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« 1 † ` … night, and to hear Joyce sing. Did you know that that’s a miracle in itself? That little girl, how can she think of all that? And each night she has us a new one. How she can think of all that, that’s really a little mastermind. The Lord bless that child.

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« 2 † Now, tomorrow, at two-thirty, at the funeral home in Charlestown, Indiana. Our dear, departed sister, Sister Colvin, we give her the last respects to her, at the–at the funeral home and at the grave, tomorrow afternoon. One who once lived as you are tonight, and is passed beyond the veil where you will sometime. And all who wish to attend service, why, is welcome to come. It’ll certainly be a great help to the Colvin family, to know that the tabernacle here, where they have all went to church for so long, and so forth, will. We’d be glad to have you come up. And I think the… our dear Brother McKinney, the one that preached my brother’s funeral, many years ago, has the main part of the funeral, and I been asked to come and help him in the–in the funeral services.

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« 3 † Now, I was just a little late, tonight. I got so many irons in the fire, I don’t know which way to go. There’s so many calls, and these wrecks and accidents, and people calling, coming. Till, I just left Louisville, a few moments ago, to get back here quickly, and leaving several calls that’s real strenuous and must be made, I guess, yet, tonight. And now pray for us as we go along.

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« 4 † And this morning I–I never did get to my–my text, to the 7th chapter of the Book of–of–of Hebrews. And while we’re turning to it, tonight, I want to make the announcement about Brother Graham Snelling’s meeting, up at the tent up here, at the end of Brigham Avenue. If the Lord willing, I want to be back Wednesday night. And there we’ll set a certain night that we’re going to go up as a delegation, this week sometime, to visit Brother Graham in the meeting. And he’s a… says, “Having a nice crowd.” And–and he’ll appreciate us coming, for this help. Brother Graham Snelling, any of you is attending the meeting, or wish to, it’s just at the end of Brigham Avenue up here. Anyone can tell you where it’s at. Right at the end of the playgrounds, the tent is setting. He appreciates your cooperation. Because, we as a tabernacle have pledged our cooperation with him, a hundred percent, so we’re trying to help.

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« 5 † Now, then soon we’re coming down to the place of, the Lord willing, to the 11th chapter of Hebrews, in a few nights, if God willing, and there I think we’re going to have a great time also.
6 Oh, the Lord blessed us this morning in a marvelous way, how He did pour out His Spirit upon us! And now, tonight, we’re expecting Him to do it again; and then Wednesday night, and on. And–and the nights that I miss, Brother Neville will be here to pick it right up, if I’m out.

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« 7 † I never know what I’m going to do, you might be here this hour, and another hour be called to California. See, you don’t know just where the Lord will send. That’s the reason it’s hard for me to make itineraries and say we’ll–we’ll do so-and-so. I can start to do a certain thing, the Lord will send me somewhere else. See? So we don’t know just what He will do. “But if the Lord is willing,” we said. I think we’re commissioned, or commanded that, in the Bible, “If the Lord is willing, we’ll do so-and-so things.” So if we don’t happen to make appointments that we… or fulfill appointments, we feel that maybe the Lord wasn’t willing for it to happen.

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« 8 † The other day, we were detained, Brother Roberson and Brother Woods and myself. And we wonder, “Why?” I was setting there, looking at a map, coming right down, and we drove fifty miles right straight back north again on a road. And I been traveling on the highway since I was about fourteen years old. And I wonder how I ever done it. We were standing there, all three of us. We’ve all traveled the highways. Looking right at a map, keeping on 130, coming through Illinois, and made a little slight turn, not noticing that the sun was behind us instead of front of us. We was going north instead of south. And first thing you know, crossed the road, I said, “This ain’t the right road.” Looked down there, and come to find out, we were fifty miles out of the way. Gone right straight back…?…
9 Then when we come back, we–we were talking. I said, “You know why? We… The Lord might have bypassed us this way, to keep from having a horrible accident down here somewhere, that might have done something otherwise. We know that all things work together for good to them that love the Lord. That’s all we have to keep on mind.”

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« 10 † Now, tonight, we’re starting now for a little teaching lesson. And if I’m… I don’t think we’ll get down, maybe we will tonight, to… This is the great chapter of teaching on tithings, to the church. And it’s a great subject, which we could stay on it for weeks and weeks, on that one thing, how Abraham paid tithes to Melchisedec, and whether it’s essential.

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« 11 † Is this fan hurting anybody back there? Would you rather have it off? If it’s hurting anybody, blowing in their face, any of the fans. If it is, just raise your hands. And, or just send one of the ushers, send someone up to the brother here, he’ll snap it off for you. And I kind of keep it off of myself; I get hot and I get to sweating, then, the first thing you know, I–I’m hoarse. So, it’s on you, so it won’t bother me in any way. We want you to be comfortable now.
We’re not going to try to take too much of your time, but just going to look straight into the Word. And before we do it, let’s speak to the author just a moment.

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« 12 † Now, Heavenly Father, we do not know what’s in store. But only thing that we do know, and are persuaded, that good things lay before us. For it is written, “Eye has not seen, nor ear has heard, neither has it entered into the hearts of men, what God has for them in store, that love Him.”
13 And we pray that You’ll open the windows of Heaven tonight, in Your storehouse, and give us Thy Word, that will be something that’s suitable, something to increase our faith as Christians, and make us more–more settled on the Gospel, than what we were when we come in. Grant it, Father. May the Holy Spirit take the Word of God and deliver It to each heart as we have need. In Jesus’ Name, we pray, Thy beloved Son. Amen.

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« 14 † Now, this morning, in leaving the last verse for the 6th chapter, so we can go right into the 7th.
Whither the forerunner for us has entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec.
15 Now we’re going to read the first three verses, or the first two verses, or the first three verses, rather, of the 7th chapter, so we can get started right off.
For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, (there is your tithings); first being by interpretation King of righteousness,… after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
Without father, without mother, without descent,… neither beginning… having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
16 What a wonderful statement! Now we’re going to have to go back in the Old Testament, to dig these great kernels out. And, oh, how I love them!

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« 17 † You know, out in Arizona, we used to prospect. And we’d get into a suitable looking piece of ground, Mr. Mc Anally and myself. And we would see a place where it looked like, in the little ditches, where a little drain, what they call “washes.” And I’d… He’d get me down and make me rub the sand and “whew,” blow it. Then rub and “whew,” blow it. And I wondered why he did that. Come to find out, you see, when you’re blowing sand, it light. And all, even to lead, is lighter than gold. Gold is heavier than lead. So when you’re blowing, all the rest of the metals and sand and dirt will blow away, but gold will remain on the ground. Therefore, if you got some washings from up in here, it shows there’s a streak of gold somewhere up in there. This rain has washed these little pieces out. So then we get the picks and so forth, and dig the hill up, almost, trying to find this gold. Bore holes in the ground, dig them out. Set dynamite, blow it down. Keep on blowing shafts, going down till we found, to find the main vein. Now, that’s what we call “prospecting.”

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« 18 † And tonight we’re trying to take the Word of God, and use It by the power of the Holy Spirit, to blow all the indifference and doubts away from us, all those little light fluffy things that just doesn’t have any foundation, doesn’t have any weight in our life, we want to blow it all away so we can find this glorious Vein. That Vein is Christ.
19 And now may God help us as we read and study in His Word. The last, previous three chapters, almost, we’ve been speaking of hearing, just now and then, Melchisedec.

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« 20 † Now, I think Paul gives the right interpretation.
For this Melchisedec, king of Salem,…
“King of Salem.” And any Bible scholar knows that Salem was formerly… Jerusalem was formerly called “Salem.” And He was the King of Jerusalem. Watch Him.
… priest of the most high God, (that’s an intercessor), who met Abraham…
I want to get His genealogy, this great Man, so that you’ll know who He is, first, and then you… we’ll go on with the story.
… returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
To whom… Abraham gave a tenth part… first… by interpretation King of righteousness,…
Now watch, “Righteousness.” Now, we have self-righteousness, we have make-belief righteousness, we have perverted righteousness, all kinds. But there’s one real righteousness, and that righteousness comes from God. And this Man was the King of righteousness. Who could He be?
21 Now, He was the King of righteousness, the King of Jerusalem, the King of righteousness, the King of peace. Jesus was called, “The Prince of peace.” And a prince is the son of a king. So, this Man was King of peace, then He would have to be the Father of the Prince of peace. Get it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]

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« 22 † Now let’s see, get His genealogy a little further, to see where we’re going.
Without father,…
Now, Jesus had a Father. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Sure.
… he was without mother,…
Jesus had a mother. But this Fellow had neither father nor mother.
… without descent,…
He never had anyone that He come off of, any descent. He always was. “Without descent.”
… having neither beginning of days,…
He never had any time He ever started.
… nor the end of life;…
It could been nothing else but God. That’s all It could be.

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« 23 † Now, now if you’ll notice as we read the next verse. See? “First, being by interpretation, King of righteousness.” That’s not where I want to do. The–the 3rd verse, “Nor end of life.”
… but made like unto the Son of God;…
Now, He was not the Son of God, for, if He was the Son, He had a beginning. And this Man had no beginning. If He was the Son, he had to have both father and mother. “And this Man had neither father nor mother. But He was made like unto the Son of God.”
… abideth a priest continually.
24 Now, Dr. Scofield tries to say, that, “It was a priesthood, called, ‘The Melchisedec priesthood.'”
But I just want to take you on that just for a few minutes. If it was a priesthood, then it had to have a beginning, and it had to have an end. But, “This had no beginning or had any end.” And he did not say he met a priesthood. He met a Man, and called his name “Melchisedec.” He was a Person, not a denomination, not a–a–a priesthood or a fatherhood. He was absolutely a Man by the name of Melchisedec, who was the King of Jerusalem. Not a priesthood, but a King without a father. Priesthoods don’t have father. “And this Man was without father, without mother, without beginning of days or ending of life.” Now, the Son of God…
25 Who this was, this was Jehovah. This was Almighty God Himself. It could be no other.

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« 26 † Now notice, “He abideth forever.” He has a testimony here, that, “He liveth. He never dies.” He never did. He never was nothing else but alive. “He abideth forever.”
27 Now, Jesus was made, likened unto Him. Now, the reason that there’s a difference between God and Jesus: Jesus had a beginning; God had no beginning. Melchisedec had no beginning, and Jesus had a beginning. But Jesus was made, likened unto Him. “A priest, abideth forever.”

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« 28 † Now, when Melchisedec was on earth, he was nothing in the world but the–the Jehovah God made manifest by creation, He was here like a theophany. Abraham met Him once, in his tent. And as we said this morning, “Abraham recognized Him. And He told Abraham what He was going to do, because He was not going to leave the heir of the world blind to the things that He was going to do.”
29 May I stop here for a minute, to say, God still has the same opinion about His Church. You’re not children of darkness. You’re children of Light. And the… we who… “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” And would the God, Who acted to–to Abraham, who was to inherit the earth… And He said, “I will not keep these things back from the man that’s going to inherit the earth.” How much more will He reveal His secrets to His Church that’s going to inherit the earth!

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« 30 † Daniel said, “In that day they run to and fro, knowledge shall increase.” And he said, “The wise shall know their God, in that day, and shall do great exploits in that day. But the wicked will not know the God of Heaven.” They know Him in a form and in a ritual, like our first lesson said, but they don’t know Him by the way of perfection.

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« 31 † And God can only work through perfection, because He’s Perfect. Blessed be His Name. It has to be a perfect channel that God works through, ’cause He can do nothing else but work through perfection. He can’t stain Himself in any way. And then that’s why Jesus came to take away our sins, that we might be perfected, that God could work through His Church. There is where the secret lays.
There is where the world is blind. There is where they want to say, that, “You’ve lost your mind.” There is where they want to say, “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Because, “The things of the Lord is foolish to the wisdom of this world. But the things of the world is carnal to the believer.” So, you’re a different person, you’re living in a different sphere. You’re not no more of this world. You’ve passed from this life into a new Life.
32 Therefore, God reveals, not to the world, not to the psychologist, not to the educated ministers, but to the humble in heart. His people who is meek, He will reveal the secrets of the great things of God, to them. You see it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]

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« 33 † Now, now, Abraham was to inherit the world. Through the… Abraham’s Seed was all nations to be blessed. So God came down and talked to him, in the form of a Man.
Now, God has always been on the earth. God has never left the earth. If He’d ever leave the earth, I don’t know what would become of it. But God has always been here in some form. Oh, praise His Name!
34 He was with the children in the wilderness, coming out of Egypt, in the form of a Light. He spoke to Abraham in the form of a Man. He spoke to Moses in the form of a Man. He spoke to the Church in the form of a Man, His Son, Christ Jesus.
And He is speaking through His Church today, through the anointed Church of the living God, through vessels of clay. “Ye are the branches. I am the Vine.” God is still speaking, and the world sees Jesus as you present Him. That’s how the world is… “You are written epistles, read of all men.” Your life tells what you are.

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« 35 † Now, this Abraham on his road, returning back. We’re going to go back and read about Him, just a few moments, in the Book of Genesis. In the 14th chapter of Genesis, I believe it is. Oh, how beautiful the story is here! Now, we all know of Abraham, how that God called him out of the land of Chaldea and the city of Ur, and told him to separate himself from his associates.
God calls men or women, He calls a separation.
36 Now, that’s what’s the trouble with the churches today, they don’t want to separate themselves from the old carnal belie-… unbelievers. That’s why we can’t go any further. We just get in that one carnal flow, and we–we say, “Oh, Jim is a good guy, if he does drink. If he… And I go with him to the poolroom, but I don’t play pool. I–I–I go with her over to the party. They tell dirty jokes, and so forth, but I don’t tell any.”
37 “Come out from among them.” That’s right. “Separate yourself. Touch not their unclean things, and I will receive you,” saith the Lord. “Be not yoked up with unbelievers, unequally yoked together.” Don’t you do it. Separate yourself.

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« 38 † And God called Abraham to separate himself from all of his kindreds, and to walk with Him. Brother, sometimes it means leaving a church. It meant that to Paul. He had to leave his church. Meant that to many. Sometimes it means to leave home. Sometimes it means to leave father and mother, and forsake all. I don’t mean to say it does every time, but sometimes it does. It means that you’ve got to take everything between you and God, and walk with Him alone. Oh, that blessed, sweet communion, that fellowship that you have when you separate your thing, selves, from the things of the world and the carnal believers who is making fun of you, and walk alone with Christ!

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« 39 † How many times that I’ve thanked God! He said, “I’ll give you fathers and mothers in this present world. I’ll give you friends and associates. And I’ll never leave you, neither will I forsake you. Though the whole world turns its back on you, I’ll go with you, to the end of the way.”
40 What a blessed privilege, that man has that challenge to follow the Lord Jesus, to separate himself from all his carnal associates, to follow the Lord. And if any person seems not to behave themself rightly, and to present themselves as Christians, but love the carnal things, it’s best for you to hunt another partner right away. That’s right. And if no one will walk with you, there is One who promised to walk with you. That’s, the blessed Lord Jesus, He will walk with you.

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« 41 † God told Abraham to, “Separate yourself.” And just as human as Abraham was, he took his daddy along, he took his brother’s son along, his nephew; all hanging on him. And God never did bless him until he did what God told him to do.
42 I don’t say that you’re not a Christian. That, I don’t unchristianize anyone. But I’ll say this, that if God told you something to do, He’ll never bless you until you do it. I’m in the pulpit tonight with one of those things holding over me. My meetings hasn’t been what they should been, for the past two years. It’s because I’ve failed the Lord. He told me to, “Go to Africa, and then to India.” Here it is, written right here, in the back of this Book, right now.
43 The manager called me, said, “Let them Afrikaans go. India is ready.”
44 The Holy Spirit met me, said, “You’ll go to Africa like I told you to.”
45 And another year passed. And the managers… I forgot about It. He said, “We’re going to India. Tickets is already here.”
46 I started off, forgot It till I got to Lisbon. One night, that, I thought I was dying. The next morning I started, go over to the bathroom, to take a bath. Oh, I was so sick, I could hardly stand up. There, that Light hanging there in the bathroom, said, “I thought I told you to, ‘Go to Africa, first.'”

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« 47 † My meetings has been slowly failing since that time. Though I went to India, with nearly a half a million standing there, but that wasn’t doing what God said do. I feel that my meetings will never be a success until I go right straight back and make that thing right. No matter what I do, it’s Africa, first, ’cause you’ve got to do it. There lays God’s Eternal Word, laying there. I knew better than that. But I’ve got to go back. And I feel that this coming year is the time I’ll crawl out of the shell, by the help of the Lord.
48 This glorious, old Gospel who has been growing easy, like an oak tree, but I believe she’s about ready to spread forth her branches now. I believe It, this great Message and great thing. I believe that the Lord will let us shake the world again for the glory of God.

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« 49 † You’ve got to do what God told you to do. And Abraham went right on, took his folks with him. He loved them. That’s the human part. But after while, by and by, his father died and he buried him. Then he had his nephew, then quarrels and arguments come up. And, finally, Lot took his choice and went down into Sodom. And you notice Abraham, he didn’t fuss with Lot. He said, “We are brethren. We must not argue. But you lift up your head and you go any way you want to go. If you go east, I’ll go west. You go north, I’ll go south.” That’s the Christian attitude, be willing to give the other man the best of the deal. Always present it to him, let him take his choice.
50 For why? What made Abraham do it? He knew that he was promised by God that he would inherit the whole thing, anyhow. Amen. So, then, a tent or a cottage, why should we care? The whole thing belongs to us. “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.” It all belongs to us. God said so. So give the man the best of the choice, if he wants to. Maybe that’s all he’ll ever get. But it all belongs to you, the heirs of salvation by promise. It’s all yours.

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« 51 † So, Sarah, the most beautiful woman in the land, she sat up there on the hillside with her husband like she should have done. She plain, well, might have wore plain calico dresses, or ever what you want to call it. While, Mrs. Lot dressed up like a millionaire. And her husband was the mayor of the city. He was a judge that set in the gate. She had everything; attended all the sewing circles and card parties that there was went on in Sodom and Gomorrah. But Sarah was more pleased to live with her husband on meager fare, and know that she was in the will of God, than to enjoy the riches of… or the pleasure of riches for a season. That’s right. That’s when God visit.

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« 52 † And one day, you, just as sure as you take the wrong road, it’s going to catch up with you someday. You might think you’ll get all right. You might think you’re getting by, but you’re not. May seem like it’s all covered over, but it isn’t covered over. God knows everything. He knows whether you really mean your confession or not. He knows whether you really mean that you believe Him and are saved, and accepted Him, and you are dead to the things of the world, and you’re alive in Christ. He knows that.

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« 53 † Now, we notice Abraham, I want you to notice this real spirit. Oh, the whole blessed thing here is grace. I want you to read with me now from the 14th chapter of… Exodus, just a moment.
54 Now, the first thing taken place when they got down there, Lot got in trouble. Why? He was out of the will of God. And if you get in trouble when you’re in the will of God, God will help you out. But if you’re in trouble, out of the will of God, there’s only one thing to do, get back in the will of God again.

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« 55 † Now, the kings all drew themselves together, and they figured that the plains down there was well watered, and they’d just go down and take this little old Sodom, Gomorrah, take it over. And they did. And when they went down and took it over, they took Lot with them.
56 Now I want you to notice the Spirit of Christ here in Abraham. Now notice the 14th verse.
And when Abraham heard that his brother… (Get it?)… his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
57 Oh, what a blessed thought of grace! Abraham, when his brother, though fallen from grace, though was in this backslidden condition; when he heard that the world had caught him up, and had captured him and took him away, to slaughter him, Abraham acted by the Spirit of Christ. He came and armed all of his men that was born in his house, and took after them, and pursued them all the way to Dan. And Dan is the uttermost parts of Palestine, “Dan to Beer-sheba,” from one end to the other. And it’s a type of Christ, when He saw that the world had took… was fallen, that He pursued the enemy to the end, to receive back the fallen race of Adam.

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« 58 † I want you to notice the next verse, how sweet here the Spirit speaks through him. All right, the 15th verse now.
And he brought back all (all) the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
59 When Abraham took after the enemy that had took his brother, he pursued him all the way across the nation, to Dan, and brought back everything that he lost in the fall.

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« 60 † What a beautiful picture of Christ, who heard from Heaven that we were lost and came and pursued the enemy, all the way to hell, and captured the lost souls and brought us back and restored us to everything that we had before the fall! We, backsliders, we that was born to be sons of God, that’s perverted into the sons of the Devil, and made, went after the things of the world, and done wrong, and run greedily like Lot did, selling out our birthrights and going after the things of the world. Christ came down. Though fallen; God, knowing in the beginning who would be saved and who would not, therefore come down and pursued the enemy through life, through death, through paradise, into hell. And all the way from Glory to hell, and took over the–the powers of hell, and the keys away from the Devil, and rose again, and restored to mankind, that he can be sons and daughters of God again.
61 See the Spirit in Abraham there, the Spirit of Christ coming with him?

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« 62 † Now I want you to notice a little further, as we read.
And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after he returned from the slaughter of this king Chedortaomer, and… the kings… were with him, in the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale.
63 They went out. King of Sodom was brought back. His brother was brought back. The children was brought back. And here went out the kings to meet him. And, also, here is where I want to get to, the message now. Watch here.
And–and Melchizedek, king of Salem (King of Jerusalem, King of peace) brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abraham of the most high God, possessor of heavens and earth:
64 Melchisedec, the King of Salem, also represented Himself among the other kings. And notice, the battle was over, the Spirit of God in Abraham, of Christ, that had brought back his fallen brother, then restored him back to his rightful condition, to all that he had lost. He had brought it back. And when he did, He brought out bread and wine, the communion. Can’t you see who that Melchisedec was? It was God. Brought out the communion, after the battle.

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« 65 † Now let us turn again, to Matthew 26:26, right quick, and see what Jesus said here about that. In the Book of Matthew, the 26th chapter and also the 26th verse, we want to read just a little bit here. All right, Matthew 26:26.
Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Golgotha, Golgotha… or Gethsemane, I mean, and said unto his disciples, Sit ye here, while I go yonder to pray.
66 I believe I’ve got the wrong Scripture. Matthew, the twenty-… 26th verse of the 26th chapter. If somebody has it, read it for me, if you–if you can find it. Just a minute. This is a beautiful type here. I don’t want you to miss it. Here we are. That’s got it, sister.
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it,…
What was it? The battle was over.
… brake it, and gave it to his disciples, and said, Take, and eat; this is my body.

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« 67 † See that Melchisedec? Hundreds of years before, when He met Abraham, after the battle was over, He gave bread and wine. And here Jesus gives the disciples, after His hard battle was over, He gave them bread and wine. Watch. Watch the future Coming.
And he took the cup, and–and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for… sins and remission of sins.
But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s kingdom.

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« 68 † We are in the battle now. We’re after our fallen brother, that God, before the foundation of the world, saw and predestinated unto Eternal Life. And the things of the world has got him caught up in a whirlwind. He’s out into societies and classes, him and his wife, walking up-and-down the streets, smoking and drinking and carousing, trying to find peace. And the Spirit of Christ in us, as it would be in Abraham, we’re gone after him. With all the armors of God, the Angels of God encamped about, we’re gone to bring back our fallen brother.

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« 69 † And when the battle is finally ended, we will meet Melchisedec again, bless God, who blessed Abraham there, and gave him the blessing, and give him bread and wine, the communion. And when the battle is over, we’ll meet Him. We who are the heirs of the promise of Abraham, joint-heirs with Christ in the Kingdom, shall meet Him at the end of the road, and take bread and wine, again, when the battle is over.
70 Who is this Melchisedec? “The One that had no father, had no mother, had no beginning of days or the ending of life.” He will be There to give the communion again. You get it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]

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« 71 † When we pull up, on certain nights, when we come together and take communion from the hands of the ministers, representing that we believe in the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, that–that veil, His body that He was inveiled in, God. We take it, as a representative, “We are dead to the things of the world, and been born anew of the Spirit.” And we walk with the Body of Christ, all the believers together.
72 When the great battle is finished, and we come up again with Christ, we’ll take the communion with Him in the Kingdom of God, anew; and eat the flesh, and drink the blood of the grape again, in the Kingdom of God. Oh! There is Melchisedec. That’s who He was.

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« 73 † Now let’s read just a little further about Him here, and the 18th verse.
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine:… (You get it?)… and he was the priest of the most high God.
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abraham of the most high God, possessor of heavens and earth:
And he blessed him,… And he blessed…
And blessed be the most high God, which has delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him a tenth of all.
He paid tithes to Melchisedec. Abraham give Him a tenth of the spoils.

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« 74 † Now I want you to notice here as Paul goes on, giving a background for the coming lesson now.
And the king of Sodom said unto Abraham, Give me the persons, and take thou the goods to thyself.
Now, the king of Sodom said, “Now, you just give me back my subjects, and you take the goods to yourself.”
And Abraham said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto the LORD, the most high God,…
El Elyon, “the possessor of heavens and earth,” there.
… most high God, the possessor of heavens and earth,
That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatch,…
He didn’t have a great campaign to take up money. He only wanted his fallen brother.
… and that I will not take any thing of thine, lest thou shall say, I have made Abraham rich:
Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me,…

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« 75 † Now, I want you to notice, Abraham said, “I’ll not take from a thread to a shoelatch.” He didn’t fight the war, to make a lot of money. And real true battles are not made with selfish motives. Wars are not fought for money. Wars are fought for–for motives, for principles. Men fight war for principles. And when Abraham went out to get Lot, he didn’t go out because he knowed he could whip the kings and take all their possession, he went out for the principle of “saving his brother.”
76 And any minister that’s sent out under the inspiration of the King of Heaven, will not go for money; neither will he go to make big churches, neither will he go to inspire denominations. He’ll only go for one principle, and that is, “To bring back his fallen brother.” Whether he gets a dime in the offering or whether he doesn’t, it won’t make a bit of difference to him.
77 As I say, “Real wars are fought and waged for principles and not for money.” And men and women who join church and come into church, to be popular, because the Joneses belong there, or they change their church from a little church to a big church, you’re doing it for a selfish motive and the right principle is not behind it. You should be willing to stand at the battle front.

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« 78 † In this tabernacle here, when things go wrong, and you men and you women will run and go over somewhere else, or lay out till the little fuss or the stew is over, there is something wrong with your experience. Right.
79 We have a custom here. We have a–we have a order here. This church is based upon the principles of the Bible. If there is somebody in here not doing right, and you think they’re not, you go to him and talk to him. If you can’t reconcile him, then take some brother with you, one or two more. If he won’t be reconciled then, then tell it to the church. And the church will dismiss him, have no more fellowship with him. And Jesus said, “Whatever you loose on earth, I’ll loose in Heaven.”
80 That’s the reason you have so much troubles, because you don’t follow the Bible principles. If somebody in the church is causing a disturbance, or something going wrong, it’s not your duty to go talk about that man or that woman. It’s your duty to go to that man or woman, and tell him his error. And if he won’t hear you, take some other one with you. He won’t hear that, then the church looses him. Jesus said, “What you loose on earth, I’ll loose in Heaven. What you bind on earth, I’ll bind in Heaven.” That’s the power of the church.

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« 81 † Here not long ago, a good preacher friend of mine, he had a boy, and that boy had been going to church, his own church. He got to a place where he started running around with a little of girl who smoked and drank and carried on. Preacher said, “Of course, that’s his business.” A very bosom friend of mine, and a nice boy. But he got all infatuated with some young woman; and she had been married, had some children, her husband was living. He was afraid they was going to have… that boy would marry her. So, the brother was all tore up. And he said to me, “Brother Branham, I want you to go to this certain-certain boy of mine. I want you to talk to him.”

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« 82 † I said, “Brother…” I almost called his name. “You have a better way. Don’t send me. If the boy is not living up, and the church has saw him doing wrong, then it’s the thing for the church to do this business. That’s left with the church. And the church goes over and tells him.”
83 So he took a brother, and went over and told him. And he got back at the brother, let him know he was attending to his own business, for him to do the same. He took another brother, two more, two deacons went over and told the boy. He wouldn’t listen to it. They told it to the church. And he never come for several nights, to be reconciled to the church after his sin was told before the church. Then, the church loosed him.
84 And about a month from then he was stricken down with pneumonia, and the doctor said, “There’s not a chance in the world for him to live.” Then he crawled back. God knows how to do it.
85 We try to do it in ourselves, “Oh, you ought to kick so-and-so out of church. You ought to do this, that, or the other.” Have you done your part as a church towards it? There you are. That’s the way to make them crawl back, turn them over to the Devil one time.

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« 86 † What’d Paul say about this man down there was living with his stepmother? They couldn’t get him reconciled. Said, “Turn him over to the Devil.” Watch what happens. And in the next letter Paul wrote, this man had got straightened out. Sure. God has a way of doing these things, if we’ll just follow His rules.
87 If something goes wrong in the church, if it’s amongst the congregation, each one of you brothers. If on the deacon board, one of you deacons don’t behave, the other deacons come and have a meeting, try to reconcile the brother, tell him what he’s doing; or one of you members, whatever you are. Then it’s to be brought before him. If he won’t do it, then come tell the pastor. Then, he’s loosed from the church, and then let him be as a heathen and a publican. Then watch the Lord go to work on him. See, that’s when he comes back to himself. That’s when he goes to crawling in. But we try to do it ourself, you know, try to do the… everything the way we should do it, now, we never make a success.

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« 88 † Now, this Melchisedec, the King of Salem, Prince, Priest of the Most High, met Abraham and blessed him. And gave Him his tithings, Abraham did. And He was the King of Salem. And He brought out bread and wine, the communion, and gave it to Abraham after the battle, after the men had been won over.

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« 89 † Now, “All wars,” as I say, “are fought for principles.” Now, if you have a little war in church, it must be the right principle. You must be fighting for the right thing. And each member of the church is supposed to do that. Now, this teaching is for the church. That’s what we’re here for. That’s what I’m standing here for. That’s what God’s Word is for, is for the church.
90 Don’t never let nothing hinder this church. If it does, you’re guilty, each one of you. And you, in your different churches, if something is going wrong in your church, you’re guilty, because you’re the overseer of that church. It ain’t up to the pastor. It ain’t up to the deacon board. It’s up to you, you individual, to go to that brother and see if you can have him reconciled. If not, then take two or three with you, then come back. He won’t hear that; tell it to the church. Then he’s dismissed from the Kingdom of God, God said, “If you dismiss him there, I’ll dismiss him Here, if you’ve went through this order.” Then He’ll turn the Devil loose to him for the construction… destruction of his flesh. And then he’ll come back. That’s right. That’s the way to make him come back. If he’s a child of God, he will come back. If he isn’t, why–why, he’ll go on, and then the Devil will send him on to his Eternal place.

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« 91 † Now, the motives of it. If you just get it in for somebody, then that’s different. But, if the man is guilty! And Lot had went down and had backslid, though he was a Hebrew. He had went down and was backslid. He was in grace, but he had fallen from it. And when he went out… And Lot–Lot was saved. Don’t never think that Lot wasn’t saved. He was. Because, all the time when he was in the wrong place, the Bible said, that, “The sins of Sodom vexed his righteous soul daily.” Now, his flesh was doing one thing. And what was his end? He brought more disgrace. His wife turned to a pillar of salt. He had children by his daughters. So, you can see what a disgrace it brought, because he had fallen from grace and never restored himself back again. And God had to take him out of the earth.
92 But, still, he was a fallen brother, and Abraham done all that he could do to bring him back again. And the Spirit was in Abraham, is the Spirit of Christ that’s in the church today. No matter what the brother has done, you’ll do all you can to bring him back into the fellowship of Christ again. No matter what he’s done, you’ll try hard.

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« 93 † Now, we want to notice here now again, as we go on with this lesson of this Melchisedec, this great Priest of Salem, and the possessor of Heavens and earth. Now, being first:
Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor ending of life; but was made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
Now watch. He wasn’t the Son of God. He was the God of the Son. He wasn’t the Son of God, Melchisedec wasn’t, but He was the Father of the Son of God.

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« 94 † Now, this body that He had, He had created. It had not been brought through a woman. So with that created body, He could not… Some body He had made, Hisself, to reveal Himself.
“No man can see God at any time. God is a spirit.” Mortal eyes doesn’t see those things, ‘less it’s in a form like the Pillar of Fire, or whatever it was, or in the form of some being that they seen by vision. But the… God has to reveal Himself through some way. And God revealed Himself to Abraham, in the form of a man. He revealed Himself to Moses, in a form of a man. He revealed Himself to the children of Israel, in a form of a Pillar of Fire. He revealed Himself unto John the Baptist, in the form of a dove. You see, He revealed Himself in those forms.
When He was revealing Himself in the form of a Man, as the King of Salem; of Jerusalem; not of the earthly Jerusalem, but the Heavenly Jerusalem. He revealed Himself in that form. He was made “like unto” the Son of God.

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« 95 † Now, the Son of God had to come through a woman, to be created here; by the womb of a woman, because through that same thing come death.
96 And He could not come through creation like God did at the beginning. When God made man at the beginning, woman had nothing to do with it. God just said, “Let there be,” and a man came from the dust. He called him, without any woman to have anything to do with it. But, the woman, it then was in the man.
97 And God took the woman out of Adam’s side. Is that right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] And then woman went and brought man through sex. So the only way that God could do… He couldn’t come in that theophany. He couldn’t come as Melchisedec. He had to come as a man, and he had to come through the woman. “Thy Seed shall bruise the serpent’s head, and his head will bruise Your heel.” Get it? [“Amen.”] God had to come through a woman; and He did, when He dwelt in His body of His Son, Christ Jesus. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. And He offered His Own Blood as a sacrifice. And gave His life, that through the channel of death, He might save you unto Eternal Life.

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« 98 † So God came then, and He was made “like unto” the Son of God. See? He was a Man made like the Son of God. Now, He couldn’t be the Son of God, because this Man is Eternal.
99 The Son of God had a beginning, He had an end. He had a–a time of His birth, He had a time of His death. He had both beginning and end. He had both father and mother.
100 This Man had neither father nor mother, beginning or end of time. But He was made, this Man, Melchisedec, was made like the Son of God.

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« 101 † Now, the Son of God, when He was come in the world, in a form of a woman, through a woman, in man’s form; and was killed, raised up again on the third day, rose for our justification, now He abides forever. And as long as that body abides, we abide too. And because He raised up from the dirt, we’ll be raised up in His likeness. There’s the Gospel story. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Not Angels, not supernatural beings, not a bunch of feathers to flock around, but men and women, amen, stand in His likeness. Yes, sir.

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« 102 † As I’ve often told this, I say it again here at this time. It seems suitable. I was combing, about this five or six hairs that I have left. And my wife said, “Billy, you’re getting bald-headed.”
103 I said, “But I haven’t lost one of them.”
104 She said, “Where they at?”
105 I said, “Tell me where they was before I got them, I’ll tell you where they are waiting for me.” That’s right.
106 I used to be as a–a fighter, pugilist. I was strong and big. And I felt, if you’d set this church on my back, I’d walk down the street with it. I’ll tell you, when I get up every morning now, I realize there’s forty something years has passed. See? I’m not what I used to be. I’m failing, every day. As I look at my hands and think, “Looky here. Well, I’m getting an old man.” I look at my shoulders. I see I’ve gained a lot of weight. I used to wear a twenty-eight on a belt. I wear a thirty now. See, I’m getting old, fat, dwindling away.

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« 107 † What is it? I eat the same thing I used to eat. I live cleaner and better than I used to live, the same thing. But God has appointed a time for me, and I must receive it. But the blessed thought is, that, at that day, He will raise me up again. And everything that I was when I was twenty-five years old, I’ll be again forever. Amen. There you are. What does old age bother me? I’ll beat the Devil out of that for years and years, knowing this, that I believe Him. This little span is just a little, short thing, anyhow. If we only stayed three score and ten, seventy years old, our promised time, what–what’s that but misery and sorrow? What is it? Would you swap this pesthouse for that glorious thing yonder?

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« 108 † Why, blessed be the Name of the Lord! Something on the inside of me met that Melchisedec one day, and He spoke peace to me and He give me Eternal Life. And this life means nothing but a tabernacle to preach the Gospel through. I say this with all sincerity, with these two Bibles laying open before me. If my God was through with me preaching the Gospel, and I could do no more for Him, my children was old enough to take care of themselves, and He wants to take me right now, “Amen,” that settles it. Yes, sir.

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« 109 † What difference does it make if I’m eighty or if I’m twenty? I’m only here for one thing: to serve the Lord. That’s all. If I can still preach the Gospel like I do now, when I’m eighty, what difference does it make whether I’m forty or eighty? There’s a many man eighty years old tonight. And there’s a lot of children will die, when an eighty-year old man will outlive a many one of them. What difference does it make? It’s your motives, your principles, and we’re here to serve the Lord Jesus. That’s all.
110 Knowing this, that, “This life is a vapor that a man speaks about; that once was, and then is not.” But if we have Eternal Life, God has promised He will raise us up again. And we’ll take the communion with Him when the days are over, and when He say, “Enter into the joys of the Lord, that’s been prepared for you since the foundation of the world.”

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« 111 † Then what difference does it make here, whether we have anything or whether we don’t? Whether we’re young or whether we’re old, what difference does it make? The main thing, are you ready to meet Him? Do you love Him? Can you serve Him? Have you sold out to the things of the world? Have you met Melchisedec since the battle was over?
112 Bless God! About twenty-one years old, I was, and one day I had a battle with this, that, and the other. I couldn’t make out whether I wanted to be a fighter, or whether I wanted to be a trapper, or hunter, what I want to be. But I met Melchisedec, and He give me communion, and since then it was settled forever. Hallelujah! I’ve went on His side. I’ve been rejoicing on the road. And when it comes to the end of the road, and death stares me in the face; the way I feel now, I’ll never dread it. I’ll walk, want to walk into the face of it, knowing this, that I know Him who has made the promise, that’s right, that I know Him in the power of His resurrection. When He calls from among the dead, I’ll come out from among them. That’s right, knowing Him in the power of His resurrection. What difference does it make, whether I’m old or whether I’m young? Whether I’m little or whether I’m big? Whether I’m full or whether I’m hungry? Whether I got a place to lay down or whether I haven’t?
113 “The birds has the nests, and the fox has den, but the Son of man has not a place to lay His head,” but He was the King of Glory.

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« 114 † We are kings and priests tonight. What difference does it make whether we have or whether we haven’t? As long as we got God, we are more than conquerors. We are more than conquerors. We set in the Presence of God, in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, taking Spiritual communion from the hands of Him that testified, “I was He that was dead, and alive again, and I’m alive forevermore.” Setting together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. O blessed be His holy Name. What difference does it make?
A tent or a cottage, why should I care?
They’re building a palace for me over There!
Of rubies and diamonds, and silver and gold,
His coffers are full, He has riches untold.

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« 115 † I met Him one day when I come from the battle. I laid my trophies down. I ain’t fought a battle since then; He fights them for me. I just rest upon His promise, knowing this, that I know Him in the power of His resurrection. That’s all that matters. What else does matter?
116 What can we do? “Why taking thought can add one cubit to your stature? What do you care whether your hair is curly, or whether you got any or not? What difference does it make? If you’re old, if you’re gray, if you’re stoop-shouldered, if you’re not, what difference does it make? Amen. This is just for a spell, a little space, but That’s forever and forever. And as aeons of time roll on, as the ages roll on, you’ll never change, and go through His ceaseless Eternal ages. What difference does it make?
117 I’m so glad I met Him. I’m so glad He give me communion, one day, that same Melchisedec that met Abraham coming from the slaughter of the kings. Certainly. “The God of Heaven,” the El Elyon; the great “I AM,” not the I was; the I AM, present tense. “And He blessed him.”

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« 118 † Listen here just a little further, so we can get the lesson a little closer together. Now the 4th verse.
Now consider how great this man was,…
I just think that, too. “Consider how great this Man was.” He is beyond the Son of God. The Son of God had father and mother; He didn’t. The Son of God had a beginning of time and an ending of time; He didn’t. Who was that? That was the Father of the Son. That’s Who it was.
… consider how great this man was, unto… even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of all the spoils.
119 Now listen closely.
And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have… commandment to take tithings of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they came out of the loins of Abraham:

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« 120 † Now watch this if you want to see something.
But he whose descent is not continued for… from them receiveth tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promise.
121 Abraham had the promise, and this Man blessed Abraham who had the promise. Who was this? The sons of Levi paid tithes to their brethren or… Their brethren paid tithes to them. They had a commandment of the Lord to take a tenth of what their brothers made, for their living, because they were the priesthood. Now, that lets out the Melchisedec priesthood, as you talk about, right there. That’s right. But this Man… Even the one who had the promise, the greatest man on earth, Abraham, met this Man and paid tithes to Him. [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] He had to be greater.

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« 122 † Listen.
And without any contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
Certainly. Watch Who He is.
And here men that die receive tithes;…
That’s the priesthood of the order of priests and preachers, and so forth. Men that receive tithe, die. See?
… but here he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
123 What would a Man take tithings for, if He had any… If He never was born, and never will die, and was from beginning to end, and–and never had no father or mother or descent, and owned the whole Heavens and earth and all in it, why would He take tithe? Why would He ask Abraham to pay tithes? You see what a strict thing it is to pay tithes? Tithing is right. Every Christian is duty bound to pay tithe. That’s right. Never has been changed.

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« 124 † Now:
And as I may so say, Levi also, who received tithe, payed tithes in Abraham.
125 Now, oh, here is something.
For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
126 What, Levi? Abraham was Levi’s great-great-grandpa. And the Bible said here, that, “Levi paid tithes when he was in the loins of Abraham.” Four generations before he ever come to earth, he was paying tithes to Melchisedec. Blessed be the Name of the Lord!
127 Then, you that can’t believe in predestination before ordination; and here, four generations before Levi would ever come out of the loins of Abraham, was paying tithes to Melchisedec. Wish we had time to run this through the Scripture.

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« 128 † If you’d take it over to like in Jeremiah 1:4, God said, “I knew you before you was even formed in your mother’s womb. And I sanctified you and ordained you a prophet to the nations.” Then what can you say that you did? What can I say that I did? It’s God that showeth mercy. God knew us before the foundation of the world.
129 He not willing that any should perish. Certainly not. But if He’s God, He knowed who would be saved and who wouldn’t be saved, or He didn’t know anything. If He didn’t know… If he didn’t know who would make the Rapture, before the world was ever formed, then He’s not God. If He’s infinite, He’d… He knowed every flea, every fly, every louse, every chigger, that would ever be on the earth, before the earth was ever formed. That’s right. He knew all things. Before the foundation of the world, He knew us. The Bible said, that, “He knew us and predestinated us.”

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« 130 † Let’s settle this just once. Let’s go back to Ephesians, the 1st chapter. The 5th chap-… The 1st chapter of Ephesians, just a moment. I want to read here just a minute, so that you can really understand that it’s not just something that I’m trying to tell you. It’s something God is trying to tell you. See? Now listen to this, real close, 1st chapter of Ephesians.
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,…
The same man that’s wrote the Hebrew letter, is writing this letter.
… to the saints…
This is not to the unbelievers, but to the saints, the sancti-… sainted ones.
… which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places…
“According as He…” Now, listen close now, the 4th verse.
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world,…
Who is the “us” there? The Church.
… he chose us in him (Christ) before the foundation, the earth, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to his own good pleasure of his will,

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« 131 † Who did it? God did it. God knowed from the beginning who would be saved and who wouldn’t be saved. Certainly. He was not willing for any to perish. But He didn’t send Jesus here just to see if you’d–you’d act like, “Well, poor Jesus, I feel sorrow for Him. Maybe I’d better get saved and approve it.” No, sir.
132 God knowed in the beginning who would and who would not. So, therefore, He knew that some would, so He sent Jesus to make a propitiation for those that He foreknew. “For those who He foreknew, He has called. And those who He has called, He has justified. And those who He has justified, He hath (past tense) glorified.” There you are.

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« 133 † So it’s not you that keeps yourself, it’s the grace of God that keeps you. You didn’t save yourself, or nothing you done to deserve being saved. It’s God’s grace that saved you. God’s grace called you. God’s foreknowledge knew you. He knew that you’d be in this church this night, before the foundation of the world was ever laid, if He’s infinite. If He isn’t, He isn’t God. If He did know all things, He was God. If He didn’t know all things, He wasn’t God. If He’s Almighty God, He can do all things. If He cannot do all things, He’s not Almighty God. There you are.

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« 134 † So how can you say it’s something you could do? It’s nothing you can do. It’s God’s love and grace to you, that you’re even here. Nothing you could do, God called you by His grace; you listened, heard, accepted.
135 “Well,” you say, “Brother Branham, that makes it awful loose.” Certainly does. You’re free. “Well, that fellow can do anything he wants to.” Absolutely. I always do what I want to do. But if you’re a Christian, you don’t want to do wrong.

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« 136 † There’s a little old girl setting back there tonight, my wife. I love her with all that’s in me. And if I knowed that I could run around with another woman and get by with it, and go tell her, and say, “Meda, I did wrong,” do you think I’d do it? If I love her right, I won’t do it. That’s right.
137 Now, what if I’d say, “Oh, I can’t do it. Cause, I’ll tell you why. She’d divorce me, and I got… Oh, I’m a preacher. See what that’d do? They’ll take me out of the pulpit, if she’d divorce me. ‘A divorced man, oh!’ I got three children; I couldn’t think of that. But, boy, I…”? Well, if that’s the way it is, you’re still legal. It’s not legal basis that I married her upon. It’s not legal basis that makes me live true to her. It’s because I love her. I don’t have to do anything. I do it willfully because it’s a love affair. And if you love your wife, you’ll do the same thing.

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« 138 † And if you love your wife like that, with phileo love, what ought you to do to Christ with agapao love, which is a million times stronger, if you really love God? If I knowed tonight I could go out and get on a drunk, if I knowed tonight I could run around and be immoral, if I knowed, tonight; if that was even in my heart to do so, and I went and done it, knowing He would forgive me, I wouldn’t do it. I think too much of Him. I love Him. Sure. Certainly.

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« 139 † That’s the reason I wouldn’t sell my experience to any denomination, (no, sir), no Assemblies of God, no church of God, no Pilgrim Holiness, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic. I wouldn’t take anything that could be offered, for this experience. Because, it never come by man. It come by God. No, sir. I wouldn’t sell my birthrights for any Elvis Presley’s rock-and-roll, or for his fleet of Catholics, or his Cadillacs, or his million dollars, and so forth, he gets each month. No, sir. I love Him. And if I… Long as I love Him like that, I’ll stay true to Him. And if God has called me and elected me, He has placed something in me, and I love Him.

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« 140 † I remember Mr. Isler. You all know him, most all of you. He’s come right here, state senator of Indiana; come here, play his guitar. When my baby had died, my wife had died, and all of them laying up here on the graveyard. And I was going up the road, with my hands behind me, crying. He jumped out of his little, old truck, and come put his arm around me, said, “Billy, I want to ask you a question.” Said, “I’ve heard you preach till you almost fall in the pulpit. Heard you on the street corners and everything, crying out for Christ.” Said, “Now He took your daddy. He took your brother. Snatched them both, and they died in your arms. There he die. Your wife died, holding your hands. And your baby died, and you calling on Him to help you. And He turned His back on you. What do you think about Him.”
141 I said, “I love Him with all that’s within me. If He sends me to hell, I’ll still love Him.” He’s just. I don’t say that; twenty-six years has proved it. That’s right.

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« 142 † If you love Him! Not a duty, that, “I can’t do this, and I can’t do that.” You love Him too much to do it, because He has chosen you. You never chose Him. He chose you.
143 You said, “I sought the Lord, and sought the Lord.”
“No man seeks God.” It’s God, seeking man. You might be seeking a favor of Him, but God has to change your nature before you can even seek after Him. Because, you’re a sinner, you’re a pig. That’s right.

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« 144 † And some of you people going to church and just living by your membership, go out here and do everything in the world, and then still go back and say, “Yeah, I belong to the church.” Well that’s a long ways from belonging to God. Certainly. I don’t… But, you see, people doing that, you can tell. Oh, they’re good church members. That’s true. You can still be a church member and do those things, but you can’t be a Christian and doing them.
145 As I’ve said, this morning, “The old crow, if there ever was a hypocrite, it’s the crow.” That’s right. Him and the dove set on the same ark, set in the same roost. And the old crow was satisfied when he was turned loose, and got out of that Church, that he could go out there and set on one old dead carcass and “caw, caw,” and eat off of this one, eat off the horse, and eat off the cow, and whatever it was, he was satisfied. But when Noah turned the dove loose, she could find no rest for the soles of her feet. She had just as much right to set on a dead animal as the crow did, but it was two different natures. One of them, she was a dove, to begin with. He was a crow, to begin with.

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« 146 † But, if you notice, the old crow can set over here on a dead carcass and eat, half the day. The dove will set in a wheat field and eat, half the day. And the crow can fly right out there and eat dove food, as much as he wants to. He could eat just as much wheat as the crow can… or as the dove can. But he, the crow, can eat the dove food, but the dove can’t eat crow food. That’s right.
147 So, old hypocrite can come to church, and rejoice and shout and praise the Lord, and go on like that, and go right back out and enjoy the things of the world. But a born-again Christian cannot do it, because the love of God constrains him to such a place he can’t do it.
148 So if you’re just a Christian by joining the church, and quitting doing this and that, and the same desire is in you, you need another dip. That’s exactly right.

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« 149 † And you women who can dress with them little… of shorts, and right out here on the street, and then call yourself a “believer.” You’re a believer, but you’re a poor example of one, maybe. If you really had Christ in your heart, you wouldn’t have to think about such things as that. I don’t care what the rest of the women does, and the rest the girls do, you’d be different, because you love Christ too much.
150 I talked to a woman the other day, in a house, and she throwed her hands up like this, said, “Rev. Branham, I’m almost naked, here in my house. I’m walking around.”
151 I thought, “Shame on you.” In your own house, I don’t care where you are. That’s right. Dress and act like a woman, like a lady ought to. Shame on you. But you keep… And the Bible said, “If you love those things, the things of the world, the love of Christ is not even in you.” And if you love the Lord, just all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, you’ll keep them little old dirty, nasty things off of you. That’s right.

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« 152 † And you deacon, and you others here, that run out on the street here, and gawking your neck and looking at every one of them women. Shame on you; and calling yourself “sons of God.” I know that’s scorching, but you rather be scorched than then burnt forever there. So if you do those things… Now, you can’t help it if a woman walks down the street, half dressed. You, if you’re looking, you’re bound to see her, but you can turn your head. The Bible said, “Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in your heart.”

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« 153 † Let me tell you something, sister dear, you’re going to answer. I don’t care, you might be as pure as a lily. You may never actually committed a sin of that type, immoral sin, in your life. But if you dress like that, you’re going to answer at the judgment for committing adultery with every man that looked at you. The Bible said. And walk down the street, who is guilty, the man? No, sir. You are. You presented yourself that way.
154 The woman has got a great place. It’s a sacred, nice, wonderful place. But she must keep herself that way, to hold her office as she should, as a mother, as a woman and of womanhood. When the womanhood is broke, the backbone of any nation is broke. And that’s the reason, today, our nation is ruined, is because of the immorals of our women. That’s exactly right. Sure. It’s the rottenness among us, what’s breaking it.

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« 155 † What you need is to meet this Melchisedec one time. Amen. Let Him–let Him bless you and give you the wine, the bread, Eternal Life. Then you’ll see things different. Then you’ll… It’ll be different. You won’t want the boys to be making a–a coyote whistle at you, the wolf whistle, or whatever you want to call it. Certainly not. You’ll be different.
156 And you mean to tell me that you dress like that, and get out there, for any other purpose? You say, “Why, it’s cooler.” You’re story-telling. It is not cooler. Science proves that it’s not cooler. It’s a… It’s the lust that’s come upon you, sister. You don’t realize it. I’m not trying to hurt you, but I’m trying to warn you. A many a moral woman, just as clean as she can be, a nice little lady, walk out with them things, on the street, unconscious of knowing what she’s doing, because some backslidden preacher is afraid your husband won’t pay his tithes in the church anymore. If he’d ever met Melchisedec, he wouldn’t think those things. He would preach the Gospel. If it scorched the hide off their back, he’d preach It, anyhow. That’s exactly right.

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« 157 † You do it, and you do it because that a spirit of lust is up. And you men that’ll let your wives do those kind of things, I’ve got little hopes of you as a man. That’s right. That’s right. Now, there’s no compliments on that, because… or no apology. Because, that’s true. Any man that’ll let his wife get out on the street and act like that, brother, you ought to be wearing her clothes. That’s right. You, why, my!

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« 158 † I don’t say my wife won’t do it. But I have to be changed and perverted, to what I am now, if I ever live with her while she’s doing it. And that’s exactly right.
My girls, they may do it when they get to be women. I don’t say they won’t. I don’t know. That’s up to the mercy of God. I hope they don’t. If they do, they’ll walk over the prayers of a righteous father. They’ll walk over the life of somebody who tried to live right, if they ever do it. That’s right. But I want to live right, teach right, be right, and could instruct them right. If they do that, they’ll beat their way to hell, over the top of my preaching, and over the top of my Christ, and over the top of my warnings, that’s right, if they ever do it. Certainly. That’s right.

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« 159 † Shame on you. If you ever meet Christ, face to face, and He blesses you, and puts that kiss of approval on your heart, all devils in hell will never make you put them on again. That’s right. You’ve changed from death unto Life, and your affections are set on things above and not on the things of the earth. Amen. I better leave that subject. It’s ticklish. All right. But it’s the Truth.

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« 160 † All right, as we go on now just a little further, then we’re closing.
… verily they that are of the sons of Levi,… receive tithe of the office of the priesthood, and have a commandment to take tithe of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they came out of the loins of Abraham:
But he whose descent is not counted from them that received tithes of Abraham, and blessed of him that had the promise.
And with all contradictions the less is blessed of the better.
And here men that die receive tithes; but here he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. And I…
And as I may… say, Levi also,… received tithe, received tithe, payed tithes in Abraham.
For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.

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« 161 † Your–your attitude towards Christ will make a great impression on what your children will be. Your life that you live before your family will make an impression on what your children will be. Cause, the Bible said, that, “He would visit the iniquity of the parents upon the children to the third and fourth generations.”
162 Now, just a few moments, before closing.
And therefore if perfection (there’s your perfection again) were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need that there come… another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

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« 163 † The law, the legalist, see, “Oh, you have to do this. If you don’t do this, you’re not a Christian. If you don’t keep the sabbath! If you don’t… If you eat meat! If you do these things!” All these legal ideas. “And you’ve got to go to church. If you don’t, you pay a penalty for it. You have to do a novena.” That stuff is nonsense. You’re saved by the grace of God, by the foreknowledge of God, by His predestination. God called Abraham by predestination, by foreknowledge. He called. He hated Esau, and loved Jacob, before either one was born. That’s right. It’s–it’s God’s foreknowledge that knows these things.

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« 164 † You say then, “What’s the use of preaching the Gospel?”
165 Now I’ll say to you, this. Paul answered that, or Jesus did, rather. Here is Jesus. He said, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a man that went to this, a–a pond or a lake, and throwed in the net. He pulled in. Out of there, he had turtles. He had terrapins. He had serpents. He had lizards. He had frogs. He had spiders. He had scavengers. He had–he had fish.” Now, the man just seining.
166 That’s like the Gospel. Here it is now, I’m preaching the Gospel. I just throw the net out. I pull it, I say, “All that will, whosoever, let him come.” Here come some up, the altar. They all hang around the altar. They pray. They cry. I don’t know one from the other. It’s not my business. I wasn’t sent to judge.
167 But, there is some in there that’s frogs. There is some that’s lizards. There is some that’s snakes. It’s, some, is turtles. And there’s some that’s fish. It’s not my business to judge. I say, “Father, here is what I pulled out.”

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« 168 † But, the frog was a frog, to begin with.
169 The spider, the old spider will set there and look around, little while, roll them big eyes, look around, say, “You know what? I just about got as much of This as I can stand.” Plop, plop, plop, plop, out they go.
170 Old lady serpent will raise her head up, and say, “Well, you know what? If they’re going to preach like that, against wearing shorts and things, that takes me. So I’ll get away from that bunch of holy-rollers. That’s all it must been.” You was a snake to start with. That’s exactly right. Yeah.
171 And here sets old mister toad frog, with that great big cigar in his mouth, like a dehorned Texas steer, will stand there and look around, say, “Well, it never did condemn me to smoke. I’ll just get out of this thing, right now.” Well, you old frog, you was that, to begin with. That’s exactly right. That’s exactly right.
172 Your nature proves what you are. Your life shows, reflects what you are, and in the beginning. It’s not hard for me to see that. It’s not hard for you to see it.

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« 173 † If I went out to Roy Slaughter’s the farmer setting here, and I saw the pigs out on manure pile, eating manure, I wouldn’t think nothing bad about that. He’s a pig. But if I saw a lamb up on that manure pile, I’d wonder. Uh-huh. See? Don’t worry, you won’t see him there. He just couldn’t stand it. That’s right.
174 And a man that’s born of the Spirit of God hates the things of the world. That’s right, “For if you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in you.”

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« 175 † If I run around with women every day, and come in, tell my wife I loved her, she’d know I was a liar. My actions would speak louder than my words. Certainly. I prove to her that I didn’t love her, because I wasn’t true to her.
176 She told me she loved me, and every time I’d be gone, she’d take off with somebody else, it would prove that she didn’t love me. Right. Her actions prove it. I don’t care how much she’d try to tell me, “Bill, I love you, and there’s no one else in the world but you,” I’d know she was a liar.

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« 177 † And when you try to say, “Lord, I love You,” and doing the things of the world, God knows you’re a liar, to begin with. So why? What’s the use to accept an old half-way experience, and something another like that, when the great skies of Heaven are full of the real thing? Why do you want to be a miserable, professed, half-way, half-baked, so-called Christian? When, you can be a real born-again child of God, with the joy-bells of Heaven ringing in your heart, rejoicing, and praising God, and living a life of victory through Jesus Christ.
178 Not trying to do it yourself, because you’ll fail, to begin with. But take Him, It’s His Word, and rest upon what He said was the Truth. And believe Him, and love Him, and He’ll make everything work right in right for you. That’s it. That’s the idea.

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« 179 † The Lord bless you. Don’t want to scold you, but, brother, it’s best to get a little scolding. You’re my young’ns. See? And any papa that loves his kids will certainly correct them, or he’s not the right kind of a papa. Is that right? That’s right. And this papa only has one rule, and that’s the rule of the home. And God only has one rule, and that’s His Word.
180 If we believe His Word, then we’ll live by His Word. It’s our duty, if we’ve ever met God. Not because you say, “Well, I go to church, and I’ve got to do this.” You’re miserable. Don’t do that. Why do you want to be a miserable, decrepit, ungodly crow for, when you could be a dove? Certainly. You just have to have your nature changed. And you change your nature, become a son and daughter of God, be at peace with God.

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« 181 † Jesus! “Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His Own Blood, suffered without the gates,” Hebrews 13:12 and 13. Romans 5:1, “Therefore being justified by faith,” not by shaking hands, not by water baptism, not by laying on of hands, not with shouting, not with speaking in tongues, not with any sensation. “But being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” We’ve passed from death unto Life, and become new creatures, because we have believed on the only begotten Son of God, and accepted Him as our personal Saviour. And His Blood acts, tonight, as a propitiation for our sin, to stand in our place.

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« 182 † In the Old Testament, there’s only one place to have fellowship, that’s under the blood. Every believer had to come under the blood. When the red heifer was killed, she was made for a sin-offering. She must be red. And 19th chapter of Exodus, if any of you would like to read it. And she must be taken, hoof, all, burnt together. And then that was made a water of separation. It was set without the gates. It had to be handled with clean hand. The blood of this heifer went before… to the congregation, and stroked seven times up over the door. And now, every defiled person walking up, must first recognize and see that blood, and realize that there’s only fellowship beneath that blood. That’s the only place the worshipper could actually worship officially, was under the blood.

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« 183 † Then, the first thing he had to do, before he could come under the blood, there had to be this water of separation sprinkled upon him, and the uncleansed was made clean.
184 And they took the water of separation and sprinkled it upon the wayfaring man, and separated him from his sin. And then he walked under these seven stripes of blood, and had fellowship with the rest the believers in the Presence of God.
185 There’s only one way to do it. Not shaking hands, not joining church, not by baptisms, not by emotions; but walk up to the waters of separation, lay your hands, by faith, upon the head of Jesus, and say, “I’m a sinner, and You died in my place. And Something in me tells me that You’ll forgive me of my sins, and I accept You as my personal Saviour now.” Walk beneath the Blood, yonder, have fellowship with the children of God. That’s it. Eat the bread, drink the wine, and have the fellowship with the church.

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« 186 † Oh, isn’t He wonderful? Isn’t He good? Now, this may seem strange to you, friend. But what–what do I stand here and say these things for? Would I say them to try to make myself different from somebody else? If I do, then I need to repent. I’m saying It because God said It, because It’s God’s Word. And listen. There’s coming a time, and now is, that when people are going from the east to the west, trying to find the Word of God, and can’t find It.
187 When you go into a meeting, the first thing you do, you go in there and have a bunch of tongues and interpretations, and somebody raise up and keep quoting the Scripture; and that’s carnal. Absolutely. God said for us “not to use vain repetitions,” what about Him? If He’s wrote It once, you believe It. He don’t have to say It again. Tongues and interpretations is right, but it’s to be a direct message to the church and to somebody, not just carnal and things like that. And then you get ahead in all these other things.

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« 188 † Here the other day, two men walked into… and a man and a wife, and another man and a wife, just young married, walked into a place, to go to Africa as missionary. Somebody stood up and give a prophecy, and gave tongues and interpretations, that, “They had each other’s wife.” That, “It should not be that way. They married the wrong person.” And those two people separated and remarried, over again. One man took the other one’s wife, the other one, in a leading Pentecostal denomination, and went to Africa as missionaries.
189 Brother, when you take your oath, you’re duty bound to that oath till death sets you free. Exactly right. Certainly. When you take your oath, it’s binding.

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« 190 † All those, nonsense! And it’s got to a place till when you go to the churches, it’s either so cold and formal and dry, till the spiritual thermometer will go fifty below zero. The people set just like a wart on a pickle, just as sour and indifferent and puckered up. And if you hear somebody, way back there in the corner, might grunt out a little “amen,” once in a while, like it hurts them, all of them will stretch their neck like geese, to look around, see what took place. You know that’s the truth. I’m not saying that for a joke. This is no place to joke. That’s the Truth. Right. I’m saying it because it’s the Gospel Truth.

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« 191 † And the other side, you get a bunch of nonsense of a bunch of fleshly emotions carrying on, and the true Word of God finally has got to a place to where you can seldom hear It: the old middle-of-the-road, the Gospel, the Light to my path, hallelujah, the Blood of the Lamb, the love of God that separates us from the things of the world.

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« 192 † “Have you spoke in tongues, brother? You haven’t got It. Did you shout till the cold feeling went up your back? Did you see balls of fire?” Oh, nonsense! No such a thing.
193 Have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ and accepted Him as your personal Saviour? And the Spirit of God bears record with your spirit, that you’re sons and daughters of God. And your life bears fruit of love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness. Then you’re a Christian. If it doesn’t, I don’t care what you do.
Paul said, “I could give my body to be burned as a sacrifice. I knowed all the mysteries of God. I can move mountains with my faith. I can speak in tongues like men and Angels. I’m nothing.” How about that? First Corinthians 13; find out if That’s right or not.

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« 194 † Now find out if–if Corinthians, Second Corinthians 13, I believe it is. Or, well, it’s either First or Second Corinthians. First Corinthians there, First Corinthians 13, is right. “Though I speak with tongues of men and Angels, both the kind that can be interpreted and that cannot be interpreted, I am nothing.” So what’s the use of fooling with it, then?
195 “Though I understand all the mysteries of God.” Why do you go to seminaries and try to learn so much about? You better get right with God, first. Certainly. “Though I, ‘Oh, blessed hallelujah!'”
196 You got so you can’t even have a congregation unless you have a healing campaign or some kind of miracles going on. “A weak and adulterous generation seeketh after such.” What do you want with that?
197 Paul said he could do all kinds of things, even move mountains, and still he’s nothing. “Where there’s tongues, it shall cease. Where there’s knowledge, it shall vanish. Where there’s prophecies, it shall fail. But when that which is perfect is come, it shall endure forever,” and love is perfection. “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son.” That, “Whosoever shivers, whosoever shakes, whosoever speaks, whoso”? “Whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have Eternal Life.” Believe that, children.

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« 198 † They try to make it so complicated, these things and them things. When, it boils right down to one thing: your personal faith in God. That’s it. That tells it. “For by faith,” not by feeling. “By faith,” not by emotion. “By faith,” not by sensation. “But by faith are you saved; and that by…” Because you sought the Lord? Because you was a good person? Because, “God, by grace, foreknew you and ordained you to Eternal Life.”
199 Jesus said, “No man can come to Me except My Father draws him. And all that comes to me, I’ll give him Eternal Life. No man can pluck them from My hand. They’re Mine. They’re forever saved. I got them. No man can pluck them out of My Father’s hand, and He is the One that give them to Me. They’re love gifts of Mine.”
200 “And all He foreknew, He called.” He don’t call anybody ‘less He foreknew him. “All He called, He justified; all He justified, He glorified.” So, you see, we just at perfect rest.

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« 201 † Now, I know there’s a lot of legalists here, ninety-nine percent of you. But, look, if you’ll just take This and realize that I’m not trying to say you something.
202 Then you say, “Well, Brother Branham, I’ve always thought I had to do this and I had to do that.” There’s such a–such a difference in it, brother, what you have to do and what you want to do. You are saved, not because you had one thing to do with it. You’re saved because that God saved you before the foundation of the world.

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« 203 † Listen. Listen here. The Bible said, in the Revelation. I’m going to take you from at first to the last now. The Bible said, in Revelation, that, when the beast came, he deceived all upon the earth. The beast did. “He deceived all upon the earth, whose names were not written in the Lamb’s Book of Life…” Since the revival began? Does that sound right? Well, since the preacher preached that mighty sermon? Since that man was healed? “… since the foundation of the world.”
204 Where was Jesus slain at, at Calvary? No, sir. Jesus was slain before the foundation of the world. “Behold the Lamb of God, that was slain before the foundation of the world.” God, in the beginning, when He saw the sin, He saw what would happen, He spoke the Word. And Jesus was slain before the foundation of the world. And every person was saved, was saved, according to the Bible, when the Lamb was slain in the mind of God, before the foundation of the world. You were included in salvation then. So what are you going to do about It?

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« 205 † It’s God. Blessed be the Name of the Lord! “It’s God that worketh; not him that willeth or him that runneth, but God showeth mercy.”
If Jesus was slain before the foundation of the world, it taken four thousand years before it actually happened. But when God spoke it back here, every Word of God is steadfast. It’s immutable. It’s impartible. It cannot fail. And when God slayed the Son before the foundation of the world, He was just as much slain then as He was at Calvary. It’s a finished product, when God says so. And remember, when the Lamb was slain, your salvation was included in the sacrifice, because the Bible said that your name was “Written on the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world.”
What about that? Then what are we going to do? It’s God that showeth mercy. It’s God that called you. It’s God that chose you in Christ before the foundation of the world. Jesus said, “You never–you never chose me. I chose you. And I knew you, before the foundation of the world.” There you are.
206 So, see, that takes the scare out of you. “Oh, I wonder if I could keep holding on? I’ll make it, bless God, if I’ll just keep holding on.” It’s not whether I hold on, or not. It’s whether He held on, or not. It’s what–what He done, not what I done. It’s what He did.
Is it under the redemption law? This is a little thing I want to say before closing.

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« 207 † What if an old mare gave birth to a little mule? And that little mule had both ears broke down. He was cross-eyed, and knock-kneed, bow-legged. His tail stuck right straight up in the air. What a horrible-looking animal! Why, anybody… If that little mule could think, say, “Now, wait a minute. When they come out from the house this morning, I’m telling you, I’ll sure get knocked in the head. Because, they never feed me. Look what a horrible-looking thing I am. I haven’t even got a chance.”
208 Well, that’s right. You haven’t got a chance. “Well, I was born in this world, but looky here what a horrible-looking thing I am. So I–I–I… I’ll never have a chance. I won’t make it. I can’t make it.” See?

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« 209 † But what if his mammy is really instructed in the law? She’ll say, “Son, that’s right. You’re all out of shape, and you’re not even fit to eat the food off the earth. That’s right. You’re not fit. But, son, somehow another, you’re my first. And, you know, you’re born under a birthright. And the priest will never see you. But, for your name, there’s got to be an innocent lamb without a blemish, has got to die in your place, so you can live.”
210 Well, that little mule could just kick up his heels and have a big time. Doesn’t make any difference what he is, because he’ll never be seen by the judge, the priest. It’s the lamb that the priest looks at. Not the mule; the lamb!

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« 211 † And it’s Christ that God looks at, not you. It’s Christ. So if there’s no fault in Him, how can there be fault? How can He find fault, when you are dead and your life is hid in Christ through God, sealed by the Holy Ghost? “They that are born of God does not commit sin, for he cannot sin.” How can he sin when a perfect sacrifice is laying in his place? God never looks at me, He looks at Christ, because we’re in Christ.
212 Now, if I love Christ, I’ll live with Him. He would never brought me in ‘less He know. If God saved me today, knowing He was going to lose me six weeks from today, He is defeating His Own purpose. Right. He don’t even know the future then, if He saved me, knowing. What’s He want to save me for, knowing He’s going to lose me? God doesn’t do things, then take it back in two weeks, to keep His promise. When He saves you, it’s for time and Eternity.

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« 213 † Now, you can be worked up, and say, “Oh, yes, bless God! Hallelujah! I spoke in tongues. I shouted. I got her. Hallelujah!” That don’t mean you got It. But, brother, when something come down here, and you anchor with Christ, then the fruits of the Spirit follow you. We bear record, our spirit with His Spirit, that we’re sons and daughters of God. Please have That, friends.

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« 214 † I’ll keep you here all night, talking about that. I love It. I love you. I come back to this little tabernacle, time after time, if God shall spare my life. I want to see you rooted and grounded in that holy Faith. I don’t want to see you tossed about, by every little wind of doctrine come by, and shake you, and carry on, and have a little blood in their hands, or a little frost on their face, or something another, and seeing some kind of–of–of lights before them, and some kind of a–a selfish thing, as the Bible said, “Puffed up in his heart, and seen nothing.” That’s right. I want you to be solid on the Word. If it’s THUS SAITH THE LORD, stay with It, live with It. That’s the Urim Thummim of this day. God wants you to live by That. If it’s not in the Word, then forget about it. Live for God, live for Christ.

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« 215 † And if your heart begins to stray around, you know there is something that’s happened, go back to the altar and say, “Christ, renew my… the joy of my salvation. Give unto me that love that I once had. It’s leaking out, Lord. There is something I’ve done. Make me holy again, stand. O Lord, nothing I could do. I can’t quit this and quit that. I’m looking to You to take it out of me, Lord, and I love you.”
216 And walk away from that altar, a new person in Christ Jesus. Then you won’t have to depend on your church, depend on your priest, depend on your pastor. You’re depending on the shed Blood of the Lord Jesus. “By grace are you saved.”
Let us pray.

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« 217 † Lord, such strong teachings! It’s time this little church could take meat, and no more the milk of the Word. We been too much in the milk now, giving the baby his bottle. But we got to have strong meats, for the day is getting close. Great perilous times are at hand, and more trouble laying in the road. And we know that there’ll never be better times. We know that we’re at the end. Times will continue to get worse and worse until Jesus comes, according to the Scriptures.
218 We cannot promise them nothing in this life. But in the life to come, we can promise them Eternal Life through Thy Word, if they’ll believe on the Son of God and accept Him as their propitiation, as the One who stood in their place, as the One who took their sins. Grant it now.
219 May unbelievers become believers. May church professors, here tonight, who has professed religion and just living in the church, may they receive an experience with God; that such love comes into their heart, that they weep for their sins, die out to themselves, and are born anew by the Holy Spirit, and being meek and kind, loving, and full of joy and blessings. Living such a life, till they’re so salty that they make the people that’s around them, thirst to be like them. Grant it, Lord, for we ask it in His Name.
And with our heads bowed.

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« 220 † I wonder, tonight, if there would be one here, say, “Brother Branham, if I was weighed in the balance of God at that time, I would never, never, never be able to meet that qualification you’re speaking of tonight. I want you to remember me in prayer, that I will change my ways, and God will come in and take this nonsense out of me and make me a real Christian”? Would you raise your hand for prayer, if–if you would? God bless you. God bless you. God bless you, in the back. God bless you. God bless you, sir. God bless you, big brother. God bless you, sister.
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of host.
Heaven and earth are full of Thee,
Heaven and earth are praising Thee,
O Lord Most High.

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« 221 † “Holy.” As you’re thinking now, praying, as you feel convinced that you been wrong, and you want to be right, would you just raise your hand, saying, “God, make me what I ought to be”? God bless you, little lady. “God, make me what I ought to be.” God bless you, brother, sister, you, you, you over here.
222 Day is dying. I know it’s hard, friends, but it’s better to know Truth now. Now quietly pray.
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God…
He is holy, alone.
… full of Thee,
Heaven and earth are praising Thee,
O Lord Most High.

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« 223 † Heavenly Father, as the sun sets in the evening, the robins gather in the trees with their loved ones. The birds all go to their nests. The doves fly up on the wires, high, so the snakes won’t bother them through the night. They set there and coo to each other till they go to sleep. The sun finally sets.
224 Someday we’re coming down to that hour. The sunset is going to happen. I don’t know when, Lord. But there’s people here tonight who is convinced that they’re been wrong, and they want to come to that place… Like Lincoln come to it as he was dying, said, “Turn my face towards the setting sun.” And he started, “Our Father Who art in Heaven.”
225 As Moody of old said, “Is this death? This is my coronation day.”

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« 226 † O Eternal One, receive them just now; by faith, as they set there in their seats. You knocked at their heart, at the seat. That’s their altar. This is the time for You to receive them, just now. You said, “He that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out.”
227 And someday when sun is setting, wife or husband is standing by the bed, the doctors walked away. O Holy, Holy, that beautiful, sweet hush, just before the sun sets. When we could raise up and say:
Sunset and Evening Star,
And one clear call for me;
And may there be no moaning at the bar
When I put out to sea.

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« 228 † O God, grant it to them this hour; while they wait, waiting for the blessing of God to come upon them. Take all of the temper, all of the world, away from them, and create in them a new heart. You said, “I’ll take the old heart away, and put in a heart of flesh. And I’ll put My Spirit in that heart, and they shall walk in My statutes and keep My commandments.” Because, it’s an ordinance of love, and not of duty. It’s of love. And love constrains us to do it. It’s a duty of love, to constrain us. It’s our duty to follow love. And I pray, God, that You’ll give it to every heart that raised their hand tonight.
229 And those who did not raise their hand, may they now, by grace, raise their hands to accept You, and to be filled with Your Spirit in this meek, sweet, quiet, humble way; be full of grace, go out of here as a changed person. How the birds will sing different, how everybody will be different, after this hour, O Lord Most High.
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of earth,
Heaven and earth are full of Thee,
Heaven and earth are praising Thee,
O Lord Most High.

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« 230 † You now with your heads bowed, you who raised your hands to be remembered in prayer, do you feel like that God has spoke to you in such a way now, not by emotion, but just something way down in you. You feel like that God has give you Eternal Life? You feel like you’re going out of the church tonight as a different person? Would you raise your hands back tonight? God bless you, son. God bless you, brother. God bless you, sister. God bless you. That’s right. “I’ll go from this church, tonight, a new person.” Newborn babes in the Kingdom of God.

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« 231 † What happened? I know it’s an order of coming to the altar. That’s a Methodist altar… a Methodist order, I mean. It was established in the Methodist church, in the days of John Wesley. It never was in the Bible days. “As many as believed was added to the Church.” You can believe wherever you are, out in the field, out on a street, anywhere. Anywhere, it doesn’t make any difference, just so as you accept Christ as your personal Saviour. It’s an act of the Holy Ghost that comes into your heart. When you believe Him, accept Him, you passed from death unto Life, and you become new creatures in Christ Jesus.
Pass me not, O gentle Saviour,
Now stand to your feet.
… my humble cry;
While on others Thou are calling,
Do not pass me.

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« 232 † Now I want the young man and the lady, which I perceive to be his wife, that raised up your hand, I want you to raise your hand again back there; son, with the red coat on, and the lady, that they accepted Christ as their personal Saviour. The young man setting here in a wheel chair, accepted Christ as his Saviour, felt that God had saved him. And others back in there that raised your hands, raise them again so the people can look around, have fellowship with you.
233 Shake their hand, somebody around, standing near them. Say, “God bless you. Welcome into the kingdom of God, my brother, my sister.” Fellowship, that’s what we want. God bless… Shake hands with this young man here in the chair. The Lord be with him. That’s right. We welcome you into the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

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« 234 † If you have never been baptized as yet, and would desire to be baptized, make your way up and tell the pastor about it. The pool here has even got water in it, tonight, if you want to be baptized. Everything is ready. (Did you have a baptism, anyhow?…?…) But the pool is ready, if anybody want to be baptized. The Bible said, “Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sin, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you and your children, them that’s far off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.”

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« 235 † You love Him? Raise your hands. [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Oh, isn’t He wonderful? How you enjoy this Book of Hebrews? You love It? [“Amen.”] Yeah. Wonderful. Now, It’s correction. Oh, It’s stern and It’s straight, but we love that. That’s the way we want to have It. Wouldn’t have It no other way.
236 Now, do you believe Paul has got an authority to preach It like that? Paul said, “If an Angel come and preached any other gospel, let him be accursed.” That right? So we love Him with all of our heart.

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« 237 † Now I’m going to ask the pastor to come here just a moment, our most precious brother, Brother Neville, and he’ll have a word to tell you. And now, if the Lord willing, we’ll see you Wednesday night, and make arrangements about going to Brother Graham Snelling’s for a congregational night. And then for the preaching here to continue on, with the 7th and 8th chapter, this coming Wednesday night. Brother Neville. `

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« 505 † ` Good morning, friends. It’s a privilege to be here. And–and to fulfill this great introduction from our pastor would certainly take a real life, wouldn’t it? So we’re giving praise to the Lord for all of His great healing powers and His mercies that He has given to us down through the years.

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« 505a † Now I have a few announcements to make. One, we, Brother Woods and Brother Roberson, and we want to thank you all for praying for us, for a safe trip. Had a wonderful time; just gone four and a half days, I believe, and back again safely. The Lord did bless us.

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« 506 † Now, we’re announcing that the Brother Graham Snelling, his revival, is continuing on, up at the–the end of Brigham Avenue, at the… in the city here. And this coming Wednesday night… I want to go away tomorrow, after a funeral service for one I’ll announce in a few moments. We’ll let you know Wednesday night. We want to go in a delegation, all, up to visit Brother Graham before he closes his service up there. And we’ll try to get the entire church together, if we can, and go as a delegation to meet, to be with Brother Graham in one of his services.

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« 507 † And, now, this afternoon at–at the undertaker’s establishment at Charlestown, is a–a Mrs. Colvin, that once come to the church here many years ago, seventy-four years old, left this life yesterday to go to be with the Lord Jesus. And her funeral is to be preached Monday, by Rev. Mr. McKinney, used to, formerly, the pastor of the Methodist church at–at Port Fulton for many years, which was a personal friend of theirs. And I’m to assist him, Monday, at, I believe it’s one-thirty, at the–at the chapel at Charlestown, Indiana. And all of you friends of the Colvin family would, I know, would appreciate now just a little courage or to… little handshake. For we all know what that is, we who’ve been down through those, in the valleys, ourselves, and know what it means to lose a friend. And so we… She’s laying in the–in the chapel now, at Charlestown, Indiana. If you go up this afternoon, why, it would be appreciated by the Colvin family, I’m sure. Many of their people comes here to the tabernacle yet. I’ve married, buried, baptized, pretty near, their family, through. And so Mr. Grayson, that used to be our neighbor right here, is the undertaker up there.

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« 508 † And then this, tonight, the Lord willing, where we leave off this morning, we’ll try to pick up tonight, in this great study that we’re studying in now. And then I think that was the announcements, as far as–as I–I know of. And this coming Wednesday night, now, we’ll announce the night that we’re going up to be with Brother Graham.

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« 509 † And we welcome all the strangers in our gates. And we’re happy to have you here this morning, and pray that God will exceedingly, abundantly, bless you today for this gathering.

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« 510 † Brother Cox has just told me that the public-addressing outfit wasn’t working too well at the time. It’s perhaps, maybe according to the weather, lot of dampness in the speakers there. And they’re not too good, to begin with, so that may be the cause.

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« 511 † As I see a sister setting here that I know, Sister Arganbright. I… This is not nice and–and etiquettes, to ask this, but have you heard from Brother Arganbright since he’s been over. I am very interested in hearing from him as soon as we can. He’s in Switzerland and Germany, in a meeting over there with Brother Tommy Hicks and Paul Cain. If you ever hear, Sister Ruth, you let me know right away, just quick as you can.

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« 512 † Now, the little tabernacle has no membership, but we have fellowship. We have no creed but Christ, no law but love, no book but the Bible. That’s the only Book that we know of, and the only thing that we know, as we have. As the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sins, we have fellowship one with the other, everybody.

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« 513 † I was noticing, this morning, to some of you people might have heard the brother praying. That was a Catholic, so, or formerly a Catholic. And we have all different types of people come here. Just had the privilege, a few moments ago, to shake the hand of a Mennonite brother who is setting in here. And from the Mennonites, from the Methodists, from the Baptists, and the Catholic, or whosoever will, let them come. And we fellowship together around the blessings of God’s Word. Setting present is Jehovah Witness and different types of the people, saw different denominations.

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« 514 † I used to love (well, I do yet) the West. I love horses and cattle. I was just raised on a farm, and I–I love it. And we used to have the round up, and I’d go with them. And we had a drift fence. I don’t know whether you Eastern people know what a drift fence is, or not. It’s when you put the cattle into the–the forest, they have a fence to keep them from drifting what they called, come back down to the ranches. They’d eat up the grass, where they’re raising the grass for the winter feed. And then up in the mountain, they also have drift fences, where they separate so many females and male, and so forth. It’s called a drift fence. But the main drift fence is where the ranger stands when the cattle are going through.

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« 515 † And now I’ve sat there, a many day, in my saddle, and watched them as the cattle would go through. There was all different kinds of brands went in. There was some called the “Diamond.” And some of them called the “Bar X.” And some… Ours was the “Tripod,” something like a Boy Scout emblem. The next fellow, below it, was a “turkey track” on the horse. And they had all different kinds of brands, to–to know their cattle when they drove them out.
516 Now, the ranger wasn’t so interested in what brand they had, but here’s what, the ranger was interested to watch a tag in their ear. Everything that went in there, no matter what brand it was, had to be a thoroughbred Hereford. It could not go in there unless it was a Hereford. Had to be registered stock or it couldn’t get through.

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« 517 † I think, on that day when the Lord comes, He’s not going to pay any attention to what brand we’re wearing, but if we’re all born-again Christians. That’s right. That’s the stock of Christ. The Blood test is going to prove us, we’re all Christians. And if we’re going to all be that way there, we might as well be that way here. Don’t you think so? That’s the way, we appreciate all fellowship from all different churches.

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« 518 † Now we’re studying in this blessed Book of Hebrews. One brother has enjoyed it so much till he’s taken the tapes and he’s making a book of lectures on this.
519 Now we’re going to come, pretty soon, to the 11th chapter. We expect to spend the winter on that, on the 11th chapter. For each one of those characters, we wish to go back through the Book and tie the entire Scripture together. I was going to do it. I do in portion, on some of this, of these former chapters, to get the whole Book tied together. For, you see, Scripture must prove Scripture.
520 Therefore, if there’s any contradiction, that anyone would think that the Scriptures contradict each other, that’s an error. There is no Scripture contradicts a Scripture. The–the contradiction is where that maybe It contradicts our way of looking at It, but It doesn’t contradict Itself. I’ve been in the ministry, going on twenty-six years now, and I have never, one time, found one thing in the Bible that contradict anything else was written in the Bible. And I–I just know it isn’t there.

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« 521 † And today we are studying in one of the most blessed chapters of the Hebrews, the 7th chapter. And there’s anyone doesn’t have a Bible, would like to follow us in the readings, we’d be glad to bring you a Bible if you’d just raise your hand. I’ll have some of the elders, someone, come here and get some. Someone are raising their hands back there. And thank you, brother. And if you want a Bible, just raise your hand, and they’ll bring it to you.

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« 522 † Now, the only way that a church can be built, the only way that a man can have Faith, is not by his denomination, not by his affiliation. But his Faith rests not upon the theology of some man’s ideas, ’cause it’s, more or less, altogether man. But the only way Faith can find it’s solemn resting place, is upon the immovable and unchangeable Word of God. “Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word.” That’s how it takes. And–and when Faith is heard and accepted, it’s forever settled. Nothing no more can ever move it, no matter what comes or goes. Nothing can ever change that Faith. Think of that. You’re anchored, and you no more change, for time and Eternity. You’re anchored forever, “For God, by one sacrifice, has perfected forever those that are sanctified, or called.”

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« 523 † And Faith has such a great place in the Christian, the believer’s life, that it can take its stand by the side of a muddy grave or over a casket, where a precious baby or a sweetheart has passed from this life to the beyond. And with a stern look of the eagle eye, can look to Him who said, “I am the resurrection and the Life.” And they forget the things that’s in the past. They press on to the mark of the high calling.
524 I’m so glad that God has provided such, and has made it a free gift to all. That’s what churches are to be. Churches doesn’t mean denominations or organizations; it means, “Groups of people, of believers, who is gathered together under the fellowship of the Word.”

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« 525 † And in this marvelous teaching here of Saint Paul, in the backgrounds, in the former chapters, he has specifically been dealing with the supreme Deity of the Lord Jesus and who He was. Christ was God, made so that men could feel Him and touch Him, and–and fellowship with Him. Christ, the Lord Jesus, was the body that God dwelt in, “God was made flesh and dwelt among us.” First Timothy 3:16, “Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness, for God was manifested in flesh.”
526 The Great Jehovah came down and was made tangible, by living in the body of His Own Son, declaring and reconciling the world to Himself. God was nothing… Christ was nothing short of God, and–and God was nothing short of Christ. The two together made the Godhead bodily, made a little lower than Angels, so that He could suffer. Angels cannot suffer. Jesus was the tabernacle that God dwelt in.
527 The Bible said, in the 7th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, that, “Tabernacles, and burnt sacrifice and burnt-offerings Thou wouldst not, but a body has Thou prepared Me. Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in tabernacles made with hands, but a body has Thou prepared Me,” that in tabernacling or dwelling in a fellowship with man.

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« 528 † God permits, as soon as we’re through with this chapter here, or through with this Book, we want to go back and pick up the Book of Ruth and show in there that how God became kinfolks to us, to reconcile the lost back to Himself by fellowshipping and becoming one of us. The Redeemer must be kinfolks, and the only way that God could become kinfolks to us, is to become one of us. So, He could not become an Angel and be kinfolks to man.

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« 529 † Last evening when I was talking to the heart-broken son, my partner, of the mother that’s just passed away, said, “O Brother Bill, I guess she’s an Angel tonight.”
530 I said, “No, Earl. She’ll never be an Angel. She’s a woman, tonight, just as God made her, and will always be, never a Angel.” God made Angels. He never made men become Angels. He made Angels and men. So men will never be Angels, and Angels will never be men. God made them different.

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« 531 † Now, and in Christ becoming flesh to redeem out of that great beyond where man had fell, and that immortality by sin had come down, God came down and taken on the form of a shape of a man, and became kinfolks to us, that He might bear our sins and our death.

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« 532 † And in one of the illustrations we were giving, in the previous lessons; just a little background so the newcomer would understand. God, on His road up to Calvary. As the sting of death was upon Him, and was buzzing around Him, and finally it stung Him till He died. He died till the sun quit shining. He died until the moon and the stars would not give their light.
533 Or, how He had to do that, to anchor the stinger of death! If He had been an immortal person, if he had been in the theophany, or been in the spirit, death has no control of that. It had to become flesh, that He could take the stinger of death. But when a bee or an insect who stings, once stings deep, he’ll never sting again. He leaves his stinger in the flesh. And that’s what Christ be-… or God became. Christ dwelt in flesh, that He might anchor in His Own flesh the stinger of death. And when death pulled away from Him at the cross, it left its stinger, it could not sting a believer anymore. It can make a humming noise, it can make a buzz and a threat, but it cannot sting. It has no stinger.
534 The great Saint Paul, on his death march, screamed and said, “O death, where is your sting? And grave, where is your victory? But thanks be to God who has done give us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, for both death and grave has lost its power.”

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« 535 † Now, then, last Sunday we taken, “Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ,” in the 6th chapter, we read this, “let us go on to perfection.” And we found out that the people today in many churches, along with the Branham tabernacle and different ones, we lay too much on studying about the principles of Christ: He was the Son of Abraham, He was the son of–of so-and-so, and on back, the genealogies. But the Bible said, “Let us lay aside those things, and go on to perfection.”
536 First you must know the doctrine, and then you must know all these things; then let’s lay them aside, He said, of resurrection of the dead, laying on of hands, baptisms, and all those dead articles of God. Yet, they–they have no Life in them. But the church today just goes to those things, “Oh, we believe in the Deity of Christ.” Yes. Sure. “We believe in water baptism.” Yes. Sure. “Laying on of hands.”
537 Paul said, “We’ll do all this if God permits. But in the face of all of that, let’s lay it aside now, and go on to perfection.”

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« 538 † Now, the church cannot be perfected through organizations. It gets further away from God, all the time, or farther away from each other. We draw barriers, we separate ourselves, seemingly not having the Faith. But then when we leave those principles of doctrine, if we move on to perfection, then those little things become of not much use.
539 We go into a relationship, and we find out that the only way that we can be perfected is to be in Christ. And we find out then, by the teachings of the Bible, that how we get into Christ; not by water baptism, not by laying on of hands, not by teaching. “But by one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body and become perfected through His suffering.” Then, we look different. We think different. We act different. We live different. Not because it’s a duty or we belong to church, but because of “the love that God has shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost,” that makes us fellow citizens of the Kingdom of God, then there is no denomination or barriers in that. We’re all one great Body.

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« 540 † Now we’re ready to enter in upon the morning lesson, in a few moments. One more thing I’d like to get to here, that is, that, Paul speaking in the Book, of the 7th… or the 6th chapter, we find out here that we’re made perfect in Christ. Then in the 13th verse of the 6th chapter, just a little background.
For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
God swore by Himself, because He could not swear by anyone greater.
541 Now we want to go back. Let’s get at Galatians just a few moments. Turn back to the Book of Galatians, and get Galatians 3:16. And we’ll read here just a moment, of what He swore by.
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promise made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one,… to the seed, which is Christ.
542 Now if you’ll notice, reading that close now, as you read.
… to Abraham and his seed (singular) were the promises (plural) made.

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« 543 † “Abraham and his Seed.” Now, the Seed of Abraham was one, which was Christ; in prefigure, Isaac.
But Abraham had many children. He had one before he had Isaac, which was showing the slipping up of the unbelief of Sarah who wanted Hannah to bring the child, thinking that she was too old, and God to bypass and make some other way from the way that He had promised to do it.
544 But God keeps His promise. No matter how unreasonable it may seem, God is obligated to His promise. And Sarah thought that maybe she could have Hannah… or Hagar, rather, her maid, to give birth to a baby through Abraham, and she would take it. And that became Ishmael, which was a thorn in the flesh, from then until now. Still a thorn in the flesh, for out of there come the Arabs, and they’ve always been that way.
545 Now, any time that you disbelieve the naked Word of God and adopt some other way, it’ll be a thorn in your flesh from there on. You take just what God said. If He said It, that’s just what He means. Oh, blessed be His Name! Just take His Word.
546 No matter what tries to bypass, say, “Well, It really doesn’t mean That.” It means just what It says, when God makes a promise.

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« 547 † Now if we’ll notice closely.
… Abraham and his seed were the promises…
One was the Seed, singular, and the other was promises. There’s more than one promise, and more than one person that’s included in the Seed of Abraham. See? There’s one Seed, but many people of this Seed. See? They were not just Abraham alone, or to Isaac alone. But the… It was to all the Seed of Abraham. The promises was made to each and every individual seed of that Seed. You get it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
548 “Therefore, we, being dead in Christ, according to the Scriptures, we take on Abraham’s Seed and are heirs according to the promise.” Not by joining church, or forming of the dead articles, or–or so forth. But by being born of the Spirit of Christ, we are Abraham’s Seed, and are joint-heirs with Him in the Kingdom.

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« 549 † Then we go on, to read, then, just a little further now, “God making an oath.” Now the 17th verse of the 6th chapter.
Wherein God, willing more abundantly…
… God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it with an oath:
550 Oh, let’s just rest now a few minutes. “God more willing.” Not that He had to, but to make this a sure thing.
551 Now, we’ve already found that God became flesh, dwelt among us, how that He manifested Hisself towards the world. When He found the woman in adultery, said, “I don’t. I don’t condemn you. Go, sin no more.” When He found the sick, He acted just the way He would have to act, for He was God, and He–He healed the sick. He raised the dead. He forgave the sins. No matter how they was, and how many, and how backslidden, He forgive them, anyhow, if they were willing to come and ask.

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« 552 † Now notice. If God acted any one time on a certain circumstance, and if that same circumstance arise again, He’s got to act the second time like He did the first time or He’s unjust. See? No matter how bad you are in sin, how stooped you may become, He’s got to act to you like He did that fallen woman or He acted wrong then. God’s behavior is His Person, and what He is in His behavior declares His Person.
553 And that’s the way you are, in your behavior of life, tells what you are. As we had and went through, a lesson or two ago, the Methodist people wanted to declare, “When you shout, you got It.” The Pentecostal says, “When you spoke with tongues, you’ve got It.” The Shaker said, “When you shake, you got It,” the Pennsylvania Shakers. And we find out that they’re all wrong. Your life declares It. Your person declares what you are. A man is known by his works, and whatever your life is.
554 You’ve heard the old story, “Your life speaks so loud, I can’t hear your words.” So whatever you are, you are. The life that you live shows what kind of a spirit is in you.

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« 555 † And then you may impersonate the wrong thing… or impersonate the right thing, may I say. You may impersonate a Christian. But there will, by-and-by, come a time when the strain will be put on, then it’ll show what you are. A chain is its strongest at its weakest link.
556 When Christ the Son of God was put to the test, it showed what He was. Sure. When you’re put to the test, it’ll prove what you are. Your life always reflects what’s on the inside of you. By-and-by, be sure your sins don’t find you out. And that’s what we’re trying to say.

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« 557 † Jesus said, in Saint John 5:24, “He that heareth,” not he that shaketh, he that speaketh. He that… “He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life, and shall never come to the judgment; but is passed from death unto Life.”
558 It’s your faith. And your faith, confessed by your lips, make manifest to the people that can hear, but your life is open before all. So, no matter how much you try to act this and do this, it’ll never work. It’s got to be in you. That’s the real kernel of the whole story. Your personal faith in the resurrected Christ, as your Saviour; that He’s at the right hand of God, acting in your place this morning, as you’re acting in His place down here as a witness. A witness is to act instead of somebody, stand for you as a witness. And as your life reflects here what your testimony is in Christ, it reflects there and it reflects here. And He is up there, as what He is for you, reflects both there and here. So you are… By your faith, are you saved, and that alone. So, sensations, emotions, feelings, anything, has no place at all in It. Now, not…

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« 559 † Now, don’t think wrong, that I do not believe in these emotions. Certainly. But what we’re on now, trying to drill to this people of this day, is not emotions. The Devil has took those things and went wild with the people, letting them base their Eternal destination upon an emotion. Shouting, speaking with tongue, going to church every Sunday, acting like a Christian, that won’t have one bearing at that day. “Except a man is born again.” And your life reflects what you are on the inside, see, not your emotions.
560 You could have blood in your hands, you could speak with tongues, you could heal the sick, you could move mountains with your faith, and you are nothing yet. First Corinthians 13. See? It’s got to be something happened by a Birth which comes from God, and God brings the new Birth into you, and gives you a part of Himself. Then those things are. You are a new creation. “I give unto them Eternal.”

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« 561 † We went through the word “Eternal.” Forever is “a space of time.” Eternity is forever, forever and forever, but there’s only one Eternity. And we find out that you receive Eternal Life, and the word in the Greek is Zoe, which means “God’s Life.” And you receive part of God’s Life, which makes you a spiritual son of God, and you’re just as everlasting as God is everlasting. You have no end, no place to stop, because you had no place to begin. Anything has a beginning has an end, and that without a beginning has no end.

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« 562 † How we love that precious Word! How the Christian should be established in the Faith that was once delivered to the saints, and not be tossed about, place to place, and joining different churches. Any church you want to belong to is all right, as long as you’re a Christian. But first put the first thing, which is that Birth that makes you kinfolks to God, as God became kinfolks with you.
563 He become kinfolks, that he might raise you up. Before He could raise you up, He has to give you Eternal Life. Then God had to become kinfolks, to take death, to raise you up. Then you have to become kinfolks to Him, in order to go in the resurrection. You see what it is? It’s just a swap. God became you, that you might become God. See? God became a part of you, flesh, that you might by His grace become a part of Him, that’s all, to have Eternal Life.

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« 564 † Just a beautiful picture, and, oh, we love it.
Now, God, willing more abundantly…
565 Didn’t have to, but He was willing to. I’m so glad of that, aren’t you, that our God is willing? Look. What if He–what if He wasn’t long-suffering? What is the fruit of the Spirit? Love, joy, faith, peace, long-suffering. That’s a part of God that’s in you. And can forbearance, forbearing one another’s burdens. Forgiving one another, as God for Christ’s sake forgive you. The Spirit of God in you makes you that way. And then when God was here on earth and became you, became sin, that Him taking your sin, bore it for you and paid your penalty for it. God is long-suffering, forbearing our burdens.

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« 566 † And then He’s a good God. If you want to, certain things your way, you know, God is good enough to do that. He loves to–to make you happy. He wants to. He, He is love, and His great love constrains Him to even step down sometime, to let you have the things that you want.
567 Look at Thomas, after the resurrection. Thomas wouldn’t believe. Oh, he’s got many children today. But Thomas said, “No. No. I’ll have to have some evidence. I’ll have to put my hands in His side, and in His… my fingers over here in His hands, before I will believe It. I, I don’t care what you say.” See, he was all out of the Scripture order, right then. You’re supposed to believe It. So he said, “I have to have some sort of evidence, to prove It.”
568 And Jesus appeared, He’s good, “Come on, Thomas, if that’s what you want, well, here you are. You can have it.”
569 That’s the way we are. We say, “Lord, I got to speak with tongues. I–I got to shout. I got…”
570 “Oh, go ahead, I’ll let you have it.” He is good.
571 So he stuck his hands in His side, then he said, “Oh, it’s my Lord and my God.”
572 He said, “Now, Thomas, you believe since you seen. But how much greater is their reward who has no evidence and yet believes It!” There you are. That’s where we must get to. “How much greater is their reward who seen nothing but yet believe It.” It’s an act of faith, that we accept It.

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« 573 † Now, I believe signs following the believers, but let’s put first things first. You can have the signs, without This. Paul said you could. He said, “I could speak with tongue like both men and Angels; I’m nothing. I can move mountains by my faith; I am nothing. I could understand the Bible, in such a way I could know all the mysteries of God; I’m nothing.” See, that’s gifts of the Holy Spirit, without the Holy Spirit.
574 The Holy Spirit is God. God is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, patience. That’s the Spirit of God. That’s what God raises up in the last days, through that Spirit.

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« 575 † Now, “Not willing…”
… God, more willing abundantly to show unto the heirs of the promise…
… God, more willing… to show… the heirs…
Who is the heirs? “We, being dead in Christ, take on Abraham’s Seed, and are heirs.” Oh, does that soak in? We are heirs of the Kingdom of God, through a sworn promise. God didn’t have to swear. His Word is perfect. But He swore, too, by Himself, for there was no one greater.
576 As we read on, just a moment, listen.
… the promise of immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

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« 577 † “Immutability,” the unchangeable. God cannot change. He has to remain the same. And if God healed one sick person, He can never change His attitude. God forgive one sinner, one prostitute, He can never change His attitude. The immutability, the unchanging of God’s Word. God said, in one place, “I’m the Lord who heals all thy diseases.” He has to stay with It, for He’s infinite. He knowed to the end from the beginning.
578 Now, I can say, “I’ll do this.” And the Bible said, we ought to say, “If the Lord is willing.” Because, I’m a mortal. I don’t know. Sometimes I have to take my word back, but God can’t take His back. He is God.
579 And He only requested one thing, “If thou canst believe.” Oh, my! “If you can believe, all things are possible.” “If thou canst believe,” that’s all. “You, if you can,” there’s the question. But not the question is on God’s Word, because, His immutability, He cannot change. How wonderful!

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« 580 † Now listen, as we read on down.
That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie,…
Impossible! An impossibility and immutability is practically the same word; can’t change, can’t move. It has to stay the same forever. Can’t be changed, the immutability and the impossibility.
And two, by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie,…
“We have two things?” Yes. First, His Word said He would do it. The second was His sworn oath on it, He would do it. Oh, my!
581 What type of people should we be? Why should we be tossed about and run about, and taking the things of the world and acting like this 1957 streamlined-model Christianity? We want to be the old-fashioned type that takes God at His Word, and calls those things which were not, as though they were. “If God said so, That settles it.”

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« 582 † Abraham, who the promise was given, to him and his Seed, he called the things which were not, as though they were. For, It was God’s promise, knowing that God could not lie. He promised him that, and he believed It. And as the years passed by, and the promise seemed to get further away, to the natural eye, It become closer to Abraham.
583 Instead of being weak, and say, “‘Well, maybe there is no such a thing as Divine healing. Maybe I misspoke. Maybe there is no such a thing. Maybe I been wrong in all my conceptions.” Then, that shows one thing, that you haven’t been born again. “For it’s…”

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« 584 † We got through last Sunday, just a little further back in the chapter. “For it is impossible for a man that’s once tasted the Heavenly gifts and things, to fall away, again to renew himself to repentance.” Absolutely, totally impossible!
For he that is born of God does not and cannot commit sin; for the seed of God remains in him: and he cannot sin,…
The Seed of God is the Word of God. “Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word, ‘The Sacrifice was made. It’s all over.'”
585 Now, if you do wrong, God will make you pay for it. But if you do, you’re wrong, you don’t do it willingly. 10th chapter, 47th verse, I believe, “For if we sin willfully after we received the knowledge of the Truth.” But after you’re once Born, you have the Truth; not the knowledge of It, but you have accepted the Truth and It’s become a reality. And you’re a child of God, for time and Eternity. God swore that He would do it.
586 Jesus said, “He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting Life, and I’ll raise him up in the last day. He’ll never come to the judgment. He’s passed from death unto Life.” Now with a oath like that, “God willing that we should receive It.”

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« 587 † Now watch what he says here, Paul speaking to the–the church.
… is impossible for God to lie, we ought to have a strong consolation,…
Not, “Well, if the Baptists don’t treat me right, I’ll go to the Methodists.” See?
… we should have a strong consolation, who has fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
588 Now in the reading of the last.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul,…
The hope, the sworn oath of God, we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that is within the veil;
589 Let’s speak just a moment on “the veil.” We didn’t get it too good last Sunday night.

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« 590 † “In the veil.” The veil is the flesh. The veil is what keeps us from seeing God, face to face, in this church. The veil is what keeps us from seeing the Angels at their positions this morning, standing by the seats. The veil is what keeps us from seeing Him. We are hid behind the veil, and that veil is the flesh. We are sons and daughters of God, we’re in the Presence of God, “The Angels of God are encamped about those who fear Him.” We’re in the Presence of God, all the time. “I’ll never leave thee, neither will I ever forsake thee. I’ll be with thee always, even unto the end.” But the veil is the flesh, that’s what keeps us out of His Presence. But through the soul, the Spirit, by our faith we know that He’s watching us. He is standing by us. He’s here now.

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« 591 † Down at Dothan, one morning, an old prophet was surrounded by an army and his servant went out and said, “O father, the whole country is surrounded by the aliens.”
592 And Elijah raised up, and said, “Why, son, there is more with us than there is with them.”
593 Well, he batted his eyes and looked around. He could see nothing.
594 He said, “God, I would that You’d open his eyes, take away the veil.” And when the veil dropped from over his eyes, around that old prophet was chariots of fire, the mountains was on Fire with Angels and chariots. There you are.
595 Oh, then Gehazi could say, “I–I understand now.” See, the veil dropped. There is where the hindrance.

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« 596 † Here it is. Hold it tight. The veil is what keeps us from living the way we should. Veil is what keeps us from doing the things that we really want to do. And God became veiled in flesh, and the veil was tore in two. And God became God again, and He raised up the veil that He hid Hisself in. That’s the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Proving to us that, in this veil that we’re now hid in, by faith we believe It and accept It. And when this veil is tore in two, I’ll go in His Presence with this assurance, knowing that, “I know Him in the power of His resurrection.” At the Coming of the Lord Jesus, this veil will be raised up again, in a perfected way, till I’ll walk and talk with Him as my Saviour and my God, when He takes the throne of David. And we’ll live forever in this veil after it’s been perfected, but this veil has sin in it. It don’t matter how… Don’t never think of that glorified body in this earth. It’s got to die, same as your soul has to die, to be born again.

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« 597 † In the perfection, not eating meats, and doing this, and perfecting the body, you’ll never have It. And you’ve got to quit this, and do this, and do this, and do this, that’s law. That’s legalists. We don’t believe in the legal forms of salvation. We believe It that by grace are we saved. And it’s not you. You have nothing to do with it. It’s God’s election that does it. “No man can come to Me except My Father draws him.” That’s right. And He… All Jesus come to do was to get these that the Father foreknew; and predestinated them before the foundation of the world. They become sons and daughters of God. Amen. “Not him that runneth, or him that willeth, but God that showeth mercy.” God that does it. You can’t brag, at all. There’s not a thing that you did. God, by grace, saved you; not you, yourself. If you do, you got something to brag about. But you haven’t nothing to brag. All praises goes to Him. It’s Him. Then He’s give you the sure hope, “Swore by an oath, the impossibility for His children to ever be lost.”

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« 598 † Now, they get whippings for doing wrong. You reap what you sow. You get that. Don’t think now you just going out and sin, get by with it. If you do, and got that attitude, it shows you’ve never been born again. You get it? If you still got the desire in you, to do the wrong, then you’re still wrong. See? “For He has perfected, forever, those that is… And those beasts under the Old Testament, under legal days, offered yearly, continually, could never take away sin.” But when we put our hands upon His head, and confess our sins and are born again of the Spirit of God, we have no more desire of sin. Sin has passed from you. That’s for time and Eternity.

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« 599 † You’ll make mistakes. You’ll fall. You’ll willfully do wrong. You’ll go out sometime and do things. That don’t mean that you’re lost. That means that you’re going to get correction.
600 My little boy, lots of times, my children, will do things. Your does, too. That you… They know that’s against your–your rules. And they know what to expect when they do it. They’re going to get a whipping for it, sometimes a good one. But it’s still your child. Certainly.
601 It’s impossible for that man to ever be gone again, that’s once been born of Eternal Life. God is not an Indian giver. “He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life; and shall never come to the judgment, but is passed from death unto Life. I’ll raise him up at the last days.” That’s God’s promise.

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« 602 † Now if you go on, say, “Oh, well, then I can do just…” I always do what I want to do. But if you’re a Christian, you don’t want to do the thing that’s wrong, ’cause the very Life in you, the very foundation. If you want to do wrong, it shows the wrong thing is in here. “How can bitter and sweet water come from the same fountain?”
603 So you been all mixed up, on some kind of emotion or fabulous something, another sensation. Forget it. Go back to the altar and say, “God, take my old sinful life away, and put me in such a condition that my whole desire…”
“He that’s born of God does not commit sin.” That’s right. He has no desire to do so.

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« 604 † Certainly, the Devil will trap him here and there, but not willfully. The Bible said so. The Devil will trap him, now and then. Sure, he will. He tried to throw a traps for our Lord Jesus. He did to Moses, and caught him. He did to Peter, and caught him. He did to many. But Peter even denied Him, but then he went and wept bitterly. There was something in him.

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« 605 † When the dove was turned out of the ark… The crow went out, he cawed around. He was in the ark all right, but when he went out, his nature was different. He could eat all the old dead carcasses he wanted to, and be satisfied. Why? He was a crow, to begin with. He was a scavenger. He was no good. He was a hypocrite who set on the roost with the dove, just as big as the dove was. He could fly anywhere the dove could fly. But he could eat good food just like the dove eat. And then he could eat rotten food, what the dove couldn’t eat. For, the dove is a different mix-up. She’s a different make. She’s a dove. And the dove cannot digest rotten food, because it don’t have any gall.

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« 606 † And a man that’s born of the Spirit of God becomes a dove of God, his nature, his change, his makeup. Yes, sir. You put the spirit of the–of the dove in the crow, he’d never set on a dead carcass. If he lit down by mistake, he’d certainly get away quick. He couldn’t stand it. And a man that’s born of the Spirit of God, don’t in-tolerate. He might light in a barroom sometime, but he’ll get out of there quick. A woman might entice him, get him to turned around, but he’ll turn his head again. He’ll get away from there quick. Why? He’s a dove. That’s right. You ain’t going to fool him, because that he knows. “My sheep know My Voice, and a stranger they will not follow.” He’s a dove, to begin with. There is what I’m speaking about, the actual something that anchors in there.

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« 607 † Watch close now. “God swore.” Oh, it…
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both… stedfast, and which entereth into–into that which is the veil;
608 “The veil.” God came down, veiled in flesh. To do what? To show Himself. He had to hide, because we couldn’t see Him. And He hid behind the veil. And the veil was who? Jesus. “Not Me that doeth the works, My Father,” said Jesus. “My Father dwelleth in Me. I work. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto.” Here He is as the veiled One, walking in the flesh, God, Emmanuel, God with us. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.” Here He is, walking around.

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« 609 † Now, He came down and made a sanctification, or provision, or propitiation, that through His death offered, paid the price of sin, that He might come back and dwell in us. Then the faith that we have is a–is a veiled faith, or a veil person. Therefore we don’t look at the things that we see in this veil. The veil has educations, and it does things and speaks things. It’s a scientific thing. But the Spirit of the living God that dwells in here, calls those things which were not, as though they were, if God said so. There is your veiling. We’re in the veil.
610 Now, someday He’ll raise this veil up, not born of a woman by the sex desire of man and woman, but by the will of God He will speak and she’ll come to pass. [Brother Branham snapped his finger–Ed.] Then we’ll have a body like His own glorious body. We’ll be veiled, so we can talk to one another, shake one another’s hands.

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« 611 † Now, when we go from here, there’s a tabernacle, a theophany, just an image of a man, that don’t eat, don’t drink, don’t sleep, awake forever. There is where we go to. But they’re waiting under the Altar, crying, “Lord, how long? How long?” to come back down. Because, they want to shake hands with one another. They want to set down and eat, and talk to one another. They’re human. Blessed be the Name of the Lord!
612 When God made man in His own image at the beginning, He made him thus. He fellowshipped with one another, because we know one another. We like the things that God made us, because we were made thus. In His great Coming, those who are ready will be thus forever. Immortal, we’ll stand in His likeness. O blessed be that Name of Christ!

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« 613 † And now we have the earnest of our salvation, as we accept Him as our personal Saviour, as our healer. All these other remunerations are the dividends that’s paid on the insurance policy. Amen. You know what an insurance policy is. You can draw dividends on it till the face value comes. Certainly. You can draw dividends. And we’re drawing dividends now. Only, the thing, as soon as we draw dividends, the remuneration is built up again.

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« 614 † An insurance agent, one time, said to me, “Billy, I’d like to sell you some insurance.”
I said, “I have some.” My wife looked around at me.
615 Now, nothing against insurance. But some people are “insurance poor.” So, they turned around. He said…
616 My wife looked at me, strange, “You got insurance?”
617 I said, “Sure.” She didn’t know nothing about it.
618 He said, “Well, Billy, what kind of an insurance have you got?”
619 I said:
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory Divine!
An heir of salvation, purchased of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His Blood.
620 He said, “That’s very good, Billy,” he said, “but it won’t put you up here in the graveyard.”
621 I said, “But It’ll take me out. That’s the main thing.” I’m not worried about getting there; I’m worried about getting out.

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« 622 † And since I have the assurance, by the sworn God of Eternity, that He will raise me up again in the likeness of His Son, in the last day, I’ll walk boldly and have a consolation and an anchor of the soul, that, while I’m in this veil there is some unseen Something got me anchored against the Rock of ages yonder. When the waters jump and blast, it doesn’t make any difference. If death, perils, or anything, separates us not from the love of God. My anchor holds within the veil. Let the floods rise. Let her dash. Let infidels come. The born-again believer has an anchor. You can’t see through this veil yet. But I know my anchor holds yonder against the Rock of the ages, Who is a sworn promise that He will raise me up at the last day.

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« 623 † No wonder you can look death in the face, and say, “Where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory? But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” We’re in the Forerunner. Oh, my! (We ain’t going to get to the lesson.) We had a Forerunner for us.
624 A forerunner. Did you ever notice in the old western days. Many times I’ve went across the old trails. A forerunner, or scout? When the wagon train was perishing, for water, the scout run ahead. And he seen the tribes of Indians; he bypassed them. And he seen where there was a fountain of water. He rushed back to tell the boss of the wagon train, “Step up the horses, everybody take good courage, for just over the mountain there’s a big fountain of water.” He’s a forerunner.

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« 625 † And here, the Forerunner. Man was once pinned down by the Devil, under rapid fire, but Somebody took the machine-gun nest. That was Jesus. The Forerunner has gone before us. And Satan standing there with a machine gun, pinning us down, always in bondage and scared of death. He was guarding that Fountain. Sure, he was. He was given the commission, because we had sinned and been drove away from It. But the Forerunner, Christ, come in and took the nest.
626 You’ve heard that old song, “Hold the fort, for I am coming”? Hold the fort, nothing; let’s take it. We don’t want to hold it any longer. Christ took the fort. Hallelujah! The door is open. “There is a Fountain open in the house of God, in the city of David, for to clean, for cleanliness of the unclean.” Our Forerunner has done entered in for us.

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« 627 † The Forerunner, He tells us, “There’s a place just beyond, yonder, where you’ll never get old.” Where there’ll be no wrinkles, where you won’t have to use Max Factors to make you look nice to your husband. The Forerunner has went on. There’s never a place where you get old and weary and shaky. There’s a place where you’ll never get sick. Where the baby will never have a colic. Where you’ll never shed a false… or a tooth, to get a false one. Hallelujah! O blessed be His Name! He entered in, and immortal we’ll stand in His likeness, someday yonder. The stars and the sun they’ll outshine. Certainly. The Forerunner has gone before us.
… the forerunner is gone, has for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

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« 628 † This great Forerunner has gone before us, making a way. He become from spirit, the great fountains of the rainbow of God, who had no beginning or no end. He was, forever, God.
This ray of Light went forth. It was a ray of love, that’s the main one, red. The next color follows, which was blue; blue, the trueness. Next, followed after that was other colors, through the seven perfect colors, which is the seven spirits of God, that went from that great Fountain or that great Diamond that Jesus spoke of. That great Diamond was chipped, to reflect these colors. God was made flesh and dwelt among us, that He might reflect His goodness and mercy among us, by gifts and signs and wonders.
That whole big rainbow had become in a theophany, of made in the image like man. Yet, He wasn’t a man; He didn’t have flesh, yet. He was a theophany.

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« 629 † Moses said, “I’d like to see You.” God hid him in the rock.
630 And when He passed by, He turned His back. Moses said, “It looked like the back of a man.”
631 Then what come to pass? One day down there, when Abraham was setting in his tent. We’ll get to it, tonight. When Abraham was setting in his tent, God came up to him, in a body of flesh.
“Oh,” you say, “Brother Branham, he was…”
632 We’ll find Him out here meeting Abraham before that, in the order of Melchisedec, a body of flesh, which was God. Sure, it was. He was God in flesh.
633 You say, “Then, Brother Branham, why would He have to come back and be born?”

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« 634 † He wasn’t born then. He was just created, a body that He dwelt in. Melchisedec was the King of Salem, which is the King of Jerusalem, which is the King of peace; which had neither father nor mother, beginning of days or ending of life.
Jesus had both father and mother, and a beginning of days and ending of life. But He was made “after the order” of Melchisedec, which had no beginning of days or ending of life.
635 Melchisedec was God Himself. Melchisedec was Jehovah God, the same One that met Abraham, years later, in front of his tent. Had His back turned to him; He said, “Why did Sarah laugh?” That’s right. He was the One who stood there, looking over towards Sodom. Abraham recognized Him, because inside of his veil was an anchor holding that promise. Not because he had some sensation, but God made him the promise. And when he come into contact with that great magnet, he knew It was in that flesh.

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« 636 † Walked out with Abraham, out there a little piece. He told Abraham. Said, “Seeing that, I’ll keep these things from Abraham, to see that he’s the heir of the world? I just won’t do it.” So, “Abraham, I’ll tell you what I’m on My road to do,” we pick it up tonight, “down there in Sodom,” and what they all was going to do. And as soon as He had blessed Abraham, He went back into space again. A man that stood there and had dust on His clothes, a man. And not only that, but He eat the flesh of a calf that Abraham killed, and drinking the milk from the cow, and eat some hoe cakes (some corn bread), and had butter on it. That’s exactly right. And then turned back to a theophany again.

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« 637 † What was it? Why didn’t He take it then? He had never been born like you and I. But He had to be born in the flesh, so He could hold that stinger. That was a created body. That was a body that He just pulled the calcium and potash out of the earth, and said, “Whew,” and stepped into it. That was the same thing Melchisedec was. He stepped into him, in a body that He could walk out before him under the veil, of a veil of His own creation; not a veil of the creation of a woman, through the womb of a woman, through a–a cell, never. But He created this and stepped out into it, and talked, in the order of Melchisedec.

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« 638 † Who is this Melchisedec?
For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, (which is Jerusalem), prince of the most high God, certainly, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
To whom also Abraham give a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, (that great love, love, that great Spirit in the beginning)… King of righteousness,… after that… King of Salem, which is, the King of peace;
Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, or ending of life;…
639 Who was it? He never was born, He never will die. Who is it? It was God, sure, it was, in the foreshadow of the Lord Jesus. Certainly was. But He had to come through a woman, in the order you come through a woman. And He had to come the way you come, in order to bring you back to Him. Hallelujah!
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a poor, blind wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now I’m found, by
His grace,
I was blind, but now I see.

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« 640 † I understand what He had to do. God became me, that I by grace might become of Him. He taken my sins, that through His righteousness I might have Eternal Life. I could not choose myself. My nature was a sinner. I had nothing to do with it. I was “born of the world, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies.” Not even a chance, at all; nothing, not even a desire.
641 Tell a pig he is “wrong, eating slop,” will you? See how much he’ll listen to you. Tell a crow he is “wrong, eating on a dead carcass,” and see what he’ll tell you. If he could talk, “You tend to your own business.” Certainly.

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« 642 † Oh, but the grace of God that changed this nature, and give me the opportunity to desire and to crave and to thirst, “Thy love, kindness, is better to me than life, O God. My heart will longs after Thee.”
643 David said, “As a hart panteth for the water brook, so my soul thirsts after Thee, O God.”
644 God gave man that thirst, to worship Him, to love, seek after Him. But man perverts it by the call of the Devil, and he goes and lusts after women and pleasures and things of the world, trying to satisfy that holy creation that God has put in, to love Him. He places it upon the things of the world. But, brother, when he’s once changed, and that fountain with wiggletails in it, all kinds of–of disorders of the cistern, has been cleansed out and sterilized, and the pure Water of God is put in there, sin can never touch it. Amen.
O how I love Him! How I adore Him!
My life, my sunshine, my all in all!
The great Creator became my Saviour,
All God’s fullness dwelleth in Him.
Down from His glory, the ever living story,
My God and Saviour came, and Jesus was His Name.
Born in a manger, to His own a stranger,
The God of sorrow, tears and agony.
O how I love Him! How I adore Him!
My breath, my sunshine, my all in all!

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« 645 † O God! How could He do it? Man has tried to write it. One said:
If we with ink the ocean fill,
And every straw on earth a quill;
All the skies of parchment made,
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above.
How that great God of Heaven became flesh and taken my sins!
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Or though the scroll contained the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.

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« 646 † And to make the heirs of this salvation a sure hope, He swore by Himself that He would raise up in the last days, give us Eternal Life. “And no man can pluck them from My hand.” Amen.
Let’s pray.
647 Are you guilty of spurning His love? Have you shunned His blessed Being, this great One who made you what you are? And now here you are, this morning, this far in life, and it’s giving you an opportunity. Do you want to continue to live? There’s only one way to live, that’s believe on the Lord Jesus. If you, from your heart, believe that He’s the Son of God and accept Him as your Saviour, and believe that God raised Him up for your justification, if you want to accept it on that basis, it’s yours now.

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« 648 † Would you raise your hand? Some unpenitent soul, that would like to… -pent, repent this morning, say, “Remember me, brother, preacher, as we go to prayer. I too have failed. I’ve joined church, but I–I know I–I’ve never had that what you’re talking about. I’ve never been born of that Spirit, Brother Branham. I just–I just haven’t got It, that’s all. I want you to pray for me, that God will give It to me this morning.” God bless you, sir. Would there be another? Say, “God, make me what You want me to be. I want You to be… I want to be as You want me to be. I’ve spurned Your love.” God bless you, son.

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« 649 † Just a moment now.
If we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the sky of parchment made;
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Or could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
Oh, love of God, how rich and pure!
How fathomless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure,
The saints and Angels song.

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« 650 † Dear God, truly the poet that wrote those words were just like many others of Your believers, searching, trying to find words to express it. And is written in the Bible, “More, because the preacher was wise, he sought out and set in order many words.” Oh, how we would love to have the tongue and the vocabulary that we could explain to the people what it really is, but it could not be found on mortal lips. All Eternity, doubtless whether it’ll ever reveal it, how that the God of Heaven ever come to the earth to save poor, lost, wretched sinners.
651 I pray Thee, Father, that through these few unbroken words, or broken words this morning, as I should said, that someone has found peace and a satisfaction and a strong consolation, who has fled for refuge. And may their soul anchor to that promise which God swore to, that He’d raise them up at the last day. Several hands went up, in the building, right here in this tabernacle. God, give them that steadfast hope, right now. May they anchor against the Rock of ages. No matter how bad the sea may toss and their little barks may jump, they have an anchor, the promise of God. There they stay, “God said It. He can’t lie.”

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« 652 † “He that heareth My Words,” which I’ve tried to preach this morning, “and believeth on Him that sent Me, Jehovah, hath everlasting Life; and shall not come to the judgment, but has passed from death to Life.”
653 O Eternal One, bless those today. And may every person in here that’s not under the Blood, their soul never been converted, may it happen just now, Lord. You work the mystery. It’s all Yours. It’s committed to You. I pray that You’ll give it to them, Eternal Life. May, someday, over on the other shore, as one by one we go down through the valley, may we meet over there where they’ll never say “good-bye” no more.
Someday we’ll come to the river at the closing of time,
When the last thoughts of sorrow has gone;
There’ll be somebody waiting that’ll show us the way,
I won’t have to cross Jordan alone.
There’ll be One, somebody waiting that’ll show me the way,
I won’t have to cross Jordan…

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« 654 † All that’s got that hope, raise your hand up now as you raise your head.
I won’t have…
Now just worship Him. The message is over. Aren’t you happy? God swore He wouldn’t… God swore He would meet you there.
Jesus died all my sins to atone;
When the darkness I…
What do you say? The stinger is gone.
He will be waiting for me,
I won’t have to cross Jordan alone.
Times I’m forsaken, and weary…
Just worship Him now.
Seems that my friends have all gone;
Did you ever hit that place?
But there’s one thought that cheers me.
What was the promise?
Makes my heart glad,
I won’t have to cross Jordan…
655 Now, children of the promise, just worship Him for doing it.
I won’t have to cross Jordan alone,
Jesus died all my sins to atone;
What happens now?
When the darkness I see, He will be waiting for me,
I won’t have to cross Jordan alone.
“When I come to the river.” Every one of you is coming. There’s a big, dark shadow setting there before you. It’s a big door. You’re going in there, one of these days, maybe before the day is over, maybe before church closes this morning. You’re going in there. Every time that heart beats, you’re one step closer.
But when the darkness I see, He will be waiting there,
He said He would. He swore He would.
Then I won’t have to cross Jordan alone.

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« 656 † O Blessed Lord, our hearts are full, this morning, to the running over.
657 To think of when the pulse is ceasing, and the nurse presses the pillow around your head. And your hands, you can’t move no more. Your hands has turned to ice. Your children, your mother, your loved ones are screaming and crying. That big door swings open, yonder. He’ll be waiting.
658 David said, “If I make my bed in hell, He will be there.” I won’t have to cross it alone. When the sprays of the river begin to flash into our face, God will take the lifeboat, guide us right across it. He promised He would. David the prophet said, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I’ll fear no evil. Thou art with me. Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me.”

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« 659 † Lord, we are so happy today, that we was included the heir of the promise. Today we have within us Eternal Life, because we love the Lord Jesus and have believed Him, and accepted His Word and His teaching. And He give to us, as a seal of our faith, the Holy Spirit, the seal of the Holy Spirit. Our faith within us is anchored. And though many times we’re walking through dark shadows, many times we’re stumbling along the road, but our anchor still holds. There is something in it, way yonder, that seems to be guiding on, saying, “Move on. We’re going on.”
660 God, bless us. We need You. Keep us ever faithful and true until the time You come for us, we’ll praise Thee through the ceaseless ages. And that day when we stand on the earth… His blessed feet has never touched the earth yet. There He stands there, in the air; and the saints and redeemed from all ages, through every watch, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh, all stand there robed in His righteousness; we crown Him the King of king and the Lord of lords, and sing those redemption stories. Our poor hearts will quiver as we look upon Him who loved us and gave Himself for us. While we were unlovable and sinners, Christ died that we might be saved. We thank Thee for it, Father, in Christ’s Name. Amen.

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« 661 † You love Him? Oh, how real He is. Don’t you just feel like you’d just like to just somehow put your arms around Him? Wouldn’t you just love to crawl up and touch His feet, you know?
662 You know, there used to be some people come to my services at Phoenix, Arizona, say, “I’d like to talk it over with Him. I’d like to say, ‘Lord, You loved me when my path got so dim.'” I’d just love to talk it over with Him before we cross over. I–I want to see Him. I–I–I just want to see Him. To think how I’ll feel, how my poor heart will quiver when I see Him standing there.

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« 663 † I’ve often wondered, “I wish I could have heard that Voice say, ‘Come unto Me, all ye that labor and heavy laden. I’ll give you rest.'”
664 I’ll probably never hear that literally like He spoke it then, but I want to hear Him say, “This is the last day. It was well done, my good and faithful servant, now enter into the joys of the Lord that’s been prepared for you.” Since how long?
665 “Since you got saved?” No brother.
666 “Since the foundation of the world, when I saw you and foreknew you, and ordained you to Eternal Life,” you were blessed then. “All that He has foreknew, He has called.” Is that right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] “All He has called, He has justified. Those who He had justified, He has already glorified.” There you are. He foreknew us, called us, justified us, and we’re already glorified with Him, at the end of the world, going to our reward. Aren’t you happy? [“Amen.”] Sure. It would make you love Him. When you couldn’t help yourself, and here He come and done that for you.

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« 667 † Blest Be The Tie That Binds, Sister Gertie. “Our hearts in Christian love,” while we have this little fellowship of worship here now, then we’re going to pray for the sick. God bless you. You who raised your hands to Christ this morning, find you a place to worship, serve Him.
668 Now, let’s just worship Him now, as a congregation, all you Methodists, church of God, Assemblies of God, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Catholic. All together now, let’s sing now.
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred mind
Is like to that Above.
Before our Father’s throne,
We pour our ardent prayer;
Our fears, our hope, our aims, are one,
Our comfort and our care.
When we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain;
But we shall still be joined in…
How many Methodists, Baptists, and all?
And hope to meet again.

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« 669 † Don’t that do you good? Let’s turn around and shake each other’s hand now, while we’ll sing it again.
Before…
Shake hands, somebody behind you, front of you, either side.
… throne,
We pour our ardent prayer;
Our comforts and our care.
Now when we asunder part,
We’ll love one another.
It gives…
Wish the service would go on? See? That’s how we think.
… inward pain;
But we shall still be joined in heart, in
one,
And hope to meet again.
If no more here, at that great Day we’ll meet.

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« 670 † Now, Father, receive our worship this morning. Take the Word and plant It into the believers’ hearts. May they not be just tossed about, and up today and down tomorrow, but may these Words find their resting place in every believer’s heart. To know this, that, “God has sworn by an oath, and there’s two immutable things. The immutability of God, that is, that it’s impossible for Him to lie, that the heirs of this salvation might have this strong hope, steadfast and sure, an anchor in the soul.” To know this, that, “God has promised us, by a sworn oath. One, that He cannot lie; the other, He swore an oath on top of that, that He will raise us up at the last day and give us Eternal Life.” Knowing, that, “After we have been called, that He said that He knew us before the foundation of the world, and predestinated us unto adoption of children through Jesus Christ. And He foreknew us. He called us. And when He called us, He justified us.” We cannot justify ourselves, so He justified us by the death of His own Son. “Those who He has justified, He has already glorified.” The Word is already spoke. And we’re just on our road, going along, rejoicing on our way to Glory.

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« 671 † Give people faith, and may the little habits and things that’s hanging onto the people, may they shake loose from them, this morning, with this Word of God which is an anchor of the soul, steadfast and sure. May they shake away from their habits, their little tempers. And the things that’s been… As Paul said, in the further part of the message in a few days, “Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that does easily beset us, that we might run with patience the race that’s set before us; looking to the author and finisher of our faith, Jesus Christ, Who was tempted in all manner like we are, yet without sinning.” He was permitted to be tempted, but He did not heed to temptation. And we are tempted to sin, but never to heed. Because the Life that is within us is the anchor of our Eternal destination, and we hold that sacred to our heart.

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« 672 † Now, there’s many that Satan has afflicted with afflictions. We’re fixing to pray for them, Father. May they, as they pass by under the Word of God today… That precious Word that’s been preached, the Bible giving witness, the Angels of God standing near, and the great Holy Spirit, above all, is standing here to give witness to the Word. Now, Father, as they pass under the Word of promise, this morning, may they go from here to be well. To remove their braces, to leave the chairs and–and the cots that they’d lay on, and to just be made well. Grant it, Lord. May they return at the next service that they are permitted to come, or to their own churches, rejoicing, showing what great things Christ has did. This we minister for your glory, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« 673 † I am to apologize for a promise that I made, that this morning we’d have the 7th chapter, but I didn’t get to it. And we have to allow a little time here for–for this, for the prayer line. And now, tonight, the Lord willing, we’ll take the 7th chapter, and find out who this Melchisedec was. How many would like to know? Oh, we’re just going right down to Him, find out just exactly who He is. And the Scripture tells who He is. See?
674 And Scofield said it was “a priesthood.” How could it be a priesthood, without beginning or ending? You see, it wasn’t a priesthood. It was a Man, Melchisedec (a name), a Person.
675 Like, not disregarding, but Christian Science says the Holy Ghost is “a thought.” And the Bible said, “He, the Holy Ghost.” And He is a personal pronoun. It’s a Person; not a thought. It’s a Person. Absolutely.
676 And Melchisedec is a Man, a Man who had no beginning of days or ending of years. He had neither father or mother, or descent. And we’ll find out who He is, the Lord willing, tonight, by the Word. Do you love It? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Oh! “Thy Word is a lamp unto my path and my feet.” Oh!

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« 677 † Now, you say, “Brother Branham, I don’t understand It all.” Neither do I.
678 But, one time, I was preaching down in Kentucky. And to some of the newcomers, and Catholic and different ones, who may not understand how these deep, rich things of the Scripture. I had been preaching on Divine healing. A little barefooted girl brought… She wasn’t fifteen years old, had a little baby, and it had the palsy. I said, “What’s the matter, sister, with your baby?”
679 Said, “It’s got the jerks.” She didn’t know what to say, palsy. She didn’t know what to call it.
680 Little thing probably never had a pair of shoes on, in her life. Some man’s darling, long hair hanging down. I said, “Do you believe?”
681 And those little, steel-gray eyes looked at me. She said, “Yeah, sir. I sure believe.”
682 I took the little baby. And while I was praying for it, it quit jerking. Uh-huh. And it went out, went out.

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« 683 † Next day, I was squirrel hunting, over in the side of a mountain. I heard some man setting there talking, old saw buzzing. And I slipped down. I been squirrel hunting. They was talking about me, setting there, chewing tobacco and spitting. The leaves flying, like that. And they were talking about, now, about the meeting the night before. One of them said, “I seen that baby. I went by there, this morning. It isn’t jerking, yet this morning.” See? Said, “That was real.” And he was spitting.
684 And they had rifles leaning against the tree, so I thought I’d better make myself known. You know, they had feuds down there, too. So, I walked up. I said, “Good morning, brethren.”
685 That great big fellow, seemed to be speaking, he had a chew of tobacco in his mouth, like that, way out on the side like that, and big, long neck. And he had a great big old hat on, pulled down over his face. He looked around and seen me. He reached up and got that hat, jerked it off, went… [Brother Branham swallows–Ed.] Swallowed that chewing tobacco, said, “Good morning, parson.” See? Yes, sir. Respect. And that’s right. How he ever lived over it, I don’t know, but he did.

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« 686 † So, the next night, coming back, there was a man there who wanted to argue with me a little bit. He went to a church that didn’t believe in Divine healing. So, this was a Methodist church, White Hill, Kentucky. So he–he went to… He was standing outside. He had a lantern in his hand. And he said, “I want to say something, preacher. I just can’t accept That, ’cause I can’t see It.”
687 I said, “You can’t see It?”
688 He said, “No.” Said, “I’m a sick man, myself. But,” said, “I just can’t see It.”
I said, “Where do you live?”
He said, “Back over on Big Renox.”
I said, “Well, how you going to get home?”
He said, “Well, I’m going to walk home.”
I said, “Can you see your home?”
He said, “No, sir.”
I said, “Awful dark tonight, it’s cloudy.”
He said, “Yes.”
I said, “How you going home?”
He said, “By this lantern.”
I said, “The lantern doesn’t show light all the way to the house.” I said, “How do you go?”
He said, “Oh, I walk by the lantern.”
689 I said, “That’s it. You’ve got the light of the lantern now, and every time you step this way, the light will keep showing on ahead of you. If you just keep walking, the light will keep going with you.”

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« 690 † And you do that this morning, you want Christ, the great High Priest, the Intercessor for your sickness, or your diseases, or your soul. You might not understand It. We don’t. But we’re commanded to “Walk in the Light as He is in the Light.” You make one step in the Light. And when you got the Light with you, the Light will shine unto the perfect day. It’ll keep the path before you.
And we’ll walk up this grand old highway,
Telling everywhere I go,
I’d rather be an old-time Christian, Lord,
Than anything I know.
Ever hear that old song?
There’s nothing like an old-time Christian,
Christian love to show;
We’re walking in the grand old highway,
And telling everywhere we go,
I’d rather be an old-time Christian, Lord,
Than anything I know.

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« 691 † I just love it. All right. Now we’re going to pray for the sick. We’re not… We don’t claim that we can heal the sick. If we did, we’d be telling something wrong. Every sick person in here is already healed. That’s what the Scripture said. “By His stripes we were healed.” Is that right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
692 Every sinner that’s in here, perhaps there’d be one, you’ve been saved since Jesus died. But don’t you never die here where your opportunity was placed before you, to go into His Presence then to try to accept It. It’s made for now. Right now you must accept It. If you go beyond the Blood, then you’re nothing but… You’re already judged, because you’re judged by the way that you treated the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ. See? You, you judge yourself there.

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« 693 † “So He was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we were healed.” So, there’s nothing I would have, to heal you. There’s nothing the church would have, to heal you. The only thing we can pray for is this, that your faith will not fail, that you’ll come to the altar this morning to accept Christ as your Healer, as you did for your Saviour. And without any… God works miracles. He shows great sign. Blind, deaf, dumb, everything, are healed right here at the tabernacle. But whether it is or not, we accept It, anyhow. Many times those things are by visions.

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« 694 † How many was here about three Sundays ago, or four, when the man come in here, both blind and paralyzed, or sitting in a chair with unbalanced nerve. And before I left home, I saw him in a vision, “That there’d be a man there, dark hair, turning gray. His wife is attractive-looking woman, about sixty years old. She’ll come and be crying,” and she’ll ask me. “And to come back and pray for her husband.” He set right there.
695 And I come down. I said to some of my brethren here, “Watch this.”
696 And when we went down to the altar, others had prayed. When I went to pray, I walked right away and come back over here. And his wife rose up and come just exactly the way the Lord had said it would be. People watching, to see if it would happen that way. It never failed. And so when he walked…

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« 697 † Come to find out, that a man, Dr. Ackerman, down in Birdseye, Indiana, was the one who sent him up here; who is a Catholic, and his boy is a priest in the monastery there at Saint Meinrad. And Dr. Ackerman is a hunting partner of mine, and he sent the man up here. And the Lord showed me a black-headed man that would send him, but I didn’t know who it was.
698 I said, “Was that Dr. Ackerman?”
699 He said, “It was.” See? And then the man…
700 I said, “It’s THUS SAITH THE LORD.” Walked down. I said, “Sir, stand up.” Both blind and couldn’t… he… The–the balance nerve was gone. He couldn’t hold himself up like that. See? Been that way for years, been to Mayos and all around. And just prayed the prayer for him, and raised him up. There he went, walking down through.

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« 701 † First he said, “I can’t see you.” Then he screamed, “Yes. I can.” His eyes come open there. He had been orthodox, his wife Presbyterian.
702 Some people think that “Presbyterian don’t shout, and Orthodox.” You ought to heard them. Sure. They were screaming and hugging each other. Come back and got his wheel chair, and walked on out and down the steps, just like any other man, could see and speak and–and so forth.
703 Had a letter from him, or called, other day. I believe, Brother Cox went to him. Said, “His eyes had a burning sensation.” Certainly. It’s the nerve, the optical nerves are growing and coming back to life, you know, and taking its place. The curse was taken off.

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« 704 † If you’ll let nature have its way, if nothing hinders nature, then it’ll–it’ll have full sway. If you got a band around your arm, shutting off circulation, your hand will finally die. Now, because, naturally, it’ll be all right if you’ll just let it alone. But something has interrupted nature. Then, if you can’t see it, there’s no way for a doctor to catch it. Only two things he can work by: what he can see, what he can feel. That’s the only thing he can work by: what he sees and what he feel.
705 If he can’t see it, then has to be spiritual. Then there’s, only thing can, one thing can happen; we pray, Christ moves the curse, sends away the Devil, and that begins to get normal, well. Gets well, and that’s all there is to it. “In my name they shall cast out devils.” Is that right? It’s a promise to the church. It’s a promise of power. The what? It, it’s His Presence with us. Now, what makes us from being perfect this morning, to do those things just as He did it, is because we’re still in the veil. See? But we have some feeling there that tells us, “Oh, yes.” See?

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« 706 † And when you accept your healing… No matter what the veil says, it’s what the Word said. See? That’s it. That’s it. And the–the–the Word always is predominant over anything. God’s Eternal Word!
707 Look at Sarah, her womb dead, ninety-years old, lived with her husband since she was about sixteen or seventeen, no children; Abraham, a hundred. God turned right around and give them the baby. See? Because, they believed. They called those things which were not, as though they were. Enter that way this morning, friend.

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« 708 † And tonight, we expect… If you all are visiting with us, we’re happy to have you here this morning. And God be with you. And if you’re in the city for the evening, we’d be happy to have you this evening on the rest of this service, of Melchisedec. And then if you’re not, and you have a church of your own, you go to your own church. That’s–that’s your post of duty. If you belong to a church, you go there. This is just a little tabernacle where we gather in here and have fellowship one with another. Now, the Lord bless you.

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« 709 † And Sister Gertie will play for us, The Great Physician Now Is Near. And is there any here to be prayed for? Raise your hand, those who wants to come in the prayer line, to put your faith to Christ. All right. If you’ll line up on this side of the church, if you will. And if they’ll pull the seat down just a little bit, brother, if you will, so that we can get a little room in there and can bring the folks through. Come over on this side.
710 And we’re going to pray now, while we sing. And I’m going to ask the elders here, of any denomination or church, regardless of what it is, if you believe in Divine healing, would you stand here with me on this platform, to pray for the sick? We’ll be glad to have you. Any denomination, or no denomination, or whatever you are, we’ll be glad to have you. Would you just come now, for prayer, come up and stand with me.
Brother Neville, if you’ll come with the oil. `

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« 217 † ` … to study His precious Word.
218 I come in, a while ago, and I was packing two Bibles. And I had a little interview with a lady back here, and I told her if I preached out of both of them, ought to have a pretty good text. But this is a Greek lexicon, so just something I want to read out of this, tonight. It’s a–it’s a… It’s the word for word interpretation, from original Greek, into English. And it’s been a lot of help to me along the line. And I just want to read something out of it, because now we’re studying in this Book of Hebrews, and we’re just now coming to the real deep meanings.

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« 219 † And I told Brother Neville, a few minutes ago, “We’re getting into the part where the people scratch their head and said, ‘I don’t believe that.'” See? That’s the type we get into. That’s where we like it.
220 Some minister said to me, he said, “Well, I guess there’ll be a lot head-scratching.”
221 I said, “That’s what we want to do.” See?
222 The Bible only can have one meaning. It can’t have two meanings. And if one part of the Bible says one thing, and another part of the Bible says something else, then something is wrong. See? It’s got to say the thing, all the way through. But, remember, in studying the Bible, “It’s hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and revealed to babes,” because it is of a spiritual Book.
223 And It’s not a western book. It’s an eastern Book. And there’s only one thing can interpret It, and that’s the Holy Spirit. I know that each one of us want to say, that, “The Holy Spirit is telling us what we believe in It.” Well, now, if every Scripture lines up exactly the same, then that is the Holy Spirit. If it doesn’t line up, and got a gap here, and gap over here, then there is something wrong with our belief. And, oh, It’s a marvelous Book.

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« 224 † Now, I want you to do this while we’re studying. Now, we got to leave early in the morning for Wyoming, the Lord willing. Pray for us.
And this next week, Brother Graham Snelling, here… He’s present. I heard him, just a few minutes ago, making his announcement. And this church is in full cooperation with his revival. And we’re praying to God, to give him an exceeding, abundant, great revival. Brother Graham held a revival for Brother… up here at Charlestown, Brother Junior Cash, and there was right on a hundred converts, I believe. [Someone says, “Eighty-four.”–Ed.] Eighty-four converts. So, to that, we give God praise. And we trust that it’ll have five hundred and eighty-four up here, in this place here.

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« 225 † Brother Graham met me today, and he said, “Now, Brother Bill, I’m sure that you understand that I’m not here to start up another work in opposition to the tabernacle, because I’m part of the tabernacle.” He’s just here to… He feels upon his heart that he wants to hold a revival, and the Lord leading him to do it. And–and he invites the converts, and has a church, to pour them right down, “Here’s a church home, if you get in, get converted.”
226 And it’s our duty, as Christians, to back him up with everything we can. And the Lord bless Brother Graham. And you’re, every one, cordially invited to Brother Graham’s meeting up here, with full permission from this church, with the full cooperation to help him in any way we can, for lost souls and for the Kingdom of God.
227 Lord bless you, Brother Graham, give you a great meetings. He don’t know when he’s going to close. He’s just starting. And so, Brother Graham has had it like myself, many ups and downs. That’s the way life runs. It makes you appreciate the ups after you went through the downs. If a man makes a drop and lays there, he’s a coward. I got confidence when a man will rise and try again. That’s right. I’m sure you can interpret what I mean. Now, don’t forget it, this coming week.

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« 228 † Now, in this Book of the Hebrews, we won’t take the background tonight.
229 Now, next Sunday, the Lord willing, Brother Neville will announce. Brother Cox here, or some of them, will let him know, if we get in in time for next Sunday’s meeting. He’ll announce it on the radio. And we’re… You all listen to his radio now, and–and–and invite all your neighbors to listen. I really get joy out of listening to their preaching and singing, the Neville quartet. I don’t say that because he’s setting here. If I said that, and didn’t mean it in my heart, I’d be a hypocrite. That’s right. I’d have to repent. But I mean it. And I’d rather give him a little rosebud now than a whole wreath after he’s gone.

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« 230 † One time I was walking out the door there, and there was a lady come by, and she said, “Brother Branham, oh, how I enjoyed that message!”
231 I said, “Thank you.” Made me feel good.
232 Somebody else come by, said, “Brother Branham, I enjoy that Message.”
233 I said, “Thank you.”
234 There was a little preacher there, from up here in the north part of the country, in state, he said, “Bless God, I don’t want people to brag on me like that.”
235 I said, “I do.” And I said, “There’s just one difference between me and you. I’m honest about it.” That’s right. We all like to hear nice words said about us. And I–I think it’s nice to say nice words about it. And if you want somebody to say nice words about you, say some nice words about somebody else. That’s the way to do that, then you’ll always say the nicest things you can about everybody. And that makes the wheel roll better.

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« 236 † Now, in this, next Sunday, the Lord willing, to my opinion, we got, just getting deeper and deeper into these great mysteries of God. We’re going into Melchisedec: Who He was, where He come from, where He went, what happened to Him, and all about Melchisedec.
237 And now, last Wednesday night, Brother Neville hit on the finishing chapter of the supreme Deity and the priesthood of our Lord Jesus, which starts out in the beginning, “God, in sundry times and divers manners spake to the fathers by the prophets, in this last day has spoken to us through His Son, Christ Jesus.”
238 Then he goes on, and begins to tell and pattern who He was, brings Him on down to the 5th chapter, at the end of the 5th chapter.
239 Then beginning at the 6th chapter, we got this in our lesson this morning.
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection;…

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« 240 † How many enjoyed the message on perfection? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] “Let us go on to perfection.” That was our Message, this morning, in the 6th chapter of the Hebrews.
241 Now we’re just getting into the place to where we begin to get the–the real part. Oh, we can all agree upon these things: upon the Deity of Christ; and Him being the Son of God; and how He was with God, and God was with Him; and He was in God, and God in Him, and so forth. We all agree upon that. But, now, from here on, I don’t know how we’re going to agree. So whatever it is, every few nights, we’re going to give you a chance to write me a little note and tell me what you think about It.

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« 242 † Then I’ll have to answer questions. And if I can’t get them, I’ll say, “Brother Neville, what do you think about that?” I’ll say, “There he is. Let him answer it.” [Brother Neville says, “That’s when I’ll read the Greek.”–Ed.] Then is when he’s going to read the lexicon, get the Greek out. I think it’s time for me to do, also.
243 But, now, if we will get down and be real sincere, and really come for one purpose, that’s, to learn. I want to learn, too. And the Bible is written, said, “It is… The Scriptures are of no private interpretation.” That means the Scripture must interpret Scripture. See? Each Scripture must interpret the other, all the way through the Bible, to make it one great thing. Because, God can’t change, because He’s the unchangeable God.

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« 244 † Now, “Leaving…”
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection;…
245 I like Paul saying those things. Paul never was a person that liked to stay too long in one place. He liked to move on, deeper. One time, in the Scripture, he said, “I, forgetting those things which are in the past, I press towards the mark of the high calling.” See? He keeps pressing on.
246 Here he said:
Now forgetting the principles of the doctrine of Christ (who he was, what he was), let’s go on to perfection;…

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« 247 † Now we, first, we wanted to find out, “Could we be perfect?” And we found out, in the Scriptures this morning, Matthew 5:28, that Jesus said that we “had to be just as perfect as God was,” or we wouldn’t go in.
248 Then we found out that we was, every one, “born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies.” And there was not one sound thing about us, so how could we ever be perfected?
249 Now here is what we find out then, over, reading, taking Scripture with Scripture, that, “Jesus, by one sacrifice, perfected, forever, His Church.” He… We are then perfect, through Christ. And we are free from judgment, through Christ. We shall never die, through Christ. We have lost death and found Life, through Christ; not through any church, not through any denomination, not through any fantastic, not through speaking with tongues, not through shouting, not through shaking, not through dancing in the Spirit, but by grace.

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« 250 † God calls who He will. And it’s all by election, we find out. We find out, that, “It’s not him that wants to be saved. Not him that willeth or him that runneth; it’s God that showeth mercy.” “And no man can come to Jesus except God draws him, first.” So what you got to do with it, anyhow? You haven’t got nothing to do with it. You’re out of the picture, altogether.
251 We found out that man never seeks after God. It’s God seeking after man. And we found out, then, that God is the only resource of Eternal Life. We found out that everything that is Eternal has no beginning or no end. Therefore, we find out that hell had a beginning, and it has an end. And there’s only… No one can ever say that… Hell is forever, forever, yes, forever, but not Eternal.

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« 252 † Forever is “a space of time.” The Bible says, “Forever and forever.” And you look it up and find out if forever doesn’t mean “a space of time.” Jonah said he was in the belly of the whale “forever.” And many other Scriptures, forever only means “a space of time.”
253 But, Eternal, that’s forever, that’s forever and forever and forever and forever and forever. It’s the Eternal. And we find out that hell isn’t Eternal, but it’s forever. And the reason, you have to watch those words, now. If you don’t, you get mixed up. Now, remember, just those things which had no beginning, has no end. Therefore, Jesus said, “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Life,” forever? Does that sound right? No. “Has Eternal Life.” And the word Eternal is “God.” The word, here it is right here in the Greek lexicon, Zoe God’s Life in you. And you’re just as Eternal as God is Eternal, because you’ve got God in you.

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« 254 † Your old nature died, the nature of the world, and you become a new creation. And your desires, that old life that had a beginning when God breathed the breath into your nostrils, when you were born, that life of carnal nature died. And it had a beginning and it had an end, and it died and was done away with forever, the old nature. And God came in with the new Nature. Then, love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, peace, patience, and meekness, and kindness, that entered; and taken the place of malice, and temper, and hatred, and–and emulation, strife, and all those things. It took its place, when you passed from death unto Life. You get it, real close, now? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
255 So, listen. There is only one form of Eternal Life. Find It. That is, God alone has Eternal Life. The Bible said so. God alone has Eternal Life. And if a man is going to suffer in hell, forever, he’s got to have God, Eternal. But I say that there.

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« 256 † Now, remember, I’m not saying there’s not a burning hell. There is a burning hell, fire and brimstone. “Where the–the worm is… the fire isn’t quenched and the worm never dies,” of fire and brimstone, a punishment. It may last for a hundred billion years. But it has to have an end, for hell was created for the Devil and his angels. And everything that the very God, Himself, which was in the beginning, everything come off of God. When the very spirit…
257 Just take the Spirit of love, that was the great fountain of God, pure, unadulterated. From that, come in a perverted love. Then it come into human love. Then it come into sexual love. Then it come into other loves, loves and loves, and just keeps perverting down till it becomes to just filth. But all those things had a beginning. And someday it’ll wind right straight back to the original; it’s Eternal; where lust, human love, passionate love, all those loves will have to cease.
258 All these make-beliefs of Faith will have to cease. There’s one true Faith. All others will have to cease. They were perverts off of this real fountain.

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« 259 † So, therefore, hell, suffering, suffering is not Eternal. Suffering was brought about because of sin, and sin introduced suffering. And when sin is finished, suffering will have to finish, too. And there’ll be a time where sinners, that’s never accepted Christ, after they have been punished maybe for a hundred billion years,… I don’t know, maybe for ten hundred million billion year. I couldn’t say. But it’ll have to come to an end, sometime, ’cause it’s not Eternal.

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« 260 † Now, we’re going to press on now, towards the perfection. Now listen, as we get into the Message.
… not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and from faith towards God,
Of the doctrine of baptisms,… laying on of hands,… resurrection of the dead, and… eternal judgment.
261 Now listen. We got two. We got a picture here, now. Now right here is where we’re going to get some great disagreements. Now you’ve got to see where the picture is. Paul is trying, here, to separate law from grace. We’ve got two pictures: one, the carnal; one, the spiritual. And Paul is trying to–to deviate between the two, to show the Jews. This letter is to the Hebrews. And all the Hebrews is trying to show the pattern of the Old Testament typing the New. So, you got two pictures here under consideration.

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« 262 † Now listen close as we read. Now he said:
… leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection;…
263 Now, we got that this morning, how that we are perfected. Perfected, absolutely spotless and blameless, not one sin on us. Are you above temptation? Never. Do you sin every day? Yes, sir. But, yet, we are perfected because we are in Him. And God could no more judge us than nothing (couldn’t be righteous), He’s already judged us in Him. When He judged Christ: He judged me, He judged you. And He can’t judge me again, because He took my judgment if I’ve been redeemed.
264 And I got a ticket to show that I’ve redeemed my watch from the pawn shop, let somebody try to take it back in the pawn shop once, when I’ve got a ticket. I have redeemed it.
And if the Devil would try to put punishment on me, I’ve got a ticket that shows I been redeemed. Yes, sir. No more judgment! “He that heareth my Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life, and shall never come to the judgment, but has passed from death unto Life.” That’s my ticket. He gave the promise.

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« 265 † Now, now the picture, here.
… not laying again the foundations of repentance from dead works, and… faith towards God,
… the doctrine of baptism,… laying on of hands,… resurrection of the dead,… eternal judgment.
266 Now, remember, you notice that word used again? We used it this morning, “Eternal judgment.” When God once speaks, It’s Eternal. It cannot be changed, a bit. So, the judgment is Eternal, It’s always the judgment. And no matter what generation we’re living in, one generation will live, and one… will all live, and it’s forever, for whatever time, and this and that. But the judgment of God is still Eternal, He has to, because He spoke the Word. When God speaks a Word, It has to be Eternal. That’s right.

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« 267 † Now let me read that out of the Greek for you. Listen how it reads.
Therefore leaving–leaving the principles of the doctrines of Christ, the atoned One, we should push–push towards the…
Now, I can’t read it. It’s blurred out. “And not laying again the form…” Here we are.
… not laying again the form of reformation from the works causing death.
268 Now, this lexicon is absolutely not any interpretation, at all. It’s just the Greek word for what the English says. And it said, “Now we don’t want…” Listen here, see.
… not laying down foundations of reformation from works causing death.
269 Now if you’ll get that in your mind, that he’s speaking here, that, “Forms of reformation causes death.” Paul said, “Leaving the principles, go to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith towards God: doctrines of baptism, laying on of hand, resurrection of the dead, Eternal judgment. Reformation forms causing death,” was the right words. That’s actually what Paul wrote. See what he’s trying to do?

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« 270 † Now, all these things, like baptisms: one is baptized backward, one forward, one in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, one Jesus name, one this way, and that way, and all these different little things of baptisms.
271 And of laying on of hands: “Bless God, I got the gift of laying on of hands. Hallelujah! You, you can get It this way. Hallelujah!”
272 Laying all of that aside, because that’s dead works, these reformations, reforming. See? He is speaking of another class. Now he said, “Let’s get away from that, and go on to perfection.” You get It? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
273 And the church is still lingering back in those things. That’s what they were trying to do. The early Hebrew church was trying to say, “Well, I was baptized by immersing, and–and I was got this, and this, and all these things.”
274 He said, “Now, lay all of that aside, leaving it behind.” But, now, did he say we shouldn’t do it? Now listen to what he said about that.
And this will we do,… God permit.
275 And the original said the same thing.
This we shall do, if God will permit us, see.
This we shall do, if God permit us.

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« 276 † Baptisms, laying on of hands, and things, but that isn’t perfect. That’s only the carnal reform. And that’s where the churches leave off at, today, is on that carnal reform. One of them said, “Oh, well, the water, the word baptism means this and it means that.”
277 And they set up organizations: and one sprinkles, the other one pours, the other one baptizes face forward, the other one backward, and all those things; some of them laying on of hands for the sick, and some making apostles, and some making prophets and so forth, by laying on of hands; and preaching the resurrection from the dead, and which is all right; and the supreme Deity of Christ, that’s all right. “But,” he said, “all these are formal reformations. We’re just been reforming. Now let us go on to perfection.” You get the picture? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]

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« 278 † Now watch. Here is where the deep part comes now.
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
And have tasted of the good word of God,… the power of the world to come,
If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing that they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
279 Now, I know what you legalists has got in your mind right now, but you’re wrong. See? All right. I stand on this, and the Bible confirms it, that, “If God ever saved a man, he is saved for time and Eternity.” You can’t make It say anything else.

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« 280 † Some fundamentalist come to me, not long ago, and said, “I got you on one, Preacher Branham. I got you one. You said, ‘If a man was saved, he could never be lost’?”
281 I said, “That’s what God said.”
282 He said, “I want to ask you something. Saul was a prophet, and he prophesied. And you know he was God’s anointed. The Bible said he was. And he committed suicide, and he was lost.”
283 I said, “He was?” I said, “The Bible declares he was ‘saved.’ After he become an enemy to God, he was still saved. The Bible said he was. And, after all, he did not commit suicide. A Philistine killed him, and David killed the Philistine for killing him. He did fall on his sword, his spear, sword, but, he did. It didn’t kill him. And a Philistine killed him. And then when Saul went down to the witch, and she called the spirit of Samuel, because he hadn’t entered Glory, he was in paradise under the shed blood of bulls and goats which couldn’t take away sin. But he had to have a waiting place, which is called paradise, until he entered in.”

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« 284 † That’s where you Catholic people got mixed up. See? Now, there is no more paradise now. We go straight into the Presence of God.
285 And when the witch of Endor called up the spirit of Samuel, there he stood. And she fell on her face, and she said, “Why did you deceive me?”
286 And not only was Saul standing there… I mean Samuel, in his prophet robes, he was still a prophet. He said, “Why did you call me out of my rest,” said, “seeing that you become an enemy to God?”
287 He said, “Well, the Urim won’t speak to me anymore. The prophet can’t prophesy to me no more. Neither can I have a dream.”
288 “Well,” Samuel said, “you’ve become an enemy to God. But tomorrow the battle goes the other way, and you’ll die tomorrow. And by this time, tomorrow night, you’ll be with me.” If Saul was lost, so was Samuel, they was both together. Certainly. The Bible said so.

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« 289 † Now, you can be all worked up in emotion, by speaking in tongues, shouting, jerking, shaking, running up-and-down the aisle. Nothing against that. But you can make yourself believe that you’re saved when you’re not, you’re not saved. Your life will prove what you are. Jesus said it would, “By their fruits you shall know them.” Your life will prove whether you’re saved or not, if you never open your mouth. It’ll prove what you are.
290 But all this work-up and emotion and joining church, “And I been baptized in Jesus’ Name, hallelujah, I know I got It,” that doesn’t mean nothing.
291 “I been baptized, name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost, face forward, three times. I got It.” That means nothing.

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« 292 † Paul said, “Let’s go on to perfection now.” We’re talking about perfected. And if we’ll run this down, you’ll find out, the perfected is the Elected. I’ll prove it to you, in a few minutes, by the Bible. It’s the Elected who God, before the foundation of the world, seen every one of them. And He sent Jesus to redeem that people, not the whole world. He wanted to, but He had to make a way for those. And the only way He could do, was to send Christ; that He might come, the propitiation of our sins, that those who have been elected, He could bring to Him, in Glory.
293 Could you imagine God running His office so loosely, as to say, “Well, maybe somebody will think real sad about Me, maybe they’ll come and get saved”? God don’t have to beg you to do nothing. Any begging, you need to do the begging, not God.

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« 294 † And then, Christ died to save those who God, by foreknowledge, elected to meet Him yonder without spot or wrinkle. Before the foundation of the world, He seen you in Glory. That’s what the Bible said, Ephesians, the 1st chapter. 5th chapter, the 1st verse. God predestinated by foreknowledge.
295 Now, if God did that, predestinated us before the foundation of the world; and knew every one of us by name, before the foundation of the world; and He Elected us to Eternal Life; and sent Jesus Christ to redeem us; that, six thousand years ago, He saw us, that we might appear to His praises in Glory! How can you ever be lost?

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« 296 † Now, if you’re saved, you’re saved. If God saves you tonight, knowing He’s going to lose you ten years from today, He is defeating His Own purpose; the infinite, Almighty, Eternal, everlasting wisdom, God, doesn’t know enough then to know whether you will hold out or whether you won’t. Then, when He saves you, you say, “Well, I’ll give Him a try. I’ll see what He do,” then He does not know the end from the beginning. God knows what He’s doing, don’t you never worry about that. It’s you and I stumbling along. God knows what He’s doing. And He knew we… whether we’d hold out, or what we would do.
297 Now, the Bible said that, Esau and Jacob, before either child was born, God said, “I love one, and hate the other one,” before they even breathed their first breath, that His election might stand true.

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« 298 † Who was Abraham? We’ll get to him in a few minutes, down here. Who was he, that God should call? Save him without anything. God makes a covenant with man; man breaks his covenant. But God made this Covenant with Himself, and swore to it, to Himself. Man has nothing to do with it. It’s God’s own foreknowledge. He done it, anyhow.
299 Now, you say, “Well, Brother Branham, then if I become a Christian, I can just do anything I want to?” Absolutely. If you’re a Christian, do anything you want to. And I’ll guarantee, you won’t have any desire to do wrong. You do anything. I’ve always did just what I wanted to. And if I serve the Lord ’cause I’m afraid I’m going to hell, I’m not serving Him right. If I live true to my wife because I’m afraid she’ll divorce me, I’m not a very good husband. But I wouldn’t hurt her for nothing, for I love her.

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« 300 † That’s how it is with Christ, when a man is born of the Spirit of God. Not because he shouted, spoke in tongues, or some emotion; but in his heart, love come in and taken the place of the world. I tell you, he loves Him. He walks by Him, every day. You don’t have to tell him, “It’s wrong to do this, or that, or the other.” He knows it’s wrong. And, he walks, he’s an ordained product of God’s sovereign grace. Exactly.
For it is impossible for those which were once enlightened,… made partakers of the… heavenly calling…
Now, we’ve sometimes believed that that was a man who once was enlightened and fell away again, but the Bible doesn’t read it that way. “It’s absolutely impossible for a man,” he says here, “that has received the Holy Spirit, to ever fall away.” Now read it and find out if that isn’t right. Watch here, take the text, the whole text, and the contents, context, rather.

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« 301 † Now He’s beginning to talk about, what is it? “Let’s go on to perfection.” Now, he said, “Not carnal, laying the foundation here of doctrines and baptism and reformations, and so forth. Let’s not do that. Let’s go on to perfection.” The subject is perfection, and perfection comes by Christ. And how did we get in Christ? By joining the church? “By one Spirit we’re all baptized into one Body.” Not by: one, tongue-talked in; one, hand-shook in; one, water-baptized in. “But by one Spirit we are baptized into one Body.” You get it? That’s the perfection.
302 And when you come into That, you are in Christ, and the world is dead to you. And you walk with the Lamb each day, and your steps are ordained of God, what to do. Oh, the trials and testings that we go through! You say, “Do you have testings?” Yes, sir. What is…

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« 303 † Grace is what God did for me, works is what I do for God. Now, they’ll make a doctrine out of it, they think that works is what wins your merits. If it is, it isn’t a free gift. Grace is what God did for you, “By grace you’re saved.” And works is what you do in appreciation of the grace that He showed to you. And if you love Him, you like to do the works of the Lord. Certainly, because, then, you–you love Him.
304 Accepting Meda Broy, as my wife, was what love done for her. What she does, in appreciation: she’s a nice woman, stays home, takes care of the children, and lives a good true life. That’s not because we’re not married; we are married. But she does that in appreciations. If she run down town, every day, and took in every ten-cent store, and up-and-down the streets, and never washed the dishes, or anything else, we are still married. Absolutely. When I took my vow, that settles it. She’s my wife. As long as there’s life in us, she’s my wife. That’s her vow. But what appreciation she does for that: she stays home, and takes care of the children, and tries to be a real wife.

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« 305 † I could run out and be gone all the time, just gadding about over the country, and let her half starve, or anything, let the children go without something to eat; we’re still married. If she even divorces me, I’m still married, long as there’s life in my body. I took that vow, “Till death we separate.” That’s right. We’re still married. But, yet, I make a poor excuse of a husband. She’d make a poor excuse as a wife. So if we love one another, we stick together and pull the load, together.
306 That’s the way God and His Church is, when you’re born in the Kingdom of God. You’ll have your ups and downs, true, but you’re still a Christian, you’re still born of the Spirit of God. God may have to take you out of the earth early.
… it’s impossible for those which were once enlightened, and have tasted… the heavenly gift,…
… to ever fall away, to renew themselves again unto repentance;…

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« 307 † Now, I know where you’re thinking about, the church. Let me take you one just a little stronger, so the–the legalistic side can be really shut out. Let’s go over to Hebrews, the 10th chapter, and look at this just for a little bit.
308 10th chapter, the 26th verse.
For if we sin wilfully after… we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin,
But a certain fearful looking… of the judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversary.
He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
Of how much more sorer punishment, though supposed… though worthy,… trod the… who has trod under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and… done despite to the works of grace?

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« 309 † Now you say, “What about that, Brother Branham? How does that look?”
Now, just to read, I think, “The Scripture doesn’t say that.” That’s not talking about a Christian. That’s talking about a man that heard the Word and turned away from It. See?
For if we sin… (What is sin? Unbelief.)… if we disbelieve wilfully after the gospel has been preached to us, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin,
310 What is sin? Unbelief. Read Saint John, the 4th chapter. Jesus said, “He that believeth not is condemned already.” Sin is not smoking, drinking, committing adultery. You do that because you’re an unbeliever. That’s just the attributes. You do that because you’re an unbeliever. Just to quit smoking, quit drinking, and so forth like that, that doesn’t mean you’re–you’re a Christian. That’s just the attributes of your conversion. But, you can, you can do either side, and still not be.

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« 311 † Now notice.
… he that disbelieves wilfully after he…
312 Not–not, “After he received Christ in his heart.” The Bible doesn’t say that. Said, “He that…”
… if we sin wilfully, disbelieve wilfully, after… we have received the knowledge of the truth,…
Get it? Wasn’t talking to a Christian, at all.
313 Some woman come to me, not long ago, and said, “Brother Branham, I’m a Christian, but I blasphemed the Holy Ghost.”
314 I said, “It’s impossible.” A Christian could not blaspheme the Holy Ghost. You can’t do it. A Christian spirit bears record with Christ’s Spirit. See? And you’ll call, everything of God, “God’s.”
315 But if you’re carnal-minded, you’ll make fun and laugh at the Holy Ghost; I don’t care how much you go to church, you’re still a sinner, and you’re blaspheming the Holy Ghost. When they seen Jesus discerning their thoughts, they said He was a “fortune-teller.”

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« 316 † Jesus said, “You’ve… I’ll forgive you for that, but when the Holy Ghost is come, you speak a word against It, it’ll never be forgiven you.”
Because, they said, “He has an unclean spirit,” calling the Spirit of God, “an unclean thing.”
A Christian can’t do that. A Christian will always call the Spirit of God, “Righteousness.” See? A Christian cannot blaspheme the Holy Ghost. It’s the outsider that blaspheme.
317 That wasn’t Christians standing there. It was religious people, it was orthodox Jews, doctors of divinity, and so forth, and they were making fun of Him and His works, calling the works of God, that, “It was an unclean spirit doing it.”
318 And how many do you think today blasphemes the Holy Ghost, that’s got D.D.D., Ph.D. on their name? How many great, stiffed Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants, walk the street and make fun of the operation of the Holy Ghost, just as polished scholars, and slick as a button? Right. But they make fun of the Holy Ghost, and therefore they blaspheme It.
But a born-again Christian cannot do that. He’ll say, “That’s my brother. That’s the Spirit of the living God.” That’s right. A Christian cannot blaspheme the Holy Ghost.
319 It’s the sinner that blasphemes the Holy Ghost; the unbeliever, the sinner, an “unbeliever.” There’s only two thing: either you are a believer, or an unbeliever.

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« 320 † Now, notice here, to make this real wound up now. I had a vision that’s always bothered me. Years ago I used to look at that. I said, “Oh, if a man once received the Holy Spirit then, and then would backslide, he’d be lost forever.” I couldn’t get this other to make sense with that.
321 I said, “Then why is it that the Bible said, that, ‘He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me has Eternal Life, Eternal, and shall never come to the judgment, but has passed from death unto Life. All the Father has given Me will come to Me, and none of them is lost, I’ll raise them up in the last days. No man can pluck them from My hand’? How does that divvy up with this? I just couldn’t understand it, ‘It’s impossible for those who were once enlightened.'” I thought, “There is something wrong. I just can’t get it.”
And I went to a little Pentecostal meeting, years ago.

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« 322 † There’s not a one left in the church, I guess, tonight, that remembers. Years ago, this was even just about time the tabernacle was built. Less, it’d be Brother Graham back there, or somebody. I don’t know, you was here first, or not, brothers. Brother Mahoney, I think, was. Yeah, just before I was married.
323 That gift working, I was of afraid. They told me it was of the Devil. I didn’t know till the Angel of the Lord told me.
324 I went to Mishawaka, and I set in that meeting, and I never heard so much shouting and crying and praising God. I thought, “Brother, this is Heaven.” And, oh, how they would go up-and-down.

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« 325 † They had to have it in the North, on account of segregation. The colored and white were together. The P.A. of W. and the P.H.A.C. had really emerged and become the United Pentecostal. But what a revival they were having, there at Brother Rowe’s tabernacle at Mishawaka. And I, a little curious fellow, setting on the back seat, was watching all of this. I had never seen these things before.
326 There was a man setting here… I’ve never told this in public before. There was a man setting on one side, and a man on the other, and one spoke in tongues, and the other interpret it. And they would tell different things was going to take place. Then, this one speak in tongues, and that one interpret. I thought, “My, isn’t that wonderful!” I thought, “How glorious! Them must be Angels, come down in a form of men.”

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« 327 † Well, I only had a dollar and seventy-five cents, to come home on, and I–I–I just could get a tank of gas. I slept in a cornfield that night. I’ve got part of it in a book, but not all of it, ’cause I didn’t want to hurt their feeling. And so, that night, they said, “All preachers come to the platform.” I was on the platform. I was the youngest preacher there then.
328 So, the next morning, they asked me to come to preach. I hid. You know, the colored man said, “Here he is.” You remember the story of it, when he exposed me setting there.

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« 329 † And so after preaching that day, walking around, I thought “If I could only get to those two men.” They led the meeting. One would raise and turn white in the face; he’d speak in tongue. And the other would interpret it, and give the words, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘There’s a certain-certain person here, by the name of certain-certain, that should do this and certain-certain.'” Brother, it was the truth. And the other one would rise and speak in tongues, and he would interpret.
330 I thought, “Oh, my, isn’t this wonderful!” So, that day, I thought, I went out and prayed. I thought, “Lord, you do that for me again.” I didn’t know what to call it, visions.

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« 331 † I went out and prayed, and asked the Lord to help me. I went around the building, and I happened to run into one of them. Now, the Lord give me a way of knowing things. I shook his hand. I said, “How do you do?”
He said, “How do you do? What’s your name?”
And I said, “Branham.”
“Oh,” he said, “you’re the young fellow that preached this morning.”
I said, “Yes, sir.”
332 While I got a conversation with him, I caught his spirit. And he was a genuine Christian, just a pure Christian, brother. I mean, he was a believer. I thought, “Oh, isn’t this wonderful!”

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« 333 † And about an hour from then, out there near the car, which was looking on a great big car, had “Jesus Only” wrote on the back of it, and standing out there stood the other man. And I went out and I said, “How do you do, sir?”
334 He said, “How do you do?” Said, “You’re Brother Branham, that spoke this morning.”
335 I said, “Yes, sir. I am.” I said, “Say, I enjoy them great gift of God that works in you two brethren.”
336 He said, “Thank you, Mr. Branham.” And I begin to feel his spirit. A vision come. And if I ever talked to a hypocrite, there was one of them. His wife was a black-headed woman. He was living with a blond-headed woman, had two children by her. He was no more a Christian than nothing in the world.

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« 337 † Then I said, “What have I got into? I thought I was in Angels, and now I must be in demons. Something has happened. Here was one, a genuine Christian; and the same Spirit falling on this man, was falling on this man.” I said, “Now I’m all confused.” I didn’t know what to do. I cried and begged, to the Lord. I didn’t know what to accept.
338 They was about to get me to… Asked me if I had “received the Holy Ghost?” this guy did. I said, “No, sir, not the way you got it.”
Said, “You ever speak with tongues?”
I said, “No, sir.”
Said, “Then you haven’t got It.”
339 So I said, “You’re probably right, my brother. Maybe I haven’t, ’cause I don’t have what you have.” And after while, I was glad I didn’t.
340 So then I watch that, and I seen the way that was moving.

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« 341 † So, one day, I was out here praying, long ago. I’ll tell you why, who I was praying for, was Roy Davis. And I was out here praying, because he had called me “a puppet,” and I was praying for God to forgive him for it. And he had a press back there, wrote a paper. And that press caught afire and burnt down, a couple nights after that, while they were running it.
342 And so I was standing back there in an old cave behind Green’s Mill. I walked out there. And I was praying, been back there, two day. I laid my Bible down on an old log, where, I showed Brother Wood, not long ago, laid my Bible down. I set a-straddle the log. And the wind blowed. I thought, “Been so long, back in that cave, I’d just read a little.” So I took a hold of the Bible and begin to read, and this was the chapter it was on. Well, I begin to read, and I begin to wonder then. See?
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened,… made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
… tasted the good word of God, and… the world to come,
If they shall fall away, to renew themselves… to repentance; seeing that they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

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« 343 † I thought, “There is that Scripture.” But something hung with me. Then I begin to think, “Here is where he talked back here, in the beginning, ‘Not laying the dead foundation of repentance, at the beginning. Not laying the foundation of repentance,’ and here he says, ‘New, renewing themselves back to repentance. But let’s go on to perfection, laying these things in the back.'” Then I started reading. Then I read the next verse.
For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessings from God:
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
344 And when I read that, Something just shook me. And I thought, “Lord, that don’t pertain to Roy Davis. Why would You do that?”

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« 345 † I started, turn another page. I had to go back to It, again, “It is impossible for those which were once enlightened,” go through It again.
346 Then I thought, “Lord, what is this? What do You mean, Lord?”
347 And I turned and went back into my cave, to pray over It. And when I did, I saw a world turning. And it was all disked up, real nice, the whole world. And I saw a man in white, going around, he had a bag in his hand. He was sowing seeds as he went around. He went around the curvature of the earth. And as soon as he got around, here come a guy dressed in real black clothes, a slick-looking fellow, slipping along like this, looking. And he had a seed. And he was throwing something behind it, as he went around the earth; watching everybody and throwing. I stood and watched the vision.
348 After he had gone, the world turned around, and there was a great, big crop, and it was of wheat. And there was weeds, cockleburs and things in the wheat.

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« 349 † There come a drought. And, oh, how that little wheat hung its little head over, and was thirsting for water. The little cocklebur had its head hung over, and it was thirsting for water. Everybody was praying for rain. And after while, along came a big cloud and just watered the whole earth. And the little cocklebur jumped up, begin to shout, “Glory to God! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!”
350 And the little wheat, it jumped up, begin to shout, “Glory to God! Praise the Lord!”
351 And then the Scripture come to me, which is found in the Book of Matthew, the 5th chapter and the 45th verse. And listen to what Jesus said, in Matthew 5:45. And listen close now as we read. Matthew, the 5th chapter and the 45th, 46th verse; 44th, to begin.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, and do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That you may be… call… you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on… evil and on… good, and sendeth rain on the just and… the unjust.

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« 352 † So, you see, the same rain that makes the wheat grow, makes a cocklebur grow. And, therefore, I got the picture. There is your carnal confessor, that’s right in the church. But his fruits… He might shout, jump, dance, speak with tongues; but his fruits: he’s a cocklebur. And there’s the other one, that’s got the same Spirit. The Holy Spirit can drop right in a bunch of people, and a hypocrite can shout, by the Holy Spirit, just the same as a cocklebur can live by the rain that’s sent. That’s what Paul is speaking of here. But it’s impossible for a cocklebur to become a wheat, or a wheat a cocklebur. You get it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
For it is impossible for those who have been once enlightened, and have… partaken of the gift of the Holy Ghost,
And… tasted the good word of God, and the power of the world to come,
… to fall away, to renew themselves again…
Listen what he said.
… for the rain… comes oft upon the earth, to water it and to dress it here, and prepare it;
But… which is thorns and thistles is nigh unto rejecting;…
Now, therefore leaving the principalities and doctrines of Christ, let us go… to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance and dead works… towards God, and faith, and so forth,
… and doctrines of baptisms,… layings on of hands, and things;…

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« 353 † See, the carnal believer, back in those days, just like it is today, likes to say, “Well, I belong to church. I’ve repented. I–I come up, I made a confession. I been baptized.” See, they lay to those carnal reformations. And what does it do? It produces cockleburs.
354 What does the perfection do? It’s the wheat. The wheat is God’s Word. He uses it as His Word. It’s a Seed. It brings forth.
355 It depends on what seed is sowed in your heart. If you come to church just because you’re afraid of hell, if you join church because you don’t want–you don’t want to go to hell, you’re still a cocklebur. If you–if you join church just to be popular, you’re still a cocklebur. If you done all these formal things that’s to be done, and that’s all you got, you’re still a cocklebur.
356 But a real, genuine Christian presses towards perfection until the world is dead and you become a new creature in Christ Jesus. Then, it’s impossible for that man to ever fall. What the Bible said! See how that compares with the rest the Scripture? See how It lays it right in there to its place?

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« 357 † How can It say here, “A man that’s once saved can never be lost” and come over here and say, “But, if you are lost, or blaspheme, it’s impossible”? Sure, if you’re a blasphemer, you’re not a Christian.
358 “No man, speaketh by the Spirit of God, calleth Jesus accursed.” Saint John 4… or First John 4. No man speaking by the Spirit of Christ, calls Jesus “accursed.” Every spirit, of God, that’s in the Christian Church, agrees with everything God said.
359 We read here, and say, “He was wounded for our transgressions. With His stripes we’re healed.”
360 The old carnal mind say, “Days of miracles is past. I’m Dr. Jones.” See? “There’s no such a thing as Divine healing. No such thing as heartfelt religion. You’re just a bunch of worked-up. You’re emotional. See, that’s all there is to it. There nothing to it. We are Presbyterians. We’re Lutherans,” or whatever it is. “We know where we’re standing.”

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« 361 † But what does the Spirit of God say? Jesus Christ, the same here! “Amen,” says the Spirit of God. It agrees quickly with the Word. Yes, sir. It’s right there. See what I mean now?
362 “These carnal reforms works death,” said Paul.
363 But where Life is come, this perfection, “He that heareth My Words, believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life, and shall never come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto Life. I’ll give him everlasting Life, raise him up in the last days. All the Father has given Me will come to Me, and none of them is lost.” Can’t be.
364 So, here is what it does–what it does. People thinks that that makes people loose. Brother, you don’t serve God under a frown of a serpent. God is not one of these guys with a blacksnake whip, driving you around. He’s a Father. He’s Love. God is Love. And the Bible said, in Saint John, “He that loveth is of God.”

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« 365 † You love God. I wouldn’t be, if I went out and–and got on a drunk tonight. I never drank, in my life. But if I went out and got on a drunk, I wouldn’t be afraid of getting a whipping. That isn’t the reason I don’t go–go, don’t go do it. The reason I don’t do it, is because I love Him. He loves me. It’s not a works of law. It’s not something that I got to do. It’s because He’s already done something for me, and I love Him for it. There you are.
366 So, with that Spirit in there, which is promised, “I give unto him everlasting Life, and they shall never perish.” Did He lie or did He tell the Truth? He told the Truth. So, you see how This interprets? The impossibility is for a man to fall after he’s once in grace. He can’t. He can fall, sure, but not back to repentance, back to the place and to do the old works over again.

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« 367 † So, you all trotting from revival to revival, one place and then another, don’t you see you’re not stable? You’re not established. Now, surely… You say, “Brother Branham, I don’t know if…” Surely God would not give me the ministry He has, and let me be in error. And if it wasn’t proven by the Scripture, then it would error, but here is the Scripture to back it up.
368 The churches never missed a place… People go, join church, fuss, fight, stew, and–and everything, and just live any kind of a carnal life, “Oh, yes, I’m a Christian.”

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« 369 † I heard a confession today of a little lady that told me that her husband was running with a man. She has caught them, place after place. And the woman says, “I’m going to let you know, ‘I’m a Christian.'”
370 Look over here at Jimmy Osborne, out here preaching on Sunday morning; and boogie-woogie, rock-and-rolled and everything, through the week.
371 Look at Elvis Presley, a 1947 version of Judas Iscariot, joins the Assemblies of God, Pentecostal, speaking in tongues for the Holy Ghost, and sent more souls to torment than all the bootleg joints there’s been in the last fifty years. Perverted the mind of little teen-age children all over the world, till little girls would grab off their underclothes and throw it on the platform, and him to autograph. So vulgar that they won’t show him in the television, from his waist down, the way his body. The Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues, for evidence? Oh, brother, if the Holy Ghost was there, It wouldn’t act like that. You know better than that. Certainly not. God loves cleanness and purity and holy.

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« 372 † I don’t act clean and pure and holy to make myself a Christian. But Christ, in me, lives that in me. And I love Him. And if I do anything wrong, it condemns me, right there. I say, “God, forgive me.” Every day, I got to ask forgiveness, every day. And you do, too. Certainly, you do.
373 But now if you’re–if you’re carnal, you just wait on back, say, “Ah, well, that’s all right, I belong to church.” See? And then when you blaspheme, is when you don’t have the Faith that was once delivered to the saints. Then you make fun of That, and call It, “An evil spirit.” Say, “That’s a bunch of holy-rollers.” Then, you separate yourself between grace and judgment, then you’re finished forever.

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« 374 † Jesus said, “One word against It, will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come.” And a Christian, born of the Spirit, can’t say evil about That, ’cause it can’t. It agrees with It. That’s right.
375 That’s the reason people try to tell me, that Pillar of Fire there, that appears here with us, they try to say, that, “That was the Devil,” that, “It was just fiction,” all this. But the camera proved that It wasn’t. And the works lay right exactly on the Bible, same Pillar of Fire that met Paul on his road to Damascus. All these things that He done back there, is doing it just exactly the same way, by the Bible. He’s Christ, the Son of God.
376 And when we are born again, we have everlasting Life, and cannot perish. It would be impossible for a man to fall. That’s what the Bible said.

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« 377 † Now, listen, watch what Paul says. I’ll read the rest of it, and see if that don’t sound right, now. Let’s go on, just a minute. The 8th verse.
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. (That’s the unbeliever.)
378 Now watch Paul. “But, beloved,…” Now he’s talking about them is trying to get back under the law, you know, trying to do all the works of the law, yet they’re just as ritual as they can be. They have baptisms and the laying on of hands, and all these things.
But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you,…
There you are. Listen at him now.
… and things that accompany salvation, though–though through this we thus spake.
For God is not unrighteous to forget your works and labours of love, which you have showed towards his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

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« 379 † See what He’s talking about? He’s not talking about Christians falling away, impossible to come back. He’s talking about carnal believers who go through the form of reformation. “But,” he said, “to you who was born again, you who are Christian, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you. You don’t say those things. You don’t live that type of life. You’re secured with Christ.”
What did he say back here? Now let’s go to Hebrews 10, where we was at this morning, again. [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]
380 Now let’s turn over then, again, to Ephesians 4:30. And let’s get this, just a minute, and watch what this says, to back this up, to make Scripture go with Scripture. Ephesians 4, let’s see. Ephesians 4:30. Let’s read and see what It says. Listen.
… grieve not the holy Spirit of God,…
Huh? How we baptized into the Body? One Spirit.
… grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until the day of your redemption.
That right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] You’re sealed into the Body of Christ, by the baptism of the Holy Ghost, not from one revival to another one, but until the Day of the body of redemption. That’s what you are. So, there’s no way for you to be lost.

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« 381 † You get scared. And that’s the reason scare, a scare, fear companies doubt.
Love companies faith. I love my Father. I’m not afraid of Him, because I love Him. He wouldn’t hurt me. He will do good for me. If I was scared of Him, and, “Oh, I don’t know whether He will do it, or not.” See?
382 But if I love Him, “Yes, Father, I–I love You. And I know You’re–You’re my Father, and You love me, and I’m not afraid but what You’ll keep Your Word. It’s Your promise to me.” That’s the way the Spirit of God does.
383 “But, oh, if I did this, if I did that.” See, there you come to the legal side, again. Never go to the legal side. It’s negative.

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« 384 † The positive side is what you want. It’s already a finished work. Christ died, and the sin was killed when He died. And if God foreordained you to Eternal Life, “All the Father has given Me, will come to Me.” There you are, can’t be lost. You’re secured forever. “For by one Spirit we’re all baptized into one Body, and by one sacrifice He has perfected forever.” There you are. There’s no way for us to lose. Correctly. Now, don’t it make you feel good? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
385 Now, how do you know you’re a Christian? When your spirit bears record with His Spirit, when the love of God is in your heart, when you have love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness, meekness. That’s when you… The fruits of the Spirit is following your life.
386 Not because you can dance in the Spirit, oh, to this modern rhythm, whoop it up on a piano, to a lot of this here dancing in the Spirit. Them things are all right. But they took the whole thing over on that legal side, see, and therefore, they left the Spirit of God in the back.

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« 387 † That’s the reason, when God begin to manifest Hisself, they said, “Nonsense. We don’t want nothing to do with That.” They don’t know God. They’ve never seen It. They can’t understand It, because there’s a different life in there. He doesn’t know… Cocklebur doesn’t know what the wheat is doing. He’s a different life.
388 That’s the way it is with a Christian, to the carnal believer, the confessor, who goes out and confesses, “Oh, yes, I’m a Christian.” A big cigar in his mouth, like a dehorned Texas steer.
389 A woman with her shorts on, say, “Oh, yes, I’m a member of the church. Sure, I am.” Your fruits prove that you’re nothing but carnal. That’s right. Certainly, it is. There’s only one thing to allow for that: that’s either mental deficiency or a spirit of lust on you. That’s right.

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« 390 † If you want to act like the world, the Bible said, “If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in you.” So there you are.
391 Now, you say, “Oh, the Bible said, then I must do that.” No, that’s not it. Stay here until Christ has done something for you, that take that out of you. Then you’re born of the Spirit of God. Not what you do, it’s what He done for you. Till you get a love that you’ve passed from death unto Life. And then watch your life, if it–if it dallys up. Not ’cause you try to make your life, but because God brings you into subjection to His Spirit. It’s not you leading yourself in God’s way. It’s God leading you in His Own way. Not you doing the leading, but God doing the leading.

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« 392 † Now watch this, now, just as we get down towards the end. The 11th verse.
And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of the hope unto the end:
That ye may not be slothful, but followers of them that who through faith and patient inherit the promise.
393 Now, just one more remark here.
For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiply, I will multiply thee.
394 When God met Abraham! Now, Abraham received the covenant, without any merits at all. The covenant was made with Abraham. It’s absolutely grace, altogether. Abraham was not a better man. He was not a holiness man. He was just an ordinary man. And God, by election, chose Abraham because God elected him; not because Abraham wanted it, because Abraham did this, because he was a good man, ’cause he had any merit at all. But it was God’s choice. God took Abraham.

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« 395 † Today, as I said, I believe, “We select our preachers.” We go around, say, “Well, one of the deacons quit. Let’s find the best man in the building to take his place. Well, the pastor quit; let’s find out, we get the best.” Sometimes that’s not right.
396 When they selected a man to take Judas’ place, they got the wrong man. They got a gentleman, Matthias, a great scribe, a scholar, a diplomat. They said, “He’ll just take the real place. Boy, he looks like a real man.” But it wasn’t God’s choice. And he took this man, and he never done nothing for God.

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« 397 † But God took a choice of a little, old high-tempered, hook-nosed Jew that come down there. His face, all, “I’ll go down. I’ll arrest them.”
398 God said, “I see something in him. I’ll use him.”
399 And God appeared before him, that big Light there. And he said, “Who are You, Lord?”
400 Said, “I’m Jesus. Why, it’s hard for you to kick against the pricks. Why you persecuting Me?” Like that, and God took that man and made him one of the greatest men that’s ever hit the face of the earth since Jesus Christ. That was God’s choice.
401 Today, we try to make a choice. You churches, you send this man here, and that man here. It’s not supposed to be done that way. God does the leading. It’s God in all, through all, over all; not what some document of some church. It’s what God said about it, what makes the difference.

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« 402 † Notice. God made a promise to Abraham, unconditional. And now, wait, Abraham did not have to do one thing. God said, “I have already done it.”
403 God made a promise to Adam, said, “Adam, if you’ll not touch this, you’ll live forever. But the day you eat thereof, that day you die.”
404 Adam said, “I just wonder what it’s all about, anyhow?” He goes over and eats it, tampering.
405 Every time that God make… a man makes his covenant with God, or God with a man, the man breaks his part. So God had to do something, because He seen what man was. And they were foreordained, they were elected, and God had to do something. So God came down and made His covenant with Abraham, unconditionally. If it wouldn’t have been unconditionally, Abraham would been lost, a long time.

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« 406 † Look at him setting down there at Gerar, backslid, telling a lie. And give his wife over to another man, to save his own skin. What a man! Setting out there, and backslid. God told him, said, “Don’t you leave up here. Stay up here.” The famine run him out. He wandered down to where it was easier going. You know what happens to a fellow when he takes the easy road.
407 He wandered out, down there where the grass was greener. And when he got down there, he told that king that his wife was his “sister,” to save his own hide. Now, that was a lie. And any man, would take his wife and give her over to another man, to save his hide! There he was, setting out there in a little tent, backslider, telling a lie, and plumb out of his, cut altogether away from the promise and everything, but he was still God’s prophet.

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« 408 † And there was Ablimelech, he was a good, holiness man. Sure, said his prayers every night. Found this grandma, of a hundred years old, come down there, beautiful and young again. He said, “That’s the girl I’ve waited for, so I’m just going to marry her.”
409 Abraham said, “You can have her. She’s my sister.”
She, “That’s my brother.”
410 So he takes her over there and has the women to wash her all up and–and put on nice clothes, and fix her up like a–like a princess. And he said his prayers, stretched out on the bed, and turned his feet up, and said, “Tomorrow, I’ll marry that beautiful Hebrew girl, that–that boy’s sister out there. Oh, it’ll be wonderful. O Lord, You know how I love You! Yes, sir. Wonderful!”
411 And God said, “You’re just as good as a dead man.” Uh-huh!
[Brother Branham coughs–Ed.] Pardon me. Abra-…
412 Why, Abraham was setting over there, a lie, and backslid. And here was this man, an honest and just and upright man. “Why,” he said, “Lord, You know the integrity of my heart. Did not he tell me, that was his ‘sister’?”
413 Said, “I know the integrity of your heart. That’s the reason I’m keeping you from sinning against Me. That’s right. I know the integrity of your heart. But her husband is My prophet.” Hallelujah! Oh, if that ain’t grace, what is? “Backslid, telling a lie, and setting out there, but that’s still My prophet. You take an offering, and go to him, and take his wife back, or you’re a dead man. I won’t hear your prayers no more. Let him pray for you.” Amen. There you are. “That’s My prophet.”
Now, you say, “Oh, I wish I’d have been Abraham.”

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« 414 † “If we are dead in Christ, we are Abraham’s Seed, and are heirs according to the promise.” Right. That’s what the Bible said. Would you like to read It? Why, the Bible said that, that the promise was not only to Abraham and his seeds. Like you, Abraham had many seeds, sure, many children. Ishmael was his child. He had seven or eight children after Sarah died, by another one, Keturah. But, look, the seed was the promised one, which was Isaac, and through Isaac came Christ, through Christ came us. The promise is unconditionally.
415 Now, what about Abraham? Why, he’d have been done, it’d been impossible for him to ever get back again. Sure. It’d been impossible for Saul to ever get back again, if that, you’d have to read the Scripture that way. See? But it wasn’t. God’s promise endures forever.

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« 416 † Let’s read here just a minute. I want you to read It. I want you to get Galatians 3:16, and read this, and see now what the promise is, and see what if–if we are His promise or not, 3:16. Listen here. All right. I’m going to read the 15th verse, too.
Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no man disannuleth, or addeth thereunto.
Now to Abraham and his seed, seed (s, double e, d), to his seed were the promise made.
“To Abraham and his Seed.” Now watch.
He saith not, And to thy seeds (plural), as of many; but as… one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
417 Then, Christ was the Seed of Abraham. “And we being dead in Christ, and baptized into His Body, we are Abraham’s Seed, and are heirs of the promise.” Then how is it, how are you ever going to fall away, if God made the promise to you? How are you going to ever backslide, and go away and have to go to hell for it?

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« 418 † Now, you say, “Well, can’t we backslide?” Absolutely. And when you backslide, you’re going to get it, don’t you worry. Abraham got it, and the rest of them got it, and you’ll get it. Don’t you think it gives you a right to sin. It doesn’t. You’ll pay for everything that you do. You’ll reap what you sow. You do one little sin and you’ll reap a whole washtub full. That’s right. But, brother, that don’t mean to say that you’re lost. That’s exactly right. Abraham reaped exactly what he sowed. That’s right. But he was still saved.
419 The covenant that God made with Israel: they lost their in-heritage, they lost the promised land and went down into Egypt, but they hadn’t lost their covenant. God said, “I remember My promise to Abraham. I remember, and I’ve come down to deliver My people. Go down there, Moses, and tell Pharaoh, I said, ‘Let My people go.’ I remember I made a promise to Abraham and to his seed.”

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« 420 † That’s the same thing it is with us. So if you are dead, and your life is hid in God, through Christ, there is not nothing in the world can touch you. Now, you might go and do wrong, but if you’re really, truly, a child of God, and you see you’ve made a mistake, you’ll rise and try again. That’s right, and you’ll not lay there.
421 But if you’re cowardly, if you’re a cocklebur, if there’s no “get up” to you, you’ll say, “Ah, well, there wasn’t nothing to It, anyhow.”

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« 422 † The Kingdom of God is like unto a man took a net and went to the sea, cast it in. When he come, he had turtles, frogs, snakes, lizards, spiders, and fish. That’s the Gospel when It’s preached.
423 Like the Lord will tell a minister, like Brother Graham, “Go up here. “Go on this corner and fish a little while, Brother Graham.” All right, takes his net and goes up there and starts seining.
“Where you going, Brother Bill?”
“I’m going out somewhere else, and cast on this corner.”
424 I’m pulling, “There they are, Lord, You know what they are.” I pull the net again, “All right, here they are, Lord.”
425 Now, the turtle was a turtle, to begin with. You just got caught in the net. That’s right. And that’s the way people get caught up in emotion, “O Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord. Glory to God. Hallelujah!” They just got caught in the net, that’s all.
426 If that old Turtle spirit is in them, it ain’t going to be long, they say, “Well, I tell you,…” Here he goes, creeping back.
427 And old lady Crawfish will say, “But I just can’t understand That.” See?
428 Miss Spider set there a little while, she go “plop, plop, plop,” right back, “Well, there wasn’t nothing in It, anyhow.”
429 Miss Serpent will say, “Oh, they’re a bunch of holy-rollers. That’s just all there is to It. I’ll go down where they got better sense than that.” Why, you’re a snake, to begin with. The Gospel net just caught you, that’s all.

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« 430 † But the fish is took to the Master’s table. He was a fish, to begin with. The Seed of him was a fish. He began, a fish, and God knowed His fish from the foundation of the world. Hallelujah!
431 Remember, they’re all breathing the same muddy waters out there. They’re all breathing out of the same creek. That’s right. “We all made… drink of the same spiritual Rock. All did eat manna in the wilderness.” Caleb and Joshua eat the same manna that–that the rest of them eat. And they all fell in the wilderness. But there was two elected to go over, and they went over. That’s right.
432 “We all been made to drink of the same Fountain.” But not all that drink is saved. We all made to shout together. We’re all made to rejoice together. But the Elected is saved. Did you notice? It said, “The two spirits, in the last days, would be so close till it would deceive the very Elected if possible,” if possible. See? That’s the real Spirit of God, elected to Eternal Life.

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« 433 † Now we’re closing. Then Brother Neville will pick up where I leave off here. All right.
And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred year, four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
That’s the promise God give Abraham, before the law ever came into existence.
For if the… for if inheritance be of the law, it is no more of the promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Not by nothing you do, not by any laws, any laws of your church, by joining church, or any other law. It’s absolutely a grace act of God, to you. There you are.
434 Watch.
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgression, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made;…
Isn’t that just as plain as the nose on my face? “It was added, to serve until the Seed came, which was Christ, to Who the promise was made.”
… and it was ordained by angels and in the hands of a mediator.
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
435 Now, I leave from right here, beginning from right there for Brother Neville, for this coming Wednesday.

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« 436 † Now do you understand what we have said? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] That it is absolutely impossible for a born-again Christian that… I don’t mean, now, he calls himself, “born-again.” I mean, a real, born-again Christian, to ever fall from grace, he cannot do it. He can fall, that’s right, but he cannot, never, get out of that grace.
Abraham fell from grace. Sure, he did. God told him to “stay there.” He went out of it, but he never lost his covenant. He was still God’s chosen. He was a prophet setting there. He always was. He’ll always be God’s.
437 Now notice. The Bible said, that, “All of Israel will be saved.” How many knows that? The Bible said, “All Israel’s will be saved.” Now, “Israel is not Israel which is of the flesh, but Israel of the Spirit, for gifts and callings are without repentance.” Is that what the Bible said, the very next verse? Galatians. All right. “All of Israel will be saved. Every one of them is saved.” How we become Israel? “Being dead in Christ, take on Abraham’s Seed, and we’re heirs according to the promise.”
438 Paul said, “That which is outward is not a Jew, but that which is inwardly, is a Jew, the promised Ones.” And we are Abraham’s Seed, by the promise, through Christ, accepted Him as our personal Saviour.

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« 439 † Oh, I hope you see it. I hope you get it, if you can stay with It a little while. Now over in here we finish this up, then we start on Melchisedec, which brings right back in this again. We start right on over to… Oh, It’s just, the whole thing is wonderful. But we just keep getting into those cream thing.
440 Now, see, if you took This here, look like, if you could read It just from observation… Like a real strict trinitarian, who believes there’s three Gods, told me one time, that, “Matthew 3 absolutely declared that there was three, three individual Persons in the Godhead.”
441 I said, “I got to see it.”
442 He said, “Watch.” Standing right from this pulpit, he said, “Looky here, Matthew 3.” Said, “When Jesus went straightway out of the water, lo, the heavens opened unto Him. And He saw the Spirit of God like a dove. And the Voice from Heaven saying, ‘This is My beloved Son in whom I’m well pleased.’ And there was three: the Son on the bank; the Holy Ghost in between; and the Father up above.”
I said, “Brother, the Scripture doesn’t read that.”
“Oh, yes, it does.”
I said, “Now read It again, find out if It does.”

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« 443 † Now, here is his picture. Here is God, the Son; there is God, the Father; here is God, the Holy Ghost, like a dove. Now watch. The Bible said, when Jesus was baptized, “The Son went straightway out of the water, lo, the heavens above Him was opened. And a Voice saying of… He saw the Spirit of God, the Spirit of God, like a dove.” Not another Person up there, but this Spirit of God was the Dove which was above Him. And a Voice coming, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am pleased to dwell in.” Now read Matthew 3 and see if It doesn’t say that. See? Not three people, not at all.
444 And that’s the why. This doesn’t say it’s impossible for a man to ever get back, when he backslides. It doesn’t say that. It doesn’t say that. It says, “It’s impossible for a man to ever come back to renew himself, after he’s once been there.” He cannot do it.

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« 445 † The Bible said, “He that’s born of God, does not commit sin, for he cannot sin. For the seed of God remains in him, and he cannot sin.” How can I be called a sinner, when there’s a sacrifice laying there to take my place? How can I die, when death has been paid for me? How can I die, when I got Eternal Life? How can I do it? You can’t do it.
446 How can I have a written permit from the mayor of this city, to run sixty miles an hour through this city, and any officer arresting me for running sixty miles an hour? How can you do it? I’ve got a permit from the mayor that says I can do it. He can’t arrest me. His–his rest… He could blow the whistles and everything else, and I could just ignore it. Don’t mean a thing; I’ve got a permit.

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« 447 † And how can I, then, as after Christ has died for me and I become His righteousness because of His grace and love to me? How can I sin, when there is something laying between me and God, a sacrifice? I can’t sin. Can’t do it. God never sees me; He sees Christ. He stands in my place. And when I do anything wrong, Christ takes my place. I made my confession, “I’m wrong. He is right. Lord, You know my heart. You know whether I mean it or not. And I’m wrong. Forgive me.” God never sees it. The Blood of Jesus got me covered, all the time. Then how can God ever see me? How can sin be–be counted to me, when He can’t do it? Just as soon as I do it, it’s forgiven. [Brother Branham snapped his finger–Ed.] That’s right.

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« 448 † Just like taking a–a little dropper like this, a little eye-dropper, and take it full of black ink and hold it up over a tub of bleach, and just drop it in there, and then just try to find it again. It just turns to the bleach. The ink becomes bleach. And that’s what, your confessed sins, if you’re in Christ. Between you and God is a whole tub of bleach, and your sin becomes righteous because a righteous Sacrifice is waiting there for you.
When I come to the river at the ending of day,
And the last winds of sorrow have blown;
There is one thought that cheers me and makes my heart glad,
I won’t have to cross Jordan alone.

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« 449 † That’s one good thing. That’s one good thing. I won’t have to cross it. One of these days, we’re coming down to the end of the road. The sun will refuse to shine, then God will call.
450 Adam will reach over and shake Eve, and say, “Honey, here it is. It’s time to wake up.”
451 Eve will reach over and get a hold of Abel, say, “Come forth, darling. It’s time to wake up.” Abel will get a hold of Seth. And Seth will get a hold of Noah. Noah get a hold of… Oh, on down, on down to Abraham, and down as they come. There’ll be a great shaking and awakening when the Son of God comes. We’ll stand in His likeness at that day.

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« 452 † Now, if you commit sin here, you’re going to pay for it. I’ve…
453 Just keep coming in my mind, I’ve just got to tell it. I’ve tried to quench it off, four or five times. I have to say it. How many remembers this brother, pastor, that used to be over here at the church of God? Brother, right up here, what was his name? Worked for Vorgang down there. Oh, you all… The First church of God, right here on the corner. Or, used to sell Rawleigh’s in time of the–of the depression. A real godly, saintly man. Brother Smith took his place up there. I’ll call his name in a few minutes. He was a God-saved man.
454 Remember, if you don’t walk up to the correction, and you do something wrong as a Christian, God will warn you. And then if you don’t take the warning, He will just take you right off the earth. That’s what He done.

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« 455 † You remember, in the Bible? Look at that Corinthian church. He told them what they was, positionally, in Christ. But he warned them of what was going to happen. And they corrected themselves, got straightened out, with God.
456 And this little brother, he was a wonderful little brother, I believe, a God-saved man. And he got him a job down here at the… at Vorgang’s. If some of his people is setting here, I hope you don’t think that I… I don’t know you if you’re setting here. But, Ramsey, Brother Ramsey, how many remembers Brother Ramsey up here at the church of God? Sure, you do, wonderful little man. And he used to come to my house and we’d talk together, and we’d set there and weep and hold one another’s hands; a real Christian.

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« 457 † One day I went into it down there, just come from overseas in a meeting, had my car checked up, Brother Ramsey said, “What can I do for you, Billy?”
458 I said, “Check her up, Brother Ramsey. Change the oil.”
459 “Okay,” he said, “fine, dandy.” Said, “You have a nice meeting?”
460 I said, “Oh, Brother Ramsey, it was wonderful.” I said, “I wish you could go with me sometime. Why don’t you go with me?”
He said, “I don’t serve the Lord no more, Billy.”
I looked around, I said, “What’d you say?”
461 He just kind of said, “I don’t serve Him no more,” walked away.
462 I thought, “Oh, he’s just going on.” I went on, went somewhere.
463 Come back and got in my car. I come up home. I begin to think about that, “I don’t serve the Lord no more.”
464 The Lord put it on my heart to go back and ask him again. So, I said, “Meda, just hold the fort.”
465 And I got in, and got in my car and went back down, stopped again, went into Vorgang’s. I said, “Brother Ramsey, I want to ask you a question.”
Said, “All right, Billy, what is it?”
I said, “You said, a while ago, you don’t serve the Lord no more. You was just teasing me, wasn’t you?”
He said, “No.”
I said, “Brother Ramsey, you–you don’t mean that.”
He said, “Yes.”
I said, “Don’t you love Him?”
He said, “If I loved Him, I’d serve Him. Wouldn’t I, Billy?” walked away.
I thought. “Say, Brother Ramsey!”
Said, “I don’t want to talk no more about it.”
466 I went home, went in the room, shut the door. And, oh, you know how you feel real heavy, like you’d taken the cookies away from a baby or something, you know. I–I thought, “What? It can’t be. Surely something has happened to Brother Ramsey.”

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« 467 † And there’s a little colored boy, named Jimmy, he comes here to church. Got one leg, you know; he limps, kind of. I forget his name, works down there at Vorgang’s, runs a wrecker. He met me, and he said, “You know, Rev. Branham,” he said, “I don’t know about this here Dr. Ramsey around here.” He said, “I told him, the other day, said, ‘We all was scared to even open our mouth around here.’ Said, ‘You was a godly man.’ But,” said, “He took his preacher’s license and went over to the basket and tore them apart, and throwed them in the basket, said, ‘I don’t want nothing to do with it no more.'”
He said, “Hey, mister!” Said, “You oughtn’t to do that.”
He said, “Oh, Jim, I’m through serving the Lord.”
So he went on, said, “You don’t mean that.”
468 And said, “Then he told me, said he’s coming down to grind his valves, on Labor Day,” I believe it was. “And he said, ‘Now, I want you to come help me, Jim.'”
469 He said, “I’ll help you after I come from church, but first I is going to church.”
470 Said he went back down, “And Mr. Ramsey was grinding the valves on his car. He said, ‘Jimmy, slip over the river. The saloons is closed here. Slip over the river and get me a case of beer.'”
471 He said, “Mr. Ramsey, I has been guilty of many things, but never will I be guilty of getting a servant of the Lord a case of beer.” He said, “No, sir. I’ll never do that.”
472 And he said, “Well, go on. Get it, Jim.”
473 He said, “Mr. Ramsey, I grind your valves. But if you get any beer, you’ll go get it yourself.” He said, “I ain’t going to never get a servant of the Lord anything like that.”
474 So Ramsey jumped in Jimmy’s car, took over the river; come back, half tead up, with a case of beer, drinking it.

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« 475 † He started going down, and got sick. See? God couldn’t speak to him. I warned him, I done everything I could. Brother Smith went to him and warned him. Everybody tried to do everything they could for him. Still, he just shook his head. What happened? He took sick and died. That showed that he was a saved man. If God could not make him… bring him in obedience, He will have to take him out of the earth and bring him Home. That’s exactly what the Bible said. That’s what the Bible promises. If you won’t stand correction, you’ve got to come on Home.
476 So God cannot lose you after He’s saved you, but He can shorten your days here, and make you pay for every sin you’ve done. So, if you sin, you’re going to have to pay for what you’ve done. Just remember that.

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« 477 † Now, now the Lord be with you. I believe, tonight, that Brother Ramsey was saved. Absolutely, I believe it. But he just wouldn’t obey God, and when he wouldn’t obey God, God had to bring him home. That’s the only thing to do, because, what was it? “He would bring reproach and disgrace to the Blood wherewith he was sanctified with.” That right? “And count the covenant an unholy thing,” if that isn’t just exactly what this Hebrew letter said. See? It would be impossible for him to be lost, but he would bring shame and disgrace, so God would have to take him off the earth and bring him Home. That’s exactly what had taken place.
Now may the Lord bless, while we bow our heads just a moment for prayer.

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« 478 † Now, most holy and gracious Father, we are indeed grateful to Thee for the promise that we have, that You will never leave us or forsake us. You’ve promised You’d go with us through life, and in death You’d be near us. You promised us that we had Eternal Life. You gave It to us freely. We can never lose It. “All that comes to Me, has Eternal Life.” And if it’s Eternal Life, It has no end, and You promised to raise us up in the last day. To this we are very grateful. We are thankful that Your Word teaches us this. It gives us a sure hope. It makes us know that our Father is Love. He loves us, and He chose us. You said, “You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you.” And I thank Thee, Father, that Thou has done so. And many are setting here, tonight, and who has been ordained to Eternal Life, and has received Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour. And the fruits of the Spirit follow their life: gentle, meek, humble, love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness. We’re thankful for those.

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« 479 † And we pray, Father, that if there be some in here, tonight, who doesn’t have those fruits to accompany them, but they’re resting upon some fantastic, because they got worked up, one day, because they got emotionally, they felt good, they may have shouted, they might have done many things. But, Father, if they haven’t got the fruit of the Spirit, that keeps them day by day in constant love, forgiving their enemies, making right their wrongs, and living peaceful and loving, and sweet and kind to one another, and a zeal for the Church, a love for Christ and for His children, O Eternal God, forgive them. Though they be members of the church, members of the earthly body, may they go now and lay aside those carnal, dead works, and press on to the perfection. Grant it, Lord. May they come to the perfect One and receive Him as their propitiation for their sins, that He might stand as a perfect sacrifice for a guilty man and a guilty woman. And supply them with His grace of love and peace, until they come into the Presence of God to live forever. Grant it, Father.
While we have our heads bowed:

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« 480 † If there be such a one that would like to swap a carnal life of ordinances, of baptisms, of sensations, of little carnal things like that, for a real heart full of real love, that–that you could walk up to your bitterest enemy, put your arms around him and say, “Brother, I’ll pray for you. I love you.” If you’d like to swap that experience of carnal things for a real experience of love, would you raise your hand to God? And say, “God, take me tonight, and make me what I should be.” I’ll pray for you, right from the pulpit here. Would you desire prayer? Raise your hands.

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« 481 † God bless you back there, sir. God bless you, brother. Someone else? God bless you, sir. “I have been in the church for years.” God bless you, sir. God bless you here, brother. God bless you back there, little lady. “I will ask God to make me peaceful.” Do you… Are you real raging? Are you out of sorts? Do you doubt? Do you toss about? Do you wonder whether It’s really right or not? When you come to Christ, do you come with a full assurance, a heart full of love? Do you walk up to Him without one fear, saying, “I know He’s my Father”?
482 And there’s no condemnation, you’ve passed from death unto Life. You know it. And you notice your life: you’re loving, you’re forgiving, you’re gentle, you’re peaceful, you’re meek. All these fruits of the Spirit accompany your life, day by day. And as soon as you do anything wrong, “Oh, my.” Just as soon as it come to your mind, “you’ve done wrong,” quickly you make it right, right then. Don’t wait another minute, go right then and make it right. If you don’t, well, you don’t have the Spirit of Christ. You might be a good woman, you might be a good man, you might be well thought of in the church, you might be well thought of in the neighborhood, but have you went on to that perfection, to that place to where you’re wholly trusting in Christ? And by this, give you the seal. “Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteous. Then God give him the seal of circumcision, as a confirmation.”

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« 483 † Now you say, “I believe God. I made a confession.” But did God give you the seal of the Holy Spirit, back on your life, of love, joy, fruits of the Spirit, to prove that you’ve been saved? If He hasn’t done that, then He hasn’t recognized your faith yet. You’ve just made a confession. He hasn’t accepted it, there is something wrong. Would you like to receive Him, then? Raise your hand, if there’s someone else, before we pray.
484 God bless you, young lady. God bless you back there, too. God bless you. All right. Someone else, just before we pray? All right. God bless you, back there, sister. God bless you, brother. God bless you, brother. God bless you, my brother. That’s right. Some ten, fifteen hands has been up.
Now let’s pray.

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« 485 † Blessed Lord, at their seat, they’re finding an altar. It’s at their seat, where they’re sitting now, that You spoke to their hearts, that they’re “wrong.” It’s at their seats that You’ve put a desire in their heart, that they “long to be more like Jesus.”
486 They want their life changed. They want to be meek and humble. They want to be gentle and full of patience. They want to be long-suffering, forbearing. They want to be so Christian-like, so Christ-like, till the world will say, as they go down the street, “That man is really a Christian. That woman is really a Christian. Oh, they’re the most gentle, meekest, sweetest people!”
487 Grant it, Lord, that they will receive that experience, tonight. And may they never rest upon their church ability, upon their affiliations with any church, any denomination; or neither upon their emotions, upon any fantastic, such as emotionally, something that’s happened; may they shouted, spoke in tongues, or something else.

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« 488 † O Eternal God, let them not try to trust to get to Heaven on that, for we seen it so many times miserably fail. And You said it would fail, “Whether it’s tongues, it shall cease! Where there’s prophecy, it shall vanish. Where there’s knowledge, it shall vanish. Oh, all these things, or even gifts, miracles of healing, they shall all be done away with. Only that Divine love shall last.”
489 God, create that in their heart, and let them know that that is the Spirit that brings forth the fruits. Do it just now, Lord, while we wait on Thee, for we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« 490 † [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] Balls of fire flying, and to see turtledoves going back and forth through the building, to see Christ come in with thorns in His hands, and in His… Oh, did you know that’s the antichrist setup? He said, “When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, your redemption is drawing nigh.” Then that’s the reason I like to press every minute I can to the church, and get you solid. Brother Neville may not always be with us. I believe Brother Neville to be a good, sound Gospel teacher. We don’t know what will wind its way into this pulpit, and, when it does get here, “My sheep know My Voice.” Stay with that Word. Don’t you never leave that Word. You stay right with It. You stand fast in the liberty where Christ has made you free. Be not entangled in all those yokes of bondage and so forth. Stand fast, and stand free. God will bless you. We have nothing in the world to fear about.

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« 491 † You’re always wondering. I notice people come to be prayed for, they’ll sidle into the line. Next time they see a healing campaign, they’ll go into this line, they’ll go into this line. I don’t condemn them. They’re trying to find relief, but they’re going the wrong way. You’re doing vice versa, what God said not to do. See? When you walk up boldly to the Throne of grace, and believe, that, “You asked, you shall receive.” Stay with It. That’s the way it’s done; not just trot from mission to mission, from church to church, from campaign to campaign.
492 Why, they made these healing campaigns like a bunch of nonsense. Certainly, they have. It’s become to a place where, intelligent people, they look around and they wonder what it’s all about. There, God don’t want those things. Healing don’t have to be in campaigns. Healing should be in every local church, all these gifts operating. But don’t go to seed on those gifts. Don’t pay any attention to the gift. If God wants to use you for something, He will do it. But, look after the Giver.

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« 493 † Martin Luther, once after speaking in tongues, he was asked why he didn’t preach it, he said, “If I preached that, my people will go after the gift instead of the Giver.” That’s right.
494 Moody, one time, speaking, and begin, when he was preaching so under inspiration, he spoke in tongues. He said, “God, forgive me for muttering foolish words.” Certainly. See? And they had those things. We believe those things, but they must be put in their place. And they must not be set as evidences.
495 There’s not one thing left in the Bible, as “evidence of the Holy Ghost,” only the fruits of the Spirit. Find out any place that Jesus said so. Yes, sir. The evidence of the Holy Ghost is the fruit of your Spirit. Jesus said so, “By their fruit you shall know them.” “And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, peace, gentleness, meekness. And the fruit of the enemy is enmity, hatred, malice, strife, and so forth; that’s the fruit of the enemy.” So, you can judge by the way you’re living, where you’re standing with God. If your whole heart is in love with Him, and you love Him and are gentle, and live with Him daily, you know you’ve passed from death unto Life. If it isn’t, and you’re otherwise, you’re just impersonating a Christian. That’s right. Which, all carnal impersonations will certainly be exposed. We know that.

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« 496 † So, don’t live that kind of a life, you don’t have to. Why would you accept a substitute, when the whole skies above are full of the good and the real? Certainly. Let me take God, that’s what I want. Amen.
497 Now, did anybody come to be prayed for? If you did, raise your hand. We had the healing service this morning. I suppose then… This lady here? All right, sister, would you come forward then? And our brother, elder, here, come now for the anointing.
[Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]
… shine on me;
Oh, shine on me, Lord, shine on me,
Let the Light from the lighthouse shine on me.

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« 498 † Isn’t He wonderful? Let’s just bow our heads, real quietly now. And, Shine On Me, again. Now, come on now, everybody, that, “Shine…” Just worship Him in your soul now, see, getting quiet. The healing service is coming on. The message is over. Let’s worship.
Let the Light from the lighthouse shine on me;
Oh, shine on me, Lord, shine on me.
Let the Light from the lighthouse shine on me.
Just to be like Jesus, to be like Jesus,
Oh, on earth I long to be like Him;
All through life’s journey from earth to Glory,
I only ask to be like Him.
We’ll walk in the Light, such a beautiful Light,
Come where the dewdrops of mercy are bright;
Shine all around us, by day and by night,
Jesus, the Light of the world.
All ye saints of Light proclaim,
Jesus, the Light of the world,
Then the bells of Heaven will ring,
Jesus, the Light of…
Receive us, Lord, as we worship Thee.
We’ll walk in the Light, beautiful Light,
Come where the dewdrops of mercy are bright;
Shine all around us by day and by night,
Jesus the Light of the world.

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« 499 † Don’t you just love that scouring out? You feel good? Raise your hand, tell. There’s something about those old-fashioned songs, the old-time hymn, I’d rather have them than all these new worldly songs put in, and in Christian churches. I like that old time, I like.
Jesus, keep me near the cross, (My!)
There a precious fountain,
Free to all, a healing stream,
Flows from Calvary fountain.
In the cross, in the cross,
Oh, be my glory ever;
Till my raptured soul shall find
Rest beyond the river.

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« 500 † I could go out of the world pretty easy when that’s being sang. Couldn’t you? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] How wonderful! Has it all settled? You know, I’m glad I done settled it all up. Aren’t you? [“Amen.”] The old account is all settled, long time ago. I told Him, “Lord, I don’t want any trouble down at the river. I–I want to be sure now.” I want to know Him. I want to know Him.
501 There’s a big, dark pit set before every one of us. We’re headed that way. Every time our heart beats, we’re closer and closer. But when I get there, I don’t want to squirm like a coward, I want to wrap myself in the robes of His righteousness, enter into it, knowing this, that, “I know Him in the power of His resurrection.” That, when He calls, I’ll come out from among the dead. My!

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« 502 † My Faith Looks Up To Thee, let’s sing it now.
My faith looks up to Thee,
Thou Lamb of Calvary,
O Saviour Divine.
Now hear me while I pray,
Take all my sins away,
Nor let me ever stray
From Thee aside.
503 Now, great Teacher, as Thou has taught us in Thy most marvelous Word, our hearts just quiver, with rapturing grace, to know that we’ve passed from death unto Life. Is all through the goodness of our Lord Jesus, who called us, and has washed us in His Blood, and has presented us before the Throne of God, faultless, blameless, for He took our sins. We have no sin. “God laid the iniquity of us all upon Him, and He was wounded for our transgressions.” Oh, how we love Him, the great Lamb of God!
504 And we pray, Father, that You’ll give us utterance, expressions, that we can tell others; that they might know Him, too, and love Him, for He loves them. Give us this grace.
And thank You, Father, for those new-born babies that just come into the kingdom of God. May they find a good church home somewhere, and there serve You until death liberates them from this old body of rack pains and aches, and present them before Him, faultless, blameless, in the age to come, with Eternal Life. For we ask it in His Name. Amen. `

–Rev. William Marrion Branham
–copied from The Table Software, available from VGR

Notice from branhamtabernacle.org:

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Greetings in the precious Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It would be hard for me to express how much I MISS EACH OF YOU. Father knows how much I long to be with you again. I have been streaming each of the services as it is a point of contact with you, which I am thankful for, but there is nothing like being there with you, seeing your faces, and worshipping the Lord in Spirit and in Truth TOGETHER.

We unfortunately will not have service tomorrow, as they have snow and freezing conditions in the forecast. Once again, however, I would like to encourage you to listen to the next Message in the Hebrews Series at your home: Hebrews Chapter Five and Six #1. If you are like me, I can hardly wait to come together as a body of believers again and listen to these wonderful lessons. It is just one of MANY nuggets in the Message when Brother Branham speaks about the Scripture, Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection… AMEN! Be under anticipation this Wednesday night to hear what that Scripture is all about…for it is our duty in THIS DAY to move on into PERFECTION. I can HARDLY WAIT to hear this Message with you, my friends.

Thank you for all your prayers for me while I am gone, and I certainly will continue to remember each of you in my prayers likewise.

May God richly bless you.

Brother Joseph

Message: 57-0908M 16-0120 Hebrews Chapter 5 and 6

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« 1 † ` … of–of the Book of Hebrews. Then we get into the 7th, the Melchisedec priesthood. And then we get in, from the Melchisedec priesthood, into that great days of an atonement, and separating, dividing the atonements. Then into that great faith chapter, the 11th chapter. And the 12th chapter, “Laying aside every weight.” And the 13th chapter, “That Eternal Home not built by man’s hands; but God, alone, who has made this great home.” How wonderful!

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« 2 † I’m glad to see our sister back there, that’s just entered the service. I see her and her husband. Yesterday, we were on our road up, across a place that… I thought that I knowed every little crack and corner, by being game warden here in Indiana, and patrol for several years. I knowed every place. But I could have got lost yesterday, up there where they was at, on top of the knobs, a new road.
3 And the lady had cancer in the lungs, and the Lord definitely healed the woman. We took… Oh, and how it all come, we were setting there. Brother Roberson, he is probably in, today. I see his wife, and Brother Woods, which is in. And we were up there in an old truck, Brother Roberson and I, and Brother Woods. And we got this truck, went up there, top of the hill. And there the Lord showed the cancer definitely. And then we stood there and watched it leave the woman. With our own eyes, we stood and watched it leave the woman. And she called back to Brother Wood’s wife; and was telling me, she was spitting up that real black stuff. And here she is this morning, setting back in the church, her and her beloved husband, having a wonderful time in the Lord. Isn’t He wonderful? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
4 And I didn’t know that the… Here, usually, to the people that’s around, very seldom visions happen here. This is my home. And, I mean, in the church.

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« 5 † Sunday, a week, we… How many was here to see the man in the wheel chair? Blind, crippled, unbalanced, and mental nerves gone, and Mayo’s had give him up. And–and some Catholic doctor friend of mine sent him up here. And before coming to the service, the Lord gave a vision of the man. You all know that. And there the man was healed, by THUS SAITH THE LORD. See? And then got up, walked out, took his wheel chair, could see like you could or I can. And walked out of the building pushing his chair, normally. And the balance nerve… You know, you can’t hold yourself up. See, you just can’t. And for years it’s that.

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« 6 † And yesterday when I got there, the lady had been having a dream of seeing me come in, just at two o’clock, and pronounce her “with cancer,” and then, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘she was healed.'” And–and she woke up, and it was just exactly two o’clock. And the Spirit of the Lord came down, and there that–that dream that she had, and the Lord gave the interpretation. And she was healed right there on the spot, right there where we was watching. How wonderful!
7 Can’t think of her name. What is it? What is your name, sister? Walton, Sister Walton, setting back there. Would you just stand up, Sister Walton? Want to ask you how you’re feeling. [Sister Walton says, “It’s just wonderful.”–Ed.] Amen. That’s good, fine and dandy. He is so good, to bless us in that manner. So we’re expecting the exceedingly, abundantly, of God’s great measure.

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« 8 † A doctor had keeping this back from her. He told her that “she was only breathing out of one side.” What it was, the cancer had growed across and cut the breathing off of that side of the lung, you see. You can’t see cancer through x-ray, because cancer is a cell, itself, and it’s–it’s life. And you… You just–you just look right through the cancer, with an x-ray. You don’t see it.
9 And, but the Lord has really… We stood there and watched it, ourselves, with our own eyes. Watch it moving, and seen it leave, with our own eyes. So, we’re so grateful for that.

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« 10 † And now, pray now for us, this week, while we’re gone. And Brother Neville will probably take up where I left off, for the Wednesday night service. Don’t miss it now, in this great chain of the Book of the Revelation.
11 I know much prayer has been offered, and we–we know that God hears prayer. But we, this morning, we want to offer just a little prayer before the reading of the Book. Now, any person that’s able, can read the Book this way, or can open it this way. But it takes God, alone, to open the understanding, for He’s the only One who can do it.
So let us bow our heads just a moment.
12 Now, Father, in the Name of Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus, we most humbly come now to submit ourselves, as Thy servants, that You would speak through us. Circumcise the lips that speak and the ears that hear, that the Word might be spoke by God and heard by the Spirit, in the people. Grant it, Father. May He take the Word of God and minister to us just as we have need, for we ask it in His Name and for His glory. Amen.

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« 13 † Now, reading this morning, we’re studying. We’re not–not preaching; just studying this Book of Hebrews. How many is enjoying it? Oh, we’re having a wonderful time! And now just studying close, Scripture upon Scripture. It must… The whole, entire Bible ties together. There’s not one Word out of Its place, if It be placed together by the Holy Spirit.
14 Now, man has said, “The Bible contradicts Itself.” I want to see it. I’ve asked, twenty-five years, for that, and no one has ever showed it yet. The Bible does not contradict. If it is, it isn’t the Bible. The great, infinite Jehovah could not contradict His own Self, so there’s no contradiction in the Bible. It’s just the misunderstandings of peoples.

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« 15 † Now for a little background, till we go back. Now, the Book of Hebrews was written by Saint Paul, to the Hebrews. He wrote one to the Ephesians, that was the people at Ephesus, the Christian Church; one to the Romans at Rome; and one to the Galatians; and one to the Hebrews.
16 Now, we notice that Paul, being a Bible teacher, to begin with. That’s what we learned. That he set under the great teacher, one of the greatest of his days, Gamaliel. And he was well versed in the Old Testament. He knew it well. But became a persecutor of the way that was Christ’s Way, because he had been trained in the Old Testament under teachers. But the teachers, usually carnal… I hope I don’t say anything wrong.
17 But, usually, if a man has just the teaching and the way of the schools, it’s usually man-made. See, it isn’t inspired, because it becomes a doctrine of a school. We have it today. Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostal, all these schools have their theory, and they just wind the Scriptures into this.

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« 18 † And it was the same in the Old Testament. But, Paul, being well trained, and knew the Scriptures by the word. But, you see, the Scriptures, no matter how well you know them, if the Spirit doesn’t quicken them, then the letter killeth. The Spirit giveth Life. See, it must be quickened, or made alive, by the Spirit. If the Spirit doesn’t liven the Word and make It a reality to you, then the letter is just intellectual. That’s where we have so many confessed Christians today, or professed Christians, is that intellectual conception of Christ.
19 Then we got off on, “Well, he had to feel something; and you had to do something.” And, oh, we’ll get into all that, after while. One had to shout. The Methodists used to have to shout, ‘fore they had it. The Pentecostals had to speak with tongues, before they had it. And, oh, some of them, the Shakers, used to have to shake. Yeah. The old… They’d walk up-and-down, man on one side, women on the other. See? Shakers. Then the Holy Spirit come on them and shook them. “They had It.” But it’s all just fantastics. There’s none of it the Truth.

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« 20 † God lives in His Word. “Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word. “By faith are you saved, through grace.” Not by anything, whether you shake, or speak with tongues, or whatever takes place. That has nothing to do into it, at all. Jesus said, “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Eternal Life. He that heareth My Word and believeth, been made quickened to him, hath Eternal Life.” There it is. Doesn’t matter what little thing that you do.
21 Now, I’m not against shaking, or speaking with tongues, or shaking, oh, that–that shouting. That’s all right. That’s fine. But that’s only attributes. See? I could give you an apple off the tree, and you still wouldn’t have the tree. See? You… It’s the attributes.

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« 22 † Lying, stealing, drinking, smoking, gambling, committing adultery, that’s not sin, that’s the attributes of unbelief. See? That’s what you–you… You do that because you are a sinner. See? But first you are a sinner. That’s what make you do that, because you do not believe. And if you do believe, then you do not do that. Then you have love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, gentleness, meekness, patience. That’s the fruit of the Holy Spirit. See?
23 So we got little things, little sensations, is because that man got off of the old, beaten path of the Word. It’s the Word. “Faith cometh by hearing.”

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« 24 † So when Paul… God chose Paul. Man chose Matthias. When he… They cast the lots, but he never did nothing. That shows what a power the church has then, to make a choice, to elect their deacons, and send their preachers to different places. That’s carnal, many time.
25 Let a man go where God leads him to go. I like that. If the people in a conference just say, “Well, here’s a nice church. This brother has built up a nice church. And we have a little pet.” They’ll send him over to this church. They don’t realize they’re killing theirselves. See? First place, if that man goes in there, he can’t fill that man’s place. Then they only weaken the church, to try to show favor to some pet. It’s always been that way.
26 But I believe in the supreme authority of the local assembly. Yes. Let each church be its own, choose its pastors, its deacons, its, whatever it is. And then, that way, the man in there has no bishop over him. The Holy Spirit wants to speak something to that church, they don’t have to ask anybody about whether they could do this or do that. It’s the individual in contact with the Holy Spirit. Show me by the Bible what’s greater, in the Bible, than a local elder to a local church? That’s right, yes, sir, the sovereignty of the local church, each church in itself. Now, brotherhood, that’s wonderful. All churches ought to be in a brotherhood like that, together. But the sovereignty of local church!

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« 27 † Notice Paul, being a great master teacher, well trained, on his road down to Damascus, one day, to arrest the people that were in this new Way. Now, he was sincere. God does not judge you by your sincerity. I never seen any more sincere people than the heathens. Many of them even kill their own children, in vain, for–for sacrifice to an idol. It’s not the sincerity. A man could take carbolic acid, sincerely, thinking he was taking something else. Sincerity doesn’t save you. “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.”
Paul was sincere when he gave witness, in his own authority, to stone Stephen. Later on in years, I like the apology of Paul, he said, “I’m not worthy to be called the disciple or to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the Church even unto death.” With sincerity!

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« 28 † And on his road down, he struck an experience. The Holy Spirit come out in a big Pillar of Fire, and It blinded him. Now, we’ve went through that, that Pillar of Fire was Christ. And He’s the same Pillar of Fire that led the children through the wilderness. Christ was God, and God was Christ. God was made flesh and dwelt in the body of the Lord Jesus. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself,” showing what He was.
29 In the Bible back here, in the former verses we been reading, that, “He made Hisself lower than the Angels. Taken on the form, not of Angels, but taken on a form of flesh.” Angels had not fallen, they need no redemption. Flesh had fell, human beings, and they needed redemption. So, in the old laws, a man, to be a–a redeemer, first he had to be kinfolks; the great Book of Ruth, we went through here, sometime ago. And how that God, being Spirit, was made kinfolks with us, by becoming one of us, in order to redeem us and give us Eternal Life. He had to become us, that we through grace might become as He.

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« 30 † And we find the Pillar of Fire led the children of Israel. And when It was made flesh here on earth, we hear Him talking one day, and He claimed that He was the Pillar of Fire. They said, “You say that you’re greater than our father Abraham?”
31 He said, “Before Abraham was, I AM.” Who was the I AM? The Pillar of Fire in the burning bush, a perpetual memorial through every generation; not only that generation, but this generation, the same Pillar of Fire. And we’re thankful this morning that we even have the picture of It, that He has not changed. He’s the Immortal, Eternal, Blessed One. He does the same things now that He did then, and how happy it makes us feel.

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« 32 † But before Paul would accept this experience… Knowing that the Angel of the Lord was the Pillar of Fire, which was Christ, the… Well, He was the Angel of the Covenant, which was Christ. Moses thought better, that, chose rather to suffer the afflictions with the people of Christ, and to be led by Christ, than all the treasures of Egypt. He followed Christ, which was in the form of a Pillar of Fire.
33 Then Christ said, “I came from God,” when He was here on earth, “I go back to God.” After His death, burial, resurrection, glorified body setting at the right hand of the Majesty, to make intercession; Paul saw Him as the Pillar of Fire, again: a Light that put his eyes out, almost; smote him blind.
34 Peter saw Him come into the jail as a Light, and open the doors before him as he went out. We find out that He was the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last.
35 And here He is with us, today, doing the very same things that He did then, making Hisself visible back to us, showing it to the scientific world.

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« 36 † Oh, in this great hour of darkness and chaos over the earth, we should be the happiest people in the whole earth, to rejoice, to know. All the time, when people are indocumated, and all kinds of isms and things in the earth, and yet, today, the real, living God, by His Word and by His visible evidence, shows us that He’s here with us, working, moving, living, acting just exactly as He always did. What a privileged people that we are, to have this! We ought to… The Bible said, then, in the 2nd chapter, “We should hold fast these things. Because, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?”

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« 37 † Now, we come on to find out, before Paul would accept that experience… Now, we’re drilling. Now, no matter what kind of an experience you ever have, church, I want to ask you something. No matter how good it looks, how real it seems, it first must be tested by the Bible. Always on the Word! Don’t never leave That, for any kind of experience.
38 And Paul, before he would accept it, he went down into Arabia, and there stayed three years, testing this experience with the Word. And when he come back, he was sure. Nothing could upset him, for he was solid on the Word, unmoveable. And here is where he’s turning now to show to these Hebrews, those great things that was spoke of, of the Old Testament, was made manifest in Jesus Christ. What a glory!

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« 39 † Now, last Sunday, or last Wednesday, Brother Neville in here, in the 5th chapter, hit some very high places,’cause it’s a wonderful chapter. And we find him dealing on the 4th chapter, last Sunday, on the Sabbath, the keeping of the Sabbath. Are you sure, this morning, you know what the keeping of the Sabbath is? If you do, say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
40 The Sabbath is the “Rest” that we enter into, not by day, not by law, but by entering into Christ which is our Sabbath. He is our Sabbath. We run it all through the Old Testament, and showed that the time would come when the Word would come “line upon line, precept upon precept.” And He proved that we entered His Rest on the Day of Pentecost, “For this would cause the weary to rest, cease.”

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« 41 † We find out, that, “God limited a day in David, about the seventh day.” And, “God did rest the seventh.” Give it to the–the children of Israel in the wilderness. “And again, He limited a day.” What day was it? A certain day in the week? “The day when you hear His Voice, harden not your heart.” That’s the day He’s entering in, to give you an Eternal peace, an Eternal Sabbath.
42 You don’t go to church on Sunday, to become religious, then. When you’re born of the Spirit of God, you enter into Rest forever, no more sabbath-keeping. You’re in the Sabbath, continually, forever, and for Eternity. “Your worldly works has finished,” says the Bible, “and you’ve entered into this blessed peace.”

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« 43 † These first five chapters are positionally placing Jesus as High Priest. “God in sundry times and divers manners spake to the fathers through the prophets, but in this last day through His Son, Jesus,” 1st chapter, 1st verse.
44 Then on down to the ending up of the 5th chapter, we find Him represented as “Melchisedec, who had no beginning of days, no ending of your life, but continually a Priest forever.” Think of it. Who was this great Man? We’ll get it, in about two more chapters. The entire life of Him, we’re going to study. “This great Man who met Abraham, who never had any papa, never had any mama. He never had any time He ever begin life, or He never will have a time that He will ever end life. And He met Abraham coming from the slaughters of the king.”
45 Notice this great Person, whoever He was, is still alive. He had no end of life. It was Christ, he met. We’re going on a deep study of that, in a few days.

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« 46 † Now, we want to start over here in the 5th chapter now, just for a little background before we hit the–the 6th, for it’s really an outstanding something. Watch close. We’re going to start about the 7th verse of this chapter. Well, let’s start at the 6th verse.
As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Who in his days of his flesh, when he… offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying… tears unto… was him was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Though he was a Son, yet learned… obedience by the things which he suffered;
47 Now here is where I want to get to, this 9th verse. Listen. I guess Brother Neville hit it, Wednesday. I wasn’t here. Well, listen.
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
Of whom we have many things to say,…
48 We leave it there on that, ’cause we’re going to pick up Melchisedec in a few nights.

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« 49 † Now we’re going to start on this, our regular study. I wish… I’ll just read the rest of this for a moment, the 11th verse.
Of whom we have many things to say,… hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
For when… the time ye ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, instead of strong meat.
For every one that uses milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Oh, I hope that Holy Spirit is taken that right down in the bottom of you now.
For he that–that uses milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he’s a baby.
50 You give a baby strong meat, you kill it. That’s the reason so many people say, “Ah, I–I don’t believe that,” and walk away. Still babies! They just can’t understand. They can’t grasp that Truth. It–It kills them. Great, mighty things the church should know today, but you couldn’t teach It. They–they–they–they–they stumble over It. They don’t know what to do with It.

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« 51 † Paul, speaking to this Hebrew group… Yet, scholars he is speaking to now, scholars, well learned. We find that, in a few–a few moments, very scholarly. But the deep spiritual Mystery, the church is still blinded to It. He said, “When you ought to be teaching others, you’re still a babe.”
52 Oh, I know there’s many rise up and go out and say, “Oh, I don’t need to go to church anymore. Praise God, the Holy Ghost has come, He’s the teacher.” When you get that idea, you’re just wrong. For why did the Holy Ghost set teachers in the church, if He was going to be the teacher? See? There are first apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors. The Holy Spirit set teachers in the church, so He could teach through that teacher. And if it–it isn’t according to the Word, God doesn’t confirm it, then it isn’t the right kind of teaching. It must compare with the entire Bible, and be just as alive today as It was then. There’s the real thing made manifest.

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« 53 † Now notice.
But strong meat belongeth to them that are… full age, even those who by reasons use… have used their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Know what’s right and what’s wrong, by the discernment.
54 Now notice, starting now on our lesson. This great background now, let’s go for the 1st verse.
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ,…
What’s he saying? All these first five chapters has been laid on Christ, to show who He is. Now we’re leaving those principles of the doctrines of Christ.

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« 55 † What do we find Him to be? We found Him to be the Great Jehovah God made manifest in flesh. We found Him to–to be not a prophet, but the fulness of the Godhead bodily. He was Jehovah made flesh. And the body, Jesus, only tabernacled Him. God dwelling in man. God being reconciled to man, through man, by the virgin birth of His own Son. And Jehovah, the Spirit, dwelt in Him.
56 Now, how many remembers the teaching about the Godhead, how we went back and found God like the great rainbow with all the different Spirit, how It was? And then the Logos went out of God, which become the theophany, and that was in the form of a man. And Moses seen It pass by, in the cleft of the rock. And then that theophany was made absolutely human flesh, Christ.
And how we find out that we, through His grace, have Eternal Life. Now, the word forever is “for a distance; for a space of time.” It said, in the Bible, “Forever and forever,” a conjunction. But forever only means “a time.” But Eternal means forever. And only everything that had a beginning has an end, but things which had no beginning has no end. So God had no beginning and He has no end.

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« 57 † And so, therefore, Melchisedec, the great Priest, like a man, He had no beginning and He has no end. And when we, through that theophany, that, we were made in the image of God before the world was ever made; when that theophany has been made flesh and dwelt among us, then, through His death, we ourselves receive His Spirit and we have no end; Eternal Life; not Angels, but men and women. Oh, I… Somehow, if I could only get it in a way that my–my audience would catch it! You will never be an Angel. God made Angels, but God made man. And what God does is off of God, which is as Eternal as God is. And man is just as Eternal as his Creator, because he was made from Eternity.

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« 58 † But sin has an end, suffering has an end. Therefore, there cannot be an Eternal hell. There’s a hell, fire and brimstone, we know that, but there’s no Eternal hell. There’s only one type of Eternal Life and that belongs to God. If you’re to suffer forever, you got Eternal Life. Hell has an end, it may be billions of years, but it’ll finally come to an end.
59 The Bible doesn’t say, anywhere, that they suffered Eternally, said, “Forever and forever.” Jonah thought he was in the belly of the whale “forever,” too. Forever has a distance or a time limit. But Eternal is perpetual, it has no beginning or end. It’s like a ring, a circle. And as our time moves on, we’re only in revolving around the great motives of God.

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« 60 † God’s motive was to make man in His image, to fellowship with Him. And He made him a tangible being. Now, sin brought us into a place of–of–of corruption, but that never stops the program of God. And, sinner friend, today, if you’re not born again of the Spirit of God, you have an end somewhere. And your end is chaos, in ruin, and suffering and misery. But to you who have believed on the Lord Jesus, and accepted the same as your personal Saviour, it’s just as Eternal as God is Eternal. You have no end, “I give unto them Eternal Zoe, God’s Own Life, and they will never perish or come into the judgment even, but has passed from death unto Life.” That’s what He was. That’s what He come for.

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« 61 † Now, Jesus, in His coming, of His priesthood, did not come just for a sympathy’s sake. Many people teach it like that, that He come, saying, “Well, maybe if I suffer, I will be a–a–a pitiful sight and people will surely come to Me.” That’s an error. There’s no Scripture for that.
For, every person that ever will be saved, God knew them before the world was ever formed. The Bible said so. “God is not willing now that anybody should perish.” He wants them all to come to repentance. But, being God, by foreknowledge He knew it.
62 Look in Romans, 8th chapter. Paul was holding up there, saying about the election of God, that, “Esau and Jacob, before either baby was born, or anything, God said that He knew them and He hated Esau and loved Jacob,” before either boy had a–had a chance to express their gratitude, for He was God. He know… He is infinite. If He is infinite, He knowed every flea, every fly, every gnat, everything that’d ever be on the earth. He knew it. He’s the infinite, Eternal, immortal, blessed God, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. There is nothing that He doesn’t know. That’s the reason He can tell what the end will be. He knowed the end from the beginning.

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« 63 † What is prophetic is just His knowledge. He’s the chief attorney. He, He’s the… He’s the judge. And He just speaks to the–the lawyer some of His wisdom. And that’s what prophecy is, that can foretell it, because He knows what’s going to be. Now, there is the God that we serve. Not a god of history, not like the Buddhas and the Mohammedans, and so forth. But, a God that’s omnipresent, right now here, this morning, in this tabernacle right now; Great Jehovah, I AM, Who formed Himself in humility, to take on the form of sinful flesh. Here He is. That’s who redeemed you. There can be no other, nowhere, at no time can do it.
64 God didn’t have three people up there, and sent one of them, His Son. It was God, Himself, come in the form of a Son. A son has a beginning, and the Son had a beginning. That, some of you dear Catholic people, I got your book, Facts Of Our Faith, said, “The Eternal sonship of God.” How you going to express that word? How you going to make it have sense? How can it be Eternal? That’s not the Bible. That’s your book, “Eternal sonship.” They don’t… That word is not right. For, anything that’s a son had a beginning, and Eternal has no beginning, so it isn’t Eternal sonship. Christ become flesh and dwelt among us. He had a beginning. Wasn’t no Eternal sonship. It’s the Eternal Godhead, not sonship. Now, He came to redeem us, and He did redeem us.

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« 65 † Now, Paul, getting there, which I’m sure that through the past lessons you’ve understood it. We’ll go over it again, sometime, the Lord willing, just verse by verse, now.
Therefore having… leaving the–the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection;…
66 That stumbles them. Doesn’t it? Let us do what?
… let’s go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundations…

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« 67 † Watch this. Let’s get this word “perfection.” Do you know there’s only one way you’ll stand in the Presence of God? That’s, perfect. God cannot tolerate unholy things.
68 And you legalists: how could you ever perfect yourself, when you have not one thing to perfect yourself with? You were born in sin. Your very conception was in sin. The very desire of you being here was sin. “Born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies.” Now where are you going to stand at?
69 Where you, sinner, that–that said, “I’ll quit smoking. I’ll go to Heaven”? Where are you, lukewarm, mossback, so-called Christian, that goes around here with a long face and saying, that, “Well, I belong to the church”? You sinner. That’s right. Unless you are born of the Spirit of God, you’re lost. That’s true.

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« 70 † How you going to Heaven? You say, “I never lied in my life. Oh, the little darling. It–it was just an Angel, to begin with.” That’s a lie. I don’t care how good you are; you’re a sinner. And you don’t have one thing; there’s no priest, no bishop, no cardinal, no pope, nor nothing else can save you, ’cause he’s just the same boat that you’re in. We’re getting into it in a few minutes. Just in the same shape he was. The pope of Rome was born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies, born by the sexual desire of a man and a woman. Where you going to get righteous out of that?
71 “Well, his papa and mama were born the same way, and they were born the same way, and his grandma and grandpa and on back.” It’s sin, to begin with!

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« 72 † So who can say that this is holy and that is holy? There is only one thing holy, that’s Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, Who has been made Perfect. And our requirement is to be perfect. Now, how we going to be it? Try it, yourself. I’d hate to try to get to Heaven on the merits of, “I was born five minutes ago, and going out of the world right now.” I’d be lost. If I never had an evil thought in my life, if I never spoke a bad word in my life, if I never looked at anything evil, never thought anything evil, or nothing, I’m just as rank and black as the smutty walls of hell. I’m a sinner.
73 I could come through life and stay locked up in a room, and like some of the Carmelite sisters or something, and never see the world, stay in there and pray all my life, do good, born a multimillionaire and give to the poor everything I got, and I’m still a sinner and will go to hell. Yes, sir.

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« 74 † I might join the Lutheran church, Baptist, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, when I’m on the cradle roll, and live faithful to that church until a hundred years, and my life is took, and no man could point their finger at me and say “He ever even as had as much as a bad thought,” I’ll go to hell just as sure as I’m standing.
75 I’m a sinner. That’s correct. I have nothing. There’s no way, at all, I could find any–any price to be paid. God required death. And if I give my own life, if I give my life, then how can I repent? Cause, you… The debt has got to be paid, first. And God was the only One who could lay His life down and take It up again. So He could become sin, and lay His Life down and pick It up, and call it “justice,” and the debt is paid. There you are.

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« 76 † Now let’s turn to Matthew, about the 8th chapter, I believe it is, 7th or 8th chapter. We’ll see what Jesus says over here. All right. It’s Matthew, the 5th chapter. And the… Jesus, preach, preaching in the beatitudes, the 47th verse.
And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more than others? do not even the publicans…? (Watch.)
But be ye therefore perfect,… (What?)
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
That was Jesus’ commandment, “Be ye so.”
77 They say, “Nobody can be perfect, the Bible said, ‘There is none perfect.’ There’s your contradiction.” Is it? All right.
78 You cannot be perfect in yourself. If you’re trusting in what you done, you’re lost. “So be ye perfect, even just as perfect as God is perfect.” Now:
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father… in heaven is perfect.
79 “Therefore…” Now the 5th chapter, 6th chapter of Hebrews.
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection;…

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« 80 † Now, you, Branham Tabernacle. Oh, I know, “We have healings.” That’s wonderful. “We have visions.” Oh, that’s–that’s fine. And you have spiritual dreams, and sometimes they’re not spiritual dreams. And–and sometimes you… “We, we try to help the poor. We do what we can.” Oh, that’s all right, but that’s not what we’re talking about now. We’re entering into another phase.
… leaving… the doctrine…
81 “Oh, yes, we got the doctrine of Christ. We believe He was the Son of God, is virgin-born. We believe that, with all these things.” That is just wonderful.

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« 82 † But, “Leaving that, let’s go on to perfection.” Oh, my! Wish I had the voice of an archangel now, to bring this to a place where you could see it. Now he says, “Leaving all the doctrine of Christ,” all the–the theologians, and all the theology that we know, all about the Deity of Christ, how He was God made flesh, all these other things.
83 Paul goes on to explain it all here, just in a few minutes. Let’s just read it, just a little bit, before we get to it.
… laying again the foundations of repentance from dead works…
Now, we believe that.
… and faith towards God,
We believe that.
And of the doctrine of baptisms,…
Just how you must be baptized, we believe that.
… and of laying on of hands,
We believe in laying on of hands. Don’t we? See, all that, sure.
… and of the resurrection of the dead,…

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« 84 † We believe that. Now watch. You see here, “Judgment,” is used, “Eternal.” That’s forever. When judgment is spoke of God, it’s forever. Then, there can be no more reconciliation after judgment has been past. Now you can understand why God had to take His Own–His Own, as we’d call it, His Own medicine. When He condemned man for sinning, the only way He could reconcile, was to take the man’s place Himself. That’s the only way he can be reconciled, or could reconcile us, was take our place and become a sinner. God, Jehovah, became a sinner, and He gave His life.
85 Now, you could give your life, as a sinner, to die for the cause. Paul said, “Though I give my body to be burnt as a sacrifice, I’m still nothing,” ’cause it won’t work. See, when you die, you’re gone. You die as a sinner, you’re lost.
86 “But God came down in flesh, and condemned sin in the flesh, being made sinful flesh.” Because, He was the Eternal God, and raised His own body up, so He’s the justifier.

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« 87 † Now, all these things, “Let’s go on to perfection,” said Paul. Now what?
… of eternal judgment.
… this we’ll do,… God permit. (3rd verse.)
88 Now, “Go on to perfection.” Jesus said, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.”
And we’re, every one, condemned. No matter what we ever do, we’re condemned. We were born, condemned. Your mama and papa was born, condemned. You, all your ancestors, was born in sin, shaped in iniquity. So how you ever going to get it? How you going to be perfect? If you never done a thing, never stole, never lied, never done anything in your life, you’re still condemned. You was condemned before you breathed your first breath. You were condemned. That’s correct. And you were judged of God before you breathed your first breath. For you were judged, by the sexual desire of your father and mother who, through their act, brought you here on the earth. And God condemned it, in the beginning. You’re condemned, to start with. So where you… And every other person on earth was condemned with you. Now where you going to get perfection?

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« 89 † Watch. Let’s turn just a moment to Hebrews, the 10th chapter. Listen close. I want to read a little bit out of the 9th chapter, first, the 11th verse.
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, his own tabernacle, his flesh,…
90 See, the old tabernacle, you notice, the old tabernacle had a veil in it, that hid the ark where God lived. How many knows that? Sure. Well, that old man-made tabernacle here, the curtains out of dyed goatskins, and so forth, were made a tabernacle to hide the Presence of God. How many knows that only one man could go in there once a year? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Certainly. That was Aaron, go in once a year. And he must be anointed. And–and, oh, the requirement! And he must have fire in his hand; and if he went without that, he died as soon as he moved that veil back. He would drop dead. He must go in there and light these candlesticks, and sprinkle the mercy seat which called out, the blood of the death, the substitutionary has, till Christ was come to fulfill it.

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« 91 † Now, but, God then became in another type of a tabernacle. And that tabernacle was who? Jesus. And God was inside of Jesus, and He was hid, but He was reconciling the world to Himself, by His expressions. Christ revealed God. He said, “It’s not Me that doeth the works. It’s My Father that dwelleth in Me. I do nothing in Myself but what I see the Father doing. The Father in Me, showing Me these visions, and then I go do just what the Father told Me to do.” You get it? God was inside of a human body, not behind goatskins dyed, but was living, moving. God had hands; God had feet; God had tongue; God had eyes; and it was Christ. There He was.
92 Now, He went away, and the Spirit come in that, that through His death He might perfect the Church and bring the Church submissive. And then the same Spirit that was in Christ is in the Church, doing the same things Christ did. “A little while and the world won’t see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I’ll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world.”

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« 93 † Now listen to this.
But Christ becoming a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
He wasn’t made of hands. How was He born? Virgin birth.
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, was this body ever sacrificed or sanctified, but by his own blood…
94 You know that the blood comes from the male sex. And then somebody said, “Oh, Jesus was a Jew.” He was not a Jew. “Oh, we’re saved by Jewish blood.” No, we’re not. If we were saved by Jewish blood, we’re still lost.
Jesus was not Jew, neither was He Gentile. He was God: God the Father, the Spirit, the unseen One. “No man has seen God at any time, but the only begotten of the Father has declared Him.” He manifested God, what God was.

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« 95 † Now His Church is supposed to manifest God, to show what God is. See?
What do we do? Organize ourselves, and, “I’m nothing to do with them. They’re Methodist. They’re Presbyterian. I don’t want nothing to do with them. I’m Baptist. I’m Pentecostal.” Huh! You’re lost, with them kind of a motives. Right.
96 Who can brag? Who can say anything? Look at the disgrace the Presbyterians has brought. Look at the disgrace, the Baptists. Look at the disgrace, the Catholic. Look at the disgrace, the Pentecostals, Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness. Look at the rest of them.
But, I challenge you to point one hand, in disgrace, at That. Yeah. Point one finger, when God Almighty said, “This is my beloved Son in whom I’m pleased to dwell in. Hear ye Him.” There He is. That’s the perfect One.

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« 97 † Now, let’s read just a little farther here now.
Neither by the blood of goats… calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption… (Do you get it?)… eternal redemption for us.
98 Not to be redeemed today, and then, next week when the revival starts, be redeemed again, and then, oh, we backslide and be redeemed again. You’re redeemed once, forever. That’s right. No more redeem, redeem, redeem. “Eternal redemption!” “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life, and shall never come into the judgment, but hath,” past tense, “passed from death unto Life.” Because he has shook? Because he was baptized a certain way? Because he had blood in his hand? “Because he has believed on the only begotten Son of God.” That’s how we have Eternal redemption.

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« 99 † Listen now.
For… the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of heifers sprinkled the–the… sprinkle the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purged our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
100 “Passed from death unto Life.” What do you care what the world thinks? What do you care what your neighbor thinks? Our conscience has died, and we’re regenerated and born again by the Spirit of God, to serve the true and the living God. There you are.

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« 101 † Now drop over to the 10th verse… 10th chapter, rather, right across the page.
… the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices that they offered year by year continue make the comer unto p-e-r-f-e-c-t-e-d.
P-e-r-f-e-c-t, it is there, “Perfect.”
… leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection;…
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father… in heaven is perfect.
102 “The law having a shadow of good things to come,” all the ordinances and the baptisms and the… all the other things they had, “could never make the worshipper perfect.” And, yet, God requires “perfect.”
103 You join the Nazarene church, will never make you perfect. You join the Baptist church, Pentecostal, whatever it is, it’ll never make you perfect. You being a good, loyal man, will never make you perfect. You can’t merit one thing. There’s nothing about you, to merit. You are lost. You say, “Well, I kept the law. I keep the sabbath. I keep this, all the ordinances of God. I do this.”
104 Paul said, “Let us lay aside all those things now.”
105 “That’s all right, but we’ll do this. We’ll baptize the people, and we’ll lay hands on them for their healing and so forth.”

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« 106 † We could take it, verse by verse, each one of those things. Baptism, we believe it. “There’s one hope, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism.” We believe that there’s a baptism. We believe in the resurrection of the dead. Absolutely. We believe Jesus died and rose again. We believe that. “Laying on the hands, for the sick,” that’s what it said. “These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover.” We believe that.
But what is that? Paul said, “It’s all dead works.” It’s something that you do.
107 “Now let’s go on to perfection.” Oh, my! We’re coming into the Tabernacle, not the foundation; the Tabernacle, the Tabernacle Itself. That’s the foundation: the law, and the righteousness, and–and–and–and joining church, and being baptized, and–and laying on of hands. Them is all orders of the church.
“But now let’s go into perfection.” And there’s only One that is perfected, that’s Jesus.
108 How do we get into Him? “Through the Methodists?” No. “Pentecostal?” No. “Baptist?” No. “Through any church?” No. “Roman Catholic?” No.

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« 109 † How do we get into It? Romans 8:1.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those that are in Christ… that walk not after the things of this world, the flesh, but after the things of the Spirit, that pay no attention to what the world has got to say.
110 Even if you’re sick, the doctor says, “You’re going to die,” you pay no attention to it, don’t bother you a bit.
111 If they tell you, “You have to become a Catholic before you’re saved, or a Presbyterian, or have to do this,” you pay no attention to it.
“Therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, the things that they see.” Everything that you see with your eyes is earthly.
112 But it’s the things you see in your spirit, through the Word! The Word is God’s looking glass that reflects what He is and what you are. Hallelujah! Oh, my! It tells you. This is the only Book in the world that tells you where you come from, who you are, and where you’re going. Show me any page of literature, anywhere, with all the science or anything else, every good book that’s been written, none of it can tell you that. This is God’s looking glass, that shows what He is and what you are. Then, in between there is the Blood-line, that shows what you can be if you want to make the choice. There you are.

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« 113 † “By one Spirit,” now, First Corinthians 12. How do we get into that Body?
“By shaking hands?” No, sir. “By joining the church?” No, sir. “By being baptized backward, forward? In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost? The Name of Jesus Christ? The name of Rose of Sharon, Lily of the Valley, Morning Star? Anything that you want?”
That has nothing to do with it. “Just an answer of a good conscience towards God.” And yet we fuss, and stew, and argue, and split, and make differences. That’s right. “But all those are dead works.” We’re going to perfection.
114 That’s things that I done. A minister baptized you. Whether he baptized you face forward, backward, or three times, four times, or one time, or how he did it, that has nothing to do with It. You’re just baptized into the fellowship of that church, anyhow, proving to that church: you believe the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. Laying on of hands, to heal the sick, that’s wonderful, but, it’s all natural, and that body will die again just as certain as you’re living. It’ll die again. “Now let’s lay aside all those things, and go on to perfection.”

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« 115 † How do we get to perfection? That’s what we want to know.
… Christ has perfected…
“God laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace upon Him, with His stripes we were healed.” That’s the Body we want to get to. That’s the Body. Why? If you’re in that Body, you’ll never see judgment, you’ll never taste of death. You’re free from all of death, judgment, sin, and everything else, when you’re in that Body.
116 “How do you get into It, preacher? By joining this tabernacle?” You’re lost, yet. Couldn’t join, anyhow; we don’t have any book. “How do we get into It? By joining some church?” No, sir. “How do you get into It?” You’re born in It.
117 First Corinthians 12.
For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body,…

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« 118 † By the Holy Spirit baptism, we are baptized into that Body, and are free from sin. God don’t see you no more; He only sees Christ. And when you’re in that Body, God can’t judge that Body. He’s already judged It. He took our judgments and invited us in. And by faith, through grace, we walk in, accept our pardoning. And the Holy Spirit brings us into this fellowship with Him. “And we walk no more after the things of the world, but we walk in the Spirit.”
Quickened, the Word came to us. He died in my stead. I’m made alive. Here I am, who was once dead in sin and trespasses, been made alive. All my desires is to serve Him. All my love is to Him. All my walks want to be in His Name. Wherever I go, whatever I do, I glorify Him. If I’m hunting, if I’m fishing, if I’m playing ball, and whatever I’m doing, I must be, “Christ in me,” in such a life, that will make men long to be that way; not tattling, backbiting, and fussing about your churches. You get it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
“By one Spirit we are baptized into that Body.” “And when I see the Blood, I’ll pass over you.”

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« 119 † Listen. Let’s read just a little further here, please.
… what could never make the comer unto perfect.
For 2nd verse, the 10th chapter.
For then they would not have ceased to be offered?
120 If that could make the person perfect… And God requires perfection. If keeping the laws, if doing all the commandments, would make you perfect, then there’s no–there’s no need of having anything else; you’re already made perfect. Cause, when you’re perfect, you’re Eternal. Cause, God is the only one is Eternal, and God is the only one perfect. And the only way you can be Eternal, is become part of God. [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]
… once purged should have… no more conscience of sin.
What? “The worshipper once purged, to have no more conscience…” If you write the translation of that, it’s “desire.”
… the worshipper once purged… has no more desire of sin.
… if the worshipper was once purged…
121 You go up now and say, “Oh, hallelujah, I got saved last night. But, well, bless God, she made me backslide. Hallelujah, someday I’ll get saved again.” You poor untrained illiterate. That’s not the way it is.

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« 122 † “The worshipper once purged has no more conscience of sin,” the Bible said. Listen, as we read on, just a minute.
But in those sacrifices… as remembered against sin yearly.
123 Now we’re going to drop down, to hit about the 8th verse, to save time, and where I want to get to.
Above then when he said, Sacrifice and offerings and burnt-offerings… for sin thou wouldest not, neither has thou pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
124 9th verse.
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the… take… He taketh away the first, the law, that he may establish the second.
125 Wish we had time to stay on that. As long as you’re a Presbyterian, or a Pentecostal, or Baptist, or Methodist, He can never do nothing with you. He has to take that all away, first, see, so He can establish the second. Long as you say, “Well, I’m a Methodist.” Ah, nothing against the Methodists, or Baptists, or Pentecostal. But, brother, that don’t–that don’t spell it. You got to go on to perfection, that’s into Christ.

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« 126 † Watch this now, just a minute.
By the which… we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
127 Huh? Let’s just read just a little further, and hold that. Let that soak in while we’re reading, “Once for all.”
And every priest standing daily ministering the offering ofttime the same sacrifice, which can never take away sin:
But this man,…
Are you ready? You got your vest open now, so it won’t dodge, it’ll go right to the heart? “But this Man.” What Man? Not the pope of Rome, not the bishop of the Methodist church, or any other church.
But this man, Christ, after he had offered one sacrifice for sin for ever, sat down at the right hand of God;
From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
Watch. Here she comes.
For by one offer he has p-e-r-f-e-c-t-e-d, he has perfected…
“Until the next revival”? What’d that say?
… he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Do you get it? “Let us go on to perfection.”

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« 128 † Now you holiness people say, “Oh, yeah, we believe in holiness. Hallelujah! We believe in sanctification.” But you’re taking your own. You just quit this and quit that. You know you shouldn’t do it.
Unless Christ has opened the door and quickened it to your heart, and you become a place where sin is dead, and desire, it’s all gone. Then, He taketh away your own self-righteous, He may establish Himself in you. “And it’s Christ, the Son of God, in you, the hope of Glory.”
… let us go on to perfection;
129 How can we be perfect? Through the death of Christ. Not through joining church. Not through our good works, what we do. That’s all all right. Not because we were baptized this way or that way. Not because that we been healed, by laying on of hands. Not because of any of these other things, “We believe in the death, burial, and resurrection.”

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« 130 † Paul said, “I could speak with tongue like men and Angels,” that’s both the tongues that is understood and the tongues that cannot be understood, has to be interpreted, “I am nothing. Though I have the gift of knowledge and understand all the wisdom of God,” can explain the Bible, from… tie her together, “I am nothing.” Don’t do much good to go to school then, does it, to learn the Bible? “Though I have faith that I can move mountains…” Healing campaigns don’t mean very much then, does it? “I’m nothing, though I give my body to be burnt as a sacrifice.”
131 “Oh,” they say, “that man is religious.”
132 “But he’s nothing,” Paul said, “never become nothing.”
133 “For where there is tongues, they shall cease; where is prophecies, it shall fail; where there is all these other things, will fail. But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part will be done away with.” See, that “perfect.” What is perfect? Love. What is love? God. “Let us lay aside all these little dead works and ordinance, and go on to perfection.” You see it? We’re perfected through Christ. How do we get into It? By Holy Spirit baptism.
134 “All right, what happens?” You’ve passed from death unto Life.
135 “Well, do I shake, jump, do it?” You, you won’t have to do nothing. You’ve already done it, God brought you from death unto Life, and you’re alive. Then your fruits of your life show it.

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« 136 † Lot of you Methodists and Nazarenes shouted just as hard as you could shout, steal corn out of a man’s patch, that’s right, do everything that could be.
137 A lot of you Pentecostals spoke in tongues, like pouring peas on a cowhide, sure, went right out and run away with the next man’s wife, done all kinds of things. That’s not It, brother.
138 Don’t try to have any sensation or anything to take the place of the Holy Spirit. When the new Birth is come, you are changed. You don’t have to do anything to prove it. Your life proves it, as you walk. You’re love, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, meekness, patience. That’s what you are, and the whole world sees the reflection of Jesus Christ in you.

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« 139 † Now, speaking in tongues, shouting in there, that’s just attributes that follow this kind of a Life.
And you can take, impersonate these attributes, and never have that Life. We see it. How many knows that that’s true? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Sure, you do. Surely, certainly you do. My! You see it all around you.
140 So, there’s nothing you can say is the evidence of the Holy Ghost, unless it’s your life that you live. Now, if you want to speak with tongues, that’s perfectly all right if you live the life to back it up. That’s right. And if you want to shout, fine, that’s good. I shout, too, get so happy sometimes I can’t hardly wear a pair of shoes; I’m like to jump out of them. And that’s wonderful. I believe it.
141 I’ve seen visions, and the sick healed, the dead raised. When they laying out there and the doctors walk away and say, “They’re finished and gone,” lay there a couple hours; and the Holy Spirit come right down and show a vision, go down there and raise that person up. I’ve seen those who are deaf, dumb, and blind, and crippled, walk. That doesn’t… That’s just attributes.

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« 142 † Brother, long time ago, before the world was ever had a foundation to it; God through His Eternal grace, He looked down, and by foreknowledge He seen you and I. He knew what age we’d live in. He knew what we would be. Therefore, by election, He chose us before the foundation of the world, to be with Him without spot.
143 Now, if He chose us before the foundation of the world to be in Him without spot, and we’re born all spotted, and nothing else can… nothing can cleanse us, how we going to be without… how we going to be without spot? “He sent His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not have an end of life, but have Eternal Life; should never perish, but have Eternal Life.” Then when we come into Him, by faith, through grace are we saved, by the Holy Spirit calling to us.

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« 144 † Before there was a body on this earth, your bodies were laying here. It’s made out of calcium, potash, moisture, cosmic–cosmic light, and petroleums, and so forth, sixteen elements. And the Holy Spirit begin to brood over the earth, “wooing.” And as It did, first thing you know, up come a little Easter flower. Then He brood out some grass, and some birds, and after a while, a man come forth.
145 Now, He never made a woman out of the dust of the earth. She’s already a man, to begin with; the man and woman are one. So He took from the side of Adam, a rib, and made a woman, a helpmate to him. And then sin come in. Then after sin came in…

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« 146 † God will not be defeated, no matter what takes place. He will never be defeated. Then, women began to bring men on the earth. And God, through Eternal grace, seen who would be saved, and He called you. “No man can come to Me, except My Father calls him, first.” “Not him that willeth, or him that runneth, but God that showeth mercy.”
147 You say, “Well, I sought God. I sought God.” No, you never. God sought you. That’s the way it was in beginning.
148 It wasn’t Adam saying, “O Father, Father, I’ve sinned. Where are You?”
149 It was Father saying, “O Adam, Adam, where are you?” That’s the nature of man. That’s the strain of man. That’s what he’s made of.
150 “And no man can come to Me except the Father draws him. And all that the Father gives Me…” Hallelujah! “All that come, I’ll give them Eternal Life, and I’ll raise him up at the last day.” What a blessed, what a blessed promise, of a God of Heaven! Where we get to tonight, where, “He swore by Himself.” There’s none greater. You take an oath by someone greater than you. There no one greater, so God took an oath to Himself. We’re getting into it, how He did it and when He did it; and took an oath to Himself, that He would raise us up and make us His own heritage.

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« 151 † Oh, how perfect and solid we can stand, this morning! How you can look, if death is staring you right in the face, you could say like Paul, “Death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory? But thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” There you are. Why?
152 “Oh, you did so-and-so.”
153 “I know it, but I’m covered by His Blood.” Hallelujah!
154 “By one Spirit, we were all baptized into one Body.” You Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, whatever you are, we were baptized into one Body. We have fellowship, and we’re citizens of the Kingdom of God, professing, that, “We are not of this world.”
155 My little girl come, other day, said, “Daddy, this little girl did so-and-so. And they did so-and-so. We went over to the house. They did so-and-so.” I said… Said, “Why don’t we do that?”
156 I said, “Honey, we are not of that world. They live in a world to theirself.”
157 Said, “Don’t we all walk on the same ground.”
158 I said, “Of the world, honey. We’re not of them people.”

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« 159 † The Bible said, “Come out of them, be ye separated,” saith God. See, you’re not of that. And when that new Nature comes into you, you don’t have to be pulled out. You don’t want to go back, like Lot’s wife. You’re just born, out of it. And you’re in another dimension. And that looks trashy to you.
And this, the great, fabulous America that we live in, has become one big chaos of it. Everything is lust and women. And women the way they’re dressing, the men the way they’re acting, and–and the things they’re doing, and then call themselves, “Christians.”
160 For instance, this Elvis Presley, go and join the Pentecostal church now. Course, that’s where Judas got thirty pieces of silver. Elvis got a fleet of Cadillacs, and a–and a few million dollars, for selling his birthrights. Arthur Godfrey. Look at that.

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« 161 † Look over here at Jimmy Osborne in Louisville, out there with that old boogie-woogie, rock-and-roll, old tommyrot and filth. And on Sunday morning, take the Bible and stand on the platform and preach. What a disgrace!
No wonder the Bible said, “Every table is full of vomit.” Why, we’re living in a terrible day!
162 And people say, “Oh, they’re very religious.” Oh! Don’t you know that the Devil is religious? Don’t you know that Cain was just as religious as Abel was? But, he didn’t have the Revelation. That’s it. He didn’t have the Revelation.
Yeah, we all go to church, but there is some has got Life, that’s the ones got the Revelation of Jesus Christ in their heart. Not by shaking, jumping, not by joining church. But, the Revelation, God has revealed Him.
163 Look what said, “Who does man say I, the Son of man, am?”
164 “Some said You’re ‘a prophet.’ And some say You’re ‘Elias.’ And some…”
Said, “But who do you say?”
165 Peter said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” That wasn’t from his lips.
166 He said, “Blessed art thou, Simon, the son of Jonas, for flesh and blood never revealed this. You never learned this in some–some ethics of the Bible, or some theological seminary. Blessed are ye, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you. But My Father which is in Heaven has revealed it. And upon this rock I’ll build My Church, and the gates of hell can’t prevail against It.”

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« 167 † If you’re a Christian, this morning, ’cause you belong to church, you’re lost. If you’re a Christian because you’ve passed from death unto Life, you’re free from judgment; into Christ, you’re becoming into perfection all the time. God cannot see one thing. You say, “Well, will I ever make a mistake?” Sure, but you don’t do it willfully.
168 Now we’re getting into that, just in a few minutes, “For he that sins willfully after he received the knowledge of the Truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin.” We get into that tonight, because it’s a little too late now.

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« 169 † Let’s read just a couple more verses of this, so we can feel better about getting down a little more. All right. Well, we’ll start right in on that tonight, the 4th verse. Listen to this.
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and made… and have been… and have tasted of the power, the heavenly gifts, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
And… tasted the good word of God, and the power of the world to come,
If they shall fall away, to renew themselves… unto repentance;…
See? And we take that into Hebrews 10, and back and forth, to show what this is.

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« 170 † Friends, “Let us go on to perfection.” We have… we’re not… We’re without excuse today. We have no excuse, at all. The God of Heaven has appeared in these last day and is doing the very same things that He did then, when He was here before, when He was on earth. He has proved, as we’re coming through this Bible. And you–you, class, know this, that we have taken miracle by miracle, and sign by sign, and wonder by wonder, that He did with the children in the wilderness, the things and signs that He did; the things that He done when He was here on earth, manifest in the flesh; and the very same things are taking place today, right here among us. Here is the Word to vindicate it. Here is the thing to say it’s right, to make it right. Here is the Spirit of God to do the same thing, so we’re without an excuse.
Let us pray.

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« 171 † Heavenly Father! Seeing that we are compassed about by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every word, everything,” every wrong, every evil word, every bad-spoken word, every thought, “and let us run with patience the race that’s set before us, looking to the author and finisher of our faith, the Lord Jesus Christ.” O blessed be His most matchless and holy Name! How that He came to earth to redeem fallen man, and to bring them back into the fellowship of the Lord God. And we thank Thee for this. And now by His grace… We never chose Him, but He chose us. He said, “You have not chosen Me, but I chose you.” When? “Before the foundation of the world.”

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« 172 † And, dear God, if there be some setting here this morning, maybe who has put this off for years and years, but constantly there’s a little knocking at the heart. Maybe they joined church, thinking, “Well, it’ll be all right.” Father, sure, the Scriptures has explained it this morning: that you cannot hide behind a church, and be righteous; neither can you be good, not lie and steal and do anything bad, and still be righteous.
173 There’s only one righteousness we have, not of our own, but His righteousness. He has perfected our salvation. Therefore, being in Him, God does not see our mistakes. When we do anything wrong, there’s a spirit in us screams out, “O Father, forgive me!” Then God does not see it. It’s… We are brought into fellowship and grace with Him. Grant it, Lord, while we close this service, in Christ’s Name. Amen.

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« 174 † Just for a moment, I like to ask you. No matter what you do, you’re lost. Listen to this. Sometime ago… I might have told it before. Here is a little experience happened to me.
175 I was up at–at Toledo, Ohio. I was in a revival and–and having a meeting down there and so many people. They knowed the hotels was at; so they taken me out into the country. I was staying out there, a little motel.
176 We had been eating at a little Dunkard restaurant. It was a wonderful place, the little ladies in there just as Christian and sainted looking as they could be, clean and real nice. Sunday come, I got hungry. I had been fasting a little. And I want to go across the street to another, order a little. A little road there by a corner, and there was just a regular, common, American place there, to eat. Little, had a little place, a cafe, open all night. When I walked in there on that Sunday, about two o’clock in the afternoon, before going down to preach that afternoon.

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« 177 † I was so gotten, I didn’t know what to do. I walked in, and the first thing I noticed was a young lady about sixteen, eighteen years old, some papa’s darling, some mother’s darling, standing back there with a boy, with her hands around her hips. Bunch of teen-agers setting at the–at the counter.
178 I heard a slot machine. Looked over here, and there was a policeman standing there with his arm around a woman, up around here, her waistline, and playing a slot machine. Now, you know that gambling and slot machine is illegal in Ohio, you Buckeye people here. And you know that’s illegal. And here was the law, playing a slot machine; and a man of my age, probably married, bunch of children, maybe a grandfather. A policeman, rode patrol, playing a slot machine. There was that young… What’s a teen-age done? What’s this done?

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« 179 † I stood there. Nobody noticed me coming in, they was too busy, half of them drunk. So, I watched. I heard somebody saying, “Well, do you think the rain will hurt the rhubarb?” And looked around over here, and here set a lady setting there, old lady, real… She was sixty-five, seventy, close to it. And the poor lady… I don’t blame anyone from looking their best. But when she… She had fixed herself, made her hair blue, real blue-looking. And all cut off, over the top, and made it real blue. And she had on real thick manicure, or what you call the stuff put on her face, and a big spots. And she had on little bitty shorts, and the poor old thing was so wrinkled till the meat, flab, meat was hanging down like that over her legs. And she was drunk. She was setting there with an old man, in the summertime, with one of these old, gray army overcoats on, or olive drab. It hanging down like that, and a big scarf around his neck. Drunk, two of them, and they was with this poor old woman.

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« 180 † I stood there and looked around. I said, “God, how can You stand it? What–what… How do You look at such as that? When, it makes me, a sinner saved by grace, think that, how can–can You look at it? Why, it looks like You’d burst the thing open. Will my little Rebekah and Sarah have to come up under that kind of an influence? Will my two little girls have to meet a–a popular, so known, world as it is today, where the people act like that? God, how can I ever… what can I do?”
Course, it’s His grace. If they were ordained to Eternal Life, they’ll come to it. If they wasn’t, they won’t. I don’t know. That’s up to God. I’ll do my part.

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« 181 † I thought, “How can You stand it, God? Look like You’re so holy that You just wipe that thing off the earth.” I said, “Look at that poor grandmother setting there. Look at that young girl back there. And here’s a woman standing here, probably twenty-five years old. And that police with his arms around her waist, playing a slot machine. And there is the law; the nation is gone. There is the motherhood gone. Here is the elder gone. And there is a young girl setting back there, and she is gone. Look at the boys, when they ought to be in church or somewhere.”
182 I said, “O God, what can I do? And here I am in this city, crying with all my heart, and they ignore it and walk as if they were…” I thought, “Well, God?”
183 Well, then a thought come, “If I haven’t called them, how can they come? All the Father has given Me will come. ‘You have eyes but you can’t see, ears and you can’t hear.'”
184 I thought, “Well, if the President would come to town instead of the revival, everybody would come out. Oh, sure, that’s worldly.”
185 Then I got to thinking, “Well, God, how, why don’t You just, well, come on, send Jesus and let’s have it over with? Won’t just–just go and have it all over with, and let it go?”

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« 186 † Then I begin to see something moving in front of me. It looked like a little whirl going around like this. I kept watching it. I saw a world turning around and around. I watched it, and where it was spraying something off. I looked, and it was a spray of red, crimson Blood, across, around the world; just like a whirl going around, like a comet, and it had a whirl around like this. And I looked at this whirl. And just above it, I saw Jesus in the vision. He was looking down. And I seen myself standing down here on the earth, doing the things that I should not do. And every time that I sinned, God would have killed me, “Cause, the day you eat of it, day you die.” And God’s holiness and justice requires, and you’d have to die. And then I looked there. I kept rubbing my eyes. I said, “I’m not… I never went to sleep. I’m… It’s a vision. I’m sure this is a vision.”

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« 187 † I kept watching, as I stood behind the door. And I seen my own sins come up. And every time they would start to hit the Throne, His Blood act like a bumper on a car. It caught it, and I’d see It shake, and the Blood would run down His face. And I seen Him raise His hands, and said, “Father, forgive him, he doesn’t know what he’s doing.”
188 I seen myself do something else, it shook Him again, bump. It would have, God would have killed me right then, but His Blood was catching me. It was holding my sins. I thought, “O God, did I do that? Surely it wasn’t me.” But it was.
189 Then I went walking like this, like I was going through that room, and I walked up close to Him. I seen a book laying there, it had my name on it, and all kinds of black letters wrote across it. I said, “Lord, I’m sorry I did this. Did my sins cause You to do that? Did I spin Your Blood around the world? Did I–did I do this to You, Lord? I’m so sorry that I did it.” And He reached out. I said, “Will You forgive me? I didn’t mean to. I’ll… You, by Your grace, I’ll try to be a better boy if You’ll just help me.”

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« 190 † He took His hand and patted His side, took His finger and wrote “pardoned” on my book; throwed it over behind Him, the Sea of Forgetfulness. I watched it a little bit. And He said, “Now, I forgive you, but you want to condemn her.” See? Said, “You’re forgiven, but what about her? You want to blow her up. You didn’t want her to live.”
191 I thought, “O God, forgive me. I didn’t mean to think that. I didn’t want to do that. I–I–I didn’t want to do that.”
192 “You’re forgiven. You feel all right. But what about her? She needs it, too. She needs it.”
193 “Well,” I thought, “God, how did I know who You’ve called, and who You haven’t called?” It’s my business to speak to everyone.

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« 194 † So, when the vision left me, I walked over to her. I said, “How do you do, lady?” And them two men had went to the rest room. And they… She was setting there, hiccuping, you know, laughing. The bottle of whisky setting on the table, or beer, it was, alcohol setting there, where they been drinking. I walked up. I said, “How do you do?”
And she said, “Oh, hello.”
And I said, “Could I set down?”
She said, “Oh, I got company.”
I said, “I didn’t mean it in that way, sister.”
She looked at me when I called her “sister.” She said, “What do you want?”
I said, “Could I set down just a minute.”
She said, “Help yourself.” And I sat down.
I told her what had happened. She said, “What’s your name?”
And I said, “Branham.”
She said, “Are you the man down here in this arena?”
I said, “Yes, ma’am.”
195 She said, “I’ve been wanting to come down there.” She said, “Mr. Branham, I was raised in a Christian family.” She said, “I got two young girls that’s Christian. But certain, certain things happened, and she got on the wrong road, or started.”

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« 196 † I said, “But, sister, I don’t care, the Blood is still around you. This world is covered over with Blood.” If It didn’t, God would kill us, every one. He… When that Blood is moved, look out for judgment. But now, if you die without that Blood, you go beyond that place, then there’s nothing to act for you. Today the Blood acts in your stead. I said, “Lady, sure, the Blood is still got you covered. As long as you got breath in your body, the Blood has you covered. But someday when the breath leaves here, the soul goes out, you’ll go beyond that Blood, and there’s nothing but judgment. While you got a chance for pardon…” And I took her by the hand.
197 She was crying, said, “Mr. Branham, I’m drinking.”
198 I said, “That don’t hurt. Something, another has warned me to come tell you.” I said, “God, before the foundation of the world, called you, sister. And you’re doing wrong, and you’re only making it worse.”
199 She said, “Do you think He would have me?”
200 I said, “Absolutely, He’d have you.”
201 There on her knees, we got down in the middle of that floor, and an old-fashion prayer meeting. That police took off his hat and bowed on one knee. There we had a prayer meeting, in that place. Why? God is sovereign.
“Laying aside these dead works, let us go on to perfection.”
202 Let’s move into that realm where these, “I belong to church; I belong that,” that’s all finished. And let’s go to perfection.

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« 203 † My sinner friend, if you’re without the Blood today, without salvation, without grace, the Blood of Jesus Christ holds you. You say, “Well, I got by all this time.” But one day you’re going where there’s nothing left for you then.
Let us pray now, while we bow our heads.
204 Is there, would be, one here today would like to say, “God be merciful to me, I realize that I’ve done wrong”? Maybe you’ve joined church. That’s all right. But if you haven’t received the grace of Christ, would you raise your hand and say, “Pray for, me, Brother Branham”? God bless you, mister. God bless you, lady. That’s right. Don’t… God bless you, sir, back there. God bless you, and you. Way back in the back, yes, God bless you. Raise your hand. That’s right. Just put your hand up, and say, “God, be merciful to me.”

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« 205 † You say, “I belong to church, Brother Branham. Yes, I–I’ve tried to be good, But I don’t know, I just seem, look like, I can’t do it.” Oh, poor pilgrim, poor decrepit friend, you’ve really never seen the vision yet.
206 You say, “Brother Branham, I shouted. I’ve spoke with tongues. I done all this.” That might be true, too. That’s all right, nothing to say against that.
But, my dear, lost friend, but, to speak with tongues, or to shake, or to shake hands, or to be baptized, that, that’s all right. But, to know Him, is to know a Person. “To know Him is Life.”
207 You say, “I know the Bible, real well.” Well, to know the Bible, is not Life. “To know Him,” the personal pronoun, “to know Him, Christ,” that you know He has forgive you.
Would you just raise your hands, again, someone else? God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. God bless you over here, brother. God bless you back there, young man. God bless you over here, sister. God bless you, way back in the back, there. That’s right. “To know Him, is Life.”
“Brother Branham, remember me. I’m now, right here in my seat, going to accept Christ.”

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« 208 † Say, “Come into my heart, Lord Jesus, and give unto me that peace, that sweetness.” Go to church, play the music as hard as you can, dance up-and-down, run through the aisle, go home weary, and toss and fuss, that’s not Christ. You go to church, set and listen to some little sermon about how the bridge is going to be painted, or something, another like that, never hear the Word. The Word brings Life. It’s the Seed. Don’t you want peace?
209 Are you bothered about dying? You’d have a heart attack today, does it worry you? Or would you rejoice, to say, “I’m going to be with the Lord Jesus on the end of this road”? Do you know Him? If you don’t, just raise your hand. We’re going to ask prayer for you. Yes, brother, you, too.
210 All right, in your heart now.
Just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy Blood was shed (for who?) for me,
Because I promise, I’ll believe,
O Lamb, O Lamb of God, I come. I come, tenderly, mercifully.
Just as…
Just walk right to Him, by faith. Believe that He is standing right there by your side. He is.
… -ting not
To rid my soul (of how much now?) of one… (temper, malice),
To Him Whose Blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb…
211 “By faith I’ll walk to the cross, this morning. I lay my burdens down. I come.” God bless you back there. That’s good. [Brother Branham begins humming Just As I Am–Ed.] Don’t be indifferent now. Warmly, sweetly, walk right up to the cross.

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« 212 † In the Old Testament, they brought a lamb. They knowed they’d sinned, they knowed it by the commandments. You know it now, because God spoke to your heart. They took a look at the commandments, “Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not do so-and-so.” And they took a lamb, went and put their hands on the lamb, priest cut the throat. The little fellow was kicking, and bleeding, and blating, and dying. His hands was all covered with the blood. The lamb died in his stead, but he walked out with the same desire to do it again.
213 But in this place, we come by faith, through grace. God called us. We lay our hands on the head of the Lamb of God. We hear that swinging hammer. We hear that Voice, “I thirst; give Me drink. Father, lay not this sin to their charge; they don’t know what they’re doing.” See? By faith, we feel His death there in our stead. Way down in our heart comes a deep, settled peace, when a Voice says, “You’re pardoned now. Go and sin no more.” How, by grace, then, we walk away with not the same desire, but a desire never to sin no more or to do anything wrong. The peace that passes all understanding, has entered our heart.
May you receive It now while we pray, every one, together.

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« 214 † Heavenly Father, they’re coming by faith, through grace. There’s about a dozen hands went up. It’s the fruits of the Message. They come to You. They believe. I believe in them, too, Lord. I believe that, truly, the Holy Spirit spoke to them. And by faith they’re coming right up Jacob’s ladder now, right up to the foot of the cross, there laying down all their sins, and saying, “Lord, it’s too much for me. I just can’t bear it any longer. And will You take away my load of sin, and take the desire out of my heart to do so? And let me, by faith, this day, receive You as my personal Saviour. And from henceforth, I’ll follow You every mile of the way, to the end of the journey. I catch a glimpse of what it means to ‘go on to perfection,’ not going into church, and the roots of dead works like baptisms and so forth. But I want to go on, until I can be no more, and Christ can live in me.”

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« 215 † O Jesus, grant this to each penitent soul, this morning. Every one that raise their hands shall receive Eternal Life because You promised it. They made a public acception. They raise their hands. They broke all the laws of gravitation. They made science feel ashamed of theirself, ’cause science says, “Your arms has to hang down.” Anything would prove that in science, that it must stay earthbound, because gravitation hold it down. But there was a spirit in them that made a decision, and they defied the laws of gravitation and raised their hands. You seen it, Lord. You put their name on the Book. “Pardoned.” The old book is back in the Sea of Forgetfulness now, never to be remembered no more. Let them go forward today, as loving, sweet Christians, to serve You. And maybe many that didn’t raise their hand, grant to them also.
216 Let the saints walk just a little closer, Lord, for we’re one day nearer Home than we were yesterday. Be Thou with us, Lord, for we ask it in Christ’s Name and for His glory. Amen. `

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« 1 † ` … is to know more about our blessed Lord. And that’s our–our purpose of gathering here, is for that purpose, and, now, and to pray for God’s sick children. And this morning we had a–a wonderful blessing from the Scriptures.
2 We are trying to take, each time of the service, a part of… I’m teaching in the Book of Hebrews, have been, for the last couple weeks now. And now, if the Lord willing, we’ll continue on Wednesday night, then on Sunday morning and Sunday night, on–on, for as long as I’m to be here in this time. Not a revival, but it’s revival, a meeting on our regular nights. And so we’re very, very happy to have this time to meet with our good friends around about in the cities, and around about in the Falls Cities here. And if–if we’d happen to have a cancellation or something, it might be that the Lord might lead us, pretty soon, to… maybe we could have a few nights, maybe, in the gym or something, after while, if the Lord seems to lead that way, to a place where we could get our people together.
And we seen people as was coming up, going back, saying, “It was not room to–to come in.” Course, the tabernacle is awful little. It just seats a very, very few people, and we’re just so glad that you’re willing to come out and set in the heat, to hear the Word of the Lord. And we’re praying that God will exceedingly, abundantly bless you and to help you.

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« 3 † And now, tonight, we want, we’re beginning on the 4th cha-… How many was here this morning? Let’s see your hands. Oh, that’s wonderful, practically all of you. And we are on, beginning on, the 4th chapter of the Book of Hebrews. Oh, what a marvelous Book! Are you enjoying It? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] And it’s comparing Scripture by Scripture.
4 And Paul, before he would ever witness to his experience, he first had to go down to Arabia and find out, by the Word if it was the Truth. I like that. And this morning’s lesson, we found out, in the teaching this morning, that Christ was the same yesterday, today, and forever. And Paul found that the same Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel, had met him on the road to Damascus. We found out that the Pillar of Fire, that led the children of Israel out in the wilderness, to the promised land, met Paul on the road to Damascus, and called Hisself, “Jesus.”

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« 5 † Then we find out the real supreme Deity of Jesus Christ. The whole Book here is just a revelation of Jesus Christ. And He come, we find that, “In sundry times and in divers manners, God spoke to the fathers through the prophets; in this last days through His Son, Christ Jesus.” He has revealed Himself. And the Book from Genesis to Revelation is nothing but one constant, perpetual, revelation of the Lord Jesus.
6 And we find out that He was the One that was in the burning bush. We find out that He was the One that was with God before the foundation of the world. And we find out that, in the New Testament, He was God and Man, together. And then when He left the New Testament, to go into Heaven, He said, “I came from God, and I return to God.”

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« 7 † And then when Paul met Him, He was in the same form that He was when He led Israel, a Pillar of Fire. And Paul looked Him right into the face, being unconverted, and It caused him to have eye trouble the rest of his days. He went blind, and for several days He could not see nothing at all. He had to be led to a street called Straight.
8 And God had a prophet down there that He spoke to, by the name of Ananias, who came in, by a vision, and laid his hands on Paul, and said, “Brother Saul, receive thy sight.”
9 And we find out, then, that that same Holy Spirit, that same Lord Jesus, came to Peter in a form of a Light and delivered him out of the prison.

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« 10 † And we find that that same Lord Jesus, in these days, is still in that Pillar of Fire (Light) that’s leading His people (His Church), performing the same thing, giving visions; come in and lay hands on the people, by a vision. The Lord Jesus, Who met last Sunday morning at the house, and said, “There was a man coming, black-headed, graying. He was a Greek. His wife was middle-aged, and would be weeping at the altar.”
11 Some of them had told it, and know it was happening. He was both crippled, the–the balance nerve in his head was gone. He couldn’t even have control of his feet or his limbs. And he was blind. And to make it double proof: I had a little lady to come pray for the sick, first, then turned back around and had Brother Toms to come pray. And we, setting here, watching it develop. And then I went down and prayed for the sick, and walked back. And she come, just exactly according to the vision, and caught me by the arm and begin weeping, and said Dr. Ackerman had sent them here. Dr. Ackerman is a bosom friend of mine, Catholic. His boy is a priest at the monastery at–at Saint Meinrad, and down in Indiana. And this man was from Jasper. And the Lord healed him, out of that chair. He got up and walked. He could see as good as anybody else. And walked out of the building, normal and whole. All by a vision!

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« 12 † “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus that appeared to you in the way, has sent me that I might lay my hands on you, that you might receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost.” Wonderful.
13 “Then we find out, seeing that we have this great salvation, we should not… We could not escape the penalties and wrath of God, if we neglect such a great salvation.”
14 Now we’re going to start reading, tonight, out, and begin the 4th chapter of the Book of Hebrews. If anybody wants to follow along, we got some Bibles here. If they wanted one, why, one of the ushers will bring it to you, if you hold up your hand, these–these Bibles. If one of the brethren here will take… There’s two Bibles laying there, I believe.

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« 15 † And now we’ll hurry, because we have communion after a bit. And where we get done tonight, Wednesday night we begin again. Now, I believe, this morning in our reading, we began on the 15th verse.
16 Somebody, maybe not know me putting on glasses, to read by. I’m getting old. And I can still read, but I can’t pick it fast, especially when I got fine reading here, fine print.
17 And I went to have my eyes examined, to see if I was really losing my sight. My eyes were ten-ten. He said, “But you’re past forty, son.” He had a thing for me to read, said, “Start reading that.” I read it. And I kept getting closer, it got slower and slower. And it got about like this, I stopped. Then he put out there for ten-ten, I could read it anywhere. But he said, “What it is, when you pass forty, your eyeballs get flat.”
18 Now, I can squint my eyes and read just that close to me, but you have to squint. So, he just made me a pair of glasses. I can see it, anywhere, when it’s real close to me. Now, when it gets off from me, can’t see at all with these things. But I read them, read from this with the glasses.

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« 19 † Now, this morning, we had the last part of the 3rd chapter of the Hebrews. And, oh, what rich kernels we find. Now listen. I want to read again, so we get a background now. Not talk on it, but just kind of go over it a little.
While it is said, To day if you… hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation.
For some, them, they heard the Word, when they had heard the Word, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
20 Now, in that, this morning, we find that He said, “Don’t harden your heart now, as in the days of provocation.” That’s when they provoked God to anger, because that He had give to them Moses, His prophet, and a sign that was with Moses. How many, of the class tonight, knows what that sign was? Pillar of Fire, Hebrews 13.

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« 21 † Now, we don’t know whether the congregation saw that sign or not. But Moses saw It, for Moses first met Him in a burning bush. He was a Fire. And the children of Israel obeyed Moses, and left Egypt. And as soon as they come out of Egypt, God, we found, led them right into a trap. Where, Pharaoh’s army behind them, the Red Sea on either side, and God put them to test; and they got scared. And it provoked God. He said, “Why do you cry at Me?” Said, “Just speak and go forward.” I like that.
22 Now, they were following Moses, as Moses followed the Pillar and Cloud, and they were on their way to the promised land. Beautiful picture of the Church, tonight, on our way to the promised Land, led by the same Spirit, same signs and wonders as God spoke of.

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« 23 † Now notice. Then, they come to the Wilderness of Sin. The–the waters were “bitter,” Marah. Why did God lead them to bitter waters? Looks like He’d have led them to good water. But He led them to bitter waters so He could prove their faith. He likes to do it. He likes to let tribulations come on you, show He can show you His love and His power. How can people, today, who doesn’t believe in the miracle-working of God… When tribulations come, they just give up and go on. But we believe that “God works miracles.” He can’t… God has…
24 Listen to this. If God doesn’t act the same, when the same circumstances arise, then God is guilty of being partial to His people. God’s sovereignty demands of Him to work in every case like He did the first case, or He was wrong when He worked in the first case. If God does not act in the same way He did on the first case, if He will act different to the second case, then He acted wrong when He acted on the first case. If God healed the sick in the Old Testament, He has got to do it in the New Testament and today, or He did wrong when He healed them back there. He’s got to act the same, every time. And He will do it, when the same faith meets the condition. The fault is in us, not in God. For we see Him on some, and many, work great outstanding miracles. We know it. The critic cannot say, “It’s not so.” For we see It prove it, and there it is.

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« 25 † They used to say, “Show me a miracle.” They can’t say that no more. Science can’t say it no more. We can absolutely prove to the scientific world. And the scientific world has witnessed that a supernatural Being, in a form of a Pillar of Fire, is with us. Here is His picture, right here, and one hangs in Washington D.C., tonight. It is the same Christ.
26 Therefore, as a while, my ministering brethren used to tell me, “Oh, Brother Branham, that’s the Devil. Don’t you fool with that.” Had me scared.
27 And I would not preach it until God came and revealed it, that, “He’s the same Jesus, the same One.” Oh, then try to shake it out of me? Can’t be done. For, it’s the Scripture. It’s God’s Word. It’s not just an experience that’s loose. It’s an experience that’s backed up by God’s Word and God’s Eternal blessed promise.

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« 28 † Now, we notice over here, then, that He said.
For some, when they had heard, did provoke:…
Certainly. They got weary, every time they’d get to a place where a showdown come. Then what would they do? They would fly loose, and get weary, and want to turn back, and, “Why did this happen to me?”
29 Strange thing, this morning, after preaching that just as hard as I could, there was many came to the altar and questioned It, “Why does this happen to me?” You see how It goes? It goes over the top of the people’s head. It’s just the same, people.
30 Jesus said, “You have eyes, but you can’t see.” He said that to the disciples.
31 They said, “Lo, now Thou speakest plainly. Now we believe. No man has to tell You anything, ’cause God shows it to You.”
32 He said, “Do you now believe, after all this time?” See?
33 You mustn’t question anything, to God. “For the footsteps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord.” And every trial is put upon you, to prove you. And the Bible said, “They’re more precious to you than gold.” So if God let a few light afflictions happen to you, remember, it’s for the correction of you. “Every son that cometh to God must first be chastened of God, and tried, child-trained.” There’s no exceptions. “Every son that cometh.” These afflictions are done or brought–brought about, to see what attitude you’ll take. See? It’s God, on this proving-ground. That’s all earth is, is the proving-grounds, and where He is trying to prove you.

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« 34 † Now listen, as we go ahead. And I want to get the last part of it.
And to whom he sware that they should not enter into his rest,…
Now, there’s where we’re coming to, tonight.
… into his rest, but to them that believed not?
So we see that they could not enter… because of unbelief.
35 Now, what is sin? Unbelief. God had come to them, in a Pillar of Fire; sent His prophet, and anointed him, give him signs to do before the people. And then the Pillar of Fire, by the prophet, led them out. Every circumstance they come to, they begin to murmur and say every little fault they found with Moses, begin to chide and chatter against Him. And God was displeased, because He said, “They were sinning.”
36 They should have listened. But, instead of that, they listened to reason, “How can it be? How can these things be?” If He is God, everything is possible. And He will make all things work together for good to them that love Him.

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« 37 † Now we’re going into a great study here, that is, on the “Rest,” the sabbath. Now, they were pilgrims in their journey. See? They’d been down in Egypt, four hundred years, and in bondage. And now they were being brought out by the miracles of God, according to His promise. And they were on their road to the promised land. And here a supernatural Light appears, in amongst of them, and begins to lead them.
38 Now, someone would say, “Now, looky here, who is this Moses? Who made you a ruler over us? Aren’t you one of us? Who put you down here to be our boss? You think you know more than our pastor does? You think you know more than the priest does? You think you’re–you’re smarter than what our religious men are, of this day?” That had nothing to do with it.
It was God, in the Pillar of Fire, vindicating that He was in the move. Didn’t make any difference who was smart and who wasn’t smart. It was the idea of following what God put before them.

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« 39 † Why, Moses, as far as physical, done a foolish thing when he tried to deliver the children by the Word of God, taking a bunch of people out in the wilderness. When he had his… Why, he was the heir to everything they had. He had every army there was, in all the world, whipped. And there he was, a great military general. And the next move, he was to be king, Pharaoh of Egypt. Why, he could have just stepped up to the throne, and said, “All right, children, go on back to your home.” That settles it; he was a Pharaoh. But Moses…
40 Oh, here it is. Moses, by faith, saw the promise of God. And the Angel of the Lord come to him, and he knowed more about God, in five minutes in the Presence of that Angel, than he learned in forty years with the teachers of Egypt. He knowed that He was. He seen the supernatural done.
41 He said, “I’ll be with you, Moses. I’ll go before you.” And they understood. And He give him signs to perform.

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« 42 † Now, they were on their road to the land of rest. God had them a rest, a place where they wouldn’t have to be… taskmasters over them, to drive them, to make them do things.
43 What a beautiful picture it is today, when we look at the Church and see the Church in its condition, every man that’s born of the Spirit of God despises the world. “And if you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in you.” That’s what the Bible said. And the real pilgrim, on his road, simply hates the things of the world. He hates to see men drinking. He hates to see men smoking. He hates to see women on the street, with them little old dirty clothes on. He hates to see buncos and card parties.

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« 44 † And yesterday, while Brother Tony… or Brother Woods and I were coming through the street, and some more, some of the men… There was a little lady there in Louisville, coming down the street, lovely looking little woman, with the clothes on that was horrible; just a little way up on the hip, and a little ribbon tied on her hips, on each side, and a little bitty round piece of cloth in front of her, and tied with a string behind. Walking down the street, horribly, and every man on the street looking at her. I said, “She doesn’t realize that she is guilty, in the sight of God, with committing adultery with every man that looked on her in that manner. And she’ll answer at the day of judgment for committing adultery with those men.”
45 Jesus said, “Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her already.” That’s right.

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« 46 † So, you see, Brother Woods said to me, “What do you allow for that, Brother Branham?”
47 I said, “It’s either mental deficiency or devil possession.” There’s only two things to make it. A decent, clean woman won’t wear those things; unless she is devil-possessed. That’s exactly the Truth.
48 Now, a pilgrim that’s on his road to Heaven, he lives in a different atmosphere. You don’t have to worry about him looking at her. He’ll turn his head if he’s got God in his heart, for he’s living in an atmosphere that’s a million miles from those things. That’s right. You don’t want to be guilty of that stuff, at the judgment. So he turns his head and say, “God, have mercy on the woman,” and on he goes. We’re in our journey. We’re on our way to Canaan’s Land. We’re on our way to that Eternal and blissful Rest that God has given us. And in the journey, we are tempted. We are tempted of all kinds of things, but yet be tempted without sinning.

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« 49 † Now notice, as we go to the 4th chapter, “Let us therefore fear.”
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us to enter into his rest,…
50 I want you to remember, that, unless we find out, unless God has revealed it to us! No matter how much we go to church, that has nothing to do with it. God must come by revelation and reveal Hisself to us, that takes all the things of the world out. “Now, while it is said, ‘Today if you… ‘”
51 Now let’s start the–the 4th chapter.
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us to enter into his rest,…
52 Now remember, when they were on the road to Rest, the Pillar of Fire led them. Now we want to find out, “What is this Rest?”
Let us… fear, lest, the promise being left us to enter into his rest, watch, any of you should seem to come short of it.

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« 53 † Now, here is the promise. Here is what we got to fear: if there’s not a promise left us. But there is a promise! And then, the next thing, don’t come short of it.
54 Now, the thought is, if we are on our way to the Rest, what is the Rest? Where is it? Is it joining church? Is it being baptized a certain way? Is it becoming a member of the greatest church in the city? Wearing better clothes? Is it education? Is it money, so we can quit work and just lay down, rest the rest of our life, as we call it? That’s not it.
55 Listen what the Bible says it is, and how we get it.
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us to enter into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
For unto us (the day then) the gospel was preached, as well as unto them:…
What is the Gospel? The good news. The good news came to them in Egypt, that, “God has sent a deliverer, and He’s going to bring us out and take us to the promised land.”

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« 56 † The good news to us now, that, “God has sent a Deliverer, the Holy Ghost, and we’re on the road to the promised Land.” Now people has made it creeds and denominations, but God still remains, that, our Rest is “the Holy Ghost.”
57 Notice.
… gospel was preached… unto them as well as unto us: but the word preached did not profit them, the…
Remember:
… the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
58 Oh, my brethren, let me stop here for a minute. No matter how much the Word is preached, how well you like the way It’s been preached; unless you yourself are a partaker of That, It won’t do you one bit of good.
… not being mixed with faith by them that heard it.

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« 59 † They seen the miracles of Moses. They said, “That’s pretty good.” And they walked over. They, they seen him perform miracles. And they seen the Pillar of Fire, maybe, or heard them talk about It. “Oh, that’s all right.”
60 But it wasn’t mixed with personal faith. For as soon as they got to the wilderness, they (every one) begin to murmur. And God said, “Because that they doubted, it was sin.” Don’t doubt nothing. Believe. Don’t doubt, no matter how hard the case is, believe It.
61 Now they begin to murmur, and God overthrowed them. And then He swore, in His wrath, that, “They should never enter into His Rest.” And the Bible said here, I believe It’s in the–the 3rd chapter, that, “Their carcases fell in the wilderness.”

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« 62 † The 3rd chapter and the 17th verse.
But with whom he was grieved for forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
63 And of all of them that come out of Egypt, only two went into the promised land. Out of the whole antediluvian world, in the days gone by, there were eight souls saved, out of billions. “Strait is the gate and narrow is the way, and but few there’ll be that will find it.”
64 Some people says, “Then, Brother Branham, what about all these thousands that the Bible said will appear there?”
Just remember how many has died in each generation, that’s been Christians, down through the age. They’ll all resurrect. That makes up the Body. You expect there be a hundred billion in this America, come out, or some other, this world today. There might not be fifty come out. But the great ransomed Church is laying in the dust, awaiting. They are God’s jewels that’s resting in the dust. But their souls are under the altar of God. They’re not in their right state. They’re in a body, truly, but a theophany. And they cry out to God, “How long?” They could see one another, but they couldn’t shake each others’ hands, that kind of a body.

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« 65 † You meet your mother in Glory tonight, if you should go, you couldn’t shake her hand ’cause she has not that kind of a hand. You couldn’t feel it like you’d feel now. Because, five senses is what’s put in this body, could it control. The presence of her would be felt in a different atmosphere.
66 That’s like a husband and wife. There’ll be no marrying, or given and married, in Heaven. Why? Because there is a different kind of love. There’s no sexual desire. All those things has passed away. You are cleansed and pure.
But you never did live in that state, therefore you wasn’t created for that state. You’re just waiting there. But you’re longing to come back where you was created a man and a woman, and there God will raise that body out of the dust of the earth and glorify it. Then you’ll see, taste, feel, smell and hear, and associate. We’ll never know…
We could never enjoy an Angel’s life. We wasn’t created Angels. God created Angels. But He created you and I, men and women. That’s the state we’ll be in, forever, at His blessed Coming.

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« 67 † Now, see how they fell short, because they sinned and come short of the glory. God showed them the Pillar of Fire. He showed them signs and wonders. He led them out. He brought them into temptation, to try and prove them.
68 Now, haven’t you had a lot of temptations? Don’t complain about them. Rejoice. God is with you. He is trying to prove your faith. Look at Job in the Old Testament, when He said, “Have you considered My servant Job, a just man, a perfect man? There is none like him on the earth.”
69 “Oh,” he said, “sure, You got him hedged up: doesn’t have any troubles, doesn’t have any worries. He doesn’t have any financial burdens, everything is fine. He don’t have any sickness, any pain. Let me have him. I’ll make him curse You, to Your face.”
70 He said, “He’s in your hand, but don’t you take his life.'”

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« 71 † Oh! He done everything but take his life, but he couldn’t move Job. Job knowed he stood pat on the Word. That’s right. And all the devils out of hell couldn’t move him, for he knowed he had offered that sacrifice. He was just. And they accused him, said, “You’ve sinned, Job, and God is punishing you.” He knew that God hadn’t… that he hadn’t sinned before God. He knew that he was righteous. Not because he was a good man, but because He was accepting the burnt-offering in his stead.
72 And, tonight, we know that his life proved out that he was righteous. And when you… Not trying to get home to Glory because you try to help your neighbor; that’s good. Not because you join church; that’s good. But you get home to Glory because you accept the righteousness of Jesus Christ, nothing that you’ve done yourself.
73 Now, as we read on.
For unto us was the gospel preached,… (2nd verse)… as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Faith wasn’t in them that heard the Word.

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« 74 † Just think, today, in the little, humble ministry that the Lord has given me, there should be forty million Americans saved, tonight. You know what they say? “Why, it’s mental telepathy. He’s a mind reader. No such stuff! Why, he don’t belong to our church.” See? It’s not… no matter how much you lay it on the Word and prove that it’s God’s Word, it’s God’s promise, how much science would prove that It’s true, they’ll still can’t believe. The Bible said they couldn’t.
75 Said, “Then what’s the use of preach It?” God has to have a witness, to condemn them, at that Day. The Word was preached and proved among them, and they still ignorantly walked away. There is nothing left but judgment. God could not justly–could not justly judge a nation unless it had mercy before it had judgment. He is God. He couldn’t do it.

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« 76 † Now what do we say?
For we which… believed too have entered into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works was finished from the foundation of the world.
For he spake in a certain place on–on the seventh day on this wise,…
77 Now, I do not want to hurt people’s feelings, against their religion. That’s not my purpose. Out in the fields, I just preach the regular, great evangelical, fundamental doctrines. But in the tabernacle, amongst my children here, I feel I have a right to preach what I think is Doctrine and Truth. See? I think that it’s right.

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« 78 † Now, I have thousands of good Sabbatarian friends, of people who are Seventh-day Adventists. Some of the dearest friends that I got, some of them are Seventh-day Adventists.
Although, the great move of, what’s called, the–the Voice of Prophecy, they’re firmly against me. They said that I make the statement in the pulpit, and said, “I was God. And that the… and that this Light that followed was an Angel, and I was God. And I come to the world to do great things, to prove people that I was God.” Now, that’s what the Voice of Prophecy said about me, over in California. And ever who told that, you know, told something, wasn’t so.
79 But in the first place, not taking up thought against the Seventh-day Adventist church or any other Sabbatarian church, but only for the sake of the Gospel. We’re going to get down, in a few minutes, on Pentecost, too. Yeah. True. On Baptist, we’re going to get down on that and show that God doesn’t favor any denomination. That’s right. He only favors the individual. And He doesn’t deal with any denomination, He never did and He never will, according to His Word. But He deals with the individuals in every denomination. Yes, it’s individuals God deals with.

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« 80 † Now listen to this real clear, and if ever, any time, that question ever comes up to you, it’ll be settled. Now, may the Lord help us.
81 Now, closely, “For…” The 4th verse.
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise,…
82 Now watch. He’s talking about sabbath. How many knows that the word s-a-b-b-a-t-h in He-… is the Hebrew word that means “r-e-s-t”? How many knows that, in the English? Sure. Don’t sabbath sound a funny word? It is.
83 Don’t sanctify sound a funny word? Sanctify is a Greek word. Sanctify means “to be made holy.” Hebrew, means “make holy.” Greek, means “sanctify.” English, means “make clean.”
84 Sabbath means “a day of rest.” That’s what the old sabbath was, a day of rest. When you see rest, it means “sabbath.” Look it up in your original manuscript, if you happen to have a Greek Bible, and find out if the word… If you got a Scofield Bible, look at your marginal reading on “rest” and see if it don’t bring you back to the sabbath. Sabbath means “rest.” All right.
85 Now watch.
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left to us to enter into his sabbath, rest,…

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« 86 † Now, many people keeps days, like keeps sabbath day Saturday. Others make a Sunday an idol, a worship day. And by the grace of God, and by the God’s Word, God help me tonight, I can prove to you that they’re both wrong. Both the Sunday worshipper and the sabbath-keeper. They are absolutely both wrong according to the Word. And after all, it’s the Word that we have to go by, not by what the Adventists say, or not by what the Protestant says, or the Catholic says. It’s what the Bible says.

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« 87 † Now, now watch.
For he spake in a certain place on the seventh day on this wise,…
Now we’re going to put up something like this, and call this–this, “God’s Rest,” the seventh day.
88 Now watch. “And God…” Listen to this Scripture now.
… God did rest the seventh day from all his work.
God had a Sabbath, and that seventh day was one thousand years long, a type of the Millennium.
For he spake… of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest… from all his–his work.
The personal pronoun, “All His works.” He rested on the seventh day. That’s God.
And in this place, under the law, If they shall enter into my rest.
89 God rested, physically, for He had made the heavens and earth in six days, and on the seventh day He rested from all His work. He rested one thousand years. For the Bible said, that, “One day on earth is a thousand years in Heaven; a thousand years in Heaven; is one day on the earth.” How many knows the Scripture says that in Second Peter? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] All right. “God rested on the seventh day. And He spoke on this wise at a certain place.”

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« 90 † Now listen close.
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God rested… from all his works.
And in this place again, the law, If they shall enter into my rest.
He give the Jews, on their way from the promised land… or from Egypt, to the promised land, the seventh-day sabbath.
91 Now listen.
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and to they whom it was first preached…
The rest! God give them the law, and the sabbath was the fourth commandment.
… entered not in because of unbelief:…
92 Now watch. He’s talking about the law, how they entered in, wasn’t mixed with faith. They didn’t keep it. They kept the sabbath in a memorial, that they were going to a land of sabbath, to have everlasting rest from all their troubles and all their worries, no more taskmasters, no more restless nights. They were on their way to the promised land of rest. It flowed with milk and honey. The grapes was so big that two men packed one bunch over their shoulders. Oh, what a land of blessed rest! But they failed to get it when they got there, because of their unbelief. They were turned aside, at only forty miles from where they left in Egypt, to the promised land. And they were forty years getting there, because of their unbelief. God gave them their prophet, gave him His sign, give him the Pillar of Fire, showed signs and wonders, and preached the Gospel to them. And they walked out, after the fishes and loaves, and fell in the wilderness. “And their carcases perished in the wilderness.”

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« 93 † Jesus, at the fountain, He said.
Said, “Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness, for forty years.”
94 He said, “I AM that Bread of Life that come from God out of Heaven. I AM the Bread of Life. Moses didn’t give you that Bread. My Father give that Bread. And I AM the Bread that comes from God out of Heaven. If a man eats This, will never die.” There’s the difference.
95 Now watch. They said that He…” They drank from the Rock that was in the wilderness, for the space of so-many years.”
96 He said, “I AM that Rock.” Blessed be His Holy Name! “I AM that Rock.”
How could He be that Rock? That Rock was a spiritual Rock. It followed the children of Israel. And Moses had a stick in his hand, which was a judgment rod of God. And God told him to smite the Rock, and he smote the Rock. And when he did, waters came from the Rock. And Christ was that Rock, and the judgment of God’s penalty of sin was struck upon Him. “God caused to lay on Him the iniquity of us all,” and that iniquity bursted forth His heart. And from His heart poured the Holy Spirit, like rivers of water, to a perishing, dying people.
“I AM that Rock that was in the wilderness.”
“Why,” he said, “You mean to tell…”

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« 97 † He said, “Moses, the one that told you that, he longed to see My day. And he saw it in portion.”
98 He said, “Now, You mean to tell us that You’re greater than Moses? That You seen Moses? And Moses has been dead eight hundred years.” Said, “Now we know that You got a devil,” other words, “crazy. We know that You’re crazy.”
99 He said, “Before Abraham was, I AM. I was THE GREAT I AM that was in the burning bush. I’m that Fire that was in the burning bush. I’m that Angel that went before them.” And He said, “I come from God, and I go back to God.” And He came from God, made flesh and dwelt among us; went back to that same Pillar of Fire.
And here He is, tonight, after two thousand years, “the same yesterday, today, and forever,” doing the same thing, leading His blessed children.

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« 100 † And many are coming… in because of unbelief. Now, he said, “He limited a day,” a day when God finished His work. Then, “He limited ‘another day,’ and on this wise, that if they shall hear, if they shall come, that keep the sabbaths, go on through the new moons and so forth.” There’s where the Advent brethren tries to take you back.
101 Now let’s read on. Notice.
Seeing therefore… that some must enter therein, and them to whom it was preached first entered not in because of unbelief.
102 Now, the 7th verse. Oh, my! I say, the Scripture is mathematically inspired. I say, the Scripture is, and in every way, inspired. The mathematics of the Bible are perfect.

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« 103 † Did you notice this United States is number thirteen in everything it does? You know it was established the thirteen colonies? You know the flag had thirteen stars in it first? You know everything that the United States does is in a number thirteen? Did you know it appears in the Bible in Revelations thirteen? Certainly does. The little beast, the lamb that come up out of water, not thickness and multitudes of people,… not out of the water, but out of a land where there’s no one. It had two little horn: civil and ecclesiastic powers. And he was a lamb: freedom of religion. And after while, they went together and he spoke like the dragon, and exercised all the power that Rome did before him. That’s coming to our nation. You mark it down. You watch to the Confederation of Churches and the Catholic unite together. Watch what takes place.
104 People who follow the Pillar of Fire will certainly have a rough time, but they’re ready for the translation at that time, that’s right, just ready to go. “For the Lamb overcome them,” said the Bible, “and them that followed Him, because they were called the chosen and the faithful, the Elected of God.” Keep from getting onto that prophecy now, so we can run this on.

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« 105 † Listen close, the 7th chapter, the… I mean the 4th chapter, the 7th verse. Seven is the number of completion. Three is the number of Life. Seven is the number of completion, and this gives the complete sabbath.
“And again,” remember, he spoke, “God,” on this wise. Then he spoke of the “law,” on this wise. And then, again, “He limited a day,” third day, third time.
Again, he limited a day, a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time;… To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your heart.
Watch, if Jesus had given them rest (a sabbath),… would he not afterwards have spoken of another day.
The dispensations change with Jesus Christ: from the law to grace, from works unto grace, from something you do to what something God did, upon your own merits or upon His merits. It changed.

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« 106 † When Moses come out of the wilderness, with the law, he said, “Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not kill. Keep the sabbath day holy.” When Jesus come out of the wilderness… When Moses come, the Devil tempted him. As soon as the Devil tempted him, he heeded to it. Moses had a weak spot. How many knows what it was? Temper. And as soon as he seen them worshipping the golden calf, he threw down the commandments and broke them, showing you that priesthood would be broken. And God give them to him again.
107 But when Jesus came out of the wilderness, forty days of fasting, He was hungry, the only weak spot He had. And the Devil come to Him and said, “If Thou be the Son of God, turn these stones into bread. Do a miracle here. Let me see You do it, and I’ll believe You.”
108 Jesus said, “It’s written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.'” He knowed he didn’t meet Moses there, for He went to the Word.

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« 109 † Took Him up on the pinnacle, temple, said, “If Thou be the Son of God, cast Thyself down.” And coated, not quoted, but coated the Scripture. Said, “It’s written, ‘He give the Angels charge, concerning, lest any time You dash Your foot against a stone. He’ll bear Thee up.'”
110 And Jesus went straight to the Word, and rebuked him.
111 Took Him up on the mountain and showed Him the United States and Germany and Switzerland, and all the nations of the world, that ever would be, said, “They’re all mine. I do with them whatever I want to.” No wonder we got wars and troubles. Said, “I do with them…” No wonder women dress… and get by with it, by the law. They’re all governed by the Devil. That’s what the Bible said. Satan said, “They are mine. I do with them whatever I want to.” Said, “If You’ll worship me, I’ll make You king like I am.”
112 Jesus said, “It’s written, ‘Thou shall worship the Lord thy God only, shalt thou serve.’ Get thee behind Me, Satan.”
Why? Jesus knew that He would fall heir to them in this great Millennium, when His Kingdom would come. “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” There’ll be no more shorts wore. There’ll be no more drinking. There’ll be no more lust. There’ll be no more adultery. There’ll be no more death. There’ll be no more sorrow. He falls heir to every nation. They are His. That’s right. They are His, and He will fall heir. But Satan has them for a space of time, that is today, that we’re living.

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« 113 † “But He limited a day, saying, ‘Today, after so long a time.’ And said, ‘Harden not your heart.'”
For if Jesus would have given them rest,… would he not afterwards have spoke of another day.
114 My Adventist brother, look at That. Paul here, said. And Paul said, in Galatians 1:8, if you’re taking down the scriptures, Galatians 1:8, “If an Angel from Heaven comes and preach any other gospel besides This that I’ve preached, let him be accursed.” Paul said, “If Jesus would have given them a Rest day…”
115 Look, when He come off the mountain. He come down then. He had overcome the Devil. He was anointed, ready for His ministry. He said, “You’ve heard them say, them of old times, ‘Thou shalt not kill,’ but I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother, without a cause, has killed already. You’ve heard them say, them of old times,” this day, the sabbath-keepers. “You’ve heard them say, back then of old times, under the law, ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery; had to be in the act, to be guilty.’ But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.” Different! Passed right by that fourth commandment. But did He give them Rest?

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« 116 † Let’s see what he said. “David said, ‘After so long a time,’ there would be a perfect Rest come.’ ‘God rested from His works, on the seventh day.’ God blessed the sabbath day, and give it to the Jews in the wilderness, on this wise. They entered… in because of unbelief, ’cause the Word not mixed with faith. And again, He limited a certain day, saying in David, ‘After so long a time.'”
Hundreds of years after David was dead, the Son of David would rise up, which is Jesus, “And if they shall hear My Voice, harden not your heart.” God is going to speak to the heart.
117 Now watch, for the 9th verse now, to you that’s reading. “Jesus would have given them rest,” the 8th verse, “He would… have spoke of another day.”

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« 118 † If there was to be a sabbath, if there was to be a Sunday-keeping, then He would have spoke of it. If He had said, “Now there’s no more sabbath, no more keeping the seventh day, what I want you to keep is Sunday,” He’d have said it. Paul said He did. He’d have said, “You all worship on Sunday. That’ll be the rest.” Well, if he’d have wanted them to keep the sabbath, he’d have said, “Just remain keeping the seventh day. But now I want you to keep Sunday, the eighth day.” No. He never said it.
119 He said, “If Jesus would have given them a day, would He not have spoke of it?”

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« 120 † Now the 9th verse. Get ready.
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God, a sabbath-keeping to the people of God.
For he that has entered into his (Christ’s) rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his, on the sabbath.
121 See it? Now let’s take some Scripture and back this up. All right. When God made the world in six days, He rested on the seventh day, and never worked any more. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. He built the world, put the creation on it, and went to rest; and never come back again, to build any more world. He finished the works, and went to rest. Now, on… Then, after that thousand years, then sin come in; then Christ was represented, the Lamb was represented. Now, the Jews was given this as a type of the seventh-day Rest.
Now, he limited another day, saying in David,… after so long a time, there is coming another rest.

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« 122 † Now what is that Rest? Turn with me to Matthew, the 11th chapter, and the last part of the 11th chapter of Saint Matthew. That’s when Jesus ended His sermon on the mount, and you’ll see what He said.
123 He said, “Whosoever looketh upon a woman, lust after her, has committed adultery with her already in his heart. Whosoever get angry with his brother, without a cause, has killed the brother.” All these things, and He never touched that fourth commandment, that sabbath.

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« 124 † Now He’s ending up. And the Sabbath is the great Promise of God. It’s a Rest. Now, now watch here, when He got through ending up the beatitudes. Here He says, 27th verse of the 11th chapter of Saint Matthew. Where, He was teaching the beatitudes in the 5th chapter.
All things are delivered unto my hand, unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father;…
See, you can’t know one without knowing the other, ’cause He was the Father manifested in flesh.
… neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son,…
125 Looks like people could see That and not argue. Certainly. God is not three People. If He is three Gods, then we’re heathens. Which one is God? They’re, all three, one God, is three offices of the same God. He was the Father, in the form of the Holy Spirit, in that Pillar of Fire in the wilderness. He was the Son, when He used the Sonship office. “A little while and the world seeth me no more; I’ll go away. I’ll come again and be with you, even in you, to the end of the world.” See? He’s the Fatherhood, the Sonship, and the Holy Ghost, too. It’s all the very same God working in three different offices: Fatherhood, Sonship, Holy Ghost. Never…
First John 5:7 said, “There are three that bear record in Heaven: Father, Son, Holy Ghost. These three are One.”

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« 126 † Thomas said unto Him, “Lord, show us the Father. It’ll satisfy him.”
127 He said, “I been so long with you, and you don’t know Me?” Said, “When you see Me, you’ve seen the Father. And why say, ‘Show us the Father’?”
128 Now, the Oneness took it, the oneness group of people, and try to make Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, just one office and one place, and like your finger, one. That’s wrong. God could not… Jesus could not been His own father. If He was, then He was a… Well, how could He been His own father?
129 And if God is a man, separated from the Holy Ghost, He had two fathers. For the Bible said, that, “The Holy Ghost overshadowed Mary and she conceived, and,” the Bible said, in Matthew 1:18, that, “that thing which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.” Then which is His father, the Holy Ghost or God? Both, the same Spirit, or He had an illegitimate birth by two spirits.
That’s a Catholic dogma, and it never was a Bible teaching. Martin Luther brought it out, with a lot of other Catholicism that’s in Lutheran church. Wesley followed on with it. And it’s still going on, but it’s an error. It’s not the Truth. Never was it, never was it a Bible Doctrine. Never was it a commandment in the Bible, to teach three Gods.
There is one God. Jesus said, “Hear ye, O Israel, I’m the Lord your God, one God,” not three Gods.

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« 130 † In Africa, they baptize once for the Father, once for the Son, and once for the Holy Ghost. And then the poor Jew comes around, say, “Which one of them is your God? Which one is, the Father, Son, or Holy Ghost?” They’re, all three, One. The Bible said they were One.
131 Jesus was a house that God lived in. The Bible said that, that, First Timothy 3:16, “Without controversy,” that’s, “argument, great is the mystery of godliness. For God was manifested in the flesh, seen of Angels, received on… preached, believed on, and received up into Glory.” God was. The Bible said, “His Name shall be called Emmanuel, which is by interpretation, ‘God with us.'” The Bible said, that, “Jesus, in Him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily.”

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« 132 † As we had it the other night: God, in the beginning, was Spirit. And then, from God, went out the Logos, or the theophany, which was a form of a man, called the Son of God, prefigured. He came in earth, in a body of flesh, even before He came in Jesus Christ. Now swallow that one once, brother. I’ll prove it to you.
133 When, when Moses saw Him. He said, “Let me see Your form, Lord.” And God hid him in the rock. And when He passed by, he said, “It was the back part of a man.” That was that theophany. That’s exactly.
Then, that theophany had to be made flesh. Not another Person, but the same Person had to become flesh, to take the sting out of death.
Like a bee when he stings, it leaves the stinger. And he never left that… He could put a sting in human flesh because it’s sin. But, brother, when he stung that Emmanuel’s flesh, he lost his stinger. Yes, sir. He can buzz but he ain’t got no stinger no more.

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« 134 † No wonder, Paul, when they go to chop his head off, said, “O death, where is your sting? You can buzz and hum as much as you want to. Grave, where is your victory? But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through Jesus Christ.” There you are.
It taken God Himself to do that. He came and was manifested in flesh. He returned back in the Spirit.
135 You say, “Brother Branham, you never told us, yet, when God was made flesh before He came in Christ.”
When Abraham was setting under his tent, one day, there come two Angels and God, walking up to him, in human flesh. They had dust on their clothes and were weary, and they set down. And Abraham went out and took the calf away from a cow, and killed it. And made some lamb chops. Went out and got… had Sarah take some corn meal and sift through it, and make some hoe cakes. And got some butter from the cow, and got some buttermilk. And took it out there and set it down, and God eat it.

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« 136 † Hallelujah! That’s the reason, “My faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary.”
137 You think that’s a big thing for God? God, Who made all the potash and calciums, and everything in the world, He come down to visit Abraham. He said, “You think I’ll keep it from you, seeing that you’re the heir of the world?” Amen. “I’ll not keep it from you.” God just got a…
138 We’re made out of sixteen elements. He just got some potash, and some calcium, some petroleum, cosmic light, the “Whew!” “Step in that, Gabriel,” a body!
139 “Whew!” “Step in that, Wormwood.” He stepped in it.
Two Angels, out of Heaven!
140 God reached and got a handful of it, “Whew,” stepped in it, Hisself. Come down, and was hungry. Blessed! What about that, Adventist brethren that won’t eat meat? We’re going to get into that, after while. God Almighty, Jehovah, find out if that same Name isn’t translated the same One at the burning bush! Hallelujah!
And then He stood on earth, He said, “Before Abraham was, I AM, that same One at the burning bush.” That’s right, Elohim, see if it isn’t the same. He was the One was at the burning bush.

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« 141 † He was the One here in the presence of Abraham, in a body of flesh, that eat the calf, and drank the milk from the cow, and eat butter on hoe cakes. Blessed be the Holy Name of God! Walked right down there and said, “I’ll not leave…”
And He had His back turned. He said, “Abraham, I’m going to visit you, and you’re going to bring that child. You’re a hundred years old now, and Sarah is ninety.” And Sarah, in the tent, went, laughed. He said, “What made Sarah laugh?” Behind Him; the tent between them.
142 Abraham said, “Sarah, did you laugh?”
143 “No, I never.”
144 Said, “Yes, you did.” What kind of a telepathy is that? What kind of a mind-reading was that?
He does the same today. He is Jehovah-jireh, Jehovah-rapha, the same yesterday, today, and forever. He never fails.
145 Look at Him. There He stands. Walked right out and talked to Abraham; and vanished, in his sight. And the great patriarch Abraham said he “talked face-to-face with God, Elohim,” the same God. Get it? Not no three People, brother. Three offices of the same Person!

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« 146 † In the beginning was the same, He was that great Spirit, Fountain where all the trueness, all the love, all the peace. Everything that was pure was in this Fountain. It begin to form a body, a theophany, the kind of body that we go to. Not a glorified body, but an angelic body, like; has shape, form.
147 Every time I see a tree, I think, “That tree is the negative. There is a positive somewhere.” That tree was made off of something. An intelligence made it. And all this earth does is reflect the Heavenly. The Bible said so. And if there is a tree here that has to perish, there is one in Glory that won’t perish.
148 If I see a man, I see a lovely little young couple, man and his wife, walking down the street, sweethearts together. What does it reflect? Blessed be the Name of the Lord! There is one in Heaven that’ll never perish. “If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting, the theophany.”

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« 149 † Then you get the trinity: the great Spirit, dwelling in the Son, Jesus; Jesus dwelling into the Church. “At that day, you’ll know that I’m in the Father, the Father in Me, and I in you.” All that God was, He poured into Jesus; all Jesus was, He poured into the Church. There you are. “I in the Father, the Father in Me; I in you, and you in Me.” There’s a… There’s the Body.
150 That’s what’s the matter with the church. They’ve been taught little old petty, sissified, old lady doctrine of some sort, run around and have soup suppers and card parties. No wonder we got a bunch of chaos that we got. We don’t need children’s programs and little soup suppers. What we need is a rugged old Gospel, and men of faith with the sword hanging out there, and challenging. What we need today, not some petty theology and some theory of some man-made click. We need the rugged Gospel preached in the Light and the Power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost.

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« 151 † Notice here now.
As he said, he limited another day, saying in David,…
… if Jesus would have given them rest,… would he not… have spoken of another day.
But there remaineth… a rest to the people of God.
For he that has entered into his rest,… hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
152 Now where we going to read? Matthew, the twenty-… The 11th chapter, 27th verse.
All things that the Father delivered unto me, are delivered unto me of my Father, rather: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; all right, neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
153 See, it’s not how much you learn, how much the–the bishop wants you to know. It’s how much God wants you to know. If you can’t see this Revelation, don’t ask the bishop. Ask God. Don’t ask your pastor. Ask God. “The Son reveals Him,” He, personal pronoun.

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« 154 † Listen. This will shock you. Here is the commandment. Paul said, “If He would have left another day, He would have spoke of it.” But here is what He said.
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you sabbath, rest.
Take my yoke upon thee, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly at heart: and you shall find sabbath unto your soul.
For my yoke is easy, and my burdens are light.
155 Watch what Paul said.
… if Jesus would have given them rest,… he would have spoke of another day.
But he limited a… day, say in David,… after so long a time;… when you hear his voice, harden not your heart.
“And there remaineth…” Listen now, 9th verse.
There remaineth therefore a rest, a sabbath, to the people of God.
For he, the man or woman, that has entered into his rest…
“Come unto Me, all you that labor and heavy laden. I’ll give you rest.”
… has ceased from his… works, as God did from his.

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« 156 † You might been twenty years old. You might have been thirty years old. You might have been fifty years old. But the minute that you hear the Voice of God knocking at your heart, don’t harden it. Then enter… “He that heareth My Words, believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting, Eternal Life, and shall never come into condemnation but is passed from death unto Life.”
157 “Say, Brother Branham, what happens?” You get the Holy Ghost. Christ comes into you. Is that right?

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« 158 † Turn with me to Isaiah, the 28th chapter, and let’s read. Isaiah, the 28th chapter, see what the prophet said about it. Matthew… 28, begin at the 8th verse. Here is the predict-ment of the last days. We got to close in a minute.
For all tables will be, is full of vomit and… there is no place clean.
159 Let me stop a minute, as Ernie said the other night. He was talking to somebody. Ernie Fandler, this brother here from Switzerland, he said, “I stopped and let it soak in.”
160 I want this to soak in.
… there is no place clean.
For all the tables will be full of vomit…
And as a dog goes to its vomit… and a sow… to her wallow, so does the people turn back.

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« 161 † What’s the matter with you Methodists? You used to have the Light. What happened? God took It out of your hand and He give It to the Nazarenes.
What happened to you Nazarenes? You once had the Light. God took It out of your hands and give It to the Pentecostals. Correct. You church of God and the rest of you holiness people, because you rejected the Light, you denominated yourself and said, “We won’t believe any more than this,” God moved right on out and showed you He had people who would follow Him.
162 What happened to you Pentecostals? You had the Light. God has took It away from you.
The Pillar of Fire moves on. Every time the Pillar of Fire moved, the Church moved with It.
And when Luther organized, out of the Catholic church, his own church, the Pillar of Fire moved and Wesley went with It.
Wesley organized and made his denomination, and the Pillar of Fire moved and the Nazarenes went with It.
The Nazarenes organized, and the church of God went with It; and said they wasn’t a denomination, but they were.

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« 163 † Then what happened? The next thing happened, the Pentecostals seen the Fire, and away they went. And what did you do? Made a doctrine out of tongues, and organized it, “Everybody had to speak in tongues before they got the Holy Ghost,” then God moved right away and left you setting where you’re at.
164 What happened to you Oneness? You found baptism, Jesus’ Name. You made a doctrine out of it, and separated yourself from the rest of It, and God moved right away and left you setting there. Right.
165 What happened to you Assembly of God, old General Council? You made an organization out of yours, and God moved right away and left you set. And now you’re nothing but a cold, formal bunch like the rest of them are.
And the Pillar of Fire moves on. Hallelujah!
… all tables are full of vomit…

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« 166 † Look at the Lord’s Supper. Why, they even has a place they take old loaf bread. And the bread is supposed to be made with unleavened bread. And they pass it out to sinners, cigarette smokers, prostitutes, harlots, as long as they got their name on the book.
167 And you Baptists even call it “closed” communion. Now, you Baptists crow a little, God will take your horn off. That’s exactly right, you won’t be able to toot it. “Closed” communion, you separate yourself, seem to be holier than thou art.
Remember, this is a Baptist tabernacle. That’s what you get, you organize yours. “Oh,” you say, “we’re not an organization.” Yes, you are. Certainly, you are. You say, “We’re a fellowship.” Yeah, to anybody that comes in the door and teach just the way you believe it, it’s all right. But, one, you–you won’t throw him out, but you’ll excommunicate him from your brotherhood. That’s exactly right. Oh, you got a way of doing it. So has God got a way of doing it. But God’s Church will move on. The Pillar of Fire won’t stand for that.
… all tables are full of vomit…

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« 168 † Now listen. Now this is going to shock you just a minute. Listen. I’ll read the Word. Who was this? The prophet, Isaiah.
… all tables are full of vomit… so there is nothing clean, just dog-eat-dog.
169 Come to the church: women chop, bob off their hair, wear shorts, get out and see the men coming down the street; lawn-mow the yard, little girls want to hear somebody give that bulldog or wolf whistle, whatever it is, you know, “Whet-whew!” Oh, you think you’re cute, don’t you?
170 You men walk down the street, with a cigar in your mouth, and a deacon on the board. You look like a dehorned Texas steer. And then you think that you’re somebody. That’s exactly right. No wonder all tables… Walk up and take the communion, and act like you’re somebody, and cheat and steal and lie, through the week. What’s the matter with you?
… all tables are full of vomit…

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« 171 † “Oh, I take the Lord’s Supper. Sure, we do it in our church. Jesus said He would raise us up in the last days if we took the Lord’s Supper.”
172 But, “He that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s Body. For this cause many are sick and weakly among you, and many are dead,” old, dead, formal churches. The Spirit of God has gone out of you. The Pillar of Fire ain’t there no more. You deny Divine healing. You deny the resurrection.
173 “Oh,” you say, “oh, He rose from the dead, historically.” Well, what about Him being the same today, if He rose from the dead? You say, “Oh, that ain’t so.” Now, there you are. You have the resurrection the way you want it, and God has got it in the way He wants it.
174 But, the thing of it is, the Bible said, what we know is the Truth, that He would confirm the Word. “And these things that I do shall you do same. And I’ll be with you always, to the end of the world.” “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.” That’s what the Word said.

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« 175 † Now what’s the sabbath?
… all tables are full of vomit… no one clean.
Who shall he teach knowledge?
Not worldly knowledge; spiritual knowledge!
Who shall he teach knowledge?… whom shall He make… understand doctrine?
176 “Oh, bless God, our organization don’t believe This. They wouldn’t put up with That.”… care what your organization believes. What does God’s Word say about it? “Oh, well, our pastors, you know, are educated.” Oh, sure. Certainly, got so much education, they left God out of it. Truly, for you can tell them the Word and they’ll walk around and say, “Well, I don’t believe It just that way.” Oh, you sissified thing! Let me tell you.

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« 177 † Looky here.
… who shall he make… known doctrine? them that are weaned from the breast, and… them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
178 The other day, a neighbor of mine come. He said, “Billy, a certain pastor here in the city, the most lovely little person you ever seen…” Said, “Wife and I were setting with our pajamas on, about midnight, and that little pastor run in and he–he–he drank some coffee with us and he took out over to the other neighbor’s house, and he shook hands with them. They was having a little card game, and he sat down and played cards with them.” Said, “Oh, he was the most sociable little fellow you ever seen.” Said, “Oh, we love him. We wouldn’t get rid of him for nothing.”
179 I stood there a little bit, I thought, “Well?”
180 Said, “Oh, don’t you think that every church needs a man like that?” Huh! I couldn’t answer that. He said, “In another little place,” said, “they had such a lovely place. This minister and his wife, lovely people, went out and deal with the children so much till they had a–a Bible school.” And said, “They just had so many, just overflowed the thing with little children.” Said, “My, he can tell all kinds of little stories to the little children.”
181 I said, “That’s nice. That’s awful nice.”

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« 182 † I went back. I just come from Canada. I thought, “Here I am. My! People… What’s the matter with me? I don’t do that.” I went to washing on my car. I thought, “God, I’m getting to be an old man, and here I am. I’ve fought. I’ve cried. I’ve begged. And anything I get is a big blaspheme.”
183 Anything, let somebody say something bad about you, “Oh, the old holy-roller,” something like that.
184 I thought about that. And a Voice come to me, said, “Them men is all right if they’re doing that, but I never called you to do that. I called you to take the Sword and stand there like Joshua and challenge, brother. Not fool around with some old society or some church organization, but challenge the Devil. Stand in the forefront, make right right, and wrong wrong. Preach the Word and find out who has got the faith to believe It. Lay her out there.”
185 I got to speeding up on that car, all time, washing. I said, “Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.” Felt good then. “It’s all right, Lord, I’ll grip her a little tighter, and I want to die with It in my hand.”
… who can I make known doctrine? (Listen.)
… tables are full of vomit…
… them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
Now watch.
For precept as that upon–upon precept, precept upon precept;… line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
For with stammering lips and with other tongues will I speak to this people.
To whom it is said, This is the sabbath wherein ye shall cause the weary to rest;… this is the refreshments: yet they would not hear.
For the word of the LORD came unto them, somebody preached It, precept upon precept,… upon precept; line upon line,… upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

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« 186 † What is the Rest? When did the Rest come? When people spoke with other tongues and had stammering lips. Stammering lips; they didn’t speak nothing. They stammered. When did that happen? On the Day of Pentecost, when the Holy Ghost come. That is the Rest: the Holy Ghost. Jesus said, “Come unto Me, all you that weary and heavy laden, and I’ll give you Rest. I’ll give you Life, Eternal Life,” Zoe, God’s Own Life. God will come into you and be a part of you. He will give you a birth and make you a son and daughter.

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« 187 † Now watch. That was the third rest He give. The first: God received it, from His work. Second: Israel received it, in the law. Third: the Church received It, as a part of God.
188 Three is the number of life. How many knows that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Every time you see three, it’s life. Notice, when God created the earth, on the third day was life. How many knows that? [“Amen.”] The third day. There came life on the third day of creation.
The trinity: the Father was above the people, in a Pillar of Fire; the Son was a Man, who talked to people and got them ready; the Holy Ghost was the third step, which was the Holy Ghost, God in the people. Life! Father, Son…
The rest, of God; the rest, of Israel; and the Rest, of the Church, the sabbath-keeping.

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« 189 † So, if you’ve never received the Holy Ghost, yet, you have never entered into God’s Rest. You don’t have to say, “Oh, I couldn’t. I want to smoke. I–I just couldn’t do it; I’m a Christian. I really don’t want to drink, but I’m a Christian. I just can’t, don’t want to drink, but yet I like to.”
190 If you lust after women, if you do all these ungodly things, you’ve never hit that Rest period yet. You’ve never entered into your Rest.
191 And when you enter into this Rest, you cease from your own worldly works, like God did from His. Why? You’re a part of God. You rest, Eternally. There you are. That’s the Sabbath. “Come unto Me, all you that labor.”
Today, he limited a certain day,… after so long a time, in David;… when you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

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« 192 † Just a word or two more here now, we’ll close.
For he that has entered into Christ’s rest,…
Come unto me, all you that labour and… heavy laden…
… you have ceased from your own works, as God did from his, on the seventh day.
Yours might been at the thirtieth year, the fortieth year, the fifth year, whatever it is. You have ceased from your works, as God did from His, Eternally. You no more want the things of the world. The world is dead to you.
193 Now, 11th verse now, closely.
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, (not this one, not this one, but This one), lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
194 What is it? The Pillar of Fire is here. The Angel of the Lord is with us. He’s doing the very same things that He said He would do. And people stumble around, say, “Oh, well, I guess It’s all right. That’s pretty good. Oh, I guess It’s okay.” Be careful that you don’t fall in the same snare of unbelief. You take It with all your heart.

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« 195 † Watch.
For the word of God (not the doctrine of the church)… the word of God is quicker, more powerful,… sharper than a twoedged sword, (listen), piercing even… the dividing asunder of the soul, the spirit,… the joints and the marrow, and… (listen), and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart.
What was that? The Holy Spirit can come and say, “You did a certain-certain thing. And you did this and did that. You have this kind of disease, and that. If you’ll make this right, you’ll do that.” See? Discerner of the thoughts.
196 And people say, “What is that? Why, it’s mental telepathy. Why, it’s a… He’s a fortune-teller.” See what I mean? It’s a wicked, old adulterous world that don’t know God.

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« 197 † “It’s quicker, thought-er, more powerful than a twoedged sword, and a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart.”
Now, what is it that knows the intents of the heart? God. You said, “Well, the Bible said, ‘The Word of God.'” The Word of God is God.
In the beginning was the Word,… the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,…
198 God discerns the thoughts. Abraham had his back turned, and–and so did God have His back turned to the tent. And Sarah laughed. And God turned around, said, “What made Sarah laugh?” A discerner of the thoughts of the heart! I want that to soak a little bit.
199 Then when that kind of a ministry raises up, that God promised in the last day, what happened? “Mental telepathy.”
200 Did not they call the Lord, Himself, “Beelzebub”? He said, “If they’ve called the Master of the house ‘Beelzebub,’ how much more will they call His disciples?”

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« 201 † I love you. It goes to show that you’re interested enough, you don’t have to come to an air-conditioned building to hear the Gospel. You’re hungry enough to come to a place like this. God never would let us build nothing but this. We love it this way. Just a little old shack, but that’s the way we love it. God don’t dwell in glamour. God dwells in humility. We love it like this. We’re happy to come, and you are, too, to set in a–a place like this. No matter how hot it is, how much you sweat on your new suit, your new dress, that don’t make any difference.
You’re listening to Eternal Life, to the Word of God that knows the thoughts of your heart. The Pillar of Fire that hung over the children of Israel, hangs here tonight. I could challenge it: there isn’t a man could stand here under the power of the Holy Ghost without God just spilling him right out and telling him what he was. That’s right. There you are.
202 What is It? What is It? It’s the same Spirit that led the Children of Israel to their rest, and they fell because of unbelief. Don’t you fall. This is the last chance. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Life come through there.

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« 203 † Justification, Martin Luther, still a form of religion. Sanctification… Martin Luther; John Wesley; the baptism of the Holy Ghost, Life. Justification, is believing; sanctification, is the cleansing; Holy Ghost, is the filling, Life. Not through the Lutheran age; they had It in a form. Not through the Wesley age; they had It in a form. But this is the age when the Holy Ghost comes, Hisself.
204 And if you haven’t received It, how do you, can you believe miracles? That takes God, in you, to believe. You act like God. You know like God. You think like God. The Bible said that you are amateur, little “gods.” Jesus said so. For, you’re a part of God.
Just the same as I’m a little Branham, and you’re a little whoever-you-are, and because your parents is that name. The nature that you are is because your parents is that way, ’cause you was born of them.
And the reason that you believe God, and believe in miracles, and signs and wonders, because you are sons and daughters of God. You receive Life. Life comes on the third. All right.
205 When Jesus went up on the mountain, everywhere He went, He taken Peter, James, and John, three witnesses. Three is the number of Life. Get it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Love, joy, peace.

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« 206 † Now, let’s go quickly now to the end of the chapter, quickly, as we read.
For the word of God is quicker, more powerful… than twoedged sword,… and discerning even the intents of the heart.
Neither is there any creature that is not manifested in his sight: but all things are… opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
207 Brother, there’s not a fly could light on a post there, without Him knowing it. “All things are open.” Brother, He knows every thing that you ever did, ever thought you ever thought of. That’s what He is. We believe Him like that.
And when God comes into us, and sets us in the Church, He puts gifts and things in the Church, to operate His Being. If God is that infinite God, then He heals the sick. He can raise the dead. He can cleanse the lepers, make the blind to see. He can give visions. He can do all kinds of these things, working through His Church, because it’s God in you. There is the Church.

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« 208 † How does that church become a Church, by joining It? No, sir. By shaking hands? No, sir. By water baptism? No, sir. By membership? No, sir. How do you get It? “For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body.” There you are.
209 Romans 8:1.
There is therefore now no condemnation…
“No worldly condemnation.” They can’t accuse you of nothing.
There is… no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
210 There you are. That’s how to judge your Christianity. That’s how to know you’ve entered into that Rest, the world don’t bother you no more. Certainly. You see it, walk away from it. You got something better to think of. There you are, “No condemnation.” That’s how we get into the Body.

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« 211 † And you’re secured, “Forever.” The Bible said so. Look over here in the Hebrews, the 10th chapter. He said:
For where there’s offerings of bulls and sacrifice, a remembrance was made of sin every year.
But this man,… through one sacrifice…
Blessed be His holy Name!
For by one sacrifice he hath perfected for ever…
212 Hallelujah! Not for the next revival, but forever. “Old things have passed away; and all things have become new.” We’re walking in the Light, the beautiful Light. The birds sing different.
213 Setting here, looking at this little alcoholic, about five years ago, I guess. Rosella, a walleyed bat, walking down the streets of Chicago, drunk, twisting around, walking into every kind of sin that there was, drunk and in everything that she could be. And one night, the Holy Spirit, that’s quicker and more powerful than a two-edged sword, said, “Woman, you are an alcoholic.” Hallelujah! If that ain’t the same God that was back yonder, who knowed Sarah laughed behind Him, I don’t know what He is.

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« 214 † Up in the audience to another little woman. She went and got, and brought in there. Said, “You are a dope addict.” How He discerns the thoughts of the mind!
215 And great big aristocratic ministers setting there, who has world-wide evangelism, with their hands folded back, in tee shirts, thought we didn’t know them, like they could set under a meeting like that and God wouldn’t reveal who they were. Setting there, looking different, like they were somebody else. The Holy Ghost knowed who they was. And they set there, in their hearts, thought It was mental telepathy. Know no more about God than a Hottentot would know about Egyptian night. That’s right. They know It by letter, but not by Spirit. “The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth Life.” That’s it. That’s the idea. “Quicker, more powerful than a two-edged sword, a discerner of the thoughts of the heart.”

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« 216 † Listen. Watch.
Neither is there any creature that is not manifested in his sight: but all things are naked and open before his eyes to him… whom we have to do with.
Seeing then that we have a great high priest… (Listen now; to the sick.)… that has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
217 “Hold fast,” that don’t mean just keep testifying. If you don’t live the life, you don’t hold it fast; you’re living a hypocritical thing. You’re… You better be on out and just say you’re a sinner and forget about it. Don’t profess a Christian, live something else; you’re the biggest stumbling block the world has ever had. If you’re a sinner, admit it and, go on, get right with God. If you’re a Christian, hold fast your confession, stay there.

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« 218 † Watch this now. I want to get this in just before we leave.
For we have not an high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like… we are, yet without sin.
Listen.
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we might obtain mercy, and find grace and help in the time of need.
Blessed be the Name of God!
219 Listen, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran. You going to ask me this question, “Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness.” I know. That’s where you always go. That’s true. “What more can a man do but believe God?” That’s exactly right. That’s all he can do. But when God recognizes that faith, He gives you the Holy Ghost.
220 “Now what do I do, Brother Branham? Do I shout?” Not necessary. “Do I speak with tongues?” Not necessary. You can shout and speak with tongues, both, and still live like a–like a heathen, and still lust for women. You can still smoke and drink, and everything else. I seen people speak with tongues, and go right out and pull some of the dirtiest, crooked deal I ever seen. I seen them shout, and cry crocodile tears, and would steal anything you get a hold of. I seen them walk out, and every girl goes down the street, turn. Uh-huh. That’s one good sign you haven’t got It. That’s right.

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« 221 † But, brother, when you’ve passed from death unto Life, all those things become dead, and you’re a new creature in Christ Jesus. If you see something wrong, you’ll pray for it, “God be merciful.” And if you see troubles, instead of going and tattling, and trying to make it worse, you’ll try to get to the person and straighten it up, and quieten it right quick. That’s the Spirit of God in you.
222 If you make a mistake? You’re subject to them. If you make a mistake, you’ll correct it right quick. “Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath.” That’s how you know you passed from death unto Life, you got love, peace, joy, long-suffering, goodness, gentleness, patience. We have the High Priest setting in Heaven, ready to make intercessions upon our profession. What is it? It’s when Jesus went back to the Logos, the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel, setting in the Presence of them greats, fountain, rainbow of Lights that come out, the seven perfect Spirits, a perfect Spirit of love.

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« 223 † Now watch. The first is the perfect love, that’s God’s love, pure and unadulterated. The next, comes in there, is phileo love, that’s love that you have for your wife and your children. The next, drops after that, is lustful love. The next is ungodly love. And just goes on down till it’s filth, just keep on perverting, perverting.
224 And everything that had a beginning, has an end. And all that will be taken right away, and no remembrance of it, at all, and come right back to the perfect, someday. And the only way… You can’t stop down here, halfway of the way, and get up here. You’ve got to be all the way in, trusting, resting completely in the salvation that Jesus Christ give to you, by faith.
225 There’s a Spirit of honesty that comes from God. That’s the fountain, fountain of God. That’s honesty. The next is the man will do “a good deed” for his neighbor. The next is the guy, “you have to watch him.” The next is the guy, “is a thief.” The next is the guy, “is a murderer,” hold up. See how it perverts, right on down? But all them things speak of a real.

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« 226 † That’s what I say. Every time you see a person that’s… You see a little couple walking down the street, sweethearts, maybe they’re eighty years old. It only speaks that in Heaven there’s a young couple that represent them, in Heaven. “If this earthly tabernacle dissolve, we have one There.”
227 If you see a man that’s cheating, stealing, lying, just remember, his part is waiting in hell, for him, his place where he’ll be tormented in the Presence of God and the holy Angels, with fire and brimstone. He’ll be tormented there. Not forever, he can’t be tormented forever, forever don’t mean all, for all times. Eternity is forever, Eternity is… has no beginning or end. But forever is “a space of time.” The Bible said, “Forever and,” conjunction, “forever.” Jonah said he was in the belly of the whale “forever.” Is a space of time.

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« 228 † But, look, there’s only one Eternal Life, and that’s God. And if you’re going to be tormented forever, and can never die, you got Eternal Life. You can’t be tormented forever… You may be tormented for a hundred million years, in the Presence of God and the holy Angels, with fire and brimstone. I don’t know how long it’s designated. But it’s finally got to come to an end because it had a beginning. And God alone has Eternal Life. “He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me,” doesn’t have forever life, “he has Eternal Life.” That Life that begin, not nothing along here. But all the way up There, Eternal Life, Zoe, God’s Own Life comes down and dwells in the man, and he is Eternal with God, and can’t die. That’s what the Word said.

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« 229 † Just think of it. Is there two Eternal Lifes? You couldn’t answer that, could you? There is one Eternal Life, and that’s the Life of God. This other kind of life, no matter what it is, it’s got an end to it. And anything that had a beginning has an end. But anything that had no beginning has no end. And God said He would give us Eternal Life, without beginning, we were just made a part of Him. And actually the Life that’s in us, wasn’t brought here by human nature. Nature give us a spirit, but that spirit died, and we got the Spirit of God. Glory to God!
230 Was God a man? Certainly. “Let us make man in our own image.” What was God? A theophany, a body. And there man was made like that and put over the garden. But there was no man to till the soil, in the senses. Then He created man out of the dust of earth, in the animal life, and that man tilled the soil. And the man fell, by transgression. Correctly. And God, the theophany, come down and was made flesh and dwelt among us, to redeem the man.

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« 231 † So it’s nothing you could do. You’re a sinner, to start with. You’re shaped in iniquity. You’re born in sin, come to the world speaking lies. You were born here in this world by a sexual desire of your father and mother. And you’re just as hell-bound as you can be, I don’t care what you do. You might never lie, steal; keep every commandment, and everything else; and you’ll go to hell, like a martin to its box. But the only way that you ever can live again, is to accept the Holy Spirit, God’s Eternal Life.
232 What made you what you are? In the beginning, when the Holy Ghost brood over the earth, there wasn’t nothing but volcanic eruption. A little Easter flower come up. God said, “That looks pretty. Just keep brooding.” Flowers come up. Grass come up. Trees come up. Birds flew out of the dust. Animals come up. A man come up.
233 Now, how was it done? By the brooding of the Holy Spirit, bringing these materials together, potash, calcium; making the flowers, making animal, making you.

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« 234 † And now, you’ve got a free choice. God broods back to you, and say, “Hear My Voice? Harden not your heart, like in the days of provocation.” Here He comes down, preaches the Word.
“The Gospel preached unto them was not… didn’t have faith in It, so It didn’t do them no good.” They heard It, but they didn’t believe It.
235 God come down. He showed them a Pillar of Fire. Showed by His prophets, signs and wonders, He was with him. They didn’t believe It. Oh, they liked to see the miracles. They liked to hear the prophet. But as far as believing It, they didn’t. Their lives proves they didn’t.

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« 236 † “Now,” He said, “don’t you fall after that same example of unbelief.” For in this last days, to the Gentile church, God has appeared again; same sign, same wonder, same Pillar of Fire, vindicated, proven. Let us not harden our hearts and fall in that temptation back yonder, of unbelief, for we’ll rot on earth and that’ll be all of it.
237 And when the Holy Spirit knocks at your heart, [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit–Ed.] “After so long a time, when you hear My Voice, harden not your heart.” Say, “Child of Mine, this is the Truth.” Don’t look at the messenger. Listen to the Message. Believe It. “Harden not your heart, as in the days of provocation.”

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« 238 † When he hears “Your Voice,” harden not your heart. Then you say, “Yes, Lord, I believe.” Then you enter into Life, the Holy Spirit comes into you. Your old spirit dies out, that makes you lust and hate, and malice and enmity, and–and hatred and all them things, dies away. And you become full of love, joy, peace, resting. No matter how the winds blow, it’s all right.
My anchor holds within the veil.
Through every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
For on Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other grounds is sinking sand.

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« 239 † There you are. Eddie Perronet, as he wrote that famous song. “All other grounds,” all denominations, all creeds, all doctrines, fade away. Christ!
You say, “Well, I know the Bible.” You don’t have Life by knowing the Bible.
“I know my catechism.” You don’t have Life by knowing your catechism.
“Well, I’m a Christian.” You don’t have Life by professing Christianity.
240 You have Life by knowing Him. Knowing Him, you have Life. “Then you enter into His Rest. You cease from your works, as God did from His.” You are made a Son of God, a partaker of God. And if that–if that Holy Spirit woos to you, and you woo back and say, “Yes, Lord,” or coos.
241 Coo, “Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden. I’ll give you Rest.”
242 And you say, “Ah, I’m young. I got… Oh, my pastor don’t… All I got to do…” See? You’ll never find It.

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« 243 † But when you say, “Yes, my Lord. I hear Your Voice. I don’t harden my heart. I don’t care, Lord, It’s your Word and I believe You. Take me Jesus. ‘Just as I am, without one plea, but that Thy Blood was shed for me. And there I’ll promise, “I’ll believe.” O Lamb of God, I come.'” Lay your hands upon His dying head, say, “Lord, I’m a sinner, and You called to me.”
244 “All the Father has given Me will come to Me, and I’ll raise him up at the last days.”
245 “Yes, Lord, I come. I harden not my heart, as they did in provocation, I truly believe Him.”
246 Then what does He do? He gives you His Life, Zoe, Eternal Life. And if God could raise us from the dust of the earth, where we come from… Did we come from the dust? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Everything you see, come from the dust. And if God could make me what I am today, without having any choice; just because His desire was to make me, and give me the opportunity to face Calvary and make my decision; and I made my decision and believed on Him; how much more will He raise me up! If He made me what I am, without a choice, then I took a choice and took Him in; when He laid His hands by Himself, and swore by Himself, that He would raise me up in the last day. I’ll rest assure.
247 I have Rest, not because I worship on Sunday, not because I worship on the sabbath. That has nothing to do with it. I worship because I’ve entered into His peace and Rest: peace, rest, love, joy. Let the storms fly. My anchor holds.

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« 248 † Have you got that experience, tonight, friend of mine that’s setting here in this hot tabernacle? You didn’t come to hear me. No. You come to hear the Word. Listen, my friend.
249 Now if you haven’t got that Rest, you can find It right now. You don’t have to come up here at the altar. Set right where you are. Be sincere, and say, “Christ, just speak to my heart. I know it’s hot. I’m–I’m just all lathery, sweaty. I’m awful. But, Lord, truly, I may be sweating with pain, worse than this, before morning.”
And the doctor may shake his head, say, “It’s a heart attack. He’s gone.” Then what?
250 What then? When the great Book is opened, what then? You heard that song, What Then? “When the ones that’s rejected the Message, will be asked to give a reason, what then?” What then? Think of it now, real deeply.
251 While we bow our head, think of it.
When the one that’s rejecting this Message tonight,
Going to be asked to give a reason, what then?
What then? What then?
When the great Book is opened, what then?
When the ones that’s rejecting this Message tonight,
You’re going to be asked to give a reason, what then?

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« 252 † Heavenly Father, this is all in Your hands now. Here is the true Sabbath laying before the people. Here is the Angel of God, for the last few years, has blasted around the world. Critics and everything else has, tried to condemn It. But, every time, You prove Yourself to be God.
253 Scientific world, the church world; are they blind, Lord? Maybe there’s one in here tonight would like to receive their sight, to walk on, and not tempt God, as in the days of provocation; not try to tempt Him, by be good on Sunday, or keep a certain day, or to a certain creed, or to belong to a certain church. But would like to come out and be circumcised, by the heart, and receive the Holy Spirit. And they want Him. By faith now, they are trying to accept Him into their heart. They’re trying to find grace with You, Lord.

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« 254 † Oh, they may have spoke in tongues. They might have shouted. They still got the same old temper. They still got the same old malice. They still tattle and talk, and do things they shouldn’t do. They don’t want that, Lord. What then, when that great Book is opened? “But,” said, “such won’t enter the Kingdom.” “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.” Anything short will not go in. Are they wholly trusting, tonight, in the crucified? If not, Lord, may they make that one Eternal “yes” just now.
255 Say, “Lord, I… No emotion, but I just feel Something down in my heart, that Something is telling me, ‘I can do it right now, by Your grace.’ And I’m now accepting You as my personal Saviour. I’m–I’m rejecting all the things of the world, and I want to enter your Rest. And I believe I’m doing it right now. I believe the Holy Spirit is bringing me right into that place.”

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« 256 † While every head is bowed. Does anybody feel that way just now? Raise your hand, “The Holy Spirit is now bringing me into a place where I won’t tattle any more.” God bless you. “I won’t do the things. My temper is gone. I can live in peace and joy and long-suffering, from right now. I believe God is speaking to me right now, that I can do it from this hour on, by His grace.” Would you raise your hands? God bless you. God bless the young lady. Someone else? “I now believe.”
257 Don’t tempt Him, as in the day of provocation. Don’t think because we go to church on Sunday, or keep the sabbath. Paul said, “You that keep days or moons, or so forth, I’m afraid of you. The law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the thing, can never make the worshipper perfect.” But Christ makes you perfect, perfect in the sight of God. He takes away your sin, takes condemnation from you, gives you His love and joy.

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« 258 † Would you enter into Rest now? Someone else raise their hand, say, “I have did that.” God bless you, young lady, over here to my left. God bless the man setting to my right. Entering into His Rest, think of it just now.
259 Pray, “Just as I am, Lord, without one plea; I’m no good. Nothing I can offer You, but just my old, worn out, sinful life. Will You receive me? Cleanse? Relieve? Because, I promised I’ll believe. O Lamb of God, I come. I now come, believing that now I’ve passed from death unto Life. Because, right here in my seat, I’ve accepted You as my Saviour and I feel peace in my heart.”
260 Five has raised up their hands. Would another one, that feels that way, raise your hand? If you’re not a Christian, accept Him just now.

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« 261 † If you profess to be a Christian and have not been that kind, you’re still a sinner, no matter what life you–you’ve done, or how you try to make yourself. What you do is not accepted. It’s what He done. Your own righteousness won’t be accepted. If you quit smoking just because you said, “Well, I better quit smoking because I profess Christianity.” God don’t accept it. If you quit lusting after women, just because that you are making yourself do it, God don’t accept it. That’s something you do. That’s works. It’s grace that saves you. Has God come to you and taken the whole thing out of you? That’s the next thing.
262 You say, “I joined church, and so I had to quit these things.” God didn’t accept that, nothing you can offer. He only accepts what Christ give. He gives you Eternal Life, and takes it from you. Will you receive It?
… out on the stormy, wild sea,
Come, anchor your soul in the haven of Rest,
And say, “My beloved is mine.”
I’ve anchored my soul…
All right, you may raise your head. The message is over now. Let’s just worship now.
I’ll sail the wild sea no more;
The tempest may sweep over the wild, stormy deep,
In Jesus I’m safe evermore.
263 Everyone now, in worship.
I’ve anchored my soul in a haven of Rest, (Sabbath)
I’ll sail the wild sea no more;
The tempest may sweep over the wild, stormy deep,
In Jesus I’m safe evermore.
Shine on me,…
Just let yourself loose. Close your eyes. Feel that sweet Spirit? That’s worship. The message is over. This is worship.
Let the Light from the lighthouse shine on me,
O shine on me, O Lord, shine on me,
O let the Light from the lighthouse shine on me.
264 How many feels real good? Raise your hand. That sweet, humble spirit, that’s It.
To be like Jesus, just to be like Jesus,
On earth I long to be like Him;
All through life’s journey from earth to Glory,
I only ask to be like…
Just worship. `

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« 1 † ` Good morning, friends. It’s a privilege to be here this morning in the service of the Lord. And we’re hoping and trusting for a great time.
2 I was just back in the… what we used to call the deacon’s office, where the recorders are now, and was just talking with a young lady and her mother back there, from up at Joliet, Illinois. And I was just thinking of what a product of God’s grace that girl is. Most of us around here know her. She’s a–a an alcoholic, one of the worse kind. And I never had the story clear to me until this morning, how that when she went off the platform. The Lord had revealed to her all that was wrong and what was going to take place. And she went off the platform, weeping and rejoicing because God had saved her from a–a drunkard’s grave. And she… A lady walked up to her and begin weeping, that her daughter, I believe it was, was a dope addict. And you know, by the grace of God, that girl was called. I believe, was the next night, Rosella was called. And the girl from dope was healed. And she and her husband is preaching the Gospel. And–and–and to see a lovely little lady like Rosella, and just seasoned. And now she, very respectable, she’s got a… feels a call in her heart. But, knowing the Bible about women preachers, see, she knows it’s something else. And God is leading her into jails and things, to give testimony.
3 It’s just wonderful to–to–to know, to seek after the will of God. Sometime we have a feeling, but we want to carry that feeling into places; if you don’t watch, the Devil will take that feeling and pervert it into something. But as long as we stay in the Bible, then we’re right, you see, we’re moving right with the will of the Lord.

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« 4 † And so I believe that–that Rosella will finally turn into the mission fields somewhere, because America doesn’t want the Gospel.
You know that. We just might as well admit that, that, this Anglo-Saxon people, it’s finished. That’s all. There’s no more Gospel that America will receive. Oh, you get a few stragglings, now and then. But, just as the Gospel, it’s over. And you can’t even preach to them, can’t talk to them. They won’t believe nothing. See? They just got their own hardheaded ideas, and they’re set.
And the next things for this nation is judgment. She is going to have it, too. It may be through depression. It may be through an atomic bomb. It may be through a great plague, a disease or something, but, she is ready. It’s coming. Thousands times thousands will fall.
5 We passed by, yesterday, Brother Zabel and I, to… and Brother Woods, coming in from down in Kentucky, where we had been for three days, and passed by a housing project. Brother Zabel said, “There’s not…” I forget. “Not hardly any of those people, in that project, that even goes to any church.”

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« 6 † You’d ask them about it. “Well, we got our television. That’s how we find comfort.” See? That’s the American attitude. See? “We got television. We got plenty of money. We got fine cars, got nice homes. What do we need with the Lord? We don’t need That.” That’s the attitude.
7 About the only religion and salvation we have, and love, is amongst the real godly people. You know, the Bible said that would happen. [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Uh-huh. You Bible readers, I heard you holler “amen,” and you preachers back there. That, that’s right. The love would be so far away, in the last days; the only love there would be left, would be between the Elect of God’s people. “The father would be against mother, and mother against father, and children against parents, and different ones against each other.” And the only love would be left, would just be that Elect, just the Elected. The word “Elect” there comes from the word “Elected,” God’s elected people.

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« 8 † And when Rosella was quoting the story to me in the room, a while ago, I was just thinking, that, on that night, she said something happened. And how that said, all down through her life, when she’d be just a walleyed alcoholic. Couldn’t, no Alcohols Anonymous. Four doctors give her up. Nothing could be done. And how, from that very moment, something taken place.
9 Now she is not that batty-eyed. She’s a lovely, beautiful young woman of thirty-three years old, and would pass for about twenty-two; just how that God did for her what He did, and how she looks different. And, but I said, “Rosella, before the foundation of the world, God ordained that moment.” Yes, sir. See? Right. And when little old Billy Paul back there, where he’s at, was pushing out prayer cards to the people that night, how little did he know who he was giving a prayer card to.
Isn’t it wonderful, Rosella?
[Sister Rosella Griffith says, “Brother Branham, I wonder if the church could pray that God will guide for us, how He was strong.”–Ed.]
Amen. The Lord bless you, Rosella. I’m sure we will do that. She wants the church to pray that God will guide her. That’s, follow His unchanging hand. Oh, that’s so good.

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« 10 † Had an awful proposition put before me, this morning. It’s about some, a multi-times multi-times multimillionaire that wants to produce here at Louisville, Kentucky, and build me a five-million-dollar tabernacle. But something down in my heart said, “Hold on, you’re not a pastor.” See? So, then, five million dollars of money that would be appropriated. Now to have to go to the government, to pay for whiskey and stuff like that, but wants to put it on a tabernacle for the Lord. But I hope that it goes to some servant of God that will… and some service to God. But, that’s five million dollars appropriated now. Think of that, what a tabernacle that would make.
See how flowery that looks, Rosella? But there is something down here that says different. See? See? Something down here.
11 We come into this little, old tabernacle, you strangers. Well, this could be a glamorous place here on the corner, you don’t realize that, that people has wanted to build this place and make it. But this is the way we like it. See, this is the way we like it. Old seats we were setting on there, was the–the old original seats out of the tabernacle here, went through the flood and floated up.
12 My Bible laying open like that on the pulpit. It stuck against the ceiling and come back down with a Word on It, “I the Lord hath planted it. I’ll water it day and night lest some shall pluck it from My hand.” How we rowed across the top of it with a skiff, here. And she come right back down, the seats moving right back to their place. All they had to do was scrub it out and go on. See? See? So this is just the way we like it, where it’s a common people, common place, and a wonderful Lord. Amen.

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« 13 † Now, today, we got some, we’re just beginning to get over into the cream, you know, after the–the milk is all taken out, and just the cream. And remember, it takes the milk to produce the cream, you know. The–the cream is the contents of the milk.
14 So we been in the 1st, 2nd, and we’re ending up in the 3rd, and beginning in the 4th chapter of the glorious Book of Hebrews. And, oh, the teachings of this Book! We could stay with It, for on one verse, for three months, and just show that the entire Bible ties into every verse in the Bible. Did you ever think of that? There’s not one verse that you can put your finger on, but what, with the grace and the help of the Holy Spirit, that we can tie Genesis to Revelation right into It.

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« 15 † There’s not another piece of literature written anywhere that can do that. And mathematically, and geographically, in every way, there’s not a Book in the Bible wrote like the Bible… There’s not a book in the world, I mean, wrote like the Bible. There’s nothing. The pneumatics of the Bible is perfectly in harmony; just even chapters, and punctuations, and everything, is perfect. Not another book; you couldn’t read a chapter out of it without crossing itself back. But there’s not one cross-up in the entire Bible. And was wrote by many, many, many people; and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of years apart. Not knowing one piece; one wrote It here, and one wrote It here, and one wrote It over here. When It was all formed together, It made God’s Bible. And not one contradicts the other one, and, no, not mathematics, geographics. Anything else of the Bible, everything, pneumatic, everything runs perfectly together. That isn’t inspired, I don’t know, what will you call inspiration? I’m so glad for the blessed, old Bible.
16 Some of them said, “Are you a Catholic? Protestant?”
I said, “Neither one. I believe the Bible.” That’s right. I believe the Bible, and I’m glad that we still have the freedom to preach It in this nation. Oh, It’s wonderful.

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« 17 † Now we’re going to study from It. And now we’ll turn over in the Book of the Hebrews and begin with the 3rd chapter. And we left off at the 15th verse. And now you all…
18 I seen somebody notice, a while ago, when I picked up my reading glasses. It’s not that my eyes are bad, but I’m past forty years old. I can read it, right here, just ordinarily, but I can read it better with the glasses. And they made me a pair of reading glasses that I want to use, because I can read it better and faster. And that’s what I got them for. Now in the…

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« 19 † First, we want a little background, ’cause there may be some strangers among us, that has not picked up the first part of the Book of Hebrews.
20 Are you Mrs. Cox, setting right here on the end? Well, I am sure glad to see her, just before I start, as a testimony to the grace of God. Here was a woman with a cancer eating her face off. That’s Sister Wood’s mother. And I was in Michigan with Gene and Leo, and them, taking the recordings. And on the road home, wife called me, or I called her. She said, “Go to prayer immediately for a Mrs. Cox, Mrs. Wood’s mother, for a cancer is eating her face off.” Done went into the side of the eye and down to the bone, slick on the side of her face, and just scattering. Some doctor done something other to it, just made it worse, and just scatter it up; put some kind of medicine in it.
21 And they brought her from down to Campbellsville, Kentucky, up to… or, I believe, Acton, Kentucky, up to–to Louisville, for treatment.

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« 22 † And so Mrs. Woods, the first time I ever seen her that she was tore up. Because, of course, is her–her–her mama, and sure she’d feel tore up. Went into the room and prayed for her, with the confidence that God said He’d answer prayer. And few days, she was out. And there she sets now. With just amazing grace, how He’s done for her.
23 Would you stand up? I don’t want to make you a–a–a public… Where, where was the cancer located? On–on the side of the face, see there, on that side of her face, down around here, to her cheekbone, up around her eye. And God healed her. Isn’t He wonderful? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]

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« 24 † How many was here last Sunday to see what the Lord did by a vision? Man, both crippled and blind, setting right here in a wheel chair. And something hurt me when that old man setting here said, “Brother Branham…” I believe it was this brother right here. Said, “Do the same for my wife.” He’s got a wife here that’s crippled. My heart just melted. I wish… I’d give anything in the world if I could, but it’s not… don’t lay in my power. But it does lay to my power and your power, to pray that God will do it. He’s got a crippled wife, a paralyzed hand, a paralyzed foot, looks like. And this man was far worse off than her, ’cause she can stand up and can walk a little, but this man could not even do that. And he… The brain, main balance nerve was gone. Mayo’s, lot of the others, had give him up. And a Catholic sent him here, a Catholic doctor; and his boy is a priest at St. Meinrad’s down in Jasper, Indiana. But that’s laying foundation stones for that revival coming up, down there.

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« 25 † And when he raised up, he said, “But I can’t…” He looked, said, “Yes, I can.” He thought he couldn’t see, you know. And he looked up, and just happen to raise his head up, and there he could walk and see; walked down that aisle, by himself. And they were Presbyterians. He was orthodox. And talk… You think that just the Pentecostal or the Holiness people can shout; you’re mistaken. They can sure do some shouting when they see something like that happen; hugging each other and shouting. Walked right out and down the steps, pushing his wheel chair; walking, with the balance nerves out of his head. Think of it. Walking like you or I would walk. Oh, He’s wonderful.

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« 26 † Now, Paul wrote the Book of Hebrews. And in this writing of Hebrews, he wrote It. And before He wrote these Books… We find out now. We go… This is a Sunday school class, and I’ll try to watch and not take too long. And then we’re going to have services, to continue them on tonight, the Lord willing. Now, in the Book of Hebrews and the rest of the Epistles of Paul…
27 Who was Paul? He was a staunch Hebrew, a scholar, and a great teacher of the Old Testament. And he had been taught by one of the best men of his day. Somebody tell me what his name was. Gamaliel, one of the greatest teachers of his day. And Paul had set at the feet of Gamaliel.
28 There is something about the… where you go, what church you go to, and what teacher teaches you. Did you know that? It, it’s got something to it. Therefore we ought to seek out the very best that we can find, so we’re getting the best; not because it’s sociable and so forth, but the real Bible teaching.

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« 29 † Look, one time when Israel had got out into the wilderness with their armies, and they had a seven-day compass, and they run out of water. And they were about to perish, they said, “Oh, if there was a prophet near!”
30 And one of them said, “We have down here, Elisha. He poured water on the hands of Elijah.” See his associates? Other words, “Here is Elisha who has had associations with Elijah. The Word of the Lord is with him.” You get it? He had been taught right. And he said, “He’s here. Let’s go down and consult him, because his teacher was Elijah, and he’s got the teaching of Elijah in him.” See what a difference it makes? Sure. We want to be taught.

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« 31 † So, Paul had the teaching of Gamaliel. And Gamaliel was that great man who made the choice, being a scholar himself, that when all of this carrying on started of the early church, he said, “Let’s not put our hands on that, brethren. If it is not of God, it will come to naught, anyhow. But if it is of God, and we fight against it, we’ll find ourself fighting against God.” See, he had had some good teaching.
32 Paul had come up under this man, and he knew that Paul was a great teacher. So, one day, honest in heart, persecuting the Church, going down to arrest them.
33 Now let’s take just another little phase from Paul, as we get our background.

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« 34 † When Judas fell, by transgression, by the love of money and the pride of life, he fell from grace and went to his place. And the disciples said, “There must be twelve.” And the church, with all of its dignity, to show you what the church is; with all of its dignity and all of its power, it’s still millions of miles short, at its very best. They said, “We’ve got to look out, one among us, who will take the place.” And they chose, by casting lots, Matthias. Mattheas, I believe, or Matthias. Matthias, I believe it is. And whenever they chose him and put him with the twelve, with the eleven, which made up the twelve, he did not do one thing. That’s the only time his name is ever mentioned in the Scriptures. That was the church making its choice.
35 Now, they thought, “He is a gentleman.” No doubt. “He’s a wonderful man. He’s a scholar. He’s smart. He’s educated. He’s a wonderful person. He would take the place of Judas and be one of us.”

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« 36 † But, you know, God sometimes makes some of the… to our opinion, some of the most foolish choices. Now, God seen a little hook-nosed Jew, just as full of temper as he could be, with his mouth setting sideways, “I’ll go down, arrest every one of them. I’ll–I’ll throw them in jail. I’ll do this.” That was God’s choice.
The rest of them taken a scholar and a diplomat. That’s the church’s choice.
37 See, you don’t know who that is at the altar. You don’t know who that is you’re testifying, in jail or wherever it is. It might look like a pugilist, his ears broke down, eyes skinned up, and, but you don’t know who that is. You just cast your lot, that’s all, give him the Word. God takes the choice.
38 And God choose this little high-tempered Jew, or chose him, rather. On his road down, “I’ll go down and get them. I’ll–I’ll show them what I can do like that,” and God just knocked him down.
God said, “That’s my choice, right there.”
39 Wouldn’t that be foolish, to the church? “Why, he persecutes the church. He’s a carnal man.” But God knowed what was on the inside of man. See what I mean?

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« 40 † So, Paul had an experience. How many believes experience comes by conversion? Sure. If it hasn’t, I would doubt the conversion. A conversion brings experience. And you can’t lot it to anything now. Sometimes it might be shouting. Sometimes it might be speaking with tongues. Sometimes it might be weeping. Sometimes it might be groaning. You don’t know what it is, so don’t try to lot it. Because, every one of you has proved to be wrong in it, you Methodists, and you Baptists, and you Nazarenes, and Pentecostals.
41 I seen people shout just as hard as they could shout, and steal the gold out of your teeth, they could. Yes, sir. I seen people speak with tongues like pouring peas on a dry cowhide, and–and honest to goodness, with a chew tobacco on other side of the mouth, and cut your throat if they could do it. That’s right. So them things has not… There’s no evidence that you can prove it, only by the life the person lives. “By their fruit, you shall know them.”

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« 42 † So, that’s all up to God. He makes a choice. He brings the things together, and that’s the way it is. So if your life is comparing with the fruits of the Bible, you got a pretty good conception. If your spirit is bearing record with His Spirit, that you’re sons and daughters of God, you’re… All the old evil has dropped away, and everything has become new, and you’re living in love, and you got peace, and grace, and so forth, you’re getting pretty close to the Kingdom then. Because, the Life that’s in you is producing that kind of a life. See?
43 If you say, “Oh, hallelujah, I spoke with tongues. Hallelujah!” That don’t mean nothing. That don’t mean a bit more than if you’d got out here and played a tune on a guitar or something. That doesn’t mean one thing. Though you spoke with tongues, though you shouted, and run up-and-down the aisle, and cried tears till like you had been peeling onions, that don’t mean one thing, not one thing, unless that everyday life backs up just exactly, stays with It.

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« 44 † Now, if you do those things, plus that life, “amen,” that, that’s fine. That’s good. But you can do those things without having that life.
45 So then, no shouting, no nothing like that is evidence. Jesus said, “By their fruit, you shall know them.” And the fruit of the Spirit is not speaking with tongues. That’s not the fruit of the Spirit. Shouting is not the fruit of the Spirit. Weeping is not this fruit of the Spirit. But, love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, gentleness, faith, meekness, temperance, that’s the fruits of the Spirit. See? That’s what the Spirit’s fruits are. All right.
46 Now, the reason we have these things, they like to make organizations, you see. “Well, we’ll have it. Bless God, all believes the way we do, we’ll go this way. All believes like we do, we’ll go this way.” But God wants all to go This way, right up.

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« 47 † Now, Paul, after he had this experience, then he thought that was a wonderful experience. Now, how… Let’s–let’s–let’s quote that experience a little bit. Paul was on his road to Damascus, to arrest some people down there, ’cause the Gospel had got scattered down there. Gospel means “the good news.” And so they got scattered down there, and many people was raising up, full of love, and joy, and loving the Lord Jesus. And It had got scattered down that way. So, Paul got some letters from the High Priest. He said, “I’ll go down, and I’ll arrest them, every one.”
48 So he took him a little company of guards, temple guards, soldiers, way down the road he went. While they were marching down the road, and him just all know what he’s going to do, all of a sudden, something happened. All of a sudden, there was a great Light before him. Great Light, now, It shined like the sun. That’s a strange thing to happen. The Light shined insomuch that he just… His eyes went out, almost. And fell to the ground. And he–he’s laying down on the ground, and he looked up.

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« 49 † There was probably ten or fifteen men with him. Did any of those men see that Light? No, sir. Paul saw It. It wasn’t designated for them men to see It. So, some people can see things, where, others don’t. See? So, Paul saw that Light, insomuch that It even blinded him. He couldn’t see, for several days, It was such a reality to him. And he couldn’t see for several…
Later on, when he wrote letters, his eyes bothered him so bad from that, until he wrote with great big letters. He said, “Seeing that I have written to you with large letters.” He couldn’t hardly see.
50 He was in jail, and he asked the Lord to heal him of it. And he consulted Him three times. But what did the Lord say? “My grace is sufficient, Paul.”
51 Paul said, “Then will I glory in my infirmities.” Because, he said, “Except I would be exalted above the abundance of the Revelation, there was given to me a messenger of the Devil, a thorn in the flesh, that buffet me.” He’d get better for a while, and then away they go again.
Buffet mean “blow after blow.” Like the ship on the sea, you know, the waves buffet it, see, blow after blow.
And he would, he’d get better, and then have it again; then get better, have it again. He said, “Lord, what’s the matter, You don’t take this away from me?”
52 He said, “My grace is sufficient, Paul. Just keep on.” It’d keep…

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« 53 † He said, “Now, if–if I was just perfect, and everything perfect,” said, “then when I went along, oh, I’d get puffed up and say, ‘You see, nothing wrong with me. Lord takes care of me, brother. Hallelujah!'” Then you’re getting self-righteous.
54 God has to give you a little something, once in a while, to kind of meeking you up a little, you know. That’s right. Kind of make you realize that He’s the Boss. Oh, isn’t He wonderful? Yes, sir, just glory!
55 So he, Paul, then, right after having this great experience…
56 Now, if that would been somebody today, they’d said, “Oh, bless God, hallelujah. Boy, the Lord has done something for me! Glory to God!” But not Paul; he was a Bible scholar.

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« 57 † That experience must tally with God’s Word. Yes, sir. If it isn’t altogether hooked into the Bible… Not just look over here, say, “Oh, yes, here it is right here. Bless God, I got It.” Huh-uh. That’s not the way God gives It.
58 It must be the entire Bible, all of It. Cause, you can… Infidels use this Bible for their grounds to debate on. But they’ll take a little Scripture here, turn over here and get another little one over here, try to make them tie together, and it’s two different subjects, altogether. So, you got to make Scripture compare with Scripture.

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« 59 † As Isaiah said, the 28th chapter, “It must be line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.” “Hold fast to that what’s good.” See, there’s the way It comes: line upon line upon line, Word upon Word, Scripture upon Scripture. It must all compile together. That’s why, I think, in these lessons like we’re having now, it’s a great thing to the church, because it brings them to a place that all the Scriptures tie together. And our experience must tie with that Scripture. Oh, here it is! If it doesn’t, then it’s wrong.
60 And how that I walked for years, not knowing what that Light was that struck Paul down. When, the outside world, the Scriptures… The people, the preachers tried to tell me, “That’s of the Devil. Why, you’ll be a fortune-teller. You’ll be a spiritualist. Don’t you fool with That, Billy. Something wrong with That. Don’t you do that, boy. That’s wrong. That’s the Devil. Well, boy, you’ll be a regular medium. You’ll be a spiritualist if you do that. Oh, all that’s of the Devil. That’s–that’s not right.” But when… I didn’t want to preach that.

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« 61 † But as on the road down to Damascus, Paul didn’t want to preach it, till he found out whether it was right or not. So he goes down into Arabia for three years, and studies the Scripture. Ah! When he come out, he said, “Now shake it out of me.”
62 He knew he had to face Pharisees. He had to face Sadducees. He had to face the world, and the Gentile world. And so Paul, this Bible is written, this Book of Hebrews, is written for that purpose. He is shaking those Hebrews, and taking that Old Testament and show It over here in the New Testament. “This is God,” he said, “here it is on–on all the prophets and everything.” Starts off back there at the beginning, the 1st chapter we had, “For God in sundry times, way back in old time, in divers manners, spoke to the fathers by the prophets.” That’s how God brought His message, tested by the Urim Thummim. “But in this day has spoke to us through His Son, Christ Jesus,” tested by His Bible. There you are.

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« 63 † So these experiences that the world says, “Oh, it’s mental. Why, nobody…” When that Angel appeared, that Light down here on the river, when I preached my first revival here on the corner, we baptized all those people. I believe, Brother Fleeman, you might have been in the… I don’t know whether you was here then or not. How many was here when the–when the Light appeared on the river? Is any of the old-timers here? Yes, some of them. When It down here on the river.
64 And they said, “It was just an optical illusion.” Many of us was standing, looking at It, and here It come down. And then years later, God proved It by a mechanical eye of a camera. It’s true.
65 “Well, is it–is it some fiction? Is it something that–that…” No, sir. We’re taking it right here in the Bible and showing you. It’s the same Lord Jesus. He does the same thing. His action is the same. His power is the same.

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« 66 † Look, last Sunday, here. Yonder, laying on my bed, never seen the man in my life. Come out and said, “There’s a man at the tabernacle, and he’s gray, black-headed, graying. He is blind, and he can’t walk. He’s in a wheel chair. A black-headed man sent him up; a doctor, Dr. Ackerman, a black-headed man, Catholic man. Sent a man, set right there. And THUS SAITH THE LORD, raised up, walked out with his sight and everything. What did it? Here is the same Angel. The same One that struck Paul down, on the road going down to Damascus, lives in His Church and His people today. It’s Scripture comparing with Scripture. That’s the way it must be.
Oh, we have the lukewarms. We’re getting into that, after while.
67 Oh, we got a deep thing before us, if we can just get into it, today and tonight. Now it’s just begin to get into the deep waters. Where you…

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« 68 † You know, when I was a little boy, I used to have a little pond out behind the place, and I’d go out there. And all of us little kids would go in, nude; little, about six, seven years old. And we… The water is about that deep. It wasn’t no more than a hog wallow. And I had a soapbox there. I’d show I could dive; hold my nose, and splash, going like that. And my little belly would hit the mud, you know, and it would just fly every way. I told my daddy I could swim.
69 He took me back there one day. He said, “I want to see you swim.” I jumped off there, you know; stripped my clothes, a little locust thicket; and run down, hit the water. I had been splashing, the mud flying every way. And Pop was setting on a culvert. He set there and watched me for a few minutes. Said, “Get out of that hole of water, and get yourself a bath, and get home.” See?
70 Well, that’s just about the way, some of us that call ourselves Christians. We mud-crawl. That’s right. Long as you’re anchored, “I’m a Methodist. I’m a Pentecostal. I’m a Presbyterian. I got an evidence; I got It.” You’re mud-crawling.

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« 71 † One day I was with my uncle. I kept tell him… He was about fifteen, sixteen years old. We was at the river. I said, “Uncle Lark, I can swim.” And I was setting on the back of the boat, you know, felt good and safe. He just took the oar and pushed me out, in about ten-foot of water. It was different then; all the splashing, screaming, you ever heard in your life.
72 Someday you get pushed off, you better know where you’re standing. Yes, sir. If you know Him, you better really know Him. That’s right.
But now we’re going into deep water, deep water, where it’ll make you drown if you–if you’re not a good, fattened-up Christian.

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« 73 † Notice the Word. Paul, first found that. He went back in the Old Testament, and he found this. He seen that experience of his, absolutely. “Now what was That that struck me down?”
74 It was a Light, big Light standing there, shining like the sun, standing in front of his face. He said, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?”
75 He said, “Lord, who are You that I persecute?”
76 He said, “I’m Jesus.”
77 “I thought He was a–a man, had scarred hand, that they claim is appearing in meetings now, with nail scars in His hands and His head.” No, no; not that body, not in that body. See? He is now a Light. Saul…
78 When He was here on earth, He said, “I come from God. I go back to God.”
79 He was the Angel that led the Children of Israel in this Light, through the wilderness. He returned back to that same Light. And Paul saw It, out of the Old Testament. He said, “I am Jesus, the Angel of the Covenant.”
80 And He become flesh, to redeem us. “Took on not the form of Angels,” we find in previous chapters, we are… study. “He never took on the nature of Angels, but was the Seed of Abraham,” that He might be known, that men could see God. Amen.
Now He says, “I’ll return back to That.”
81 And when Paul seen That, he said, “Sure, that was Him. That was Him.”

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« 82 † Peter had an experience one night while he was praying. That same Light come into the building, opened up the doors before him, went out into the streets. And Peter thought he was dreaming; he was so anointed. He didn’t know what taken place. He said, “Have I just woke up? But I’m out here on the street.”
83 And he went down to John Mark’s house. And the little girl opened the door, some little lady there, been in a prayer meeting. Somebody was knocking at the door. Opened up the door. “Oh,” she said, “here is Peter right now. You’re praying for him to get out of prison. The Lord has delivered him.”
84 “Oh,” they said, “go on.”
“O Lord, deliver him!”
85 “Why,” she said, “he is standing at the door, knocking.”
Peter just kept pounding, “Let me in.”
86 “Oh,” she said, “it’s Peter.” Them days, they still have it, a little drawbar. Little lid here, you raise back and look out, see. Before you let your guest in, you have to know who is knocking at your door. Cause, they had robbers; if you opened the door, they’d kill you.
87 So, they opened the door. She said, “It’s Peter.”
88 They said, “Oh! Oh, my, he’s dead. That’s his angel standing there. See? Done got in his glorified body, you know, that theophany.”

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« 89 † Remember how we took It, the big Diamond, how It reflected the Light, how It went back to there? The… “This earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting.”
And they thought Peter done died, this old body had dropped, and they’d bury it in a few days. “He had entered into his angel, or his glori-…” Not glorified body, but in his theophany, the body that’s already prepared. It couldn’t shake your hands. It has no hands to shake, like that, but it’s in an image of a man. “Come down, and was knocking at the door.”
90 She said, “No. It’s Peter. He’s standing there.” He opened the door and walked in. There he was. Now, Peter had been delivered by this Light.

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« 91 † Now, the same way that that early… that Paul, in the early Church, seen that Light of God that shined on Paul, the same Thing has come down. Now, people can say anything, that doesn’t make it right. But when God proves anything, the work of It proves It. Then, the camera proves It. And everything that we… that the Lord has did, has been absolutely, infallibly proved that It’s God, by the Scriptures, by Its action, by experience. But they won’t listen.
92 Look here in this tabernacle. Now, remember, you know this. We don’t crave crowds. We ain’t got no place to put them, anyhow. But, look. A meeting of this type, where we was coming together for this, ought to attract the Falls Cities. But they’re dead. They’re absolutely dead. They have eyes but they can’t see.
You say, you, “Why, Brother Branham, won’t they go to a doctor and get their eyes fixed?” He can’t fix that kind of seeing.

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« 93 † Jesus said, “If you would have known Me, you would have known My day.” He said, “You blind Pharisees. You can discern the face of the skies, but the signs of the time, you can’t discern.”
94 Does that go over top of your head? Listen. Look at the signs we’re living in here. Now, it just ain’t some… I, myself, I’m just a man, not even a preacher, to talk about. I have no education, what the world call, “a preacher.” And we’re just poor people. Look at the building we’re in. Look at the cathedrals, this morning. But look where God is at. There’s the thing.

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« 95 † So was Moab standing there in all his splendor and his beauty, but there was Israel in tents. But where was God at? There was a bunch of little holy-rollers down there, doing everything there was was wrong. But Balaam, their–their bishop, failed to see that smitten Rock, that Brass Serpent, that Pillar of Fire. His eyes was blind. He couldn’t see It. He said, “They’re just imagining That.” But He was there.
96 Bless God, oh, He is here! God is here, and He’s doing the same thing that He has done. And He will. We compare Scripture with Scripture. God has never painted Himself some big something, on earth, but He’s always dwelt among the common and humble people. And here He is this morning, doing the same thing. The Scripture vindicates It. The camera vindicates It. Now, That, reason I refer to that picture, it isn’t because I’m there. I’m–I’m just a sinner, saved by grace, like you are. But what I’m trying to say, is, It’s His Presence with us. That’s the main thing. Well, if He made me a–a incarnated Elisha, if you didn’t have faith to believe it, it’d never do you any good.
“He came to His own. His own received Him not.”

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« 97 † That’s the reason, here in the city today. Why, I could start a revival here, in some big building or something, you would never get many people to believe it. They just won’t. They can’t. Their day is done.
98 This same lesson, this morning, in Africa, would probably produce ten thousand, at least, ten thousand souls to Christ. Or, there might be one sinner setting here this morning, or something, some backslider. Most of them is just combed through and through, till it’s just finished. That’s all.
99 But what we’re trying to say, is, Scripture compares with Scripture. Now, don’t matter how great the experience is, unless it compares with the Scripture, it’s wrong.
The Urim Thummim, no matter how good the prophet was, if he spoke and them lights didn’t flash on the Urim Thummim, it was wrong. How well the dream seemed, if it didn’t flash on the Urim Thummim, it was wrong.
When that priesthood ended, God put His Bible up. Paul said, “If an Angel from Heaven would come,” Galatians 1:8, “and would preach any other gospel than what’s already been preached to you, let him be accursed.”

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« 100 † The Angel from Heaven said to John the revelator, which was God Himself, “I Jesus sent My angel to vindicate, or to show these things.” He said, “If any man will add one word to It, or take one Word out of It, the same will be taken out of the Book of Life, for him.” This is It, the Bible.
101 Therefore, these experiences and these things that we’re having to happen here, if it wasn’t vindicated by God’s Word, it would be wrong; I don’t care what would take place, it would be wrong. So it’s Scripturally, absolutely the Truth. Oh, I’m so happy I’m a member of the great Body of Christ.

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« 102 † Now, let’s go now, we’re coming down to the lesson. Now, we ended up over here where he said, “Seeing that we’re compassed about now…” I’m sorry. That’s, I was quoting 12th chapter. I been reading it, but I haven’t studied it. I…
103 Brother Norman, staying at my home up there, and he knows that I just got in yesterday, and the brothers know, down there, I just got in. The only time I got to read the Scripture down, was setting right here, a few minutes ago. That’s right. Don’t study It, I just wait for the Holy Spirit to give It just as He wants it. He knows where the person is at–at, that has to have It. So if I got something made up in my mind I’m going to say, then it’s wrong. But if I just let Him do it, He will take It right straight to the spot where It belong. See? “Take no thought what you shall say, for It’s not you that speaks, It’s your Father that dwelleth in you. He doeth the speaking.”

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« 104 † Now, the last chapter, previous chapter, we heard this, that, “How shall we escape, if we neglect this great salvation; Who was first preached to us by the Lord Jesus, and Him with those who heard Him?” The same things that Jesus did, to show, them same things like takes place here: same Angel of God, same works, same evidence, same everything, everything along, same Gospel, right with the Word. “If that was taught by the Lord, then confirmed by His disciples that we’ve heard,” Paul being the same, “how shall we escape, if we neglect such great salvation?”
105 Now, Paul was saying that to his Hebrew audience. Now, they didn’t have tape recorders, today, like we got here. But they had scribes who was setting there, taking It down just as Paul was preaching It.
And that’s what It is right here. We’re getting It by tape recorders, and these tapes go over the world, see, to show that It is the Truth. Our religion is not in vain, It’s absolutely the resurrected Jesus Christ, same thing. Now we mustn’t neglect It.

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« 106 † Now, just don’t go away from church, today, and say, “Well, I kind of enjoy going down there. I like the singing, and the people are friendly around that little old church.” Don’t do that.
107 Brother, let your heart become a flame, say, “Here, I got to do something about this. I got to get out and see if I can get somebody saved.”
108 And don’t go out, saying, “Bless God, if you don’t repent, you’re going to perish.” No.
Go at it gentle. “Be as wise as a serpent, as harmless as a dove.” See, that’s the way to go. Approach the person, if he’s raising chickens, talk about chickens, to him, for a while. See? And then, first thing you know, you’ll be talking about the Lord. If he’s a farmer, talk about his farm.
109 If he sells automobiles, talk about his automobiles, for a while, “What nice cars you got,” and so forth. See?
110 Till you catch the Spirit, when Father says, “Now is the time to approach him about his soul.”
111 You can wind it off, see, “That’s a fine automobile. You know transportation, today, has become great. Oh, how the nations has been brought close together; and the cities of our nations, close together. Friends and mothers can visit each other. You know, it’s a wonderful thing to have automobiles like you’re selling.”
112 “Yes, sir. It sure is. Uh-huh.” You know, puffing on his cigar, or whatever it is. “Yeah, them, them is good cars.”
113 “Did you ever think of what the old-timers would have thought if they’d seen something like that?” Just keep going like that, you know.
After a while, say, “Yep, yeah, sure is.”
114 You know, another thing it does, it brings like we having, like in revivals. People can come across the country, quickly, for a revival.” See, you’re opening the way, all time, you know.
115 If you feel Something chock up the way, stop right there, move over here. Like a doctor said, out at Phoenix, said, “Lord, fill my mouth with good words, and then nudge me when I’ve said enough.” You see? Yeah. “Nudge me when I’ve said enough.”

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« 116 † Now, notice now, we’re going to start from the 15th chapter, or 15th verse of the 3rd chapter, closely now.
While it is said, To day if you… hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
117 Now watch Paul speaking here. Now it is said, “Today, after so long a time.” We’re going to get into it after a while, that, “Today, so long a time.” Comes into the next chapter, “After so long a time.”
… it is said, To day if you… hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the day of provocation, when they provoked God.
118 Now let’s read the next verse.
For some, when they had heard, did provoke:…
Now what’s he talking about? Gospel.
… howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
But with whom he was grieved for forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

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« 119 † Let’s stop here a minute. The provocation, “when they provoked.” Now what did God do? Now Paul is trying to speak. What is It led them out of Egypt? Was it Moses? No. Moses was the flesh instrument.
120 Now we got a background here. We want to get straightened out now. When we hit this spot down here, in a few minutes, you’ll–you’ll see it.
121 Now, God had His people with unsettled rest. They were down in Egypt. They were out of their right position. They were out of their homeland. They were strangers and pilgrims, and God was going to bring them from that housed-in place, in–in Egypt, up to the homeland.
122 A type of today; we’re unsettled. Here it don’t take long. Little chubby-handed boys playing marbles, little girls with the dollies, playing; the first thing you know, you got gray hair, and wrinkled up. There’s something wrong here. This is not home. We’re in the wrong place. That’s why we say we are pilgrims and strangers. Something has happened.

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« 123 † A little lady said, this morning in the room, about how people laugh at her, sometime. I said, “But, sister, dear, you’re not of them people.” We are a different people.
124 My little girl said, “Daddy, certain-certain girls did certain-certain things that they did.”
125 I said, “But, look, honey.” They had these records of Elvis Presley. I said, “I wouldn’t want them in my house.”
126 She said, “But, daddy, they’re nice little girls.”
127 I said, “They may be. I have nothing to say against that. But there is one thing, we are different. We are different. Not as that we want to be different, but the Spirit that’s within us has come out of that. You’re of another world.”
128 When I go into Africa, I can’t get adjusted to their–their–their ways of living. They don’t wear any clothes. They’re naked. And they pick up something that’s rotten, got maggots in it, they eat it, anyhow; don’t make any difference. See?

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« 129 † And This is different. You know, one time, we were all like that, but civilization has brought us and made us different.
And conversion has doubled that by million. We don’t want the rotten things of the world no more. Christ has made us become Christians; like civilization has made us become clean. And notice, not only that, but we profess that we are pilgrims and strangers. We’re not of the world. Then, you want nothing to do with the world. And those things has passed away.
130 Now, Israel was down in Egypt. They wasn’t Egyptians. Egyptians, it was a disgrace for an Egyptian to put his hands on a sheep. And Israel were sheepherders. And how it must have gotten Moses, after all the indignity of being an Egyptian, cattle raisers.
Did you notice what the Pharaoh had said to Joseph, and so forth? “It is an abomination.” Said, “Your people are sheepherders.” And even an Egyptian couldn’t even put his hands on a sheepherder. He was a different people.

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« 131 † And that’s the way it is with a Christian, today, when he’s born again. It’s not… It’s filthy for him to associate where people are drinking and telling dirty jokes, and women naked. And every… It, it’s–it’s filthiness. Oh, blessed be the Lord! We are pilgrims here. We’re strangers here. The spirit has been converted, and we’re looking for a City where women don’t wear shorts. We’re looking for a City where they don’t have beer taverns. We’re looking for a City wherein dwelleth righteousness. So, we’re pilgrims.

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« 132 † So, God came down in a big bundle of Fire, as a Halo, swept down into a bush and begin to reveal Himself to Moses, first. Moses said…
You know how we had the lesson the other night, how that when Jesus was here on earth, He said, “Well, before Moses was, I AM.” That was Jesus in the burning bush, in the Pillar of Fire. It’s Jesus, today, the same.
And He revealed Himself in a Pillar of Fire, and Moses got the experience. He goes down into Egypt. He preaches the Gospel, the good news, and signs and wonders followed him. You get it? Same thing today.
133 Not only that, but them the Hebrews come out, walked in the Light, they was led by the same Pillar of Fire. And the Bible said that, “Do not tempt God.”

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« 134 † Watch this. Let me read It.
While it is said, To day if you… hear his voice, harden not your heart, his voice speaking to your heart, as in the provocation, when they provoked Him.
Listen.
For some, when they had heard, did provoke:…
135 How many knows that the Israelites provoked God with their unbelief? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] They murmured. They completely… God walked right down there. And when they got all… First thing, they got in trouble.
Here was this Pillar of Fire above them. I don’t know whether they all saw It, or not. At least, Moses saw It. And It was above them, and they watched It. And when they come down… Say if they didn’t see It, I don’t know whether they did or not. It went before them. The Bible said It was there.

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« 136 † It said, “The Star went before the wise men.” Nobody saw It but the wise men. It went over every observatory. They kept time by the stars. No one saw It but the wise men. It was for them to see It, and the wise men was who the Star was sent for.
137 And the Pillar of Fire was sent to Moses, and Moses was sent to the children of Israel. And they was supposed to follow Moses. They could see Moses, and Moses saw the Light.
There they went!…?… And as they went out, they come to the Red Sea. And, oh, they–they never seen all those signs of miracles and things taking place while they were still down in the–in the old land of Egypt, but when they got out there in their journey, just converted and brought out. Then, the first thing you know, they got in trouble.
138 God loves to bring you in trouble. He loves to put trouble down and see what you’ll do about it. So He just stopped up the Red Sea, and the first thing you know, marched them right out into this place, then sent Pharaoh after them. See how God likes to do it? He loves to display His power and love. He is God, and He just loves to show you who He is. Amen.
And the trouble of it is, today, people say, “Oh, them days is past.” No. How can God display Himself, when you’re taught such stuff as that? But God loves to manifest Himself.

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« 139 † Here come the children of Israel, walking in the Light. Moses, going on before them. There they was. “Come on. This is the way. God is calling. We’re going out. We’re going to the promised land.”
“Oh, hallelujah!” Here they all was, shouting, and jumping, and having a good time, you know. And the first thing you know, they looked back and said, “Oh, what’s that dust?”
140 One of them climbed up on a hill, said, “Oh, oh! Alas, alas! It’s Pharaoh’s army.”
141 God said, “What you so scared about? Didn’t you believe what I did down there? What you so worried about? Why you make Me angry?”
142 When they got down there, Moses went out and interceded to God. God just opened up the Red Sea and they walked across; closed the enemy in. That’s the way God does it. Don’t get scared. Don’t get all excited. Don’t be flusterated. You provoke God.

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« 143 † Then what did He do? Look like, “Well, we had one big trial; bless God, we got over it. We won’t have no more. We’re on our road to the promised land.” And He led them right out into the desert, where there’s no water. Could you imagine? God, with His–with His sanctified, holy people, led them right out in this trap; then got them out of that trap, and led them right out here where there’s no water. When He could have took them some way where there was water. Why, He could just made a river, all the way along, if He wanted to. He could have broke every mountain into joy, spurting water fifty feet in the air, if He wanted to. Sure, He could. But if He done that, it’d been too easy. Oh, my! Blessed be the Name of the Lord.

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« 144 † “Why did God let this happen, Brother Branham? Why did God?”
God is doing that. Let Him alone. Just walk on. That’s God’s business. “The footprints of the righteous are ordered by the Lord.” Yes, sir. What difference does it make?
145 “Lost all my money, Brother Branham.” Well, bless God, anyhow.
146 “Oh, I did this, and this happened, storm blowed away my house.”
147 Bless God, anyhow. “The Lord give, the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord.” Just keep walking on. It’s all the glory of God. God knows what He’s doing.
Some through the water, some through the flood,
Some through deep trial, but all through the Blood.
148 That’s the way He leads us. That’s right. Oh, my! I feel like I could just stop and scream. That’s the way He leads His dear children. Oh, can you just feel… Now, I’m not a psychologist, but can you just feel that lovely Spirit now bathing over the building? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] What if our eyes would come open just now, and look what is standing around the sides of these walls, up-and-down these aisles?

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« 149 † O Elisha! One morning, when that boy was just as blind as he could be, he said, “Look at the Syrians down there.”
Said, “But there’s more with us.”
Said, “I don’t see nobody.”
Said, “Lord, open that boy’s eyes.”
150 He looked around that old prophet, all around that, mountains was on Fire, and horses of Fire, and chariots of Fire. He was convinced then.
151 He said, “We’ll just go out and smite them blind.” They had their sight just as perfect as they ever did, but they was blind to him. Said, “You all seeking Elijah?”
Said, “Yes, sir.”
152 “Come on, I’ll show you where he’s at.” And that was him, leading them. They didn’t know it.
153 That’s the way it is today. Christ is here. The Holy Ghost is here, doing the same things that He’s always done, and the world is blind to It. They don’t know It. “Oh, I–I don’t know about That. My pastor…” Oh, poor decrepit people! See what I mean? They’re blind to It. They don’t know It. God is leading.

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« 154 † Now, they come up, through the Wilderness of Sin, there was no water there. God just had it all provided. Oh, and they found a puddle of water, they said, “This is it.” And they couldn’t even taste it. Oh, it was terrible. My, it’s–it’s worse than a hundred percent sulfur. See, just like rotten eggs, you know. “Oh, my! It’s terrible.” It was poison. Now, called the Wilderness of Sin. Several palm trees grow there, and the spring where those palms growed. Then Moses said, “Don’t…”
155 God said, “Why do they? Why do they? What are they provoking Me for? Well, if I did that back there, can’t I do something about this situation?”

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« 156 † If He got you out of one sick spell, can’t He get you out of another one? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] He got you out of one trouble, can’t He get you out of another one? [“Amen.”] Bless God! If He got me out of sin, He can take me out of the grave. He is God. Difference does it make? Just go on, keep your eyes on Him.
157 Said, “If I closed the Red Sea behind, and drowned them Egyptians, can’t I do something about this water? What do you make Me angry about? Oh, your unbelief! You provoke Me to anger, because of unbelief.”

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« 158 † Now the word here is used, “Sin,” provoked. Made… The reason they did it, they disbelieved. They never went out and got to shooting craps, now, and things like that. They never run around with somebody else’s wife, and went out and told lies. That wasn’t what they were doing. But, that’s not sin, to begin with.
159 Living in adultery is not sin. Smoking, chewing, drinking, gambling, cursing, swearing, so forth, that’s not sin. That’s the attributes of unbelief. You do that because you’re an unbeliever. If you are a believer, you don’t do that. That’s the reason Jesus said, “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life.” Not says he believes, but really believes! There it is. That takes all your initial evidence away. See? Now, there you are.
Not, “He that heareth My Words and shouts.” Not, “He that heareth My Words and speaks with tongues.” Not, “He that heareth My Words and has blood in his hand or in his face,” or whatever more. That’s not It.
“He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life, and shall never come to the Judgment, but has passed from death to Life.”

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« 160 † What is sin? Unbelief. A little something can raise up, instead of going right to the Scripture and find out whether It’s true or not, “Oh,” you say, “I’m… Naw! See, there, you go ahead. I’ll just continue a Presbyterian like I am, see.” Go ahead, blind, and you provoke God.
161 When God does anything, he expects the nation to grab It. But, instead of that, “You know, well, I don’t know about That.” See? He expects the people to get It. If you’re concerned enough, set down with the Scripture. Go through It and search It, back and forth, and see if It happened, if It’s predicted to came to pass, and so forth. Then you’ll get It. Amen.

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« 162 † Now notice.
While it is… To day if you… hear his voice, harden not your heart, as in the provocation, when God was provoked with them, you see.
For some, when they had heard, heard the gospel Moses preached, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
163 How many knows how many people was saved out of that original bunch that come out? How many? [Someone says, “Two.”–Ed.] Two, is right. How many knows their names? [“Caleb and Joshua.”] That’s right. Caleb and Joshua, the only two, out of two million something.
164 Listen to this. “But he…” The 17th verse now.
But with whom he was grieved forty years, because of unbelief. Was it not with them that had sinned, disbelieved…?
165 Take the dictionary and find out what sin means. Take the Bible dictionary. It’s unbelief. Unbelief is “sin.” “He that believeth not is condemned already,” Saint John 4, see, “condemned already.”
… whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest,…

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« 166 † Your disbelieving! Oh, how I’ll never get to my chapter. But, look, that’s what’s the matter with this nation, today. Signs and wonders has crossed through this nation. What do they do? Continually turned their back on It. And He said, “I’ll sware that I’ll not let them enter into the Land they started to.”
167 What’s the matter with these big churches today? Their unbelief has provoked God. Hallelujah! He is able of these stones to rise children to Abraham. He tried to give the Gospel to them, and they hardened their hearts. They cult themselves, and they made little denominations, “And we believe this and nothing else,” and God couldn’t move in. Where they at today? Setting on a sideline.

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« 168 † God’s little, faithful group is moving right along, with signs and wonders. He is putting them to the test. “Every son that cometh to God must first be tried and tested,” child-trained.
169 First little thing happened, “Oh, well, maybe there’s nothing to It, anyhow.” You’re the illegitimate child, and not a child of God.
170 For a child of God is the Seed of Abraham, who calls those things that were not, as though they were, “God said so,” and just keeps moving on. Amen. No matter what says, or anything different, they keep moving on, anyhow. “God said so.”

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« 171 † Twenty-five years he waited for that baby, no matter how contrary it was. And he separated himself from them unbelievers, amen, so he could believe. Oh, my! I feel religious.
Think of it. You’ve got to separate yourself from that dogma of the world, “Ah, them days of miracles is past. There’s no such a thing as That. That’s fanaticism.” Separate yourself.
172 The Bible said, “Come out from among them, and be ye separated, saith the Lord, and I will receive you.” How wonderful! “I will receive you, after you’ve separated yourself. You shall be my children. I’ll be your God. Separate yourself. Don’t yoke yourself up with unbelievers.” That’s right.
173 Young man getting married, married some girl that don’t believe; or some young girl marrying a boy that don’t believe. Don’t you do that. I don’t care how cute he is, and–and, or how cute she is, and what those big eyes she’s got; they’ll all fade out one of these days. But, brother, your soul is going to live forever. You be careful what you’re doing. She ain’t a real believer, or him a real believer, don’t you yoke yourself up like that. Stay away from such. It’ll cause you trouble down the road.

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« 174 † Now listen, 17th verse.
But… whom he… was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
… to whom he sware that they should not enter into the rest,…
175 They started out, but they seen the miracles, but they never did get to the promised land. Just a selected number, of two, enter the promised land.
176 Now what’s Paul doing? He is speaking to the Christians now, “Don’t you let this same Gospel, that was preached back yonder, in signs and wonders, and the Pillar of Fire led them; when these things go to taking place again, don’t you fall by the wayside, by unbelief, to go to doubting, for their carcass fell in the wilderness.”

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« 177 † Now we’re coming in, quickly now. Watch close.
… but to them that lived not?
So we see that they should not enter in because of unbelief.
He calls it sin once, he calls it unbelief the next time. Unbelief is “sin.” “They entered not, because of their unbelief.”
178 They seen that prophet, Moses. They seen what he done, seen what he said. It was true, every time, moved right on the Truth. This Pillar of Fire would appear before them. They watched It. They seen It.
179 Paul, trying to get, later on, get down here, the experience that he had. See? Trying to relate the experience, he typed it to the Old Testament. He said, “Now we’ve entered into a new thing, to this new dispensation, by Jesus Christ. Old times, the Lord appeared to them by the prophets, but now He’s by His Son, Jesus.” See? And he goes in, to type the experiences and show them what was taking place, how the signs and wonders, and everything, and what’s wrote.

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« 180 † Now he said, “They entered not, because of their unbelief.” They did not believe.
181 “But now, we, we move into a dispensation, and don’t you harden your heart. Don’t you act like they did, in the days of provocation, when they provoked God.” How did they do it? Not by living immorally. Let me grind this down to you.
182 You say, “Brother Branham, I go to church.” That’s all right. “I never lied in my life.” That’s fine. “I never stole. I never done this, that, or the other.” That’s very fine. That’s all good. But, that still isn’t sin.
183 The sin is when God shows Himself and you disbelieve It, you won’t listen to It.
184 “Oh,” you say, “my church don’t teach That.” As long as the Bible teaches It, and God proves It, that’s the thing.
Now watch just a moment. Now we’re going to start now on something real, real deep. Now, put your conscience in your vest pocket till you get outside.

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« 185 † Now watch real close.
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us to enter into his…
His, her, personal pronouns now. What?
… any of you should seem to come short of it.
186 Now, Paul is trying to tell them, in the previous chapter, about all these things. But now he is trying to tell them what It is.
Oh, have we got time? I… Maybe we better wait till tonight. It’s getting late, and we going to have prayer service. Maybe we better catch it tonight, ’cause this is really full of vitamins, spiritual vitamins. Got a lot to do, and I’m busy this afternoon. “Let us…”
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise…
187 Now, did they have a promise for the promised land, down in Egypt? And, when, God came down, to make this promise a reality. Why, God told Abraham, hundreds and hundreds of years before, that He was going to do it. It was Scriptural.

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« 188 † Joseph said, “Don’t you move my bones from here until you go to that promised land and bury me up there with the rest of my fathers.” Cause, he knowed the resurrection was coming, when Jesus rose from the dead, ’cause he had known what Job said. See?
189 Each one of them prophets knowed just what the other prophet had said, and knowed that their Spirit was the same. And they was watching. Oh, brother! Oh, that ought to shake us out of our worldly condition. They had their eyes, not on what people were saying, but what them prophets said. Each one of them was watching.
190 Abraham said, “Bury me right here where Job was buried.” Said, “Sarah, I’m going to buy a piece of ground. We’re going to be buried right here.”
191 Isaac was a prophet, after his daddy. Said, “Listen. Don’t you bury me anywhere else, not down here in Egypt, but you take me right back in the promised land. You bury me right here.”
192 Jacob died down in the promised land, but said to his son, who was a prophet, said, “You know, one night the Angel touched me on the side. I’ve limped ever since. Come, put my hand…” Oh, mercy! “My prophet son, I’m old and I’m blind. But put your holy hand, being a prophet yourself, lay it on the place where the Angel had His hand, and swear to the God of Heaven that you’ll not bury me down here.”

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« 193 † Blessed be! There! You see the spiritual revelation of the Word? Why, half of them, nearly ninety percent, didn’t know what he was talking about. But he knew what he was talking about. “Put your prophet hands on this place where the Angel laid His hand. I was once a big, stout man, a robust coward. But, He touched me, and since then I’ve been a limping man. But I’ve been a prince ever since I limped. Ever since I changed my way of walking, I been a prince.” Yes. “Put your hand here. Swear by the God of Heaven, you’ll not bury me here.” Why? No one knowed what he was talking about. Joseph did. He said, “Take me up yonder and bury me in that promised land.” There is where it was at. Certainly.
194 When Joseph died, years later, he said, “Don’t you bury me down here. But you look at my bones when you pass by, ’cause someday you’re going out of here. And when you go, take my bones with you.”

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« 195 † There you are. Let the world say what they want to, and do what they want to do. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Keep me in Christ, if I’m called anything… a fanatic, or holy-roller. Someday He’s coming, and those that are in Christ will God bring with Him, when He comes. It’s all a spiritual, revealed Truth laying right there, and it takes a spiritual mind to catch It. Rest on that, through the day. Think of it. Even if you do without your dinner, think of it.
196 And tonight, we’ll go into His Rest, that was left, and see what this promise is today. What is this thing today? If God hasn’t got It here in the Bible, and prove It, It’s right here now, then I’m a false prophet. That’s exactly right. But It’s here. What is this Rest?
197 He said:
Now, let us… fear, lest, a promise being left us to enter in just like they did,…
198 And It’s got to be the same promise. It’s got to be the same rest. It’s got to be the same God. It’s got to be the same signs. It’s got to be the same thing. But let us rest. Now what is It? May the Lord grant it to us, tonight.
While we bow our heads.

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« 199 † Blessed Lord, only Eternity will reveal the great things that we now share together. Little…
Is many who are ordained to condemnation. As Thou hast said in the Book of Jude, that, “Men of old, foreordained to condemnation, would take the grace of our God and turn it into lasciviousness.” And many today are preaching the Gospel, the grace of God, turn It into a money-making scheme, having a great big church and the most in Sunday school, taking the grace of God and turn It into lasciviousness. And the world is blind, and going like blind pigs. They don’t understand.
200 O God, open to us understanding. Let our understanding not be like the children of this world. For Thou hast said in Thy Word, that, “The children of this world are wiser than the children of the Light.” In the beginning it was so, “the children of Cain” become great master scientists. They become great educators. They become workers of material. They went on progressing, very religious, but was condemned and drowned in the judgment. And their carcasses floated on the water, and their souls went to hell.
201 And Jesus went and spoke to them, when He died. “And went to hell and preached to the souls that was in prison, that repented not in the long-suffering, in the days of Noah,” saith the Scripture. And God, as He stood on earth, He said, “As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man.”

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« 202 † But we notice, “the lineage then of Seth,” humble men, real men of God, not knowing too much of the things of the world, caring nothing for the things of the world, but had laid aside every weight and had believed God, and become prophets and great men in the Kingdom. While the others, the other religious world, laughed at them, made fun of them. But the hour come when the floods and judgment came.
203 So was it in the coming of Jesus Christ. How they laughed and made fun of Him, while they had their own religions and their great churches. But they made fun of the Morning Star, and they laughed at Him. But yet they entered into judgment. And when they flee and went into Jerusalem, there they eat their own children, from starvation, and their blood run out the street gates when they burnt the city and the temple, and their souls went into hell.
204 Lord, here we are again, on the third. This is the life time. Three is the number of life. And here we are, ready for the Rapture.
The church moving on, the great scientist world. The churches today setting full of skeptic-believers. Tens of thousands with their names on the book, yes, millions, and would laugh at the Gospel, and say, that, “They’re uneducated. They don’t know.”
Maybe that’s so, Lord, but what we lack in education, You make up in grace; by sending Your Angel of Light, by manifesting His power, confirming the Words to those who are poor and illiterate as we. But we love You for this, because it’s the grace of God that has did it, and we know that we were born. And we’re not lovely, at all. We’re very unlovely. But Thou, through grace, reached down Thy merciful hand and has opened our eyes, as Jesus prayed for us; as Elijah did for Gehazi, as he looked to see around him. And today our eyes are open, and we see the things of God, and know we’re moving at the end time; when the Gentile people’s days are about finished, and He’ll take a people for His Name. Let us be included there, Lord, humbly we beg. We pray that You’ll grant it.

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« 205 † Bless us. Bless this little audience this morning. They’re made up of all different types of religions and beliefs, but lay them aside today, God. And may they look straight towards Calvary, say, “God, mold me and make me. I’m like the…” The prophet said that he went down to the potter’s house, that he might be broke up and remolded. Mold us and make us after the fashion that God would have us. No matter if we have to be the floor mat at the House of the Lord. I’d rather be the doormat than to dwell in tents with the wicked. And grant it, Lord. Just bless us now, and keep us humble. Let our hearts be open, our minds clear, to the things of God, for we ask it in Christ’s Name.

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« 206 † With our heads bowed, I wonder if someone would want to be remembered in a word of prayer, for your salvation of your soul? Would you raise your hand, and just a sinner? God bless you, young fellow. Someone else? God bless you, back there, sir. God bless you, lady. Someone else like to be remembered in prayer just now, for your soul? God bless you, sir, with your hand up. And God bless you, and you here. Wonderful. Would there be another one, just before closing? I feel there’d be. God bless you, back there, sir, in the back.
207 Say, now look, I want to ask you something. I don’t want you to think at all because it’s this little tabernacle. I don’t want you to think it’s because it’s this people. And merciful God, don’t think it’s because that the Angel of the Lord had His picture taken with me, and I… and–and something of that, to do that. O God! If I felt that way, then, brother, I need to be at the altar instead of asking you. But I’m only saying this, I’m only saying this by the Scripture, that you’ll see that this is the Truth. If I said It, and that’s all there was to it, went on like any other preacher or something another, or any other, well, then, it would be different. But you see the thing, God comes right back around and proves that it’s the Truth. See? That’s what makes It real, is God proving It. And then, not only that, but His Word says that He’ll do it. Here He is doing it.

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« 208 † Now if you’re not in the right, your heart is not right with God, would you just raise your hand? Say, “Pray for me.” All right, right where you are. About eight or ten hands has been up, wanting mercy for their soul. While you have your heads bowed, now you pray. Remember, you’re the one to repent. I’m only asking for you, that God will be merciful. But that’s the altar, God has brought you to a place in your mind; that’s the altar. We believe in coming to the altar, sure, but that doesn’t–that doesn’t… It’s all right. But your real altar is where God has met you. And He has met you right where you’re setting. That’s your altar.
209 Now say, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner. And from this day on, if You’ll help me, I’ll live for You. I’ll–I’ll serve You. I don’t care what anyone says, I’m stepping out, this morning. I’m praying right here, and You take this old sassy spirit away from me. You take this temper away from me. I know I can’t act like that and be right with God. And I got hatred in my heart. I’m jealous. I got malice. I got this, that. Take it out, God. I don’t want to be like that. Make me sweet, and humble, and meek. Make me gentle. Make me such a person I could win others to You. Let me do something for You to show appreciations in my life.” That’s the prayer you pray now, while we pray together.

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« 210 † Heavenly Father, they’re Yours. They’re the fruits of the Message this morning. They raised their hand. Something made them do that. They, they defied the laws of gravitation when they raise their hands. There was a spirit in them that made a decision. They raised up their hands, that they accepted the Creator who made them.
211 Now, Heavenly Father, I pray that You’ll bless them, and give to them Eternal Life, right now. There’s nothing I could do; call them around the altar, putting them in an extra room, doing all the work. It, it takes You to do it, Lord. We can’t do no more than preach the Word. You said, “Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word, the Word of God.” Now, we’ve preached the Word, and they’ve raised their hands, that they believed It. Now give them everlasting Life, ’cause You promised You would do it. If they were sincere in raising their hands, they’ll go out of this building this morning, a sweet, meek, humble Christian, because You promised it. And Your Words cannot fail. I ask it in Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.
Now I am watching, waiting and longing,
For that bright City, John saw coming down.
In that bright City, (worship now), pearly white City,
I have a mansion, a harp and a crown;
Now I am watching, wait and longing,
For that bright City, John saw coming down.

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« 212 † Don’t you just love Him? The message is over, now. This is worship. We don’t come to church just to hear a message. We come to worship. Just forget the person next to you. Just worship Him. Oh, how beautiful! How wonderful! Just tell Him in your… You don’t have to tell Him loud. Just tell Him in your heart, “I love You, Lord. Forgive me of my sin.” Oh, my!
… pearly white City,
I have a mansion, a harp and a crown;
Now I am watching, waiting and longing,
For that white City, John saw coming down,

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« 213 † Our Father, God, receive us. We are waiting, as we’re listening at the Word, longing. “Our hearts thirst after Thee, like the hart panteth for the water brook. Our soul thirsts after Thee, O God.” Longing and waiting, waiting that hour and when Jesus shall come, waiting to the time that we’ll be summonsed to the sky. Not to stand before the Judge in judgment; it’s done past. We’re dead to the things of the world. Has entered into Christ, and He took our judgment. He’s our Attorney now, at the seat of justice. Our blessed Attorney, that, on our confession, He pleads our case till we know that we’re unworthy. As a dear old sister this morning, said in her testimony, and putting in her pennies, “Since I come here I learned that It’s not my holiness, it’s God’s holiness.”
214 Truly, Lord, we teach the people, there’s nothing good in man, not one thing. “What is man that Thou art mindful of him?” But it’s the grace of God that’s appeared to us. And we trust only in His merits, not in our own. And we worship Thee, Most Holy God, for Thy goodness, to include us in Thy great Kingdom, in Thy great plans. We receive Thee into our hearts, by faith. And by grace, we believe that You’ve give it to us for the glory of God, for the service of God.

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« 215 † Now, Lord, heal the sick as they come up to be prayed for, this morning. Give to them that joy, that they long to be well. Let them know that this little, light affliction was put upon them, is just a little testing time. God knows all about it. He did it to see what we’d do about it. How God… May they step right out there and claim that finished work! May You… May they not provoke You, by be running here and there, and in and out, “Well, I don’t know this, that.”
216 Lord, may they take a straight stand, say, “Lord, You was the One who saved me. You was the One who did these things for me. I believe You, and I’m trusting You, today.” And I pray that You’ll grant this to the people, in Christ’s Name. Amen.

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« 217 † ` The 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th chapter, from there in, oh, my! Have your pencil and paper, and everything, ready, for I believe the Lord is going to give us a great time. Now we’re…
218 Paul is exalting and placing, positionally, the Lord Jesus. Now, if we get through this tonight, Sunday morning… Which the most of this is going to blend right in with Sunday morning’s Message, because it’s “separating the sabbath.” That’s a great question amongst Sabbatarians today. And I would invite you all to come for Sunday morning. For, which is right, Saturday or Sunday, for worship? What does the Bible say about it? And so then, whether the… This Book is separating law and grace, and It’s placing each one to its place. The Hebrews was raised by the law, and Paul was telling them what grace played, with law.

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« 219 † Now, let’s get just a little background now. We’re going to start back.
220 By the way, I got me some reading glasses. Maybe I can… If I happen to make a–a spill tonight, I got them. You know I’m all… I just lack two years of being fifty years old, and I don’t see like I used to, close to me. When my sight… I begin to notice the words blurring, I thought I was going blind. I went for an examination. The doctor said, “No. You’re just past forty, son.” Well, he said, if I live to be old enough, it might come back again, get that short sight back again. He said, “Now, you can read your Bible if you push it out from you?”
221 I said, “Yes.”
222 Said, “After while, your arm is not going to be long enough.”

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« 223 † And so I–I hope now, in this studying, that I… This little Collins Bible has a good-sized print in it. I can make it out pretty well. But when we get over in the big, deep places where we got to take the New and Old Testament, and blend together. I got a small Scofield. And I’m used to the Scofield Bible, its markings. I don’t read the Scofield notes now, because I don’t agree with Scofield on many of his–his theories. But I–I do like the way it’s set up, because it’s… I’ve had it for a long time, and read it, and so much, till I kind of know how to find my subject.
224 This is all new to me, of teaching, and I’m not much of a teacher. But, you put up with me for a little while, I’ll tell you the Truth as far as I know It, anyhow.

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« 225 † Now, this Book is Paul, remember. He was… How did we find him? He was a great teacher, to begin with, or a great scholar. And he was trained in the Old Testament. Can anybody tell me now who we found his teacher was? [Congregation says, “Gamaliel.”–Ed.] Gamaliel, one of the noted teachers of the day. And then Paul, we find out, one day…
226 Before he was called Paul, can anybody tell me what his name was? [Congregation says, “Saul.”–Ed.] Saul. And he was a great authority in Jerusalem, a religious authority. And he come up as a–as a real-trained, religious man. He could speak four or five different languages, and a very smart man. Well, did his education and smartness help him? No. He said he had to forget all he knowed, in order to learn Christ.
227 So we find out, then, it doesn’t take a smart man or an educated man. It takes a–a man that’s willing to humble himself before God, regardless of how.

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« 228 † Did you know Dwight Moody was–was so uneducated till, honest, his writings were poor as I don’t know what. They had to fix up his messages, all the time. He–he was such a poor writer, very uneducated.
229 Did you know that Peter and John, of the Bible, were so unlearned till they couldn’t even write their own name, and wouldn’t know it laying before them? The Apostle Peter, who had the keys to the Kingdom, wouldn’t know his name signed before him. Think of it. The Bible said, that, “He was ignorant and unlearned.” So, that gives me a chance. Amen. Yes, sir. That goes right on down, to find that God could do that to a man.
230 Now, and we find out, as soon as Paul had a great experience… I want to ask you. Is it an experience to come to Christ? Does everybody have an experience? [Congregation says, “Yes.”–Ed.] Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It’s a Birth. It’s an experience. And so we were in a Lutheran College, not long ago…

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« 231 † I had the privilege this afternoon, late, supposed to be there at twelve o’clock, for dinner with–with Tom Haire. How many ever heard of him, the famous, Irish, prayer warrior? And he’s been with this Brother Epp, on his program, and appeared here in many places in America. And I had dinner with him today. And we were… I was just about three hours late. It was about three-thirty, quarter to four, when we eat. But it was all right. And we were discussing on these things, of how that Jesus Christ is the Head of all things.

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« 232 † Now, when Paul found this out, he had this experience. And then before he would accept this experience, it must be back to the Bible. And we find out that he–that he left and went into another nation, and there he stayed for three years, searching the Scripture, to see if his experience was right.
233 Now, we realize that he had a great thing to face. He had to come back and tell his church, all the people, the very things that he had persecuted was right.
234 Did you have to do something like that? Certainly, nearly all did, have to go back and say, “Them people that we called ‘holy rollers,’ come to find out, they were right.” See? That’s it. We just had to turn around. And the things that we once hated, we now love. It’s a conversion, a strange thing.

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« 235 † Ah! I made that statement, of “holy-roller.” There is no such a thing. There’s no such a thing. But, they call people that, holiness people. But there’s no holy-rollers. There’s no such a thing. There’s no record of any church ever recorded like that, as far as I can see, of the nine hundred-sixty something, different denominations. There is no such a denomination as holy-roller. It’s just a–a name that the Devil tacked on the Church.
236 But they call them, in that day… How many knows what they called them in the day of Paul? Heretics. You know what heretic means? “Crazy.” It’s crazy people. So, I just soon be called a “holy-roller” as a “heretic.” Wouldn’t you? So if they–if they was called that, and rejoiced!
And what did Jesus say for us to do about it? He said, “Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad; for great is your reward in Heaven, for so persecuted the prophets before you.” They did it.

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« 237 † Said to, “Be exceedingly glad.” Anything exceedingly is “lifted way up,” real happy. And the disciples, when they was found worthy to bear the reproach of the Name of Jesus, they rejoiced with great joy that they could bear the reproach of His Name.
238 And today, many people today, if they would happen to call them a holy-roller, they would cow-down, “My! Maybe I was wrong, to begin with.”
But they was happy about it, “Oh, my, to bear the Name!”
239 And now, in the second century, they called them “crossbacks.” That’s when the Christians used to pack a cross on their back, to show that they were crucified with Christ. They call them crossbacks. Now I know the Catholic calls themselves that, but that wasn’t the Catholic church. It was the Protestant church before it was called Protestant church. It protested nothing but sin. The reason it’s called Protestant church today is because it protested the–the Catholic dogma. But it’s a… It, still, it was non-sectarian at that time, when they were called crossback.

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« 240 † Just get the history of Josephus and the other writers, and Hislop’s Two Babylons, and so forth, and you’ll find out that that’s right, that they was not no church. The first organized church, ever was, was the Catholic church, about three hundred years, at the round of–of the last apostles. About three hundred years later, the Catholic church was organized. And a persecution set in, and forced the people into the Catholic church, and they had church and state, united.
241 That was after, what was so-called, the conversion of Constantine, from paganism to Catholicism. But, if anybody ever read his history, he wasn’t converted, the things that he did. Oh, my! The only thing he ever done religious was put the cross on the St. Sophia church. That’s the only thing he ever done, acted even religious. He was a–a reprobate. But they call it his–his conversion. Just about compares with some so-called conversions today.

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« 242 † Now, but, we find out, when Paul got converted and had this real experience, he was absolutely turned around.
And, you know, conversion means to be “turned around.” You’re going this way, and you turn and start back this way. Yes, sir. It’s a turn-around, about-face.
243 And Paul, as soon as he was converted, before he could ever make his experience… Now, he had a marvelous experience.
Now, I believe, when you accept Christ, just as your personal Saviour, it is an experience. I believe, the joy of knowing your sin is forgiven, just thrills your heart, through and through.
244 But then when the blessed Holy Spirit comes down, that’s an experience, that new Birth, that you’ll never forget. You become a Child of God. And here is what does it.
“How do you know it, Brother Branham?”

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« 245 † Now, these are teaching lessons. Many people, the Methodists, try to say, “They shouted when they got It.” Well, that’s all right. If you got It, and shouted, okay. Because you shouted, wasn’t a sign you had It, ’cause a lot shouted and didn’t have It.
246 The Pentecostals said, “They spoke in tongues. They got It.” That’s all right. If you spoke in tongues, and got It, all right. But you could speak in tongues and still not have It. So?
247 So, you see, after all, it is the experience of passing from death to Life; when all the old things die, and all things become new. Christ becomes real. The old things drop away, the old roots of carnality. You know how to dig a root out? We used to take a grubbing hoe and just get down at it, and dig it till there wasn’t a speck left in it. And they said, “If there be any root of bitterness spring up into you, grub her out.” That’s right. And that’s what the Holy Spirit does, root out all the roots. Dig them out. Pile it up; burn them. Get rid of them. You get a good crop then, if we do that.

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« 248 † Now, Paul knowed that something happened, so he goes back down into Arabia, and there he studies for three years on all of the Old Testament prophets, how they prophesied. And he come to find out that It was absolutely the Truth.
249 Now, compare that with today, see, on this experience that we had here at this little church: of the Morning Star appearing yonder, that great Light that come down, that would foretell and show things to happen. You know, that’s marvelous. But my ministering brother told me, “It was the Devil.” And I–I couldn’t understand it.
250 So, I didn’t say nothing about it until one night, there was an experience happened up yonder at Green’s Mill, Indiana, when the Angel of the Lord walked across the floor and stood there, and proved it by the Scripture. Then it set fire. Then it started going.

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« 251 † And no longer than last Sunday, we seen the infallible marks of Jesus Christ, who can take a man that hasn’t walked, and didn’t… His balance nerve gone, when the Mayos and the best doctors said, “It’s finished, forever.” And setting blind; raised up and walk out of the building, pushing his wheel chair down the steps, could walk and see like anybody else. That shows that it’s the power of the resurrected Lord Jesus. There it is. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.
252 So aren’t we a happy group tonight, to know that God has vindicated this great experience that we have, to be compared with His Bible and with the promises? Therefore we ought to be exceedingly glad. And we realize then, that in the 2nd chapter, we find out, “We should not let these things… We should not neglect these things.” We should hold fast those things.
And how are we going to escape, if we neglect such a great salvation;…
253 What are we going to do, in the light of God’s Word, when we stand at the Judgment Bar? You can’t say, “I never knew any different.” Oh, yes, you did. “Well, now, Brother Branham could have been wrong.” That’s true. But God isn’t wrong. His Word isn’t wrong. And just think, of the same thing, the Bible, that once lived in the apostles, are living again. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord!

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« 254 † When I think that I’m forty-eight years old, nearing fifty, and my youthful days are gone, and so forth; to know that since a little boy that I had this blessed Promise, and have declared It to my brothers and sisters; and to see the literally thousands of those that’s come out of darkness, to know that we are going to our Eternal Home, to the blessed. “And if this earthly tabernacle be dissolved,” before I get through preaching, “there’s one waiting yonder for it.” Hallelujah! To know that there’s dozens of people setting here, that, if they should leave this life right now; before we could get their body to the undertaker, they would be in that glorious body yonder, rejoicing with the saints of God, already in the Presence of God, to live forever. With the perfect, absolutely vindication that it’s so! Amen.

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« 255 † Oh, that would make the Presbyterian shout! Did Sunday, didn’t it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Them people were Presbyterian. Certainly would, to think. Oh, no wonder people get emotionally! Why, if you get emotionally from batting a ball or throwing one in a basket, how much more will it make you emotionally to know that you’ve passed from death to Life, that you’re a new Creation in Christ! You know it by the way your spirit leads you away from malice, and guile, and enmity, and all the things of the world. And your heart sets centered on Christ. That’s your motives. That’s all that you think of in your mind, on your heart, all day and night. When you go to bed at night, and put your hands behind you, like this, and just lay there and praise Him till you go to sleep. Wake up, of a morning, still praising Him. Amen. Oh, my!

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« 256 † I’ve tried to praise Him of a morning. We been getting up about four o’clock, Brother Woods and I, going out early in the morning, to go squirrel hunting. I praise Him under every tree, I believe, I’ve come to. I can’t see a tree, without praising Him. Think, He growed that tree. See a little old grasshopper fly up; He knows that grasshopper. “Oh,” you say, “nonsense, Brother Bill.” Oh, no, it isn’t. He knows where every squirrel is. He knows where every butterfly is.
257 Why, at one time, He needed some money, and He said, “Peter, there’s a fish, a while ago, swallowed a coin, just enough, much as we need. Go cast the hook in. I’ll send him over there. Take that coin out of his mouth, ’cause he can’t use it, himself. Go pay him our tithing and tribute.” Amen.

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« 258 † And a few weeks ago, I seen a little fish killed, laying on the water. All of you heard the story of it. There’s Brother Woods, and his brother and them here to witness it. That little fish laying dead for a half hour, on the water, with his entrails pulled out of its mouth. And the great Holy Spirit swept down, after He said, the day before, “You’re going to see the resurrection of a little animal.” And the next morning about, little after sunup, we saw that little fishy, not over that long. When the Spirit of the Lord came down, and said, “Little fish, Jesus Christ makes you whole.” And that dead fish, had been floating on top the water for practically a half hour, come to life and swam away just as hard as he could. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord. How wonderful He is!

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« 259 † No wonder Paul could say, that, “He was in the order of Melchisedec.” He was Melchisedec. “Melchisedec had no beginning of days. He had no ending of years. He had no beginning of life or ending in life. He had neither father nor mother.” So, He couldn’t been no one else. Ever who He was, He’s alive yet tonight. So, He’s only one type of Eternal Life, and that belongs to God.
260 Last evening when we were having a discussion, a brother could not understand the trinity of God, and how we were talking about it. How that Jesus stood there, a Man, of about thirty years old. And He said…
They said, “Oh, our fathers eat manna in the wilderness.”
261 He said, “And they’re, every one, dead.” But He said, “I’m that Bread of Life that come from God out of Heaven, that a man eats and don’t die.”
262 “Oh,” they said, “our fathers drank from the Rock in the wilderness.”
263 He said, “I’m That Rock.” A Man of thirty years old. Said, “Abraham rejoiced to see My day.”
264 “Why,” said, “now You mean to tell me that You’re as old as Abraham, and You’re not fifty years old yet, and mean to say that You’ve seen Abraham who has been dead eight hundred years? We know that You got a devil now. You’re crazy.” That’s what’s… That’s what a devil mean, “crazy” person.” Said, “You got a devil, and You’re mad.”
265 He said, “Before Abraham was, I AM.”
266 That’s who He was. He wasn’t just merely a man, neither was He a prophet. He was God, God dwelling on earth in a body of flesh called “Jesus,” the–the incarnate Son of God. That’s exactly who He was.

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« 267 † Now, we find Him over here, that in the last part now, of the closing of the 2nd chapter, which I want to get to, beginning with the 16th verse, or the 15th verse.
And delivered them… through the fear of death–of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
That’s what he said that Jesus did, that He come to deliver them from bondage, who had been in fear of death all their lifetime.
268 Now there’s no need of fearing death. Now, of course, we do; we, none of us want to, what we call, die. But do you know that if a person is born again he cannot die? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] How can he have Eternal Life and then die? He can’t do it. The only thing that’s death, the word death, means “the separation.” Now he’ll separate from the presence of our eye. But he’s always in the Presence of God, and always will be. So, death isn’t a hard thing. Death is a glorious thing. Death is what takes us in the Presence of God.

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« 269 † But now, of course, we, being human, walk in these dark elements here, we–we do not understand it as we should. And, of course, when the choking pangs of death come, it makes the very saint-est of us fear and draw back. It made the Son of God say, “Could this cup pass?” It’s a horrible thing. Don’t get it wrong. Because we… It’s a penalty of sin, death is, and it’s got to be horrible.
But if we can look just beyond the curtain, yonder, there is where it’s at. Blessed be the Lord! Just beyond the curtain, that’s where man desires to look tonight. Little Anna Mae Snelling and them used to sing a song here, “Lord, Let Me Look Past The Curtain of Time.” Everybody wants to see that.

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« 270 † Now, now here we are, in the 16th verse. “For verily He took…”
For verily he took not on him, upon him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
271 Oh, we want to hold to that again now. Now we’re coming right down to get… Cause, the first part of this 3rd chapter, the last part of it, blends in on “that day for the sabbath,” for this coming Sunday.
272 Now watch.
… he took not… the nature of angels;…
Now, who is “He,” he is talking about? Christ. Who is Christ? God, the Logos of God.
273 Now let me explain this again, so you be sure. God is not three Gods. The trinity of God is One. Father, Son, Holy Ghost, doesn’t mean that there is three different Gods. If it is, we would be heathen. That’s the reason the Jews can’t understand. Never was it taught in the Bible. Now, it’s taught in the Catholic church, absolutely, that’s where the triune baptism come from.

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« 274 † In Africa they baptize you three times face forward: once for God the Father; once for God the Son; once for God the Holy Ghost. Now, that’s an error. There’s no such teachings of that in the Bible. See?
275 And now, that’s–that’s what they taught. It come down through Luther; out of Luther, into Wesley; on down into the ages as it rolls on. But it never was a Bible teaching. It was always been a error, since it was begun.

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« 276 † Now, so, God was in the beginning. Before there was any light, before there was ever an atom, before there was ever a star, before there was any visible thing, God filled all space. And in That was nothing but purity: pure love, pure holiness, pure righteous. It was Spirit. He covered the whole space all from Eternity, where we can’t fathom It. It goes beyond anything that we could imagine.
277 Like through that glass, we could see a–a hundred and something million years of light space. Think of it. A hundred million years of light space. And light–light travels about eight thousand miles per second. And a hundred and million years of light space… Just think how many million miles that would be. You couldn’t even numerate it. You can just take a row of nines and run it around Jeffersonville, and still you wouldn’t have it broke down in miles of miles. Think of it. And beyond that is still stars and planets. And God, before one of them was, He was. See?

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« 278 † And now the Logos that went out of God, which was the–the Logos, all this begin to form into a–a body shape. And this body shape was called, in the scholar’s teaching, Logos, the Logos that went out of God. In other words, a–a better word for it, was what we call a theophany. (Theophany is a human body that’s glorified.) Not exactly with flesh and blood like it will be in its glorified stage, but it is of a form of a human body that doesn’t eat, neither does it drink, but it’s–it’s a body, a body that’s waiting for us as soon as we leave this one. Now, in there, we enter into that body. And that’s the kind of body that God was, for He said, “Let us make man in our own image and in our likeness.”

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« 279 † Now, when man become into that body, he had control of all the fishes, and fowls, and–and beasts of the field. “And then there was no man to till the soil,” Genesis 2. He done made male and female, but there’s no man to till the soil.
Then God made man out of the dust of the earth. He give him a hand like a–like a chimpanzee. He give him a foot like a bear. He give him, He made him, on the image. And this earthly body is in the image of animal life, and it’s made out of the same kind of material. Your body is made just the same kind of material as a horse, or a dog, or anything like that. It’s made out of calcium, potash, petroleum, cosmic light. You’re just no… All flesh like that is not the same flesh; it’s different flesh, but it’s made out of the dust of the earth where it come from.
But, the difference between an animal and a man, God put a soul in a man, and He didn’t put it in the animal. Because, the soul that was in the man is that theophany.
Oh, I–I, I’ll never get to the… this lesson, but I got to get this.

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« 280 † Look. Don’t you remember when Peter was in prison, and the Angel of the Lord came and opened the doors?
281 We was going through the supermarket up here, other day, and the door opened in front of us. I said, “You know, the Bible had that first.” See? Now, the swinging door is by itself.
282 And when Peter came out, walking by these guards, they were blinded to him. He passed the inner guard, the outer guard, out into the court, through the wall, out into the street. And none of them know who he was. And didn’t pay any… They thought he was another guard or something. They… He just passed by, and the door opened by itself, as he went out, and shut behind. And when he got out there, he thought he had a dream. And he went down to John Mark’s house, where they had a prayer meeting. And he was knock… [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit. Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]… to be among you.

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« 283 † Oh, He’s glorious. He’s wonderful.
Now, oh, he wasn’t made in the form of an angel; but he took on… the seed of Abraham. God became the seed of Abraham.
284 Now, if we had time, to go back and show how He did it in the Covenant! You’ve heard me preach on it, many times, how that he took those animals and cut them apart, and throwed the turtledove and pigeon in. Then he looked, and he noticed a little smoke, black horror, death. Next, a smoking furnace, hell. But, beyond that, went a little white Light. And that little white went between each piece of that cut sacrifice, showing that what He would do. And He took an oath, when He did that, and He wrote a Covenant, showing what He would do.
285 And He, Jesus Christ, come to the earth; God, Emmanuel, “God in flesh.” And at Calvary, He was torn apart. And His Spirit come back on the Church. And His body was lifted up and set on the Throne of God.
The Throne of God! The One that’s on the Throne is the Judge. We know that. Well, where is the Judgment? The Father has given… He judge no man. But the Father has commit all judgment to the Son. So He is… And His Life is the High Priest, setting there with His Own body, as a sacrifice, to plead our confessions. Amen. Brother, that puts something in you.

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« 286 † Notice, “He took on the Seed of Abraham.” He become a Man. God, made flesh among us, to redeem us. In other words, God became sin, that we sinners might become partakers of Him. And when we partake of Him, we partake of His… We were time-space people, three score and ten. And God came down and become one of us, three score and ten, for His lotted time, that we might partake of His Eternal Life. And when we’re born again, we’re sons and daughters of God, and have Eternal Life, and shall never perish.
Oh, what a–what a–what a blessed Saviour! Oh, there’s no way to write it. There’s no way to explain it. It’s just beyond explaining. No one can explain how great It is. “How great Thou art! How great Thou art!” is right.
Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto His brethren,… (Think of that.)… that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God,… (Listen at this.)… to make reconciliations… the sin of the people.
To reconcile, now, God, knowing justice, had to become unjustice, to feel what it was to be a sinner, to go back to reconcile, through “reconciliation,” and have mercy on the people.

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« 287 † Next verse, listen at It here.
For in that he himself had suffered…
288 God could not suffer in Spirit. He had to become flesh, to feel the pain of sickness, to feel the temptation of lust, to feel the temptation of want, to feel the temptation of hunger, to feel the power of death. That He might take it upon Hisself to stand in the Presence of the great Spirit Jehovah, the Spirit, not the Man; the Spirit, to make intercession to this life. And Jesus took that, in order to make intercession for us, for He knows how it feels. When you get sick, He knows how you feel. When you’re tempted, He knows how you feel.

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« 289 † Now, did you ever notice when we vote for a president, every farmer will vote for a president that’s been a farmer, for he knows the hard part of the farmer’s life. See? He wants some man who understand.
290 And before God could ever understand; Him being that great Holiness. How He could ever understand, after He condemned man? By His holiness, He condemned man. And the only way He will ever know how to justify man is to become man.
291 And God overshadowed the virgin and she brought forth a body, not Jewish blood, not Gentile blood, but His Own Blood. God’s created Blood, no sex at all in, it at all, no sexual desire. And this Blood Cell, created in the womb of this woman, brought forth the Son. And when He was baptized by John the Baptist, John said, “I bear record, seeing the Spirit of God (like a dove) coming down and abiding upon Him.”

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« 292 † No wonder Jesus could say, that, “All powers in Heaven and earth is given into My hand.” God and man became One. Heavens and earth embraced each other, and He was the One Who can give reconciliation for our sin. That’s the reason that, in His Name, healing takes place. He knows your pain.
293 You ever hear this little, old song?
Jesus knows the pain you feel, He can save and He can heal;
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there.
That’s right. He knows.
When our body is racked with pain, and our health we can’t regain,
Just remember God in Heaven answers prayer;
Jesus knows the pain you feel, He can save and He can heal;
Just take your burden to the Lord and leave it there.
294 That’s all He asks, “Just leave it there.” Why? He’s our High Priest standing here, that knows how you feel. And He knows how to reconcile you back to grace, and how to bring you back to your health. He knows all about it; He suffered. When you haven’t got a place to lay your head; He had the same. When you got one change of clothes; He had the same. When you are made fun of, persecuted; He had the same.

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« 295 † Listen at the last verse now. All right.
… he is able to succour those that are tempted.
Or, in other words, He is able to secure those, to help those, to make those… to sympathize with them. Because, God Himself became man, in order to feel it.
296 Remember, the other night, didn’t we teach on that? How that God had to… Death had a sting in it, a scare in it. “All their days they were in bondage about this death.” And then Jesus came, that He might take that stinger out of death.
And when He was going up the mountain, remember how we illustrated it? Them little red dots on His coat, after while they all become one big dot, and splashing the Blood around Him. His little, frail body, He couldn’t go any further, and He fell. Simon Cyrene, the colored man, helped Him bear the cross on up the hill.
And when they nailed Him to the cross, and He screamed for water. Any man bleeding needs water.

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« 297 † Remember when I preached the other night on “The deer and the hart thirsts for the water brook, so my soul panteth after Thee, O God”? If the deer is wounded and living, losing blood, he’s got to get to water or he’ll die.
298 I was shot, down in the field, when I was fourteen years old. And I was laying there. My legs blowed over me, like hamburger, from a twelve-gauge shotgun. And I screamed for water, “Oh, give me a drink!” I numb; my lips was numb.
299 My buddy run over to an old pool, had all kinds of little old wiggletails, swamp. I didn’t care what it was. And he had raked it full of water, and I held my mouth open, and he squeezed his cap out like that, in my mouth. You had to have water.
300 He was bleeding. He said, “Give me a drink.” And they give him vinegar on a sponge, and He rejected it, and refused it. He was God’s Lamb dying in our stead, to bring reconciliation to the human being. What was it? The God of Heaven.

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« 301 † Billy Sunday once said, that, “Every bush had Angels setting in it, saying, ‘Just pull Your hand loose and point Your finger, We’ll change the situation.'”
302 That sassy bunch of religious fanatics, called some big educated scholars of D.D., Ph.D., walked by Him and said, “Now, if you are the Son of God! You saved others; yourself you can’t save. Come down off the cross, and we’ll believe you.”
303 They didn’t know that they was paying Him a compliment. He could have saved Himself. But if He saved Himself, others He could not save. So, He gave Himself. Blessed be His Name. He gave Himself, that I could be saved and you could be saved. Oh, what matchless love!

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« 304 † He didn’t have to be sick. That precious virgin-born body didn’t have to be sick. But He became sick, that He might know how to intercede for me when I was sick.
305 He didn’t have to weary, but He did weary. I read a little history one time on it, I don’t know whether it was authentic or not. “When He raised that boy from Nain there, up from the dead, He set on a rock and groaned with a headache,” ’cause He had to bear our sickness.
306 He had to bear our sin, and there He died, and on Calvary when that old bee and death once anchored its stinger. Anyone knows, when a bee anchors its stinger, it can’t sting no more. When the bee flies away or any insect that stings, when he anchors his stinger, he pulls the stinger out. He’s still a bee but he hasn’t got a stinger. The only thing he can do is buzz and make a lot of noise.
307 That’s the only thing that death can do to the believer, is make a lot of noise. But, hallelujah, blessed be the Name of the Lord, He anchored that stinger of death in His Own flesh. Emmanuel did it. Rose up again, on the third day, shook the stinger out of there, and is Immortal tonight. And His Spirit is in this building, and He proves Hisself alive among us. That’s our Messiah. That’s our blessed Saviour. `
–Rev. William Marrion Branham
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« 94 † ` Come first, and study the Scriptures, so he could compare it and would see whether it was the Truth or not. He took it, the Truth, by the Old Testament. Now, Paul was an Old Testament scholar. How many knows that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] He was taught under one of the best scholars of his day, Gamaliel, outstanding scholar. And Paul knew the Old Testament. And I think his first shaking, as I said this morning, when he witnessed the death of Stephen. Something must have got a hold of Paul, because all through his writings he kept referring to it, “I’m not worthy, because I persecuted the Church unto death. I’m the least among them.”
95 Oh, but God had a different thought of it. He was one of the mightiest men of the day.
See Saint Paul, the great apostle
With his robe so bright and fair, (the poet said)
Oh, there is sure to be some shouting
When we all meet There.
That great Day when I see him receive a martyr’s crown, a martyr reward!

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« 96 † I stood, with a little old pen, here not long ago, where he wrote these Letters. And then they chopped his head off. And pitched him over into the sewer, to wash down the sewer. And this little Jew there, he said, “I bear in my body the marks of Jesus Christ. I’ve fought with beasts at Ephesus, but I’ve fought a good fight. I’ve finished the course. I’ve kept the Faith. And henceforth, there is laid up for me a crown of righteous, that the Lord, the righteous Judge will give me at that Day. And not only me, but all who loves His appearing.” How I love that! Oh, I want to be numbered with those! We used to sing a song:
Oh, would you be numbered as one of His fold?
Would you be numbered as one of His fold?
Be spotless within, be watching and waiting that sight to behold;
He’s coming again.

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« 97 † I want to be one of them. Now the writer goes ahead, saying:
Therefore we ought to give… more earnest heed to the things which we’ve heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
98 As we taught on that, this morning, 2nd verse deals, “If…”
For if the word spoke by angels…
99 What do we find the angels to be? Prophets. “God spoke in sundry time…” Now, you have to make, not our own idea, but the Bible. Now the 1st chapter, of 1st chapter, the 1st verse.
God, who at sundry times… in divers manners spake… to the fathers by the prophets,

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« 100 † Now he goes over here, and say again.
For if the word spoken by angels were steadfast,…
And what does an angel mean? “Messenger.” If God anointed messenger…” And then if we be anointed, we are God’s messengers. We are messengers to the world, an ambassador of Heaven, professing that we are pilgrims and strangers. We’re not of this world. But we seek a City to come, whose builder and maker is God. We lay not up treasures on this earth, where thieves break in, and moths, rust, and corrupt. For, our treasures lays in Heaven, where Jesus sets at the right hand of the Majesty. Oh, what a glorious and marvelous thing, to know that.
Our hopes are built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
When all around my soul gives way,
Then He’s all my hope and stay.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other grounds is sinking sand,
All other grounds is sinking sand.

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« 101 † How Eddie Perronet wrote that song, in the times of persecutions!
Now, if the word spoke by angels was steadfast,… (When the messenger of God spoke the Word, It stood.)… and every reward received a just recompense of reward;
How shall we escape now, if we don’t hear Christ, Who speaks from Heaven?
Now watch.
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation;… (Think of it.)… which in the first begin to be spoken by the Lord,…

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« 102 † Christ begin His work. What did He do? We watch Him, how He… humble, lowly, how He wasn’t a great noted man as a theologian. But He was humble, meek, gentle. He wasn’t a mighty preacher. His Voice wasn’t heard in the street.
But John went forth as a roaring lion. He was a preacher.
103 Jesus come forth, not as a roaring lion, but God working with Him, confirming the Word. God was with Christ. Peter said, at the Day of Pentecost, “Ye men of Israel, and you that dwell in Judaea… Jesus of Nazareth, a Man approved of God among you, by signs and wonders and miracles, which God did by Him, in the midst of you all, which you all are witnesses.” Watch how he pinned it down on them. “You should have known Him.”
104 Jesus said, “You hypocrites.” Said, “You go out and look at the sun, and you… It’s red and lower, and you say, ‘It’s going to be foul weather.’ And if it’s bright and sunny, or so forth, you say, ‘It’s going to be fair weather.'” Said, “You can discern the sky, but the signs of the time, you cannot discern. For if you would have known Me, you would know My day.”

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« 105 † Oh, what He’d scream tonight. How His Spirit screams through His preachers, “The hour is at hand!”
We discern. We watch the atomic bombs. We know who is going to take Clark Gables’ place, and who is going to do this, that, or the other; or who will be the vice-president. We’re interested in that, but we cannot discern the signs of the time. We’re at the end.
106 What is it? We’re so interested in, “What’s the next chapter of television? “What’s Susie going to do?” or what that woman’s name is. “And where Arthur Godfrey is going to? What kind of a joke is he going to pull the next time?” We, as Christian, gam our mind full of such tommyrot, when we ought to be in prayer somewhere, and study the Bible, to know the signs of the time we’re living in.
107 What does that, of our time, is weak pulpits, that’s right, that don’t get down and bring the Gospel Truth. We’re going to have to answer for that in the days to come. We must not neglect anything. And the people, as we are here at this Branham Tabernacle, to see the signs and wonders, and the power of the resurrected Christ; and then to know that we would place our–our times upon other things, and neglect to hear the Voice of the Lord Jesus, “How shall we escape, if we neglect such a great salvation?”

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« 108 † The 3rd verse, or the 4th verse. Here is where we ended, on the 4th verse, this morning.
God also bearing them witness,… (Oh, my!)
God… bearing them witness,…
Listen to the Word.
… both with signs… wonders, and with divers miracles,…
What is divers miracles? What is diver? Diver means “many.” “With many miracles, God bore witness.” O God! I trust that It’ll soak into your hearts. Listen.
109 I’m one of your pastors, with Brother Neville here. I want you to take It to record. The Bible said, “If there arise one among you, and he says such-and-such, and it doesn’t come to pass, don’t hear it, for I haven’t spoken. But if he speaks in My Name, and what he says comes to pass, then hear It.” Amen. “For I am with that prophet, or preacher, whatever it may be. If what he says comes to pass, then hear him.”

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« 110 † Now, friends, let’s hear Him, the Holy Spirit speaking in our midst, showing divers miracles, and signs, and wonders. Let’s just not pass over It as just common happenings. Let’s remember that It’s Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever; confirming His Word. We must do it. Oh, please do it. Take heed. Let every other thing be secondary, even your home, your husband, your wife, your children. Whatever it may be, put it second. Place God first. You say, “Brother Branham, over my children?” Over anything. Place God first. Let Him be first.

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« 111 † Elijah come off the mountain, one day. He was an angel, a messenger, God’s messenger, anointed. And he found a widow woman picking up two sticks. He said, “Go, bake me a little cake, and fetch me a little water.”
112 And she said, “As your soul liveth, I have but just enough cakes, or enough wheat dough, to make one little pancake. And I just have enough oil to go in, to mix it up, for shortening. And I’m picking up two sticks.” The old-fashion way was, it’s the Indian way, of crossing the sticks and burning it from the middle, and keep pushing it in. Made a many a camp fire like it. Said, “And I’m going to cook that little cake for me and my boy, my baby. And we’re going to eat it and die.” There had been a drought for three years and six months, no water nowhere.
113 That stern, old prophet, looked that woman in the face. He said, “Go, bake me a cake first.” What a command, for a man to tell a widow woman, starving to death, to feed him first. What did he say? “For THUS SAITH THE LORD, the barrel will never go empty, nor the cruse dry, until God sends rain on the earth.”
First, God. She went in and baked that little cake, and come give it to the prophet. Went right back and baked another one, and another one, and another, and another. And the barrel never went empty, or the cruse dry, until God sent rain on the earth. She put God before her children. She put God before anything else. She taken the Kingdom of God, first.

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« 114 † God must have first place in your heart, first place in your life, first place in everything that you do or what you are. God must be first. He doesn’t want the second place. He doesn’t deserve the second place. He deserves the best, and the first, and all that we’ve got. He deserves it. Blessed be His holy Name!
For God also bearing… witness, he gave testimony, both with signs and wonders,… divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
115 Not what men say, what the church said, but what God’s will was. Oh, we need to seek the will of God, not the favor of your neighbor, not the favor of your children, not the favor of your husband or your wife. But, seek the will of God, and do that first. Then everything else, the will of the wife and the will of the children, will fall right in with it. But, place God first.

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« 116 † Watch, now.
For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
117 Otherwise, the great Angels that ministers in the Heavens, Gabriel, Michael, Woodworm, and the tens of thousands times tens of thousands of Angels of Heaven; or the tens of hundreds of prophets that’s been on the earth, every one of them; He’s never put any of them to have control over the world to come, that we speak of. Not a one! He never said, “Isaiah, you’ll control the world.” He never put the world in subjection to Elijah. Neither did He put it to Gabriel, or any angel, any ministering spirit.

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« 118 † Watch what he said, Paul, still magnifying Christ, whereof we speak.
But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou would visit him?
Thou has made him a little lower than the angels; thou hast crowned him with glory and with honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hand:
119 Now, if you want to read that, it’s the Psalms 8:4-6, David speaking. Now what did he call David here? That settles it, right there, whether was right this morning, on the prophet.
120 He said, “For one of the angels said in a certain place.” David, the messenger of God, was an angel of God, for he was the messenger of God. The angel said, David said, in the Psalms, “Thou did make Him a little lower than the Angels of Heaven.” An angel said that God made Him lower than an Angel, that He might crown Him; and He might suffer and taste death, to be exalted up again. That He might make Him the… inherit all the things of the world. [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]

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« 121 † Now, in–in Matthew 28:18, we read these. After He had been crucified and rose again on the third day, he met with His disciples and commissioned them to go into all the world, to preach the Gospel to every creature. He said, “All powers in Heaven and in earth has been given unto My hands. All the power in Heaven, all the power in earth, has been given unto Me.” What was it? Man and God had united. The Logos had been made flesh and had been killed, and rose again for our justification, and was then the anointed Emmanuel forever and forever. God changed His dwelling place, from a Throne in the spaces yonder, to the heart of His Son, Christ Jesus, to live and reign forever. “God was in Christ.” He’s the final resting place of the Spirit.
122 The Spirit stayed in a tabernacle, one day, you know that, under tent. “And Solomon built Him a house. But, howbeit, the most High dwelleth not in houses made with hands.” “But a body has Thou made Me.”

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« 123 † Over in the Book of Acts, the 7th chapter, when he was speaking, he said, “All of them foresaw It. They built tent for Him, Moses did, had a tent, and put the ark in there, for God was on the Mercy Seat. He didn’t dwell there.” All right.
124 Then, “A body has thou made Me,” the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, made lower than the Angels to taste death; and none but the very highest of High, Christ; the Prince of Peace, the King of kings, the Lord of lord, the Creator, every star in the universe.
125 O God! He became lower than His creation, that He might redeem man (homeless, helpless man), and give them a home in Heaven. He left the glories of Heaven. He left the highest Name that could be called. And when He was on earth, man give Him the lowest name that they could give Him, said, “He was an illegitimate baby, to start with.” Born in a manger, wrapped in rags off the back of a yoke of an ox. No place to go, had no home to go to. And was called, “Beelzebub,” the chief of the devils. He was mistreated. He was spit on. He was made fun of. He was rejected, and went to the lowest pits, and stooped to “The vilest of prostitutes.” That’s what man done to Him.

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« 126 † But God raised Him up so high that He’d have to look down to see Heaven. Man give Him the lowest seat, give Him the worst place, the lowest name. God raised Him up and give Him the highest Seat, and the highest Name. That’s the difference what man done with the Son of God, and what God done with the Son of God.
127 He stooped, that we might be lifted. He become us, that we through His grace might become Him. He come to the homeless, and became homeless Hisself, that we might have a home. He came to the sick and was made sick Hisself, that we might be healed. He came to the sinner, “and made sin, Himself,” that we might be saved.
128 No wonder He was exalted. No wonder He is who He is tonight. God has exalted Him, and all the powers in Heavens and earth is give to Him.

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« 129 † When His earthly work had been finished, here on earth. He came to the earth, as soon as He did, the morning star declared Him to be the Son of God. He shook every devil that He come in contact with. Blessed be the Name of the Lord! Devils trembled and shook, and begged for mercy, in His Presence. Yes, sir. All hell knowed who He was.
130 Walked humble, He had not a place to lay His head, on a rainy night. The very animals that He created, “The birds of the air has nests, and the foxes have dens, but the Son of man doesn’t have a place to lay His blessed head.” Sure, He was.
131 He became sin, became low and forsaken. But the devils knowed who He was. They pleaded for mercy. They said, “Why do You come to torment us before our time come.” And while the preachers was calling him, “Beelzebub,” the fortune teller; the devils was calling Him, “The Son of the living God,” and begging for mercy.

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« 132 † Oh, how we could only stop just a minute! Who are you, anyhow? What does that job you got mean? Or what does that little house we own mean? What does the car we own mean?
133 Pretty little girl, you little sassy thing, what does that little look that you have now? You young men with a shiny, slick hair, straight shoulders; you’ll bend down someday, when stooped with age.
134 But, blessed be the Lord! You’ve got a soul that’s born again. You’ll live forever and ever, because He become you, that you through His grace might become Him, and make a place for you.

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« 135 † Oh, we who think that we got a change of clothes, and a few groceries in the house, what are we? God could take it in a second. Your very breath holds in His hand. And here in our midst to heal the sick, to proclaim and profess, and to foretell, and every time perfect. And even concerned enough to bring a little, dead fish back to its life again, in the midst of us. Jehovah around us, Jehovah in us, the great and mighty I AM.
136 When He died, they thought they had Him. He ascended into hell. When He left the earth that day when He was crucified, He went into the regions of the lost. The Bible said, “He went and preached to the souls that were in prison, that repented not in the long-suffering, the days of Noah.” When He died, and His spirit left Him, He become the Logos again. He, I see, said, “I came from God. I go back to God.”

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« 137 † And God was that Pillar of Fire that led the children in the wilderness. And when He was here on earth… And when He died, He turned back to a Light again. Paul saw Him, and He was a Light. None of the rest of them saw Him. They seen Paul fall. Something struck him, and It was a Light. Paul said, “Who is It that I persecute?”
138 He said, “Saul, Saul, why persecute thou Me?”
Said, “Who is It?”
139 He said, “I’m Jesus, that you persecute, and it’s hard for you to kick against the pricks.”
140 Then he went and studied that Light. Paul went back in the Bible, to find out what that Light was. And he wrote this Letter. He’s the same Jehovah. That same Light was in the wilderness with the children of Israel. And when Peter was in the prison, He was a Light that came in and opened the doors.

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« 141 † And by His grace, so none will have any excuse… Oh, if they could forget the illiterate messengers, and remember: it’s not the messenger, it’s the Message. He’s come down again, with us, in a form of a Pillar of Light. And He moves with His same miracles and signs, nothing out of the Bible; staying right with the Bible, holding it under subjection, bringing out His glory, showing His power. Blessed be His holy Name!
142 I know you must think that I’m crazy; but, oh, that blessed Eternal Rest that’s in my soul. Though storms may wave, my anchor holds within the veil.

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« 143 † And to see Him when He died, till, the moon took a nervous prostration. The sun went down in the middle of the day. And when He went to the regions of the lost, [Brother Branham knocks four times on the pulpit–Ed.] knocked on the door, and the door swung open. The Bible said, “He preached to the souls that were in prison, that repented not in the long-suffering in the days of Noah, after He had deceased on this earth. My brother and my sister, when He deceased, His earthly work was done, but He was still working. And He is still on the job tonight. Amen.
144 He knocked at the doors of the lost. The Bible said He did. And He witnessed, “I am the Seed of the woman. I am He that Adam spoke of. I am the One that Enoch said would come with ten thousands of His saints. I’m the Son of the living God, and you sinned away your day of grace. But it was prophesied to you, by the angels, Enoch, Noah, that I must come to fulfill every Word of God’s Bible. I’m here as a witness in this ‘land of the lost.'” And He preached to them.
On down into hell He went, right down to the doors of hell, knocked on the door. The Devil opened the door, said, “I got You now.”

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« 145 † Jerked them keys from his side, said, “You Devil, you’ve held the bluff for a long time.” Here it is, right here in the Bible. I get to it in a minute. “You’ve held the bluff for a long time, but I come to take over.” Grabbed those keys and kicked him back in, and shut the door.
Come through and picked up Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. On the third day He arose, and those that slept in the grave arose with Him. Oh, hallelujah! No wonder the poet said:
Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, He justified freely forever,
Someday He’s coming, oh, glorious Day.
146 Blessed be the tie that binds our hearts with Christian fellowship, the love of God. When He rose, He wasn’t finished, yet. He had some more work to do.

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« 147 † The Bible said, “He ascended on High and give gifts unto men.” There was an atmosphere hung over the earth, of darkness, of gloom, of death, and weary. The prayers couldn’t come up, because the Atonement wasn’t made. But, He broke through that veil. He opened up the way. He broke the veil of sickness. He broke the veil of sin. He broke the veil of weary. He broke the veil of depressed. He broke every veil, and made a highway for the wayfaring man, walking up the King’s highway. Oh, my, when He passed the moon and the stars, on and on!
148 Following, behind Him, come the Old Testament saints, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They went right on up into the heavens of Heaven. When they were way away from the City, I can see them lift up their eyes. Abraham said, “That’s the City that I longed to see. Oh, come here, Isaac. Come here, Jacob. Oh, we were pilgrims and strangers of the earth, but there’s the City. There’s the One we’ve waited on.”
149 And the Bible said they screamed, “Lift up, ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up, for the King of Glory is coming in.”
150 And the Angels behind the gates screamed back to these angels back here, and said, “Who is this King of Glory?”
151 And the angels out here, the prophets, said, “The Lord of Hosts, the Mighty in Battle.”
152 And they pressed the buttons and the big door swung open. Right down through the middle of the streets He come, the Conqueror, triumph, with the Old Testament saints walking behind Him. Set down on the Throne, said, “Father, here they are. They’re Yours.”
153 He said, “Climb up here and set down, until I make all Your enemies Your footstool.” As we read, we find that on here in the Scripture. All right.

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« 154 † Listen now. And we’re on the 8th verse.
Then has he put all things into subjection under his feet. For… he put all things in subjection under his feet, he left nothing that is not… under him. But now we see not… all things put under him.
That’s, death. We don’t see death, yet, because we’re still dying. We see death.
But, 9th verse, “But we see Jesus!” Amen. Listen.
… we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Why was He made lower than the Angels? So He could taste death. He had to die. He had to come, to die.

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« 155 † Look here, friend. Don’t, never forget this. When Jesus was going, walking up the hill, death was buzzing around His head.
156 Let’s take our picture to Jerusalem, two thousand years ago. And how could you reject It? I hear a sound coming through the street. What is it? It’s a bumping of something. It’s an old rugged cross coming down, going out the gates of Damascus, bumping over the cobblestones. Them big cobblestones are still there. Bumping over these big cobblestone, bumpity-bump. I see the spatting of the Blood on the street. What is it? It’s a Man that’s done no harm; nothing but good. The people were blind. They didn’t know Him. They didn’t recognize Him.
You say, “Blind? Could they have their sight?”
157 You can still have your sight and be blind. You believe that? The Bible said so. Remember Elisha down at Dothan? He went out and smote the people blind, said, “Now follow me.” They was blind to him.

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« 158 † And people are blind tonight. A certain church that don’t believe in Divine healing, walked up to me one time, and said, “Smite me blind. Smite me blind.” It was at Brother Wright’s house. Said, “Smite me blind.” Said, “Paul smote a man blind, one time.” Said, “Smite me blind.”
159 I said, “Friend, the Devil has already done it. You’re already blind. Sure, you are.”
160 He said, “Heal this little girl and I’ll believe you.”
161 I said, “Save that sinner and I’ll believe you.” Certainly.
162 “Oh,” he said, “he has to believe.”
163 I said, “Same thing here, it has to come through the sovereign grace of God.”
164 The Devil, the–the god of this world, has blinded the eyes of the people. “They’ve got eyes but they can’t see,” the Bible said.
165 Here He was, going up the street, dragging out the Bloody footprints on the road up. The bee of death was stinging around Him, buzzing at Him, “Just a little while and I’ll have You.” He was getting weak, thirsting water.

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« 166 † I was shot once, laying up here in the field, blood just pouring from me. I screamed for water. And my buddy run, took his cap and put it down in the water; old stagnated, wiggletails in the water. Come over, and I held my mouth open; he squeezed that. Because, the blood was spurting like a fountain, where I was shot to pieces with a gun. Thirsting!
167 Then I know what my Lord must have been, after bleeding all that morning, from nine o’clock up to three o’clock in the evening, losing all that Blood. I see His robe, first, like little bitty spots on it. And all them spots begin to get bigger and run together, make one great big Bloody splotch, hitting Him on the leg as He walked around. That was Emmanuel’s Blood. Oh, the earth wasn’t worthy of It.

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« 168 † But as He goes up, this bee stinging around Him. What did it do? It finally stung Him.
But, brother, anyone knows, that an insect or a bee, if it ever stings you once, that finishes the stinging business. It can’t sting no more. Because, when it leaves, it pulls its stinger out.
That’s the reason God had to be made flesh. He took the stinger of death into His flesh, and He pulled the stinger out of death. Blessed be the Name of the Lord! Death can hum and sting, but it can’t hurt you.
169 Paul, when he felt that bee humming around him, death was coming right on. He said, “O death, where is your sting?” He could point to Calvary where it was left in the flesh of Emmanuel. “Where is thy victory? But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Yes.

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« 170 † We don’t see all things.
But we do see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for… suffering of death,…
For it becometh him, for whom are all–all things, that by whom we have all things, in the begin… many sons… and be made the chief captain of our salvation… through suffering.
The only way He could become the Captain of our salvation, He had to suffer.
171 Listen to these beautiful Words here now. Now listen.
For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all… one:…
Oh, don’t you see the Vine and the Branch there? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] All One.
… for which cause he is not ashamed to be called brethren,
See? Why? Listen, the next verse.
Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praises unto thee.
And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which thou has given me.
Forsomuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through the death he might destroy him which has the power of death, that is, the devil;
And deliver them who through… for the… through… for death were always kept subject unto bondage.

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« 172 † Man always feared death. Christ became sin, made low, to take death upon Himself. And He’s not ashamed to be called our “Brother,” for He was tempted just like we are tempted. And He can make the… be the right kind of an intercessor, ’cause He stood the same kind of a temptation that you stand. And He took your place, knowing that you couldn’t take it yourself.
173 So, don’t you see, brother, sister? The whole thing is grace. All of it is grace. It’s not what you do, anyhow. It’s what He’s already done for you. Now, you can’t do one thing to merit your salvation. Your salvation is a gift. Christ became sin, that you might become righteous. And He’s the right kind of a Chief Captain for our salvation, because He suffered just like we suffered. He’s been tempted just like we’re tempted. And He’s not ashamed to be called “our Brother,” because He knows what we go through with. Oh, blessed be His Name!
For verily he took not on him the form of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

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« 174 † Oh, my! He didn’t become an Angel. He become the Seed of Abraham. “And we, being dead in Christ, take on Abraham’s Seed, and are heirs according to the promise.” See? He never took on the form of an Angel. He never become an Angel. He become a Man. He become the Seed of Abraham, and took the sting of death in His own flesh, to reconcile us back to God, and now sets there for an Intercessor. My, how could we reject It, friend?
175 Listen.
Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation… the sin of the people.
176 That He might be the Reconciler! See, there was enmity between God and man. And no man…
They sent the angels, the prophets. They couldn’t take your place, because they had to pray for theirselves. They couldn’t take the place.

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« 177 † Then, He sent the law. The law was a policeman that put us in jail. It couldn’t bring us out. He sent the law.
He sent the prophets, He sent the righteous, and everything, could not make an atonement. But He come down and become one of us. Oh, my!
178 I wish we had more time right now, I’d like to take you to that law of redemption; but we haven’t, but just for a moment. The beautiful picture is in Ruth and Naomi. If you’ll see there, the reconciliation, how that the husbandman, the man that was to redeem the lost and the fallen estate, had to be kinfolks to the person that had lost the estate. That’s the reason Boaz had to be a… was a kinsman to Naomi, that he could get Ruth. And then, he had to be worthy. He had to be able to do it, to redeem the lost. And Boaz, at the gate, gave a public testimony, by kicking off his shoe, that he had redeemed Naomi and all of her possession. And he had to be kinfolks.

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« 179 † And that’s the reason that Christ, God, had to become kinfolks to us. And He come down and was a Man. And He suffered temptation. And He was laughed at, made fun of, and persecuted, and ignored, and called “Beelzebub,” and–and scoffed at, and suffered death under capital punishment. See? He had to be kinfolks to us. He had to be falsely accused, because you’re falsely accused. He had to bear sickness, because you’re sick. He had to bear sins, because it was your sins. And He had to become kinfolks. The only way He could redeem us was to be kinfolks to us. And how He become kinfolks, is by taking on the form of sinful flesh and becoming one of us. And in that, He paid the price and redeemed us back into the fellowship of the Father. Oh, what a Saviour! Words couldn’t express it.
For in that he himself hath suffered being subject,… and able to succour them that are tempted.

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« 180 † Succour means to “sympathize.” That, the reason He become this, that He might be sympathetic with you who are… have your ups and downs, and your little ins and outs, and your temptations get so great you can’t hardly stand it. He knows how to sympathize with you. He sets there, to make intercession. He sets there, to love you. And though you go astray, He won’t forsake you. He will still come after you and knock at your heart. There’s not a backslider in the building but what know that God knocks at his heart daily. And He will do it as long as you’re a mortal on this earth, for He’s loved you. He redeemed you.
181 Poets has tried, authors has tried, man has tried to express that theme of “love,” and it cannot be found in human expressions. One said:
Oh, love of God, how rich and pure!
How fathomless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure,
Saints and Angels song.
If we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made;
Every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Or could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.

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« 182 † You’ll never understand. There’s no way for us to understand how that that great sacrifice, that He did, came down and reconciled us back to God. Then He went back and said, “Now, I’ll not leave you comfortless. I’ll come again and be with you, even in you, to the end of the world.”
183 And here we are today, living in the end time, with the same Jesus, the same things, same signs, same wonders, same salvation, same Spirit doing the same things, same Gospel, same Word, same illustrations, same manifestation, everything. It behooves us not to neglect this great salvation, for we’ll have to give an account, someday, with what we do with the Son of God.

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« 184 † He’s on your hand tonight, sinner, backslider. What are you going to do with Him? You say, “Well, I’ll put It off.” But, remember, don’t you do that. There’s no way, at all, if you’re a sinner, that you can leave this building and be the same. You can’t do it.
185 Pilate, one night, tried to do it. He called for some water and he washed his hands. Said, “I ain’t got nothing to do with It. I just the same as never seen It. I never heard of the Gospel. I want nothing to do with It.” Could he wash It off of his hands? He couldn’t.
186 Finally, you know what happened to Pilate? He lost his mind. And way up in Switzerland, where we was at last year, preaching the Gospel. Now there’s an old legend that said, that, there’s a pool of water where people come from all over the world, to watch, every year, at the time of the crucifixion. Pilate, he plunged hisself to death, by committing suicide, jumping into this water and drowning himself. And every year, at that same day, blue water boils up out of that pool, to show that God rejected the water. Water can never wash the Blood of Jesus off of your hands or your soul. There’s only one way to do it, that’s accept It as your personal pardon and be reconciled to God.
Let us pray.

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« 187 † Heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for the Word. “For faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word.” We thank Thee for Jesus. And as we see this great day that we’re living in, how that signs and wonders, how we let these things slip by. God, open the eyes of the people in this tabernacle, tonight, that they might see and understand that we’re in the last hours. The time is fleeting. We haven’t got much longer to be here, and we’ll have to see Jesus. And we’ll have to be counted traitors, for there’s no excuse this morning. When you gave that great, mighty vision, of that man coming here, from way in the country yonder; and to see him, beyond a shadow of doubt, rise from that wheel chair, receive his sight. His legs become strong, down through the building, rejoicing and praising God. It shows that God is still able of these stones to rise children to Abraham. To see the visions, like Jesus said, “I do nothing till the Father shows Me. I can do nothing.”
188 The blind man followed Him, and said, “Have mercy on us.”
189 He said, touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith, be it unto you.”
190 Now, Lord, we see Jesus. We don’t see all things. We see we still take the sainted of us to the grave, and walk over each other’s grave. But we see Jesus, who made the promise. We see Him with us. Not Jesus in the grave, not Jesus two thousand years ago; but Jesus tonight, that’s with us. We see Him manifested in all of His power, and signs, and wonders.
191 God, may we never neglect this great Salvation. But may we embrace It, and accept It, and be reverent, and live by It until the day that Jesus comes to take us Home. Grant it, Lord. We ask it in His Name.

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« 192 † And while we have our heads bowed, I wonder if there’s a person in the building tonight, under the Divine Presence of the Holy Spirit, would say, “Brother Branham, I am convinced that I’m wrong. I’m convinced that I’m wrong. God has revealed to me my sins. And I know that I’m wrong. I’ll raise my hand to Him and ask for mercy, tonight. God, be merciful to me. I’m wrong.” Would you do that?
193 While we wait just a moment, if there’s a person here that wants to, there’s a baptizing going to take place just in a moment. And if you’re a sinner, I would repent. How can you reject such matchless love of One who died? The holy God of Heaven became a sinful Man; not because He sinned, but because He had your sins, and bare them there to Calvary. And you won’t accept that pardoning? Won’t you do it tonight? While we have our heads bowed, someone say, “Remember me, Brother Branham. I raise my hands to Christ, and say, ‘Be merciful to me. I, I am wrong, and I want to be reconciled to God.'” Would you raise your hand?
All right, if everyone is Christians, then, let us pray.

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« 194 † Father, we thank Thee tonight, that everyone in here are Christians, that they have witnessed the same by remaining silent, that their sins are all under the Blood. And I’m so grateful for that. Bless them, Lord. Oh, I’m so glad that they have found reconciliation through the offering of the Blood, by hearing the Word. The washing of the water, by the Word, It cleanses us. It brings us to greatest place, where–where the sinner, with his vile darkness, is made white as snow. The scarlet stains of sin has been washed away, and we are new creatures in Christ. How we thank that, Thee, for this.
Now the baptismal service comes up. I understand that this young lady, tonight, is to be baptized down here, in the Name of her Lord.
195 O Heavenly Father, we pray that You’ll bless this young woman. How my mind goes back to just a few days ago, coming up in Henryville and seeing that lovely little girl walking around there on the street. And tonight, she’s a mother, a lady. She’s accepted You as her personal Saviour. Life has been hard for the child, Lord, O God, but a Heaven is sure for her. And we thank Thee for that. We pray, God, that You’ll bless the young woman now. And as she comes to be baptized with water, may You fill her with the Holy Spirit of God. Grant it, Lord. May her soul be just so thrilled, into the Heavens! Grant it for Your glory. We ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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« 196 † I want to read from Acts, the 2nd chapter; Peter speaking, on the Day of Pentecost, the first baptism that was ever performed in the Christian Church. Peter, rebuking the Pharisees and the blind people, for not recognizing the Son of God; speaking of how that God had raised Him up, and proved His works, in great signs and wonders. Listen to this, as he spoke. He was exalting Jesus.
197 Every Christian’s spirit exalts Jesus, not only by your lips, but by your life. Your lips can say one thing, your life do another. If you do that, you know what it is? It’s hypocrisy. And I’d rather face Heaven as an infidel than a hypocrite. I’d take my chance better, I believe, in Heaven, as a–as an infidel, than to be a hypocrite. I certainly… If you testify for Jesus and say “He’s the Saviour,” you live like that, ’cause people is going to expect it out of you. That’s right. You live like a Christian ought to. We went through that this morning.

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« 198 † Now, Lord willing, tomorrow night, or… Wednesday night, we’re taking this 3rd chapter, which is a marvelous chapter. And now, be sure to try to come Wednesday night. How many is enjoying this Book, of this Sunday school teaching? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Oh, thank you very much. That’s fine.
199 Now, I want to read now from Acts, the 2nd chapter, beginning at the 32nd verse.
This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we… are witnesses. (They knew it.)
Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He has shed forth this, which you now see and hear.
200 Now listen at him speak about David, one of the angels.
For David is not ascended into heaven: but he said himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
David couldn’t go up; he was under the shed blood of heifers, and goats, and sheep. But now he could raise; he was under the Blood of the Lord Jesus. For they only answer to that Blood when It would come in force. When the Blood of Christ come in force, all those who had died in good favor, rose, that’s right, and ascended in to Glory.
201 Now listen.
Therefore let all the house of Israel know… (Listen to this.)… that God has made this same Jesus, whom you… crucified, both Lord and Christ.
What about that? Is He a third Person of the trinity, or is He the entire trinity? He is the entire fullness of the Godhead, bodily.

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« 202 † There is no such a thing as three Gods: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. That’s not even in the Scripture, nowhere. Nowhere is it. Nowhere was we ever commanded to baptize, “In the name of the Father, and in the name of the Son, and name of the Holy Ghost,” not nowhere in the Scriptures. It’s a Catholic creed, and it’s not for the Protestant church. I’ll ask anybody to show me one Scripture where any person was ever baptized any other way than in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Come, show it to me, and I’ll put a sign on my back, “A hypocrite, and a false prophet, a false teacher,” and go through the streets. There’s no such a thing. Never was anybody baptized that way. It’s a Catholic creed, and not a Protestant doctrine.
203 “Matthew 28:19,” you say, “Jesus said, ‘Go ye therefore in all the world, teach all nations, baptize them in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.'” That’s correct.
But not, “In the name of the Father, name of the Son, name of the Holy Ghost.” The Name of the Father, the Name (not names), of the Father…
Father is not a name. How many knows that? How many fathers is there here? Raise your hands. How many sons is here? Raise their hand. How many humans is here? Raise your hands. All right. Now, what’s your name? Not father, son, nor human.

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« 204 † A woman said to me one time, who was a strict tritheist, she said, “Brother Branham, but the Holy Ghost is a name.”
205 I said, “Holy Ghost is not a name. The Holy Ghost is what It is. It is the Holy Ghost.” Not a name; that’s what It is. I’m a human, but my name is not human. My name is William Branham. So, if He said, “Go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptize them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”

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« 206 † Then Peter, ten days later, said, “Repent!” Now, here, listen at this.
And when they heard this, they were pricked at their heart, and said unto Peter and… the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
207 Then did Peter do what Jesus told him not to do? He wasn’t confused. We’re the ones confused.
208 On Acts 2:38, the Jews were baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, by immersing.
In Acts, the 8th chapter, we find out that Philip went down and preached to the Samaritans, and baptized them in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Samaritans.
In Acts 10:49, Peter commanded the Gentiles to be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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« 209 † Paul, Acts 10:5, “He passed through the upper coast of Ephesus, he finds disciples.” They were a Baptist disciples; was, every one, Baptists. They were converted under a Baptist preacher by the name of–of, see, Apollos. And he was a Baptist preacher, “And was proving by the Bible that Jesus was the Christ.”
Paul said, “Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?”
210 They said, “We know not whether there be any Holy Ghost.”
211 Said, “Then how was you baptized?”
212 They said, “We been baptized by the same man that baptized Jesus, the hole of water out there. That’s good enough.”
213 Paul said, “That won’t work now. You have to be baptized, over again.” And Paul commanded them to be baptized, over again, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Laid his hands on them, and the Holy Ghost come on them. Correct. Yes, sir.
It’ll be Light in the evening time,
The path of Glory you shall surely find;
In the water way, that’s the Light today,
Buried in the precious Name of Jesus.
Young and old, repent of all your sins,
The Holy Ghost will surely enter in;
The evening Light has come,
It is the facts that God and Christ are One.
214 That’s what the Bible said. That’s right. It’s the hour. It’s a time that we should repent.
215 Tell, holler when you’re ready, in the pool. And we’ll… [A brother says, “We’re ready.”–Ed.] You’re ready? All right, to pull the curtains.
216 Now, the Lord bless you now, as the brother ministers the baptism. Can you all see here? [Brother Orman Neville baptizes believers–Ed.] `

–Rev. William Marrion Branham
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« 1 † ` Was here in the class and enjoyed the… [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] And now the first Book of Hebrews, is Paul, we found, or we believe. The theologians are at end; they don’t know just which, or who wrote It. But, I believe, anyone with a little spiritual discernment would see it was Paul. It’s–it’s believed, by the most of the writers, to be Paul. And how that he…

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« 2 † In the 1st chapter, we found that it was exalting the Lord Jesus. Oh, how he brought down, to show by the–by the experience that he had had on his road to Damascus. Now, Paul was, to begin with, a real theologian. Paul was taught under Gamaliel, one of the best teachers of that day. And he was smart and intelligent, and was a real shrewd Bible scholar.
3 And I found this, when he was on his road down to Damascus, with letters in his pocket, to arrest all those that were in the blessed old Gospel way, and the man was sincere. But, I’ve always believed that since Paul seen Stephen die, I think that must have got right next to him. When he consented to Stephen’s death, and held the coats of those who stoned him, then Paul was guilty of the blood of Stephen. And he confessed, and said, “I’m not even worthy,” said, “because I shed the blood of His–of His, the martyr, Stephen. Cause, he witnessed to it.

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« 4 † And if you witness to anything, you’re just as guilty as being a partaker of it. So if we witness, say, “Oh, yes, they oughtn’t to have done this, this so-and-so.” Be careful what you say, because you’re guilty the way your judgment goes. If you can’t decide, don’t say nothing, just leave it alone. Then when you testify that you are a Christian, then you’re guilty. See? You’re guilty of being a Christian, and you must live to that. And when God makes a–a promise in the Bible… I see a man here in a wheel chair. When God makes a Promise, He’s guilty of that Promise unless He brings It to pass. God is guilty when He makes a Promise. And the Scriptures are guilty until they are fulfilled. See? They’re–they’re right there as a–as a statement that God has made. And It’s got to be fulfilled or God is guilty. See?

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« 5 † And so Paul, being a teacher, and coming on his road down to Damascus that day, about, long about noontime, I suppose. There was a great Light shined out of the Heavens, and It blinded him, and he–he fell to the earth. And he said he wanted to know Who it was. He said a voice spoke, and said, “Saul, Saul, why persecuteth thou Me?” I believe the 8th chapter of Acts.
He said, “Who is It that I persecute?”
6 And the Voice came back, and said, “I’m Jesus.” Oh! “I am Jesus, and it’s hard for you to kick against the pricks.” And what was Jesus then? Jesus, He was the Light, just a big Light shining bright.

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« 7 † Now to encourage us and get a basis here. How was He a Light, when He was a Man? Now, no one…
There was a bunch of soldiers with Paul, temple guards, going down to put under arrest. Paul was the chief captain. And they were going down to arrest those people, for their campaigns and so forth, and for their religious hope that laid within them.

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« 8 † But, now, here was Jesus as a big Light. Now, if you remember, in the beginning, Jesus was a Light. Jesus was the Logos that went out of God. And He was the… He was the Angel of the Covenant that led the children of Israel through the wilderness. And He was the Pillar of Fire that they looked at. And He was… And when He was here on earth, He said, “I came from God, and I go back to God.” So if He came from a Pillar of Fire, into a Man, then if He went back to where He was, He went back to a Light again. And there He was when Paul saw Him, He was a Light.
9 Now, all those soldiers that was with Paul did not see the Light. Then is it possible that one can see It and the others won’t see It? Certainly. All right. He, Paul, saw It, but the rest of them did not see the Light.

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« 10 † Now, when Peter was in prison, we find out this Light came in the jail, opened up the doors. And he was… That Light blinded the rest of the guards, as they walked out, Peter going. And when he got to the door, it just opened itself, quietly, closed behind him. From the inner jail, he went to the outer door. It opened by its own self, closed quietly. And then he went to the gap, went out into the city street. And he rubbed his eyes, as if to say, “Was I dreaming?” He didn’t know what had happened. But, the Angel of the Lord, the same Angel that was the Pillar of Fire that walked Moses to the sea and spread her forth, oh, and the Dead Sea… the Red Sea walled up on both sides, and Israel passed over.
11 And when they come to the swelling Jordan, He did not make Hisself visible there. But He was there, ’cause He just opened it up. And they went across in April, when the plains are all full of the water. And He stayed the spring, and He stayed the snow from melting, ’cause it didn’t wall higher and higher; it just stopped. That’s our Jehovah. That’s our Lord Jesus. Just stopped; and they walked across on dry land.

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« 12 † Now, God promised that He would take care of them, so He was obligated to His Promise. Now, Paul, aware of these things, and knowing them, he was privileged, because God was speaking directly to Paul. He wasn’t speaking to the soldiers that was with him. He was only speaking to Paul.
13 Now, when the–when the Angel of the Lord came down, in the form of a star; and the stargazers, the wise men of India, when, they saw that Star and followed It for hundreds of miles. And It went over every observatory, ’cause they kept the time by the stars. And no one saw that Star but the wise men. Oh, my! Doesn’t that thrill you? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]

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« 14 † Then, you see, God doesn’t deal with organizations. He doesn’t deal with groups of people. He deals with individuals. He reveals Himself to individuals. And now–now to say this, not this… God knows my heart. And not to say this for own person, personal praise, now; just to be there. But, did you know, that same God, that same Jesus, is with us this morning? Do you know, each one of you has a little, individual witness of it right now, that He’s here? And is… He’s done something for us in this day that He didn’t do in the other days; He had His Picture taken in this day. We got It hanging right there. See? The Pillar of Fire, the same Lord Jesus.
15 Watch how He works now. If He’s the same Lord Jesus, He will do the same things, for the Bible said, “He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

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« 16 † Now, before Paul would announce anything, whether this was right or wrong, he first went down into Egypt and spent three years, to find out if it was Scriptural or not. Did you ever know that? After Paul’s conversion, he went to Egypt for three years. There he abode, and there is where he learned this great wisdom.
17 Now, not in any comparison at all, I’m just giving you how the Holy Spirit still remains the same. Now, my church here remembers, years ago, when this Angel would appear and would show things. I was a little skeptic of It. All of you know that, you old-timers. If you… If that’s right, raise up your hand, when you’ve heard. Yeah. Look, look at the church, yet, from the old-timers. See? I was skeptic, because preachers told me It was of the Devil. And I kind of believed it, but I waited. I wouldn’t say nothing about It.

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« 18 † But, oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord! One night, yonder, He come down, an Angel, and revealed It in the Scriptures, that He was. And when I seen It in the Scriptures, then to blast across the world with It, the Message.
19 From there has went Oral Roberts, A. A. Allen, Tommy Osborne, Tommy Hicks, and what more. See? It’s a Message to the people.
20 And Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is Scripturally, He’s the same. He does the same. He is the Same. And He works the same. He manifests Hisself the same. And He’s here, this morning, the same. Now we may see Him; we may not. Whatever it is, we got a witness right now that He’s here.

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« 21 † Now, we find now that, Paul, upon this experience, and writing these letters, most of them, from jail, he had compared the Old and New Testament. Now remember, the last writer of this Bible, by inspiration, God came down and told him, “If any man shall add anything to It or take anything away from It, the same will be taken out of the part of the Book of Life, for him.” So we’d be daresn’t to add one thing to It. Oh, It must stay as It is, mustn’t be anything added to It. And we must contend for everything that’s in It. I don’t want any more, and I don’t want any less. I want just what It says.

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« 22 † Now, this Book of Hebrews, the reason I’ve chose It; one purpose, one thing; this letter, “Dear Brother Branham,” and so forth. And, I–I, we want to stay with the Word.

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« 23 † Now, the 1st chapter, was exalting of Jesus, so He’s the main One. And Paul let us know, the other night, that He was in the great beginning. And we found out that He was nothing less than “Melchisedec, the King of Salem,” the Great of the 7th chapter.
24 And now, this morning, we approach Him from another, another standpoint, from the 2nd chapter. Now, after Paul giving us this great, marvelous Message, of exalting Jesus, “And even made the Angels to worship Him.” And I think, over here, like the order types old, “And He will fold it as a vesture, but they shall perish, but Thou remaineth.”

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« 25 † And over in the 2nd chapter, the 2nd verse, I believe it is, “Has He these days spoken to us by His Son.” And, look, “Sundry times and divers manner He spoke by the prophets.” We went through and found out what the prophets was, and how God brought His Message by the prophets. “But in this last day He’s spoken through His Son, Jesus, by the Holy Spirit. He spoke through the prophets, then.” Then we got back and found out, all those prophets had the Spirit of Christ in them.
26 We went back to Joseph and found out he perfectly typed Christ. Went back to Moses and found he perfectly typed Christ. Then we come down then to even David. And when David was rejected in Jerusalem, not knowing why, but went up over the hill and looked back on the Mount of Olives, and wept over Jerusalem because he was rejected. Eight hundred years from then, the Son of David was rejected as King, in Jerusalem, and set on the same hill and wept. Oh, the Spirit of Christ, dealing with individuals!

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« 27 † Now, Paul starts off, to say:
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard,…
28 2nd chapter, now, we’re starting.
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest… any time we should let them slip.
29 Oh, may God drive that home in this tabernacle this morning. I pray the Holy Spirit will sink that so deep into your hearts. “We ought to give the most earnest heed to the things which we’ve heard.” What type of people ought we to be, when we see the great Jehovah come down and do the things that He does, and see them compared, Scripture by Scripture, that they’re the Truth? And we sit around sometimes like a warts on a log, and just so unconcerned. We ought to be busy, every minute, trying to get people to Christ. We ought to be lively stones. We should never be slothful like we are. We’ll go up to church, and we’ll see the Lord Jesus do something, or–or bless us in such a way, and then we’ll–we’ll go back out and say, “Very nice meeting.”

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« 30 † Now, the preaching of the Word, we enjoy it, but that’s not the main thing. That’s not. We should not worship the Lord just after we get through preaching the Word, as we usually do, just worship Him. That’s wonderful. But we should worship Him every hour of our life. When we’re at work, we should worship Him. Every time the opportunity presents itself, worship the Lord by testifying of Him.
If you see, some of you ladies, see a woman in the wrong, worship the Lord by taking her and saying, “Sister, there’s a better life than this.”
31 You men at your work, when you hear a man using the Name of the Lord in vain, get a chance to one side and slip over, and take him by the hand, and say, “You, there’s a better life than this. You shouldn’t use those words.” And tell him in a meek, gentle way. All those things is a worship.
And when we see someone sick, and the doctor says there’s no more can be done, we ought to worship the Lord by telling them, “There’s a God of Heaven that answers prayer.”

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« 32 † And then when we see those things take place, that we do see take place enough, we should never let these things slip. We just let it go through our fingers. That’s what’s the matter with the great Pentecostal church today. They’ve let the very cream of the crop slip through their fingers, when they had it in their hands. But, look what they done, they done like the rest the churches. “They’ve run in the gain, in the way of Korah, and perished; and the way of Cain, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.”
33 They’ve organized. Instead of having a brotherhood where we could all be one, they’ve organized themselves. Made little organizations and little isms, and sprung up from there and just broke up brotherhood. And if you don’t watch, the Baptist and Presbyterians going to pick it up, ’cause, “God is able of these stones to rise children to Abraham.” And we’ve–we’ve let it slip away from the hands by being disunified.

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« 34 † How did the Indians lose this country to the white man? Is because they were disunified. If they had made one big forefront… But they were fighting one among each other. They would have held their grounds if they’d have all come together.
35 How are we going to lose it? Because we’re disunified. How we lose our experience with God, is because we disunify. We set up one, and call this the–the Methodist, and this the Baptist, and this the Assemblies, and this the Oneness, and this the something-else, and the church of God, and the Nazarene, the Pilgrim Holiness. We disunify the Body of Christ. We should never be divided. We might differ in ideas, but let’s be heart-in-heart brothers. God wants us to be. He died for the entire Church of God. And we do not want to be disunified.
Now we ought to give the most earnest heed… lest any time we should let them slip.
For if the word spoken by angels were stedfast,…

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« 36 † You hear It? “If the word spoken by the angels…” Now, angel is the “messenger.” The word angel means the “messenger.” And just got through, in the 1st book here, “God, in sundry times and divers manner, spoke to the fathers by the prophets.” That was God’s messengers. And they were–they were God’s messengers. They were God’s angels. A messenger is an angel; or an angel is the messenger, rather.

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« 37 † A messenger! You are a messenger, this morning. You’re… You are a messenger of good news or a messenger of bad news. Oh, isn’t it beautiful, to know that we are ambassadors, that we are angels, the messengers of the resurrection? And we are God’s messengers to the sinful world, that Christ lives. In our hearts, He lives. In our spirits, He lives. And He brings us from the low debauched life of sin, and exalts us up, and gives us a “hallelujah” in our soul, and makes us new creatures. We are messengers, angels of the Covenant. How wonderful!

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« 38 † And now, in the Old Testament, “If–if the word spoken by angels were steadfast,” that way it had to be right. In the Old Testament, before a prophet’s word could be made manifest, it had to be examined and proved. They wasn’t loose with it, like we are today.
39 Just go out and have any kind of a sensation, or anything else, “Oh, glory to God, that’s it!” You’re mistaken.
The Bible said, that, “In the last days, the Devil will impersonate Christianity, so close, till it’ll deceive the very Elected if possible.” That’s right. So, we must test it.
40 And how did they test it in their day? To the Urim Thummim. The breastplate of Aaron, that had those stones in it: carbuncle, jasper, diamond, ruby, sapphire. All those stones, that represent the birth of these twelve patriarchs, was in the breastplate of Aaron. And when a prophet prophesied, and that sacred Light flashed over it, God said, “That is the Truth.” But, no matter how real it seemed, if it didn’t flash on that, it wasn’t the Truth. So, that Urim Thummim went with that priesthood.
41 But this Bible is God’s Urim Thummim today. And when a prophet prophesies, it must absolutely flash with the Bible. Then, God says, then He comes down and proves It.

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« 42 † Oh, how I can glorify God today! I’m thinking back of another Sunday morning, about like this, when I was leaving the tabernacle. And you people were weeping and asking me not to go. But, when, I preached on David and Goliath, and how you going to face that cold, indifferent world that says the days of miracles is past.
43 I said, “There’s one big giant, and as soon as we can slay him, the rest of them will take courage.” And the Lord granted that. And then there was an Oral Roberts and a Jaggers, and so forth, pulled the Sword, and we fought the enemy out of the land, shut their mouths. They can’t say that miracles don’t happen, ’cause here they are. Sure. God’s Word is Eternal. It flashed on the Urim. Flashed on the Word, that’s His Urim Thummim. And when it flashed on That, it was positive.
And to anybody that’s needy, if you’re a sinner, you want to know how to get saved, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.”

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« 44 † Today, we got so many things you have to do. “Have to turn new pages. You have to do this and do that, in order to get saved.”
I think of the Philippian jailer, when this jailer asked Paul, “What must I do to be saved?”
It’d been you or I, we’d have told him the things he ought not to do. “You ought to quit drinking. You ought to quit your gambling, your gambling. “You ought to quit this. You ought to quit that.”
Paul never told him that. He just told him the things he ought to do. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shall be saved.”
45 Now, “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me has everlasting Life.” That’s the Urim Thummim flashing, Saint John 5:24. “I’m the Lord that heals all thy diseases.” James 5:14, “Call the elders, anoint in oil, prayer of faith shall save the sick.” The Urim flashing. See? That’s God’s Eternal Word.
46 I don’t care how many atheotic, infidelic, agnostics, skeptics rise up. God will stand by His Word. He promised He would do it.

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« 47 † “And we ought to give the more earnest heed to these things which we’ve heard, lest any time we let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels (the prophets) were steadfast…” Were they? We could spend a week on this.
48 Was it steadfast when Moses spoke? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] It sure was.
How about Elijah, setting up on top of the mountain? The Lord told him, “Get up there, Elijah. I’ll stay there with you; want some fellowship.” God likes to fellowship with His people. But we won’t stand still long enough for Him to fellowship with us. We’re so busy skipping about, from place to place, and so much. “Set still, Elijah.” He wanted three years and six months of fellowship. We can’t give Him three minutes, hardly. Three years and six months of constant fellowship. Oh, I love that! Said, “Don’t worry about the cooking; we’ll have that already fixed up. The crows is going to feed you. And everything is going to be all right. I just want some fellowship.” This old prophet, Elijah, setting up there on top the mountain.
While he was fellowshipping with God, why, the captain said, “I believe I’ll go up and get him.” Now, don’t you never try to break that fellowship.

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« 49 † So, the captain come up, with his great army of men, of fifty. And he said, “I–I–I come to take you, Elijah.”
50 And Elijah stood up. Watch out, here’s the prophet of the Lord! He said, “If I be a servant of the Lord, let fire come from heaven and devour you.” And down come the fire. The captain said…
51 “Oh, you know what?” The king, rather, said, “That was probably a–a thunderbolt, just some lightning just passing over, and it struck them. I’ll send another fifty.”
52 Elijah stood up, one of the angels. His word is steadfast. He had to be a just recompense for everything that was done wrong. He said, “If I be a servant of the Lord, let fire come.” And the second fifty burned. All right. Every recompense!
For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedient received a just recompense…

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« 53 † Now, here is the great thing, the next verse.
How shall we escape,…
54 “How shall we escape?” If Elijah’s voice brought destruction, because he was an angel of the Lord, how will we escape when the Voice of Christ speaking through? Or, how can we fail when you’re prayed for, if It’s the Voice of Christ? If Christ ordained His Church to pray for the sick, and the Church does what He says He… for them to do, then how can It ever fail? It can’t. You can fail, but It can’t fail. And as long as you keep It, It’ll take you through.

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« 55 † If you fail, you failed by yourself. You just get away from the Word. But as long as you stay with the Word, It can’t fail. For the word of the prophets did so-and-so, how much more will the Word of Christ be?
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which is at the first begin to be spoken unto us by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
56 Think of It, spoken by the Lord. How many times could we go back? Where could we stop, right here for a hour? When Jesus came, He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.
57 Now, remember, first begin to be spoken by Jesus, Himself, and then was confirmed by the ones that heard Him. Now listen at Him.

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« 58 † When He came to the earth, He didn’t claim to be a healer. He said, “It’s not Me that doeth the works; It’s My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works. The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing,” Saint John 5:19.
59 Watch when Philip came to Him. Nathaniel… After Philip’s conversion, he went over and got Nathaniel. Said, “Come, see Who we found: Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph.”
60 And he said, “Could there be any good thing come from Nazareth?”
61 Said, “Come, see.” That’s the way to be convinced: prove It. Come and see. Oh, that’s the best I ever heard. Come and find out for yourself. Don’t stand out and criticize on the side line, But, “Prove all things, and hold fast to that what’s good. Come and see.
62 Along the road they went, talking. When he walked up in the presence of the Lord Jesus, He said, “Behold an Israelite in whom there’s no guile.”
63 It took all the skin off of him, nearly. He looked around, said, “Well, Rabbi, when did You ever know me? You never did see me. How do You know me?” Philip said…
64 “Before, when he call…” Said, “Before Philip called you, yesterday, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” Amen.
65 He said, “Thou art the Son of God. You’re the King of Israel.”

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« 66 † A woman walked into His Presence, and He said, “Go, get your husband.”
She said, “I have none.”
67 Said, “That’s right. You got five, and the one you’re now living with is not yours. You told the truth.” Think of it.
68 She said, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. That, we know that when the Messiah cometh He will tell us all things.”
69 He said, “I am He, that speaks to you.”
70 And she run and told the men of the city, “Come, see a Man Who told me all that I did. Isn’t this the Messiah?” It was spoken by the Lord.

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« 71 † What happened? Jesus said, before He left, “The things that I do, shall you also.” That right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] “The things that I do shall you do also, even more than this, for I go to the Father.” Oh, I can see them as they went forth, everywhere. Mark 16, “Went forth everywhere, preaching; the Lord working with them, confirming the Word.”
And here, Paul, giving the same thing. He said that the–the Gospel begin to be preached by Jesus, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him. That’s the Foundation Stone. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord! That’s the Foundation Stone.
72 And to think, two thousand years has passed. Athiests has raised, and infidels, and skeptics, and agnostics. But, today, that same Jesus confirms His Word in the same manner by those who hear Him. “Hear Him,” don’t mean just to hear a sermon. That mean, hear Him. Yes.

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« 73 † How shall we escape? Where is our escape? Oh, you say, “Bless God, I belong to the Methodist church. I’m a Presbyterian. I’m a Pentecostal.” That doesn’t have one thing to do with It. And you get on a side-line and want to call It “spiritualism, or some mental telepathy, or some devil,” or something. Shame on them!

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« 74 † “If every word was steadfast by the angels…” Jesus said, “It’s not… Little while, and the world won’t see Me no more. Yet, ye shall see Me, for I’ll be with you, even in you, to the end of the age.” And when we see Him come down, to continue to confirm His Word, how shall we escape if we sucker to some church, or some organization, or denomination, or some little pet theory of our own? You better turn loose. “For every sin received a just recompense under the angels, how much more when the Son of God is speaking from the Heavens, to make manifest His Word! How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation?” Oh, my! “God also…”
4th verse:
God also bearing them witness,…

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« 75 † Watch this. The Lord bore witnesses. Oh, I am so happy for that! The Lord bore the witness.
76 Look. When Elijah set on the hill, and he said, “If I be a man of God, let the fire fall from Heaven and consume you.” God bore witness that he was a man of God.
God always bears witness. Your life will bear witness. I don’t know what your testimony is, but your life speaks so loud, your voice can’t be heard. But, your–your living, your every-day life will testify what you are. God bears witness. Yes. The Holy Spirit is a seal, and a seal takes both sides of the paper. They see you standing here and see you when you go away. Not only in church but at every-day work. You’re sealed on both sides, inside and outside. By the joy that you have, and by the life that you live, you’re sealed, in and outside, that you know you’re saved and the world knows you’re saved, by the life that you live, for God bears witness. Blessed be His Holy Name! My, I feel religious!

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« 77 † Think of it, brethren, there. Oh! “My sheep hear My Voice, and a stranger they won’t follow.” Oh, how that our names are on the palms of His hands! It’s before Him, day and night. His Word is always before Him, His Promise. He can’t forget it. And He loves you.
78 Now, He will bear witness of His own. You don’t open your mouth and say a word, the world will know something has happened to you.
… bear witness, both by signs and wonders, and by divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

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« 79 † Let us take just one Scripture now before closing; on the Day of Pentecost, when they received the Holy Spirit. About four days later, Peter had passed through the gate called Beautiful; he and John. They said, “Look on us,” to a man. And he said, “Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have I’ll give you. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” And the man looked up and never questioned nothing about it. He just stood up and went walking. They were ignorant and unlearned men. But the Bible said, “They had to take heed to them, for they knew they had been with Jesus.”
80 Brother, when the world knows that you’ve been with Jesus, when you can live such an unadulterated life in this present world and in this darkness, that the world knows and can see that you’ve been with Jesus; when a rugged, old vulgar prostitute of the street can become a lady, washed in the Blood of the Lamb; God is bearing witness that He lives.
81 Take a drunkard, who is so low-down that he would run around on his wife, that he would mistreat his children, and take the food from the table, to spend on a prostitute. Let him get with Jesus once. You’ll see him returning, like Legion, who was in his right mind and clothed, to his babies and to his wife and to his loved ones. Certainly.

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« 82 † Some time ago, about forty years ago, when the religions of the world met, and the different ones got up and spoke. And the Mohammedan spoke for the Mohammedan religion. The Jains spoke for the Jains; the Buddhist for the Buddha. And the little doctor, I forget what his last name was, just at this time. I did know his name, but I have forgotten it. He spoke to represent Christianity. And he told the story of Lady Maccabee of Oklahoma, in America.
She was so ornery and so low-down, till even when they went to kill her, they wouldn’t even put their hands on her, she was so vulgar and vile. They had her arrested on a charge: smoking a cigar; driving a stagecoach; and broke the–the–the laws, the records in Oklahoma, when she passed through the street, driving four head of horses. And she was so vile and so dirty until society wouldn’t even get around where she was at; so much, till when the executors was going to execute her, they wouldn’t hang her. They just poured tar and feathers on her, to kill her.
And when this little preacher give her story, in such a way, till he had the people setting on the end of their seats, listening what would be next. When he got down to that: very vile, dirty, low-down, till the laws wouldn’t even want to fool with her, she was so low. The very Devil in hell would reject such a person, nearly, the way he told the story. Then he said, “Gentlemen, of the religions of the world, has your religion got anything that would clean the hands of Lady Maccabee?”
83 Everybody set still. Then he clapped his hands together, and jumped up in the air. He said, “Glory be to God! The Blood of Jesus Christ won’t only clean her hands, but It’ll clean her heart and make her His Bride.” Tell you:
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now I’m found,
I was blind, but now I see.
It’s grace that taught my heart to fear,
It was grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed!

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« 84 † Certainly. “How shall we escape, if we neglect such?” You neglect to eat, you’ll die. You neglect to turn a corner, you’ll wreck. You neglect to milk the cow, she’ll go dry. You neglect your teeth, you’ll have to have them all pulled out. Certainly. You pay for your neglection.
85 O Branham Tabernacle and you visitors, let me tell you something now. You neglect to testify of the glory of God, you neglect to give God the praise and glory, you’ll find yourself cold, formal, and backslidden, one of these days. You give God praise. “How shall we escape, if we neglect such a great salvation?”

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« 86 † Getting late. I just happened to notice, Brother Toms had walked in back there. We’ll close and continue this tonight, the Lord willing.
Let us pray just a moment.
87 Our Heavenly Father, to Thee be blessings, and praises, and honor, and glory, and wisdom, and might, and power, for ever and ever. Oh, to that Lamb that set on the Throne, dominions and kingdoms and everything was given over to His hand. When He raised from the dead, for our justification, He screamed to the world, “All power in the Heaven and earth is give into My hand. Go ye, therefore, into all the world and preach the Gospel.”
O dear dying Lamb, Thy precious Blood
Shall never lose Its power,
Till all the ransomed Church of God
Be saved, to sin no more.

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« 88 † Help us, as ministers, to seeing that we are requiring so much; how we must have a church, we must have this, we must have everything.
89 Our women, before going to church, is yet calling themselves Christians, will have to have a certain kind of a dress, or have to be dressed so daubly.
And preachers will have to have so much money before they’ll come, and everything has to be so-and-so.
90 O Christ, when I read here, “How they wandered about, in sheepskins and goatskins, lived in the dens of the earth, and caves.” They wandered about, under vile persecution, and, yet, obtained the Faith, under the ministry of angels. How will we escape, when the Lord Jesus has give us fine homes, and cars, and clothes, and food? And we murmur. We set around. We’re lazy. We never try to get out and do something about it. How will we escape, God?
91 Oh, I pray that You’ll burn old-fashioned conviction into every heart, this morning, Lord, that the people might be up and at it. Let us work while the daylight is shining, because the sun is swiftly sinking. And civilization is going, and there’ll be no more time. It’ll blend into Eternity.
92 O God, grant today that we go with fresh vision, with wisdom, with understanding, to know how to approach sinners and bring them to Christ. Hear the prayer of Your servant, Lord.

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« 93 † I ask, if there be any here, that doesn’t know Christ as their Saviour, would you raise your hand and say, “Remember me, Brother Branham”? Would you just raise your hand, say, “Remember me. I want to be a Christian. I don’t want to neglect it any longer”? God bless you, back there, sir. Someone else? Say, “I want to raise my hand, Brother Branham. And I want to accept Christ, as my Saviour, I’ve neglected, all the time. Oh, I go to church, sure, I belong to church.” `

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« 1 † ` And to give a–a little… I think there’s nothing better, to me, than just the Word. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing the Word of God.”
2 On Wednesdays, and maybe on Sundays, one of the services of Sunday, giving the pastor just a little rest, which he’s very deserving of it, and thought maybe we’d just take a Book in the Bible. We used to do that, and sometimes stay a year on it.
3 I remember one time we stayed a solid year on the Book of Revelation. But, oh, my, the things that we learned, and how wonderful it was! Then we went back and got the Book of Daniel, or the Book of Genesis, or Exodus, and just take it, chapter by chapter, and it just tied the entire Bible together. Oh, I just love that!

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« 4 † Little later on, we’ll have to get the… If the Lord continues to bless and we go on, we’ll get into some real deep things in here, real deep. And we’ll just go from place to place, through the Scripture, with it.
5 And I like to make Scripture compare with Scripture. That’s the way it must be. It’s just one great beautiful picture. And in this Book that we’re studying, we’re going to get in, oh, salvation, and Divine healing, and miracles, and mercies. And, oh, everything comes in here.
6 And maybe when I get to a place where I have to get to the meetings… I never know just when I’m going to be to a meeting, called to a meeting, because I don’t have anything set until I just feel led to do a certain thing. And that may be before in the morning, I may fly to California, up to Maine or somewhere, just where He would call me. That’s the reason I don’t set great, long itineraries, because I can’t do that. My ministry is not cut out that way, and it’s just different.

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« 7 † And now I come home just for a little rest. I lost twenty pounds, in this last meeting. And Brother Mercier and Brother Goad was up, a while ago, and said, “Brother Branham, I notice what you do. You put your whole heart into it.”
8 I said, “That’s the only way you can do a right kind of a job for the Lord, is put everything you got right to the forefront for Christ; all your strength, all your soul, all your heart, all your mind, everything that you got.” When you’re doing anything, do it right or don’t do it at all, see, just leave it alone. You’re going to be a Christian, put everything that you’ve got to Christ, that’s, your time, your talent, your every thing.
9 I just noticing this young fellow. That’s your wife, Brother Burns, is it, that playing and singing there, that young couple. And–and it isn’t a piano, neither is it an organ, but it’s some kind of instrument, they make a strum it and pick it, and do something for the Lord. If you could do that, and sing, that’s, win souls. Do something, no matter. If you–you can whistle, well, whistle. Just do something. Just testify or do something for the Kingdom of God. Whatever you got, put it to the use in God’s service.

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« 10 † Now, we’re not going to try to stay very long, because I know you work. You got to get up early. And I’m going squirrel hunting every morning. I’ll just tell you the truth. That’s what I’m doing. That’s what I come home for, is to rest a little. And so I’m getting up, about four o’clock, and going out in the woods and, well, hunt little bit and go to sleep. And I’m gaining some of that weight back, so I’ll get rested up, after while, if you… the Lord willing. And everything is fine.
11 All right, now, we’re going to turn in your Bibles. I want you to bring your Bibles each night, that you… as you can. If somebody lacks a few, would somebody want to follow along with the readings, we got some here, we’d have the… some of the ushers to pass them out. Anybody want one? Well, just raise your hand.

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« 12 † Wonder if Brother… Doc, come here and get these Bibles. You’re standing close there, and Brother Burns. Is that right, Burns? I heard him say… [The brother says, “Conrad.”–Ed.] What? [“Conrad.”] Conrad. I called him… I’m getting kind of hard of hearing, maybe, Brother Neville. How did I ever get the name of Burns? I know the man’s face, and I just can’t, couldn’t call his name.
13 And you know, as you get a little older, I find out one thing, it’s harder for me to read this Bible. And I just hate to think of having to wear glasses, to read the Bible.
14 But, here not long ago, I thought I was going blind. And I went over to see Sam. And Sam said, “Bill, I don’t know.” Said, “I’ll just get you an appointment with some specialist.”

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« 15 † I went to Louisville. It must have been the will of the Lord. Some famous specialist; I forget his name now. But he had read my book. And he said, “If you ever go back to Africa, I want to go with you.” He said, “And if you… Them African people love you.” And said, “They’re very superstitious, especially with a knife, to go to cutting. So,” said, “I want to give six months of my life, for operations of cataracts and things, to the… in mission.” And said, “If we could go together, and you could win favor of them, like that.” Said, “Then if they had cataracts and eye works,” said, “I’d just love to give it, free of charge, six months of it.” And I forget how long you have to wait for an appointment with him.
16 And we was setting in a little room and it had a little–little red light come on, back there in the dark room. Why, I could read them letters. It said twenty-twenty. I could read it either way. And he snapped it on fifteen-fifteen, and I could read it. And put it on ten-ten, and I could read it. He said, “Well, there’s not much wrong with your eyes.”

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« 17 † So he had a little telescope. He put a little gadget back there, a little thing, you know. Them old telescopes, how many ever remember them? We used to look through them, look at pictures, just like that. And he said, “Can you read that?”
I said, “Yes, sir.”
He said, “Read it for me.”
18 It had a, oh, a whole paragraph, about like that. I started, read it; he started pulling it up, like that, getting slower and slower. He got about like this, I stopped. He said, “I can tell you one thing, you’re past forty.”
I said, “Yep, that’s right, a long ways past it.”
19 He said, “How have you done it?” He said, “The human eye, naturally, when you get forty years old, like your hair gets gray, and so forth, the eyeball gets flat.” Said, “Now, if you live long enough, that’ll come back again.” He said, “That second sight, they call it. But,” said, “a human being, about forty years old, they’ll actually…” Said, “There is nothing wrong with their eyes.”
20 I can–I can see a hair if it was laying on the floor, get it off from me. But get close to me… And he said, “Now, you read your Bible,” said, “You push it away from you.” Said, “After while, your arm is not going to be long enough, till you can’t–can’t get it out there far enough to get a hold of it.”

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« 21 † And so he made me a pair of glasses, and the bottom part you can, it’s for reading. He said, “Now, in your pulpit…” He thought I was one of these here dignified preachers, you know. And so said that the… you… The top part is just regular window glass, just regular glass. And the bottom part has got some kind of a grind in it, that I can read it close, you know, like that. So I just hate to put them on; I do.
22 And now, in Bible teaching, and I’ve got the New Testament tonight. So it’s… I got a Collins New Testament. It’s got good-sized print. But now, when I get back in the other one, I–I may have to go to them old buddies, and–and kind of read through them. But whatever it is, I–I’m glad that I got something I–I can still read. And–and–and whatever I got, I’m going to give everybody everything I can, to the glory of God, hope that He will take that age sign away. I can’t ask Him to take my age away. I… You know, that’s just one thing we all got to do. We got to go through that. And I know I’m not a little boy like I used to be, standing here on the platform. I’m forty-eight years old. And just think, two more years, will be fifty years old, Brother Mike.
23 My, can’t hardly believe it! I just… I never knew that I was past twenty till about two years ago. That’s right. That’s right. I just… I couldn’t believe it. And yet I–I… It’s hard for me to believe till looked in the glass, and then I–I know it is, then. But–but just to be looking, I just feel just as good as I ever felt in my life, and I’m thankful for that, too. All praise be to God.

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« 24 † Now, we’re studying the Book of the Hebrews. It’s been… Oh, it’s one of the most deepest, richest Books of the Bible. I tell you, it’s a Book that really will… If God permits, and we just get down into this, I believe we’ll find golden nuggets till we’ll just shout the praises of God all the time. And now I…
25 The Book of Hebrews, really what It is, It’s supposing to be written by Saint Paul, the greatest Bible expositor, I guess, the world has ever had, outside of our Lord Jesus Christ. And Paul was separating the… Now, Paul was a real Bible teacher; that is, the Old Testament. That’s the only Book was written then, called Bible. And he was trying to show to the Hebrews, separating the Old Testament and showing the Old Testament being a shadow or a type of the New.

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« 26 † Right there we could strike a home line and stay three months right there on that one thought, right there. To go right back, if we could turn in our Bibles now, course we’re on Hebrews, the 1st chapter. But if we’d turn to Revelations, the 12th chapter, you’d see it perfectly again, how the shadows. If… you that’s got your pencils and going to jot down the Scriptures. In Heb-…
27 In Revelations 11, we find out that John, on the isle of Patmos, saw a woman standing in the skies, and she had the sun at her head and the moon under her feet. And the woman was in travail, with a child to be born. She brought forth a Man Child. The red dragon stood, to devour the child as soon as it was born. And the–the child was caught up into Heaven, and the woman fled into the wilderness where she was nourished for a time, time, and a half time, or a dividing of time.

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« 28 † Now, the woman represented the church, and the Child that she brought forth was Christ. The moon under her feet was the law, the sun at her head was grace. Twelve stars in her crown was the twelve apostles. And there’s where, at what… The twelve apostles was the glory or the crowning of the New Testament. See? “For no other foundations can be laid than that which is already laid.” See? It, the Foundation, the–the New Testament, the apostles, the Doctrine of the apostles, and so forth, is the founding crown of the New Testament. And then at the…
29 The moon is a shadow of the sun. The sun just reflects its light when its behind the earth. And the moon gives light, to walk by, at night. And what a beautiful picture we have here, another beautiful picture: the sun represents Christ; the–the moon represents the Church. They’re just like husband and wife. And in the absence of Christ, the Church reflects the minor Light, the Gospel. And it–it’s the Light to walk in until the Son rises again, then the Church and the Son, the moon and the sun, blends together. See? The moon is a part of the sun, and the Church is a part of Christ. And while the absence of Christ, the Church reflects His Light. And then as sure as we can see the moon shining, it knows the sun is shining somewhere. And as long as the Church is reflecting the Light of Christ, Christ is alive somewhere. Amen. Think of it.

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« 30 † Now, the law was a type of the grace, but law had no saving power in it. Law only was a… The law was a policeman. The policeman put you in jail, but, you see, it taken grace to get you out of jail. See?
31 So the Blood of Christ, the Gospel, delivers us from sin. Law only makes us sinners. The law only said, “You are a sinner. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not bear false witness.” See? It’s a policeman that says you’re wrong and you’re guilty. But the Gospel is the good news. Christ died to save us from all of our trespasses, transgressions of the law. Christ died to take us out.

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« 32 † Now, Paul, as soon as he was converted, he never consulted with any seminary, neither did he consult any ministers. But did you notice? He went down into Arabia, and was there three years, in Arabia. Now, this is, to my opinion, that…
33 Now, we’ve got to get a background of this, so we’ll know how substantial it is. And the first lesson, tonight, we take our background.
34 Now, Paul was such a Bible teacher, because he was taught under that great, all-time famous Gamaliel. And he was one of the best known of the day, that great teacher of the law and the prophets. So, Paul was well schooled in those things.

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« 35 † And then I like him this way, this great revelation, being honest in his heart, a murderer, had consented to Stephen’s death and saw Stephen die under the rocks and clods of being stoned to death. I think it must have got next to Paul when he saw Stephen raise his hands to Heaven, and said, “I see the Heavens open. I see Jesus standing at the right hand of God.” And he said, “Father, lay not this charge of sin against them.” And he fell asleep.
36 Did you notice that? He never died. He fell asleep. Just like… I don’t believe he ever felt another rock. Just like a baby on the bosom of its mother, falls asleep, Stephen fell asleep in the arms of God.

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« 37 † There is something, about Paul, that got next to him. Then he, any man under conviction, trying to fight It, he rolls over to the high priest and gets some letters. Said, “I’ll arrest all those people that’s making all that noise, and those heretics;” which was considered, what we would call today, some “radical fanatic,” or something like that, making a lot of noise and causing disturbance. “We’ll just go down and settle it.”
38 And on his road down, a little old… not a great highway like we travel. And them roads in Palestine, just little trails, like a cow trail through the woods where the cattle, and the sheep, and the horses, and the donkeys, and the camels, went over the hills.
39 And Paul, on his road down to Damascus, about noon, one day, a great Light shining down and struck him to the ground. No one saw It but Paul. I want you to notice that. And right here, this is not personal now, but just so we’re leading into this background. That you’ll know that that same Jesus…

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« 40 † Now, when He was here on earth, He said, “I came from God, and I go back to God.”
41 Now, when He led the children of Israel, He was the Pillar of Fire. And He was made flesh, then He returned back to that same Pillar of Fire. And when He met Paul on the road to Damascus, He was that Pillar of Fire, that Light, see, a great Light. And Paul said, “Who is It that I persecute?”
42 He said, “I am Jesus, who you persecute,” the Light. Oh, isn’t He wonderful? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
43 And here He is, tonight, right here with us. Had His picture taken right there, the same Thing, see, Pillar of Fire, Light, just the same as He was, “Same yesterday, today, and forever.”
44 Now the men that was with him did not see that Light, but It was there just the same. The results give the same.

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« 45 † Now, is it possible that–that someone could see Christ in this building and no one else see Him? Sure. It happened there.
46 It happened also one night when Peter was in prison. And that Light came into the prison, and touched Peter, and walked right by the inner guard, the outer guard, walked by the gate, the main gate, and the city gate. Peter said, “I must have been dreaming.” But he looked around, but the Light was gone; Christ, that Eternal, everlasting Light. There He is. Now, on the road down…
47 And look, another thing, if we would speak of this, just come in my mind. But the wise men that followed the Star, all the way from India, the Orient, months, coming through the valleys and deserts, passed over observatories. And they kept the time of the night by the stars. And no historian or anyone ever mentioned of ever seeing that Star but the wise men. It was just meant for them to see It.
48 So you can see things that the other fellow might not see. To you, It’s a reality. To him, they don’t understand. Just like a conversion; you can be converted and enjoying the blessings of God, just–just drinking in the blessings of God. And the next fellow, setting by you, “I don’t see a thing.” See? See? That’s it. “I just don’t get it. I don’t see what it’s all about.” Well, he’s just not getting It. That’s all. Where, you are.

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« 49 † Notice now, Paul on his road down. And as soon as this great experience happened to him… Now, he wasn’t satisfied… That’s what makes Paul so good, now.
50 Our lesson tonight is not deep. It’s a shallow lesson, but, oh, we will get into the deep, after while. But this is a very shallow lesson, but it’s just starting off. And what it is, it’s one thing, that’s exalting Jesus Christ. Paul, to begin.
51 And before he would do this, Paul was a Bible scholar. And a Bible scholar will never rest his doctrine upon experiences. No, sir. They’ll never rest their doctrine upon experience. You can have any kind of an experience. But it must be THUS SAITH THE LORD. Right.

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« 52 † Now, in the Old Testament, they had three different ways they can know a message. First, the law, that was just the law. Then, they had a–a prophet; a dreamer; and they had the Urim Thummim. Now that may be a little deep.
53 The Urim Thummim was the breastplate that Aaron wore on his breast. In there was twelve stones: jasper, sardius, carbuncle, so forth, on down. They got all twelve of the big stones, that was in the breastplate, showing that he was the high priest of every tribe, the twelve tribes of Israel. This breastplate hung on a pillar in the church. And when a prophet prophesied, and they wanted to be sure it was right, or not. The prophets or the dreamers stood before this Urim Thummim, and he told his dream or his vision, whatever he had saw. And if the Sacred Light… Oh, do you see it? God always dwelt in the supernatural realm. The conglomeration, those lights, were just normal until this voice went forth. And when the voice struck those stones, if it wasn’t supernatural, she laid dormant. But if it was supernatural, those Lights all reflected the rainbow color together. Amen. Then, that was God speaking, “That is My prophet. That dream came from Me.” It was according to the Urim Thummim that they judged.

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« 54 † Remember Saul when he backslid? He said he couldn’t have a dream. And the prophet, Samuel, was dead, and there was no way. He said, “Even the Urim won’t even speak to me.” Nothing. Saul stood before the Urim, and his words were dead thumps. See? God just refused him. And that Urim Thummim, that was Aaron’s vindication of his priesthood. After Aaron going, Moses… The–the plate hung on the pillar.
55 Now, the Aaronic priesthood ceased when Jesus died. And now, separated law from grace, we still have a Urim Thummim. And Paul was using It. See? The Urim Thummim today is God’s Immortal, Eternal, everlasting Word. See?
56 “For whosoever shall take anything out of this Book, or add anything to It.” I don’t want anything outside of It, but I want all It’s got. That’s the Church we want. And all things must be proven by the Word.
57 That’s the reason I took a flop recently of among the Pentecostal people, because, saying, “I could not understand where oil running out of your hands, or blood out of your face, was a sign you had the Holy Ghost.” That’s not Scriptural and I–I just couldn’t take it. It’s got to come from the Word.

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« 58 † And now, Paul, he just loved the Word. So, before he would ever witness this great experience that he had, he went down in Egypt for three year. I believe it was three years, three years down in Egypt. And you know what I believe he done? I believe that he took the Old Testament, and searched through the Old Testament, and found that That was really the absolute Messiah. He had to prove his experience by the Bible. Amen. Oh, my!
59 Look at him when he was in prison. You notice, there’s a–a space of Paul’s life when he was in prison there for a long time. He wrote the Book of Ephesians. He wrote this Hebrew Letter. See? He had time. God laid him away over there in a prison, and he wrote these Letters to the churches. One to the church of Ephesus. He wrote one to the Pentecostal church, had lots of trouble with them. The Pentecostal church he had more trouble with than anybody else. Still has it. But he was thankful for them. The only thing he could teach them… When they come in: one had a tongue, one had a psalm, one had a sensation, one had a feeling. He couldn’t talk, speak to them, “Eternal security.” He couldn’t speak to them, “predestination.” He couldn’t talk to… They were babies. They all had to–had to feel something, or see something, or have funny feelings, and, or something around them, some evidences.

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« 60 † But I believe, when he spoke to the Ephesians, he could speak on, “God has predestinated us unto sons and daughters, and adopted us as children in Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world.” Look at that. My!
61 Watch him come over in the Book of Romans, and so forth. They were grown-up. Oh, they spoke with tongues, sure, and they had other signs of the Holy Spirit among them. But they didn’t make doctrines, and sensations, and little quivers, and funny feelings.
62 Paul said, “You–you–you go to extremes with that. When you ought to be teaching, you’re still babies and have to have milk.”
63 That’s what I’ve always tried to contend this tabernacle to be, not a bunch of babies. Let’s be grown-up. Stand on the road. Oh, my! There you are.

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« 64 † So, Paul goes down there, first, to see if his experience matched God’s Bible.
65 Oh, wouldn’t it be wonderful, today, if people only done that again, if we made our experience match God’s Bible? If it doesn’t, then our experience is wrong; it don’t flash in the Urim Thummim. If it flashes in There, amen, we got It. But if it doesn’t, some… I don’t care how good it seems, how real it looked like it was right; if those lights didn’t flash on that Urim Thummim, it was wrong.
66 And no matter how much experience you’ve had, how real it seems to be, how presenting it is, how educational it is, what a great tool it is to win souls; if it doesn’t flash in the Word, it’s wrong. Right. It must line up with the Word.

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« 67 † Now, I believe, and there’s a middle of the road. The road, now, a lot of times… I used to go to a Nazarene church. The Lord bless those dear people. Old-fashioned, sanctified Methodists is what they are; church of God, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, and many of those good old holiness churches. And they used to sing a song:
I’m walking in the grand old highway,
Telling everywhere I go,
I’d rather be an old-time Christian, Lord,
Than anything I know.
68 Good. Wonderful. And then they used to talk about the highway of holiness. Now, if you read over that, they get that out of Isaiah, the 35th chapter. Now, if you notice, he said, “There shall be a highway, and a way.”
69 Now, and is a conjunction. See? A highway, it wasn’t a highway of holiness. “It shall be a highway, and a way, and it shall be called, ‘The way of holiness,'” not the highway of holiness. “The way of holiness!” And the way of the road is in the middle of the road. It’s built like this so that the waters will wash off the trash, to both sides, keeping the road clean. You don’t, you have puddles standing in your road, all the time, if it isn’t built right. “The way” is the middle of the road.

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« 70 † Now, on this side, when people get converted, their minds is set right on Christ. And if they’re just a little scholarly, and don’t keep under prayer, they’ll get real cold, and stiff, and starchy, and indifferent. And then if they’re just a little bit nervous, if you don’t watch, they’ll just get radical and wild, on this side, see, they go into sensations and everything.
71 Now, but, the real Church is a real sane Gospel, right in the middle of the road. It’s not cold and starchy, neither is it fanaticism. It’s a real good, old, warm Gospel, heartfelt love of God, going right down the middle of the road, calling from both sides. That’s right. Now that’s what… And how you going to get that, church? Right out of the Word, the Urim Thummim.

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« 72 † Now, Paul wanted to get this church right in the middle of the road, so he went and studied three years on the Scriptures that he knew. Therefore, Paul wrote the bigger part of this New Testament. God had him do that because it’s coming a Gentile age. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the four Gospels, they were Jews. But Paul wrote the most of the letters.
73 Now notice, now, we’re going to start getting this background now, where he’s at, writing It, from prison. And he’s had all this experience. But, first, this experience was first proven, and this is his key letter to it. This is his key letter. Romans and Ephesians, and so forth, have their place, but this is the key letter.

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« 74 † Now, the whole 1st chapter, is, exalting Jesus, and separating Him from being a prophet. That’s the whole theme now. I’ll try to get to it just as quick as can now, so we won’t stay too long. The whole theme, is, separating the new chap-… new… The 1st chapter, is, separating Jesus from any prophet, or any law, or so forth, and showing Who Jesus is. Now look, “God.” We start out, the first word, “God.”
God, at sun-… who at sundry times…
Sundry means that “way back,” back time.
… sundry times and in divers manners spake in the past unto the fathers by the prophets,
75 Now, see, “God, in sundry times, way back, He spoke to the fathers by the prophets.” That’s how He had to give His Message, through His prophet.

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« 76 † God would send His prophet like Elijah, Jeremiah, Isaiah. And if you’ll notice, never in all the history of the world, did ever the church produce a prophet. Search it in the Old Testament, New Testament, or in this day, in the latter day. Show me any prophet was ever raised out of the church in the last day. Show me one ever come up, out. And show me one time that a prophet, a real servant of God, that the ecclesiastical system of the world didn’t condemn him.
77 Just think of it. Jeremiah, Isaiah, all down through the Old Testament, they condemn it. Jesus said, “You garnish the tombs of the prophets and make them white, and you put them in there.” That’s right.
78 The church continues that. Look at Saint Patrick. You Catholic people claim him. He isn’t no more Catholic than I am. That’s right. But you claim him.
79 Look at Saint Francis of Assisi. Claim him. He isn’t no more Catholic than I am.

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« 80 † Look at Joan of Arc. You burnt her to a stake, as a witch, because she saw visions and is spiritual. Burnt her to a stake. And that woman screaming for mercy, and they burnt her to a stake. About a hundred years later, they found out that she was a prophetess. She was a servant of God. Oh, course, you got a big penalty: you dug up the priests’ body and throwed them in the river.
81 “You do garnish the tombs of the prophets, and put them in there.” Right. Never did the ecclesiastical system ever produce a man of God; never did, hasn’t today, and never will. Organized religion has never been God’s theme.

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« 82 † The oldest organized church in the world is the Catholic church; Luther, second; then come Zwingli; after Zwingli, come Calvin; Calvin, on, the Anglican, Anglo-Saxons taking up, then the Anglican church; and King Henry the Eighth, when he protested, and so forth; and on down to the Wesley Methodist, and Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness; and on down to the last, is Pentecostal, all organized. And the Bible plainly teaches that the Catholic church is a–a ill-famed woman, and the Protestant churches and their organizations are her daughters, Revelation 17. That’s exactly right. So they’re…
83 Not the people, now. There is good in all them churches; sainted, saved people. But God doesn’t call His people by an organization. He calls them as individuals. God deals with individuals, whether you’re a Methodist, Baptist, Protestant, and Catholic, or what you are. God, before the foundation of the world, knew you, and predestinated you to Eternal Life, or either you was predestinated to Eternal loss. Not…

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« 84 † He wasn’t willing that you should be perished, you would perish. But, Him being infinite, He had to know the end from the beginning, or He isn’t God. So Jesus never come to earth just to say, “Well, I’ll see if somebody be mercy… If I act and die, in a hard way, they’ll probably think, ‘Well, I… ‘ It’ll–it’ll persuade their hearts, and they’ll…” God don’t run His business like that.
85 Jesus came for one specific purpose, that’s, to save those who God, before the foundation of the world, knew would be saved. He said so. That’s right. So you’re… “It’s not him that willeth, or him that runneth; it’s God that showeth mercy.” Paul said that. Same man here.

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« 86 † He said, “That’s the reason God could say, before Esau or Jacob was either born, He said, ‘I love one and hate the other one.'” Before either boy was born, God knew that Esau was a shyster, and He knew that Jacob was a… he loved his birthright. So He knew, before the world ever was formed, about it. Now, we’re going to find out in a minute Who that was that knew it. This chapter has got it.
God,… in sundry time and in divers manner spoke… to the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,…
Has done what? “Has spoken to us in this last days by His Son.”
87 Now, how would you think then, that, what would be a prophet? Would we have a prophet then of this day? Absolutely. Would He speak by it? Sure. But he that… The prophets of the old day was the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
88 Now, let’s get that straight, ’cause I don’t think it’s soaking in right. Now, this is just like Sunday School, so we want to get this clear. See?

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« 89 † Notice. Let’s take the Spirit of God that was in Moses, perfectly the… is the foreshadow of Jesus Christ. All of the Old Testament characters foreshadow the cross. Moses, born a proper child, hid in the bulrushes, taken away from his parents, so forth, and was… He was a king, or a–a leader, law-giver, intercessor, priest. Everything that he was foreshadowed Christ.
90 Look at Joseph, loved of his father, hated of his brethren, and sold for almost thirty pieces of silver. Throwed into a ditch, supposedly dead; taken out. In his persecution, butler saved, and butcher lost; two thieves at the cross. And then when he come out, he raised up out of that ditch, and was set at the right hand of Pharaoh, the biggest commercial… the–the–the nation who whipped all the rest of the world. And no man could come to Pharaoh except they come through Joseph; Jesus setting at the right hand of God, and no man can come to God except through Christ. And when Joseph left that throne and started out, men went before him, screaming and blowing trumpets, sound the trumpet, saying, “Bow the knee! Joseph is coming.”
91 And when Jesus comes, a trumpet shall sound, and every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess. Yes, sir. There He was.

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« 92 † And when Joseph died, he left a memorial to them who were waiting for deliverance.
93 I put my hand on the old casket, here not long ago, it was made out of lead. And his body was supposed to stay… his bones… Said, “Don’t you bury me here, for someday, God is going to visit you.” He was a prophet. “God is going to visit you.” And said, “When you go up to the promised land, take my bones.”
94 There, an old Hebrew, with a beat back and bloody, could look over in that casket and say, “Someday, we’re going out.”
95 Jesus left a memorial, an empty tomb. Someday when we go over to the grave, and our loved ones, and hear the little old clods, when they say, “Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust, and earth to earth.” But, brother, we can look across the sea, to an empty tomb. Someday, we’re going out of here. We’re going home. He is coming. Everything was typed.

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« 96 † Look at David, rejected by his own people, dethroned by his own people. Being a king of Jerusalem, was drove out of Jerusalem by his own people. And as he went up Mount Olive, he looked back and wept. He was rejected.
97 Eight hundred years from then, the Son of David, King of Jerusalem, set on a hill and wept, because he was rejected.
98 That was the Spirit of Christ in David. All foreshadowed the cross. Them prophets back there spoke in His Name. They lived in His Name. They acted in His Name. Sure. “God in sundry times and divers manners spoke to the fathers through the prophets, but in this last day through His Son.”

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« 99 † So the prophets and spiritual men, this day, is only the reflection of Christ. There, by the law they stood, look. Over here they stand, looking back the other way, through grace.
100 That in the Hebrews 11, the last chapter, I’ve often wondered that. In the last chapter, the last part of the 11th chapter of Hebrews, when he talks about Abraham. The great faith chapter, and at the end, he said, “They wandered about in sheepskins and in goatskins, and was made destitute, and sawed asunder. They wandered about, no place to go, hated, and despised, and persecuted. Of whom, this world isn’t worthy of such people.”
101 Then Paul stands and said, “But without us they’re not perfect.” For they only looked to the cross, and we look through the cross. We have the Spirit of Christ after It become human flesh and dwelt among us. We come here by the Holy Ghost, which is a far better plan.

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« 102 † And sometimes I wonder what Christianity expects today. A preacher going with a tent will have to be… or some new church or some new charge, calls himself a prophet, walks up there, say, “Well, if they’ll give me so much money. If I can have the best car. If they’ll… If my salary will be raised every six months.”
103 We have to have the best. We have to have the best homes. We have to have the best clothes. What will we do when we stand in the presence of those men who wandered, in goat skins and sheep skins, no place to lay their heads, wandering about in deserts? And somebody can make fun of us and we’re ready to quit church and not go back anymore. What Christianity requires today. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves.
O God, be merciful to us.

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« 104 † In that day, He spoke by the prophets, but this day through His Son. That was the word of a prophet, there. This is the Word of the Son, today. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord!
105 In other words, if you’re looking at the shadow, the negative, you might make a mistake. But This is developed, the picture is clear. That was by the prophet; this is by His Son. That was by a negative; this is by a positive. Amen. You see it? There isn’t a chance to lose. It’s a positive thing, this day through His Son. Oh, how wonderful!
… whom he has appointed heir… (oh, my)… heir of all things,…

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« 106 † What was it? It was an appointment. Oh, listen. He was appointed, Christ was, heir of all things. Oh, the Devil knowed that, from the garden of Eden, you see, when the Devil heard that Word there that day, in the judgment of those people. Said, “Because you come from the dust; dust you’ll return; and the woman’s Seed shall bruise the serpent’s head.” A promised Seed.
107 Satan constantly watched for that Seed. When Abel was born, he said, “There you are, that’s the seed.” And he killed Abel. His son, Cain, killed Abel. And as soon as Abel died, he said, “I got the seed.” He slew it. He said, “I got it.” But, Abel’s death, Seth’s birth was the resurrection again. Watch how they come down.

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« 108 † That line of Seth, it come down, a humble, righteous man; on down through Enoch; on down to Noah, to the end of the antediluvian destruction.
109 Look at Cain’s line, become smart people, educated, science. Don’t the Bible say… Did not Jesus say, that, “The children of this world are wiser than the Children of the Kingdom”? Look at the side of Cain yet today: smart, educated, skeptic, very religious; see, very religious, but scientists, builders, great men.
110 Take great men. Look at Thomas Edison, many great men. Look at Einstein, the brains of the world, so-called, today, the brains of the world. But we don’t try to use brains. We let the Mind that was in Christ be in us, and look to this Word, and call that so.
111 Medical doctors, though we salute them with whatever we have, but the most of those are skeptics, agnostic. Look at the smart, intelligent people today. They’re on that side over there, the Cain side.

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« 112 † But look at the humble and meek. There is your resurrection again. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord. There you are. Notice.
… he made him heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Who made the worlds? Christ. “Christ made the worlds?” Yes, sir. Let’s go just a little further.
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his presence,…
The brightness of whose glory? God’s glory. The express image of Whose Presence? God’s. Oh, I love this!
… or express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word…
There you are. The Word, that upholds all things. Jesus said, in Matthew 24, “Heavens and earth will pass away, but my Words shall never pass away.” He upholds all things.
113 Science tries to down It, and say, “It’s an old Book. It’s been translated.”
114 Even the Roman Catholic church, Bishop Sheen said, “That’s been translated four or five different times, and not much to It. You couldn’t live by It if you had to.” But He upholds all things by His Word. Amen. That’s what I think about It. I believe the Bible.
… the word of his power, (there’s power in the word), when he had by himself purged our sins,… (looky here)… set down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

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« 115 † What is Paul trying to do? He is trying to show that God purposed all things in Christ, and Christ was the express image of God. The entire rest of the chapter deals with how that He was higher than Angels, higher than all powers. Angels worshipped Him. Paul was trying to magnify Him.
116 Now, I want to try, if I don’t get any further than this, the rest of it is just magnifying Christ. What Paul says over here, like in the 11th chapter, and all about talking about the world. He said, “What–what Angel did He say, ‘Thou art My Son, this day I have begotten Thee’?” See?
117 “The end of the world, they shall perish. The world shall perish. But the… And all the things of the world shall perish. He would fold them up like a vesture. They’d be old, and turned, and go away. ‘But Thou remaineth. Thou remaineth forever. Thou art My Son. This day I have begotten Thee, and will never perish, setting at the right hand of the Majesty.'”
What does right hand mean? Not, God has got a right hand that somebody is setting on it. Right hand means the “power and authority,” got the authority of everything in Heaven and earth. And all the Heavens and earth is made by Him.

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« 118 † Now, Who is this great Guy, this great Fellow? Christ. Here, God in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, it’s not… It’s a trinity, but It’s not a trinity of people. It’s a trinity of office, of one God.
119 He was the Father leading the children of Israel. That was His office, the great Jehovah Father. And He dwelt on earth, called the Son. And now He dwells in His Church, called the Holy Ghost. Not three Gods; one God in three offices: Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
People try to make Him three different Gods, God the Father. That’s the reason, Jews, you could never… You’ll never bring this to a Jew, no, that there. He can’t. He’s got a commandment, that, “I’m One God.” There’s only one God.

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« 120 † In Africa they baptize three different ways: they baptize once for the Father, and once for the Son, and once for the Holy Ghost. The Apostolic Faith mission, they baptize three times, face forward, to His death. What they call the Full Gospel on the West Coast, or the East Coast, baptize three times backward, said He… unto His burial.
And he said, “When He died, He fell forward.”
121 Another said, “Wait. You bury a man on his back.” Just little old technique things, when, they’re both wrong; both wrong, according to the Scripture.
This is the Urim Thummim. It settles it.

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« 122 † Now, here, let’s just picture that out and see what–what it looks like, tonight. Here it is, if you want to see it. In all of about twenty-five years I’ve been a minister. I’ve studied that. And I’ve often wondered at gifts in the church. What is those gifts? Prophecy, speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongues, Divine revelation, so forth, that all comes through Christ.
123 Now look. Christ is the Head of all things. And He’s the Head of the Church. And did you ever see a big diamond? A great big diamond that is chipped right, it’s got little chips knocked off of it, chipped off of it. That makes a correct diamond. What’s the chips for? The real diamond, the way it comes out, it’s been bruised; the real diamond, when it’s found.
I was in Kimberly. You, many of you, that’s heard you can pick up diamonds on the street, that’s correct. Billy and I, and Mr. Bosworth. The president of the Kimberly diamond mines, take… He was my usher in the meeting there. And they taken us over. And just out of… They mine them about, oh, about seventeen hundred feet under the earth. They come out, a blue stone, big blue, like this bluestone you get around here. And those natives, they put them seventeen hundred feet in the ground, to mine them, to keep the price up. You’d go on the river there, they got it guarded for hundreds of miles. Take two ten-gallon buckets, he said, and pick it up, full of–of sand, and if you could get home with it, you’d be a multimillionaire, there’d be so many diamonds in it. But they have to work and mine them, to keep the price up on them.

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« 124 † Now, the diamond, when it comes forth, it’s just a big, smooth, round, like, piece of glass. There’s a blue diamond, black diamond, emerald, and a clear diamond, white diamond. But when it come forth… Then when it’s made and put into use, there’s a part of that diamond has to lose. And it has to lose the–the chips off of it. Knock little chips, because, when it comes in direct light, like that, it makes a sparkle. The chip, what makes the sparkle, the way it’s cut. It’s cut, chipped, and then, when it does, it makes a sparkle. And one will go a green light, the other one will go a blue light, and maybe another, emerald light, and red light. And different lights go from it, like a rainbow color. They call it, “fire in the diamond.”
125 Now, each one of those lights represents gifts. But it’s, only, Christ is the Diamond. And He was the One Who came, and was bruised, and wounded, and chipped, that He might reflect Himself back as a Light to the world. He’s that Master Diamond.

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« 126 † Could you imagine, before there even was an earth, before there was a light, before there was a star, before there was anything? There’s a Great Fountain going forth, of Spirit, and out of this Fountain came the most pure of love, ’cause there was nothing for it to come from that but love. Now, we, what we call love, today, is a perverted love. But just as we get an essence, or a little bit of that love in us, it changes our whole opinion.
127 Then out of there come another stream, off this main Fountain, the Diamond, and it was called righteousness, absolutely righteousness. Now, that’s the reason we had to have law. That’s the reason law has to have judgment. If no judgment doesn’t follow law, law doesn’t do no good. And when judgment was passed by law, which brings death, and there’s no one who could pay the penalty but God Himself. And He paid the penalty of our death, and took our sins upon Him, that we might be the righteousness of God through Him.
128 Now, when these great Lights went out, or great rays of Spirit: love, peace, that’s all there was, That. There wasn’t no suffering. There wasn’t no–no hate, nor no malice; it couldn’t come from this Fountain. That was Jehovah. That was Jehovah God. And now, as the theologians call it, a theophany went from That, which was called, in the Scriptural, the “Logos,” the Logos that went out of God. It’s hard to explain, but It was a part of God.

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« 129 † Now, here is what happened. Oh, excuse me. I–I–I just get on this, this just gets me right where I love it. See? The Logos, and this great Fountain, this great Fountain of Spirit which had no beginning or no end; this great Spirit began to form, in the creation, and the Logos that went out from It was the Son of God. It was the only visible form that the Spirit had. And It was a theophany, which means a body, and the body was like a man.
130 Moses saw It when It passed through the… by–by the rock. And he looked at It, said, “It looked like the hind part of a man.”
It’s the same type of body that we receive when we die here. “If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting.” That was It. And that was the theophany which was the Son of God. That Son, that Logos, became flesh, because we were put in flesh. And the theophany, the Logos, became flesh, here among us, and It was nothing else but the dwelling place, for that entire Fountain dwelt in Him. Oh, do you see it? There It is. That was the One, that, in…

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« 131 † Looky here. Let’s turn now right quick to Hebrews, the 7th chapter, just for a moment of–of grace, God being willing. Let’s see what it looks like here. Abraham!
How much time we got? We got ten minutes. All right. We catch this, then we finish it up next, next, or Sunday, Lord willing.
132 Abraham was returning from the slaughter of the king.
For this Melchisedec, king of Salem,…
How many knows where, who, what Salem was? Jerusalem.
… king of Salem, prince of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
Listen.
To whom also Abraham give a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation the King of righteousness,… after that also the King of Salem, which is, the King of peace;
Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor ending of life;…

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« 133 † A King come down from Salem, and met Abraham coming from the slaughter of the kings. And this King didn’t have no father, had no mother, had no beginning of days or ending of Life. Who did Abraham meet? Now think. He didn’t have no father; He didn’t have no mother. He never had a time that He began, and He never has a time when He will end, so that same King of Salem has to be living today. Amen. You see it? It was that theophany that was that Son of God. What Salem? That Jerusalem which is Above, that Abraham, being blessed, was searching, find, trying to find the City whose Builder and Maker was God. He wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, everywhere, destitute, wandering, and was seeking a City whose Builder and Maker was God. And he met the King of that Salem, coming down, and he paid Him a tenth of all the spoils. Amen. That’s Him. Oh, Brother Graham, that was Him. That was Him.
Abraham seen Him again. One day he was setting in the tent. He looked, coming up there, and he seen three men coming.

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« 134 † You know, there’s just something about a Christian, that he knows Spirit when he sees It. When he… He just knows it. There’s just something Spiritual about it. Spiritual things are Spiritually discerned. You know. Yeah, he can just tell it, if he’s really born. “My sheep know My Voice.”
135 And he just knew there was something. He run out. He said, “Come in, my Lord. Sit down. Stop a little bit. I’ll get a morsel of bread and put in Your hand. I’ll wash Your feet. Rest Yourself, then go on about Your journey, for You–You’ve come to visit me.” Up in the barren land, taking the hard way, the way with the Lord’s despised few.
While, Lot was living in riches, the nephew down there, but he was living in sin. That’s what most riches-ness produces is sin.

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« 136 † So Abraham brought them up, while he got a little water and washed Their feet. He run out into the calf, and got a fat calf into the herd, and killed it; give it to a servant, to dress. And said, “Sarah, knead your meal.”
You know what kneading, it is, means. You know, mom used to have an old, kind of like a wedge, she had in the–the meal barrel. Did you ever see one of them with a sifter? And you had a wedge in there, you raked the meal, you know; and get heavy like that, and rake it through, like. I’ve seen mama do it, many times, the wedge, have a little round thing that’s got a little screen wire on it. She’d get that meal up and sift it like that, you know, and pat it back and forth, like that. Then take the wedge and rake it around, like that, to get it all down. And that’s when we have to go down and get our meal ground at the old grist mill; and big old burrs, you know, heavy, made real corn bread. You could saw logs all day, on it.

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« 137 † So then, said, “Knead some meal, right quick. And make some hoecakes right here on the hearth, right quick.” And they milked the cow and got some milk. And they got, churned it, and got some butter. And then they went and killed the calf and got some meat, and they fried the meat. Got the butter milk, corn bread, and they got some butter to put on the hot hoecakes. Oh, that’s really good. And they smeared it all on there. And he took it out, and set it down to these three Men.
138 And while They were eating, They kept looking toward Sodom. And after while, They got up and started walking away. And said, Abraham, said, “You won’t keep it from me.”
139 “I can’t keep from you what I’m going to do. I’m going down there. The sins of Sodom has come in My ear.”
Who was the Man? Dust all over His clothes, and setting there eating the flesh of a calf, and drinking the cow’s milk, and eating some hoecake corn bread, and some butter. Who is this strange Fellow? Two, or three of Them, setting there. Dust all over His clothes. Oh, yeah, “We’re from a far Country.” Yeah, way away. And so He said… Well, Who were They?

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« 140 † He said, “I can’t keep from Abraham, seeing that he’s the heir of the earth.” Amen. “I reveal My secrets,” other words, “to those who are heir of the earth.” That’s where the Church ought to be today. That’s right. Get the Secrets of God, know how to hold yourself, and act, and what to do, and how to walk, and how to live. We’re the heir of the earth. Right. He reveals It to you, ’cause He won’t keep nothing back. That’s why we’re watching these things come to pass.
The world say, “Ah, that’s a bunch of fanaticism.” Let them say it. The heir of the earth knows these things. [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]
… for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they that are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
He makes His secrets known to them, reveals it to them, showing them what to do and how to live, forsaking the things of the world; walking godly and living godly, in this present world, walking along with Him. Let the world say what they want to.

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« 141 † So He said, “I can’t keep this secret from Abraham, because, seeing he’s the heir of the earth. But,” He said, “I’m going down to destroy Sodom. I’m going down.”
142 “What are you going to do, Mister? Where You from? What’s it all about?”
143 Come to find out, He said, “And another thing, Abraham, you’ve waited twenty-five years for this promise I give you. You done got all the birdeye up, the–the pins and everything, for this baby, twenty-five years ago. You still been waiting on Me. Now I’m going to visit you, just about the time of life, according, time of life, next month I’ll be with you.”
144 And Sarah, back in the tent. And this Man had His back turned to the tent, talking to Abraham, like this. And Sarah went, “Huh!”
145 He said, “What made Sarah laugh?” Ho-ho-ho! How about that? That was quite a telepathy, wasn’t it? “What made Sarah laugh?”
Sarah said, “No. I never laughed.”
146 Said, “Oh, yes, you did.” She was scared. She was trembling. Who was That, to know what she was doing back in the tent? That’s That same God that’s with us today. Same One. He knows all about it. See? He just reveals it as you have need. See?
147 “What you laugh about?” See, His back turned to it. The Bible stated that, that, “His back was turned to the tent.” But, He knew it. “What’s she, back there, doing this, you see?”
So, He said, “I’m going to visit you.”
148 Who is this strange Fellow? You know what happened? He walked right out there and vanished. And the Bible said that That was Almighty God, Jehovah, that great Fountain, that Theophany, that Logos.

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« 149 † Some preacher said to me, some time ago, said, “Brother Branham, you wouldn’t actually think that was God, would you?”
150 I said, “The Bible said It was God, Elohim.” Which, He was Almighty God, the El Shaddai, that’s right, the Strength-Giver, the Satisfier. Amen.
151 Oh, I feel religious! Think of it, here, as He is now. I’m going to show you Who He is here, then you’ll see Who the Son is. That was Jesus, before He had the human Name, “Jesus.”
152 Stood there at the fountain that day. And they was all drinking, you know, and, “Having the waters was in the wilderness,” and things like that. He said, “They was eating the manna.” Said, he said, “Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness, for forty years.”
153 He said, “And they’re, every one, dead.” Said, “I am the Bread of Life that come from God, out of Heaven. He that eats this Bread shall never die.”
154 Said, “Well, our fathers drank from the Spirit, from a spiritual Rock that was in the wilderness, that followed them.”
155 He said, “I am that Rock.” Glory! Saint John, the 6th chapter.
“Why,” they said, “what?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
156 “Why,” he said, “You are… You’re not even fifty years old.” Course, His work made Him look a little old, but He was only thirty. Said, “You’re a man not over fifty years old, and You say You seen Abraham, that’s been dead for eight or nine hundred years? We know now that You’re a devil.”
157 He said, “Before Abraham was, I AM.” There He is. Who was the I AM? A perpetual Name for all generation. That was the… that Pillar of Fire in the burning bush, “I AM THAT I AM.” There He was, that Theophany met here, called the Son of God, the I AM, the Jehovah.

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« 158 † Thomas said, “Lord, show us the Father. It’ll satisfy us.”
159 Said, “I been so long with you, you don’t know Me?” Said, “When you see Me, you see the Father. Why say, ‘Show us, Thou, the Father’? I and the Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me. I’m just a tabernacle called the Son. The Father dwells in Me. Not Me that doeth the works, it’s My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works, not Me”
160 Now, standing back there, again, Moses seen Him, the hind part of Him, said, “Looked like the back of a man,” the Logos that went from God.
161 Then what happened? This was God. And the reason He had become from Logos to flesh… What? How do you… What happened to that? Five minutes before that, He was a… He was the Logos. But what did He do? He just reached over…

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« 162 † Now, our bodies are made out of sixteen different elements of the world. We know that. It’s made out of potash, and–and a–and a little calcium, and–and petroleum, and cosmic light, and atoms, and so forth. All bundled together, and makes this body, comes from the dust of the earth. You eat food. As you eat the food, that turns into… from the dust, and it come from the dust, and it just–just goes right on. Your flesh, as far as your flesh, is no different from a horse, or from a cow, or anything else. It’s still just flesh.
163 And, boy, you glorify the flesh; but that spirit has a soul in there, my brother. That’s right. But your flesh is just dust of the earth, like the animal. Your flesh is no more than an animal. And if you lust after the flesh and the thing you see, lust after women, lust after all these different things, it’s still animal. That’s right. That’s right. You shouldn’t do it. The Spirit of God will lead you on and put you on a higher plain than that. That’s exactly right.

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« 164 † Now, and here, this great Theophany standing there. What? That great Jehovah God, you know what He said? He just reached over and got a handful of atoms, got a little light, and poured it in him like this, went, “Whew,” a body, and just stepped right into it. That’s all.
165 Said, “Come here, Gabriel,” that great Archangel. Went, “Whew.” “Step in that.”
166 “Come here, Michael,” the Angel at His right side. “Whew.” For the… “You step in that.”
167 God, and two Angels, walked down here in human flesh, and drank the milk from a cow, eat the butter out of the milk, and eat some corn bread, and eat the flesh of the calf. Two Angels and God. The Bible said so. That’s Melchisedec, that Abraham met, coming from the slaughter of the kings. That’s the Son of God.

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« 168 † Go ahead, here in the Hebrews, the 7th, said, “But made in the order of like unto the Son of God.” There He is. He made all things by Him. And He walked right out there, and just changed that dust right back to dust again, and stepped right back into Glory.
169 And the Angels, as soon as They delivered Lot and Mrs. Lot, and she kept looking back. He said, told them not to do it again. And They stepped right back into in to–to the Presence of God.
170 Now, what a great hope we have, this great Faith that we serve tonight! The living God, the Jehovah, the Pillar of Fire, is with us. Shows Himself in power, and action, and magnify. Let them take the Picture of Him, the same Jehovah. The Son of God that came from God, went back to God, and dwells in His Church forevermore. There He is.

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« 171 † He has our names on His Book, with a sworn oath by Himself, for there’s no one greater He can swear by, that He’ll raise us up in the last day. “He that eats My Flesh, and drinks My Blood, has everlasting Life, and I’ll raise Him up at the last day. He that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out. He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting Life, and shall never come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto Life.”
172 That same One could just reach and grab a handful of calcium and potash, go, “Whew,” and there you are again. And my name is on His Book. Oh! Oh! Oh! What do I care how stooped my shoulders are getting, how old I get? Certainly not. Not a bit of worry.

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« 173 † Brother Mike, one of these days, bless your heart, brother, when that great trumpet will come, that sound, and that Joseph will step forth. Hallelujah! He will say, “Children!” “Whew.” There you’ll be, made in His likeness; young forever, old age is passed away; sickness, troubles, sorrows has vanished. Glory be to the living God!
174 That’s Who He speaks through, today, His Son. “In sundry times and divers manner He spoke through the prophet, but in this last day through His Son, Christ Jesus.” He speaks to every man’s heart that He has called. If you’ve ever felt His Voice or heard Him knock at your heart, please don’t turn It away.
Let us pray.

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« 175 † Heavenly Father, tonight, as we’re so happy to know, at the opening of this Hebrew Letter, how Paul went right back into the Gospels. He just wouldn’t take it upon a hearsay or upon an experience. He wanted us to know what was Truth. And he went right back into the Gospels, and he… back into the Old Testament, the Gospel that was preached to them. And he seen, through the Old Testament there, all the shadows and types. That’s why we got this great Book of the Hebrews tonight. And we see It, Lord, and we love It. And through ages, It’s been burned, It’s been scattered, It’s been tried to be done away with, but She waves on just the same. For Thou hast said, “Heavens and earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not.”
176 Then the skeptic would say, “Well, you said, ‘Paul wrote this.'” Not Paul, but God that was in Paul; that creative Being that was inside of Paul.
177 Just like was in David, when he said, “I’ll not suffer my Holy One to see corruption, neither will I leave His soul in hell.” And the Son of God taken those Words from that prophet, and went right into the bosoms of hell. And said, “Tear down this tabernacle, and I’ll raise It up in three days.” And He did it, because God’s Word can’t fail. One iota can’t fail. How we thank God for this, this great Urim Thummim, and to know that our experiences tonight, Lord, flashes right on this Bible here! We’re born again, have the Holy Spirit.

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« 178 † Dear God, if there be a man or woman in here tonight, boy or girl, who has never witnessed this, how could they raise up if there’s no Life in there? Oh, they say, “I have Life.”
179 But the Bible said, “She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she is alive.” You say you have Life, but you’re dead. “You claim,” said the Bible, “that you have Life, but you’re dead. Thou say you are rich and have need of nothing; but not know that you’re miserable, and poor, and naked, and blind, and don’t know it.” And that is the condition of the churches tonight, Lord. How they miss these great, valuable things.
To know that the great Jehovah God, Who can only produce by… He said, “Bring me those little fish.” He had to take the fish to–to make something with it. Showing, that the resurrection had to be something, to do something with. He not only made fish, but he made cooked fish; He cooked bread. And He fed five thousand with five little fish, little loaves and two fishes. O Lord, it was in His hands, and He was the Creator. But He had to have something in His hand.
God, may we lay ourselves in His hands, tonight, and say, “O God, take me as I am. And when the end of my life is here, let me go with this hope that was within me, knowing I been born again, and Your Spirit has bore record with me, and witnessed with my spirit, that I’m Your Son, or Your Daughter.” And at that last day, You’ll raise them up. Grant it, Father.

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« 180 † And while we have our heads bowed, would there be one would raise your hand, say, “Remember me, Brother Branham, in prayer. I want God to know me when… ‘fore I leave this earth, that He will know me so much that He will call my name. I’ll answer.” The Lord bless you son. God bless you, and you; and you, lady. Someone else? Just raise your hand. Say, “Pray for me, Brother Branham.” That’s what we’ll do. God bless you, young lady. That’s good.
181 Now, while your head is bowed, praying, I’m going to sing a verse of this song.
Covet not this world’s vain riches,
That so rapidly decay,
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
They will never pass away.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.

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« 182 † While she is playing now, and your head bowed, will you just reach your hand up, say, “Yes, Lord, here is mine”? What will it do? It’ll show your spirit, in you, made a decision. “I want your hand, Lord.” God bless you, little girlie. “I’ll raise my hand.” God bless you, little girl, down here. That’s fine, honey. God, you know, is happy to see you do that. “Suffer the little children to come to me.”
183 “I want, God, You to hold my hand. And at that day, I want to be in Your hand; that, when You call, I’ll come.” Yes, like Lazarus was. God bless you, sister.
When our journey is completed,
If to God you have been true,
Fair and bright your home in Glory,
Your enraptured soul shall view.
What will you do now, then?
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.

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« 184 † Heavenly Father, several hands went up, in this little meeting, tonight, that they want to take a hold, tonight, of Your unchanging, Eternal hand. Knowing that what is committed to You… You said, “I… All the Father has given Me will come to Me, and none of them will be lost. And I’ll raise them up at the last day. Can never perish, can never come to judgment, but has Eternal, Eternal Life.” And there’s only one Eternal Life. That comes from God, alone. It is God. And we become part of God, so much that we’re sons and daughters of God. When we have God’s Spirit in us, we think like God. We think of righteousness and holiness, and we try to live to please Him.
185 Grant, Lord, that that type of Life will enter every person that raised their hand. And those who should have raised their hands, and did not, I pray that You’ll be with them. Grant it, Father. And when journey is ended, life is finished, may we enter into peace at that day, with Him, where we’ll never be old, never be sick, never be no trouble. Until then, keep us joyful and happy, praising Him, for we ask it in His Name. Amen.

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« 186 † All you believers, now, let’s just raise our hands and sing that chorus.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Now let’s hum it. [Brother Branham begins humming Hold To God’s Unchanging Hand–Ed.]
187 While you’re doing that, your neighbor; you say, “God bless you, neighbor.” Shake hands with somebody setting next to you. “God bless you.” On both sides now. On both sides, shake hands. “God bless you, neighbor. God be with you.” Build your hopes on things Eternal.
Doc, I know it’s there, brother. I know you’ve been there, Brother Neville, long ago.
When this journey is completed,
Going to happen, one of these days.
If to God we have been true,
We’ll see Brother Seward there.
Bright and bright, your home in Glory,
Your enraptured soul shall view.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
I like that worship, after the message.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Time is filled with swift transition,
Naught of earth unmoved shall stand,
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold…
Let us catch a view of Him, that unseen One in the midst now, and just worship Him now as we sing.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Peace! Peace! Wonderful peace,
Just worship Him now.
Coming down…
The message is over. It’s worship.
Sweep over our spirit forever, I pray,
In the fathomless billows of love.
Just bathe in Him.
Peace! Peace! Wonderful peace,
Coming down from…
That great Fountain, It’s opening up.
… above;
Sweep over our spirit forever, I pray,
In the fathomless billows of love.
Doesn’t that just do something?
Wonderful peace,
Coming down from our Father Above;
Sweep over our spirit forever, I pray,
In the fathomless billows of love.
Isn’t there something about It, just rich and sweet?

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« 188 † And wonder if there’s a sick person wants to be anointed and prayed for. If there is, just find your place. This is the lady in the wheel chair there? Just let her remain. I’ll come, pray for her. She won’t have to get up from the chair. Another? All right.
Oh, don’t you just love this part of the service? How many feel, just know that the Presence of God is here? That’s what I talk about. That same… You just feel like… How many feels like you could just scream out? Now let’s just see. Just feels like something, you could, wants to scream out. See?
It’s peace! Peace! Wonderful peace,
Coming down from the Father Above;
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray,
In the fathomless billows of love.
Shine on me,
189 While we’re in worship, we’re going to anoint the sick now, and pray for them. Won’t you come right this way, lady?
190 What does this mean? “The prayer of faith shall save the sick.” Everybody in prayer now, just hum that song. Think of Jesus healing the sick. Anoint her in oil. `

–Rev. William Marrion Branham
–copied from The Table Software, available from VGR