1986-040-4086-Christ is the mystery of God revelaed #8

And this hour concerns God. I have the same habit of repeating many, many things I've said before. You'll notice that every time we hear Brother Brown say them and I say them, that it brings on a deeper impression, a better depth. And it's something like as the scripture says that the Lord never takes away his word, he magnifies it. It becomes clearer and more evident. And also, as you're more familiar with the actual revelation, more at home with it, then that is what brings that peace and relieves you of all trouble for this hour. So, in Christ the mystery of God revealed, this is number 9, and if we understand the title of this message, we realize we're presented with the fact that Christ has been, is presently, will be in the future, the express means of the invisible God revealing himself. Now that's what you're actually looking at. This title lets you know that God who himself is invisible, unknown, has a way of communicating himself to the people. And that is true, you may say, the instrumentality of Christ. So that the title of this message does reveal and bring to us the understanding that Christ has been, is presently now, and will be in the future the expressed means of God who is invisible, revealing himself. That revelation would answer these questions. And what is God? What is he like? What are his purposes and how does he bring them to pass? What is he doing now? And what is our relationship and responsibilities?

Can we get an answer to these? Well, it is possible that these questions can be answered so that the complete mystery of creation and life and God who is above all will all come together. That's what we want. Because you couldn't say that which is perfect has come unless you came to that particular place. And then we might ask if this is also how are we going to get it? How do we come to this place of complete reconciliation? Which we are speaking in terms of reconciliation by revelation. Because reconciliation has already been accomplished through Christ. Even that it was already accomplished in the mind of God before there was a speck of stardust. The title of the message tells us all these things. Brother Branham read from Colossians 1 .15 -19, but we will start with verse 12. Giving thanks unto the Father who hath made us meet to be partakers. Now, remember Eve was a helpmeet to Adam. Now, most people don't realize what that word helpmeet is. It means that when Adam... Looked over all the animals. There wasn't one fit for him. There wasn't one of his class. So when you say God is. Thanks be unto God. That he has made us meet. Thank God he has put us in the class. Of partakers. Isn't that right? If you get to some of these meanings. Much richer then. You think really what you're saying. Well he's made us fit. That isn't true.

John came to the vessels. That were prepared. and made them ready. We are already these vessels, and to us is given revelation.

Therefore, giving thanks unto God, who hath made us of the partakers, of the inheritance of the saints in life. Now it doesn't say inheritance apart from life. It's inheritance of the saints in life. The life given to those.

Now, if you're following me, you're understanding what Brother Brown said in this message, that the revelation is only for certain people. It is an exclusive revelation for an exclusive people. The exclusivity of this is what people don't want.

They always say, well, see, God would never do a thing like that. What are you trying to tell God what he's going to do? You can't even tell me what I'm going to do.

I might end up with a 4x4 wrapping around your skull. I'm

my own boss and you've got no ties on me.

I'm going to answer for myself. You're not going to answer. I'm being very strong here because it wouldn't be that way. But I'm letting you know about God.

Whom did he ask advice and whom does he ask advice? Whom took he counsel and who's he going to take counsel? You can see the exclusivity of this. And when you become exclusive through God, you become hated.

I told my son the other day, I said, Don, you're looking at one of the most hated men in the world, one of the most loved. And I said, I'm glad I'm hated. If I wasn't hated, it was sure I wasn't worth a plug nickel. Amen. I wouldn't have anything. There'd be nothing to it. Just wind, no substance, no anything. But I can raise people's hackles in short order, not because I'm an abrasive character, which I admit I am. Not that at all. They're always excusing me for my abrasiveness. But when it comes to that word, wham, there's where the billy clubs come out and the bulldozers come down the road. Now it says, concerning these people who are a certain type of people who have delivered us, we must have been made fit for that. People

always bemoan the fact that they never were anything. And what a horrible thing. And I was a child of the devil and a seed of the serpent or something. I was a reprobate. And God did so and so. You are a nice fellow, but you are a liar.

I'm sorry, but you're lying in God's teeth. Because that's not the truth. My sheep know my voice. He came unto his own. You've got to stay with the scripture. Why fool with the scripture? Why do you bother? See, the superficiality of man has brought the superficial salvation, which isn't the salvation that Paul said, if a man preach another gospel, it ain't no gospel. At least it's not God's good news. We must be certain then. Who had delivered us from the power of darkness. Power of darkness means what? You were sheep who had gone astray. You were in darkness, but now you're brought into light. It doesn't say you didn't have darkness. It didn't say you hadn't gone astray. It said you had. And that translated us. Picked us up and put us into the kingdom of his dear son in whom we have redemption. Even the forgiveness of sin. So who is the blood of Amon for? who is the holy spirit coming to to whom is revelation appearing a select group now that's the bible that millions are preaching i don't care that's their business and this is our business whom we have redemption through his blood even the forgiveness of sins who is the image now the image is an icon and the image is not the real thing an image is a perfect manifestation but not the thing itself

The firstborn of every creature. Now, for by him are all things created that are in heaven and are in earth, visible and invisible, whether it be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created by him. And for him and he is before all things, and by him all things are maintained. The word consistent means maintained, kept up. And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, as from amongst the dead, and in all things. Positivity, no matter where you look, is the preeminent one. So therefore, we have a little dissertation here that we're going to get an insight into God. We're going to know something about God. We will know peculiarities, substance, quantitative, qualitative, dimension, and also plans, participation in plan, beginning, ending, gross results, net results. I hope you heard all those words. They're all important. And that covers the whole gambit, kingdom

of God, kingdom of Satan, everything. Everything's in there, what I just said. Now, you get an understanding through this one that then Christ, this one becomes a mystery of God revealed. God, the mysterious God, becomes revealed in understanding this, if we can understand it. All right? Verse 19 is the one we look at. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell. Okay?

Verses 18 and 19 of 2 Corinthians 5 also tell us something. Now, it pleased the Father that in him all fullness should dwell. It also says in the same book, for he's the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Now, watch in 2 Corinthians, the fifth chapter, what it says here concerning the same one who brought redemption. And all things are of God. who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation to it. For this is the truth, that God was in Christ. There you have the picture. God was in Christ. God was in the

anointed one. Now, these verses together spell out the message. But if they stand alone and apart from an authentic... revelation or an authoritative revelation of them then they are nothing to us but added dilemma and that becomes an added dilemma because now you have two gods at least but

it doesn't say that says god as the scripture says there is one mediator between god and man which

has been reduced to the greatest understanding through terminology when brother brad has said the body the right hand

signifying That he has a place of authority. And preeminence. Before almighty God. So as in typed in Joseph. No man could get to Pharaoh. Except by Joseph. And no man can come to God. Except by that one. Who was ordained. You cannot get to him. Either spiritually or physically. Or in any way whatsoever. Revelation or otherwise. Until you come to the authentic understanding. And this message. tries to help our understanding. Thus, the scripture, which by themselves would end in a further dilemma, we must begin to add such scripture as we have gone over continuously. 1 Corinthians, the second chapter, verses 7 to 5. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery. The hidden, not necessarily wisdom, but the hidden, hidden

God, hidden things. which God ordained before the world unto our glory. This was ordained to our glory. This makes us a very select group. No one else is privy to God. You

say, I don't think I like that. If you

have any trouble getting to water, cats don't like water, but if you throw the cat in often enough, you

can throw people in this all you want. They can come to a hidden audience where they might like it. But

there's something about this that becomes your life when you're part of it. Now, which God ordained before the world under our glory, foreordained also, which none of the princes of this world knew, had

they known it, would not have crucified the Lord of glory. They were very content with what they thought they knew concerning the invisible God and how he dealt with them, what they called the membra, which is what we call the logos in the Greek. But they could never get to the bottom of it. As it's written, I have not seen or heard neither into the heart of man the things which God has prepared them lovingly. Now you got to the place here where you don't know anything about God and you don't need anybody's plans. But the select group does. But God hath revealed all of that unto us. Now that's the one, that's the perfect one. That's initiated. That's the one that's in the exclusivity of God's mind. The exclusiveness of God's mind. Enter the heart of man the things that God prepared. But God hath revealed us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. Now the Spirit in you that's been given to you is searching out those things. It wants those things. It loves those things. It lives for those things. Its exhilaration is there. Its stimulation is there. Its desires are there. The others, not so. Not so. And you'll find this true when I'm talking about because we're hitting strongly on Revelation.

That's a part of it. Most people can go strong for their manifestation in their own thinking, but not revelation. Even so, the things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of man. Now, man's got a spirit, but he cannot know this. Now, we have received the spirit of the world, but we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God. That we might know the things that are freely given to us of God, of which part of that is revelation, which

brings your faith. Now, which things also we teach. not in the words which man's wisdom teaches. In other words, this cannot be brought out through the realm of the senses. Now learning is inculcated into your being. This is something different. But which the Holy Ghost teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual. It starts right with the spiritual and says, hey, don't try to reason this. See, now you can't reason it.

I'll tell you, I've heard preachers that don't even want to go into predestination like good old hardshells and we do. And they'll take, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, we're blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places, according as he had chosen us and him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy without blame before him in love, having predestined. They'll take that and they'll say, well, you see, here's the thing. This was the plan which was in Christ and he implements it. God Almighty had the great plan as the Father and Jesus the Son became the medium whereby the plan could go into effect and the Holy Spirit becomes the agent so now we get it. Ha! He

didn't say that or he said it very plainly. You

know what the human mind doesn't want to take before the foundation of the world?

The precept of Logos. The

expression of what was spiritual substance and ethereal or mental substance. Let me tell you, mental substance is just as real as your physical substance, and it's realer because you can take your mental substance and do anything you want with your physical substance. Psychosomatic diseases, hypnotism, and all these things.

Twist the thing around. Let's get it back where it was. God had a plan, had a purpose, and you've got to start there and believe there, and you're a part of it, that you were a gene.

Don't try to figure the rest will come in your revelation if you don't start there and just let it come.

here to tell you these things because I know what I'm talking about. Well,

I've fought and battled my arm again more than any person living here on the grounds of what I have been. So if you have enough on the ball to beat me this morning and just go along, you're going to have an easy road. Not that mine is hard, it's just that it's my world and world and world. Why do you think I'm the kind of personalizing that almost all of them worry and think and think and think?

Help your nature for what you are and your mind in that channel. But I don't say it's spiritual, I'm just saying it's got to come spiritual and come along. We also speak, he says, not in words which man's wisdom teaches. The Holy Ghost teaches comparing spiritual things to the spirit of others, staying right with this revealed word and not going outside it. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God. Revelations out. For they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because their spirits are discerned. In other words, there's a spiritual judgment in there, not a physical. Like a person says, well, if I believe that God had this thing all cut and dried, I just wouldn't believe anymore. Oh, fine, go ahead. Well, I got sour. I got angry. Paul said that this is cause for great rejoicing. Let's find out. You know who that's from? 2 Thessalonians. 2nd chapter, verse 13. But we are bound to give thanks always to God, dear brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and even the belief of the truth. He tells you right there, God's choosing is great cause for praise. Do

it for that. Do it for something else. Galatians 1. 6 to 12. Now it tells you, this revelation, you've got to have something from God, which is His Holy Spirit, because only the Holy Spirit understands and knows, and so you've got the Holy Spirit. Now it tells you something else. Genesis, I beg your pardon, Galatians 1, 6, beginning. I marvel that you're so soon removed from Him that called you into the gospel of grace, into another gospel, which is not another, but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ. One word on, one word off. It's not the gospel. But though we are an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you. Let him be accursed. As we said before, say so now again. I'm going to repeat, he said, and keep repeating. If any man, if anyone, preach any other gospel unto you than that you have received, let him be accursed. For do I not persuade men of God? See what he's saying there? Have I gone to God and got this thing all doped up? If I change God's mind and got something worked up between me and God, then he says, okay, Paul, preach it. Do I seek to please men? Do I listen to you, then go back to God and pretend I got another answer? Say, hey, let's listen to this. If I please men, I should not be the servant of Christ. Now, there's the entire mystery of Almighty God to be revealed, and Paul indicates exactly where it comes from. See, Christ, the anointed, the anointing, met the pillar of fire. But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For neither I received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. And that was the pillar of fire. Who art thou, Lord? I am Jesus. Now he calls him Christ. Lord Jesus Christ. Gone back to the pillar of fire. See? Now

we go to 1 Corinthians 14, chapter 36 to 37. And here we get the definitive. That a man has this kind of authority to lay this down. What came the word of God out from you or came it to you only? Do you, Corinthians Church, do you produce the word that you're talking about now? Did it come out of you? Did a group of men or somebody else bring it? Or was it brought to you? Now listen, if any man thinks himself to be a prophet, and that's to whom the word of the Lord comes, that's Paul, or spiritual, that means you're full of the Holy Ghost so you can get a revelation. Let him acknowledge that the things that I write, not what you're doing, Not what you're claiming. Not what you're talking about. Not what you're changing. Not what you're arguing. But what I have said verbatim.

And notice, not the sarcasm, but the dismissal. But if any man be ignorant, be ignorant. In other words, my hands,

your revelation, go to it.

Maybe that's why some people think I preach a little tough like the Apostle Paul. But I'm going to tell you something. That's the kindest thing a man can do. Let you know where he stands and let you know what you can do. As I said, if you leave this church, there's one reason you'll leave it. Maybe because you're mad at somebody. Well, I'm sorry about that. The one reason you leave it is because the truth is not being preached here. If you say, well, I'm going to come back, you'll stand before the whole congregation and admit that you were wrong because we still stand for what we stood when the doors opened. I haven't backtracked and I don't intend to backtrack. A little point here, a little point there needs clearing up. That's no doubt true. But you've got to stand with it. Remember Brother Branham and that great vision he had beyond the curtains of time. He said, I preach what Paul preached. They screamed, we're depending on that, we're standing on that. Now, I don't have to worry about the entire Bible. I just worry about what this message is for this hour, end time of answer. So what we're looking at here definitely is that these questions can be answered, which comes to people's mind. They might not be answered the way you want them, in the manner you want them. in a certain depth that you may want them, but the answers are there. And you can receive them on the grounds that a prophet of God brought them, vindicated to be that particular person of this hour. And you will know that you are one of those of the elect group because you can hear that person. As it says in Revelation 3 and 14, unto the messenger of the church which is in Ephesus. These things set the amen. And then it concludes by saying, he that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says, is saying to the messenger. So therefore, it tells you straight that there is someone to receive a revelation from God in every church age. And you will know if you have the Spirit of God, you will hear what that person has to say. Now, I know that's just like water off a duck's back. That's a lead balloon going over people's heads. Because they don't want it that way. They are at liberty to want anything they want. But I am so grateful that I am not on my own. That God has taken care of me somehow to help me. Now this brings us all to 1 Corinthians. I think it is the 6th chapter. If that's what I really want. 26 to 29. No, it isn't 6. I beg your pardon. It's not the 6th chapter. It's the 1st chapter. All right. For in verse 26, for you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh. Now, God has wise men after the spirit because he said prophets, wise men, scribes. Prophet is the man who brings the literal word of God. The wise men can take that word and break it down and teach it. The scribe will do nothing but just say verbatim, all three are one. Okay, you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh. Not many mighty after flesh. Not many noble after flesh. In other words, the human race does not breed large numbers of elect. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. And God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. Me, born in a manger, dying on the cross. The best things of the world and the things which are despised have God chosen. Which means that... They don't have great repute in the eyes of the people. It doesn't mean they're rotten. He's going to get someone out of the insane institution. If you read your scripture, you can find a priest couldn't have anything even wrong with a fingertip or anything else. If he had a beard, he'd have to cut it a certain way and everything else. Yet people think that God today is dealing with some bunch of coots that are high on pot or some mushrooms that come out of Mexico.

Strange, isn't it, how people want to... denigrate at all to something which is so base. Then they talk about worshipping God. I would like to ask the question, what do they call worship?

Something a little ridiculous there, isn't it? You have such an opinion of God, how could you worship Him? I mean, that's why people have such poor opinions of some preachers. I don't say some of them don't deserve it very roundly. I've met myself on more than one occasion. I said, if you're not, I said, the kindest thing that people can say about you is that you're insane. Then

there's lies. There's some moral filth.

Conductless soul. absolutely unholy. You could pray as on Judgment Day they might be reserved for a lesser judgment on the grounds that they were mentally incompetent.

Let me tell you something. God does not do things like that. Scripture cannot uphold holiness on one hand and then absolutely condone guilt on the other.

It's easy for a man to say, don't you sin and him do it. There's a witness in the Word of God on punishment for that. It says he had chosen the things that are not. In other words, they're just not there to be understood and be seen, to bring to nothing the things that are. In other words, you can't see those invisible things out there, but to come in and just make these other things look, hey, what's going on anyway? You just can't make it work. That no flesh should glory in his presence. But what? But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness. sanctification, redemption. Do you want to know about God? See it all in Christ there what's coming to you. That according as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Now, it is in this area that Brother Branham so strongly comes against education or says that, rather says that education cannot bring revelation. Only the rebirth will do it. He got it from here, of course. He says God is known by simplicity and the revelation of Jesus Christ in the most illiterate person. It doesn't say you've got to be illiterate. It just says that even if you are smart, before God you had better become illiterate. In other words, you have no literacy concerning God. You have illiteracy concerning God until the literacy comes by the Holy Spirit. And then you will, in the knowledge, of revelation and not go outside of it. You will not try to explain away predestination, foreknowledge, election. You will not try to explain away bride. You will not try to explain away prophet and Malachi 4. You'll say, this is it. This is it. This is it. You won't have to worry about your own literacy. Forget it. You don't have it in the presence of God. You are illiterate. You cannot take your literacy as far as the world is concerned and think you're going to get somewhere because it won't work. Because you're an literacy in the world say well, I've got Jesus hallelujah by saying

all right literally God because the Bible said John should go before him in this that's God The God of Israel in the spirit of Elijah. I want to know this. Why did Jesus need John? I

need someone to eat my food put on my clothes and tie my shoelaces Redundant

see what your mind to do. There is no way that you can take this scripture and make your mind function No way, especially in the light of a revelation which has been given, vindicated, authenticated. Oh, what's that? You're never going to get it because your mind can't take it. It's illiterate.

That's why I say many, many times, you give me a good old, literally a heap. I don't care if you're Methodist, Baptist, and Greek Orthodox. Just as long as you didn't really participate, if you stood around and looked in the window with only one eye and that happened.

You listen and you'll understand in a hurry. worked your way up through the ranks. You're a very ranked person. You want to come to this. You're not going to get it. You're outranked especially. See what I'm trying to tell you? It is not that educated men cannot be born again. It is that education comes primarily by the five senses and is coupled with the ability to reason, which lies in the main part, which is in the main part, through the processes of the mind. If you want to get that exactly right, I'll say it this way. it is that education comes primarily by the five senses and is coupled with the ability to reason which literally lies in man's spirit which is part of the mind or the physical part in there so you can't mind you got a brain but mind is different from brain in the sense it's related to it so mind is spirit so you see since education comes primarily through the senses and the ability which you have in your own spirit to understand the power of words and associations you will always draw the wrong conclusion when it comes to the ultimate you may come to the right conclusion to the point of having drawn a conclusion that you could say is really scriptural as a premise but when it comes to precept upon precept line upon line Word upon word, you can't get it. You

can come all the way to a Dr. Pete. And I'm a born -again believer in another age.

Destination, especially foreknowledge, using the scripture that David said, I have followed before his mind. Wrong. Not

be followed on judgment day.

This is the hour when the mysteries are known. The intent, not

another hour,

so that you don't have to understand every intimate detail, but you believe it. What

you don't understand, you just simply do.

back in the beginning of logos existence

of christ understand the form of of uh no problem understanding uh angelic form cherubim form my biggest problem is going back to that light in a conversation i don't have any trouble there for one reason because i say if it's a part of god it's a manifestation and it is life why shouldn't it talk back and forth i

have no trouble knowing there's one god period i

have trouble understanding it revelation comes his way don't

worry about those other points I don't want you to worry about those other points because I stress that when I have a point there, I'm just honest with you. We'll read something Brother Brandon said too later on if we ever get there. Which one cares? Now, this reasoning process of the educated mind won't work. Only God himself can actually reveal himself to us by his spirit. Now, that's what it said in Corinthians. We've been given his spirit to get to understand. Brother Brandon illustrated this by using John 4, the woman at the well. and the priests who couldn't catch the light. Here was a woman with five husbands now living with the six. Now, if you think they're immoral today, just put your hat back on your head. They're immoral back there.

And you'll notice that it wasn't one man with five wives. It was one woman with half a dozen husbands. So people always have that stupid idea that man is a great initiator. I think you're a little bit cooped. I don't think Adam approached Eve. I understand he approached them.

Women so -called, it was a perfect unveiling, but it always wasn't women. It's been man too. So let's get the whole picture. Man's dirt, woman's dirt. She

was a pretty tough character. She'd gone astray. She

was in what you might call a stink pot. She

was stung. There's these five Pharisees. They stood around there. Oh, man, their vessels, they looked tremendous. The finest clothing or something like that. You know, the Amish people. I did a little joke about them, you know. A woman or something being Amish. She left them and she said, you know, she said, that bunch of beauty makes me sick. Yeah, she said. She said, when the people came by, the men came, the people came by and sold them these lovely cloths. She said, you should have seen those men buy with each other to buy the most beautiful black cloth with the nicest tailoring you ever saw. Like a couple of sweet old gals picking out the best with those pretty fairy flats. So you know so much for all that. Here

they were in the fine robes, very luxurious.

When he said, you've had five husbands, the one you've got now is not your husband. Literally, you are a prostitute. She said, sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. When

Jesus came and told those men about the Word and revealed it, they said, I perceive that you are a devil.

There is your classic picture of what we're talking about. Every fine person with fine thoughts is going to go to hell, and every stinkpot God is going to pick up. On the contrary, brothers and sisters, it comes to one point. The sheep gone astray is as rotten as a serpent seed that's gone astray or a goat gone astray. The sheep gone astray is as rotten as the hog and the pig that's gone astray. The sheep gone astray is as rotten as the wolf gone astray. And that's the best you can say about the Apostle Paul, who was a sheep gone astray and was a ravening wolf, rending

and tearing, and getting a very spiritual delight out of it, knowing that he was truly pleasing God. There's your Roman Catholic Church with 68 million martyrs. And your St. Augustine. St. what?

Self -righteous, fine, he

said, God is our God.

William Branham said concerning this woman, the light struck the sea.

Let's go to John 1, 1 -5. The beginning was the Word, and the Word is with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. Notice the emphasis on God. All

things were made by him. Without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men, and the light shines in darkness, and the darkness comprehends it not. which means the darkness can't get it. Or another translation says, and the darkness could do nothing about it. And it couldn't. So therefore, you'll notice we're talking in terms of the one being present, which at that time was flesh and is now Holy Spirit. And that light is a light. In other words, it is duty bound to give a revelation of itself, whatever that self is. And then the 18th verse, and no man has seen God at any time. the only begotten son which is in the bosom of the father he hath declared and that shows you the same one that was here in flesh is now in the bosom strictly inculcated in god in the form of the holy spirit because they are one and it says he will lead him forth or as the word here is exegesis which means to make him absolutely clear and plain by a preachment a description which comes by words That's why you got the term logos, an expression. It's a word expressing the thought. But remember, it must contain the very element which it's expressing. So Christ would contain God. Go

to John 3, 16. Now, this is about the Lamb. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Now, everybody stops there, wanting to keep on reading. Well, some do a little further. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. That's good. Now watch. He that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Now that's where they do stop. But watch where it goes. And

this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world. And men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. now tells you right there even though jesus died upon calvary and you can accept him all you want and you may try to accept him all you want it depends on life whether you are accepted and he is accepted so therefore if there is a light and that light is turned down you can plead blood all you want i know that's another of that balloon that's

theology that's not revelation is what it says and this is the condemnation in spite of the blood in spite of talking about jesus It's better receiving Jesus. That light has come into the world. Amen. Love darkness. They

say Jesus is the light of the world. Because what does that mean? Well, what does it mean? It means explanation. Man

thinks himself a prophet. Let him acknowledge the things that I write on here, the commandments of God.

Well, they say, well, thank God.

Of course. He

doesn't bring up before. He doesn't rub the nose in. I mean, that's a description.

Name off the land. Not because I said it. That's because God said so.

The light struck the woman. But others said this is Beelzebub. And so it is today when Matthew 12 is being fulfilled. Now here's something else your books are not going to teach you. I've been through the books. Matthew

12 when Jesus knew it he withdrew himself and great multitudes followed him and he healed them all. That's when they were going to destroy him. Today they're putting him out of the church and they're trying to get rid of Christ. You can't use your name. You've got to please the Jews and so you can't use Jesus. You

can't say Jesus name amen because you're going to hurt someone. And the Arabs. What do they got to do with it? What do they got to do with my conscience? What does the government got to do with my conscience? You

talk about separation of state and religion. Life Fund, they brought it together. They're a bunch of liars. Who breaks the Constitution? Our own government rules of theology. They teach Christ and come against Antichrist. They teach Antichrist and come against the Christ.

We're a land of liberty. Our seminaries especially are full of preachers who are teaching how to be communists.

supposed to do and hate to do, they don't do.

Nixon sends a legal order on. I heard Billy Graham was behind that. I don't know. I hope it shows where he is. Everybody else, at least it shows. All of a sudden, Democrats are trying to make this a religious situation. I'm just trying to show you why America's where it is today. Why chapter 13 of the book of Revelation. People say, well, it's not in there. Sure, it's in here. I'm going to find out where it is today. He

drew himself, fenced and healed them all. Charged no man should make him known. That it might be fulfilled, spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, now watch. Behold my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, whom my spirit is well, my soul is well pleased. I will put my spirit upon him. Now, and he shall show judgment to the Gentiles. He shall make a difference amongst the Gentiles. He shall vindicate. He shall show one side against the other to the Gentiles. When did he do it? He did not do it, but he's got to do it. Now watch when he does it. He shall not strive. Did he strive back there in the flesh? If he didn't strive, then I'm going to tell you, I'm a caboose of a freight train. A little phone would bell.

them clean out of the temple, as they'd say down south. Nor cried? Oh, he didn't cry? Are you kidding? Or he cried. He

cried out at the great feast. You think his voice wasn't heard in the streets? That's where he had to preach. The

treaty shall not break. You think he didn't break their religion, what they're standing upon, their staff? You think he didn't? Then you don't know your Bible. The smoking flax he didn't quench? You think he didn't? Where's their temple worship? In the ashes of the red heifer.

Till he sent forth judgment and victory. Where? Amongst the Gentiles. And they trusted his name. Because they can't see him in flesh. So how does he come? He comes in the Holy Spirit in a pillar of fire. And he comes as a judge.

You say, I don't believe that. You don't believe nothing. You

want to teach that? You show me one. You show me the educated mind teaches that? Can't one. The educated mind says, well, he died once for all. I'll take that. But the Bible also says it is appointed unto man once to die. And after that, the judgment, how do you get around that one smart fellow? Everybody's got to die. You say, well, I'm going to be a rapture. That doesn't answer me one single question. It just makes you. Don't

tell me how God gets around his own word. Oh, he shows a mystery. And what all I'll die. Oh, tell me how that's done.

There must be some form of communication. Who's going to come and tell us? Oh, well, it just says. I don't care what it says. I want answers. This is what this sermon is all about. Answers. We've

got a prophet that doesn't bring answers. Who needs them?

Any jackass can ask questions. Bring on the smart horse that's got the answers. Your

politicians got all the questions. They think we're questioning. They

don't have one like your halls and the rest of them around the country here.

And not one. We'll put his finger on the real trouble, the family, civil law and obedience. That's what Russia's doing, or Rome's doing.

Every single thing to the forces of moral force and the fight of Christians. Tell

me marriage is not shot. I believe exactly what old Jack Moore said. God, if I

have to bring up Solomon Moore in the ditch, I'm going to apologize to them. Exactly right. Don't believe this? No, I'll tell you why. It'll

be nice to get out early. We won't bother you. So if you want to shoot me, shoot me. I'm going to get this thing 20 messages. Funny message isn't it? Sorry about that. I'm more embarrassed than you are. Sorry about that. I'll let my wife do the preaching next time.

In other words, that's the man we're talking about. He said, I am the son of man which came down from heaven. They couldn't figure it. Then it says he died and went to lower parts of the earth. Same one. He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens. Now let's just hold our finger right there and go back to the book of Acts. Back

to the very first chapter. And the 10th verse, 9th verse. And when he has spoken these things, while they beheld he was taken up, and the cloud received him out of their sight.

All right, now he that descended is the same also that ascended. up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things. That's the one they saw, what came back of the Holy Ghost, and every Trinitarian knows it, if he knows anything, which they don't know hardly anything but the theology. Jesus Christ came back of the Holy Ghost, right? Is that right? That's exactly right. He came down, is that right? He

came down, that's interesting. We're

taking out 1 Thessalonians 4. For this we, 15 verse, for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and are made, unto the coming of the Lord, shall not go before. Take any preeminence over, them which are asleep, for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. Who

needs this? Because it's the appearing. This

day has always been here. We

have the theologians, the carnal minds. Because

it goes on to say, descend with a shout, the voice of the archangels, the trump of God, the dead in Christ, rise first, then we which are alive meet, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So shall we be with the Lord. That's

just where he comes down in the air. Where

is the shout? Who brought it? It's not said to be the voice of the Lord. Any Greek theologian knows that, and the Greeks do. than anybody else does, Gary Meek and the rest of them. There's

your carnal mind. There's

the mind that can't think. This

brings trouble to the church. It brings trouble to the home, too. People

planning on getting married, you better see you get the right one. If you can't have fellowship around this word, what do you got? If

you don't have mutual understanding, where are you going? These

are pretty narrow. That's the way it is. Narrow is the gate and straight is the way. When

I was brought up in this message, how far were you brought? Were you brought up or drugged up?

You raised cabbages in your ear, kids. Being

facetious, that you know one thing. Was the Holy Ghost moving in your life or did it just come up through a bunch of spoken words?

This morning, people examine your hearts. If you haven't received the Holy Ghost, it's time to receive the Holy Ghost that's running up rapidly.

We've been all through this for years, young girls. Women catch this, not the men. Men don't give a rip. Even husbands don't give a rip. No man's smart as a woman. She outsmarts herself. And her hand down this Sunday, down to here next Sunday, is chopped off even four inches higher. Fathers don't catch it. Mothers don't give a rip. Boyfriend can't see. Husband doesn't see. Women see. Next month is four inches longer. You were drugged up, raised up. You weren't ready for the gospel. So while I married a good message guy, he didn't say, in the meantime, born again. You're the same girl, but now you've got your hair grown. Your hair grown is not the answer. That doesn't make any sense. It's in the heart. Are you born again? You

believe in God. You go someplace else, see people excited about you, say, our preacher doesn't preach that. He doesn't. Preach for five years and haven't called on yet. You

can go with kids.

You've got a spirit in you, and that spirit will betray you. Sure, it's your knee high to the grasshopper. That's the spirit that Brother Vance said. It comes when you're born and dropped from the womb. It's allowed in God, but it's not of God.

Perchance you might have a soul that is a God where that gene lies. Then you need the baptism of the Holy Ghost to awaken you. And what it does to be nothing but this word and everything we preach will come out of it. I'll show you next sermon by the grace of God. What I preached on love, I can nail it like it's never been nailed down before. I'm trying to make you a hard shell and I'm trying to make you understand. To make you realize this is our life because we have a part of that life. your manifestations of your father and your mother and clean back, but particularly your father and mother. And so we can, by the grace of God, be manifestations of Christ through the rebirth and the dedication to the knowledge of this word that comes by divine revelation. Because the life that gave that word that is in you is that same life that will produce it. And I'm going to tell you, it will produce it. And don't you think so? But you won't give your time. too busy with the exotic things of the world, let me tell you, they're going to turn to gravel in your mouth. Everything you put your hand on, thought you'd make your way, is going to turn to gravel. When these meetings are over, I want to preach two or three sermons, and I want to help you. You stay home if you want, but I advise you, don't even go to your job the days I'm going to preach it. It'll be so simple. You'll leave here with your mind reading and say, what's he saying anyway? Or you'll say, I'll catch it.

I'm not here as any great teacher, great theologian, any great man trying to tell you. I'm just telling you the word of God.

What has Luther got to do with it?

What is West? What did the Pentecost? What

do they got to do with what we're preaching on? Moody lived in his day, so did the Pentecostals. Certainly not. Luther lived in his day, but not the days of West. West lived in his day, not the days of Pentecost. Pentecost lived in their day, but they're a long way from this, in this hour. We're in the last hour. We're in the last hour. What's the last hour? Let's read it in 1 Corinthians. There again, the natural mind says, well, I don't believe that way. You don't have to believe anything. Believe what you want. It says distinctly here, verse 9, For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part should be done away. Now Paul is saying we know in part, we prophesy in part. That's exactly what he said over in Ephesians. Let me read it for you. Second chapter of Ephesians, so you'll get the understanding. It's the third chapter. All right. Verse 1, For this cause I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles, if you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given to me in your word, that, how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote afore in few words, whereby when you read, you shall understand my knowledge and mystery of Christ, which in other generations was not made known unto the sons of men as it is now, revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. It tells you right there, there is an unfolding revelation. until the last revelation comes in which is in revelation the 10th chapter verse 7 in the days of the voice of the seventh mystery messenger when the mystery of god should be complete that means run out perfect that's the same word as over here when that which is perfect is come we're going to know in part when it's completed when it's all over you won't be you won't know god in the sense of the intimacy of the complete mind of god But you will know everything for your hour which is contingent to redemption. What God is doing concerning you. Because that's the whole thing. God creates this earth. That doesn't mean anything. God made the universe. That does not mean anything. Everything out here. It's rough. That doesn't mean anything. What means this? What stake have I got in it? How am I going to come out of this? Where am I going?

This isn't too hard.

This is the light of thought.

Dumb. God comes

in blind. Some

doctors. So

we're not talking. Every mystery, so every happening is supposed to you. Letting you know what lies in this hour concerning redemption, which has been vindicated, what has been proven. No other generation. Then we can speak with an authority. Speak with some kind of power. We're not guessing any longer. But if you want to guess, we'll just back away and say, the

last hour is here. Their organizations are all screwed up. Proves that it's not there. That's the revelation. The word has been correctly vindicated, just only in his strength. That's true. Another quote, he said, we've had the word of God demonstrated in power for years, but not in this revelation. And that lets me know there's something going to come from revelation that supersedes the demonstration. It does not have to negate the demonstration, but it supersedes it. And that's exactly William Brannan coming on the scene could say, I challenge you, bring me 24 of your worst cases. I guarantee you for all, he wouldn't take it. So

the power did not supersede what was coming. They did not take the opportunity. to see the power at its maximum, and where it petered out, they failed to realize the revelation would take them to resurrection. Resurrection

did not take of itself anybody to. His

resurrection fulfilled the word of God that guaranteed a resurrection.

Then God forms and creates again and brings it forth. What does it word living word? Not something else. It

is word living word. Why? Because Alpha is Omega. You're

getting what I'm saying. It's not that difficult. Seeds. Denominations. They're all plants. They make the denominations and then put those old gypsum weeds in with the genuine weed. It dies right there. See?

It's always borne itself out to be true, regardless of age. That's the word. ages had some type of vindication in it see so therefore today we'd say well we don't have to have manifestation we don't have to have something that's going to point us uh to something else because look we believe is that a fact you believe what we believe today without some vindication it's not in the mind of man to do so he said the crop then went to jimson weed that's right green briars and nettles went on back to that it died right i don't know what jimson weed is they got him around here but i'll tell you i know that horse That horse weed is the smartest weed I've ever seen. I have never seen a weed like that, and I've pulled weeds for many years now. And I noticed that rascal, he is so brilliant. He can seem to blend into everything in my garden. And one day that fellow was in the, what do you call that, snowball bush on the southwest side of the house. And I'm not looking too carefully. And so one day I look at that bush and I say, you know this, it really has... Frung up in the middle. And I go over. And that rascal is in there so pretty. Stalked like that. So I just. Great pleasure putting him out. And I find that in all the plants. They can blend themselves in there so perfectly. Those plants. Until they can't help themselves. They have got to supersede the plant. Ah. The devil always does that. Picture. I'll exalt myself above the heavens. When they get that far. My wrath is like the wrath of God. Shoot. Pull them out and burn them. Taking the fertile. and the sun and the rain that belongs to my goodies. So I can understand the vengeful God. I just want to make you know these things. He said, that Jim, there are no Jims with me, but I sure know that horse with me. If it's not horse with me, you're the fine bike. Head deep in there is at fault. He told me it's horse with me.

Okay, green briars and nettles and so on. Just kills everything out. God's got to start over again, as it says in Hebrews 6. But notice, in Hebrews 6, he does not start over after Hebrews 6. Because in Hebrews 6, he tells you, Now watch what he says here in the language. Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ. You say, well, I couldn't do that. Well, Paul says do it. Let us go on to perfection. Leave

certain things. You've got to leave it right there. There's something else. There's a conclusion. Perfection means finishing and polishing off. So there's nothing more required. If you add a tooth, you ruin it. If you don't put it in there, it's shot. This has got to be it. Entire teeth.

Not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works.

The message is repentance. So then you've got to drop that. Change

your mind. I'm

on your Minds in a Channel. Every

single service.

Now it says no more repentance.

Now I'm going to change your mind from it. It's

in a groove.

Groove mind. They

told me when I was a kid, who knows, these birds change their minds.

Mind is full of grooves, right? You

want to be groovy people, hang right up and stuff. Okay. Get that deep grooving. Now you know what I'm talking about. You get to a certain place in your life, something becomes like a second nature.

You've got to drop all this repentance. It's got to go behind you now.

of faith toward god and

that's got to go of

the darkness baptism laying on hands in other words it comes to a place where you know that all these things are in their place period of

eternal day of the resurrection of the dead of

eternal judgment judge is here and this will do of god permit but god did not permit oh

there comes a time when god under what conditions oh

for those who were once for all enlightened that's the present truth of detective peter 3 and 5 the epical strategic season and have tasted the heavenly gift made partakers of the holy ghost tasted the good word of god the powers of the world to come just exactly like moses and the people out of egypt going to canaan having fallen away it's impossible to renew them again to repentance they're stuck and we're stuck the

apostle said we'll live or die sink or swim there's no way we can leave this And the other guys, the serpent seed, said, there's no way we'll take it. And

Peter, denying the Lord, had to come back and cry and weep, because

he didn't mean it in his heart. They

crucified themselves, the Son of God, a freshman Roman team. Who's doing the crucifying? Not the ones whose minds are fixed on God and irrevocably changed, so they cannot be changed back, but those who saw. And they went for the demonstration of power, not knowing there's always been power, always been something there. But when you come to this, this is the end of all things.

Blood.

Because the last elected member is in, and the gospel goes back to the Jew. You're in the process now. The Lord himself shall descend. Oh, they say, he already came 2 ,000 years ago. Then what does he say is going to come? I

changed my mind. The Pentecost. It

says the Holy Ghost is going to come at a certain time when a man works in Jesus. When

you turn that down, it's all over. So I don't see it that way. I see it any way you want. I say, I can't change them. They can't change me. So here we are. Dead or locked? No, life locked.

Locked into life.

particular peculiar time

of the going out and the coming in it says that the children of israel wherefore is the holy ghost said today if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in the provocation in the day of the testing in the winners when your fathers tested me to prove me and saw my works 40 years it

wasn't good enough what god did to the prophet they wanted their own ideas it wasn't good enough what god did in jesus christ they wanted their own ideas It wasn't good enough what God did in and through any prophet because God was in the prophet they wanted their own. And so today when we saw the greatest ministry unleashed since the time of Jesus Christ, the exact parallel wherein he did what Christ could not do, that is Christ himself could not do at that time, but now did in this age through a prophet fulfilled in scripture, it wasn't enough. Give us a sign like the Church of Christ did. Well, we didn't mean that you could see somebody healed. What we would do, we'd cut the girl and then was it blessed? You would church

with Christ? Church without Christ. Yeah. The

devil talking. You heard him talking when those preachers talked. I'm going to tell you something. They can be the sweetest people on earth. And you can be so fooled by that lovely skin. But give them the Pentecostal pussycat.

Oh, purr, purr. The

Bible teaches. God said in this last days he would bring out a people washed in his blood. Notice how Brother Ben said this last days. Notice the plurality. This singular and days plural. Letting you know there's a period of time. But this is that he

would bring out a people washed in his blood. They were predestinated. be there. They've got to be there. God said so. He

goes on talking about me all the time. Well, we're right back where we left off last Wednesday. That's interesting. We'll be right back.

I'm sorry. I have to apologize for being the way I am, but I can't help it. When I write my notes and I see certain things here, I'm duty -bound to tell you in order to help you because this is what helps me. This is where it lies. I can't change it. There's no way we're going to go as far as I'm concerned. You see, every church says the same thing. That's exactly the way I want it. Because that's the way God said it would be. Build

this church to the rafters, I would think something is really wrong.

We're not that big a church, we couldn't stand more people. But I mean, if suddenly everybody begins saying, hey, I can see it, I can see it. If I did not hear reports, even from preachers, and I don't say this militia, I say this truth, because this is where I stand, and I'm a hard customer, I'm a hard customer. And they don't know what I'm saying.

They don't understand presence. From the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the Lord himself has descended by the form of the Holy Ghost. to bring his own message brother brown said god is his own prophet the lie to this hour is the lord jesus christ himself not a man god but he'll come back they

don't understand god that i'm talking about is not here in africa and in australia new zealand in europe germany france belgium switzerland so long as he was when the prophet stood there because

god could give himself to trillions and trillions of people to still remain god Inviolate and those trillions would never constitute God. They merely constitute children of God. Little images, little apers, that would be mimickers. That's not a nice word. Little examples to

a degree. Never

constitute.

So therefore God has definition. So if God was only present and had divided himself by his Holy Spirit, then God lacks definition. Nobody

will ever tell me that nothing is without definition.

scientifically, and as far as I'm concerned, you are pseudoscientific.

Gas has definition, but

God is not gaseous. God has definition, solid spiritual knowledge. The presence is not understood. Many things aren't, but I trust we understand. It does not give us any great -headedness. It doesn't make us well -headed. It doesn't make us important. The scripture says at the end time, though we understand these things having seen and know, it does not give us any preeminence whatsoever. For they are still a step ahead of us as gone on before. They're still waiting to catch up. And by revelation, God lets us catch up. May it come out and we pray.

No service on Wednesday. Gracious Heavenly Father, again we want to thank you for the time you give us this hour to come together and speak concerning the things of the kingdom. Lord, we know in our hearts we are right concerning these things which have been brought to our attention through a man that was vindicated. A man who had a ministry that no man had like it, Lord, since your time. A man with the life that people talk about but never arrive at. Conscience, spirit, heart. All of these things, oh God, made up a man that surely was in the image of Christ for this hour. And Lord, I appreciate it so much for you know that I can stand here and say I have seen great men of the past. Sort of a link between those ages, having known those men, seen those men, heard those men. And now being able to link to this hour.

Could say no man over the centuries spoke like this man. No man over the centuries was able to do what this man did. And knowing all along his own perfect testimony was, I was only one standing near. I

was only a voice that he used. It was not what I said that did these things. It was what he said through me. And the work was done. Father, we can see the perfectness of it all. Even as Jesus said, the Father in me doeth.

so lord we appreciate today beauty of this hour in which we live the grace of god the love of god the glory of god all these things being shared now intimately with us and not only being shared as though there was something lord in the mental realm in the revelation realm but it is revealed what you are doing things that are of you and doing them for us and to us and therein lies the beauty and the glory the faith The stimulation, the joy, the all -togetherness has come upon us. We

can say as you told us, we would say, I and my Father are one. There is a people, Lord, that's going to be standing here. They will be changed. They will not die. But they, with the others who come forth, will meet you at the great weddings. Lord, I pray that this shall not be as idle tales or another message to any one person sitting here under any way, shape, or form. But shall be life, O God, shall be life. I pray that, Lord, because what could be... What would be the usual thing

did not come out of it. The Lord knowing your ways, how that you would have a prepared people waiting for a word to make them ready. We're confident this morning, Lord, that people cannot leave this building unchanged. It would be impossible, O God. Every single one of us standing here, something must be happening in those atoms by way of a revelation to the soul, to the spirit, to the mind. So we can scream aloud in this hour. As your word said, we shall not die but live. There will be some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come in power. They've seen the power. They've seen the coming in the figure. Soon there'll be a millennium. Now unto the king, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be all power and honor and glory in the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior. Be to him. Amen. The Lord bless you.