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Again, till I drink it anew with you in my Father's kingdom. And, of course, that could be at the great wedding supper. It could be the millennium. I don't know. But I know we are going to do that. That's absolutely true. Just the same as I know that in eternity there is the Lamb and there'll be the nail prints. They'll never be obliterated in the hands, the head, and in the side, the feet. The Lamb is the Lamb, and He's crucified before the foundation of the world, and that is the manifestation. But what I want to bring tonight, coupling what Paul said here and what Jesus said in one of the Gospels, perhaps John, I can't remember which one it is. He said, I won't drink this again until I drink it anew with you. So what I want you to recognize tonight is, and that is this, that the death of Jesus Christ is synonymous with resurrection.

Now you'll understand what I say when I tell you brother Branagh said he said something has to die So that something else can live so therefore death and resurrection are synonymous Because you see we don't die. It's just our bodies that go down. We don't die And we cross over to where we're supposed to be and if we're bride Or even I believe foolish virgin You'll go to that body which Brother Brandon called a spirit body, word body, which I believe is a better term than theophany, although it's true in the sense of the word. It's something that covers that soul of yours, which was part of God. That would be a covering. So it would be a theophany, God showing forth. But I like the word spirit, and I like the word body better. So as Paul said, we don't leave here to be disembodied spirits. We go where we have a covering. like we have now because we are uh predestinated to that that's what god wanted so my thought tonight as i've already said is this that when you we talk of of the death of jesus christ the broken body and shedding the blood you're actually talking about a covenant of resurrection so it's all about the resurrection because what was done there is going to be done again together in the flesh and You've got to have a resurrection to do that same thing there What you're doing now? So every time you take the Lord's Supper you're saying I'm going to be in the first resurrection I'm going to be with or This is my understanding that this is my life because you see when you realize that your baptism with the Holy Ghost Is on your body sure it falls and links your soul back, but that is the token or the guarantee of a resurrection That's why once you leave Ephesians 1 chapter 1 1 to 15 You immediately come to the place Where everybody sealed in the next thing is God coming down to put the church in order bring about a resurrection and a rapture to the wedding supper. So the baptism with the Holy Ghost, and it very clearly says, What know ye not? Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. Will I then join the temple of God to a harlot? Will I be found in adultery and fornication? No more than I will be found in organization and creeds and dogmas. I'm living in idolatry. No more. It's finished. So tonight, as we take the Lord's Supper, bear in mind this. This is resurrection notice.

I'm giving notice to mortality.

I'm giving notice to death. You don't have me in control.

There's no way. These emblems I'm taking are my guarantee, and I'm entering the covenant.

God cannot be born. God cannot die. God cannot do anything. He's eternal. You can't do one thing about it, no matter what position He placed Himself in, what He goes through, as whatever roles, that's God's business. He does it, but remember, God is inviolate. He does not change. He's no way, shape, and form. Whatever He does, whatever He says, whatever He is, no way. Neither can that intrinsic part of us. So we're speaking in terms. I am a part of the resurrection. That is why I do this. If you're not a part of the resurrection, why are you doing it?

He said, you do it, you'll do this with me in the kingdom, in the resurrection. So if you're not doing it, if you're doing it, why are you doing it? You understand what I'm saying now? This is what's behind it. There's hundreds of facets to every part of the Word of God. Not just one or two.

I can take the communion. I've been doing it for years now. And every single time, there's something different comes out. But it's the same thing coming out all the time, always. So there we are tonight. I'm drinking to my own resurrection. There I will meet with the Lord. It's my guarantee. It's the blood of the everlasting covenant. And remember, everlasting is not the same as eternal.

In other words, your body is purified. It's purified. are only eternal by virtue of one thing. The life in you is eternal, and it's just keeping that thing moving. That's all. And you're sealing. Guarantee. I'm taking now these emblems, O God, tonight because I know it's my showing forth to the world. I've entered into the covenant, the very same covenant that Jesus had with the Father, and we're a part of it. We're not pawns on a great chessboard. No, we're sons and daughters. It's not God moving us as though there's a game being played. No, there's a life of God being manifested, demonstrated, entered into, and going on eternally. This is life. You believe it? I believe that's true. Let's rise at this time.

And we're going to ask the brethren to come forward.

And, of course, you know how we partake. It's the same routine.

So something

is left out here. It doesn't really matter. But what I'm trying to bring you to is the fact that Jesus, not only knowing it was time to leave and go to the Father, He broke bread with the disciples, drank the wine, washed feet, and was betrayed. So there's much in between the statement and the fact that He came from God and He went back to God. So He says here, He

was very troubled, and...

I want to get it here, he says here.

Then John, lying upon Jesus' breast, asked who it was that was the one who would betray him. And he said there, while he said, it's the one to whom I give the psalm. And had he dipped it, he gave it to Judas Iscariot. And that identified him as the one who would betray him. You notice in there that there were 12 apostles that Jesus chose. One was Satan, and the other 12 were not of Satan. They were given to him of God, and they were of God. But Judas definitely was of Satan, and Satan entered into him. But the thought I was bringing out there was that he was amongst them, and he had an actual ministry, no doubt casting out devils. raising the dead, and doing everything that the other eleven did. And yet he was a devil. The devil entered him. And he was certainly false to the Word. He betrayed the Lord. Now if he'd have been one with the Word, he'd have believed Jesus. And he wouldn't have betrayed Him. So there's the thought here in receiving communion. There can be people who absolutely are of the devil, and they will take the communion. Oh, yeah. They're right in there leading it. The Catholic Church is great upon communion, celebrating Mass, and, of course, they don't do it right.

Their idea is transubstantiation, and yet I have to admire the Catholics in this respect, though they make more. of the bread and wine than what it is because it's not the body and the blood of Jesus. What I admire about it is this, that they actually put an emphasis upon it that a lot of Protestants don't really emphasize in the sense of the sobriety and the great importance of that act. See one has gone completely away from Scripture in one direction, and the other standing with Scripture has sort of relinquished to the church the importance of the taking of the bread and wine. See, they don't really believe because the revelation is not there. And I would suppose the revelation isn't there as it should be because it's become so common. It's an act that Protestants do. In fact, very few take it at night even. They take it in the morning, which is entirely wrong. And they take grape juice, which is entirely wrong, when it should be wine. They're afraid if somebody sniffs the wine and takes a drink, having been an alcoholic, that person would go back to being an alcoholic. That's the stupidest thing in all the world. What has that got to do with it? Nothing. If God said, take it, aren't you then under the banner of God that you should do that? And the East Indians that are Christians, they come along, and they try to make a case that there is no such thing as the ancient history of the taking of wine and breaking of bread, which they claim goes way, way back into centuries, was anything but... Well, that's entirely wrong. It's fermented grape juice. So there's a sort of irreverence with this act, this commemoration, this ordinance that we take. So as the Catholics go too far, and the Protestants don't go far enough, and many Protestants completely do foolishly, Such as taking a loaf of bread and passing and breaking a piece off my brother Brandon condemned their member and doing things like that it behooves us to be much much more serious and The seriousness I believe is this that in taking the bread Representing the broken body I believe we should be more historically aware of the fact that Jesus Christ body was literally torn and brutalized to the extent that he would have died under the lashes and the cross had he not struggled against it. He was entirely condemned because of vicious gossip.

Vicious gossip could condemn anybody and destroy anybody. That's why he was scourged. The Roman law says, where there's smoke, there's fire, which means that... If somebody said something about him, there must have been a reason for them to have said it. So we're going to scourge him at least, you know, we ought to get at least that much done to him if we don't kill him. Now, you see, Jesus was falsely accused,

very falsely accused, when he said, I am the way, the truth, and the life he meant it. There wasn't one word that they could prove wrong. There wasn't one thing that he said that wasn't backed up by a manifestation of the act. And so when you consider the bruised, the whipped, lacerated, broken body of Jesus, you've got to consider that this man was lied about. It was malicious gossip, innuendo, and the hatred that bred the lies in the church system. And he stood right there and died for it. We have a tremendous leader whose death we commemorate because he didn't flinch. He wouldn't change. He couldn't do anything but what was right. And he said, if I have to die the most horrible death, as Brother Branham said, in the most religious city under the great empire, he died. We ought to remember that. And we ought to remember, above all, when it comes to the blood, that if it weren't for that blood, which is the blood of the covenant, there wouldn't be one word of God that could be actually made good to us.

Now, most of us have an idea, which is true, of course, in its limited way. Remember, everything has to dovetail together. That faith is the great answer to the Word of God.

And that sounds very legitimate. And it is legitimate. But what if you're one of those people who locked yourself into the closet and said, Lord, I won't come out until I twist your arm and I get gifts or I get something from you?

Now, see, that won't work.

Breaking into something illegally,

claiming what God has given us is a violation against the Scripture. The actual fact of the matter is the blood of the covenant has verified and confirmed every single promise to us, and not only done that, but has so scattered sin till sin cannot be found. And the bride of Christ has been perfected by that blood. So now we have the covenant and the covenanters completely one with God.

And unless we really think upon these things, take them to heart, we

could be a little remiss in how we take the communion and these ordinances.

Now mentioning the fact. that we should keep this in mind. This is something that Paul said, even concerning our fellowship and our oneness with God, that we keep in mind in confession those things that pertain to us, and that is what God has said about us that have been covenanted and procured by the blood. Now, I go one step further. Brother Branham said that people... who talk in a certain way, who came against His ministry in the revealed word, said they need their brains baptized with the Holy Ghost.

Now, the question would arise, how can my brains be baptized with the Holy Ghost? I answer that with the question, how cannot your brains be baptized with the Holy Ghost if you indeed have been born again? For the scripture said, know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, and your brain is a part of your body? And in there, the Spirit has the control and a great power. The only way anybody can ever be truly filled with the Holy Ghost, and I mean filled, as Brother Branham laid it down, piling word upon word upon word upon word, and how can anybody's brain be baptized with the Holy Ghost and anybody ever come to the stature of that perfect man to rise unless he has done as the Old Testament said. He has the frontlets. which here is the phylacteries, which the little box, which is in the Word of God, and it constantly bobbed between their eyes, hitting their forehead, reminding them of the Word that lay therein. Bind them upon thy wrists, and like the bells upon the skirts of the high priest, they tinkle, tinkle as they walked. The light of the Word of God, a lamp and a light to our path and to our feet. And that is what it is about. And I do not believe, as I've said many, many times, but I put a new light on it tonight. I have no reason to believe otherwise than this, and I stand with Brother Branham, that no one has a right to take and participate of these elements unless he's been baptized with the Holy Ghost. And how can anybody be that is not in full accord with the Word of God that has been vindicated by William Branham who said, just think how wonderful. The same pillar of fire that brought the word to Paul is here revealing it. And that's the scripture from Acts, the third chapter. That at the end time, the things of God, what the prophet said, and that's logos. The logos of God would be restored under the ministry of Elijah. So tonight, we enter into participation in showing that we are the covenant people with the great covenanter. And every promise, and especially the end time promises. are absolutely ours now let us do our best to keep our minds not in the turmoil of the world but in the peace and the power of Almighty God who gave us this word day by day because this is our life in our life and he is the truth and he is a reality and we stand with him and we're a part of him and one day to be manifested manifested in a way that you and I know nothing of at this point in the sense of the intensity of it. The reality, brother, sister, is the same, never changes. I don't care if you and I were suddenly changed immortal today, the reality is no different from what it is right now 100%. It is only the circumstances in which we are that make the difference. Because if you think there's a greater reality than you have now, and you have to have it for the millennium. You have to be mistaken because you'll never get that millennium without that reality now. And the reality in the millennium is nothing but the same reality at a different time, a different place, in different circumstances, in a different body.

Yep, Christ is our light, and we show it tonight. Shall we rise at this time? The brethren, come forward.

And you know how we come around the edge and then we go back around the edge?

And we have two serving the wine and one serving the bread. You can go either side. It makes it much easier.

How shall we pray? Heavenly Father, we commend each one in this building to you tonight to examine our hearts, to know if we are in the faith, and then to know also if we are in the Spirit. Do we walk in the Spirit? Do we put aside all malice and guile and evil thinking and those things, Lord, which are not convenient, not giving ourselves to the wisdom which is not of this world, but to the wisdom which is above, which is pure. and without any evil intent, but only wants to serve you. And as Brother Branham said, to serve you by serving each other, to love you by loving each other. Also saying, how can you not help loving each other, you who love this word? Lord, let it abide tonight, not in the spirit of hypocrisy, but in truth, O God, that we can look in the word of the mirror and come away knowing who we are and what we are, and look also at each other knowing who and what we are, and abide in the truth, abiding in love. May the assembly tonight mean all this to us, Lord. You are the reality, and this is the blood of the covenant, part of the covenant with the covenanter. Tonight, realizing as never before the truth, the awful depth of it, the great sincerity, and yet the simplicity. Help us tonight, Lord, because we need your help. We could not take one breath without you. Nothing we can do. May our thoughts and all of us be of you, O God, for then only we know, Lord, we are walking. as we should walk in that stature. Unto thee we give your glory, in Jesus' name we pray, amen.

He didn't have a thing to do with that little you bringing forth that little lamb. It was just there as a gift of God, a gift of grace, right handy for the shedding of blood. And so he shed the blood, and he was declared righteous, absolutely, because he was with the Word. And he's dead, but he's yet speaking. Now, how is he speaking? He's speaking by the history that we have of him, his record. And this is a book of records. So, all

right, let's go to Hebrews 12 and 24. And to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than the sprinkling of blood by Abel.

Abel sprinkled blood. And because of the sprinkling of the blood, he's still talking. The access that he had by the sprinkling of blood never, ever died. And I believe that Abel today is resurrected somewhere in a dimension. What he's eating, I'm a little excited about because if they came back... And they did come back with glorified bodies like Jesus. They're eaten somewhere. I've got little facetious at times, a little funny feeling in my heart that maybe one could be sitting at my table sometime and eat something, but I'm unaware of it. Have something that we have. I don't know. But I'm going to tell you I'm talking in terms of reality. This is not something just written here and say, oh, isn't that nice? You know, that's a nice book. Oh, I think that's great. Was our religion better than anybody else's religion? Oh, my, my, my. Oh, come on. This is reality. What Abel did enables him to still speak. He's got an audience with God.

Even though, let's say that he never came back in the first half of the first resurrection. I'm quite sure he did. Why would he not? I mean, my, my, my. Here's the first perfect record, the martyr, because he's going to go right to the blood, follow God's Word. So Jesus the meteor the New Testament and to the blood of sprinkling and that blood speaks better things So therefore it was the blood that enabled Adam to speak I mean able to speak Because the blood spoke for him right the blood spoke for him, and he spoke all right 25

See that you refuse not Him that speaketh, for if they escape not who refused Him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape if we turn away from Him that speaketh from heaven. That shows you that Christ is

alive. Everything He said when He was upon earth here came to pass. The downfall of Jerusalem, all those other things. But He said in the book of Revelation, Spirit of God. continuing the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ in the church, prophecy, right to pass. There's no word that's void of power, no word that has, that's failed. Okay, now we turn back to Hebrews 10 and 29. You know I like this verse. I've used this many times. Of how much sore punishment suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and done desperate to the spirit of grace. Now, it says here, hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was set apart and made holy unto

the very promise, word, and will of God. And he makes that blood an unholy thing. In other words, he doesn't deem it as that which qualifies him and guarantees. The very things that he wants and he talks about and what he does he does desperate to the spirit of grace In other words, here's God's spirit here with grace and the man He's just not under the blood Now the reason he's not under the blood because this blood is a very special blood It's a blood of a covenant now

if you turn down the company turn down the blood you turn down the body turned down the covenant So you've got to have both of them the blood ratifies the covenant makes it impervious to any problems, makes it imperishable, irrevocable, eternal. In other words, it does everything. As Brother Branham said, the blood perfects the bride. So if the blood is there, there's got to be the Word there. And if the Word is there, then the strong one bound by an oath is there. You're there. The Son is there. I mean, God's there. The Son is there. The blood is there. We're here. Now, here we are, irrevocable, righteous with the righteousness of God. He is our righteousness. We become His righteousness.

Huh? That's right. So now you've got a perfect circle. Now, to me, if you want to know the Scripture that says God poured everything to Christ and Christ everything to the church, that's what it looks to me. In other words, God, everything he was and is comes through Jesus, and we apprehend it, so we got it all.

Now, remember, this is inheritance.

You can't get more than God in what you got because God gives you what he gives himself. That's it. It's inheritance. Remember, Jesus, as the only begotten son, the firstborn, he gets one half the inheritance, but he's not God.

And he can say, I can do with that inheritance what I want because you gave me. And God had to say, that's fine. Remember, he was adopted. He had a natural election, came forth a virgin Mary, born of a woman, the seed, proves Himself, fully accepted unto God, covenant fulfilled, and He stands there. Can't deny it. He's the one spoken of in Genesis. Take it. It's all yours to rule over. Help yourself. Help yourself.

Remember, Jesus did not create by Himself. God, by Him, created.

God was in Christ reconciling. God was the mediator that came down and said, listen to me. Listen, listen. I'll talk to you. I'll tell you what it is. You can come back home and be a part again. See? But they didn't listen. So, what am I talking about tonight? I'm talking about the blood that speaketh. And it's over here in 1 Corinthians. I've read it dozens of times. Read it again. And it says in 1 Corinthians 11, verse

24, And when he had given thanks, he broke the bread. Take ye this with my body to broken you, and do remembrance of me. In the same manner he took the cup which he had stopped, saying, This is the cup of the New Testament in my blood. This is the covenant that I am ratifying with my blood. This is the covenant that I am in agreement with and... making yours indubitably, no questions asked, 100%, it's all in my hands, and it's yours.

This is that blood. Now, that blood is the talking blood. Now, you and I can talk all we want to God. It doesn't mean one thing.

Doesn't mean one thing. The only talking you and I can do is according to the talking of the blood, which is covenant blood.

It is not human blood. It is not animal blood. It is covenant blood. Because Jesus was the blood of God. Acts tells us that. He shed that blood. And that blood tonight talks for us when we cannot talk for ourselves. See, now let me prove to you. We go to Romans, the fifth chapter. Now it says here in verse 12, 5, fifth chapter, Wherefore, as by one man's sin entered the world, and death by sin, So death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. For until the law, sin was in the world. But sin is not imputed where there is no law. Now you watch that. That's what the Bible says. If there's no law, I don't care what a man's done. You can't nail him. If the law of the land said, or didn't say anything about murder, having a penalty, government can't do a thing about it. For until the law... Sin was in the world, but sin is not impure. There's no law. Now watch. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

That tells you right there, you have a problem with your own sins, and I have a problem. You can't say, hey, Adam, you could in a way, but you can't according to this. You can't come and stand before God justified and say, now look, Adam sinned. He's the one that did it all. I'll say, just a minute. What about you?

What about your sin?

See, now Abel was born in sin. Wonderful, wonderful man of God, born in sin. But the blood spoke for him to God.

Tonight we have a speaking blood. It's true. The blood speaks. What blood of bulls and calves could not do? Only the blood of Jesus could do because it was the life of God. The blood of God was Jesus and the life of God, that life that God gave Jesus was in that bloodline to come back upon you and me. But that blood stands there tonight speaking for us. Now, when you take communion, remember this, that that emblem that you're taking signifies the blood that's talking for you and me. And remember, we don't have a case without that blood. Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. You get a lawyer to plead your case, and if he can plead brilliantly and somehow get past the law to make everybody think you're a bit mental or something else or other so you get away from the penalty, you might do that, but not with God.

There's only one thing that talks for it, brother or sister, and that's the blood that speaks because it's the blood of the covenant.

A covenant that God said, come now, let us reason together. It says, Lord, though your sins be like scarlet, white as snow, red like crimson, be like wool. Come now, let us reason together. If you repent and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall, not tarry, not work your way in, not get emotional. You shall receive the Holy Ghost. That's what God said. Brother Branham said and made clear what the theologians say. You do the first two, God does the third. But I'll tell you one thing. If except God made the way for you to do the first two, you wouldn't get the third. So it's all of grace. But the blood tonight is speaking for us. And the blood will talk louder in heaven than your words and mine. The blood will plead for us when we cannot plead for ourselves. Can't be done. And Jesus is there having shed his blood and he's right there to keep the covenant. He is our attorney. He is our mediator that gets us in. He is our intercessor that keeps us in. Though we backslide a thousand times a day, though we sin a thousand times a day, it's not that it doesn't matter. It's a poor record for us who claim the grace of God. But I'm going to tell you, God's record is clear. Sin has been scattered and David is still the man after God's own heart. You can say what you want. But the blood of bulls and goats spoke very clearly. The washing of pots and pans spoke very clearly, but not clear enough. But tonight, the record is clear. And the blood of Jesus Christ, perfects the saints. And the ministry of a five -fold ministry, which is the word of the living God brought correctly to us, is the last perfection we have because now we are washed by the washing of the water of the word and the blood with us. So when you take communion tonight, rest assured that you have the most

marvelous voice, and God has to bend His ear, and He cannot refuse to hear the blood that speaketh, the blood of the covenant.

So, what are you going to do tonight? If never before, line up with the Word. That's all. Let your heart be full of it. Let your mouth be full of it. Let the communion of the church unite as we say, Lord. I'm letting the blood of Jesus Christ speak for me. I've allied myself and aligned myself from the first person in the Bible to shed that blood and was accepted with Abel, righteous Abel, all the way to the last person on earth, and I'm one of them. Because Brother Branham said, you have to believe that you're one of them. Let's rise at this time. You take communion, foot wash. You know how you come around the side there and come up this side and this side. So the brethren, come forward.

Consecrate the emblems tonight and believe with all your heart. I know many times I say things that are true. I hope all the time are true. Interesting, I hope. Interesting. But I hope above all compelling to the point where you and I have to receive it and never let it go. It penetrates so deep that we are beyond ourselves as human beings and more and more in His image. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we commend these emblems tonight to the Lord's Supper as we take it. The breaking of the body, the shedding of the blood, knowing that they represent. Lord, may we go past the point of representation to the point of realization that we wouldn't be doing this if there wasn't something real. And the real is what we have, and that's why we're doing it. And whatever the reality is. We have it. That's what counts and we're reaffirming it Reaffirming Lord that the blood speaking for us very loudly Proclaiming our part of the Covenant that we are bound into the Covenant Proclaiming very loudly and boldly coming to the throne of grace that Jesus is our life And he is our light. He's our all -in -all that same sweet spirit Is ours tonight and what you poured into him he's poured into us and we are all one

And we're ready, Lord, to stand in that great day with the Son of God leading in the triumphal worship of you, Heavenly Father, around that throne where you have your full persuasion in our hearts and lives. And we are so happy that we have come and reasoned together with you and fully persuaded as Abraham was. And we're all apart together from the first one to the last one. And we celebrate that tonight, Lord, knowing if it weren't for the shed blood, you could not give us your wisdom, your covenant, and your strength to give it to us. We give you glory, Lord, and help us, Father, to be more simplistic in our ways than ever before. This is the prophet said would be just a natural way of living to the end.

living in a beautiful time where time and eternity have blended. And even now somewhere in a very, very close dimension, those immortal ones are there somewhere.

And heaven is not far removed. It's just another dimension.

We're all just part of the great gathering ready to come into full manifestation and cohesion the way you planned it. We ask these mercies in the name of Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord. Amen. He communicated to God. This is a parable, of course. He communicated to God in his parable, and he said, now, I'm this terrible place here, and Lazarus is in the good place, and Lazarus ate my crumbs, and I treat him like a bum because he is a bum, and no doubt he's still a bum, so why don't you have me come over here and dip his finger in water and give me some help? This fellow's a corker. He's a sinner.

He said, he can't come over here. He can't communicate with you. In fact, he said, at this time, you can talk to me, and I'm talking to you, but I'm not listening to you, but I'm listening to Lazarus. Now, that's, Lazarus had a voice back there to God and could communicate because of the blood, because I'm putting him with Abel. But you see, the rich man, He turned on God. He's the rich man that Brother Branagh spoke of, the rich young ruler that couldn't give up his goods, that built many barns to hold his goods, and he died. See, he turned on the blood. So the rich man could not communicate with God. He could talk, but God couldn't answer him. Just say, no, no way, no way, no way. But Lazarus is different. And that's the way it is with the blood. The blood gives us the privilege of speaking to God, and we do.

Absolutely. Without the blood, you and I couldn't pray. Without the blood, you and I couldn't get an answer. Without the blood, you and I'd be condemned. Now, the beautiful thing is when we die because of that blood, and it's called a speaking blood, we can still communicate with God on the highest level ever until... we actually become glorified. And Brother Branham proves that. Because in the vision beyond the curtain of time, he's not in the presence of God or of Jesus, but he's in the ineffable glory where he is with those of the seven churches message. And they're young, beautiful people. Everybody redundant with the beauty and glory of God. And the fountain of youth, just marvelous, scintillating with life and beauty. And the 90 -year -old woman hugged him and said, my precious brother. And the angel said, do you know who that was? He said, no, she was 91 years old when she got saved in your ministry. Now look at her now, 16, 18, 19 years old. In the beauty of youth, in the joy of youth, in the power of youth. And it's because of what? The blood. Because without the blood, William Branham and none of those people that are there now, and you and I, could not approach unto God for redemption and receive the Holy Ghost. Because when you're truly under the blood, the blood speaks for you and me, and the Spirit answering to the blood comes down and fills us with Himself. And no matter if you and I are in the grave, that's just our bodies there. We have access to God in the range and the medium, the place where God places us, and notice it gets higher and higher. Until one day, because of that blood, And because of the efficacy, the lamb with the wounds upon his hands, and his side, thorns in his brow, the rib and side, the lamb on the throne, and what? The pillar of fire above the throne. And there, before we even ask, he answers. So see what the blood does? It takes you all the way from ask and you shall receive. If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you can say this mountain be removed. But over there, You don't ask anything. Now, it's always God talking to you and blessing and opening your eyes. That's why I'm convinced that even the New Jerusalem is a place of further revelation and further sanctification. I don't believe for one minute that anybody under any consideration can ever exhaust the glory of Almighty God, the riches of His grace, the beauty of His Word. and what He is continually unfolding and doing, because no man can measure infinity. No man. No man can measure God. No man can think the thoughts of God. They must be given to Him.

When man turned down the blood of the covenant, trampled it underfoot, that blood was to see that the covenant Word of God, which is God Himself operating in our behalf, for our good would come to us and never, ever be taken from us. So tonight, when you and I take the emblems of the shed blood and the broken body, remember, without the breaking of the blood cell, the body, that one born of the virgin, God himself, his own father, through creating and putting that life in there, that breaking, The shedding of blood confirmed 100 % the covenant, which we now have through the baptism with the Holy Ghost irrevocable.

That's what it means tonight, the emblems. And if he had not died upon Calvary, that life could not have come back upon us. We could not have been sealed into God, who definitely of his own will. and He cannot change, must give us as the Father everything that lies within Him, which is infinite. That's what is signified by the speaking blood. Yep. Every Old Testament saint that's bride is somewhere in a glorified body. End of dimension. Don't

get puzzled and don't ever think for one minute that anything that God ever did is not a means to an end, because it is. And that end is God Himself legislating, ministering in your life and mine, Himself to us, and all the things that lie within Him. And remember, all that lies will be manifested, certainly, because this whole thing comes into logos. Can't get away from it. It's got to be there for us. And so here we take tonight. These emblems that signify we understand this, we are a part of it, and this tells us we're talking to God, our voice is heard, our lives are open, we're in communication, in fellowship with Him, and this says these are those emblems that have done it for us. At this time, then, shall we rise. The brethren, come forward.

Now, you know how we all come from your right hand, my left hand, and circle around. We have one. serving the bread and two serving the wine because it makes it much easier shall we bow our heads in prayer heavenly father as we come this time to actually participate in that which we have been talking about it is really too wonderful and it seems to the world and even to us at times is this something so simple that could actually mean all of that the shedding of the blood of that righteous one to give us the covenant promises, what lies within you, O God, even those things which I have not seen or heard, and even that which, though hinted in the word, will be so greatly more amplified, does this signify that that one, how we now honor and respect by these emblems, means all of this? And we know, Lord, that it does. We know that it does, even as one teeny drop of seawater. could contain everything in the billions and billions of tons that's in the sea, shows us that this is true. We're honoring you, and it means we believe, Lord. If there's any unbelief in us, help us to believe as we never believed before. Because Brother Branham did tell us, vindicated prophet of God, to believe this, what we heard tonight and what we know now, gives us healing, gives us all we need, which is in you. May we recognize that, Lord, and cease from being people who simply partake. As James said, people who look in the Bible as in a mirror and go away as though they had not looked in it. Having beheld it, now forget. Lord, tonight, help us not to forget. For unto we have repented to take on your mind. Let it have the preeminence. That's what I want, Lord, and everybody here wants it too. We don't know how to express it, perhaps. Many things we just don't understand. We haven't entered into it. Help us, Lord. Would not one of us miss anything? In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray, amen.

Superior, both in position and in character and in quality, power, wisdom, to yourself so that you would actually then revere. And humble yourself before that person, that spirit, that power, whatever you got your mind on, and become very low so that there is no exaltation of self, but exaltation of what you have in your mind as to whose presence or what presence you are in. Now, the Greek says to kiss as when a dog licks the hand, to fawn or to couch. prostrate oneself in homage to revere so there again we have the ideas one of acknowledging the positions and relationships of the worship in the worshiper and to do and without you understanding and appreciation of the subject that you are supposed to worship you really couldn't be called a worshiper there's got to be

that is required by God, because that's what we're talking about. Now, over here in Matthew 15, verses seven to nine, it says, you hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you saying, this people draw nigh unto me with their mouths and honor me with their lips. But their heart is far from me. But in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Now, he tells you why the heart is afar off, though the mouth is bleeding a lot of things. Oh, God, yes, hallelujah. We believe God of Isaiah, God of Moses, the God of Abraham, and all those things, you know. And they're shouting up a good shout, but there's nothing in their hearts, and their worship is vain because they don't have the Word of God. That's pure and simple. So their worship, hallelujah, Lord, bless you, Jesus. Well, it's fine, but it's not fine. Depart from me, I never knew you. So over here in John, we find here in the sixth, what is it, the fourth chapter, I guess, something like that.

Verse 19, the woman said, Sir, I perceive you're a prophet. Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you say in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. And Jesus said, Woman, believe me. The hour cometh when ye shall neither worship in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem. Worship the Father. You don't even know what you worship. And I'm going to tell you something. Get this flat. We know what we worship. And salvation comes by the Jews, no matter what else you say. Now, Ishmael. And Esau, you can say what you want. And the Muslims can say what they want. The whole bunch of them. From the Taliban to the Shiites to God knows what, because there's a whole mess of them, like Christianity.

It doesn't come by you. It doesn't come by the Chinese. It doesn't come by the Buddhists. No. It doesn't come by the mythological gods. It comes by the Jews. And if you don't understand, And Jew here is not so ethnic as it is geographical. Because remember, there was two visions at that time, Judea and Galilee.

So he's talking here, I want you to know something. If you don't understand the geographical division, which you try to make a mountain, you make Jerusalem, forget it. It comes through Judah. Comes through the tribe, comes down from David. There's a lineage there. Now, in other words, Messiah comes through that. But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshipper shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father seeketh such that worship Him. God is spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. And remember, Jesus' own Word is spirit and truth. It's life. The woman said, I know the Messiah comes, which is called Christ. When He's come, He'll tell us all things. And Jesus said, I'm the one that speaks unto you. So now, my thought tonight is... As we look at communion and foot washing, particularly communion, I want to ask you a question. Is communion an act of worship? It certainly is. It's a part of it. So what if you take communion apart from the Word that's been revealed and proven true? What if you're back there in the Pentecost of the age of Luther, three gods falling away, hating predestination with a holy horror? I couldn't believe in a God who predestinated. Well, I'm sure glad I do. My Bible says it's great cause for rejoicing Not

for being angry and hateful my Bible also says quoting John when Jesus stood as the prophet which he was Not just Messiah now if we're a messiah. It's the prophet is more Messiah than we are Jesus was the great Messiah and He said father He said if they had not seen the wonderful works of no man did they not sin? But now they both seen and hated both me and my father The same people who saw the works at the end time and turned them down as vindication for the authoritative word of Almighty God, the pillar of fire, because that's what the prophet and the word is to you, the pillar of fire, whether you believe it or not. I'm sorry, you're wrong if you don't believe it. You're out there in Nomadland somewhere. They hate God. Oh, no, no, I love God. You're a liar. You love the God of your imagination. You love the God of your own thinking. You love the God of your doctrines.

So therefore, taking communion tonight is the sole privilege of the enlightened bride.

You have a great privilege open to you tonight that you can take communion. We're the only ones entitled to it. Anybody can do it. Oh, sure. Anybody. No problem. But

I think you'll find where Brother Branham let people know unless you're full of the Holy Ghost, you don't have a right to communion service.

And if you're full of the Holy Ghost, you're

a bride.

That leads me to a thought of the simplicity of the gospel.

That Brother Branham always put a great emphasis on water baptism. As much as he said, repent and be baptized, and said the whole solemn process of God is threefold, justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, and he put sanctification in the period of after justification, cleaning up. I never ever found him, but all was opening the pool a water call. You know why? Repent, be baptized, God does the third. How can anybody, how can anybody doubt God? His word, when he said, repent and be baptized and you shall be filled with the Holy Ghost. But Pentecost made you tarry. Made us all tarry, I brought that up. made us pawns to their doctrine. So whatever we got, we got in confusion.

Now, we had to come to the age of final repentance, the final change of mind. The one message at this age is repent, repent, repent, because you haven't got the Holy Ghost. Now, brother, sister, listen. If you repent, then you must be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and God will fill you with the Holy Ghost. line upon line, word upon word, until you're plumb baptized into Him, full of Him. You see the simplicity? You believe it. You take it. You don't have to worry about all these guys preaching their funny things, you know, like trying to say, quoting Brother Branham on, if we'd have prayed, God wouldn't have had to send a prophet. You mean to tell me if I'd have prayed, God wouldn't have sent Brother Branham? I could have bypassed him? Be my own pillar of fire, sort of thing? Come on. You can, listen, I'm going to tell you something. You can tell everything just like Brother Branham told it. Oh, you can perfectly memorize it all. But can you tell how he meant it and where he meant it? Now, there's only one guarantee.

Repent and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it's thus said the Lord that if you haven't been baptized that way, you better be baptized again. Now, I'm going to read to you. Because this is a propitious moment that God brought this to my attention. He didn't bring it before, though I had it in my mind somewhere. I'd like to always have the things in my mind. The Holy Ghost is obligated to bring it up. He said, Here, wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, love unto all the saints. That's when the baptism of the Holy Ghost runs out. Seek not to give thanks to me, he mentioned 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 in the knowledge of himself. So what is the greatest revelation this hour? God Himself, one God. And you must be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And when that happens, the eyes of your understanding will be opened, being enlightened. You'll know the hope of His calling. Not your calling, of His calling. Calling you, yes, for His calling. And what is His calling now? Come right down here, get us ready for the resurrection and rapture. God Himself is bound by His own Word. As I said a while in the sermon back there. What is his oath to you and to me to the son and the great covenant is with the son? And we're included in it and remember the son fulfilled every Obligation that

doesn't mean you and I are going to run around sin that means we're so grateful We'll watch our ways and try to refrain from all sin all unbelief won't be an unbelief. We could be in a bad walk though Yeah, you know you may hope this calling and the riches of his glory of his inheritance in the saints and what is exceeding greatness his power to us really believe according to the working his mighty power which you run in Christ me rated said his own right hand in heaven to places right in there there's got to be first Corinthians chapter 15 the change in the living bride to get caught up to where he is that's the truth and we have it tonight brother sister we are entitled To take the elements tonight to wash feet and say look we're getting ready We're going to eat it anew and drink anew in the kingdom because it's soon going to be here And we are that kingdom let's pray heavenly father We thank you for the truth the word that is enlightened us to make us free citizens of God No more pawns of the devil to take these emblems in perfect absolute perfect freedom sins washed away Even confessing those things that bothers, Lord, walking in that light. Thank God, Father, we can take it. Thank God we've been loosed from wrong understanding, and now the mind can embrace the faith of the stripes and does, knowing what Brother Branagh said brings about healing is for us. Lord, may we never forget that, but stand with it, knowing, Lord, that your word is true, that you are bound by an oath to perform it. And you said not one would. Word would return void, and that means your word of the gospel, which we believe will take us right there to the wedding supper, right there to the new Jerusalem, not one being lost, not one not found in his right place, not one less, not one too many, everything in perfection. So, Father, tonight we're grateful that we can be a perfect people in your sight with the perfections of God. your own righteousness making us righteous as you because we don't have any so therefore we are what Paul said the righteousness of God and has been revealed to us in the Bible all this truth brought out to stand here tonight knowing that it's infallible it's true and we're so happy Lord that we're lying in the sun drying out of everything that's not of you casting ourselves upon the waters that carry us across because

It's all in your hands now, and out of yours, because time and eternity is blended. We give you praise as we get together in this final part of our service. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Learned of the Father cometh to me. See, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, God's own revelation of His own word. And so you know that you are of God, and you will come to Him. Not that any man has seen the Father. save he which is of God, he has seen the Father. Verily we are saying to you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am the bread of life. There are fathers that eat man, the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may thereof not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eateth this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. He tells you right there. Now, remember, the life is in the blood. So when he talks about giving the life, he's got to give his flesh because the blood's got to go. And the blood is a part of the flesh. The life is in there, so that's got to go. So he tells you right there what he's talking about. He said, you've got to partake of that which resides within my very body here, the life, and that life absolutely is predicated upon the word because had the word not said, behold, a virgin shall bear. a child called his name Jesus God with you if that had not been fulfilled that could not be the bread from heaven so what he's saying here what you are seeing here which is your life I'm right here standing before you it is everything right before God in him Melchizedek God his own advocate God his own mediator standing right there talking to you come to this reason that this is the Lord the man Jesus right there raised up as Melchizedek high priest right there already high priest to the people between them and God all beautifully lined up here the Jews therefore strove amongst themselves saying how can this man give his flesh us his flesh to eat and Jesus said and truly transcend you except you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you have no life in you

Who so eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life, and I raise him up for the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, my blood is drink indeed. He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwelleth in me, and I in him. Now you see right there, he's telling them that there's something they can't receive. They can't receive the symbology. They can't receive the actuality. As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. All symbology. This is that bread which came down from heaven. Not as your fathers eat manna and are dead. He that eateth this bread shall live forever. These things said he in the synagogue as he taught in Capernaum. This is where Brother Branham said he threw him a curve. They never got it. And right today the Catholics don't have it. The bread cannot change into the body of Jesus Christ. There's no way. There's no way. Because if that could happen. Why doesn't something else happen?

You can only see God's Word manifest in truth, if it is the truth. Everything else will be a lie and fail. Just like the devil came with the Word of God to Adam and Eve, especially Eve. He lied to her. It was still the Word of God, but it was changed. It was perverted. That's iniquity. And she accepted iniquity. And therefore, from that point on, as Brother Branham said, That life that God gave to mankind in His image ought to have fallen down. He's got to redeem it. Now, you can't redeem that which is pure and cannot sin within itself, but you do redeem the body. So Jesus is having us identify with His body, the virgin -born body. And without identifying with that virgin -born body that gives us our life, spiritual eating and mastication, You can't have healing. Brother Branham sets that forth very, very strong. You have to believe what is there. And tonight, when we take the emblems, believe me, they are emblems. But they are emblems that stand for something.

It's just the same if you had a $100 bill. And you look at that $100 bill and you say, now, I need something for myself. don't have shoes because they're completely wore out and I can't get them repaired so I have to buy a new pair of shoes now the actual fact of the matter is that hundred dollar bill without being that pair of shoes is the pair of shoes because when you have that hundred dollar bill that signifies you have the shoes if they're available and they are available when you take that communion it shows positively that you are subscribing to the reality of what is out there, the same as that $100 bill is just a hunk of junk paper. It's going to get you those shoes. And that taking those emblems, signifying that you believe in the reality, says you'll drink anew in the kingdom. And if you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you subscribe to what my life from the virgin birth has brought forth, Jesus being the blood of God. You have everything there in the atonement, every single thing. That's why many people are healed when they take communion positively. That's why foot washing many people make reconciliation because it's a humility and they realize that person's just the same as that other person washing the feet. There are two people. They have what you might say the character of God in a fallen form. They have the problems. Remember, you're put in the flesh to be tested. And what does that mean? That means you're fallible. That means you've got problems. But it's not the inner man that's got the problem. It's the outer man that's got the problem. It's that man out there that gives you all the trouble. It's not the inner man. That's why Paul says, I keep under my body, keep my balance. He gets there, I just chuck him overboard. So I can live without that. He said, I can go and be with the Lord any old time. It suits me just fine. It suits me just fine, he said. And if this body here, it has to suffer, I'll say it's all right. So there we take communion tonight. In other words, you have the bread and the wine that's like the money that you got in your hand, that you know that pair of shoes is yours. But this is deeper. This means you have totally subscribed your faith in the virgin birth, the life and death of our Lord Jesus Christ and His resurrection. It is yours. And this says, I know it's mine. I'm subscribing to it. I have the proof right here. And I'm entering into what he said. And one day I'll drink it anew in the kingdom of God. Let's rise at this time then. The brethren, come forward.

Let's pray then, shall we? Our Heavenly Father, we commend this service to you, this part of it, Lord, the communion, the foot washing. Knowing again, as we said, Father, these may be emblems and people don't understand, but we realize what is behind it all. And we're just saying again, Lord, that we're subscribing to the death and resurrection of your Son and all the meritorious works that have been fulfilled in and through it. And our hope is built on nothing less than that, our complete redemption back to you, O God. And as we already quoted the scripture, God spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all. How shall he not also with him freely give us all things? And we in turn, Lord, commend and commit ourselves to you we also free to give you all things our very life and hold nothing back father God we trust we can say that and mean it that there isn't anything in the showdown comes right to reality we wouldn't say Lord you take it because this one gave his life for us so we give our life back to the praise and the glory of Almighty God and yet to our eternal good, laying up those treasures that are for us. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. We

come around from this side there.

You can take this scripture and put it in the direction of which I was talking. And that is, let a man examine himself. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eats and drinks damnation, or condemnation, or judgment. not discerning the Lord's body. Now, the question would be, which Lord are you talking about? Well, it really wouldn't matter on the very grounds that the one body served the two of them. It served Jesus, the man, served God, who was in the man, Christ Jesus. And then when you begin going further, where Brother Branham brought out the fact of all of these attributes coming from God, which are part and parcel of God, which are those entities or children to be born of him, in him, and come forth. And then he said that would be God manifested, God tangible, God in evidence. And so whether people want to know it or not, and they don't have the testimony that Jesus had, he that has seen me has seen the Father, you know, that's too much for you and me to say he that has seen us has certainly seen the Father. That's not true. That is not true. He that sees us sees the children of the Father and sees that. But we do come to the place that Jesus said, and Brother Branham said the prophet, Brother Branham, the prophet told us we would come to the last day, we would say I and my Father are one. And so if the people who would take the communion service and take the bread and the wine can't honestly understand that I and my Father are one. That there is the qualitative, there is the source. Numerics don't have a thing to do with it. Because Brother Branagh said there won't be one lost, there won't be one too many, one too few. So numerics, that's out. The thing is, does it qualify? Is it identified? And how do you identify except you give back to God what God gave you? You can't do anything else. Because the whole thing resolves itself into declaration. Because that's what the Bible said concerning Jesus. The only begotten hath declared Him, which is leading forth by words. If we are words in the first place, then we must have definitely a linkage to the Word, which is not only a manifestation when it comes to that which is behind it, which is God Himself, but it has to be that which is defined. concerning the expression of words, because everything has definition. And the only definition there is in life, there's only two things. One is measurement, and one is word. The other is word. You can't find anything else. I challenge you to do it. You can do it. You think you can, but you can't, because everything has to come down to numerics and to expression, description. There's only two, and that's done by mathematics and done by word.

That's why the minute you begin to change this word, all reality is gone. The minute you change this word, God's gone. The minute you change this word, you're gone.

So, discerning the Lord's body, we go two ways, Christ, us. Now we go one way because we're the body today. Can the people really discern qualitatively, source, essentiality, not numbers? Forget it. Eight people made the ark. What kind of manifestation of God was that? The omnipotent God who filled the heavens with stars are innumerable, and there's eight people walking in the ark. Oh, forget your numerics. Forget everything. Forget everything but revelation. That's what God said. I am what I am, and don't turn it away. Don't turn it down. Confess it. That's why we have a high priest, and that's how we're children. Because we have the same confession. And so tonight, here we are. Who but a bride. And tomorrow morning, this would have been nice if I could have got what I wanted to say tonight and didn't have the extra ten minutes to say it. We'll get it tomorrow morning, though, and begin to understand what we're really saying and the truth here, which is absolutely amazing when you see the things that Brother Branham said. So here we are. We understand. And we can say, Brother Branham, if we're not bride, there's a bride out there somewhere. And by the grace of God, we will not stand in her way. And they, because we discern, even in our limitation, in our way, there is a body. There's definitely a bride there somewhere. She's coming right up to it. She's already got the capstone, spiritual, and the word, God Himself. Pretty soon, headstone. Right back when God was on earth. Incarnated in His Son. That Spirit, God takes us up. Incarnates Himself. Crown Him King of King, Lord of Lords. That will be the Son of God, the Son of Man, the Son of David, Father, Son, Holy Ghost, Lady of the Valley, the Rose of Sharon, the Altogether Lovely. Stand there. So there we are. We can take communion. We're getting freer and freer all the time to take the emblems. Knowing more and more. Now, we set the premise. We know where we came from.

I trust we all then know where we're going. I came from God to go back to God

around the throne. So let's rise at this time then, the brethren, come forward in the assurance of faith that we have every right to partake of these emblems.

We know there certainly is a bride. We confess we're part of that bride based on the word which we give back to God.

Attributes flow together. Serpent seed flows together into great union. We're flowing together with God. The union for Jesus Christ, the wedding supper. We got the emblems laid out. That's good. You know how to come. Come around the side there and then around the side there. Let's bow our heads in prayer. Heavenly Father, at this time now as we partake of these emblems, we pray, Lord, that people shall be blessed beyond measure. That, Lord, as they partake in the name of Jesus Christ, knowing that the prophet said the truth, that if they had representation there, they've got it now. If they didn't have it there, they don't have it now. But being assured by believing the word of the hour which has been vindicated to them, their representation is assured and they are a part of the kingdom and identify with it. And therefore, taking these emblems tonight in the assurance tomorrow that new day dawns, we will partake anew in the kingdom of God with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as we glorify our Heavenly Father who descended to lead us. captive into the captivity of God himself. Never more, never more subject to trials, but there in his presence as calves in the stall fatted, as sheep in the green pasture beside the still water, moving onward and onward in the glory of God. We believe that tonight in a little simple act. We have faith in Lord that people cannot see. In Jesus' name, may the people take and rejoice and grow in grace as never before. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Your brethren start serving you. Father,

he loved his friends that he knew. He loved Mary and Martha. He loved Lazarus. You know, he loved the centurion. Many people he loved. And he, having loved them, he loved them to the end, showing that... This was his great passion, the great fire of the Spirit of God burning within him. And so he rose from supper and he washed the disciples' feet. And then, of course, he went on to break bread with them. And it says here, Jesus said he was troubled in spirit. Verse 21. Testified, saying, Truly to a sin of you, one of you shall betray me. The disciples looked one on another, doubting whom he spake. Now there was one leaning on Jesus' bosom, one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter therefore beckoned him that he should ask of whom he spoke. And he, then lying on Jesus' breast, said to him, Lord, who is it? And Jesus answered, He it is to whom I shall give a son. And when I dipped it, that's a piece of bread dipped in the wine. And when he dipped the sop, he gave to Judas, the scarlet, the son of Simon. And after the sop, Satan entered in him and said, Jesus, what thou doest, do quickly. And so he went out and betrayed Jesus. And you can see here that the betrayal was one of those who was very close. and who was in the inner circle, and one who was absolutely appointed, chosen by Jesus as one of the twelve, and yet he had something to do, which was to be disruptive, to go for the gold, like they're doing in the Olympics. You know, they sure go for the gold in the Olympics, don't they? All the birds from the top guy down have their money handed out for millions of dollars. Go for the gold, just like Judas. Why don't they just change the name instead of the, you know, the International Olympics to be called the Judas Organization?

Always was a phony one then. He'd always, it'll always come out, honey. I don't care who you are and who I am. It'll always come out what we are. Those that screamed about Brother Branham, they had to betray him. Those that screamed about Judas, and Judas used all the gifts like the rest of them, had to betray him. So there'll be betrayers amongst us. There'll be people that talk the message and try to sneak in and cut your throat, lead you astray. Oh, yeah, they won't have... And if you're the kind of thing to lead astray, you won't have a bit of trouble. But you will later on because he was ordained to do it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Twenty years from now, it'll be what? Oh, shucks, no millionaire sitting in this church. Man, that's the dumbest thing I ever heard of.

I hope nobody's sitting in this church. So anyway, Judas went out and betrayed Him. Now, talk about the Lord's Supper itself. See, it's a... What you got to see in this picture here is the book of Revelation. See, the book of Revelation. The Antichrist is a Christian. Falwell, the other day on the... He knows the paper. He apologized for what he said. Yeah, he said in the paper, he apologized that he called a... It's because the Antichrist should be a Jew. Ha! He's not going to be a Jew unless the Jew gets converted to Catholicism. The

guy doesn't even know what he's talking about. You know where he gets his nonsense? A guy named Sidney Watson, I think he was a doctor, wrote two books when I was a kid and maybe before I was born called The Mark of the Beast and Scarlet and Purple. I think he was an Englishman. That goes well with England. But I think I'm pretty sure he was. And in this book, he has this Jew who hated Jesus. Oh, she hated Jesus. So she makes a bond with the devil so he'll get her pregnant and she'll have the Antichrist.

Ha -ha. The

books were thrillers if you were titillated by hogwash. And

I was. I didn't know any better. I wasn't even getting milk in those days. My Lord, have pity. What they did, they took the milk and they... What I was getting was... Not even buttermilk. I was getting the water that comes off the buttermilk. As they call it, whey or something. But we believe that kind of trash. The Jews themselves understand, believe that the Antichrist, they believe in one, will be a human structure where Satan empowers and helps people to make a being, which would be the Antichrist. I read that, and I don't know whether the authority is any good or not. But you see, people don't even realize the Antichrist... will have a very prominent place in Christianity. And my own feeling is that if he follows the Pope, which he will, and the word anti doesn't mean against, but means instead of, he could be a man of fabulous gifts, tremendous temperament, and a beautiful soul to really fool the people just lock, stock, and barrel.

So what I'm trying to show here is the communion table.

and Christianity, through in the end, will have the traitors. And the wheat will be with the tares till judgment. The sheep will be with the goats. Nothing can be done about it. But I want you to notice something beautiful about what Jesus said. He said, You will drink this with Me again in My kingdom. You know, that realizes that that let these people know, those who were sheep, who took the emblems, and especially took the emblems of the shed blood, the broken body and the shed blood, they would be in the resurrection. Because how are you going to eat if you're dead? How are you going to eat if you're a spirit body? It shows that you are going to be a true, real, honest to goodness human being that God wanted you to be, a born one of Almighty God. So, what does this speak of? It speaks of Job, who in his desperate condition, showing the battles that a sincere Christian can go through, the depths of the misery of trusting God, waiting on God. If a man dies, shall he rise again? I say all nature, all nature shows it. It goes to the ground, it comes up again. Springtime harvest, springtime harvest, sowing, reaping, sap going down, sap coming up, flourishing, showing fruit. It's in nature. But if a man dies, shall he rise again? Yes. If this one didn't die, we wouldn't rise again. So we honor the blood in the form of the fermented grape juice. And it's not sweet. It's on the dry side and even bitter because there's not sugar in it. There's not supposed to be. Just showing you. The point is, yes, we are drinking to the death. the man with whom we will all drink though we never did drink with him we will yet because he died shed his blood that we might live if a man died will we live yes if the man didn't die we wouldn't live but because he died we will live and we will drink with him in the kingdom that's the Lord's Supper shall we rise at this time and the brethren come forward

And you all know how to come from around the wall there and up the other side of the wall. Let's bow our heads in prayer, and then you come forward instantly. Heavenly Father, at this time, we would consecrate these emblems to you, Lord, and the Holy Spirit to bless them so that each one will be reminded that this indeed was necessary, that each one of us may have eternal life and come forth in the resurrection and dine with the Lord Jesus Christ. There in the new Jerusalem. There in the millennium. There wherever he is. And we also. Because if a man die. Shall he live again? Yes. And because you Jesus died. We shall live again. We know that. The lost children of God. Brought back to him. And live with him forever. Thank you therefore Lord. For the shedding of your blood. For the broken body. for rising for us, that as we died with you, now we live with you and shall put on the same garments, immortality with you and be with you. And Lord, we know, though many times we look upon ourselves and we think, how can this be with people like us? We should be saying, and we apologize for not saying enough, how can it not be with a God and our elder brother like you? How? Could it not be? Indeed, it will be. And unto thee be the glory, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Things that were wrapped up in him as the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Now, in other words, there is no such thing as you actually having a true revelation of Jesus Christ, of God Almighty, or the things of God, unless you believe the report, whatever is reported to you. And you're not supposed to be gullible because you've already been warned that you cannot receive a report as from a prophet unless he's thoroughly vindicated by God. But the minute that man is vindicated by God and you turn down that word, you have judged God, you've turned down God, you're lost. And in this age, the church goes through Hebrews chapter 6, which is when they turn down the last day revelation, vindicated the prophet, God's finished with you. cannon fodder. Buddhist version, all die, like dogs, hunted down, and the bride's gone. That's it.

Now, right away, you might say, oh, no, that couldn't be. Well, it is. You know, I've come to the place where I have to tell you the truth. If I murdered somebody, I need to die for it. If my son killed somebody, he ought to die for it, and so should you.

And if you turn this down, you ought to go to hell. Be honest with yourself. Just be honest. When the lots were cast, that time back when Achan stole that wedge of gold, the Babylonian garments, Joshua said, my son, give God the glory and confess. You see, they caught him by divine revelation by casting the lots. He said, okay, I did it. He said, take him out and his family destroy him.

Give God the glory and confess. So let's be honest tonight. Turn this down. Don't play around as though you, I believe and stick around and you tell lies and different things and you show up to the congregation, your acts and things and all you tie your mouth off the word. Let me tell you something. Get down to business and receive the Holy Ghost. And you can't receive the word of God piled word upon word unless you believe. You've got to start with vindication. You've got to start and believe that is a prophet sent from God and you are hearing God. You're not hearing a man.

It says right in 1 Thessalonians, the fourth chapter and the 16th verse, it tells you distinctly. A shout. And in the Greek, it is not said to be the voice of the one descending. And Brother Branham said, I was the only one standing near when he was there. I was only the voice that he used. He tells you right there. Oh, that puffed up guy. Oh, man. He thinks that he's the voice of God. Do you realize what that means? They're spitting in God's face. They're judging God. They're sneering at him. Do you realize that, that Jesus was a prophet and had to die in Jerusalem because he was a prophet?

Yes. So he was the Son of God. The Bible doesn't say that. He only identified himself as the Son of God, which was the prophet that Moses prophesied about.

Yeah. He was God manifested in flesh in the fullness of Godhead bodily. We're coming to that, too, in our own way. And the bride is all in and capped. But you've got to realize that. Now, people read this, and people take communion. They say, ah, that guy, William Branham.

If I had not done the works no other man did, they'd not sin. But now they've both seen and hated both me and my father, and their sin remained because they said, now we see.

But you see, they saw. And so, therefore, there is no sacrifice for sin any longer. It's over. The same as God took away the sacrifice from Jerusalem. And the red heifer was gone. It's all gone. How many red heifers they bring back? Not going to do me any good. Bring 1 ,000 back overnight, have 15 million. Not going to do me any good because he doesn't care about sacrifice anymore. It's all over. The bloodshed once and for all. So the prophet's got to come and the king. So here you are tonight. How do you stand with the word? You say, well, I'm going to take communion anyway. Go ahead. It's your problem, not mine. You do it. See, I believe the word.

I'm itchy. I'm mean about it many times. I certainly show a great lack of compassion according to people. I know that without a doubt. I'm hard and I'm miserable. I admit it lots of times.

I say a lot of things you don't want to hear and I'm not happy that I say them because I kind of regret it. Not the content so much as the language. But I am what I am. And I can tell you one thing. If that's not real, forget it. Oh, I'm going to look at science. I'm going to look here. Those dinosaurs, I didn't care two bits about those cotton -picking dinosaur eggs.

I don't care about anything.

I care about nothing. All I know is that's my empathy. That's my partner. That's my blood relative, God, I'm talking about, not William Branham. Yeah, my blood relative.

Well, what's in your blood but life? And what's life without blood? There's no life. So I've got a blood relative. And the blood speaks, and I listen.

Now, people are going to do what they want about it. That's why I can take the communion tonight.

I'm a believer.

I'm not like David, although he did a lot of things I wouldn't do. He's a better man than I ever was or will be, except for one thing. I've been baptized with the Holy Ghost, and only the prophet can come near what you and I have. Brother Brandon said so.

So that's what you're looking at. Who believed our report?

To whom will God become manifest?

You don't believe it? Why bother taking communion?

It's just empty anyway. The churches out there cannon fodder take communion. And they take it all wrong. Pentecostals, they're hip, hip, ray, ladder rain, break off a piece of bread, pass it around. Come on. Catholics come by, drop a little moon -shaped thing on your tongue, and they drink their booze because it is liquor.

I saw John F. Kennedy's funeral on TV when he died. I wanted to see it. The old cardinal, he drank so much liquor, so much wine, he's literally tottering. Maybe he was getting, I don't know. Is that communion? Oh, come on. See, I'm telling you, it's desecrated. Now, we in turn will be called the desecrators. We're the wrong ones. We're the foolish ones. Oh, yeah. We're just a bunch of idiots out here in Neverland, you know. Is that a fact? That's going to haunt them, brother and sister, because that's scientific. The camera caught the light, and it's the only scientific picture in existence. certified by the head of the FBI, George D. Lacey. Documents and photographs. Sold around the world. No longer sold, given away.

You take communion tonight as

a soldier of the cross, a part of the resurrection. That's what counts. Let's rise at this time. My

brethren, come forward.

Now, you know how we come from around the side, and as soon as we finish praying, you can come right away. Heavenly Father, we want... In your presence, consecrate these emblems to your glory, Lord, and let not one person, Lord, condemn himself or herself by entering into those things, Lord, which are contrary to truth, but rather look to you for the purging of the soul, the mind, the spirit, O God, and even the body for healing through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Grandfather, that we may be strengthened as never before, Lord, from this service and partake in these emblems, knowing that Christ has risen from the dead and soon. we shall drink anew with Him in the kingdom of Almighty God, where we are a part, and even now in our infirmities, our reflection of Him who brought us to birth. We give the... Just exactly like the glorified Christ in your own order and in your own position, but no doubt the bodies would be identical because Jesus Himself rose with the glorified body through death and resurrection, and we too. Now, at that particular time... Paul preached the crucifixion because he knew that without the shedding of blood, there was no remission of sin. There was no justification. There was no way that God could look upon that person except through the blood, and the blood had to be applied, and thereby the Holy Ghost could baptize him into the bride of the Lord Jesus Christ. But today it's different. We are at the end of the time of the baptism with the Holy Ghost. And now our whole thinking is upon the resurrection and getting ready for it. As Brother Brandon said, how we ought to live and what manner of men we ought to be so we can meet our fellows, our brethren and sisters and fellows in the resurrection. So that was my thinking tonight on the subject as I talked about what is going on today. But at the same time, I'm bringing you the thought of the Lord's Supper, which is what I said. Without the shedding of blood, there can be no remission. There can be no baptism with the Holy Ghost. There could be no joining back to God. There could be no resurrection. But now since the baptism with the Holy Ghost, which the blood was given for, and remember the covenant is a living covenant, God joining himself to man, joining back, and Jesus as mediator bring us in, intercessor to keep us in, the whole thing is one beautiful picture. Jesus said, I am in the Father, the Father in me, and I in you, and you in me. It all makes a beautiful picture, Brother Branton illustrated to us. Now, the blood did that. But as I say, we're in the nearing of the resurrection. We know it because the book of Romans tells us that Israel was blinded. They weren't dead. And when God turns to Israel, it's not that they're dead. It's they're blind. And blind men are not dead men, though dead men are blind men. But Israel isn't dead. She is dead in sins, but she's blinded. Now, at that time... When God turns to their blindness, He turns from our induced blindness, which we brought upon ourselves. Remember, Paul said Israel was blinded that the Gentiles might come in. But he doesn't say that about us in Hebrews 6. He says, you willfully turn down the last call to repentance and it's dead. And he said, fire breaks in. And when you hear a fire, that's the end time. You forget about middle time, you forget about way down the road, fire. When you see fire, that's it. Positivity, great tribulation. Yep, and the end of that, fire. And then down a thousand years, lake of fire. And then you see fire come down from heaven. So when you talk about fire, you better believe judgment has set in. And what judgment has set in is because the judge himself came down here, 1 Thessalonians 4, 16. And as it says in Matthew 12, in that judgment, The Gentiles are not set back. They're sent on to victory. So, all right. As Paul preached the death, the cross, Brother Branham had to preach the resurrection.

And he said, right now, the Son of Man rising with healing in his wings was the rapture. And before you can have a rapture, you have to have a resurrection. After the resurrection, a sweep goes over the bride, and she's changed. After 40 days or so, commingling upon earth, Paul's group goes up first, and then Arrhenius and Martin clumble right down the line until we get to William Branham. We go up last, and we go up by a little snatch here, a little snatch there, so people don't know we're gone. Now, since that is our day of resurrection, we are going to get there. And the emphasis was, Brother Branham, the blood has scattered sin till there be no evidence. You cannot make this man therefore a sinner. And on furthermore, you didn't do it in the first place. You were tricked into it. You are all seed of God. You are the righteous, perfect bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, blameless and spotless, washed in the water of the Word, dressed by the sword, which is the Word of Almighty God, ready for a rapture. Now, that's the theme we have tonight. The others could not say that. For 2 ,000 years, they are looking forward to what we now have. and proven absolutely scientifically without debate without rebuke a hundred percent true and this is that hour now brother brown has gone on before what does that mean nothing all prophets die even jesus the great prophet died no problem but what he said will come to pass and under the seventh seal remember time blends into eternity how long are we here who knows it could be a long time since time and eternity blending brother brandon said 10 years, 25, 50, maybe 100, maybe tomorrow. Well, it wasn't tomorrow. We knew that. He's just letting you know, but nobody knew the time and the hour. But I'm trying to show you that since the blood has been shed, and Brother Branham categorically talked about that blood, and I've explained what he said by telling what he said, and this is the hour of the resurrection. This is now time to realize the full efficacy of the blood and bank on it. Bank on it. depend upon it that is yours and that is mine and since that brought the baptism with the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost has run out which was the seal of the redemption of our body the bodies have run out there's got to be a resurrection there's got to be a change to immortality and there has got to be a rapture there's got to be a wedding supper there's got to be a time when that spirit that's amongst us He comes incarnate in Jesus. We crown him king of king and lord of lords. That'll be the son of man, the son of God, the son of David, the altogether lover, the rose of Sharon, the leader of the valley, and 400 other names. I think there's roughly 400 other names, which he is one person. God now, back in the sun. That great day, we know that the very fact that we take communion, he said, for this hour, I will drink it anew with you in the kingdom. How many more times will we have communion in this church before we cross over and drink it? Now, let's become very, very compatible to the Word. Let's become very sincere, and let's become very pragmatic. This is no theory. This is substance. This is not wishing. This is it. This is not hoping, because what a man knows and comes before him, he can't hope for it. This is knowledge. This is God in operation. This is what he said. This is what has happened. We are here. Now you've got to come to that place.

You've got to come to that place as you take the Lord's Supper. This is it. You can't look down the road. I have a promise to live, not to die, but I could die, but I'll be right back in a hurry. Brother Branham had a promise to live. He died. He'll be back very shortly. He'll be the first one up. Because he's got to lead the bride. No doubt, in my mind, if his ministry parallels Christ exactly, he will do many wonderful works and tell us things of the kingdom. Oh, man, if that doesn't turn you on, but it wouldn't turn on the world out there. Oh, no, no, no. See, they can't take communion like us because we're taking this in hope and not hope but knowledge. What a man's seed that he had hoped for, when you saw that, could you hope for this hour? No, it's here upon us. And taking the communion, it says, Lord, very quickly now, we'll be together taking communion. And part of that's breaking bread. What do you think it's going to be like when Jesus himself begins telling us things? You think you'll get a lot of joy and good impulses and good spirit, even hearing a poor preacher like me and hearing Brother, when I heard Brother Branham, it was just, no, man just waves the glory. Just wait until Jesus in his own person begins dealing with the bride in God incarnate. Now that's what this taking of the bread and the shed blood indicate. A perfect, resurrected, glorified body. Eternal life in that body going to the new Jerusalem, eating the tree of life.

The seventh seal, time and eternity blended.

It's the end of everything. except the end of God and His Word, which is to us. So that's the message tonight on communion. I hope that I understand my own words, believe them, and they're rooted in me and in you. And it's not a fairy tale. It's fact.

Let's rise at this time.

Will the brethren come forward then to serve at the communion table.

Now, you all know how we come. We come around the side there to your right and then go all the way to your left so we don't, you know, bump into people. Oh,

there were the men washed feet. The ladies washed feet yonder. So let's ask the Lord to bless this part of this heavenly. Father, we commend the emblems that you gave us to use for this particular service, which denote an actuality that no other rite or ceremony could possibly. Do nothing. Nothing will do what this does. Because this, Lord, we take with the understanding of the New Testament in your blood, that we will take this anew with you in the kingdom. We might not understand it, but we know it is true. And we will. And how the conditions are and what will be relevant to it, we know is because you, Jesus, died. shed your blood for us that your life may come back upon us, that we may be bound back to you and all one in that great and glorious kingdom of God which has no ending. Help your people, Lord, today to cleanse their hearts and help me to cleanse mine, standing in awe of your presence and your majestic word, standing in awe of the great promises that are ours and loving every promise, receiving every promise and glorying in the God of the word. that has been given to us and sealed to us at this time. Cleanse everyone, Lord, we pray, of any impure thought, any folly, whatever may enter our minds or desire to enter our minds. And with all sobriety, attack life as it should be attacked. There's an enemy at the door, but Christ the Good Shepherd leads us, and we will listen to him as we walk this path to glory. We ask these mercies, which they are indeed mercies, in the name of Jesus Christ, our risen Savior. Amen. Please come forward now at this time.