The Rising of the Sun #4 Mechanics and Dynamics The Bible in Flesh May 2, 1984 Heavenly Father, again we want to express our gratitude for Your love and mercy, Your great compassion toward us, and the marvelous goodness that You have bestowed upon us in this hour, that not one shall perish, but all who are standing here ordained to be here in this hour—the sheep that hear Your Voice—will be glorified by Your very Presence, by Your very Word, how You ordained It; we thank You for that, Lord. Now, be with us in the study of Your Word as we continue to go into the Message, which Your servant the prophet brought. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated. 1. Now, we’ll just sort of go back to page 17, and we’ll take paragraph 4 for a reading: [It Is the Rising of the Sun, 04-18-65] [17-4] “There… I am He that was dead,” so dead till the sun said He was dead; the moon said He was dead; the stars said He was dead; all nature said He was dead. (That’s through the black-out. You’ll notice that came about at his death.) And now, the whole world has to recognize that He’s alive again! Now, you’ll notice the statement there is a very strong statement. “And now the whole world has to recognize He’s alive again.” On what authority? Who’s going to tell them? Why? You see, that’s a pretty powerful statement. Man come along and say, “Now the whole world has to recognize He’s alive again.” 2. [17-4] He was not only the Mechanics (God’s Word), He was the Dynamics to prove It. All right. If you’re going to put one in the present tense, which is: “The whole world has to recognize He’s alive;” and then you use the past tense: “He was not only the Mechanics, God’s Word, He was the Dynamics to prove It,” then something has to happen in this hour of which the world cannot be totally ignorant. Now, they may not accept it, but there has to be something here that categorically proves the statement. The abject deadness to the tremendous aliveness has to be duplicated in this end time. You’ll notice now… We’ll just take a look at this for a minute. He said, “He was not only the Mechanics, He was the Dynamics to prove It.” Now, the key in there, of course, is the interpolation. Really it’s not interpolation so much; it’s the apposition—words in apposition. “He was not only the Mechanics, which is God’s Word, He was the Dynamics.” Now, we’re looking at God’s Word, and remember; there were three forms of the Word: Number one: the sign of the zodiac. Number two: the Bible in stone. Then, [Number three] the Bible written. But this was the Bible in flesh. This was the Word in flesh. 3. So, He was the mechanics, which is simply the flesh. But the Dynamics and the proof of the Dynamics is what he did, which was one hundred percent with that Word, and then God raised him from the dead. Now, remember; as Bro. Branham said, “The church at the end time is in absolute darkness and in deadness. And a little Light glows at the end time wherein there would be a proof given to the world of the absolute aliveness of Almighty God. Now, remember; there was even quite a thing going around for a while, your car’s bumper stickers had it: “God is dead.” And that showed the condition of the church. And in fact as far as the church is concerned, God is dead, because He’s not their life. And Bro. Branham mentions here, then, that that world has to recognize it. And now, as I say, there is no need for us to believe that the world will approve of what God sets forth as recognition, because it never ever did. But this hour demands a dynamism, which once more proves His resurrection. 4. [17-5] Now, and if He, being the Groom, the Bride has to come forth, because it’s part of Him. Now, you’ll notice in there that it says that “He was the Mechanics, and He was the Dynamics.” And so therefore, being the Groom, He came forth showing His reality. The Bride will also have to come forth in the mechanics and the dynamics, because it says here, “It’s a part of Him. So, she has to have the mechanics; she’s got to have the dynamics with Him. Now: 5. [17-5] Now, it can only be the manifestation of the fulfilling of all of revelations any others that spoke of the Bride! Now, let’s go back over that, because it sounds a bit disjointed. [17-5] And It can only be the manifestation of the fulfilling of all of revelations any others that spoke of the Bride! Now, he’s letting you know here, that as there was a manifestation of the revelation of mechanics which would have the Dynamics, there’ll also be the same at the end time in its position; the Bride has to have that. [18-0] And if it does something different from the Groom, it isn’t the Bride, because she’s flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone, and life of His Life, power of His power. She is Him! As man and woman are one, and the woman taken from his side, she had His Spirit (the feminish Spirit from Him), flesh from His flesh, made…Mechanics and Dynamics; the Wife—the Spirit of Him and the flesh of Him and put it together and made Mechanics and Dynamics. Now, what you’re looking at here is quite simple: you’re looking back to Adam and Eve wherein Eve came out of Adam; she was absolutely a part of his flesh, and the spirit that she had came from him. So you have the very same thing here in a Bride, which would be the bride of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, in other words, she, like him, is a kind of ‘logos’, because she had her roots in the beginning also, when she was way back there in the knowledge and thoughts of Almighty God. 6. Now, with that, you’ll notice that it says that she has the same Life that He has, and likening it to a bride and groom, which it is. Now, at all times you understand that the woman cannot act apart from the man, because headship lies in the man. And anything, then, which comes forth from the Bride, which is not spiritually-revealed Word that the Holy Spirit reveals to her and motivates her to do it, is absolutely carnal and is not of God. So, when you’re looking at this particular position here, you’ve got to understand that we are not like the Pentecostals and the neo-Pentecostals, Roman Catholics, and the rest, because they believe that God has conferred a power upon the church in the same manner that God has placed continuity in nature. That is a lie from the pit of hell. There is no power vested in the church that lies in continuity; no way, shape and form. It is a constant revelation to the Bride so that she is all the time operating, or doing the things of God revealed to her, by the power of God. 7. Now, let’s get into Eph 3:20, that you may know exactly what we’re saying. It’s not that you don’t know It, but we just look at It here. It says: (20) Now unto him that is able to do exceeding (abundant) above all that we ask or think, according to the (exercise of His) power that (is at work within) us… Now, this is God exercising His Own power. Now, certainly individually, unless we’re automatons or under some servitude as a slave, and even then, that is not true in the utmost sense that we would exercise our own power, because we have our own power. Now, what I’m saying is this: unless you’re a complete zombie…and even then you have to have something within you whereby you can move and do things. 8. Now, granted that we have an ability given to us—that power that’s there. It is not at our discretion; it’s only at the discretion of God. Now I realize that marriage is a peculiar situation that has so deteriorated and eroded from two sides. Most everybody wants to blame the woman; now the woman’s in her lib and in her glory, and she finds out that all she’s done is mess things up worse than ever. Now, the man, of course, is the one that messed things up, I think, worse than the woman, because he’s the stronger vessel. And he, therefore, should have done what God told him, to love his wife as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself for it, and so on. Well, woman missing that, she has gone on to her own, and, of course, she’s in a fine kettle of fish now. And that’s exactly the way the church is. The church has operated so long apart from the revealed Word of Almighty God that the church is no more the bride of Christ than nothing. See? She does not recognize a Headship. This is why there’s organization and denomination; they have taken over Headship. That’s why they’re blasphemous names—a terrible situation. 9. Okay, let’s keep reading: (This is in here too, what I’ve been saying.) [18-1] …All these Easter bunnies and ceremonies and big churches and finery will fail and pass away, until that church becomes both Dynamics and Mechanics, (Well, they’re neither one. See?) and the Spirit of God that moved him to do the things that he did; if he hit on sixteen cylinders, so will the Bride. Amen! For It says in Jn 14:12, “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also. I’ll give him a charge of my Dynamics in his mechanics, that the world will not be able to withstand it, and I’ll raise him up again at the last day.” Now, you’ll notice once more he brings the world in here. And he says, “The world will not withstand it.” Well, that doesn’t mean the world is going to apprehend it any way, shape and form. It simply means the world can do nothing about it. But I want you to notice in here that there’s a tremendous paradox of something that...unless William Branham is a prophet, and of power of the caliber of Paul, he had done a most unforgiveable thing, for he has taken and combined two Scriptures which are not in context with each other. You’ll notice that he took Jn 14:12, and then, he deliberately combined with it John 6. 10. Now, let’s go back to John 6 and begin to read what Bro. Branham combined in there. Because you’ve got to go to the gospels, since the gospels happen to form the key to the ministry amongst the Gentiles by Christ raised up to the Gentiles to do in the Spirit what He did for them in the flesh. So, let’s take a look at It. We’re going to start reading way over here now in Jn 6:25. (25) And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said, Rabbi, when camest thou hither? (26) (And He said, “I know you and your tricks and your big mouth. I’ll tell you why you’re looking for me. You don’t seek me, not because you saw the miracles, because you ate) of the loaves, and were filled.” (27) Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. In other words, He’s put His mark upon him, “This is the One you’re supposed to listen to. This is the vindicated One.” (28) Then said they unto him, what shall we do, that we might do the works of God? (29) (And) Jesus answered and said…, this is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he hath sent. Now, that set a precedence for every church age messenger and for everyone that’s in a true five-fold that brings the Word of God, which brings a Bride to perfection. 11. (30) They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe…? What dost thou work? Now, they’d already seen the irreparable sign of the loaves and fishes. Now they said, “What sign are you going to do now?” See? (31) Our fathers (ate) manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Now, they’re just telling Him flat here, “Look, we subsisted on that bread from heaven for many years. Well, if you think you’re going to get by with just turning a few loaves and fishes into food, when our forefathers had years and years and years, and that was God, you did this miracle here, you got another guess coming.” See? (32) …Jesus said unto them...Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. (33) For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. Now, that ‘world’ in there doesn’t mean ‘cosmos’ in a bad sense, because it means ‘God’s Own order. That’s the cosmos, God’s cosmos, because there’s two cosmos, remember? 12. (34) Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. Well, you say, “Okay, you’re bigger than Moses, and you can bring bread to come down. Hey, we’ll just quit working right now and throw down the old spade and shovel and take up the harp and the violin. You just keep feeding us.” (35) And Jesus said…, I’m the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (36) But I said unto you, that you also have seen me, and believe not. (37) All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (38) For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. (39) And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. Now, Bro. Branham categorically took the ministry and the intense purpose of Christ that He came for, to bring in the sheaf, to raise Him up on the last day, and he placed it right in his own ministry. Then people say, “Well, we, we just... (phfft!) this Malachi stuff. [makes a spitting sound] To get them out of the grave.” [spit, spit sound] I’m going to tell you what, they ain’t getting out of no grave in the First Resurrection. And they better watch out in the Second. Put the two together. 13. Now, I’m going to tell you something: the word ‘vengeance’ in the Bible means ‘vindication’ under the correct situation, but not everyone, because most Greek words in Hebrew mean many things under occasion. Now, Bro. Branham said, “The world can’t bypass It.” This Cloud, twenty-six miles up and thirty miles across—Pillar of Fire: you can’t prove It wrong. It’s there. But they’re still not going to take it. Now, they can’t, or they’d live. You show me a promise of life given to the seed of the serpent. It’s death. He said, “Every plant my Father has not planted (talking about people) is going to root up [Mt 15:13] and burn and leave them neither root nor branch.” [Mal 4:1] And don’t tell me that there’s half a trillion foolish virgins out there. You’ve got a bunch of false anointed, as we’ll see right down the road here. 14. Now, let’s keep reading: (41) (Then) the Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. (What’s the difference? Pillar of Fire doing it, man doing it?) (42) ...they said, is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, (Is not this William Branham, the son of a drunkard? We know him, hillbilly.) ...how is it then…he said, I came down from heaven? I’m not trying to say Bro. Branham came down from heaven; I’m just saying people rise up and try to refute a testimony. (43) Jesus therefore answered and said…, Murmur not among yourselves. (44) No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. Now, you’ve got the same. I don’t care how many signs and wonders, I don’t care how many Pillars of Fire, I don’t care how many cloud of angels, I don’t care how much vindication, it’s going to be water off a duck’s back and the roof of the ark, unless you’re elected. And people say, “What is this about election?” I’ll never understand people. It’s nice I’m sweet tonight, or I could just really shoot my conk right now, believe me. 15. Here’s about John the Baptist: [Luke 1] (15) ...he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb. (16) And many of the children of Israel shall (John) turn to the Lord your God. (17) And (John) shall go before (the Lord God of Israel) in the spirit and power of (Elijah), to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, (even) the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a prepared people for the Lord. (Then they the elect needed it. See?) Speaking of the election, talking of Israel and the Gentiles on election, It says in Rom 11:32. (31) Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also (might) obtain mercy. (32) For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. (33) O the depth (and) the riches both of the wisdom and (the) knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! (34) For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? (35) Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? (36) For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever (and ever.) That’s why Paul said, “Who are you, O man, to reply against God?” [Rom 9:20] 16. But you can tell the very person that raises his voice in contradiction never was elect, because faith does not ask questions. Now, that’s the thing I’ve noticed. So many came to Bro. Branham all the time: questions, questions, questions. I had a few questions for Bro. Branham, not very many, only in conjunction with writing and all. I always sat there and listened and listened. And I’m going to tell you one thing: questioning has no place with faith—none whatever; because questions are nothing but doubt. Now, you want to understand a little doctrine, ask a question, that’s okay. But you’ll notice it’s usually the same people; it’s always questions, questions, questions, questions, questions. Now, I’m not trying to frighten anybody here from asking questions, because if I invite questions, then, we want questions. But I’m talking about a questioning attitude there, just get it in the people’s hearts; you can never get them on course. All right. 17. You’ll notice, three times in there in John 6, He spoke that He’ll raise them up. And each time it had to do with the Bread from heaven. Now, Bro. Branham, he combined Jn 14:12 which was the vindication, the identical ministry, proving the Bread from heaven was here, which, if a man is eating, he cannot die. You say, “Why, they ate the manna before?” Yes! Because that manna was not charged with immortality. It was only charged with the ability to get you out of the grave. This sees that you won’t go into the grave: the going to the Tree of Life. 18. All right. Now: [18-2] That’s the Easter message: (The one he’s preaching.) the Dynamics and the Mechanics together. The Mechanics without the Dynamics, no good; neither is the Dynamics without the Mechanics. You can scream and shout and jump up and down all you want to, and deny this Word; it won’t do any good. You’re just cranking around…the pistons got spark there to fire, but no gasoline to fire it by. They only work as they come together. Amen. So one will set still and the other one will go up. That’s the only thing there is to it. Yet they both might look like, both claim to be churches, both claim to be brides, but one has Mechanics and Dynamics. It brings it to pass. (Now, notice.) But what He said is the Truth. Now, you’ll notice in there again, that if you didn’t understand false anointed, that if you didn’t understand what we’re talking about, this would go plumb over your head. See? What were you heading…? What was he doing? He’s telling you the great Qualifier here is the Word. It brings It to pass, but what he said is the truth. Now, notice; he said, “There are things that can be brought to pass, and one looked just like the other.” But there’s coming a time when the Word is vindicated. A special Word brought to pass at the end time that’s going to make the difference. 19. Now it says: [18-3] It just won’t move, no matter how good the Mechanics is, until the Dynamics come. Very true. It’s not going to get very far. (Let me see now. What’s in my notes down here.) Now, watch: [18-3] It just won’t move, no matter how good the Mechanics is, until the Dynamics come. All right, now. You look at that when he’s telling you… I don’t care how perfect the thing looks, and he’s talking about a body, he’s talking about a resurrection. Now, Jesus Christ lay in the grave for three days, and he did not corrupt. Now, if there’d have been blood in his body at that time, it would have been fluid, but the blood was drained out. The brain had not swollen. Nothing took place. It couldn’t. Now… But the body was still a corpse, until life returned to it. Now: 20. [18-3] When the Dynamics come, that Fire is made to connect with that octane in the gasoline. Now, there was a perfect body there, absolutely like Adam’s. It was waiting for the spirit to be breathed into it. [18-3] And when that explodes it, it causes a combustion. And that combustion produces every motion, every move, for He is the same yesterday and today and forever. Then, if He’s alive and risen from the dead He’s got to do what He did before the body died, after the body rose. And remember; it’s not the body, it’s the Life. So, the body doesn’t have to be here. All He’s got to do is have the many-membered Bride standing here; He’ll find a way to work it out. 21. [18-3] Now…That’s the Resurrection; that’s the real power of God: Mechanics and Dynamics. (He’s talking about the resurrection, the rising of the Son.) Now, He said, “I don’t care.” He absolutely… He said, “Everything looks like it’s ready for a resurrection.” Everything’s wonderful. But until the Dynamics hit it—which is…what? The Life released to the Word. See? You say, “How come?” Because God came into Christ at the river Jordan. [18-4] Now… Notice. It’s the Spirit that quickens; It’s the spark that fires. It’s not the gas that fires; it’s the spark that fires the gas. See? “You can do nothing without me, but with me you can do all things. (He is the Word; It’s the Father living) Father sent me, so send I you. As the Father has fired me and pushed me into everything, I only do that which is pleasing to God. Now, how much does God push woman preachers into the pulpit? and tongues and interpretation on the floor? And missionary programs that are conspired? Why, people just can’t get their minds in order. That’s why Bro. Branham said, “You can’t operate on yesterday’s message.” Now, you’re not going to get people to tell you that. This ain’t going to do it, there’s no way you’re going to get them convinced. See? 22. [19-0] I only do that which is pleasing to God. Now, as He sent me, so I send you with this same Mechanics. (All right.) And it takes the same Dynamics to operate it. And these signs shall follow them that claim to have the Mechanics. The Dynamics will take its place. All right. He’s putting the thing in order now. Now, you’ve got to watch pretty careful here. [19-1] Paul said, “The Gospel came to us not in word only (through gasoline…), but through spark also to make It move.” There you are! It came to us in that manner. 23. Now, that’s how It came. Paul tells us that over there in 1 Corinthians 2. So, maybe take a quick look at It; been into It so many dozens of times. (1) And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. Now, he declared the testimony of God, but he did it a certain way. (2) For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. (Now, he had to preach the Cross.) (3) And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. (4) And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and power: (5) That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. (Now, he’s telling you that: how it came.) In other words, it came to him in a tremendous, vindicated, dynamic way. All right. Then, how would it return? In the same way. Okay, he said, “He pushed me into everything.” In other words, a complete Headship of Almighty God over Jesus Christ. “I only do the things that He shows me to do, and say the things that He tells me to say.” [Jn 8:38] All right. There you are; it came to us in that manner. It’s the same Spirit that raised Him up that quickened the true believer to eternal Life. Now, remember—potentially now… 24. [19-2] …watch. (…We are getting out of our time.) Notice, the same Spirit... Now, Romans 8:1. Now, let’s just read that again in Romans 8:1. I beg your pardon, Romans 8:11.) But if... (There’s the catch; there’s the problem.) But if the Spirit of him... (God, the Holy Spirit)... that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,... [19-3] Now, there you are: if the Bridegroom’s Spirit dwells in the Bride! Now, he’s telling you there that there is, evidently, a true baptism and there is a false baptism, because this bunch here can produce certain things. And over here certain things are produced, but there’s something lacking somewhere. 25. Now, let’s just take a look at it. (We keep reading.) [19-4] When God made His first bridegroom, He made the bridegroom first, he was both man and woman in spirit, formed him in the dust of the earth to make him material. And notice, when He made Eve from Adam, He took not another piece of clay, He took the same piece of clay, the same Word… Now, watch: he’s putting Word and clay as the same like we did: the Bible and the stars—the zodiac, the Bible in stone, the Bible in written form, the Bible in flesh. So, we’re talking now about a flesh here. See? [19-4] He took from him and then taken... He had masculine and feminine spirit, …He took the female spirit from Adam, …placed it in Eve, so it’s still part of Adam’s spirit. Now, part of it; what you’ve got from way back there, that little tiny seed…if you weren’t there in the beginning, you aren’t here now. See? 26. [19-4] Now, placed it... still part of Adam’s spirit. It’s Adam’s flesh. Then, it was Adam’s spirit, the dynamics that quickened the mechanics of his body. So the Bride must also be flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone. Now, how was this mortal flesh going to become His flesh? We’ll get to it in a minute. See? How is it done? What is this great transformation? Notice! Now, if the Spirit of him... (God)... that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. [20-1] Oh, my! The predestinated One, of course, like the seed laid upon the earth, the One that had Life in them. Many of them were dead. They were just rotten seeds; the water and things burn them out. But you know, there was a seed laying there ready for life. God knew it was lying there. [20-2] Now, the predestinated Ones are the first to be quickened by the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit comes to claim Its Own. Now, this is deep, now, and be sure to catch this good! Now, just a minute, a minute ago... What he’s saying here is, the very thing that you’re born-again by, the Holy Spirit, He’s going to come and catch you that are born-again at this last time. All right, now: (I don’t care if you are dead, you’ll be raised up.) 27. [20-3] Now, as the sun was sent across the earth, not to bring rocks (which was dirt also) to life, it was not to bring all the dirt to life, but was to bring the part of the dirt which was enclosed around a life. (Now, watch; that’s resurrection. Same way you’ve got to come back, but you’re going to come back changed.) Not all men will receive Christ (Tou see, watch this.) (Oh, no!), but those which God foreordained to Life is housed around some of the dirt of the earth. That’s the ones He comes to quicken. Now, there’s one lump. But it depends on what’s in that hunk of clay that’s no different from another hunk of clay. Now, as there’s no difference between the two hunks of clay, you can get a false-anointed person to be one hundred percent like the very best Christian ever was and miss that Word of God a thousand miles. Why? Because what was in there was missing. They won’t all receive it. 28. [20-6] A man told me, “I don’t believe... I don’t care what you say. If you could raise up the dead, or anything, and heal the sick and prove it anyway, I still don’t believe it.” (Now, look what he’s saying to a vindicated prophet.) [20-7] I said, “Certainly not, you’re an unbeliever. …Don’t mean a thing to you. It wasn’t even sent to you. It’s sent to those who will believe.” (Now, watch.) The Message is to the believer. This guy wasn’t even interested in a Message; he couldn’t even take the sign. What if a man called Bro. Branham of the devil? Where would that put him? See? Now: [20-7] The Message is to the believer. To them that perish It’s foolishness, but to them that are in Christ and part of that Seed, It’s Life. 29. [20-8] (Now, he illustrates.) My crude little story about the farmer putting the eagle egg under a hen... See? That little eagle was, absolutely, just odd looking little creature (…This farmer…did this, that…thing; he…put this eagle egg under the old hen). …She hatched out a funny looking chicken. And it was an odd, little fellow. He didn’t look like the chickens; …feathers wasn’t like the rest of the chickens. He was an little, odd guy. …All the rest of the chickens recognized him an odd fellow. And the hen went around. He didn’t even like the diet she was feeding him. …just…scratching in the barnyard. He didn’t have nothing to do with that... [21-2] And the hen would cluck and—you know, “The days of miracles is past!No such thing! Join the church!” It just didn’t hit right with the little guy. So he followed around the hen until one day, his mammy... Notice, he hit the two people there at one time. He hit those that don’t believe, in Mark 16, and then the Pentecostal’s who do, but then join churches, organizations. 30. [21-2] The old eagle knew she had laid so many eggs, …there’s one missing. She knew that…eagle was somewhere, so she starts out to…hunt for him. And she circled over the mountaintops, and down the valleys, and over and everywhere, where he might be. By this time it’s time for him to be born; it’s time to be hatched... And said, “Maybe a crow come in and picked up my egg, maybe a vulture; I don’t know. Something picked up my egg, but I know that egg is in my mind. I got a son somewhere. I got to hunt him.” Now, you know Bro. Branham goes through all that little talk there, but you know, one thing about it: there ain’t no way a crow is going to get away with that egg. Can’t be done. But you notice how he corrects himself. He’s out there looking anyway. Well, said, maybe the egg, the old crow got it and it dropped somewhere. No, they go out to destroy the egg. 31. [21-4] One day, the story goes, the old eagle flew over the barnyard, …looking everywhere, and she found him. Oh, for that resurrection to recognize that he really wasn’t a chicken after all. He was an eagle! Now, that resurrection right there, of course, is a spiritualized one. And you can tell there could be many resurrections of that particular order. You know, in the sense of the word, we’re illustrating now. [21-4] But he was always taught to look down, look…for a bug or something in the barnyard. …He heard a scream that said, “Look up this way.” (He got his mind changed, you see.) And he looked above him, there was a creature with fourteen foot wings, more powerful than chickens…in the barnyard, and claimed him to be her son! He said, “Mama, how can I get to you?” [21-5] She said, “Just jump, start flopping your wings, …you’re an eagle.” (So, the first thing comes is recognition, then make a move.) [22-1] See? She knew she had a son somewhere. No matter what he had been raised up in, she’s got a son somewhere. [22-2] And God knows. Hallelujah! He’s got a predestinated, foreordained Church! He knows He’s got sons and daughters and a Bride waiting somewhere; and when the Holy Spirit begins to fly over it, that wave Sheaf—oh, my! He’s the same yesterday and today and forever, not some mythical story, but a reality. Now, he comes right back to the ministry, the power of God in the Word, and said this is going to bring a resurrection. Because it’s foreordained for the resurrection hour. See? 32. [22-3] This eagle, didn’t know what an eagle was; yet he was an eagle. He would not understand it until he seen something that reflected him—that he reflected, rather. [22-4] And when we see not a denomination, not a Ph.D., not a LL.D., not a good neighbor, but a son of God, molded in the image of God with the dynamic power of God to answer the request of this day that He’s the same yesterday, today and forever, there ain’t no hen going to hold you. Now, it tells you right there, unless you understand Heb 13:8 for what It is, you’re not getting off the ground. Because you don’t know what it’s all about. You don’t understand false anointed. Still can’t figure that Word. Now, you’re not supposed to figure It. You’re supposed to believe what the man, the authority, who is doing the acts, tells you. It’s above your mind, because it never came out of your mind in the first place. 33. Let’s go back to Romans 11 again; this subject of predestination. (33) O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! (34) For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? (35) Or who hath first given to him... (who put something in the mind of God? Drop dead. Drop dead.) I’m going to tell you something, brother/sister: science today can fool with DNA and RNA, but they cannot make DNA and RNA per se. Oh, they can make a good try at it and come up with ‘ersatz coffee’ every single time. All science can do is produce a Hitler and a Stalin and a bunch of kooks like we’ve had, which are no better. 34. I can’t understand this country. Just one thing that just leaves me strictly appalled. Reagan, everybody runs around the country, round the whole world, trying to settle world affairs. I want to know one thing: was [John] DeLorean trained by the FBI? If he was, where’s Reagan? He ain’t worth the powder to blow him to hell, because this country’s gone. This country needs one thing: it needs courts, with the money supplied to keep those courts in order. The first man out of line, they put him back in line; he’s gone. The country’s finished. The country’s finished. Sure, that’s all their fooling around can do is produce this kind of stuff. God produced truth and reality, and they turn from it. But I tell you one thing: there’s just one thing about it, a true Bride looks at these things and just wants to come that much closer to God and be that much truer and honest and right about everything she’s involved in, and not go the way of the world. 35. All right. It says here: Understand Heb 13:8. [22-4] He hunts for his mama. He’s an eagle to begin with. He recognizes… This real eagle recognizes the call of God’s Word. (Now you see, there’s your difference right there.) Why? He’s an eagle. An eagle to an eagle, the Word before the foundation of the World to the Word, the Word predestinated to the Word written for the hour. (Now, see what he’s telling you?) The whole thing devolves upon and hinges upon a true revelation of what is going on at this moment. The Word keeps moving to the Word that’s here: the hour, the land of promise that we’re in: the Book of Joshua; the Book of Ephesians. See? Moving us right into this relationship of revelation. 36. Let’s go back to John 4: the woman at the well. Now, she said: (19) I perceive…(you’re) a prophet. Now, watch the big old argument, the big brouhaha. (20) (If) our fathers worshipped in this mountain; (Now, if you’re a prophet she said, we’re going to get some things straight here I hope. She’s a nice lady.) You say, …in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. (21) Jesus said…, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when you shall [neither] in this mountain, nor…at Jerusalem, worship the Father. (22) You worship you don’t know what (you worship): we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. (One God, see?) (23) But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: (and) the Father seeketh such to worship him. (24) God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. So, the church has to come to the place, which it has come to now through the woman-at-the-well demonstration, and the re-demonstration in this hour; we are worshipping God in Spirit and in Truth, and nobody else is doing it. And that’s your journey into this Millennium—right with the Pillar of Fire, one with Him, and all the purposes of God. And all the purpose of God is to have a Bride on this earth in the form of the Lord Jesus Christ. 37. [22-4] Now… Do you realize your position? (He said,) He hunts for it. (Are you seeking yours?) [22-5] This then, this earthly body is quickened and brought by the quickening power of God to obedience to the Word of God.What he wanted to know how he could get there with her... He’d been taught he couldn’t do it. “You can’t get no higher than you jump.” He’s a chicken. See? [22-6] …The eagle said, “That’s not so.” What’s he talking about? He’s going to get up there. Where did those angels come from? From up above. Where are we going? Up where they were. Bro. Branham got caught up, the same as John got caught up. What is it a type of? The Rapture. Bro. Branham said so, so it applies to him. 38. [22-8,9] Now, …move up! The Word to the Word. The works that I do, shall you also. He that believeth in me, the works that I do shall ye also. [Jn 14:12] [22-9] Now, watch: But because I live, he lives also. And if the Spirit that raised Him from the dead dwells in you, It quickens your mortal body.” [Rom 8:11; Eph 1:17] Now, he’s taken Scripture again and perverted It, [Note: the following portion in braces is not available on the MP3 version.] {unless he’s the caliber of Paul. Because It doesn’t say that in Jn 14:12, “because I live, you live also.” Didn’t say, going to raise it up at the last time. Now, he takes it right to Rom 8:11. Now, if you see the works and come to the Word, you know you’ve got what it takes. Everybody wants something else. [End of side one of the audio tape.] 39. Now, that’s Eph 1:17 onward. (17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him… First of all, you got to know that It’s Him. [Number one:] Vindication. Number two, Message. Number three: raise the dead.} Shout, Voice, Rapture. I don’t know what’s simpler than that, and God’s doing it. And He’s doing it for the elect. And if you’re elect, you ain’t going to miss It. And if you aren’t elect, you ain’t going to get in It. And every church has three kind of believers. That’s a tough one. You think that doesn’t kill a man up front to say a thing like that? Kills him for two reasons: he hates to think anybody might be in that category, and he hates to think he has anything to do with it. 40. [23-1] What does it do? Now, listen, so that you’ll know that this Easter, (this Easter,) I want it to mean more to you than any Easter ever did. See? I want you to see it. We know what it did for him, but I want you to see it, not will, it has done the same for you. See? What does it do? It quickens the mortal body. This mortal body that we live in, It quickens it; in other words, brings it to Life. Now, he’s going to make some illustrations here that puts you into a spiritual resurrection again, as it were. Not really, but it’s... Yeah, just watch it. [23-2] Now, you who once walked along with a great big cigar in your mouth, and everything, a bunch of cigarettes; and you women who had short hair, painted, and carried on, wore shorts, and things like that; all at once, Something screamed and you looked down here and It was the Word. See? It quickens your... You said, “No more shorts for me, no more liquor for me, no more lying, no stealing, no more this, that...” See? The Spirit that raised Him from the dead, dwelling in you will also bring your mortal bodies (the dust of the earth) into subjection. You see? What is it? Subjection to what? Christ. Who’s Christ? The Word, not the theology, but the Word. Now, that’s a process of sanctification that precedes the baptism. Then what is the situation with the church? It got sanctified all right, but it didn’t go on to the Holy Ghost so that they get a Word understanding of what’s required. 41. Now, people said, “What does it matter if you cut your hair? What’s that got to do with it? What’s the matter this? What’s the matter that?” This is the corrected Word coming forth. And if a person’s an eagle, that person snaps onto it right now. [23-3] Then, you say that these things... “Oh, I think it’s okay for a woman to wear slacks.” …the Word says, “No.” See? It quickens you to that. See? You’re drawed to It. See? … You become part of the Word. (In other words, manifested because you already are.) [23-4] It brought your body, not... Well, you say, “Well, now, let me tell you something; my pastor...” I don’t care what your pastor said; it’s what the Word says. If you want to be a chicken, go with him. If the pastor speaks different from this Word, …he’s not a feeder of the eagles; he’s a feeder of hens, not the eagles. See? Now, Bro. Branham makes a clean-cut statement: either you’re with this Word, or you’re wrong—the way he taught it. 42. [23-5] The Bible said it’s wrong to do that, (and the man said,) so forth, and what all you do that’s wrong... Say, “Days of miracles passed.” This Bible said He’s the same yesterday, today and forever. Now, how could anybody that says ‘the days of miracles are past’ accept the prophet Elijah? How can a people who won’t listen to Word, accept the prophet Elijah, even though they believe in miracles? Can’t do it. [23-5] This Bible said He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Now:) if they say that’s a mental telepathy, (That’s of course discernment.) kind of a mind reading, this discernment and all these visions is nonsense, they’re chickens. They don’t know what eagle food is. So, the first step in eagle food is knowing that this is something to be reckoned with. And you start watching the Bible to see where It’s going. First step, but if you turn It down flat, you haven’t got a prayer. [23-5] But, brother, when you hear that scream, there’s something in yo;, you’re aneagle to begin with. Now, in other words you’ll notice that the scream begins with what you see. So therefore, you’re hearing from God the minute you see something. That’s right. Your consciousness has struck. 43. [23-6] Why? You are that Seed that the resurrection of the (capital) S-o-n has dawned and the wave Sheaf upon the earth to make you recognize that you’re a eagle and not a denominational chicken. Now, that’s now: Christ risen amongst us and waved over us is the manifestation that we saw before through the prophet’s ministry and, then, heard the same One give us the Words of Life. “He that believeth in me shall never perish.” [Jn 11:26] [24-1] Now, if the Spirit that raised Him from the dead, the Word, the Dynamic of the Word, dwells in you, It’ll also quicken your mortal body. All right. [24-1 repeated] Now, if the Spirit that raised Him from the dead, the Word, the Dynamic of the Word, dwells in you, It’ll also quicken your mortal body. Now, listen; that goes back to the previous paragraph: the Sheaf waved over you, Who’s in the midst of you, Son of man. Call it that if you want: Elohim, Almighty God. 44. Now, if the one who is spirit, that same one who raised Jesus, is in you, (See?) you recognizing the waving, you’re going to have your mortal body quickened. Just the same as back there when you became a Christian, you got your life cleaned up. And when you heard the Word, and you said, I can’t cut my hair off anymore, can’t wear slacks; and the men and women buckle down, he said, you got it made. Oh God, what more do people want? What more do they want? I want to know: what more do they want? If God Almighty’s Word brought all this in, it’s all kept by It, and It’s been manifested before us, then who needs anything else? because God swore by Himself. The same thing in Rev 10:1-7; He lifts His hands and swears again. We’re ushered into the Millennium; we’re being ushered in. “Is the Seventh Seal opened? Is this? Is that?” No, it’s not. Goodbye Charlie. To him it isn’t. Forget it. I’m too impatient for this nonsense. 45. [24-2] Now, how are we flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone? Because while we were yet mortal sinners (mortal, ready to die—these bodies), It quickens that body. What’s ‘quicken’? ‘Brings to Life.’ The Spirit that once liked to drink, run around, commit adultery, and all these... It’s quickened. (And if the fellow still likes it, something’s wrong with him.) I think people think that because I’m seventy years of age, just about, I’m bored to death, because I’ve got hardly any vigor left. Hogwash! (Phffft!) Takes half an hour to limber up more, and I was limbered up and free as any of you. Oh, I can’t fly quite as high and run quite as far, but so (phoof), maybe I’ve done my flying and running before you were ever around even. [laughter] That’s it, Bro. Vayle, let them know the truth. [24-2] The Spirit that once liked to drink, run around, commit adultery, these things... It’s been quickened. Why, the thing’s died and you’re resurrected. It quickens your mortal body. [24-3] Therefore, your body is the temple of the Dynamics. Because why? From the beginning you are part of the Mechanics! What’s he telling you? That seed in there has been watered. See, the junk around has got to rot away. Life’s coming forth. 46. [24-3] ...These bodies right now are quickened! See? You’ve heard; you believe; it changed you from a denomination to the Word. See? [24-4] The Dynamics, if It comes upon water, it’ll just splutter: You put water in there, spark plug can’t do it any good. Juice won’t do you any good. [24-4] “Days of miracles is past, putt-putt-putt; oh, I believe divine... pomp-pomp-pomp; but they…but when it hits that one thousand octane, (just) “Whrrrr” and away she goes. See? [24-5] The Dynamics strike that...! But if It strikes a chicken, It won’t do no good. When It strikes a eagle he moves out, (Amen!) the Dynamics with the Mechanics. See what I mean? That is, if he is a true eagle now, he will understand. (Now, he said, “If he’s an eagle, a true one, he’ll understand.”) [24-6] Now: Let me straighten the Scripture for you. … John 5:24, said, “He that heareth my Word, believeth on him that sent me, has everlasting life.” [24-7] Now, look! I go down the street and just take that literally and what it is, without the spiritual understanding (not making it say nothing else, but just saying what it is). See? And right there in the Greek, in the original, it says,”He that understandeth my Word...” Now, people said Bro. Branham didn’t go to the Greek, so I can’t go either. He just said he went to the Greek. (Must have been a ‘Newfie’ thought that one out.) [laughter] 47. [24-7] Now, to prove that’s right, I go down here, and here’s a drunk coming down the street, …other man’s wife on his arms, and cussing and taking God’s Name in vain, and everything else like that. “Say, did you hear what that preacher said? Did you?” [25-1] “Sure, I heard it.” That doesn’t mean that man’s got eternal Life. See? “He that understandeth my Word,” he that’s an eagle. [25-2] “Now, Brother Branham, I want more Scripture than that.” [25-3] All right. “My sheep hear my Voice. A stranger they won’t follow.” (Well, there must be something that sheep doesn’t understand the other fellow’s voice.) [25-4] As in the marriage and divorce case the other day, when the Holy Spirit told me that, and I come and said it just the way He told me. Some lady minister gave me a right sharp, little bawling out. She said, “I guess you take the place of God.” [25-5] I said, “No, ma’am.” [25-6] Said, “Well, you told them their sins forgiven.” Said, “Well,” said, “only God has power to...” Another Pharisee. See? [25-6] And I said, “You see, that you might know that Jesus told Peter and the apostles, after he had the revelation of Who He was and told Him, ‘Thou art Christ, the Son of God,’ He said, ‘Blessed art thou, son of Jonas, flesh and blood never revealed this to you, but my Father which is in heaven has revealed It to you. Upon this rock I’ll build my church; the gates of hell can’t prevail against It. And I give you the keys to the kingdom. Whatever you bind on earth, I’ll bind it in heaven; what you loose on earth, I’ll loose in heaven.’” That’s that divine revelation of the Word made flesh. If it was flesh in that day by the Son, the Groom, it’s the flesh today by the Bride. Now, notice; the Bride, per se, did not do it as a group, but because he did it (And he was a member.) the Bride did it. And remember; let’s face this: When he did it, he was acting in capacity as the Head. And therefore, whatever he did, the Bride did period, in perfect relationship to Almighty God. He himself, he said concerning Jesus, “He forced me to do it.” Bro. Branham used that term. He himself said, “I was put into a pipe where God pushed me.” The word is ‘pushed’. 48. [25-8] Whosoever sins you remit, to them they are remitted; whosoever sins you retain, to them they are retained. Now, the Catholic Church picked that up and taken it to their priests, …that’s carnal. Watch! It’s the spiritual, revealed Word that did it. That’s the reason He told them to go baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. He knew who he was. [25-9] Talking to a little preacher the other day, he said…, “Now, Brother Branham, I’ve come out and joined—went over to a certain-certain church, a Pentecostal church...” (Pentecostals have started taking the wafer now, you know, the round wafer...kosher, moon god. They all accepted it and taking it.) This man…congregation went to him; and he said, “What I bless is blest.” (Now, ain’t that what the priest says; he has power to turn it back to the body of Christ? (You see, in other words, it can’t be done. No.) See, just six of one and half a dozen of the other.) In other words, what’s the difference between Protestants and Catholics? No difference at all. Get back to the Word. 49. [26-0] And he said, “I want you to ask... You know something? The Catholics and the Lutheran’s got together, and they said, “I’m going to tell you something: there is no church that is infallible, and nobody’s got a right to say it has, like any pope with any infallibility. And nobody’s got a right to even set up a doctrine.” So, they cut the whole thing down. They just said, “Well, we just all love Jesus, hallelujah.” So, Protestant’s are going to hell because they’re off the Word, and Catholic’s are going to hell, because they’re off the Word. And the whole bunch are going to hell, because they’re off the Word. Let’s face it. And if we’re off the Word, we’ll go to hell, too. Listen, let’s not kid ourselves, brother/sister. You know how it is. Just stay with the Word of God. If It hurts you, It hurts you. 50. [26-0] He said, “Do you think it is all necessary that a man should be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ?” [26-1] I said, “Yes, sir.” [26-2] He said, “After he’s been baptized in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost?” [26-3] I said, “Yes, sir. He hasn’t been baptized at all. (Then, where does sprinkling put you?) He hasn’t been baptized at all, no name; that’s a title.” I said, “It isn’t recognized.” He said, “Why did Peter do it?” [26-4] “Well, now, let me tell you something.” …In Acts 10:49,” he said, “While Peter spake these words the Holy Ghost fell upon them.” [26-5] But I said, “He turned right around and said, ‘Can a man forbid water that these should not be baptized?’“ [26-6] He said, “Well, you was speaking over there awhile ago about Acts 19, where Paul passed through the upper coast…find…disciples.” He said, “Why, weren’t they… baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” [26-7] I said, “No, they were baptized unto repentance, not for remission of sins.., but repentance, because Jesus hadn’t been made known yet. The Sacrifice hadn’t been killed.” [26-8] “Well, why did they have to be baptized over?” [26-9] I said, “That was the man that had the keys that said: ‘For be it known unto you that there’s not another Name under heaven given amongst man whereby you must be saved.’ Salvation alone goes in the name of Jesus Christ. ‘Whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of Jesus Christ.’ Of course, the Pentecostal’s get around that by saying, “Well, I do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and baptize in the name of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Hogwash. It won’t work. That’s absolutely a... That, brother/sister… Come on; that’s diabolical. 51. [26-9] There’s not another name, no church, no hierarchy, no titles, or nothing else; yet He is the Rose of Sharon, Lily of the Valley, Morning Star, Alpha and Omega, beginning and the end, Jehovah-jireh, Rapha, Manasseh, (and so on,) all these things, but yet there’s not no salvation in any of those titles: Jehovah, no salvation; Rose of Sharon, no; Father, Son Holy Ghost, no salvation; only the name of Jesus. And of course, Jesus is Jehovah, or Joshua, Jehovah Savior. But you’ve got to understand where you place It, because It had to come by flesh. [27-1] He said, “Do you think it makes any difference?” [27-2] I said, “Sir, I want to ask you something.” He and I and my wife were setting at the table. He just moved over to Arizona. “We are both Arizonans; we live here. And you know the council, the ward, the mayor, and the governor. “ [27-3] He said, “Yes.” [27-4] I said, “Now, if I told you, brother, to go over here and sign up for our dinner in the name of the Governor of the State of Arizona, would you go sign it like that? You think they’d receive it at the desk?” [27-5] “Why,” he said, “I guess not.” He said, “Why did Jesus say that?” [27-6] I said, “This is it.” See? Why? “If I told you to go sign for this dinner in the name of the Governor of Arizona, us being citizens of Arizona, knowing who the Governor is, why, you’d know to sign it in the name of Sam Goddard, because he is the Governor of the state. I don’t have to question you. You know who the Governor is. Now, when He said, ‘Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,’ He knew how they were going to baptize. They knew Who He was. ‘My sheep hear my Voice.’“ See? [27-7] He said, “Oh, I see.” [27-8] “But…the next thing, will you believe?” (That’s a paradox. Can’t take explanation.) He that hears my word, and believeth on him that sent me has everlasting life,... Now, of course, right there, Bro. Branham was sent by God. Gordon Lindsay wrote a book, A Man Sent by God. What do you do when a man stands up and says, “Well, you know he’s just a prophet when he discerns, but in the Word he ain’t got it”? I’m not trying to condemn that man. I’m just asking a question. You know, people think you can fool with God and have your cake and eat it. You can’t do it. You can’t do it. 52. [27-9] ...when this new, eternal life dwells in you, it is the potential (when you have received this Holy Spirit now, that they did at Pentecost). They were the mechanics; now the Dynamics had come. They had believed. Why were they the mechanics? Because they were the elected, foreknown ones at the beginning—the life surrounded by that little piece of dirt. Now, the water’s got to be poured upon it. The water’s poured upon; God’s obligated to raise it up someday. 53. [27-10] You know, our good Baptist friends tell us when we believe, we’ve got It. But they didn’t have It, yet they’d believed. In Acts 19, they’d believed, they didn’t have it. “Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?” See? They had the mechanics all right, because the apostles... I mean Apollos was teaching…them, proving by the Bible the mechanics, that Jesus was the Christ, but they didn’t have the Dynamics... Is that right? [28-1] You potentially have the earnest, the waiting. But when you get the Dynamics, you have been quickened from mortal to immortality. It makes the whole body come subject to the Word. It’ll make you act different, look different, live different; It’ll just make you different. (Certainly it will.) [28-2] Now, look! ... been quickened. Yet you who were once dead in sin and trespasses and darkness has He quickened. What by? His Spirit that raised up Jesus on Easter morning from the dead. And if It dwells in your mortal bodies, (Now, watch.) It also quickens, brings to life, makes it subject to the Word. Now, how in the world can anybody be subject to a Word, unless first of all you understand It and, therefore, believe It? It’s no way. 54. [28-2] Now, how can you claim to have that Spirit and throw yourself away from the Word? Well, they say, “Well, William Branham, we got news for you: Just because you tell us, it doesn’t mean we have to listen to you. Who are you anyway?” Yet, on a tape more than one time, he said, “If you only knew who I was, everyone of you would be healed.” He said that down in Florida; said it in another place; I forget which. Nobody said, “Who are you anyway? What are you trying to tell us?” No, you know what happens? Those things just make you go ridged. You know why? Because nobody understood that the Word would have a man like that here in front of us. That man could come and say anything he wanted—goes right over their heads. We’re only learning now because we have come to the place of accepting him. And in accepting him, we automatically accept the One that sent him. When we accept the mechanics, William Branham, then the Dynamics that came, we automatically accept the Dynamics of our God which in turn would take our mechanics the physical, right to glorification. ... You can’t get away from It. 55. Now, look: [28-2] ... subject to the Word. Now, how can you claim to have that Spirit and throw yourself away from the Word? You’re quickened by something else. For It will quicken your mortal bodies to the Word. Sure It will! You can’t run without It. You’ll just sputter if you don’t believe all of It. If you have part gasoline, part water, you ain’t going to go nowhere. See? You’ve got be one hundred percent gasoline. If you don’t, you’re backfiring; you ain’t got no power. He’s talking about this minute. Don’t ever let your mind get away from the subject of the Resurrection, because that’s the subject. The mind wants to go back, “Oh, my experience, oh this, oh that...” Oh shut up. Take one of those hoses they use, hydraulic hoses. PSI about what? Fifteen hundred…fifteen thousand pounds per square inch minimum. Maybe thirty five thousand pounds. Make it a million. And just take one shot at your brain. (Phffft!) Get all that manure out of there. 56. Well, that’s how Hercules cleaned the Aegean stables. They were so full of manure nobody could clean them. Was it Hercules or Atlas? I forget. Who knows mythology? Aw, you’re worse than I am. What am I doing with you guys? Can’t answer even a question for me. Anyway, they wanted to clean these great big old stables and nobody could do it. So, he said, “Well, I’ll just (phffft!) run the river through it. [Makes a noise] Water took the manure away. Diverted the river back. But you know what? They did that under Babylon. Yeah, they came in one night, and they diverted the river. Old Belshazzar sat there rejoicing and praising, you know, having a great time boozing up, women, everything else, desecrating the vessels of the temple of Almighty God. There they diverted the river and crawled under the banks under the walls. They didn’t have scuba divers in those days. They did a mighty good job though; came and took the dump over. See? 57. All right. [28-2] ... quicken your mortal bodies to the Word. Sure It will! You can’t run without It. You’ll just sputter if you don’t believe It at all. If you have part water, part gasoline... No, you’ve got to be one hundred percent. He’s talking about a Resurrection. You’ve got to have the Word today and be part of that Word and know It: the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the Presence, the whole thing right here, everything in divine order, everything being said here. There’s got to be a Rapture. And I’m going to tell you, there’s got to be a Rapture, or the whole thing’s up for grabs; who gives a rip? Where are you going to go? I’m in… Look, brother sister. I didn’t die and come back again. You’re still in the face of the inscrutable. You’re still at the place where you got to believe. Now, the question is: what do you believe? I believe this! Best thing came along yet. 58. [28-3] See? (Now, you say,)”I believe this; I’ll…believe that.” Pump-pump-pump-pump. You ain’t going nowhere. But, oh, when you take the fullness! Let it light up on that! Every Word is Truth. Now, he’s told you, Heb 13:8, in the Spirit He returns to the Gentiles. He’s waved over the congregation, proving He’s that One. Now, He’s here, and if you’re full of the Holy Ghost, you get It just like that and lined right up, and you’re going to get out of here. “Jesus paid it all; all to Him I owe.” Then He came back and finished the work off like He started in Eden. I don’t know, you just can’t get people to believe. It’s not our job to get them to believe. You don’t have to trick anybody to believe. 59. I’m going to tell you one thing: it’s manifesting time. Just you wait; just watch. Aw, they can’t stay with it. Oh, no. Is there anybody in this building that doesn’t have any excuse for telling a lie? Give me one reason. Can’t do it. Don’t let your thoughts go; just think what I’m saying. Don’t try to put a meaning on them, because I’m not going to explain it. Anybody got any excuse for stealing? Now, you could go out in the neighbor’s field and eat the wheat, but you can’t carry away pockets of it; you would just eat some. Anybody got excuse for committing adultery? Women running off on her husband? Nobody. Nobody has an excuse, but it’s being done. How much Holy Ghost? How much Holy Ghost? It’s not there. Just not there. Oh, I know we can fall. I know we can be trapped. I know a lot of those things. But you see, you’re under a different hour than you were in Pentecost. God winked at ignorance at one time, but there’s no ignorance anymore. The questions have been answered. God made a way, but you’ll keep looking out here, and you’ll see all that stuff going around, around the country. You’ll see the same people do the same thing over and over again. And you know I’m not one for trying to flaunt works and flaunt works for anybody and say, “Hey, this fellow is built on works.” I’m not saying that. But Bro. Branham said, “Hey, you used to smoke cigars years ago. You ran with women, you don’t do it anymore, what happened?” What if they go back? 60. You know something? Let’s get this flat: it’s been my experience that the hog returns to the wallow, and the dog to the vomit, which lets you know, where the hog had a habitat, he goes back to. And what the dog once ate, he’ll go back to. So therefore, if a person was a veteran smoker, if he backslides, there wasn’t anything in the first place—maybe, he’ll go back to his smoking. People carry patterns with them all the time, habit patterns and this and that. And you watch now; we’re getting beyond that. Now, I’m not even talking about this church here you see, but things come into my experience, the telephone calls and lot of things come up. And I watch patterns and that pattern is just the same; it never changes. 61. But you know something? We’re not that way. I believe there’s a moving in the Bride, brother/ sister, that can face up to anything. You say, “Have you faced up?” No, but I do my facing up. I’m not faced up to everything, but there is a facing up that never was up there a while ago. With it, there comes an understanding. Now, Bro. Branham lays this all out here, and he said, now look he said… He’s covered the whole area. He’s covered conduct and everything else. And he said, “Now at this end time here, a real genuine believer, he will absolutely know from the prophet, the Pillar of Fire, understanding of the Word,” there will be conduct, there will be all these things in here. And he said, “At the end time there will be just like a naturalness,” walking closer and closer to the perfect day. 62. So, what I’m letting you know here is this: that this Quickening is quickening as It’s never quickened before, outside the First Age, and It’s going beyond the First Age. Because the First Age was a ‘lion’, and this One roared like a lion, because the Gospel began moving, flashing across the world. This can’t flash anymore. It’s done flashed. There’s no place else to go. But all the qualities that went with it are still here. Now, they had a job, and Paul, looking down the road said, “Let him that stole, steal no more.” [Eph 4:28] “Lie not one to another.” [Col 3:9] “Husbands love your wives. [Col 3:19] “Women obey your husbands.” [Col 3:18] See? We haven’t lost anything. We haven’t put away anything. It just comes more and more and more, and greater and greater, and we’re now at the end time. So, we have every right to expect a standard in every one of our churches, without ratting people to death or anything else. 63. So, begin moving on in faith. Realize that within you is a cry and a call to be different from what you ever were: more steadfast, more honorable, more understanding, everything in there. But if you do one thing outside this Word, you know that your morals and everything else don’t have any foundation in the first place. See? There’s a difference with us. The difference lies in that Word, because that Word having that One risen and waved over us now, we are at the end of the hour of the age of the promise. We’re coming into it. So, I hope that you understand. I don’t want to dampen anybody’s feelings, but every now and then I’ve got to say some little thing to make you realize, although I don’t preach pastoral messages in the sense of delineating upon conduct and all these other fine things that go into a church. Look, it’s more incumbent upon us than ever to see these things, but we see them way beyond what the other’s ever saw beyond. All they could see... What could they see? I don’t know. Organization? Things? But we see Him. We see Him clearly. 64. So, the Lord bless you. Keep going on, stay with the Word, and all those things that are in there, but know this one thing: I don’t care if you are as perfect as when Adam stepped from the hand of God. God would have still had to do something for Adam to bring him to immortality, because Adam did not have within himself and by himself, of himself, that seed which would naturally have turned to it. God would have still done it. 65. So, no matter how far we get, (Thank God, we go a long way in many directions.) the thing that we’re looking at above all is going to get us out of here. We are looking at that Word and, thereby, know we are born again. And as Paul said, “If we live in the Spirit, then let us be sure to walk in It.” That is what I’m trying to tell you. That is what I’m laying on the line. We must never be carried away to where we say, “Hey, I understand the Word. I see these things. It doesn’t matter.” See, that’s...what do you see in the first place? Nah, if I say, “Old Baptist hogwash of being eternal-security…nothing to be secured with.” Or the person says, “I believe in falling away.” Nothing to fall away from in the first place. If you’re really a servant of God, you neither have fallen away, or eternal security in the sense they have it. If you’re a child of God, you always were. You’ll never be anything else but. You will make it. But when the old eagle looked up, I’m going to tell you, he didn’t run back to the barn yard for a second dose. That’s what I’m saying in plain English. (Let’s rise.) If he did, he wasn’t an eagle to begin with, because he liked the chicken corruption too much. Heavenly Father, we’re grateful tonight that, in knowing Your Word, we remind ourselves daily, trusting we do, that there is a life to be lived in the circumspect way of our Lord as the apostle Paul said, and we appreciate that. And, Father, we’re saying tonight with our hearts elevated towards You in all humility, and all regard, O God, of Your sacred, divine Presence, we want to so walk that we be pleasing. Really, Lord, we want to put away all envy, malice and all those things that Paul said could be amongst us: all things, Lord, which are not right: evil speaking, all those things. My God, we could be a long time naming in this way, Paul did. But, Father, we want it all put away and bring it right to the place where your great servant Paul said, “If you live in the Spirit, then walk in It.” [Gal 5:25] And as John said to: “Walk in the Light as He is in the Light.” [1 Jn 1:7] There was a walk involved there, and the Blood would be constantly cleansing. What a wonderful thing. And the nearer and nearer we get, the Blood getting stronger and stronger, because right in the presence of our God, and Him coming, vindicating Himself to us, oh, what servants we ought to be, Father, that’s what we’re saying. Help us tonight in our repentant hearts, O God, our changed minds and all these ways we must serve Thee better by our lives. We must glow, absolutely, with that beautiful glow of God, a life that is burning for Him, through Him, of Him, and for Him. Father, we just love You tonight, appreciate You so much. Thank You for the opportunity of having been here, getting Your Word together. We love You. You know that we do. And we know that You love us. We are very grateful. Bless Your people everywhere, Lord. Help them, O God. Help us, Lord, to understand that everybody has problems. And may we be those who help to help the problems and not add to them. Help us to lift burdens rather than to be burdensome. In all things, Lord, may gentleness, meekness be amongst us as never before. And unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, Whom we dearly love, in Jesus’ Name we pray. May He have honor and glory forevermore. Amen. Let’s sing, “Take the Name of Jesus with You.”