COM03-COMMUNION 03 1999-08

I thought I'd drop up here this morning and give the announcements, which aren't very many, so I could look you all over again and see who I missed last night. I don't think I really missed anybody, but I just didn't take time to call by name. But I was just thinking today as I came... to church, and I'm a Canadian by birth, an American citizen by choice. They didn't choose me. I don't think they like me, but I chose this country. But, you know, I never did have a great deal of respect for Canada as a nation, but I do have great respect and love for the people up there. I think, actually, that the Canadians have really stood by me over the years, and I appreciate that. I don't know. any one single person that's ever come against me too terribly strong, but if they have, it's a matter of doctrine, which Brother Branham actually pinpointed that two brothers, and you'd have to be real brothers to do this now, he said they could disagree and argue bitterly and then depart in love. And he illustrated the time that he was with a... A Church of Christ brother that really was a formidable opponent and downright hostile and just absolutely bitter against the truth. And after Brother Branham, that was when he said, I'll tell you one thing, Brother Branham, I sure know you've got the Holy Ghost. And that was remarkable. On the other hand, I remember having had an experience. sitting beside a Church of Christ man, and he actually seemed to exude, you might say. That's a pretty good word, or project, but I like the word exude in a way because I want to lay it on thick. And I was terribly, really, really impressed with the man as a Christian that he seemed to have such character and love. And then I found out he's Church of Christ. And you know, Brother Branham said the truth, it's a church without Christ. It's one of the most blasphemous groups of people in all the world. They're the ones who came to Brother Brandon, but they had a big ad in the paper saying, $1 ,000 guaranteed if you can perform a miracle, see God perform a miracle. So there was a great miracle done in that, I forget what place it was, but it was a tremendous miracle done. Everybody knew about it. So Brother Brandon said, I came to collect my $1 ,000. And what did he mean? Well, he said, this miracle, everybody knows about it. Oh, they said, we didn't mean that. He said, we mean that we cut the girl and then you stop it bleeding. And he let them have both barrels. So I appreciate people that stand with the word. And that's what it's all about. Then again, I was thinking, too. about coming to church that the Bible did. And when I got here, I was thinking, you know, the Lord said that except you become a little child, you can't enter the kingdom of God. And I thought, well, now, that's really something, because as you get old like me, you get more childlike. I hope not childish, but childlike. And I was thinking, you know, that's really true. You know, you give a little kid a present, and what the present is, the child appreciates it.

rikki -tikki's you know you can take a spool that once what thread was on and those days they had wood they don't they didn't have that paper and all junk so we could take a razor blade or knife and notch it out and then we put a little knot in and there and wrap a string around you put it on the window give it a rip like a man that the walls are going to come down And we had a box to play in, and we matched box and put some kind of wheel on it. Well, we were happy. You know, you're very happy. Well, I was just thinking, you know, I get that way. Sister Zeman's a lot like Jan. They're both tremendous bread makers. So Sister Zeman comes along and brings me a loaf of bread. Oh, man, that's great. I get very happy when Jan brings bread. I get very happy. And, you know, actually... That's the way, I'm not trying to put anything on myself now, but really the fact of the matter is that the more simplistic we are and the more appreciative we are of each other by what each other is doing in consideration of love, that does something to you. That's what makes the world go round, that's what makes the brighter Christ tick and talk. That's a great thing. So if you see me up here, and I am getting old, I'm not getting senile yet. Sometimes I think I'm getting mental blocks that are a little bit too tricky, but I'm not quite senile yet. I've got a few marbles left. You can hear them rattle every now and then. But I hope that I get more and more simplistic, because Brother Branham said, the more you hear these tapes and the more you get to the end, It is more simplistic. So I hope that we're getting more simplistic. I hope that I'm more simplistic, that my desires and wants are, as Brother Branham said, I always do what I want to do. I always want to do His will. I hope that we get that way. That would be a great thing. And you know, it's something that is possible because he that willeth to do the will of the Lord will know the doctrine. And when you know the doctrine, then you know the schematic. And when you know the schematic and you have what it takes to produce the schematic, the scheme, then you do it. And that's the process of little children. And if you look at life, you're going to come to the conclusion I've come to, and I think almost every philosophy in this world comes to it, that you boil life down. Life itself, day by day, is nothing but a series of habit patterns. That's all it is. What are your habits this morning? You're getting the right habits. That's why you teach your kids. First of all, you check and see which hand they're going to use. Are the Benjamites using the left hand or the right hand? If the child is right -handed, you operate in the realm of the right hand. You don't say, look, put your left hand. You could train the child to be sort of ambidextrous, but even that ambidextrous people are very unusual. You find maybe one in millions. But you know as well as I do that your life is what you make it on the grounds of the habits, the patterns you set up in your life. So the most beautiful thing we could ever do as Christians, hopefully bride, is to set up those habit patterns that we know please God. So that as we go to life, our senses have been exercised under righteousness. We walk in the path of righteousness. If you run a car or a wheel or anything over a certain material, even though that material is very, very rough and hard, you will make some type of a groove. There's a pattern in there. And we don't break old patterns. We simply build new patterns. It came as an amazing thing to me that women with high -heeled slippers can actually make a dent in the metal plates of a ship. How could it be done? The constant walking. And this is what we're looking at, and I want to impress you this morning that follows last night's little talk there, that if we're going to be the citizens of this dual kingdom and shine forth as the kingdom of God, we have to get those habit patterns in there that... glorify the kingdom of God, and certainly give a blow of disgust and rebuke to the world. And anyway, now we think of the next service. We get together again. We'll be 4th and 5th, I guess, of September. Anyway, it's Labor Day. And so we trust we'll be seeing you there. And I trust you had a good night's rest so that as we talk about the Word today, our minds will be... Fresh and able to grasp, again, what Brother Branham is teaching. And we're all right back again, as always, 80 to 90 % of his messages, vindication, the presence of God. And if you understand that, I say you're in the major groove and pattern of what God wants from you. And you'll find that in this morning's message, absolutely. We'll get to the place where I told you we'd... come to from last night you'll be there and you remember then who you are that I am that person who is identified I have an identity that I lost at one time but now I know who I am I know who my father is I'm a third bread brother Brandon said the third bread knows who his mammy and pappy is but the nag out there doesn't know for beans he doesn't know we are not those who talk about god we are those who by virtue of his grace have his life are part of the bride and his children and we have that identification so you just remember that and may we all remember it every single day of our lives because that sets up those those synaptic connections in our spiritual life and you know if you get some of those connections wrong in your life, and your body goes every night. You've seen people do that, haven't you? Something is stuck in there hard. Something in there that's gone wrong that won't let go. But if you and I are truly born again, there's something that goes beautifully 100 % right, and it always goes toward God. As a sunflower puts its head down at night looking for the sun in the west, Somehow, by divine alchemy, the plan of God, the sunflower, has now got its head turned all the way toward the east, looking at that sunlight. That's the way we should be. Because Brother Branham said in this end time, just live a good life, and he said it'll be what you are doing naturally. And what you and I do naturally is from the habit patterns and the systems we build up. And if you believe it and I believe it, let me tell you this. We are not... Only not far from the kingdom. We are products within the kingdom and will shine forth in his glory, having given him glory. We can't shine in his glory as rewards on this. First of all, we shine for his glory. Understand that? That's true. Jesus went through the same process. I just say to you this morning, you just go ahead and lift up your heads and rejoice, live natural good lives before God, and get those sweet habit patterns in there. They're not as hard as you think. It's not as hard to hold your tongue as you think. It's not as hard to not rise up as you think. These things become easy to us and easier as we follow this life. So get your life together.

Just put your face toward God, especially His Word. And what He says, He wants you to watch and see what will begin to happen. Because I know it works. And we don't have to wait until we're in our 80s or 90s. We don't have to wait until we're Samson and just say, one more time, Lord. I think that's wonderful. Brother Brandon preached on that, but I don't like that. I don't like to have a life that's wasted itself, blow the smoke in God's face and say, here I come, Lord. And I don't think one of us should ever... even no matter how old or how young we are, should ever do anything. But think in terms of, look, I'm going to have to be there at the judgment seat. I want to be one of those who have heard the words, well done, the good and faithful servant. You've been faithful over a few things, even one pound, one little thing. I'll make you master over many. I'll give you a large part. This is not an idle word. This is true. So we ought to strive and build up those patterns in our lives. which by virtue of having done so with the strength that God gives us, we now are in that path where we just look and move. And Brother Branham will bring that out. You'll see that in the message. He will bring that out and show you that this is where we're aiming. Of course, I should have put this on tape for tape going up. It doesn't really matter. We'll just take a little brief glance. So the Lord bless you, and we have dinner afterward. so that the folk that have to go down the road will have a little sustenance, I hope, to go on, a little cheer. So we're grateful to see you again. Love you very deeply, the Lord, and happy to see the folk that don't get with us too often. But it means a great deal to me on the grounds that I know that we have this fellowship which is around the Word. So God bless you. Don't

bleed anything.

Just smile and walk off. If you can smile, walk off. If you can't smile, you can still walk on it. But just don't have a thing to do with it. See, because we don't want that. All

right.

Where do we want to read in here? Well,

I'll get over here.

Instead of the Gospels, which I could have easily taken, I want to get back to Corinthians, where Paul is speaking of the Lord's Supper. And he says here, in the face of the desecration, of the table of the Lord, which was they embellished it. Now that's the first thing they did. They embellished it. And how did they embellish the table of the Lord? By adding to it. They first of all had their great love feast. And they said, this is their preparation for the taking of the communion. Well, it wasn't. You don't need that feast. You don't need any preparation. The only preparation anybody needs for the table of God, let a man examine himself. That's all. What big deal is that? Won't need a big steak or something or get together and have some kind of a social gathering where you protest your love and demonstrate. I'm going to tell you what happens. When you begin fooling with the things of God, whether they be the Christian rites, and services that are laid down for us in the Word, you immediately get yourself into problems. You do. You can't help it. You go to excess or you don't go far enough. There are those who come close and back away. There are those that go so far and say, hold it, I go no further. And there are those who go plumb over the mark.

You can't add or take anything to the Word. You don't add anything to what God has laid down here for us in foot washing, water baptism, communion. Those are really what we look at, what has been left the church. So they said, well, we'll have this dinner. We'll have this get -together. And what happened? Well, first thing, they began gloating. The rich ignored the poor. Those that had lovely food, spread it out for people to see, they made a big deal of what they had. The poor people got ashamed because they didn't have enough. Now, let me tell you something. You go to school and you open your lunch. How many stories have you read about the little kid that didn't dare open his lunch bucket because he had nothing? Or the kid that had the same thing all the time because he didn't have something all the time? And nobody... And what happened? Did anybody say, hey, look, I don't think I need all this food. Let me give you some. No. It made the kids jeer and mess around like a bunch of little devils most of the time. You can't fool with the Lord's Supper either. They began jeering at some. Some got puffed up. Some got envious. They just destroyed it.

As everything in the Word of God stands by itself and inviolate, where you can't change or add to it, the Lord's Supper is a very, very, very, very simple thing.

Brother Branham condemned the ceremony of the Pentecostals, latter reign especially, who passed a loaf of bread around, break a chunk off and eat.

The bread actually is made out of nothing but ground wheat and flour, I mean ground wheat and water, and it's baked. And it's eaten. Wine properly is simply made, no matter how bad it tastes or how good, where you take a cask and you fill it full of grape juice. And while it ferments, you just add a little more through the bung up there. And when it stops fermenting, you put it in jars and you preserve it where it doesn't get any more flavor pretty well unless it mellows a bit. And that's all there is to it. And when you come together, that's all you do. All you have is a little broken bread and a little wine, and that's it. But as you take it, you examine yourself. Now, how much examination did those people do that got a lot of food and some didn't have any? Well, their examination made some people feel like a bunch of poor people that didn't have anything, and the rest all puffed up.

Now, I don't think the churches are any different. you better look at your hearts again you're going to find the church is no different the church has pulled this on the sacraments everything god ever gave you church they pulled it all the time they want to dress it up they want to have a fight they want to fuss they want it and the bible simply says examine yourself that's all to see if you're in the faith to see if you're right so he said i want you to take i'm telling you what the lord said this is my body take and eat apart this bread And this is in remembrance. It doesn't say anything about turning it into flesh. It says this is in remembrance. So, all right, you remember that the body was broken. Then he took the cup and he said, this is remembrance of me that I shed my blood. See? And then we find that Paul left it out, but Jesus said, and it should be in here, but it doesn't need to because it already was said. He said, you're going to do this with me. in the millennium.

So now, all right, we have the truth here. The shed blood, the broken body, the shed blood, absolutely taken on the basis of being born again, because these were born again people, positively witness that you understand, number one, the body. Oh, do you understand the body? How long shall I stand here and preach? About an hour and a half? I won't take an hour and a half, take less than that. How was this body that was broken ever got here in the first place? God created a sperm and an egg and wrapped himself in it so

that every gene of God, and we're talking about the life, could be manifest in that flesh, that this indeed is the flesh of God where it says in John, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God. and the Word was God, and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Emmanuel, God with us. Now, that very God body that Jesus actually came into,

because lo, a body hast thou prepared for me, literally was a God body produced by the very life of God, processing that life, or taking that life, through the processes of chemistry into physicality.

That body was broken.

That's not an ordinary body.

So, all right, you discern the body? Can you actually understand what I'm saying? Now, listen to me.

Paul said, without discerning the body, some of you don't get healed. Brother Branham categorically said, understanding the virgin birth brought healing.

Right? He said it. I didn't say it. I preached it, though. I could preach every night based on what Brother Branham said. Go right to the Bible. Hey, listen, that's a prophet of God.

God's his own prophet.

I send you prophets, wise men, scribes.

Some you'll crucify. Some you'll just beat up. But the majority of people,

Well, identify with the crowd, not with God. Are we identifying? Now he said, if you eat this bread, drink this cup, you'll show the Lord's death until he comes. That's just until he comes now. Some people say, well, he's already come, so we don't do this anymore. And they even accused me. They said, Lee Vale does not give communion. So the boy phoned up and he said, do you give communion? I said, son, our church is so strict. And I've given such tough orders that if anything happens to me, and there's no minister here, if the deacons fail to give the church once a month communion, they get booted out. Oh, he said, oh. So I said, how often does your pastor serve? Oh, he said, once a year or two years.

You know, now listen, come on, I'm not lying to you. I can phone, I can bring the guy here and he'll tell you.

Give you his name if you have to have it. Tell you the guy who lied about him. See? Now, till he come. Jesus has not come. The Lamb has not come. God came down. So we don't leave communion.

And remember, he said, we'll drink of the new in his kingdom. This is not the kingdom of Jesus on earth. This is the day of the Lord.

Waiting for the money. See? Why am I saying this? This kind of junk is everywhere.

Now, let a man examine himself. and so they needed that bread and drink of that cup. What does it mean to examine? Examine your brains. Examine your thinking. Examine what this is about. Do you understand it?

Now the life is in the blood. The life comes back upon the believer because the blood of an animal couldn't. Why? Because animals and humans don't mix actually, not anymore. The one that could do it mixed. That's over.

So now he said, as I mentioned already, Not discerning the Lord's body. Now, let's go a little further.

Let's say I'm a Pentecostal lateraner, or I'm a good Methodist, Baptist, Nazarene, God knows what, who cares? Anybody but a, you know, way, way out there that doesn't have any inkling. But let's say it's just a good fundamental fellow. And I say, hey, this bit about the body of Jesus Christ. Oh, brother, let me tell you. If you don't recognize the people of God, You don't recognize this body of Jesus, you know. Some call it bride, this church and that other thing. See, that's what it's about.

Well, I don't know about that. I

don't know about that. You know why?

Because they don't know what they're talking about. The

body of the Lord. Now, this is the Lord, not the Lord that said to my Lord. This is my Lord. This is Jesus.

And now we're his body because he's gone.

I want to ask you a question.

What good would that body have been, even here on earth, if it weren't the specific body for the seed singular that is Christ?

Wouldn't have done any good. It's just been a wonderful body.

And I don't know what all could have been done. Don't ask me.

What I'm trying to get to you is this. No matter how wonderful that body was,

How great and how gracious it got here.

If it hadn't housed that

lamb, it

wouldn't have meant much. It wouldn't have meant much. Then the same thing is this. If the body of Jesus today is not made up of the seed of God.

Now, can you identify and discern the body tonight? I preached a whole sermon on it. Taken right from my good buddy and brother, fellow worker, prophet of God William Brand. Preach without fear, without favor, take nothing back. I

went to the Bible and here's what I found. And now what I'll tell you, your ears will astound. But you can believe me or call me a liar. All it will do, put my heart right on fire. Blessed be God. who had blessed us with spiritual blessings in heavenly places as he chose to leave Hale

discerning the body. Now I could scream and shout. And if I were an Elson guy, I would jump over the pulpit.

But I got a confession. I said a while ago to my wife, honey, I'd give you half of my strength if I could, but you still wouldn't have anything. And now I wouldn't even give her half or I'd be dead.

i don't know if i ever preach again after tonight i don't think i need to but i need to say something tomorrow just to clear one little record up and be all clear but can you discern the lord's body it's only made of the life that is of god and

as many members and they've all got a name and the name is in the last book of life and they're blood washed i feel so good i could scream i could cry because there's nothing Nothing. Nothing anywhere. It has anything for me but this word because I don't have anything but this word.

Because God is not in the church per se. No way. He's in his word. And his word bride is a word bride. And

she's identified.

And you'll find that Brother Branham lets you know that Jesus never came to just give an example and make you good people.

He came to redeem you and place you back with God, to put you where he wants you, and he's doing that. And I'm glad he's done it, and I'm ready to go when he wants me to go. I'm not anxious to die. I'm not anxious to live. I'm just here. What he wants, he's going to get, because he always gets what he wants. I'm not like Brother Branham. I can say, I always do what I want. I always want to please him, because that isn't true. But I've learned one thing, that God is sovereign. And he is wonderful. And everything about him is wonderful. And even the Lord's Supper, though humble, seemingly small, you don't have to say, well, the priest is going to turn this into the body and blood of Jesus. No. The priest has already identified himself that he's a liar.

The church has identified itself that it's not a God. But there's a bride that's identified itself and found itself in Scripture. And

nobody can take it out because nobody but God put it in. Well, that's nice, isn't it? Let's stand at this time. Take the emblems, which God has redeemed. As

tomorrow's sun does not rise on us, praise God, we'll be out of here. We'll be out of here.

Because it's no longer whose side is God on, it's who's on God's side. Who's identifying? Let's pray. Heavenly Fathers, we take communion tonight. We want to do it in your name, in your grace, and in you particularly. As revealed in this word, we have not made claims of ourselves. We have not attempted to say anything apart from the prophet. But Lord attempted to say. everything as he said it on the grounds wherein he said it and to show the relativity of it in scripture knowing that scripture many times has more than one perhaps even more than two beautiful facets that can be related together in such a way as to magnify the beauty of christ in his word being the author sustainer and finisher thereof. And we thank you for it, Lord, that we have seen identification here as Brother Branham taught it. And I believe, Lord, we are seeing and preaching it the way that would make his heart glad. We believe we're led of the spirit that he was led of to bring it out, to show these things and to stand with them in the grace of this hour. And as we take communion, Lord, let it be.

that what we have brought from your word here, believing it is right from what we're taught through vindication, that we will partake in this understanding and many be healed, Lord, given strength, given victory, given power, even as it is said in your word, over all the power of the enemy. That we stand here, Lord, as that magnificent troop. Every man like a marching army jumping over a wall, as Brother Branham mentioned, the rapture. Standing here, Lord, not in our own strength, but in your strength. Standing here in the revelation of who we are, and not just who we are, but what you are to us, and we are in you. Lord, may we never forget that, to be like the prince that Brother Branham spoke of, the slave who never forgot that he was the son of a king. May we do that tonight, Lord, in the simple name you've set before us in this little communion service. And to give thee, we'll give the glory and the honor. In Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen. The brethren, come forward this time. From

God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father. That should really be even, our Father, as far as I can see. And to whom be glory forever and ever. Because that word k, a conjunction, can be used as a preposition. Now, I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel, which is not another, but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we are an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than you have received, let him be accursed. Now, if you understand here what Paul is saying, he is saying that any change in the word that he has brought, to the Galatians and brought to us consequently any change will bring about a curse and be cursed of God and accursed from God because that is what he is actually saying. Now this is no different from John the Revelator saying if any man add to the words of this book the plagues will be added or if he take away a word then his name will be taken out of the Book of Life. There's absolutely no difference between the two of them. And there's no difference into what Moses said also in the journey of the exit when he mentioned that you cannot add to the book or take from it under penalty of curse. And of course, although Paul does not use that actual language, that language is actually there. Now, when you take this scripture and refer it to John and take it back to Moses, you will find that John is an Exodus preacher and that Moses was an Exodus preacher. It was a time of the presence of God and the time when Israel was to go into the promised land and, of course, When John saw the day of the Lord and saw the history of the church, he was looking forward to the last few days that Brother Branham was in and we are in, wherein the exodus is about to take place into the promised land. Now, this is the big thing that we're looking for. Regardless of how little we really know about the millennium, The fact remains that we are looking to get back to the Garden of Eden, pure and simple. We are looking for a rule of righteousness on earth under the greater Son of David, even Jesus Christ. We are looking for a resurrection. We're looking for a rapture. We're looking for the end of time and this earth to be purified, at least in part, So we can come back here under righteous reign and live the way we were supposed to live. And we lost it through Eve and Adam in the Garden of Eden. When they were chased out of there, they were displaced. And now it says the flaming sword was held by cherubim. to keep them out of that garden. And then, of course, it was taken off the earth, which, as Brother Branham said, eaten was God's government upon earth. So we're looking for a return to that. And that is exactly what we are supposed to have, where we come back as a family unit, and there, under the proper conditions, we have humanity and family life, social life, whether there be towns, whether they'll be just one vast nation, whatever God wants in that millennium, that's going to be for the bride at that particular time, Old and New Testament, with Jesus Christ reigning and ruling. And that's happened in every age, because Brother Branham said the gospel was allotted to every age, and whatever the word was for that hour, that age, that is what they had. And then it went on to the fourth age where there was literally no word left at all, just a little bit. And then it began coming back under Luther, under Wesleyan, under Pentecost, where even you could have a misunderstanding of Godhead. You could join churches and things like that you could get by with. But at the end time, under the Exodus, you go back to what the beginning was. which is the ephesian church and the ephesian church chapter number one is the history of the bride through all ages but more particular particularly the gentile bride as from the ephesian church which was the first age to now now we have to return to the ephesian church which was word perfect back to the gospel of Paul and that is done by the Holy Spirit himself Coming into the church as brother Branham said and what he would do Revealing the mysteries, but not only that he corrected that after Daniel 70th week, and he said Correcting the errors so now we come to a perfect word and so here is what we're looking at We are looking at the gospel which Paul said, I knew only this among you, Christ in him crucified. In other words, Paul exalted the death, the shed blood, the forgiveness of sins, the complete obliteration of sin. As Brother Branham said, how can you call a man a sinner when the blood scatters sin till there be no evidence? How can we then honor the Lord's death and resurrection? which you do by taking the Lord's Supper and be off the word. Because Paul said, this gospel I got from God himself. And the major gospel was that God came in flesh, through the flesh of Jesus Christ, that Jesus died upon Calvary, the blood was shed, and the life then came back very definitely upon the people, which, of course, is that bride. So my thesis tonight is this. I'm with Brother Branham 100%. How in the world can anybody who is not full of the Holy Ghost take communion? How can anybody dare to take communion and defy the word of the living God? How can anybody in this hour and day not come into actual judgment because they defied the word of the living God and will still say, well, I can take communion, I can do this, I can do that, I have no problem because I can do it and I'm going to do it. And God has not come down with a sledgehammer or a flaming sword and said, well, I'll just cut your heads off if you dare to take that cut. No, he said, let a man examine himself. Let a man see if he understands the virgin birth. Let a man examine himself and see if he understands identification. Let a man stand and see if he understands the truth. That he knows me. That he knows how I act. That he knows what I require. That he knows what I am doing. And I've always done and about to wind it up. And I don't think that anybody will take communion outside of those requisites and stand justified before God. I really don't. And I'm not trying to say this just because I want something to say. That could be true too. But the fact of the matter is, Paul said here, he said, let that man be cursed. He said, let an angel from heaven come down. Let the angel be cursed. Well now, we're at the place of 2 Thessalonians. We're at the place of Matthew 12. We're at that place today. It's been vindicated to us. There's no doubt about it. Absolutely none. You cannot believe for one moment the word of the living God and see it. manifested before you the way God's always done it, and then back away and say, well, you know, I don't have to take that. Well, the point is, you do have to take it. Now you're putting the rock in a hard place. Now you can either believe the word of God that's vindicated and take communion and be justified, or you can raise your back up and say, I'll do it anyway, and you'll find what's going to happen to you. You can do what you want. It's a free country. We are under a covenant of choice. And Brother Branagh said, the soul within us has that ability to make that choice. Now, either we can go the way of the light within, or we can go opposite. Now let's put it this way. Why would you possibly have any reason to obey God under any consideration, taking communion, doing anything, going to church like you're supposed to, paying tithes? turning the other cheek, doing anything at all, why would you be under any obligation to do it if you didn't know what was right?

Now, if you don't know what's right, and you have the choice in this hour to know what is right, now, there's no problem in doing what God wants us to do, because in being right, we have sown the seed which cannot return to God void. In other words, The minute you and I sow the seed of the word of truth in whatever we do, God's seal of approval is on it, and God is now responsible to bring it forth, and he will, and he does it. And we just don't seem to want to understand that. We don't seem to take that to heart.

So tonight, as we understand the word of the living God and take the emblems we've been commanded to do, and to wash feet we've been commanded, let us go beyond the simple rights that God has given us. and demand of ourselves, because we have to demand of ourselves. We can't demand of God. There's no way. God's already made everything propitious. When He said, come and dine, He didn't say, come and dine, bring your own fish and cook your own food. He said, it's already here, come and eat it. So when God Almighty has made, actually, everything propitious for us by redeeming us by the blood, filling us with the Holy Spirit, giving us an understanding of His Word, and showing where we are today, we can take and say, well, Lord, it's not difficult to enter into communion on the grounds of the revelation that you gave. We can do that because we know your blessings on it. It's the same thing when we do anything else that is not a right which is given to the church, like communion and foot washing. But the other commandments of God, let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him labor working with his hands, that which is good. Him that which hath not. See, right away you'd say, well, the man who used to steal, he should not steal anymore. He should work and labor consistently. And that way that, you know, he'll have plenty for his family. He doesn't say that. He'll have plenty to give to somebody else. And so the idea, America, corporate America, has only one thing in mind. Get, get, get, gimme, gimme, gimme, grab, grab, grab. These CEOs and these people are going to answer to God for having taken the wages from men and women. so that men and women would have a right in the happiness of handing out and being a blessing and all. These men will answer to God. Don't you think they won't? They're going to weep and howl like they never believed possible. And I'm not here judging and saying I'm happy. Well, I'm not going to be unhappy when it happens. I'm going to be happy it happens to me. If they're not happy it happens to them, I can't help that. I didn't do it. They did it. So we have a precept tonight, as I'm trying to get across, simply knowing what we're doing in taking these emblems. We know that. and we know how we're doing it, then as we have faith to do that, we have faith to take step by step, knowing that God is in the blessing of His Word and He's helping us day by day to make this life of Christ manifest in us. Let's rise at this time and we can partake of the emblems and foot washing. I ask the brethren to come forward and set the service in order here.

I should present the Heavenly Father as we look to you now. We dedicate these emblems of which we will partake to you, Lord, and to the grace which gave us this opportunity in our hearts, Lord, to look within our spirit and our soul, Lord, to look within according to word that we might not have anything against anybody, Lord, that might all be washed away. And our lives, Lord, are full of faith in your word, knowing that your word is true. And what we do, Lord, is at your command. So therefore, Lord, we receive the blessing which you have in this service and in the days to come. In Jesus' name we pray, man. The

prophet said that at the wedding supper, which is where the bride meets the Lord in the air, where that spirit that's in her midst is crowned king of kings and lord of lords. He'll be the son of God, the son of David, the son of man, the rose of Sharon, the battle of the altogether. Lovely. He'll be all in the sense that... We know he's the one God and beside him is there is no other and already he's Already coming into line very rapidly Because time and eternity have blended to where the father becomes all and in all so the thought tonight is this that We alone who are born again who have proven it and know it by the fact that we believe the word for the hour and our belief is not just a lip service. Our minds have been baptized with the Holy Ghost. Our brains have been entirely quickened. The mind which is actually a function of the spirit going through the organ of the brain which goes down into the soul has the proper mechanics and when it has the proper mechanics then the dynamics have to fall upon it because that's the law of God as laid down by Brother Branham. So when you hear all this talk, you know, about people being so dead and this word, word, word, I'll ask you one question. What is there else but word? The people say spirit, spirit, spirit, spirit, spirit. There's no spirit of God outside the word because the word is the conduit. Now, if you want spirit apart from word, that's, you know, hey, that's all right. I mean, I'm not going to fuss about it, but that's the chaff. That's the anointed ones at the end time. And that's fine if that's what people want. I mean, it's because I'm not their judge and I'm not their guardian. I'm not their warfaring friend that's going to run into my white horse and carry them off to the camp of God. I can't do that. If they're not sheep, they will not follow. And if they're sheep, they're going to follow. And my question is, what are they going to follow? Well, they hear the voice and they follow. Well, tell me what the voice is.

See, that's the big thing. What's the voice?

Well, you know, Brother Branham, he'll tell you flat, we'll read it. In fact, we did read it, where that word is eternal. God can't change his mind. It's written. It's not written in stone. It's written in God. The strong one bound by an oath. How can the strong one bound by an oath ignore one word of his contract? That's why there's not a jot or a tittle. And I know people think, well, hey, if we take a jot or tittle out of there, that's great condemnation. Look, the point is, It's not great condemnation. The only condemnation is this. You miss by taking out that jot and tittle. That's all. You've missed it. You've missed it. That's what it is. That's the danger of it. That's why the name can be taken out of the book of life and the plagues added. Because you've missed that path. You've missed that word. You've missed that conduit. It's not God just pulling the rug on you and beating your brains into something.

See, you talk to educationists. They tell you the word educo means education. It means to lead out, not to pound in. God never pounded in anybody. The sheep hear the voice and they follow. They have inquiring minds. They have inquiring wills. And so they're afraid to miss the jot and tittle. Why? Because they'll miss the good things of God. That's the thing you're looking at. And that's exactly the scripture. Because the scripture warns you about missing the good things of God. That's right. That scripture warns you. And it tells you, watch for your old age. Beware lest old age come upon you. And you say, I had no pleasure in those days. See, remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth. Remember now and all the way through. Watch that word, see. So that's what we're looking at tonight. We're looking at this blessed word. And we're looking at communion service that says, look, this is for the bride. And this is what you are doing until and toward. and for and apart what you have to put you over there at the wedding supper. Now you see, if you don't take it, you've got no faith in the wedding supper.

If you take it wrong, you've got a real problem. You've got to make that right and say, hey, I've got to stop this foolishness. I've got to get this thing right. In other words, there's a life to live. We've never ever claimed there's no life to live. I just say, look, I'm not set for the defense of morals because I'm set for the defense of the gospel. Because Brother Brannell said, he said, if you're born again, you will quit smoking. If you are born again, you will quit drinking. You will. So I'm not set for the defense of those things. Well, he said, smoking, drinking, cursing, they're just attributes. He said, sin is unbelief. But now I'm a believer now. The attributes are going to go. So you see here we're looking at, we're looking at this. This becomes an illuminating promise of God. I am taking this communion tonight. I'm washing feet exactly what God said. I'm looking for that great marriage supper, and I'm going to take it up there. This is part of my covenant, and this is my answer back to God. Yes, Lord, I do believe it. I do believe it. I know these things take time to come into our lives and to develop. It's just like you take in the morning, you may take a very good protein drink with lots of enzymes and amino acids and all the good things in there, I think that Dr. McDaniel told you about here a little while ago, and you plug it down and say, well, you know, that should do a world of good. You're suddenly not going to explode into a great whirlwind of energy, overtake the world, do pinwheels and flip -flops and God knows what. You've got to wait for that to get into your system. Begin to energize and move and so it is with all the revelation we have and all these things here you don't become overnight a Qualified grown -up Christian you have to go through your training and all the word comes to us It's just more and more training and tonight. I'm saying look this Communion that we take we will take it at the wedding supper when we meet him in the air And this says, this, what I am doing, I will do there. That's why I'm doing it now, because I will do it there. This is my answer back to God. Yes, Lord. I believe your word. I'm entitled, as being a child of yours, as being a seed full of the Holy Ghost, to take these emblems, and I will meet you at the wedding supper. That's what there is to it. And now, that's got to be, that's the mechanical part. Now it's got to get down from the brain to the mind into the soul. Where Brother Branham said, there you feed the Christ within you, the living word of the living God. So all of these things are here what Brother Branham taught us. You listen to them. You take them. You bring them through your mind mechanically. You catalog, categorize, file away, put it there. Let God now anoint and move. But if it isn't there, there's no anointing going to fall on it. You're not going to have it. So let's get away from all this nonsense of people. fussing about the Word, as though the Word really is nothing. It's just a little book that God would, listen, this is living Word. God Himself imprinted back by God. Let's rise this time. And the brethren, come forward. We'll have the rest of the service together.

Let's just pray. Heavenly Father, we would sanctify these emblems. to the people as from your hand lord through the word that you gave us knowing that we are doing what you told us to do and hopefully lord everything is in exact order as you desire knowing also lord that you have promised us that that we would be able to take this and you in the kingdom as brother brandon said and put it at the wedding supper lord That's the big thing we're looking for, the rapture and the wedding supper. And this is our little part of showing that we do believe the best we can, that we have the understanding here, Lord, this is true. And it is true. And as Brother Branham said, if it's not for us, it's for somebody else. And by your grace, we won't stand in the way. But he also said, every one of you believe that it is you. You who are going to be there. And we do believe tonight, therefore, and take it to our minds and bring it down deep into our heart that you might water it. And we just live that life in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Lord, He was doing deliverance as God was in Christ reconciling the world. And we notice there that Jesus was the only begotten Son for this particular reason, the ancient recreation and through whom God operated. And we find the priesthood set up at the same time.

Now, if that's the way he was, that's the way he is. You see, if you go back to the time when Jesus was on earth, If he would have taken any other path than the path he took being the one who had to take that path, they would have followed him like crazy. No problem. Because he would have fit their creeds and their dogmas and everything they wanted. So they saw nothing in him. Now you show me in the 2 ,000 years of seven church ages that that's changed. It hasn't changed.

The minute the true revelation comes, nobody wants it.

There's no way.

It's just like if I really do have a true gift to teach you, like Brother Branham said. Nobody wants it. He said they wouldn't want it. You know, something funny happened years ago. Now, let's be honest with you, because some people are never honest with me. People sit here and they act as though they believe everything else. So one time I decided to have a certain purpose. I won't mention the man's name or anything. I said, okay, I'll put myself up for a vote. A lot of people wanted to vote me out.

You know, you can't hide it if you try it. I don't know who you are, and it doesn't bother me. If people really believe what I teach, I know I'd have to stop teaching it. Or there's something wrong with me somewhere, because that doesn't fill the word of the prophet.

Why do people think I make these things up? You can think what you want, but I'm just illustrating and showing you. It says he's despised. You're rejected. You

can't. Listen. This Bible is true.

It was there before there was a speck of stardust or an atom. Oh my. We were there too in him.

Rejected. Not esteemed. He had borne our griefs. Carried our sorrows. Yet we had esteemed and stricken. Smitten of God. That would be Elohim. I believe that one is Elohim. And afflicted. Or maybe Jehovah. He was wounded for our transgression. Proved for our iniquities. Chastened our peace upon him. With his stripes we're healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord has laid upon it all. He was oppressed, he was afflicted, he had opened out his mouth, he brought his lamb to slaughter, as the sheep before his shearers dumps, he opened out his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment, who shall declare his generation? He was cut off from the land of the living, for the transgression of my people was he stricken. He made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death. That's right. crucified on the cross and buried in a rich man's grave because he had done no violence neither was any deceit in his mouth see the power he had he used completely right if he used it at all and he used his mouth exactly right that's why the mouth is a very important thing out of the heart the mouth speakers that's

why at the end time god watches what people are saying listens in their conversation if you want to have truth in your mouth take the message he was taken from prison from judgment and who shall declare his generation he never had any kids For he has cut off the land of the living, for the transgression of my people was he stricken. He made his grave for the wicked, the rich, and the dead, because he had done no vines, and he had deceit in his mouth. He pleased the Lord to bruise him and put him to grief. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed.

When he shed his blood. And remember, somebody has to die before somebody lives. An animal eats the grass. The grass dies. We kill the animal, eat the animal. Adam and Eve had children. They died. They had children. They died. Our parents, most of our parents, a lot of our parents around here, they're dead. And we're parents, we're going to die. Yeah. Anything coming to life, death. It's a process. So you got to die to your old life and have this new one. Have the Holy Ghost come upon you. See? Now it says, he shall see his seed. He shall prolong his days. The pleasure of the Lord will prosper in his hand. That tells you right there that in the resurrection, he'll see his seed. That's why I've said many times, you're your accidents of birth. Who are your parents? When you get in the millennium, you're in the first resurrection, you won't say, oh, my mom and my dad and this and that, as far as I know. You could have, maybe some of you, but I kind of, you know. But we'll realize that we are the family of God. We'll realize that God is our father, new Jerusalem, so to speak, is our mother. It'll be a family of God in there. It won't be worrying about the flesh and this and that. You know, we'll see each other and understand a lot of things. But I can see after the great wedding supper, the total remembrance is supposed to be gone. So you're going to have a new memory. I don't look for a lot of relatives, a lot of people. I'm not really interested. I'm only interested in one thing. Am I a child of God? Will I really be there? Is Jesus Christ my elder brother? Those are the things I want to know. And if I'm this seed, He'll prolong his days in me. In other words, being his seed, or his progeny, his offspring. You know, immortality is actually having children. Adam was immortalized by having children, and children down, down, down, down, and mortality runs out. So immortality and Amos take over, but the immortality was there in the sense of the progression. And every child of Adam will become up in the resurrection. So you have immortality coming down through mortality. Mortality done away with, here we are. Now, he shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. And by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify the many, for he shall bear the iniquities. Therefore I divide and portion with the great, and shall divide the spoiled with the strong. Because he had poured forth his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors, and bared the sins of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. Now that's why we celebrate Lord's Supper, the death of Christ. And that's what was accomplished. Now he accomplished that. So therefore, we are the end of his accomplishment.

I know people like to talk about the life of Jesus. Great example. That's true. He was this, that, and the other thing. That's true. But they forget what it accomplished. And the accomplishment was not for himself.

See, when he offered himself, he was sinless. A priest has to offer for himself and the others that are sinful. But Jesus couldn't offer for himself. He offered for us. And when God raised him from the dead, showed that God was 100 % satisfied with the effort made, and when he sent forth the Holy Ghost, he showed he was satisfied with the product.

That's why God comes down at the end time to take up the people that are his.

And when he becomes incarnated in the Lord Jesus Christ, the flesh were presented as the bride. And we crown him king of kings and lord of lords. That will be the son of God, the son of David, the son of man. That will be father, son, and holy ghost. Brother Bram said so. So there we're talking about the Lord's Supper. That is what has been accomplished. And we praise the Lord for it. That God has done this. So when we take the emblems tonight, remember, that's what we're talking about. He said, remember, this has been done. And it will take you to the millennium. Right? Why would he say it if he didn't mean it? You do now. We'll do it over there, right? So it's a fate. It's what they call a fate accompli. That's a French term which means it's done. Just like Jesus said, it's finished. It's all over. And that's why people write books like Arthur J. Pink on the satisfaction of God. God was satisfied. Then if God was satisfied, why are we dissatisfied? If God says it's final, it's good, why do we want to put our two bits in? Well, right where Brother Branham said, God does it, then man wants to put something to it. Can't leave it alone. Yet perfection means you touch it. It's gone.

Shut up and sit down and listen.

Hardest thing in the world to listen, to receive, to believe, and acknowledge what God said about what he did and why he did it and what comes out of it. Right

there. Let's rise.

The brethren, come forward at this time. We'll partake of the emblems together. And don't forget, get your questions ready for tomorrow. I don't want to go through my notes again.

Shall we pray? Heavenly Father, these emblems that you left for us mean that we believe, or we certainly ought to believe, and we must now believe that this is what we do knowing what we will do again with you in the millennium. in the father's kingdom and Lord that could even extend to the holy city I don't know but you said we would do it and when you came back from the dead you ate with them even as the prophet said you ate a fish sandwich that's what Jesus did and father you allowed that you wanted that that was in your plan that was your word coming into effect how wonderful then when we go over there your word will be effective we will do this very thing in a new way, in new bodies, changed to what we were in the beginning, manifested now at the end. Exactly, Lord, return to you what you wanted. And that's what we want too. That's what we've always wanted. Help us tonight not to be afraid any longer, but we're going to be exactly what you said. Because you cannot give any word that will return to you void. We will not. cannot go back without being fulfilled, and we will go back because you sent us. We're apart because we have the witness. We have the evidence of the truth, and we know what the prophet said was vindicated. In the name of Jesus Christ, we rebuke every thought that is foreign to it and take in control every spirit that would rise against it. So we can proclaim to the glory of God that Jesus Christ is Lord and has accomplished this according to the Father's will and now the Father's will is complete and It's complete in us and we are now doing that which you asked us to do in order just to do we are doing Contemplating the future and we'll do it with you in the name of Jesus Christ. We thank you. Amen

And he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld thy son, thine only son.

Now you notice in here the strange language right off the bat. The angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven. And then he said, For I know thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son. Now, you know, there's always a great problem in reading the Bible as to whether you believe that's simply an angel, or you believe that's Jesus Christ, you believe God himself is the angel of comfort, which sometimes he is. And so when you see these things here, it's a little difficult to place them all. But there's where I just disregard all these little places that... that have a little question mark as to what personality. It really doesn't matter so much. The thing is, if an angel of God brought a message, or Jesus brought a message, an archangel brought a message, or a dove from heaven brought a message, and it was strictly from God, it wouldn't make any difference. The message is God because it came from God. And only God could say it, and that would have to be a part of Him. Because he's a strong one bound by an oath. So you see, it's always a matter of that strength is not what you look about God. It is the word. It's that word. And being God, the word, God fulfills himself in the people. So Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram. And offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. Now the last verse is the big verse. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah -Jireh. That's the Lord will provide. Now listen. As it is said to this day in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. Now the mount of the Lord I believe is Zion where the new Jerusalem is. And you will see on the throne the provided lamb. Now, Brother Brand's most famous sermon on the whole Jehovah complex was Jehovah Jireh. Right on this very subject right here. Now, it says, to this day, in the mount of the Lord, the sacrifice of Jesus, God's provision, the man of such character as we saw in the sermon on identification. We'll be there on the throne with the nail prints in his hand, in his side, in his feet, and in the brow. Never ever changing. The provision of God is there. And remember, communion will be taken until we go to the millennium and start it all over again. Because there will never, ever, ever, ever be time when the lamb is not honored as the lamb and remember he is the word the word lamb the lamb word complete fulfillment God manifest God in him and he was a sacrifice and he was and he was actually you might say the altar upon which his life his body was the altar upon which his life was poured and given for you and me. And he will be on the throne in the new Jerusalem. And remember, according to Hebrews 12, we are now approaching Mount Zion. And there's not the thunder and fear, but it's the joy and rejoicing and the glad marching to Zion, of which we are a part and a portion. So tonight as we take the emblems that represent the broken body and the shed blood, we recognize that this is based in the eternal concept of God, the Lamb, God's provision. And God's provision is of grace. Abraham didn't have to do anything really except take the ram in the thicket and kill it. He didn't have to sacrifice himself or his family. And the Bible is very clear that God doesn't want our sacrifice. In fact, he gets very fed up with them. He gets very fed up with the fastings. And it just becomes an abomination of stink in his nostrils. Why? Because as Brother Branham said, they're always adding to it. Never can let God have his way. He got to add to it. Well, that's what I love so much about this vindicated message. We can't take from it. We don't add to it. We stand right here and we read the scripture. We see everything, lines with the prophets. See the prophet right in this very day preaching Jehovah Jireh, making the biggest thing out of it. Now, I can prove it. You just get the sermons. You're going to find them. That was one of his favors right down the line. And he said, right there in the holy city, you're going to... See it right there, Jehovah Jireh, God the provider. And what did Brother Branham say? He said, the pillar of fire above the throne, and before they call, he answers, Jehovah Jireh, the provider. And what do we do? We celebrate it right there. See how the whole Bible comes together? It's one thing I love in teaching the Word. It all comes together. It takes a little while sometimes. Even I get confused, but that's all right. I'm not a prophet. I teach precept, line upon line, here a little, little, building a house, foundation, superstructure, do the finishing, finally hang the drapes, all over. I believe that. I believe we're getting there. Well, the Lord bless you. Let's rise. Brethren, come forward. Taking a long time tonight, but that's all right. You'll have Brother John for 30 minutes or more.

Shall we just bow our heads? Now, Heavenly Father, as we stand here, these elements we have seen again tonight,

glory of this little memorial that has been left behind this commandment reaching right into eternity how wonderful that we can stand here and know what it is about and partake and realize your grace which is founded in you and continues to stand and will stand freely has been given to us freely we receive these emblems again and happily lord we confess with our mouth The Lord Jesus Christ that you provided for us. May you receive glory tonight, Lord. And may the revelation of yourself for which we hunger to come so perfectly to us. You are the word. And we are a part. That's all we ask in the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.

Revelation. That there, it wasn't something that he got on his own.

In fact it was diametrically opposed to anything that he would have believed and so he says I Received of the Lord that which I delivered unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and When he given thanks he broke and said take ye this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me now There's no doubt here that Paul did not know anything about what Jesus did. And so he would be entirely ignorant, wondering why the people were doing this. Because the converted Jews were doing it. They were breaking bread from house to house. And they were worshiping and praising God. And Paul wouldn't have any idea. And anything that came to him would be absolutely erroneous. And so he said, the night he was betrayed, he took bread, which he had given thanks, he broke it and said, take ye, this is my body, which is broken for you, this do in remembrance of me. And right there, of course, this is just simply a memorial ceremony.

And after the same manner, he took the cup, and when he had stopped saying, this cup is the New Testament in my blood. This do ye as often as ye think of it in remembrance of me. So therefore, there are two things you're looking at, the broken body and the shed blood. And as Brother Branham mentioned, that the blood was shed, that the life might come back upon the believer, which the animal blood could not do because the life was entirely different. And when you understand that, you begin to understand why Brother Branham talked about God creating the blood cell and then wrapping himself up in it in order that what was essentially Almighty God could come forth in a body which only the essentiality of God could bring forth. And maybe tomorrow we'll get to where we can talk about that when we go into Genesis again. But you're looking at this and you're seeing the things that Brother Branham said. And he said, as often as you eat this bread, and that is the fact that Jesus had to die, and the blood had to be shed. Now, the point is the blood didn't have to be shed. He could have died by a crack on the skull.

They could have just taken a hammer and hit him on the head, and he could have died. And not a bit of blood shed. You understand what I'm saying? You could have your body broken all to bits. What if you fell from a 12 -story building? It doesn't necessary that your blood would be shed. In fact, they say this, that the blood in the little veins in the temple are so small that under no consideration except for the crown of thorns would that blood have actually left his brow and his temples and all. And then water came forth because they shoved the spear in, and it hit the pericardium, and the fluid flowed out. So you're looking exactly at what Brother Branham said. And what's here? The broken body. He had to die for the sins of the people. Then not only did the animal die, but the blood had to be shed. And when an animal is sufficiently dead, and rigor mortis sets in, the blood congeals right away. You're not going to get any blood coming from a dead being, all the blood is all there. So there had to be literally the life, the heart moving and pumping out the blood. And it started with the crown of thorns, the laceration upon the back, the hands and the feet pierced, the side wounded. and that pericardium of the heart struck. And this, then, is your complete picture of the sacrifice that was made by the Son of God, which God was pleased in, and gave his only begotten Son to that end. So, Brother Branham explained this all very thoroughly to us. So, whosoever therefore eateth this bread, and in other words, symbolic of the broken body of Jesus, death. See? And drink the cup of the Lord unworthily. The life released for the spirit to come back shall be guilty of the blood and the body and blood of the Lord. That's why Brother Branham said, which was in the, not the Septuagint, what do they call it? It doesn't matter anyway.

Written within the first 200 years.

It says in there that you weren't supposed to receive the emblems of the broken body and shed blood unless you were full of the Holy Ghost. And remember, the baptism with the Holy Ghost was one of the most specifically poorly and unrightly taught doctrines in the Bible. After the Pentecostals came on the scene, it was repent and be baptized in water. And then tarry for the Holy Ghost. And that's entirely erroneous. Because the Bible said, repent, be baptized, you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. In other words, as Brother Branham said, if you do the first two things and you're seen, the third is up to God and he must do it. And he said, there's no sign and there's no emotions concerning the baptism of the Holy Ghost in this hour. It comes without that and you pile word upon word. And the more word you pile upon word, because that's where the Holy Spirit is, the fuller you are. And you're growing up into that stature of Jesus Christ. So everything that Brother Branham said, when you take back to the word, you find the beauty of it. And the revelation, which is purely wonderful and very, very illuminating. But let a man examine himself. Are you really born again? Well, can you receive the word? that God is bringing. See, for the word for the hour. Let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. But he that eats and drinketh unworthily, eats and drinks damnation itself, not discerning the Lord's body. Isn't that the very thing we read of in the book of Romans? Where these people, oh yeah, I believe that. Oh yeah, I say this and I, and they're liars. They're hypocrites.

See, that's what you got right today. We believe the Bible, but this is okay. I know God said this, but believe me, women can preach. Why that why history teaches us God has female servants and male servants, and they're worshipping serving the Lord Oh, yes, it's terrible you Baptist and you Baptist you're just cutting your throats all the time I don't understand what you're doing to yourselves you bunch of idiots now. You're saying women can't preach well

even the Catholics They know better, but they got women theologians this woman miss Ford was a theologian up there in Notre Dame where oh I forget the pastors and their father so -and -so. They have the greatest charismatic bunch in the universe. They had a car, a drunken boy went through the campus one time and mowed down two people. One guy got his legs broken. They prayed and he's just like a board, like zoop, from his heels just came right up, perfectly healed. The other guy was dead as a doornail. They laid hands on and prayed and he came back from the dead. Hallelujah. Catholics got the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues, calling the Pope. Vicar of Christ.

Taking the very word and perverting it. It's like years ago I read about a man and he was a very honest commentator. And he said, what really puzzles me is this. The church has gone communist. The church, supposing to believe in God, they are now the bastion of those promulgating atheism and communism. What has happened? Just what it says here in Romans.

Just what it says in Romans. And we're going through it again. Okay. So, we that believe the word. And for this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep. That's why Brother Branham said, if you could really understand the birth of Jesus Christ. And we're preaching it here all the time just like he taught it. Cancers would leave, people be healed. And I'm still wondering what we're missing.

Because I've looked at everything. I've looked at the three aspects of it.

Right down the line. Or even the fact where it says if we know that he hears. We know that we'll get the petition. And absolutely God said he that turns his ear away from hearing my law. I will not hear his prayer. His prayer shall be an abomination. How can it be that God doesn't hear us? He does hear us. I'm still looking.

To what? This great word is revealed to us. Jesus, the Son of God, great God, Jehovah Elohim, the complete revelation. What is hindering the people being healed in their seats?

I'm looking for it.

Someone's going to have it. If I don't have it, someone's going to have it.

Like Brother Brand said, if I'm not that one, there's going to be one. You better believe it. So, all right. Let's be very sincere then tonight as we realize what we have learned. For if we judge ourselves, we should not be judged. In other words, discern.

Say, look, is this part of me? Is this part of me?

And when we're judged, we're chasing the Lord. We should not be condemned with the world. In other words, we're not like those out there that hold the truth down and mouth it all the time. They take the scripture to defeat the scripture. They take every single thing they can to make the Bible come to nothing.

Huh? Well, certainly, you know what the homosexuals are doing. Everybody's getting on the bandwagon.

Politics. Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together, tarry one for another. In other words, let's not be selfish in this thing. Let's earnestly pray that our brother has the revelation, our sister has the revelation. Earnestly pray as we go through the line. Lord, I believe. I believe I'm a part. I understand this. I really do. Evidently, there's something in here I don't understand, but I'm going to pray for my brother. Maybe that's it. I don't know. But I'm praying that he or she will understand us. There's somebody amongst us. There's not growing up in Christ, not growing up to the stature, not piling word upon word. See? Pray. Let's rise.

Brethren, come forward.

And you know how we all come around the side and then... Depart around the other side. Let us bow our heads in prayer. Heavenly Father, we commend ourselves at this time to the breaking of the bread, signifying your broken body of the Lord Jesus Christ, and drinking the wine, the emblem of the shed blood, Lord. If there's anything amongst us, Father, by way of revelation that hinders us from realizing the truth and the impact of what we have been taught by Brother Branham to bring out the absolute reality in this hour. or any brother or sister fall short, or anyone not filled with the Holy Ghost, Lord, having received the truth and been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We pray, Father, tonight that you'll overlook it tonight. We ask you to forgive us and help us, and may those people, Lord, if there be such. Come to full realization of this reality, O God, and know that it is thus saith the Lord, and this is the truth, that this is right, that this is of God, this is from God, and this is a reality of our God in our midst, Lord, because we have this truth. Help us, Father, that we might not be ashamed, that we might be right in every way, shape, and form. In any way, Lord, where we have been in unbelief, forgive us our unbelief, O God. Any way we have failed, forgive us our failures, Lord, and may we look up. in this moment which is a moment of despair in the world and what comes upon the world but look up and rejoice because our redemption has actually drawn nigh for you are here your presence to lead us into the millennium may we know that tonight oh God and this be as it were as the day when it was taken in haste and crossing the barrier of the Red Sea going on now into the promised land surely Lord we have already crossed from life death into life we have crossed from time into eternity Lord we have crossed from faith to actual knowledge Lord we have crossed over from that which was not here to that which is here you yourself having descended with the word to bring us along may we know that Lord tonight and rejoice and say yes this is our Passover in the name of Jesus Christ we pray for the glory of God Amen