Ephesians #9a

Heavenly Father, we're so happy this morning that the Holy Spirit is here in our midst with that very definitive purpose of which we believe that we are a part, that He is here to let us know the hour in which we live, to bring us in and to reveal the deep, mysterious things of Almighty God. And we are very happy that this is so. We count ourselves greatly privileged. To believe, Lord, that we are a part of that. We are a part of that revelation. We are a part of that great predestination of the foreknowledge of God. And we're very, very grateful. Now, Lord, therefore, we commend ourselves to you, believing that you will show us of this light and life this morning. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. You may be seated. So I'm happy to be here in the house of the Lord. Last Sunday I preached very, very hard.

I tried to make every word count, and I was just so exhausted by the end of the day that I'm going to be honest with you. I'm going to try to take my time this morning and be a little slower. Well, I was fine on Monday, but I was very tired on Sunday. Now, also, I think you might have caught what I said last Wednesday when I mentioned that No church, really, I wasn't just talking about this church, although in particular I'm interested in this church, is free from problems where pastors and traveling ministers have, in my understanding, deviated from what Brother Branham taught. And I referred briefly to seed, which I hope to go into sometime with you. It is, in my understanding, a fallacy to believe that we become seed when we're born again. We are seed. That is why we're born again. And you'd be surprised where that obtains. And I can't buy that under any stretch of the imagination because I would ask, well, who in the world got saved? Who was lost? What happened? See, it doesn't obtain. But anyway, this morning we're continuing from Ephesians 1. Get into what I made you puzzled about. It's good to get you on your uppers once in a while. You know, kind of stir you up. You don't get stirred up, what's the use?

Ephesians 1 .15 again, beginning, Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and love unto all the saints, cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Him. the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His calling and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints. Now we're continuing again this morning His inheritance in the saints. And by the way, to number the tapes, this is actually message number 10. There were three sermons on message number 9. So we had number 9 on one Sunday. Part 1, number 9. Part 2 on another Sunday. And then I finished up with Part 3 Wednesday night. And so this morning, we are on sermon number 10. And our text, of course, is in the 18th verse. And what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints. And we're looking again then into this inheritance of Christ, of which the bride is presently the repository. Now, that sounds very strange. Because when somebody inherits something, it is usually with the understanding that that person has it at his disposition. It is his entirely. And therefore, it is naturally just one with him. But that's all right. In here, we're looking at something which is the inheritance of Jesus Christ, of which the bride is the repository. In other words, something that Jesus inherited as a son who receives that which is passed on from the father. And it now resides in the bride. Now that's the thing to understand here. This word inheritance is very definitely describing that which is passed on from the father to the son. And normally the tradition of Scripture is to the firstborn. And you notice that's what Jesus is. He is that only begotten of the Father, so there's not a firstborn, secondborn, thirdborn. He is firstborn from among the dead. That's a different thing entirely. That has nothing to do with the inheritance. Having been born, and His Father being God, as He very quickly stated it, He has an inheritance, and that now resides in the bride. So she possesses at this time His inheritance. Let us be very careful to note that this inheritance is under headship. And we're going to check that out with Hebrews, the ninth chapter. And I'll read this to you and explain it. Beginning in verse 16. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. Now it says where there is a will left, the person who makes up the will to whoever the beneficiary is, or the inheritor, that person has got to die. For, and it explains it, for a testament or a will is a force after the person is dead. Otherwise, it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. Otherwise, it tells you something made up that is supposed to be valuable to you after a certain person dies. You've got to wait until that person dies or you're not going to get it. All right. Now, he goes on and explains it. But in verse 23, it says, It was necessary that the pattern of the things in heaven should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than a bulls and goats. And it was the blood of Jesus that was going to purify the heavens. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the truth, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence, of God for us. Now, what I'm showing you here is that Jesus died in order that you and I would receive something as inheritors from Him. But there has never been a testator or a man who made a will who died and then came back to become the executor and execute the provisions of the will. Do you follow me? When you're dead, if your parents died and left you something, and we've got some sitting here, I know your parents have died and left you something. Your parents never came back and saw that you got it. But Jesus came back and rose as the high priest to make sure. Do you hear what I'm saying? Eternal security.

There's not one of you, myself included, a million times more, can guarantee anything. Tell me you're going to breathe one more time and you're a liar.

It's only by grace.

Because there's one step betwixt you and death and you know it and I know it. Only God can guarantee.

That's what we're talking about, inheritance.

Now, I said that Jesus came back to take authority what

he did for the bride and the saved in order to ensure it. And

the insurance will

be according to how he executes it. Hear what I said? You did, but you didn't get it, did you?

God always works according to his word, even when it's in the word or forget it. The word within the framework of the word. Doing God a service apart from his will. If you don't know what I'm talking about even yet, then get the sermon. You caught it now, didn't you? He rose to not only ensure jurisdiction

and rights over everything that he ensured,

then whatever he has allowed to be in this bride comes under headship. We go to Ephesians, the third chapter, and we read, 20 to 21, Now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly, above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Jesus Christ throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. No. No. It doesn't say that. Here's what it says. Unto Him who in the exercise of His power that is at work within us is able to do infinitely beyond our highest prayers or thoughts to Him be glory in the church to all generations. Word without end. It doesn't say one thing about Him giving you anything and you've got jurisdiction.

Well, I got it. Bless God, I can do what I want with it.

Hogwarts.

You think for one minute that God reposed anything in us for 15 seconds and says hop to it?

No way. Headship. Now, let's understand this headship. Trillions

of times better.

Trillions of times better. Infinite. There's trillions and what do they call it? Googles? Is that the word they use when you can't find

enough zeros?

Where's our mathematicians?

No comparison when God has headship over what he reposes in us. Life says you can't think, you can't pray, you can't imagine. What would happen if

there was a people that their own thinking goes?

Headship.

Today he's standing amongst us in the person of the Holy Spirit manifesting himself more and more, coming into the church making himself known.

The headship is here. The word headship in the dictionary, position of head of chief. Head or chief? Chief authority? Leadership? Supremacy? It's here. Amen. Christ the risen Lord. It's here in the same power of His resurrection that He ever was manifesting Himself.

The headstone coming into the body. That's the Redeemer coming to take His own. He's here with us.

In the evening time it shall be light. That's when comes Christ, the Holy Spirit. Jesus comes down and sets Himself at the head of the church. then He will resurrect the church being His own body. Headship. Now, what is that headship?

Or what is that inheritance of which there is a headship?

Hebrews, the first chapter, verse 4, Being made so much better than the angels, He hath by inheritance that which is passed from the Father to the Son obtained a more excellent name than they. He has received by inheritance. That which is the Father's. And in this case, it is a name. So therefore, when he said in John 5 .43, I am come in my Father's name, that's exactly what he came in. And whatever name he gave was exactly the Father's name.

And he inherited it. So we learn very carefully right here that we must have as our guidelines with whatever this inheritance or this name, has as a potential and as an outworking in the bride must be under him whose name it is.

Oh, brother, sister, that doesn't make you stop and just think of the prophet coming. He came in the name of the Lord. There never was a time when it ever failed. But I'm going to tell you, William Branham had ever come in the name of the Lord with his own ideas. He'd either been killed by God or he'd have flopped, showing he was a... Furious, rotten, stinking false prophet.

Did you follow what I said? Did you hear what I said? Did you get it? Do you see what I'm talking about? A name?

You think God's going to back up His name without Him in control of it?

No way.

Now let's understand that this divine gift and revelation is due solely to the presence of the low God. It is not due to anything else. If He is not here, forget it.

Cease not to give thanks to making mention of you in my prayers that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you, the first church age bride, the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him to the end.

That you may know what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints is.

That you may begin to realize what lies there. In other words, a depth of appreciation,

revelation, and

magnitude of power and authority lies there. And at this time, it is not only exposed to us, but

we become heirs to it. This is the very same thing, no doubt, that transpired in Acts 9, 3 -6. And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus. Suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven. He fell to the earth and heard a voice saying, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord?

The Lord said, I am Jesus, whom ye have persecuted. It is hard for thee to kick against the priest. And he trembling with thought said, Lord, what will thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Rising with the city, it will be told thee what thou must do. Again, notice the divine order.

The divine order starts with God doing something. God struck Paul. Paul said, Oh God, what's this all about?

The explanation came to the man. And you notice in chapter 26 is one place, that's where he explains thoroughly what happened. It is identical to John the Baptist coming. And he explains this one is coming. I'm going to be the baptizer of him. Then that one came and he began to tell about him. This is that one. Then Jesus came on the scene and he began to do great and mighty things. Then he began to talk about it. In other words, God always does something and then there must be somebody there to explain it. Nobody wants that anymore. Oh, there's no prophets anymore. Just pillar of fire stuff. Who cares about that hogwash? We've got the Holy Ghost. Who needs anything? That's fine. You don't need a thing. In your shape, if you're one of those, you can't get anything. Be happy.

I'm happy. I'm happy for you because that's what you want. I'm happy for me because this is what I want. I've got no problem.

Let God be true in every man and woman. That's all.

The great revelation of this hour is that there is one God.

And His name is Lord Jesus Christ.

And you better be baptized in that name. You say, Brother Vail, I was baptized, but I'm not sure they did it right. Then you better start all over. Because you'll only go as far as your doubts.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Exactly right. The prophet said so. This gift of His name and the bride then signifies that the riches of the glory of that name are there in her. Because he whose name it is, is in the midst of her.

Why? He said, I'm not just sending my name down there. I'm coming down with my name.

That's a big difference.

You know, I sure wouldn't be much for marriage by proxy. It's been done. I don't think it's legal. Here I am somewhere, way overseas somewhere, and I think, well, I sure like to be married, so I have some woman stand there, and she's just proxy. I don't have anything to do with her. But she fills in for my wife. and we go to the ceremony, then she gets paid 25 bucks that it is, and I go down the road and she goes down the road.

Now, my wife is supposed to have my name. Now, I'm not even near her. That's a lousy marriage. In fact, that's no marriage at all.

It wouldn't work. He's here, and His name He has brought with Him, and as He has placed Himself in the midst of her, so He's given her His own name. Whatever that wealth, that abundance of value... valuable possessions, now in her midst, I say whatever lies there, must be the manifestation of the attributes of the living name of who is there with his wealth. In other words, he and his name, and it's the Father's name. That this is a must for the Exodus is seen in the original Exodus. Now people say, well, what's this all about? Well, I'll tell you, it's all about the Exodus. Chapter ends up in a rapture.

Chapter 3 of Exodus. I guess it's pretty well the whole chapter. Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father -in -law, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the backside of the desert and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel, the messenger of the Lord, appeared unto him a flame of fire out of the midst of the bush. And he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I'll turn aside and see this great sight where the bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw, he turned aside to see God called out of the bush unto him. And said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither. Put off thy shoes and off thy feet. For the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. You know, I like these old timers. They weren't suspicious.

What would you do if you saw a pillar of fire running like blue blazes? No doubt. No doubt. Of course, nobody but the real genuines is going to see the pillar of fire. But I like these old birds. They had a tough spirituality. I admire them. In fact, I envy them. And he said, Draw not nigh hither, put out the shoes from off thy feet, God speaking, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Wherever God stands, the place is already sanctified.

And remember, he sure wouldn't call anybody he didn't want to sanctify because they're better than the ground. Moreover, he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face where he prayed to look upon God. And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and heard their cry by reason their taskmaster, for I know their sorrows. And I can come down and deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians and bring them up out of the land, unto a good land and large, unto a land flowing in milk and honey, unto the place of Canaan, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, Jebusites. Now therefore, behold, the crowd of the children of Israel come unto me. I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. Come now, therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. And most certainly to God, who am I, that I should go into Pharaoh, that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt. And he said, Certainly I will be with thee, and this shall be a token thee, that I have sent thee, when thou hast brought forth the children of Egypt, the people of Egypt, they shall serve God upon this mountain. And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers has sent me unto you, and they shall say to me, What is his name? What am I going to tell? God said to Moses, I am that I am. The same yesterday, today, and forever. And he said, Thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, I am has sent me. saith the Lord. What, Lord, are you talking about, Bill Branham?

Lord Jesus Christ. The Jesus of the old. The Jehovah of old being Jesus of the new. I told you how it was that Sister Branham, Brother Branham one time, he told about how that he really loved Meadey, but he just couldn't marry her on the grounds he'd made a pledge to his former wife that had died. He didn't want to marry anybody even though his wife literally commended him and almost commanded him for the sake of the children to marry someone and bring the children up right. And he said his wife just got a little bit worried herself, and so she went to the Bible, and she flipped open the pages, and in there it said, Behold, I send you Elijah the prophet. I got news for you. Brother Branham didn't tell a lie, but he didn't tell the truth either. He was a little embarrassed. It took Sister Branham to tell us, and she said, Lee, when I opened that Bible, she said, I swear I saw in words of black, Behold, I send unto you Bill Branham the prophet.

You see, he told us without us catching it, so it wasn't a lie. He said she knew before the rest who this was.

Gil Branham came. Brother Branham, prophet of God, came. He said, I

stood by the pillar of fire. I stood by the bush. I stood by the whirlwind. And a voice spoke. And they said, who was it? And he said, Jesus of the new, which is Jehovah the Old. And he said, thus saith the Lord. And there wasn't one time that it failed.

Exodus time.

God said unto him, but more unto Moses. Thou shalt, thus shalt the sound of the children of Israel. The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham.

How many times did he refer to God before the tent? How many times did he refer before Abraham? How many sermons did he preach on Jehovah Jireh?

Which is the first time the word Jehovah is literally used in the Bible.

God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob. This is my name forever. And this is my memorial in all generations.

Now in verse 18, And they shall hearken to thy voice, and the elders of Israel and the king of Egypt will tell them, The Lord God of Hebrews has met with us. Now let us go, we beseech thee, three days during the wilderness, when we sacrifice unto the Lord our God, and so on. Then he said in verse 22, But every woman shall bore of her neighbor, and of her the sojourners in her house jewels of silver, and jewels of gold and raiment, and shall put upon them your sons and upon your daughters, and you shall spoil the Egyptians. Let me tell you fresh. When the bride gets out of here, it's finished.

For as in Egypt, the last plague is spiritual death.

And from that time on, it's take the mark of the beast or perish. It's all over.

There's your example.

Let us also notice some things.

In 1 Corinthians, the first chapter, verses 7 and 8, that you come behind in no gift waiting for the apocalypses, the unveiling of the Lord Jesus Christ, who at His unveiling shall confirm you unto the end.

What end?

Resurrection.

There's a bride got to stand here in cosmos under

the harlot's seat.

And she'll be blameless at the unveiling. He makes her blameless.

So that great day that's coming when

a bride must leave this world, she'll be blameless. She'll be able to go because she'll be changed.

Colossians explains it very thoroughly.

I know people want to place that in the rapture. Go ahead. It's certainly okay by me. I've got no problem.

3 and 4, Colossians, when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, shall be manifested in his true character, then shall you also be manifested in your true character with him in glory.

When he comes to be glorified and he sings. But notice even more so, this one in the midst, who he is. 2 Thessalonians, 1st chapter, 7 to 12. And you are troubled with us. Rest. You are troubled. Rest with us. When? When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed. Again, the apocalypses from heaven with His mighty messengers.

In flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, that obey not the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's not when He comes to destroy. That's what Brother Branham saw, the bearded and robed one, the judge. The one that came down, circled by the mighty messengers, the Holy Spirit and seven theophanies. making up the seven messages from the seven church ages, the entirety of the Holy Spirit and the Word, coming on down. And the word vengeance doesn't have a thing to do with paying back or a tribute or wrath. It has to do with justice.

Who shall be punished with everlasting instruction in the presence of the Lord? And so on. From the faith. When He shall have come to be glorified in these saints, be admired and all them believe, because your testimony that day was believed. Wherefore also we pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of His calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness. and the work of faith with power, that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, let's look at these verses. So, hopefully we'll understand together what I'm looking at. Verse 7, And you who are troubled, rest with us. He is speaking to the living. In verse 10, When he shall have come to be glorified in his saints, he is speaking to the living.

Verse 11 and 12, Wherefore also we pray always for you living, that God would count you living worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power in you living, that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you the living, and you in him according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, This is identical with 1 Thessalonians, the fourth chapter, 13, 16, and 17. But I would not have you ignorant brethren, you that are living, concerning them which are asleep, that have gone on in death, that you living so are not as other living people who have no hope. Verse 16 and 17. For the Lord himself, I'm talking to the living, said Paul, shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain, the living, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds. To meet the Lord near, so shall we ever be with the Lord. Now, I want you to notice two things here that we're driving at. In 2 Thessalonians 1,

3 -7, we are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet. It's the right thing to do. Because that your faith grows exceedingly. And the love of every one of you toward each other is abounding, growing, progressing, so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure, which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which you also suffer. See. It is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you. And to you who are troubled, rest with us. That's the relaxation under the seventh seal. When the Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed in heaven with His mighty messengers. Now, 11 and 12. Wherefore, also we always pray for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling. See? What calling? That you be right there at that time when the judgment of Revelation 22, righteous is righteous, filthy is filthy, just is just, holy is holy, and unholy is unholy. And there are those that have the right to the tree of life while outside are whoremongers and everything else. The whole thing separated.

Now, count you worthy of this calling. That you're going to miss the tribulation. That you're in the bride. And fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness. In other words, there's got to be something fulfilled in an end -time bride that never was fulfilled before. And the work of faith with power.

Power that raises the dead. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Notice that name again that's in her. May be glorified in you and you in Him. According to grace. of our God and our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, notice I read two sets of Scripture. If this were an orchestration, this would be a crescendo, the rising and swelling of a dramatic musical composition as it climaxes in a mighty reverberation that when it is finished, man sits there in a stillness and a quietness.

Because he has been taken through something that is empathetic with his soul.

He has become a part of it.

It is like Ephesians 1, 3 to 11. Blessed be the God and Father, Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly place. According, he has chosen us and him before the foundation of the world. And then he talks about a predestination. And he talks about a super plan. He talks about an inheritance. He talks about the whole thing. It whips you to place. Oh, this wonderful, wonderful plan. What's in it? Is there something for me? And then he said, and you are a part of it.

I'm a part of it? He said, yes, you're a part of it. And I'm praying, he said, that that spirit will come in. And he'll work in the midst of you until the dead rise. And you're changed. And you're caught up to the very heavenly. And you stand upon the mountain peak. The symphony of God fulfilled. You look out in the silence and you begin to perceive as you never perceived before God's symphony.

That's what we're looking at here in these verses.

You begin to realize what's in your midst.

Begin to hear the orchestration of God's Word by the Holy Ghost and get caught up into the heavenly places in Christ Jesus until

the silence permeates your soul. I'm part of it. You don't understand, but you're a part of it.

2 Thessalonians 2, 7 -12.

These verses fill in and explain fantastically what it is that the vast resources of His name, which is now in the bride, swings into the amazing grace crescendo as we read in or heard in Ephesians. Because it says, rest with us.

So you've got no troubles when those mighty angels come down. You know it's dividing time.

You know the just will be separated from the unjust.

Paul's boast is all over. And

you're going to know the amazing grace of God as you've never known it. Brother, sister, I don't want to bring you down to the mundane things of this life and that which is a little bit hard to bear. But I've got to take you off the mountaintop of where you're going to be to the literal fact that Paul is speaking here of the squeeze.

that comes down at the end time. For he said, there will be tribulation. The prophet said they'd close the churches.

He said they'd hunt the bride down as dogs.

If you begin to believe the seven mighty messengers came to the orphanage to brother Branham, if you begin to preach that he is here when they say he is not here, when you begin to testify to these things which assuredly have taken place and not in a corner, the squeeze will come down.

Don't worry. Have you got faith in me this morning?

It doesn't matter. Let me tell you something.

I'm more than a chump ahead.

Because God tells me what's going to happen, it happens. Don't tell me it doesn't.

Don't you look me in the eye and tell me. I paid a price recently. And I know what I'm talking about.

The bride is more than a match.

She's more than a conqueror.

End time squeeze in verse 7. You are a trouble. Rest with us. You say, Brother Dale, that was for the first church age. Alpha is omega.

It was not the hour of the face of the calf.

It was the lion word.

They were bold as brass. They

stood up and were counted. And they were hated.

And they were persecuted.

That as it were lion's voice that roared at the end time with those thunders. It didn't say it was. It says as it were. It was a repeat of the same pillar of fire with a different prophet revealing the word.

There'll be the same squeeze over the revelation. Ego as there was with the lion. And Brother Branham said a repeat of all diabolical cunning. It's got to happen. The end time and final persecution of the bride. Who gets out of here just before Satan's incarnation? Because when she's caught up, he comes down.

I think we can see this clearly in the book of Romans, the 8th chapter, beginning

at verse 14. May you be led by the Spirit of God. They're the sons of God.

We have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear. We have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Whatever they had there in this, I see a prophetic statement for the end time. It doesn't talk about you being born again. Now it talks about the fact that you are sons. You are born again. It doesn't talk about the fact that you might be led of the spirit that says you are.

You're not in bondage anymore, he said, because you can't figure things out. He said, there'll be a time.

You won't have to figure. There'll be a voice behind you saying, this is the way you just keep walking.

Spirit of self bears in our spirit where the children of God. Doubts are gone. Fears are gone. Now listen, if children and heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ, but you've got to suffer.

Suffering brings on glorification. Now hold it.

That never happened in the first age.

Or

second age, or third age, or fourth age, or fifth age, or sixth age. But there's going to come a time when it will. Because I read Scripture. Or you say, well, that's looking down the road. Oh, sure, I know it looks down the road. There's always a partial fulfillment to everything.

There's always a compound. I understand that. I'm

speaking in the terminology of this hour.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of creation waited for the manifestation of the sons of God. And he's talking about it right up here. For creation was made subject to vanity not willingly, but by reason subjected the same in hope. Because the creation itself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. Not glorious liberty. It's the liberty of the glory.

Free by God's manifested assessment.

God said it.

Time we knew these things were coming to pass.

For we know the whole creation groaneth. suffering and pain together till now, 2

,000 more years.

Why didn't he add that in there?

Not only they, but ourselves also.

Hey, Paul, do you really believe you're going to be in that? Yes, sirree. I tend to think that you have a very strong opinion that'll happen in your hour. He said, I'm sure looking for it. Not

necessarily it's written for this hour. Begin to read your Bible in the light as everything is written for this hour. It wasn't written for that hour. It

was a mere promise.

Ephesians 1. 15 to 23 was a promise. Today, it's not a promise. It's all over. He's here. Now, if you don't believe this message, you just get all wound up in yourself. Go ahead. Do what you want. Allow yourself to sleep with your denominational theories. Even we ourselves groan in ourselves waiting for the adoption, the redemption of the body. For we are saved by hope, but hope that is seen is not hope.

For what a man sees, why do you hope for? That reads a bell. I don't know if that's a good bell or not.

Let me see something here. Maybe it's something, maybe it's not. The

12th verse of 1st Ephesians, that we should be to the praise of His glory who first trusted. No, who hoped. Who first hoped in Christ. Then the hope here, he says, you

no longer expect something if the thing you expected is here. It

wasn't there.

The Spirit wasn't there to raise the dead. But

for 2 ,000 years they've hoped.

Patience.

Patience has gone down the drain because he's here. We're impatient to get away.

If this body of yours is anything but a pest house, you've got problems. Likewise, the Spirit also helps our infirmities for we know not how we should pray or what we should pray as we ought. But the Spirit of self makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit.

Because he maketh intercession for the spirits according to the will of God. Saints according to the will of God.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God. To them are thee called according to his purpose. Now watch. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed unto his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. For whom he did predestinate, him he also called, him he called, him he also justified, him he justified, him he also glorified. What shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things? In other words, every single thing that could lay there has got to be ours. Now watch what he says about this. Who dares arraign me in God's court?

It is God who hath declared me righteous. All right, listen. Are you with me? So that you come behind in no gift waiting for the apocalypses, the unveiling of Jesus Christ who shall confirm you or establish you without guilt so that no one can lay a charge against you. Brother,

sister, I don't care what anybody says.

A charge could have been laid in any age at any time.

And only by the sake of the high priest it wouldn't go through.

We're coming to a place even beyond that. Not that we ever give it to the high priest. He's a high priest forever. We're looking to a place where no one can lay a charge. He that is righteous is righteous still. He that is filthy is filthy still. And there's nothing between because

it's all over. I'm not talking about the ones in between being washed out. I'm talking in terms there is at this end time nobody can even get saved, let alone born again.

It's in this hour this is taking place. Who is he that condemneth? Who dares condemn me to death?

They've been dying for 2 ,000 years.

Point at a man who wants to die. Now, they're not going to die.

It is Christ that died, yea, rather risen again. Who is at the right hand of God making intercession? He's been doing that.

But the one that said, I am the resurrection life, he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall live. And who shall live and believe in me shall never perish. Believest thou this? That one who said, shall never perish, is fulfilling his word here now.

And if before his death he could bring back a man in a temporary resurrection, being dead for four days, what will he do when he comes down here with the sole purpose to raise the dead?

So the blood of Jesus Christ stands this morning. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril or sorrow? Who's going to stop me from being in this firstborn? His first out -resurrection. Who's going to stop me from getting changed?

Now, pressure's going to come on down.

Evidently, it's going to be of such a magnitude that people could be swayed, shaken in their boots.

Famine, nakedness, parasaurus. As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long.

We count the sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors to him that loved us. You see, what I'm trying to show you here in my understanding, From what the prophet said, we are dealing with that step that brings on the millennium. And it's at that time that this takes place. I've got a persuasion that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Now, let's go to Matthew.

24, 37 to 51. But as it was in the days of Noah, the days are coming, the Son of Man, eating and drinking, marrying, giving to marry, till they know in the ark, and knew not the flood came and took them all away, so shall also the prusia, the presence of the Son of Man be. Two in the field, one taken, one left. Two grinding, one taken, one left. Separation time. Watch therefore, if you know not what hour your Lord doth come. Now it tells you there's coming an hour when He will be with those mighty angels taking judgment upon the earth. Get ready because it's separating time. Who

knows about it?

It's in the Bible here.

But you know the good man of the house had known what watch the thief would come. He would have watched and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be also ready such an hour as you think not the Son of Man cometh who then that faithful and wise servant of His Lord made ruler of His household to give them meat in due season. Blessed is that servant.

Whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you that he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But if that evil servant say in his heart, My Lord delays his coming, or his delayeth to have come, then till he begin to smite his fellow servants and eat and drink with the drunken, the Lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him in an hour he's not aware of, and shall cut him asunder and appoint him his portion of the hypocrites. They'll be weeping and gnashing their teeth. I want to ask you a question. Who is it that persecutes the bride?

In whom is the blood of the martyrs?

Now, I ask you, there's got to be somebody persecuted. Somebody's got to have blood in her. Concerning the word martyr, and that word is martyrian, which means witness. And to be a witness is not a matter of you simply confessing to something. It's you to be confirmed in the data.

All right, what's it going to be? The false church. The church is coming down on the bride.

All right. Then two taking the field. One taking one left. Two grinding. One taking one left.

2 Thessalonians.

After those mighty ones come down. 2nd chapter.

Verse 8. Then shall there be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit. His mouth destroys the brightness of the coming. Even him who is coming is after the working Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish. Because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved. No truth. No righteousness.

Say what you want.

Say, Brother Vela had a great experience. I don't care about your experience. Where do you stand with a revealed word?

He that is righteous is righteous still.

Let's keep reading. And for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion. See, they receive not the love of the truth, they might be saved. And for this cause, God will send strong delusion that they should believe the lie, that they might be condemned, who believe not the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness. Anything outside the Word is unrighteous.

Cain offered an excellent sacrifice because Abel's was more excellent. So Cain was excellent. Cain was 100 % in the Word, but erroneously. He gave the first fruit offering, which signified he was part of the resurrection through the blood. He

had the light. He was of the serpent. He refused the blood.

Unrighteous.

The Word of God says, Thou hast rightly offered, but thou hast not rightly divided. The Scripture says right dividing of the Word is what counts. But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit, even belief of the truth, whereunto He called you by our gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. They were ready for His name in the bride at that very hour, but He couldn't come because the bride wasn't in.

All right. Right or wrong, I believe this is

the coming hour of the squeeze and the third pull within the bride,

which is delineated in Ephesians 3, 20 to 21. When his power and authority are at work within us under his headship, he will do the exceeding abundance that

man cannot even imagine. And you know something, brother, sister, let's be honest. What do you know about the millennium? Literally nothing.

Just doing that one thing makes my eyes sparkle, if there's any sparkle left. All right? I want to go back now through seven church ages and trace the name a little bit.

To begin, in Revelation chapter 1, it says the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto John. Categorically, it says that God gave the revelation.

Paul categorically says the same thing. In 1 Corinthians 2, 7 to 13, it came by the Spirit of God.

John calls it the revelation of Jesus Christ. Paul calls it the same thing.

Then what will Ephesians 1 .17 -18 be? But the very same as in John 1 .18 who said the only begotten who is the booze of the Father. That's the Logos.

God Himself literally spilling Himself is the only way to come. Paul says it. John says it. So we see at the end time the Spirit of God in revelation is in the church and He is revealing Christ. and placing his name in the bride. And we are watching that name to see what happens after the warning of 2 Corinthians 11, 1 -4. That's why I say we're going to trace in history, if we can, and we can to a certain degree, that name in seven church ages. Now we know in 2 Corinthians, the 11th chapter, trouble had already started. I'm jealous over you, the godly jealousy, verse 2. For I have espoused you to one husband. that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. Now he said, I've already married you to Jesus as a safe guy, so

that you know you don't belong to anybody but him.

But I fear, lest by any means, and he will take any measure he can, as the serpent fooled Eve through his subtlety, beguiler, that has sexual connotations and don't think it doesn't. So your mind should be seduced.

From the simplicity that's in Christ, for if he that cometh preaches another Jesus, and he sure will.

For if we have not preached and received another spirit, which we have not received, another gospel, which we have not accepted, he might well bear with him. All

right. Paul knew that something was going on.

Now, in Revelation chapter 2, we're

going to look at the ages. See if we can spot some things.

The seventh verse.

He that hath an ear, let him hear it. The Spirit said to the churches. That's the Logos. That's the same Logos of Acts 9 .5. I am Jesus. Now, in 2 and 3, Thou hast borne and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast labored and hast not fainted. There's been a good report at this point on the name. But notice verse 4. Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee Hath left thy first love.

They are cooling off in the first church age. As Paul warned in 2 Corinthians 11, those first four verses. In other words, the espousal was cooling off.

They weren't 100 % happy with being wedded to God any more than Israel was. Who under God? And a pillar of fire and a prophet brought them out of Egypt. And they said, we'll be like the rest of them.

It opened the door for idolatry. And as Brother Branham said, Eve couldn't wait for Adam. Israel couldn't wait for God. Neither could the first church age bride wait for Jesus the Christ.

Speaking sexually, which is the spiritual overtone of idolatry. Any theologian and teacher knows that when you talk of sexuality coming into the church, immorality, it always has to do with idolatry. Paul's expression of unfaithfulness is also uttered by John in 1 John 2, verse 18, beginning of the children's last time. And as you heard, Antichrist shall come. Even now there are many Antichrists whereby we know it's the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us. Now it doesn't say it is the Antichrist. It says it's the Antichrist spirit here. For if they had been of us, they no doubt would have continued with us. But they went out that it might be made manifest that they were not all of us. In other words, they weren't part of us. We weren't all one branch. But you have a numption from the Holy One and know all things. I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, because you know it, and that no lies of the truth. Who is a liar but he that denies Jesus is the Christ? He is Antichrist that denies the Father and the Son. Who has ever denied the Son? The same, that's not the Father. Let that therefore abide in you which you heard from the beginning. That's the same thing Paul is saying. But he says it in different words. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, so shall you continue in the Son and in the Father. Now listen. And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life.

Now he's bringing the church to the same place. There be some standing here which shall not taste death. I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, Though he were dead yet, shall he live? That's gone by.

Luther would believe that he should never perish. Do you believe this? He's associating eternality with immortality.

See? Same verses of Scripture. I don't care how it's said. That's how William Brown could come by and talk like a Kentucky Hillbilly. In poor English. And it was still God.

Past -headed theologians say, Oh, men, just right. Couldn't take it.

See? John says the same thing as Paul. Look it over. But you have anointing.

He says here, that you receive him, abided in you. Need not any man teach you, but the same anointing teaches all things as the truth, and is no lie, even as it is taught. You shall abide in him. Paul, Jesus said the same thing. The elect shall not be deceived.

Some people use it to say, well, there's no teachers anymore. We all got the Holy Ghost. Are you nuts? It says right up here ahead of it. You've got to abide in what you were taught. To have eternal life. What if something inside of you gave you the wrong clue? And where's your vindication?

Now little children, abide in Him. That when He shall appear in His true character, you may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His perusia. They knew there was a separation coming. They knew there were three kinds of believers. Unbeliever, make -believer, and true believer. These men are saying the same thing. Just their words are a bit different. This is identical 2 Corinthians 11. Now, as John forewarned, Paul forewarned, it wasn't just the name now. It was the person of that name and the true revelation of both.

There's one God, Holy Spirit, and that Logos left the pillar of fire to take a pillar of flesh whereby he could shed his life and God become the mediator. As I've said before, when you talk about mediation, there's three people at least involved. The two that are fussing and the one that tries to get them together. But he said, God. He says, a mediator is not of one, but God is one. In other words, God came down with his own mediator. By the death of his body upon Calvary, sprinkling of that blood, he opened the door to get man and God back. But every man will get back eventually. But not circumcised. Let's get that flat. You still with me? Okay. It wasn't then just the name. They didn't understand. Let's go to Acts, the second chapter then.

32 to 36. This is the original. This Jesus hath God raised up where we all witness it. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted. And having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost. He has sent forth this which you now see and hear. For it was not David who ascended into heaven. But David said. The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou in my right hand, till I make thy foes thy footstool. Therefore, that all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now it tells you that God did that to that person. But that person is not God.

He's a man. They couldn't understand it. So what did they do? They made him one of a Godhead.

Trinitarians. Now listen, this is based on John 14. What was said here? 16 to 20. Now the Holy Ghost came back. I will pray the Father. He'll give another comforter. He may abide with you forever. Even the Spirit of truth. And the Lord cannot receive because he sees him not and neither knows him. But you know him for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you. How is he dwelling with them? In the person of one man, Jesus Christ. I'll not leave you comfortless.

I'll come to you. In a little while the world will see me no more. But you see me. Because I live, you shall live also. At that day you'll know I am in the Father and you in me and I in you. It tells you that fact. Now the person of Jesus. The figure of a man. could no more come into an individual than the disciples stole his body and cut it and chunks and ate it. It's the Spirit.

That Spirit that was in him, identified with him, came back and fulfilled this in Acts 2, 1 -4, the day of Pentecost. The Holy Ghost came. The Logos separated himself into every single person predestinated to that hour. And he still does it. And hopefully he is still doing it. I don't know. That's age number one. It started to go downhill. It did go downhill. They were losing out. Their love had cooled off. They couldn't wait for him. You see why Brother Branagh said what he said? Couldn't wait.

A spousal is marriage.

Mary was waiting for Joseph.

When the Holy Ghost got there, which he was supposed to get there, Joseph was upset. He said, that's my wife and she's pregnant. God sent a messenger saying she's pregnant all right, but what's being formed in her is by the Holy Ghost. Don't you be one bit afraid.

It must have been a powerful visitation to make that man know where he stood.

Well, I'll ask you a question. What happened to that bride back there when she began fooling with somebody? She got pregnant in the brain.

That's where it all started. Back there, it started in the womb. Physical. Here, it starts in the womb of the mind. See?

Now, descendant age. This must have followed along pretty close to age one because nothing is said of it. Age number three. The 13th verse.

I know your works where you dwell. Even Satan's seat is. You hold fast my name. And not denied my faith. Didn't say they had a revelation. Said you hold fast the name. They did too. Don't worry. They started to couple everything in heathenism with Jesus. But that's all right. That's beside the point. There was a downward trend there. As in the beginning. Age number 4. 2 and 20. Notwithstanding, I got a few things against you. You suffer that woman Jezebel. that calls himself a prophetess, to teach and seduce my servants, to commit fornication, and eat things off an idol. That qualifies 2 Corinthians 4 and 11.

You've gone into idolatry. Page number 5. 3rd chapter, verse 1.

These things he says that have the seven stars, the seven spirits of God, the seven stars I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest in her dead. Notice another name. Another name. has now taken the place of the true name.

Denominations. Creeds and dogmas coming in to fulfill it. Which they do. Age number 6. 3 and 12. He will overcome it. I'll make a pillar and temple of my God. And He'll go up no more. And I'll write upon Him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God. And I will write upon Him my new name. Now, emphasis is put very strongly upon me.

Okay?

That's age number six.

Tremendous emphasis on the name coming up. Age number seven.

That's complete blackness of apostasy.

What was said in Acts 2, 17 and 20 about the anointing upon everybody and anybody. Then comes the tribulation has come to pass. What is said in Matthew 24, 23 concerning the false prophets has come to pass. And now in Revelation 3 and 20, Christ is outside the door knocking. Not necessarily trying to get back in though. He would if they invited Him, but He knew they wouldn't invite Him. So this is the invitation. Look, I'm out here. You come on out. He's present offering Himself or revelation of Himself to the bride. Wanting the bride to come out. Now that's absolutely scriptural. Because over here in Matthew 25, on the parable, and He's already gone through the presence. He's gone through the great tribulation. He's gone through everything. And he says, then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened unto ten virgins. And he's telling you at that time this is going on. This is what the bride is like. Got no Holy Ghost.

Why? There's none in her vessel.

What is your vessel? Your body.

She's not full of the Holy Ghost. She's got nothing. She's got the Word and the revelations leaked out. The Word that she's got is dead. It's dead manna.

Dead creeds and dogmas. And no Holy Ghost. Sure, lots of anointing. There's no problem. Now says the bridegroom, Terry. Midnight a cry was made. Behold the bridegroom. Come out to meet him. There you are. That's Revelation. Behold the bridegroom. Yep. How? Come on out and be with him. That's Revelation 10, 1 and 7. The mighty messenger coming down. Aligning himself with the prophet. That's Acts 3 and 19. Continue right on until Jesus comes down from heaven. See? That's Revelation chapter 3. And verse 12, which we read concerning the name. And in verse 21, To him who overcometh I grant to sit with me in my throne, as I have overcome and sat down with me in my Father's throne. All of this is transpiring at this hour. Now, what I've given you is pretty sketchy here, but it does show you enough to know that that marriage was voided. It was never consummated, nor could it be. She would have to go back then to her original position somehow in order for the consummation of that marriage, which would be the wedding supper. Now, we

go back to 2 Corinthians 11 chapter again.

Now, here is where the woman had his name. She's married to him.

She's identified with him. I'm jealous over your godly jealousy, for I have espoused you. To one husband.

In other words, no way can you have anybody but him. But she didn't wait. Now, the word espoused is from the word harmoso, which means to fit, to join. Signifying to fit. Marrying, given in marriage. Thus we see there was once a church, a woman, who was fit and joined in marriage as a bride to Christ. She was a chaste virgin joined to one husband. Her maker was her husband. That is why she was fit and did fit or harmonize in a unity because God was her maker. Now that's what she was made for, for her purpose. And at that time she fulfilled it. Now, this process of deterioration and separation from the original image went on through seven ages until finally in the last days there was a divorce.

Okay? God's not going to fool with any longs. I put up with it long enough. He said it's such a complete mess there's no way out. All right, in 2 Thessalonians 2 and 3. Let no man deceive you of any means, for that day cannot come except to come a falling away first. Now, I understand by Greek authorities that's divorce. Matthew 25 we know is a divorce. He said, I know you not. In the Greek it says, I used to know you as my wife, but I don't know you as my wife anymore. Now, Brother Branham said truthfully, with the fall of Eve, her fashioner and designer became Satan.

This church has done the same.

Now, if that's the case, who does she belong to and who is she married to?

Come, we'll tell you something. The prophet said very right. When Jesus is espoused, when he is united to somebody, he begins to bring out the characters and characteristics that are in him, in that person to whom he's joined. Then who is this church married to? She's got to be married to Satan because she takes his mark.

And she worships him.

And Sarah with all amazement called her husband Lord.

And who is the husband of the church? The devil is. Call it what you want. But during those seven ages there were a few who were true as they knew how to be to the word and their marriage contract. That is true. They never did take the mark or worship the beast. That's proven in Revelation 20. They never sold out on their journey to the millennium at Baal Peor. And Baal Peor is a sexual act.

Where the woman deliberately attracts the man.

Now you heard of phallic worship, which is the worship of the male primary sex organ. Study Dale Pior, it's going to be the female primary sex organ.

That's why it says she committed fornication with kings in the whole world. She didn't give a rip.

Like Satan, just like Cain. Come on, my brother's king. I don't know where he is. How are you going to punish me? You'll kill me now. What are you talking to me for?

The end time church has a horse forehead.

You can't stop her. She's going to do it anyway.

Now watch and see something. When God talks about divorcing his wife, it is the whole body of individual members that make his wife like David and his 500 constituted one wife. So at no time could there be a divorce until the age of the fullness of the Gentiles, all the bride, all the saved. So all saved are not brides. You got it from the Holy Ghost. We're all in. And the church falls, gathering together. So Christ is put out, no longer the head, period. The Word has to go. And gifts are substituted. Look, you can't put the Word of God together and not understand that's true. You cannot find Him outside of the church and at the same time disregard.

It will come to pass the last day saith God, I'll pour my spirit upon any double -edged flesh. And your sons and your daughters prophesy. Your young men see this. Your old men dream things. And on my servants, men, and on my women's servants, I'll pour my spirit. You can't deny there is a universal outpouring.

There's where they get food. They breathe the life. This is the proof we're all going to live. Hallelujah, this is God. But it's not God. It's only a loud of God.

That's why Brother Branham was so careful explaining. He said, I was wrong when I used to keep body, soul, and spirit. He said, it is body, spirit, and soul. So therefore, the spirit can be anointed. Now he stands outside and calls to the elect, Behold me! Behold me who is the Lord! Come out and sup with me. That's the evening meal, the last major meal. Now at last there is a complete body, a present day living and sleeping. In other words, when the last ones are in, the dead in the ground are complete and we up here are complete. It's time for a different type of action. You're at a juncture. So God divorces the others. They were finished with him and he was finished with them. That is exactly now Ephesians 1, 17 to 18. Even as it could have been in Paul's day, but the bride was not complete. Neither the saved, neither the rest. Now let's take a look at what it's got to be like. Now let's understand this, brother, sister. I'm not giving you a bunch of hogwash. I'm giving you the truth. I hope you're getting it.

Revelation 22, 11 to 15, and I'm trying to repeat enough so your minds are going to get this without you working too hard. He that is unjust is unjust still. When? When the seals are opened and the Mighty One comes down here on land and proves it by a prophet. The pillar of fire. He that is unjust is unjust still. He filth is filthy still. Righteous, righteous still. Holy, holy still. Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me. To give a man a court, his work shall be. Now look it. He's already come down in a form, separating, and he's still to come. It'll be another form.

That time there's going to be fire. I'm Alpha and Omega, beginning and end, the first and last. Blessed are they that wash their robes. I wish, I don't know how the translators got that one botched up. Bunch of legalists. The devil sure crept in there to do his commands. Seventh -day Adventists are sure like that. Then tell you it's the Sabbath. Hogwash. Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without our dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers and idolaters, and let me tell you flat after this hour, there will be nobody saved except 144 ,000 Jews born again. There won't be one person saved. When the bride is completed. Up to this time, millions could be saved. Not even be bride, but make it. Be allowed eternal life at the end time. Come up in a different form in a resurrection. There are those outside the city that bring their glory in. That won't happen now. Why? Because it's over. And amongst the Gentiles, not one person. Just like Billy Graham said, if the Holy Spirit were taken out of the world, they'd give all their calls, they'd go through the motions. And that's exactly what Brother Mano said. He said, there'll come a time when the Holy Spirit leaves this earth, meeting and baptizing, uniting power to God. And he said, if the bride will be preaching to the totally lost. Sure, that's what he said. I'm not telling a lie.

All right? But now it's capstone time. The Holy Spirit comes down and sets Himself the head of the church, the bride, the body, in order to raise the dead. This is all seen as end -time restoration of the bride in Ephesians 4, 11 to 16. Let's take a look at her. Written for this hour, praise God. Not Paul's day, our day. He gave some apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers. Now you've got people who say believe this message and they deny that. And the prophet of God said that would make the Antichrist. But they just go right on down the road. And they're the ones that spill their filth and their hogwash around the world and make the most of it. But don't worry, the bride always was shy.

And there was a girl who got engaged in our town years ago. She kind of walked like this because, you know, she wanted people to see her ring.

Merciful God.

A bride's white chain face. Sober. Quiet. Retired.

Not a bunch of mules that work a horse.

For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, we all come to the unity of faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, under a perfect man, under the measure of the statutes of the fullness of Christ. That's end time.

And you still haven't made it. But here's what you're made into. that we no more be children tossed to and fro. This is Romans 8. Manifestation time. Carried off every wind of doctrine by the slight of men, even cunning craftless, whereby they lie and wait to deceive, but holding the truth in love, grow up unto Him in all things which is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body fitly joins. Together and compacted. But that which every joint supplier, according to the effects you're working, in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto edifying of itself in love. That's that Spirit just before the resurrection. That Spirit that comes into the church. That atmosphere amongst the believers. That's the one I'm looking forward to more than anything else. I thank God for what He's given me. It wouldn't change it for billions of dollars. But man, I'm like this. Now listen. Here, in verse 16, fitly joined together and compacted.

Listen. A bride fitly joined and compacted.

That's your pyramid. You can't get a knife blade in between the blocks. Is somebody going to sneak in and be brined? Why, there's a fellow who tried to bulldoze his way through their wedding supper. And they said, my friend, how did you get in without a robe? Well, he said, I just didn't have one. Well, they said, you should have got the same way you came in with tribulation time.

Compacted. Absolutely. Now listen. That word fitly joined. is, I can't pronounce it maybe, but a sunarm logos. No, pretty close. It's made up of three words. Son, harmos lego. The word son means with. Harmos is that root word of a spousal we talked about, fit to be married. And the word lego is called out. Christ giving his last call. So here's a bride. Fitly joined. And the whole body now to which no one can be added until she's caught up and his physical body climaxes that pyramid that rises. New Testament. Okay. Fitly joined. In other words, when it is the time for that bride to get with him, she will be fit.

See? Not everyone just in his place. Look. That's what we're talking about.

Pentecostal everybody in his place. Oh, you must be a prophet. Hallelujah. I was all through that hogwash. I was all through that junk. And they're still going through it. The funny thing is, what I came out of, most of them are still just getting into.

Dog to the vomit. Hog to the wallow. Bunch of junk.

Tell you something.

There's a harmony. Knowing the place.

Which simply means you know you're part of it. The reality is there. As the living church got out of order, a church must get back in order, in harmony, fit to marry. In other words, there is a re -espousal. If Paul did it, William Branham had to do it. And when it does get back, it is a true bride. So Christ, like David, is gathering the living bride around him. The marriage is back on again. Husband is head of the wife, even as Christ is head of the church, and he's the Savior of the body. We're talking about Christ. I'm not worried about the man anymore. Husband, love your wives. Forget that part, but that's right too. Even as Christ loved the church and gave himself, that's what I'm talking about, that he might sanctify and cleanse it by the washing of water by the word. That is Revelation chapter 20, verse 22, verse 14. She made her robes white.

By the washing of the water by the word. that He might present it to Himself a glorious church. It hasn't been that way for 2 ,000 years.

You talk about amazing grace. Merciful God, I don't have that. But I know His grace and His love and His mercy. I can tell you that for sure. I stand here and I'm not lying to you. I've never known the grace and mercy of God as I know it today. Let's be honest with Him. I'm not boasting. I'm just making you flat, baby.

He's going to make that church glorious.

The glory of the riches of His name.

You know something? Years ago, I lived in a place called Calgary, Alberta. Nice little city. I think it was Fifth Avenue East. I'm not sure. It was a red light district. Back in those days, they marked the town off story. You got by with having your red light hanging out there and all the gay boys would go by and mess up. And disease was rampant. The women looked as tough as the hubs of hell. You never saw such a thing.

One day, I was working for Safeways at that time. And one day, a woman walked into the store and she looked as hard. My God, if you ever saw something hard.

Man, she was beautiful

for her. Great big Cadillac. Was it a Packard in those days? Packard. Oh,

my. My friend said, you know who she is? I said, no. She's Mrs. Stone, so she was a prostitute.

She's married to a very, very rich man.

Well, this

bride was deep in the realms of the prostitute, so she wasn't as bad. because there was something there that wouldn't let her go the final way.

But she was sleeping amongst the spiritual dead. When a voice said, Awake thou that sleepest, rise amidst the dead, the prostitutes, the harlots, and Christ will give thee light. And I'm going to tell you, he's going to have a church, he does have a church at this hour that is spotless. It doesn't have a wrinkle. It doesn't have a blemish. It is holy.

She's sick. You say, who made her fit? I hope you haven't been ignorant all these days. He made her fit. He, like this man in Calvary, gave that whore his name and raised her to the respectability and position of his wealth.

I never could have done that and wouldn't do it.

No way.

Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to thy bosom fly while the nearer waters roll, while the tempest still is high. Hide me, O my Savior, hide till the storms of life are past. I couldn't do that, but he did give

himself.

He didn't give himself again.

He did it.

Even as the Lord loved the church for members of his body, of his flesh,

he that joins himself to a harlot is one flesh.

She wasn't maybe a real harlot, but she was messed up.

members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause, a man of his father and mother joined his wife, and they too shall become one.

Do you know something?

There's no doubt about this great mystery.

Maybe I'm overly romantic, overly wanting

to be something I'm not.

And I say that by virtue of thinking of marriage and a wife.

But Brother Branham made a statement. The Word of God makes the same statement.

And it says there one, the male and female.

I believe that every one of us, male and female, have within us what I call maybe the microcosm of the universe. I

believe that I'm a composite, and you, within ourselves of the, if not the entire universe, of 6 ,000 years of human history. I

want to read my little, lovely little thingy -bob here written up. Identical humans, can they be born? No way. The odds against two identical, two individuals being born exactly like are astronomical. Except for identical twins. Now, there's really no such thing as two identical twins. They sure as far as they bleed, that's okay. There are more than 8 million ways that 23 chromosomes of mother and 23 of the father can combine. The odds against any two of their children having the same complement are chromosomes about 70 trillion to one. Never been 70 trillion people in this world and never will be. And since each chromosome may have as many as 1 ,250 genes, the odds against any two identical individuals reaching a number so high would have to be written by 1 followed by 9 ,031 zeros. No way. No way. What am I trying to tell you? I'm trying to tell you that every one of us has within us everybody else here. And when I married, if that woman was the right one for me, somehow we matched up exactly right. We're one.

Now, if you didn't have that gene from God to begin with, there's nothing to answer to. I know. I know preachers are going around saying, you become seed when you're born again. I'll believe that for one minute. I believe you are seed. That's why you are born again. And I believe you come by naturally. Because it says, one lump of clay. God made the choice.

And he wouldn't step outside of clay to do it. Came by clay.

I think people are slightly mixed up.

The mystery. One.

All those genes come together, spell one body.

All of those genes from Adam on, Old Testament, New Testament, make one bride, one commonwealth, one spiritual Israel. Okay, we are back to the first love. And he has placed the wedding band of divine grace on her finger and renewed his name in her. She is now fit for him.

Stretching Scripture, but illustrating Scripture.

And many of the children of Israel, that's John the Baptist, the Elijah, shall he turn to the Lord their God, and he shall go before the Lord God of Israel in the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, even the disobedient to the widows, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord to get them fit, to get them ready for the union, to get them ready for the coming king and the coming kingdom. And at this time we had a prophet, Elijah, to do the same thing. Ephesians 1, 17, 18 demands Elijah.

When he comes, she beholds her mate. The revealed word. Then, as in 1 Corinthians 13, she knows as she is known. She's known as bride and she knows that she's bride.

She is now word and he is as he is word. The union is back on and will bring forth the rest of the bride in flesh. Then they will bring forth the Lord Jesus Christ in flesh and back to earth. Subjection or harmony is now in progress.

Oh, we're doing great. Get you out of here before four o 'clock. No problem at all. If you're going to sleep, that's fine. You just sleep right on. If you're hungry, well, I'm as hungry as you, I imagine.

Okay. Now, here's what I'm trying to say to you. The law of reproduction brings forth of its time. These last days, true church bride comes to the headstone.

Oh, we really didn't catch it, did we? Now here is what I am trying to say to you. The law of reproduction brings forth its kind.

He said Genesis 1 -11. So let's go back to Genesis 1 -11. And the Lord said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth. And it was so.

Then the right seed has to be here on the earth bringing forth after its kind. And if it's wrong seed on earth, it'll bring forth after its time.

Sometimes I wonder what's used to preaching. But I believe there's some real elect here, so by the grace of God, we'll believe we're all elect. Just keep moving on. These last days, true church bride comes to headstone. Why? Because of reproduction. And because of the right seed. It will be the super church. A super race is near the great headstone. They will be much like, so much like him even, they will be in his very image in the order to be united with him. They will be one. They will be the very manifestation of the word of the living God. Certainly they have to be. What else could they be? Some Roman Catholic Protestant hogwash? Well, that bunch will be. I preach here and I'll preach again. You are your revelation manifest in place. My

preacher buddies don't like that. I

ain't smart.

You serve the head of creation. You don't have to be.

They'll be so much like him in his image. They will be one. The very manifestation of the word of the living God. The denominations can never produce this. I didn't even know he was going to say it or I wouldn't have said anything. They will be, they will produce their creeds and dogmas mixed with the word and bring a hybrid product. What's he talking about? People. The first son was spoken seed word of God.

People don't believe that. Because every seed brings forth its kind. Something happens. Like both. He was given a bride. I'm just reviewing the Spirit, picking up what he said. The bride to produce, to produce himself. She fell. See, that's what a bride was given, to produce himself. Again, another son of God. And she fell by high breeding. Produced himself, but she fell, caused him to die.

Now, where do you get your seed? That you become seed. You are seed. Or I don't know what I'm talking about. And the prophet didn't know what he was talking about because he commended me on the very thought of what I preached. I preached that. I put that understanding. Read in the articles, everything else. The second son of spoken seed word of God was given a bride like Adam. All right? The first son of spoken seed word of God. The second son of spoken seed word of God was given a bride like Adam.

You think the prophet was kind of mixed up here? But before he could marry her, she'd fallen also. For she'd put to free moral agency like Adam's wife. What? To believe God's word and live or doubt it and die. And she did. Now, see, if I've been off the word this morning, I'm cranking myself. But I haven't been off the word. I've been telling you what the prophet said. Then from a little group of the true seed of the word, God will present Christ a beloved bride. That's over the ages. It's always been there. Minimal. A version of his word. And through him and by him then will be fulfilled all that has been promised for his word in the virgin who knows no man -made creature dogma. The word of promise in himself like it was in Mary. God himself made manifest. He will act himself by his own word of promise so to fulfill all that's been written to him. Now that's what I've been preaching about Ephesians the first chapter. And you see why I'm preaching it. It isn't character. It isn't fruit. It isn't obedience. It isn't getting near to God. It's not powerful acts. What is it? God's doing something.

You're not byproducts now anymore. You're in product.

As he did when he came from the virgin womb. Type of the spirit womb now. So will the virgin now. Accepting ACC. Receiving his word. Be it unto me as thou hast said. I tried to explain that with the thought of, what do you call it? Consecration. When Brother Brand's into it. Well, we fixed this thing around. A little binging around here. Okay.

Though it was by an angel, let me read it again. As he did when he came from the virgin womb, type of the spirit womb now, so will the virgin now, by accepting his word, be it unto me as thou hast said, though it was by an angel. Now notice how canny he is. I'd have just put a plumping plane. Messenger.

I'd have just probably put William Branham in there. While it was yet the written word. Isaiah 9 and 6. His names be called wonderful and so on and so on. They will love him, love his, and have his potentials. In other words, they'll love him and have his potentials. For he is their head and they are subject, subject to the head. Headship of Christ was his. Now watch. Here's the statement that I knew was somewhere over all these months I've been preaching. Notice what harmony.

What unity, what fitness, what marriage.

Jesus never did anything until Sina the father of the father showed him first. Harmony between God and Christy. John 5, 19, the same thing said, there'll be a harmony at the end time after the name is declared, which will have the same thing as what we had. We'll be one. They'll be one with us as we are one with each other. In other words, you've got the troop vertical into the horizontal.

So will the bride. And he will show her his word of life. He shows her. And she receives it. She never doubts it.

Nothing can harm her. Not even death.

Back to Romans 8 now. For if the seed be planted, the water will raise it up again.

If the seed is planted, the Holy Ghost is here to bring it to pass in

human bodies.

Amen. Now I've got a great big hallelujah just written here. Here is the secret. The word is in the bride and the mind of Christ to know what he wants done with the word. And she does it in his name. She has thus said the Lord. Then it is germatized. So the Holy Spirit waters it until it's grown and serves its purpose. They only do his will. Amen. I'll believe that. No one can persuade them different. They have thus said the Lord and they keep still. They will do the works of God for it is himself in them. continuing His Word to fulfill as He did complete in His days, all things when He was here He did not complete, all when He was here for the time was not yet, and so on. Now, I'll accept that 100%. I don't know what it all means, but I believe it. There have been a lot of things I haven't been willing to believe all the way down the line. But you notice that He takes you step by step, and as He shows you this is right, this is right, you say, by the grace of God, I know that down the road is right. All right. Harmony. All that he is, she is. That's the Jehovah complex. All that he has is hers. That's the first revelation of God to Abraham. I am your shield and exceeding great reward. I am your protector. I'm your provider.

Whatever you need, I've got for you and I'll retain it for you.

Now, so at the end time, he stands here at the door of Abraham's tent as the days of Sarah. Calls him by name. Calls her by name. Now it's the hour to bring forth the Son. See? That same one that says, everything I've given you, I'm the author of it and I'm going to keep it for you. God standing here said, every promise I ever made, I'm at this point beginning to fulfill in the final analysis where you and I are concerned in this body here. every promise I made down here to every one of my sons that come forth in flesh, I am on the verge of absolutely fulfilling. Because listen, once you make the resurrection, let me tell you flat, if you and I have really made it to this point, don't even worry about the resurrection. You don't have to worry about it. You're in it. Restoration is complete in the potential. For under the seals was everything there to put her in the rapture. So that means the resurrection is there too and absolutely. Confirmed unto us. She is now completing him in the present hour of potential. But never forget Ephesians 3, 20 to 21. I believe it's 3, yeah. Once the woman has her husband's name, it means that he is her head. Now, a lot of people don't like that because right away you've got that old crazy bunch of stuff going on amongst the ministry here where the woman's got a knuckle under. And headship to most people in this ministry means my wife better bow down and make me Lord. Well, you better shut your big fat mouth and start acting like the Lord.

There's no place for that hogwash called subjection around this church here. Anybody think that's going on?

I'm trying to teach a harmony here. An understanding. See, if she's really one with you, there will be that there. See?

That's why some marriages aren't worth a plug. A woman doesn't understand it. She understands. It lies in a harmony.

What the man's trying to do for her, something

might develop better. All right, once a woman has her husband's name, it means he is her head. And he has endowed her with the privilege of bearing life and the privileges of all else he can give her. Now, his earned possessions, he

gives her.

He gives himself for her.

That's what we're looking at. In this union. Man and wife. So therefore. The church bearing his name. Bears his life.

Bears his possessions. Which he earns.

Christ gave himself for her. That is why he is her head. And in harmony. And that's why there should be harmony in marriages. For the very same grounds. Bible declares it.

Now let's go a little further.

Philippians. Second chapter. Five to eleven.

That tells you how that he forsook his God -headedness, if you might say. Came down and became a man. And for that very reason of giving his life, God exalted him. And gave him that name. Above every name and station, Lord Jesus Christ. In Matthew 1 and 21, it says that God appeared, or the angel appeared and said to Joseph, Fear not to any Mary thy wife, for that which you conceive is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, thou shalt call his name Jesus. He'll save the people from their sins. Now, God gave his own redemptive name to Jesus. Notice that. Now, watch. Joseph, representative of mankind, bestowed that name for salvation's sake.

God told him what name was, but Joseph bestowed it.

And you think man can't do anything he wants with that name? He sure does.

If you want to substitute that name and say the message of the church saved you, Pentecostal church saved you, this saves you, just go right ahead. Because God told Joseph, he said, I'm giving you the right to confer that name, the name that I chose. I'm giving you that right, and you go ahead and do it. And Joseph did it. But how many churches are doing it?

Now, they've got the rights. But they'll go to hell, too many of them, see? All right.

Jesus proved out that name of God and man, or He proved out that name to God and man, when He was here as the Savior. So now He possesses it in its fullness, which is Lord of heaven and earth. and destroyer of hell and the grave. Because that's redemption. He is highly exalted to this hour. And if He is exalted, then the bride is exalted with Him. It is the dawn of the day of the new meaning. I didn't say new name. I said new meaning for a name.

One. When Jesus came in the flesh as

Jesus, it was Jehovah's Savior for a certain purpose. And that purpose, of course, was to die upon Calvary, offer his blood, rise, become our high priest. Secondly, he came back as the Holy Ghost at Pentecost, and ever since then, that we might be joined back to God by receiving the Holy Spirit, which is also not only our union, but our guarantee that the bodies will come forth in the glorified resurrection. Number three. He has now come back again as Jehovah's Savior in fullness of himself, the Holy Spirit, in order to bring to pass the guarantee to Christ, Jesus, the man for what he did. For it says in 1 Corinthians 15, 23, But every man in his own order, Christ the first is after a day that a Christ that is, approves you. Now that starts a trend of events, which ends up in the kingdom turned back to God. Then cometh the end when he shall have the kingdom of God, even the Father, when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power, for he must reign that he put all enemies under his feet. And so on until God becomes all in all. Now we have this started here at this point where God, the Holy Spirit, the Logos, has come back in order to put Jesus, the man and the bride and those who believe in him and one with him in the supreme authority which he has been accorded and we have been accorded. by Almighty God for being a part of this great plan of redemption, for showing forth His attributes and such as God had so desired and so designed. Now that is what is going on now. For He will then, after the rapture begins to take place, will reincarnate Himself into the body of the Lord Jesus Christ in order to come back to earth to establish the millennial kingdom. which will be at least 1 ,000 years. How long the white throne judgment takes place, I don't know. I don't understand. It'll take some time, perhaps way beyond the 1 ,000 years, because the word in the Greek is millennia, not millennium. It means more than one, but I just let that go. It goes beyond to some degree. I don't know. And then will come the new Jerusalem, where the pillar of fire is above the throne, but the fruits will be there eternal. Brother, sister? No matter how you think of the name of Jesus, you cannot ever stop from this moment on of not thinking about the fact that it is not a name, it is a person. And that name would not be in the bride today except the person himself is here. Jehovah, Savior is here. As Brother Branham said, God started redemption. I want to ask you a question. How did he start redemption? He was in the spirit form when he came down, no doubt. The low goss and a pillar of fire. No doubt when he made the first blood sacrifice, there's been blood ever since. And the question comes, how and what will determine the end of that same redemption that started on earth, where sin started its course, where on earth sin must finish its course? It's got to come down and finish it. The same one that stood there and said, man cannot be immortal. And put a sword there and a flaming chair of him to stop man from getting into immortality. And he's never done it. In fact, his life has got shorter and shorter. And they tell me the only reason that man seems to live longer and the age has gone up and so on is because they've taken care of infant mortality to a greater degree. That the statisticians and the guys that take care of all these great figures, they say there's just a lot of hogwash in the figures that man paints. Man may strive for immortality, but he's not going to get it. The only one that can give it back to him is the one that said, hey, this is not going to go on in this condition. And when the condition is entirely reversed, then we'll reverse this condition. So no wonder when the Scripture comes on the scene and tells us here in this end hour, demonstrated and proven conclusively that he is here to raise the dead, then there has got to be that same one here this morning, brothers and sisters. That same one with that same name, Jehovah, Savior, Redeemer. To finish it, which means somebody's got to be standing here. Somebody's got to walk into immortality. Somebody's got to not have one missing eye blink and one heart beat. I don't know if the heart's going to beat later on. Don't ask me because there's no blood. Who cares? But there's going to be immortality. Sure, as you and I sit here and stand here this morning. Let me tell you, brothers and sisters. Everything that lies in that name is in the bride now for one reason. Because He. who has the name is here. And he was that name. That's why he was that name. Because he was that person. And that person is here today. You better believe that because that's the truth. And I can say just as sure as Jesus said to those who stood with him back there before his death and resurrection. He said there'll be some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man come in his kingdom. And there's death got to be. Because this generation shall not pass away. Till all these things be fulfilled. Now that started with Israel in the homeland. I don't care how you look at it. You can take it absolutely from the year they became a nation. And that was in 1948. And then you can add your figures on that and say, well, everybody over 20 died. And those under 20 were the ones that went into the promised land. All right, then put that age at 20. And add 50.

You got 1900.

98.

All right?

17 years to go, eh? Some of you are not even 25.

Some of you are not even 14 years old.

Some of you are 65, could be still sitting here. You're 65? Well, I guess, yeah. There's a few of us, 65.

That's 18 years. Who said you can't live to be 80 some years of age?

Oh, there's a lady out there in New Mexico. I guess she's stepping close to 100. because she can almost work a man off his feet. Who's

to say? But you better know one thing, that the prophet told you, thus it has been spoken, thus it will be.

Nobody's going to turn the clock back. You can't do it.

They're going to say, look over here. Look over there. Chase this down. Chase that down. He said, don't bother looking because it was under your noses. If you didn't see it, there's no way you'll see it.

It's a revelation. Do you believe that? Lord, bless you this morning.

Heavenly Father, we're grateful again this morning for grace and mercy, for love of God, for the Holy Spirit being here, Lord, for You being here. And wonder of wonders, it makes us appreciate the blood and the high priesthood all the more because how in the world could anyone stand when You're here?

Father God, if this does not make people to... Stand up inwardly and rejoice and marvel at Your grace. I just don't suppose anything ever will bring it to pass. But Lord, this morning we are aroused by You and to You. And we're happy for it. We're glad, Lord, that it's all of You. Nothing to do with this. Lord, when those things must happen which have been declared unto us, And in whatever magnitude they should happen, O God, bringing distress. Those pressures, Lord, that will shut doors. There is a door that they cannot shut that's opened in heaven. And we're going to escape up there. We're glad, Lord, because of the manifestation of grace. The fruit, Lord, manifested in this last day message. conclusively proving the hour of the Spirit, the gathering and those things that were assuredly said. We know that there's not going to be a hitch. There won't be a miss. And we thank You, O God. Lord, we just bleed today and set our hearts to reckon there won't be one person in this little group that's going to be missing. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I'm found. Was blind, but now I see. And we're glad, Lord, that we can say we see, not having turned down the Word of God, but we say we see because we have appropriated the eye salve, grounded in our eyes that we might see those things that were hidden but are now revealed. And we say, Lord, by Your grace, we're one with that Word which has been revealed. We're happy with it. And we're so grateful. that You're helping us. We're not standing, Lord, this morning on our own just because we've seen thanking You for the revelation, but we're thanking You, Lord, because the great revealer is holding us. We're not holding ourselves. We're not producing. The great producer is here producing. And it's so good. It's so good. We thank You for it, Lord. Now, Father, we just pray that as the prophet said so many times, He's here in the same yesterday and today and forever. We're getting anxious, Lord, to see that same authority and power released amongst us for healing of sick and all those things, Lord, that are so vital to us because we're still here in the flesh and we know that they haven't been taken from us. But, Lord, we know there is that sweet spirit. It could be that we have to wait for it. I don't know all about it. But, Lord, I just pray that whatever there is amongst us now, that you have for us in these things. We will not miss it by looking down the road. But we'll receive what is ours at this moment. So Father, we're grateful again to know that you'll help us in these things. That everything is wonderful because it's the properly germitized seed in the properly fertilized ground in the sun and the rain bringing forth. That word. Oh, and we're happy for it. We just praise You now, Lord. And unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, the all -powering honor and glory. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. The Lord directs you. Let's sing, Oh, How I Love Jesus. Because that's what we testify to. You know? A woman gets married and never talks about loving her husband. There's something pretty wrong. You know? I think she's got a bad case of something. I don't know what it is. But if she doesn't love her husband, who does she love? If you don't love Jesus and you say he's my husband, there's something wrong somewhere. Okay, Brother Pete, you're in voice all the time. Love me. Okay, we'll go sing and take the name of Jesus with you because that's the name we've been trying to exalt, the name we have faith in. And it's no more just a name. It signifies that he is here. Nobody says, what if I'm ten miles from here? Nobody says, hey Lee. Oh, you'd just have to be in this, wouldn't you? Well, we don't talk about Jesus anymore except we recognize he's here. And when you call upon him, it's no longer one that's far off, but one that's near. Right? All together, lovely. Okay, start it off.