What a Man Soweth
Articles: Wealth; Feminists; Scientists
Inferring One Flesh—1 Cor 6:9-7:6
Let
us pray. Heavenly Father, we welcome You into our
midst, and we know we have been welcomed by You through the righteous Jesus
Christ, who died and gave his life for us upon
And
we appreciate everything You’ve done for us. And, may
we consider that which You have done for us, consider Who You are, and who we
are, and believe the truth of the Word in this great relationship which we have
with You, and not deal in any false humility as though we were very, very
humble in saying things which we know are contrary to Your Word, which really
our humility, then, is nothing but a perverted pride, rather than grateful
souls accepting the Truth and glorying in It.
Help
us to glory in Thee, O God of our salvation, even You Who are
salvation; and we give You the correct and proper glory therein. In Jesus’ Name
we pray. Amen.
You
may be seated.
1. Now,
before we get back to “Identification,” there are certain things that I usually
read in magazines and try to look at them, especially in the light of the hour
in which we live. And, you know, today we are looking at a very—I call
it—‘distraught’ and exaggerated condition, especially in
And,
of course, you know that the communist system was destroyed through the
capitalistic system and democracy. And
ARTICLE 1
2. Well,
our commerce today, as Bro. Branham said, would be taken over by
“The
Wall Street Journal said, ‘Ten thousand symbolized the astonishing success and giddy
exhuberance of the
Now right from the start,
the word ‘reflection’ there is a lie, because the image is one hundred percent
false, as you will see. Now, why he used the word ‘reflection’ is only
because I think he’s talking about giddiness, which is a misconception of what
the reality is.
3. Now
he says here:
“The Los
Angeles Times said it was a major milestone in the 17 year bull market,
fueled by now perhaps fueling the best U.S. economy in a generation. You have
to go deeper in the stories to see that someone’s fuel is someone else’s fumes,
or that some dishes are falling. The Post cited a performance gap in
which the thirty blue chip stocks of the giant corporations of the Dow Jones
Industrial Average had risen in the past by 8.9%” (That’s last year.) “while
the Russell index of the small stocks had fallen 5.26%.”
“‘The
underpinings of the market are slowly getting whittled away,’ said Mark
Arbiter. ‘It won’t be a healthy long-term condition.’” (The same can be said
about the human conditon.) “This week the United for a Fair Economy, a
Boston-based organization that tracks income and wealth trends, shows that the
boom has enriched only the top five percent of the households in
And
yet, everybody is investing in stocks—everybody. That’s the major cry across
4. “An astounding ninety-five percent of
the households have seen a decline in net worth.” (The economy, great time. My!
We’re having it good.)
“The
report’s shifting fortunes, the peril of the growing American wealth gap, found
to be between 1983-95, the richest one percent of households saw a rise in net
worth of 17.4% adjusted for inflation. The top two to five percent”… (This is
kind of blotted out.) “The top ninety-one to ninety-five percentiles of wealth
saw a drop of 2.3%.”
So,
what you’ve got here is the top two to five percent had a remarkable growth;
but the ninety-one to ninety-five percent, there’s a little bit of a gap in
there. Its net worth was 2.5%, that’s all, but then the eighty-one to ninety
percent saw 5.3%, the households that would place in the sixty-one to eighty
percent, fell 6.5%.
5. So,
what you’re looking at here is a very, very tiny percent is actually moving
ahead when it comes to wealth. Now the question is: where’s it going? It’s out there
somewhere. You know there’s no such thing as annihilation till God annihilates
it. And God hasn’t annihilated anything. So, it’s out there! What’s it doing?
“Then the
dishes really begin to break into pieces. The households that would rank in the
forty to sixty percentiles fall 11.5% in net worth. The bottom forty percent of
American households saw a collapse of seventy-six percent in net worth.”
So,
it depends on what percentile you’re in. Some of you sitting here, you don’t
realize that you’re eighty percent down from what you were. “Big
boom in
Oh,
he didn’t start it, but he didn’t stand in the way. The big hurrah is a lot of
bunk. It isn’t there.
6. Now,
listen:
“The
richest one percent of
Now
these figures are different from what I gave you some time back, when we found
that thirty percent of the people at one time owned seventy percent of the
wealth; and that declined to ten percent owning ninety percent of the wealth.
And these figures are pretty close.
So,
where’s the money? See? That’s one reason I say that I’m not too worried about
the computer meltdown, that we won’t have any lights and all [the Y2K concern].
I’m wondering what’s going to happen to anything you and I have—any stocks, any
bonds, any money, anything—that’s somewhere, like in escrow, being held by
somebody. It can be wiped out—boom! Like that! And they’ll say, “I’m sorry, we
got wiped out!”
And
they’ve got it all.
You
say, “What should I do?”
Well,
I think the smart thing to do, if you’ve got anything at all, is to go to the
company and say, “I want my stuff now. I’ll take care of it.”
See?
If you can’t do it, get an accountant or lawyer, because you better not trust
anybody. And you’re going to find that more people are talking about this: the
meltdown being nothing but a niche or an opening for the crooks. Now I said it,
and two weeks later there came an article on it. And I’m not smart; I just
happen to know a little bit about life, because I’ve been ‘crooked’ so many
times now that… You know, I know crooked people. The reasons are many.
7. Now,
listen:
“Weekly
wages for the average American are twelve percent below their inflation
adjusted levels of 1973.” (Do you realize that’s 26 years ago?)
“Middle
income people are putting in the equivalent of eight weeks more time on the job
than in 1979” (Twenty years ago.) “but over the last decade the real pay for
extra hours is $2.20 an hour, which is less than minimum” (—half. So, all you
people working all these hours, across the board—not individuals now, but
across the board—$2.20 an hour.) “Americans are falling deeper into debt and
purchasing cars and other big ticket items. Debt, as a percentage of personal
income, has risen from 29.9% in 1949 to an estimated 84.8%, fifteen percent to
go, in 1997.”
“Credit
card debt in the
“The
wealth gap is so huge that Lester Thurow, professor of
8.
Before
Bro. Branham died, and at the time he died, the
Can
you buy gold coins? Sure, if you want to. I’d sooner have silver myself—a
little bit less conspicuous. All right.
9. “…That serious measures have to be
taken to address it such as wealth taxation, capping corporate tax deductions,
and stronger taxes for estates and capital gains.”
In
other words there’s got to be someplace where that money can’t pile up in the one
to ten percent. They’ve got to let their greedy hands let some of it go. And
the government will not do it, as it should do; although you’d think it should
do it. For instance, the Federal Reserve is not actually run by the government.
We don’t own it. Who owns it? God only knows. I don’t know. Nobody, it seems,
can tell you.
Now
they say, “All right. We’re not going to raise interest.”
“What
do you mean, ‘not going to raise interest’?”
“Well,
we’re going to put a lot of money out there and let the banks have it for four
percent.”
Why
give the banks the four percent? Where does it go from there? Guys borrow it.
Now money doesn’t breed; chickens breed, horses breed. Money doesn’t breed. How
are you going to multiply? So, who is going to bear the brunt of the whole
thing? The middle class and the lower class. So, now
you’re getting to a place here where you’re going to see the whole thing is
going to collapse. It’s got to.
Now,
remember: the Catholic Church is a beautiful image—(That’s what Bro. Branham
saw.) a beautiful, horrible woman. And John saw this beautiful church, and he
marveled. And they will come to the rescue of the world.
“Oh, poor, down-trodden people. Oh, nobody can save you, but
we can save you.”
Of
course, you’ll have to come to the Trinitarian ‘Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.’
You have to come into the concept. Remember the Trinitarian club?
10. So,
you see where we’re going? The whole system is so fraudulent and so
disgraceful, because money should be made by the
Believe
me, the situation will be murderous. As I mentioned, this lady that’s very
outstanding, (I don’t even know her name.) but she’s one of the authorities on
the Y2K, and she said very distinctly, “Now, people, please don’t hoard, or
someone could get killed”—meaning, if you hoard, someone could come in and cut
your throat. So, if you hoard something, you better be very careful how you eat
it. Like the little kids, you know, sneak a little candy now and then. They see
you getting too fat, they’ll be in here to get your
‘fatness’.
11. “It is so
huge that this bull needs a tranquilizer” (That’s the bull market to save the
china shop, the china closet.) “Ralph Anphora, chief strategist at Prudence
Security bragged that 10,000 (the level of the Dow Jones Index Average) is no
longer a ceiling—it’s the floor!” (Whoo—eee! I don’t want to be around… Oh,
look, it’s all right. As time goes by, we’ll be looking down at it.)
“And this
guy says, ‘Yes,’ and looking down at the debt-ridden masses who are searching
on the floor to pick up the pieces of their broken plates. If investors could
put aside their giddy exhuberance for a moment, it might be worth considering
that the last time the top one percent of Americans had this much wealth was in
1929, just before the crash, and the great depression.”
That’s
what we’ve been talking about. Bro. Branham said the financial system would be
one that’s completely gone. You know, I won’t read this here, but this is the
condition of the colleges…
ARTICLE 2
And
I won’t bother reading this about this lady—if you can call her a lady; her
name is Germaine Greer—that comes from
She
knew that was going to happen when she started it. She knew it. Women have
never been more in bondage in six thousand years, as they’re in bondage today.
The American women can talk about the East Indians, the Pakistanis, the
Iranians, and all the rest, who wear their veils, and they can’t show their
ankle—especially in
A
little girl, riding a bicycle; her ankles show. They took her out and beat her
almost to death. Another woman walked down the street, and they literally
killed her, because she exposed a little tiny bit of her body—her tinkly toes
or something.
What
in the name of God is in men to think that that is a sexual come-on? They’re nothing
but beasts, so filthy that their lives are unimaginable. Now that’s
oppression—keeping women from society.
12. But,
what have we got here in
Now
I’m not against women; but, when the women got the vote, they began turning the
tide of what they wanted in their favor, and it didn’t turn in their favor.
Women politicians… I could say certain things about certain ones, because I
read their records. But we’ll let that go.
But,
I just wanted you to know here that even this woman, who led in this great
feminine movement, liberating women, especially sexually, now admits that the
women are caught in a trap.
Well,
what’s she going to do about it? She’s not going to do anything about it. There
is nothing she can do. And, what has happened since she wrote the book? The
feminists have turned on her. See? And she set the agenda for the future
feminism.
But
a woman adds, “It is very doubtful indeed whether it will set the feminist
agenda for anyone other than, well, Germaine Greer.” In other words, “We want
our licentious ways.”
As
Bro. Branham said, “Today, women have
become a sex-all disposal.”
So,
I want you to know that, as I’ve said before, that women voted themselves and
brought themselves into this particular trap by their so-called bid for
freedom, and now the very woman that started it is bewailing the fact. Well, I
think Eve bewailed the fact, too, that she got aligned and messed up the way she
did.
ARTICLE 3
13. There’s
an article here on “Scientists Find Evidence of God.” I’m not going to read it
all, but it says here, concerning this book that this scientist wrote
concerning the concept of God:
“The Designer had to be there, if there is a
design.” (He said:)) “I didn’t think anybody would accept a book. When we wrote
it, it was like being a lone wolf out there,” (Faxton tells Insight.)
“Hard-core materialists aren’t going to tolerate intelligence in nature.”
Ha!
A baboon is smarter than human beings, in my book… What are they talking about,
“Intelligence in nature?” Then, we’re not a part of nature, because we’ve got
intelligence. Therefore, we must be god, and that’s man become his own god.
These
are supposed to be scientific people! I wouldn’t give you a nickel for them. I
wouldn’t give you a nickel for them.
14. “Then I got lots of calls from scientists
and mathematicians who did.”
Years
ago scientists and mathematicians believed in God. It’s like Simpson… They
asked him, “Dr. Simpson,” the discoverer of ether, “What is the greatest
discovery you’ve made in your life.”
“The
greatest discovery I made was that I was a sinner, and Jesus Christ was my
Savior”
Hear
a man say that today. Just wish they did.
“Men and
women in every variety of scientific fields, who were coming to the same
conclusion that Faxton had, described the mystery of life’s origin. They, like
Faxton and his co-author, Daley, were coming across data in their laboratories
and scientific pursuits that no longer could be explained by the standard model
of Darwinian evolution.” (I understand
15. Now
other people speak in this article, but down here, after they begin to talk
about design, the intelligent design movement, origin and design, science and
culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, and different people that are
scientific, or pursue science with an open mind—not blinded—because once you’ve
been taught ‘a cow is a horse’, don’t tell me you’re going to know different.
You can’t do it. See? Because, if you postulate right now that Darwinism and
evolution is right, you’ve got to judge everything by that concept, because
that’s what you’ve been taught. That’s your standard, and you can judge nothing
else but that. As Bro. Branham said, “What
is your ultimate? What is your tie post?”
Now,
you see, I have my Tie Post, my Ultimate. That’s why I read these things and
fight, and tell you, “Look, let’s not get all messed up.”
16. Now
here’s what he said:
“What then
are those ideas? Now these people that come against the truth, first they argue
that their defense of design arises directly out of the empirical data they
have observed as scientists, rather than from any theological or philosophical
emotions they may hold.”
Now
the good side and the bad side, both have empirical data. I know that the
scientist who considers himself a true scientist does not take empirical data;
because, you see, the word ‘empirical’ comes from ‘empiric’, which means ‘a
person who is ignorant of scientific principle and relies solely on practical
experience’. It’s the same as when you read a report in a doctor’s magazine.
They
say, “This is not scientific by double blind. It’s anecdotal.”
So,
‘empirical’… If it’s empiric, it’s anecdotal. And, if it’s anecdotal, it’s
empiric. It’s something that you have looked at, something that you say cannot
be proven by what you call the ‘a priori premise’, which is B follows A, B
follows A, B follows A; 2 plus 2—four, so 2 plus 2—4 follows 2 plus 4; 3 plus
1—four follows. In other words it’s repetitive.
17. As I
showed you, Bro. Branham proved scientifically there was a God, because every
time in thousands and thousands and thousands of times, Bro. Branham said “THUS
SAITH THE LORD,” It never failed. Who was out there answering? That’s not
empirical evidence—no way, shape and form. That’s true scientific.
And
remember,
He
looked up at that tremendous crack of thunder where the earth shook, and there
was Bro. Branham, and the scientists looked; then, they looked down, going on
their own stupid ways. They would not listen. They think that’s empirical, they
think that’s anecdotal.
Believe
me, I want to see one million scientists… I want to
see anybody, anybody, anybody, hundreds of thousands,
give me one “THUS SAITH THE LORD” and God answer back. Yeah, I want to see it.
I’m an angry person; you bet your life, because I can’t stand this other tripe
going on there and people won’t stand up for the legitimate, vindicated Word of
almighty God. They’re too soft to talk about vindication, too soft to talk
about reality, because they haven’t got any. It’s just anecdotal, empirical
hogwash!
18. “Now, one fellow says intelligent design
flows directly out of the data that are now available.” (That’s exactly true,
and you can’t make it any different.) “Now one fellow says, ‘My view is that
from empirical data we have, we cannot make affirmation of deity.’”
And
that’s what Billy Graham said. He’s right with these klunkheads. Why didn’t
Billy Graham have what Bro. Branham would call ‘adocity’ audacity? I don’t call
it that, because that word doesn’t suit my vocabulary concerning him. Why
didn’t he have the respect, when he heard about William Branham, to find out?
Paris
Reedhead understands. He’s even a better preacher than Graham ever was. And
Graham got where he is, because it was Randolph Hearst that said, “Puff up
Graham,” because they needed a figure. So, Billy Graham got the world’s
attention by a worldly godless man who messed with women, who was a skunk, all
down the line—Randolph Hearst, and he made this Bill Graham a big man.
Now
I’m not against Billy Graham. But, when he said, “You cannot prove there is a
God,” he is a liar. And, when he says, “Well, there’s a
feeling in man that reaches out.”
Well,
that’s the deep calling to deep, but that doesn’t mean anything. What if you
had a deep calling to deep and the spirit answered? Like Joseph Smith: he
became a mealy mouth, tripe-hanging Mormon. What good is that going to do? You
see?
19. “My view is that from empirical data we
have we cannot make affirmation of Deity.” (That’s exactly true.) “It is the
possibility that we arrive at, but we don’t have anecdotal.”
When
I tell you what I saw… You say, “Well, that couldn’t happen.”
Well,
it did happen! And, if we both go to hell, I’ll tramp on your head when I get
there, because you’re not going to make me a liar and some kind of a dupe. If
you had a rope here, I’d show you exactly what I saw,
like that cord was wrapped around me.
Well,
bless your heart. I have something here. Come on, get the camera on me. Okay.
Bro. Branham had this… I hope we don’t ruin things here. But anyway, he had
this… Well, I may not be able to do that, because I don’t think I can get the
whole shot. Yeah, here we are. Here we are. But he had one more loop I didn’t
have. And here he was, just like this. And I pulled on that cord, and I said,
“Oh, God,” and then it fell. What did it do? It fell right down his feet, right
around his ankles—two great big loops around his ankles. And I said, “Oh,
Lord.”
20. Now
I’m going to prove something: you know, the law of the
fulcrum and lever and so on. Well, if I had my feet bound, how would I act if
you pushed me? Flat on my back or on my face. And I said, “Oh, God, if he
trips, I’ve had it.”
I
never blinked my eye. I saw nothing happen, but suddenly that cord was right by
his side.
“Oh, Bro. Vayle!”
Don’t
‘Bro. Vayle’ me, child. I will meet you down the road, because there is a God,
and I saw Him in action. Don’t you talk about anecdotal, empirical crap to me!
I
know people don’t like this kind of preaching. I love it. I know what I’m
talking about; I was there. See? I saw the miracles. I heard the words, so I
know what I’m talking about here. We don’t go by anything which is ‘guess’ or ‘hope so’. We have a Tie Post of “THUS SAITH THE
LORD,” hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times, proving God was in that
man, God backed that man up, that prophet, and that is the Word of the Living
God. And nothing outside of this Message shall live.
What
lived outside of Paul’s Message? Nothing! What’ll live outside of this? Nothing.
21. Now:
“Here is one of the world’s foremost Darwinists,
“‘The
universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is
at bottom no design, no purpose, no evil and no good—nothing but blind,
pitiless indifference.’
In
other words you turn away God, this is what you are.
22. Now
I’ll just read down here further. He said here:
“We know
from experience that, when there’s a design, there’s a designer. And they talk
about the things that are irreducably complex, and they are. Behe argues that
the development of such an elaborate complex system in Darwinian evolutionary
terms by one small step after another simply won’t do because during any prior
step to all the complex parts working together, the system would be
nonfunctional.
What is
the probability of all those parts that have to work together, starting to work
together at a given moment?”
See?
That’s your big bang. Just a tiny bit of a section out, (That is that big bang
delayed.) we wouldn’t even be here.
“Just the
irreducible complexity of a mousetrap indicates a design that renders the
possibility of these parts working together, so the irreducible complexity of
the cellular protein delivery system indicates a design.
Am I
outside the bounds of science?” (That’s what the fellow says, and finally
decided that he was, but adds,) “It’s incumbent upon intelligent design
adherents that we come to a realistic understanding of what the movement is
without destroying the integrity of science.”
Now,
isn’t that… Have you ever heard anything like that?
That’s the guy who cheats on his wife, destroys the home, and then blames his
wife, when he’s the skunk that did it. He said, “Now, listen; you guys…”
23. Well,
Bro. Branham took up the challenge: “THUS SAITH THE LORD” in
When
he prayed in Jesus’ Name, the man with burnt out eyes, the eyeballs gone,
suddenly saw and screamed. And, what did they do? They ran to him, knowing ‘God
was in him’, and, if they could touch ‘him’, they’d touch God.
Ha!
Heathens know a million times more than Christians! Oh, now I could start
screaming and laughing and just crying and climbing the wall right now, because
I feel so good to know that we have the light, we have the truth, and we’re not
sitting on a can of dynamite. We’re not like those school kids in Columbine
where someone comes and gets us with a gun, and we don’t have a future.
They
can get us with a gun, and that’d be fine, because we do have a future. See?
We’ve come to a realistic understanding without destroying the integrity of
science—the integrity of science. How much integrity have they got? It’s
absolutely proven, time after time, the scientists, so-called, have lied. What about the “Rand Report”? I think that’s from
What
about that Italian-named guy that said he discovered all about AIDS down there
in
Integrity? They don’t have any integrity. What is a lie? The
truth distorted.
24. Now:
“Paxton
takes a certain solace in the fact that the contemporary design movement isn’t
introducing something new to science. The great physicist,
Again, I
don’t know whether it’s going to be two years or twenty, but that’s where the
date of science is heading. Science of sense…”
Sense…
Oh, ‘sense’, do they? Well, what kind of a crock is that? You don’t sense.
You’ve got to know! So, how can you trust these idiots?
On
one hand they blame me; on the other hand, now suddenly they’re just like me.
They want to think that, but I don’t have to sense anything, because right now
I don’t have any feelings about these things… I ‘know’. I don’t have to feel
joys; I don’t have to feel sad; I don’t have to feel anything; I know! A cup is
a cup; a pen is a pen; a horse is a horse; a pig is a pig. God is God! And His
Word is vindicated. Now I’m a seed of that God. I don’t have to worry about
these knot heads. That’s too nice of an expression.
25. “Scientists sense that something is not
quite right. There are new ideas we need new definitions for.”
So,
man is what? What is he? Is he an anthropoid or a…? What is he? What’s a cow?
What’s a horse? What’s a pig? What’s to eat? What’s to digest? What’s to drink?
What’s to have blood? Right kind of blood?
These
people are so ridiculous, so inane, so stupid, and they’re teaching the whole
world! And, if you don’t embrace the Darwinian theory,
they’ll throw you out.
“Dembski
wrote a recent book, The Design Inference.”
Design
inference? Oh, I infer this is a pen. Oh, the pen… I infer it is a pen! I don’t
infer that these people are jerks. I know they’re jerks. I don’t infer
anything. I wouldn’t give you a plug nickel for a carload of them.
“There
are new ideas that we need new definitions.”
They
ought to read the Book of Romans, and they’d find out exactly what they are.
“Design inference” is just ‘infer’. Hey, this fellow made this pen… Oh, come
on, stupid, you just infer, and I just infer. I just infer you people here, and
you infer that I’m here. Yeah, this is the junk that’s going on today.
26. I’m
not finished. I’ll soon be finished with it.
“Inference
presents in great detail how the intelligent design argument satisfies logic
and probability.” (There’s no probability. It satisfies logic.) “Like to
compare the movement’s influence on science to be freedom of democracy’s
movement, and their effect on Eastern Europe’s criticism of Darwinism now
threatens the hegemony” (That means the dominance of the leadership or the…
well, it’s like a dictator…) “of Darwinism, he says, just as the move toward
freedom upset the Soviet Empire.
Dembski
emphasizes that the intelligent design movement must prove its scientific
mettle, but he none the less waxes his fancy about where intelligent design may
lead. Questions of morality can seemingly be added, revival of the whole notion
of natural law.”
That’s
where the women tried to get… Who’s that black man? Clarence Thomas.
He
said, “What do you believe?”
“I
believe in natural law.”
I
think
And
so, they went to get him. They had believed Anita Hill, and they smeared
Thomas—tried to destroy him. When it came to the other feminists and the
sleaze-ball, prostitute, harlot women… Oh, my, they just ran to Anita Hill and
all the others…
But,
when a good woman stood up, they stepped aside: no, Baby Boy Clinton couldn’t
do those things.
Now
I’m talking about this, because I want you to know where your civilization is.
It isn’t. It isn’t! It’s all shot. It’s gone.
27. It
says:
“Questions
of morality can seemingly be added.”
Well,
if that’s the case, why worry about what happened out there in Columbine school
in
He
also wrote a book, called Kabloona, on the Eskimos. And in this igloo
where they were building an eskimo… And they had these
long knives. Of course, civilization was up there by now. They had these long
knives to cut snow and ice. One fellow was there, his belly completely bared,
because he was working and held up. And the big belly was sticking out there.
So, the guy just shoved his knife right through and killed him.
He
had no conscience. He just wanted to see what would happen.
Maybe
those kids also just wanted to see what happens. They were experimenting in a
true, scientific way. I could tell you about the law of a priori. You take a
.45 or a sawed-off shotgun, and you hit a guy between the eyes: he’s dead,
dead, dead, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, if not a hundred. See where
these guys are going? Merciful God. I don’t know what
they’re thinking about.
28. “There’s a seminar on detecting design in
nature. The annual gathering of the American Affiliation of Scientists in July
compares the situation of intelligent design now is with where quantum physics
was a century ago.
Max
Planck, the quantum theorist, despared somewhat about getting his theory
accepted by his fellow physicists. Faxton points out he concludes that for his
theory to gain respectability a whole generation of scientists would have to
die off and be replaced by younger men and women with more flexible minds,
ready to move in the direction data took them, which would be towards the
quantum hypothesis. What he has done to make intelligent design acceptable, he
concludes, is to overcome the inertia of the age.”
And,
you know, Darwin himself said, “If at just one time it could be proven that his
idea of choice, and no definite pattern, then the whole theory falls apart.”
And,
of course, Darwin himself gave up the theory before he died. But this is your
situation here.
29. Now
the reason I read this is because this kind of teaching, though excellent, (It’s very good.) leads only back to
So
now, with the scientific world saying, “Yes, there is a designer”—so-called
science, as Paul says, “Falsely so-called”—the Catholic Church can take this up
with impunity, with no problem at all, and the antichrist comes on the scene.
30. Now
with this thought I’m going to be closing on this subject: if you pick up your
magazines and look around, you are going to find articles on Satanism, and
everybody is deploring Satanism, and they’re talking about these kids in school
killing each other in Satanism. And they’re talking about it around the earth.
Let
me tell you something: they will not account for one one hundreth (1/100th)
of one one hundreth (1/100th) of one percent or one one thousandeth
(1/1000th) of one one thousandeth (1/1000th) of one
percent. Forget it! It’s bunkum. It’s a red herring the devil is pulling across
your track.
As
Bro. Branham taught us, “Never mind
Communism. Remember, it’s
That’s
what you’re looking at. So, I thought I better read… I’ve left a lot of stuff
out here, but… because it’s going to take too much time.
31. Now last
Sunday morning, when we got in the subject of the “Life of the Blood of the
Cross,” I brought out particularly that you cannot, under any consideration,
believe that ‘the Blood of Jesus Christ, though cleansing you and scattering
sin until there be no evidence of it, therefore how can you be called a
sinner’, does not obviate for one minute the Word of God that says, “Whatsoever
a man sows, that shall he also reap.” [Gal 6:7]
You
can be forgiven, and I don’t doubt it, but you have to face the consequences of
what you do. And the trouble in our churches… My
upbringing was poor, and no doubt most of your upbringing was poor, except for
you young people that have come up under godly parents… you did not realize and
were not taught that you will, you will, you will, will, will, will reap what
you sow! There’s no two ways about it. And the Blood of Jesus Christ will not
cover it. No way, shape, and form.
And
I brought out that which… I know you don’t have to believe me… it’s what I
myself hold to, but I don’t hold to it in such a way that I would make a
tremendous issue of it—except in this church here where I have a part, and I
was the founder—and that is: I said that I would not want, and at this point I
would not have, a deacon or an elder, who, even prior to his so-called
conversion (born-again experience) fathered a child and left the women pregnant
and left her with the baby; because my Bible tells me one hundred percent that
a man that doesn’t take care of his own household is worse than an infidel. [1
Tim 5:8]
32. And
he may try to beg the question and say, “Well, that’s not my family.”
Then,
whose is it? Now that’s the question. Now, how that is dealt with will make a
great deal of difference. If they want the child up for adoption and they both
agree, then that’s fine. But, what have they done? They’ve made somebody happy,
no doubt, and I’m glad for them. They’ve made some couple happy to have that
baby. But shrugging our responsibility, allowing it to fall upon somebody else,
gives us demerits of such an extent that, having sowed it, will we continue
that path, having got away with it? Or will we repent, try to do something
about it—in some cases can’t, but do the best to wipe that record out, although
it can never be wiped out? That child born, an entity with a soul, could go
either to heaven or hell.
Now
the child is not necessarily illegitimate: that’s when two couples, married,
have a key club, and the woman gets pregnant by a married man other than her
husband—that’s the illegitimate child. Bro. Branham said, “You’ll always notice they’re peculiar”.
Now
I met a boy like that. His mother was not able to get pregnant, because the
father had too low a sperm count. So, she persuaded him that she should have
intercourse with a man that she named, and get pregnant, and have the baby.
Now, like a complete fool, he agreed.
Around
me it’s “Goodbye, sister;” down the road. And any man would not tolerate that
hokum.
33. Well,
now here’s a beautiful story: she had the baby, and in a short while she dumped
him on the husband who wasn’t the father, and took off down the road like the
harlot she was.
I
knew that boy very well. What Bro. Branham said is true: they are peculiar. He
came toward this Message—even thought he might preach, but so erratic, it was
pitiful. I can’t judge the man, but I’m telling you that… Look, this is serious
what I’m talking about. And, if our children are not trained to understand the
law of sowing and reaping, and pin it down in its seriousness, there’s
something wrong with us, because we are going to see our kids sowing and
reaping what we don’t want, the same as those people out there in Colorado who
never watched those boys.
Even
when the neighbor (And I think they lost a son named ‘Brown’.) found the
material on the network and in letters that this boy was determined to kill his
neighbor’s son, they took it to the sheriff’s office, and you know what they
said? They said, “A threat cannot be punished, because he’s under the First
Amendment.”
34. Well,
Russell [Evans], I want to ask you a question. You know quite a bit of law. Why
did my lawyer warn me not to write a letter, even to a man that I could insult
and punch him in the nose letter-wise, but not say one word that constituted a
threat? Huh? Then, how come those boys got away with it under the First
Amendment? See? There you are.
Well,
you see, Bro. Evans has studied a lot of law—Blackstone, and the whole
bunch—which is basic. See? I want to know why I couldn’t do it, and I merely
wanted justice. Give me my money back. But they can threaten
to take a life, and did on several occasions, and the cops said, “Oh, my.
Oh, my.”
I
want to know something. Sowing and reaping. Sowing and reaping. Okay.
35. Let
me get to the subject here, what we’re dealing with. We go first of all to Deuteronomy,
and we’re going to read a blistering attack. Oh, I beg your pardon; I don’t
want Deuteronomy yet. I want Genesis. We’ll get to Deuteronomy shortly. We go
to Genesis 38, and this is a story, and it’s a true story. It says:
(1) And
it came to pass at that time, that
(2) And
(3) And
she conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Er.
(4) And
she conceived again, and bare a son; and called his name Onan.
(5) And
she again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at
Chezib, when she bare him.
(6) And
(7) And
Er,
(8) And
(9) And
Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in
unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should
give seed to his brother.
(10) And
the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he also slew him.
Now
it wasn’t an act of withdrawal that God Almighty hated—his spilling it on the
ground—as far as I can see; that is, what he actually killed that boy for. It
was because he refused the law of God to raise up
children to his brother.
You
say, “How could that be?”
By
the selective sperm that came from the father and the mother in nature would be
identical, but branded according to… In other words, if I had a brother, full
brother, and you had a full brother, that child could actually be either my
brother’s or mine, according to our blood lines. But God, separating the life
of the sperm directing where that seed goes, that boy, that man that died,
would have actually had children that were his. Because you
tell me where you got your sperm, except from Adam. It’s a common
integer across the line. That solves that mystery.
36. Now,
let’s go a little further.
(11) Then
said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house,
till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his
brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
(12) And
in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was
comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend
Hirah the Adullamite.
(13) And
it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to
shear his sheep.
(14) So
she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her head with a vail,
and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath;
for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife. (Now
this is the law of God—the tradition that they had to carry.)
(15) When
(16) And
he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in
unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law.) And she said,
What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?
(17) And
he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me
a pledge, till thou send it?
(18) And
he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Your signet, your
bracelets, and the staff in your hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto
her, and she conceived by him.
(19) And
she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the
garments of her widowhood.
(20) And
(21) Then
he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by
the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.
(22) And
he returned back to
(23) And
(24) And
it came to pass about three months after, that it was told
Now,
if you were back there, what would you think of betraying a woman who’d be
burnt? Now she’s pregnant. So, you’re going to be guilty of two murders—the
mother, and the child that is not yet born. Nice, isn’t it? Very
nice.
37. You
say you can sow without reaping? Don’t you delude yourself.
The world since the Garden of Eden has been trying to sow without reaping and
reap without sowing. Now this answers the question, “Are the Roman Catholics
right when they say a woman raped cannot have an abortion?”
Well,
God’s law let the baby die with the woman. Now I’m not saying “THUS SAITH THE
LORD” as the prophet. I’ll tell you one thing: if a woman is raped and is going
to have a baby, I certainly would not be against abortion anymore than I’m
against a woman whose life is endangered by childbirth. Tie the cords. I could
be wrong, but I’m just telling you by inference—by inference.
38. Now
we’ll read some Scripture where you find out where the man that raped this
woman has to die, and the couples who commit adultery have to die. Now I’m
going to tell you something: remember, the blood of the sacrifice was in
Say,
“Well, let’s just offer a sacrifice.”
Hmm… No, the sacrifice is for the soul. When that soul gets
right with God, it’s certain she begins to live right,
and the Bible commands us that we put away adulteries. ‘We’ put away this; ‘we’
put away that. It doesn’t say one thing about God doing it for us. So, when I
hear people tell me: “God took away my smoking,” que sera… I don’t say He
doesn’t. What good does it do you?
I
saw his father go plumb down the drain too. But I saw a man in
Did
that man ever turn to the Message? No. So, what is he now? Under
obligation with leanness of soul. Now he will reap what he sowed, which
is unbelief in the presence of God through God manifesting through a man’s
human flesh.
You
say, “Bro. Vayle, I don’t believe it.”
You
don’t have to believe anything. I’m telling you what’s right. He will answer,
because he sowed it! He went to God for a favor, but he didn’t return it. Now God
does us a favor of saving us, we ought to live for him.
39. Well,
let’s go a little further.
(25) When
she had brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose
these are am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these,
the signet, and bracelets, and staff. (That’s what she said. Now, watch the
reply:)
(26) And
Well,
wasn’t that sweet? I’m just talking sarcastically, because this to me is
hypocrisy. Why didn’t he get married? Okay.
40. Let’s
see. That’s the start of it. Deuteronomy 23:2—I won’t get anywhere except on
this tonight. We’ll go over It tomorrow. By the grace
of God, we’ll go right to the “Identification,” because we’re already well into
my notes, in order, whatever they are. I’ve got Bro. Branham’s notes in order. All right. Deuteronomy 23:2:
(2) A
bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth
generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
Now,
of course, we understand illegitimacy in a different way than this here. This
is where an Israelite marries a foreign woman, or visa
versa—I suppose you could put it that way, too. But illegitimacy is
illegitimacy. Anything out of wedlock is not truly illegitimate, (It’s only
when those couples…) because the woman could be a young virgin, seduced by a
married man. The child, then, would not be a bastard child. It would not be
truly illegitimate. We have Scripture and things for that. But these are things
that Bro. Branham taught, so I know of wherein I speak; and I found the very
quote on what Bro. Branham was saying.
41. Now,
what I want you to notice here, for the tenth generation… It takes ten
generations to clear it. Now Bro. Branham brought that out. Now, let’s just
stop a minute. What if I married a black man to a white woman or visa versa, or
a Chinese to an Indian, or visa versa, or a Japanese
to somebody else of another race and color—talking about the black and white.
Let us say that this black man marries a white woman. The child born, (Let us
say is a girl.) is called a ‘mulatto’, because she’s one half.
Now
she’s a pretty girl and very desirable, so she marries a white man and they
have a child—beautiful little girl, with beautiful color, and she is called a
‘quadroon’. She’s one quarter.
Now
she has a daughter, even more beautiful still, and beautiful coloring, and she
marries a white man. Now they have an octoroon. That’s one eighth.
Now
this has a daughter also, and she marries a white man. The child is white.
Reverse it and it’s black.
Now
that’s your first generation mulatto, the second one is quadroon, the third one
is an octoroon, and the last one bows out. That’s not many generations.
Then,
why would God… And mixed marriages are wrong according to Bro. Branham. And we
believe that, because God set the boundaries and all. And what mixed the races
but pure lust and what have you. demands ten generations.
Here you’ve got four. So, when you’re looking at this, you can’t say, “Well,
I’ll tell you what: we shouldn’t have a color mixture.”
But,
after the fifth generation, it’s all blotted out. It’s gone. God says that’s
all for this. So now, where does your fornication take you, if a mixed
marriage, which is legal…? And they are legal, according to the law of the
land. There is nobody who fusses about them; just leave them the way they are.
Whatever they do is their business.
I
will accept anybody as my brother and sister walking in the Light. I’ll leave
that all up to God; because, if they are truly under the Blood, and they are
obedient to the call of God, they’ll get there; but they won’t have anything
very much to get there with. But we’ll talk about that, too, you see, that’s
part of the idea of this Message.
42. Now,
if it takes the tenth generation… Now, watch this carefully: if I go back to Lk
4:3, which I think I’m going to go back to, and I talk about Adam… If Adam is
one, Seth is two, Enos—three, Cainan—four, Maleleel—five, Jared—six,
Enoch—seven, Methuselah—eight, Lamech—nine, Noah—ten, and Noah was the one that
escaped the world and came back right upon it, typical of the great tribulation
and us coming back to inherit the earth; but we will come back glorified, where
they didn’t.
Ten!
So, how can anybody ever say, “Okay, it doesn’t really matter. The girl was
interested, I was interested, and so we got together, and we had this child.”
I’m
trying to get to your point of attention that this is so wrong in the sight of
God. We have Scripture after Scripture that tells people: don’t fool around!
You get married, and you stay married. That’s why anybody who says they believe
this Message and gets married, and then falls away from It:
no way you can get remarried. That’s the Book of Corinthians very, very sure.
43. Now,
let’s go to Deut 22:13:
(13) If
any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
(14) And
give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and
say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
(15) Then
shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens
of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:
I
haven’t got a clue what the damsel’s virginity means, unless it means what the
Bible simple calls the ‘menstrual’ cloth; and that, to me, means that a woman
is evidently called a virgin, because she doesn’t have anybody else’s seed. And
that’s the way the Bride is at the end time. She doesn’t have anybody’s seed
but the seed of God. Now I’m just saying I’m guessing this, because I don’t
know. But it’s the nearest I can come, because I don’t know what in the world
you could give anybody any evidence, other than that. If she certainly didn’t
have the period, it’s certainly one thing; either she’s sick, or she’s already
pregnant.
(16) And
the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man
to wife, and he hateth her;
(17) And,
lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy
daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And
they shall spread the cloth (That’s it.) before the elders of the city. (So,
that’s what it is, all right.)
(18) And
the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; (See? He married
her. So, sexual contact was available and legitimate.)
(19) And
they shall charge him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father
of the damsel, because he hath brought an evil name upon a virgin of
Now,
because of what he said, and being a filthy cur, she could bring men under his
nose, in his bedroom, and sleep with them; and he couldn’t do a thing about it.
44. Ha!
Now, where are you smart men, if you think, “I can fool with girls? I can do
that…?”
Can
you? Go ahead. Go right ahead. Just like these people that eyeballed Bro.
Branham, not knowing God was in that man, and they approved and disapproved of
God.
Now
I’ve hung very tough my last few sermons, because I won’t be preaching too many
more. You know that as well as I do. And I’m hanging
tough on this and showing you: it’s time we woke up. Don’t look around the
world and say, “They’re all doing it. Everybody does it: the birds and the bees
and everything else.”
There
are laws laid down, and the man that sows out from the Word of God will reap
apart from the Word of God: judgment. And, if you don’t believe it, why does
God call the modern church a ‘whore’ and stones her with stones and burns her
with fire? You tell me, because I want to know. I’ve got to know some answers.
If I can’t get them from God and His Holy Word, I’ve got to turn to you? Certainly. Hogwash I will.
45. Leviticus
20. I’m not going to go outside the Word. Leviticus 20:10:
(10) And
the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that commits
adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall
surely be put to death.
I’ll
tell you one thing: the Arabs are sure good at this one, but they go too far,
don’t they? Incest is also covered by death.
46. Let’s
just take a jump back here to Revelation 17. I already mentioned It,
(15) And
he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sits, are
peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
(16) And
the ten horns which thou saw upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and
shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with
fire. (Now Bro. Branham said, “Watch
(17) For
God hath put in their hearts to fulfil God’s will, (And their own will.) to
agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be
fulfilled.
(18) And
the woman that thou sawest is that great city, which reigns over the kings of
the earth.
In
other words there will be an alliance until the very end time. Then, watch the
bombs fly. “Burn with fire.” See? Okay, especially
verse 16: “The ten horns which thou saw upon the beast, these shall hate the
whore, and make her desolate and naked, shall eat her flesh and burn with
fire.”
It’s
just the way Hitler and Stalin made a compact; and then, Hitler turned on
Stalin. And, what did
47. Revelation
16, beginning at verse 17:
(17) And
the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great
voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
(18) And
there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great
earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an
earthquake, and so great.
(19) And
the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations
fell: and great
She’d
been drinking out of the cup of her own fornication and iniquity, her own
traditions, slaughtering the saints, doing everything to destroy the
(20) And
every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
(21) And
there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of
a talent: and men that blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for
the plague thereof was very great.
There
you are: the woman stoned with stones.
Now,
you say, “Bro. Vayle, this is just type.”
Don’t
give me that nonsense. This ain’t type. This is not type at all. This is
reality. If you want to put this into a type, then also, God is not going to
blow
Just
say, “Well, God’s drawing a little picture.”
Now
we’re getting into what science calls ‘empirics’, and the doctors will call,
you know, ‘anecdotal’—just a little story. Heh, heh, heh.
Like
years ago, when I was sixteen years old and I was not religious, I didn’t know
what to believe; and I cared less. Who cared? I’d go to church and pull the
wings off of flies and cuss the preacher. He was a long-winded, stupid jerk,
anyway. That’s why I’m saying… I just tell you the truth. And so, his daughter
was our high school teacher. Well, she’s the preacher’s daughter; she ought to
know. So, one day she said the Book of Genesis, the Garden of Eden, is a fable
just like the Greek mythologist and the Norst…
I
said, “Fine, great.”
Within
two years I found different. See? Okay. It’s not a fable. It’s not anecdotal.
48. 1
Corinthians 6:9-11:
(9) Know
ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the
Oh, Ann Landers got the answer: “Oh, a lot of
men do it. It’s just a little fun. They don’t mean anything. No, no, no.”
Ann
Landers, you’re going to hell with the rest of them. And, if I were you, I’d
quit advising anybody. I’d sooner take Dr. [Laura] Schlessinger, who was raised
as a Protestant and decided to convert to Judaism, because her father was
Jewish; and she’ll quote the Old and New Testament. She’d be right with me
tonight when I’m preaching, because she lays them all low. She’s the one that
says, “Hoping, believing, wishing, thinking, wanting, will not answer. What you
sow, you reap, and you better sow right if you want to reap right.”
49. Now:
(10) Neither
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall
inherit the
(11) And
such were some of you…
“Fornicators,
idolaters, adulterers, cross-dressers, effeminate, mincy, mincy, and abused
themselves with mankind:” the homosexuals. They were thieves, they were
covetous, they were drunkards, they were revilers, extortioners, but they got
converted! If it’s in the genes now, it was in the genes back there. In fact
homosexuality was back there way, way more than until this last part of the
twentieth century. Read your history and find out.
(11) Such
were some of you: (Not any more.) you are washed, you’re sanctified, you’re
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ by the Spirit of God.
Then,
how come boys and girls want to commit adultery? You say you’re born again.
What seed are you born of? Now you’re going to have your passions. I’m not
underestimating that. I am not underestimating the wild hormones; not for one
minute. But there’s a law in the land that must be obeyed: the law of God.
(11) Now
you’re washed, you’re sanctified, you’re justified in the name of the Lord
Jesus. (In other words you’re baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ and full of the Holy Ghost. See?)
50. Now
a little further, verse 15:
(15) Know
ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of
Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.
Now
he’s talking about things that are sexual. Solomon wrote a great treatise on
harlots and how to keep away from them: the sin of adultery and fornication.
And he wrote a blistering attack on it. Paul is saying the same thing here:
“Look, you don’t do those things. God forbid. Can you make your member—you, a
member of Christ—enter into fornication? Can you be baptized in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ in water, receive the Holy Ghost, and want this in your
life?”
This
is something like: you’re addicted, maybe to smoking; but you get arrested, and
you get thrown in prison, and they don’t give you any cigarettes. What do you
do? You do without it, until you get out of prison and you can get a cigarette.
Why
aren’t our kids taught? The schools won’t do it. They’re going to destroy your
families. That’s why I say, “Keep them at home, if you’ve got to.” But you
better do it right, of course; because the Amish tried to do that, and they’ve
got a bunch of druggies amongst them, too.
(16) What?
know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he,
shall be one flesh.
51. Let
me tell you something right about ‘one flesh’. A most amazing discovery has
happened in
And
the kidney did not reject. It came in perfectly, proving the Scripture: “They
become one flesh.” And the theory is this: making love sexually, and in
kissing, the fluids of the body mix, working upon both bodies, making them one
flesh.
You
say, “Bro. Vayle, what if that theory is not right?”
You
prove it wrong. How’re you going to give your life to a harlot? How’re you
going to fool around with women? How is a man going to be a man, and a woman, a
woman, with this kind of tripe?
Marriage
is it. That’s why the Bible says: he wants the young women to marry, young
widows to certainly remarry. Or otherwise they’ll give way to fornication. I’ll
read that one, too, but now we’ve got a lot of people like
(16) For
two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
I
used to think that simply meant ‘one flesh’ means intercourse and brought forth
a child, which was one body. But that’s not one flesh. That’s two people
bringing forth one flesh. This is a union. And I can understand from what I
taught a long time ago, when Bro. Branham talked about circuitry. When you talk
about circuitry, you talk about electrical impulse. And, when you talk about
life, you talk about electrical impulse. So, now you’ve got that act of
procreation where God wanted it.
How
can a man say he loves his wife and run around with women? How can a person
say, “I love God,” and mess around and do those things.
52. Now:
(17) But
he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
Now
joining to God is the important thing, (Get that!) because it’s spiritual.
Joining a wife is physical; and, as the one puts you into the spiritual body,
one with… This makes man and woman one.
We’ll
talk about that, too, sometime down the road on how it works out spiritually:
how that “I and the Father are one,” Jesus said, and “You and I are one, and
we’re all one.”
(18) Flee
fornication. Every sin a man doeth is without the body.
If
I steal, how does that affect my liver? How does that affect my organs that
pick up social diseases? I can even kill a person and drink his blood in me,
chaw on him like this guy from
53. Now,
do you want your kids brought up right or what? I’m talking, but nobody ever
talked to me. I got mine from a gutter; and yet, I had one woman and still got
one woman. She’s lovelier all the time. Our hearts beat as one, and I think our
liver does too. We’ve both had liver tests, and our livers are good. She’s
taken medicine that could destroy her liver. Her liver’s fine. My liver’s fine.
We’re too good livers. And I’m not talking about the organ; I’m talking about
people living together.
(18) Every
sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins
against his own body. (You will reap something in your body. Now, tell me why
this generation, from the baby boomers, has gone plumb to hell? Because it was
the baby boomers’ fathers, the Second World War, that couldn’t get enough
messing around—living for the devil.)
(19) What?
(Incredulous.) What? Don’t you know your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
which is in you.
Now
he doesn’t say your soul is. He says your body is. So, we’re referring to the
body. And, what part of the man that’s tripartite: body, soul, and spirit,
dies? It’s the body that dies. The spirit goes back to God Who gave it; and the
soul can go either to lower sheol or upper sheol, which is Paradise, which has
been moved. Your body goes to the grave; it molders. And Paul says, “Even
though you are baptized with the Holy Ghost and God is in you, you’ll still
die.”
54. What
condition do you die in—as a fornicator? This may sound sick to you, but the
point is: I have belabored these things, because we have nothing but an
ungodly, sexual condition around the whole world; and they’re dying of AIDS,
and they’re always trying to cover it up. And, when I read to you the
statistics which I have, you can see that, in a very short time, just about
everybody will be infected. And now they find… Oh, they finally found… Isn’t
that wonderful, that science finally found you can have HIV for sixty solid
years before it goes boom!—into AIDS? Then, how many people are you infecting?
What
about that man in
That
goes with illegitimate children; you leave them around. I don’t like to call
that term ‘poorly conceived and ill-begotten children’, because it isn’t the
kids’ fault. It’s illegitimate parents. And they just
leave them so the taxpayer picks up the money. I shouldn’t support somebody
else’s children. The person that fathered that child should support that child.
It’s his obligation. I had nothing to do with her or anybody else. Our children
are a hundred per cent legitimate; they’re mine and nobody else’s. One was born
at home, and that proves that. The others were sure borne home, too, except
they got to the hospital in time.
55. (19) Your
body is the temple of the Holy Ghost (Not your soul; your body.) which is in
you, which you have of God, and you are not your own?
(20) You’ve
been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God’s.
So,
God owns us all. Our soul is already His, because it’s a part of Him. That’s
why He said, “My soul shall have no pleasure in him…” [Heb 10:38] when a man
takes his hand off the plow, because God never takes His hand off the plow.
He’s plowing and sowing for the Word to come back.
We
ought to plow and sow the Word of God to come back. Believe me, It does.
(20) You
are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, your spirit, which
are God’s. (Okay.)
56. 1
Corinthians 7:1-5:
(1) Now
concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a
woman. (In other words, be a bachelor, be celibate.)
(2) Nevertheless,
to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have
her own husband.
Now
he tells you right there that fornication, sexual desire, was rampant. And, if
you women need to have a course in understanding the physiology of men, I’ll be
glad to talk to you sometime and show you just where men are different from
women, period, and that’s all there is to it. As Bro. Branham said, “It’s up to the woman to say, ‘No’ .”
Now
that may sound like a horrible statement, but the man shouldn’t even suggest
it. But there’s going to be a lot of guys out there suggesting it. They’re
looking for it. The men are different from women. That’s all there is to it.
They finally found out: they said, “Oh, women… Little baby boys and girls are
identical. We’ll give the little girls a truck, and we’ll make little firewomen
out of them. And the boys over here, we’ll give an apron or spoon and make
little cooks out of them.”
They
finally found out it was a bunch of hogwash, and all these great scientific
minds, psychiatrists, were giving you a load of hooey, claptrap, and
balderdash, not to mention the other things that go with it—sewage.
(2) Let
every woman have her own husband, every man has a wife, every woman a husband.
In
other words the marriage instituted by God is legitimate and people should have
marriage.
(3) Let
the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife
unto her husband.
Well,
that tells you one thing right there: when you’re married for that particular
reason, then you cooperate with each other; but it’s with due benevolence. In
other words it’s not an act of where I demand, you demand, he demands, she
demands—fight, fight, fight. No, this is something
that’s amicably done in the home, and peaceful. Males are not recognized for
being aggressive in the
57. We’ll
read a little bit more:
(4) The
wife hath not power of her own body, (She’s not a dictator in this case.) but
the husband: (In other words, as I told you.) and likewise also the husband
hath not power of his own body, but the wife. (There’s a mutuality discussed
here.)
(5) Defraud
ye not one the other, (That’s keep apart.) except for consent for a time, that
ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again.
In
other words there is a limit to how you separate yourselves, even what you are
doing, because at that particular time. Remember, Jesus was tempted of the
devil after fasting and praying forty days and forty nights. And don’t you
think for one minute you’ll pray and fast without the devil coming and saying,
“Hey! There’s a pretty blond down the road looking at me.”
The
woman says, “Oh, that butcher boy looks really good to me,” or the baker boy or
the milkman. Don’t think it’s not happening.
I
discovered this by experience, and I took the hair off a guy that thought he
was telling me something, because he had this vision of this lovely girl he
could marry if he divorced his wife. He was praying and fasting. And I lowered
the boom on him, because I’d already read certain things about the glands being
renewed by fasting.
58. You
know, you think prayer and fasting is going to be the big thing? Forget it.
Bro. Branham told Hall, “You’ll destroy
people with the praying and fasting. Don’t write the book.”
But
he did it. Something like… Hey, listen! Do we have a
vindicated prophet or don’t we? Do we listen to the vindicated Word, or don’t
we? This is the whole subject I’m talking about: I brought it pretty low
tonight, but I’m sorry, I have to talk about these things, because I brought it
up when I said, “I don’t want a deacon in my church, even though forgiven, if
he’s had children out there, because he’s responsible, and he’s to be a model
for the flock.” And the young people say, “Well, bless God. God saved you, and
you’re going to make it, and you’re a deacon or an elder. I can go out and have
fun, too.”
Huh?
That’s a pretty sobering thought—a pretty sobering thought. What if my kids had
found my wife and me messing around? They messed around even when we didn’t
mess around. They didn’t give a rip what they saw. But I’m going to tell you
one thing: they’ll never lay one thing to their mother and to Lee Vayle. I can
tell you that. They’ll answer to God. You bet they will.
One
boy already answered through death. I believe God called him to be a minister.
He messed his life up like you can’t believe. Three of them
in a row. My God, have pity. He got taken.
Just
watch yourselves, because Satan will tempt you for your incontinency. In other
words you’ll get the desire in a wrong time at a wrong place; and it says it
could come right at that period when you think you’re the most spiritual. AIDS
is no respecter of persons.
(6) I
speak by way of permission… (Though I say these things.)
59. Now,
let’s go to 1 Tim 5:8, and I promise I’ll quit on this subject, because I knew
I had to talk on it for the simple reason I knew people were going to get mad
at me and say, “Well, look here, I had an illegitimate child, and I can be a
deacon and an elder, because God forgave me.”
Well,
let me see the remission of the baby. Huh? Let’s put the baby back into the
womb and, then, get it back into an egg and a sperm. When God took away your
sin, brother/sister, and the Blood scattered sin till there be no evidence,
I’ve got news for you: you still have a child out there, if you fostered a
child. You did wrong. I admire the right of the (not the abortion rights, but
the) Right to Life group, when they said, “Why are you girls having abortions,
in the third trimester even, when people are dying to get that little baby and
rear it up?”
That
shows the insanity and the murderous spirit that’s in women and men today. Why
not bear the child and give it a good home?
Now,
on the other hand, let’s look at it this way: what if that child’s a serpent
seed? You’ll answer to bear it. What if it should have been a child of God, and
you got that messed up?
60. 1 Timothy 5:8. In other words…
Look, I’ve lived my life, and dealt with our family—not wisely, not well, as I
look back, because nobody taught me, and I didn’t know anything from a packet
of beans. 1 Timothy 5:8:
(8) But
if any provide not for his own, and especially those of his own house, (Own
house.) he’s denied the faith, and worse than an infidel.
Would
you want a deacon in your church, or an elder, knowing he has children out
there, never provided for them, never got them
adopted, never did a thing for them?
Now,
I’m not saying it couldn’t happen, but not around me—not because I’m
self-righteous and didn’t do it. No, no, no. Look, I could have done it myself.
I had no upbringing worth a plug nickel, except I’ll tell you one thing: in my
day, (And this is the truth.) boys and girls actually could kiss and carry on
and get terribly passionate and stop right there, and get married down the
road. They don’t even get passionate today. Hear what the songs and the rappers
say, and you don’t have to have passion with a woman, you become a filthy,
rotten, criminal dog, a hyena, nothing but a rapist, a filthy seducer. Now, I’m
not bitter, I’m just telling you.
I
want to ask you a question: where does Bro. Branham say you were before you
were born? In your father’s loins. Men carry the
greatest responsibility in the world, because they are the sires and the
fathers of children. The woman is the incubator, the bedding ground. Matrimony
is sacred. It’s entered into as a lifetime process.
61. Now,
when my wife and I got married, I don’t know how she felt. I knew she loved me,
and she knew that we would make a go of it, and I knew that I had to make a go.
She has greater love than I have; there’s no doubt about it—many spiritual
qualities far beyond mine. But she’s not a gifted teacher. I am. I can eclipse
her there. She can’t handle the Word. But as contributing to marriage, no one
will touch her in my books. But I knew this was forever.
Her
sister was the same way, and when her nephew one day was getting married, she
asked how they were, and how they got along. He said, “Well, if it doesn’t
work, we’ll divorce and marry somebody else.”
And
Carol almost fainted, “My nephew saying that?” Yet to my knowledge, they have a
good marriage. But you can’t enter into marriage that way. You can’t go with
any girl.
62. Now
I’m going to tell you something, and I’m a raw heathen. I’ve had plenty filthy
thoughts. When I was sixteen, any girl I saw I was willing to marry her. I fell
in love. Oh, yeah, passing fancy. Any old way; any which way.
But I’ll tell you one thing: I knew that the girl I went with is the girl that
I would marry; and believe me, I was very careful with whom I went.
I
had a friend who married a lovely Christian woman, and his brother married
anything but. And his brother said to the one that married the Christian, “I
sure admire your wife. And I tell you, I admire you that you got her.”
And
his brother said, “Yes, because I didn’t get her off a bar stool, the way you
did.” Touché. All right.
63. Let
me go further. Perhaps the man that’s fathered a child doesn’t know there are
laws in the land. The law of the land says, “You father that child; you are
responsible.”
Would
you like to know the law of a certain state, and no doubt
She
said, “Oh, no, no, no.” I don’t know why she said that. She went on relief.
After years of the state taking care of the child, they traced down who the
daddy was, and they billed him for every cent the state spent. And I said,
“Goody!”
Why
should anybody take your money or mine? We’re responsible for our own children.
They are a part of us. Perhaps you better look into the law and find out that
there are consequences. But you know as well as I do, that the law of sexual
intercourse was laid down for one purpose: that was to bring children into this
world. That’s exactly why there’s male and female. Because life, as I
understand it, is neither male nor female; it’s simply life. And you don’t know
what it’s going to produce, according to what lies in the flesh and the program
of God, whether it’s male or female. But, remember: that is what we are looking
at.
Fathers
are responsible for their offspring, even to the extent of the state making you
pay.
64. Now
I’m going to close with a thought concerning David. King David was a wonderful
man of God. He was the prophet-king, the type of that. And you know as well as
I do, that he knew he shouldn’t covet his neighbor’s wife. He knew he shouldn’t
commit adultery. He sure did. And he knew he’d have to bring forth a bastard
child, because she was married and he was married, and he had four hundred
ninety-nine wives. What was that guy doing? Purely lust—purely lust—to get the
most beautiful woman in
Beautiful
women do inspire men to that. But a man with integrity will marry character,
not beauty; because a beautiful woman, without wisdom, without knowledge, is
like a jewel in a pig’s snout. And woman beautiful, but always yattering
against the husband, she’s like dripping rain on your head—the Chinese water
torture. Read your Bible and find out what you should look for in a woman.
65. As I
told you different times, (And I’m not boasting.) but I thank God that somehow
He gave me the wisdom to say, “Lord God, You know I’m the marrying kind; and,
if You don’t get me the right one, I sure will mess up, because I am going to
get married.” I even played Bible roulette and came right out on top. And I’ve
been happier, 60 years coming up within just a few weeks… And I wouldn’t mind
sixty years more or a thousand years more. I wouldn’t trade my last sixty, and
I wouldn’t trade my life, for anything, knowing that God has kept me clean and
away from sin.
I’m
not boasting now. I’m just telling you I’m glad, because at one time I would
have been only too happy to run with the hogs and the dogs, and to mess up, and
think I was having a good time, which physically, for a few moments, I would.
And the woman’s good time would have lasted nine months and all the years to
follow. I’ve seen it, and you’ve seen it.
66. So,
that’s what I said the other day when I brought this. And I knew it would cause
controversy. And I know people hearing me will still say, “Well, you know, it’s okay. You can do it. God forgives, and that’s the end
of it.”
It
isn’t the end of it. Bro. Branham said to one boy, he said, “Listen, son, God has forgiven you, but you
may…” and he did, “pay the rest of
his life,” as far as I knew.
Now,
you say, “Bro. Vayle, where does that leave the
ministry?”
Well,
this is a sad, sad situation, but it’s the truth. But it’s not sad, because
God’s Word is in it. David never lost his kingdom; he never lost his office,
being a prophet-king, a type of Jesus Christ.
The
five-fold ministry, a man that would do that (What I’m talking about.) would
never lose his calling, but who would want his ministry? I’ve seen it, and I’ve
seen the churches that follow that type: adultery and sin. I wouldn’t give you
a nickel for a bushel of it. I wouldn’t be interested, because I don’t believe
for one minute men and women who do these things have any authority and any
say, except the grace of God did bring them in, did save them. But I’ll tell
you: many a ministry has gone down the drain, even though the calling was
there. And I know in my heart, if I had messed up in the ministry—which I’ve
had traps laid for me—how could I stand before you? My ministry would be, as
far as I know, completely shot, though my calling is there. And now, listen: I
would be responsible for every soul that should have had a benefit under my
call. Everyone must give an account for the deeds done in the flesh. I read
that to you, I think, the other day.
67. Let
me get 1 Corinthians over here; and then, we’re going to close and take
Communion Service. And, when we do, you that have kept your lives free, (And we
have young men and women here that have married virgins.) I want to tell you:
don’t ever look back and say, “Oh, my. I missed the good times.”
You
should say, “Thank God, I wasn’t one of those. Thank God I didn’t give my body
and grieve the Holy Spirit. I might have had ideas, but the idea was merely a
temptation. It wasn’t sin.” Yield not to temptation, for yielding is not the
temptation. It’s the yielding that’s sin. That’s what they did.
Now,
listen. It says, “There’s only one foundation.” 1 Corinthians 3:11:
(11) Other
foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
(12) Now
if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay,
stubble; (This is a little parable here, a little illustration.)
(13) Every
man’s work shall be made manifest: (Oh, boy.) for the day shall declare it,
(Oh, boy. Manifest and declared! That’s you and me, putting our hands in the
cookie jar and mama will go ‘wham! “Caught you stealing cookies.” Now, put that
on to adultery, murder, anything else.) because it shall be revealed by fire;
and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
(14) If
any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, (Now this is to the
Christian.) he shall receive a reward.
(15) If
any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be
saved; yet as by fire.
68. That’s
what I’m talking about when I’m talking tonight on this subject. And remember,
Bro. Branham categorically said, “The
elder and the deacon have a greater pressure on him to produce a character than
the five-fold minister.”
If
that’s the case, what about a five-fold minister who dares to defile a ministry
just for sexual gratification? See? Where is it going to? Where is it going to?
I could say some things here now about certain things, but I won’t do it
because you understand these things as well as I do. I could leave them unsaid.
(15) If
any man, his works are burned, he’ll suffer loss: (He’ll suffer loss; he’ll
lose something. He won’t lose his soul. He can’t. That’s a part of God. He
can’t do it.) …Saved by fire.
That’s
where the Catholics get purgatory. That’s a bunch of their imagination. Ha! Doesn’t say anything about you burning. It says the ‘works’
burn. Of course, they’ll tell you this: “Well, what it is, the fire burns it
off, but we’ll pay for it.”
I’d
never pay anybody to get me out of purgatory, if he couldn’t keep me out of it.
What kind of a stupid religion is that? You’ve got a religion that introduces
you to sin and vile conditions… What kind of religion is that? The thuggee religions of the Indians who believe in murder?
Oh, come on, come on, come on; we’re not with that gang.
69. Now:
(16) Know
ye not that ye are the
(17) If
any man defile the
(18) Let
no man deceive you. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let
him become as a fool, that he may be wise.
(19) For
the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. It is written, He takes the
wise in their craftiness.
(20) He
knows the thoughts of the wise… (These wise people, the sophists.) are vain.
What’s
he telling you? Oh, you can get away with it, because, after all, the blood of
Jesus Christ cleanses.” I’ll even quote the prophet: “How can you make a man a sinner when the blood of Jesus Christ scatters
sin till there be no evidence?”
“Oh,
it’s all right. I did it, but oh, hallelujah! ”
Just
keep your ‘hallelujahs’ right down, brother/sister. You’re going to pay. You
are going to reap. You are going to lose. And I’ll tell you one thing: I know I
have lost a lot that I could have laid up in heaven. I know that.
70. What
about you young kids that are my age, when I first started out, twenty years of
age? What are you doing now at eighteen or nineteen years old? Why don’t you
get serious tonight and start looking at your Word and begin sowing and knowing
that God will not let His Word return void. If God let His Word return void,
Jesus Christ never would have gone back to God! We never would have had
salvation, never would have heard a prophet like William Branham, and never
would have known the truth. And then, I tell you: in my life and in yours, the
Word of God will not return to God void. It won’t return void. There’ll be as a
mark that says we are rewarded and will see what is laid up for us, and we
partake of that inheritance or those things laid up for us.
But
what about the people that see the vistas and glory of God and said, “I sold it
for a mess of pottage”?
No,
no, I’ll tell you: I’m back to the Book of Ecclesiastes: “Remember now thy
Creator in the days of thy youth. While the evil days draw not nigh, (When
you’re eighty-five years old like
David
looked at the wicked: as they prospered, they spread like the
Can
you feature, if I were sixty years of age…? And I was. When Bro. Branham died,
I was only fifty- one. He died at age fifty-six. Well, I was five years
younger—fifty-one. Okay. And I knew him before then.
What
if I left that and said, “Women are more interesting. I can go to this cult,
that cult… ” What if I’d have done that? I’ve got a choice, brother/sister.
I’ve got a choice—oh, yeah. We’re put in here for choice. “Adam and Eve were put for a choice,” Bro. Branham said, “what he’d do,” which is true.
71. So,
we have to look at this thing in the light of what is true; and, as I said, I
greatly regret that there are just a few things in my life that I really went
to the Word for guidance, and I did it… Oh, man, it’s paid off. And in that
respect I can hardly wait to see what I’ll get for letting God’s Word pay off
in me here and hereafter.
And
this is the way you lay up treasures in heaven so your heart is not deceived
and you want the things down here where moth and rust corrupt; but where moths
and rust and thieves do not break in, you can have in the eternal White City
that John saw coming down: a place and rewards that are far beyond our
imagination, because we barely have the barest hint of what lies there. And, if
the barren hint, the little hint, spells out what we know, what will the full
Word of God come to when It blasts forth and we go
forth in glorified bodies?
72. So,
you’ve got to forgive me if you think that I’ve maybe hit things I shouldn’t
hit. I’m not grinding an ax, really. In another way I am, but the Bible also
said, “Cursed be the man whose sword doesn’t draw blood.” [Jer 48:10] And I
wouldn’t stand here and not want to cut a few veins, if they were to be cut.
And it’s a double-edged sword; it’d cut mine at the same time, because I’m not
a hypocrite. I’m merely repeating my good fortune was to want the things of
God, and they that desire the things of God shall have the things of God.
And,
if you put the things of God above these things, you will get the things of
God. And I’ll soon be gone.
And
you say, “Good riddance to bad rubbish.”
And
I say the same thing, yet I have to meet the Lord. But I do have, without
sentiment or any deep emotion, the fact that I know that I have a Tie Post, and
that Tie Post means everything to me as far as my salvation is concerned. And
I’ve run my course, and I’m satisfied with my life to a degree. But I’ve missed
a lot, and what I missed, I will never get back.
73. Now
you younger people, you’ve got your years ahead, if the Lord tarries, take heed
to what I say and stay away from the most carnal sin of all the world that
seems to be the most pleasurable, the most driving, that people strive for. No,
you’ll find that, down the road, it wouldn’t be worth it. It wouldn’t be worth
it. Stay true to the Word of God.
Let’s
bow our heads at this time.
Heavenly
Father, we want to take Communion Service, and I know, Lord, that it’s kind of
tough preaching the way I preach. But I’m not trying to be an example to the
flock. I know Bro. Branham was that example. And, if he were here preaching it,
it would be wonderful and perfect, because the man really was the type of
person we’re talking about, where he could say that, “If any girl didn’t behave herself,” he took her home, and said, “That’s it. Goodbye.”
But
then, again, Lord, he had Your Power on him, and he couldn’t even smoke a
cigarette, which is all the better, because he had a special job to do. But,
Lord, we know that he was true to everything, until he could say really
truthfully and mean it, “I always do what
I want to do: I want to please God. I do it.”
Now,
Lord, I don’t believe that Bro. Branham is the only man that can say that in
this congregation here tonight. We’ve got young people here, and we’ve got some
older people here—even I’m included, that I can, if I want, and everyone of us
can, if we want, to please You. We do what we want, and wanting is to please You.
I
know, Lord, we always want to have Your gifts: Your
healing, Your blessing, Your this, Your that. And many times we forget what You want, which is character, to be worthy of what You give
us. And, Father, we’re learning, we’re getting that,
we’re very, very concerned and optimistic, Lord. We’re happy to know that we
are getting there.
But
I pray tonight for the younger people, that they will have the journey, though
rough, full of Your comfort, full of Your Word, the
ideals of their lives being the Word of the living God, sowing that Word, knowing
that It cannot fail. And that’s the most wonderful thing of all, because, Lord,
Your Word cannot return to You void, sown in a person
who receives It. You will take Your Word in that person right to Your heart in the New Jerusalem with the rewards that they
never believed possible. Help us to get the heavenly vision, Lord, as never
before.
We
give You the praise in Jesus’ Name. Amen.