Godhead #9

Words and God Word; God Is Living Word

Be Transfigured Through Your Mind

April 1, 2000

Heavenly Father we recall Bro. Branham saying to the people many times, “I feel a welcoming spirit in this building,” and it meant so much to him to know that he was received so the ministry could be received, and You, Lord, could be glorified. And we trust tonight, Heavenly Father, that we have a welcoming spirit toward You, and also, not just a welcoming spirit which so many people would be so happy to have You there, but a believing spirit, Lord, where we receive You exactly as You are, the living Word; exactly the One You are and none other so that we worship You in spirit and in truth—we that people definitely separated unto You who do worship You in spirit and in truth, the apple of Your eye. We trust we are a part of that Bride, a part of Zion, ready to take our place with those who have gone before. And we’re glad, Lord, that we have grounds to stand on—vindication, that we believe as others around us cannot believe, not that we exclude anybody, Lord, for we have no right excluding anybody, because all that have been given to Jesus will come unto him, and unto You through him and none will be lost. And so we’re just taking our place with those who are believers and in the Bride. And we would give You glory tonight in Jesus’ Name. Amen. You may be seated.

1. Now before we get into a message here on “Godhead,” I want to… Maybe you have read this: it’s either the Newsweek or the US News & World Report. But in there, they had a large article on Jesus because of the pope’s visit to Jerusalem. And of course, it was a travesty, a mockery. They paid a lot of money to repave the ascent to Golgotha, so he’d just feel a few bumps, you know. And anyway, it was a shame.

But in there they had a Rabbi, and they asked him about Jesus, and he said, “Well,” he said, “if I met Jesus, we’d just have a little conversation, and I’d say, ‘Well, you know, Jesus, you can go your way and have your thoughts and your dreams and your visions and what you feel and this and that and the other, but I have the Torah.’” After 2000 years the serpent seed hasn’t changed one iota. “We have Moses and the prophets,” said they to Jesus. And he said, “Search and see, for in them you think you have eternal life, and they are they that testify of me.” But they wouldn’t do it.

And they forgot it was their fathers who said to Moses, “Moses, listen. You go up there to God, and you tell God, ‘Don’t You ever face us again. We don’t want to face God. We don’t want to hear God. We don’t want to have anything to do with Him. You go up there, and you have everything to do with God, Moses; and then you have everything to do with us. You be the mediator, and that’ll be fine.’” And God said, “They have well spoken, that’s exactly how it will be.” And then He added Numbers 12, and He said, “When I speak to a prophet, I speak to him in visions and signs.” But, He said, “My servant Moses is not so; I speak to him even apparently.” In other words face-to-face, so that Moses would know that God was absolutely there.

2. See? They’ve got the same spirit. Now listen to me. Let’s get this—and I’ve said it before. Let’s just say there were 4,000,000 people in Israel at that time. How many were not serpent seed? He said, “You are of your father the devil.” They were serpent seed. Do you think out of, maybe… I believe there’s about 15 million Jews today. I can’t believe there’s any less. There might be six million; but, oh brother, I still can’t believe there’s hardly less than just millions and millions. Has it changed? No. One hundred and forty-four thousand will be born into the kingdom in one day. And if there are six million, nine million, fifteen million, if they are outside the ark of safety, and 144,000 in it, there’s no more, and no less. See. God is meticulous. When He said 144,000, twelve from each tribe, He meant It exactly as He said.

3. So you see, you’ve got the same today spirit again, but I’m not going to fault the Jews. I’m not worried about them because, as Bro. Branham said, “God was obligated to do for the Gentiles what He did for the Jews.” And the ministry of Christ returned to this Earth, through the Holy Ghost, by the Holy Ghost, working through a prophet; the Gentiles crucified to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame. And what does it mean now? There’s not one of them that can repent. The Trinitarians will go on being Trinitarians; Jesus-Only, Jesus-Only; Hindus, Hindus; Taos, Taos; Muslims, Muslims.

4. And if 6,000,000,000 [six billion] people… Let’s get this flat, and I say it to all the Branhamites that get this tape: don’t try to change me and suggest by your figuring that out of 6,000,000,000 people, 5,999,999,992 will be in the ark and eight people outside. If Bro. Branham said, “they say there are ten thousand that believe this message—too many—got to shake them off.” Bro. Branham’s vindicated. I don’t stand with vindication just to be a mean person. I’m not interested in being mean. It’s not going to get me anywhere. I’ve learned that what I sow, I reap. Leave things to the Lord.

5. Vindication. No one but us has vindication. I speak of the Bride now, because the rest don’t believe in vindication. You say, “Oh, Bro. Vayle, they’re dying such beautiful deaths, and they’re so happy in the Lord.” Well, if the devil led you astray and made you happy, that’s all right by me. I mean, I’m not going to fuss about it. No, no. Vindication, brother. Yeah, V-I, and I am there, in the V-I-N, put an ‘e’ on it, and that’s the vine. I’m in the vine, and the vine’s vindicated.

6. Now the other day, I was picking up one of my articles. I think it was the same magazine. And in there they were talking about this dear saintly old pope, just about ready to die or resign. One way or another, he’d be taken off of this world or he’d resign, and they were mulling over who would be perhaps a contender amongst the cardinals. And they said though Cardinal Law of Boston had been a favorite, he was now so ill that there was hardly any chance that he would be the pope. So here’s an article that Denis’ sister sent up to me from “The National Examiner”. I haven’t read one of those for a long, long time. It’s not as authentic a paper as some; but, on the other hand, this man would certainly have access to anybody in Chicago whether he is low in the hierarchy or very high in the hierarchy. Now about the highest you get are the cardinals. They’re above the bishops and archbishops.

7. Now here’s what this man, Bob Cane, says, “Vatican City.” “Whispers are awaiting around the Vatican that Pope John Paul…” or rather “Whispers are swirling around the Vatican; they’re waiting for the smoke to come up the chimney. Pope John Paul II will soon resign and be replaced by a headstrong American priest from Chicago. Insiders say Cardinal Francis George, 63, is the top candidate to take over as head of the Catholic Church. He is the shining light of the American cardinals, said John Allen, Vatican editor of the National Catholic Reporter, tells the Examiner. See, this guys gone to the horse’s mouth and he’s got some stuff. He’s an intellectual who is very well liked by the College of Cardinals. He is the one to watch. Although the retiring pope officially is silent on any successor, Vatican insiders say George, who has written most Vatican documents during John Paul II’s reign, is the Pontiff’s personal choice. The rumors have sent ultra-conservative Catholics reeling. It’ll be the first time in 704 years, and only the second time in history, that a pope has resigned. Sources say the aging Pontiff is suffering grave health problems and written a letter of resignation, which would be issued, should he become incapacitated.” Of course, you know, he also has Parkinson’s disease.

8. “Secondly, the choice of successors is shocking. Cardinal George takes boldness to a new level by publicly referring to God as ‘her’, and he’s not apologetic about it. Now why would this not be a minus in the sight of the pope? Because he is all for Marianna, everything is Marianna, everything is Mary. In fact, Mary is co-redemptrix, and it would be nothing at all to go the full length of the Gnostics who, in the time of Paul, said, “A voice from heaven, a female voice, shouted and uttered down and said, ‘Shut up, I’m the one that created you and gave you your position.’” So it wouldn’t be at all unlikely that this man could be rejected by calling God a female” on the very grounds that what would be the difference if you called God female or you put Mary along side of God or Jesus there as redeemer?

9. “By calling God ‘her’,” he says, “women have some kind of representation in the divinity.” You know … See, that’s the same kind of junk that you got from down in Florida, where they’re making a female Holy Spirit. Where do you get that the Spirit of God is either male or female concerning sexuality? He’s life. In the resurrection there is neither male nor female, and the created part, the spirit of Adam and Eve, were male and female. But when God breathed into Adam the breath of lives, they were already separated as to being male and female. And this was the life of God coming into them, making them the children of God. And God is referred to as a male. Because why? The life is in the male.

10. “Women ordained as priests, say the experts, may not be too far fetched and it may happen sooner than you think. Lack of enough males who answer the call to the Vatican has forced many churches to go without priests and name a woman as their spiritual administrator. Although Pope John II wrote a general letter in ’94 banning further talk of the matter, many religious females” (yeah – religious females – you know, the Venus’ and the rest of them) “are hoping the new regime will overturn the decision. If present trends continue, the chances are that their spiritual director would be a woman are 70%, says Emory University Provost Rebecca Chop.” Today, half the Christian religious branches, plus reformed and conservative Judaism, ordain women. That’s true. Where do they get it? But you can’t, you know, more or less feel that Judaism has gone off track in the sense that it just now went off track. It has been off track since they went into Babylon. Remember they went into Babylon with a temple, priesthood, and the Torah. They came out with the synagogue, a rabbinical order, and a Talmud. Right. So you know, it had to happen. If I had a bunch of snakes in a pit, and they’re all mating, you know, I wouldn’t be surprised if we had a bunch of cross-eyed snakes and heaven knows what in there.

11. And George may be the one to make the mind-boggling change for the Catholics. Actually, listen. Let’s face it. This is the Catholic spirit of the congregation. Do you know the spirit of the hierarchy, or the elders, the pastors, or what have you, gets on the people. But many times, there comes a time when a Democratic spirit rises amongst the people, and then they throw off the spirit of whoever’s in charge. So, how many women in the Catholic Church don’t practice birth control and don’t have abortions when they really want them? Now, they’ll say, “Popey, old boy, we really think you’re the voice of God, but, in this case, you sure ain’t. Because we’re the voice of humanity and what we like, and we’re going to practice birth control and have abortions if we see fit, so just drop out.” Now, if the Catholic Church, which has been losing for years, should suddenly face the proposition of being dissolved because of women, they will have women in authority; because already, they have the false prophetess Jezebel, a woman, as their head, whether they know it or not. And they’ve got Mary-olatry instead of God.

So why shouldn’t the Catholic people have what they want? They’re having it covertly anyway. Women right today are acting as priests. They’re leading the church, and the Catholics are the same old Catholics fighting the Protestants. They’ll say they aren’t, but they are. And boy, they’re steaming and stewing mad down in South America where millions are turning to what? Neo-Pentecostalism, neo-Catholicism, talking in tongues, having a great time. The whole thing is jeopardized. We’re just waiting for the strong man to come. So the church is crashing. The money market’s smashing. Hallelujah, let her go.

12. “He is a man of intellectual courage.” What is the old saying? Cour-age, that’s the Frenchman courage; yeah, courage my children; courage mon enfant. Get your courage up my little child. Oh, he’s got intellectual courage. Man he isn’t afraid to take a minority position. Oh well, hogwash – the majority is moving right with him.

13. And so on down the line, he’s not without challengers, here there are other papal candidates, Cardinal Carol Maria Martin of Milan, Italy (of course, that’s a man), Maria, I guess it is, Carol Maria. “A favorite of progressives but considered too liberal, Cardinal Thomas Winning of Scotland, an outspoken but considered to be a loose cannon. Cardinal Camillio Ruini, Vicar of Rome, considered one of the pope’s favorites, although he’s not very well liked outside of Italy. Cardinal Noberto Rivera Carerra of Mexico City is a real comer; however, he may be too young.” He’s only 50-some. Nobody in the Church wants another 20 year Papacy, so they’re going to, likely pick an old boy up there. “Cardinal Francis Arenze of Ethiopia, he’s a chance to become the first black pope. He needs to moderate his conservative position; the church does not want to go too far right. And this man was born in Chicago, January 16, 1937,” and they give his history here.

14. So, all right. That’s some news I wanted to get across though, that we’re a little more hopeful now that this pope is coming out of America. I won’t have to write a scathing letter to the Catholic hierarchy and say, ‘Just a minute, you birds; I want this pope out of America.” See, I’m not interested in what the pope knows about Fatima. But, that Fatima hogwash, you know, there’s something in there, and this guy that died… What was his name? You know, Martin, yeah Martin, Malachi Martin. He knows what Fatima left in this note. And the pope knows, and the pope’s scrambling to get the good pope to follow him. You better believe when he scrambles to get the good one, he’s going to get the bad one, because the devil knows how to have a shell game. And as soon as the pope figures the pea is under the right shell, he’s got the right pope, he’s going to find there’s a black button there. So we, well, I’m just looking, just tell them, have to tell them to look: “Hey, I want this next pope to come out of America or I’m going to have to try to do something about it. I’ll start a movement over here to let you know we people in America are unjustly abused, and we want our, you know, our man.” “We want your man to be our man,” so to speak; you know, that’s how it is.

15. There’s another thing I want you to notice here that there’s always this cover up concerning the center for the prevention of diseases and so on, down in Atlanta. This fellow, I forget his name now, he’s a big-shot again, he messed things up with the AIDS program by lying; and I would say if he lied once, he’ll still likely be lying. But this article we had on Africa where there were 13 million orphans really, and the number of people, they said, infected with AIDS, so many million. Now, those nations are without recourse to good statisticians and pollsters. In America here, we have recourse to the best, and that’s none too good, of course, because we don’t like them, that is, how they take their polls.

But anyway, recently it was found that in Dayton, the number of people that actually had AIDS, as far as they knew—in other words, they had their names listed—turned out to be only one third of what actually have AIDS today. My point is: if it can be so well documented here, and so well hidden, what is it like in the open? You know, in the sense that there’s nothing, there’s so much there, everywhere, and they don’t even have pollsters. It’s just a guestimate; where we are doing our best to be very, very accurate. Wouldn’t you say then that there’s only 13 million, or only 60 million? I’d say there are many, many more. And then, remember, at the same time, all of these people with AIDS… And remember, one sexual intercourse outside of marriage hooks you into 200 people. Right? Remember the statistics, I read them—200.

All right then, in Dayton, let’s say there’s not 300. You bet your life there’s not 300. There’s a whole lot more than that, but the number of priests that had it, you better believe the congregation’s got a lot too. Not saying they’re messing with the congregation. But if they’re promiscuous, you’d better believe the congregation is too. See? The same spirit gets on the congregation. So, all right now. And the Jews, they’re bad too. That’s where it started to begin with. And they said, “Well, homosexuality comes from these Yentls, you know, these Jewish mommas that are just running everything.” And now they’ve actually found that’s it’s in the genes. Why certainly it is. There’s no doubt about it. You’ve come to the place now where like breeds like, and it’s just a situation. So anyway, looking at this situation then, if there’s a couple of thousand here in Dayton, let’s say, you multiply that by 200. See? Your situation is very, very tragic. Okay. That’s enough statistics.

16. I want to go to the Word, and we want to talk about the Godhead. And when I talk tonight, I’m going to do my very best to introduce you to an understanding, an illumination perhaps. I don’t know that I can do it because, myself, I’m just coming in to it, but I want to discuss it with you. I’ve neglected to read Scripture so much, because I just start in talking to you, and then I use Scripture. But, we’ll just go to Scripture here, and we go to the Gospel of John.

17. [Jn 1:1] 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God.

Now you’ll notice that there’s a repetition there, exactly why I don’t know. It just may be that of all the beginnings you’re looking at, God was there; and God was not just privy to it, but God did it. And so there are different beginnings. And, for instance, when God revealed Himself through certain events, it was the one God that did it. And, maybe He did it one way, and then He did it another way. In fact, He did when He became Jehovah Jireh, the provider; it was providing the ram for the sacrifice for Abraham. When He became Jehovah Raphah, I am the Lord that healeth thee, it was down there where the waters were bitter. And they cut down the tree and cast it into bitter waters, and the waters were made sweet. And so, all down the line, you have beginnings, becomings in the sense of God ‘becoming’ to the people what He already was in essentiality, but now bestowing it upon the people graciously, so that He could be to them, “God.” That’s your Jehovah complexes. And right on down the line.

(3) And all things were made by Him; without Him was not anything made that was made.

(4) In Him was life; the life was the light of men. And so on.

And then It says [Jn 1:14]

(14) And the word became (wasn’t made) flesh (the word became, the becoming God), and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

And then in Jn 1:18,

(18) No man hath seen God anytime, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared Him, or led Him forth by words…

In other words, even when Jesus said, “He that has seen me has seen the father,” or, “Believest thou not that I am in the father and the father in me, and he doeth the works,” and, “I only say what He tells me to say,” God many times speaking through him, that in itself is highly insufficient and means nothing unless it is explained.

18. Believe me, phenomenon or phenomena, singular or plural, heaped upon heap, row upon row, until you’re dazzled out of your mind by the panoply of God’s great artistry and power and what He’s doing, if there were ten million people there, there’d ten million ideas, and not one of them right. Always It must be explained. That’s why when Jesus explained they killed him. And that’s why when Bro. Branham explained, they sandbagged him and threw him out.

19. So, all right, we find here that, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And from what I’ve already said, that if explanation, words, came forth and caused God to be hated, then God would have to be the Word, because you have to reject God; but you can’t reject God until you reject the Word. That’s why at the end time, in Hebrews 6, you find that the people cannot repent. And there’s no such thing as repentance without illumination; in other words a critical analysis and explanation of the events, which are dazzling your mind. Of course, some people’s minds cannot be dazzled. They’re already dead—and so dead you cannot do a thing with them.

20. So, all right. We’re going to look at the fact that in the beginning was the Word—‘word’. Now ‘word’ is a unit of oral or written language. In other words every single word is a unit. It means something. And every word should be a little different from every other word so that even if it does say the same thing, it could actually say the same thing in a more explicit manner and in a manner which pertains more to the subject. But oral or written, every word is a unit of language. And without it, there is no communication or ability to learn except by personal experiences, which in turn, would have caused the human race to have already vanished, because the human race does not work by instinct.

A little baby seeing a fire would toddle toward it and fall in and die. Picking up a sword which is double-edged, a person wouldn’t know by looking at it. You’d have to see people stabbing and killing each other. So that without language, the human race would have ceased. So therefore, word or language which defines mammals from mammals (and the humans are mammals) speaks of an intelligence and an ability to comprehend by use of words and thereby learn vicariously; and thereby through your own usage of words and experience, you add to what you have learned. Language is everything, and language is measurement. A horse is not a cow; a cow is not a pig; a rat is not a dog. {Measurement defines. All definition is a measurement.

21. Now, a ‘word’, though, is not real. You can hear it, but you’re not really hearing a ‘word’. You’re hearing a sound. When it’s written you can see it, but you’re not really seeing it. You’re seeing some forms there that spell out things. So, though a word is not real in itself, it is based on a reality that exists somewhere or it is not a word. Simple as a-b-c. A word, though real in itself, is based on a reality somewhere. No reality means no word. But if there is a reality, there has to be a word. There’s got to be. So, reality equals word, and word means there is reality somewhere. So when you say ‘cart’, or whatever, there’s got to be a cart there.

22. Now notice very carefully. Words are substitutes for reality. They are substitutes. Words are truth and should never be used out of the context of their reality. Never. Otherwise a lie is there by perverting the truth. When you pervert meanings you have a problem. That’s what Satan did. It is an act of iniquity.

23. But notice how words are used. Take for instance the word ‘barn’. Instantly we know it is a structure. It could be of wood, could be of sod, could be of bricks, could be of poles. It could be tin; it could be anything. But what you know about that barn is it houses animals, it houses feed and it could... Well, livestock; and feed is what a barn usually holds. Then you say the word ‘house’. Identical material but of a different structure because it houses people and what pertains to them. Then if you take the word ‘barnhouse’, you come up with a place in Germany. There’s a barn, and the cattle are down below, and upstairs the people are living. I don’t like that situation, but there it is. Well that’s a barn-house. Now you say, “Well, now, there’s no such thing as a ‘barnhouse’.” Oh yes there is. There’s also a man’s name called ‘Barnhouse’. He was one of the finest theologians that ever lived, a Presbyterian from either Pittsburgh or Philadelphia.

24. So, you see, when you use the word ‘barn’, it’s a substitute for the reality, and you don’t have to experience that particular object, because you know what a barn is. So if the man said to the hired man, and he’s out in the yard, “Hey, run into the barn, and you get a bucket of oats.” You think for one minute he’d run in the house and bring out a bucket of donuts? Well not unless he was some little fellow that liked to joke and was hungry for donuts. But you see, you can use words to absolutely convey, perfectly, what you want.

We’re talking now about definition. Barn is a barn, garage is a garage, house is a house, pigpen’s a pigpen, cote is a cote (c-o-t-e), sty (s-t-y) is a sty, go right down the line: field, garden, etc, etc. You can define a reality and through the words which substitute the reality, you can convey perfectly what you want to tell the person. In other words it’s just the same as if that thing were there. You don’t have to go and see it and do anything about it.

25. Now, think of words and their meanings, like places, things, color, height, depth, feelings, joy, hate, anger, depression, euphoria, mad people, happy people, mean people, killers, marauders, rapists, assaulters, pedophiles. You’ve got a picture right there of reality. And not one of us had to bring forth anything that I said, but instantly you got the picture. You had a perfect substitute for it. You ‘created’ a picture, an event, a circumstance, an emotion, or whatever you created.

26. Everything physical and spiritual and mental has a word that names all of those things that accrue to that object, like: “This is a woman. She has blond hair. She has blue eyes.” Just right down the line. You’ll know now, and you don’t have to go through experience, because every barn is a barn, every house is a house, and, well it used to be every woman’s a woman, but there are lesbians now. My God, we’ve got. I’ve got to take that back. Forget about women and men. But up to this point, a horse is a horse, and a dog is a dog, and a pig is a pig, a corral is a corral, a fence is a fence, a sty is a sty, a cote is a cote, and a beaver’s a beaver, whatever—and what accrues to it.

27. Now conversation, or words used in a certain way can impart such a perfect knowledge that another person can grasp, practically perfectly, the location, the color of the thing, the events taking place, the feelings of the people, the end results of whatever was there and even draw conclusions and form a mental process, so that you can begin to think about it. Now that’s true. I’m telling you everything that’s true. I go through this every day and you go through it every day.

28. Now notice how radio broadcasters can make you a part of an event hundreds of miles away. Remember when you were young? Not many of you can remember. You’re not that old. Our ears were glued to the radio. And I used to love hockey, of course, I couldn’t play worth a plug nickel. That didn’t matter, I liked it anyway. And I loved baseball. I couldn’t play that either, but I liked it anyway. And boy, when the radio came on for a ball game or a hockey game, I could see that puck going right down there. I could see that guy shooting, and that guy’s voice was so excited, I could just enter right in. He’d carry me right along. I was right at the ball game, as much as I could be. And I enjoyed it. In fact, there were times that, literally, he was so good at what he was saying, and so carried away, you were better to just stay home and listen to him than going to the hockey game. That’s the truth.

29. What I’m trying to show you is, words; words work. There’s power in words. That’s a tragic thing. There’s power in words. That’s why Michener said, “When language loses it’s meaning, the nation is gone.” Now what do morals mean? No longer a code; no longer a definition. It’s what you want merely relative; and the moment defines it.

It’s like I said to my boy one day when he was in high school: I said, “Grae, tell me. What is liberty?”

“Well,” he said, “It’s the freedom to do what you want.”

“Well,” I said, “Now just a minute. I’ve got the freedom then to do what I want.”

He said, “Yeah.”

Then I said, “What if my freedom to do what I want interferes with your freedom to do what you want?”

He said, “I never thought of that.”

Freedom is not the ability to do what you want, but to do what is right. You say, “Prove it.” I’ll prove it. The Son shall set you free, and he that’s free from sin need not live any longer therein. See? So, all right.

30. But the word in the Greek, ‘logos,’ that’s the word we use here. “In the beginning was the Word.” That’s Logos. It is far beyond just a word as a unit of language—far beyond. The meaning of Logos is not just the idea that a word expresses a thought, but signifies both the outward form by which the inward thing is expressed and the outward form itself. It’s reality.

So, all right. I say the word ‘barn.’ You know right away a ‘barn’ and what’s in it, logically. You know that. You even know if I said ‘pigpen’. You’d even begin to smell it. You’d know right away what a pigpen smells like. You may, right away, know of the muck and the sewage. When you hear of the pigpens down in the Carolinas where the hurricane came and the rains, and the great big pools of sewage ran over, you don’t even need to see anything in pictures, or later, on the television screen or in a magazine. You know right now by words what that sewage is doing. You know by reading without seeing how the people are getting blisters on their skin and diseases are coming. You know by words. But you haven’t entered into the real thing, because that’s simply a substitute for reality—a description that takes you there without being there. It makes you a part by knowledge, and consequently, you can realize what the event meant to those Carolineans.

But when you get to Logos, it is not a substitute for reality. Reality lies within it. You follow me? So Logos is not simply a thought expressed, because Logos means ‘word’. Rhema is another type of a word, simply written or mechanical. But Logos goes far beyond the word as a unit of language, oral or written. It actually opens up the area combining with what I have said; and it does, because it’s word expression, brings forth the understanding. But there is a reality there, and it is not a substitute. You can define and even know in a measure the ‘inner’ from the ‘outer’ or the ‘seed life’ by the form.

31. “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” So we don’t only have an expression, but the expression must contain what is to be expressed itself.

Now, as I said a while ago, talking about a word, let’s bring it as close as we can to a ‘logos’. Oh, I was going to bring a potato, and I forgot. And I was going to hold a potato up so you could see it, and I would say, “That is a potato.” Now this particular potato, which is not here now, I leave to your imagination, and if you like the netted gems, you’ll see a potato, something like this. (I’m making my hands elliptical—kind of like an oval.) And it’ll be brown, and if you like the little Irish potatoes that are red in your stew and your … what have you—well, they’ll be a little red potatoes. And if you like, there’s a purple potato; and there’s a potato that’s kind of green; and there’s a potato that’s called the Golden Yukon.

Now, the thing is, I say now, “This is a potato.” And it is a potato. Now, what you and I see is actually not the potato, per se. It is the manifestation of what is in there that is the potato that made what you and I see and eat. And I hold my potato up, and I say I’ll prove it. And I say, “Hey, see this tuber here? That’s a potato; belongs to the Nightshade family.” So, all right, here’s my potato. I say notice these eyes here. “Yeah, what about them?” Well, I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. I’m going to cut this spud up. It’s got six eyes. I’m going to plant each piece of the spud that’s got an eye and in no time, in the earth, you’re going to see roots come out. You’re going to see leaves come up, and then you’re going to see little potatoes form. “Well how about that!” What did it? A life did it. A life did it!

Now then that potato that we call a potato has now expressed itself in a form that is definitely potato. And I can produce other potatoes, because there’s a life there. So therefore, the expression is expressed by the expresser. [End of side one of tape one.]

32. I’ll take my little potato recipe to the Bible. It’s simple. In Deuteronomy It says, It’s God—if the man comes in the Name of the Lord, and the thing he says comes to pass, that’s God. The thing said comes to pass, that’s God. Well who else could it be?

We’re getting close to Logos now. See?

33. Now, for the outward expression of the inner thought to be a product of the inner thought, the inner thought must have the ability and intelligence of itself to produce that outer expression or manifestation. Hence, the inward thought is not simply a thought, but a life of intelligence empowered. It’s a life of intelligence empowered to bring about a body or capsule perfectly commensurate with the empowered intelligence; in this case, God Himself, or Logos, as in Jn 1:1.

34. Now, Bro. Branham met an atheist, and the atheist said, “Well, I don’t believe in God.”

And Bro. Branham said, “Well, that’s your privilege, every man to his own taste.” He said, “Do you mind if I have an apple off the ground here?”

“Sure,” he said, “the hornets will get them anyway.” And as they talked, he said, “You know something funny happened the other day.” He said, “I heard the awfullest screaming over across the road there.” He said, “That woman was lying dying of cancer, she was so bad they used a draw sheet to change her, and she was dying. They took her into a little place over here in Kentucky and you know, I’ll tell you what, that woman next day was up there eating as though she never was sick.” He said, “I can’t figure that. They said some preacher prayed for her.

Bro. Branham said, “Oh, is that so?”

Now, he said, “I can’t figure that.” Bro. Branham kept on eating his apple.

So he said, “So there’s no God, heh? Look at,” he said. “Notice,” he said, “Sir, how these trees have dropped its apples and the leaves have dropped off?” He said, “You know what it is?” He said, “In the fall, the sap goes down in the roots and,” he said, “In the spring time, the sap goes up from the roots and the leaves and the trees and they bear the leaves and fruit comes on,” and so on. But he said, “You know, strange,” he said, “if I were to put a bucket of water on a fence post, it wouldn’t go down, and it wouldn’t come up.”

And the man said, “Yeah, that’s so.”

He said, “Can you explain that?”

He said, “No.”

He said, “Can you explain how the water from the … comes down in the ground and the tree and the sap go up?”

He said, “No.”

Well, he said, “I’ll tell you, when you can explain that I’ll tell you how that woman got healed last night.”

And he said, “You weren’t that preacher were you?”

He said, “I certainly was.”

See?

35. Now, look at me. Deuteronomy 18, it’s got to be God, and it’s based on Word. Never mind the manifestation. That has to come, because it’s got to project the inner; and there’s got to be an inner before there’s an outer. There cannot be a ‘barn’ unless there is a barn. There cannot be a squirrel, as a word, unless there’s a squirrel – black squirrel, brown squirrel, red squirrel, fox squirrel, heaven knows, fifty other kinds for all I know. But those are the ones I’ve seen. The black ones the prettiest of all.

36. So there is actually a life that is really empowered intelligence. What intelligence did that tree have to send the sap down and bring it up? It was an intelligence—innate—that God put in there in that tree, because that is a life, and every life has to manifest.

“Where’d you get that from?”

Bro. Branham said every seed has to manifest. And there isn’t anything without a seed.

37. All right. Thus we see what is manifested is of the manifester so that this manifestation, or expression, is with God, and God being enfolded in it. So if it’s with Him, it’s with Him, encircled, in union. So God says, “I’m expressing myself;” and the way in which He expresses it, we call Logos. As the word reveals, the thought expresses it. And there’s where Bro. Branham stopped, and most theologians stop; although they do go a little further. I’m trying to get to the heart of it as I understand this. And I’m going to nature the same as Bro. Branham did.

38. So thus we see what is manifested is of, or produced by, the manifester, so that this manifestation, or expression, is with God. Isn’t the potato with the potato life? The expression, doesn’t it contain it? And God being enfolded in it, it is the word. It, the word, or expression, is God. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” The same was every time there was a beginning. It’s always God. And when there’s going to be a new millennium, it’s going to be God bringing us out of the ground. It’s going to be God taking us up. It’s going to be God incarnating Himself. It’s going to be God doing it. Isn’t it, or is it?

39. Now we go down, [Jn 1:14]: “And the word became flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth.” And It tells you right here that Jesus is not the Word, that God is the Word, because God is expressing Himself what He wanted to be, His expression physically. That’s why He created sperm and egg and wrapped Himself in it! So It could come up with all the attributes that God wanted. This indeed, this is the Son of God and God dwelling in him.

Then again, [Jn 1:18] no man has seen God at any time; the only begotten, the uniquely begotten, Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, hath brought Him forth by words.” Why? Because he was a prophet. No prophet can manifest anything but God doing it through him, and do anything whatever—unless the purpose of the manifestation is explained. You don’t know what God is doing or why. As I said, even the Catholics know that. The book I read by the priests that wrote on Fatima, the author said, “What would God do?’ He said, “This sign that God did, this great omen, phenomenon, this great thing was meant: shut up and sit down and listen!” Now those are my words, I’m paraphrasing his. I like mine better than his. Mine have an urgency that he never heard of. The priest said quite nicely that any phenomenon by God is to attract your attention so that you listen to what God wants to tell you.

40. Okay, let’s go to 1 John. Here’s what It says here:

(1) That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and our hands have handled of the word of life;

(2) (For the life was manifested and we have seen it…

Now how does life manifest? It takes the chemicals, the chemistry as Bro. Branham called it, and works out it’s own pattern, it’s own genes; so that was the genes of God that brought forth that body that the son took over. All right, for the life was manifested—how? It put a garment on it. It put something on it.

(2) …and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life which was with the father and was manifested unto us;)

Now right here, I want to think of something and show you something that perhaps Bro. Branham never thought of, and perhaps nobody else thought of and, perhaps I’m entirely wrong. Who knows? All right, the life of the Son, S-o-n, and the life of many sons, the life of millions of sons, comes from one person called God. He is the Father. And at the same time, He has His own life. Now if that life that God gave to Jesus, the same life He gave to Adam to propagate and bring down here, is not a part of God or wasn’t with the Father, tell me what was?

So that very life that was with the Father bringing forth this Son, the only begotten, now in flesh as he brought all of us forth at the same time, that was with the Father as being in the Father but separate, though it’s the same life, on the grounds that that was predestinated to bring forth all of these, but the rest of the life didn’t. The fountain itself didn’t, just a part of that fountain did. That’s why you could say here that life was with the Father. And just the same thing as I can say, the life that came from me, injected into my wife to bring forth the children, is of my life and was certainly with me. Wasn’t with somebody else.

41. I could be wrong on my thesis or premise. I don’t believe I am, but I’m not expecting or demanding you to believe it. I’m just telling you what I see on the grounds of nature and what we are talking about. Because when you say ‘with’ you are talking of a co-union, not simply something which is near and around. Because you cannot make it God and my words to you on the basis of what I said. Did not Bro. Branham say each of us is a part of God? Does that part go back to God? No, He gave it to us. Was it with Him? Yes, with Him. Was it in Him? Yes, in Him. But that which He passed on to us, under no grounds or authority or whatsoever, gave us any position in Him in the Godhead. The position was sonship.

42. So what I see, I see. What you might not see is fine by me. I can only preach and tell you what I’m trying to get to in this message tonight. As long as the outward expression contains what is there to be expressed, that expression or substance is identified as the expresser or who he is or of what life. So there; we go on.

(3) That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, (now there’s a declaring, leading forth by words) that you may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

(4) These things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

(5) This then, is the message which we have heard of him and declare unto you that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.

(6) If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth.

(7) But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all sin.

And this is exactly Jn 3:16-18, condemnation without the word—justification only by the Word. See?

43. So all right, as long as the outward expression contains what is there to be expressed, that expression or substance is identified as the expresser, or who it is, what it is, life. So we see a principle, whatever expresses the expresser is certainly the expresser manifested, the expression is what it is. So all right, whatever expresses that portion that expresses what is to be expressed, I’m saying whatever expresses the expresser is certainly the expresser itself, manifested. The expression is what it is: It’s a potato. Expressor and expression is not only ‘one’, but the ‘expression’ is the expressor.

44. But now take a sweet potato, and if you could have a microscope sufficiently strong to see life, you would find that the sweet potato life is different from the ordinary potato. Now take thousands of butterflies; butterfly life, but every single one is different.

Now just think for a minute: when God told Adam to name all the animals... And they’re not all named even yet. What if he’d a got around to the birds? Hey, he blew it before he got anywhere even past the animals. Yeah, he got through the animals—whatever God wanted him to know anyway. Today we haven’t got them numbered. He never got to the birds. See? The devil came in, camouflaging who he was and turning the truth of God into a lie.

45. So all right, the expression is what it is. So therefore, are we wrong to understand then, “In the beginning was the Word,” that which was expressed. And since the Expresser was God, then the Expression is God!

“Show us the Father, and it suffices us!”

“He that has seen me has seen the Father.”

Can you follow? Well, wasn’t it the truth? Wasn’t Jesus the expression of the Father, and did not God express himself through the expression? Wasn’t Jesus the icon or the image of God? Certainly he was. And isn’t it true that to touch the image and the spirit in the image was what made it real? Isn’t that even witchcraft and voodoo? Bro. Branham said so. So then, when you touch Jesus, whom did you touch? You touched God, because the Expression had to be God. “The beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God, the same was in the beginning with God.” Right down the line, every time, it’s God’s method of doing It.

46. God has expressed or manifested Himself. What God became in doing this is not mentioned very often, but we do know He appeared in a Pillar of Fire, appeared in a cloud, spoke in a whirlwind, and was called a rock, etc. So therefore, Jn 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word became flesh” after being a Pillar of Fire, after being in a rock, after being in a whirlwind, after being in a cloud, after being in this, after being in that, He became flesh.

47. Now when you ‘become,’ it means, positively, that there is an evolution going on within you. Put it better—a transfiguration, a transformation—becoming God.

And the Word, now, became flesh. Why? Because God never changes. As I’ve said before, if God spoke through a brass doorknob or a mule, that’s God. Well, some just can’t believe that. It seems sacrilegious but it isn’t. It’s making the point.

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” In other words God put on a human garment, His Son’s body, and He literally dwelt among us for three and a half years, and we beheld His glory. And He tells you, here’s the analogy, here’s the description: He was in the Son manifesting Himself, and what a glory that was manifested. People have never seen it. Why? It’s never been known before that the eyes of a man born blind received his sight. And they said, ‘That’s true, that’s got to be God.’ No man can do these things; it’s got to be God. Why it’s just a man. I don’t care if it’s just a man; it’s God doing it.

48. God expressed Himself, and the expression was in this human body and through that body, and the glory fell upon Jesus, because they marveled at him, because God manifested Himself through him; yet they saw only the man called Jesus. So therefore, God glorified His Son, but His Son wasn’t puffed up by what was going on in the sense that this was the greatest thing. He said, “Glorify me with thine self, the same honor and glory I had before the foundation of the world.” And He said, “I’ve done it, I’m doing it now, and I’ll do it even greater.” What’s it going to be like at the Wedding Supper? What’s it going to be like down the road? Why God even takes turns manifesting Himself in and through us, because we’re the Bride. See?

49. Now God has expressed or manifested Himself. What God became in doing this is not mentioned very often, but as I said: He was a cloud, He was a rock, He was this, He was that, and the other thing. But, now, even as It says in Hebrews, God in diverse times and various ways, in the prophets came to the people, but now in His Son. And He said, “This is My beloved Son in whom I am pleased to dwell.” Now let’s get this flat: that’s not in the Bible. It says, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” But now, just a minute, perhaps the Greek does really say, “This is My beloved Son in whom I am pleased to be in.” So Bro. Branham is one hundred percent right. And if he wasn’t pleased to be in him, He would’ve gone out of him. So, you see how it is you just believe the prophet, and God helps you.

50. Now we want to go further in our understanding—God is the Word. To do so, I will start with man, which happens to be you and me. Over here in 1 Thes 5:23, It says:

(23) And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And of course God is faithful to do it. So, we find here that man is body, soul and spirit; or, as Bro. Branham said, “body, spirit, and soul.” And if you go to the book of Luke, which we will later, you’re going to find that to be true.

51. Now Jesus said, “Into thy hands I commend my spirit.” And that’s what happened, his spirit went. The spirit goes; the soul lingers. The next thing the Bible said, “Thou will not leave my soul in hell.” So his soul went down to Hades. And my body will not lay in the ground and corrupt. So Jesus was tri-partite, the same as you and I are. He was actually body, spirit and soul.

52. Now, let’s go to Luke 16, and we look at what we are finding here.

(19) And a certain rich man clothed in purple and fine linen, fared sumptuously everyday.

(20) The beggar Lazarus, full of sores,

(21) He got the crumbs of the table, ate what the dogs ate.

(22) Came to pass the beggar died, went to Abraham’s bosom up in upper Sheol. The rich man died and went to …

(23) hell, lower Sheol, lift up his eyes being in torment (he had feelings) he sees Abraham afar off, he could see.

(24) He cried unto … father Abraham, have mercy on me, he was repenting. Said unto Lazarus, he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, he was in torment, he was hot, he felt a lot of things there.

(25) But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember thou in thy lifetime received good things, likewise Lazarus evil, but now he’s covered and you’re tormented.

(26) Besides all this, there is a great gulf fix, you can’t pass over here, he can’t pass over there.

(27) He said, ‘Well, lord, I pray, father, you’d send to my brother’s house.’

(28) He said, ‘I’ve got five brothers there, testify to them that they don’t come into torture.’

Now do you notice in here, this man had all his senses. He even had love. He could repent. He had remorse. He wanted to do good. What was it? It had to be his soul, because the soul goes there. The Bible says Jesus’ soul went there. Of course, it went to upper Hades. But the soul goes to upper or lower. So here you are; here’s the soul, full of all these qualities.

53. So what’s the real person? The real person’s the soul. What’s the spirit for? The spirit is there to receive the body; and until the spirit goes in, there is a body there that’s kicking muscles and nerves, because there’s a soul there. But what does the spirit do? It connects the body, the mind, the brain, the physical, with all the senses and attributes to what is down there in the soul.

Now you’ve got the entire connect—that’s why the baby is not alive in the ultimate sense until it draws its breath—the spirit comes in. And that spirit, by the way, is likened to simple wind. But when God breathed into Adam the breath of lives, Bro. Branham categorically said, “that was not simply a breath of air,” a resuscitation (although I’m using the word resuscitation, he didn’t). He said, “it was the Holy Ghost.” And at time, when the Holy Ghost came in, he became a living soul because the breath of lives came into him, and that meant positively he would be the conveyor of souls.

54. That’s why the life is in the male. And that’s why the life came from the male, even male and female, He separated them. And when He put them in body in order to propagate, the male, therefore then, had the soul, that seed from God; for Bro. Branham said, “You were in God, you were in your father, and Levi was in the loins of his great-great-great-grandfather, and he was in the loins of Adam and Adam came from God.” Now do you understand seed? Because you are seed, God has sent forth His Spirit into your heart whereby you cry “my father”—recognition. Now get the thing in proper connection.

55. Now, man therefore is spirit and body, is he not? The two elements out of the three; soul and spirit, are spirit, vague, indefinite, incomprehensible, and literally unknown; but they’re there. And they’re more real than the body. Because the spirit lives on, though it goes back to God; and God does what He wants with it. And the soul goes to some special place and lives on until God either glorifies it with the glorified body or destroys it in the Lake of Fire. But the body simply goes to the ground and dies and can only come back in a resurrection immortal, if you’re true seed of God. And if you’re not, you’ll have a body commensurate to the Lake of Fire until God wants to dissolve it. When that is, I don’t know.

56. So therefore, the body is now reduced to two things. Do you know what they are? Can you guess? Spirit and tissue, t-i-s-s-u-e. Your hair is tissue. Your bones are tissue. Your blood is tissue. You are nothing but tissue. Two parts of you, elements of life—two kinds of life. One which was not created, which is eternal. Therefore, you come to the time when you realize you always were saved, it was your body that sinned. That spirit created goes back to God. He does what He wants. So you are spirit and tissue. I’m speaking to “wheat seed sheep” only.

57. Now what’s the tissue? It is the manifestation of the life of the soul. Your body primarily is the body of the soul. The spirit comes in, as I said, to connect your mind and your brain, all together, so you become a unit. That’s why when the Mormon fellow said to Bro. Branham, “My little baby was stillborn.” He said, “You will see that little child in heaven.” Well, just a minute. The baby is kicking muscles and nerves, twitching and moving. He’s not alive. No, the baby’s not sensate to the things of the world, until the spirit comes in. And that spirit is allowed of God but not of God. The soul is not only allowed of God, it is directed of God, because it is of God. That, my brother/sister, is the foreknowledge, election and predestination we’re talking about. That’s your soul. And God puts it in a body—the kind of a person He wants a child to be.

58. So therefore, the true man is the soul. Now in 1 Cor 15, we find there is a natural body; there is a spiritual body. There’s a spirit body. Well, isn’t that true from Genesis: there was a spirit body, male and female in one? And then there was a physical body for Adam and Eve, and God took one spirit part out and put it into another physical body. And isn’t it true, when you die, you go to a spirit body, which is a Word body, which you bypassed? Certainly: 2 Cor 5.

59. So the real man is the soul. And the soul, we found, was in Luke 16, the real man. And Bro. Branham went to and saw Luke 16. And what was there? Beautiful young people, and they could hug each other, and they had no sexual feelings. Nothing in there but pure love and joy. Everything was love and beauty. And he said, “Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t miss it.” Well, how in the world we going to get it unless we’re predestinated to it? But they couldn’t eat. They couldn’t drink. They’re waiting for their glorified bodies to come.

So the real man is the soul that came from God. He’s a God-man; he’s a child of God. She’s a child of God. And in Christ there is neither male nor female, it’s the life that counts. That’s why men should treat their wives as sisters as well as wives, and women, their brothers as well as husbands.

60. Now, man was made in God’s image, and God is a Spirit. Now here is the problem. We cannot see spirit, and it cannot be quantified, except that it has strength to live and be perceived in a physical way. Spirit perception is not human. Perception lies in the spirit realm. Perception does not lie simply in your five senses and in your brain. It takes the spirit to link it all up. Revelation.

So therefore, here’s the problem. We cannot see spirit, and it can’t be quantified, except that it has strength to live, and it has form to live by. In other words it is not simply a life; it is a discerning and discriminating type of life. Therefore, perception defines life, even as a born babe is only jerking muscles and nerves. See? It’s not really living as an entity as it should be.

61. So, we put the spirit along with the soul, they go together. And you have true life, because the spirit connects the tissue and all it’s marvelous attributes to the senses and the brain to the soul. The spirit received is the linkage between the soul and the flesh. Thus, the true human being is intelligent life, and the intelligence is dominant, or the men could be simply carrot life or potato life. Perhaps even pig life, or monkey life. Not so! True human beings are God life. If they were animal life, they would not have true perception; they would have instinct. And driven by instinct, you’d be nothing more or less than the animals of the jungle. He is not so.

62. The spirit in him, listen, is the candle of the Lord searching the innermost parts of the belly. Now, isn’t that something? What is the spirit got to do with my belly? Now how many of you people have heard me teach in the last thirty years? How many? Well, you got a few. Okay. Do you remember that I told you that the philosophers, the ancient philosophers, have always referred to the solar plexus mind, that there’s a mind or a brain here apart from this brain? Science has just proven it one hundred percent to be so. There is a brain here joined tandem with the brain here, but they’re both separate. So the candle of the Lord, now, searches down here where your gut feelings are, that feeling in there. Now that’s from a discerning soul without a doubt.

I taught on this, and I showed you how it is with many people are nervous. And they’re nervous because their nerve energy’s down, the energy down here in this brain. It can’t operate; it begins to throw it wrong signals. And many times it is because the energy is wrong. Wrong food will do it. Wrong living. Wrong everything. But when it is just this problem here, where you simply have nerves, you can learn to say to your nerves shut up and lie down. In your mind you just walk away, and you watch how that peace begins to flood your soul.

Listen, you know something, science is wonderful—when its true science; but most of the time its hogwash. I just read that the other day. Always this message is vindicated, and my teaching is vindicated with it, because much of my teaching, based upon Bro. Branham, especially where we found that Eve is the mother of all living—didn’t say he was the father of all—proves there are two fathers and one mother.

63. The spirit in him is a candle of the Lord searching the inward parts of the belly. The Holy Spirit reveals the Word and the Will of God, and that is to the brain. So one there is to relieve you of your feelings and bring your feelings and motives into line—your brain to line up—you’re baptized with the Holy Ghost—to be in coordination. So the whole body is now sanctified by the Holy Ghost. The word is a light and a lamp for the path of life. “The Word,” Bro. Branham said, “is a conduit of the Holy Spirit.” The Word is man’s necessary meat far more than his daily meat. He is feasting on the living bread; he is feasting on the Lord Jesus Christ—Body Word.

64. See, I’m bringing it all together. You cannot separate the Word from Life. The minute you say Word, and you bring It right into the fact of the Word of God, Word manifests Itself. You come right to the place where It is God, the Word, doing It, because a word in itself cannot do it. A word in itself cannot do it. When you’re talking about a unit of language, forget it. I can say healing is a word, but when I associate in faith to God my healer, I can be healed. Oh, yeah. Now, let that sit a while.

65. We go to God, Elohim, the self-existent Spirit God, Who is the strong one bound by an oath. Therefore, God has circumvented or bound Himself by His Own Word. God interposes Himself with His Word. And this is something that God has nothing to do about, because being God, that’s what It is. The strong One bound by an oath. So therefore, you do not have a panoply or a great production of power. You have a production of the Word, because of the strength in the Word. Remember Jesus: my Word is Spirit and Life. Don’t ever forget that. So we get to God, Elohim, the self-existent God, Who is the strong One bound by an oath.

66. God is totally subject in His power and authority to His Word. In fact, His Word really is His power; otherwise He could not be God. The Word is the conduit of the Holy Ghost or wherein God moves. That is why we have so much trouble today. People will not operate the Word within the framework of the Word. They will take the Word, and then not let God have His rightful place in It, because people always use the Word. But remember, It is God in you willing and doing of His good pleasure, and His good pleasure is His Word. And It is God in His Word doing His pleasure. Learn to get out of the way.

“Man hath not seen nor ear heard.” He doesn’t know the capabilities of the power of God within him, when God uses that power within you. That’s why Bro. Branham said, “I do not dare use a gift of myself. You people use the gift in me. I don’t dare launch out and say a thing, unless I know it’s from God.” And then, when this becomes true in our lives, the Word of God takes preeminence only because God is in His Word to make It so. The Word that He gave us is like the rain and the dew and the snow. When He sows It, It cannot return unto Him void without being fulfilled, because no Word of God is void of power. And “in vain do you worship Me.” Why? By having the traditions of men rather than the doctrine of God. They that worship Me, must worship Me in spirit and in truth. And remember, there are two spirits. That One is a Spirit of truth and the other is a spirit of error.

So therefore, the Spirit of God is only in His Word rightly revealed, because He reveals It and thereby He is revealed. So He is the Word. Thus, we see God is living Word. He is living, self-fulfilling Word. God’s power is ruled by the Word of authority. No Word is void of power. It accomplishes whereunto It was sent. Therefore, God is the Word. As It says in Scripture, God sent His Word and healed them. “He sent His Word and healed them.” Now what was that? That was there at the bitter waters when the tree was cut down. He sent His Word.

67. Now, here is where we have to let our thinking go. This is the tough part. I don’t know how far we can go, because I don’t know how far I’ve gone myself. I’m just getting there. But I always preach the thing that I believe I’m right on, and as time goes on...for I am not a prophet. Remember, it’s precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little, there a little. That’s my ministry. I teach doctrine. From doctrine I go to line to line. Then we go Word to Word. And by that time, we’re piling Word upon Word until the Holy Ghost can move in and through us.

And that’s the trouble: we are not believing that Word as we should. As I tried to show you the other day, there are two things Bro. Branh