What Happens When the Holy Ghost Comes In

What Happens When the Holy Spirit Comes In?

Bro. Lee Vayle - September 9, 1979

…to Your love, Lord, which causes us to be shown unto us. And now we ask You, Lord, for a special dispensation Your favor at this time, the study of Thy Word, Lord, we just pray You'll anoint It and cause It to make good sense to the people, Lord, that which to be heard and to be understood, and to conform to It; so be there be a portion in here that could be conformed to in this hour. So, grant, Lord, Your spiritual guidance upon this service, and we'll be careful to give You the praise in Jesus' Name. Amen. You may be seated.

1. Now, continuing our discussion or study of 'What Happens When the Holy Spirit Comes', you'll recall that most recently, that is in the last couple of sermons, (or at least one) we've been looking at what we term the 'horizontal', or lateral ministry of the Holy Spirit amongst the believers, or the Bride of Christ. And we saw that before there could be a horizontal effect among the many, there had to be a Vertical experience from God with each and every single individual. And we saw that typed in Pentecost where there was one Cloud of Fire, availing Holy Spirit that sat in the building, and the little tongues of Fire came down veiling a portion of the Holy Spirit. And a portion fell upon each, and made them one in Jesus Christ.

Now, we also saw and this is very important that the one and same experience that gave the believer the rebirth by the baptism with the Holy Spirit that joined him irrevocably to God. did at the same time place the believer irrevocably into the Bride. In other words, there is no such thing as Bride outside the person who is baptized with the Holy Ghost, which conforms with Matthew 25, where they had run out of oil. They weren't full of the Holy Spirit.

2. Now, we made sort of a combination statement there that this experience, (the rebirth by the Holy Spirit) joined the individual to God irrevocably, and then joined the believer irrevocably to each other. In other words, I could be a little facetious and I could be a little vulgar, which I usually am, you're stuck with each other. And all how it is I may have the most beautiful eyes,) and I do) and I got the worse nose. Oh brother, kids look at my nose, "Where did you get the big nose?" I say, "Well, wouldn't you like to have one you little jerk?" [laughter] You're stuck with each other.

You know, might as well get a little humor out of it, the message is serious, and Sunday morning can be a whole lot more serious. But you got to understand that the Bride is irrevocably joined to each other, the same as the individual to God. For it is said concerning the individual, "He shall never, never, never perish, nor shall any man pluck him out of My Father's hand." [Jn 10:28] And the same Spirit absolutely says concerning the many, "The gifts and callings of God are without repentance." [Rom 11:29]

3. So, therefore each member will see has a ministry and each one is joined to the other, so there is no getting away from it. Of course we find in Ephesians 1:10, where It says,

(10) That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

So, there is an irrevocable joining together, individual to God, and the individuals to each other, so that all those elected in Jesus Christ will be one glorious Bride of the Old and the New Testament.

Now, this corporate group, and that’s a pretty good term this corporate group, is known as the church, the true Church, the true Bride, the Elect, the body of Christ. And it is designated as 'she' in the feminine. This group is also called 'New Jerusalem' in the Book of Revelation, and much of the Old Testament speaks of her as Mount Zion, where the Elect are all together Bro. Branham brought out New Jerusalem upon Mount Zion, a pyramidal structure of a city, fifteen hundred miles the base. Fifteen hundred miles high. At the top the apex was the Throne of the Lamb, and above the Throne was the Pillar of Fire.

4. Now, these appellations, designation, various names that are given her are given so that we can understand by comparison here in the physical some of the privileges, attributes, ministries, and so on. Now, we won't go into that tonight of course.

Now, each individual that comes to Christ in rebirth by the baptism with the Holy Ghost is called a son of God. A born one of God. A child of God. And this is masculine in designation, that not only infers, but actually gives responsibility as individuals to God.

Now, you notice here I'm dealing again with the Vertical, the responsibility toward God, then there is the responsibility toward each other. You can't really separate them as though you could separate them and leave them in a separate stall. They all, they come together, but there is definitely a division so that you can see the two responsibility.

5. Now, we will start out with the individual responsibility of these sons that are in the Bride, individually toward Almighty God. And I just picked some at random to illustrate that the sons of God are responsible to God, indeed, because they are sons, are responsible to the Father. In the Hebrews 2:9, It says:

(9) But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every…

Now you want to take your pencil and cross out the word 'man'. Because it should be in italics. I don't understand, and nobody understands why that was not put in italics. Because Jesus did not taste death for every man, period. He tasted death for every, and if you look down there:

(10) For it became him, (telling you how He tasted and why He tasted) for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory,…

So therefore, He tasted death for every single 'son'. Then of course He tasted death for the Bride collectively. He died for individuals, and He died for the collective. And what you're noticing He's putting the individuals into the collective. So, there could be possibly, and not just possibly, but there will be seen as time goes on an higher order toward the Body, because He will lose none of them. And it's the whole Body that will get the perfect representation of all the attributes of Almighty God, right down through the ages. So, we're looking at these individuals of who will comprise the Body.

6. Now, notice in Hebrews 12:5-6, concerning sons again.

(5) And have ye forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, (notice children, my son, children in the Bride, my son, individual) despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

(6) For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son (that) he receiveth.

Now, you notice in here that the chastening is not to a group, it is to the individuals within the group who were coming up into a maturity toward God, and with God, and that will be a maturity also within the group as we will see along the line.

7. Now, also you'll notice in 1 Corinthians 3:12-13, Paul speaking here:

(12) Now if any man (any man, any individual son of God) build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

(13) Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, 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…(notice the singular)

The Church does not come into judgment. The individuals, the members are being tried and proven in order that this might be a glorious Church. And every member within the Bride it'll be glorious, and the whole group glorious, because they can't help but be other than glorious, because of the individual. And you'll see there that He is telling each one of us to be careful how that we build. How we are working toward the great end.

(15) If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss:…

Now, "If any man's work abides which he has built there upon, he shall a reward."

(15) If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved; so as (it were) by fire.

8. Then in Galatians 6:4-5, It says here:

(4) But every man (shall) prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

(5) For every man shall bear his own burden.

Notice again, responsibility that devolves upon the individual within the group. We're talking now about the lateral respect again, or aspect.

9. And then in 2 Corinthians 5:10, It says,

(10) For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; (then notice) that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

And then in 1 Corinthians 7:16-17

(16) For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

(17) But as God hath distributed to every man, (every woman) as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk (let her walk)…so I so ordain in all churches.

Individually they're brought in, individually they're responsible, but there is a collective work also through the individual that goes on within the Bride, that cause her to be a smooth integrated unity that is truly the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, because that's one of her appellations.

10. Now, we also want to note here that women appear right along with the men. There's no such thing as the men being responsible by themselves. As I read here, as the woman has to stand alone, the man has to stand alone. The marriage does not sanctify the woman as though because he's born again, she is fine, or she's born again, he is fine. Doesn't say that at all.

Then in here we're reading and It says here…(I read the seventeenth portion there,) but I want to make a comment on the fact that the women are responsible. And the thought that I want is Hebrews 11, (almost evaded me for a minute there) Hebrews 11, you will find women mentioned right along with the men in the hero's of faith. And the two of them of course are Sarah, and Rahab. And of course you would have the mother of Samuel there. And you would have…different ones that would be mentioned in the Scripture. Like Esther is mentioned in there, the Book of Esther. Got a little old Book concerning her in the Bible of her favor. She'll be right in there with the men, showing that there is a designation as a male and responsible to God as in your marital picture.

The woman is subject to the man, and the man is subject to Christ. (See?) So, there's…that's why every member is designated as a male. Though you see collectively, it is called in the feminine. It's even called a 'wife' with the head is a husband, which is Christ.

11. Now, let's just take all those individuals, male, and female that are baptized into Christ, and each one respectively responsible toward Almighty God and thereby in the same tenor the responsibility that evolves upon them as a group will be forth coming without any trouble whatsoever. Because as the head governs the body, and each one would be under the true head, then there would be no trouble within the body.

And we'll see some of that as we go along to1 Corinthians 12. But the thought of the headship and the group as a oneness, which is a woman, a wife is found in Ephesians 5, beginning at verse 25, It said:

(25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; (now, there's a type right there.)

(26) That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

Now, there again you see where the man must take the superiority over the woman in the matters of spiritual affairs within the church and the home, and so on. Then It says:

(27) That he might present it to himself a glorious church, …

Now notice, that he's talking to individuals. And he turns right around and makes it a corporate group that it might be presented to Him. In other words, the [correction] glory in the presentation of the church can only be as glorious as the individuals within it have come up to present the fullness of glory. Now, that ought to make you start thinking, (see?) that He might present it:

(27) …glorious church (without) spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; (and) that it should be holy and without blemish.

(28) So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

(29) For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

(30) For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

(31) For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, be joined unto his wife, and (they'll) be one flesh.

(32) This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

(33) Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; (in identical manner) and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

12. Now, in verse 25,

(25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

And that's over here in Isaiah 53:11

(11) (And) He shall see of the travail of his soul, and be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify (the) many;…

Now, It doesn't say He's going to justify everybody. That word 'justify' means 'to declare righteous'. For as one person said, "just as though you've never sinned." That's true.

(11) …(to declare righteous)for he shall bear their iniquities. (Or the iniquities of the many.)

Now, [Ephesians 5:]

(26) That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

Now, this is that virgin of the Word that Paul was speaking of in 2 Corinthians 11: that the Bride is a virgin of the Word of Almighty God. Then in verse 27,

(27) …he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; that it should be holy and without blemish.

13. Now, that reminds me over here in Romans 8:33-34

(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, who also maketh intercession for us.

14. Now, that verse of Scripture goes over here to Hebrews 7:25

(25) Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession…

Now, you can see right here that the first basic reason why He can present a glorious Church unto Himself, is first of all is because He has made it glorious by reason of His Own Glory and virtue which is imparted to the Church by Himself. (See?) Then there's a further glory where the Bride comes forth to show forth the praises of His grace while she was on earth. But particularly a man shall be a covert to a woman, while Christ the man is the covered, or the shield or the fortress, or the high tower the great Rock of offense. And He is the One, as it were, that is covering the Bride. And you'll notice it is in the present tense of the Intercessor that He is the Husband.

So, therefore the Church is glorious today at this time solely on the grounds of the meritorious work of Jesus Christ both as Redeemer, Mediator and Intercessor. That is the One Who died for us to redeem us, the Mediator to bring us in, and the Intercessor to keep us in. Now, that 's a glory right there. It's just the same as the husband is duty bound to be the complete provider and the head of the home. So Christ is also that to you and to me.

15. Now, remember also that in the Garden of Eden Adam stepped out, (the first Adam) he stepped out to become a covert or a shelter to Eve when she was under condemnation. And of course it was perhaps the wrong thing to do as we look at what should have been done in the legal strict sense of the word. But God knew it was going to happen, and then He was the first Adam. But the last Adam knowingly also stepped out and He gave His life in order that He could sanctify a Bride unto Himself, and she would be all glorious because of Him.

And I mentioned to you, remember how I took in Ephesians that time and showed you how that eulogy, "Blessed be God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ." And showed you how those words blessing held in their very special meanings, which was a eulogy where the woman was being praised through Christ. The nice thing said about her was the words that were said about Him. So, we're seeing that portion right here where the Bride has the Husband which is the Lord Jesus Christ. And every single thing that He is that to her.

16. Now, in verse 28-29 [Ephesians 5:]

(28) So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

(29) For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

Now, in here is the perfect Husband. And You'll notice in here that men ought to love their wives as their own body. And that's exactly what Jesus had. The wife, or the bride is his body. We are His body. Now, "we're also bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. We are members of Him," as the Scripture said. [Eph 5:30] And, "He nourishes it, even as the Lord the church."[Eph 5:29]

Now, as the husband provides the welfare and goodies in the home, the necessities, so Christ is made ample provision for every single person to be a spiritual part of Christ and to glorify the Lord. And also It says, "No man hates his own flesh, (and that is true, he doesn't, but) "nourishes it and cherishes it." [Eph 5:29] And that's what Christ does to us as a group. And He does it of course to individuals also.

And then It says, "We are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bone." [Eph 5:30] That is certainly true, we are the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we are literally His incarnation, because Christ is now incarnated in the Church. And remember, He gets glory in the Church. There's a corporate understanding here as well as the individual.

17. In [Ephesians 5:] verse 31,

(31) For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

And this of course is the Philippian, where, "he thought it not a prize to be grasped and retained." [Phil 2:6] But He left every single thing, and identified Himself with man. And as Bro. Branham brings out, that the woman who could be the highest, became the lowest, so Christ identified Himself with the Church, the Bride, identifying Himself with the lowest which had the potential of becoming the highest, and it does become the highest. Because now it is thoroughly joined with Him.

Now, Christ is joined to every single member, and thereby joined to all members. Joined to every single member horizontally. Joined to every member thereby laterally, because it is one life.

18. Now, one of the greatest mysteries revealed under the Seven Thunders, where under the Seven Seals was the mystical union and marriage and divorce. And in there we saw how that we have become dead to everything, but the Word of God and Who is Christ. So therefore, we are in a unique position of fulfilling this Scripture here; that the Bride has no other destiny than to be presented as faultless before the Presence of His glory, with exceeding great joy when there will be great rejoicing to the see the expression of Christ in her. But this is the blanket coverage through redemption, mediator-ship and intercessory, and that there is coming a day of another order, not separate and distinct from, but from an out flowing of the grace that God has placed within so that the church can be admired. He could present it to the world, and the church then would be admired, because of the grace of God that was in us. And of course that puts a double portion of glory back on the Lord Jesus Christ.

19. Now, the most important verse about the Bride is over here in Ephesians 1:22-23.

(22) And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

(23) Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all (things with) all (things.)

Now, we are all things to God, and the whole Word of God. Christ is being fulfilled in that Bride.

Now, notice back here in Ephesians 5:26, It says:

(26) That he might sanctify and cleanse it (by) the washing of water by the word,

20. Now, we're going to take a couple of verses then, previously we haven't read. And It says right here in 22-24.

(22) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

(23) For (as) the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: he is the saviour of the body.

(24) Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Now, we've got a beautiful picture here of the woman subject to the man on the grounds of the God given authority. And so we are subject to Jesus Christ every single one of us.

Now, contrary to general opinion women will never have equal rights when it comes to headship. That's why they can't have short hair, cut their hair, wear men's clothing. And those things are wrong for her. And contrary to the general opinion the church is not an authority, or does it have any rights of itself. It has only rights on the grounds that God has given her the ability to perform within the framework of His Own Word.

21. Now, we want to get a true picture once for all of the position of the church. What we've been talking about. It is an elected, or chosen group even as it is with the individual. Now, over here in Romans chapter 9:8-13, we'll take a look at the individual. Here he's elected.

(8) That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

(9) (And) this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

(10) And not only this; but when Rebecca…conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

(11) (…the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

(12) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

(13) As it is written, Jacob have I loved, (and) Esau have I hated.

Now, that's the individual.

22. Going over here to John 10:16, It says:

(16) …other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

See, individual sheep together make a flock. And so there is a flock.

23. Now, notice also Ephesians 1:3

(3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us (now, that's corporate) with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ (Jesus.)

And then:

(4) According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

(5) Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

One by one they come to form the mystical union of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. One by one.

Now, also notice in verse 12

(12) That we (corporate) should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

Every single one trusting, everyone coming into Jesus Christ.

24. Notice [Ephesians] chapter 3 and verses 10-11.

(10) To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be (made) known by the church (corporate) the manifold wisdom of God,

(11) According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

Individual election and corporate election, it's all one and the same. Just like there's one baptism, and that one baptism puts you in the whole thing. Opens up all of it. So, we find it's all opened to us here. Verses 14-15.

(14) For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

(15) Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

Not only is each man and the entire body one of election, but so is the position of every believer. Now see, individually they come in, placed corporately, election, come in, election corporately.

25. Now, we are looking at the positioning and the ministry. So, we go to Ephesians 4:8-13.

(8) Wherefore he saith, he ascended on high, (and) led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

(9) (Now that he ascended, what is it (first of all) descended into the lower parts of the earth?

(10) He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)

(11) And he gave some, apostles; some, prophets; some evangelists; some pastors and teachers;

(12) (To perfect) the saints, for the work of the ministry, (to) the edifying of the body of Christ:

(13) Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

(14) That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

(15) But speaking the truth in love, may grow up (unto) him…

Now, you don't grow up into Him, you're baptized into Him. But you don't grow into that. You got to get baptized into Him, then you grow up unto Him. And the whole body is doing it.

(15) …in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

In other words, the whole Word of God for the Bride is going to be all fulfilled right there.

26. Now, notice also in 1 Corinthians 12: as we're looking at the five-fold ministry there, the same thing is mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12:28-30.

(28) And God hath set some in the church, (notice, God hath set some in the church) first apostles, secondarily prophets, third teachers, (and of course there would be evangelists and pastors, after that there's not numbered, but then comes gifted men who are not in the ministry, but have) healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

(29) Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers?... (all evangelists, all pastors, no sir.)

(30) (Do) all (have) the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? (No sir, they don't do that.)

27. Now, notice with that the first eleven verses. [1 Corinthians 12]

(1) Now concerning spiritual (the spiritual, the charismatic's things) brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

(2) (You) know that (you) were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as (you) were led.

(3) Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God (calls) Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

You got to be baptized with the Holy Ghost to know that you're in the body and He is the Head.

(4) Now there are diversities of gifts, but (it's) the same Spirit.

(5) …there are differences of administrations, but (it is) the same Lord.

(6) …(difference of diverse) operations, but it is the same God… (working through everything.) …

Doesn't matter what position, the whole body. There aren’t two lives in my body there is one. If there's another life in my body it causes trouble. That's why these spirits get in there, like tuberculosis and cancer and those things. Then devils get in there, makes a bad situation. Because the body is only supposed to have one life in it. (See?) Not lots of kinds of life. Not disease and all. Now:

(7) But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

(8) For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge…(and so on, right down the line.)

28. And then It says here in verse 11,

(11) But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man… (individually.)

The word 'several' is an old word that doesn't mean a thing to us anymore. The king, several house, in the Old Testament, little individual house. So, individually, individually these members are coming in gifted. Now, and then he goes on and says in verse 12.

(12) For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

Every single individual that's baptized into Christ has a position in that body, and has some sort of a ministry. And that ministry is never a ministry by itself, it is always within and integrated. It's an integrated ministry, because it's an integrated life.

29. Now, get another picture of the same thing. Romans 12,:4-8 is better still.

(4) For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: (all members aren't the same.)

(5) So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

Notice, and everyone member of another. Like I said, you're stuck with each other. In other words, that's the way it's supposed to be, that's the way it's going to be, that's the way it is. Members of each other, because they're each a member of Christ by the same life.

(6) Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

(7) Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;

(8) Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that (rules), with diligence; he that (shows) mercy, with cheerfulness.

Now, you notice Romans 12:4-8 says the same thing as 1 Corinthians 12, although It kind of puts it into a nutshell. And It also opens the door to the unmentioned ministries, or gifts, as Irenaeus said, there are hundreds of them. They're simply not mentioned, but there's tremendous manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the Bride. And you can see that here when It even talks about showing mercy with cheerfulness. In other words, there's so many things that make ministries. Now, it's very important to not only see that God is sovereign in placing the ministries, the ministers, the members, and giving gifts, but even goes further.

30. Now, not just sovereign in placing the people in the body. Not just sovereign in giving them their place and what they should do, but he goes even further. Now, we're going to go to Ephesians 3:20-21. And we're going to read It the way the King James version said It, then we're going to read It the way it's written in the Greek.

(20) Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

(21) Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end.

Now, that Scripture has been taken for years, and anybody that reads It, to say, "Well, my goodness me, if that's how, or God's in me, there's simply nothing that I can't do. So, hallelujah, I'm going to do it." Well, hallelujah, you read the Scripture wrong. Now, let's read It the way it's written. Weymouth translation:

(20) Now unto him who in the exercise of his power, that is at work within us,

(21) Is able to do infinitely beyond our highest prayers or thoughts, to him be the glory in the church, and in Jesus Christ through all generation world without end.

It doesn't say one thing about anybody taking the power of God and using it. It says that Christ uses His Own power in the Church. The Vertical stays within the Vertical and goes out though the lateral according to the Vertical. The lateral does not take and shout back to the Vertical. (See?)

31. Now, here is where God held Bro. Branham. See, here's where Bro. Branham held us, 'In Doing God a Service'. And many a time he'd say, "I'd heal you I would if I could." Yet, the same man could turn around and tell me personally, "I've not lost one of those gifts, and I could do anything right now, but God won't let me."

Now, that's where Moses was. Moses went out and he did what he wanted. God said, "Speak to the rock, don't smite the rock."

And Moses said, "Like fun, (he said) you bunch of rebels, they got me so …?..." Wham! The water came forth. Okay Moses, you busted her out.

I'll read It again.

(20) Now unto him who in the exercise of his power, that is at work within us,

(21) Is able to do infinitely beyond our highest prayers or thoughts, to him be the glory…

Certainly Christ can do anything He wants. But He will only do what He wants, and it's up to us to know what He wants in order that that might be done. And it will always be if we come to that place, It'll be so tremendous in the Bride, not duplicating Bro. Branham's ministry, but watching it and seeing the same Spirit in that particular moment operate in the same level, though not do the same things. There's…let's face it, there's only one level the Holy Ghost's got anyway, and that's God. Because you can't diminish God, and you can't add to. (See?)

32. All right, now this to me spells out restoration by Elijah as perhaps nothing else does. And I base this upon Adam in the Garden of Eden. Let's go back now to Genesis 2:19-20.

(19) And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

(20) And Adam gave names to all cattle, to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet…

Now, let's go back to Genesis 2:16-17, and It says here:

(16) And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

(17) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof (dying) thou (doest) surely die.

Now, here exactly is where you got two sets of words. But you notice that he got out of bounds on the one place, and not out of bounds on the other place. Why? Because God was to exercise within him what He wanted done. In other words, God was going to exercise within Adam what God wanted done. But Adam got out of the picture, because Eve went out ahead of Adam, and the serpent came by and he said, "Hey, (he said) has God really said, is it right that you can't eat of every tree, but the one in the midst of the Garden, you can have all the rest?"

And she said, "Well, that's exactly right."

"Well, (he said) what's that all about? Is that because God has said that you'll die?"

She said, "That's right."

"Now, (he said) hold it, I'm going to tell you something, (he said) that you won't die."

33. Now, you see what verse we're looking at here is the picture where we need to get back to restoration and get all the way back where the Spirit of God, to His…and He being that Life within us manifests according to what He wants. That will go wildly beyond anything anybody could even imagine. But everybody has to imagine things.

Now, of course it also opens the door to every harem scare'em, hocus pocus bunch of cotton crap balderdash you ever saw. It's just like marriage and divorce. There is no such thing as a true marriage, unless that male and female before God knows there's a want to have each other. Oh, but some guy can come by and …?... her under the chin, and say, "Hey, cutie pie, you gorgeous little sex pot, you and I could sure make wonderful music together."

"Yeah, (she said) I'll believe it." Because she's carried away by the same lousy sex spirit. It opens the door to all the trash. But if you open your door to God…you show me a marriage that'll last like that where he knows and she knows they met before God, and God has joined them together.

34. That's the trouble, ninety-nine percent of our marriages are not based upon that. And I'll tell you flat, it opens the door for every nature, just like it did here. Open the door, come on let's produce life. And God wanted His Own Spirit to dictate in their lives, but they had another way to do it, and they got messed up. Now, you understand what I'm talking about? I threw a little goodie at you in 'Marriage and Divorce'.

But I want to tell you flat, that's the whole thing about marriage and divorce. And unless you have really got that one by revelation of God, God has not joined you together. I'm sorry. Don't look so quizzical, I'm not the prophet, I'm just quoting the prophet. But it sure opened the door at every can of flies in the country too. Like some half baked, half browned off …?... to tell some pretty little girl or something. "Well, I've got a revelation." Well, hogwash in your revelation. She better get a revelation too, and she better be serious. You know Bro. Branham said that's the reason so much illegitimate and everything else. And we haven't got time to roll the clock back. But God says we're going to forgive the whole bunch. Well, there's forgiveness anyway, But see, people mess things up.

35. Now, so I'm trying to show you something here. This is real restoration. (See?) The exercise of His power within us to do exceeding abundant above all we can ask or think. People are so busy trying to ask and ask, and ask instead of getting back and saying, "God, what do You want?"

I told you many a time I needed a car when I first started out on the road. You know, well I wasn't on the road yet at that time. I said, "Lord, I want a car." I was kind of obstreperous and belligerent before the Lord. You know, kind of pouty. And like a voice said, "You can have a car." Just like a (you know) …you know I sure felt kind of ashamed of myself, you know after hearing that little inner voice, you know "you can have it." And you know, I should have said, "Well, thank You Lord, what car would You like me to have?"

So, I went right down and bought a car…it wasn't too bad, but it sure caused a lot of trouble. That's the way marriage is too. I had to throw that in. Not wanting to hurt anybody's feelings. But you see…you got…beyond what you could ask or think, God will do something a billion times better. You see? But it's the exercise of His power, and He does the exercising. God didn't say, "I'm in your hands, and use Me how you want like a dollar bill." In fact you know my sermons on finances you haven't even got the right to do that. You say, "That's my dollar, I'll do what I want." Oh come on, that infantile hogwash. Why we should be beyond that. Come back Sunday morning we're going to roll some heads in the aisles Sunday morning as sweet as I can. Mine will roll too don't worry.

36. Now listen, this business here of talking about real restoration, (taking you back to the Garden) is predated to the time before earth's creation. Let's go way back here to Ezekiel 28: way, way back before there was (you know) any earth down here in a sense that we know the earth. And you know chapter 28 is about old Lucifier, and verse 14. And It says here:

(14) Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: (I have set thee so) thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; (and) thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

Now, let's go and see that 12-13.

(12) Son of man, take up a lamentation (against) the king of Tyrus, and say (to) him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

(13) Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, sardius, topaz, diamond, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphire, emerald, carbuncle, and gold:…

You know, that sounds just like the ephod that they used to wear here the breast plate, where the gems were. And it would speak back and forth, light shining, "God what do you want? God what do you want? Give us some answers God." God just break forth and give the answers, and they say, "Hallelujah, that's the way to go." But...and all those right stones aren't there. Check it out, there's a few of the wrong stones in there. This guy had some wrong answers.

Oh yeah, he had a lot of power, he was a cherub that covereth. He knew what he could do. He had in his hands. He went and did it. Eve knew what she had in her hand. Adam knew what he had in his hand. You know what we got in our hand. That's exactly why the gifts are a trap today. (I've got ahead of myself, I'll get to it in a little while. Take you right back to it. See?)

All right, verse 15.

(15) Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

And what is iniquity? It's to know to do something different. (See?) The minute you induce a strange power in your body that begins to doing things to you. Man, you've got yourself a mess.

37. Now, let's go to Isaiah 14:12-14. And It says right here:

(12) How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! (See?)

How do you weaken a nation? You got these people here to begin to exercising a power within themselves, but not according to what God wanted done with that power.

(13) For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven…exalt my throne above the stars of God: (that's above the people of God, the Bride) I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation,…

I'll be up there in New Jerusalem. Like fun you will, you'll be dashed down to hell.

Now, God has ordained…. Now, you see, that's where it started, way, way back in the eternities. When Lucifer would not let Christ exercise the power that Christ placed in him, but he wanted to take 'all powers' as it were…(See?) And God has said something about it.

Now, God has ordained that worship and service be according to spirit and truth. "They that worship Me, must worship Me in spirit and in truth." [Jn 4:24] Every Word of God must be continuously in harmony with every other Word of the hour. Whatever the message is for that hour. Whatever portion God has allocated. And I showed you how the measure of the Word was the same measure of the Holy Ghost. It's right there in John 3:31-36. You can find It for yourselves. Not read between the lines, but It lies right there in the open. And the prophet brought It to us.

38. Now, every Age, every Word of God must be in continuity and harmony with every other Word. Every Word that the prophet brought. (See?) Now, things get out of order, but things did get out of order; therefore into sin back at the time when Satan fell. It got out of order in the Garden of Eden. And Paul said, "It's going to get out of order again." In 2 Corinthians 11: because you are going to disregard the Headship of the Holy Spirit, the Word.

Now, it remained out of order until today. And we just now have restoration, which is the revealed Word, the restored Word. 1 Corinthians 13:8

(8) (Love) never (fails): whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; (there're) tongues, (they'll) cease; whether there be knowledge, (it'll) vanish away.

(9) For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

(10) But when that which is perfect is come,…

Now that which is perfect doesn't mean something in the sense of being perfect as though we're looking at something, as though we knew what perfect was But it means mature and entire. Finished, polished. This is the end.

We are at the very place for having grown up unto Him. We're in a little plateau here until everything catches up, then the dead can come out of the ground, and the Bride can be caught up to meet the Lord. I showed you how that was, we'll talk about a little more later, about how the Capstone came down spiritually. Then the physical pyramid goes to the physical Capstone rises up in the dimension.

39. All right, now, we keep on reading:

(9) For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

(10) But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

(11) When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, thought as a child: when I became a man, I put away childish things.

(12) For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as I am known.

(13) (But) now abideth faith, hope, (love, and) the greatest of these is (love.)

Now, right now we are in this position where the Word has been restored, where Bro. Branham said on the question, 'what is that which is perfect has come'? And he said, "What is perfect but God. And Who is God, but the Word, and by His grace we have the perfect revelation of the Word for this hour."

So therefore, we have a Message where every Word is in continuity. And to take anything out of continuity is to go right back and disregard restoration. You throw away the key to it. (See?)

40. Now, (you follow so far what I have been saying?) Okay, reading from the Church Ages. I got this a little better English then in the sense then what he just put down the first time.

[The Pergamean Church Age - top of page 171] [No paragraph numbers given]

Here is what I am trying to say to you. The law of reproduction in each specie brings forth after its own kind, even according to Genesis 1:11, "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.”

Whatever life was in the seed came forth into a plant and thence into fruit. The very same law applies to the church today. Whatever seed started the church will come forth and be like the original seed because it is the same seed.

Now, in other words he says right here, that at the end time when the seed goes back to being the multiplied seeds go back to the original. The multiplied seeds are going to look like the original that was planted. Just like you get a harvest of corn, a harvest of wheat, or oats, it's just those original seeds you planted will bear many, many more just like themselves.

The very same law applies to the church today. Whatever seed started the church will come forth and be like the original seed because it is the same seed.

41. In these last days the true Bride Church (Christ’s seed) will come to the Headstone, she will be the super church, a super race, as she nears Him. (Growing up unto Him) They in the bride will be so much like Him that they will even be in His very image. This is in order to be united with Him. They will be one. They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living God. Denominations cannot produce this (wrong seed). They will produce their creeds and their dogmas, mixed with the Word. This mongrelizing brings forth a hybrid product.

The first son (Adam) was the spoken seed-Word of God. He was given a bride to reproduce himself. That is why the bride was given to him, to reproduce himself; to produce another son of God. But she fell. She fell by hybridization. She caused him to die.

The second Son (Jesus), also a spoken Seed-Word of God was given a bride like as was Adam. But before He could marry her, she also had fallen. She, like Adam’s wife, was put to the test whether she would believe the Word of God and live, or doubt the Word and die. She doubted. She left the Word. She died. From a little group of the true seed of the Word, God will present Christ with a beloved bride. She is a virgin of His Word. She is a virgin because she knows no man-made creeds or dogmas. By and through the members of the bride will be fulfilled all that was promised of God to be made manifest in the virgin. The word of promise came to the virgin Mary. But that Word of promise was He, Himself, to be made manifest. God was made manifest. He, Himself, acted at that time and fulfilled His own Word of promise in the virgin.

42. That's what we're talking about, that's what is in Ephesians. In the exercise of His Own power it worked within. And what's He going to do? He's going to produce Himself.

It was an angel that had brought her the message. But the angel’s message was the Word of God. Isaiah 9:6. He fulfilled at that time all that was written of Him because she accepted His Word to her.

What was the fullness of that Word at that time? "A virgin shall bear a child." So, she conceived by the Holy Ghost.

The members of the virgin bride will love Him, they will have His potentials, for He is their head, and all power belongs to Him. (That's what Ephesians 3:20-21 said) They are subject to Him as the members of our bodies are subject to our heads.

Notice the harmony of the Father and the Son. Jesus never did anything until it was first showed Him by the Father. John 5:19. The harmony is now to exist between the Groom and His bride. He shows her His Word of life. She receives it. She never doubts it. Therefore, nothing can harm her, not even death. For if the seed be planted, the water will raise it up again.

43. Now, what seed was planted? There would be a group that wouldn't die.

Here is the secret of this. The Word is in the bride (as it was in Mary). The bride has the mind of Christ for she knows what He wants done with the Word. She performs the command of the Word in His name for she has “thus saith the Lord.” Then the Word is quickened by the Spirit and it comes to pass. Like a seed that is planted and watered, it comes to full harvest, serving its purpose.

A lot of people they don't like that waiting for the harvest, the seed that came forth under Bro. Branham's ministry.

Those in the bride do only His will. No one can make them do otherwise. They have “thus saith the Lord” or they keep still. They know that it has to be God in them doing the works, fulfilling His own Word. He did not complete all His work while in His earthly ministry so now He works in and through the bride. She knows that, for it was not yet time for Him to do certain things that He must now do. For He will now fulfill through the bride that work which He left for this specific time.

44. Well, of course that's where you find restoration and these things that are coming up.

Now let us stand like Joshua and Caleb. Our promised land is coming in sight even as theirs did. Now Joshua means “Jehovah-Saviour,” and he represents the end-time leader that will come to the church even as Paul came as the original leader.

That was William Branham , emblematic of the Holy Ghost, the corporate body at that time of the Spirit, but not the whole thing.

Caleb represents those that stayed true with Joshua. Remember, (Joshua is our leader today with the Holy Ghost ) Remember, God had started Israel as a virgin with His Word. But they wanted something different. So did the last-day church.

Notice how God did not move Israel, or let her go into the promised land until it was His own appointed time. Now the people might have put pressure on Joshua, the leader, and said, “The land is ours, let’s go and take it. Joshua, you are all through, you must have lost your commission, you don’t have the power you used to have. You used to hear from God and know the will of God, and act quickly.

45. Now, you see there's churches right today that claim to believe this Message is a right there. I got a phone call today from a little brother of mine down south, and he said the people were accusing him of having a dead service. He said, "Well, (he said) here's Church Order, show me where I'm wrong?"

Well, they said, "It's so dead here we'd like some tongues on the floor."

Why didn’t you say, you big fat tongues don't let the devil hear the paddle. The preacher wrapped it around your throat. You think I want to pastor a bunch of billy goats like that? Maybe you think I'm being in… Where do you get the idea, anybody getting the idea that tongues on the floor is some great big thing? (See?) Now he said here:

…you don’t have the power you used to have. You used to hear from God and know the will of God, and act quickly. Something is wrong with you.” But Joshua was a God-sent prophet and he knew the promises of God, and he waited for them. He waited for a clear-cut decision from God and when the time came to move, God placed the full leadership in Joshua’s hands because he had stayed with the Word.

46. How do you think Bro. Branham came back and brought forgiveness in 'Marriage and Divorce' except for that hour? He never preached that sermon until the time came.

God could trust Joshua but not the others. So it will repeat in this end day. The same problem, the same pressures. (Everybody getting ahead, getting ahead.)

Take the example we see in Moses. This mighty anointed prophet of God had a peculiar birth, being born at the right time for the deliverance of Abraham’s seed from Egypt. He never stayed in Egypt to argue Scripture with them, nor fuss at the priests. He went to the wilderness until the people were ready to receive him. God called Moses to the wilderness. The waiting was not on Moses’ part but because of the people who were not ready to receive him. Moses thought the people would understand but they did not.

Then there is Elijah to whom the Word of the Lord came. When he got through preaching the truth and that group back there that is the forerunner of the American Jezebel group would not receive the Word, God called him off the field and plagued that generation for rejecting the prophet and the message that God had given. God called him to the wilderness and he would not come out even for the king. Those who tried to persuade him to do so, died. But God spoke to His faithful prophet by vision. Out of hiding he came and brought back the Word to Israel.

Then came John the Baptist, Christ’s faithful forerunner, the mighty prophet for his day. He did not go to his father’s school, nor the school of the Pharisees — he went to no denomination, but out to the wilderness called there by God. There he stayed until the Lord sent him out with the message, crying, “The Messiah is at hand.” Now let us take a Scriptural warning here. Was it not in the days of Moses whom God had vindicated that Korah rose up and withstood that mighty prophet? He disputed with Moses and claimed that he had as much from God to lead the people and that others shared in the Divine revelation as well as did Moses.

47. You got people saying right now, "Where did Bro. Branham say something different?" He didn't. He just corrected the errors.

He denied the authority of Moses. Now the people back there, after they had heard the true Word and were well acquainted with the fact that a true prophet was vindicated of God, I say those people fell for Korah and his gainsayings. Korah was not a Scriptural prophet but the people in great numbers with their leaders went for him.

How like the evangelists today with their golden calf schemes like Korah’s. They look good to the people as Korah looked good then. They have blood on their foreheads, oil on their hands and balls of fire on the platform. (They had that right amongst us too) They allow women preachers, let women cut their hair, wear slacks and shorts, and by-pass the Word of God for their own creeds and dogmas. That shows what kind of seed is in them. But not all the people turned on Moses and left the Word of God. No. The elect stayed with him. The same is happening again today. Many are leaving the Word but some are staying with it. But remember the parable of the wheat and tares. The tares have to be bundled for burning. These apostate churches are getting bound closer and closer together, ready for the fires of God’s judgment. But the wheat is going to be gathered to the Master.

Now I want you to be very careful here and see this. God has promised that at the end time Malachi 4 is going to be fulfilled. It has to be for it is the Spirit-quickened Word of God spoken by the prophet Malachi. Jesus referred to it. It is just before Christ comes the second time. By the time Jesus comes all Scripture must be fulfilled.

48. Every single Scripture? No, the Scripture that's required to be fulfilled will be fulfilled.

The Gentile dispensation (and he explains) will be in its last church age when that messenger of Malachi comes. He will be right with the Word. He will take the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation. He will start at the serpent’s seed and carry on to the messenger in the latter rain. But he will be rejected by the denominations. He has to be for that is history repeating itself from the time of Ahab. Israel’s history under Ahab is happening right here in America where the prophet of Malachi appears.

As Israel left Egypt to worship in freedom, pushed out the natives, raised up a nation with great leaders like David,…then put an Ahab on the throne with a Jezebel behind him to direct, so have we done the very same in America. Our forefathers left for this land to worship and live in freedom. They pushed back the natives and took over the land. Mighty men like Washington and Lincoln were raised up but after awhile other men of such poor caliber succeeded these worthy men that soon an Ahab was set in the presidential chair (he stole the election, that's been proven) with a Jezebel behind him to direct him. (Poor old Nixon got booted out, but they kept this bird on, now they want to get his brother in there. They will. …?... the men got to get stuck in there) It is at such a time as this that the messenger of Malachi must come.

Then in the latter rain will come a Mount Carmel showdown. Watch this carefully now to see it in the Word. John was the forerunner of Malachi 3. He planted the former rain, was rejected by the organizations of his day. Jesus came and had a Mount Transfiguration showdown. The second fore- runner of Christ will sow for the latter rain. Jesus will be the showdown between the denominations and creeds, for He will come to back up His Word and take His bride in the rapture. (See, there's your Mount Zion show- down coming) The first showdown was Mount Carmel; the second was the Mount Transfiguration, and the third will be Mount Zion.

49. And that's exactly right. There's been a showdown already, the indictment, the conference in Chicago, the Pentecostal's threw him out, said that's over with. And now we're waiting for the Resurrection, and we're waiting now for the transfiguration. Then the Rapture to take us up to be part of New Jerusalem.

The strange behaviour of Moses, Elijah, and John withdrawing from the people into seclusion left many confused. They did not realize that it was because their messages had been rejected. But the seed had been sown, the planting was over. Judgment was next. They had served their purpose as a sign to the people, so judgment was next. I believe according to Revelation 13: 16 the bride will have to stop preaching for the beast is demanding the mark in the hand or forehead if permission to preach be granted. Denominations will take the mark, or be forced to quit preaching. Then the Lamb will come for His bride and judge the great harlot.

In other words, you can see a lot of squeeze coming before the Bride gets taken away.)

Now remember, that Moses was born for a certain work, but he could not do that work until he had received the gifts which would enable him to do the work. He had to go out in the desert and wait there; God had an appointed time. There was to be a certain Pharaoh on the throne, and the people had to be crying for the bread of life, before God could send him back. This is true for our day. But what do we have in this our day? Multitudes are working signs until we have a generation of sign seekers that know little or nothing about the Word, or a true move of the Spirit of God. If they see blood, oil and fire they are happy; it matters not what is in the Word. They will support any sign, even unscriptural ones.

50. But God has warned us about that. He said in Matthew 24 that in the last days the two spirits would be so close together that only the very elect could tell them apart, for they alone would not be deceived. How can you tell the spirits…? Just give them the Word test. If they don’t speak that Word, they are of the evil one. As the evil one deceived the first two brides, he will try to deceive the bride of this last day, by trying to get her to hybridize herself through creeds, or just plainly turning from the Word to any sign that suits her. But God never placed signs ahead of the Word. Signs follow the Word, as when Elijah told the woman to bake a cake for him first, according to the Word of the Lord. When she did as the Word said, the proper sign came. Come to the Word first and then watch the miracle. The seed Word is energized by the Spirit.

How can any messenger sent from God believe only a part of the Word and deny some of it? The true prophet of God in this last day will proclaim the whole Word. Denominations will hate him. His words may be as harsh as John the Baptist who called them vipers. But the predestinated will hear and be ready for the rapture. The Royal Seed of Abraham, with like faith as Abraham’s will hold to the Word with him, for they are predestinated together. (See? They're just as much as Abraham was, so are the seed.) The last-day messenger will appear in God’s appointed time. It is the end time now as all know, for Israel is in the homeland. Any time now he will come according to Malachi. When we see him, he will be dedicated to the Word. He will be indicated (pointed out in the Word, Revelation 10:7), and God will vindicate his ministry. He will preach the truth as did Elijah and be ready for the Mount Zion showdown.

51. Many will misunderstand him because they have been taught Scripture in a certain way which they consider truth. When he comes against that, they will not believe.

And what we're talking about right now is the fact that nobody can serve God, unless everything you do is in the Word, and you got It by God in that time. (See?) That's why the Bride has got to rely on the Son, and learn to contain herself by the pressure.

Many will misunderstand him because they have been taught Scripture in a certain way… and they won't believe. But even some true ministers will misunderstand the messenger because so much has been called God’s truth by deceivers. But this prophet will come, and as the forerunner to the first coming cried, “Behold the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world,” even so will he no doubt cry out, “Behold the Lamb of God, coming in glory.” He will do this, for even as John was the messenger of truth to the elect, so is this one the last messenger to the elect and Word- born bride.

52. So, you can see right here that Bro. Branham placed Ephesians 3:20-21, with Its proper revelation under the proper Greek right in a Bride of this hour where others have not had it. Now, this is why the true Church order is part of the mysteries of the Seven Seals. For the Seven Thunder Capstone came under the Seventh Seal. And Church order is a part of the mysteries, the Thunders. That's obliquely set forth in the 'Christ the Mystery of God Revealed'.

Now, the gifts are set in order and we saw in Bro. Branham's life just what I quoted here on Ephesians 3:20-21. The exercise of the power of God by God in the prophet. You'd have to stand back and say, "I can't do a thing till He comes." Then he said, "I can't make Him come, but I will ask if He will come." Then when He's here, he's able to…what the Spirit told him to do.

53. Now, here were all nine gifts, but none could operate apart from God's jurisdiction, which is exactly what is supposed to be in 1 Corinthians 12:4-11. Now, there are diversities of gifts, but one Spirit gives them. There are different ministrations, but It is the same Spirit, the same Lord running it. There are different operations. They act different, but it's the same God Who is working, but the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man, everyone is entitled to, and does show forth the Spirit of God whatever He's called to: giving, ruling, showing mercy, tongues, whatever, pastoral, anything. "For to one is given the spiritual of wisdom and so on." [1 Cor 12:8] Everyone there.

And then verse 11, "But all these worketh…" (see, ministries, manifestation. There's only one Spirit that's doing it, and He's doing it in each life exactly as He wants it. That's a genuine Bride, and that's the thing that was put in order in the days of Paul. (See?)

54. Now, the gifts were set in the Church for a certain purpose. 18-27.

(18) But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

(19) And if they were all one member, where (was) the body?

(20) …now are they many members, yet but one body.

(21) …the eye (can't) say unto the hand, (I've got) no need of (you): the head to the (foot), I (got) no need of you.

(22) Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

(23) And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

(24) For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked.

(25) That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one (of) another.

Nobody ever gets anything more from God than anybody else does. I don't care how good it looks, how bad it looks, he doesn't get anymore. It's all identical, every single one gets same measure, the Holy Spirit, the whole bit. And then everyone has the same care one toward another.

Now:

(26) And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; one member be honoured, all the members rejoice (together.)

(27) Now (you're) the body of Christ, and members in particular.

(28) And God hath set some in the church,… (and so on.)

55. Now, notice verse 25. It says:

(25) That there should be no schism in the body;…

Now, in other words God has so designated, decreed, a complete full complementary, intergraded membership so that there is no division. In other words, there's not an arm over here, there's not a foot over here, but there is an integrated body through the Spirit of the Living God, and God gifting these people in order that the body of Christ may show forth Christ Himself.

Now, people try and actually were allowed of God to make a show of the gifts, instead of the purpose of 25 and 26.

(25) That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one (of) another.

Now, It tell you right here there's a schism if people begin getting ideas that everybody in the body is not equal. Begin getting ideas that somebody's more special than somebody else. Getting ideas that somebody's not special. (See?) Begin like playing favorites. Now, holding in honor the figures of men, and the position and so on, of men.

And then It says here:

(26) And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer (and) one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

56. Now, that's here we see that God allowed the people to make a show of gifts, which they were doing right here with lots of confusion, and lots of problems in the church. And because they did not understand what we are talking about tonight, but they began operating as though that they had control, because It says, "The spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet." [1 Cor 14:32] That would make people think, "well, I can call the spirit and do what I want." But It doesn't say that. It says, "You've got control of yourself in order to stop doing those things that are contrary to the Word, and yield yourself to God, so that God can have His Spirit manifesting through you the way He wants it. (See?) People turned It down.

Now, God said that this would occur. Peter of Pentecost mentioned: "In the last days shall God pour His Spirit on all flesh: your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and My sons and My daughters prophesy." [Acts 2:17] Then over in Matthew 24:24-25, in the last day all but the Very Elect would be deceived by signs and wonders, (which are not lying signs and wonders, but genuine signs and wonders.)

57. Now, so therefore the Bible clearly set forth that especially in the last day there would be a people deliberately manifesting in the Holy Spirit in a form of control, instead of God controlling them. Now, of course they'd come up and say, "Well, I couldn't speak in tongues unless I had the Holy Ghost." Well, Bro. Branham said that's a bunch of hogwash. Because if I give you my pen, I don't give you myself, I just give you a gift. A lot of people had gifts of tongues, can talk in tongues. See, devils can talk in tongues. I've known of people no more religious than nothing, they speak in tongues. Speak perfect languages. You can regress almost anybody way, way back, if you'll be regressed, and you'll come speaking in tongues.

You say, "Well, Bro. Vayle if that's neither God nor the devil, what could it be?" Did you ever stop to think that everyone of your single little cells in your body so tiny, that it would take a very great…brilliant…very powerful microscope in order to find what's in that cell; and now they've found they haven't even begun to understand what's in a cell, that each cell is more than a city even?

58. What if that intelligence in every cell? And what would stop you speaking in tongues if you had an ancestor way back there a thousand years ago that spoke some kind of language not even known today? Nothing. Nothing. See, people like you…let's face it, the people today are so deceived, because they don't know what we're talking about here, and that is when we're dealing with the Vertical, the Vertical always remains vertical. But you can take anything from the Vertical and throw it in the horizontal, you got problems, because people got a thing up here called 'a mind'. And they're just like the old devil was. They want to use God, instead of letting God use them. (See?) Now, you know that's the way these things work out.

Now, but the Bride has the Word, and knows what to do about It, and what to do with It, or they keep still. Why? Because Headship is Christ, and now the Capstone, the Headstone of the spiritual, the revealed Word, the Appearing has transpired.

59. Now notice, what that Headstone, or Capstone Christ is. And I've been drilling this home to you time after time, after time. And it's in Ephesians 1, to the Church that's full of the Holy Ghost. Verse 15.

(15) Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

(16) Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

(17) That 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:

(18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; (you) may know what is the hope of his calling, the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

(19) …the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

(20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead,…

Right before the Resurrection, this Spirit comes into the Church in full revelation and manifestation. It's the same thing spoken of in here, in chapter 4, through the five-fold ministry under the Seventh Church Age minister, a prophet. We're going to come…unto a perfect man. Mature, finished, polished off, "unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. (Pyramid) That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but speaking holding the truth in love, grow up unto him." [Eph 4:13-15]

The people themselves through the Seven Ages haven't come up. And now capped off, so the Headstone of the Word, the Spirit, placed upon the spiritual pyramid within the Bride now can receive orders on how, when, where, what and all the rest according to the Word of God. Now, that's where the Bride is right today. And we're waiting to see It come into a full manifestation. So, the Headship is Here, even as we find in Ephesians chapter 1, chapter 4, and also in 1 Corinthians 13.

60. So, it is at this time that Acts 3:19-21 is come into being. (middle of verse 19)

(19) …when times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

(20) And (God) shall send Jesus Christ, which was (appointed) unto you:

(21) Whom the heaven must (retain) until the times of (restoration) of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. (See?)

Now, that comes into being and we have seen the restoration, because we have had the Word preached in vindication as we read here in this article.

61. Let's go to 1 Kings 18: 36-37,

(36) And it came to pass at the time of the offering…Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and I have done all these things at thy word. (See?)

(37) Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.

Now, notice right after this, verse 38

(38) Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

62. Now, let's go back to Acts 2: now It says here, afterward speaking of the Spirit of God falling at the end time. And then It says in verse 19,

(19) And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:

(20) (And) the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come (to pass.)

You can see in here even as the fire fell, judgment, there's going to be judgment after the Elijah comes according to Acts 2 at the very end time there.

Now, that's notice at this point is where we are now, that right at this time, anytime, the adoption and manifestation of sons, (what all that encompasses I don't know) but of this Bride that has the Word and knows what to do with It, is in the process now. And of course this will go into the Resurrection itself.

63. Just for a minute or two, (a little longer than that maybe) we want to go back to the Book of Acts, revert back to the First Church Age, and see how the Spirit of God conducted Himself in the people, what the people did, how they conducted themselves, because of the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:42-43.

(42) And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellow- ship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

(43) And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.

(46-47)

(46) …they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, breaking bread from house to house, (ate) their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

(47) Praising God, having favour with all the people…the Lord added daily such as should be saved.

Now, the thing is in here, they received approbation form the people. There could be a time when the end time Bride does, but that will peter out like it did in their time. But you notice in here, they were in one accord, said the same thing and they had a commonness of understanding, a moving by the Holy Spirit.

64. Let's go to the Book of Acts 8:9-17, Now, you get down here…you'll find where Philip goes on down to Samaria. The people go on down there and preach and this fellow, after he gets through preaching, signs and wonders begin to happen. The things of God begin to move into the realm of the supernatural. Simon is baptized, and of course he wants to receive some of the gifts of God, to pay for them. And he is exposed.

Then you get down here to verse 26, Philip goes down to the desert, called of God down there in order to help one man. Then you get to chapter 9, and you get to verses 9-16, you'll find where Paul is struck down by a Light. God speaks to Ananias, and tell Ananias how to go down there and pray for him and what is going to happen.

You go to chapter 10 of the Book of Acts and you'll find how God is speaking to the people down at Cornelius' house. And also He's speaking to Peter and He gets them together and the move of God is on there. Then in chapter 13 you'll find that Paul and Barnabas are separated to the work, where they are called by the Holy Ghost.

In chapter 14:8-10, you'll see that Paul goes down and he's able to tell by the look on a man's face that there's an inherent faith there. And he prays for the man, and the man gets healed. And in chapter 16:16-18, you can see a demon possession being dealt with, but only as God allows Paul to deal with the case.

65. Now, what I'm trying to show you here there's a precedent. Back in the early days the Church was in order in the gifts. The Church was in order when it came to the leading of the Holy Spirit. And people go back and they must admit that superabundantly above all anybody could ask or think, was happening back there in the Book of Acts, and they're wondering why it happened. They're saying, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." [Heb 13:8] But they forget that the same One, yesterday, today, and forever does not give Himself into the hands of men. But He, Himself being the Word is bound by the Word.

So therefore, if we are going to have the Word of God manifested in superabundance, it means that people must get back to this understanding that if anything is going to be done, it is going to be done by God's Own permissive will. And I'm not talking about permissive will now, out here in the world. I'm talking about God giving permission in His will, that that might be done, because He is doing It. (See?)

66. Now, the Church is coming to It. It hasn't come to It yet. Some people get tired and want to throw the gifts out. Just don't you do a thing about those gifts. You just wait and see. You got a room downstairs, good idea to come some night, and just wait on the Lord. …?... if things does not happen, so what if it doesn't happen. But you see, what we're looking for is that that Bride has the Word at the end time and knows what to do with It. How wouldn't she, if Christ Himself is the Word? And He is now here from the Vertical into the horizontal and there's been a restoration.

And Bro. Branham said, "For the first time in two thousand years, the Holy Spirit has been liberated from creed and dogmas." Man doesn't need any more to worry, or to try to pray, or to try to figure something out. Like I hear there's going to be a missionary workshop in Canada. Where are you Bro. Branham, did you ever have a missionary workshop? Now, Bro. Branham said, "If you thought nice thoughts." And he could tell He was here. So, He's somewhere in a dimension. But Bro. Branham is not going to answer back. But I know Bro. Branham didn't have a missionary workshops. I know he was a workshop that God worked in. (See?)

These people who call…many people call themselves 'Message people'. Now, I'm not here for anarchy sake, I'm here right for the sake of this Word here, that is Bro. Branham said, "There's a Bride out there somewhere. If we're not…" So, that's the thing, hold your sights with the Word. And by the grace of God if we're Bride it'll manifest. So, don't try to put something on and think you're going to be Bride. (See?) That's that old wolf in sheep clothing bit.

67. So, as you go back to the Book of Acts and you see the superabundance for the shadow of Peter healing the sick, they went to the Gate Beautiful. They had master over devils, serpents could bite them and not do any harm. That's not trying to pick up serpents and say, "Well, we'll see if he bites or not." I'd like to see anybody at all pick up a Gila monster [venomous lizard] and just see and get away with it, or an anaconda. Or just go ahead and put your hand in a box of spiders, (you know) the brown recluse, and see what happens.

It's the same thing when people tempt God, is to force an issue. (See?) We got to get back where the Scripture is. And that is where we are today waiting for the full blessings and manifestations of God.

Now, never forget It says over here in Matthew 28:19, to baptize in the Name of Father, Son and Holy Ghost. But then the literal revelation came, It was 'Lord Jesus Christ'. And so here at the end time, we have available to us the completely revealed Word of God, where we stand, and we just need the Spirit of God now to tell us wherein we're to conduct ourselves.

68. Now listen, in Galatians 5:24-26

(24) And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

That's if you're baptized with the Holy Ghost, you have stepped outside the realm of humanity per se, and into the realm of the Spirit. Then It says:

(25) If we live in the Spirit,…(if we're born again, baptized into Christ) let us (then) walk in (It.)

In other words, get lined up with the Spirit. Get lined up with the Word.

(26) Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

That's right back to your old Church order. Guy says, "I'm not anything, because I'm not the preacher. I'm not this, I'm not that." Back and forth. And here was the whole body full of schism. Here was the whole body just literally wasting away, because people could not recognize that every single one was a member of Him and a member of each other. And pulling together, and they weren't trying to put something on, but the minute they tried to put something on.

See, old Simon the sorcerer, "Let me buy one of those gifts."

And Peter said, "Drop dead. Your money perish with you." You think you can buy a gift?

Now, there's nobody today that can't get a gift. But what about it? God doesn't give us gifts to use those gifts. You say, "Well, I thought He gave us gifts to use." Only in the exercise of His will, that Christ exercises.

69. Now, Bro. Branham said, "The people got too nervous and jittered up that they wouldn't wait." So you had Korah's scheme, Dathan's scheme, all those guys working up programs, golden calf's, everything else. But he said, "There were those just a few that waited right with Moses." So, they went in with Joshua, and my what a great people they were. (See?)

Now, notice verse 25 again:

(25) If we live in the Spirit let us walk in the Spirit.

If we're born again then brother/sister we're born of the Word, let us then live the life of that Word under the moving of the Holy Spirit, so that when It comes to these various ministries of which everybody has one is a part, it will be done by the Holy Spirit. (See?) That's why Bro. Branham always hit women preachers. That was the best one he could hit. Women absolutely cannot preach. Oh boy, they got excited to win souls, they're right out there slugging.

70. Now, just for a second, we can go back and look at the sermon we preached on Galatians 2:20. You know that one there.

(20) I am crucified with Christ: (I'm full of the Holy Ghost. Now, I'm dead to myself) neverthless , (yet) I live; not I, Christ (lives) in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,…

It's the very same thing he's saying here again, that when you are baptized with the Holy Ghost there is a complete substitution, God looking at Him instead of us. But at the same time there is a life that wants to come forth. It is the Life of Christ.

So, in closing, just try to get this picture clear as I can. The Headship of Christ truly cast down all that is against Him as in 2 Corinthians 10:5. Now, let's take a look at that. It says:

(5) Casting down (reasonings) and every high thing that (exalts) itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Now, he said, "Our weapons are not carnal, we don’t war after the flesh, but mighty through God." [1 Cor 5:4] How are they mighty through God? God exercising Himself in various ways according to Scripture, bringing forth a manifestation. And this is where the Church will come forth in power and in great demonstration. That's where Bro. Branham was. And this is our inheritance at the end time. But to do it, you've got to cast down reasonings, and everything that would come against God's Word. See, man will say everything.

71. Poor old Daddy Bosworth said of Bro. Branham, "Bro. Branham you said you can have a wrong vision. Why, (he said) Africa's ripe with what you've got going, win those natives to God." That the German, the Boers over there said, "Well, you work, you're our mercy. We just cut your finances off." Here's poor old Bro. Branham stranded over there.

He said, "Gentlemen, I'm not going to go." Finally he said, "I'll go, but mark my word, nothing but nothing will happen." Then he gave three signs, he said, "Tomorrow morning there won' t be the same car, it'll be a black car, a different driver. And brother, you'll see a man in a white suit beating a black man with a cane. And thirdly, Bro. Baxter will see a strange bird fly over it. This is to let you know, 'Thus saith the Lord, don't go!"

Oh, but they knew better. Here's a great ministry. Here's a great man. "Oh, we'll win thousands, hallelujah, we'll bring them in, glory to God." Oh yeah, they went there and such thunder storms broke as Africa had never seen, and nothing was done. And Bro. Branham almost died of …?... dysentery. Of course he wasn't going to die. But God just pummeled the stuffing right out of him. And he paid a big price.

72. Now, you see what we're talking about. (See?) It's just like God always did have birth control, but people went at it the wrong way. Back there in the Garden, the birth control was, "don't touch each other, till I say you can do it, for you'll bring them in this way."

Every single thing of God is under control of that Word. And right today, we live in a specialized era of the Word and knowing when and how to use It; because the Spirit has been loosed to cause It to come. (See?)

Now, I believe with all my heart that's what lies absolutely within the Bride right now, and right down that road. And whether it's on this side of the Resurrection by one inch, or two inches on the other side, I care not, there is a Bride that has that. (You see) In the mean time, we are to bring our thoughts into captivity to it. Now, I know it opens every door to kookism. I'll not deny it. It opens every door for someone to start praying again for hours. Like that fellow, that Speedy, they called. That isn't his name, but that's what a fellow called him 'Speedy'. He went forty days, and forty nights, and he came out to leave his wife and marry somebody else's woman.

73 The prophet warned that nobody, but nobody ever goes over three days in a fast. (See?) The Word of God distinctly allows two days per week on a fast. And Israel actually …?... fasted in one day. Bro. Branham only took three day fast himself, and usually he ate a little bit something at night. But if you say, "I'm going to bulldoze my way, I'm going to do so and so." You do, and you watch out, you'll fall right flat on your face. (See?)

I know this Message could open up doors if you just sit back and be lazy and say, "Well, hallelujah, then if God doesn't do it, it won't be done. The Bible Itself already said It. "Except the Lord wants a city, the watchman watches but in vain. Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that buildeth." [Ps 127:1]

But you see, there is a people today that are going right back to the beginning…restored, Bro. Branham said, "Right back to Eden." Now, we're not looking for the Millennium brother/sister and the glorified body to give us all the answers. Although God knows every answer, I talked about here and there. But I'm talking right now, "that which is perfect has come." [1 Cor 13:10] The Headship of the Word. And we're just waiting on a Bride who's got enough faith in that Word in that Word to just stay in the sun and mature, to grow up into Christ, so the full benefit of the revelation of Him, not only to us as this Husband, Head of the Church, His working in us as the Light.

74. Now, it won't be like 1 Corinthians 12:1 where people were led away to idols and put great pressure on and (you know) prostrated themselves, and got themselves all worked up. But it's going to be a life of faith and love, and the way that one can know if the Headship is Christ is by the restored and revealed Word. Because that Spirit within us will not tell us one word opposite to what has been given us in this hour. (See?) All leadings and actions will live with every harmonized Word which has been given today.

That's why It reads as It does in 1 Corinthians. Follow after spiritual things. Want them, be desirous to be an active member in Christ. Don't be afraid to hold your hand out as though God might do something with you and for you. That's fine. But he says right in there, "Remember that there's something that goes with it. And he said when you're working on the lateral, (which you're working on) you don’t' become a 'prim donna' out there, you are a part of that body. And whatever is manifested is a part for the whole. And he said, "Then you better get a little love in your life." You just get sketched…and Paul bring yourself right down, and you know love speaks of marriage you see. Just love toward God. Love toward each other. He said, "Don't get all puffed up in your mind." [1 Cor 8:1] Like you're going to be like some great person. (See?)

75. Everyone before God is a great person. The Great One is the Holy Ghost. What a tremendous meeting would be, as Bro. Branham often told us, "What a great time it would be." He said, "If everybody just got their spirits under control and God's Spirit." And that sweet Spirit just came amongst the people, (see?) of expectation. (See?) Who knows what God would do?

You say, "Well, Bro. Vayle there's going to be some then great meeting where some great thing could happen." That's in New York had all figured out. So, the great preacher was going to see the great manifestation and say, "Highya, highya, highya." Well hogwash. Let me tell you flat, I don't believe it's going to be any kind of meeting. It's going to be a people who just all around here, and all around there. If there's any meeting, will be a strictly a church order deal, it'll be fine.

I don't believe it's going to be any great meeting where we're going to call big prayer lines with great ministry. I don't say it couldn't happen. But I'm looking brother/sister at a life within the Church. And I want to ask you, "When a man shows mercy, he's going to be just in the church here?" If a man is going to give with simplicity, is going to be in here? It's going to be out there somewhere. It wasn't any great big church meeting brother/sister as I look at the Book of Acts. It was men going here, and men going there. And men doing this, and men doing that. People were being led. I believe women were led to do the right thing. Men were led to do the right thing. (See?)

76. We are in that Age right today then, that the Vertical which has been thoroughly vindicated, indicated as that Revealed Word, the Headship Christ; which always was the Headship. There's now ready to move on the same plain within the horizontal. Because that's exactly what Bro. Branham taught, and he said, "That's your going back to Pentecost when that Vertical came right down and went right into the horizontal."

And Peter could go down that street and the sick were healed. He could be put in prison and the angel come and take him out. You say, "Are those things going to happen?" I don't know what's going to happen. I don’t know. But he said, "If it ever sent forth another Branch the Book of Acts would repeat." And I believe that Branch is here. And I don’t say the Book of Acts per se will repeat, it's going to be a …?... and have a bloody flux and is going to get healed. There's going to be a Paul with a shipwreck.

No, we've already had our Paul, he got killed. But there's going to be a people who have the Word and they know what it's all about, and what to do with It. And that people of one mind as Bro. Branham said, let twelve, even twelve get that one mind, there'll be a Rapture. (See?)

77. So, here we are, the Vertical through the horizontal. No reason brother/sister, there's no way is that ever going to fail. It's going to come to pass in your day and mine, and I still say with the prophet, "If we're not Bride, (or our day is going to pass off, …?... Bride, some of us may die) there's a Bride out there somewhere." And exactly what he said is going to transpire, because it's already here… Shall we rise.

Gracious Eternal Father, again we praise and thank You, for the privilege of having been here, Lord, to study Your Word together to see these things in the Scripture, to see what happens when the Holy Spirit comes. To see what would happen as He has come in this last Age, and to hear and to know in a little, not veiled in, but revealed to us that there is a Bride who has the Word of God and knows what to do and what to say, or she keeps still. She doesn't make a move, because it is the exercise by You of Your power within us that is going to do the exceeding abundant.

Lord God in Heaven I pray that the people here will be encouraged to believe that without overdoing emotion, without fanaticism, without them planning anything but believing, Lord, Your Word, that we're a part of It. And there will be a move of that Spirit of You, Lord, moving in a Bride, that You can move through, and It will be You doing it. And it won't be You and I telling us You do it, but it would be us, Lord, hopefully waiting here to hear from You.

And I know, Lord, it opens the door as it must to many people who would be just a irrational amongst us as they would be in one of the most charismatic meetings. Call unto the virgin Mary to hail her and glorify, and you'd have all these manifest. I know that, Lord, but I do know, Lord, that there is a people who can take it, and I trust everyone here can. Take it absolutely as were laid out by the prophet. And here it is so clear in Your Word, that when You gave us the Holy Spirit, You Yourself came in. You did not say here I am Your slave, I will now do what You want. With the apostle Paul it became abundantly clear to all of us that we are all Your slaves. And we, Lord, will open ourselves that You can do what You want, that if we're going to see the glory of God manifested to the world, through the church at this particular time.

And, Lord, I pray that this prayer of ours tonight that we be Your bond slave. And we be, Lord, of those to whom that Word is given, and know that Word and fall in line with that Word. Bless each one in Divine Presence, Lord, heal the sick amongst us, O God, we pray if it be Your will tonight. We know it is Your will to heal. But, Lord, perhaps at this moment there's something there that would refrain the power of God for manifesting itself so many times, even the prophet said that must be out of the way, Lord, there be anything we pray the Blood will cover it. Help us, Lord, to get those things lined up. That's part of Your Word to speak to our hearts.

Let us not be foolish, Lord, trying to confess this, that and the other thing, which is not relevant. O God, let us not fail to confess that which is relevant. Let us not attempt to run hither and yon and do those things which are not relevant. But let us, O God, never fail to do that which is relevant until that Spirit moving amongst us see the full will of Almighty God done.

I know, Lord, that's what the prophet preached, and that's what we all want tonight. And if there's anyone here, Lord, tonight, myself included, to think there might be too big a price to pay, we just stop and realize there's a bigger price we are paying, and not seeing it done. So, grant tonight, Lord, that shackle be entirely move into a state of dissolution, O God, that which should be dissolved, until we're standing on with the solid Rock of revelation in hearing from You.

God, grant it tonight, Lord. We saw so much, we saw the perfect illustration, we saw it all. Lord in Heaven, spur us on as Paul tried to spur them on. "If you live in the Spirit, walk in It." Help us to walk in It, Lord. No matter what it takes, O God, and You're able because You're the Head. You're the strong One. Cause us, Lord, make us willing to go all the way.

Now, unto the King Eternal, immortal, the only wise God, be all power and honor and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Lord bless you.

Let's go singing a little song 'Take the Name of Jesus with you'