New Year’s Message
1989
“Beginnings; Faith and Truth”
January 1, 1989
Shall we pray. Heavenly Father we thank You that You’ve spared our lives to see not just a dawn of another day but the dawn of another year, Lord, knowing it’s already built upon that which is past, and therefore we know that the glorious things since 1963, the opening of the Seals, Lord, become progressively greater. And now Lord, we know that time is shortened that much more. And we pray Lord, that as You have given us all that which is necessary to put us into a Rapture, that we will apprehend it, Lord, not only in Your due season which we cannot do otherwise, but apprehend it in every measure of our bodies, bodies, soul, spirit, mind, until we become thoroughly saturated with the Word of God, every channel, as Bro. Branham said, to the soul, with the Word of God filled and then knowing that that same Life in that Word, that same Word come back to be living epistles read and known of all men. We know Lord, that many people have believed that is true in their sanctified lives, and we have seen great men in the past and even now, fine men of God with sanctified lives, living a life which everyone would say glorifies You, at least in some measure if not in a great measure, but never till this time, Lord, is there a people who will be changed in their mortal being, having been already dressed and being dressed by the Word of God in the inner man, that inner garment, putting on immortality, Lord, never was until this time. We believe this is that hour, and we thank You for it Lord. We just pray we’ll be more serious in this coming year than ever before, and 1989 Lord will be a time, a real sobriety, a real dedication, Lord, to the Word of Almighty God, sanctifying ourselves as vessels unto You, to this Holy Word. Help us today Lord, and we’ll give You the praise. In Jesus Name, amen. You may be seated.
Now, we have already some questions in that we didn’t get last Wednesday, but before we get to them, I want to bring a little message perhaps suited to the New Year, on “Beginnings.” On “Beginnings.” And of course it’s, when it’s a beginning, is something new. Now in the book of Exodus, the 12th chapter, we want to read about maybe the first 13 verses.
(1)
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the
(2)
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the
first month of the year to you.
So evidently, this particular time, it was set forth in the
(3)
Speak ye unto all the congregation of
(4)
And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his
neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls;
every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
(5)
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: (and) ye
shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
(6)
And (you’ll) keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and
the whole assembly of the congregation of
(7)
And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts
and upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
(8)
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and
unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
(9)
Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire;
his head (and) his legs, with the pertinence thereof.
(10)
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which
remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
(11)
And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your
feet, and your staff in your hand; and (you) shall eat it in haste: it is the
LORD'S passover.
Now, this great beginning of God dealing in grace and mercy of course was the type of the great prototype, as set forth in the gospel of John, in the first chapter, verse 29, which is in the context of 28 to 34. So we’re going to read John [verse] 28 to 34, chapter 1.
(28)
These things were done in Bethabara beyond
(29)
(And) the next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and (said), Behold
the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (Now this is the
Passover Lamb, and the One spoken of in the garden, that would bruise the
enemy’s head, while the enemy would bruise His heel.)
(30)
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred
before me: for he was before me. (You’ll notice, he calls Him a man, and
pre-existant. After all, Jesus was born six months later I think it was than
John the Baptist. But he’s talking about the One that was ahead of him, that
was with up there when all the morning stars sang together.)
(31)
And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to
(32)
And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven
like a dove, and it abode upon him.
(33)
And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same
said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, remaining on him,
the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
(34)
And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
In there we see the humanity of Jesus and we see the Divinity of God,
because we know that it is God who sends forth the Holy Ghost, Jesus having
paid the price for it. Now, these verses
here, that you see which we read concerning John speaking of this one, who was
to be baptized in water, the Holy Spirit coming upon him, descending like a
dove out of heaven abiding, the same one to send forth the Holy Spirit, the Holy
Ghost, upon people. Now, you’ll notice
he does not separate the two, making it simply one person. Like I and my Father are one. Now, these verses are the literalization
of John 1 to 23. So we’ll read them.
(1)
In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was
God.
Now that’s a plain statement of fact that God determined to bring
Himself into manifestation. And when He
was brought into manifestation, He was still God, He was not another
person. It was not a second person, or a
third person, of a trinity, it was that same God. As Bro. Branham said, if you make Jesus the
Word, you make three Gods. See, you’ve
got to be very careful here, that you’re not beginning to consider this as the
one that is down here, and the Holy Spirit is coming upon him, the one that was
born of a woman. Because this is not how
God brought forth Himself into manifestation at this particular time.
(1) In the beginning was the
Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
(2)
The same was in the beginning with God.
(3)
(Now) all things were made by him; without him was not any thing made
that was made.
(4)
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
(5)
The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
(6)
(And) there was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
(7)
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men
through him might believe.
(8)
He was not that Light, but (he) was sent to bear witness of that Light.
(9)
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the
world.
(10)
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew
him not.
(11)
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
(12)
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons
of God,(or actually, it wasn’t to become, it was literally that they might be
granted that authority to be manifested as such), even to them that believe on
his name:
(13)
Which were born (now watch), not of blood, nor of the will of the
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Now, you’re looking at here in the comparison. There is blood, and will of flesh, which is
simply sexual impulse or also the desire to have children, which is fine. And there is that which is entered into
willfully, they positively want to procreate, to bring forth children, and
they’ll bring it of the flesh, they’ll bring it some way. But when you’re born of God it brings forth
what we’ve been bringing in Melchisedec here all along, it’s… to be born of God
means to issue forth from God. And that
which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.
And there’s a part of us that is definitely the Spirit of God. Then it says,
(14)
And the Word (became) flesh, (the same one up in verse one here, this
Word literally, God wanting to manifest Himself in this particular form now, He
becomes flesh.) dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father,) (Now what’s he talking of here? He’s talking of the manifestation. God in manifestation.)
(15)
John bare witness of him, cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake,
He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. (Now
notice, John is making that same statement again, as he made over here.)
(16)
And of his fulness (we) have all received, and grace for grace.
(17)
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ.
(18)
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in
the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
(19)
And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests (unto him)
and Levites from
(20)
And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, (and said) I am not
the Christ.
And
then down in [verse] 23,
(23)
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight
the way of the Lord…
Now, what we’re looking at here in Exodus 12, and then in John
proclaiming the ministry of Christ as Redeemer, seeing how that God came down,
residing in human flesh, having started out in the beginning, as becoming the
Manifestor of all that which manifested – was manifested, is now manifesting
here in a human form, as a Redeemer in order to redeem His own. Now watch the verses I’m going to read
here. In verse 16 is what we’re looking
at. And 17. And 18.
Well 17, especially.
(16) And of his fulness have (we) all received, and grace for grace.
(17) For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Now, reading that again.
(16) (For) of his fulness have (we) all received…
And he’s in here speaking of the fact, all things were made by Him, without Him was not anything made that was made. That was made for us, because the whole world was standing here in a perfect creation before God made man, and then produced him in a physical form, and produced the wife in a physical form also. Now it says, [John 1]
(4) In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
So, here we see God’s Word speaking to us,
(16) Of his fulness (we) have all received…
Which is very, very, true. And we’ve received of His fullness in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, but the thought I like best here is,
(16) …and grace for grace.
(17) For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Now, back in the beginning we had a type here. And this type showed forth, in a beginning, let me take you back to Exodus again. And it’s the 12th chapter, the 2nd verse.
(2) This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Now, I’ve looked in a lot of places in the Bible, checking out the word ‘new’, checking out the word ‘year’, trying to see what lined up with what we have as tradition, which unfortunately is simply lackadaisical desire, to change our ways, and we make resolutions which are only broken, and I guess meant to be broken. Like all laws, always been broken. But this new year here, has to do with the grace of Almighty God, a type for us, as no grace has ever been given to us. So we see here reading John and putting Exodus together, is to be especially noted from these verses in John, that they’re a scriptural description of the great Beginner Himself, back here now, let’s look at that. Revelation 3, and verse 14.
(14) Unto the angel (the messenger) of the church of the Laodiceans (these things) write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
John’s description here of the great Beginner Himself, and the great beginning, of the fullness of redemption. So this is the picture that we see in the Bible, as setting forth a true new year. Now, it’s not just a new day, although a day with God could be limitless, he specifies it perfectly as a year. This is a new year to you. And the new year was of the grace of God extended to mankind. The Redeemer, the great Beginner Himself, go back to Genesis 1.
(1) In the beginning God created the heaven(s) and the earth.
God does all the creating. John 1.
(1) In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God.
(2) The same was in the beginning with God.
(3) All things were made by him;
Then over here in Revelation chapter 21, verse 5.
(5) …Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
So we have a perfect picture here of whatever is going to be new. According to God, whether it would be a new year, a new day, a new age, or new wine, new garments, new kings, new authorities, new heavens, new earth, whatever is new must come from God Himself, the Great Beginner. Because everything new is suggested, suggested, suggesting a beginning. Now it must not necessarily be a creative act, whereby you are going to receive something that wasn’t there before. It could be a beginning wherein something is already there, but you could start fresh with a dedication. Now notice, the Great Beginner Himself, sets forth in type in the book of Exodus, and fulfilling, not fulfilling but further stressing, augmenting, and illustrating deeper that type in almost, yes, in every single book of the Bible. Where God Himself is making reconciliation, even reconciling Himself to mankind, reconciling man to Him, every single thing actually must start with God, and will end with God.
Now
you saw that in the very beginning. We
have a complete heavens and earth, we have a complete beautiful Eden, we have
mankind all ready to embark upon a journey of perhaps thousands of years, would
be six thousand years is what it would be.
Of mortality, and yet living in health under the Presence and Wisdom of
Almighty God, seeing that Great One bring that into existence, going right back
to the very end, we see New Jerusalem, new heavens and a new earth, we see
Jesus Christ the Lamb, a man upon the
throne, all the subjects of New Jerusalem which is Bride -- wise virgin of the
Old and New Testament -- all outside are the foolish virgin, those that were
not aware of a reality, they never fought reality, they just didn’t have
it. They never fought the people of God
they had confidence in somehow; or
bypass them in some way, were good to them.
And there that great people stand there, live there, pastural lives,
evidently pastural lives right within the City, because Bro. Branham suggested
it’s all terraced, 1500 miles high, 1500 miles wide and so on. Three dimensional, great pyramidal City, all
terraced with the Tree of Life and people living on the land, and outside somehow,
because the government of God, bringing their glory and their beauty and
everything into that
So
what I was saying was, the Great Beginner is the Great Finisher! And notice, what everything that God had in
mind, in the very middle of it, which is
not perhaps the number of pages, would not be the number of pages. But in the middle of it, and I say middle
because we’re looking at the time that grace starts to the time where at the
end of the Millennium, is just almost the middle, even chronologically, that
you find this one suggested, prophesied in the Garden of Eden, typed in Exodus
12, literally told how he would die, in Isaiah, right in the middle. Then, a few hundred years down the road, we
see him transformed into human flesh. In
other words, the literalization of every single thing that is in this universe
starts in Jesus Christ. It always has
and it always will. And when he died
upon
So many people in their anxiety to put a burden
upon man, saying, “Now look, God’s done it all, all you’ve got to do is accept
it, and that is grace.” What if it’s not
in your heart to accept it? What if it’s
not in your heart? See, many people don’t
have it in their hearts to accept it.
Pharisees stood there,
All right, grace came by Almighty God. God so loved the world, He gave His only
begotten son, He wasn’t wanting any to perish.
So the son dies upon
I’ve always risen up against anybody who dares to preach doing away with the blood. I cannot see that for one minute. Because it is grace we’re looking at, but when you look at grace, you do not despise truth, because it is the grace that brings you to the truth. It was wrong for Adam and Eve to listen to the serpent. It was wrong for them to leave the truth. It was the grace of God that He shed the blood of an animal and gave them skins to dress in. Gave them something for a covering. But ever since then, man has always sought truth, but has never known where to get it. And truth can only come through Almighty God. Truth can only come in the manner which Almighty God has indicated and vindicated that truth is going to come.
Now, from Alpha to Omega, there is no beginning
like the event of the thirty-three and a half years of Messiah, wherein three
and a half years God was in Christ reconciling the world in order to begin the
ultimate creation. There never was a
time like that. That time of course
happened two thousand years ago. And the
effectiveness of the sacrifice, and the effectiveness of the grace, has been
proven through the Seven Church Ages, that God has always sent a man. He’s been called a messenger, called an
angel, the word in the Greek is ‘angelos’, which also is ‘messenger’, which is
the better terminology. He has sent a
messenger to every single Church Age.
All during those ages someone has always usurped the authority that lay
in the messenger. Paul the Apostle’s
authority was usurped on every hand.
Even amongst his colleagues, and those in the
Oh, people always like the grace part. And you will find that people always move to the grace, and churches will always preach grace, the minute the truth comes up, they’ll swing you away from grace! Come on, face it, brother/sister, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ! You cannot have one without the other. The law was given by Moses! But grace brought truth! That’s why Bro. Branham was that great preacher! Because he knew we had to have the Word restored! Look it, come on.
Ned ?Iverson? sat beside Billy Graham on the airplane, just very fortunate. He introduced himself to Billy, of course Billy wouldn’t even had looked at him anymore than he’d look at, you know, a turnip or a rhubarb, except he said, “Well, I’m Dr. Dan ?Iverson’s? son.” Well, you can’t turn down Dr. Dan ?Iverson’s? kids. He’s the man that literally created – now just pardon the expression because I’m going to be out of my gourd on this one, but I’ll use it anyway. He literally created a revival that went around the world by a chorus that he’d composed on the Holy Spirit. ‘Breathe on me, Breathe on me.’ So when he introduced himself, they began talking. And as they talked, Ned said, “Well, there’s one thing,” he said, “hasn’t been done yet. The Word has not yet been restored!” And according to Ned, Billy Graham said, “That’s right, It hasn’t,” and my question is, what has he done about it? You say, “Well, he should have done something about it.” I don’t think so. I don’t think so. It wasn’t him to preach the truth. As it is in Christ Jesus. He’s a hundred percent trinitarian. He’s a million miles away from the understanding the Word of Almighty God. He still sees a fountain of one God spouting forth into three Gods. Absolutely ridiculous. You cannot find it. There is one God Who had a Son. Those things are mysteries, sure. But what I’m pointing at is this, that there… when you talk about grace, and you talk about the Lamb, and you talk about the life of Christ, and you talk about the shed blood, you are in a dangerous, dangerous position, if you do not talk about the truth of the hour.
Listen, brother/sister, we had a New Year start
as never a New Year ever started back in 1963, continued on until 1965, when
Bro. Branham preached his final sermon.
And I believe the great and final sermon was out there in
Every year you will notice, and I notice, we are
going deeper and deeper into this Word.
Every year, based upon the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, the bleeding
sacrifice, which enabled God to send forth the Holy Spirit whereby we were sealed
unto Him, and given the ability to be taught of God. And the Bible distinctly says that every
child of God is taught by God. If you
get a bunch of people of this, “Well, I got the Holy Ghost, I don’t need
anybody to teach me.” Well tell me. You might ask them many questions. And say, “Here’s another brother said he’s
got the Holy Ghost. Here’s a sister got
the Holy Ghost. Here’s a congregation,
here’s millions got the Holy Ghost.”
Bring them all together and tell me what it is. What is the Word for the hour? What’s a Laodician Church Age? Was this because John did eat too many
peppers after all? And Bro. Branham’s supervisor ?Banyam? was right, John had too
many peppers. Too many jalepenos. Or maybe worse than that, got mixed up with
some of the Indian peppers, made a Mexican thing. You want to eat red hot rivers, just try what
they got. Maybe John had too many, he was in right close to the East,
there.
Look it, I’m going to read it to you. Let’s just not play footsie here and be foolish. We’ve had a lot of new things in these days. We’ve got a new year. It’s based upon the sacrifice, the grace of God, upon truth! And you can’t separate them. 1989 will accomplish you nothing unless you progress in the truth. You want the truth to heal you? Listen brother/sister, I’m telling you, I’ve stood on this, until something’s beginning to happen. You go any way and do what you want, but I want your minds to get this and understand it, Bro. Branham said, “Take this message for your healing,” he did not lie! Well, all it means, it means just what it says.
Every year, a progressing in truth, or the church is standing still. And it’s not latter rain, that something is being brought to our attention, that someone’s got a great revelation, it’s already in the sermons! We got verbatim. It is a matter only of understanding the more, and the more the understanding, the more the life comes up. I realize people say, and I’m not going to quote you who says this, but he shouldn’t be saying it. He’s always saying, “Well, Bro. Branham said you don’t have to understand it.” That’s in the beginning. You don’t have to understand how He came down to Bro. Branham. [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire over Bro. Branham]
You don’t have to understand a lot of things as far as the understanding when you first start! But if you don’t understand what Bro. Branham preached, then how you going to believe it? Because you don’t know what you believe! John the Baptist came to give understanding, he came to bring truth. Then I said Revelation 10. Just hold your finger there, let’s get back to Revelation 3.
(14) …These things (said) the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
All right. Who’s the Amen? The God of Truth. It’s what He is in the book of Isaiah. Truth and grace. The amount of grace in your life and mine is going to depend on believing the Word in this hour. And we’re going to need a lot of it. That’s a bulwark, that’s a sanctuary we got.
Now, I’m reading over here, and I’m taking you back to chapter 10, because I haven’t lost my thought, don’t worry. I was talking about these men that don’t believe in the opening of the Seals. Now let’s go to verse 8. [Revelation 10]
(8) And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which stand(s) upon the sea and earth.
(9) And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, (and) thy mouth sweet as honey. (Be in thy mouth sweet as honey.)
(10) And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
Now you can take that to mean like something bitter in the belly. But this is a book of symbols. And this word here, in my understanding, at least my thinking in a sort of a vague way, is that would cause a great deal of problems to anybody who already had a set pattern of thinking. Because you don’t put books in your belly, you put them in your head! Come on, even a cookbook doesn’t go in your belly. If you like, I got about forty cookbooks, some are 700 pages. I’ll bring them here, and you eat them. And as you get to barbecue chicken, you just say, “I’m eating barbecue chicken.” Are you? …?… to be nuts, you’re reading it, r-e-a-d, not e-a-t. So you don’t eat books. Gingerbread men, yes, but not books. You talk about what? The mind. The battle. A complete battle of the mind at this time. Now,
(11) He said (watch what he said) unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.
After the Seven Seal is opened, and the Thunders thundered, it’s got to go out to the world! That’s before the Rapture. Then how can Billy Graham and these men – I’m not fighting him, see, look, I’m sorry for them and I appreciate them. How can they be partaking of a grace that’s going to allow you and me standing here, in the face of the Word, it is appointed unto man once to die, and after that the judgment. Paul cleared it up. Paul preaching on the resurrection, the question then comes up, “Well, Paul, I guess we all die.” Then he said the body deteriorates, we get a new one. He said, “I’m going to show you a mystery!” Now what is the mystery? Go to 1 Corinthians, 15th chapter.
(50)
…Flesh and blood cannot inherit the
You’re standing right here. The dead come out of the ground. What happened to these birds? What about these people? It’s explained in 1 Thessalonians 4:16, “The Lord Himself shall descend with the Shout to the living!” [Points to the Picture] Now you can do what you want with it. Why aren’t they preaching it? You know why? Because the Appearing to them is the Rapture! The Appearing is not the Rapture! The Appearing precedes the Rapture. They can’t even read the Bible. 1 John 3 tells us this, absolutely distinctly.
(2) Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it (hath) not appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
That means you’ll get a glorified body! Now you can’t get caught up without a glorified body! So therefore you got to see Him down here. God manifesting Himself. Using every type and shadow. Then doing it through Jesus Christ. And from that point on, working in a church. And the last days, working in a prophet. And the prophet told us the truth, the same as Paul. [1 Corinthians 15]
(50)
…Flesh and blood cannot (walk into) the
(51) (I’m going to) shew you a mystery; (you don’t have to die to get changed!)
(52) (But) in a moment, twinkling of an eye, the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound,
Now notice the double emphasis: at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound. Now listen! This trumpet cannot be the trumpet that summons you upstairs, ‘cause it tells you that your change has to do with the trumpet sound and the trumpet sound is where? Rev 10:7. When He shall begin to sound, right here. Now what is it?
(52) …The dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
What’s going to do it? The Shout does it. Even for the dead, because without us they
cannot be made perfect. That’s why Paul
said, “Listen you people that are living, when you’re standing here at that
great time of the Appearing, know this, you have no special pre-eminence, it’s
the grace of God!” Now tell me how many
get the grace outside of truth, you tell me.
1989 can be the most marvelous year in our history, brother/sister, as
we go, not trying to dig into things, not thinking we’re somebody, not to get
an expanded brain; oh God, help us to understand! This is of grace and faith and sovereignty,
humility! Like the prophets of old said,
“I don’t know what God’s going to do.
I’m just going to stick around here till he does it.” I was with Bro. Branham too much of the time
not to know that, you didn’t get him all flighty. You could go to him with the walls tumbling
down, the fountains breaking up, a hurricane coming, he just sat there and
looked at it. Up there in
(53) For this corrupt(ibility) must put on incorrupt(ibility),
And that is an actual inner garment. An inner garment. Something that is done at the last trumpet. And Bro. Branham said, “I believe I’ve been called to dress a Bride.” He didn’t know anymore about this in the Greek than I know about speaking Afghanistani or whatever it is. I wouldn’t have a clue. He didn’t know it. He said, “To find that Bride of such character, that she’ll stand still in the waters of separation (I’m putting his quotes together), that she might be dressed.” Now you tell me, that grace resides alone without truth. You can’t do it. Always over the ages -- and I started this way back in the beginning of the message -- over the ages since man drifted away, they said, “What is truth? What is truth? What is truth? What is truth?” God has always been on the scene with grace and truth but people don’t want the truth, they want the grace. That’s why they want a Catholic church. And a pope. And a Greek Orthodox. And a Metropolitan. And an Anglican. And the priest, and the archbishops. ‘Cause they want to come in for the grace of God. Kiss my ring, kiss my toe, say a “Hail Mary”. Go home and do a nice thing. Put some money in the poor box. Oh, they want the grace, they want the grace, they want the grace, they want the grace. But they don’t want the truth. And they do everything to stop the truth, the Bible says so.
Come on, let’s find out why God’s going to curse this world here. Oh listen, if you a want a new year’s message, you better go up town and get it. I’m giving you the real new year’s message today. Get the understanding, there’s no grace without truth! It’s grace that brings the truth. Over here, listen, Rom 1:18.
(18) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold (back) the truth (They hold it) in unrighteousness; (Actually, hold down the truth.)
(19) Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Do you think the truth is actually manifested in them? It’s manifested to them. And they got it. They know it’s there. They know something is there. Listen, do you think for… Look it, way back in the days of Father ?Chinaki?, when he blew the whole ball of wax on the Roman Catholic church, fought the Catholic Church to a standstill, by quoting the Father as brilliant, brilliant, man. At that time he admitted many of his colleagues were atheists, priests. And I worked with a little Catholic girl that told me her priest told her that you could believe in evolution, as long as you believed the original seed came from God. Not interested in truth, not interested. [End of side one.] Hold it down, destroy it. Now watch,
(20) For the invisible things of him the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; they are without excuse:
(21) Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; became vain in their (reasonings), their foolish heart was darkened.
(22) Professing themselves to be (sophists), they became (utter) fools,
(23) And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
In other words, their God is evolution, and