Who Is This Melchisedec? # 30
Bro. Lee Vayle
December 7, 1988
... You, Yourself, came in order to bring the Word which is of You and in manifestation is You ; we appreciate that. And we pray now, Lord, You will help us in the dissolving of all doubts and fears or anything concerning Your Word that we might know it, O God. We just pray that we will. Teach It to us, Lord. So many things that we don’t know but we realize also there are those things we might never know. We don’t tell You, Lord, what to do. We just pray, Father, that somehow what is in our hearts is of You and because it’s something that’s looking to You-- a deep calling to Deep, then there will be an answer. So, show us the things, Lord, that are convenient for us, convenient food… what we have need of as a people here, Lord, in this last day. We’ll give You the praise in Jesus’ Name. Amen. You may be seated.
Now, I think we’re up to about number 30 on Who Is This
Melchisedec? and we’re just about on page 21 where we left off at. And of course, due to many allusions to God
and His Son Jesus Christ and to ourselves as sons of God, we've spent many
hours on the Godhead and the Life
journey of Jesus Christ and ourselves from eternity to eternity.
Now, before we become involved
in page 21 and we –we’re just about to become involved in it to read it and
look at it -- we want to remember (and I’ll read the part to you) that Bro.
Branham was dealing with Communion and he is making some pertinent comments
about it. Now, that’s where we’re
starting, on page 21 and paragraph 105…
[105] Now…Notice, after the
battle was over Melchisedec served His victorious
child Communion
(think of that!), part of Himself.
Now, of course, this is the
historical aspect because we know that after the battle was over we find that
Abraham came in contact with Melchisedec and up to this point and afterward we
don’t know of any time that he ever met Him again. So, this is the historical portion, here, and
Bro. Branham is bringing out the thought of Communion, here. Let’s just read the whole paragraph then.
[105] Notice after the battle was
over Melchisedec served His victorious
child
Communion (think of that!) part of Himself.
Now, we want to see here,
in type here is in view the
Communion. After the battle He gave
Himself,
because the Communion is part of
Christ. And after the struggle is over,
after you've done whipped yourself out, then's when that’s when you
partake of Christ, become part of His Being.
You get it?
Now, looking at
this--following Bro. Branham’s pattern of teaching, I would be absolutely
confirmed in my thinking that Bro. Branham is speaking, here, of the Baptism
with the Holy Ghost of which the battle is a type of ‘Sanctification’ where after repentance which
brings about ‘Justification’, the person now seeks to have himself presentable
to the Lord by battling against his lower self and attempting to live a life
that is worthy of Christ (perhaps never
worthy but at least honoring the Lord). Now, that’s what we’re looking at as
Sanctification here.
And we don’t look at Sanctification as ‘eradication’ as
many people do. But we just look at it as people battling in order to present
their vessels unto the Lord to be filled with the Holy Ghost. So, the thought more or less here, as I see
it, is that if a person is a child of God, a seed of God, and hears the Voice
of the Lord speaking --because the sheep hear the Voice of the Lord (Bro. Branham
called It an Eagle-scream) -- that person will want to be filled with the Holy
Spirit. Now, I think we can kind of look
at this by going to Gal 4:1-2, Heb12:3-6 and then back to Galatians 4. So, here we are in the fourth chapter --and keep your hand there
when we go to Hebrews 12…
[Galatians 4]
(1) Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth
nothing
from (the) servant, though he be lord of all;
(2) But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of
the
father.
Now, let’s just leave that and
swing over to the twelfth chapter of the Book of Hebrews where you see
child-training here and --although this
actually is referring to the trial of
our faith than the child-training, it’s going to be...it’s, it’s...we can put this with Galatians -- in the 3rd
verse and we read to about 6.
[Hebrews 12]
(3) For consider him that endureth such contradiction of sinners
against
himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your
minds.
(4) Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
(5) And (have you) forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto
you as
unto children.
My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord,
nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
(6) For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every
son
(that) he receiveth.
Now, take this back here to
Galatians where we read that every child though he is heir to all and is
directly a son of God, he is no different from just an ordinary person, a
servant, who is under the instruction, the care, the discipline of somebody
over him. Now, notice in verse 3. [Galatians 4]
(3) Even so we, when we were children, (we) were in bondage under
the
elements of the world:
(4) But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his
Son,
made of
a woman, made under the law,
(5) To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive
the
adoption of sons.
(6) And because (you) are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of
his Son
into your hearts, crying (our Father), Father.
(7) (Therefore, you are) no more a servant, but a son:
Now, the reason I use those
very verses -- if you look back as we were studying before in Melchisedec, that
Bro. Branham mentioned, that for having bypassed the theophanic form or the
Spirit-body, God gave something commensurate to you in order to replace the
fact that you weren’t in that Spirit-body and therefore sinless. He gave you the Holy Spirit in order to give
you and me victory.-- So, what we’re
looking at … this portion of Scripture here is:
that though we are sons of God, and we are born into a world of sin, and
the flesh is not subject to the Spirit of God, is more subject to the spirit
that was at our birth that God gave us and of Him and in this--when God begins
to call us, we realize that we are in a very poor position because of the
appetites of the flesh, the power of the mind and all of these things, and we
go through this cleansing period in order to receive the Holy Spirit. And having received the Holy Spirit – that’s
what Bro. Branham’s calling the true communion, now, “God giving a part of Himself to us”-- brings us to the place we
spoke of previously: that a person truly full of the Holy Ghost can live in a
place of victory over the world, the flesh and the Devil...the lust of the eye
and the pride of life and all those other things that are there to it.
Now, that’s why I read those
verses because you cannot get away from the fact that there is definitely the
three steps that Bro. Branham always proclaimed : Justification,
Sanctification, Baptism. And the Holy
Ghost, of course, is always symbolic -- as we’ll bring out again here very
shortly -- Bro. Branham always does it concerning the cleansing of the
world. There was...the water dropped on
it, the Blood dropped on it, then the fire drops on it, dissolves it and brings
it to the place. So therefore, the
Baptism with the Holy Ghost is God bringing us to a place in this flesh where
He wants us to be.
Now that’s concerning
sovereignty. And within sovereignty, God having gotten His way, now wants us to
continually... as Bro. Branham always followed the Puritan understanding that:
though you’re baptized it’s the same as being born (in fact baptism is a
rebirth). But as a person matures and
Paul says, “...puts away childish things”, so a person full of the Holy Ghost
will begin to put away the world, the flesh and the Devil, and begin to live in
accordance with the Word of God in the Spirit of God motivated and...?...with
always the right attitudes. So that’s
what you’re looking at here. As far as I am concerned you’re looking at the
process of Sanctification right after Justification and going on to the Baptism
with the Holy Ghost.
All right...
[105] ...after
the struggle is over, after you've … got
yourself
whipped
out, then's when you partake of Christ, and become
a part of this Being.
Now, let’s just look at that a
little bit longer.. “After the struggle
is over” … now, that’s the struggle to really believe that God does fill
people with the Holy Ghost. And now remember, there is nobody but a seed is
going to believe that. This is something
the seed alone will believe, hearing the Word of God. You’ll find all denominations will put it to
one side and they’ll say, “Well, I got the Holy Ghost when I believed. I got
the Holy Ghost when I was sanctified. I got this and I got that.” But in the hour when we find the three steps
that are the prelude to the fourth step -- which is a literal Presence and
the…a Resurrection and the Rapture...
the Lord Jesus Christ manifested in all of it-- you find that the people simply
do not want it. They just don’t come to
it. Now... So, therefore, there is a, “Whipping
out,” of the person’s thinking and
understanding, and the desire to be
filled with the Spirit of the Living God.
Now, watch, he said, “When
you partake of Christ, become (a) part of this Being”. Now, that sounds a
hundred percent contrary to the premise, the doctrine that Bro. Branham laid
down that we are a part of God. But it doesn’t say that here. It says that
the part of God now goes back to being a part of Him. In other words, the
separation and death by sin --because
that’s what death is, is separation, see? -- because while we were in that
condition of being sons that were lost, having lost the great leadership of the
Holy Spirit, now coming back and being born-again, we become a part of the Body
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, wouldn’t
you just love to have a beak of an eagle instead of your own beak? How would
you like a dog liver instead of your own liver? Pig’s eyes instead of your own
eyes? Then d’you think the Being of God
would be made up of any less than beings from God? Or does He graft in hogs and
dogs and sows and God-knows-what ? No!
You see... You see what you’re looking at? You’re looking at that we are a part of
God. Then, to make up the Body of Jesus
Christ, it must be every member Word.
How’re you going to put a Baptist, Methodist, Roman Catholic, Anglican,
Pentecostal?... Can’t do it. Those are man-made corruptions, man-made designations. How do you think
there’s going to be a true Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ unless it’s all
God? The
fact that there is a human form doesn’t mean anything. And the fact that what went with the human form, that’s the grace of
God and the Blood, see? So, look at
these words. They’re not words that...that are ridiculous words. They’re words that are very, very true.
Now, notice...
[106] Jacob wrestled all night and wouldn't turn Him
loose until He
blessed him. Now, there again... That's right! The
Now, what is he speaking of?
He’s speaking again of the Baptism with the Holy Ghost, the Rebirth. Now, we also go through a, “
There is... as Bro. Branham says, “Predestination
is in full view.” And when you look
at it, it’s God predestinating Himself...when you want to look at it. So, get the vision we’re talking about.
Now...the battle is over...”God gives you of Himself.” Now d’you...now, Lamb leading...Dove leading
Lamb. Is the Dove going to come upon a
wolf or a dog or a pig? Oh, you’ve got
to be ridiculous! And you go to the
evidence of the Holy Ghost to believe the Word for the hour, to stand with It
and know where you stand, to understand the great precepts of Christ and the
Presence of Christ--these things here.
You know whom you have believed. You’ve believed That! [Bro.
Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire over Bro. Branham] And you’re persuaded that I’ll keep you. You
believe something else, you don’t belong here.
You’re nice people. I love you.
Come and eat with us. But,
you...come-on! We’re not out here in the
world with strange doctrines. Oh, we
have a strange Doctrine, sure. I don’t
care how strange people thing It, but we’re right. We know we’re right because
we believe in a vindication--not indication,
vindication! [A] lot of things are indicated and that’s good… but when you get
‘em vindicated, that’s God -- not just beautiful and wonderful and
perfect. Now...
[106] ...God, then, gives you of Himself. That is His true Communion.
The
little bread
and wafer just represents it.
So when you take Communion
what are you celebrating? You are celebrating the Baptism with the Holy Ghost.
See? Sure, you “show forth his
death till he comes”. But He already came! He came once that
way [Points
to the picture] at
Pentecost--began breaking Himself into thousand and not millions of people...came that way as over
Bro. Branham’s head...the Apostle Paul… came again. God in three -- you can’t change it... God
doing everything in threes. Now, the communion...
[106] …and you shouldn't take
it 'less you've wrestled it out and
become part of God.
Now, look-it, right there.
Well, how do you get into God? He tells you --by the Baptism with the Holy
Ghost! 1Corinthians 12. So, therefore, the Communion is denied except
a person is baptized with the Holy Ghost. See?
But when you know you’re
born-again, “You've wrestled it out...you become a part of God.” Now, remember, this is not the same as God
being a part of us. See? And the part of us that’s God is that gene-soul. Now, “We become
part of God,” completing the circuit—“ the Father in me and I in Him”. What more do you want? “ I and my Father are
One!” Simple as A-B-C.
People don’t like that. Let ’em hate it!
I tell you, a lot of folk don’t
like sauerkraut; I love it! I’m not supposed to have it, but you throw some
spareribs in there, and couple cans of
tomatoes --and, of course, you’ve got to do it a certain way-- and put the rice
in and let the whole thing steam....Man, I can sit down and guzzle myself sick. I got no problem at all. This is the Word of God. We have no problem
eating it. If other people don’t like
it, well, they don’t have to come to our
banquet. Now, it’s Communion…
[107] Remember, at this time the
Communion had never been instituted,
not until before-- the death of
Jesus Christ, hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds of years later. Now, that’s just a fact.
[108] But Melchisedec after His child Abraham had won the victory,
Melchisedec met him and gave him
wine and bread, showing that
after this earthly battle is over,
we will meet Him in the heavens
and take the Communion again; it'll
be the Wedding Supper. " I will
...drink no more of the vine or eat
the fruit, until I eat it and drink
it with you anew in my Father's
kingdom."
Well, let’s go over to Mark 14 just for the sake of
reading it. You’ve read it and I’ve read
it many, many times but we’ll just go there anyway and see it... [verse] 22...
(22) And as they did eat Jesus took bread and blessed and broke it
and
gave it to them and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
(23) And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it
to
them: and they all drank of it
(24) And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament,
which
is shed for many (and that, of course is for the many).
(25) Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the
vine,
until that day that I drink it new in the
All right, then you notice it
says here, they had sung a hymn… they went out into the
Now, I want you to notice something here that
is very, very necessary, I believe, to note because otherwise we wouldn’t get
the history of this right. Now, we know
that Abraham was engaged in a great battle.
We know that he put his life on the line. We know that he had problems. We know he had
to get food, evidently, for the army he
had, from the kings of
Why did Melchisedec draw near
to this man? Because here was a man
after His own heart ; a man who served others.
He put everything on the line for it.
And you know something? That’s the greatest place in the world to be.
And when you stick your neck out for somebody, it’s ten to one you’ll have the
ungrateful urchin try to chop your head off, because that’s... the more you do,
the more people will turn on you. The
more God ever does, the more people turn on Him because there’s many more to
turn on Him than to turn to Him. But get
the picture here. Abraham was fighting
for the victory of his nephew,
But notice the perfection that
lies in this paragraph 108 -- God entering into a deep, deep fellowship with the man that wants to be a servant. And you know
something? The world always says, if you want someone to do something for you
and you need a favour done or there’s a group of people wants something done, always choose the man that’s
busy …because he’ll do it. The guy that
sits around like a bum, he’ll be a bum even if you pay him. Yup! You know
what? There’s an old saying that says,
“The Devil always finds something for idle hands to do.” That’s right! The
Devil will. It’s far better to give our
hands to God then, and let God use us.
Now, Melchisedec, here at the
end time...because that’s Melchisedec -- Bro. Branham said
It was Jesus Christ… and It was, really…and we stick to what he said. But if
you want to extend It to Melchisedec, you’re perfectly true in doing it--
Melchisedec, here, now, is feeding us as we defeat ourselves in faith by the
Word. In other words, the greatest thing
that we can do is defeat our own selves
by faith in the Word. Let me take a
look at it, if you don’t catch what I’m saying. Let’s go to Gal 2:20...
(20) I (have been) crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in
the flesh
I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me, and
gave himself
for me.
By faith from God, the faith of God, faith in this Word, this man crucified
himself-- brought himself to a stand still.
You know you got to do that. Many
times you've got to do it -- fight yourself to a stand still. You know Bro.
Branham talks about the people like a buzz-saw--always popping off. Well,
there’s a big difference in popping off and being a buzz-saw. A buzz-saw goes
around looking for trouble. A guy that
pops off doesn’t like trouble. But you know, the guy that overcomes is the guy
that God wants. We are overcomers in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
So, all right, Melchisedec is
here feeding us as we defeat ourselves… defeat ourselves, See? Jesus said, “My
strength is made perfect in weakness.”
Paul said, “Therefore”, he said, “I’ll gladly surrender everything,
become the weakest person in the world because when I’m weak, then I’m strong.”
See? Melchisedec feeds us --in other
words, He makes up the slack (see?)
which we would have liked to have drawn from the flesh which the flesh could
never supply. Can’t do it-- flesh can’t do it; got to be something God supplies -- So, the person who will
defeat himself through faith in this Word will defeat everything else. True?
That’s what Jacob had to do.
Let me take a look over here in 2
Corinthians ; I think there’s something here I want to show you. Now, 2 Cor 1:3...
(3) Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father
of mercies and the God of all comfort; (Now, watch, he
uses this
appellation particularly because he's going to tell us
something)
(4) Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able
to
comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort
wherewith
we ourselves are comforted of God.
Do you know why it is sometimes
your nose runs into a grindstone, your hand into a hamburger machine, and
somebody takes the little rubber band off that hole in your pocket so all your
money dribbles out-- not to mention, you forget sometime and turn your back and
there’s five knives under the fifth rib?
That’s so you'll be able to help
somebody… Eh? That’s... The Bible said, “Let no man boast putting his armor on
as a man who takes his armor off.” As
Bro. Branham said to Tommy Osborne, “Go stand under the old gnarled oak over there, F.S. Bosworth, and learn something.” Eh? You
don’t get this in a seminary. Oh, you may learn all the ins and outs and how to
be disciplined, but you don’t get this until
you fight yourself to a stand still.
How do I know certain things? I stood there on the road. I took my training in a rough area where there wasn’t anybody but God could help me. And never look to a Pentecostal preacher to help you. Oh yes, the sign on his church is “Help you out? Certainly! Which way did you come in? Help you out? Yes! I’ll take the money out of your pocket because I see it’s hard for you to carry the burden”. Forget it ! I’m not bitter; I’m just smart. I can sit back and relax now because I know the God of all grace in certain areas. I don’t care what area you are in, you will learn a certain way. This is Communion. This is the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, God blessing us and God helping us -- certainly He does. Now, He always gives us the superabundant above all we can ask or think. Let’s go into Ephesians and read that. My memory’s not too good but I could read that, one time, the way it’s really written but I'll see if I can remember it. And the 3rdchapter it says...the 20th verse [ Ephesians 3]
(20) Now
unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all
that we ask or think,
according to the power that worketh in us,
(is... “Now unto him that is
able to do exceeding abundantly above
all that we ask or think
according to the working of His mighty
power that He puts to work within us.”)
In other words, when you’re
brought right down to the low ebb and
there’s nothing there, you become like the widow who said, “All right, I'll
give him a little bit of grain here because I perceive you’re a prophet”. Now,
don’t…don’t follow the A.A. Elm stuff-- Widows, give your homes to so-called
divine healers. Forget it! No, we have enough of that stuff. We don’t need that kind of hogwash. This is where people really put themselves to
the test. Not some...not some souped-up evangelist. There’s only one person could put anybody to
a test really; that’d be a prophet of God, the same as Elijah did. When she met
her test she said, “All right, Prophet, I believe in you. I'm going to put everything on the line.” And when she did she got everything back and
a whole lot more.
Now, 109, page 22.
[109] Notice again, Melchisedec
went to meet Abraham before he got
back home. Now he's coming right down to
your time and my
time What a beautiful type here we have: Melchisedec meeting
Abraham before he got back home
after the battle. We meet Jesus
in the air before we get home! That's right!
Now, the real home we’re
coming to always has to be this earth because that’s where we’re going to be.
The Resurrection is the prime desire of God for His sons-- and that means the
earth. Now, before we come back to this earth, we’re going to meet Him in the
air at the Wedding Supper, after the battle’s
over. And from that time, there
are no more battles. See? In other words, the end of the great scenario of
life...We meet Him in the air.
So, all right... We think of
the Appearing in 1933…ends at the Wedding Supper. And I think Bro. Branham was thinking of
himself at this particular point when he realized that having had battles even
before he was born-again, as God was dealing with him, he had greater battles
after 1933. And he had greater battles again thirteen years later in
1946 when God commissioned him. And he had greater battles again in 1960 when
he preached on the Church Ages-- actually starting at '58 when he hit serpent
seed and talked...put women in their place and things like that -- then '60,
this Church Ages; 1963, the Seals and so on... The great battle, knowing that
as long as he was fighting himself like the Apostle Paul,-- and you know that
Bro. Branham did, absolutely-- bringing his body under control, he was looking
for that great meeting in the air because he had already introduced us to the
Bridegroom.
Now,
[109] We meet Jesus in the air
before we get home! That's right!
1 Thessalonians 4 tells us that, for
we meet Him in the air. A
beautiful type of Rebecca meeting
Isaac in the air…
Now, what is Rebecca and
Isaac? Isaac is the son of Abraham,
typing as God and the son. O.K. Rebecca,
the lovely one, that is to go to Isaac...
[109] …in the cool of the day. We
meet Him in the air; 1st Thessalonians
tells us so : " For we which are alive and remain
shall not
prevent or hinder
those that are asleep;
Actually the deepest meaning I
can see in that is that not take precedence.
We don’t take precedence and we don’t take any eminence at all.
[109] for the trumpet of God
shall sound; and the dead in Christ
shall rise first;
we which are alive and remain shall
be caught
up with the
dead... to meet the Lord in the
air." Perfect!
All these
types. Now...
[110] Therefore the theophany, that’s that
Spirit-body if you have
died and entered
into that Spirit-body, what happens?
Now, this is a great secret Bro. Banham's
telling us : The theophany comes to the earth to pick up the redeemed body.
Now, the word ‘theophany’,
because he used ‘Spirit-body’, that’s used in the Bible. What a person could do
in modern language, taking Bro. Branham and the Bible -- we could actually, as
I have often said: dominant and subdominant.
Now, we know the Great Theophany is when God Himself has a form that
appears to the eye. But we are little gods, so we could say ‘sub-theophany’,
little theophany. And you’re perfectly
right because, remember, what was there in the beginning, forms somehow -- and
it would be of itself-- that body. And
Bro. Branham said, “It was eternal and
therefore it cannot be created.” Now, he never went back on his definitions or
he would’ve had to say, “Now folk, I'm going to tell you something. I got to change the meaning of eternal, here, to just everlasting.” He never said it. So, if I’m teaching you
something wrong, it will fall back on Bro. Branham because that’s what he said.
So, we understand these things though just the same. Remember, there’s too much in nature to prove
that this is right. Now...
[110] The
theophany comes to the earth and
picks up the redeemed body.
And if you're here in the air, you
take the body to meet the theophany...
You say, why is that so? Because God does everything in threes. And
you will never get to the Wedding Supper without it. Y’say, “Well, I’ve done got my glorified
body.” Well, done shut up and sit down! You need
your theophany. Lots of things we might not know the answer to. We know the
answer to this ; you’ve got to have it!
No way out of it. So people that don’t even understand this, what are
they looking for? Say, “I’m looking for the dead to come. I’m looking for my
theophany. I’m looking for my change.”
You’ve got three things right there-- the dead to come, the theophanic
form and you change. Certainly!
[110] There you are, and get caught up and go to meet the Lord in
the air. Now
that’s a big secret. Now, watch. Some more secrets...
[111] Who is this Melchisedec but
God?
[112] Now, we see here plainly
the complete secret of our lives...
Now, this is the big secret
number two. In this sermon that he
preached delineating upon Melchisedec going to the form of Christ, telling us
we come the same journey and all... It’s a great secret.
[112] Now, we see here plainly
the complete secret of our lives
in journey,
that's the starting point, and
death...where we
go after we die.
Also predestination is in plain view
here.
Sure it is because it’s step by step what happens to the
germ,
the son--step by step.
Now, listen as we teach this,
closely.
OK, Number one… I’m going to look at this part
here before we read on...number one: we are a part of God, an attribute, a son,
a soul. We are chosen by being in Him. The choosing is not “ I'll take this, I'll
leave that. I'll take this, I'll leave that.”
It was already according to what was there. It would have to be. Then you see
predestination-- what is it that happens to these. Now, you notice to the
Foolish Virgin, they do not go in the first resurrection. They are not changed from mortal to
immortal. They do not get a theophanic
-form to go in the air. Now, they can
get a form, for all I know, after they departed. That’s fine.
But, notice, there’s a big difference between foolish virgin right now
and the people that are in this little earth here. So the secret is out. We see this journey,
here.
Now we go to 113.
[113] The stages of the eternal
purpose He had in His secret (have)
now been revealed.
The stages--what were the stages? Well, if we had the board, we’ll show you.
[Bro. Vayle refers to his outline on the board.] We’re in Him. Then we see how that Christ
became. Then we see how we stepped down to Adam, and come on down. We see how Christ was in a theophanic-form we
call Jesus Christ--the same One. We
missed it, and so on.
Now...
[113] the secret’s been revealed.
Notice, there are still three stages
to perfection. Now, he goes right back to ‘The Future
Home’. Just
like He redeems the
world; same way He redeems His Church.
He
redeems the people in three
stages. Now look, first is Justification
like Luther preached; second,
Sanctification like Wesley preached;
third, Baptism of the Holy
Ghost. That's right! Then comes the
rapture.
Now, that’s ‘ Future Home’. And of course, in here he’s telling a great revelation. And what is the revelation we need to know in this hour above everything else? That we have come to the place of the Baptism with the Holy Ghost-- a genuine Baptism that’s apart from sensation. It is without any evidence whatsoever and it has nothing to do with speaking in tongues and gifts of the Spirit -- absolutely different. There can be a Judas perfectly anointed with the Holy Ghost -- raise the dead, heal the sick, and look like a monumental genius in the realms of Almighty God -- and be nothing but a devil. You say, well how in the world could God Almighty let His power fall upon a devil ? Well, Who do you think gave the Devil the power in the first place? All power is of God, period! Never mind the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox and the Anglican and Pentecostal sitting around thinking they can wump up some kind of power-- they'll burn!! Let’s face it. You don’t want to be in that crowd. Don’t ever have their stinking thoughts. All power is of God. And if I come down here tonight, spit in your face and cuss you in your teeth and take a knife and rip your guts out--let me tell you something-- that power is of God but used by a devil. Because you can’t even say, “Tomorrow I will go to church and do anything”...as David said, “There's one step betwixt me and death”. In other words, one breath...and our breath is in His hands. Don’t anybody ever think he’s got any power. He said to Jesus, “I've got power to turn you...” He says, “You've got no power given you unless it's given you from above.” Certainly.
God’s Word through a prophet in this end hour-- Melchisedec bringing Communion, giving a part of Himself and that part, of course, is a further Word because this part of Christ in this hour is immortality to the living. Never before given. Marvellous, what God does for us! Now, let’s read on... He says here, the world is saved like we’re saved-- three stages: water, the Blood, fire, rapture... water, Blood, Holy Ghost.
[114] Now, the world, how did He
redeem the world? The first what He did,
when it sinned, He washed it off in water
baptism. That's right.
Then He dropped His Blood upon it from the
cross and sanctified
it and called it His own. Now, that dropped upon the
ground and
we're part of the ground; we got in on it,
right?... then what does
He
do? As He tore
all the world out of you and renovated
the whole
thing by the fiery baptism of the Holy Ghost. He’ll... renovate the world..
Now, listen, the Holy Ghost is given to teach us. Then what’s He going to do? The first thing, He’s going to attack our minds. Oh, you say, “Bro. Vayle, the Devil attacks our minds.” Sure he does! What do you think? D'you think he’s stupid? The greatest battle’s there. The Holy Ghost attacks your mind with the Wor