Perfect Faith #15

Simple Faith to Perfect Faith

September 27, 1987

	Shall we pray? Heavenly Father, we’re very grateful to know that
You’re here in the form of the Holy Spirit in a way that You’ve not
been here for a long, long time, Lord, when you visited the apostle Paul
on the road to Damascus to bring forth Your Word; hovered Your Church
and its conception; It went away; only fell in believers with the Holy
Ghost even as with Israel, You hovered them. You disappeared; You came
back. You came back to the temple. You went away again, and came down in
the form of human flesh. We realize that we’re waiting for that great
day when once more that human flesh becomes a tabernacle of You, and
we’ll crown You King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and we know that’s
true. And we know, Lord, it’s true for us, because we look for You
according to the Scripture.

	We thank You for it, Lord, that our hope is built on nothing less than
the absolute, vindicated Word of Almighty God Himself and the presence
of that One Who appeared to Mary, hovered her, and she became the mother
of that One we call Jesus Christ the Child. So, Lord, we’re thankful
that we’re in a day that history is being fulfilled and the greatest
day ever. We appreciate that. We pray, Lord, that our appreciation shall
become stronger and stronger; that we’ll believe as we’ve never
believed before, and our lives will be consecrated to it. Help us in
this service as we bring the Word. We’ll give You the praise in
Jesus’ Name. Amen.

	You may be seated.

1.	Now I want to, carefully if I can, just sort of review material
we’ve taken, and this is number 15 in “Perfect Faith”. And in this
message on perfect faith, Bro. Branham gives us to understand that his
definition of ‘perfect faith’ is a faith that is related to the
rapture. Perfect faith is related to the rapture more so than it is
where you develop yourselves in the faith that God has given you, so
that you may have every answer to every request. You know that that, of
course, is a very superficial idea, that we would have every answer to
every request, because many times we don’t even know what we’re
asking for. Many times as James says: We consume it upon our lust. [Jas
4:3] It would be better to put it into the proper context and that is:
every promise which is in the Book and is available to us, considering
our condition, and that would mean; why we wanted it; what we would do
with it when we got the answer. 

	Now, Bro. Branham, however, in “Perfect Faith” is referring more to
the thought of a rapturing faith. And so, we’re going to read first of
all on page 8, paragraph 39, and he says now:

[39]	I want you to get this. The Church has got to lift itself in the
power of God. How? We are too close to the end, now; and I believe the
Church is in a condition where we can teach it some little deeper
things, and rub some of these make-believes out and get into something
real. See? It’s got to be something you know.

2.	All right, on page 20, paragrah 114, we also read here:

[114]	So when a man lives by faith and walks by faith, I mean substance
faith, he’s isolated from the entire world and becomes a new creature
in Christ. There, now your’re going to get into Bride material. See?
You’re getting into rapturing condition now.

	Now you know the Rapture could not take place until a certain period of
time. Paul could believe for it. No use believing for it. He knew it was
going to happen, although it didn’t happen in his time. Irenaeus could
believe for it, and he did believe for it. But it wasn’t going happen
in his time. It couldn’t happen till the end of the Seventh Church
Age, when the fullness of the Gentiles is completed. So, when Bro.
Branham was talking about this, you know that, when he refers over here,
which I just read on page 8 and 39, where he said, “The Church has to
have the power to lift itself.” In other words, the power of God has
to come into the Church somehow, and the Church would have to be in a
position to receive it. And, of course, the first position would have to
be the hour. You must understand that, because no matter how perfect
your faith is, or how wonderful it would be, you can’t have God going
ahead of His plan. So, he’s mentioning here then, and we’re looking
at this perfect faith in relationship to the Rapture itself.

3.	 Now I want to go back to page 8 again and paragraph 39 and the last
sentence, when he’s talking about this faith that the Church has to
have. He says, “It’s got to be something that you know…something
that you know.” Now, that defines a characteristic of rapturing faith.
The characteristic of rapturing faith is ‘something that you know’. 

	Okay, the word ‘knowledge’ comes from the Latin word ‘scio’,
which means ‘to know, science’. And science, of course, is based
strictly upon that which you can prove. You have a way of proving,
because you handle it. You see it. There’s something there that is
very definitive. So, when Bro. Branham speaks of “something that you
have to know,” he would be seemingly contradicting what is said on
page 6 and paragraph 26 to 28. Now he’s not contradicting, but just
listen.

[26]	Now we want to speak at this time upon faith and a different
different type of faith: Perfect Faith. That’s a great thing. Now,
about faith, we’re told in the Bible, “Faith cometh by hearing.”

	Now you’ll notice he says, “Now about faith,” and he doesn’t
say ‘perfect faith’. He’s talking to you what’s the faith
that’s mentioned in the Bible. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing
by the Word of God.” [Rom 10:17] “Without faith it is impossible to
please God.” [Heb 11:6] “Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.” [Heb 11:1] “The just shall live by
faith.” [Hab 2:4, Rom 1:17, Gal 3:10, Heb 10:38 ] All right. That’s
Bible commentary; but you cannot find actually a word in there that says
a ‘perfect faith’. I looked it up in the concordance this morning;
the closest you’re going to come to is James; Let faith have her
perfect way—her perfect work; [Jas 1:4, But let patience have her
perfect work…] and things like that. You can come to a place. 

4.	So, he said now:

[26]	…That’s a great thing. Now, faith, we’re told in the Bible,
“Faith cometh by hearing.” Now, you cannot be saved without faith.
And faith has to…has to do with something that you have to believe is
there, that’s really nothing else will declare it’s there but faith.

	Now you’re getting away from science. You’re getting away from
knowledge that way. Now there are two kinds of knowledge. There’s
faith knowledge, and there’s science knowledge or sense knowledge. We
know that, but we have to watch carefully what he’s saying here,
because we want to bring it right back to something you can know. Of
course, if you’re blind to it, you know you can walk into a telephone
post with your eyes open. See?

5.	[26]	…Now I’m trying to bring faith to you, so that you can be
ready for this prayer line in the next few minutes.

	Okay, that’s the faith we’re looking at.

[27]	Now concerning faith: “He that cometh to God must believe that He
is.” And it’s impossible to please God without faith. … And if you
say you believe God, and you have never…but you’ve never seen him;
then you’ve got to believe it by faith. And if you could see Him, It
would be no more faith. See? Anything that the senses declares is no
more faith; it’s a scientific fact. See? It’s no more faith. But you
have to accept Him by faith. “And he that cometh to God must believe
God; and faith comes by hearing the Word of God.” See? You must first
believe this is God’s Word, and you must come to God by His Word. See?
Just take the Word, what It says, and “That’s right.” Everything
else contrary to It, is not right. (Now, that’s good.)

6.	[28]	Abraham had to believe just what that Voice told him.

	Now you’re getting into your senses there, because you’ve got to
hear Him. Of course, you realize the person standing beside Abraham
would not hear Him. See, there’s nothing that says that the people
heard what the apostle Paul heard on the road to Damascus. They knew
there was a Light, and there was some kind of a sound, the same as when
God spoke to Jesus, they said it thundered. He said, “No, it wasn’t
thunder at all.” They misunderstood. God speaking to Moses on Sinai
was the same effect. They said it was thundering and lightning. All
right.

[28]	Abraham had to just believe what that Voice told him. And when he
was a hundred years old, twenty-five years later, he was stronger
believing It than he was twenty-five years before It was given to him.
See? He believed It. And “He staggered not at the promise of God
throught unbelief, (In other words, relying upon his senses or any
knowledge which is apart from a faith knowledge. See?) …but was
strong, giving praise to God, knowing that He was able to perform what
He had promised.”

	If you want to really see this, you should have seen Bro. Bosworth just
before he died. You couldn’t believe he was dying. There was no more
funereal atmosphere than nothing; but you had to live like that to die
like that. And God was more real to him in his physical deteriorated
condition than He’d ever been before. And two hours before he died he
was sitting up shaking hands with all the departed saints he’d known. 

	Well, you say, “He was hallucinating.” 

	Fine, just let me hallucinate the same way. No problem. No problem.
See? You can’t put God in a test tube, but you can come pretty close
to do it in this last hour. All right.

7.	[28]	…And that’s the way, every one must be. You must come with
an unfailing faith, believing that God made the promise. (God made the
promise. You believe in His integrity? All right.) But now, you have to
be in a position to have that faith, and that’s what we’re going to
talk on; see, to receive that faith.

	Now you’ll notice all along here he’s talking; it’s almost like a
mixed metaphor. Actually you got your channels interweaving. He’s
going from simple faith to a perfect faith. He’s going back and forth,
and you just watch this as we go along here. All right. So, it would
seem that he’s…like you say, well…he said, “There’s something
you got to know,” and knowledge comes by senses, and he turns around
and says, “There is no way your senses can apprehend it, and yet you
can know.” Now there’s got to be a place in there where they come
together. And that’s what we’re looking at in this message. And
that’s what I’ve been trying to get to you all along, the fourteen
other messages I’ve been taking from this. 

8.	Now, let’s go on, then, and see what he says concerning faith, the
perfect faith, and that’s going to be page 15, 82 to 92. I’ve got to
watch this, or I’ll get all mixed up, like I seem to be doing right
now. I’ll be able to sort that out. Paragraphs 82 to 92.

[82]	Elijah was just as calm as he could be.

	Now this is the Mount Carmel showdown, where Elijah is coming against
the four hundred prophets of Baal. And, remember; Elijah is God’s
prophet. He’s not just a prophet of God, he is God’s prophet.
That’s the big thing you want to watch here. Okay.

[82]	Elijah was just as calm as he could be, and he said to those
prophets of Baal who were screaming and cutting themselves and doing
everything, “Cry…call a little louder,” he said, “maybe he’s
pursuing, you know he’s out hunting. Maybe he’s on a fishing trip
even…sitting down…gone to sleep even…just lying there. Maybe
he’s doing something else. I don’t know; you folks should know, but
he’s gone out somewhere.” He just made fun of them, because he knew
what was going to happen.

	He knew what was going to happen. Now one place you don’t know, the
next place you do know, both places you do know. But you don’t know in
one place like you do know in the other place. See? That’s not a
tongue twister; that’s the truth.

9.	[83]	Oh, watch when he got everything in order. He walked out there
and said, “Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel.” Never called him
by his name Jacob, the “shyster” (supplanter) He called him Israel,
“prince with God.”

[84]	“Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of that Prince (Jacob), let it
be known today that I am Your servant; and I have done this, not at my
desire, not at my make up, (or something I made up) but at Your command
have I done this; It was Your will; You told me what to do. You showed
me these things, what would be here. Now, I’ve poured the water upon
the altar. I’ve done all these things according to Your command. Now,
let it be known!” And when he said that, fire fell down from heaven.
He was just as confident it was going to fall, because he had the
substance. Why? The Word had said so.

[85]	Now, this same Bible…this same Bible is the same God’s Word.
And when you can receive the substance, (That’s perfect faith.) (See?)
substance that this promise that God made is yours.

	Now dealing, of course, in perfect faith concerning us, he’s letting
you know here that you can have from this Word, without divine
intervention, the same as Elijah had. Because, remember; Elijah had the
Word. He had the first five books, and he had the traditions of
everything that had happened from the Judges and from Samuel which was a
great, great personage. He understood all about history, but he had
divine intervention. See? It’s the same as Ezekiel had visions of God,
a divine intervention. Now Bro. Branham was specifically telling us, a
divine intervention is not necessary for you and me, for the perfection
of our faith, although with the rapturing faith we go deeper, because
we’ve got to know something. We cannot know by our own faith being
perfected. Do you follow what I’m saying? We’re coming into the apex
of what these things are. 

10.	Now, reading:

[86]	“How do you feel, Bro. Branham, when you stand there and you see
people coming in different languages and things? Are you afraid?” No,
sir. No sir. He said it. Never been afraid yet, ’cause He told me so,
and I believe what He told me to—to be the truth. (See? Now, listen.)

[87]	If He told me tonight, (Now this’ll cause any man’s hair to
turn a shade whiter; challenge the statement)…if He told me tonight to
go to the Presidential graveyard and raise up George Washington tomorrow
morning; I’d invite the whole world, “Come and see it done.”

	You say, “Well that’s—that’s a pretty safe thing, because God
ain’t gonna do that.” 

	I agree; God’s not going to do it. But, what if God did make the
challenge? 

	You say, “Well, I don’t think…” 

	There you are you, see. You don’t believe God at all; you just said
you did. Who told you to interpret any part of God’s Word as though
God couldn’t do what He wanted to do? Because God never… God has put
His Own interpretation on His Own limitations. And, if there’s no
Scripture against this, you tell me, then, why God can’t do it? God
can do it. And, if it was in His plan, He sure would do it to.

11.	Remember, the first man that got taken off of this earth without
dying, was who? Old Enoch. The next man was Elijah. I want you to find
someplace in the book of Genesis where the Word of God said that a man
would be taken off the earth, or that no man could be taken off the
earth. I can take Scripture right now and prove to you that no man can
be taken off the earth, because it says that it’s appointed unto man
once to die. But, you see, there’s other Scripture balances it. It
shows you that we’re all appointed to die, except under certain
circumstances, and that’s at the end time, as the Rapture takes place.
We will not die; we’ll be standing here made immortal. So, God is
already typed in Enoch and Elijah, what we’re going to have, and what
poor old Adam and the human race missed, by taking the tree of death;
good and knowledge; instead of the Tree of Life. They both stood there. 

12.	So, he said:

[87]	…I challenge you, “Come and see it done.” Bring every critic
you can and stand around; you’re going to see the Glory of God.

	Actually he said in another place, If God told me to go and raise
Abraham Lincoln, I would do it, challenge the armies of the earth to
shoot me down if I couldn’t do it. Just like he told that Armenian
doctor over there in California. The doctor said, “There’s no use
you praying, Reverend Branham. You are disturbing her. She is dying. Do
not give her false hope. You are cruel. You’re a terrible person.”

	He said, “Listen Doc. I wanna tell you something. You put a sign on
my back tomorrow morning, if she’s not living and doing the work. And
I will go down the main street of Los Angeles, and you honking your horn
behind me in your car, riding, drawing people’s attention, and on my
back and my front will be a sign saying false prophet. But, if she’s
risen tomorrow morning and doing her work, then I will ride in the car,
and you will wear a sign on front and back saying quack doctor.” [Who
Is Jesus? 64-0620B, Paragraph 17.]

	He didn’t have the guts to take it up. But I’ll say this about him:
he’s saved today, preaching the Gospel. That woman is living. I
believe it’s her husband who gave Bro. Branham a certified check for
one and a half million dollars. He didn’t say, “Hallelujah, God’s
holding me hostage; it’s to get me out of the pit.”

13.	I want you to know something, brother/sister: you were dealing with
the man, William Branham, of the caliber I’ve never seen in my life.
I’ve met all these men. I’ve met all the twentieth century big
shots, except Billy Graham. I don’t need to meet him, because he
doesn’t come under the line of Pentecost and charismatic. I don’t
worry. He’s too cautious in my kind of game anyway. Too cautious for
what I believe in. You can’t be cautious these days. You’ve got to
commit yourself. Nice brother, no problem with him at all, but he’s
too cautious. I’ve known men of the last age. No one came near this
man. Historians will tell you the same thing; the perfect ministry since
the time of Jesus Christ. He said:

[87]	“...Bring the critics. Set that chair over there where you can
set down and rest a little while; he’ll be here just in a moment, soon
as I call.”

[88]	That night when that little boy in Finland, that day, rather,
laying there dead, been laying there a half hour, mashed, blood running
out of eyes, nose, ears; his little legs broken up, in his stockings;
feet were out the end of his stockings, shoes gone. I looked, and I
thought, “That ought to be that boy.” I said, “Say, look in that
Bible back there, Bro. Moore.” (It was in a vision, he…they wrote it
down, it was in the Bible they were carrying.)

[89]	We got Bro. Lindsay, Bro. Moore looked there; right in the back of
the Bible. “It will come to pass, SAITH THE LORD, (Oh, my!) there will
be a land where there’s lots of evergreens growing. Rocks heaped
together. A little boy with a cropped haircut, little pantywaist
buttoned up here. His stockings pulled up high. Have brown eyes; be
turned back. He’ll be killed in an automobile accident. But laying
hands on him, he’ll come back to life.”

[90]	There It was, written in my Bible. There he laid, amen, just
waiting the Word. And I said, “If this boy isn’t alive in a couple
minutes from now, then I’m a false prophet; run me out of Finland. But
if he is alive…if he is alive, fall on your face…repent!” (That
boy is alive today.) 

[91]	I said, “Death, you can’t hold him.” I called for his spirit
according to the Word of God, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. He
jumped up. That’s right. See? Faith took hold. God said so; there it
is.

[92]	Now…(Listen.)…that’s God speaking in this day through vision.
(Now, that’s William Branham in his faith.) But hear this; if that
vision was contrary to this Bible, that would be wrong. This Bible is
more than the vision.

	Only man I ever knew to say that. Everybody gets something, they run
with it. 

14.	Pentecostals went plumb away from the Word of God. Not all, but it
runs in the streak; it runs there, that as soon as something gets
somebody something, whereby he thinks he has a vindication, then he
takes a position he should not take which lowers the Word. Bro. Branham
never, ever lowered that Word; he used everything to exalt the Word.
And, watch what he says:

[92]	This is more than the vision. If any visions contrary to the Word,
leave it alone; it isn’t of God. God doesn’t contradict His Own
Word. So, if this Word told you something, then you can have the same
confidence then, what’s…that’s going to happen.

	In other words he said, It came in a vision to me, and it happened a
hundred percent. Now he said, That’s great, but that’s still not it;
This is It. [Bro. Vayle places his hand on the Bible.] And he says, You
have in your lives the same thing and greater than I’ve got even in my
life, if you’ll only take it and understand what’s being said.

15.	Now, let’s apply, then, this Bible to you and me.

[92]	…“They shall lay hands upon the sick, and they shall
recover.” Well, brother, if faith, that Perfect Faith got a hold…

	In other words, if you let your own faith come to that position, in
this realm of faith… Because, look; there’s nothing you will ever do
to bring about a rapture. Unh-unh. You can believe and get healed. I
told you way back years ago I had this back problem; I’ve got back
problem right today. I don’t worry about it anymore, because I’m
going out of here anyway. Back in those days I had more than a fighting
chance. That back was bad, so I lay in bed one night and that thing…
Oh, man, that just about, you know, kill me. So, I lay… So, after it
got to the place I said, “Phooey!” So, if I lay in a certain
position I would, you know, get the pain. So, I deliberately lay in that
position one night, and I start fighting the devil, fighting the pain,
fighting everything. After about twenty seconds, I said, “Oh, you got
me.” I’m done; I’m bent. I said, “That’s okay devil, round
one, you won.” Coming up round number two, and I fought that all night
long. Gone; never came back.

16.	That’s not perfect faith; that’s just a matter of using faith.
And you can use your faith, if you use the Word of God, understand the
principles, you can come to a place where you can receive the promises.
But there’s certain things that are outside of you entirely. That’s
what comes to you, and you believe that, and that becomes a perfect
faith that you can use as a launching pad to go further in your own
faith. Do you follow what I am saying? So, try to follow me; because,
look; we’ve been doing this fourteen times, and I am sure you got it
by now. All right.

[92]	…“They shall lay hands upon the sick, and they shall
recover.” Well, brother, if faith, that Perfect Faith got a hold of
that, when you passed by this prayer line you’d be jumping and
shouting when you left here.

	Now he has already told you, what? That this little boy through a
vision was brought back from the dead; and that vision was not to be
compared with this Book. But the vision did come out of the Book on the
grounds that it specifically states in the Book that this is possible.

17.	Don’t you understand? He said, Look, I’m standing here now, the
same person, can you not come through this line and believe? Certainly
you should be able to come through this line and believe. You’re not
laying hands on yourself; I’m laying hands on you. Then, will you not
be healed?

	You see, what’s he doing here is using this; God in His grace and
mercy has given this twentieth century Church a position in the
Laodicean Age taking her from a abysmal corruption and complete
un-doneness of mental and physical and spiritual insanity to a wholeness
in God, if she wants it. Oh, look, brother/sister. Listen; please
understand what I’m saying. This is what God says about this. 

	You say, “Well, brother, I don’t believe what It says.” 

	Well, look; you believe what you want, but you’re going to come to
this sometime, if not now, because he said here: [Rev 3:15]

(15)	I know your works. You’re neither hot nor cold. 

(16)	You’re lukewarm. (You make me vomit. That’s what He says.)

(17)	Because you say I’m rich, increased with goods, have need of
nothing; and don’t know you’re wretched, you’re
miserable…you’re blind, you’re naked. (He said:)

(18)	I counsel you, (come to me.)

	 And the church evidently hasn’t come to Him. The church has kicked
Him out. That’s at the end of this age. Now, God giving grace to
realize; here is a vindicated prophet to let you know that these
promises are yours; proving the Word of God that doesn’t need to be
proved; setting the Church in order.

18.	[92]	…“If he says they lay hands upon the sick, they shall
recover. Well, brother, if faith, that Perfect Faith, got hold of that,
(Prophet and the Word demonstrated.)…when you passed by this prayer
line you’d be jumping and shouting when you left here. You’d say,
“It’s over. It’s over. It’s all over! It’s finished. If you
had a request in your heart and believe that when that prayer was made
for you…(Notice; you’re not praying, the prayer was made for
you.)…that was going to be answered, there isn’t anything to stop
it. That’s what’s going to happen, like the little woman with the
blood issue. You know…and she touched His garment. All right.

	Now, what he is presenting here is about himself as a prophet, because
it is based on Jesus the Prophet—parallel ministries. Now that sounds
strange but it’s…we got the understanding from the Bible on that,
but we’ll read what he says. Okay, we’ll go then to page 12,
paragraphs 68 to 71, and we’ll read here:

[68]	Now, the only thing you have to do then, is have faith in what you
are. Have faith in what the Word says you are.

	Now he’s making a statement here how to bring your faith up to where
it hasn’t been in your experience, but you maybe have had problems
with using your faith. You say, “What are the principles?” Now,
let’s watch it. 

[68]	…Now the only thing you have to do then is to have faith in what
you are. Have faith in what the Word of God says you are.

	Because you can’t have faith in what you are as a person, you got to
have faith in what God says you are.

19.	[68] 	… And Jesus had faith in the Word of God that said what He
was, “It is written of me.” Didn’t David in the Psalms, and the
prophets, all of them speak of Him? (That’s Jesus the Christ.) “I am
the Bread of Life that came from God out of heaven.” Amen. “I am
that Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden. I am all these things; I AM
THAT I AM.” And He knew with that Perfect Faith that He was the
anointed Messiah, that the Spirit of God was upon Him. And he said… 

	Now, watch where His perfect faith lay, knowing Who He was and how it
happened.

[68] 	…“Now, I, in myself, do nothing; but it’s my faith in
God.” And God was in Him, the Word made manifest. And when the Word of
God comes in you, It’s made manifest, as you are a believer. See? And
a believer is ‘the faith of God that moves in you’.

	In other words, you are a believer, because the faith of God is
actually in you. And that’s true, because that’s what the Bible
says: Have the faith of God. [Mk 11:20] You don’t have your own. The
Bible said: The faith of the Lord Jesus Christ. [Rom 3:22, Gal 2:16, Gal
3:22] It does not give you credit for your own faith. It is the first
thing that’s born into you when you’re born again: faith. Faith is
the first step in 1 Peter.

20.	[70]	Knowing Who He was, without a shadow of doubt he knew he was
the Son of God. He knew it, for the Word identified him. The Word of God
idenitfied Who he was. He said, “If I do not the works of my father,
then don’t believe me.” (See? Repeat.) If I don’t do the works,
don’t believe me, but if I do, then believe the works, for they are
the manifest Word promised.” (Certainly, because man’s word will not
do what was being done. That’s the point.) Oh, if you could just wake
up to that. Get it? You see, the Word itself identified him, who he was.
And he said, “Who can condemn me of sin?” In other words, “Who can
show me that my life and my works don’t fulfill exactly what Messiah
should do?” Nobody could say anything; for he was. (He was that
Person.) Then he had faith to believe. Then whatever he said, happened.

	In other words he is letting you know in the ministry of Jesus Christ,
before He became fully identified with God Himself and the Scripture. In
order to present… (Well, He was identified.) In order to present
Himself to the people, God had to deal with Him specifically. And the
specific dealing with Him made Him to know progressively that God heard
every Word that He was saying, and that Word evidently was the Word of
God and would bring everything to pass exactly how It was said. Now…

21.	[71]	Then he turned and said, “The works that I do, shall you
also.” A little while, the world sees me no more; yet you shall,
because I’ll be with you, even in you. Take no thought what ye shall
say, for it’s not you that speak; it’s the Father dwelling in you;
He’s the One Who’s speaks—is speaking. It is not I; It’s the
Father that dwells in me; He does the works.” See what I mean?

[72]	Now, as to the identification of a Scriptural Christian, these
Words said Jesus: “These signs shall follow them that believe.”

	Now, look; I know people are going to get thrown on that statement, and
it’s not the kind of statement that you think it is, because
automatically the mind goes to signs. Then any failure to bring a sign
condemns you. The mind must go to what you are: a believer! You do not
produce the signs; you are not a sign person; you are not a sign
producer. You are a believer. God produces the signs. So, your
categorization is first of all, believer. And, if you never saw a sign,
that doesn’t have too much to do with it. Now signs are there. Any
Church that doesn’t accept them, and doesn’t try to follow, is a
pretty poor church. We recognize it. But, remember; the statement is
that you are a believer, and out of your believing can come different
things. Out of your believing can come not one single sign, my
brother/sister, that you are a Christian according to miracles, but you
can be taken to the lions and gladly chewed up for God, or burnt at the
stake, or torn in shreds by wild animals, put in a leather bag with
serpents and thrown in the sea, like the time of the inquisition.

	In other words you can suffer every single thing the church would heap
on you or someone would, because they got mad at the church. You
wouldn’t show one sign. Except what? Your perseverance, your testimony
to Jesus Christ. So, don’t get carried away on a lot of things that
are being said. Keep them in their perspective. Keep them right with the
Word at all times, or you will botch up just as sure as you’re alive.
So, all right. Your identification: first of all, you’re a believer,
and signs will come. You’ll have some…you’ll have some evidence in
there.

22.	[72]	…How can you call yourself a believer and deny any of this
Word?

	Now, there you are right there. Many a person will have signs and
disbelieve what God said would happen at the end time: false anointed
ones. So, we’ve got a very narrow road to travel here, a very narrow
light to look into, not some big, broad light. It’s a spot light, very
fine spot, very fine pin-point almost.

[72]	You’re not a believer; therefore signs can’t follow you,
because you just accept what you want to believe and leave the rest of
It out. You won’t and don’t believe It. But you’ve got to take the
whole thing and believe it. And when you truly believe, (not make
believe, but really believe) these signs will surely follow those
believers.

23.	That’s about as far as we need to go there. Now, on page 26; want
to get to paragraph 148 to 154.

[148]	Look! He knew that He pleased God. (That’s Jesus.) He knew there
was nothing, no blot, in his life. God had already testified that by
saying, “This is my beloved Son in Whom I’m well pleased, hear Him!
This is my beloved Son in Whom I’m pleased to dwell. In the day of His
baptism I’m pleased to make My abode in here; there’s no
condemnation in Him at all”

[149]	Now, when the same God comes to you, and is pleased to dwell in
you, pleased to honor your word, what your decision is…(Now, watch;
he’s going to get very deep here; so, don’t get carried away too
far.) What was Joshua’s decision? “Stand still, sun.” (Now he’s
first of all talked about Jesus. Now he’s talking about this man who
made the sun stand still.) It stood still there. Sure, Amen. What was
Moses’ decision? Held his stick over the river, called it to open, it
opened. See? It’s what ever you ask. “And if you say to this
mountain, ‘Be moved,’ and don’t doubt,” (See, it in your heart
now; you have it. Don’t doubt.) “but believe that what you’ve said
will come to pass, you can have it (what you said).”

	Now, how you’re going to go before God, and out of your mouth is
going to come something that you know is going to come to pass just
because you said it? There’s no way; unh-unh, no way. You’d have to
have God’s Own Words somehow given to you for that occasion, and you
would be a spokesman. It’s just like prophecy. The prophet does not
make anything come to pass; the prophet is only a voice to you and to
me. God uses him and lets him in on what God’s going to do, and he
tells us. That’s all. That’s all. God’s His own Prophet, but He
uses sounding boards, reflectors.

24.	[149]	…If you say to this mountain, ‘Be moved’, and don’t
doubt (see, in your heart), but you believe what you’ve said will come
to pass, you can have it. (Remember, Jesus said, “My words are of God;
my words are God’s Words. What I hear Him say, I say. What I see Him
do, I do. [Jn 12:49-50; 14:10]) That puts you back in the Word. Now,
that’s not skim milk. I know it’s going to jump over the top of you
here, see, because It can’t anchor.

	It didn’t either. He was telling them flat, Look I have the same
ability, because God puts His Words in my mouth. I’m not thinking my
own thoughts; I’m not asking my own desires. But you notice something?
Joshua needed that sun to stand still. When he needed that sun to stand
still, what did God do about it? The sun had to stand still, because
those fellows would’ve got away. Night would have come, and they would
have got away. That’s just true. And God doesn’t say, “Now look,
General, I’m going to expect you to have, you know, cats eyes in the
dark or something.” So, it was a logical thing, now, if the sun would
stand still. So, the sun should stand still; night should not come on;
something should happen. That’s all. So, what does a man do? In his
mouth comes the Word of God: “Sun stand still.” Sun stood plumb
still. 

25.	Now, listen; here’s what he says:

[150]	I’ve seen it, friends. (I’ve seen the same thing in my
ministry.) Here’s the Bible lying open before me. I’ve seen it
happen, and I know it’s the truth. I know. God in heaven knows, that I
might not live through to finish this message, but I know that it
happened. I’ve seen it myself. I’m a witness of that Word being
fulfilled, and I know It is the Truth; say it, stand there, and see the
Creator bring a living creature into existence.

	You say, “I don’t believe that.”

	Then Moses… What was Moses doing? “Bring on the flies.” The flies
came. “Bring on the fleas.” The fleas came. “Bring on the
frogs.” The frogs came. “Bring on the murrains.” The murrains
came. “Bring the blood.” The blood came. “Bring the hail
stones.” The hail came. Then, bring on death. I want to ask you; Who
spoke those words? Moses. Where’d he get them? In a showdown, God did
it. You know people are so far removed in their thinking from the living
God and from their hearts. And, remember; He’s outside the church.
We’ve got a job ourselves this morning. I don’t think we’ve spent
near the time we should. I know I don’t. I know your meetings you have
where you come and talk the Word is the greatest thing that ever
happened to this church. Other churches say they can’t work it. I
don’t know why they can’t work it. You people here work it. It’s
going to do something for you.

26. He said:

[150]	…and I know It’s the Truth. God brought a creature into
existence right in the presence of your eyes. Keep shaking your head and
wonder; then look around and seen Him bring another one, just exactly
like it, because you said so; come over here and say, “There’ll be
another one there,” and look and there it is. Now, that’s the truth.

[151]	Oh, where should we be? There’s Perfect Faith.

	Perfect faith in this category; now we want to get your faith in your
category. You know, brother/sister, this is so simple that we’ve lost
the simplicity. What’s the first thing the teacher did in trying to
show you how to write or print? Well, you’ve got to get your tongue
out, [Bro. Vayle sticks his tongue out of the right side of his mouth.]
all of it. Got to get your balance like that; the cat and its tail;
you’ve got balancing features—kids got tongues. I never did do that.
They liked to slap me when I was going to school half the time.
[Congregation laughs.] But you know; what’d you do? The teacher did
it, and you seen the teacher did it; [Bro. Vayle shows an example of a
teacher writing on a blackboard.] that’s how it’s done. In other
words you took that to be the true ‘A’ and the true ‘E’, and you
did it, and you followed in.

	You say “Hey. That’s the example of the ability to write, and I can
do it.” 

	Not by precept—teach by example, not precept. Very few people can use
example when it comes to too much in the Word of God. It all falls to
precept, and that’s the big trouble in the church today. We need more
examples, just example. Okay.

27.	[151]	There’s Perfect Faith. No vision, “Just speak the Word,”
never saw the squirrel. He just said this Scripture, what it was…

	Now, which one? Mark 11:23: Say to this mountain be moved. Speak the
Word, that what you say will come.

	So, He said to the prophet, “What do you want?”

	Now I know the world can deny this.

	They could say, “Well, William Branham never spoke the Word and
squirrels came into existence.”

	Well, then, neither did Moses.

	They say, “Well, Moses is different.”

	How do you know? Where do you get the Scripture for it, that God
couldn’t create through people or people create through God?—however
you want to put it. Where’d you get it? You got faith to believe that
you giving this Word of God to people will mean their salvation.
You’re sick! You got to be sick. Creation is nothing along side of a
man’s salvation. Opening the Red Sea is nothing along side of a
man’s salvation. So, you believe the great things, because, why?

28.	Well, anybody can talk. Everybody does talk. Then deny the lesser?
That’s what Bro. Branham was pointing out here. [Bro. Vayle points his
finger to the Bible.] All these things like Moses and all the prophets
and anything he did, or Jesus did, is the lesser. It’s pointing to the
great God and His Word, so that when you, now, are faced with precept,
which is based upon literally example. True, because everything’s
after the fact, and the fact is example. And after the fact is precept,
establishing laws: you know that it works.

	I hope your faith is getting somewhere, because I know what I am
talking about, when I’m talking this way, and I know what it can do to
you. We have never had our hands on anything this explosive
brother/sister; never anything in history since the time of Jesus
Christ. See? 

	“Now, it will come to pass, that puts you back in the Word.” He
said that.

29.	Now down here… Perfect faith…in other words, Bro. Branham was
right back here, the way it was done in the Word, example, to get the
precept, to get the principle, to get the moral, to get the guidelines.
Yep. “Just speak the Word.”

[151]	Oh, where should we be? There’s Perfect Faith. No vision,
“Just speak the Word.” Never saw the squirrel. He just said this
Scripture, (Mark 11:23) Speak it, don’t doubt.

	Now, remember; when Bro. Branham by his own words admitted that he
began to chicken out on what he said, God said, “But you said,
three.”

	Well, he said, I’ll stop at two, two’s not… Lord I believe I
overshot my mark. I’d be satisfied with two out of three.

	“But you said three.” [Audio tape is turned over.]

	I think that’s fantastic.

30.	[151]	…That’s right. That’s just as powerful… (Listen.) And
friend, as your pastor, that’s just as powerful as it was when Joshua
stopped the sun; because the sun was already there; the elements were
moving, and he stopped the movement. But this, He brought something
there that wasn’t there; He created! I’m so glad to be acquainted
with the God that can take this dust of the earth, someday that I
don’t see and (And, where I’m off to now?)

	Anyway, he talks about the Resurrection; but I got to find that for
you. Just give me a minute here, or several minutes, whatever it’s
going to take. I was kind of afraid this might happen. Here we are.
Okay, just… I know it’s here.

[151]	…Someday He’ll call me back to life again, after I’ve been
planted in the grave.

	My faith looks up to Thee,

	Thou Lamb of Calvary.

[152]	You say it and don’t doubt but believe that what you’ve said,
you shall have what you said. See? Believe that it will happen.

[153]	David in the Psalms, spoke of Him. And with it, He took His power
and ministered to others. (Now, watch.) Not only was it a treasure in
Himself, or a power in Himself, a gift in Himself and to Himself and for
Himself, but He ministered to others by it.

31.	Now, how was the gift in Himself and for Himself? Only because it
gave Him that strength and that faith to operate for the people and get
the people in the realm where they could believe and see the things of
God for themselves. See?

[153]	He ministered to others by it; also saved others even to the
uttermost and He can do the same now, and promised the same faith to the
believers in His Word: Jn 14:12, Mk 11:23, and even Mark 16.

[154]	Now, watch. In this last hour He has appeared to us in this same
form He did in the Old Testament. (That’s when He appeared in the
Pillar Fire to Moses.) The same as He did in the New Testament, (which
was to Paul, Pillar of Fire came. That’s right.) and showed by the
same Word, the same Christ right now.

	Remember, the Bible distinctly says the Cloud that followed and the
Pillar of Fire was Christ, and the Rock was Christ.

	And when Paul spoke back to the Light; “Who are You?” he said, “I
am Jesus.”

	So, what would it be now if this was the Truth right there taken by a
camera? [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire.]

	Some say, “Well, I don’t think God takes pictures by a camera.”

	Well, that’s what you think…anything you want. Ain’t no problem;
you just think what you want. What if He did? Now where are you? 

	You say, “Well I don’t know that He did.” 

	Well, see, there you are.

32.	[154]	…I declare to you that Christ is the Holy Ghost. The word
Christ means ‘the anointed one’, just the person that’s anointed,
that is the Christ, the anointed one. Remember, God anointed Jesus, went
about doing good things, anointed with the Holy Ghost. How many know
that’s true? (That’s good.) The anointed One, that would be a man
that would be anointed.

	That brings it right back to Himself—Acts 13: tells the same thing.
Okay, a man approved of God and God is doing the works. In other words,
back there it was God in the man, today it’s God through a man. It’s
simple as A-B-C. All right, now, with this we want to continue reading,
and he says here:

[155]	And now we become anointed with the same Spirit, anointed
messiahs, messiahs of the last day, to shine forth the resurrection of
Jesus Christ; to show that He is not dead, but in the form of the Holy
Ghost.

	Now, let me tell you something. You show me a church that can do that.
There’s no way. It’s got to be one person. God never, ever used a
bunch. He never sent a lot of sons down and said he’d send a lot of
bodies down, have a little group, and, ‘I’ll put my Spirit in each
one of them.’ 

	‘No, it’s one man, and I’ll enter him.’ See?

33.	Now, watch.

[155]	…He’s in His people, moving among His Bride, (In…baptism of
the Holy Ghost….among the Pillar of Fire Himself.) with a love affair
to her, pouring out into her, Himself. They are becoming one for the
Wedding Supper. And the same signs promised by the same God, in the same
Word is making the same manifestations. (Now he said,)

[156]	There is nothing…(Now, here is where your perfect faith comes
into His perfect faith so that you will develop your own perfect faith
which is not this. [Bro. Vayle points to his notes on the pulpit.]
Okay.)…There is nothing left for us to do but believe It. And
‘believing It’ is the substance. And that creates a perfect faith.
Just think how numb we are; just think about that for a minute.

	See? How many people believed it? We don’t know how many believed it,
but there is what you’re looking at. See? Perfectly, to understand.

	Now, he says here: The ministry that returned back upon this earth in
this end time is the absolute proof of the end time—absolute proving
it is God, letting you know that you are here in a position to have
rapturing faith to get out of this world, complete restoration, back to
the Tree of Life—right back to the things of God.

	And at the same time, no Word of God is left out. And the Church
absolutely knows without flinching. It’s a proven thing. “Lay hands
upon the sick, and they shall recover.” [Mk 16:18]

	In other words God did not come down and take one man and say, “Well,
look; all you can do is look at this fellow, and it’s wonderful that I
have vindicated him, and I have authenticated myself, and isn’t it
great now. That’s all. That’s all there’s to it.” He did not say
that. He took us to lift us to the highest level possible, based upon
what we have seen for the first time in two thousand years, since the
time of the Lord Jesus Christ. Okay. 

34.	Let me see now…I want to get back here…I got to hustle through
all of this, to find it somewhere…page 16. Okay.

[93]	Jesus had Perfect Faith. He had it and it came because He was the
Word. And you must become the Word, and you do become the Word, as you
receive the Word.

	Now, isn’t that true? Now come on. People say, “I don’t…I
don’t think that’s a good statement.” 

	Oh—oh listen. I think it’s a perfect statement. Let me just… Let
me just take a peek here: John 8. I think I can I can find it, but I
don’t know. I’m not going to keep you too long. But anyway, we’re
going to look at John 8 here, if I can get it. John 8:36:

(36)	If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

(37)	I know you are Abraham’s seed; (physically speaking) but you seek
to kill me, because my word has no place in you. (All right.)

	What if the Word had had a place? Then they would become Word members.
Wouldn’t they? They would become Word Christians. So, what He says is
true here. Now, why did they turn Him down? They turned Him down,
because He rebuked them for there understanding of the Word of God. And
when He came with the physical manifestation, He had the right to
interpret the Word of God as God had given the Word to be interpreted.
And they turned It down. So therefore, they had no place for the Word. 

	All right, then, when you’ve got a place for the Word, what are you?
You’re part of It, and the Word’s part of you. So, how do you become
this, [Bro. Vayle points to the Bible.] what they couldn’t become? By
receiving, which they didn’t receive. 

35.	They said:

(39)	…Abraham is our Father. (Why we got a fine church; we’ve traced
our history back generations. We got in our blood…great ancestors. I
have no doubt about it. Well, he said, I know Abraham is your Father.
But if you where Abraham’s children; you’d) do the works.

	Now Abraham had seven sons by Keturah [Gen 25:1-2 states six sons.] and
gave them all gifts and sent them off, left Isaac plum alone.

(40)	You seek to kill me; a man that told you the truth, which I have
heard of God. This did not Abraham.

(41)	You do the deeds of your Father. They said to Him, We be not born
of fornication. (Ha, they knew right away. They said, We’re not
Ishmaelites. We’re not Cain. We’re not in fornication here.)

	Abraham did not fornicate with the handmaid of his wife. Actually, he
had every right to have her. She became a wife. It was Eve that was a
fornicated. She was married to Adam, and she had this handsome, big,
beautifully built, dark fellow. That’s how the giants got in the land.
People have an idea that angels came down and gave themselves human
bodies and pregnated women. Hah! If they were ever doing that, they’d
be doing it all the time. Oh, people get so mixed up in their thinking.
Read the books. You’ll find out. They’re so scrupled up, you can’t
believe it. Well, you know.

37.	(42)	Jesus said, If God were your Father…

	Watch that. Well, they say, “Abraham’s my Father.” 

	Now there’s no doubt in the world about it, but God sure isn’t.
“In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word
became flesh.” [Jn 1:1] So, God had in His mind, little gods, little
bits of Word, little bits of manifestations, because a child is a
manifestation of his father, because the mother is part of the father. I
can prove that to you, simple as A-B-C. So, it all becomes one. Said,

(42)	…(God’s not your Father.) If He was, you’d love me.

	Now, what about… What about Him didn’t they love? He came against
their word. That’s what we say here. We accept no love, unless it’s
based on Word. I am not interested. I’m sorry. Oh, I can kiss you and
hug you and be nice to you; fhap, that’s wonderful. You know…ooo.
That’s just being, you know. That’s just being sensible.

	Don’t dogs rub noses and lick each other, and they’re friendly? I
don’t mean to be mean or anything. I’m just telling you anybody can
go through the actions. We’re talking about this, brother/sister.
[Bro. Vayle points to the Bible.] So, let’s not get carried away with
some ideas we’ve got. I’m not interested in my ideas. I want God to
correct my ideas and bring me right down to this Word. Look, even if
I’m a skunk, I want to know this Word. Because, if I am a skunk in
myself, I don’t want to skunk anybody else up. To lead anybody astray
is a very wicked and terrible thing.

	(43)	(So,) Why don’t you understand me? (He said,) You can’t hear
my Word.

	No point in it. He said:

	(44)	…The lust of your father you do. (And so on. Okay.)

38.	Now, we’re reading along here, and we’re on page 16; I think
we’re supposed to be at. I’ve got page 17 paragraph 93.

[93]	You see? …Say to this mountain, ‘Be moved.’ And don’t
doubt, but believe what you’ve said, then you shall have what you
said. When you pray, believe that you receive what you asked, and you
shall have it.

	Now, see what he is saying here? He said, I stand up here in the
category of Moses and Paul, Joshua, all of these men, Elijah, right down
the line; a prophet, vindicated of God.” Now he said, “To me has
been given this privilege and this position. The gift I use for myself,
and I place myself in Scripture, and I understand, because I must. But,
remember; It is actually for you. Now you hear what I am saying, and you
don’t buy my ministry, which has been vindicated and witnessed to by
thousands and thousands of people.

	The whole city of Durban saw truckloads of canes and crutches and
wheelchairs taken down the street in a parade honoring Bro. Branham at
the great meeting in Durban. It’s witnessed; people know it. It’s on
record; dead raised, everything else, cripples, cases like you can’t
believe. I saw it with my own eyes. I was there myself. He said, “That
is given to let you know the perfect faith in this realm is now taken
you to your perfect faith in your realm.”

39.	Now what I’m trying to get across, and he’s trying to get across
is this: Look, you can have it, meet the conditions, they are not all
that rough to meet. You have everything now at your finger tips to get
what you want, which is indicated here. [Bro. Vayle puts his hand on the
Bible.] You will go through trials. There’s nobody going to stop that.
You will suffer. Nobody’s going to stop that. There will be rain,
there’ll be clouds, there’ll be snow, there’ll be drift,
there’ll be skidding, there’ll be ups, there’ll be downs. No
one’s going to stop that. No way. But you can have the promises.

	Now old age doesn’t have a thing to do with healing. Old age merely
means this: I can’t claim to live longer than seventy, but I can claim
to live healthy. See? You can claim the promises. You may be like Smith
Wigglesworth. With great faith he prayed for the sick, and yet he
suffered from terrible kidney stones, would go home and lie in a tub of
hot water to get rested up for the next day to preach again and pray for
the sick. And he felt like most preachers do that pray for the sick,
that, if he prayed for one whole church full and they dropped dead,
he’d move to the next church and pray for those and believe some of
those wouldn’t drop dead; because they’ve got to stand resolutely
with the Word of Almighty God.

40.	So, he is saying here, “Now, watch how this blends to the
other.” Okay. And I got myself so thoroughly mixed up I don’t know
whether I’m going to find anything more or not. But it’s all right,
we’ll just keep looking. Here’s page 26 or 27; can’t be too far
away. Okay, once again, page 150, paragraph 157, and he says:

[157]	Has He done all things well? Has He ever told us anything but what
happened just exactly the way He said it? Hasn’t He performed, and
hasn’t the great Pillar of Fire been among and done exactly what He
promised He’d do? Haven’t we seen It? Hasn’t science taken It,
after it’s been predicted what would happen; go right back there and
even have it in the papers and magazines, pack it right back and show
it, when it’s told you months before it would happen? Hasn’t He done
exactly the way He did in the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Isn’t It just exactly the same One that’s doing this now in my
ministry? (I put that in there.) The same Holy Spirit comes…the same
Holy Spirit comes and is a discerner of the Word of God, which is
quicker and sharper than a two-edged sword; discerns the thoughts and
intents of the heart. Isn’t that right?

	The same man said, “You couldn’t hide if you tried.” I’ve seen
it happen. Whirl onto you just like this. [Bro. Vayle snaps his head to
one side.] And brother, everything came out. You hung out from front
behind both. You couldn’t hide if you tried. No man ever got away with
it. What do you think this was all for? Some little side show?

41.	Well, isn’t it nice how God did things. 

	“Hey, I like the way God does things. Isn’t that something? Hmh.
Man, I wouldn’t think He would do that, but boy…He’s a
shocker…man they... Wasn’t this the best Halloween party we ever
had?” 

	Read your Bibles. Every time He did, a judgment came, brother/sister.
Judgment came. 

	“Well, I don’t think I’ll read; that’ll stop me from getting
it.”

	Tell that to the IRS. Go ahead. God’s bigger than the IRS. Tell the
cop you really stopped, when you made a rolling stop at a stop sign, and
this is his night to get his quotas in. Go ahead and tell him. Tell the
electric light company that you’re going to get your four percent or
your two percent discount, because you’re three days late. The
computer’s set up. Isn’t it the same God?

	Nah, look. You say, “I don’t think that’s the way it is.” [Bro.
Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire.]

	What if it was? Well, let’s find out. Let’s investigate.

	“Nah, don’t think I’ll do that. I’ve asked my friends. I’ve
asked my minister. They’re not interested.”

42.	[157]	…The same One. It’s not a stranger far off; It’s the
same God. He’s here, He’s here, and He does this to create a Perfect
faith. (What perfect faith? For the prophet, for the people.) I know He
knows all things. (Bible says He does.) And I know He wants to do
something. He’s been doing something to create this Perfect Faith in
this people.

[158]	Are we going to walk into eternity like it was in the days of
Noah, with eight souls saved? (Sure thing.) Are we going to come like
Lot, with three out of Sodom? John the Baptist, six believers? Let us
believe, for His works are perfect They’re manifested daily and
perfectly amongst us, showing that He is that Word. Hebrews 4, 

[159]	Think of It! The Word of God is that; that Word, a discerner of
the thoughts and intents of heart. For the Word is quick and powerful,
more powerful and sharper than two-edged sword, piercing even to the
dividing asunder of soul and spirit, the joints and marrow, and is a
discerner the thoughts and intents of heart.

	Yeah…yeah It does. Hebrews 4:12. It also says:

(13)	Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight:
but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we
have to do.

	Now, brother/sister, let me ask you a question. Isn’t that what
prophets did? Well, how’s this going to be? 

	“Well” you say, “Now I’m going to put that way back there at
the White Throne.” 

	Well, that’s interesting. I’m not angry at you for doing it. I’m
not at all. But I want you to prove it. What if it’s this side of the
White Throne also? See? Are we going to walk in?

43.	[159]	…The Word made flesh. Hallelujah! The Word operating in
human flesh by physical signs, by material signs, by Scriptural signs,
perfectly, to bring you to a Perfect Faith, a perfect Rapture.

	I could read on and on, but I’m not going to do it. Look, you know
what this sermon’s all about. Bro. Branham thoroughly knows that
he’s thoroughly identified. What spoke to him never lied; never made a
mistake. He proved it by telling us thousands and thousands of times;
never an error. Never anytime did he make a mistake. 

	You] say, “Well, if he had lived longer he might have just had one
mistake.” 

	How well do you read your Bibles? Because, if you believe that,
you’re not reading your Bibles. Because you’re trying to put a limit
and a balance on what you think is in here rather than what is not in
here, [Bro. Vayle puts his hand on the Bible.] because God doesn’t
have to speak two times; once is enough. He doesn’t have to show it
two times.

44.	Tell me, how many times did Elijah meet the prophets of Baal? How
many times did Moses go through those miracles? I want to tell you
something, brother/sister. Jesus Christ put Moses to shame a million
different ways. He sure did. Moses spoke of Him. But do you know that
Jesus did not do the things that Moses did? I’m talking now in
abundance. Moses was the meekest man that ever lived, but Jesus was
meeker. Moses was the strongest man that ever lived, and Jesus was
stronger. He was the great one; he’s the Savior.

	Now Jesus made a statement concerning his own self and ministry. He
said, “There’s going to come on the scene a person who will do
greater works in number than I have done.”

	When did Jesus have a parade in Jerusalem with a whole string of
trucks, car loads of crutches, and wheelchairs? Show me more cancer
cases.

	You say, “Well, John said the whole Bible libraries couldn’t
contain the things that Jesus did.”

	That’s quite possible. Where’s your record? Who’s here to tell
about it? How do I know the Bible’s not something just somebody made
up? and the church made a tradition, saying, “Well, you know we keep
it up to date, and God speaks to us.” I want to know who God speaks
to. That’s a laugh.

45.	I can stand here before you all and make this claim: There’s none
of you, or all of you put together, can not have my record of what I
know has come to pass—what I know has been the Voice of Almighty God,
based upon one thing: the thing came to pass, didn’t it? 

	You say, “Well, maybe the devil makes things come to pass.” 

	Well, that’s just your privilege. You do what you want; but here was
a man who had a world record greater than Jesus Christ, not individual
point-per-point, but in magnitude of numbers. Like Jesus said in Jn
14:12. Let me read It; something worth reading. I love that Chapter 14
anyway.

(12)	Verily, verily, I say unto you, he…(not they)…He that believeth
on me the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than
these; because I go to my Father.

(18)	They shall lay hands upon the sick. [Mk 16:18]

46.	So, what we’re looking at here is this: In the message of
“Perfect Faith” from the subject material that Bro. Branham has
built around his sermon title, it is evident that he has taken from his
own life experiences. (That’s all this material that makes the sermon
up.) He has taken from his own life experiences drawn from and rooted in
the Scripture. This faith he now exercises and presents to us, not only
for our edification and evaluation, but as a working principle in our
lives, so that we can come all the way from the prayer of faith to the
revealed faith for rapturing. I believe that this Message is taken from
I Corinthians 13, though he didn’t say so. Where we read beginning in
verse 9.

(9)	For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

(10)	But when that which is perfect is come then shall that which is in
part be done away.

(11)	When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child,
thought as a child: when I became a man, I put away childish things. (In
other words he stood up and was counted with his own words.)

(12)	For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now
I know in part; but then shall I know even as I am also known.

(13)	Now abideth faith, hope, and (love), these three; but the greatest
of these is (love).

	So, at the time when the whole is in view; when the face-to-face, the
appearing is here, our faith is going to be magnified, our hope is going
to be magnified, our love is going to be magnified, because we are going
to see the earnest expectation in full view which is the Word of God
promised this hour. We are going to see the fulfillment on the grounds
of faith. We’re going see the love of God manifest, because He took
time off in this age to come down and get us out of our mess. And that
same faith and earnest expectation and love is going to multiply in our
lives and does multiply.

47.	Now you people know that over the last year, the last few months
especially, you have felt a mellowing toward just about everybody.
You’re not too concerned anymore. You’re just mellow, walk in love,
walk in faith; something is happening. There’s only one reason it’s
happening: because the life in the Word is being released. And I’m
standing here believing, and I cannot help but believe, that what
we’ve talked about for the last fifteen times, Sundays and Wednesdays
now, counting fifteen today, we have an understanding now. We know
exactly what has transpired, and that is literally the spark that fires
our own faith to believe as never before, that we can have these
promises that God has laid out.

48.	We said there are conditions we know, but the conditions can and
will be met. Why? Because that same Life that’s released from the
Word; the conduit of the Word, and we are… Let’s face it, the Holy
Ghost has a conduit. It is the Word. Right? The Word has a conduit,
which is the human body. So, when you go on down from God to the final
conduit which is man-kind manifested, we know that God is moving in us
in order to have what the prophet set forth in this hour. Sure, we’re
going to get out of here. But he said… Listen, he said, “That
Spirit, that sweet Spirit of Christ coming more and more in the church,
till there won’t be one sick amongst us.”

	That Spirit comes in more and more by this revealed Word, as we see it
and understand what the prophet was saying. And he stood before those
people, and he said, “Listen, can you believe the Bible that says
about Elijah? Can you believe the Bible that talks about Joshua? Can you
believe the Word that speaks about the prophet in this hour? Can you
believe me on my own record of telling you, and you having seen exactly
what happened in my meetings where it never failed once? And I’m
telling you now”. And he said, “This is the Third Pull.” The Third
Pull in the church, brother/sister, has taken place. Not the Third Pull
to the Word, but the Third Pull, which in manifestation is speaking the
Word, has taken place. And he said, “Will you now take my authority,
which you know is God’s Own authority, to believe as you have never
believed before to turn your faith loose.”

	And he stood there, and he said, “I as your pastor…and you believe
what I said, that those squirrels came into existence.” And I know
that’s a tough one, but it’s the truth. Came into existence,
because, if God cannot create, then don’t call Him God. And, if God
does not create, you tell me where you find that God does not create. He
doesn’t create for you. That’s true. That doesn’t mean He
doesn’t create for somebody else. What would you call it if God put a
new leg on a person? What would you say if God put a new kidney in your
body? And that is authenticated record. There are records on that, new
lungs. Man with no kidney had a new kidney put in. That is absolute
God’s truth. It’s on medical record.

49.	There’s thousands of medical records what God has done. There’s
no church, I believe, anywhere that is bereft; maybe the Church of
Christ, maybe, because they are so desperate against the Word of God.
But you know what? Some of their members get healed. But there’s no
church, I believe, that is destitute of some record of a miracle of
creation that God did it. Test your histories and find out. Then, why
wouldn’t God create a squirrel, if that’s what God wanted to do,
that was in Him?

	Now he said, Look, if I as your pastor could speak according to God’s
Word, knowing your place and my place, and that comes to pass, then,
when I pray for you and I am praying and speaking these words. Will you
not then get what you desire in healing? And the answer is ‘yes’,
and I would to God that records had been kept of that meeting.

	Well, you say, “Bro. Vayle that was fine for William Branham. What
about us?”

50.	It’s fine for us, too. I am not William Branham. I cannot speak as
he spoke. But I can do what he said. And that is, I don’t have to
speak anything into existence. But based on what has been done, I can
take the same Word, and you can take the same Word, and stand on that
Word and get what God says is ours. That’s true. Now, what He said was
only one little thing. He said, “Look, if there’s something wrong in
your heart, get it out of there.” That’s all. And the second little
thing, “You believe what I’ve told you.” And those people were
perfect candidates. 

	Now, if you get what I’m saying, you follow through this week in your
mind, go over what has been said this morning, ponder what the prophet
brought out at the end of his message. Believe me, I am not lying to
you. You are in a position to receive as you have never received before.

51.	Now, look; Bro. Branham said, “I’ve got to decrease, and He is
going to increase.” Did he go? He left us. Then I want to ask you,
“Who’s increasing in our midst today?” Then, is not that Word then
even greater than when we first heard It? Is it not true understanding
is richer and realer where we couldn’t apprehend It; we’re doing it
now?

	Then, is God going to turn around and say, “Well, listen; I gave you
your chance, and you didn’t get it.” 

	You say, “Lord I wasn’t even there.”

	“Well, too bad, too bad then.”

	“Well, I wasn’t born, Lord.”

	“Well, that’s your tough luck, too.”

	Do you think God acts that way? Come on; hundreds of years in the
making and thousands of years in the proving. God does not do foolish
things. He doesn’t ask of us anything, but simply to believe. And as
long as we’re not out of here, long as the doors are not closed, and
the Bride is not gone, we are increasing and increasing and increasing.

52.	One day soon, you’ll simply know that you know. You’ll say,
“That’s it!” And it is. And you know something? Your testimony is
the testimony of thousands, but you’ll know something that the other
thousands don’t know, that yours is based upon a vindicated Word
that’s going to put you in the Rapture. You can be healed a thousand
times and miss the Rapture. You can live God’s laws like many people
do by tithing and giving and become a legitimate millionaire. You can
give your body to be burned and still miss it. But, how can you miss
what God says? 

	There you are, Lord bless you. Let’s rise. Saturday night, seven
o’clock; seven o’clock instead of seven-thirty because of
foot-washing, being it takes a long time.

	Heavenly Father again we want to thank You for Your kindness to us.
Lord, we know we could just go over and over many messages Bro. Branham
preached. They all say the same thing: that You are a gracious and
wonderful God that thoroughly exposed Yourself by Your wonderful works
to the view of the people. And there’s only one pronouncement we can
really make, and that is that You are a wonderful, wonderful Lord that
You should condescend to do this. We are so grateful. And we marvel,
Lord, that You gave us the opportunity to see it and to open our eyes to
it.

	And we are indeed sorry, Lord, for those who do not see it and do not
understand. And we pray for them, Lord, and ask, oh God, that as the
apostle Paul was so worried about his own brethren that had the adoption
to whom You came after the flesh and who had the written Word, the
ministry had all those things were missing, were blinded to it. And he
said, “Lord, if I could die for them in their stead, I’d do it.”
But we know he could not do it, because Jesus died and paid it all.

	Lord, I just pray today the sweet Spirit of Jesus Christ in this
building, if there’s anybody here without Christ, young, old, rich,
poor, high, low, no matter what it is, Lord, we don’t worry about
anybody at all, except the condition of the heart. May that heart
respond to You and make a full commitment to You, the Lord Jesus Christ,
in a genuine baptism with the Holy Ghost. Come into that person, that
person be lit aflame and alive with the Word of God.

	Father, heal the sick amongst us, Lord. We’re glad for the strength
You give us. We appreciate it so much. I thank You, Lord, for strength
to stand up here and preach. I thank You, Lord, day by day. I ask You,
Lord, for more and more strength. Not necessarily for myself, though
that’s fine, but, Lord, that great strength for the people, and above
all, for the people an inner richness, oh God, of soul and spirit and
mind, to pass on the Word, until It’s like a pulsation going through
the building and every heart and mind merged as one, every soul united
in this grace and glory of the love and the life of Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ pressing on, until one day we all get out of here, stand in
Your Presence, Lord, at the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.

	Father, it’s just wonderful to know that something real is absolutely
true, and it’s getting realer all the time Lord. We don’t need Bro.
Branham’s vision. Although that was wonderful he got up there and came
back. We don’t need it. We don’t need the visions about what these
other things are, Lord, but we do need what came out of it, which is
that lovely Word, the faith in it. Bless each one, Father God we pray.
We’ll give You the glory in Jesus’ Name. Amen. The Lord bless you. 

	“Take the Name of Jesus with You.”

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