—mark of the beast. You’ve already got
it. I’m not stretching these things! Come on, it can’t be both ways.
See? You’ve always got your twins: Son of God, meaning Spirit; spirit
of hell, son of perdition; Son of man. See? 

33.	Now:

(18)	(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you
even weeping, they have become the enemies of the cross of Christ: 

(19)	Whose end is destruction, and God is their belly, and (their) glory
their shame, (and they) mind earthly things.)

	What does that tell you right there? It tells you this is the
pre-condition of the flood, where they become brute-beast animals, and
it’s nothing but food and sex. If you don’t think it is, look how
these idiots here walk on the street—these grungy guys. Anybody in
this church, you wear grunge clothes, don’t come in that door. I’ll
have you thrown out—your earrings, your hair… You’d better be
circumspect around here. We’re not going to tolerate you. Go someplace
else with your evil spirit. 

34.	Our ladies aren’t stupid around here; I can tell you that. They
dress the way they should dress. I like it. Real, terrible cold weather,
you put your long skirts right down to your ankles; let them even dust
the floor. Fine. It saves the sweeper. No problem. Springtime comes,
take them off. Put the right clothes on for springtime. 

	You people here, you’re not ignorant. Of course, brains don’t mean
everything, but you know this church has twenty-one university degrees
in it? Which, out of about fifty-four adults, is about the highest rate
maybe of any church in America almost, except the elite out there. I
don’t see those men with degrees coming in here with earrings and
silly hair cuts and everything else. I can’t stand it. If you voted
for it, I’d walk out. I’d just tell you flat: forget it. You’re
not going to have Lee Vayle and that folly. My eyeballs spin, my blood
rises to my head, when I see that stuff on the street. And under my
breath, and sometimes out loud, I’m saying some very, very nasty
things.

35.	(20)	For their (behavior) is in heaven. (It says, “Our behavior is
in heaven.”) from whence also we look for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus
Christ…

	Looking at what time? The time of the Resurrection. So, here I’m
trying to show you all these things: the separating of the chaff
according to the Word of God, and sin is missing that mark. And today,
that mark is the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, which
means the First Resurrection! Now, listen. If the First Resurrection is
there, there’s got to be a revelation of it, which revelation is the
delineation of the true substance, which true substance is
resurrection—the first, and we’re just like Him, and we get caught
up to where He is. And from that time we are never without Him. 

	Do you think that God gave a woman a man that he’d run around the
country selling, what? insurance policies and things? I’m not saying
it couldn’t be done, but you can’t find that in the Old Testament.
In fact, the first year a man and a woman got married, they had a whole
year honeymoon.

	Man’s supposed to be with a woman. From the Wedding Supper thereon He
only makes one little minor incursion, and that’s to go to Israel—to
appear—like Joseph leaving the Gentile Bride in the castle, in the
palace. How long? Not very long, and then, right back, forever and ever.

36.	Thus, we are no longer in a straight line. We are no longer in a
straight line. If we were, the Lutherans, Methodists and Pentecostals,
and those under the Catholics and the other ages, those builders could
produce the Capstone and, then, take us to the Wedding Supper. Not so!
This is no longer a church age—church, church, church. It is a Bride
age within the last church age. For the church has pulled away. That’s
the shuck.

	Notice what the church ages have produced. They’ve produced Rev
3:14-21, Laodicean church. They produced Mt 23:31, the bunch of
Pentecostals, false prophets, with signs and wonders based on Matthew
7—never were known of God. The more fully delineated by Paul… Then
this, what I’m saying, is more fully delineated by Paul in 2 Th
2:1-14. 2 Thessalonians 2:

(1)	Now we beseech you, brethren, by the (presence) of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and by our gathering together unto him…

	And, how are you gathered? You’re gathered by the Word. I don’t
care what anybody else tells you:

	“Well, I was gathered by Jesus.”

	Well, fine! You’re going to hell. I’m going to tell you flat:
you’re going to hell, because you deny a vindicated prophet who said
“The Message gathers you.”

	We’ve a vindicated prophet.

37.	Now:

(2)	That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or troubled, neither (as) by
letter, spirit or word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of
Christ is at hand. 

	Now he’s telling you: This is the end time. So anybody comes and
says, “Well, bless God, this is the word of Paul; this is what Paul
said; this is what Paul preached. I’ve got it,” and he hasn’t the
Pillar of Fire? Forget it! Forget it, because you’ve got to hear the
One from heaven, and you can’t hear from Paul; that’s spiritism.
Huh? Are you following me? I hope so.

(3)	Let no man deceive you by any means: (Now the interpolation says:)
for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and
that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

(4)	Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or
that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God,
shewing himself that he is God. (Now, that’s the pope, because Bro.
Branham said, “He’s the one that does it.”)

(5)	Remember ye not, when I was with you, I told you these things?

	Now he tells you: When I was with you I told you these things; so, when
the day comes when this happens, you remember what I told you. Right?
So, this Word is for our hour, if it’s Paul’s Word. But Paul’s
Word met corruption. The Bride was already seduced. Now we’ve got to
have a virgin, because remember: Paul, he espoused a virgin; and, if
Jesus is going to come back and say, “Bro. Paul, my younger brother,
didn’t you espouse me a virgin?”

	“Yes, but she sullied herself. I don’t want her.”

	Now Paul could only espouse a virgin to Jesus the same as Eleazar did
on the Word of the Father. So, believe me, he’s going to have a virgin
of the Word, and she’s got to be blood-related—not just because of
the kinsman redeemer, although that is true, very true. It’s because
they have to have the same genes from the same Source. So, now we’ve
got the picture.

38.	[2 Thessalonians 2:]

(6)	And now you know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his
time. (He’s not revealed yet, but this is going to come.)

(7)	For the mystery of iniquity (is) already (working.)

	As it was at the time of Jesus, and in my time, right down the road.
But at the end, the Seed here will ripen over here. There’ll be many
antichrists, lots of false prophets, lots of manifestations. Don’t
ever doubt it. And at that time the revelation will be unravelled, and
you watch what happens. And the only way the full exposure and the full
manifestation with the full results of the ripening… Now there’s has
to be two ripenings: false wheat, true wheat. True wheat has Christ,
Head, come—Rapture. The other has the antichrist come—Satan’s
church. Right? Fully manifest in flesh.

39.	Now:

(7)	…Until (the Holy Spirit) be taken out of the way (and the Bride
goes with Him.)

(8)	And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord (is going to
come back and) consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy
with the brightness of his presence:

(9)	Even him, whose (working) is after the working of Satan with all
power and signs and lying wonders,

(10)	And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness (He will institute a
worship that is so close, all but the Elect would be deceived. It’s
going to be pretty raw by that time, though—take over, a hundred
percent. Now, watch:) because they received not the love of the truth,
that they might be saved.

	Now, what was the love of the truth? The same witness that Paul had,
genuinely revealed by vindication to him. And now, by the same Voice
from heaven, 1 Th 4:16, we’ve got the same Word; the same Spirit that
gave It, reveals It. Now, watch:

(10)	…They (turned down) the love of the truth, that (alone can save
them.)

	Then, I ask, “Where’s the Blood? Where’s the man on the Mercy
Seat?” Tell me about it. It tells you right here: you turn down
Paul’s Gospel, by which the world is judged by Christ Jesus, you’re
condemned. So, the world has already been judged. You see, you don’t
want to put that in the past tense; you’re looking for the
tribulation. Don’t be fooled. The separation has occurred. The Word is
in effect. Is there any more coming in? I don’t know! All I know is:
The time that God came to Paul, the Holy Spirit was given to a lot of
people who were Seed. But at that time of Paul, only Paul received a
revelation. And at this hour, the same with Bro. Branham—alpha being
omega, omega being alpha—there could be people right now receiving the
Holy Ghost. I don’t know! With the present the Judge divides by the
Word, because He is the Word.

40.	Now:

(11)	And for this cause God sends them strong delusion, that they should
believe the lie. (“You’re not going to die.”)

(12)	That they all might be damned (judged, condemned) who believed not
the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (Their form of worship:
three gods. Hogwash! They say there’s a trinity, but it’s one. Did
you ever hear such stupidity? Three Bibles, but it’s one, or three
books: Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Grapes of Wrath. Phew! Merciful
heaven.)

(13)	But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren
beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to
salvation through sanctification of the Spirit (even) belief of the
truth: (That word ‘and’ in there shouldn’t be there as a
conjunction. It has to be a preposition, because there’s no way the
Spirit will sanctify you apart from the Word, and there’s no way the
Word sanctifies you apart from the Spirit, because the Word is Spirit
and life.)

(14)	Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the
glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. (It did it back there; it’s doing it
now.)

41.	Okay. Now, 2 Tim 3:1-9:

(1)	This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

(2)	For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,
proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

(3)	Without natural affection, (There are your homosexuals.)
trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, (There’s the bunch again.)
fierce, despisers of those that are good,

(4)	Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of
God;

(5)	Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such
turn away. (In other words, they deny the very fact we’ve got a
vindicated Message. No, they don’t believe that.)

(6)	For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive
silly women laden with sins, (That’s the churches.) led away with
divers lusts,

(7)	Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

(8)	Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist
the truth: (That’s your Pentecostals. What do you think of that?) men
of corrupt minds, reprobate (Do you know what ‘reprobate’ is?
Serpent seed. They’re reprobate) concerning the faith. 

(9)	But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be made
manifest unto all… (Which is: they have the folly. They’re just in
folly. They’ll be sitting here in the Great Tribulation.)

	You can go to 2 Pet 2:1-21 and Jude 1-19. I haven’t got time to read
It, as well as Revelation 13, which Rev 13:11-18 fully is described in
the two chapters of Rev 18 and 19.

	Now, can you see an Ephesian Bride in all this? You can’t, unless the
secret is there, the separation by the Word. There’s only a few who
believe the Gospel of Paul. As Bro. Branham’s vision, “Behind the
Curtain of Time”: “I preach what Paul preached”…

	They said, “We’re depending on it.”

	I’m going to tell you something: Those people behind the curtain of
time didn’t know that before they got there. They didn’t know that;
but they sure found out. Let’s not be too late.

42.	Now we can quickly go, to page 20, paragraph 138. Come Wednesday, if
I’m here, which I more than likely will be, I’ll read my notes over
again and start right in. But this often happens, and you should be here
Wednesday night, because I’m going to show you something. I’ll ask
every one of you to tell me what it is. I’ll see if you know. 

	Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	

	Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your fellowship around the Word with
us this morning, knowing, O God, that we have a fabulous, tremendous
Message which makes every cell in our body reverberate. Lord, there are
times when every cell in my body reverberates with tiredness and just
death entering in, and time going by. But, O God, when this comes the
light of life and the revelation, the stimulation, all of these things,
the oil and the wine poured in, I don’t have a tired ounce in my body.
It’s just as though going on forever, and we know it’s going to stop
somewhere.

	There’s just one thing we ask You: Don’t let us forget what we
heard this morning. The only way we know we’re getting more and more
filled with the Holy Ghost, coming right to the full measure. Don’t
let anyone miss it, I pray, and I pray especially for myself, Lord, as
each one here must do that. Don’t let us miss one Word, thereby all
the fruit coming forth, all gifts, if there be anything there, every
single thing coming forth now, manifest in this Word, as we turn right
into that image for which we’re made, go into the Millennium, further
sanctification, right on down; more, more, more; upward, upward.

	Now, heal the sick amongst us, Lord. Bless us continually. May the
people have a mind to pray this afternoon as never before, knowing that
things lie ahead; whether they ever come to pass or not doesn’t make
too much difference. It means, Lord, that we’re setting our sails.
We’re entering into the waters of the future the best we can by the
Holy Spirit and the Word, with each other, Father, praying diligently,
believing and actually believing to the extent of knowing that You are
going to move and help us, Lord, every way, shape and form, and we’re
ready for it all. 

	Unto Thee we give honor and glory. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray.
Amen. 

	“Take the Name of Jesus with You.”