Godhead #15
The Essentiality and Intrinsicality
of God – 1 Tim 1:17
September
2, 2000
Heavenly Father, we welcome Your
Presence, and we know You welcome ours, because You came down here to visit us
and proved Who You are, especially to us, which is what we really desire;
because, if You prove Yourself, and not for us, then this would be very
catastrophic for us then. We would be in a very, very precarious position. But
now we are assured, because our gathering is unto You, just the same, Lord, as
in ancient times they said in the Scripture, “The gathering of the people unto
You” meant there was a death. And we realize that there is a death in our hour,
and even wherein we stand, it is death to all our own thoughts, and death to
our understanding, and death to our ways, which we have practiced according to
that which has been a false conception brought upon us by the enemy through
false doctrine.
But now we are delivered and know
who and what we are, and know Who You are, and we know, Lord, the great
invisible union has gone on, is going on, and will be concluded shortly at the
great Marriage Supper of the Lamb, when all of the first resurrection come
together—Old and New Testament people.
And we thank You for that, Lord, and
we rest assured in that, even though many times our feelings come against us,
and many times our understanding—a little weak in this area and that area—may
clamor, but, Lord, we do know this is a vindicated Word, and we do believe It,
and we stand with It. Open wide our understanding, and may Your blessed Spirit,
sent to us to reveal the Truth, give us this great assurance and lead us in
life. May He tonight, Your Spirit, O God, faithfully open the Word to us in
such a way that all doubts are removed and we stand anointed of Thee in the
Truth, and walking in the Truth. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. You may be
seated.
1. Now I trust we’ll be able to sort out
whatever I want to say tonight, and I’m not sure I’ll be too efficient with it.
But we’ll sort of stagger along here, because the main thing is to get with the
Word and to know that we’re right with It in the teaching thereof, though
perhaps not perfectly clear.
Now I’m going into Jn 1:1. Again It
says:
(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.
And I’ll come back to this and read more,
but I want to read again along lines of the Scripture concerning that Jn 1:1 is
indeed God Almighty, as Bro. Branham said, perhaps I suppose, a hundred places
or maybe even more.
2. In 1 Tim 1:16-17:
(16) Howbeit for
this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all
long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should thereafter believe on him to
life everlasting.
(17) Now unto the
King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory
forever and ever.
And then in 1 Tim 6:13-16:
(13) I give thee
charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus,
who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
(14) That thou
keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our
Lord Jesus Christ: (I think that word ‘appearing’ is the epiphanea.)
(15) Which in his
times shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and
Lord of lords;
(16) Who only hath
immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man
has seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Now we’ll get more into these
verses, but the understanding here is that we have a very complete picture in
these three verses of the Sovereign God. And ‘Sovereign God’ means, of course,
that He’s the Sovereign, He’s the King, He’s absolutely in charge, and there
isn’t anybody who can do anything against Him or for Him, as though that would
augment or diminish Him or overpower Him, or in any way bring anything to
naught, what He would desire. And if God wanted to, being sovereign, He could
play cat and mouse without a bit of a problem. However, there is no way that
can happen as God is not of a double mind.
When you talk about sovereignty...
And you’re using an earthly word, because all we can do is use earthly words,
though they no doubt came from heaven, because we know that at the tower of
Babel, God Himself came down and changed all the languages. So God is the
author of language. Satan can pervert it, but he’s not the author. And so we
find here, in our language, these verses that I read, certainly show forth the
sovereignty of God.
3. Now getting into ‘Godhood’ or
‘Godhead’, when you think of God, you have to think of a sovereign God, as I’ve
already mentioned, and I read to you Dr. Pink’s first chapter on the Sovereignty
of God, how that if you’re going to talk about God, you have to talk about
Someone Who is all powerful. And if you don’t even give Him credit for His
wisdom, that is something that God is responsible for and not mankind, because
God does not allow any man to judge Him. The Scripture distinctly says that man
cannot judge God. Man cannot even judge a prophet, because a prophet has “Thus
saith the Lord.” The prophet becomes the judge via the Word of God.
So in sovereignty we see a
completeness. We see unlimited power, and we do not see any part of God
delegated. In other words God simply cannot cut Himself up into pieces and in
any way then set up, you might call, an oligarchy, which is a government by
several. He can’t do that. His Kingdom, as Nebuchadnezzar found, is absolutely
based, solitarily, upon God Himself. And He doeth in the armies of heaven and
on earth, above the earth, under the earth, whatever He wants, anytime He wants
to do it, according to His Own good pleasure, which is predicated upon His
wisdom or omniscience.
4. Now this of course gives us a very
stern picture of God, very autocratic, where He is in complete control. And now
what is wrong with that is, that unless you begin to delve into God as to the
Person He is, His qualities, His character, His wisdom, His omnipotence, His
great love, You cannot really appreciate God as God is. That’s why so many
people cannot take predestination.
Now if God is sovereign, it’s
logical that He predestinates. Then if He’s not sovereign, then there’s a part
of Him not being sovereign, wherein many now can tell God what to do. Now even
when it comes to man having a message from God, man cannot take that message
and based on that message, tell what God can do. The only thing man can do is
take that message and apply it to his life and talk to God concerning what God
has said, put Himself in a position of faith, and then walk in that light until
God brings to pass the answers that that person wants based upon spiritual
understanding and motive. Now remember: asking God is not just saying, “God,
gimme,” and He does it.
If you read the Scripture very
carefully, you’re going to find that the element in which God has placed us,
which is this world, so diverse, so peculiar, and so hard to live in as far as
principles and morals and things like that are concerned, God wants people to
take Him at His Word and walk in that Light, with their hand to the plow, not
turning back until the answer is given. And therein is character built unto the
placing of sons, or the adoption. Now that’s a sermon I could put hours on.
5. But just trying to show you that
sovereignty is wholly in the hands of God, and even when you get His covenants,
and you get His promises, you have to stay within the framework of His Word,
which alone defines God Himself, His precepts, His ways of doing things. And
the Bible says in Eccl 3:14, “What God does, He does forever. And it never
changes. You can take nothing from it, or add anything to it. And it’s that way
so that man will fear Him.” So there’s a reverential awe and fear therein.
So we see God is sovereign, no
matter what people say. Now if He isn’t in absolute control, then you tell me
where He is not in control. You can’t do it. You say, “Well, the devil’s got
control.”
No. That’s only permissive. The
devil doesn’t have one word of his own. He doesn’t have one bit of power of his
own. He has nothing but what is permissive. So we have to look at the fact of
God: Creator and Ruler of the universe, eternal, infinite, omnipotent,
omniscient, Supreme Being. Now ‘Godhead’ is simply God Himself, Divinity, or
Deity.
6. Now the question came up, and I
answered it already, but I’ll go into this later on, because I’m not answering
questions tonight. “What about ‘Godhood’ in ‘Godhoodedness’?”
Well, you don’t have to worry about
the second word. But ‘Godhood’ is a state or quality of being God—defining
character. It has to do with character, the same as ‘childhood’ is a state of
being a child. And you don’t expect anything of that child, except from the
fact that it is a child. Now we understand children.
‘Adulthood’ is that period of time
where you begin to expect what an adult should be able to bring forth and must
bring forth.
‘Parenthood’ is exactly the same
thing. You now become parents and parenthood is the fact you have children and
you must deal with them, as parents would deal, looking at them as children.
You have parenthood, adulthood; they have childhood. Now all of those are
absolutely separate, but integrated by the fact of maturation—the time going
on.
7. So therefore, when we talk of
‘Godhood’, and I’m bringing it down now to actually what I believe according to
the definition of ‘Godhood’ based on God Himself. So ‘Godhood’ speaks of what
exactly God is within Himself, so that He will act at any given time, and on
any given occasion, exactly and always, according to His essentiality. In other
words it is exactly what He is. It’s as simple as a dog seeing a cat—too bad
for the cat. It’s right on—right now. Cat seeing a mouse…too bad for the mouse.
Or it’s too bad for a butterfly. A cat will jump and get the butterfly.
You see, what’s in people is like
what’s in a child, what’s in an adult, what’s in a parent. Now it doesn’t mean
the child will just automatically bring forth what’s in a child, when you think
of the terms that we like concerning little children. Where Jesus said, “Except
you come as a little child, you can’t enter in the kingdom of heaven.” “Except you
be as a little child,” you know, and that’s a little child that’s very
believing. Then as you grow older, certain, certain things.
So we’re talking about Godhood
simply meaning ‘the literal office that God is in according to exactly Who and
What He is’. What do you expect God to do?
Well, it isn’t what you and I expect
God to do, anymore than you expect your little kids to do things; they’re not
under our control. Neither is God under our control. You have to know exactly the
essentiality and intrinsicality, which means the very being of the Sovereign
God. So He works and performs at all times exactly how He is within Himself,
and Who and What He is within Himself.
8. So He is the perfect Creator. And when
you talk about creation, it’s very difficult for me to not want to explode and
do mayhem and bodily harm to these idiots who try to tell you that there’s no
scientific evidence that there’s a God. Now the Bible treats it much better
than I do: the Psalm [Ps 14:1] says, “The fool has said in his heart there is
no God.” God merely shrugs it off as the guy is a fool. But he’s worse than
that, in my books. I don’t like it because they’re saying it.
That’s why Ventura got called on the
carpet, because, “Religion,” he said, “is for the weak-minded and those that
need some kind of a crutch.” Of course he apologized for that. He said he
didn’t really mean that. He meant it for people that ‘use’ religion as a
crutch, instead of a way of life. But he didn’t add the ‘instead of a way of
life’. But I think that’s what he really meant. And I would admire him for
that, on that grounds, if he said, “Religion, as a crutch, is ridiculous,”
because religion is not a crutch. When you really believe the truth and have
the truth, it is not a crutch. It is Life. It’s far, far different from what
people would want to tell you.
Thus, God Himself is limited and
unchanging, according to His Own intrinsicality and essentiality, which means
He’s absolutely what He is, and you can’t do one thing about it. And actually,
neither can God. Neither can God. Whatever He was and is, He will be. No
changing., period. Now, that’s good, because if God changed any way, shape and
form—one thought, one way He did it, He’d have to come down and tell us,
because it wouldn’t be fair. He’d no longer be a God of love. He’d have to be
some kind of a monster. You see, it doesn’t work that way. He manifests what I
call His ‘Godhood’, or ‘Godhoodedness’, which is a word that you won’t find in
the dictionary .
9. Now ‘childhood ‘ is a child acting out
himself. ‘Godhood’ is God acting out Himself. We don’t expect a child to be
anything but a child, and his behavior will be usually commensurate with it,
and we can’t change a child until the time comes. It’s like years ago you were
taught in school that you should never try to get a baby to walk too soon
because maturation will take care of it.
And we’ve seen that around here
where a little child... I caught Joe [White] on that one time. I said, “Hey!
Your little granddaughter is running around.”
He said, “Oh, she can’t be running
around. Why, just last week she was just trying to take a chair.”
I said, “Joe, she’s running around.”
Sure enough, she was running. Right, Joe? She was running. See? Maturation.
Maturation.
In other words there comes a time
when automatically it swings into gear, because it’s there. Now you can’t
change that. To try to change is to bring about a perversion and a problem. And
we’re using the same thought toward God. How can God be God, and there’s any
change within Him? We’ll bring the Scripture on this a little later on, because
I want to get another side of this same thing we’re looking here.
10. So God cannot be anything but God. Who
dare try to change God or require of God anything except what lies within God,
or to change God’s perfect wisdom and the way He performs? Now, you see, many
people try to use prayer to do that. You can’t do it. When you try to change
God, you spin your wheels in the sand. As Bro. Branham said, “Don’t you pray and try to change God’s mind.
You stay before God until He changes your mind.” And that’s the renewing of
the mind. And that’s the wonderful thing that comes in our day, through the
renewing of the mind, is the metamorphosis which takes us from mortality to immortality.
And already time and eternity have blended. So we know today mortality is going
to be banished, done, gone, and buried. And immortality will be ours, which we
are supposed to have. And we will have it.
So He has neither shadow of
changing, works all things according to His Own purpose, because it is
impossible for Him to do otherwise, being Who and What He is. Now if you
believe God is all-wise and all-powerful and love, and you believe in His
purpose, and you admit there’s a purpose, why in the world would anyone want to
change God? And how in the world could God possibly change?
11. Well, I realize people would like to
change God. “Really,” they say, “I wouldn’t like to change God. I’d just like
Him to do this for me.”
Well, what if He wants to do it a
certain way? Well, if you want to try to get God to change and do things,
you’re like that mechanic I talked about before. He read the book, and he
didn’t know a piston from a hill of beans. And so when it came to that, he just
put something else in.
You know, I thought I knew something
about a car one time, and I did what somebody told me, and you know what? The
piston… Well actually, it broke apart and went right through the wall of the
engine. Well, that was a beautiful thought, wasn’t it? I’m no mechanic. Neither
am I God. Neither do I have thoughts that are God’s thoughts. In fact He tells
me, “Your thoughts are not My thoughts, and Your ways are not My ways.” So if
that’s the case, I better find out what His thoughts are and what His ways are,
because He’s not going to change His mind. It’s up to me to change my mind.
But, you see, people don’t believe that.
He is omnipotent and is also
omniscient. How can anyone change Him? Who can do it? Knowing Who He is, and
with all His ways being perfect, who would want to dare change Him and His
ways, because if you changed Him, you would change His ways, and if you changed
His ways, you would change Him.
You say, “How does that work?”
Very simple. You don’t get rid of
old habits; you built new habits. And the new habits work a change on you.
Well, you think God has to work at something? It’s like Bro. Branham said, “God doesn’t have one more thought; He
doesn’t have a better way to do it. The first way is the way it’s done. It was
Blood the first time; it’ll be Blood all the way down the line. If it’s done a
certain way, it’ll be done in that way again.” And that’s the Scripture.
Now that’s what it means when you talk about Godhood. So I hope that clears it
up as well as we can clear it up.
12. Now let’s get back to Jn 1:1 here. Now
It says here:
(1) In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word is with God, and the Word was God. (And
notice the emphasis:)
(2) The same was
in the beginning with God.
There’s an emphasis here that John
uses in order to make people see the reality of what he is talking about. So he
says: “In the beginning was the Word, the Word is with God, and the Word was
God.” And Bro. Branham doesn’t only use this in one place, where he says, “If you make this ‘Jesus’, you have three
gods.” He uses it many, many, many time. And we read a bunch of them to you
over the last few times I’ve been ministering up here on “Godhead.”
13. Now let’s begin to look at this, and I
didn’t ask for the blackboard, because I’m too lazy to write it all out. So I
want you to listen very carefully with me as I go through a very mundane and
very carnal way of talking to you about this Scripture. I’m working exclusively
from my understanding, based on this truth: that God is the Word, and we have
the conjunction, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God”—there’s a preposition—and then “the Word was God.” And you can’t deny that
the Bible distinctly says, “In the beginning was the Word,” or “In the
beginning was God, Who is Word,” because that is what It is saying.
Now I’m going to use the word
‘Substance’ instead of ‘God’ and ‘Word’. And since It says, “In the beginning
was the Word,” but Genesis says, “In the beginning God…” I’m going to use Word
as Number 2 (#2) Substance, because we’re dealing with a reality which is very
tangible. And remember, Spirit is more tangible than is physical, because the
inner man grows, while the outer man perishes.
So your outer man, like Bro.
Branham’s in the picture taken by Arganbright… Remember those high lilies, like
were in the pulpit… You saw flames of fire, and you saw Bro. Branham, a man
standing back like a death head, and Bro. Branham behind as a younger man. The
Lord explained the vision to him: now all the nine gifts were operative in his
life—he lost none. But the outer man was perishing, and the inner man was being
renewed day by day.
14. ‘Substance’: that’s where people go
haywire. They cannot believe that a spirit is substance. If a spirit is not
substance, how come when a lady named Benson, who was jilted by her boyfriend,
went insane in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, and she was in the institution for
the insane. And one day some people brought her three apples and she said, “Oh,
my! Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and I’ve sinned against Thee all.”
Well, they knew she was devil
possessed. So the preacher’s name was ‘Fields’. He brought two sisters with
him: one was Mrs. Angelese, whose son became a preacher, and I forget who the
other woman was. But they felt that this girl, Miss Benson, should be brought
out of this institution and be dispossessed of the devil—get the devil out of
her. So they prayed and fasted, and it was allowed, then to go into her room
and pray for her.
Jack Fields didn’t have much faith,
because when the devil came out of her, the devil smacked him down flat! Now
how did that happen, if what you don’t see doesn’t have power? And I want to
ask you another question: has anybody ever seen electricity?
”Well,” you say, “Bro. Vayle…”
No, you haven’t. You’ve seen things that
register it, but you’ve never seen it.
Have you ever seen gravity?
“Oh, I’ve seen it work.”
But you’ve never seen gravity. You
can see results.
So people can get an idea that the
invisible isn’t real. The fact of the matter is: the invisible is more real
than what you think is real.
15. We’re dealing with substance. Now: and
Substance #2 is Word, and Substance #1 is God. All right.
For a Substance, designated #2, to
be with another Substance, designated as #1, so that the Substance #2 is
actually, and in reality, Substance #1, is none other than saying that
Substance #1 and #2 are identically one and the same, and are identifiable as
the same basic Substance so that we are giving to the basic Substance names
that reveal to us what we would otherwise not know what should and must be
known for a relationship and communication.
Would you say that’s fair enough?
You’re a pretty good scholar, Russell, you study law and all. Have I stated my
case? Dave, you’ve studied English, are you following me? Well, isn’t that
true? Substance #1: if x = y, and y = z, then x = z. They’re all equal. So you
can’t fault it. No matter what you are saying, whether you’re saying ‘God’ or
‘Word’, you are talking about identical things in the sense that it relates
purely to God. Now remember, ‘logos’ is a term that is philosophical in a
sense. In another sense, it is not philosophical, although it could contain
that. It is actually a revelation by definition. All right.
16. The Substance or Object, or in this
case, a Personality or Being known as ‘God’, has taken upon Himself to start
what is known as ‘the beginning’, which definitely deals with creation,
according to Gen 1:1, and Jn 1:1-3. Would you say that? Well, Bro. Branham
mentioned it, too. So all right.
Substance #1 and #2 equate to God.
Period. Now you can’t say one without the other, because before there is any
beginning of creation—It says, “In the beginning was the Word,” It was already
there. So you’re going right back to the infinite God, all by Himself, all alone.
So all right.
The Substance or Object, or in this
case, a Personality or Being known as God, has taken upon Himself to start with
what is known as ‘the beginning’, which definitely deals with creation
according to Genesis 1: “In the beginning God…” Right? In here, in the
beginning Word. So all right. It’s right there.
The intangible, invisible is now
becoming tangible and visible by reason of communication. Now you have to
accept first of all: God is Spirit. And we read in Timothy about that…invisible,
eternal, and so on…God’s Spirit…omnipotent, omniscient, loving nature,
paternal, right down the line. We’ll go into all of that. But here He is now:
the Word. Okay.
17. God has begun to express Himself as the
God He is. So all right. He’s begun to express Himself as the God that He is,
and was, and is eternally. The reason I say ‘is’ is because at that particular
time, He already was and will be. You can’t change Him. And we’ll give a
Scripture for that. We already talked about showing His great wisdom in that He
first expresses His Own intrinsicality and essentiality, His very Godhood. So
all right.
So what’s written here, John wrote
It under the Holy Spirit. And John’s not a prophet. In this case he’s actually…
Well, he was a prophet in the sense of the word, but he’s an apostle—and there
were some things in there that were prophetic, based on what he was taught by
God. But actually this is the work of a scribe. He’s just putting down exactly
what God wants him to put down. Okay then.
18. …His very Godhood: as to what He is and
will be in all, what He will be in all that is to follow… That’s what I want
you to look at now. “In the beginning was the Word:” It was already there. So
what I’m saying here as to what He is and will be in all, no matter which direction
you go, that is to all that follows. We know It was already there, back there.
Now He says, “I’m starting this, and what follows will be identical to what was
back there before this starting point, and at this starting point, and will
continue forever.
Now that’s the way I’m looking at
this, and I can’t see any reason to report it otherwise. So as to what He is
and will be in all that is to follow, and will follow, will be according to His
purposes within Himself. That’s Godhood. That’s Godhood right there. Now see,
God is Sovereign God all alone. ‘Godhood’ is God in action, manifested
according to what lies within Him.
In other words God, Jehovah-Elohim,
started with Himself by His purpose being no more and no less than what lay
within Him—what lay within this vast Eternal Fountain of many springs. And He,
manifesting Himself, by involving Himself in preparing and molding and creating
and sustaining and culminating all of those purposes from within that sprang
from this great Fountain Himself.
In other words, what we’re saying
here is God will bring into total manifestation His goodness. As the Scripture
says concerning Moses: “I will lay out My goodness before you.” [Ex 33:19] And
what happened? He had a picture. God allowed him in the cleft of the rock to
see God. Now if that’s the truth, and I’m telling you: that’s ‘intrinsicality’.
That’s what He is.
19. Now God is seen in creation and Bro.
Branham said how: in continuity. You
show me a seed that’s not in continuity. A peach will bring a peach, will bring
a peach, will bring a peach. Now I know that you can combine it with other
things genetically. And remember, God already allowed that. He said to Adam,
“Take authority over all the earth. You’ve got it, over all the animals, the
fish of the sea, and every single thing. I’m giving you authority.” And he had
the authority.
Even Jack Minor saw that, the man in
Canada, you know, just across the line in Ontario there. He was one of the
original naturalists in Canada. He worked with geese and ducks and everything
else. And he brought out that fact many, many years ago when they cross-bred
species like ducks that could cross-breed and still, you know, inherit certain
genes and go on. And he said, “There, you see, God gave man that ability.” And
Jack Minor was a hundred percent right. I never thought of that. I’m glad that
he did, so I can tell you, and you can think about it. But, you see, man can do
it.
20. And man today is going too deep with
that stuff, you know, the meddling with the genes. You shouldn’t meddle with
genes of corn. It’s killing all the monarch butterflies. And you mean to tell
me that this is not going to have repercussions around the world. Europeans
won’t buy the junk that’s made over here. And yet you don’t know, and I don’t
know, how many things on our shelves from the stores we’re eating genetically
engineered and full of junk. You just realize the hormones that have been
injected into beef. Now what does a hormone do? It retains the water in the
animal so that it makes it heavier.
Now what is that? Do you want to
know? It’s not H2O; it’s urine. So no wonder your roasts stink and
smell like urine. And you’ve got all kinds of water in a pot. Now who’s doing
that? United States government allows a little group of people to do that but
Europe does not want our beef.
21. You see, all the politicians will talk,
but they’ll let money do everything. See? Tipper Gore, when she made a fuss and
actually had the labels warning concerning records, and she did it… Now she
doesn’t say one word. Why? Because Gore and Bush both got around $800,000 in
their war chests from the filth in Hollywood.
Have you recently read…now listen,
well, I sure hope you don’t, hear this junk that they call ‘rap’. I have a
magazine by the late Mr. Kennedy. They sent me a little article that said how
good these articles were in George. I said, “I think I’ll just get that
magazine.” So they sent me a copy free, and I liked it, so I ordered it. And I
was appalled at the lyrics that little kids are hearing. I never heard such
filth in my life.
But Gore doesn’t care, and Bush
doesn’t care. Oh, no, that’s the first amendment—the freedom to speak. Yet why
can’t you yell, “Fire!” in an auditorium? I’m going to tell you: yelling “fire”
in an auditorium would save more lives by them dying and either going to heaven
or hell than sending thousands and thousands of kids to hell with these rotten
records.
So the picture is, what we’re
talking about there: when you’re looking at what is going on in the world,
there’s no use us trying to figure anything from anywhere in the government or
any hope that we might have wherein we can get any help whatsoever. So all
right.
22. Let’s go back to the good stuff. Now we
were talking here, reading along here, that what I’m looking at is these
Springs from the Great Fountain Himself, wherein God has taken from within
Himself and poured out Himself into His creation, but more particularly into
His Children, for Whom He created, and a part of them He formed from what He
created. And I’m trying to hold my thought on something on the virgin birth.
So therefore, He was El, Elah, El
Elah, Jehovah, Jehovah-Elohim. And these names are those of the Great God
Creator, Elohim, the self-existent and all alone God. Now He has started the great
beginning wherein He will eventually create Himself in human flesh, according
to Rev 3:14.
23. Now I’m talking about ‘back there’, at
that beginning, exactly what God was. He was all by Himself, and within
Himself. I always used to use the term ‘when God was collecting all of His
thoughts’, like I used the term ‘Logos’: ‘putting it all out, laying it out,
arranging it’: “Ah, I’ve got it just exactly as I want it.” And it turns out
that this God always was, always is, and will never change from being El, which
is God. Elah, El Elah, Elohim—Bro.
Branham said, “The self-existent One,”
which is a very good definition.
And you’ll notice Isaiah uses the
combined term very generously, all through Isaiah, ‘Jehovah Elohim’, because
now you are coming from the all, all alone God, to the God with a family. And
remember, if He made the earth so perfect for His Children, you better believe
that He predestinated how many Children He had and where they’d be. Because why
in the world would somebody give us what we have today, as I mentioned and
switched on my few thoughts in there, how these people try to get rid of God.
And look around you.
Even now they’ve found a certain
bacteria have an intelligence when they come into some canal in your body or
somewhere. They wait until they have enough reinforcements, and then they begin
building colonies, and they can signal each other and tell each other what to
do, and then exactly then have more and more. And if a little tiny, weeny
thing, that you’ve got to have a microscope to see, has got that many brains,
no wonder man’s a fool, says, “There’s no God.” You talk about bankrupt.
24. So here’s El, Elah, and He is
positively, not Jehovah now, but remember: It’s there in the beginning. So
we’ve got a beginning. And if you’ve got a beginning, you’re going to have an
ending. Now God could have many beginnings and many endings according to His
purposes. I don’t know. All I know is this beginning and the ending, which is
coming up. And I can see that perfectly, because I understand the Book of
Revelation, because Bro. Branham taught It to us. So all right.
El, Elah, El Elah, and then Elohim…
Later He became Jehovah-Elohim. These names are those of the Great God Creator,
Elohim, the self-existent One, the all-alone God. Now since He has started the
great beginning where He will eventually create Himself in human flesh, because
that was what was going to happen—to come on down.
He is all there was and ever will
be, but yet to come into play and manifestation of that which lay within Him as
a Jehovah complex. And as Jehovah complex, He was the Great Father with these
attributes coming forth within Him. And that is: He’s the All-Sufficient One,
He’s the Provider, He’s our Righteousness, He’s our Banner, He’s our Shepherd,
He’s our Peace. He is the Great Presence, and He’s the Great Sanctifier, and
He’s the Great Healer.
Now if you look carefully, you’re
going to find every one of those were literally brought forth in Jesus and
conferred. And that’s why you find the Scripture says the word ‘through’. All
right.
25. Now that we’ve got there clear, and I
hope we have, we’re going to go back to John 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 at this time we want to remember
the value of prepositions. They are very, very valuable, because sometimes even
a conjunction in the Greek, ‘kai’, can be used as a preposition as well as a
conjunction. And many times I’ve thought in my mind: a preposition is better,
according to what I see Bro. Branham said, than a conjunction. But all right.
“In the beginning,” at that
particular time there was That, what we have described. And you’re never going
to be able to change it. All you can do is see from that intrinsic Reality,
something will come forth. It’s got to come forth from That, or It’ll never
come forth, because it’s not there in the first place. Now we’ll see more of
that.
26. (3) All
things were made by him. (So therefore It says, “In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” which might as well say, “In
the beginning God was the Word.” And then down here It says:) All things were
made by God (Who is the Word), and without God (Who is the Word) was not
anything made that was made.
(4) In God (the
Word) was life; and the life was the light of men.
Now I want to just stop here and
talk about that preposition. It says, “In him was life;” in God was life. Now
that’s the dumbest thing. What is I’ve got a couple of kittens, and they’re
frisking around and you say, “Hey! You know, Lee, you know, there’s life in
that cat.”
I say, “You don’t mean there’s life
in a cat. You mean that cat’s ‘lively’.”
“No, no. There’s life in the cat.”
And I say, “Whew! Just a minute!
This guy’s disturbed.” My cat’s living?
I can show you at least twelve
places in the New Testament where It says, “The Living God,” the Living God.
Now if John knew that God was living, why would he say, “There’s life in God”?
“Oh,” you say, “Bro. Vayle, because
Paul mentioned the same thing: the idols don’t have life.”
Oh, don’t give me that nonsense.
Don’t give me that nonsense. It’s telling you something that was in God,
literally, as they used in the paper concerning even Clinton:
compartmentalization. He’s the same God, but He’s actually, as it were, these
invisible lines in Him—attributes. Put it that way—abilities. Put it where you
want to. These essential qualities are there. And It says in here: “In Him was
life.” Certainly, there was life in Him! Certainly.
27. But now why would he say that? See? Why
would he say that? “In Him was life.” Because there’s something different
that’s to be brought to our attention, apart from the fact that He is the
Living God, and it has to do with us. Or why is he bothering to tell us? He is
life, living within and to Himself, but now in Him there is a life in that life
that is for us.
I don’t have to tell you certain
things about me, unless it has something to do with you; if we’re functioning
together, it’s something you ought to know. You go to the doctor, and you don’t
tell the doctor you’ve got hiccups, when you’ve never hiccuped in your
life—unless you want to fool him into something.
So why would there be something here
that says, “In Him was life,” when we know very well He is life? He’s the
Living God, and this man is not talking about idolatry.
You say, “Well, John is using a
philosophical word in the Greek which means the manifestation of the thing itself
must contain part of what is there to be manifested, or what is behind it.”
I understand that. But remember also
that the Jews used the word ‘Word’, and said, “God is the Word.” As the
Scripture said, “He sent His Word and healed them.” How can a word heal them? A
word doesn’t heal anybody unless there’s God in the Word to do it. Words don’t
heal. No Word of God is void of power, because It’s the Word of God: He is the
Word. Now we’re where Bro. Branham put it. And these are kind of difficult things
to get into… I’m not that good at it, but we’re going to go along anyway.
28. Now It says:
(4) In him was
life; and the life was the light of men.
And It says, “In Him was life, and
that life was the light of men.” So therefore, God had a certain light within
Him, a certain part of God that was absolutely available, and not only
available and pertinent, but absolutely given to the people. You follow me?
Well, It says right here, “The life was the light of men.” So He must have
given it to them.
So let’s just take a little thought
back here in Eph 5:13. Maybe that will help us. And It says:
(13) For all
things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth
make manifest is light.
(14) …Awake thou
that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Well, that’s interesting right
there. It says that God will give you light. And the only way I can understand
that is by God taking that which was from Him, and designated for us as light,
giving us understanding.
29. Now we can also go to Romans 1. This
might not be too perfect, Rom 1:19-20:
(19) Because that
which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto
them.
(20) For the
invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so
they are without excuse.
So all right. There now you’ve got
another understanding here that God deals with men—that God actually deals with
men. Now listen to me: how could God make every man accountable, even to the
extent there’s coming a day “when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father,” if it was not
presented to them, and had a way of knowing?
The Bible said, “Oh, we’re supposed
to hear.”
Well, then why haven’t we heard?
And Paul said, “Their sound has gone
throughout the entire earth, which is the signs of the zodiac.” And there isn’t
one nation, under God’s high heaven, or ignorant tribe that doesn’t understand
the signs of the zodiac, which is God’s salvation and Bible in the heavens. You
heard Bro. Branham said that. Right? Absolutely true. Bollinger said it. Seiss
said it. Other men have said it. I’ve got their books on it.
30. So let’s go a little further then. Let’s
go to Jn 14:6:
(6) And Jesus
said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me. (So there we have it again. We have this life, and so that
life actually brings us light.)
Now, concerning… Well, let’s go
further down the row. Now he said here:
(5) The light
shineth in darkness; the darkness comprehended it not. (Which is true: the
darkness comprehends it not. In other words, the lights shines in darkness, the
darkness can’t do a thing about it. Neither can the darkness receive it, but it
doesn’t mean that man is not to be judged.)
Now, so here we have the premise,
“In the beginning God…” Who was the Word at that time, from the dawn of
creation, already everything was there, set in order, to start the purpose and
plan of God from the beginning to the actual fulfillment. And there’s nothing
that God can add to it or take away from it. There’s no way, shape and form. It
has to be exactly within God, and God will bring it forth the way he wants it.
And of course we understand the devil’s in there and everything else. But that
doesn’t change anything. God will bring us forth.
31. Now:
(3) All things
were made by him; without him was not anything made that was made.
(4) And in him
was life.
That’s the strange thing, we said,
“That light.” So therefore He had within Him that which would give the people
light. Now we’re talking at the same time about this Elohim, God, self-existent
Word. That’s why you get the psalmist saying, “The entrance of Thy Word brings
light,” and “Thy Word is a lamp to my feet.” [The end of the first side of the
audio tape.]
Okay, and the light shineth in
darkness, and that’s when It says the light of the glorious Gospel of Jesus
Christ shines into our hearts. So we’re looking now at this God, Word, this one
who actually manifests Himself. [Jn 1:6:]
(6) There was a
man sent from God whose name was John.
(7) The same
came for a witness, to bear witness, for a witness, to bear witness of the Light,
that all men through him might believe.
(8) He was not
that Light, but was sent to bear witness of the Light.
Now here you have the prophet
involved, and here, right now, is the way God does things, He does it by the
prophet. And, perhaps, this is why John the Baptist was known as the greatest
prophet. Jesus said there’s no greater prophet than John the Baptist. Now we,
of course, don’t see that, because we look at Moses, we look at Paul, and even
our Bro. Branham.
32. Now notice, It says [Jn 1:9], “That was
the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” And, of
course, the world there is Cosmos. It’s into the system—into the whole
structure of humanity upon earth.
Now, in the light of how we
interpret history, this is a very rough statement to take, because so many
people will argue and say, “Well, when did God do this, and when did God do
that?” But on the Great White Throne you’re going to find that they’re going to
say, “Well when did we treat you this way, and when did we not treat you this
way?” And they’re going to be condemned.
So the point of the matter is: even
as Paul said, when the Gentiles did naturally what the Jews were supposed to do
by the Word of God, it shows the Word of God is written in their hearts and
conscience, and therefore, every single person, though he denies with his
mouth, and denies with his life, he knows, because nature has proved there is a
God, and he’s turned down the proof. And when you turn down the proof of God
any way, shape or form, you go down, down, down the road; the same, as when God
starts, God comes up, up, up till the full manifestation of God takes place as
you see in the Book of Revelation, the Lamb on the Throne, the Bride around the
Throne, the 144,000, the others bringing their glory in and the Pillar of Fire
above the Throne. You see the complete conclusion.
33. Now It says he was in the world systems.
That’s right what it is, government, the program, from the Garden of Eden till
the very end time, just as you see everything written out, history writes it
out. [Jn 1:10] “He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the
world knew him not.” In other words what God did produced every bit of this.
Now you say, “What about the fact,
then, that the serpent seed came in?”
Well, who do you think made the
serpent? See? Right down the line. And remember, the serpent could argue the
Scripture and argue God. In fact, the serpent came and denied God‘s authority
and veracity, because the minute you deny the Word, you deny God. As Bro.
Branham said, “One word off is Satan’s
kingdom.”
34. Now,
“He came unto his own, his own received him not.” [Jn 1:11] And, of
course, you know right there, he’s talking about Emmanuel, God manifest in
flesh, God coming upon this earth in the form of Jesus Christ by whom God
created all things, and they turned him down.
“But,” notice [Jn 1:12], “as many as
received him, to them gave he power,” not to become, but he gave them the
authority. In other words it was authoritative that they were the children of
God, because they believe the Word.
Now remember, the Old Testament is
full of believing the prophets so shall you prosper. That’s what they believed
was the prophets. And Jesus said, “search the Scripture, for in them you think
you have eternal life, and they are they that testify me.” And he said, “Moses
spoke of me.” But they were off the Word of God. They couldn’t take it.
35. Now,
now notice what It says [Jn 1:12]: they were given the authority... That word
‘power’ does not mean ‘dunemes’. It’s ‘exusia’, which means ‘authority’. ...to
be the sons of God or to take their position in the knowledge that they are the
children of God. Now look at it. We’re talking about God, a certain portion of
Him, His spirit. That is because life is spirit. A certain portion is given in
order to illuminate man. Why, you know the Book of John yourself, how It says
that he’ll lead us into all truth—absolutely. Then how does he does it? He
said, “I’ll bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I’ve said unto
you.” You’re right back again to the Word. You keep them in absolute close
harmony together.
36. Now notice:
(12b) ...Even to
them that believe on His name:
(13) Who were born
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor the will of man, but born of
God.
So therefore, light cannot come, the
spirit cannot deal successfully with anyone but the children of God. And
remember, as in Adam all die even so in Christ, all are made alive. And that
means identical manner, which means we did not have a part in Adam’s sin. We’re
blamed for our own, but he’s the one that brought it on us by not watching Eve,
and taking the issue to her. He just went right along and brought every one of
us into death. And so, if we had nothing to do with where we stand, we have
nothing to do with our standing in Christ now. See? Our state can be another
thing entirely. But the standing, as we stand as sinners, period; for all have
sinned and come short of the glory of God. Now we stand Christ in him, God in
him having done the work. He is our righteousness, and, if he is our
righteousness, then we have become the righteousness of God.
In other words, if I become a
biscuit, the biscuit is me. If I become a pianist, the pianist is me. If I
should turn into an angel, which God forbid, I couldn’t do it anyway, then
that’s who I am.
So he is our righteousness. And we,
now, are the righteousness of God. Why? Because there’s only one righteousness,
all of our righteousness is as filthy rags. So, all right. We’re getting to the
picture here.
37. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt
among us.” [Jn 1:14a] Now that’s God becoming flesh and dwelling among us. And
It says we beheld God’s glory. Now how did you behold it? It says, “we beheld
His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and
truth.” [Jn 1:14b] Jesus the Son of God was the temple of the living God, and
God manifested through him. And therefore, because He manifested through him,
they said, “Oh, Jesus healed the sick.”
Jesus did not heal the sick; God
healed the sick. Jesus did not open the eyes of the blind man, although he was
credited, and if he hadn’t a-been there, it would not have been done. But he
said, “The works that you see me do,” he said, “they are what the Father is
doing through me.” And he said, “If you don’t believe that I’m in the Father
and the Father in me, then believe for the very works sake, because I’m telling
you: as a man, I can’t do that.” And no man can do that. But Jesus was given
credit the same as Moses was given credit. Even as Jesus said, “Go now you
twelve and you seventy, heal the sick, raise the dead, open the blind eyes,
cast out devils.” Oh they couldn’t do that on any Sunday morning or Saturday
night. He gave them power. The spirit of God is what did it through them. And
that’s what you’re looking at.
38. Now, “John bare witness of him,” [Jn
1:15] that’s of God, and the witness of the Son of God in whom God dwelt. And
remember, God testified, “This is my beloved son in whom I’m well pleased.” And
Bro. Branham said, “That literally meant,
‘in whom I am dwelling, I’m pleased to dwell in him’.’” And anybody knows
that God was so pleased with the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ that God
looked down upon it and passed over all of His children’s sin and made them
completely righteous through the shed blood. In other words it’s called the
satisfaction of God. God was satisfied. The price is paid; delivery is next.
39. All right, let’s keep reading.
(15) John bare
witness of him, and saying, this was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after
me is preferred before me: for he was before me.” (Now, you’re looking at Jesus
in that respect as well.)
(16) And of his
fullness have we all received, grace for grace. {Now listen:)
(17) For the law
was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. (Now this is John
the Baptist telling you this.)
(18) No man has
seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the
Father, he hath declared him.
Now is John the Baptist telling you the
truth? Jesus said, “I and my Father are one.” And he said, “I am in my Father’s
care, and He is doing these things, and He’s giving me the words to say.” Now,
(19) And this is
the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to
ask him, Who are you?”
(20) And he
confessed, and denied; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
(21) And they
asked him, Well, if not, then are you Elias (That’s Elijah)? He said, No, I’m
not. Are you that prophet? He said, No, I’m not.
You see, they knew that Elijah had
to come. They knew Messiah had to come. They knew a prophet had to come. But
they couldn’t put it together. And that’s what you’re looking at right today in
the world. They can’t put it together.
(22) And they said
unto him, Who are you (then)? That we may give an account to those that sent
us. What do you say of yourself? Who are you?”
(23) And he said,
I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the
Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
In other words he said, “I am the
Word of God made manifest in human flesh for this hour.” What do you think of
that? That’s what he told them.
Now, if God would do that with the
prophet, and we’re the children of the prophets, shouldn’t we be the Word of
God made manifest? Bro. Branham said so, “Living
epistles read and known of all men.” And that’s got to be the Word of God.
And where do you start? You’ve got
to start by believing it. If you don’t believe in a thing, why would you want
to do it? You know, people get hoodwinked so easy, but it’s hard to give them
the truth.
(24) And they
which were sent were of the Pharisees.
(25) And they
asked him, and said, Why baptizest thou then, if thou art not that Christ, or
Elijah, nor the prophet?”
(26) John answered
and said, I baptize with water: but there stands one among you, whom you know
not.
(27) He it is, who
coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to
unloose.
Now John knew right there that God
was going to indwell this person that he’s going to baptize in water. And this
is Messiah. This is the Son of God. This is the Lamb of God.
(28) These things
were done at Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
(29) The next day
John sees Jesus coming, and said, Behold the Lamb of God which takes away the
sin of the world.
Now he doesn’t say ‘the Lamb, which
is God’. He said, “the Lamb of God.”
(30) This is he of
whom I said, After me cometh a man (That’s what It says. Didn’t say he was God.
Says he’s a man.) which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
John understood. Right there the
un-incarnated Jesus, the Son of God who was in the heavenly realm and now came
down to earth in a human body. And he understood, absolutely, that God would be
in that vessel, because that was his commission. You can read that in Luke.
(31) And I knew
him (the man) not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am
I come baptizing with water.
(32) And John bare
record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it
abode upon him.
(33) And I didn’t
know that man, I didn’t know him: but he (God) that sent me to baptize with
water, the same (God) said unto me, Upon whom thou seest the Spirit (that’s a
man) descending, and remaining on him, this – this, remaining on him, the same
is he (a man) which baptizes with the Holy Ghost.
(34) And I saw,
and bare record that this (man) is the Son of God.
40. Now, if you can’t understand... I’ve
taken a long time here. I hope by now you really understand that this Word is
not Jesus. It’s God Himself, as Bro. Branham said on many occasions. But
because he made reference to Jesus being the Logos, people get confused. And
because he used the word deity... And you’d have to be very careful there,
because the word ‘deity’ is from the Latin ‘deious’ which means ‘god’. And so
you don’t even need to use the word ‘deity’. You just use the word ‘god’ plain
and simply. And you don’t have to use the word ‘Godhead’. Just use God plain
and simply.
But if you use ‘Godhood’, now you’re
talking about that person in a manner which gives revelation about that person
as to His being in a period of time. And His period of time is eternity. Never
changing. Doing, yes; performing, yes; revealing Himself, yes; but never, never,
never ever changing.
41. Now, we have good authority of that by
the man, the smartest man, that ever lived. And Ecclesiastes 3:
(14) For I know
whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything
taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before Him.
(15) That which
has been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth
that which is past. (Then he says:)
(16) Moreover I
saw under the – the sun the place – the place of judgment, that wickedness was
there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
(17) And I said in
my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time
there for every purpose and for every work.
And this man looked down there, and,
knowing the prophets, he let us know here that God does everything by a
prophet, that men should fear Him. So how much fear did Bro. Branham evoke in
the people? Tidily-winks! Infinitesimal little bit, showing, out of six billion
people there wouldn’t be ten thousand elect. And at the end time, standing,
anywhere from five hundred to five thousand. And pretty soon, one third of six
billion people are going to be wiped off the earth. How will it be? I don’t
know. I don’t understand the book of Revelation that well.
42. Now, let me just go back here to 1 Tim
1:16-17: “Howbeit for this cause I obtain mercy…” Now I read those two verses,
but let me go back to Verse 1.
(1) Paul, an
apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Savior, (Notice God is
the Savior, even though He did it through Jesus Christ. See?) and Lord Jesus
Christ, which is our hope.
(2) Unto Timothy
my own son in faith – the faith: Grace, mercy and peace, from God our Father
and Jesus Christ our Lord.
(3) As I
besought thee to abide in Ephesus, when I went to Macedonia, that thou mightest
charge some that they teach no other doctrine.
Now right there, you see, you can’t
change the doctrine. People say they can worship God apart from doctrine, like
this bunch up there in Saskatoon. They broke away. I don’t believe they have a
clue to Bro. Branham’s ministry. One woman said “I won’t let my kids even hear
the name of William Branham,” and they said, “We leave doctrine outside the
door.” Well how can you worship God outside of doctrine, for he said, “In vain
do you worship me having for doctrine the traditions of men?” So you need
doctrine to worship God. So somebody blew it, after he made a couple million
bucks, I guess.
43. Now listen:
(3) I besought
thee to abide in Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge
some that they teach no other doctrine,
(4) Neither give
heed to fables and endless genealogies, ...
Now I want to just ask you something
here. When you read that first verse, “Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the
commandment of God our Savior, and Jesus Christ, which is our hope.” Are you
taking that to mean that Paul is simply stating his status: Paul an apostle of
Jesus Christ by the commandment of God? No, that’s not it at all. He’s stating
that he’s got a commandment from God to write this fellow. Now if you don’t
believe it, get some other translations than this one, because I’ve figured
that in my own mind, and then I went to some other translations, more the expanded,
and that’s the truth. Paul was commanded to write this to Timothy. Huh? Are you
believers? Well, go on; figure it out for yourself. I don’t mind. I had to
figure it out for myself.
44. Now he said here,
(5) Now the end
of the commandment (and he’s giving commandments and God told him to write it.)
is love out of a pure heart, of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
(Don’t pretend.)
(6) For some
which, having swerved aside—turned aside... That’s some, having swerved, have
turned aside unto vain jangling;
(7) Desiring to
be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they
affirmed.
(8) But we know
that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.
(9) Knowing
this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and
disobedient, for the ungodly, for sinners, for unholy, profane, for murders of
fathers and mothers and—and manslayers.
(10a) For
whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind (that’s your
homosexuals), for menstealers…
That’s the guys that stole the
Africans and made them slaves and all, and yet, everybody—all the wonderful
Christians in America—said, “Oh, slaves are right in the Bible, slaves are
fine.” What? These are menstealers. It had nothing to do with slavery. Slavery
is where you get in bondage, because you had debts and so on. Legitimate,
according to the law, they were indentured. This is where they stole people!
Even native kings over there stole them. Menstealers going to hell. That’s
where they’re going: the Lake of Fire.
So much for religion, eh? So much
for Christianity. So much for people who read the Bible. Oh, they read just
what they want to…hearing what they want to hear. Let’s get down to
nitty-gritty: are you a manstealer? Are you a kidnapper? Oh, my! “Bro. Vayle,
you’ve got to love the sinner.” I don’t think I do, because God is angry with
the wicked all the day long. I don’t know why I’m supposed to come in there.
I’ll leave it up to God. I’ve just got to read you the Word, and you keep away from
all else.
45. Now, It says: “For liars, for perjured
persons…” [1 Tim 1:10b] What about that? That’s the courts. If you perjure
yourself, you lie under oath, right? If you’re the President, it’s okay. No
problem. He leads the country just right. That’s fine, sure, sure, sure. Yeah,
and a woman the other day, you know, she’s a great woman’s lib, and she’s for
choice, you know. And she said, “We know, we’ve got to keep these Republicans
out of power.” She said, “You know what they do,” she said. “You get a bunch of
conservative judges, and they’ll reverse Roe versus Wade, and you can’t have
abortions.” Now, just a cotton-picking minute. If that isn’t the judiciary
legislating, in the final analysis, I don’t what is. So, so much for the
American constitution way of governing. We ain’t got one.
It’s money talks and sin, where
money’s made, has the loudest voice. Sure, they can spike the head of little
babies that are almost born. Look at this doctor in Lima. He’s married. He got
this woman pregnant, and then he tried to give her some drugs, so she’d have an
abortion, and now that’s murder, they’re going to put him away. “Oh yeah, oh
yeah, oh, we’re so wonderful; we’ve got to do that.” Why didn’t he spike a
bunch of little babies in their heads? Why didn’t he wait until the baby’s
being born and accidentally spike it in the head? Say, “Oh, I’ll be good to my
girlfriend, I’m a doctor, I’ll deliver the baby.” You tell me. And the world’s
not insane? I’m going to tell you, they’re not just crazy, they stink. They’re
that filthy; they stink. They’re covered with vermin and filth.
46. (10c) Perjured
people, there be any other thing that’s contrary to sound doctrine;
(11) According to the
glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. (There you
are. That’s the letter he has to write.)
(12) And I thank
(God—Lord Jesus... I thank Jesus...) Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled
me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me in the ministry,
(13) Who was
before a blasphemer, persecutor, injurious: and I’ve obtained mercy, because I
did it ignorantly in unbelief.
(14) And the grace
of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ
Jesus.
(15) This is a
faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
(16) Howbeit for
this cause I obtain mercy, that in me first Christ might show forth all
longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on Him to
everlasting life.
(17) Now unto the
king eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for
ever and ever.
Now, let’s just look at that little
verse down there. Unto the king eternal, immortal… Now that’ll throw you for a
loop right there. That’s where the Jesus Only could say, “Well, you see right
there, brother, that’s got to be Jesus, because, you see, this word means
incorruptible, this word means that, you know, that... Something could be
corrupted, but this can’t be.” And the body of Jesus didn’t corrupt, that’s
true. But the Bible said, thou will not suffer thy holy one to see corruption.
That’s a different story entirely.
But you can’t make this Jesus-Only,
and you can’t make it Trinity, because It says: “Now unto the king.” That’s
sovereign. “Now unto the sovereign, eternal king.” So He’s king forever. He
always was; He always will be. And being king, He’s in complete charge of
Himself and every single thing that He has created or breathed life into, which
are His children. And every one that He hasn’t breathed life into, He’s in
control. And furthermore, when He gave His only begotten Son, the Son purchased
everybody so every sinner and every child of God is obligated to serve God.
Yes, they are. That’s why every knee shall bow at one time and every tongue
confess to the glory of God that Jesus Christ is Lord.
47. Now He’s eternal, yes sir, and He is
immortal, He cannot corrupt. Now, let’s just talk about this One. Now, all
right, we’ll read here in The Entombment, “And then, no doubt in my mind but that’s what Jesus had in his mind
when he was here on earth was that infallibility of God’s eternal Word. For we
know that in him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily, the entire Godhead
was in him.” As Bro. Branham said, “God,
plus Jesus Christ, was the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” “He was both Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but
dwelt in a human form, the theophany of God, the great image of God that He
made man in, then placed him in the earth. He had a body. God is not without a
body. God’s got a body, and it looks like a man. Moses saw it, others saw it,
and it looks like a man.”
Well, God made man in His image?
Right? Ok, let’s talk about God’s image. Okay, in Gen 6:8 and I Pet 3:12, we
have: God has eyes. Isa 66:1: He has feet. Prov 28:9: He has ears. Isa 53:1: He
has arms. And in Isa 49:16: He’s got palms. In Psa 18:15 and Isa 65:5: He’s got
nostrils. In Num 12:8: He’s got a mouth. And in Isa 42:1, He’s got a soul. Exo
33:20-23, He’s got a face. And on and on and on.
48. So if I had the board here, I’d draw you
a picture. And I’d say, “All right, God, He’s got a face,” and I’d make a
square up here and cauliflower ears and scallops and a mouth, straight across,
and one eye square, and one eye like a triangle. Ahhh! You’re looking at a
pretty poor specimen of the image of God but, believe me, I don’t have a square
head. I may be a square head, speaking from the standpoint of psychology and
stupidity; but I don’t have an eye that’s a triangle. My eyes are normal to the
degree they’re normal eyes. My ears the same way—a little arch maybe. I’ve got
nostrils. I’ve got a mouth. I have palms. I have hands. I have feet. God has a
breast; I’ve got a breast. God has bowels; I’ve got bowels.
49. And another thing I want to tell you:
Jesus Christ was the image of God. And when he came down to take this place,
wherein God created a sperm and an egg... Now God literally created them. They
had nothing to do with anything that God had previously created. This was a
brand new creation. And all Mary did was use the chemistry of her body in order
to bring the supplements out of the ground through her body to give him the
body that he would have naturally from the genes of God, and his… As a little
baby boy, he had beautiful hands and beautiful feet. And Mary; he was the
cutest thing you ever saw and anybody ever saw in their lives.
Now, actually, there might have been
a little baby boy down the street twice as handsome and twice as pretty. I
don’t care two bits about that. The point of the matter is that he had a body,
and it was a human body. The One Who came down had to fit into that body, so he
didn’t have arms like an octopus, he didn’t have a nose like an elephant’s got
a trunk, he didn’t have one eye like a Cyclops (if there is such a thing— which
there isn’t), or a horn on his head like a unicorn or a neck like a giraffe.
When he came forth, they said, “Hey,
that’s a cute little baby. Let’s see, he’s got brown eyes. Now wait a minute,
where’d he his brown eyes from? Well, it must be some time back, you know.”
They said, “Well, I’m going to tell you something, this child is born into the
tribe of Judah, and we’re just going back That’s all. The genes will come on
down.”
50. So I’m trying to show you here that
we’re looking at the fact that God has a body—and if it took on a form that was
literally coming forth from what lay within God, because that’s how your body
and mine come forth, and it—came forth just like you and me. That’s how we’re
made in the image of God. And Jesus was the image of God. And if he was the
image of God, do you think for one minute he’d have taken on anything but the
image he’s supposed to take on, which image he gave to Adam, and the image was
broken? See? So we’re looking at the fact now of God having a body. Now, that
body cannot be corrupted.
51. Now, if God is Logos, which is the Word,
and as I explained before, It is with God and It is God, you show me where
Jesus was not with his body, which was Jesus. For the Bible says, “Don’t seek
the living amongst the dead.” And they weren’t talking about Jesus, the soul
man. They were talking about the body. You cannot identify anybody apart from
his body. You can’t do it.
In a criminal case, you have got to
go to the body, even to the extent of the DNA. And when you can find the DNA,
you can match anybody to that DNA. And there’s only one person that’s going to
fit it of billions of people. And the earth by now has had maybe, what, 35
billion people? It had about five billion at the time of Noah. That’s four
thousand years ago or more. How many billions?
52. So we’re looking at the fact that there
is a body. And the body identifies. And the body, at all times, is spoken of as
the individual. And yet, we know, when you say John Brown’s body is here, John
Brown’s soul is marching on someplace else. And yet, you know that you are
burying John Brown. And when that John Brown, should he arise in the
resurrection, you know that that’s John Brown, though John Brown’s not there,
the real John Brown is in the body. But the body is the real John Brown. You
can’t get away from it. And yet it is with it, and it is. Why? Because the life
there brought forth that body. Now, if we’ve got God, and it’s this Word is
with Him and it is He, and there’s nothing else there, then you understand,
what comes there has to come out of what already was there.
Furthermore, let’s get this flat:
God is not a light, period. He can appear in a light, but a light is inanimate.
A light is a created thing or an emination only. We are talking in terms of
that which illuminates our minds, so we know what is being talked about. And
you could say this: when God breathed His spirit into man, you don’t have to
use the word ‘light’. You could use ‘revelation’, whereby this man became
aware. But since it speaks of darkness as the opposite, then it talks about
light, because light comes in and illuminates. That’s why It tells you there
was life, and the life was light.
Remember, when God said, “Let there
be light,” an actual light appeared, and it wasn’t God. It was
created—creative. And so, therefore, as God speaks, immediately there comes
into existence, and it may not be the full existence. It could be whatever is
necessary at that point. For instance, your name and mine he’s put in the Book
of Life, the Lamb’s Book of Life. But until it’s spoken, it wouldn’t have to be
in existence. As Bro. Branham said, “Even
when spoken, it could take thousand of years before it took place.”
53. So here we find, as I understand this,
that God is absolutely one with His Word, because that Word could come from
nowhere but God. And that Word, being creative, had to have God in it. Right!
That’s Logos, or It never could have brought forth what was to be brought forth.
And when God said, “I will now bring forth My Son,” He wanted a Son, and there
was nothing there but God. And therefore, the Son was birthed from God, because
the woman actually... Let’s get this flat now: the woman actually forms that
child through her processes of the life which is in he. And God did not need
any woman or any man or any help by the life processes of God’s life Himself.
He brought forth that one which was a part of God, and brother... They asked
the question of Bro. Branham, “What’s the difference between God and Jesus?”
Now we’re speaking, going back to eternity. He said, “There is no difference, except sons have beginnings,” children have
beginnings.
So therefore, Jesus had a part and
was a part of the eternal God. Now, the thing is, is he deity? By no means he
is deity. We’re here in 1 Tim 1:17; now It says, “Unto the king eternal,” no
beginning, no end, “immortal.” ‘Immortal’ because there’s no way that you can
ever get the Word to ever stop, because remember, in the beginning was the Word.
It was already there. But you realize that something happened, so that the Word
was with God, but the Word was God, and it was there. Now, “invisible,”
certainly God’s ‘invisible’. And any Word body is invisible, because we know
Jesus had a Word body and Bro. Branham absolutely said, “We bypassed our Word bodies.” Which we will catch up to.
Now, notice, “the only wise God.” So
we’re talking now, about one God, and one God alone, and that God is not Jesus
Christ. Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
54. Now, all right. Let’s look at this fact
now. “Unto the king eternal, immortal, invisible.” And He made a Son in His
image, and that Son already was eternal, not that He did not have a beginning
with the eternality of God. He did have a beginning with the eternality of God,
which was that life. The same as you and I have. That’s why Bro. Branham said,
“You’ll come to a time when you’ll
realize you always were saved.” Now remember, Bro. Branham said, “He did not lay aside that Word body, but he
had it and no doubt he brought it with him, but you and I did not have it.”
55. Now, let’s go to 2 Corinthians. And this
is Lee Vayle talking from Bro. Branham’s tips, or his teaching. And I’m teaching
you what I believe from what Bro. Branham taught, so this tape tonight is Lee
Vayle. Okay, 2 Cor 5:1; “For we know that if our earthly house of this
tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens.” And Bro. Branham said, “That body that you and I bypassed is eternal.”
Right away, the mind says, “A body,
a body, a body; yes, yes, yes, a body. What about a body? It couldn’t be
eternal.” You’re wrong. You missed it one hundred percent. Because, as a body
of Jesus, and God Himself had that body eternal, it’s a Word body. And if that
Word is God, then it’s eternal—never had a beginning. And you and I, therefore,
have that, and we go to it. That’s a mystery that I finally began to see,
because I believe what Bro. Branham said.
My own thinking, my own reading,
said, “Oh, this is a resurrection. This is something that can’t be.” Because,
you see, I didn’t look at the fact it talked about the immortal God, and when
you talk about the immortal God, and He’s eternal, you don’t need to put that
word ‘immortal’ in there when addressing God before “the beginning.”
56. How could Paul have an epistle that God
said, “You write this to Timothy,” and that be just thrown in there? Well, come
on; tell me. I’ll let you teach me. I’m anxious. I won’t listen though, because
I’ve already got the answer. He uses the term ‘incorruptible body’. God has a
body, and when He expressed Himself, it was a man. And Bro. Branham
categorically took that place and that explains how Bro. Branham knew He was a
man when God put Moses in the cleft of the rock, put His hand over him, and He
showed him His back parts, and Bro. Branham said, “It was the back of a man; it was a bleeding back.” Then if he’d
said anything different, he’d a been wrong, because if he’s got a bosom, a
breast, in the sense, like a harbor, a place of safety, sanctity, He’s got to
have a back. If He’s got bowels, He’s got a heart, He’s got a soul, He’s got
this, He’s got that. Then it’s material; we’re talking in terms of materiality.
But when you’re talking in terms of God material, you’re talking about the
eternal, incorruptible—God.
This is exactly why Bro. Branham
said we bypassed that incorruptible, that immortal Word body, spirit body. I
don’t like the word ‘theophany’ although you can use it very vaguely, and you
can, but don’t... I won’t use it, because it puts too much emphasis on us
toward God, when we’re like one drop in all the oceans of the world, one drop
of water compared to our Heavenly Father. So I just prefer the term ‘Word body’
because that’s what’s in the Bible here: “In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
57. So you can see right now that we are all
of God basically, and He gave us a body which was formed from created things.
Jesus’ wasn’t; it was only sustained by it. That’s all. Developed. He gave us a
spirit allowed of God but not of God. And when it’s all over, we leave this
body, ditch it, and we go to the one that we bypassed. And Bro. Branham saw it,
and it was beautiful: the ninety year old woman that came up to hug him and
there was no sex feelings at all, just love and rejoicing and children of God,
like little kids, beautiful time. The woman said, “don’t you recognize me?” “No.” “Why,” the voice said, “she was the
one that got saved at ninety years of age,” and she’s a beautiful young woman,
18 to 19 years old, flowing hair down to her shoulders, everybody young and
happy.
They had these bodies. They weren’t
eating and drinking. There was no need to. When you bypassed that body, you
came down to a body that needed to eat and drink. And you came through this
process that Bro. Branham explained. And so here it is before us, very
beautifully, so we go to that body.
58. Now, again, in Timothy, It says, “the
only wise God.” [1 Tim 1:17] Now notice in here, that omnipotence is not
mentioned, because omnipotence is already mentioned when you mention God. You
have to mention wisdom, the only wise God, because now we see power harnessed
with wisdom, and wisdom flowing from love. How in the world can you possibly
have anything else?
Now this is where we come back to
the thought of “in Him was life”— in Him was zoe. And that’s where you come
down to the life of man is zoe. You come down to animal life. It’s zoe. You
come down, all the way down... In Him was this ability to start with man on
earth with His life. But when the devil came along and tempted Eve and brought
in another spirit, another life, which she carried in her womb, that brought
the whole world down in sin and finally, the one lump where, today, even
science recognizes one mother, two fathers, ninety-nine point so many percent
of one father; ziltch—zero, almost, of the other father. But don’t let that
confuse you and think you can figure out the percentage of saints on the earth,
because that’s not the way it goes. It’s still all one lump. It only proves
there’s one mother and two fathers.
But science would like to say, from
Eve, there sprang seven more women whereby those seven women now become the
wombs of all the babies that came forth. I don’t know how they figure it up,
but it’s fine by me. Maybe it was because a daughter or daughters of Eve
married Cain and some of Cain’s offspring and out they came—six or seven
‘alpha’ women. I’ve got no fight with that at all, because, let’s face it, when
Abraham had these two boys, the one by the Egyptian girl and one by Sarah, and
then he had ten more, I think by Keturah, you’ve got twelve right there like
the twelve tribes of Israel. And you’ve got them all out here strung out here,
about eleven or twelve, whatever they are. Where are they? They’re out there
somewhere. Who cares? I’m not interested. But, you see, you can take all of
these figures and relate them back to the Bible. But the main thing is to see
and understand the truth of what we’re talking about here.
59. Now, let’s finally go to Timothy 6, my
last verse I’m going to take here. And It says here, [I Tim 6:14-16]
(14) I’ll keep His
commandments without spot, (notice, it’s… he’s writing this letter from God, to
this man) unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: (I think
that’s the epiphanea.)
(15) Which in his
times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings
and Lord of lords;
(16a) Who only hath
immortality, dwelling in the light, unto which no man can approach;
Now notice, he used the word
‘immortality’ again, “dwelling in light unto which no man can approach.” Well
if you can’t approach unto Jesus, you’re not going to get to God. “The King of
kings and Lord of lords,” remember, Bro. Branham said, “When that spirit that’s amongst us becomes incarnated to us, we’ll
crown him King of king and Lord of lords.” And that will be the Son of man,
the Son of David, the Son of God, the Rose of Sharon, the Altogether Lovely.
What’s he talking about? He’s talking about God being incarnated in Jesus. And
the whole story is about God.
Bro. Branham also mentions, I don’t
know if I got it written down here concerning how Jesus is the Word. But we
read it to you anyway. So there we have it right here. And It says here “who no
man has seen or can see.” (You’re going to see Jesus, aren’t you?) “to whom be
honor and power everlasting.” [1 Tim 6:16b] So here we find Godhead completely
given to us in the Bible as Bro. Branham gave it, because he got it from the
Bible.
60. I had some quotes sent to me from Bro.
Laurie Hudson, and some were very good. Let’s see; here’s the one on duality. “How can this one denying the virgin birth
or this one divine …?…” In other words, how can people be…denied divine
healing and all these things here? “Some
of them don’t even believe in God or believe He was a Son of God. They believe
that he was a son of Joseph.” And he said, “What it is, they don’t realize that the one down here on earth, he was
divine, he was deity himself, made flesh among us in the person of the Son of
God.” Certainly! So that tells you right there the duality that we’ve
understood here for many years.
“In the beginning was the Word, the
Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Sure, see, the Word was in God, it
was God; it was His thoughts that were with Him always, there, God’s thoughts,
eternal. So you see, in Him, and then coming forth manifested, that has to be
God because nothing else will do it. God alone has that power.
61. Now, I realize that, because we are of a
western culture, and we have been taught so many things that are absolutely
against real revelatory ministries, like Bro. Branham had, and what you see in
the Bible, it is difficult to begin to truly understand John’s viewpoint of
Logos, which, as we’ve said many times, as Bro. Branham used the simplicity of
“the thought expressed.” But in the Greek it actually means whatever’s
expressed has to be literally there, not just a word, as though you say, ‘a
lion’. God could not just say ‘lion’ and there not be a lion there. This is not
‘diccuption’ or ‘substitution’. This is reality. The thing itself made real by
visibility to you.
62. You have to understand that God actually
is in His Word, bringing His every Word to pass—every single one. And as Jesus
was part of that Word, you and I are also, in our day, a minor part of that
Word. Look, if the prophets had God in them, they veiled God, they were God to
the people, they brought the Word of the living God to the people, which is
true. Now, the Bible said, “You are the children of the prophets.”
You tell me what prophet was my
father. I don’t have any clue about any prophet except Bro. Branham, and he was
only five years older than I am. When he married Meda, she was ten years
younger. And he admits that she was his daughter. Now how could he have a
daughter ten years younger? What we’re telling you here, the children of the
prophets are those who have the living Word of God within them. They are the
children, and the children are the ones who get turned back to the prophets,
and it took a prophet to do it. And that prophet was literally God manifested
in human flesh, as Bro. Branham said, “It
was promised at the end time that God would once more manifest Himself in human
flesh.” How many people really believe it? They can’t do it; they cannot
adjust to it. We can, because we saw it, and we know it. We know the Scripture
Bro. Branham was using, and he was that Word made flesh to us.
63. Now the next big adjustment, and it’s
just hard on… and for me too, and I find it difficult, because my mind has
never been trained this way, but I have to admit the Bible that says here, “In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,”
and we have to take Bro. Branham’s stand, absolutely, the Word is God, even to
the extent we said, as other people have said, this Bible is God in print. If
this is God in print, what was there before the print? The same God—the same
Word. And why is it? Because this Word—and which not one Word is void of power,
but every single Word has to come in absolute manifestation, and that alone,
God can do(—has to manifest, that is, come to pass).
So therefore, God is the Word. God
is in His Word. Just take it back to the fact, “He sent His Word to heal them.”
What Word? What Word? There’s nothing a word of man can do. It’s only the Word
of God. Why? Because God is in His Word. People try to tell you God’s in His
church. God’s in His Word. People in this message try to tell you that. It
won’t work. It will not cut, because that is not true.
64. All right, here it comes, “God’s thoughts was His Word,” in the
beginning (that’s in eternity, now, when beginning first started, see, same
thing I’ve been teaching you) in the beginning was the Word, God’s thoughts,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. See? “His thoughts is what He was, that’s with you too.” In other words,
the intrinsicality of God, spelled out, and here it comes to pass. “No matter what you try to live by, something
else, your thoughts are what you are. You might go along and act like a nice
fellow but in your heart; you’re an adulteress” (or adulterer, whatever) “or whatever it is, that’s what you are, your
thoughts. And your thoughts and God’s thoughts was His Word, that was with Him
and in Him and it was God.” See the ‘motivation’ by the ‘Motivator’—living
Motivator—come forth. That is the person. So Bro. Branham used the term ‘with’
as within, which is perfectly legal to do it.
65. So that’s the best I can show you here
and try to take it right back to the Word where the Word bodies are, where
Jesus had his body, God had a body, then God came down and manifested Himself
in human flesh
Now, there’s just one more thought I
want to bring to your attention, and I’m going to go to James 1. And remember,
Bro. Branham made the statement, “Jesus
was God, but he wasn’t God.” Now, how in the world could Jesus be God but
not God unless it’s some form of being a surrogate or a substitute or someone
to take the place? All right, here it is in verse 17: “For every good gift and
every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights,”
(Now there you are, see, you’re right back again, the fact of “thy Word giveth
light, in him was life and the life was the light of men.”) “with whom (that’s
God) is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
How could Jesus be God and not God,
and anybody make him deity or make him God, when that shows variableness and
turning? Can’t do it. Can’t do it. There’s only one God. Bro. Branham
thoroughly explained it. And have I been nailed to the cross on that one. But
I’m happy, because I’m right. I don’t gloat in it. I’m just glad that I know. I
don’t try to teach anything in my defense. I try to teach what is true. And as
I tell you, I’ve struggled with some things but not with others. But there’s
our point tonight, and we’ll leave it right there on the subject of God. So let
us pray.
Heavenly Father, we thank You for the
time we’ve had together in Your Word. And we pray, Lord God, that You will help
us to understand more of depth of the revelation of it, as Bro. Branham brought
it and with his familiarity with it. But we realize, Lord, that he could be
much, much more familiar than we are, because he lived his life this way with
You there and, many times Lord, You were his overcoat, so to speak, that You
spoke through him. And we know with “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” there’s nobody but
nobody could ever say that unless, Lord, You spoke through that man. And we
know that You did.
We understand that absolutely
perfectly, at least as far as we can in our imperfections, and appreciate it so
much. And we pray you’ll reign down upon us the truth, as we continue to go
along, until we dance in the rain of God with our mouths open for the latter
rain. We want to be filled and saturated within and without by this rain that
has fallen upon us, this teaching rain in this hour, that it may be our very
life blood; that it may be, not just the plasma, but the actual blood flow, the
red corpuscles and all that keep bringing us our very life and bringing its own
food with it that we might be truly nourished up in You.
Help us now, Lord, be the way you
want us to be and come forth now at this end time in the Resurrection, those
that have gone before us and those at this point now hopefully believing shall
not see death but be standing here for the Resurrection and the Rapture. And
there we shall see that one who died for us and realize at the same time, we’re
looking upon God in man, the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and realize that
we’re all part of your family for the glory of him. May it be for Your true
glory that we’ve given you a little bit of glory. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.
[Bro. Vayle begins Communion service.]