Who Is
This Melchisedec? # 27
Bro. Lee Vayle
November 20, 1988
Shall we pray. Gracious Heavenly Father, we thank you for your presence with us, not only in our hearts, our souls, Lord, but by virtue of the fact that you are here as a head of the church, Lord, to bring all things into subjection for the great Kingdom to come. We appreciate that so much but above all, Lord, we want our own hearts and minds to be brought in subjection to your Word, because we know, Lord, since the fall there has been that constant rebellion of the mind to take your Word literally as it was given, Father, and we pray you’d forgive us. Lord, we know that this generation is the last generation that’ll bear the brunt of all the sin that’s required at your hand to be atoned for, Lord, or to be judged. We know it’s a great hour in which we live, a total darkness, yet for the light appearing which we believe, Lord, at the end time is total light.
And so, Father, we’re just commending ourselves to you that you help us to bring our minds into the order of the light and away from darkness where we’ve used words wrong, Lord, or lightly and not thought your thoughts, Lord, and understood with your understanding upon truth, Lord. Let it be that we will be people of faith this morning, real sons of God, real daughters of God to accept the truth Lord. And then to just rest in your Grace and Mercy. In Jesus name we pray, Amen. You may be seated.
Now, we’re literally onto number twenty seven, which in itself is a wrong terminology because we haven’t been preaching twenty seven messages literally from the actual text of Who Is This Melchisedec?, but there’s so many things in there that Brother Branham set forth that we have no alternative but to actually take up some of the thoughts within this message that he does not necessarily belabor, as we feel it must be done. But of course he left the charge to the ministers to do that because he said, “I do not have the time.” So therefore we realize as the Word is corrective, then it’s up to us to try to correct the understanding of the people and bring it in a harmony with what the prophet had in his mind from the mind of Almighty God.
So we were looking at some of the words, and especially we were looking at the fact that Brother Branham on more than one occasion posed the question or the questions, Who am I? or Who are you? would be the same thing. Where did “I” or “You” come from? “What is our purpose of being here, where are we going?” And over a period of time Brother Branham actually did bring out the answer to those questions and we are looking at them in the light of some of the words that Brother Branham used. Such as we looked at foreknowledge.
And we have to remember Brother Branham said, “You Pentecostals don’t like the word ‘Predestination’, you shun us. So I’ll just use the word foreknowledge.” So every time Brother Branham used the word foreknowledge, you knew that he was speaking of… especially to a people outside of his own particular in-depth ministry, that is the people that were in-depth with him... he
used the word foreknowledge, he was talking of predestination. So if he could do that as a prophet, you’re realizing then that foreknowledge actually has to end up in predestination. And you know as well as I do that there is no such thing as a change of specie, it’s impossible. You can hybridize but as you hybridize the life goes out because they actually cannot cross breed. Now there’s such a thing as mutations that’s allowed within the framework of God, but there’s no crossing of seed, a real crossing a specie.
So what I’m saying here then is this: God would have to have a predestination according to what lay in what he actually originated. So you’re looking at foreknowledge. And then you’re looking at election because election is in the human race. The seed got mingled. We’ll talk about that. And you’re looking at predestination, so that whatever was in the mind of God as per thought which we saw was seed, which was soul, which was attribute, which was a concrete positive part of God. Not something God thought about, but the term was used in the understanding of expression.
Now you and I can think of a lot of things but we’ll never express them. With God we are talking about according to the Word that which had to become expressed. And Brother Branham said, “We as children of God became expressed in our due season just the same as Jesus the Son of God did.” And remember Adam was also the son of God but not the “Son Of God,” in the sense of the Lord Jesus Christ the only begotten.
So we had to look at the word “thought.” And we understand what ‘thought’ means now from Brother Branham. It is not something which is strictly ethereal or which is contingent to something else. It is the thing to which all else is contingent. You are looking at the hub, so don’t look at the spokes. The spokes come out of the hub. You are looking at hub. See?
Now, Brother Branham also used the word ‘you,’ so we say, exactly what is ‘you’? The ‘you’ is the real you--the soul, see? Now, the real you is the you that wants to manifest itself in the depths of its own beginnings from whence it came. Deep calling to deep. The real you of a horse will want to be a hundred percent horse. Doesn’t mean he’s going to be. You may have problems. See? The flowers out there want to express the real you. So it is that a child of God or whatever seed that is there, whatever life is there by pre-determination will want to come into an expression. So the soul is the real you, and the real you wants an expression according to what is really there. Not what obscures now, and what can play a part, but what is really there.
Now the soul is what? It is a part of God. Therefore you are a part of God. The real you is a gene of God so therefore you are a gene of God. You are a seed of God. You are an attribute of God. You are a son of God. You are a son of His Spirit. Now, not necessarily in terms of regenerated by the Spirit’ but literally begotten from the beginning by the Spirit because that which is born of Spirit is Spirit.
Now, we saw that in John. Let me just go back to the book of John for a second. Because this is something that people just don’t want to let come into their consciousness. Because their theology has been wrong, they’ve been trained wrong. Now it says here. Verse eleven of John one, the Gospel.
(11) He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
(12) But as many as received him, to them he gave the authority to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
(13) Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
They were born of God and what is God?… He is Spirit. So therefore your Genesis, your beginnings, in other words, generics and genetics concerning a Christian are in God. That whatever God Himself is, that Son would have to come sometime into the perfect image of God, in his own degree and placing where God wants him placed. So, that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. And to be born of God is not the same as being begotten of God. To be born means to issue forth from, because a child is both begotten and born. Before it can be born he’s got to be shaped.
Now a man after God’s own heart, David, was shaped in iniquity and conceived in sin. Now that’s hard to understand. Let me tell you something. Believe it! Don’t get your noggins all messed up and try to reason the thing. There is no point to reason. Reason is the downfall of the human race. Reasoning is a sin against God. It’s a destroyer of faith and it’s plumb from the devil and the devil wants nothing more than people to reason. You don’t reason with the scripture because the scripture is of God.
That which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. What comes forth from God can only be Spirit because that’s all that’s in God. So if we were in God in the first place we have to have a spiritual origin. Say, “Well, I came from my father.” I don’t care two bits how you came. For God’s sake shut up! The point is we came from God, we’re going to get back to God. Because you’ve never seen a dandelion yet of which the seed, a proper seed, didn’t produce a dandelion. There’s a metamorphosis, and we’re going through a metamorphosis, one of which is death -- to the part that God doesn’t want.
So therefore a child of God will always be a child of God. A horse will be a child of a horse. And a little old burro he’s going to be a child of a burro. But you get them mixed up and you’ve got a jackass. Most of God’s people act like jackasses and I’m right with you, I’m not criticizing you. I’m talking to myself the same as you, as anybody. We are a bunch of nincompoops and jackasses. Because today we have a demonstrated revealed Word of Almighty God and the Prophet said, “You are a part of God”. And I say, “What part?” And the Prophet said, “You, the soul.” Now that’s awful hard to accept, because we’ve accepted the devil’s lies, the devil’s trash, and the devil’s temple of worship which are the organized churches.
So we are sons of God, we are sons of His Spirit, we are sons of faith, we are sons of Abraham. We are joint heirs with Jesus Christ and we are the brethren because the bible says so. God is our Father and Jesus Christ is our brother. There is no difference categorically, except in a measure and a purpose. For God wanted out of him what he didn’t want out of us. So we’re looking at the truth.
Now, let us watch here and be careful and go back to the soul which is a part of God, which is called seed. So, we read in Genesis and began to look at seed because seed is soul. Seed is a part. We want to look at these things and bring them together because they’re important. Otherwise we go
off on a tangent. Gen 3:15
(15) And I will put enmity between Thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed;
So evidently the serpent had a seed. And the woman can’t have seed but she’s going to get one. So she’s going to get one as Brother Branham said it so beautifully when he talked about Matthew 5 and 48.
(48) Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
If God required it then it’s up to God to provide it! That’s right. God says he demands a new birth of me. Then let God provide it. If God says he demands a prophetic utterance of me, let God provide it. Let God provide everything that God demands. Because I can’t do it.
You know, back in the old days, the first thing women wanted was absolutely a child. And so you know Rachel couldn’t have any children so she went to Jacob and said, “I want to have children, give me children.” He said, “Who do you think I am? God?” He got mad at her.
You with what you’ve got don’t know you’ll be able to produce anything. I don’t care what you’ve got. So therefore if God demands it, then God will provide it. That was proven with Abraham. He demanded the offering of the son, he said, “Bring him.” And the minute he did, God stepped in and provided. So therefore if anybody will listen to the will of God, God will provide. My God shall provide all your needs brother - riches in glory in Christ Jesus. God so loved us he spared not His only begotten Son but freely gave him up for us all. How shall he not with him also freely give us all things.
That’s the trouble. We think we got to beg, borrow, steal. You don’t have to. Faith says God will provide because God said so. God demanded it so therefore he’s going to do it. How do you think I was when I went preaching? I told you I quit that one day. How do you think I went back in the field? To stand right there, because I knew God would have to provide cause I couldn’t do it. God did it.
Now he says here, the woman, she hasn’t got a seed. God’s going to give her one. God’s going to provide. It shall bruise thy head and thou shall bruise his heel. OK, let’s go to Genesis 4 and 25.
(25) And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel,
Now you got a seed. And that’s exactly what this person is. In other words a seed is a source of multiplication. A source of production.
All right, with that we go to Genesis the 3rd chapter... the 7th chapter, I think what I want. He said in verse 3.
(3) Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
Now you got it in the animals.
So therefore we understand the seed is synonymous with life and the ability to bring forth life, by reason of the fact what lies in there. See? You’re going back to life.
Now. We are thrown into animal life just like the rest of everything else. Now we go to the book of Romans the 9th chapter. We start reading right off the bat. We take Romans 9. Before we do let me see, there’s a scripture back here I think I want. If it is I’ll read it. Genesis the ninth chapter and 9th verse he said to Noah:
(9) And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
Now in Romans [9] we read concerning seed:
(1) I say the truth in Christ, I lie not,
That’s the 1st verse,
(1) ...my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
(2) That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
(3) For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
(4) Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
(5) Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
In other words He had to come in a special designated nation, a special designated tribe to be identified.
(6)
Not as though the word of God hath taken none
effect. For they are not all
(7) Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Now you’re noticing something is being narrowed down here. There is an identification of a certain seed amongst all general seed that is designated as a seed of Abraham even though it even comes in the whole tribes of Abraham.
So there’s a seed within the whole granary of seed. OK.
(8) That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
Now that’s exactly what John the apostle said in John one. Who are born not of the will of the flesh nor the will of man. In other words there are those children who are born simply of some sexual intercourse because they have a passion. And there are those that plan to have children which is also based upon sexual passion. See? They’re bringing forth.
But within it all, no matter how it comes, God has a life in there. That no microscope and no man can follow. Only God himself knows exactly how many are there.
Now let’s keep reading.
(9) For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
At what time? The time in her life when she positively could have an egg. The right egg. That’d be fertilized by the right sperm. And her condition such that that child could come forth. It could not at any other time.
Now you can say what you want and you can look at a great big miracle God did. But you better go back and understand the great big miracle was already there in the form of a foreknowledge and predestination overtook it. Before the foundation of the world God knew what Isaac, how he’d come and exactly when and where. And as Brother Branham said so categorically. He said, “A virgin birth is nothing compared to an ordinary birth of a child of God.” You begin to understand that fifteen thousand sperm can go across the cross section of one hair. And the male ejaculate could go hundreds of miles into the universe laid end to end. And you can’t even see them except under a microscope. And realize that God almighty knows exactly each one is His.
Now you got to let your mind go, otherwise you become a foolish Pentecostal, a foolish old -- God knows what. No proper theology. Just everything is by chance. Well what put in your heart to seek a deep? No. What put in the heart of Abel to search God, and Cain to turn away? See, you’ve got to understand scripture.
(10) And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
Now notice him.
(11) For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;
Now how are you going to get works out of anything that isn’t there? So foreknowledge has got to be followed by predestination. Because predestination is nothing but foreknowledge brought out in the open. Says right here. [Romans 9]
(12) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
Now we talked about birthright this morning in dedication. Esau should have had it. See? But the birthright doesn’t even go by genealogy. Can switch. Long as it stays within the tribe. As long as it’s a seed there.
(13) Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
(14) What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
(15) For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and compassion on whom I will have compassion.
(16) So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Well if God’s going to show mercy then how’s he going to show it without showing it? How’s he going to do it without somebody being done by. Come on, let’s understand. Don’t be a bunch of dumb bunnies.
If you dodge this and I dodge this we will not get what we’re looking for. Let me tell you flat and tell you emphatically. Cause you’ve got to believe what God said and I’ve got to believe it. Now this is a pretty severe test Brother Branham give us -- who’s got the baptism and who’s seed? That’s why you better stay awake in these meetings kids because you’re not going to get it by yourself. I’ll tell you flat. God never raised drips for each word, he raised me up in this place here. I’m not trying to fuss on anybody or be anybody but I’m just telling you flat. You listen, because this is the truth. I’m preaching what Brother Branham preached and I’m nailing it down time after time after time from the word of God. See? Now.
(17) For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised Thee up,
Now the purpose of God stands in election. Election can only come from foreknowledge. And it can only go to predestination. Now that’s concerning the true elect and it’s also concerning the non elect. For these kin’s of a Pharaoh were not in the thoughts of God to be determined as sons. They were in the thinking of God. As was necessary for the forming and the training, the disciplining up, and the maturing of the child of God. For without Pharaoh there would not have been a Moses. Without Esau there would not have been a Jacob. Oh, there would have been a namby, pamby guy crudding around like we all do.
But it was Esau that made him fall on his knees and grapple with God. That’s what’s wrong today with the bride. We haven’t been pressed enough. If people call this a squeeze give me two thousand more years in good health with a couple million dollars. Or maybe twenty million. I might need it for two thousand years. This is no squeeze. Phhht! You say well, “My poor brother, my poor sister, my enemy, my that.” What are you talking about? Still immature babies concerning the word of Almighty God. A part of God. A soul, a seed.
Seeds of God thrive in adversity. You think they don’t? Phhht! I’ve had hardly any adversity -- I’ve had more than most of you. Right on the field. And I look back and I see it was really nothing. To simply stand there in adversity my brother, my sister, is the key to everything in this world, to healing to everything. People just don’t stick to things. That’s why God takes them off the earth many times. [Romans 9]
(17) I raised Thee up, ... that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
In other words you can never think of Pharaoh but you think of God, and you can never think of God but you think of Pharaoh.
(18) Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
(19) Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
(20) Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it,
For this very purpose. Why did you form me for this purpose? That’s both sides of the question now. Those in the true knowledge of God, the thoughts of God, and those that are raised up in order to mature the thoughts of God. And we’re talking of thoughts this morning as you and I -- children. An expression of God. You say, “Well there is a lot of me that doesn’t express God.” There’s a lot of Moses and a there was a lot of a David that didn’t either. There was only one true expression and that was Jesus. Are you trying to be Jesus? You’re trying to get to where you don’t need a Savior? Isn’t that nice of you? Let me know when you get there. We’ll sure see you never come back to a service like this again. Cause you’re just going to stink the place up with your rottenness.
Don’t you understand where God put us? And how he put us? We must understand this. This is the will of God concerning us. We must learn to quit our belly-aching. As Brother Branham preached that sermon under such duress “Why Cry?” What are you crying in your tears for? And you’re brewing over it. Speak to the rock. Man so disconsolate... there’s no need for it.
(21) Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
Now I’m going to tell you, back in the days before the seed intermingled, before the last man, there was Noah, a true human being. Before they corrupted themselves, the sons of God marrying the daughters of men, every single vessel was a child of God by natural birth but needed the sacrifice, and the looking forward to the great son of God. Sure. Because Seth was a literal Abel again. He was another seed from the seed of Cain. They weren’t the same. And as long as the races never came together there was no problem but once they came together it was purely a matter of God separating, because He always separated.
(22) What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
(23) And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared...
Notice the vessels of wrath fitted themselves, but these vessels of glory were fitted by God. If God demands something then God must make a way for it. And when God makes a way for it, woe betide those who turn it down. Now the wrong seed will always turn it down, and the true seed may mince around and edge around, but if they’re true seed they’ll be confronted. Because the bible said, “God trains every son, every son.” But if you’re too, too proud to humble yourself and get down there and pick in the chicken yard, waddle through a pigpen sometime, I got news for you. God will throw you likely face first in it, or you’ll always be just a mess. You’ve got to take things by the horns. Just the way the bible teaches.
All right listen here. The seed was mingled. In other words, the life which brought forth one thing in contradistinction to another thing were so close they could mingle. But they could never reproduce themselves. In other words, every single seed of the serpent and every single one that has an admixture, is going to be destroyed by God. There is only one going to make it and that’s a child of God. A true seed of Almighty God. And they will be the wise and the foolish virgin and nobody else.
So, we see a seed within a seed but not two souls. In other words what am I saying? We see a seed within a seed. We see a lump of clay and in the lines that God has laid down at the river of life, those two lives are intermingled. And God determines which life is which life and brings it forth how He wants it. But within one lump as we read here in Abraham. There are the two seeds. And Jesus said to the Pharisees, “You are of your father the devil.” And they said, we are not born of fornication. In other words, before Eve came to Adam sexually, she was already sexually bound to the serpent who was just a great big giant of a man. And you read that right in the book of Genesis, there were giants in the land, men of renown, great big fancy, great big guys. And then it says when God’s people began mingling with them they brought forth giants too, proving the line of genetics.
And
I think at the end time, that’s what you see these people are so big and tall,
they’re blaming it onto drinking milk.
But you know years ago when the people -
I’m going to tell you something. Adam was no great big six foot five or something. I’m not hitting anybody that’s tall now, don’t misunderstand me. Please don’t misunderstand me. Doesn’t say you’re serpent being you’re a giant or anything else. I’m just telling you what the flesh is producing. Because it shouldn’t do it. See? Now you got us almost all entirely serpent seed it’s going to get more and more and more, bigger and bigger and bigger. And smarter and smarter and smarter. Yet dumber and dumber and dumber, and weaker and weaker. See?
Now, the seed of God in a pure seed. In other words the life of God in a pure seed because we are called seed. We’re named that by virtue of the fact of what we were in the beginning -- never mind what we look like now. See? The seed of God in a pure seed and a physical form in Abel. See, contrasted to Cain. Now here were two people look quite a bit alike. But I can tell you one thing, complexion-wise, Cain was not like Abel. He was not. Stature-wise, he was not like Abel. Spiritual-wise, he was not like Abel. He was purely and distinctly a seed of the serpent in a borrowed or a hybridized body. Absolutely.
Now let’s go ahead and read that in the book of first John the third chapter. You can start in at one.
(1) Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God:
Well do you mean to tell me God’s going to call us a son and say, “Hey, I’m going to do you a big favor there kiddo, I’m going to call you a son.”
That’s stupid.
Hey you can say, “Lee, I believe you’re the son of Rockefeller.”
I’d say, “Well, I wish I were if it meant a million dollars or two,” but forget it honey, the blood doesn’t show it. I was born into a very poor family. The blood may be rich but the pocket book very poor.
You don’t flatter me by saying, “Hey.”
Would you flatter Rockefeller? No, he wouldn’t be flattered either. Well I’m happy he’s not
and I’m happy I’m not.
So you are called the son of God because you are a son of God. And because you are a son of God...
(1) therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew not him.
It neither knows the son or the father.
(2) Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it (hath never yet come into existence to this point) what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, (Absolutely, that’s at this end time) we shall be like Him; for we shall see him as he is.
And that is according to first Corinthians thirteen that tells you when He is here, present, that which is perfect is come, we will know as we are known. We are known as the sons of God and we know that we’re sons of God or we’d better know it! Now you got to blink your eyes and clear your heart strings and all the muck and junk out of your brain and say, “God I believe your Word. I’m a liar but You’re the Truth. Now I’m going to be truthful like you. I am a son of God. If you say I’m a son of God, I’m a son of God. If you like it that way, I like it that way.” What kind of a union do you have outside of that? What kind of a marriage union do you have outside of that? If she doesn’t like what he likes you’ve got a mess. See? Now,
(3) And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
That is the expectation of taking on the glorified body that will absolutely make you to know and everybody to know you are a son of God. And the world still won’t because you’ll be invisible to them. In other words it’s just the end of your hope. Now it says here:
(3) And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Now how you going to do that? Well the bible, Brother Branham again – “If God demanded it God makes a way for it.” So He sends the baptism with the Holy Ghost and burns it all out. You say “Well, Brother Vayle, I don’t know if it got all burned out.” Well God said it did. The first place if you’re a part of God how can you sin? We’ll find that down here. The second place if you sin in your flesh then God said, “I’m going to burn it all out.” He’s burning it out right now by what? The life of the Word that’s released within us right now is burning it all out because we’re going to be standing here, a sweep go over us after the dead rise, and suddenly Hey, we’ll just walk right through a wall if we want to walk through a wall. I don’t care for that myself, I’m not interested. I don’t care what happens as long as I get there and it’s what’s going to happen. I don’t look down the road for the happenings. I look now -- what is. And that’s within the person. OK.
(5) And Ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
So where He is, we are. He was manifested to make us a hundred percent like Him.
(6) Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
Now Bro. Branham told us, “Sin is unbelief.”
(7) Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
(8) He that committeth sin is of the devil; (now it tells you right there) for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Now I want to ask you a question. Did Adam sin from the beginning? The answer is no, Adam did not sin from the beginning. Adam was not righteous, he was innocent. Jesus is the only righteous one. See? God put him up to free will.
(9) Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; (it tells you that) for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin,
The person that’s born of God is a seed of God, it tells you right here, and the seed goes along with the nature of what produced it. You don’t believe me? Plant a maple seed, see what happens. Plant a poppy seed, see what happens. Let’s be real smart and chincy. Let’s get some test tubes. Let’s take a male sperm, a female egg, put it into a test tube. We’ll take the sperm of a horse and the egg of a mare, put it into a test tube, and we’ll nourish them, and see what comes out. Ain’t going to change. It’s not going to change. It’s according to seed. The tree has a form and the life is in the seed to bring forth the form. And remember the seed was there before the form. Before God took a form, the seed was there. That life, what we call the seed, we put it all together here. Now,
(10) In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Now that in other words tells you, that the one will go according to the Bible, the other won’t.
(11) For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
(12) Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
He tried to serve God apart from a living revelation and therefore he killed his brother. Let me tell you that, they may kill us before it’s over. Ah, thank God if they do. Let’s quit fooling around and be worried about the future. How many days can you be without water? You’re dead in forty-eight hours likely. How many days without food? Just a few days. What’s the big deal? I’ve suffered mentally, until pain, physical pain could be a treat. So let’s not think about anything negative, as though, hey… God makes a commandment, he provides a way. God is obligated. That’s Thus Saith the Lord from a vindicated prophet. I don’t care what you and I think or what we go by experience, that is a lie from the pit of hell -- the prophet is true. Let God be true and every man a liar. See? Now,
(13) Marvel not my brethren, if the world hate you.
(14) We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
(15) Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
(16) Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
He goes on here and he talks about the things which a Christian will bring forth in his life -- why? Because of the spirit of God within him. See?
Now, I want to go to Ezekiel the 18th chapter. And in here, we’re going to look at the 4th verse I suppose. This is the only one we’ll look at.
(4) Behold, all souls are mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Now God tells you that he is absolutely over by reason of creation, every single soul, whether it be that which perishes, or that which does not perish. And the difference of the souls is this: that one came from God and one did not. And the vessel in which those souls are, absolutely doesn’t mean very much in the sense of the actual physical itself because it’s one lump. But God begins to move on that vessel, though it’s one lump. And remember, the animal instincts will be predominant in the vessel because the dominant factors come from the beast. They don’t come from God physically. They all come from God, but we’re talking now about nature, faculties and those things. So therefore, we look at the flesh and we say, “Well that cannot be of God.” Well that’s true, there comes a time when the flesh betrays itself because it turns on the Word of God and says, “That is not so.” It walks plumb away from it.
Now, the bible said that all souls were of God. And it said, “The soul that sins, it shall die.” But it says, “The soul which is of God (which is the seed, which is the son, which is the gene, which is the attribute, which is a part of God) does not sin.” It is that Christ came and died for, and put away sin in the flesh that we can get these bodies back. That’s what we are looking at. Now, the soul will die, but there is eternal life in the soul of the believer. And Bro. Branham said, “You will find one day, at the day that you’re born again, you’ll look back and realize, you never got eternal life at that time, you always had eternal life.” Now brother, sister, we haven’t got that far in this message yet. Therefore we must constantly keep in mind these things that Bro. Branham taught us, and go over them and over them and over them.
Now, remember what we read in first John three. And as we do we can go back to the last
book before the book of Revelations. And that book of Revelation… [end of side one of tape]
We’re looking at the book of Jude. If we could start at verse 5.
(5) I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Now he didn’t destroy them that believed, he destroyed them that didn’t believe. Now why didn’t the certain bunch believe? It wasn’t in them to believe. It just wasn’t with them. They couldn’t make it.
(6) And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgement of the great day.
(7) Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
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