The Nicolaitianiam Laodicean Complex - Erie Pa

brought to our attention. Now, I want to bring to a subject tonight that has intrigued me for quite some time, because the end age ends up in two systems working together, which is the Nicolaitan and the Laodicean. And because this age ends in the Laodicean form of church worship, many people not...

prone to understand the Nicolaitan continuance, because they both continue this age until the Lord comes. And they find many people have left organization. They won't come into the message. They have the same spirit with them that they came out of, that organization. And this is a bad situation, and I am a little afraid. from what Brother Branham taught us, that this Laodicean -Nicolaitan complex were the monsters who believed in this message and tried to follow the teaching of Brother Branham. And this message is based upon my experience in America as I travel around and visit the various churches and also in Europe. And I'll try to keep from mentioning names or be too obvious in what I'm saying.

should be able to gather from the word of God and what I say to be well warned where we stand tonight and what precautions should be taken to keep us in a healthy position which I'm afraid many people are not in tonight and I say this with all sincerity without fear of contradiction because with no problem I could name names and places and what has been said so Now, this is not a scandal sheet you're going to hear tonight. It won't be the Inquirer, the Chronicle, or a true magazine or something. It's not meant to be that way. It's an absolute analytical study from the Word of God and what we have right today in America and in Europe, around the world, who say they believe this message. So, that's my thought tonight on the Nicolae and Laodicean complex of the engine. Before I bring it, let's bow our heads in prayer. Gracious Father, I pray tonight you'll help me to be very, very objective to bring out the solid facts of the truth of your word, Lord, in such a way that when people will see what is in the land or what might come near them in their churches, in their homes, and in their relationship to this end -time message, the word of warning, Lord, will be sufficient to cause them to not only know where they stand, but to give them strength in the stand that they have taken. Lord, that we as preachers may not fail you and that the people as your sheep may not fail you. But together, Lord, we may be one in the revelation of thy divine will, which is thy word. Help us tonight, therefore, Lord, to say the things that ought to be said, to refrain from the things that ought not to be said. Lord, the ears might also be open to understand that which they ought to know and close, O God, the ears to that which they ought not to hear. We pray tonight we should therefore be one in understanding and faith and love and sobriety with the Holy Spirit, bringing us into a Holy Spirit -manifested life through the Word. Bless each one of us, O God, and may we forever be devoted to you and to each other and stand firm in the faith at this end time. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Now, we can turn to the book of Revelation, chapter 2, verse 6. And

then also chapter 3, verse 14. 2 and 6.

But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. And 3 .14. Unto the messenger, which is in the church in Laodicea, write thee right. These things set thee, amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God. Now, my message might just as well be entitled From Subjugation to Anarchy. from subjugation to anarchy. The first church age began with a subtle form of subjugation. The last church age ends in anarchy. Yet these two must exist together and end up together worshiping the devil. Also, we can show you by Scripture that they both start in the first church age, for all seed must have its origin in the beginning. There can be no seed that comes to fruition or harvest in the odyssey of the seventh church age which was not planted in the first church age. And you will notice this is true because when the Spirit speaks by the Apostle John, he invariably says, let him that hath an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He doesn't say to the church of each age. He says to the churches. Every age has its own particular... message which sets forth what that age will be like. But also within this series of seven ages there is an interrelationship. And here we find what ends up as anarchy had to start in that first church age. Now you'll notice in Revelation 2 and 6 the Holy Spirit says you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans. Now later on he mentions the deeds become a doctrine. But at this time, it is merely the hatred of the deeds. It has not become a doctrine, but it's incipient in the church, and it is in a seed form. Now, what is a Nicolaitan? The word Nicolaitan comes from two Greek words, the first of which is Nikeo, which is to conquer. Secondly, the word is Leos, which means laity. So, therefore, Nicolaitan means... To conquer the laity. This is to make a captive audience of the people. To bind the people to a man -made system of creeds and dogmas and to a religious formula. They will be bound there. And they are subjugated. They're conquered. In other words, the will of a clergy takes dominion over the will of the people. Yet at the end time, the will of the people becomes supreme. But they both have to start in the beginning. Now, this Nicolaitan system started originally by subtle changes in Paul's gospel. And this is what I want you to mark. Now, you may not realize I made a very, very, very important statement here. That this system, this Nicolaitan system, which Brother Brown traced through the church ages, which ends with the system worshiping the devil thinking he's God, began with subtle changes in the word as originally given by Paul. You say, well, I think it was organization. Where did organization come from?

How to start? You just can't look at the picture and say, well, I understand the church system and how it's functioning and the terrible thing it's doing, but you've got to see where it came from. Otherwise, it will not do you any good to hear this message tonight because all you'll be is confused. You won't know what I'm talking about. You won't know what to look for. You won't even know what's happening. See? Now, will you pardon this? I could become very personal here, and it wouldn't touch any of you people in this room, but I could become very personal at this minute and show you a Nicolaitan system right now in what we call the message.

Absolute Nicolaitan system.

So what did I say a minute ago? I said this began by subtle changes in the word. as delivered by Paul. Now, what did I say? Do you hear what I said?

I'm a little spooky, so don't mind if I sort of embarrass you. I don't mean to embarrass you. I just mean to make sure you're going to get this. See? All right, we go to the book of Acts, the 20th chapter. In the book of Acts, the 20th chapter, we're going to see where this took place. Beginning in verse 17, And from my leader Paul sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church. Now, the elder never was a part of the fivefold ministry.

God never gave elders and deacons to the church as part of the established ministry ordained and elected of God. He couldn't. For had he given seven, it would have felt completion and perfection. And the church could not have fallen any more than Adam could have fallen or Eve could have fallen except that Eve was a subsequent creation after Adam. You understand? But when he gave... and elders, it brought the ministry to sevenfold, but not God's sevenfold.

Now just keep that in mind as we go down the trail. And then when they were came to him, he said to them, You know from the first day I came to Asia, after the manor I have been with you in all seasons, serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears and temptations, which the family by the laying away to the Jews, and how I kept back nothing that was probable unto you, but I have showed you and taught you publicly, and from house to house. Notice what he did. He taught them publicly, testifying both to the Jews, to the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. And now, behold, I go bound in the Spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there. Faith that the Holy Ghost witnesses in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me. But none of these things move me. See? And notice later on what does move him. Neither count I my light dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus. to testify the gospel of the grace of Christ. What was his ministry? To bring out this gospel of grace. And now behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. Why? For I have not shunned to declare unto you the counsel of God. Now notice why he's free from the blood of all men. Not because he testifies. Not because he was a preacher. Not because he was a missionary. Not because he healed the sick. But because he was true to the word of God. See? Now, you must remember that. Many people say, well, women are okay to preach. It's all right. I'm just okay to try to serve God the way I'm doing because I want to bring him soul. I say, ridiculous.

You are not free from the blood of anybody unless you bring the unadulterated word of God.

If you bring the adulterated word of God, then you are not free from the blood of all men. You are guilty of their blood. Brother Brannan categorically stated, he said, you people listen to me. I will be judged by Jesus Christ. And if I have taught you a lie, I will be judged for what I have taught you. You will not be judged. So how can anybody be freezing the blood of anybody unless he is one with his word? See? Now this gives the lie then to missionary programs, so -called, Sunday schools and everything else. Now this may be cutting pretty close, but I can't help it. I'm not interested in how people feel because I can't spare my own feelings when I'm up here. I've got to stay true to this word. And Paul said he was true. He was free from the blood of all men on the ground that he delivered the word that he said you cannot add one word to. In fact, if I myself come, said Paul, and add or take one word from what I've taught you with me, let me be accursed.

There's no freedom. Now you understand why I'm saying these things. Because if I said anything different, then immediately I will be condoning and standing with... the people today that I know God condemned because they turned down the prophets.

You can't do it. In other words, I'm not coming to share with you all the counsel of God. What is the counsel of God? The revealed truth.

Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers to feed the church of God which God has purchased with his own blood. Now what is the blood? How can God have blood? That's almost a silly thing. God doesn't have blood. He's spirit. But when God created himself, In the form of human flesh, as Brother Branham said, Jesus Christ is the blood of God, created blood in the womb of Mary. Now, doesn't that make sense? Because we were purchased by Jesus. He prayed to retain your redemption, right? What is the blood of God, Jesus said? For this I know, that after my departing, now watch now, shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also, of your own self, shall men arise, seeking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore, watch and remember that by the space of three years, I seek thought to warn every one of you night and day. Now, we know this. We can prove by history that it is the elder that made himself the bishop, which is all right. He's the bishop. That's his office. And he took authority over everybody else in the church apart from the local congregation and put it over a whole diocese, so to speak. Now, where did it start? It started right here in men arising. Men that Paul had taught. that sat under his ministry. And he said, you are going to pervert the word of God and draw away disciples after yourself. Disciples away from whom? Away from Paul.

Because Paul was the original teacher. And he said, here is where it starts. This is a Nicolaitan system. And it starts by people taking the truth of Almighty God for that age and then they twist it in order to attract the attention unto themselves. They

get disciples. These men in turn are learners, see? Now, this is that Ephesian church.

Notice that Paul found it. We

recognize the epistle to the Ephesians is the most beautiful heavenly epistle in the whole Bible. The

word of God.

Perverting the word of God.

Extended the authority beyond the bounds. The authority

in the church. The thing

that God gave them and perverted it. And

they twisted it through their

creeds and dogmas. John spoke of this very trouble which I read to you in Revelation 2 and 6. The

Nicolaitans said,

as I said,

The clergy binding men and women to themselves by false interpretation of the Word. This is the clergy I'm talking about. I'm not talking about you people. I'm talking about me.

Together, the clergy and the people are void of God. Modern denominations have their seed here through organizations which

come to you in cheap clothing. But inwardly, they are ravening wolves. Many people will just not take the Bible the way it's written. They want their own interpretation on it. The people sitting in most of the pews are our ministers. They reserve to themselves the right to interpret this verse the way they want to interpret it. Now, the verse is triveted this way. It's very, very simple.

It's a man who acts on

the fruit of the Spirit according to Galatians 5. Love, joy, peace, meekness, gentleness, long -suffering, and mercy. So on. The

men that I have trained are going to rise up and pervert you. This

is the one inside. This is the one to describe each one. The

third chapter. No

hospitality. No

striker. Not greedy of filthy lucre. Not a brawler. Not covetous. One who rules his own house well. His children and subjects with all gravity. For a man does not know how to rule his own house. How to rule the church of God. Not a novice. Not look it up with pride. Lest he fall into condemnation. He's got to be humble. Moreover, he must have a good report of him that I was out. Lest he fall into reproach. And not the snare of the devil. Now, isn't that what Paul said was going to betray the church? I'm going to ask you a question now. You know I don't mean it first.

Or are you on your toes? I'm

listening.

He's loving, sweet, and kind, and gentle. He passed the test. He's

going to maintain what Moses. Oh, right,

then God's the last. Shut the door and forget the meeting. Smarter than God. You've got to figure it out. He

who took the cake

and bummed the doors around, beating up his wife and... kicking his children and comes home, you know, late in the morning after being crowded with the local women down the street, you know, and he just robs the store. Oh, no, come on, come on. This man is, this man, he's the... You

should know them by their food.

Get some grapes off you, see, that's where you're going to come. Attention

on this and show them

to know if you wrote a message like this, you'd get bunked out of school. And

then talk about a tree?

God's not sick to show you this wolf in sheep clothing is a tree. But

when the Bible talks about... Well, it talks about trees are two vines or two trees. And they're in the middle of the garden. Because that's where all the trouble came from was from two trees. They wouldn't take the right tree, so they took the other tree. And the one tree was what? Good and evil. Now, God never made anything evil. You can't find one thing in the Bible that God made. You always say, well, God created evil. That word is trouble. Word

of God perverted. Led

the church to its death. Very

godly, that's it. Cannot

bring forth evil fruit. Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Cannot

bring forth evil fruit.

I cannot pervert the word of God. I am rough on the principle that I'm running across all the time. He

said, now wherefore by their fruits you shall know them. What's he talking about? The fruit of the tree. Good and evil. Cannot be a member of the bride and be partaking of the tree of the knowledge of you because it's death. The

sister is knowledge. N -K -N -O -W -L -E -E -G.

Partation of the mind. Is the womb. Now if you want to get pregnant and all dirtied up with venereal disease, you listen to creeds and dogmas. The

bride's got a whoring mind.

Monstrosity like...

you know then what fruit is he talking about? One

to the end time again. And you'll understand why I'm saying this. Which

doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Listen carefully here.

Have we not prophesied in thy name? Now listen. I'm going to show you something. That is the will of God that you prophesy. That's

the devil. There's no doubt they've cast the devil. They

do what of origin is not

the will of God and it's iniquity.

Because you can take every word in this book that you think brings you life and it'll change it. And it's

how God said it. See thou make everything according to the pattern I showed you in the mouth. And he raised up men like Bezal. He was the spirit of God upon him to do what he said to do. The

framework of the word of God. Now illustrate simply. Women preachers. She

went to the graveyard and blew a company off. I say glory to God. You'll drop dead again because the wrong one brought you. I

know one thing and the white throne doesn't. She and the whole bunch will still go to hell. Not because I say so. Don't misunderstand me. But I'm going to stand on what the word of God says. I'll take my chance with this word here to make it or not make it. You

can arrive at God's conclusion because you're aiming at it. Where do you get Sunday school in the Bible?

teaching your kids in church what you already know from God by revelation, and they get it up here and it doesn't go down here, and they go out doing the things that you do, and they look like Christians, and they act like Christians, but they haven't got a thing from God. And Pentecost thought that could never happen with tongues, because they said it's the Holy Ghost. But the Bible said in the end time there'd be anointing, even the devil could talk to tongues. It's

straight because it'll help you. Brother Branham said, when the bride becomes a virgin of the Word, she will have the Word of God in her and know what to do with it. People don't. Jesus

said, by whom do your children cast out devils? They were casting out devils, and yet they crucified the word. In

the Greek or Hebrew, you raised your voice in the wrong place. You changed the word in us. You

are like white a sepulcher. Now, who is describing us? He was not a legitical priesthood minister. In

words, you're full of dead men's bones and all unclaimed. Even so, you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. What does God call these men that handle the word that God defeated? He calls them hypocrites. Add

one word, you get the place.

Wonderful how Brother Brannan taught us on the body stolen to

give us that revelation. I

got news animals do have.

One case against

the prophet. He traced

your scripture, found it all the way through there. He traced for a soul in his heart, but didn't have a soul. Animal does not have that inner soul. He does not have the knowledge between right and wrong where the soul is, because otherwise, why does the soul die when you sin? If it doesn't have the difference, no difference between right and wrong. Good

and evil is in the soul. Stop

making one mistake. Just hold your horse until God shows you. The

whole book of us just takes time.

You need good and evil. Animals don't know that. That's why they're naked. It doesn't matter. They commit sex acts out there. It doesn't mean anything. That's a man. He can't help it. He's just an animal. He doesn't like to worry about that thing. But here's what he said next. Now he said, when you sin, it's the body, but it comes back when you die. The

resurrection is already over. Or he

said, now the soul, when you sin, it is the body. When

I preach in the Holy Ghost, I've got to talk to everybody else in the Holy Ghost. Find the most you have. When I preach this message here, I've got to be aware of anything going on. I've got to teach in such a way that when you meet the horse down the road, you want to say, hey, that's a fine -looking elephant. It's

terrible for a Christian to do that. I

wasn't

followed that. But remember, there comes a time when something we'll never learn. We trust we're not in that category. When they said what Paul said, they would quote it with their own explanation and idea. That's being done right today. On Europe, a man discussed church orders. And he gave his explanation, not Brother Branham's. You

don't have church orders? I'm

on this copy for you. I

might say what Paul said. Paul

never drew from

a correct state. Correct one, like I told you a minute ago. While Paul was around, they could not do this for the people that had access to Paul. I'm going to be leaving you.

Up inside, when I go, you're going to change. He

said, don't change a word. But with Paul gone, anything went from that time on.

the seeds of anarchy were there too, because this is anarchy.

The first chapter,

you speak all the same things, and there be no division among you, that you be perfectly joined in the same mind, the same judgment. Now, who started the church of Corinth? Paul did. He brought the word of God.

Unto me of you, my brethren, that there be some in the house of clothes, that there be contention among you. Now, this I say, that every one of you said, I'm a Paul, I'm a Paulus, I'm a Cephas, I'm a Christ. This Christ abides and so on. Now, over here in 2 Corinthians, the 10th chapter, verses 9 and 10. that I may not seem as it would terrify you by letters, for his letters, they say, are weighty and powerful, but he's bought the presence as we can expect in the temple. He had already turned on Paul. And they denied church order. Now it's ministry. The people in Corinth denied church ministry.

You all come together in one place and every single thing is judged. And

Brother Branham tried to set his own church in order. Now get this and understand it. Brother Branham could not even set his own church in order. The

people would not do it.

Sovereign God, I believe I ought to hear you. Then turn around and deny church orders. Pull

out and go someplace else. And then nobody will come to die under anybody and see if the gifts will operate. 1

Corinthians, the 14th chapter, Paul said, in verse 36, What came the word of God out from you or came it unto you only? If any man think himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I said to you are the commandments of the Lord. Then he said, If a man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. What can you get, he's saying? You call me a prophet of God? You knew that I had the vindicated ministry. You knew I had to upset the Lord. And when I come to set the church in order, you had a word against me. And you defied me. He said, if that's not the height of ignorance, I've never seen any. Just go ahead and be stupid. I mean, Paul was looking like old E. Dale. He only did a nicer. And he had something to talk, but I don't. I don't have what Paul has. But I can feel for Paul and understand what he's talking about. What are you going to do with people? I

had a herd on them? In

the mouth of a red pipe? Until they understand what you're talking about? What is going on anyway? If William Branham was a prophet, then why did they withstand him? Because they withstood Paul. Anarchy started here in the first century. The seeds of anarchy are here in the first century. And the seeds of anarchy at the end time will lead the whole world outside the bride to the feet of the Antichrist. And those that wake up too late will die for their testimony. And the rest will worship God, thinking it's God, and they'll be worshiping the beast, the devil himself.

I'm just letting you know because this is an end time mystery. The

Holy Ghost will end up worshiping the devil. Just like number 16. When Moses was the man identified by God... to give them the word for that day, to lead them into the promised rest. They came up against Moses' 250 princes, which signified the elders of the congregation. They roamed up. They were men of authority. They were placed there to do a service in the house of Almighty God. They had manifested ministry. And they were to follow under Moses. And then when Moses turned his back, they perverted what Moses said. And they said, well, I've just met a Moses -fine guy, but we've got a fine word, too. They opened

the earth and put him down alive into the pit, destroying him by fire. God will do the same thing at the end time. I said to Brother Branham one day, Brother Branham, Something comes to my mind. He said, what is it? I said, I believe this, Brother Branham. If you are that prophet sent to God, Elijah, I said, God is going to have to vindicate your ministry by judging the minister to this day. He said, that's exactly right, Brother Dale. I did not know he had said it previously about a year before or this. Because

the ministers are the ones to blame. And the people are going to get the blame thrown on them if you want. Now, they ought to see it.

People's rights. Government by the people.

There's no place for democracy in the Bible.

Prophecy by a prophet. God ruling by the word which comes by.

ministering through the priesthood, which is ordained to bring the word to the people so they will not go astray. You cannot

come to God except you come by the church. Now that sounds like a real rough statement, doesn't it? I want to ask you one question. How do you get in the bride? How do you get to Christ unless you're in the bride? And how do you become a bride unless you get in her? So therefore, how can you get to Christ except you come by the church? The church can't do it. Because

if you come to Christ, you're in that bride. God

gives us a very exalted position, then we want something bigger. If we want something better, we want something bigger.

Government by many. setting up their own government. They put in men and tell them what they want done.

Contrary to the word. I find it so...

You better watch. You might

not agree with it. But

disagree with what he said. You disagree with God. So you better take a big club and hit him over the head.

Apostle Paul says, beginning at verse 9, He

first of all descended to the lower parts of the earth. And he that descended is the same also that sent up far above all things, above all heaven, and he might fill all things. And he gave some apostles and prophets and pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry. for the edifying of the body of Christ. Listen. Till we all come in the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure statutes of fullness of Christ, that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lay in wait for deceit, but speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things which is the head even Christ. What are these men going to do? They're going to keep you from getting into false doctrine. The fivefold ministry. The true truth. of God planted in the bride that

there'll not be a big crowd trying to win the world for God because it can't. One

example in William Branham. He

turned down a million dollars at one time. For another time. 50 ,000 another time. 10 ,000 another time. Five another time. Seven. He turned down millions. And he could have taken that same money and been on the radio, TV, newspaper, magazines, everything else. Why'd he do it? The

word of God. And yet there's a man not far from here in New York State and you know on his blackboard says the father. I challenge that man as I've challenged him before.

Somebody's lying.

If you

deny

this, you deny the very blood of Jesus Christ. Because God lied about his blood if he lied about this.

Neither can a good tree bring forth corrupt fruit. He said, it cannot be none. He said, listen, make up your mind. What am I, good or evil? Some said, this is the son of David. Some said, he's Beelzebub. Some said, he's doing works by God. Some said, by God. He said, make up your mind. He said, a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, and an evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit. Now, he said right here what these men are supposed to do. Let's

find out about these men. Let's get God set them in the church. Let's go to the book of Hebrews, the 13th chapter. The

13th chapter we read in verse 7.

is Nicolaitan instead

of God. God

is ruled by it. Bind them to nobody but God by the word. Bring

the end of their behavior. Verse 17. Obey them which have the rule over you and submit yourselves for they watch for your soul. How? By the word of God. As they that must give account that they may do with joy and not with grief for that is impossible for you. Verse 24. Salute them. Take them to your heart. Take them to your heart. Feed

my sheep. Feed my sheep. The Romans have to die, God. where the reading translation of the New Age says, Rule my sheep, rule my sheep, rule my sheep. They're both wrong. Rule my sheep, rule my sheep, feed my sheep. The

sheep of God are fed by the Lord.

Anybody who teaches anything other than the true word of God is a false shepherd.

Call him a false prophet. Why? Because a false prophet can do every genuine sign and wonder what the real prophet can do, but he doesn't have dust at the Lord, and he goes off that word. Dust

at the Lord. Every Old Testament prophet, dust at the Lord. Every man that brought this word here, these are chronologists, has dust at the Lord. Every prophet bringing the word.

But once, it

was just like many others. She said, you preachers had better quit preaching so we can put our tithes and tapes and send them around the world. Just quit preaching. She said, yeah. She

said, no. You ever hear Brother Bram say? She said, no. I said, why do you say? She said, because it's better to hear the tapes. We'll just send the tapes out. I said, sister, I got news for you. She wants God to almost kill me. In

judgment, supposing you're wrong and I live, would you stand in judgment at that day because I quit preaching because you said you? She said, no. I said, sister, I'm going to tell you what I told you in Chicago. You've got a fat mouth and a thin ear. When the Bible said you ought to have a fat ear and a thin mouth, because you're not supposed to do a lot of talking, you're supposed to do a lot of listening. And I said, about time you stopped, and I threw over the gold. Then she said, well, Brother Dale, I don't need men like you, because you go around teaching. I said, sister, condemn me, you condemn everybody. Truth,

more than you think it is. I'll take you to homes in Tucson right now and around the country, where next door in the suite will be playing next to where I'm rooming, and I'll hear the tape saying, Brother Vance, don't fail to go to church today, because

they love the Lord. It

started in the first church age. Time

harvested. sin. Let me explain it to you. The book of John. That's not the gospel of the epistle of John. 1 John. The

sin transgresses the law. For sin is the transgressing law. That's the wrong translation. That's not true at all. Sin is not the transgressing law. Sin is lawlessness. I'm

going to surprise you. There is no such

absolutely not. Nothing

that does not depend upon the law. Say, this man is lawless because he killed somebody. Hard walk. He employed the law. Hit hard enough on the head, he'll die. He

did not abide by what was laid out before him to abide by. Do not strike your brother. All

things were made by the word of God and all things are maintained by the word of God. The

Bible does not say here lawlessness as though there is no law. You've got to understand what it's talking about. Now let's find out what it's talking about. This will really give us a hell. Let's go to 2 Thessalonians, the second chapter. We're going to see this. The history

of iniquity does already work. Now, it's not iniquity. The history

of iniquity does already work. Notice in verse 8. Then shall that wicked be revealed. No, sir. Then shall that lawless one be revealed. This

man performing the lying. signs and wonders and controlling people law is my foot there's a law behind him in

that first stage when men begin to pervert the word because

this man is reincarnated he's incarnated in judas you know let's go to the 28th chapter hope i'm not bogging you down am i this is not really too much for you i think this is really quite simple of course i shouldn't have said that because then if you're bogged down and make you think like this sound like you're not getting simple things i don't mean it that way but it's to me if you preach to this you preach this thing The first time, the second time, it's that much clearer. By the time I preach it five times, it's just like, it's all so crystal clear. Now listen, Ezekiel 28. The

anointed chair of the covering. What

is the anointing? The word anointing is the same word that comes with Jesus had the anointing. They all had the anointing. But it's a little different. It comes from that word that it means stretching forth the wings in authority. In

the devil. One of those things that God gave him. He used his authority in all of these things, and he used it outside the framework of the word of God and against God.

Don't you see what this end -time church is doing? It's cringely worshipping God. It's using everything that God gave, even gifts and signs in the Holy Ghost they're going to use, and they're going to bring it right to the feet of the devil. Not because I say so, because the Bible says so. This lawless one is, as I say, and women, using the good things of God out of the framework of the Word. Women preachers. Didn't God say to go into all the world and preach the gospel? Did the men go? They wouldn't go. It wasn't in the days they went. Eight

years ago. He said, Brother Ben, you men wouldn't go. Well, I said, now, sister, hold on. I said, don't count me in there because I preach here in America. God never sent me anywhere. I've been preaching for years. Well, she said, maybe it doesn't apply to you so much, but she said it applies to a whole lot that wouldn't go. I said, sister, would you be surprised if you'd done wrong? Let me quote you the Bible. The Bible said, pray the Lord is a harvester that he will send forth labor. God never told you to go. He told you to pray and he would send them up. Why didn't you pray instead of going? They're

too busy serving God.

They're trapped by the devil.

That's a tremendous faith, but if you haven't heard the one in Shreveport, that's the one to hear. That's the best one of all. doing God a service, preaching the truth for it. They're in effect a clergy practice on Saturday morning. See? See, lawlessness. There is no such thing as lawlessness in the South because there's nothing without a law. Then what is it? It's taking what God laid down. As I said a while ago, God never made one evil thing. The Bible says there is nothing evil in the South. Nothing! You show me one thing that's evil in the South. You can't find it. The minute you do it, you've made God a liar. You say thorns, thorns and briars. No, sir, there's use out there for them somewhere. It's just a trade deal. There

is nothing iniquitous in itself. All things are pure to the pure in heart. We come back in the millennium. What's the millennium going to be? It's going to be identical to what it is now, except for buildings and things. It's going to be just as the earth renovated right here as the flood renovated the earth in the days of Noah. In the days of Noah, this world was so corrupt. It was so corrupt like it is today. The earth could not purify itself. Animals get diseases and they can't get healed. We get diseases and we can't get healed. With

atomic ash and bombs and things, God brought a flood. The water come down there like a... A chunk of ice hit your land. Caught such a pressure that it froze mastodon. Froze them so salt in Siberia. You could take a piece of flesh off right now and fry it. The grass is green in their mouth.

20 feet of silt. What did God do? He had the water down to purify the earth. Next time he's going to purify by process of civilization by fire. Here when he will walk upon the ash, the wicked walk in here among beautiful green trees and shrubs and flowing water.

There's nothing evil in the town. What man does with it. What's he going to do with it? At

the end time, what's he going to do? He's going to bring about a complete,

what is going to be done, according to 2 Timothy, the 4th chapter.

That word in the Greek is healthy. The word restore means to bring back to health. Therefore, the Bible says at the end time, They will not endure the restored Word of God. They can't take it. They won't endure it. In other words, it's going to be a pressure on them. People right now today are saying, well, Brother Dale, we ought to have... There's something missing. According to what the prophets taught, there is nothing missing. He said, when those seven spheres open, as you were given everything to put the bride in the rapture. Do

not get in your hearts and minds, it is this Word that counts. It is not character. So don't be fooled by it. Now, sure, a man ought to have character. Even a dog ought to have character, to defend the obedience rules.

It is not a gift ministry. There is only one thing this age has that no other age has. Otherwise, there would have been a rapture a long time ago. It's the restored, revealed word of God. Christ appearing amongst the bride by the descended word. Because

it's finished, he

said, because the gift is over. The age is on. The age of the move is on for the bride. What is that move? Move right into the word. Jesus Christ. When you've got the word, you know what to do with it. But

they don't want that. Now listen. The time will come when they will not endure healthy doctrine. They won't endure the revealed word of God. But after their own lust, their own pleasure, their own desire, their own want. That word lust is too strong. It fools you. Makes you think you're like a bunch of whore mongers out there messing around. That's not it at all. This word is pleasures in the Greek. The

teacher does not have an itchy ear, he's got an itchy mouth. The

kind of a man that they want. From

the field right today, because I preach this word of God hard and tough and to the point, and they go sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet. Then down a bunch of lies. I challenge you before God, I challenge anybody in this room, you find one place I ever preached a proper message without word after word after word and back it up. Guys

who don't, do

a David. 500 wives and less than half another woman. He rakes her, takes her, because who's going to deny the king? She can't stop being taken by the king. He's the king.

It was a lovely little feeling. And then she wanted him gratified. That suited her fine. Listen to me. She was a virtuous woman. Said, listen, king, keep your hands on me. He said, who are you trying to talk to on the king? What

kind of guy was David? And

after God's own heart. Sounded like he was like anybody we'd see. Listen,

that's God's judgment. God penalized David. He never ever forgot that sin. That was before him day and night. He paid a price, and his wives paid a price, and the nation paid a price. Turn

on David, said, I can't stand that.

He wouldn't get what God gave David either. So let's face that one now.

Let's put it where it is. See, we've got to come to a place where either this is right or it's wrong. I'm not going to preach something the prophet didn't preach. Brother Branham chatted Gordon, he said, and it slapped my face both sides when he said it is not character. I'm theologian. I'm theologian by foot. No,

don't mistake. We're not against character. You've got to have character. But that will not put you in it. People,

they want their own way. But

they'll still let men come around and fool you. That's

the word of God in Jerusalem. As

a memoriam to this message. I'll show you where Paul said the same thing in the 11th chapter of 1 Corinthians. Look on the church order tape, it's the same thing. Now listen, they want these teachers as they shall turn away from the truth and turn unto fables. What's a fable? Mostly we think of Esau's fables. It's a story with a moral to it. Now remember, this book does not have a moral to it. This book is life. And remember, there was a tree of life and a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You turn this book to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil from the tree of life the minute you take one thing from what the prophet said or you put your own interpretation on it. It's no longer the tree of life. No longer that. It won't give you life. It'll kill you.

To never having heard this message than to have heard and said you believe it and then turn and get yourself a preacher because you've got to make your ears. The

Bible says if you turn it down there is no room for repentance. To

this message go I go. There's no place to turn. You're

in the middle of the Word of God and you're not ashamed of

anything else like this message if I've served so many years and I'm very, very strong for fundamental community churches. And if I were to start my own church not knowing what this message does for us I would absolutely endorse it as the middle of their own message. The only message I could teach in the Word of God, I couldn't teach anything else. I'm

not claiming you're not any decent nation. I'm just telling you, I cannot understand how anybody would turn this aside, what they're going to do. They're going to want women preachers in short hair and slacks and this kind of thing and that kind of thing, you know, and perverted word. No, and you're going to have eternal hell just carry you into heaven. That's great, isn't it? That's great. Any psychologist knows that's the biggest farce in the world.

Because you know them yourself and you're stopping them. And it says they'll turn away their ears from the truth because they've got preconceived ideas of what they want in a preacher.

They turned away.

...reflection, do the work of the banjo, make full proof of thy ministry, for I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, and Brother Branham, one night before he died, he said, you read the rest of it. He was telling us it was ready to go.

...reveal God. The word ministry was over. I think I taught that message here on the present truth. It's in there. How the word came forth, and then every time the word came forth, the messenger went. Branham said, God take me, save the messenger, in order to judge the nation, to judge the people. So Brother Branham knew like Paul. that he was going to go. See, he knew he was going with him. And now he said, don't you be fooled.

But they get fooled anyway. Now, today people are denying the five full ministers, I said. They go off in groups and fight God's ordained ministry. Now, don't think they don't because they do. They're

out in the body of believers and they're fighting the five full ministers.

Well, God never raised up faith. The food was on tape and the last Germany priest in California, he commissioned the preacher to take what he said and break it down and teach the poor. They

want what they want. They go

off in groups. That's what they do. They do not want God's ordained elders, though the Word demands it. Now, not just not true,

but who is ordaining elders? Yes,

I do. Let the elders that will know it. Let the elders that rule, especially

those who labor in the Word and doctrine, give

up their money until a preacher comes by to give it to him, and they won't support the man that God ordained to be with them. He

does nothing but full -time ministry of the Word, and he's not even five -fold member. He's an elder. He's

worthy of double honor.

It doesn't go to widows. It doesn't go to maintain the church. It doesn't pay light bills. It doesn't pay charity. It doesn't build buildings. It's one thing. He said the faithful ministry takes in the tithes, all of the tithes, and he uses only what he needs personally for his family and self, and the rest goes to the other ministry.

Before he wants to know who's doing it. God

will not commit you to true riches. And yet they say they're truly in the word of God, they're true feet of God, and they won't even do right by a dollar bill. You're

busy trying to hand him the money to look good, and they forgot the men out there laboring. And so they couldn't go on the field because the Bible said you ought to send them out there.

Bypass, I'm in one plug nickel, brother. I lay everything on the altar, trusting God year after year for about eight thousand years. We paid 20 % of our growth to make sure God was blessed. Today I'm out of debt. I don't think

we'd be bankrupt. I

believe God because I've been faithful to God and he cannot fail. We're

preaching and showing you what the Bible teaches because I've studied this thing now for years watching it. Because

one doesn't die and the other takes over. They're both there. My brother Brian said the man's spirit doesn't have to go right back. That's both with God and the devil.

The Spirit came back on Elijah and John the Baptist, and William Brannan comes back again. They

won't do what God tells them to do.

He works in doctrine indeed. And they won't do what the Scripture says. You bring the tithe.

This is something to do with you people here. This is a message that's all. I'll preach this any place I go.

...preachers, and not even preachers even, between the pastor and the people. The

man that God raised up, vilify him, throw their money at him while doing it, and

then let somebody else come in. They'll

just call themselves believers in Brother Brannan's ministry.

Between the ordained elder and the people.

elder of not liking him, so he'll not go to his church anymore, but he said, I'll be preaching down the road. You come and hear me there. Get

to wear proper clothes and everything else and allow this to go and that to go and think you're serving God. No, I'm not even talking about that. I'm just talking about one measly little thing anymore.

They're rebellious.

Constituted ministry. To

God and God to step aside, Sam, and just click your balls. They have not rejected you. They've rejected me. Jesus said, you reject whom I say, you reject me. And they deliberately get between the pastor and the people.

But

he sure has character. A

man who wasn't sleeping on

the beach where I'm on. That's

all seduction. because that's what's starting to turn. That's

pregnant and messed up. Now the seduction's not so funny. It's

through the gate. I

want you to see that we are depending on this word, my brother and my sister. We are married to the word. This is what we're talking about. Either this is what William Branham taught, or I don't know what he taught. I draw

one conclusion.

Because you know the conclusion you can draw. He

came to those apostles, and they said, listen, you're false apostles, because you're not staying with Paul. He said, man, that was fat, but that was good. I'm

so glad I'm so...

because you're sicker than I am because I can't stand myself. I tried to commit suicide and I said, I can't

be on the road and do another job.

Tonight is let God be my judge. I believe this word the best I know how and preach it according to what he said the best I know how. I

don't draw the false and stop the scripture to back it up. I'm not going to say that

many deny local authority to

outside preachers, them and the shepherds. I said that and they do.

A fellow thought he had it. He made a false property. He didn't pan out. Jesus didn't come and take the rapture. And this year, February, like you said, so that put him in the doghouse. But I'm waiting now to see who's got South America and Australia. Now, I mean, I haven't got any of it. Until

it comes back renovated and I come back with it. But this is my good fortune by election through grace in Jesus Christ. I don't want any part of what's going on now. I don't want any part of it. Right

now, what they said, you

would enjoy it. I

said, Brother Branham, all the news cuts to close. Day

after day, we prayed six in the morning to ten at night and began week after week every night praying and praying. And when Brother Branham got there, I did the preaching in the afternoon. Led the song service at night, no one on the platform but Brother Branham and me. I got off the platform, he ministered. My, how God moved us. The first time in five years and the last time since the gift of healing operated 50 miracles one night just like that. All the audience was healing,

you know what's for healing? Because

even Brother Branham, and he was sincerely mistaken when he said the white horse rider was Jesus Christ.

I'm not a hypocrite, but the Holy Ghost was love.

William Branham himself was neither a prophet, nor an apostle, nor a teacher, nor a pastor, nor a evangelist, a gospel minister. He was not because he came and put the church in order. If he was merely one of those five -fold ministers, then he was a Nicolaitan and came over it. He was nothing but a blind, ignorant elder with the gift of false prophets.

Nobody stands over anybody that's a supreme authority in local opinion. And nobody comes in. The only thing a man could do was William Brannan because he was like Paul. You

heard me say it. What

is the matter with people?

You've been done about it. The thing

is done publicly.

You have to do it contrarily.

You could not ordain one. You'd have to have some of the brethren come by. That's the best to do because Paul said, if any of you do it, the congregation does not do it. A

man examines the men. and picks up an elder, then you must follow him, and love him, and care for him, and do everything you can. And from that minute on, he is the authority. And if he does not want any preacher in that pulpit outside of him, that is his business. He

is going to have to guard and warn. And if God doesn't remove him, you won't. The

church

had trouble not long ago. I know

it's a terrible condition. I know you've been moved, and don't think I haven't been. Listen, the Bible says restore. Can I depend on one church to do what God says? Just once can I find a church to do what God says. a

whole lot more to do with anything. I'm not burdened down to the point where I cruelly judge myself and say, well, let's forget it all and throw up our hands. I'm only painting the picture the way it is. For the fact that we must be on our guard and understand that it's the words that count. It is not personality. You say, well, I love Brother Dale. I think he's real sweet. That's not a thing to do with it. It's

the word I'm taking. Now you say, well, I'll tell you what. Brother Dale said the truth, but he's a trick, but a nicer. How do you know I'm a trick? You don't know my nature. You look prettier. You

do contest and you make sure it wouldn't stand up as anything.

Listen, it's so good. You would not listen. You're lying, and you know it. Wouldn't want the truth of it. I don't mean you as the people here now, but I mean that's the principle. They don't want the truth of it. You sure wouldn't find it hard to scrabble in six feet of hog manure to get out a two -carat diamond. Oh, no. You may have to use lying in your hand for the next three weeks and smelling water and everything else to get the smell of the pig manure out of your hand, but you've got that two -carat diamond. But you say, all right, how's that stand, that guy? Oh, sure, he sells it. That's right, he has. I never caught him ever yet. I can't put a finger on him, but oh, he's hung. and far for some million miles, God leads you down the drain. Any

authority in the church, not ordained by God, but assumed by the people of Laodicea.

People

assume

authority. Now listen, what am I driving at? It comes to a head in this age. The Nicolaitan concept of the church being run by the clergy and they forming the creeds and the dogmas. The people rise up and they say, this is what we want. It's like a union. And the union's going to tell the boss what to do. But listen, I want to tell you, I'm not against unions all the way. I cannot appreciate a man who belongs to a union and will not come to honest grips with himself that it costs every investor in that company $5 ,000 to $50 ,000 of hard -earned cash to give him a job. And then he says, well, I can do what I want. He's making a profit. Then he runs and tells the boss what he wants done. The

Bible's against him, not against the working man. It's against the guy that robbed the working man. I know that. That's why I said I'm careful when I talk about unions. But I was writing a union to the church. The church members rise up and say, this is what we wanted. This is how we're going to run it. The word of God says, this is what you do. The people say, now that's not the way you want it. We want it our way. He

thinks the tithe ought to make the building. Or the Pentecost assembly to God. They're a preacher. They say, all of you preachers, you send us your tithe. They

lay down the rules and dogmas. And they say, listen, what

does the church do now? They go to see us. They say, look, pastor, we've taken nothing of you from all these years. Now

on, you're going to listen to us. You guys are out there fighting a puzzle. You've had your seminary for years. Your method is to fight the Lutherans and the Baptists and so on, so I'll tell you all. We're taking over now. And you're doing it. You're going to preach what we want. We're

going to have some preachers in this week preach to you. I'm going to have some church, I think. I don't agree with you. I thought we came to church that were to die. The

people are turning down the Word and they want their way. See? They both come to a head. And the Bible says they heap to themselves teachers having 15 years. They put the preachers under such pressure that the preachers are scared to preach.

May God help me. That may never be my case. I

don't have this great advantage. I'm not a pastor. God never called me the pastor because they don't have that nature. By the way, I preach, I don't have the nature to take each warring faction by the hand and sit them down. I say, look what you've got, what you've got coming. I

preach at your side, I preach at your side, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat. I say that by the time they get away here, they're both mad.

They're both mad that they brought each other and hit me now. I've got, I'll be honest, I have absolutely no spiritual ability as a pastor. I was never called a pastor. I hurt myself terribly by passing. I should never have passed. I tore up the heat with the chairs.

laugh about it, but I don't mean to laugh about it. It's serious, because Brother Brannan told me I did. I know I did. I'm a journal pastor, that's it. I was about 13 years old. And

I would not want to get between any pastor and congregation, except I would build a pastor up and build a congregation up, and lead them both to the word of necessary, but to come and correct the pastor, isn't it? What kind of nonsense is that? If that man of God is a true pastor, I wouldn't correct him on anything. I'd be saying the same thing he's saying, maybe different ways. Leading a little further down this line, leading a little further down this line, together we're building up the body of Christ. But I come along, and I say, well, now, I may have to correct him.

put him right down there as an elder from the devil. You put him right down there as a man outside. What kind of big talk is that? What kind of pride is that in the man?

I wonder what happened to him. Is it

some kind of complex mission for the kids to school? What makes him want to be some big shot? What makes men want to be big shots? The rule of anybody. The only authority is the word of God in the mouth of the pastor. Now he's got to be real sweet and kind to get the people jarring along so they get doing the work. There's no authority outside of his word. Yet men want it. Now look at it. And the people want it.

this word if you are born again bride members you don't want anything but this word the prophet had talked to this and i would put everything aside for the world my one mission this is my one goal everything comes to this world and uh tampa ford in 1964 having breakfast he said brother dale i must have around me those men who will let me be and do the work that i commit them to do and then let me be my job is ready i could not do it i had but if you're just going to manage to do this for free sure go ahead and do it

The word is

a matter with people anyway.

These people have called themselves congregations. the same spirit. They are for years a hippie on the street that throws a bomb at the coffin, calls him a pig,

because they've come across the knowledge of truth and turned it down. Anarchy was in the pew. What

did you find? A preacher standing up here trying to take something to thorns. Keep on chanting. Your brother Brandon made me do it. He

wrote down the road to me one day. He said, I'll tell you one thing. I don't know that I ever heard Brother Brandon ever say anything to anybody ever to do books with you and me. I never heard him ever talk about him doing it.

I only did books in the first place because Brother Brandon couldn't find anybody to do them. I wanted them done because I knew he wanted them done.

I'd preach if I could get out of it? What

would a man of God want with that? I don't believe in the things that are being done for God. I've a lesson, brother, sister. There's many a man going to stand at judgment day and say, I did this, I did that. I had a great ministry. Isn't it true, you folk out there? Listen, you're my witnesses. On the white throne judgment day, there'll be witnesses by the thousands to stand before those men. And you'll call them by name and say, well, it's the truth that I'm your mother with you because I prayed. That's right, sir. On the truth that you were healed and the devil's cast out of you. That's right. Weren't you turned from a drunkard under my ministry to serve God? That's right. God still didn't tell me you were working here. Now where is your big synagogue now?

You've got to learn these things. No wonder Brother Branham cried. The people are that we are not serious and sober enough. Jesus

himself, the resurrected Christ in Christ's name, stood before them and they sounded like idle men singing. Fellas, you've got to be a stranger in these times. Didn't

you hear about that fellow called Jesus? We thought he was a great prophet. In fact, we even thought he was Messiah. He just uncriticized him and laid him away. And

he opened the scripture. He said, oh boy, I don't know, I just haven't seen him. I'm in a fog.

Relation to God's word and allow that wrong spirit of ours to see him later. must come to a head this age. You've got the preachers fighting to maintain their position, and the people fighting to take over. Don't tell us it's not going to come to us, because Brother Brown told us it was. The person down there that Joe Bush and the Assembly of God, or the first Baptist that's been dead for 200 years, he already told them off. You denied talking in tongues. You denied the Holy Ghost's power. You denied it all. That was you out. And he turned to Pentecost. He said, you've practiced these things. But he said, you've got a wrong spirit on you. And

leave the bride one place, okay? What the prophet said by his word and... We must walk very softly. Followed up in the whirlpool of condemnation that is here. Those who say they've been demented. Could affect me, affect you. All that I myself could be. If I was to let him to stand a thing, lest he fall. One day I'm building myself and say, well, brother Dale sure must be a strong person. That isn't that no siree. I've been called to war and rebuke, as the scripture says. These things that I know and see. And may God help me not to become a part of the very thing I condemn. Lest I be lifted up and tied to our feet. I've been tied and pretty good so far. I think I'll make it. No, no, you've got to watch it. Because

I'm not beyond getting better. I'm not beyond making myself better. I'm a human being. I'm not God manifesting the way Jesus was. Even Moses failed to glorify God. He glorified himself, though. I'm not putting it that way. I put this as a warning to all of us. See? Preachers and all. For if we are a part of anything, save what God has ordained, and if we back up anything except what he gave us, we are anti -Christ. I'm not anti -Christ. Sure. He is not for me to make it. Where do we stand in the world? Oh, sure, that sounds kind of silly to say where you stand in the Word. That's the old, this old letter, it's that old passage. Oh, no, Christ is the Word. The man is just saying, well, this old book, you know,

that's not what we say. Now, if I betray the very message I have given you, and I take authority between the people and the shepherds, I try to make myself something. I'm as Nicolaitan as any man ever was. If I get the believers, you know, get the believers, forget between them, and cause any feelings, come

and rouse up any feelings on

my side, who

think it's love and freedom, to Nicolaitan as they come.

I'm nothing but a mercenary antichrist. I

trade the ministry. I am not one of the five. One

of those that God said what he was in order to bring her out of all. I'm

disconcerting myself, and that's the truth. One judge in that is, and you have one judge, and that is the word. Where do we stand in that? I

refuse to walk in a court with the law of God. In my local brotherhood, I'm Laodicean.

You know he's claiming you're not because you are. The

prophet told his own son to go to church. One morning he came, went through the front door, kicked in the front, the bedroom door, and said, get up and get out and go to church.

He said, any... But don't ever let me catch you in bed, son, in the morning.

People say, well, didn't Brother Bantry do that? Well, you didn't understand it. He's got to reveal you. What's a greater revelation than kicking the bedroom door of your own son where he's sleeping with his wife and kick him out of bed and put him in church? That's the greatest revelation I know.

Like one of the best ways to see stars is when your boy, Ben, go hit him in the club with a stick so hard you'll see stars. It may go from one end to the other end, but it's still two stars. That's the best revelation I know. Now,

son, I just said that. Go back to bed now. I'm telling you.

the Word will judge us. At the end time, Christ must judge the church at His appearing, which appearing has already taken place by the Word, and we're being judged by the Word right tonight. What are we saying? Oh, how far we are. Every

excuse. Every excuse won't count.

It is time to get back to God by the Word. Speaking

in tongues, that's fine. But to get back by the Word. Let us examine our hearts in this matter. It is too late to be frivolous because I think we are too frivolous. It is time to wake up and to put this Word first. This Word comes everywhere. As

far as I'm concerned, I know I have no... I thought you were.

Because everything I have said I got from the tape and I got from this word of God and this word of God cannot be denied.

Brother Branham said if this end time of life would restore this word. He said the evidence of having the Holy Ghost would be to recognize what God is doing in your day. I submit to you tonight that people after people I come in contact are not aware what God is doing at this moment which is letting the seed lie in the sun until the bride and the word are one and the bride has the word and knows what to do with it. Today the people do not know. and therefore they do not have thus said the Lord. But when God Himself, which is that capstone love, which is the full anointing of the Holy Ghost, becoming one with the Word and up, every inlet of this soul will then be plugged up, and the bride will have the Word and know what to do with it, and she'll be doing it. She won't be saying, well, well, I am too hostile. I don't know what she'll be doing. I've been accused of believing that there's nothing coming, because I will not step out and say what the prophet has not said. The prophet said the bride would have thus said the Lord, and that's all I know. Now, let us just put it this way. Supposing there's a dear little sister, and God says, Thus saith the Lord to her, You go and pray and fast. Hide your face for three days. But He says to some great, big, fine, upstanding man in the church, You go down there, and there's sixteen people need eating. Thus saith the Lord. Which is more, Thus saith the Lord. The people get healed, or the woman goes in the prayer closet. There's no difference. That

it will not be empty hospital. It

will be to the entire hospital.

When the third poor goes into a section of Christ, they'll be coming and saying, This is what we've always wanted. We want it too.

Immortality. We're on immortality. The thing that gets with this thing, will have been put to one side. We will have been washed by the pure washing of the water by the Word. The covenant God's Word will not only be here, it will be here and here. We will be here. What does that mean? I don't know. Many

human beings are 55 years pretty sensitive. I still don't know what it's all about. And how can I know what this is all about? You say to the dog, dog, what's it all about? I said to the dog, I still don't know. You might kick me or pat me.

You've been human beings all your life. Tell me what it's about. Tell me what did you learn? I

learned nothing to what I should know. What I've done is nothing to what I might possibly do. But I'm in this place. I see where we are tonight.

wait on God. I think they don't go out there reaching. So preachers, other preachers, that's me, tell somebody they're not. And people, don't try to do what God hasn't called you to do. The

one mind by the word. This is the whole criterion to me. You're

best to love each other, the prophet said. To love each other doesn't mean to take things lying down where you don't want anybody to see them.

Jesus, Brother Brown said, combatants, love is doing what Jesus did. One time he took a cat and nined him and fucked him out of the tent.

Well, you better know what we're doing to do something like that.

I don't advocate that. Jesus said that was his thing. He didn't develop it.

Or a rough side of that word. To me, that's holding. Be one with the word. The Lord blessed you. Took your time, but that's what we're here for. Otherwise, we know you're coming. That's great. Grace of Heavenly Father, we look to you now at the end of this service, knowing, Lord God, that what your word said is true. There is a Nicolaitan spirit at the end. There is a Laodicean spirit. They both start at the beginning and they come right to the very end. And we know at the end time, that many people walked out of organization because they could not stand authority and went into anarchy. And then, Lord, you see many people doing the same thing. They are just as anarchist as the preachers that came out. They still got their same spirit upon them. They can't take authority over it. Now, Lord, tonight I want, and I believe the people here would want to court all of us. We honestly want to have the word of God in supreme authority over our hearts and minds. Lord, not all the time saying, well, it's hard. People won't understand. And our children just can't take it. God help us to stand up in this end time once and for all because it's getting too late to stand with this word all the way down the line and do it with joy. To do it, Lord, as a thirsty man is finding water in the desert or as a hungry man is finding food when he's starving. Lord, we haven't got that far tonight. If I stood before these people, Lord, and said I was that way, I'd be nothing but a bare -faced liar. And I wouldn't lie to them, Lord, and I wouldn't pray to you with a lie. Any more than I'd try to be political with them or be political with you. God in heaven.

Tonight, as I look at the situation, I have only got one hope, O Lord, my Heavenly Father, one hope, that you that have begun the good work in us will perform it until the day of the Lord Jesus Christ. O God, by grace, may we stand still and with fear and trembling take even inch by inch steps inching forward to the Keener night. Help each one of us, Lord, to get rid of those things we ought not to have. Lord God, if there's TV sets holding us up, books we shouldn't be reading, newspapers coming in our homes, magazines, oh Lord, different things like that, oh God, may we tonight, as the prophet said, show everything outside house clean and then claim the token over our family and do our best to live Godly. Lord, I know that back in that day when you stood upon earth with Sarah and Abraham, as Abraham, you talked to him, he was deadly serious, but Lord, Sarah in that inside tent, she laughed. So when you rebuked her, she stopped laughing. And Lord, I may be wrong, But I've had the feeling that until you rebuke the bride, we're going to be laughing up our sleeve like this. Now, Lord, I wouldn't want to hurry you. And I know I have no right to ask you something you won't do. But, Lord, to me tonight, it would feel pretty good. It would be just good as I see it. If you'd rebuke us a little early, Lord, Lord, you'd get us a little serious at this moment and in these days over. God, not to wear our feelings on our arms. Not to be running down anybody or lifting up somebody. The Lord Jesus Christ, for the pure sake of the pure word of Almighty God, by pure spirit of love and faith through Jesus Christ, be doing the pure thing. That's what I want tonight, Lord God. I pray for young people here, Lord. I know they don't have a road that's too easy to hold. I know, Lord, in the face of what's going on in this earth, there's going to be millions and billions of young people die when your flaming fire takes destruction. There's going to be billions, Lord, who will follow the Antichrist. There's going to be cannon fodder. There's going to be fodder for the atomic bomb. then they're going to end up in the lake of fire. Lord, I know that this age is due. Young people, Lord, are not going to come to a place of maturity where they'll have their children or grandchildren. I believe it's all over. Father, I know therefore the Spirit has got to be upon this world and how hard it is for the young people because you've got to judge an awful young generation. And I pray for them, Lord. that in the face of the pressures that their family puts upon them because the family loves you and tries to serve you, may they be understanding and realize that no parent is trying to hurt you. They're trying to be helped. And what often seems grievous and one -sided and partial is not necessarily so. God, I pray for them in this day of anarchy and rebellion where it's so evident that there's not a newspaper, not a talent that's not inundated with it. There's not a moment going by on this day, Lord, not a split second. They're not some act of energy. Then, Lord, you see that very same thing in the church. Forgive us, O Lord, tonight. Jesus, you said, if we heard you knocking at the door, and we said, come in, open the door. Lord, tonight we've heard you knocking on our door. We're opening that door tonight, Lord. We're opening our minds and our hearts, O God. Please come in. Please come in, Jesus, tonight with the full effect of the sanctifying light giving word, O God, and

make us manifest as members of the body of Jesus. You said you'd suffer this, Lord. Suffer this, O God. We want to suffer you. We don't want these things, Lord. We're plagued by them. But we don't want to be like Lot, Lord, whose righteous soul is best day to day. We want to get out of Sodom and Gomorrah. We want to get up there in the hill with Abraham.

God, help us to move apart and away, hidden in the cleft of the rock, under the shadow of the Almighty. We want you for our buckler and our key. God, tonight you be our high God. You be the anointing and revelation upon our minds. You bring all things to our mind, O Lord. You satisfy us with good things. You give us a man, O Lord. Oh, Jesus. As your prophet so sternly said, I've put everything aside for this year. This is my one calling. Now, this is what I must be true to. Lord God in heaven, he didn't bring the word to himself. He brought it to us. This is what we must be true to. This is ours. Help me, Lord, tonight. Help me, Lord, tonight not be carried away by the cares of this world. Or to be disconcerted, Lord, by those things that I see because they have bothered me and I've taken issue. I've even been hypocritical a time about them, Lord. Hypercritical. And then that leads to hypocriticalness. Lord, I don't want to be that way.

I want to be a living example of the Word of Almighty God. I never handled this Word as a cup because that makes me a traitor to you and a hypocrite to the people. I want to handle this Word, Lord, just the way it is and bring it to the people, Lord, just the way they are and just the way I am. May the Spirit of God anoint it and may it be true every bit of the truth, Lord. which it will be if I'm truly a child of yours if you could work. And Lord, if I'm not, then I'm deceived and I'm in terrible shape and you're deceived.

Lord, I don't believe.

I believe we're here tonight in truth and in spirit. And we don't want to be guilty of this end time terrible condition where the two things come together. Where the two evils and the clergy and the people come together to form a head. Oh, God.

That's the whole top of the heads of the people of your defying sword and no table to screen. Not one. Lord, may we be honored. Shuck them. Awaiting, I pray. God bless each one of them, Lord, I pray. Touch each one by your Spirit, Jesus. Give them that determination, Lord, and that desire, Lord, as if I could charge what I have for me and my house. I'm going to stand with the Lord. Lord, may there not be one promise, say to these dear ones here tonight. May there not be one home represented that fails, O God, to have the full revelation of the words I have applied to. May there not be one Jesus who doesn't rejoice and find their complete joy. and exhilaration, the wine of the stimulation, in the revealed word of God. And then, O Christ, may it be our pleasure to minister, and above all, to live it before the world. Grant, O Lord, purify these tongues of ours, O God. Broaden them, I pray, O Christ. Circumcise our hearts, O God. Anoint us with the Spirit of truth, that out of our bellies may flow rivers of living water. We ask these mercies for the honor and glory of Jesus Christ. May his name be praised evermore. Amen. God bless you.