Right Hand and Left Hand of God
Bro. Lee Vayle
August 18, 1991
Shall
we pray. Heavenly Father, we realize the
Truth by vindication. We see a picture
taken, the supernatural, as the prophet said, scientifically proven. And that’s the thing the world’s been waiting
for, but they reject it because it’s not their kind of science. They deny it... when the evidence is in. But we believe it this morning as however
much and whatever much we believe it, Lord.
And we stand here before You, not trying to butter you up, Lord, or give
You praise that’s out of hearts that are entirely superficial, we just admit
what we are and how we are this morning, Lord.
This is what we’re standing on the best we know how, or able to do
it.
And so
many things we see in Your Word, Lord, about Your Presence and we’ll learn more
this morning, how that You are here and what it really means, especially the
Judge which so many did not catch when the prophet brought it forth in 1960 and
then again in 1963 and continued to do so.
And we’ve continued to do so, Lord, over the years and we’re grateful
You gave us an understanding.
And we
pray, Lord, for greater understanding this morning, and a greater indepth
understanding to the place of a real pervasiveness of the Truth, Lord, getting
right down within us and we become a part of it and being involved in it, O
God. We are involved in it, that is
true, but to be consciously pervasively by the Spirit of God impressed to the
place of the depth of the sincerity which should be coming forth. That’s what we desire this morning,
Lord.
And if
You can do something for us, O God, or something we need to do for ourselves,
may we come together on that and get together on it, Lord, and bring forth a
life and a fruit unto You. In Jesus Name
we pray. Amen. You may be seated.
Now, as
I mentioned already, we’re going to be talking about The Right Hand and the
Left Hand of God. And I’m going to read
many, many Scripture. But before I read
I must caution you, or at least put you on guard, to listen carefully by paying
particular attention to the fact that all these Scriptures speak of a Judge and
of His judgments. And those judgments
are pronouncements of either blessing or cursing upon the entire so-called
human race as they are separated before God and stand on His right hand or left
hand. Which, of course, you understand
we take this from the time when
So, as
we read we begin in Matthew 25 and starting at 30 to 46.
(31)
When the Son of
man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he
sit upon the throne of his glory:
(32) And
before him shall be gathered all nations:
and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his
sheep from the goats:
(33) And
he shall set the sheep on the right hand, but the goats on the left hand.
(34)
Then shall the
King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
(35) For
I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat:
thirsty, ye gave me drink: stranger, ye took me in:
(36) Naked,
ye clothed me: sick, ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
(37)
Then shall the
righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed when
thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
(38) When
saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
(39) Saw thee sick, in prison, came unto thee?
(40)
And the King
shall answer unto them and say, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done
it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
(41) Then
shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into
everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
(42) For
I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat:
thirsty, gave me no drink:
(43)
A stranger, took
me not in: naked, ye clothed me
not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited
me not.
(44) Then
shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or
athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, in prison, did not minister unto
thee?
(45) Then
shall he answer them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one
of the least of these, ye did it not unto me.
(46) And
these shall go into everlasting punishment:
but the righteous into life eternal.
Now, notice also in Matthew the 7th chapter, we read
on there, and 21-23.
(21)
Not every one
that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he
that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
(22) And
many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy
name: and in thy name cast out devils? and thy name done many wonderful works?
(23) Then
when I profess unto them, I never knew you:
depart from me, you that work iniquity.
Now
you’ll notice in here that this is just a further elaboration of what we read
in Matthew 25.
Now we
go back to Genesis. Now we’ll be skipping around. The 4th chapter and
8-12. And it says,
(8)
And Cain talked
with Abel his brother: and it came to
pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother,
and slew him.
(9) And
the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I don’t know: Am I my brother’s keeper?
(10) And
he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me
from the ground.
(11)
Now art thou
cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s
blood from thy hand;
(12) When
thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength;
a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
(13) And Cain said, My punishment is greater than
I can bear.
And so
on. Now you go back all the way back to
Hebrews, the 11th chapter and in verse
4 it says,
(4) By
faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he
obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead, yet speaketh.
You
notice the difference between what we read over there in Matt in the two
places, and then in Genesis. And notice
how this comes out. A perfect picture
again of what we’re looking at, the judgment of Almighty God.
Now, in
1 John the 3rd chapter and in verse 12.
(12) Not
as Cain, who was of that wicked one, who slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his
brother’s righteous. (Now notice that
has to do with the sacrifice. They’re
worshipping. So you notice there’s a
difference in here. You’re looking at
judgment.)
Let’s
go back to Hebrews the 6th chapter. And
in Hebrews chapter 6, beginning at verse 4.
(4)
For it’s
impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly
gift, made partakers of the Holy Ghost.
(5) And
tasted the good word of God, even the powers of the world to come,
(6) If
they - having fallen away - (is what it really says), to renew them again unto
repentance (they can’t change their mind); seeing they crucify to themselves
the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. (In other words, it’d be too late when people
get their eyes open. It’d be too
late. Nothing can be done about it at
all.)
(7)
For the earth
which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, (how often? the Word of God
is the rain, seven times) and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is
dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
(8) But
that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing;
whose end is to be burned.
Now,
what does it mean, “nigh unto cursing”?
Well, it means the time of the cursing is there. But they’re not burned at that particular
time, it’s just the time that judgment is handed out.
All
right. Now, with that, of course, we go
back to Matthew 7, where we were but did not read this portion. And it’s 7, and we’re going to be reading
15-20. And it said,
(15)
Beware of false prophets,
which come to you in sheep clothing, but inwardly they are ravening
wolves. (These are unabated hypocrites.)
(16) You
shall know them by their fruits. Do men
gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Now
their fruits in there, and you’re not going to get grapes off of thorns. You’re not going to get figs off of
thistles. So what are these? These are the seed that came up as a curse in
the land after sin fell from the Garden of Eden. Now it said, only shall be born unto you,
from this time on, you’re going to have to contend with the thorns and the
thistles. You’re going to have to
contend with the false prophets.
So the
great contention in this world is what?
False prophets. Now you go and
tell that to the church member, he’s going to laugh at you. He’s going to say, “I don’t believe
that.” Of course, he can’t believe that,
he wasn’t meant to believe it. He’s an
unbeliever. You know one word off and
you throw in the whole Word of God in the garbage tin. You know, come on, let’s be honest.
(17) Even
so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth
evil fruit. (See?)
(18)
A good tree
cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good
fruit. (Now, that’s wonderful. How are you going to change the seed? Can’t change seed. Goat’s goat, pig’s pig, hog hog, sheep sheep,
dog dog. Can’t do it.)
(19) Every
tree that bringeth forth not good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the
fire. (Talking about people. There you are.)
(20) Wherefore
by their fruits ye shall know them. (And
it goes on and tells you here, you can have gifts and this and that. ...be entirely wasted.)
Okay? Let’s go back to Genesis, chapter 12. Notice every place we’re looking at judgment,
looking at cursing, looking at blessing, looking at approbation. See?
In each case it’s appellation, calling who’s who, what’s what,
approbation or reprobation--not necessarily reprobation, but it ends there
eventually to the place of the lake of fire.
(1)
Now the Lord said
unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy
father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee:
(2) And
I will make of thee a great nation, and will bless thee, and make thy name
great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
(3) And
I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth
be blessed. (If there is a blessing to
be received by those families, it’s going to come in that particular way and in
no other way.)
Okay,
way back to 2 Peter. And in 2 Peter, of
course, the 2nd chapter. And we read
verses 1 and 2.
(1) But
there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false
teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying
the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
That
started way back in Peter’s time, Paul’s time--with the Gnostics. They’re Gnostics. They had private revelation of the
mysteries. And they said every man has his
own right to his own mysteries and God’s Holy Spirit will teach us, hallelujah,
we don’t need a five-fold ministry, this and that and the other thing. And even had a female goddess who spoke out
of heaven and said concerning Isaiah 40, “Shut up, you idiot, you forget that I
created you.” Maryolatry is in the
land. Full circle.
I have
to teach on that sometimes. You get the
picture. You’re not picking up what I’m
saying because I haven’t talked enough about the Gnostics. But if you want to know about it, there’s a
woman wrote a book. I don’t know if I
got the book anymore. I must have it
somewhere. And it’s likely out of print. But she does one whale of a job with
religious history. And she brings it
right down to what was in the air at that time and it’s still with us. Gnosticism.
I know I have revelation.
Yeah. Okay.
(2) And
many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth
shall be evil spoken of.
(3) And
through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of
you: whose judgment now of a long time
lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
And the
first amendment gives them every right in
So
what’s the praying got
If
you’d believe what I believe and preach as strong as I preach and tell your
friends, they’re going to hate your guts the same as they hate mine. I’ll read you a hate letter pretty soon just
to let you know how they feel. How I
feel about the Word by that man, not some stupid, sniveling idiot that says,
“I’m after him and I’m here to do something.”
Yeah. I hope I’m like the Lord
Jesus who loves righteousness and hates iniquity. Now if you think judgment panders to
iniquity, you have another thought coming.
You do. And you better start
thinking.
Let’s
go to verse 9.
(9) The
Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, (Well there’s a great
temptation here to believe these false teachers who have their private damnable
heresies. In other words, they’ll come
and tell you what Bro. Branham told them or supposed to have told them and this
and that and the other thing, and they got a better revelation than what Bro.
Branham gave, and so on. The Lord knows
how to take care of you, don’t worry.)
and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
(10) But
chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise
government. (What government? All government.) Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are
not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
(11)
Whereas angels,
which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them
before the Lord.
(12) But
these, as natural brute beasts, (Now how in the world do they get to be natural
brute beasts if they’re part of the human race?
Serpent seed. That’s all. I’m reading the Bible. “Well, I think, Bro. Vayle, those are just
little figures of speech.” Well, then
hell is a figure of speech and God is a figure of speech, the devil’s a figure
of speech, salvation’s a figure of speech.)
Where
are you going to stop figuring? Well,
was a good question, wasn’t it? I
thought it was quite brilliant myself to put it that way. Don’t mind my sarcasm. It’s meant for a purpose. “Presumptuous are they, self-willed.” Natural brute beasts, made to be taken--made
to be taken and destroyed, (if I raised up Pharaoh for this purpose, why are you
trying to contradict me? Why are you
trying to explain it away? Why are you
trying to do something about it? Why
didn’t you shut up, sit down and listen?
And when you finally dissolved it, understood it and want it, and to put
into action by having ingested it--then stand up and talk about it. But till then, let every mouth be dumb before
God.
Now
people will not listen to that. But the
judgment will make him so because the Bible says, every tongue will be silenced
and every mouth will be dumb until it’s time to declare the righteousness and
glory of God and they’ll be forced to do it.
And in forcing to do it, they will still fight him. The devil will still, and his gang, try to
overcome God because they are natural brute beasts. No understanding.) Natural brute beasts, made to be taken and
destroyed, yet they will speak evil of the things they understand not; and
utterly perish in their own corruption;
Which
is what corruption? The corruption of
false teaching. Michener said,
language--corrupt language corrupts people.
When the language is corrupted everything is gone. Why did Michener say that? Because I believe he’s a Jew. The same as the Jewish politician just said,
“Listen, a man and his message is the same thing.” Don’t try to whitewash that guy. He said it.
He is what he said. So you got one picture. The righteous go for the Word, and the others
don’t. You remember I proved a point.
I’ll
get around to preaching, don’t worry.
We’re here for the rest of the day.
I’m leaning on the pulpit; I’ve got lots of strength. Listen, I told you time after time after
time, that if this church is built on the Word and we have one eye for the
Word, we will really have true love and love each other. Remember I read that out of Easter Seal where Bro. Branham said,
“Why do we love each other? Because we
have been corrected by that Word.”
Now I
challenge you to ever find my preaching off of Bro. Branham’s preaching. When I’m off that preaching, you come and
tell me. Because, see, I’ll come right
behind you and I’ll find it some place.
I’ve done it for twenty-five years.
I told you I preached one sermon, roughly two solid hours. And I
preached it many times, and one day I said, “My, merciful God, I never heard
the prophet say that. What if I’m preaching wrong?
Next
day my wife and I going down the road, we put on a tape, and Bro. Branham says
in roughly one minute and a half what I said in two hours. Now that’s genius. I took two hours and he took one and a half
minutes. But he didn’t go into
ramifications the way I did. That’s
right.
(13) And
they shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, (what is the
unrighteousness? Off the Word.)
Well,
come on, what’s He talking about? False
prophets, false teachers, false Word.
And who goes for it? The natural
brute beast. The foolish virgin is not
natural brute beast. What it is the oil
leaked out because she wasn’t privy to the Word of the hour. So she dies for her lack of Word. Oil’s gone.
No container. Word’s dried up,
can’t hold the power. Could Methodism
hold this message? Could Pentecost hold
this message? Tell me. Impossible.
It’s a new generation. Yeah, I’m
part of the new generation. Now you
think I’m not going to get renewed? Why,
man alive, I got more snap in my eyes than some people got sixteen-year old
bodies. That’s where it all is, snap in
the eyes. I might be just living here
when the rapture takes place. Not going
to have to come out of the ground even.
Speak evil of things they don’t understand. Perish in their own corruption.
(13) They
shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, (that’s what they’re going to do)
as they that count it pleasure to riot in the daytime. Spots they are, and blemishes, sporting
themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
(14)
Having eyes full
of adultery, that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they exercised with covetous
practices; cursed children:
(15) Which
have forsaken the right way, and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the
son of Bosor.
Now,
Balaam had a genuine gift, used it wrong.
Made money. They buy God today
for nothing and sell Him for billions.
But God’s going to get his money back with interest. He proved it by the parable of the pounds. Why did you not then put my money in the bank
and get me interest? People think they
can sit around and just ho-hum. You
don’t sit around and ho-hum, you must get involved with this Word, I mean
involved with this word. This is your
life--live, die, sink or swim. I’m ready
to go on.
(16) But
was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the
madness of the prophet.
Okay,
Revelation 22, as we look around the Bible.
And we read 1-4.
(1)
And he showed me
a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne
of God and of the Lamb.
(2) In
the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the
tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits (twelve fruits), and yielded
her fruit every month (now there’s still twelve months in a year, three hundred
and sixty days. It makes a difference, I
guess): and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
(3) There
shall be no more curse (ho-ho.): but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be
in it; and his servants shall serve him:
(4) And
they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
And it
goes on and on, which is beautiful. In
other words, we understand that the left hand of God will not be in use at this
particular time.
Now,
let’s look at the same picture in Revelation 21 6-8.
(6) And
he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha
and Omega, the beginning and the end.
(It is done. What Adam wanted and
couldn’t get, what Abraham looked for and didn’t get, he said, “You got
it.” It’s over. The great prize.) I’ll give unto him that is athirst of the
fountain of the water of life freely.
(7)
He that
overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my
son.
(8) But
the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and
whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolators, and all liars, shall have their
part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second
death.
Okay,
back to Revelations 22, and we go to 10-15.
(10) And
he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
What
time’s at hand? The ultimate. The ultimate--what we’re looking for. The complete separation when the Lamb and
God’s own throne is right there with us, and there is no more cursing because
there are no abominable and unbelieving.
None of those will be there. And
he says, “Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of the book: for the time is at hand.”
(11)
That he is
unjust, he’ll be unjust still:
(See? What is that? That’s Hebrews 12, I mean 6. You can’t change. It’s too late, can’t change.) he’s filthy,
filthy still: righteous, righteous
still: holy, holy still.
(12) Behold,
I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his
work shall be.
Now
notice, this condition exists in 11 before 12…the separation. Then I’m going to come. Isn’t that what Bro. Branham said? Matthew 25 is the Word separating, Luke 17 is
the Bride being separated from the world, and then they come back, right? So, all right, judgment has set in.
Now
people really don’t believe judgment has set in. They think that sin is abounding and grace is
abounding and everything is going on.
But I want to tell you, the Judge
is here. This is where the
Branhamites miss it. First I heard Bro.
Branham opened the church ages he mentioned the Judge, my mind blew. That was the thing that got my attention and
blew my thinking. And I blew my thinking
so bad I couldn’t begin to think what he was thinking.
Then he
came to the Seals. Said the same
thing. I thought he was a thousand years
out. I couldn’t figure and I began to
listen. You’d be surprised what you hear
when you listen. You know, if you could
just take your tongue and wrap it around your throat so it wouldn’t talk, and
listen; or pull your tongue out of your eardrums. Ha, that was the good one. Pull the tongue out of the eardrums so you
can hear, you’d be surprised what you might hear.
In
other words, I’m saying we fill our own ears with our own stupid chatter. It’s time to stop our own thinking and our
own stupid chattering and listen to what the prophet said which is
vindicated. Because, if anything is
vindicated, his is vindicated. See,
nobody believes that but us. Oh, I thank
God they don’t.
You
know, you say, “Well Bro. Vayle you’re mean.”
What do you mean, mean? If eight
souls are going to make the ark then I want to be one of those eight souls, I’m
mean? I’m stupid? Come on.
What would you give for a million dollars this morning? Ha!
I’d hate to trust some of you, even myself. And I’m not too interested. Honestly, I’m not. Not interested.
Now
what would I do about being one of the souls in that ark? I’d put every one of my thoughts to one side
and say, “God, give me your vindicated thoughts.” I can’t help what my wife’s going to do, my
kids are going to do. Before God live
the best life in the world. It doesn’t
just fall on them.
They’re going to be right. You
have to look after number one brother/sister, because number one, you will face
God as an individual. You don’t come
group by group, you come one by one.
Now he
said:
(12) Behold,
I come quickly: and my reward is with
me.
What’s
he going to do? Reward the righteous and
reward the wicked according to the work.
I’m Alpha and Omega. Don’t you
see what I did in the Garden? Don’t you
understand my judgments in Genesis?
Can’t you see all the way through the Bible proven? That’s what he’s saying. Sure.
The first and last, no difference.
(14) Blessed
are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of
life, may enter in through the city of the gates.
So
therefore, verse 10 opens the way to the tree of life and the City. Yep, most everybody is talking about the
Millennium. You know, the nice
Millennium, back to the--the pastural.
You know, the non-urban centers, the country centers out there, you
know. I got news for you. I’m going to get out of that in one thousand
years and head for the City. That’s
where God is. That throws you, doesn’t
it? It really throws us for a loop.
“We’re
all going to be horticulturists, bless God.”
No, I’m not going to be a horticulturist any more than one thousand
years, one day. And I’m going to get out
of it. Even if I move the trees by
saying, “move”, and they move. I’m not
going to be sitting around there and working for another thousand years with
the temple and worship everything else.
No way, by the grace of God in believing I’m a predestinated Seed, I’m
going to get out of there. I’m going to
head right for the White Throne and take my position right there. Then I’m going to head right for the
See, I
think maybe I don’t know. Well what am I
thinking here? What do you think? Well, I’m going to back to nature,
back-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. No--city. Thank you.
That’s right, city. City boys,
city girls. They have to bring their glory
in, because of Him. Because the Lamb on
the throne, and before they call and remember He’s on the throne like the
mediator. He never changes. Before they call, the answer comes right down
blessing through him, like it always comes.
Lovely city, beautiful river, crystal water, tree, fruit.
You’re
not convinced are you? No, I know you’re
not because I got the same lousy, rotten, stinkin’, stupid, idiotic
feelings. I’ll be out in the country
somewhere--under my vine, under my fig tree.
City. City? Huh?
Yeah. City. Is that what God wants? How come we don’t want it? Huh?
You know why? Used to the wrong
cities. Ha-ha, I think that’s it.
Do you
know something? I was a little town
boy. I like town. I was brought up naturally, that I would hate
the city. Because, you see, little town
kids are sort of taught that. They maybe
not taught it but they sort of you know, get it. And in the area, you know, from the farmers
and things, you know. You guys are nice
farmers, but you can have your farm.
When I
went to the city, I found out, hey, this is not bad at all. Cities aren’t too bad. Now at my age, I like living in a small town
near a city. Lots of fun shopping, and
doing things. What I’m trying to tell
you, you can’t get away from that city.
I don’t care who you are because our mother is New Jerusalem, that’s a
city. It has foundations, whose builder
and maker is God. And believe me, every
brick that is a Word brick in that city, is going to love that city. And you ain’t going to worry one little bit
about a country or anything else. You
are going to be so happy in that city because it’s vista after vista. It’s a city containing the country as it
were. Beautiful, beautiful city. My, my.
Just think how wonderful that’s going to be.
Now, we
read that. Now having read these verses
we don’t stop. There is no use in
stopping ever, when the Bible is full of good verses. Right?
So we go to James the 5th chapter and we read beginning at verse 1.
(1) Go
to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
You
Reaganites, and the rest of you. The
curse of joining house to house and land to land and depriving the people by
fraud, will be reckoned with. Oh yes. Oh yes.
We had the Anti-Trust law, the Sherman Anti-Trust law, but what did
Mr. Reagan do? He told his Justice Department, ignore
it. And do you know why he did? He had to, in the sovereignty of God, because
the Jews must get the paper.
Stop
and think. The Jews don’t have the gold
any more. They started that way, but
they lost it, didn’t they? Wasn’t it
true that
When
you in
(1)
Rich men, weep
and howl.
(2) Your
riches are corrupted, your garments are motheaten. (Rich, you see rich
increased in goods and don’t have a thing.)
(3) Your
gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against
you, and eat your flesh as it were fire.
You have heaped treasure together for the last days.
(4) Behold
the hire of the labourer who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept
back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into
the ears of the Lord of the harvest.
How do
you think Weyerhauser got a hold of all that virgin land out there and all
those trees? Why are the red sequoia
being decimated, completely wiped out?
How is it a man out there, out west, I forget where, he bought a bunch
of little what do you call it, when you go there and claims, little
claims. And he buys all these claims for
a hundred and thirty-five dollars. By
the time the Government gets around to it, they have to buy him out, I think
for a quarter million dollars for a politician’s stupidity. Rivers polluted, everything else. What’s done it? Money.
Money. The gold and the
paper. Now listen.
(5)
You’ve lived in
pleasure on Earth and been wanton; (How many years did it take the white man to
come over here in
(6) You
have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
Oh come
on. Where are drugs coming from? Murder on the street, rape? You know the only person’s got a chance today
is your little minority. Your Hispanics,
your Blacks, your ethnic over here, your ethnic over there, or the gays or this
or that. They’re the ones that have been
now touted as the victims. What do think
all this fight is about in the Supreme Court and over Thomas now? Because he’s a black man that knows right
from wrong and wants to see right regardless.
And I doubt if he’ll get on there because he knows that the minorities
are now victims.
So you
can get raped, sodomized, assaulted, cut to shreds and they’ll just say, “Well
the poor guy, you see, his parents divorced and that did it.” You haven’t got a prayer. Everybody’s a victim. You just got to be a minority. Psssh, come on for Heaven’s sake.
Now
listen ...
(7) Be
patient (oh no, not now. After he tells
me all that? Oh no. Well...) Be patient therefore, brethren, unto
the coming of the Lord. (Because you
ain’t going to get any help, until then) Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the
precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, (What precious
fruit? Hebrews 6, the herbs planted by
God, the true planting of God.) and hath
long patience for it, until he receive the early and the latter rain.
(8)
Be also patient;
(Like Jesus is patient. How about the
patience of Jesus coming into our lives?
Don’t get excited. If you’re the
planting of God, you’re the husbandry.
You ain’t going to miss out kiddo.
Now you’re going to have problems.
You’re going to have a lot of problems with all that pollution and all
that wanton stuff out there. You are
going to be plagued in your heart even worse than
(9) Grudge
not one against another, (In other words, what goes on in this world, don’t let
it creep into your life and become a part of it, so that you have this in your
lives as Christian brethren. In other words, don’t be like these things
out there. Get away from all that
stuff.) lest ye be condemned: behold,
the judge stands at the door.
“Behold
I stand at the door and knock.” Well
Bro. Vayle, I think, maybe, Rev 3:20 ain’t the same as this. You are ridiculously wrong. There is one Judge. And it’s the same Judge. And He stands before the door. And He’s knocking. And He said, “You that open the door can come
and sup with me.” You can come in the
Judge’s chambers behind the desk and the gavel, and I’ll take care of your case
before it ever comes to court.
That’s
what the Judge’s chambers are all about.
You think they’re just for the Judge’s friend where he says, ‘We’ll have
a recess, and he takes you back and you have a little snifter with him because
you’re old pals. This is not a social
whirly visit. This is a left hand and a
right hand. This is a judgment unto the
grace of God or cursing. You don’t have
anything to say about it because it’s already been said.
All
right, verse 9, of course, as I said, takes us to the book of Revelation and
let us read chapter 4 here, 1-3.
(1)
And I looked and,
behold, a door was open in heaven: and the first voice which I heard as it were
of a trumpet talking with me; said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things
which must be hereafter.
(2) And
immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and
one sat on the throne.
(3) And
he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and a rainbow round about the throne, and the
light of an emerald.
All
right, Rev 5:1-7
(1) And
I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and
on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
(2)
And I saw a
strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and
to loose the seals thereof?
(3) And
no man in heaven, not in earth, under the earth, was able to open the book,
even to look at.
Nobody
could look at it to examine it. Didn’t
do them any good seeing they couldn’t open it.
So they just had to let it sit there.
(4) And
I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and read the book, neither
to look thereon.
(5) And
one of the elders said, Weep not:
behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath
prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals.
(6) And
I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the
midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns, and
seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
(7) And
he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the
throne.
Okay,
Rev 10:1-7.
(1)
And I saw another
mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, (notice the
rainbow, rainbow, rainbow, rainbow. So
who’s the mighty messenger? God
himself.)
(2) And
he had in his hand a little book open:
and his right hand--the right foot upon the sea, left upon the earth,
(3) And
cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he cried, seven
thunders uttered their voices.
(4) And
when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, was forbidden to write the
mystery (and so on. And then he said)
Seal up the thunders.
(7) But
in the days of the voice of the seventh messenger, when he shall begin to
sound, the mystery of God should be finished, (polished off, completely
consummated, absolutely perfect) as God hath declared the Gospel by his
servants the prophets.
So
you’re going to have the Gospel completely finished and perfect by this
man. And that would take a prophet,
because it says right there that’s what it is.
Now,
Revelations the 3rd chapter, which I have quoted a minute ago, and in verse 20.
(20) Behold,
I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I
will come and sup with him, and he will sup with me.
And in
Revelations 1, which is the 1st chapter, we read 12-15.
(12) And
I turned to see the voice that spake with me.
And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
Now
here’s the church. And what about the
church?
(13) In
the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the son of man, clothed with
a garment down to the foot, and girt about the pap with a golden girdle.
Now
what does it tell you here? It tells you
the days of the son of man have come back to earth. God himself is doing this great thing. Why?
Because He is the one with the book in His hand. He’s the Judge. You can’t get away from the Bible and say
well this is that and that’s this and something else. Come on, the Bible runs in continuity. So we know who the Judge is. We know who this is. We know the days of the son of man. We have the mysteries open to us. And Bro. Branham said the Bride is waiting,
breathlessly as it were, for the revelation of the rapture. And we have the revelation, and they’re still
standing back. What’s going to come,
What’s going to come? It’s come! No, oh you look, hey, either it is or it
isn’t.
(14)
And his head and
his hair were white like wool, white as snow; eyes like a flame of fire.
(15) His
feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; voice as the sound
of many waters. (And so on.)
And
Bro. Branham said, “God said that was the Judge.” And it is the Judge. So there you are. Now, in the light of what we have read, it is
evident that God will require concerning humanity, every one born of woman (now
we’re talking about us, not about angels and archangels and this and that,
we’re talking about us--everyone born of woman) to stand before Him to be
judged, even as Adam and Eve were judged in the beginning. There must be a confrontation and an
answer. There has to be. Now, you can send your sins on ahead of time,
or you can leave them to catch up with you.
Now if you send them on ahead of time, it means you’ve had your
confrontation; it’s over. Now you can
act like attorneys around the white throne.
You’ll be there; we’ll all be there.
You make up your mind which way it is.
The
judgment of which we speak is primarily and principally the one that concerned
Abraham in Gen 18:25.
Now,
this is what we are looking at, and everybody should look at, and never mind
anything else. I don’t care what’s on
your mind, just forget it. The question,
because all the families of the earth are blessed in Abraham, and Abraham is
settling a question for all the families of the earth that are blessed in
him.
All
right, lets look at the question 18:25.
(25) That
be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the
wicked: and that the righteous should be
as the wicked, that be far from thee:
Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Now, it
tells you, will there be a difference?
Yes, there will be. God will not
deal with the righteous as he deals with the wicked, but he will deal with the
righteous and he will deal with the wicked.
Now there you are. And it
happened right before
(28) And
fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy
both soul and body in hell.
Now,
which in turn, deals with Revelations chapter 20 and beginning at verse 11.
(11) And
I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth
and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
(12) And
I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; (Oh-ho) and the books were
opened: now the book was opened which
was the book of life: and the dead were
judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their
works.
Now,
there’s a book of works there too, you see.
How many books, who knows. Bro.
Branham never said how many there were.
Could be all just one great big book and all the little entrances, you
know, like a great tome, t-o-m-e.
(13) And
the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the
dead which were in them; and they were judged every man according to their
works.
Now
remember, works start right back there after the Garden of Eden, where Cain’s
works were evil and Abel’s were righteous.
And they both were worshipping God.
A relationship to God was formed and pronounced. And as soon as the recognition of God was
there, then there had to be the recognition of the Word, which was by
revelation which Cain turned down because he didn’t rightly divide the
Word. He properly offered.
You can
be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, you can do every thing perfect, and if
your revelation is off, you are off! Oh,
you say, “I don’t like that.” Nobody
asked you. I never asked you to my house
for dinner, so don’t try to come. Ha-ha,
that’s a simple way to put it, isn’t it?
So don’t butt your nose in. With
whom did God take council? When did he
call on anybody?
See,
this democracy spoils us. Yet in
democracy, we still don’t have a voice.
We put a bunch of heathen in there like the Kennedy’s, and they do what
they want. They don’t do what we
want. Paul Harvey brought that out: No difference between
Did you
read it? Well here.
(14)
Death and hell
cast into the lake of fire. That’s the
second death.
(15) And
whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of
fire.
So they
will be destroyed, annihilated, body and soul.
Now, you will notice that I said, God judges every one born of
woman. And that is based on, over here
in Genesis the 3rd chapter, I believe it is, if it isn’t we’ll make it right.
3:20. And it tells you,
(20) Adam
called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
But it
doesn’t say one thing about Adam being the father of all living. Now watch that. So don’t bother to put it in there, because
you’ve no right putting it in there. It
says Eve is the mother. Now, let’s go to
1 John the 3rd chapter, which we read a while ago, and we saw something there
about this fellow called Cain. The 12th
verse.
(12) Not
as Cain, who was of that wicked one.
Now
where do you ever find in Scripture that Adam is called wicked, and of a wicked
one? Because if Cain was of Adam, then
Adam was a wicked one, and he was of the wicked one, but my Bible says
different, which I’ll read to you shortly.
Now
lets go to John 8. John 8 is a good
chapter. I love John 8. This one is really good. Starting at verse 38.
(38) I
speak that which I have seen with my Father:
and you do that which you’ve seen with your father.
Now
here’s Jesus, a son of Abraham, talking to other sons of Abraham and can be
proven by genealogy. “Ha, I know you’re
Joseph’s son, or I know you’re illegitimate,” or this that. I don’t care what you are, what you
prove. Well let’s say He was Joseph’s
son. Joseph traces his ancestors right
back to Adam. Right through Abraham,
right back to God. Here’s all these guys
doing the same thing. Then you tell me
that there isn’t one lump, all messed up with serpent seed, two fathers, and
everything else. My you just don’t know
your Bibles, you don’t even know life.
Now he
said.
(38)
They answered and
said, Abraham is our father. (What are
you talking there boy?) And Jesus said,
if you’re Abraham’s children, you’d do the works of Abraham.
(40) But
now ye seek to kill me, a man that told you the truth, which I have heard of
God: this did not Abraham.
(41) You
do the deeds of your father. Then they
said to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Ho,
come on, if that doesn’t tell you something, what does? Eve fornicated. Well you say, there’s a difference between
fornication and adultery. No there is
not. You look it up and you’re going to
find for yourself. There’s no
doubt--there’s actually no difference, except we pin it down that fornication
is previous, for couples before marriage and adultery is when you’re married. But I don’t believe you can find in the Greek
an actual difference. Bro. Branham
pinned it down so that’s where it is.
Now, “we be not born of fornication.”
But they’re talking about serpent seed right there, they’re talking
about going back to Cain.
(41)
We have one
Father even God.
(42) And
Jesus said, If God were your Father, you’d love me: for I proceeded forth and
came from God; neither I came of myself, but he sent me.
(43) Why
do you not understand my speech? even
because you cannot hear my word.
(Therefore there’s no understanding in you.)
(44) You
are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do.
Now
watch what he’s saying right here. He’s
pinpointing it. As I came from a certain
source, so you came from a certain source, which is beyond humanity. That’s right.
Cain was absolutely born of a devilish spirit, there’s no way about it,
incarcerated in that body there. Not
that I’m going to make the devil a procreator.
Don’t think for one minute I’m saying that. He had to use animals. But none the less, it was this beast thing
you’re talking about at the endtime, the natural brute beast we are looking
at.
Okay,
all right. Let us divert here a bit and
go back to Genesis 4:16-24. We find two
races. We find a serpent race and we
find a God race; or we find a God race and we find a devil race, because the
word ‘serpent’ is not in there at this particular time. But going back to Genesis the 4th chapter and
we go to 16:24.
(16) And
Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the
(17) And
Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: he built a city, and called the name of the
city, after the son, Enoch.
(18)
And unto Enoch
was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael:
and Mehujael was Methuseal: and Methusael begat Lamech.
(19) And
Lamech took two wives: one Adah, and one Zillah.
(20) And
Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of
such that make tents and dwell in tents,
and herd cattle.
(21)
And his brother’s
name was Jubal: the father of all that
handle the harp and organ, (workers of artifice and so on.)
(22) And
Zillah bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
That’s
the first girl you see named, for the mother.
(23) And
Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech,
hearken unto my speech: for I have slain
a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
(24) If
Cain shall be avenged seventy-fold, truly Lamech seventy and seven.
Now I
want you to notice something here. From
this point on, there is no further genealogy of this man Cain. No genealogy.
Now if he was the son of Adam, he would have to have a genealogy. No genealogy, just there it’s it, that’s
it. So, you see two separate groups of
people: The children of darkness and the
children of light; the children of the wicked one, the children of the
righteous one. You can’t change it.
Now,
let’s go to the 5th chapter of Genesis.
See?
(1)
This is the book
of the generation of Adam. In the day
that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
(2) Male
and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in
the day they were created.
(3) And
Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness,
after his image; and he called his name Seth:
(4) And
the days of Adam after he begat Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat
sons and daughters:
(5) And
all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years and he died.
Now,
just hold your finger there if you want; we go to the book of Luke. And in the Luke is the 3rd chapter, and in
verse 23. It says.
(23) And
Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed)
the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
And go
to 37 and 38, the same chapter, just to make it shorter.
(37) Which
was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of
Jared, the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,
(38) Which
was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam,
which was the son of God.
Now how
are you going to get a genealogy of Cain in there? There’s a genealogy which is of God, there’s
a genealogy which is of Cain, which is the enemy, the wicked one that sowed the
tares.
All
right, now, in Genesis 5, which we read, we go back. This is the book of the generation of Adam.
So the Bible is going to be all about Adam, from this point on. Here’s where you’re going to get the
understanding. This has to do with the
children of God more than anybody, but the children of others are there also,
mixed in.
(1)
In the day that
God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
(2) Male
and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in
the day when they were created.
(3) And
Adam lived and hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness,
after his image; and called his name Seth:
(4) And
the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begot sons and daughters:
And so
on. Now, you notice that he begat other
sons and daughters, but their names are not listed. Their names are not listed. The genealogy is coming down from this one
who was in his father’s image, who was in the image of God, and that’s it. So, there’s where your lineage is.
Now,
there’s something I cannot explain here.
I know it’s in type but I haven’t sat down to think it over, and if I do
think it over, I may not do any good.
But if you go to Genesis 4, you read.
(1)
Adam knew Eve;
and she conceived and bare Cain, and said, I’ve gotten a man from the Lord.
(2) And
she again bare his brother Abel. And
Abel was a keeper of the sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
And it
doesn’t say one thing about that man Abel, other than over here in the book of
Hebrews the 11th chapter; and notice what’s it says about Abel. And it says:
(4) By
faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he
obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
So
therefore, we have something in here in a type, which I don’t understand. But Abel does type Christ, there’s no two
ways about it. And Christ died leaving
no seed. But there is a seed reckoned to
him for his generation, which is the entire Bride. So, this one here, though it would be Abel
definitively in the image of his Father, which would be the image of God, does
not have seed, but bypasses life. And
now laying aside his first born, (which he is, position, he has to because he
can do not otherwise; it’s gone; he’s dead) we find now another one born, who
becomes the firstborn of Adam on the grounds of the fact the other is missing
and this one is bringing forth a lineage, which will be the human lineage--the
natural, foreknown, elected, predestinated children of God.
Now that’s why I see in Adam we all die; in Christ
we’re all made alive. Now, I can’t type
it, I’m just telling you, here it is, and I’m just leaving it there. But I want to show you something here that we
are looking at the lineage of the firstborn, and so down the line to Christ, as
it says in Gal 3:16.
So
let’s go to Galatians 3:16 and see this.
Now, as I say, maybe later on I’ll come up with something, maybe find
something Bro. Branham said. Who
knows? I’m promising nothing. Notice, verse 16 of Galatians 3.
(16) Now
to Abraham and his seed were the promises made.
He saith not, As to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed,
which is Christ.
Now,
notice, with this we go to 1 Corinthians chapter 15, and we’re going to look at
the seed in verse 20.
(20) But
now is Christ (Who’s Christ? Seed. The seed of Abraham.) risen from the dead,
and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
(21)
For since by man
came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
(22) For
as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.
But
notice, in Abel, he died for the other man’s sins, his blood was shed and he
had no seed. Typing Christ
perfectly. His blood yet speaking. Now then, this one here, Jesus, never
married. He died. And when he does, he redeems every son and
daughter of Adam which were in him in the lineage which bore in the flesh. Setting up another type. But then again I’m leaving you blank because
I’m blank myself. I’m not a typist.
But I
see something in here I can’t explain, but it’s running true. One died, no seed, yet blood speaking, and we
know he’s really the firstborn one. Yet
all come right back. And remember, he
was in Adam, and yet he died; typing.
Now we
got Jesus born in the human race. He was
in God; He has no issue, no seed, yet He shall see His seed. A generation shall be counted to Him for
seed. That’s the generation right today
because the life comes to full fruition here, right to the tree of life--the
whole thing in him. I can’t explain,
just be on... I’m trying just to give
you some ideas there.
Now,
here is we get Bride and non-Bride. But
all are saved, as it says in Gal 3:13-14.
(12)
Christ hath
redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that
hangeth on a tree:
(14) That
the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that
we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
those that are in the complete genealogy of
the firstborn; the others are not. But
in the firstborn, they are they that are also firstborn from the dead with
Christ. And they’re also firstborn from
the sin and degradation (which we’re going to read about their condition) and
they go on to receive the Holy Spirit.
Now
notice, the condition of all God’s children are according to Romans the 3rd
chapter. Now look at it. Because you’ve got one lump, and there isn’t
any difference as far as the flesh is concerned, or manifestation, or anything
else until this change will begin to take place due to what lies within the
seed. Now, in Romans the 3rd chapter, 9.
(9)
What are we then?
better than they? No, in no wise: for we have proven both Jew and Gentile,
under sin;
(10) As it is
written, there is none righteous, no, not one:
(11)
There is none
that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
(12) They’re
all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable (rotten fruit);
there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
(13) Their
throat is an open sepulchre; with tongues they used
deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
(14) Mouth
is full of cursing and bitterness:
(15) Feet
swift to shed blood:
(16) Destruction
and misery in their ways:
(17) The
ways of peace they haven’t known:
(18)
There’s no fear
of God before their eyes.
(19) Now,
we know that what things soever the law saith, is saith to them who are under
the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world found guilty before
God.
(20) Therefore
by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Tells
you right there, there’s nobody got anything before God. All one lump of iniquity. In the flesh there is no profit, that’s why
it’s got to die and be resurrected and completely changed. It’s gone; it’s finished. Whatever could have been produced in the
Adamic race, went. And you know as well
as I do, sex is the primary mover.
Now,
lets go to Genesis. That’s where Freud
was right, but he wasn’t right all the way.
Let’s go to Genesis 6, and verses 1-3.
(1)
It came to pass,
when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, the daughters were born
unto them,
(2) That
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men that they were fair; and they
took them wives of all they chose.
(3) And
the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for he is also
flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred
and twenty years.
(4) And
then there were giants in the land; and mighty men of renown.
What
happened? The sons of God, which are the
sons of Adam, saw the beautiful, lush and...
Marilyn Monroe, overdone, perhaps, figures, and they lusted after them. Why wouldn’t they? They’re human beings. So they married these beautiful women, and
the seed then became perfectly adulterated, until at the time of the flood,
there was only one man who was a true human being, and that was Noah. And after the flood there weren’t any
more.
And
today, we understand Mendel’s law. We
know positively, the dominant traits will take over, and the dominant traits
have taken over until this age ends with natural brute beast. Where eight people make the ark and maybe a
few million foolish virgins will give their lives; and maybe not even a few
million, maybe a few thousand. So don’t
try to play it too big. So the earth is
gone. When the end of all flesh comes up
before God, and remember, there are different kinds of flesh. And when there’s nothing left, and there’s no
admixture--pure animal--it’s the end of all human flesh because there’s no
genes left.
Now,
here today, you have got people that are desperately trying to combine the
genes of a human being and a monkey in order to make a sub-human being. They’ve already got him. It’s the truth, the
same people that try to do it are they themselves. And they’re making computers and everything
else. It’s the truth, I’m not lying to
you. It wasn’t meant as a joke, it just
meant as honest to God fact. This is why
you have the chapter written in the book of Isaiah, that He has to come a
Saviour for all mankind, no different, but only the seed, firstborn, would
receive Him and be in the Bride. The
rest are merely in the book of life.
Okay, I
won’t read Isaiah 50 because time’s gone on.
But notice, as we read in Galatians 3:14, which sets forth the death of
Christ that we may--and the giving of the Holy Spirit, we go over here to the
same book, Romans, and we read in the 14th chapter of Romans 7-10.
(7) But
none of us liveth to himself, and no man dies to himself.
(8)
Whether we live,
we live unto the Lord; whether we die, we die unto the Lord; whether we live
therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.
(9) For
to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be the Lord
both of dead and living.
Now
watch, if that is true, when Christ died, He bought the whole race of every
single person that calls himself human or otherwise. Every soul belongs to Him, and He can do what
He wants with it. Who art thou, oh man,
to judge another man’s servant? unto his own master he standeth or
falleth.
He
said, oh man, who are you to reply against God, that God can’t say I reprobate
that one and I take this one. Because
the choosing was already done before the foundation of the earth. It’s a matter of your lifeline. And if you’re a beast, that’s all you’re
going to get; and if you’re an eagle child, you’ll rejoice in the message. And it’ll be cut and dry, and people will
say, “Well, how can you believe that? That’s
cut and dry, that takes away the joy, it takes away this.”
Hah,
don’t you understand what the book of Ephesians say? Lets read it and get it down pat. (And turn your tape over. Without even asking me, you can turn it over,
when the time comes.) Listen, in the
17th verse.
(17) That
the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the
spirit of (Hallelujah, and jump up and down, and joy, and oh this and oh that,
and hey hey. Oh shut up. Huh?
Just shut up and listen. Never
mind the cockles of your heart, and how I’m going to do this and do that. Get it flat.
A man came to Bro. Branham and said, “Bro. Branham, I don’t have that
joy.” He said, “Son, the revival’s
over.”) The God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
And
He’ll set you right back hunkering on your haunches, because the revelation
will be so far from what you ever understood or knew. Being two thousand years off a target, you’ll
sit there warped and dried in your own thinking, your own ways. But persuaded, that God has come on the
scene.
Now,
what’s that got to do with the bringing out the balalaika and doing the
hoopla? I want to tell you something,
brother/sister, you can’t have a spirit on you and hoop-idi-hoop-idi-doo, and
at the same time gear yourself down to get the Word of God. But I’ll tell you, you ever get the Word of
God, it’ll start doing something for you.
Because the life is in the words, in the conduit.
All
right. Now, where am I at? Oh yes, over here, in 1 Peter. Let’s read about 1 Peter, that’s a good book. They’re all good books of course, but you
know what I mean. What I want to look at
here is 1 Peter 1:13, which is a beautiful portion of Scripture. All right.
(13) Wherefore
gird up the loins of your minds, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace
that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Now
notice it’s going to be a grace. And
what is that grace? The spirit of wisdom
and the revelation of the knowledge of Him comes into the Church. And when that comes into the Church, it
absolutely has to be a revelatory message which brings on the resurrection,
period, because that’s what it says. And
without that, you don’t get that resurrection.
Now,
hey, am I going to be running around, climbing walls, speaking in tongues, and
doing everything, and disregarding that revelation that’s going to put me in
the resurrection? Let me tell you
something; you catch this. You’ll be so
deadly serious, and so will I, there’ll be no more room for fun and laughter
and gaiety and this hip-hooray stuff because you’ll be wanting to catch the
resurrection.
Bro.
Branham said, “We ought to so live as to meet our loved ones in the
resurrection.” I don’t know how many
loved ones I’m going to have in the resurrection, I want to meet him ahead of
time and know I’m going to make it.
I...?... waiting for any resurrection, far as I--at least I hope I got
enough brains or something, to do that.
Waiting for the revelation in the end-time, that’s what we’ve been
looking at.
(14) As
obedient children, (Ah-ha, see, obedient children, children of obedience) not
fashioning ourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
(15) But
as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of behavior;
(16) Because
it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
(17) And
if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judge according to
every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
(18)
Forasmuch as you
know you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, (that
bypasses James, 5th chapter) and with your vain behavior received by tradition;
(that bypasses anything you ever heard.)
(19)
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without
spot: (The Bride is perfected by the blood, said William Branham.)
(20) Who
verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in
these last times for you, (In other words, foreordination and predestination.)
(21) Who
by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory;
that your faith and hope might be in God.
In
other words, this one here that came back in the Holy Spirit to prove that God
raised Jesus from the dead, is what you have your hope and glory in right now,
because glory is the estimation of God himself.
So if you want to talk about glory, you better talk about essentiality
and intrinsicality, based upon the truth of who, and what, God is, and what
that God says about Himself, about us.
Now you’re getting somewhere.
Could you do it without this endtime spirit? Could you do it with just jumping and jumping
up and down, and rejoicing? How, can you
have a rejoicing of God, unless first of all you have the revelation?
You
know, people are going to be just like Cain on that day when Cain faced God,
and he said, “Where, what-whada-what’s going on here?”. “Well,” he said, “How do I know what’s going
on?” You say, I can’t believe people
would be that way. That ain’t people,
that’s beast.
(22) Seeing
you have purified your soul in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto
unfeigned love of the brethren, (The real love that comes by the Word of God, that’s
in your heart.)
See,
I’ve preached this time after time, and I can prove it by the Word, in what
Bro. Branham said. And I bet you people
sitting here this morning, you still wonder about it. Because you want this wishy-washy something
or other, this nice, nice, nice thing.
Well, join the crowd from Canada, that now that they believe in the
Presence, “Well, you see, it’s Lee Vayle’s horrible spirit that did it.” Well, it wasn’t Lee Vayle’s spirit, it was
actually Terry Sproule brought the whole thing out in the open. He’s the guy that started the fire, I didn’t
start it.
I went
to churches preaching, and I can name the churches. And I softly said, I’m going to preach this
morning something you might not see and understand. And I told the folk, listen, if you don’t see
it, fine, no problem, follow your pastor.
I had those pastors come out of that building, weeping on my shoulder
and saying, “Bro. Vayle, you said it exactly right. I know it’s truth, I’ve been trying to see
it,” then turn right around, walk
off. They can’t stand the fact that I
stand and say, we’ve turned our corner, we’re not on the fence. I’m not a nice guy because they make His
Presence equal to serpent’s seed doctrine.
...?... This is a hard question, is the revelation
greater than the Revealer? Never! It’s one and the same. Then make that a doctrine of serpent seed
which was purely academic at this point because we understand and know. We’re not even concerned. But I got no love, “Lee Vayle’s got a bad
spirit.” How can I have a bad spirit and
know the Word of God? Now, I can use it
like a club and be a hypocrite, but I don’t do it. You might think I do, but I don’t do it.
(22)
Love one another
with a pure heart fervently:
(23) Having
been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of
God, which lives and abides forever.
(24) For
all flesh is as grass, (but you’re different, you’re going to die, but it won’t
matter, you’re going to come back, because you’re the seed of Abraham. See?)
The grass withereth, and the flower falleth away:
(25) But
the word of the Lord endures forever.
So,
therefore, brother/sister, if you don’t have this Word in here, you don’t have
eternal life, and you will not be in the resurrection unto eternal life.
Go
ahead, believe what you want to believe.
Old hateful Lee Vayle again, nobody can stand him. I can’t stand myself, just join the
club. Let’s go get drunk, on the
Word. Sure, come on, I’m not going to be
faced by this, God give me strength to lie in the ditch out there and die when
necessary. I mean it with all my
heart. I’m not kidding you. I’ve been born, I told you, angry, and I
remain angry. I’m an angry preacher, not
from myself, who gives a rip. Just get
out of my hair, and for God’s sake, just leave me alone.
And the
first person that tries to cut in on this congregation, when Brooks becomes
pastor, I pity him, because I will rip him to shreds and put his name around
the world. Let that be a warning to
every single person who’s heard my voice this morning, on this tape and
here. Just leave me alone, that’s
all. Don’t try to use me. It won’t do you any good because I’m just a
pile of horse manure, and I don’t know anybody likes to stand on horse
manure. I have a reason for saying what
I said. You want to challenge me? I name you names and places and dates without
any trouble.
Now
that’s it, the long and the short of it.
I have proved to you conclusively every single thing I’ve said quoting
Bro. Branham, and not even quoting him, but going to the Word of God, knowing,
that when you get in a certain position, there is no way you can change from
that position. And when you get in a
certain principle, there is no way you’ll change the principle because the
principle is doctrine.
All
right. I hope you’re beginning to see
something. God has two hands. Two hands of judgment. The right hand is unto life, the left hand is
unto death. Now, then, wherever God is,
or whenever he comes on the scene as concerning humanity, He comes with both hands. Right?
Of course not. Who’s going to
believe that? All through seven church
ages, he’s been the Judge with two hands.
And today, He Himself is here, right on the scene, the Pillar of Fire,
though I can’t see him, he’s not in this building. I don’t believe that for one minute. And he’s not over me.
And the
goof-ball over there in Norway and the nut down there in Missouri. Well, I
don’t know where he is. But He’s leading
the Bride to the Millennium, because Bro. Branham said so. Sure, but He is here with both hands. Do you believe that God gave us a high
priest? And that same God indwelt that
one, preached after the order of Melchisedec. You believe we got one, then you
have to understand Melchisedec back there, in a human frame, back to where he
is again.
Now
what am I trying to tell you? I’m trying
to tell you this: The high priest was
mediator and intercessor. Right? And if you have a high priest, he can’t just
have one hand, he can’t even have a bit of his nose missing, and a little bit
of his ear missing, and a little bit of a finger missing. No, no, no, no, he has to be perfect, even as
a masculine man. But how are you going
to have somebody on the scene with one hand?
In
other words, there is no such thing as Him coming with judgment alone or with
grace alone, because He’s got two hands.
So, whenever He comes and wherever He goes, it doesn’t matter, and this
is all in figures, because God is spirit, He uses both hands. He is Alpha and Omega.
Go over
here to Genesis the 3rd chapter--and you can see this absolutely according to
the Word of God, and we make no mistake about it because it is true--and
beginning at verse 14.
(14) The
Lord said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above
all cattle, every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust
eat all the days of your life:
(15) I’ll
put enmity between thee and the woman, and between her seed and thy seed; it’ll
bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.
(16) Unto
the woman he said, I’ll greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; (And so
on, right on down the line).
Now
what did he do? His left hand He dealt
out every single one of those curses that were necessary, and on the right
hand, He took and shed the blood of an animal and gave them skins for their
covering and gave them grace. And gave
them a promise of deliverance which would be greater than had they stayed in
the present position though they sinned and got out of it. Because without that they never would known
the grace of God. Here’s where your
predestinating foreknowledge of God comes in.
Notice,
in Genesis, the 4th chapter, and in the 11th verse. And it says:
(11) Now
art thou cursed from the earth, which has opened her mouth to receive thy
brother’s blood from thy hand;
The
same one that stood there, that blessed Abel, was the same one that stood there
with the left hand and cursed the other fellow.
And you are looking exactly at the present situation so today. Let us then examine 1 Thessalonians the 4th
chapter. And I should never have to
preach on something like this again. In
fact, you don’t even need it, but I’m doing it anyway. I hope.
It says here, in the 16th verse.
(16) For
the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God:
and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
(17) Then
we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so we ever going to be with the Lord.
(18) Wherefore
comfort one another with these words.
Now listen, this arose out of the question: What about us, the living, at the time of the
resurrection, which they knew was going to be a time of trouble? He said, “Don’t worry about it, the right
hand says grace, and mercy, and marvelous things.”
Now,
notice, if you go with the continuity from the 4th chapter into the 5th.
(1)
But times and
seasons, brethren, ye need not that I write to you.
(2) For
you know perfectly well that the day of the Lord cometh as a thief in the
night.
(3) When
they say Peace and safety; come sudden destruction, as travail upon a woman
with child; they shall not escape.
(4) But
you, brethren, are not in darkness. (There you are.)
He said,
“When I come at that time, I’m coming with both hands.” And the left hand is cursing, and the right
hand is blessing; and God has two hands.
He better have, we’re made in his image.
If God looked like anything, he’d look like a man. That was His ultimate, forming himself in
human flesh. That’s what it was,
absolutely. Bro. Branham quote--taking
that revelation of the 3rd chapter of the book of Revelation. The beginning of creation of God, God
creating Himself in the human flesh.
Now
listen, let’s go back and see the same thing in Malachi. And you can not get away from it. There is no way you can change the Word of
Almighty God. Malachi the 4th chapter.
(1)
For behold, the
day cometh, that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, that do wickedly,
shall be stubble: the day that cometh
shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, leaving neither root nor branch.
(2) But
unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in
his wings. (Right hand left hand. What are you going to do about it?)
5 and
6:
(5) Behold,
I send Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of
the Lord:
(6) And
he’ll turn the hearts of children back to the fathers, lest I come and smite
the earth with a curse.
There
you are, right hand left hand. Okay, 2nd
Thessalonians We love this one. There you are. The 1st chapter and 7-10. Now.
(7) You
who are troubled with this, rest with us, (That’s relax under the seven seals)
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
(That’s exactly true. The very picture
on the wall.)
(8) In
flames of fire taking vengeance. (Never
mind that, let’s read it the way it’s really written. “And you that are troubled, rest with us,
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.”)
(10) When
he shall come (verse 10) to be glorified in his saints, and be admired in all
them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
See? And at the same time, “In flaming fire taking
vengeance on them that know not God...”
They turn down Eph 1:17. Come
on. They deny Him according to
Peter. See?
(9) Who shall be punished with everlasting
destruction from the presence of our Lord, (He’s talking about the Presence now.
And the White Throne is already started.
We’re before it. They’re already
condemned that there’s neither root nor branch left. It’s over.
Right in this hour it’s over.
Right hand, left hand.)
And I’m
preaching this way to get you out of yourfear to understand the parallelism of
Scripture, blessing and cursing. Right
hand and left hand. When He comes it’s
the same God who does one thing to one and another to another according to seed
and the just judgments of God. The
Judge--left hand and right hand.
Absolutely.
Over
here in Lk 17:26-30. How’s our time
doing now? Oh good. Whatever you’re doing is okay by me. But we’re going to finish this up because
that’s how we do things around here.
Maybe finished half-way, but we’re going to get ‘em finished just the
same.
Okay,
verse 26.
(26)
As it was in the
days of Noe, it’ll be in the days of the Son of man. (There you are.)
(27) They ate, they drank, they married wives,
they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and
the flood came, and destroyed them all.
(28)
Likewise also was
the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted,
builded;
(29) The same day Lot went out of Sodom it rained
fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
(30) Even thus it’ll be in the day when the Son
of man is revealed.
It
tells you that. Now listen, let’s look
at the days of the Son of man. The days
of the Son of man means what it says.
You want to see one of the days of the Son of man? What was that? That was the great prophet when He did the
mighty miracles, when he proved who He was, when He vindicated Himself.
Okay. What’s it say in Heb the 6th chapter? “Let us go unto perfection.” And perfection means let’s finish this thing
off. How do you finish off? It tells you.
Chapter 6.
(1)
Therefore laying
the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go onto perfection: (let us
finish it) not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and
of faith toward God.
(2) Of the doctrine of baptism, laying on of
hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
(3) This we do, if God permit.
Now
listen, He’s telling you, you’re going to go beyond resurrection. You’re going to be taken beyond it. There’s going to come a point when everything
is history up to this point. And that’s
Revelation 10:7 where this man reveals all the mysteries. And it’s the seventh seal that goes into
eternity, like a bursting Roman candle.
Now watch, “This we will do, if God permit.” Now, He permits it only on the grounds of a
statement. It couldn’t happen because it
wasn’t ready.
(4) It’s impossible for those who are once for
all enlightened, and tasted the heavenly gift, partake of the Holy Ghost.
(5) Taste the good word of God, even the powers
of the world to come,
(6) Having fallen away, they can never ever
change their minds and come back.
Now,
listen to me, where is the grace? It’s
in the enlightenment, the tasting, the partaking, entering into it. Literally, what Bro. Branham said in the
Easter Seal, we are in the resurrection based upon vindication and He is living
in us. It’s over as far as we’re
concerned. We’re at rest.
We
can’t seem to get our cotton-pickin’ stupid heads screwed on right. God, I wish somebody, if you had it, I’d let
you hit me with a four-by-four right now and scatter my brains and let God do
something for me. But you can’t do it
anymore than I’m going to come down and try to do it for you. I guess we just pray for each other. That’s all we can do. That’s why it’s a one-to-one
confrontation. That’s why I said,
listen, I don’t want a preacher or anybody bugging us in this church here. Leave us alone. Leave me alone. I’m going to go to heaven, I’ll make it
without you, don’t worry. Make it with
Jesus. If I go to hell I don’t need to
get you to help along. I can do enough
on my own.
Hey,
it’s over. Attrition. Attrition has set in. There it is.
Now it says, fallen away, they’ll never come back.
(6) They crucify to themselves the Son of God
afresh, put him to an open shame.
Shame
Him. Literally shame Him. The One their waiting for. “Oh, that’s not the One, that’s the devil
doing that. That’s not the days of the
Son of man. That’s not this, that’s not
the other thing, it’s what we say.”
Shame Him. And ashamed of Him,
who was the revealed Word, the Rhema/Logos.
The hare-brains with the split lips and God knows, running around,
Rhema/Logos ..?..
You
think I’m mean? Sure I’m mean. I can’t stand their crap--their stuff what
their peddling. And they hate my spirit
because I hate their spirit. Everything
doesn’t go, brothers, don’t tell me everything goes. Don’t tell me he suddenly jumped from the
fire into heaven. Don’t tell me that
nonsense. You’re sitting on some
fence. Now you might think I sound
terribly discouraged.
No, I
got a phone call the other day, and he named a bunch of names. He said, “Lee I heard all those guys
preaching Bro. Branham.” He said, “When
I heard you,” he said, “It made all the difference. It was all over.” So that make you feel good? Not necessarily. I’m not the kind of guy that feels extra good
about any thing. I’ll only feel good
when I wake in His righteousness, in His glory, if I do. From now on it’s unbearable, it’s like Bro.
Branham said, a pest-house--it stinks.
All he
said here,
(7) For the earth drinketh in the rain that
cometh oft upon it, (we are God’s husbandry.)
We are
God’s people, supposed to drink in the water that He gives every age--seven
dousings. And at the endtime there’s a
Holy Spirit power dousing, and then there’s a Word dousing. And they get so carried away with the dousing
of the power that they don’t have the Word.
Man
wrote me. He said, “Bro. Vayle, ‘Satan’s
Eden #12’, you said gifts can mess you up.”
And he explained what I really meant which I didn’t mean at all. See, always try to second guess something,
know better than the guy who’s talking.
I will
send rain, the former rain in the time of the latter rain. And the latter rain, Bro. Branham said fell
in 1906, which was a restoration of the gifts.
Is that right? Pentecost. And he said the former rain was a teaching
rain. Is that right? Why did they turn down the teaching
rain? Because of the gifts of the Holy
Ghost which had messed them up and blinded them.
You
say, he’s trying to say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, that God’s gifts are perfect.” They are perfect. But they weren’t in order. And when the Word came to put ‘em in order
the charismatics died and became chaff. And
you don’t get chaff in the rapture.
Chaff burns.
I want
to ask you a question. I want to ask you
just one question. Did God say He would
send strong delusion, or did He not say it?
Now what’s a strong delusion?
Sure as the nose on your face, the gifts without the Giver. And if you have something then which is here
apart from the Giver Himself and not in control, I want to ask you a question,
what will it do with you? In plain
English you will run foul.
Europe
still believes the Pillar of Fire went back to Europe. But I can’t believe that for two
seconds. I’ve seen your adulteries over
there and your popish spirit. They think
we got it but they’re wrong. The prophet
was here.
In 2
Peter, the 2nd chapter, 4-10.
(4) For if God spared not the angels that
sinned, but cast them down to hell, delivered them into chains of darkness, to
be reserved unto judgment; (And remember, hell is moved from beneath at this
time and souls are now in prison.)
(5) And spared not the old world, but saved Noah
the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the
world of the ungodly;
(6)
And turned the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow,
making them an ensample unto those that should live ungodly;
(7) And delivered just Lot, vexed with the
filthy conversation of the wicked:
(8) For that righteous man dwelling among them,
in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with with their
unlawful deeds;
(9) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly
out of temptations, and reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be
punished:
(10) But chiefly them that walk after the flesh
in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are
not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries.
And
He’s talking about the church when the Bible says you obey them that have the
rule over you, who teach to you the Word of God. Now there’s where your rule is Bob, it’s in
the Word, it’s not in a preacher. So
forget him or the door’s there for you to just walk in the same way you came
out. I kid you not. What does the Word say? Not what Lee Vayle says.
Why
don’t I try to rideherd on you? I
followed Bro. Branham who preached the Word and stood back and see what affect
it had on him, on me and on you. I’ve
got only one challenge in this church, according to the prophet, to withhold
communion, if I find one man seducing women having intercourse outside of his
own family life, then we will kick you out of here. Now do you want to know the truth? I gave you the truth and you do what you want
with it. But I’ll not rideherd on you. Although God knows I should have rebuked some
of you for some things. But I’ll take it
myself on the chin.
All
right. Look in verse 5.
(5) And spared not the old world, but saved
Noah the eighth person, a person a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the
flood upon the world of the ungodly;
So
there’s two worlds there. There’s the
ungodly and there’s the godly. And Bro.
Branham categorically placed the foolish virgin with the ungodly. Did he or did he not? He did.
The two worlds--godly and ungodly.
And He saves them both. One for
the right hand and one for the left hand.
You gonna deny it? How can you
deny the Word of God? After this morning
you’ll believe that Bro. Branham really put something on me when he said,
“Somebody’s got to tell them.” Listen.
“But
these as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed.” Made that way. “Speak evil of the things that they
understand not, and utterly perish in their own corruption.”
What is
their corruption? They don’t have
understanding which can come only by Elijah.
Lk 1:17 (Where are you standing?
See?) 22, 23.
(22) But it happened to them according to the
true proverb, the dog is turned to his own vomit again; the sow to her
wallowing in her own mire. (I put the
‘own’ in there because you see it’s own in with the dog’s own vomit, too.)
So what
is all this stuff they are preaching and teaching these guys that are
false? Their own, and it’s vomit. It’s half-digested food. It’s the old crud they’ve been taught for
years. Creeds and dogmas where there’s
no life, there is only one life. Bro.
Branham said this message alone has life.
That Peter’s a marvelous man.
Okay. That’s enough reading there. Here’s the secret. It is Rev 3:20.
(20) Behold,
I stand at the door, and knock: and if
any man hear my voice, and open the door, I’ll sup with him, come in to him and
sup with him, and he with me.
In
other words, there is at this hour, whether people want to recognize it, life
and death has come to the world. Now I
know that they say now just a minute here, buddy boy, it says, “I stand at the
door and knock and if any man open the door, I will come in and sup.” And that’s all beauty and glory, but what if
He doesn’t open the door? What
then? No communion, no fellowship, no
life.
So He’s
still got two hands. You understand what
I’m saying? You can’t have a crippled
priest. Come on, he’s got to be perfect
male. No blemishes. To have a beard or not have a beard in that
particular area, some of those things didn’t matter too much, if he did had to
be cut a certain way.
So when
Bro. Branham talked about certain haircuts, he wasn’t out of line. Who’d ever think Bro. Branham got out of line
because he just nailed things down. Hey,
man, if you don’t nail things down these days, somebody’s going to steal it on
you. And if you don’t nail the Word of
God down, they’re going to steal it on you.
Come on. That’s exactly what he
did. He himself said, I nailed it and
clinched it, may God help me to clinch that nail I nailed down. Why?
Because someone’s going to steal it.
The Bible tells you that. The
seed that went upon the ground, the birds came and stole it away. The bad weather stole it, the weeds stole it,
thorns and briars choking it stole it.
It’s got to be nailed down.
That’s
what we’re doing today. The devil comes
and takes it out of your mind. It is
therefore Rev 3:20. It is therefore 1
Tim 5:24, “Some men’s sins are open
beforehand, going before to judgment; but some men they follow after.” Then
there is a judgment here when He is present.
Even by the Holy Spirit without this hour, the judge was in the midst of
the church by the Holy Spirit Himself and the Word, doing what He could. But at the end it is the final judgment where
the Judge Himself has come.
It is
Matthew 25 and Matthew 27 which I read to you.
It is Romans the 8th chapter.
Let’s go to Romans the 8th chapter and verse 28.
(28) And we know that all things work together
for good to them that love the Lord, to those who are the called according to
his purpose.
Right. What is that?
That is Ephesians chapter 1. That
tells you the predestinated in Christ receive the predestinated Holy Ghost and
they are sealed to the day of redemption which predestinated ones, then when
there’s no more baptism with the Holy Ghost and the seed runs out, the Holy
Ghost Himself comes down and seals them in for delivery, as Bro. Branham said
concerning the box car. And the box car
must be inspected and be in exact in order as to the exact content and how it’s
laid out. And that’s church order of the
shout of 1 Corinthians chapter 15.
Then
you go on and read Rom 8:28-39.
(29) For whom he did foreknow, he predestinated
to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn amongst
many brethren.
Notice
firstborn. And notice that Abel was not,
though he was the firstborn, he was set aside.
He didn’t have a lineage. Typing
Christ perfectly. The only begotten one
in who the lineage really would be. But
the lineage came by him dying, sending his life back.
(30) Moreover whom he did predestinate, he also
called: whom he called, he
justified: whom he justified, them he
glorified.
(31) What’ll we say to these thing? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Then he
tells you on what grounds.
(32) He that spared not his own Son, but
delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all
things?
(33) Who shall lay any thing to the charge of
God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
(34) Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is
risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, (there you are, He’s got two
hands--right and left. Who’s at the
right hand? Where the blessing
comes. What’s the glories about? the blessings about? Christ.
Christ is the mystery of God revealed.
See?)
(35) Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? tribulation, nakedness, peril,
sword, famine (and so on).
(36) It’s written, For thy sake though we’re
killed all the day long; accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
(37)
In all these
things you’re more than conquerors (and so on, right on down the line).
(38) For I’m persuaded, neither death, nor life,
nor angels, principalities, powers, things present, things to come,
(39) Height, depth, no creature, nothing, can
separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (And He is that Word. You can not change it.)
The
judgment the Bride goes through, is not unto death but unto life and the
judgment is refinement. And the
refinement here is not in a Catholic purgatory.
See? There’s no money in
refinement now. There’s money though, if
you go to purgatory and they pray you out, it’ll cost you money. Because remember, the whole church has to go
financial. And it started way, way
back. They began selling indulgences
even to the extent...
What’s
the Roman Catholic church going to do about itself? Did they ever repent of selling indulgences
which meant I am going to sin tomorrow, I’m going to pay for it now to give me
the right to sin tomorrow. So if you
give the Pope enough money you could kill a guy and say well, it’s okay because
I paid for it already.
You say
Catholics don’t believe that. You’re a
liar. I’ve got the books. Don’t try to tell me. But you can’t preach anything any more as far
as hate. What’s hate? I don’t hate any Catholics. I don’t even know any hardly any more. Can’t tell ‘em from Protestants anyway. Protestants don’t protest. What’ll they protest? Nothing.
Bunch of cream puffs. Catholics
got more protest on Protestants.
Catholics won’t ordain women, won’t have homosexuals around if they can
help it. Of course they got ‘em, but
what are they going to do about it? They
can’t stop the homos. But they try. They got a better self image these days, I
think than the Protestants have. I would
say so.
It is a
self judgment and one that abides in Hebrews the 12th chapter, verse 1-6. And that’s not hard, we’ve looked at this
different times. And it says:
(1) Wherefore seeing we’re compassed about with
so great a cloud of witnesses, (that’s what Bob spoke about, these ones that
went in chapter 11) let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that easily
beset us, (what is that? Unbelief.) and
run with patience the race set before us,
How did
any man ever have patience running a race?
Life is so fleeting, it’s going to be gone before you know it. Where’s my 77 years gone? Oh everything I could have done and didn’t
do. And I’m still in the same boat. Everything I do tomorrow I’m not going to do
just the same-- yiy-yiy-yiy.
(2) Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher
of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,
despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of God.
Now
where did he get his joy from? The
covenant. The covenant. What the covenant spoke which was between him
and the father, which was before the foundation of the world, that covenant, He
knew what was set before him. And as
Bro. Branham said, as a Scripture which was given by the holy prophets was
fulfilled, he as a human being knew that he qualified as that person because
the prophets couldn’t fail. Therefore we
qualify with the prophet because the prophet can’t fail. Who did it?
Jesus did it. “I’m Jesus”, that’s
what He told Paul. Oh my, sit down at
the right hand of the throne of God.”
(3) For consider him that endured such
contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your
minds. (What contradiction? They made him a liar. The children of Abraham made him a liar. Hey, man, they said, you’re wrong. He said you’re the children of the
devil. He said, we’re not, we’re
children of Abraham. We’re not born of
fornication, you’re born of fornication.
You’re illegitimate. They tried
to rub that in. Crazy people.)
(5)
And have you
forgotten the exhortation speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise
not the training and chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of
him:
(6) For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and
scourges every son he receiveth.
(7) And if you receive chastening, God deals
with you as with sons; with what son is he whom the father chastens not?
Now I
spoke of love up in Toronto. You say,
well this doesn’t preach a love. It sure
does because the kid, the child that is given love, which doesn’t cost him one
lousy penny, but costs his parents or somebody trying to help him, he is merely
paying for what he sowed. Hear what I
said? He’s paying for what he’s
sowed. Because God doesn’t rap anybody
over the head when he’s right. But He
makes you face up in His love to make you get where you belong and then you
begin to pay for what you yourself have been doing. That’s love.
Why should God turn aside and do anything for a brat that’s running
around screaming and messing things up?
I want
to tell you something. I’m sorry for you
young people raising a family. If you ever
need to draw near to God, and bring your children up in admonition in faith of
the Holy Spirit and search your hearts and the hearts of your children daily,
through the exercise of the Word. I
wouldn’t be in your boots for one billion dollars because I see where our own
granddaughter’s gone and our great-grand-kids are going. I’m ready to even quit preaching, just go
some place and just retire. But
something compels me to go on.
If
you’re ever serious you better get serious now.
Your kids will use every excuse in the book and out of the book. I’m not lying to you, I’m telling you. I don’t think you know what is really going
on. And you better control your VCR’s
and everything else you got, too. You
got a TV, dump it. Dump it. You hear me?
It’ll get you. You think it
won’t? You kid yourselves. Dump it.
I’m not lying to you. I don’t
feel even a great conviction telling you, I say it because the prophet said it
and I know it’s true. You’re not going
to change anything, brother/sister, because if that child is not seed you won’t
change it, but you are still responsible.
Something
lies in here I don’t understand. Why
should I understand it? It wasn’t given
me to understand. Bro. Branham couldn’t
explain it, maybe, maybe somewhere and I didn’t catch it. I don’t know.
But I know one thing, if there ever was a time to be serious with our
families it is now. To pray with them
and to help them. To discourage sin and
to encourage righteousness.
And
remember, the pleasures of righteousness will not turn to gravel in your mouth,
it is only the pleasures of sin. You
will have no regrets looking back on a life that was dedicated to God and He
held you steady. But you will have
regrets looking back on a life that wasn’t dedicated. And you couldn’t be held steady because you
didn’t want to be.
Let’s
go to 2 Corinthians the 2nd chapter. I
beg you pardon, 1st chapter. 1-7.
(1)
Paul, an apostle
of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of
God which is in Corinth, with-with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
(2) Grace be onto you and peace from God our
Father, and Lord Jesus Christ.
(3) Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
(4) Who comforteth us in all tribulation, that
we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort
wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
(5)
For as the
sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
(6) And whether we be afflicted, it is for your
consolation and salvation, which is effectual in enduring of the same
sufferings which we also suffer: or
whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
(7) And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing,
that as you are partakers of the suffering, you should be partakers of
consolation.
Now He
tells you right here that there is no such a thing as anybody understanding the
true consolation and peace and the wonderments of Jesus Christ unless pressures
come in our lives. And when the
pressures come in our lives, those things that upset us and are burdensome to
us, very troublesome, and certainly vicious problems as we view them. As we allow the presence and power of Christ
to help us, we will in turn help others.
In other words, it is a growth process.
It is a strengthening process.
And the outer man can even be perishing, but the inner man can be
renewed.
That
picture, we should have it on the wall here somewhere. You know, Bro.--like that death head of Bro.
Branham where you see those flames on the lilies there, the magnified lilies
and those flames of fire. That’s all
nine gifts in manifestation. And that
death head is the outer man perishing and like a new person that’s the inner
man, being grown up. And that belt, all
those things in there, symbolic, an actual heavenly picture taken by a
camera.
“Oh but
I don’t believe that.” Well, you don’t
have to believe anything. Ho my, just go
ahead and believe what you want. Believe
that there is protein. How--where the
protein got there. Nobody knows but it
got there, but I don’t know, and because protein’s going to be life. And yet they know there’s no such thing as
spontaneous generation. Oh God have
pity. There’s no such thing as--as
gloofapoofasis, but there is a gloofous poofous just the same. Can you believe people can be that
stupid?
Brute
beasts. Already they got the creature,
they are the creatures. They can run the
computers, make the chips, everything else.
And you notice how they just love to have dominion. So the more you try to make a man, that’ll do
for you what you should do for yourself.
And you be somebody on top of that, the more you’ll be entrapped and
enslaved by yourself.
“Go to
you rich men, weep and howl.” You wait
and see what happens to ‘em. So I’m a
great baptist...?... Just a minute. I don’t care if you gave Moody Bible fifty
billion dollars. I don’t care what you
did. I’ve got a Bible here. It doesn’t matter what I do, I’ve still got a
Bible against me or for me. Doesn’t
matter what you do. What’s in here. Sure.
Listen,
in winding up, winding down, let us look at the Judge Himself in John 5. Oh, it’s not too bad. It’s only one o’clock. My, how lucky you’ll be able to eat far more
when you get home and you needed your stomach to rest up. I’m doing you a great favor.
Verse
24.
(24) Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that
heareth my word, and believes on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and
shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (That’s what he said.)
Now,
this is in the context starting up at verse 22.
(22) For the Father judges no man, but hath
committed all judgment unto the Son:
(23) That all men should honour the Son, even as
they honour the Father. He that
honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which sent him.
(24) Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that
heareth my word, believes on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall
not come into condemnation: but is
passed from death unto life.
(25)
Verily, verily, I
say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the
voice of the Son of God: and they that
hear shall live.
(26)
For as the Father
hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
(27) And hath given him authority to execute
judgment , because he is the Son of man.
What do
you think of that? Days of Son of man
are right here. Who’s here? Judge.
Judge. What is God doing today,
what has He done? God has manifested
Himself again in the sonship of God. God
Himself in the form of the Holy Ghost, doing exactly what He did in the human
body which was a body, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Which body He glorified and raised up to the right hand of God which now
is on the throne itself. For He took the
book out of the hand of Him upon the throne.
And the One upon the throne stepped down, and the Son stepped upon the
throne, and now we have exactly what’s going on. The Judge Himself is here.
And
what do they do when they turn down the days of Son of man? They turn down the Son, they turn down
God. They’re all mixed up it’s
pitiful. But that’s not our fault. See?
The
context is now is what I’m trying to tell you.
What is going on is exactly to the Gentiles. But the beautiful thing is this, as I’ve told
you before: In the book of Matthew it
tells you that He does not quench the smoking flax and He doesn’t break the
reed that’s broken, that’s splintered, He doesn’t break it, He doesn’t cut it
in two. But He brings forth judgment
unto the Gentiles for they trust in His name.
Now
what is His name? Jesus. Paul, Paul, why do you persecute me? Who are you?
I’m Jesus. And the true
revelation of this hour is of the Father.
And you will notice that. The
spirit of wisdom of revelation of Him.
He’s telling you. God Himself
reveals Himself. The God of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give unto you the spirit of wisdom. And when you talk about the spirit of
Almighty God, which this is here demonstrating wisdom and revelation, you got
to go back to how it was in the beginning with the Apostle Paul.
And He
tells ‘em in Corinthians and in Romans it’s a hundred percent by vindication
which no man can deny. So at the
end-time, you cannot deny Bro. Branham when he said, “This is the Judge.” Now there you are. Now what is this one? He’s got two hands.
Okay. Listen one more time. “Behold I stand at the door and knock.” In the hour when your unions won’t do you any
good because they won’t, your church will have to take ‘em over to make ‘em
work. The hour when all men are
destroying the financial system because our government is encouraging it.
And
tell me who understands the federal reserve?
I’d like to know. I’ve read many
accounts. And you know what I’m told by
the so-called great authorities? When
our government wants to borrow money they go to the federal reserve which
simply prints money. Let’s say twenty
billion dollars worth. So they put
twenty billion dollars over here and lend it to you and me because we’re the
government. Then they put twenty billion
dollars over here in their own pocket.
Now you got a world bank system.
Who owns it? Who owns the
paper? Makes you think, doesn’t it? Bro. Branham said Catholics got the gold,
Jews got the paper.
Why is
it every single time you got a Jew running federal reserve? I’m not a Jew baiter, I’m just asking
questions. I’ve read too much in my day. Where Russ, you started late, I started at
age 20. Read the books. That’s why I can’t go along with lot of
things that maybe you believe like in the grounds of politics because it ain’t
going to get you anywhere. You just fold
up and die with it, Russ. It ain’t worth
it. But the question is answered, who’s
got the paper? Jews. They got it.
How did they get it? Well, I
could blaspheme the poor Jews by giving you every example under God’s high
heaven, I wouldn’t know what I’m talking about.
But I’m quoting a prophet--legitimate, vindicated prophet. The Jews got the paper. Which is supposed to
be based upon something tangible. How
can bonds be based upon debt and be tangible?
The only tangible thing is the debt, and that’s a minus.
Why are
people going in bankruptcy? Because they
sign notes. I owe sixty thousand dollars
and I got no dough for what I owe, so I can’t pay what I owe. There’s your note. Stuck.
Jews got the paper. Can’t get
around it.
“Behold,
I stand at the door, and knock.” The
Judge. And this is to Jew, to Gentile,
just the whole world, but particularly the Gentile world. Now He said, “If any man hear my voice, and
open the door, I’ll sup with him, and he with me.” Now he said, listen, “To him that overcometh I
grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and set down with
my Father in his throne.” So He set down
on the throne. So the voice of Jesus at
this hour, the One that is from heaven that is speaking.
Now,
what is happening? The Father is
conveying the Word and authority and promise of the Son here in the form of the
Holy Ghost right upon this earth. And
the message is this: “I am standing at
the door now, I am the Judge.” Perfectly
reflected in the days of the Son of man, showing who it is. That one now that is in heaven, his voice
being relayed down here to you and me, says I’m on the throne. And if you are listening now, at this
end-time, because I am the head of the church and will soon be there as that
physical head, you listen, and we will have this communion. Otherwise you are not going to get it. No way.
But you’re going to be judged.
And we have the point of judgment at this hour, Bro. Branham said it.
Now
we’re going to close, so you can be happy.
We’re going to go to Psalm number 1.
And this is the last I’m reading.
(1) Blessed is the man that walketh not in the
counsel of the ungodly, (that’s Cain number 1, who took after his father the
beast, and Eve listened) nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sits in the
seat of the scornful.
But
watch now.
(2) His delight is in the word of the Lord; and
in his word doth he meditate day and night.
You
say, “Bro. Vayle, you change that from law to word.” What’s the difference? You show me one word that’s not law and one
law that’s not word, and I’ll eat it.
Because the Word of God abides forever, and that’s a law. Right?
Can’t change it. Not going to
change it. You go to 119th Psalm, you’ll
see everything in commandment. You’ll
see law.
Oh,
let’s take a look at it. Might as well
keep you a little longer. I’m not too
hungry. I’m not hungry at all. Say, “Well, Bro. Vayle when you get hungry
you quit preaching.” That’s right.
(1)
Blessed are the
undefiled, who walk in the law of the Lord.
(2) Blessed are they that keep his testimonies,
“Thou
hast commanded us... Statutes... Judgments...”
All those words. Okay, let’s go
back.
(2)
But his delight
is in the law of the Lord; in his law doth he meditate day and night.
(3) And he shall be like a tree planted by the
rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also
shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. (Now that’s a
continuation of godly people through the ages.)
(4) The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff (that the wheat comes
up in, and the last age sheltering) and the wind driveth them away. (What’s the wind? The Holy Spirit.)
(5) Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in
the judgment, (when the judgment comes they’ll fall. They can’t stand.)
Remember
the Scripture says, “Who shall abide his coming? For He’s like a fuller’s fire. He’s like a furnace blast, a prevailing wind,
a storm, a tempest, an earthquake, a thunderbolt. Who’s going to stand? The righteous stand. When Moses went atop Mount Sinai with the
protective blood, a seed of the Lord God, his first great and marvelous
prophet, the meekest man that ever lived, a type of the Lord Jesus Christ, he
stood there amidst the thunderbolts and the lightening and the earthquake,
completely unfazed.
Elijah
just stood there that morning, that night, whatever it was, earthquake,
whirlwind rending the mountains, the rocks, fire descending, whirling itself
like thunderbolts, stood right there.
The still small voice came through.
They’re going to stand in the judgment, brother/sister. Nothing going to blow the Bride away. You better believe it. They’re going to stand right there like a
rock.
(5) For therefore the ungodly shall not stand,
(there, no, they’re going to be blown away like the chaff) nor the sinners in
the congregation of the righteous.
There’ll
be, listen, they’re separated right now.
And the separation lies on the testimony of Paul. And Bro. Branham had a vision. He was literally carried away in the spirit
out of his body up to a place which he himself I think would discern as being
real. Where he hugged them and they
hugged him. They said, “Well, you got to
wait, you got to be judged. He said, “Is
Paul going to be judged?” Yes. On what grounds? The Word.
Well, he said, “I preached what Paul preached.” They said, “We’re resting on that.” In other words, if there wasn’t a man to
preach Paul’s word, identical word for word, and revelation for revelation, the
dead could not come out.
You
say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, I just can’t believe that.” Well, you don’t have to believe it. Who asked you to? I’m not asking you to believe anything? I’m telling you. Not telling you to believe, I’m just telling
you what’s vindicated. I love it,
personally. How many of you got to
grouch about, if you’re holding the grouches to those that are...
It’s,
you know, like Bro. Branham said about the little kid that talked to the
atheist. She ate the apple and she said,
“Does this apple taste good?” He said,
“How could I know, you’re eating it.”
She said, “That’s the way it is with my religion,” she said. I’m eating my religion you haven’t got any,
so therefore how can you taste or know anything about it?
Now
notice verse 6.
(6) The Lord knoweth the way of the
righteous: (The Lord knoweth the
way. You say, well just a minute now,
the Lord knows the way of the righteous.
The Lord knows and so He knows what they’re going to do and do it. That’s not it at all. This is the foreknowledge that God laid
down. He knows their way, which God
Himself predestinated.) The way of the
righteous: but the way of the ungodly
(is also predestinated), it must perish.
Now
notice the Judge, right here, left hand, right hand. Now this morning it’s simple as
ABC. Which hand
are you with this morning? Simple as
ABC. He’s here. What’s the criteria? Paul’s gospel. The revealed Scripture, the restored Word,
the shout, a prophet coming to bring understanding and revelation. God Himself on the scene. And the Judge judging. Judgment is not down the road, it is
now. Bro. Branham said you sing that
song, “I’ll go with Him through the judgment.”
It’s the judging Word right now.
Where do we stand?
Now
brother/sister, I’ve not asked you to do the Word of God. Believe me, I’ve never asked you to do
it. You say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, you
wouldn’t dare because you don’t do it yourself.” That’s exactly right. Neither did Bro. Branham, neither did Moses,
neither did Paul. No man ever lived the
Word. He could live a part of it, that’s
true. Everybody lives a certain part,
but no man ever lived that Word. Only
Christ alone fulfilled that entire Word because He alone could do it. Yeah, we know that.
You
say, “What about Paul?” Hey, what kind
of a sinner was Paul? A murderer. Got all that back. Well, since the time of the blood-- that’s a
different story. No man ever lived it
except Jesus Christ. But every one’s
seed will believe it. See that’s the
difference. We can believe it and we
will if we are seed. And that makes the
difference whether you’re on the left hand or the right hand, that’s where it
starts.
Now
though there’s much growth--I believe in growth. I’m sorry that my life is wasted, much of it
concerning growth. It sure hasn’t been
there. And yet maybe a whole lot more
than I realize, given what I was born with in the first place and you the same
way. That’s why Paul said we don’t judge
each other. We don’t have admiration
societies. We don’t need admiration; we
don’t need admirers.
Look,
if you’re wrong, what good’s it going to do you though men admire you? Look how they admire Hollywood--Madonna and
all the filth that’s going on. Paris,
France looks like a garden of Eden alongside of Hollywood today, the
filth. America leads the world in crime
and everything else under God’s high heaven.
The nation that started out is sold into captive and idolatry. It will soon be wiped off the map. She’s done every despicable thing in the book
and continues to do so.
But why
is the judgment of God upon her? Not
because of what she’s done but what she hasn’t done. She has not received the prophet. She has not received the Word of God. Denied the very One she says she
upholds. Say no to the Lord Jesus
Christ.
Brother/sister,
I just close in telling you the Judge is here.
You can do what you want about it, I can do what I want about it. It is not going to change anything at
all. On the left hand there is cursing,
there is death. Even to the foolish
virgin. Understand that. Only the Bride on the right hand. That has been that way and it always going to
be that, right up to the white throne when the foolish virgin comes up on the
scene, not having recognized but followed a seed in her heart of the yearning
and leaning to God and His people and done those few little things like
“Blessed are the merciful, they’ll receive mercy.” Glass of cold water, visit in prison. I don’t understand that all, I’m not here to
understand it all, but I know they will finally go in as those outside the Holy
City. And they will not be counted as
fodder for the burning. But billions
will. But we have our chance and
opportunity this morning to go to the Word and abide with the Word of God.
Let’s
rise and be dismissed.
Heavenly
Father, we want to thank You again for the time that You gave us to be together
here. The strength You give us, Lord, to
preach the Word which we know to be Your Word indeed. We don’t understand everything and we don’t,
perhaps we don’t have to understand everything, every little jot and tittle,
but we do know, Lord God in heaven, that there is Truth in Your Word and Your
Word has been vindicated to us as a Truth for this hour.
And so
Father, we know as the life has gone out of the previous messages, and the life
is now in this and even the chaff is burned up and we see so many things even
in nature where it’s in a state of complete attrition. They tell me, Lord, I just don’t know how it
can be but I’ve heard that upwards of hundreds of species per day, which I
don’t understand, are either in danger or have died off already or are dying
off. That shows a state of attrition
right there. Nothing more coming
forth. Then Lord, how much seed is there
to come forth? I don’t know.
Bro.
Branham said twenty-five, twenty-six years ago, back in 1965 (and here it’s
‘91--now we’re past that, twenty-six solid years--he said), “The last one could
have been in, or last one coming in.”
Looking as though he might go to find it. Who knows what’s come in. But we know there’s got to be a child
training period, we know it is going to be over. And Lord, who knows when that’s over. You said the world’s going to go on eating
and drinking and making merry, doing this and that. They won’t even know a thing until the
destruction comes upon the earth. But
Lord, we are not of those who are blind to what is going on. Help us to have our hearts stirred for our
own selves and for our families.
Lord, I
don’t understand a lot of things. Maybe
I should understand more than I do and it’s my own fault. But it’s so hard to understand at this time
how that there can be such a terrible hardness of heart every where when it
comes to literally right across the board.
Is it because we no longer can be moved by what happens in the world, no
matter how gross or how dark, no matter how treacherous, how vile? So much is done until it seems that there’s
nothing else but that being done. Has
that made us hard, Lord, like righteous Lot?
Why did he sit in the gates and endure it? Why did he even stay in the city? He must have got awful hard, awful hard
somewhere down there, Lord. And I know
that it seems like a great crust is forming upon hearts, minds and lives.
And if
we’re missing the tenderness and sweetness of Christ in this, Lord, then Father
God forgive us and help us this morning in the rest of our lives with a tender
heart and mercy of Christ. Be exalted at
least in a few people in a Bride.
Because if the prophet stopped praying for America in ‘56, I know he had
a reason to do it. And I’m not going to
try to have any compelling reason to go against him by no way. Nor would I want to even not do it by virtue
of the fact that I’m lazy, which could certainly be true and is true. But I know if he didn’t do it then we’re just
blindly doing something by our own will.
But Lord, there is a beauty amongst your people I believe, and a
loveliness and a quietness and a sweetness and a life to come out of this Word,
Lord, which is love unfeigned.
These
things Lord, I’m praying for sincerely this morning. And I’m ashamed to say it and I’m not ashamed
to say it, such a lack, Lord, and yet such a fullness. Help the two to come together, Lord, in our
hearts, minds and lives, that’s all I’m asking now. Bringing it right down to the final wire. Help us to bring it together, Lord, in lives
that are dedicated to You in human bodies.
And hopefully, O God, we’ll be glorified to go on to further
sanctification, to further limits with You, Lord, knowing the depths of Your
wonderment, Your beauty, Your wisdom, Your true essensiality. That love which we know lies in that Word
revealed, O God, and can be in us somehow, some way.
Heal
the sick amongst us, we pray, Lord.
Bless all those that need your care.
Strengthen homes, Lord, and strengthen hearts. Give children more grace, Lord, to live
godly; parents more grace, Lord, to help the children because we know in the
final analysis they’re responsible to a certain time and then the
responsibility’s over, there’s nothing they can do. But in the time that it can be done, Lord, I
pray in the name of Jesus Christ, may something be done, Lord, whatever it
costs, because love is going to cost while the other pays the price out of a
poor sowing which could end in a death.
Help
your people this morning, Lord, that’s all I ask. Whichever way they need help from this point
on, You know the best. But open our eyes
to see that help coming. Bless us and
take care of us. In the holy name of
Jesus Christ we pray, Amen.
Now you
got your little papers back there you take with you. I think Dave was going to hand them out, I
don’t know. Just before you go, there’s
a little thing there. And if anybody
wishes to do something about helping Bro. Bob, that’s good. And the rest of you, you remember to look for
a house. Things are moving rapidly. The Lord bless you.
' Take
the name of Jesus with you.'