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supper and laid aside his garments and took a towel and girded himself after he pours water in the basin began to wash the feet of disciples and wiped them with the towel where he was girded and come with pete simon peter to simon peter and peter son of lord dost thou wash my feet and jesus answered said unto him what i do thou knowest not now but thou shalt know hereafter peter said to him thou shall never wash my feet jesus answered if i wash thee not thou hast no part with me. And Simon Peter said, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head. And Jesus said, he that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet. He just has to, that's left, that's the only part left to wash. But it's clean every wood, for ye are clean, but not all. In other words, we have the sacrifice of Christ. He's risen as our mediator. And if our walk is not right before Him, we have an advocate, Jesus Christ the righteous. And confessing our sins, we're able to stand clean before Him. Our state, which was purchased by the blood, is perfect. Absolutely perfect. God Himself, our righteousness. But we have to walk in a certain path. That's the conduct. But you know, the point is this. We can err, as Brother Branham said in our conduct, but you better not make an error in the truth because you have to walk in that light, having fellowship with one another, and then and only then will the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanse you. Why? Because it's the blood of the covenant, and a covenant is a composite of words that define a principle between two, what exists.

So, all right. Our conduct. We'll walk in that light. We do make mistakes, but the big thing is make sure we are right in the other. So all right, foot washing tonight, and also the taking of the emblems of the broken body, and the life that was shed for you and me that has come back upon us. We cannot do these things lightly, but even tonight as we study sovereignty of God, to understand Godhead, Godhood, to understand these things, in a way that perhaps they have not been dealt with before so specifically and definitively, makes us understand then that what we have here is sovereign. And it's been sovereignly given, and we will take it with Him in the great resurrection, perhaps at the wedding supper and then in the millennium. So let's rise at this time then.

When the brethren are here, let's ask the Lord to bless them. Heavenly Father, we ask you now as we stand before you in these emblems here, that you bless them, Lord, to the people through their understanding. And in their understanding, Lord, we know having been revealed to us the truth, the reality goes down into the soul where the life is and the life flourishes and comes forth. Forgive us our sins, Lord, we pray, each one of us. And if we've been in sin, Father, may it be that we'll pledge tonight, Father, to change and mend our ways so we will not be found guilty before you or in any way, Lord, harm anybody else by standing in the way. Help us to be clear before you, O God, tonight, not only because we are children and we have these rights and we don't want to take advantage, Lord, of anything and presume. because we know presuming is treading where we have no authority. But, Lord, we have authority tonight to confess our faults and to look to you, O God, to cleanse them all in righteousness and take this in the spirit of Jesus Christ with the living word. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. If your brothers and sisters just come forward now, then we would be served. For our transgressions, he brews for our iniquities, and the chastisement of our peace was upon him. And with his stripes were healed. All we like sheep have gone astray. We turned everyone to his own way. And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and he was afflicted. He had opened not his mouth. Brought us a lamb to the slaughter. And a sheep before her shearers is dumb. So he opened not his mouth. He was taken from prison of judgment. Who shall declare his generation? For he's cut off the land living. For the transgression of my people was he stricken. He made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death Because he has done no banish neither was any deceit in his mouth you see actually Jesus was destroyed for being the perfect Lamb of God The the devil never could stand Anybody who was in the truth had the truth and lived the truth Never have been and never will be. There will always be persecution. Abel was the first one to die for it. And all through the history of the Bible, the prophets were killed at Jerusalem. They went up there to die. And so you find that always there will be the enmity of the wicked against the righteous. And the enmity of the wicked against the righteous is the righteous standing up for the word. If Eve had stood up for the word, the serpent would have tried to strangle her without a doubt. He would have tried something to destroy her. It's always the truth. As somebody said, truth is always on the scaffold. And the sword of death is always the unbelief. And the tragic thing, well, the rough thing is not tragic, but the rough thing is that that truth in Christ is always submissive, is always lamb -like. It simply stands for the right. It doesn't try to force it. You know, Cromwell was supposed to be a Christian man, and he became a dictator of England. I never did read much about the history, but, you know, the revisionists, they make it the worst thing in all the world when that man was trying to bring up the nation the right way. And, of course, he couldn't succeed. And then there was a man in America years ago. I forget his name, but I'll remember it later on. And he was postmaster general. And he tried to clear the mails of pornography and everything that we have today. And of course, he's one man that's blaspheming. If you read anything about him, he is hated. I mean, he is hated. And all he tried to do was to be... to do right and to live right. And now we see Mr. Clinton doing what he's doing, even lying and perjuring everything else and a murderer because he's responsible like Herod for the babies dying. He's a great guy. Hallelujah. Everybody loves him. He's great. So you see, the wickedness is virulent. It's murderous. It's in there. And what is it? It's unbelief in the Word. It's unbelief is what is doing it. So tonight we have the privilege of believing the Word. and we should believe it in all meekness we're not combative now remember you have to stand for the truth and you have to defend the truth like i'm like i'm like paul said for the defense of the gospel i'm not set for anything else but but deuteronomy chapter 18 and the doctrine of god you can have anything you want because that's your privilege but i'm set for that and that's my setting that's my type voice that's my life that's everything because that is where god is if he's not there he's nowhere You tell me where he is if he's outside of that, because that was laid down, and it can never be changed. So again tonight, we take the communion, the Lord's Supper, typical, the bread of the broken body, the wine, the shed blood, and this will not cease. It'll be taken in the millennium. Whether it's in the New Jerusalem, I don't know. That's up to God. It's quite possible it will be in some form or other. And I see no reason why it shouldn't be. Because if Brother Branham said Jesus ate a fish sandwich, that made my thinking just go completely bonkers. I always thought that if you're in the resurrection, you wouldn't eat something like that. So, you know, you eat flesh here on earth, you have a body that assimilates it. Well, what would make me think, except my own stupid reasoning, that Jesus wouldn't eat a fish sandwich? After all, the point of the matter is, if he made a fish sandwich, why would he feed it to them if he wouldn't eat it himself? You know, if you want to put it that way. Which would be true. I mean, if I make something to eat, I like to eat it myself. And if I don't think it's fit to eat, I'll tell you, and I'll throw it in the garbage. Now, if I'm a human being, and you're not a very good example, maybe, of a good one, but the point is, if I would do that, like Jesus said, if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts, how much more of the Heavenly Father to give good gifts than to ask him, or give the Holy Ghost that those desire. I can see many things that I would just normally believe from wrong teaching or my own perception from what is taught that was wrong. I just don't want to be that way. I want to know what the Word says. And if Brother Brandon says a certain thing, I'm going to believe it. And you can see from my understanding, I go to the Bible and I believe what he says and I find in the Bible. Now, you might not agree. That's your privilege. Hey, you don't have to see what I see. anymore than I have to see what you see. People tell me one thing and I say, that's fine by me, that's fine by you, no? I don't have to argue with anybody, trust anybody, but I have a moral obligation, spiritual obligation to stand for what I believe in my heart, I know, to be the truth because I can find in the Bible what God says and the prophet said. So now the prophet said, take communion. And the only thing that holds us from taking communion is if we find gross immorality in anybody. That could be a male or a female. As long as gross immorality is not there, I have no question of you taking communion any more than I question myself. My question myself is, do I have a right? Do I understand? Do I believe? Am I walking in light? Am I trying to live, at least, as Brother Branham said, a good Christian life? Well, how much I'm trying. is not the answer. The answer is, am I trying? You know, because you sin a thousand times a day, backslide a thousand times a day. And this represents what Jesus did for us. And remember, He rose to put in full effect what He gave us through His death and resurrection. And if you do and I do that tonight, say, look, Lord, I know this is in full effect, absolutely, a hundred percent, because Jesus has risen to make sure that his elect, which I believe I'm a part of, will receive it. And that covers healing and everything that God purchased. As Paul said, if God spared not his own son, but freely delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things? And the all things put right there in the atonement, every single promise in the word of God becomes ours. And if we believe that tonight, that this is the covenant blood. Remember, it's the blood of the covenant.

And when the blood was shed, the covenant cut, that meant nobody could go back on it. God cannot go back on His Word. He couldn't anyway. But this was just showing you that God wouldn't do it. So I trust for tonight, whatever our needs are, those needs will be met. Many times people have been healed, taken communion, and wonderfully restored and blessed. And there's no reason not to. So let's rise at this time. The

brethren come forward and continue this part of the service.

Now we'll pray over the emblems here. Heavenly Father, we pray that even as we sanctify these emblems, Lord, knowing they're dedicated unto this wonderful service that Jesus did for us and in glorifying you, Lord. we would obey the commandment that we would partake of these emblems knowing what they stand for and knowing, Lord, that how we are commanded and how in the future we will partake of them together. So we know, Lord, this is a blessed sacrament and we thank you for it, Lord, and may each heart enter into it the rejoicing and faith that the covenant that was sealed by blood given to us has now been guaranteed. by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, even to the extent, Father, we know this, that the Lamb is on the Father's throne and the Father here. This, Lord, should set us free. And where we haven't been set free, Lord, I plead in Jesus' name that our minds shall be 100 % circumcised as well as our hearts, that we may enter into this life that is set before us because it is wonderful beyond imagination. or any thoughts that could possibly enter into us. But may we receive that, Father, and in it, capitalize fully on what is ours, coming up for our entitlement, as the prophet said, and knowing that this is true. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray, amen. Which was, he was slain on Gotha Hill when they nailed him to the cross and almost literally shredded his body with the cruel instruments. the whips that they laid upon him and his blood was shed for our redemption now after having lived on this earth to the time where he was about to be taken off and fulfilled this very scripture which was already there and had to be fulfilled in flesh it had to be because you'll notice that the fulfillment of God is in flesh It is, really, in not just a vague sense of the term, but in a reality. Because He Himself took upon Himself flesh. The Son took upon Himself flesh. We all came in the flesh. And we're going to end up in the flesh. Now, God doesn't have to end up in the flesh. He's back there in the pillar of fire when the Son hands the kingdom back to the Father in Revelation chapter 22. And 22, 22, it's all in the same area there. So what we're seeing here is that Jesus was predestinated to come in the flesh as the Lamb of God and shed His blood. Now what I'm driving at is this. If it happened way back there when you and I were merely the thoughts of God and the foundation of the world had just barely been laid and He was slain from that, it shows you that we've come to the material aspect. Now, if that was back there in the immaterial, to come to the material, is there any reason to believe that these emblems that Jesus said just before he died, take ye this as my body, take ye this as the emblem of my blood, and you are to do this continually, and we'll do it again. It shows forth my death till I come. Because, you know, people believe in the death of Jesus. But to talk about the resurrection, that's pretty iffy. Because you can accept that he died. But can you accept that he's really coming back to take over? Now, you're getting to really, really know that that one that came in this material form of flesh. died say yes he's risen and he's coming back and don't you ever believe he's not he's coming back I know he's risen he's come back to take over on this earth and I'm gonna have communion with him they see that's what you're gonna now my point is if it was for ordained way back there and it's taken place already we're commemorating it We're going to do it with him. Now, the next thing is, will that communion ever, ever disappear, even in the New Jerusalem? I don't know.

But here is a thought. If he's still the Lamb, and the Lamb's on the throne, and the nail prints are there, and the hands and the feet decide in the temples,

what's it there for?

Now, another thing. And this is a real, real, real tough one.

There's a tree of life there. And the John said, or the Holy Ghost said, the leaves are for the healing of the nation. I want to ask you a question. What's to heal?

Don't answer me because you don't know the answer. I don't either. Brother Branham said it's to keep peace.

What's to keep peace? The lamb's already lying down with the lion and the lion's eating grass like the oxen. What's to keep peace? I

can't tell you.

Actually, I'm not even interested. Because if we're supposed to know, we'll know later. But my point is this. This communion is very, very important. And the memory is to be with us at all time. Like I said before the service started, just to you folk here, that how come our calendars, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, first thing should point us to God. No, they point us to...

mostly Norse gods, Woden, Thor, Freya, Saturn, of course, that'd be a Roman. Don't point to the true God. See? God said, take the word and bind them as phylacteries, little boxes here, and you put them around your head, and as you nod, you go, blip, blip, bang, bang, reminding the word of God. Bind them on your wrist. Put them anywhere to make you remember. See, remember. Remember now that I created in the days to remember. They remember not, God said. They remember not. They remember not. So this service, the communion, is a memorial. It's a memory service. It's to take you and me back before the foundation of the world. To see God's plan. To see it fulfilled. to see it memorialized now and waiting to do it with the lamb very shortly. And is there a possibility of this communion ever ceasing? I'm going to tell you one thing. I will not be surprised if it doesn't. And I'll be a little surprised and I'll wonder and have to ask the question, why not? Why should you not take through eternity the great thing that gets us there? Why should we not glory and exult in what is real? Because it is real. See, you're going back to Logos on this. You're going way back. You're going back to the reality. So that's our thought on communion tonight. I want to just leave it with you. It is very important. A

part, a

great part of... The span we call time in eternity it all was there in the mind and now will it go on Well

if I had time and had my concordance gag it allows you memory I Think I can find in the book of Revelation they sing about the blood they

sing about the lamb And if he's there, I don't see any reason why they shouldn't and if I'm there I don't see any reason why I shouldn't in fact. I think that's going to be one of the best songs ever so the Subject tonight then on the communions, which the Catholics think they got a big hold on, everybody else. We own it. We own it. It's ours. And I feel real good about saying that. Not trying to exclude anybody. No, no, no. We're not close communicants. No, no. Don't exclude anybody. I'm not trying to get rid of anybody. I'm just saying, look, this is for God's people. We believe we are. We have a right. I don't say anybody else. Don't you do it. I'm going to tell you one thing. I'm going to say you do it. You're supposed to. And if you drink condemnation, you're going to have to pay for that. But you better do it. All right, let's rise at this time and know this is perhaps eternal. What we're doing started down here. Go on and on and on and on. Never ceases. And we have good reason to believe it won't on what I've been talking about.

Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, as we come forward now to partake of these emblems that you have given us to. remind us of the sacrifice of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And for people to take a little tiny bit, we realize how that body could have been literally torn into small pieces, so lacerated. And yet knowing how small it is, typified by millions of people, millions of time partaking, we can say, how great thou art. And thinking of the little sips of wine that people take commemorating the life, the blood that was shed and the life that comes back on us. Millions and millions, millions of times we can say how great thou art and how great is that life. And we can say we're a part of that greatness that you extended toward us. And you did. And you gave yourself and your son to us. And now we have you. as our great lover and we love you, Lord. And we're so grateful we can do this knowing that it came from eternity and could well go back in just the perfect way you want it with your people. We thank you for it from the bottom of our hearts and may not one of us partake except in the knowledge of the word, our faith and trust in you, your faith and trust in us, and the spirit guiding us. mellow us down Lord and yet at the same time keep us temperate as we should be and tremendously strong in our stand which we take in love of you and may it also extend in love to our brethren in what area and how you want it done because we know that if it's not done according to you and how you want it done then father it's it's a lost cause and our lives have been no doubt so much of the years that we have, so much lost. They were something like Samson to say, Lord, just give us one more chance, one more time, Lord, to do your bidding, to be what you want us to be. So, Lord, we bless each one in the name of the Lord, bless these elements to them, and bless ourselves in the name of the Lord, scripturally and properly, that we are here as your children who went astray. lambs for the slaughter, but you, Redeemer, have brought us back to the safety and security and will now guide us into eternity in glorified bodies like unto our Lord Jesus Christ, for which we thank you. And this, in our appreciation, we take these emblems and glorify your name and what you've done for us. We thank you in Jesus' name. Amen.

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praise you not. that you come together not for the better but for the worse. And I've said that many times. You can come to the church of God, the house of God, and go away and worship when you came. And you can sit down at the table of the Lord and go away and worship when you came. That's why it says many are sick and feeble and many die because they don't discern the Lord's body. Now, discerning the Lord's body is a very, very difficult thing because who of us can say we really do discern the Lord's body? And then what are we talking about? Talking about the church. Are we talking about the body of Christ? How many people outside of us understand how Jesus was born? Created sperm that God wrapped around himself in order to give forth all his genes to make sure it would be the body of God himself. And therefore this one said, Lo, a body hast thou prepared for me. Jesus indwelt that body. And then God came and indwelt the body with him. Dual personality. How many people believe that? Almost everybody really believes that to a degree. But where did the Jesus only come in? If that was God and not Jesus, and Jesus is God, where do you come in on that one?

And Brother Branham said, we're one but not like your finger. Huh? It's like the bone in your finger, in the flesh.

Oh, yeah. Pretty tricky, eh? They don't understand. Now, do they discern?

Nuh -uh. Not in my books. Discern means to judge between. And to judge between, if you judge between, then you settle on something, right? Or you're pulled in a certain way. Well, all right. Okay. For first of all, when you come together, I hear there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it. Now, Paul mentions divisions must come, but

he never stood for division. He stood for unity. He knew there'd be people creeping in and pulling things apart.

That's why Brother Brandon said, how you ought to love each other, you ought to love this Word. Because, you see, there's a unity there. See?

When our little kids can describe things and tell you things that older people can't tell you because they've been brought up right, I love that. That means we're going to get out of here pretty soon. These kids are growing up real fast. How many kids did you have before you came here, Lloyd? None, did you? You're all born here and they're all getting married. Woo -wee, whoopee. All getting married. That means we're going to have a generation so pure, you're going to walk in. Yeah, absolutely, come on, get with it. What do you think is going on here? Get back on your types and all. See some things. What about that little boy that Paul talked about? From your mother's knee, your grandmother and your mother. Ah, their knee. You learned the word. Oh, and you're right down the line. Why? He put the stamp on that kid for rapture.

Grandma, daughter, grandson. Three generations. We're in the fourth one now. Fourth deliverance. Oh, yeah, thank you. I think I started yelling and shouting a bit before I take the Lord's Supper. Not that yelling and shouting is going to get there any higher. It will sure make you feel good, though. You know, if you shout about the right thing and there's nothing more right than this, I've got no problem with people shouting and glorifying the Lord. I don't like people to disturb services, but if you get carried away a little bit, we'll carry you back. Don't worry.

We're good people here. Now, for there also must be heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. Now, it tells you right there. How are you going to tell whether the flock is up to snuff? Give them the word test.

If I sat with every single one, if you got honest with me, I think I could find out in a hurry. I think I could find out pretty soon just where you stand on God's head and where you are in these other things. It didn't take long after Brother Branham died that the people were sure down on predestination. At least somewhere. What have ye not, Holmes, to eat and drink in, or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall we say to you? Shall I praise you for this? I praise you not. For I received the Lord, that which I delivered unto you, the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, Take ye this as my body, which was broken for you, this doing remembrance of me. After the same manner he took the cup from which he had set, saying, This cup is the New Testament in my blood, this do ye as often as ye drink in remembrance of me. Now, he didn't say that the cup was a cup of blood. He said, This cup is the New Testament in my blood. In other words, It testifies to what was wrought through the blood. And remember, it's the blood of the covenant. It's not just blood that was shed. It's the blood of the covenant. You didn't shed blood unless there was a covenant. And if there wasn't a covenant, you didn't shed blood. And if you shed blood without a covenant, you're just sick. You just shed blood. You understand what I'm saying?

The blood of the covenant. It represents what was accomplished. Through the covenant. Now, I wasn't there to make it. It's not my covenant. It's God's covenant and the Son's covenant concerning you and me. I'm the beneficiary. You're the beneficiary. Taking the, taking the, shows the shed blood. We're under it. This is it. We do this showing we understand. This doeth often you drink it in remembrance of me. Now, so it's just not shed blood. It's the shed blood of Jesus. Blood of bulls and goats won't do it. Blood of another person won't do it. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. So when you take it, this recalls to my mind and makes me more confirmed in what I believe and is a testimony to everybody else that this represents the shed blood of Jesus who is called the blood of God in Acts chapter 20 who had this uniquely derived body that God wrapped himself in to give him the genes and the blueprinting and the rest of it that this would be truly the blood of God surely the Son of God truly God could be manifest in flesh this blood was shed accepted by the father it's over it's done that's it God satisfied I'm satisfied but that's the trouble we're not we don't believe God do we See, ever since Cain and that muddled up flesh, ever since that act, that one step of unbelief from behind the word, it galls us, it nags us, it hurts us.

That's why it takes the renewing of the mind, brain, baptized with the Holy Ghost, your spirit that God allowed to convey it down to your solar plexus mind because you got one and down into your soul. feeding the Christ within you, bringing it back up in greater strength of revelation.

We're not talking about anything else but the truth, my brother, my sister. As oft ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye show the Lord's death till he come.

Sure, if it weren't for his death, you wouldn't have any hope in the resurrection. I can tell you that because resurrection means die and come back again.

How can Jesus be resurrected unless he died? So this shows his death. He died. Now he's risen. Hallelujah. The beautiful thing is he's, There, taking care of his own testament, his own will. What man ever died and came back and took care of his own will? Oh, man! Well, you can... And this is nice, isn't it? Isn't it beautiful? Just you keep repeating until it gets to you. You know, there's a certain preacher, I forget his name, he had a huge, huge, huge, huge church, Pentecostal, up there in Denver, Colorado. They tell me he preached only nine sermons. Preached nine, started nine sermons again, nine sermons again. Just hundreds of times. His church kept filling up, hundreds getting saved, speaking in tongues, everything else.

They finally believed him.

But Brother Brandon said his ministry was such, one time, and you believed or forget it. He said, you show a native of Africa one time, 50 ,000 come in. You show Americans 50 ,000 times and nobody comes in. I just paraphrased the last part for him. He'd appreciated it. We got along real good. In fact, I could tell you some stories about how we talked about things, and he went right along with the wickedness of this world, and believe me, we knew it was wicked.

So, all right, wherefore whosoever shall eat of this bread and drink of this cup unworthily shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord Jesus. Well, that's natural. That's natural. Paul was telling them they were doing it the wrong way, and when they do it the wrong way, of course, that's exactly... what you're going to come up against. And so Paul was just saying that. Let a man examine himself, and let him eat of this bread and drink of that cup. For he that eats and drink unworthy, eateth and drinketh damnation, not deserving of the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep, and some people even die. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. When we're judged, we are chastened of the Lord, trained of the Lord, and we're brought to the shape where we should be, and that we should not be condemned with the world. And now, see, there's the thing right there, it's child training. See, Brother Branagh said, the last one in a child train, child train, before there's a rapture, child train. Everybody goes through child training, grievous though it may be. And if you're not child trained or son trained, whatever you want to call it, born one of God trained, you're illegitimate.

What about these people out there? I'm glory hell to you. You never say a name like glory hell to you. You got all kinds of names. Glory hell to you this, glory hell to you that. Well, I'm not against it, but I'm unhappy for them. But oftentimes you get these places where, you know, no training, no chastening. But you're supposed to be chastened. That means trained. The Greeks had a word for it. Teaching was painful.

Yeah. Look up the original. You're going to find it meant to go through trials and tribulations. Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, tarry one for another, and if any man hunger, let him eat at home, and so on. So it tells you right there, when you come, come in unity, pray for each other, be happy that you understand, be glad, and know that this is a covenant of the Lord, and this is what we do in this service, so let's rise at this time. And the brethren, come forward right away, and you all know how we serve the Lord's table here. There's no problem. We start on there to my left -hand corner, which I guess is the southeast corner. Come around down here to the northeast corner, over here to the northwest. and around.

And there's one who serves the bread and two who serves the wine, making it easier. Let's pray. Merciful God, as these emblems come before us, we sanctify them, Lord, to this service, which is a very deafness, somber, severe, sincere service, representing the shed blood and broken body of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And we commemorate His death in it, knowing that He had to die, but you raised him, and now the full will is fully effective. And this being so, Lord, how we ought to treat this service with respect and sincerity, and we all at this time pray for each other, Lord. Let each one in this church come forward, Father, with their sins under the blood, which certainly can be done by confessing to you and standing here worthy in the... worthiness that you confer upon us lord and the grace that you give us and solemnly partake knowing that you died that we do not have to die you rose that we could rise with you and you are now even helping us by maintaining our position before the father regardless of our own cells because you are our intercessor we appreciate that tonight lord so therefore Our hearts are solemnized, and we thank you for this privilege, which we are so glad to do until we do it over yonder with you. In Jesus Christ's name, solemnize this to us, then, Lord, to the full benefits of Calvary. In Jesus' name, amen.

...despise the shame. Now set down the right hand of majesty on high. And you'll notice also that with this glorification, there came a change in the priesthood from Levi to the tribe of Jacob, and of course, rather Judah. And of course, that brings to pass the full type of King David sitting upon the earthly throne where he was the prophet king. So Jesus now then goes from prophet to king, the great prophet king, which is, and at this particular time, of course, we know that with the descent of God, When the book was taken out of the hand of the Father and the seals were torn off and the book handed back to the Father, the Father left the throne and the Son is on the throne while God is putting all things under the feet of Jesus, which He's doing now by, first of all, bringing the church into subjection because spiritual headship is here. And as the head was raised from the dead, the body must also raise from the dead in order to join the body, which it will because if the head ascended, then the body has to ascend because the body must be where the head is. And we're talking not about a head as though we have a headless, we're a bunch of headless people running around. We're talking about the pyramid, the bride pyramid where it goes up in the rapture and joins with the others. who have been taken up to the throne somewhere, somehow, in the Psalms. It tells how those firstfruits in the time from Abraham and different ones rose when Jesus rose, the graves opened. They ascended on high when Jesus ascended on high. You know, they sing the song of who is this king of glory, and they sing mighty, wonderful hosannas about that. So anyway, he knew he was going to go back there. And supper being ended, the devil having now put in the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him. And Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He was come from God and went to God. Now, I suppose there are different ways of looking at this, and you can look at it two different ways. And knowing the Father had given all things into His hands, that's one thing where God had placed everything in the hands of Jesus for the fulfillment of His plan. On the other hand, the same time God opened the door for Satan to take over. And you have a greater problem here than when the devil came to Jesus after the 40 days of fasting and said, now if you be the Son of God, command these stones to be made bread. If you're the Son of God, jump off the temple here and make a big display so people will know who you are. Or he said, fall down and worship me and I'll give you a shortcut. You can have all the kingdoms. Give you a shortcut. Well, so now... The the door is open again for Satan to come and he entered into Judas and now there's going to be the big betrayal So all things are really in the hands of Jesus he's got to meet Satan the father leaves him in the Garden of Gethsemane and He knows he's going to go back to God He knows what lies ahead him because God has already said I'm going to give you a greater glory than you already had And so he understands this now. So he doesn't only have the knowledge from the pre -incarnation. He's got a knowledge now in him that is past the pre -incarnation where he now goes into glorification. And you know something? We have a pretty good knowledge of that ourselves if we just sit down and think about it. and he said he rise in supper and laid aside his garments and took a towel and girded himself after he poured water in the basin and began to wash his disciples feet and to wipe the towel with his girded and then cometh Simon Peter and Peter said unto him Lord thus do you wash my feet what are you doing and Jesus said what I'm doing you don't know now but you're going to know after a while just let it ride and Peter said you'll never wash my feet and Jesus answered well he said if I don't wash you've got no part with me now how do you like that You see, there's the covenant again. You don't argue with God. You find out what the covenant is. That's the thing. Find out what the, is there a covenant? Is there something in here that is useful to me? Well, let's face it. God is everything to his family. Everything. You can't find anything he's not to his family. This great, powerful one of love and wisdom. And so you come to Him in a right spirit. That's humility. Like a child, you want to learn. There's nothing that God will withhold from you. I used to have a little thing I used to do and I should get back to it. When I used to need healing, I'd take a book by Daddy Blossom and start reading on healing. Just read and read and read and say, that's all I understand now. I got it and I'd get up and I was fine. Yeah, actually. You know, I don't work in that realm of ministry, but that's no excuse not to have healing. You people here don't have to work in any ministry at all except being good wives and good husbands and take care of your family. Give a good testimony, live a decent life. You got it all. Nobody lacks anything, let's face it. So he said, look, he said, I got a covenant here, and you better realize you want to be part of the covenant. And Peter said, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head. Now he's going to wallow in it.

Well, healing is children's bread. Are you going to make it the cake and the beef and the stroganoff and everything else? People go hog wild. What do you want to go hog wild for?

Just take it the way it is. Believe it the way it is. That's Gnosticism. The minute you start trying to improve on the revealed Word of God, that's Gnosticism. Pretty soon you'll hear female voices. Not that you haven't heard them already, but this is going to be worse than ever.

Jesus said to him, he that is washed needs not save to wash, but just wash his feet, but is clean every way. And ye are clean, but not all. Of course, he's speaking of Judas there. Now, he said, you're already clean. That's why you just need to have your feet washed. Don't talk about a bath. Oh, Lord, from the top of my head to the sole of my feet, just go over my whole body. Rinse me down and wash. Oh, shut up. The covenant is from God's side. Are you going to listen to the covenant? Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord. Though your sins are scarlet, they're red, you're in a horrible mist. You can be white as snow. You want to listen to me? I got something for you. Everybody thinks God wants to take something from them. You know the word in the Bible, the dedication? It means to come with empty hands, wide open to get something. Everybody thinks dedication. Here I am, God, take it. Here I am, God, take it. God says, shut up and sit down. Open your paws. What do you got? Nothing. Well, they're going to give you something.

Huh? Women say, oh, I'm dedicated to God. Hell, you're called to preach. Hogwash. Dedicated to God? My foot. Dedication is only one term. Word, word, word. Huh? Yeah.

I could say some things here for Bill Gates, but he wouldn't listen. That's why I would waste my time anyway. Yeah, I say, I'm going to get me under the hose, Lord. Wash me all down. No, you're born again. The mediator's there. Confess your sins. You forgive your sins. He'll help you. He knew it would betray him. Therefore, he said, you're not all clean. So after he had washed their feet and taken his garments and sat down again, he said, no, you're not what I've done to you. You call me master and Lord. And you say, well, for I am your master and Lord. I'm not denying it. He said, you know that and I know it. I have the authority to prove it. If I then your master and Lord have washed your feet, you also wash one another's feet. Then what is this a picture of? It's a picture of people. No, we're all sinning. Like Brother Brant said, backslide a thousand times a day. Sin a thousand times a day. Yeah. None of us is not a mess. Our thoughts speak louder in heaven than our words. Oh, hallelujah, Jesus. Let me go and see that. Oh, I'd like to stick that guy next to me. You don't have to say it. That speaks louder in heaven. Your hallelujah glory to God does. So Jesus is saying here, look, foot washing is a sign amongst the brethren and the sisters here because the widows had to wash feet. Women wash feet. Men wash feet. absolutely it's it's what you should do it's the sign look I'm sitting here as a sinner redeemed by grace entirely fallible I'm tested I do wrong I do sin I confess it I am I'm no perfect person here no better than you I'm like you you're like me I wash your feet you wash my feet we pray for each other because we sure need it and that's what you're doing that's what you're doing what do you think Jesus is doing is meat as intercessor to keep in And just a little bit here. Brother Branham called us Messiahs. You could call us right now little intercessorets because that's what it's all about. Looking at you, say, well, if you have hurt my feelings, thank you. It's all right. I forgive you. And I hope if I've hurt yours, you forgive me. It's a matter of just washing it out. You know, you just wash them right from between your toes, all that malice and grub, the dust of malice. Bishop Pillai taught us what it was. When Jesus said, shake the dust off your feet, people thought, well, shake the dust off. It had nothing to do with that. It means the dust of malice. Get rid of your hatreds, your angers, as you walk the road with people. You know, and people do walk together. The Bible tells you to walk together. It said if one person walks alone, he falls down, he can't get up without help. So you better two people walk together, you got somebody to help you up. Like two people sleep in a bed, one's cold, the other can warm you up. Or you stay there by yourself and you just freeze. Unless you pile on the blankets or something. Bible's full of little homely things that just make you perk your ears up and realize that these are simple things, everyday things going on here. Now, as I've given you an example that you should do as I've done to you. He said, look, every one of you made a mess. He said, Peter, you should mess up right now. He said, he tells him, he said, look, he said, they are accusing me. And he said, they're after me to get me. And he said, I haven't done any wrong. What about you boys? When they go after you, remember, you have done plenty wrong.

See, so that's, you've got a little picture here, what we're looking at. So he said, I've given you an example. He said, servant is not greater than his Lord, neither is he that sent him greater than he that sent him. So he said, if Jesus did it, I'm doing it. You better do it too. Foot washing is a legitimate commandment, absolutely, of God. Foot washing. I speak not of you all. I know whom I have chosen, that the scripture may be fulfilled. He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. See, now I tell you, before it come to pass, when it come to pass, ye believe that I am he. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that receiveth whomsoever I send receives me. Did Jesus send Brother Branham? Did God send him then to receive brother Branham was to receive actually received Jesus Christ to receive him to receive God? Because he says right here I said he that receiveth whomsoever I send received me and he that receiveth me receives him that sent me So therefore and brother Branham came on the scene absolutely proven sent by God and they turned him down They turned down Jesus crucified himself the Son of God afresh Yeah, and they turned down God. Well you see but God didn't sin but they beat him or he did come to us Ha! That's a proof that God did send him. He even sent a bunch of cutthroats, denominational people. I made a note here, 14 and 12. Verily we are sent to you. He that believeth on me, the works that I do, shall he do also. And greater works than these shall he do, because I go to my Father. So that's foot washing. Foot washing. Cheer up. Forgive everybody. They'll forgive you. Take it in your heart to say, this is the time that I wash it all away. Get rid of it. The dust of malice is washed off through the Word of God because I've applied the Word of God to my life. I'm washing feet, and I'm doing this, and I'm taking the emblems the same way because it's commanded me to do so. I do it with all the malice gone, all the anger's gone, anything I've got against anybody. Just let it go. Forget it.

You aren't going to remember it anyway when you get to heaven, so it ain't much use hanging on to it because you can't take it with you. So tonight's the time to do it. Let's rise this time. The brethren, come forward.

Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this privilege of partaking of these emblems and washing each other's feet, knowing, Lord, this represents your great sacrifice. And yet, at the same time, it represents the fact that you absolutely pleased God, your Father, and you gave him perfect satisfaction. So there is no other sacrifice. There is no other way. This is it. And we confirm it, knowing that even doing so now, we shall meet with you and partake again on the other side. And we appreciate that. And also foot washing, we know it's time to get rid of all little petty things and any angers or resentments and any things, Lord, that we may have as we walk this life, especially the dust of malice, because we know that that is absolutely a horrendous thing. be content within ourselves with you and with our brethren and our sisters and walk in the light and give each other preference and stand there helping and blessing as we ought to because Lord you also gave us that example and even warned us when people curse we are to return by blessing How much more then should it be fulfilled as the prophet himself said, you who love this message, this word, how you ought to love each other, and we do, and we know that we do because our love shed abroad in our hearts from you reaches to each other and brings that circle closer and closer together, and we find this lovely unity of the Spirit as we have here tonight, and we rejoice with joy unspeakable knowing how as this... Little commemoration service carries on, Father, and is completed. It is well with our souls. We thank you for this. Help each one, Lord, to go through in faith, under the blood, full of the Holy Ghost. In Jesus' name we pray. To them who are thee called according to his purpose. And the Bible tells us we love him because he first loved us. And it was through love that he predestinated us. And Brother Brandon spoke on that very richly one time just before he passed away, how that even a parent, would do every single thing to make everything propitious to the child that was coming forth. He said, how much then would God do even that much more? For whom he did foreknow, he did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn of many brethren. In other words, the only begotten, uniquely born, and it said brethren, so therefore he was a man. And Brother Branham identified we came the same way as Jesus, except we did not bypass that body in that interim period. So the complete identification, Brother Brandon preached identification, is do you know your seed? Do you know your child of God? Do you know Jesus, your elder brother? Do you understand where you came from? Do you understand where you're going? Do you know your purpose in Almighty God? Do you see these things? And that's what I've been preaching on tonight. More of whom He did predestinate, He also called. And whom He called to justify, and whom He justified, He also glorified. In other words, there's no such thing as you being born again without the essential experiences that God gives you. which is repentance, justification, sanctification, and the filling with the Holy Ghost. Otherwise, if you look at predestination, you say, oh, well, who's going to get saved is going to get saved. You become a hard -shelled Baptist. And the hard -shelled Baptist never says that he's born again. He says, I have a hope. What's your hope? Well, the Word says so. Well, what have you done about the Word when it says so? It must be born again. Brother Brown said, apply the token. He said, it's fine to talk about it, but he said, do it. That's where the hard shells are. They don't do it. So you look here and you're going to find that whom God foreknew and he elected and absolutely brought into, is bringing to predestination, which is the very image of Christ in glorification, absolutely you've got a part to play. And what is that? Repent and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's it. So there, when you talk about being born again, the means is there. It's all laid out. It's like Jesus said, when the fish and the bread was upon the fire, come and dine. What do you mean? Are you hungry? Come and dine. Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord. Come on, I've got to wait for it. Do you want water? I've got it. Do you want meat? I've got it. What do you want? Well, you can only want, if you're my child, what I want you to want. Why? Well, if you're part of him,

a cat's not going to want what a dog wants. A dog's not going to want what a cat wants.

Do you understand what Abel wanted, what Cain wanted? What's the difference? Seed. But they both had to go. So there's a way you've got to go. You've got to answer to it. What shall we say then to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things? Now that answers the question.

Is healing in the atonement? Sure. On what grounds? Well, if he gave his son, he gave everything else. What did he give his son up to? Death, right? There's your healing. You know, people make a big issue of everything. They got to yap, yap, yap, and crisscross, and fight, and fuss, like a bunch of stupid Philadelphia lawyers, like a bunch of Clintonites. They robbed the White House and everything else. Notice how he's sticking around? Just because you got born again, don't think the devil's going to see out of the picture. Just because you've got a new president, don't think for one thing Clinton's not going to stay around. Hillary's going to try for 204 to be the next, you know, whodunit.

I don't know. I said that Gore was going to be president. He really was. The only reason he lost is because, you know, I think there are some shenanigans there, but it doesn't bother me any. But when I was thinking all the time of Gore slaughtering the innocents, like the Democrats want, Mrs. Boxer in Ireland and all the rest of them want, I forgot that the church had to get with the state and run the money racket.

Bush is doing it for me. So I'm voting for Bush. Well,

the Lord's good, isn't he? I wasn't really trying to make issue with these things because I missed the boat on that one. But I'll tell you one thing. Bush isn't going to change the picture on abortion. This little clip about financing abortions overseas, what does that got to do with it? Yeah, that ain't nothing. That ain't nothing. Look at America. Watch America. Never mind Europe. Watch America. They build the image to the Catholic Church, the beast, and we're going to have a pope out of here. You bet your life we're going to have that. Now, who shall end in the charge of God's elect? In other words, who condemns me to death? God says I'm righteous. See? Now, who is he that condemns me? It is Christ that died, yea, rather risen again, who is in the right hand of God, who will also make an intercession for us. Now, that's exactly what has happened in the birth,

death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. You make no disagreement with it. Now, here's what Paul says based on that. After the same manner, he said, And when he had given thanks, he broke the bread. And he said, Take ye this as my body, which has broken you, this do in remembrance of me. And after the same manner also he took the cup when he had stopped, saying, This is the cup of the New Testament in my blood, this do ye also, as often in remembrance of me. For as often ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do so for the Lord's death will he come. Now, joining Romans 8 with 1 Corinthians 11. you can see positively that the Lord's Supper can only be taken legitimately by the bride. Now, it's not illegitimate that the food is virgin taken on the grounds of death and resurrection in Jesus Christ.

But that is the second picture, which does not come near the first picture, which is the bride, which is 100 % predestinated. to the place where God wants that bride, and Paul is dealing with the bride because he deals with the bride. This is what it's all about. Those elect ones that are positively predestinated to the church, the true church, the bride of the Lord Jesus Christ. And therefore, my point is this. When the bread is broken and the wine is drunk, you go back and see that this was for the foreknown, the elect their predestinated bride and they must do this in order to recognize this is their ransom that's their ransom that was paid and their ceiling to the life coming back on them whereby it is completely fulfilled that they will absolutely be raised and glorified with Christ that where He is, they will be also, and also according, as this must not be taken in vain, it must be recognized that there is a life wherein there are obligations to serve God in the way and the manner in which He wishes to be served, and He's made it very obvious to us, so that when you come up in the resurrection, as Paul very beautifully brought out. And he said, there's one fish of flesh, there's one of birds, there's one of this, and there's one of man. And then he said, there's also in the heavenlies. Now remember, the animals and the body came out of the soil, and Abraham was to have two types, one of which innumerable as the sand on the seashore innumerable, and one as the stars in the heaven. So, therefore, you're talking of the flesh of beasts and animals, this and that. And he's talking now in terms of resurrection. And death is not going to overcome us. We're going to come back. And then he goes to the stars, the sun, and the moon. And he said there's one glory of stars, there's one of the moon, there's one of the sun. And he said so also is the resurrection from the dead. You go down like animals and you go back to the soil. You come up, and when you do, your body is glorified, and you're not like the sand of the seashore. That's more or less like I would say foolish virgin coming in at the second resurrection. But he said now there's the glory of the stars, the sun, and the moon. And he said one glory differs from another. And there's where I understand in my own thinking that in the resurrection, we are placed accordingly and according to how we fulfill the work of God. by the Word of God through the help of the Holy Spirit to do what he wanted us to do and ordained us to it. Wherein the scripture distinctly says that you can lose your crown and Paul mentioned there's a crown laid up for him and he wanted no one to take his place. Not that our place can be actually taken as though you know but you could call a position I would say could be lost. For the Bible teaches very directly that there is the necessity to walk in that light and to strive earnestly because only one person, Paul says, win the race. And so strive that you may win. And Brother Branagh said, if only one person was going to make the bride, the rapture, in your part of the town, and there was a hundred people, for all I know, sitting there, and they said the same thing, you have to believe for yourself, if there's one, I'm going to be that one. So therefore, the Lord's Supper, is a way of bringing to our remembrance the elect children of God, how they gain all of this from God, and where they end up, where they are glorified as Jesus Christ, and they are actually then positioned according to what we see in Scripture, that there is that area in there, where we positively can gain or lose certain things. Like as I said, Jesus was the first begotten Son of God. And let's face it, the first son inherits actually the half of the father's valuable possessions, but he's not the father. Now, what if Jesus had a forfeited? Look what Adam had. Look what he forfeited. Look what Satan had. Look what he forfeited. So I'm saying there is such a thing as you and me actually not gaining, and there's parable after parable concerning this. There is, without a doubt, in the Bible, a place in there where you and I believe that God will reward us. In other words, sowing is reaping. And we will not only sow and reap in this life, the Bible warns us about that, the good things, the right thing, but also in the life which is to come. So let's view the Lord's Supper in the broadest sense possible, that taking these emblems that signify so much actually covers the whole gamut. And that's why Brother Branham said, you examine yourselves, and that's why he agreed with the ancient fathers that only those full of the Holy Spirit were entitled to it. Well, that's elect, and those entitled to this are those that believe the Word. The word says, take heed, this is my body, and we understand this much. So I'm just trying to lead us a little deeper every time we talk about these things, into a deeper understanding, into a greater appreciation, and knowing that there's so much more back of what this little commandment of God gives forth. So it's not something that you and I can just say, well, I can or cannot, or I can do it lightly, or it doesn't matter. Or I can think of this. No, you can't do that. This is very specific. So if you talk about his body, you better know what you're talking about. When you talk about that blood, you better know what you're talking about. Why am I doing this? Because it's the blood of the covenant. I heard a man the other day talking about that, and I said, hey, that guy's onto something. He's the first guy I heard talk about that. Everybody's talking about the blood, the blood, the blood, the blood, the blood. What are you talking about? It's the blood of the covenant. God interposing himself in his son. Jesus dying upon Calvary. You're talking about blood that frees you from any condemnation whatsoever. It fulfills the law completely. It puts you right in the presence of God. Glorified. Glorifying him and him glorifying you. So that's what I'm talking about tonight. This is bigger and deeper than people want to realize. You just simply... Don't pass this off. Well, this is something to remember. Let's stand at this time, and then the brethren come forward. Let's

pray over these. Heavenly Father, as we partake tonight, may it be with a complete understanding, even if it is just with awe, knowing what these emblems stand for, not able to fully comprehend what we have apprehended as truth tonight, knowing the reality, but believing, Lord, by your Spirit, We can not only apprehend but truly comprehend right down to the depth of our souls until it comes back with a life that is manifestly a life, Lord, that you have within us and that we are showing for. Help us, Lord, to get down to the basic reality of life, that is to your word, dedicating ourselves to it, thereby knowing. that our sowing is complete in you, and your word will not return unto you void, and it will not return unto us void either, because there's a reaping here. May your children tonight, Lord, realize they're free from sin. Forgive us for anything, Lord, that would stand in our way tonight, Father. Whatever it may be, we pray that it shall be taken from us. Help us to have any roots of envy or bitterness or any thought of... of iniquity within us, Lord, or any way we might try to vindicate ourselves, or any way, Lord, that we might be negative or be influential in the wrong way, Father. In other words, Father, we want to know that we are how you want us to be, and we are doing that, Lord, you want us to do, because we know that our standing before you is perfect, Lord. But we should bring our state up, and by your help, Lord, we are bringing our state up to where it is in the light of this hour. Even as Brother Branham was so careful, Lord, so minutely careful, knowing that he'd soon depart this life, that there wasn't anything that he wasn't ready to make right and to do, no matter what it cost him. And telling us the same thing, Lord, help us to do that. We pray so there'll be no hypocrisy among us. There'll be no looking the other direction. There'll be no blinding our eyes. There'll be nothing, Lord, that is incorrect of us. We pray, Father, that because we have the life and the word, that we may be those living epistles read and known of all men. And help us, Lord, tonight as we take these emblems, that we will not do it in any way, but in our hearts, the way you want us to be and our lives are right. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray, amen. in terms of the,

well, the relationship of the, we might read that starting at verse 7, after foot washing, Jesus answered, what I do is thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter. And Peter said, thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, if I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. Of course, you know, there's one thing about it. Peter was really right there about the hands and the head because they sure go together, you know, but you might as well. See, the feet were already in the water, so he didn't have to mention them. But by the time you get your head and your hands and your feet right, you know, you're doing fine. You're really doing fine. You'll be right up there the way the Lord wants you. And Jesus said, he that is washed needeth not save, but to wash his feet is clean everywhere. But now you're clean, but not all. So, all right, there's a once for all cleansing where God's forgiven you, completely justified you. And from that time, seeing you through the blood, scatter sin to there be no evidence. And all you have to do is to come to the Lord when you sin and ask for forgiveness. He forgives you. But remember, what you sowed, you reap. It's the only thing that you don't. Sow and reap for because it already was sown in you as death That's been taken care of But you have to walk a certain way so Peter said my feet my hands in my head and believe me if they were really under The power of God what a great thing that would be For he knew who should betray him therefore he said you're not all clean But after he had washed their feet and taken their garments and was set down again. He said Know ye what I have done to you? You call me Master and Lord, and you say, well, because I am. Why was that? Because he is the head of the church. If I then, your Lord and Master, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. In other words, all you have to do is look at the life of Jesus and start doing the same thing, but don't get involved with the ministry. You can't have a ministry, but you can see how he treated people, how he spoke, how he carried himself. But don't try to think you can replicate the ministry. We're talking about life. Ministries are gifts.

When you're born, you just don't have things that you're born with when it comes to the Spirit of God, the kingdom of God. The only thing you have is that seed in you. Then you've got to be born again. And if God wants to give you gifts, that's great. Everybody, Brother Bann said, doesn't pray for the sick. Everybody doesn't seek with tongues. Everybody doesn't prophesy. But everybody can be a witness. EVERYBODY CAN TELL THE TRUTH, EVERYBODY CAN DO ALL THE THINGS THAT JESUS SET FORTH ON HIS EXAMPLE, WHICH IS A LIFE. AS BROTHER BRAN HAS SAID, IT'S JUST A NATURAL LIVING IN THE SPIRIT, WHICH IT IS. NOW, IF I HAVE GIVEN YOU AN EXAMPLE, YOU SHOULD DO WHAT I HAVE DONE TO YOU. VERILY I HAVE SAID TO YOU, THE SERVANT IS NOT GREATER THAN HIS LORD, NEITHER IS HE THAT SENT GREATER THAN HE THAT SENT HIM. NOW, THAT'S A LESSON IN HUMILITY RIGHT THERE.

YOU KNOW, Paul the apostle was very careful. When they pushed him, and they pushed him very hard, he said, I could boast, he said. But he said, I'm not going to boast like you guys. He said, I'm going to boast in the Lord. And he began to tell how God took him through as he laid aside his life and got out of the way. And he wasn't hesitant to say, well, there's apostles out there. I want to tell you something. I'm vindicated. And I know Peter and James and John, they're all right. They're the Jews. I am to the Gentiles. And he stood right up. Now, people might think that's arrogant. That's not arrogance. That's humility because you're saying what God said and doing what God wants you to do. Anything else is cowardice or pride of some descriptions. So proud we can't acquiesce to God. Something wrong somewhere, wouldn't you say?

Now he said these people you must remember Don't try to outdo me You remember one of my favorite sayings that people try to out God God out Jesus Jesus out word the word This is where it comes from Don't don't try to outdo me Don't do it, and that's where the Gnostics came in They tried to get ahead of him who is the word the one whom Paul was declaring So they tried to get ahead and outshine him. They tried to be somebody. Now, he said, if you know these things, happy are you to do them. Now, that's very little he said there. I speak not of you all. I know whom I have chosen, but that the scripture may be fulfilled. He that eateth bread with me hath lift up his heel against me. Now, this is something here that is very interesting. He said, I've chosen this one. Well now if you go back in Scripture That's easy to understand there never would have been Moses without Pharaoh Anymore than there would have been able without Cain There never would have been the tree of life without the tree of death It never would have been God coming down the garden except Satan came down Always the two seeds always the two spirits always the antagonist and the protagonist. There's always one for God, and there's always one against God. There's the same in reverse, one against the devil, one for God. It's there. You can't get away from it. It's just there, period. And he that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. Now, hey, just a minute. If there wouldn't have been a Moses without a Paul, There wouldn't be a Jesus or a Judas. And if there weren't a Judas, how in the world could God have been glorified any more than if there weren't a Pharaoh? God couldn't have been glorified in the time of Moses. And if Cain hadn't been there to kill Abel, how could the blood of Abel speak better things?

You know, speaking life, the fact that he shared his life. So, here's a lesson right here that, and I've learned it to a good degree. I never learned it before. To really see God in the things that really can bug you and really make it tough on you.

That you can realize that God is in it. And God had to be in it because the betrayal of Jesus was absolutely foretold hundreds of years before it took place. That's part of the way that he fulfilled the word of God was just suffering. And that's in the scripture, you know. You know, Joseph had to wait his time until the word of God came to him. We have to bide our time in the judgment many times the word of God comes to us Liberating us I've learned that and I'm happy I I didn't learn it quick enough, and I still I'm still barely But I've learned and I thank God for many things that just drove me bugs got me angry and But now you see that's so stupid because I could have learned this We don't have to learn by experience What we should do is experience the word of God to learn the word of God is correct by experience is the dumbest thing in the world and if the baptism with the Holy Ghost makes us commensurate as Though we had our body that would have come from our portion of God eternal and in eternal Commensurate yet boggles your mind doesn't it say hey where have I been the last? Well, 80 years out of 86, put it that way. At least 70, because I got saved when I was about 16 years old. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? You say, when are we going to learn? Well, now's a good time to start. Got something in mind? Check the Word of God. Something bug you? Check the Word of God. Why would you do that? Because nothing has fallen on you, but it's common to everybody. See how somebody acted. See what God says about it. So he's telling you here. that this foot washing is a time when you realize that

fulfilling the scripture because it says here but the scripture might be fulfilled he the bread with me and lift up his heel against me and let's face it who is it the disappoints is most that people were around all the time well I want to say this anyway and I get it off my chest because it's a compliment I should always compliment people but all my life I have been amongst people since I was 16 years old heads have blew the trumpet pop the top time a Christian doctor thought I look at me boy today I see the finest to define and I have never been around people that I appreciate and love and believe are genuine people it's all I'm so happy to know where this my ears are just about putting me down the drain I'm all but gone It's so nice to know people that are genuine Christians I Believe it's all my heart. I know that and at the same time I also know that where as God was in Jesus the devil was in Judas and At the end time where the light shines in darkness you'll find some of the most unmitigated atrocious people I just Mean I won't tell you it is just absolutely too disgusting what I could tell you what suddenly came to my mind the other day About a preacher. I knew his name at one time, but thank God I've forgotten it, and I don't know where he is But if I were to tell you what he said and what he did Well, I wouldn't want you to go home tonight and throw up, but I'm not I'm not kidding I'm not lying it you can't believe the utter darkness of a man's soul stand

there represent God as a pastor. Well, there are false pastors. There are false prophets. There are false teachers. Ooh, lots of false teachers everywhere. And there's false evangelists. Oh, yes, there are. A few false prophets thrown in the bargain. They're out there. But here is the time at foot washing you have to recognize the one lump. You have to recognize that there are people that they just aren't with it. And God's not with them. It's a rough time. But you wash each other's feet in love.

Everybody leveled. Jesus leveled himself. We shouldn't have hard to level ourselves. And we shouldn't want to take authority over anybody.

I never did believe that the millennium is a place where people rule over anybody. As Brother Branham said, I know I said it one time myself, who wants to rule over anybody? Man, if I can rule over my own spirit, I'm better than he that takes a dozen cities. For how many there are so the Lord bless you may we take the communion and the foot washing in the spirit in which God gave it which was Condescension the great one with a great gift in condescension of grace and we recipients of that grace To share the same grace with others so shall we just rise at this time The brethren come forward fight

this bow our heads in prayer Heavenly Father As we partake of these emblems, we know it must be with sincerity and respect, Lord, and with the understanding of your word, that there are no great ones amongst us, but him who is here, even you, Lord God, in the form of the Holy Spirit, having come down here and now in your church and heading it, bringing all things under the feet of Jesus. May we realize that, Lord, that this foot -washing service is actually placed in such a way that your Son himself could be here, and we're only too glad to have our feet washed and to wash each other's feet and to partake as partners with him. And whatever is your plan for us, Lord, may we not miss it, but may we with great joy participate in all that which... Not only comes to us, but sometimes we feel befalls us in humility and the grace given us and love each other in Jesus name we pray man You

think this person made a mistake Luke I don't think so He was a companion of Paul. He sure was a good scribe a man of God That's the Paul said he was a man Christ Jesus a man of God among you by prove to God among you by miracles and signs and wonders which God did by him in the midst of you as you yourself well know him being delivered now watch by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God notice that counsel foreknowledge predestination that's what I told you tonight you have taken in by wicked hands of crucified and slain whom God hath raised up having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible that he should be holden of it for David speaketh concerning myself foresaw the Lord always before my face for he is on my right hand that I should not be moved therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad more am I also my flesh shall rest in hope

BECAUSE THOU SHALT NOT LEAVE MY SOUL IN HELL, NEITHER WILL THY SUFFER THINE HOLY ONE TO SEE CORRUPTION. THOU HAST KNOWN ME, KNOWN TO ME THE WAYS OF LIFE. THOU SHALT MAKE ME FULL OF JOY WITH THY COUNTENANCE. OH, WHAT ABOUT TODAY THEN? SEEING HIM FACE TO FACE. MEN AND BRETHREN, LET ME FREELY SPEAK UNTO YOU OF THE PATRIARCH DAGED, THAT HE IS BOTH DEAD AND BURIED, AND HE SEPARATES WITH US UNTO THIS DAY, THEREFORE BEING A PROPHET, AND KNOWING THAT GOD HAS SWORN WITH AN OATH, AND WHAT'S THAT? AN OATH HIM. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS IN THE HEBREW? He interposed himself. God came down and told him. God came down and told him. He interposed himself. Same as with Abraham. That of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh he would raise up Christ to sit in his throne. He seeing this before spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that Christ's soul was not left in hell, neither did Christ's flesh see corruption. This Jesus hath God raised up over all witnesses, therefore being by the right hand of God exalted. and have received the promise of the Holy Ghost, you shed forth this which you now see and hear. For David himself was not ascended to heaven, but he said concerning the Lord, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand until I make thy footstool. Therefore let all the house of Israel know surely that God hath made this same Jesus, whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ. I just want to say this about the Lord's Supper. You remember his death till he comes, the shedding of the blood. Do you realize that No death, no resurrection. No death, no resurrection, no preeminence. No death, no resurrection, no word of God bound to come to pass. No death, took the blood to do it, he had to die, had not a happy resurrection, and now at the right hand of the majesty on high, he is a testator, rather the executor of his own testament. He had to die to put it into effect. But God worked in and through him to such an extent in as such a way with such perfection That God himself was perfectly satisfied. This is what people called the theologian the satisfaction of God as it says in Isaiah 53 and when he sees the travail of his soul he shall be satisfied God was satisfied now what was in God to demand that satisfaction See, that's where you and I have to understand Paul told us about it. He said, "...the cross to the Greek is foolishness, and to the Jews a stumbling block. But unto us who believe, it is the power of God unto salvation." Telling you, see? So, he had to die.

Determined accounts of foreign law, predestinated. Now, just a minute. Brother Branagh said, if God gave a command, he had to make a way for it.

God had this. He made a way for it. That's why Jesus, I am the way, the truth, and life. No man comes unto the Father but by me. And you can't come to him now if he weren't ascended. And he couldn't be ascended if he didn't die.

So, as you take the Lord's Supper night and realize the body was broken, the blood shed,

that this was the gateway to heaven.

That the river of life is a river of blood. The life was in the blood. And the way of sorrow became a way of joy for you and me. So we thank God tonight from all the bottom of our hearts that God did this for us.

And the Son acted in the capacity that God desired.

He came and fulfilled the will of God, a will that you and I could not fulfill But we became heir to and recipients because of that grace. And remember, God so loved the world. That's the true mankind. The true sons and daughters that he gave, the only begotten son. And when God gives, as the Bible said, every good and perfect gift is from above. Jesus said, I'm from above, you are from below. Right? It's a good and perfect gift of God came. And now that same life is ours.

to confirms back to God live the life here and come up in the resurrection and you know what infallibly proven the brother Branham was an end -time prophet to the Gentiles and his message was the presence of God and the one who came down with the show putting the church in order he couldn't tell us a lie if you tried to that's the strangest thing about a profit but read about old Balaam he wanted to but he could do it and you know poor old Isaac wanted him but he could do it I'm glad that God has taken such great measure and he can't help it because he's bound by his own word now I feel like shouting you see now I don't want you people and the rest of Pentecostal out there but this is about the time I could start tearing around the building what good would it do I think it's better to have the Lord suffering and appreciate what he did for us, because that's a thing of the past, but the effects are all future from this time on. So, all right, let's come forward, the brethren come forward, and everybody come right along, as we usually do, and do tonight.

Brother John will have my sermon notes for tomorrow morning and continue on. I'm sorry, John, I just read them all.

All right, Heavenly Fathers, we stand. in this sacred solemn part of the service as we said honoring your blessed son Jesus Christ who is certainly glorified and approved in your total satisfaction for what he did you enabling him by his birth and positioning to do it and he did it and now here we are a complete community of the father and the son and all the children Brothers and sisters who are the children of God. And Jesus is not ashamed of us because we're all the one source. And that's wonderful. There's no pride in him. There's no rejection in him. It's just your love because he was your love gift and proved it. And now with your love here tonight, Lord, we project to the future that this, what we are partaking of, the reality that lies behind it is taking us all the way. Into the resurrection no more sin no more doubts nothing a glorified bodies coming up and very soon in short order Because we know the time is short you said it was and it is we give you glory tonight in Jesus name Amen With

him in the kingdom which is at hand for time and eternity is blended Now you can come with that assurance because that's exactly the truth. I know nothing else that I can tell you that would do it any greater. So let's ask God to bless them. Heavenly Father, in this last minute here as we partake the emblems and go into foot washing, we realize, Lord, that this testifies in a way that is so simple, so beautiful, if we just leave it as it is, that this is the truth. This represents the broken body. the shed blood, the life come back upon us, and we will, we will eat it anew in your kingdom, not because of anything within ourselves as to the flesh we have thought, but according to the truth as it is, has always been and will be in Christ Jesus. And unto thee we give the glory in Jesus' name. Amen.

Something in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. which God wanted to absolutely do for him. God wanted this. And Peter, of course, not recognizing his great worth and merit before God, was turning down Jesus, literally ministering to him. And so Jesus said, look, Peter, if you don't let me do this, I can tell you one thing. You do not have any part with me.

So if I don't wash you, you're the loser. Well, Peter was a man who could understand plain talk, but he went a little bit overboard again. Well, he said, Lord, if that's the case, not my feet but my hands, and give me a full bath is the word. He said, look, Peter, you're still not getting the point. He that is washed need not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit, and ye are clean but not all. So he's talking here about... predestination to two seeds there's one seed that needs one certain thing done for him and there's one seed that no matter what you do it it'll never do it because already Peter was the child of God a seed of God and because it was a seed of God that's why he received the Holy Spirit and through the ministry that God wanted for him he placed him as an apostle and the one who opened the door to the Jews and to the Gentiles. And his whole life was controlled by God in a very wonderful way. Now, so then he tells them, you should do this for each other. It's an act of recognition.

Number one, the recognition is that he is greatest of all, a servant of all. The one that knows who he is and takes the place of loyalty.

servitude and friendship and worship to God and moves in the circles of the just and the blessed and is anxious to be helpful and considerate. As Brother Branagh said, you only serve God by serving the brethren and other people and love God by showing love to people. So these people, they know who they are and they walk in that particular aura or that spirit that God has put upon them. Now, at the same time over here, you see that the Lord's Supper is instituted and Judas is right there with them. Now, you will notice that during the ages, right at this present hour, Christians en masse will take the Lord's Supper. But I ask you a question, how many wash feet? You never hear of it. Hardly anybody. And yet the theologians admit if communion is a must, foot washing is a must. But they don't do it. So what I'm pointing out here is that communion is something that the Christian world is going to abide by. The Catholic world says it's a literal blood and body of Jesus through the prayer of the priest. They call it transubstantiation or making whatever is there. change to another form, transmuting it. It doesn't work that way, of course, but Protestants and Catholics are working on a system whereby they can get together, and they will get together, if not by communication and cooperation, by force. And believe me, when you get hungry and you're, as they say, your belly's rubbing your backbone, well, it's not a bad idea to think the body the bread will be turned into the bread the blood and rather the body of the Lord Jesus Christ won't be too bad a deal and the wine well so what maybe it does get turned into the blood so you know you know hunger can do a lot of things to a person makes them hallucinate finally but the hungers are satisfied by the world which soon will be satisfied by the world of the devil will be as when a man sleeps he's gone to bed hungry and starving and during the night he dreams that he's eating and having a luscious banquet. He wakes up next morning in worse shape than ever. The man, the Bible says so, the man that went to sleep thinking he was drinking water, he's so thirsty, dying of thirst, he wakes up in worse shape than ever. So the world's doing that, but we're not in that position. We're not. We have a part with Jesus. The Bible says when he... When he washed the feet, he said, you've got no part with me unless you do this. And Peter did have a part, so Peter realized. Then it said he went overboard, then he got back to proper balance again, which, as Brother Branham said, the word corrects the word. So tonight, we wash feet, and we do it because the Lord told us to. There's a service involved there. And we take the elements, the broken bread and the wine, because we're told to do so. And if you do it according to Scripture, You do it not only because you honor his death, but you also honor his resurrection because, and your resurrection, because if there's no resurrection, how in the world can he and us take communion together? See, you'd be doing a very empty and foolish thing to ever take the emblems without realizing that We're going to do this over yonder. That's what he promised. All the talk about the wedding supper is great. I have no problem with it. All the pictures they paint, I have no problem with. That's fine. They can do what they want about it. But my problem is this. Why is it that the taking of communion is not celebrating the future historic event as well as the past historic event? In the past historic event, is the death of Jesus Christ, but the future is our resurrection and partaking it with him in the millennium. So that's what we're looking at tonight, perhaps as never before, and hopefully it begins to seep into our consciousness and into our daily living and everything about us until we are more spiritually mature and actually also more spiritually satisfied with the grace and goodness of God. how he is taking us and how we know that he is yet to take us because salvation is of the Lord and believe me no man is going to get out of the grave by his own bootstraps and no man even out of the grave is going to make the rapture unless God does it all so it is something that we should look at tonight in the light of the divine grace of the Lord and and put a lot of spiritual energy and faith into it because This is what counts. It is not what people say or what people think. It is what has been written, as thus saith the Lord, and vindicated. So the Lord bless you. Let's rise at this time. Brethren, come forward.

Now, you know how we come. We all go around the back to the wall to your right as you face me. And then through here, there's one serving bread but two serving the wine because it's much easier. And then come around to the outside of the wall to your left there. so that you don't have any problem. And the women are foot washing out yonder, the men are there and back here. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, as we regard these emblems, Lord, we know that it's not just something that people do, hopefully, as a matter of habit or choice, but it is something we're doing because you told us to do it. And it's not something which we do as others do without a knowledge, but we do have the knowledge that this, without a doubt, represents, is emblematic of the broken body and the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is so necessary for our remission of sin and for our placing of sons to get back, Lord, where you want us to be. And also, Lord, indicates the future that together we are going to be all together in one place, all of us, both Old and New Testament, your entire bride, and partake thereof together. So we know that this is a reality and it is here in a, as you might say, Lord, in the shadow, but approaching rapidly to the reality itself, which we know is just beyond the horizon. And we thank you, Lord, that you can help us to keep this in memory. as we partake, and not only as we partake in the days to come, that we are satisfied we have done Your will in this regard, Lord, and thereby are going down that road, Lord, which leads to greater glory. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.

Paul himself said would be in the universe thinking they do God a favor and also people cannot understand how that the church of Christ the true church does not run to excess in any way shape and form so Paul is telling the people here that that God gave in this revelation after he was knocked down the road to Damascus and received the Holy Spirit went the desert Arabia And there God revealed himself to Paul the Apostle. And he says in verse 23, For I have received the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke and said, Take ye this in my body as you broke and for you this do in remembrance of me. And at the same manner he took this cup when he had stopped, saying, This cup is the new testament of my blood. This do ye as often you drink it in remembrance of me. In other words, it's an absolute command of God, an ordinance in the church that this be followed out. That's the same as water baptism. There's no difference between it and water baptism. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you show the Lord's death till he come. Now, you notice the eating of the bread and drinking of the cup literally is identical to water baptism on the grounds that you know that water signifies death and the rising therefrom signifies the resurrection. And so a person baptized in water is again signifying once and for all. Now this is just a one -time ordinance signifying that you are dead indeed in sins and now you're dead indeed unto sin and arising in new life through Jesus Christ. giving you the new birth, which is a baptism with the Holy Ghost. That's a once and for all. But this is the continuation of the same thing. And that's why Brother Branagh said, if you can be baptized correctly in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, whatever the conditions were, really don't matter, or by whom you were baptized. And many people were a little in wonderment whether they should be rebaptized. But if you've been baptized correctly, no, no, that's it. That's it. It's a once -for -all baptism. But if you have not been correctly baptized, then you must be correctly baptized. That's thus saith the Lord by a vindicated prophet. You'll find that right in the time of the seals. But here is every time you come together or every time this type of gathering is called for this particular reason. And so what you do, here again, you commemorate his death. And instead of rising out of water, commemorating and showing forth you come into the new life and you're now walking in the light as a creature that's been put in the baptized the body of Jesus Christ the drinking of the wine symbolizes the life that was shed coming back upon you so we have this today and anytime you do this you are actually admitting to the fact that you have been truly baptized in water, correctly, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, for repentance and remittance of sin. And now, God obligated has given you the Holy Ghost, and this can be a gentle reminder of every time you do this, yes, I have done this, and I am living in the life that I... that has he has given me as Paul the Apostle said I have been crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life that I now live in the flesh I live by the faith the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me and that's what you're looking at and when you take this the emblems here you simply don't take emblems and not run the complete gamut of scripture that would be foolish because why in the world then would you not God not be satisfied with just simply this ordinance and say now the rest doesn't matter but you see the churches do that they take this that means what i'm talking about the living anew living in the word daily as the bible said being being being filled with the holy ghost piling word upon word coming up watching they say well i've been baptized that takes care of it i've done this That takes care of it. You see, they will let the Word go. The truth of the matter is, if you're not in the Word, this doesn't do you a bit of good.

What do you mean baptized unto? What's it all about? Well, Brother Brandon categorically said, the life comes back upon you. An animal life could not come back upon them. But this life does come back upon them. And what is the emblem of the shed blood? The wine. the life that was shed, not just the erasing of sin, but the life shed, you recognize, has come back upon me. Now, there again, you have to remember what Brother Branham was teaching here in identification. You've got no character to begin with. You're born in sin, shaped in iniquity. And Paul himself said, who delivers me from this body of sin? He said, when I would do good, he was present with me. And Paul even says in Romans, though you're baptized with the Holy Ghost, the body is still dead because of sin. You're still going to die. But what you're doing here is recognizing, number one, the condition you were in. That's been atoned for. You never were, your soul never did need salvation. You know you always were saved. This is now taking care of your body. And if this takes care of your body, Looking forward to the resurrection the life that he's given you will take care of us now so we can walk in the spirit and Keep under our body and walk in light denying Ungodly lusts and those things that war against the flesh we have the life that helps us if we take time to counsel with that life and Ask that life to help us. I'm a little afraid that the majority of us having been brought up in error We're only too happy to ask the Holy Spirit that resides in us to heal our bodies and do this and do that and make it nice and make it nicer and make it better and make it better still. Nuh -uh, that's not it. It's to walk in the light as he's in the light. To come up, to come up to grow in grace in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To put off the old man more and more and to begin to realize face to face with God. The scripture that said if the righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly? Appear so there is the thought that we understand that we must be constantly going to God If we're to take communion it signifies. We're constantly going to God in order to help Receive help from him to sow the word of God and to stand with it until it builds up character and at the same time With the building up of character, it builds up not only God's promises here on earth, but rewards in heaven. But I want to ask you a question. If you and I are to reign and rule with Christ, what manner of people we ought to be? Because the Bible says that though he were a son, yet he learned obedience by the things that he suffered. He lived a life and did things which brought him those crowns. See, what about you and me? So this is a reminder there that we have been saved from sin. and we are now walking in the life that he gave us and examine the word and see where we stand how we line up and when there's a a divergence the blood stands there to forgive us and the life stands within us to help us now that's what you're looking at really and it's just every time we do it we just go back to the day we're baptized today we repented and came forth new same thing here Just realizing what we've just been talking about. So let us rise at this time and the brethren come forward.

Now you all know how to come around the edge there, the side, and then just go on the other side so that no one gets in the, you might say, in the tracks of the other person in the way. So let's ask the Lord to bless this part of the church. Heavenly Father, we commend ourselves to you and ask you to sanctify these emblems, Lord, in such a way. that your Holy Spirit in doing it will instruct our minds and our spirits as never before, the validity of what we are doing and the reason for which we are doing it, and how it is, Lord, that you are here to help us in every turn of our lives so that we might be your images, your reflection, and show forth your character and be the lilies that come out of the muck and the mire, even though, Lord, in our flesh there dwelleth no good things. We know that from that there can come the life that you want. So, Father, may it be impressed upon us as never before. We don't have much time here on earth, not even the young ones. Pretty soon it will all be over. And then how are we going to stand before you when you made it so prosperous for us that we might have all things in Christ. So, Lord, may our thoughts be upon you, our desires be upon you, and everything Christ's word for the glory of God the Father. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.