Who Is This Melchisedec? # 15
Bro. Lee
Vayle
October 2, 1988
Heavenly Father, we know that all
things are possible. It was possible
that Mary could conceive and bring forth a child without male intervention, a
child of God, Lord, the seed of the woman.
It was also possible, Lord, that Peter could receive a revelation, “Thou
art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.”
These things, Lord, bypassed human mind and human instrumentality and
they were just revelations, Lord, that You gave and they knew it, Father. And we pray the same will be with us
today. Give us the revelation of
Yourself, and the knowledge of Yourself, O God, by the spirit of wisdom, the
knowledge, the truth, Lord, we pray in this hour and we’ll be happy to give You
the praise. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.
Now, last Wednesday we were
definitely attempting to inculcate the principle of Alpha and Omega in order to
understand more of the beginning. It’s
like I mentioned some time ago that when you have a question--and especially in
school--and you don’t know how to figure it out, but you do know how to work
from the answer back to the problem; then you work from the answer back to the
problem, and then you work from the problem back to the answer. And it works.
Now, that’s the principle of Alpha and Omega, and Heb13:8, that, “Whatever God was in the beginning, He’s at the end.” And if the beginning is very, very, sketchy, it’s too veiled in mystery because it’s too far back, then you should have by the grace of Almighty God somebody who is able to present Omega, then you would actually know what Alpha was. And this is where we are in this hour--though people do not want to recognize a vindicated prophet--we have the perfect revelation of the Word for this hour. And whether we can assimilate it, as we would like to, is another question. But that might not be so necessary as long as we know where we stand according to the Scripture.
Now we know that Bro. Branham was
thoroughly a vindicated prophet. So now,
he’s way down here in this area here, [Bro.
Vayle begins to draw on the board R.D.P.]
which has to do with Ephesians 1, beginning about verse 17, Paul praying; the
spirit of wisdom, knowledge and the revelation of Him would come into the
church. That they might know the things
that at the end time would consummate in a Resurrection and a Rapture, and of
course all events from that time on right up to the great White Throne, past
it, into the New Jerusalem. So here we
have Eph 1:17-18, right in that area,
well it’s actually to twenty-three, and of course this is the first step of the
Rapture which is the Descent. The Descent, which is the Presence. Okay, we got that much then.
Now, from that time on we’ll read
over here in 1 Corinthians 15, and I think by now you can actually know where
I’m going to go each time. A brother was
sitting in a church one day and he said, “I knew ahead of time Bro. Vayle what
you were going to say, and what Scripture.”
And I thought the man, he really overstated himself because you’ve sat
under my ministry for all these years and you don’t know where I’m going all
the time, and he overstated himself. So
I don’t feel too bad if you don’t know where I’m going exactly but you do know
I’m going to 1 Corinthians 15.
And that tells you here, concerning
the Resurrection, because the whole chapter deals on the Resurrection of those
who come back into immortality having gone to dust and ashes, as Bro. Branham
said, and to gases, and those that are standing here to be changed by access to
the tree of Life and be granted immortality because the time has run out. God has a schedule. All right, now, verse 20.
(20) But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept.
Now when He does that, this is a
begotten. This is the first begotten
from the dead and it’s one of the begottens of God. Remember, God begat in the beginning,
remember that. The very beginning, that’s the very beginning, God begat. In order to Himself become into the form of
the Son, to bring in the principle of Sonship.
Then He was begotten in the form of a Son through the creation of the
sperm and the egg. That’s a begetting,
and that’s...He’s the Only-begotten Son because nobody else had beginnings like
this. Then He was begotten from the
dead. At least we have three because God
does everything in three. We’ve got the
three begettings.
Okay, here is a begetting here,
right here--the first-fruit. And
remember we come in all the same way.
Bro. Branham said we do. We come
all the same way, the same are ours is His.
Now that’s what he said, right?
So we’ve got to believe it, and we do believe it because we see it here.
(21) For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
(22) For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Now that’s absolutely the
truth. Everyone that died in Adam is
made alive because of Christ, and it tells you why. It tells you;
(47) The first man is the earth earthy: the second man is the Lord from Heaven.
(45) The first man (Adam.) was made a living soul; (Became a living soul;) the last Adam became a quickening spirit.
Notice the progression, becoming,
and when you become it signifies that you already were and you’re in a
metamorphosis. Right? You already were. Now you see most everybody does not
understand, you already were. See? You already were a son by virtue of the fact
of, you were. You don’t have to question
the thing because this is a fact. Okay,
then it says here.
(46) Howbeit that which is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; after that which is spiritual.
And it tells you right there, it
says, “You never had a spirit body to begin with, you had a natural body.” Jesus had a spirit body being the man from
Heaven, we did not. First of all we had
natural, then you go to the spirit, then you bring the spirit-body back, pick
up your local-body, which was in dust and ashes, and if you and I are here it
meets us in the air, and we go on with the glorified body. Just like Jesus. Now show me a difference. See Bro. Branham said it, now you see how the
Scripture is Scripture all...Scripture is perfect, prophet of God is perfect. No problem.
Okay, we’re reading back then, it says here in the 23rd verse.
(23) But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his presence.
Now you can use that word ‘Presence’
in the Descent like we have here, or you can use it actually at the very
Presence of God when you’re in the Presence of Jesus Christ when He becomes
incarnated by the Spirit of God that’s in the midst of us, because the word is
progressive. Everything in God is
progressive. And look it, if it didn’t
start way back up here, it couldn’t be down here. [Bro.
Vayle points to the board out of view] And if you see it down here, it’s got to be up there. Right?
Okay, we understand that.
(24) Then the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
(25) For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
(26) The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
(27) For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, (There is an exception to the rule of everything going under His feet.) which did put all things under him.
In other words, God is doing this,
putting all things under the feet, literally of Jesus, and God Himself never
comes under the feet of Jesus. Headship
of Christ is God: and headship of us is Christ.
Headship of woman is man, and from there on there isn’t any. You go back to total obedience, to the
original headship. We ever get this
lined up we’ll have a tremendous, tremendous, church before the Bride gets away
from here I believe we’re going to find every man and woman in his and her
place. And you won’t find women out of
place and you won’t find men out of their place at present it’s pretty icky. I mean that’s about the best I can say to be
nice up here without you know, my usual abrupt manner of describing things
which many times are not very nice. And
then it says here;
(28) And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all and in all.
Now notice what it says here, verse
24.
(24) Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father;
Now notice what it says. If he’s delivering the kingdom up to God even
the Father it is the Son doing it, and it says over here, the Son is subject.
But notice in verse twenty-eight it does not call Him Father. It goes back to the essential and intrinsic
where God was everything to be that was within Him, then He begin manifesting
it, and doing something about it.
See? But, now you go back to the
place where it’s all been done.
So here, let’s begin to work our
little, our nice little picture down here. [8nj] All right, down here we
have the New Jerusalem which is the Bride’s city. Okay, these are all made up of the Elect, [8e] the very Elect, [8ve] which are the Bride, the sons of
almighty God, all in through here. Now
there’s millions of them without a doubt.
Okay, on the throne here [5l]
is the Lamb. No you’ll notice I’m going
to make Him solid green because this is the Son of God, as no body else ever
was a son of God, or will be a son of God.
Now at this particular time the
Pillar of Fire.[1pf] That is verse twenty-eight. Now that let’s you know that we are now back
to, well, got a little bit more out here.
This is the wall out here,[W] the wall here and all outside of here are all
these [8oc] other children of
God. Now they’re the same because
there’s foolish virgin and wise virgin are all the same, it’s just that
they..one was in the election in one area [8ve]
and one was in the election in the other
area [8e]
and they all had a natural election.
So, we have our picture here.
Now the question comes up, how many
gods do you see? Well if you’re colour blind,
or there’s something wrong with you, you may see more than one; but I can only
see one. I don’t see two gods. I don’t see the foolish Trinity of God the
Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost because there ain’t no such thing. There is one God who is eternal Spirit, who
never had a beginning and never has an end, and can only be known by revelation
in the manner in which He wants to reveal Himself. Now evidently at this particular time, God
has done all He wants to do with the children and all that was within Him.
So, you’re looking at a picture here
of God completed in threes. Here, [1pf]
up here is God, Holy Spirit. Down
here [5l] now, is God, the life of
God in the Son containing all the attributes of God, that part of God which God
wanted to manifest of which the Scripture said, “The only begotten Son,” at
this point, is in the bosom of His Father.
You can do what you want with it.
It’s an absolute statement. And
where did He come from? He came from the
bosom of Him? You say, “What’s a
bosom?” It’s up here [1pf] but it’s also means a stream, or a
river.
So therefore in this great river, [1pf]
this great fountain of God, there poured forth not God the Son, but the
Son of God. And here’s where the
Trinitarians lose all there hold and understanding and they can’t understand
us, and they say, “Poor Bro. Branham, the trouble was he wasn’t taught by a
proper theologian.” Who? The Pope?
Or the Assemblies of God? Or some
mealy mouthed Baptist that’ll end up in adultery as most of them seem to
do? Spiritual, a lot of them
physical? No, no not the Assemblies of
God. Let’s face it, I was around them
too many years. And not the Baptist,
I’ve hung around them too. Not the
Presbyterians, I was born into them. No,
there is no theology whatsoever to back them up. They are guessing.
Here [1pf] is what we have at the end time by vindicated proof. You say, “Well, I don’t believe the prophet
was vindicated.”
Fine and dandy, be my guest. Suppose that he was--you’re lost. I’d hate to lose any of you but you’re gone,
because this [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar
of Fire over Bro. Branham]
is a very serious thing if that is a vindication. If THUS SAITH THE LORD is a serious vindication, then everybody is
gone that doesn’t receive it.
You say, “What if they didn’t know about it?”
God always makes sure His Elect always
knows. Abraham knew, Isaac knew, Jacob
knew, everyone of the children of God always know. It just shows you where you are. And the Bible said, “Make your calling and
election sure.”
This thing was not done in a
corner. I stood there and Bro. Branham
said, “Bring me twenty-four of your worst
cases, I guarantee healing for all.” And the Pentecostals turned it down
flat as fritter. They wanted everybody
to have a chance. Let me tell you this,
in this world things do not operate by chance, they operate by God. And I’m not here to harangue them, I’m just
here to give you a story.
All right, now, this is the end
time. We see here [8nj] then God manifested
with His Sons and with His entire Kingdom.
Now the point is this, where did this [5l] come from? It came from
here.[1pf] Where did these [8ve] come from? They came in
here. [1pf] Where did these [8oc] come from? They came in
from there, [1pf] because that’s where sons come from.
The word ‘born’ means to issue forth from. To ‘beget’ means to cause to conceive. And God caused to conceive this One, [5l] when? Well let’s find out. It’s very simple. When He was way back here [1bh] all by Himself, when there wasn’t
anybody there, at no time.
Now let’s understand this, that the
sum of the parts are never greater than the whole. Now Jesus Christ could not be the whole,
because He is a part, because a son is a part of life. And Jesus said when He was on earth speaking,
not as the human being, but as in the very original, as the first begotten of
God and the only One, He said, “Restore to me the glory that I had with You in
the beginning,” and He also said, “Glorify Me with thine Ownself.”
Now before there was a speck of
stardust this was all up here alone. [1bh] And whether you want to believe it or not, it
still is the absolute truth that in here [1wv] was the wise, and in there [1fv] was the foolish all in there, and
in there, absolutely in God’s own understanding, and God’s own perfect desire;
He had in the bosom, [1b] no doubt
about it. No doubt why? Because that’s the way it is right here. [8nj]
Now the minute you try to change
this you are going to change God and His ways and the Bible said, “There’s no
way you can do it.” Now where do you get
three gods? If you want to go to the form God, then you get thee God, you get a
demi-god, and you get lesser gods. Now I
do not prefer that. I prefer to know
there is a family generically known as Holy Spirit children, and they are known
as sons of God. And it is not God the
son and God the sons although you could use that term if you knew what you were
saying. But I would prefer not to.
Now, this Son [2] said, “Glorify thou Me with thine Ownself.” And everything was there, everybody was there
[1wv – 1fv] before there was a speck
of stardust. Now the question arises; if
God is going to give distinction and form to His own, how is He going to do
it? Because there’s not a speck of stardust. He will intrinsically have to take what is
here, [1b] and allow what is in
there, [1b] to
metamorphous or become what lies within it.
Is that too hard to understand? I
don’t see any problem with it.
I’ll show you. I take and I plant a little, a little black
seed. [Sd] A little black seed, oh what a pretty little
black seed. I cover it with earth, like
so, you can’t see it. I have the rain
and the sun hit it and pretty soon I see a shoot come up here [Sh]like that. I’m not an artist, but so, what’s the
difference? And I see some leaves [L] begin to form, and I see leaves
begin to form around here, and the shoot comes up here. Then pretty soon I see a bud begin to
form. And I’m not going to draw the bud,
I’m just going to draw the little calyx there.[C] And of course being a
very poor artist, and that doesn’t bother me any, I’ll draw a little bit of a
flower up here, kind of a little rosebud. [Rb] And of course I’m not an artist, but inside
of that little rosebud, and I don’t have a yellow crayon here, but if I had a
white crayon, or something, I would then show you, and I can’t draw this right
because I don’t have the colors, I would show you I’ve got little stamens in
here, [Sp] on the pistol.
Now the point is, where are all
those colors coming from? They are not
coming from the soul, because I can take a seed and plant and an oak seed and
it won’t come up a little green sprig, it’ll come up like a brown, the bowl of
the tree. It’ll have all it’s myriad of
colors. And when it’s time for frost,
the sugar maple will turn many colors.
If you want to see a pretty sight I’ll just tell you how a pretty sight
is. Fly over
Now, this Son [2] had this body that this [1b]
life produced. Right? You’re sure now? Now look it, turn the air conditioning up to,
make it 35 if they’re going to go to sleep on me. You should have wakened up. Now I’m not fooling. I’ll not be with you forever. I don’t intend to be. Nor do I fool in this subject because this is
the subject that’s dearest in my heart, I’ve looked at, and looked at, and looked
at, one day I will know if I’ve got to go on the other side to know.
Now listen, it had it within
it. Don’t tell me then that these [1a] did not have within it. And Bro. Branham said, You bypassed it.[4bp] Theophany, right? But, you came right down here to this area
here, [Draws arrow from 1a to 6] and you
took upon yourself a body which could be tempted, and could fall into sin. Then he said, But God had a little method. He
would send the Holy Spirit down, I can’t put that in red, I’ll put that in
green, get the right colour, He’d send
the Holy Spirit down, in here, to
give you immortality and bring the body into subjection, because in this
form here, [4bp] that’s
intrinsically God.
Now I know that people don’t want to
relate human kind to that, [4bp]
because human kind is desperately wicked.
And they say, “Well Jesus was the only perfect man.” Listen, come on now, He wasn’t just a man
like you and I are, see? He, though
casting aside this [2] form which
came down here, [Draws arrow from 2 to 5] to be
tempted, knowing all things could not be tempted. So therefore the secret of
overcoming is knowledge. And that’s why
the Devil doesn’t want you and me to know that we are literally sons of
Almighty God and waiting for this glory here [4bp] that Jesus said he [the
literal sons] missed. That Bro. Branham
saw beyond the curtain of time and he said, I’ll
never be the same again.
And listen, his other visions meant
nothing along side of this, the third pull didn’t mean it, nothing meant what
he saw beyond there because he saw the people glorified with God. Saw them in a theophonic form. Now Jesus laid it aside and when He came down
here [5] into death, He picked it up
again [5rb] because the body lay
here mouldering in the grave, it didn’t moulder I beg your pardon, it could
have moulded if it weren’t for God stopping it; but it wasn’t going to
corrupt. And then He said...after He
went down to Hades [5h] in this body here, [5sb] He came back with all the rest of them, [8ots] picked up His body first, [5rb] then they [8s] all went up.
Now that’s the picture you’re
looking at and the picture you understand, and you can understand it all from
here [5l] if you just want to
understand it. And you don’t need any
great big vision. You don’t need any
great big revelation, all you’ve got to understand is the law of God--Alpha is
Omega. And the God that was up here [1bh] all by Himself is now again down
here [1pf] all by Himself except
He’s not, because every son has been brought to birth and every son is
glorified and every plan at this point [8ve]
is consummated.
Now, you may try to understand many
things about this, I would suggest to you to forget it. I positively do because the more you’re going
to question the more you’re going to rumble, the more you’re going to be
dissatisfied, you’re going to wonder what it’s all about. Well this [8nj] is what it’s all about.
And you know why I know it?
Because that man was vindicated. [Points to the picture on the
wall] I stood there and
heard him say, “Bring me twenty-four of
your worst cases.” I saw him time
after time say, THUS SAITH THE LORD,
it never failed. Do you think I
would sell this for a bunch of hogwash and Pentecost, Baptist, Methodist,
Trinitarian stuff? Now I’ll die first
and by the grace of God I will, and it’s going to be worth it.
So here’s [8nj] our picture what we’re looking at. It’s simple as ABC because that’s what it
ends up at. [8nj] Every child,
everyone that was in Christ Jesus, speaking in terms of Son-ship because He is
the older brother. Now let’s look we
find in the book of Hebrews, the 2nd chapter.
I’ve read it time after time. And
it says here.
(9) But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, that he by the grace of God should taste death for you and me. (Tempted in all things like as you and I.)
(10) For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things. (Now who is that? That’s God, G-O-D. Call Him Father, call Him what you want. You call Him by the role. The role would be Father.) by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
All right, now what’s he talking
about? He’s talking about sons who have
a captain. Who is this captain? He is thee Son of God, the Only-Begotten Son
of God. He is a Son in which, a way that
no other sons are sons. No other son is
Heb 1:3.
(3) Who being the (effulgence, out-raying,) of his glory, and the express image of his person,
You and I aren’t that. Only to a very minor degree, where we’re
living epistles read and known of all men if we walk in the Spirit as we live
in the Spirit. We haven’t got a prayer
to be like the captain because we bypassed this form here. [4bp]
The form that would be intrinsically spirit, but it’s not, ours
isn’t. No, Adam fell, the image of God
was broken. See? There’s a difference, a big difference.
Now;
(11) For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified (That’s the bigger brother and these are the lesser brothers.) and for this cause he (Jesus, the great brother.) is not ashamed to call us brethren.
And God’s not ashamed to call us
sons. Listen, it wouldn’t do Him any
good if He was ashamed. You and I got
kids, doesn’t do us a bit of good if we’re ashamed--they’re still our
kids. “Well I’ll disown them.” Oh you stupid jerk. You’re crazier than...well Nicodemus wasn’t
crazy, he said, “Can a man go in his mother’s womb a second time?” Can you go
back...children go back to your womb woman?
Back to regenerative organs you men?
Can the child become a sperm and an egg again? Hogwash!
Disown, Pbsst. Like to chop their
heads off sometimes, get rid of them maybe, boot them around a bit. You’ll never get rid of them. What’s done is done, cannot be undone. Oh they say, “Yes it can be. I can tie a knot into a string, a string into
a knot then pull it out--it’s undone.” Uh-uh,
never the original action, never. God
Himself didn’t do it--He made an atonement.
So let’s understand the truth.
(12) Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
(13) And again, I’ll put my trust in him, and Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
And He’s...look it, He’s talking
from the human viewpoint down here [8ve]
now with all of these, [8oc] and He said, “Look, I came down even to the
extent of putting My trust as a human being.”
And He said, “So do my brothers.”
Absolutely identified.
Now, we won’t worry about Logos
today because I’m not going to go into that.
If I wanted to talk about Logos, which I could to a degree, simply say,
you take the word Logos back to the original root in the Greek and you find
that God got His act together and begin moving.
Now what was the act of God? To
have a family. So He got His act going,
and one day the act ends and we’re just about there; and we’re just about there
to the extent that Bro. Branham said, “We’re before the White Throne right
now,” and Peter said, “What manner of men we ought to be,” knowing that the day
after tomorrow, bar a couple of seconds, we’ll be right there at the White
Throne and a New Jerusalem.
The dissolution of the heavens and
the earth and God recreating. Just like
He does you and me. God wastes nothing,
that’s why He picked up the fragments of thirteen baskets. Laodicean church ought to learn one thing
about being more circumspect with retaining goods, and holding goods and
things. One of these days the many
things we throw, we would to God we had them.
We’re not very smart little children, we’re not very smart. In fact we’re ultra stupid for all that we
know.
Now, we’ll leave it right
there. Let me go back and just read what
Bro. Branham said when he talked about this beginning up there concerning
Melchisedec.
[64] Now God at this stage of His creation later
formed into flesh Jesus.
In other words He formed Himself in
it. Remember the word made, the word
made is become. “The Word was made
flesh,” is not so, “The Word became.”
Everything is a becoming, and that is the thing you’ve got to
watch. God becoming, God becoming--not
three Gods, simply God becoming. God
changing His mask according to His role, which is according to His
purpose.
[64] ...From what?
From the great beginning or the begetting Spirit, then came down to be Word, bringing Itself out. The Word doesn’t yet make Itself, it’s just
spoken out,
Now what does he mean, “The Word doesn’t make itself Word yet, it’s just spoken out?”
In other words, it has to be spoken then something will begin to mature,
you could say that too. It hadn’t become
flesh yet either, either one.
[64] ...En morphe, later He (it) becomes flesh,
So in other words, I look what Bro.
Branham said, and he said, “All right,” he said, “The Name was put on the
Lamb’s Book of Life.” In other words,
Jesus Himself, that portion right there, [5l]
all of Lamb life, distinctly was a segment of life itself from Almighty
God. And every one of us was noted in
there. Then you see the Name was put on
there, then the Word was given, spoken out, which was designated, absolutely
designated and brings them out in their time.
I guess I better get the other mike
up here because I’m going to have more problems unless I get the...but we’ll
work on this morning. [Bro. Vayle’s lapel mike
falls off]
Now, bringing those all out in their
own proper order, in their own proper time, which is really a manifestation of
Almighty God. That’s why we’re actually
called His body, we’re called the members of His body, which makes it very, very,
true. Then it says;
[65] When Abraham met Him, Met who?
God. He was Melchisedec. He unfolds
here Now listen. He unfolds here what
all the attributes will do in the final end, every son of Abraham. Every son of
faith Now they are the same thing, same person. will absolutely do the same
thing. But I want you to watch how we
have to come.
[67] Now, we see the attributes, or sons of His
spirit, have not yet entered the Word form body, They miss it. the theophany. This
body which is subject to the Word and earnest, That’s the Holy Ghost. waiting for the earnest change.
[68] Now, the difference between Him and you as a
son...Now he’s not talking about God.
Now he’s talking about the beginning up there [1b] with Jesus. See, He was
at the beginning the Word, an En morphe
body. [2] He came and lived in that
person of Melchisedec.[3] The
same One came on down, [5]God
Himself.
We never heard any more of Melchisedec, because He became Jesus Christ.
and so on right down the line.
Now, I’m going to leave that there,
and I want to go back where we left off at page fifteen and in page fifteen
Bro. Branham has talked to us about the flesh being tempted by sin. In other words we came into a body of flesh
to be tempted by sin and he informs us that the baptism with the Holy Ghost is
then given that we might live with the body not subject to sin but to the Word
of God. And we’re reading on page
fourteen there...page fifteen I guess it is, yes, and paragraph seventy and he
said there that bypassing this form, [2]
theophonic form, [3] “”Which
could appear and disappear; then became flesh,” [5]
and so on. And then he said here;
[70] ...But look, when this body receives the
Spirit of God, the Immortal Life inside of you, it throws this body in
subjection to God.
Now why did he say that? We’ll explain that to you on the grounds as
this--you are already a part of God.
Right, we’re a part of God already, each one of us: and so being a part
of God, there, [1a] that part, could
not sin. See? Couldn’t do it. And then encased in the body, there’s no way
it could sin. So what actually
sinned? The flesh [6]sinned, by opening the door to the senses wherein the life then
took an inferior position to the superior position which was bad. In other words, bondage to sin, what the
Scripture says. So therefore the
superior was in bondage to the inferior.
We were slaves sold under sin.
But this here [1a] itself
would never sin and in the theophonic form [4bp] would not sin, so therefore God sent the Holy Ghost which our
body’s are temple, touching every single cell, looking toward immortality. That’s what we’re looking at and that’s why
he says in here, “The Immortal Life
inside of you.”
The immortal life, this body then
was not quickened by the life that came here [6] and is encased in this flesh.
It in itself could not do it.
See? It couldn’t do it. But the quickening by the Holy Ghost falling
upon, and making us temples of the Holy Ghost, quickens us to the extent that
every body, and I mean the atoms in the body, that has been touch by the Holy
Ghost, will become immortal--and we’re not talking about an anointing.
Now, speaking of the body being
subject to God.
[71] “He that’s born of God doth
not commit sin; he cannot sin.” And
that’s absolutely true. You wouldn’t get
one of those sinning. “There’s therefore now no condemnation to
them that are in Christ Jesus; they walk not after the flesh, but after the
Spirit.” See. There you are! See, your body
is subject. Now we’ve go to believe
it...To the Spirit. It is no more subject to the things of the
world; they’re dead. The world, the
flesh and the devil. They are dead; your sins are buried in
baptism; and you are a new creation in Christ.
Your body becoming subject to the Spirit, And notice. try to live a right kind of life.
Now, the way he spoke in the first
place, like he says here.
[71] ...See, that throws your
body subject. You don’t have to say, “Oh
if I could just quit drinking, if I could just so and so.” Just get in Christ; it’s all gone! See?
Because your body is subject to the Spirit.
Now that sounds as Bro. Branham is
saying, “Well the minute you’re born again, hallelujah. I’m just like I’m a theophany.” Hogwash, you are! He knew that and I knew that. How come he said, “You backslide a thousand times a day?” How come he said, “There’s no perfection this side of the resurrection?”
Now let’s read what the book of
Colossians says, and then I’ll read...now that’s what he said in this little
last sentence.
[71] And your body becoming
subject to the Spirit, and try to live a right kind of life. And that’s what he said.
So therefore he wasn’t saying what it sounded like he was saying. Colossians the 3rd chapter, 3:8-14, so let’s read it.
(8) But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
(9) Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
(10) And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him:
The image is a spiritual image. An image that comes from the Word. And it says now you put off the one and you
accede to the other. In other words,
it’s like the old Indian told Bro. Branham, he said,
“Since I’ve been born again I’ve got
two dogs inside of me fighting.”
He said, “Well,”
he said, “What are they like?”
“Well,” he said, “one’s black and
one’s white.”
“Well,” he
said, “Tell me chief, which dog wins?”
“The one I feed the most.”
The old boy knew that more than any
theologian knew it. So the theologians
are barbarians but I guess the Indians aren’t.
That’s a good one, should be put on the record. Strictly congressional or theological. Put on the new man. See?
(11) Where is hasn’t got a thing to do with Greek or Jew, circumcision or uncircumcision, Barbarians, Scythian, bond, free: but Christ is all, and in all.
(12) Therefore put on as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness (and so on--humility.)
So that’s what you’re looking
at. Now, continuing Bro. Branham says,
[73] ...And when you become
subject to that Spirit,
Now subject to the Spirit, isn’t
just being born again. That’s the first
part of it. The next part is knowing
what the Word has to say about everything you’re dealing with and then going
the way of the Word to the very best of your ability. And that’s what’s going to bring us into the
place we’re talking about because we’re written epistles read and known of all
men. And the question is, who’s doing
the writing? What writing are we
subscribing to? Subscribing to the Word
of God or something outside of the Word of God?
Well we don’t want anything outside the Word of God.
Now, up here in verse 72, I missed.
[72] Like you woman claiming
you’ve got the Holy Ghost and going out here and wearing shorts and things, how
could you do it? How could the Spirit of
God in you ever let you do such a thing as that? It can’t be so Certainly it can’t be! He’s not a filthy spirit; He’s a holy Spirit.
Now, that’s a very good
statement. The Bible said that Jesus
Christ was tempted in all points like as you and I are, yet as without
sin. Now we’ve got this filthy play
called the Temptation of Christ which is run by a Jew and an apostate Italian,
I suppose, Scorcese; written by a God knows what kind of a Greek. I have no respect for any of them and the
Jews will pay the price because one day
Now, The Temptation of Christ puts
Christ on the cross hallucinating with drugs, having intercourse with Mary
Magdalene, I guess it is. Now, being
tempted in all points, like as we are, is not Jesus Christ having any
attention, or affection, or *proclivity,
toward sin. It is simply every male and
every female has reproductive organs that cry for relief; and don’t think for
one minute that Jesus Christ Himself did not have full reproductive organs that
absolutely understood from within Him what their uses were, what the use
was--but He did not look for it: He did not want it. [*Proclivity – inclination,
propensity, proneness ]
Now this is how we’re looking at men
and woman today. A woman who dresses
wrong and dresses in such a way to bring any man to a position of lust, does
not need to be in a born again child of God, because he can look at it and then
pass right by it, or he can turn his head because even though it is there and
he knows it’s there, and he knows that he’s born to the end of intercourse in
ninety percent of the cases because ninety nine percent are absolutely not
eunuchs--they marry or they have intercourse anyway. It doesn’t mean that he says, “I want that
woman,” to have sex with her. That’s
exactly true.
You will not shuck the fact that
you’re a male and a female. But you
better learn young in life, and as you get older in life there is no need to be
tempted by the fact that it is there and she’s a female and you’re a male, and
vice a versa, because the Spirit of God does not allow it and therefore does
not allow women to have short skirts and raunchy clothes and dress in such a
way as to entice men, and men to go out and entice women. Don’t tell me you’re born again.
Now that’s the picture. Now you could have been that type of a
person, even a homosexual. Paul said,
“Such were some of you.” But he said,
“Now you’re washed, now you’re clean.”
If you’re washed, now you’re clean,
you will not cease being a male
and a female. That’s why Bro. Branham
said, “Men don’t kiss women, and men
don’t even kiss each other.” Now as
I understand there’s a place where there can be a real affection but you better
keep it there.
All right, he said,
[72] ...He’s not a filthy spirit;
He’s a Holy Spirit.
And believe me, the Holy Spirit can
look upon anything, and not give any perverted advice. He’ll take you right away from it. Now it says.
[73] ...When you become subject
to that Spirit, Of course that’s by the baptism with the Holy Ghost. it throws your whole being subject to that
Spirit.
Now, the Holy Spirit comes upon us and makes us temple which absolutely deals with immortality because we’re immortal; remember the inside is immortal. The second death is for those who do not have the seed of God because there’s