Who
Is This Melchisedec? #18
Bro. Lee Vayle
Shall we pray. Heavenly Father we trust that our singing shall not be forced singing Lord, something we believe in a mechanical way although we certainly subscribe to it that that is correct, Lord. We know all things are possible by Your Presence, Your personal Presence, Lord, and we realize those all things are only according to Your will and as we come into Your will, Lord, we know that that’s all we would desire, to be all pleasing unto You and...but to first receive from You what we have need of to be all pleasing, O God; to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. So give us our daily meat this hour as we come together to be corrected, Lord, because we know Your Word will correct. It’ll confirm our faith, O God, It’ll strengthen us in You. So we’re happy to commend ourselves at this time for the reading of Your Word, the study of that Word which has been given to us in a vindicated manner. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.
Now I believe this is about number eighteen as we’re looking at Bro.
Branham’s message, “Who Is This Melchisedec?” and going back to last Sunday,
and Bro. Branham’s statement which we brought to you, that: “We are neither Trinitarians nor Jesus Only but we stand in between,”
brings us squarely to the question: Then if this is so, who and what is Jesus
Christ if He is not God? For Jesus
Himself said, “I and my Father are one. I am in the Father and the Father in
me. I came out from God, I came forth from the Father and I go to the
Father.” Now those are literal
statements that Jesus made concerning Himself as to His relationship to God or
to Godhead.
So we wonder who and what is Jesus Christ if He is not literally God as the Trinitarians try to teach us that God is like a fountain and from that one fountain, which is essentially one in thought and in fibre, we have three personalities come forth doing what naturally they would do being of one mind and one substance, and of course that is not Scripture. Yet Jesus said, “I and my Father are one. I am in the Father, the Father is in me. I came out from God. I came forth from the Father I go to the Father.” That’s actual Scripture.
Now, in treating the question of Godhead there is really not much of a
problem in proving the Trinity concept is wrong for God is Holy Spirit and that
is exactly what the Father is, as shown in the conception of Jesus the human
being in the book of Luke, we’ll go there first, the 1st chapter 30 to 37.
(30) And the angel said unto Mary, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
(31) And,
behold, thou shall conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call
his name JESUS.
(32) He
shall be great, and called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give
unto him the throne of his father David:
(33) And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
(34) Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
(35) And the angel said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
And of course, I’m not going to read in Mt 1:18-20, it’s the same thing
there, and in Jn 10:34-36 you’ll
find that Jesus actually admits to the fact that he is called the Son of God in
a greater measure than even the prophets because they were also called sons of
God. And from what we have read it is evident that we are saying, that as one
man can have two sons it is absolutely evident that no son can have two
fathers. And you notice of course what we read was, God was His Father and the
Holy Ghost was His Father, so that leaves no room for three gods, it cuts it
down to at least two gods at the very most and there are those who do believe
in two gods which we do not. But Jesus never said that he was God. He never did
say that and there is no Scripture at all for it. But there is Scripture to have us understand
that Jesus is the Only-Begotten Son of God and the Scripture clearly tells us
that Jesus and the Father are one.
So let’s go and take a little look at that again, and we come to John 14
which is a very tremendous Scripture, or passage of Scripture, where Jesus really
pulls out all the stops and begins to get the disciples to understand and
believe what they agreed to in the sense that this One could be the Son of God.
There is something here that is very, very unique. So then reading in Jn 14:10.
(10) Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
Now, it is plainly Jn 14:10--which we have just read here--wherein Jesus
is speaking of the Only-Begotten Son being one with the Father and the trouble
with Jn 14:10 is that the devil distorts this Scripture through the human mind,
not grasping the fact that Jn 14:10 A, is explained by Jn 14:10 B. Now listen.
(10A) Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?
Now, this is the mystery that the Trinitarians want to foist upon us and
make some great big trala-dee-do, as it were, and I know I was taught this and
we groped at it and we fussed at it, we looked at it, and the idea was that God
was a great circle. [1] And so now
here is the Son down here [2] and by
some divine *alchemy you’ve got the thing moving around in here [tma] and we moving around in there
which is a lot of hogwash; because the Bible plainly tells you what to be in
the Father and the Father in Him is simply this, [*Alchemy - a process of transforming something common
into something special]
[1]
[tma] [2]
(10b) The Father dwelleth in me and doeth the works.
Now you say, “Well now, I’m not satisfied with that.” That’s exactly
right, you’re not because you’re stupid.
You’re not interested in revelation, if so be you sit here or hear these
tapes and go that line. You want your own mystery. You want your own
revelation. You want your own satisfaction. Why cannot it just simply be taken
the way the Bible says it. “I am in the Father and the Father in me,”
absolutely is the fact that God was in Him, period. We’ll look at that. Now
that’s your explanation. See? All...and that is all there is to it.
Now, Jn 14:10b, which is;
(10) The Father that dwelleth
in me, he doeth the works.
Is absolutely Jn 1:32-34, so let’s take a look at it.
(32) And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
Now who is this Spirit? The Spirit is God. Who is the Spirit? The Spirit
is the Father; because that’s what it says. You can’t have two sets now. If
there were two sets running in Scripture it would come out but there is only
one God, period. Whether you make Him Trinitarian, whether you make Him a duet,
whether you make Him singular. No matter how you cut it you’re looking at God.
And so now it says, “The Spirit is descending.” And I say, “What
Spirit?” “Well,” you say, “there’s a spirit distinct from God. Like a sort of a
derivative.” That’s not what the Bible teaches. The Bible has taught that the
Son of God was sired by the Holy Ghost, so therefore the Holy Ghost is the
Father. So the Father is the Holy Ghost.
The question then is: What came down out of Heaven? God came down out of
Heaven. Call Him Father, call Him Holy Spirit, call Him what you want--He came
down out of Heaven because it’s a Spirit; tells what it is.
(32) ...descending like a dove, and it abode upon him.
(33) (And I saw this) and I knew him not: (I didn’t know this was Messiah.) but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shall see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
I want to ask you a question: Who baptizes with the Holy Ghost? See?
There you see, it’s not complex. Now let’s go ahead and look at Colossians the
1st chapter, we go to verses 15 to 19.
(15) Who is the image of the invisible God, (That’s what tells you what this one is, this Son.) the firstborn of every creature.
(16) For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
(17) For he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
(18) Who is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the
pre-eminence.
(19) For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell;
And the literal translation, “For in him all the fullness of the Godhead
was pleased to dwell.” You don’t have one single change. It’s the same
understanding as it is in 2 Cor 5:19,
“That God was in Christ.” It’s the same Scripture, Heb13:8, “The same
yesterday, today and forever,” there is no change. So what you’re seeing here
is the fact that God was in Christ saying, “I and my Father are one. I am in
Him and He is in Me,” and you can do what you want with the mystery. You can
sit here till you grow a beard; you can sit here till you die in your seats.
You’re not going to change the Word of God or the mystery that simply tells you
whether you want it or not, this is the truth.
And this is why the theologians and the churches are so full of
corruption, and so full of problems because they will not take the simplistic
Word. They want to try to figure it. Why try to figure it when you’re already
told it? “I and my Father are one. I am in Him and He is in Me.” How? By the baptism with the Holy Ghost,
period. In this case it is God Himself, the fullness moving into the fullness
of a human form. Whatever fullness God could have in a human form was born.
Then God Himself moved into it. That’s why you get, “God was in Christ
reconciling the world.” That’s why you get God was in Christ creating. God was
in Christ spilling His own blood. God was in Christ, doing all of these things.
It’s what God has ordained it should be.
It is most evident from Scripture that there is no such person, in any
kind of a godhead who is God the son. No way. It is equally evident that there
is a person who is the Son of God as clearly seen in Col 1:12-19, and we read
part of it.
(12)
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made
us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: (In other words, Paul says, “I’m a
part of it.”)
(13) Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
(14) In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
And then it tells you who this person is--and you get a great mystery
right there in the understanding that this person was, (but He wasn’t God) the
Son of God, not God the son. The terminology is completely wrong. Twelve and
thirteen gives us the clue.
(12) Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers (See?) of the inheritance of the saints in light:
(13) ...And hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Here is a Father and a Son and here is a kingdom which is understandably
the truth. You’re looking at the Millennium, and you’re looking beyond it
because this is the One on the throne we’re talking about.
All right, now although this is perfectly clear, that God has a Son,
there’s no such thing as God the son. There is God and the Son of God. Now
that’s one thing you simply accept. You
don’t try to mull it over, you don’t try to figure it, you simply accept it and
say, “This is the truth, this is the Word of God.” Then you begin simply
watching the Scripture that refers to the Father, and refers to the Son when
there is the disparity of them not being one in the other in an incarnation. So
you’re looking at what Bro. Branham taught us.
Now, there is another hurdle and that hurdle is what I’ve already spoken
about and it’s in Jn 17:5, and we’ve looked at this many, many times; we keep looking
at it.
(5) And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Now He’s talking about a time, a pre-existence, not that He ceased to
exist. We’re talking about a
geography. We’re not talking about the
person, we’re talking about geography.
And the person says, “Now O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self
with the glory which I had with thee before the world was,” (before there was
one speck of stardust, before there was an atom), as Bro. Branham said, “Before there was a breeze that blew, a wind
or anything else, there was this.”
Now, we go here to Revelation the 13th chapter. Now remember He calls
Him Father and He’s not saying, “Now God the Father, listen to God the Son and
get God the Holy Ghost to do something about it.” He didn’t say that, so why
should we think it? Give me one reason why we should think it. You can’t. You
have no right to but the Trinitarians have drilled it into us, that there were
three persons in the Godhead. And one was God the Father, one was God the son,
and one was God the Holy Ghost. And they had a merging of the minds. They had
one mind. But I’m going to tell you something, that’s not what the Bible says.
Let’s see what the Bible says, 13:8.
(8) And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
So here you have something already purposed and planned by Almighty God,
as Bro. Branham brings out and we’ll read it, concerning the foreknowledge and
predestination. Okay, with that we go back to the passage of Scripture in
Philippians and Bro. Branham used this; 2nd chapter, 5th verse.
(5) Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
(6) Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery (prize to be grasped and retained) to be equal with God:
In other words, being in a specific form wherein God could manifest
Himself, this One now became of no reputation and took upon Him another form
that could meet the eye, wherein God could manifest Himself. That’s what He’s
telling you.
(8) And being found in fashion as a man, (He was now fashioned, formed and fashioned.) he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
(9) Wherefore God hath highly exalted him,
Now again the Trinitarians want to take that and say, “Well all right
then the Conclave... it was discovered”--they don’t even understand
predestination and the attributes of Almighty God, and they say, “therefore when
man fell the Son said, ‘I’ll go and I’ll die.’” You never heard such
hodge-podge. Now I know it can sound very good and very reasonable because the
best that man’s mind can do is to produce this, but we can’t go by man’s
product of the mind. You’ve got to go by the Scripture that says, “This One
here, being in a form became another form that God indwelt in. And I and my
Father are one. The Father in Me and I in Him,” was completed on the grounds of
the River Jordan when God came into Him.
Now you can put any meaning you want to it. And you can have the
ethereal concept of this great eternal circles and circles moving and looking
at Ezekiel’s vision of the cherubims or the cherubims, the wheels
turning, something like the cloud here with Christ in the middle. You can have
any visions and ideas you want but the Word of God stands true in Its
simplicity--this is what it’s all about, don’t try to figure it. I don’t have
to figure the atomic bomb but bless God if I’m near one and it goes off I’ll
know all I’ll ever need to know about it. And that’s what this is all about
today if you want to take it.
All right, now this hurdle confronting us is that Jesus Christ lived in
another form and was not God the son even back there before there was a speck
of stardust, or one atom, as Bro. Branham said, but exactly as stated, “The Son
of God.” God who was once all alone, and
when He created as yet nothing, nothing was there, gave Himself birth to this
One called the Son of God. Now the
reason we use the terminology is because it’s Bro. Branham’s and the fact is
there was nothing to produce the Son from, so the Son came distinctly from
God. Now that’s a corker right
there. You say, “Well just a minute,
that would make Him God.” No, it’d make
Him the Son of God.
I had two sons and neither one is old Lee Vayle. Spiritually speaking it wouldn’t be bad if
they’d got something of it. Physically
speaking, better off the way they were, intelligent and other wise. But no way can you say, “Those two Vayle boys
are Lee Vayle.” No way, shape and form
can you say that, that would be a stupid lie.
But without me, and I take myself back to Adam, there would be no
existence; because the woman was a step down from man as a bedding ground for
children and she was in the man and so therefore everything is of the man.
Now you try to put the woman in a place she doesn’t belong and you
destroy Godhead. I hope you caught that: maybe too deep for some of you but
it’s not deep at all, because God was in Christ and so were you and I; and
there was nothing there but God and that’s exactly the way it was with Adam.
Now I know she was in Adam but she was a part of Adam. She was a unique
complexity and that’s the way we are and so I’m looking at the picture,
actually Adam brought forth Eve and by that the rest of the creation came.
That’s exactly what God did. And
through...Jehovah Witness have a better understanding than most of them. They
say, through the agency of Jesus Christ, God created all things. But I don’t go
for agencies, God Himself created. So you’ve got what you’re looking at here
then is what you might call the pre-incarnation. We call it pre-existence and
not really a hundred percent right.
Now, be back before there was a speck of star dust there was a Son of
God. God who was once all alone and where He had created as yet nothing--at
that particular time--gave Himself birth in this One called the Son of God. Now
that is the real Scriptural mystery, the tough one we’re looking at. The Son of
God not God the Son. We look at this as we’ve been looking previously.
Now, before we go on, we see that the Son of God, we see that this Son
of God in Scripture; we ought to know from the same Scripture why God had a Son
but before we look into it I want to mention, if you go to your New Testament
concordance you’ll find that the word Son of God is used about forty different
times. Jesus referred to Himself as the Son of man because He was the prophet,
but He actually was the Son of God also because He was the Only-Begotten Son of
the Father.
Now, so we know there was a Son of God. Now the question is: Why did God
need this particular Son, this peculiar and particular Son? What was it all
about? Well let’s start back with the book of Mt 11:27.
(27) All things are delivered unto me of my Father:
He’s the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He’s the fullness of the
attributes. In other words, when God positively wanted to manifest Himself in
Fatherhood and producing a Son, and this the Only-Begotten Son, He invested in
Him above any other son, the fullness of His attributes. So you could say not, “Here is another God,
but here is indeed the Son of God,” even as a dumb heathen centurion knew, when
all the smart Pharisees and theologians couldn’t see a thing. The thief on the
cross saw something that the high priest could not see. So let’s just look at
the pictures...very simple.
(27) All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
So, if Hebrews 13:8 is true, then the Son...never mind what you and I
think because, we’re so smart, bless God, we could figure the whole thing out a
better way and a cheaper way because we’re Americans. We’re the Henry Fords, bless
God, that can put a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage. We’re
going to make the tin Lizzy so any man can afford it. We’re the Hitler’s who makes the Volkswagen for the Germans Oh
we’re smart. Read what it says,
Heb 13:8.
(27) All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal.
You say, “You trying to tell me then that this is the concept of
revelation?” That’s exactly what I’m saying. Christ is the mystery of God revealed. If you want to know the mystery of
God get to know the Son. Get to know what it’s about. I can’t change the
Scripture brother/sister and I’m not even going to try. I believe it. Heb 13:8. Let’s go to John; we go to Jn 1:18 and it
tells you the absolute truth.
(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.
So the very heart of Almighty God intrinsically, emotionally,
spiritually, mentally, everything which God stands for, speaking of the
heart--there’s only one way for God to project Himself and that’s the way He
did it. And it says, “The only begotten who is in the bosom of the Father, He
hath *exegesized Him.” In other words, He has brought Him forth, declared Him,
perfectly revealed Him on the principle of Word, because when He did perform
they didn’t know the performance unless He explained it. And those that were
fortunate enough to be there at the demonstration and who could listen to the
explanation were categorically the sons of God. Now you say what you want but
I’ve told you the truth. [*Exegesis- the explanation
of Scripture]
John 14, see this is fabulous, Bro. Branham always took us here,
(7) If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth you know him, and have seen him.
(8) And Philip said,
“Well pull back the curtains, Lord.
Separate yourself from Him.
Take Him out of your hip pocket or something. I don’t get You. I still want to
see what You’re talking about because I can’t see Him. Show us, then I’ll
believe. Give me something beyond this. Let me tell You what I want and You
produce it. Let me tell You how to get this, the Father in me and me in the
Father and the son in this great big *ethereal
bombast up here.”[Points to the circles on page 3] While you sit back and
spiritually pick your spiritual noses and you know what you get for that. If
you’ve got half an ounce of brains, that’s what you’ll get. [*Ethereal – atmosphere or space filled with ether]
I’m hitting you hard this morning because I need to hit hard for myself
too to get my mind defogged once and for all of all the denominational veils
that hang upon my mind. This is it. “Ah sweet mystery that I thought was so
great, and I’d become a part to it and exalt my spiritual understanding, has
now fallen down.” That’s pitiful isn’t it? Dummkopfs remain dummkopfs, no smart
boys amongst us. No great messengers from God, no great theologians, no great
Sanhedrin, no general assembly, no synods, no cardinals, no bishops, no popes,
no general superintendents to tell us the simple Word of God that says, “I am
in the Father and the Father in Me.” That’s all, back and forth and we saw how
the Father got in Him, and we understand the principle of conception and that’s
all there is to it. As Bro. Branham said, “We
don’t know how He does it, and we
may never know, we only know He does.” So how are you going to figure it?
Well we’ll keep reading.
(9) And Jesus said, Have I been so long with you, (this long time) and you have not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
And John had already set to our records so we’d understand this, “The only begotten from the bosom of the Father, was the only One who can reveal Him.” So if by shear providence, we should come across Him, He would give us a perfect revelation. Now they’ve come across Him.
(10) Believest thou not that I am in the Father? (Say, how do you say, “Show us the Father?” Now listen, He said;) (Don’t you believe that I am in the Father) and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works.
Now what’s He telling you?
(11) Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake. (He said, I have manifested to you that I am in the Father and the Father in me.)
Now he [Philip] said, “Now I don’t think I like that principle you’re
trying to tell me. I don’t think I can take that.”
Well He said, “Then drop dead.”
Come on, I know that sounds harsh. Many will come in that day and say;
“Lord didn’t we cast out devils, didn’t we prophesy, come on, come on, come on, it’s on record.”
“Get away! I never knew you.”
Paul said, “Who are thou, O man, to reply against God?”
We don’t have a thought coming.
Bro. Branham said, You ain’t got a
thought coming. No, people don’t want this. Philip didn’t want it. And Jesus
said, “I am showing you now the concept. I am showing you the concept of God in
the prophet. [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar
of Fire on the wall] God in the prophet and the prophet
in God.”
Because God was in the prophets
giving a message to the people. That constituted William Branham in God and God
in William Branham. And you can say what you want about it because that’s
exactly what there is to it.
Now, let’s keep reading.
(12) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
And that’s all we need to do there. With this we’re going to go to 16 to
20
.
Now listen:
(16) I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
(17) Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but you know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
(18) I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
(19) Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but you see me: because I live, you shall live also.
(20) And that day (When you are full of the Holy Ghost.) you will know that I am in the Father, and you in me, and I in you.
Now figure that out! “Well Bro. Vayle, this great ethereal thing here,
we’ve got it all set up like Paul says, ‘In him we live, and move, and have our
being,’ and that’s the whole world and we’re all in here somehow in this going
round and round.” You’re goofier than I thought you were and four times as
stupid. He just told you.
Now what about it? I’m going to tell you something, I can read you just
like I read myself, our hearts are heavy, we’re trying to get it. Sigh. You
know what? We’re dull in hearing this morning. We’re dull in our hearts. We
still haven’t got circumcised. We still won’t let go. We still don’t believe
we’re a race of gods, that we came from the very loins of God just like Jesus
Christ did but different in status.
We can’t let go, can we? We’d better let go, because no faith can be
perfected outside of a perfect revelation and the Bible distinctly says, at
Pentecost, and the day that you are born again, full of the Holy Ghost, that’s
the time you should know what happened. What kind of a baptism do we have
anyway? Is it just an anointing? That we can’t get through to this
understanding that the simple rebirth makes us know that we are in the Father
and the Father in us and Christ in us and the whole thing one. You know what’s
wrong? Pentecost; Manifest, manifest, manifest, manifest, manifest, manifest,
manifest, manifest! And if you manifest, it doesn’t matter what you have, you
have manifested. Shut-up and die this morning and wake up in Christ! Many will
come in that day and prophesy.
Oh I’ve had vision like I’m looking at you. I’ve prophesied time after
time after time, never one lick out. But
whatever I got said to me, “If there’s ever a man you listen to you listen to
that man.” Where’d the rest of them go?
They ran running across the world, the big shots. “Oh this is the Bible, you
can do it.” So they started to do it and they left the Word. Everybody wants
gifts, everyone wants this. Why don’t you want revelation?
I’m not hitting as though you don’t want it, I’m trying to clear our
hearts this morning. Somehow by the grace of God if we’ve got to start crying
or screaming or running or taking up clubs and just beating each other’s heads
and brains out so something rich and real can come in, let’s...but you can’t
get it that way. Can’t get it that way. You’ve got to let the veils be torn
away by the prophet’s message and say;
“Boy was I wrong there. You mean to tell me there’s nothing more to this
thing; God in me and I in God and
Christ and the whole thing, this great big mysterious *esoterical,
essential whatever thing it is, that by the
baptism with the Holy Ghost, that’s it?”
[*Esoteric – taught
only to a select number, an inner circle]
Yes, that’s it.
“You mean I got it?” Yes.
“And you mean I don’t have to tear my brains out or get a feeling or
this or that?”
That’s exactly right, just say what the prophet said and he said the
Word of God.
“So what about all these feelings?”
They betray you.
Come on, go back to the Garden of Eden, who got Eve all excited? Believe
me it wasn’t the Word of God it was departure from the Word of God for
sensation. She already had what it took to have a sensation but it wasn’t
right. You and I being sensate beings bypassed our theophonies and therefore we
are tested by sin and everytime we want to give way to emotion, “Ah, I feel
good about this, and I don’t feel good about that.” Well listen, there’s nobody
can feel good about what I’m saying this morning from the Scripture because
it’s just too down to earth Scripture and too simple.
We’ve had too many cups of Pentecostal, Baptist, Methodist, cayenne
pepper. And the spiritual food in due season. Now there’s no taste left. All
you’re getting is a hot shot of cayenne pepper. Now my stew is not that bad but
it could have been. You know why? Because I’m not an East Indian. I don’t
relish eating red hot rivets. The Mexicans call it jalepenos, jalepenos,
they are nothing compared to the East
Indian. That’s the way the doctrine is too, it’s all messed up.
Now look, look at verse 20.
(20) At that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
That explains the mystery of Jn 17:21.
(21) That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Now look it, He’s telling them absolutely, positively, about what? The
Father in Him doing the works. Now the Father is doing the works but the
revelation can only come by the Holy Spirit telling you what those works are
all about. And Bro. Branham categorically told us, “There is no such thing as a true healing revival unless there’s a
fresh message because God doesn’t give a healing revival to back up an old
dying and worm eaten message.” It’s
the Word coming forth. So we’re looking at the picture here. Now, 21b.
(21b) that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Notice, “That the world may believe that thou hast sent me.” Okay? Go
back to John 14 and you can get the picture of it. And He said here.
(10) Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
(11) Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
(12) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall (And so on.) greater works.
And what I’m looking at here positively is the fact that the Father
dwelling in Jesus Christ, the Father dwelling in the prophets, God dwelling in
His anointed and Elect for the occasion to bring forth the Word gives the
manifested works to prove that one is vindicated, like Bro. Branham was
vindicated. You don’t listen to non vindicated people. The best they can bring
you is reformation, they can’t bring you restoration. Paul brought the truth,
it has to be restored. Through the ages we’ve had some very good men but that’s
all you can say about them they were not the anointed one for the end time.