His Resurrection Proves His Death

His Resurrection Proves His Death

Bro. Lee Vayle - May 26, 1976

1. …showing that Christ is, Christ's Resurrection was specific to the end that He rose to become High Priest to all that He accomplished by the shedding of His Blood upon Calvary. And we saw that He was the only One in all history who could make out a will, die in order to see that they will became effective, because there can be no effectual will unless the testator dies, and then He arose to see that the provisions of His will were enforced. That's why He's High Priest. Whatever He accomplished upon Calvary is made available guaranteed to us by His Resurrection, or the Melchisedec Priesthood, and brought that to your attention.

Now, not wanting to recapitulate, but simply continue looking at what the Cross of Christ accomplished we'll take a little bit of the Scripture, a few readings, then go to other Scriptures, starting with 1 Corinthians 1:18

(18) For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

You'll notice in there just don't look at It casually, get the understanding, for It says: "the preaching of the Cross is to them that perish, that are not saved, it is foolishness, but unto them which are saved, It is the power of God." In other words, there is no salvation outside of the Cross. God instituted salvation and there has to be something in effect to give it salvation. What is effectual? Wherein is the power? In other words… how do people get saved? (See?) All right, they get saved through the Cross, there isn't any other way.

2. Then in 1 Corinthians 2:2.

(2) …I determined not to know any thing among you, save Christ, and him crucified.

It's impossible even at this minute, or in all eternity to think in terms of Christ outside of Him being crucified.

3. Then in Galatians 6:14,

(14) But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,…

There isn't anything else that a man can glory in, because without the Cross, there would be nothing else. There wouldn't be any hope, no future.

4. Then over in Revelation 5:9-10, we'll see how It carries on into the eternal future.

(9) And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain,…

Of course the opening of the Book is the actual opening up of what was sealed by Daniel, which refers to the last three and a half years of Israel. And the two thousand years of redemption to the Gentiles, the closing out of time in the sense that time begins to accelerate into eternity. I explained that to you in other messages. So, the Book or Redemption is open, we're in that period now, and you will notice what the song is. I'm glad we're hearing songs about Bro. Branham very sweet. But they're not going to sing those in New Jerusalem. It's very nice to know about Luther, and I'm not anti-Branham, I'm one of the strongest supporters of William Branham. And I'm not anti-Luther, and I'm not anti-Wesley, or any of these great men, anti-Paul, but it's not going to be songs about those people.

It's the opening of the Book should get us singing about the Lamb more than any other sign in the history, and people are missing it. That's why I keep bringing you back to Christ and Him crucified, where the simplicity lies. Because something has got to be done to redeem us.

5. Now, It says,

(9) … Thou art worthy to take the book, to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, (You died upon Calvary and shed Your Blood, and by that, and that alone has) redeemed us to God…

Now, we talk about a prophet coming and turning us back to God. Well, how are you going to get back to God outside the Blood? It's not going to be by the skilful sermons and beautiful depths of revelation which might intrigue our hearts that Bro. Branham brought. And to know all these great and wonderful mysterious things, there's, get out there without the Blood of Jesus Christ. (See?) Now I'm a little bit fervent for the Blood of Jesus. You can do what you want, it's alright by me. But I've got a fervency for this in my heart, because that's all I'm looking at.

(9) …thou wast slain, (and by thy slain) hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

(10) And made us unto our God kings and priests: and (we'll) reign on (this) earth.

Therefore, Bro. Branham's sermon misses this, then I say, he has missed everything. Well, he didn't. You go over his sermons again, you're going to come right back to Christ and Him crucified, the shedding of the Blood, the perfection that lie therein. You are not going to find one thing where He exalts anybody, any man, himself, but he exalts Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And opens the Word of God and shows us exactly where we're at, because of that Blood and what we're coming into.

Now, you could…maybe you read the tapes, the books different from the way I read them. I know a lot of people do. But I can't read anything he wrote, I can't hear anything he said, but see it right in this Word. (See?) I believe you're a lot like me, so it's okay. We're seeing eye to eye.

6. Okay, Revelation 21:27

(27) And there shall in no wise enter into (New Jerusalem) any thing that defileth, neither worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

And [Revelation 22:] verses 1-3

(1) And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

(2) In the midst of the street of it, on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve…fruits, (the interjection there say twelve manner of fruit, I don't believe it, it just says twelve fruits) and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

(3) And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it;…

Now, what's the Lamb? The Sacrifice. Only those who come under the Blood, the total redemption of the Blood, they're in the Lamb's Book of Life. Because the Life was shed, and the Blood was a symbol of It. And the Life came back upon the seed and all of those make up New Jerusalem . And It says, "In New Jerusalem the emanating power or force, or the Light of New Jerusalem is in the Throne which is of the Lamb. For the Lamb's Throne is in the pyramidal City New Jerusalem upon Mount Zion, fifteen hundred mile square at the base. Fifteen hundred miles high, and the Throne is on the apex of the pyramid, and above the Throne is the Pillar of Fire. And they are One, and we are one in Him. How? By the Blood that was shed. For we are redeemed back to God.

7. And remember, redemption is all the way back to God which is New Jerusalem. (See?) And that Book was open and proving to us where we stand through the Blood. (See?) Seeing our names written in that Book. That's what this…end time Message is all about. The High Priest stood as Jesus Christ Melchisedec, come right down here to earth. And showed that He's High Priest, His Own Blood, and we under His calling, which calling was eternal in the very beginning, His Own calling all heavenly. And that same One that came down here to redeem us, now High Priest to His Own Blood, proves irrevocably in this Age, (see?) that He now is going to come back to being that One in human flesh, (redeemed flesh of course) to make us New Jerusalem. All proven to us. (See?) All the Word of God brought into open play.

8. Now, I brought a verse of Scripture sometime back from Daniel, 9:24, It says here:

(24) Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and (the) prophecy, and… (the vision and the prophecy was right to New Jerusalem.)

Now, what is going to do it to anoint the Most Holy?

(25) Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince (to) be seven weeks, and threescore and two:… (that's sixty-nine weeks, and after sixty-nine comes seventy) …and the wall, (built) in troublous times.

(26) And after threescore and two weeks…(because seven weeks came first, then sixty-two weeks, then follows seventy.)

Now notice:

(26) And after threescore and two weeks (makes sixty-nine in seventieth week) Messiah (shall) be cut off, but not for himself: …

And that's what it's all about. Christ dying upon Calvary in order to implement and institute the full will of Almighty God for His Son, Jesus is cut off and He accomplishes it. It's the death that does it. (See?)

9. Now, I know in this Age there's so much talk about the Holy Spirit and the gift. But remember, there's a true baptism and there's an anointing. (See?) And remember, the true baptism answers to the Blood, but the other anointing doesn't. Now, that's the secret of the whole thing here what we're looking at this morning. What Christ has accomplished by the Cross. And you can see that those under the power of revelation, never strayed from the reality of the Cross. They never got carried away by gifts. They never got carried away by the power of God. They weren't like those over here in the Book of Hebrews 6: and here's what It says here:

(4) …it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, have tasted the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

(5) …have tasted the good word of God, the powers of the world to come,

(6) (Having fallen) away…(and It says right here, they'll) crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh,…

Which showed absolutely they had no definitive relationship to the genuine sacrifice of Jesus Christ, because now they've got another. (See?)

Now, you begin to understand why I'm emphasizing Christ's death upon Calvary and the shedding of His Blood. Because it isn't here in Hebrews 6 in the end time, which is the Seventh Church Age, a message, not the Bride's Message now, but the Seventh Church Age message. And what's it all about? Why, we're enlightened, we know everything. Oh, we've got better books, we've got greater professors. We've got the …?... we got the scrolls, and we've got the heavenly gift. We partake of the Holy Ghost, we taste the good Word of God. We're even dabbling in the powers of the world to come. Yes siree! But It says,

(6) (They) fall away, (see, and It says,) they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh,…

10. So therefore, every single bit of this is apart from the genuine sacrifice of Jesus Christ somewhere, somehow they're repudiating Him who died on Calvary. You can say what you want, but I don't understand it, but I can sure preach it, and I can sure believe it. Not to be some theologian, get up here and try to confound you by strumming words and stupid ideas because we're all fallacious. But Paul said, "God that I should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, [Gal 6:14] I didn't come to you preaching anything but Christ and Him crucified." And brother/sister, if Bro. Branham preached identical to what Paul preached, then we're there this morning. (You see?) There's where your Charismatics is all out of cater. Now, throughout eternity there is only one great accomplishment of man that is recognized by God, and that is the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Now, I don't discount for one minute the fact that there is a record of faith concerning the hero's of faith. I don't discount that, don't discredit. But I'm talking about this which stands for reality upon which everything else is based. Now, you notice how I brought out in Daniel, every single thing hinges upon Christ who died not for Himself, but for us. It was His death that made available every single thing we're looking at. So therefore, we should look at His death and stay with His death. And he arose to see that we did it. He died and rose as executor to His Own will, which is absolutely unheard of. No man ever died then came back and settled his own will. He had to be in the hands of what he thought were honorable men, or the winds of chance. Or let's face it, his own inability, even in the hands of good people to see that his will was successfully executed, because he made his mistake in stating it.

11. Many a man who's made a mistake in stating his will. I know how it is. A good buddy of mine many years ago put his will, his house everything in order the best he could. And he didn't take a chance on him simply dying, he committed suicide. Hate to think of a thing like that, but he did it. You're not true, became such a dear friend of mine. The man was so ridden with nerves and so plagued he couldn't stand life anymore. Even death was better. And you know what? In spite of the fact that he did everything he could to see that his will would be right, his will was wrong. That's right.

It wouldn't have done him any good to come back and try to mediate his will, his will was wrong. What I'm trying to show you here is what God, it is so right, so perfect, that when Jesus died according to that Word and in the Word, He is able by His Resurrection to institute and see that it's absolutely will not be abnegated. And nothing shall ever happen to stop the election from receiving the inheritance that God has laid up for them through Jesus Christ's death. (See?)

12. Now, never forget that. It's nice that we got a record in heaven. Up there, there'd be no record of our failure. There'll be no record of sin. There'll be no word, there's be no remembrance of it. But there will constantly be the Lamb with the nail-prints in His hands. (See?) "Therefore if any man glory, glory in the Lord." [2 Cor 10:17] If any man glory, let him glory in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, We're going to look again at some of these accomplishments that Christ accomplished for us upon Calvary, because they were accomplished for us, not for Himself. Now, I know there's Scripture that show that there were certain things that were accomplished in His death and Resurrection for Himself. But you'll notice they are never for Himself alone, they are for us wherein we glory in what He did for us. Now, that sure would be nice. Wouldn’t it? To have your children come to you, and just simply glory in everything you've done for them. But usually they come and they dis-glory in everything you've done, because no matter how well you did it, or tried to do it, they're not satisfied, you whomp them anyway.

13. We have something here to look at, let's just see a few verses of Scripture, Isaiah 53:10, always good go to Isaiah 53. Now:

(10) Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

This is exactly Daniel 9. (See?) Notice: the sacrifice of Jesus, His soul and offering for sin. Only by It can He see His seed. Only by It can the seed be brought back. Only by It can He prolong His day. Only by the Cross can what God wants to do with this is to restore all the fallen sons come to pass. It has got to come to pass through the death of Jesus. And He died. But what will secure it, so that this time there'll be no loss, as in Eden there was a loss? He lived. He lived. (See?) To secure it.

Now, this is what He will accomplish for Himself in this sense. "He shall prolong His days, He shall see His seed." So, what's He talking about? He's talking about us. (See?) We're in it.

14. Okay, let's go to Ephesians 1:18

(18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that (you) may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Bound up again in the saints. Nothing for Himself, nothing that is for Himself, by Himself. Nothing where He stands back and says. "Look now, I have this, I'm over here, and you've got that, you're over there." No siree. "What I have, you have." He said. "You believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house there's many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you." He said that in John 14, before he died back in John about 20, or 19. (See?) Signifying that by His death He was going to accomplish for us that which could not be accomplished any other way.

15. Now, again we know that thou art kinship. Okay, 2 Thessalonians 1:10

(10) When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe…

Notice, the very glory of Jesus Christ is inexplicitly wound up to the saints. No place is Christ ever separated from the saints. It was only one time He was separated and that's when He was separated from sinners. He was different from sinners, the holy just sacrifice dying for you and me, that we might be brought back to God. And from that time there is no separation. For he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit. And by this one spirit we're joined to God, and show me where there's ever a disacknowledge or anytime for we're separated from Him. No time, at anytime! You can't find any place where He is alone. For He said, "Where I am, there You will be also." [Jn 14:3] (See?) Having been joined, there can be no separation, "For no man can pluck them out of My Father's hand." [Jn 10:28] And He said, "I will lose none." Not one of those sheep lost. (See?)

16. Okay, Colosians 1:13

(13) Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

What kingdom? The Son's Kingdom. (See?)

17. Again, Revelation (we were back there) 20:6

(6) Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him...(not under Him, with Him!) a thousand years.

This is beautiful, because we can see all the more clearly now what I've been talking about. The messages that I delivered before, how, what Christ did. He did not actually for Himself, He did for us, and what He gets out of it, is that we are with Him in all the glory, and all the Word is going is going to be fulfilled in that Bride. I hope you're catching this. I know I'm not a gifted preacher to be (you know) stormy and fire like you're used to. I used to talk much faster, much more powerful. I just get zoomed up, even when I've got you zoomed up the wrong octane, didn't bother me any. As long as I've got you zoomed up. But I want to stick with the Word. (See?)

And if the Word can't come forth, the revelation, I'm not interested in any other way. But listen, It says here that Jesus when He died and was raised, and God put all things under His feet. And gave Him to be the head over all the Word to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him. That's the Word, that filleth up all things with all things; so that the Bride is filled with the entire Word of Almighty God, and she becomes that Word in flesh with Him.

Oh, listen, now I know I'm saying the truth, I just wish it become a revelation to me. I'd start screaming like the eagles. And if I'm an eagle, I'll eventually he start feeling, but I'm telling you God's truth this morning. What was It done by? It was done by His death, and sealed to us by His Resurrection.

19. Now, let's just take a look at some of these things that He accomplished so we know wherein we stand, because redemption means to buy back. And we were in the sin market, sold under sin, and bought back to righteousness through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Let's look at It. All right, first of all, what did Jesus do when He died upon the Cross in order to bring us back to God? Well, first of all, we were at enmity with God. (See?) And we were in sin, and the wrath of God was revealed from generation to generation. And further wrath of God is against all ungodliness (see?) in all sin. So, what did Jesus do? He stilled forever the wrath of Almighty God, where It says over here in Galatians 3:13.

(13) Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us:…(Christ became a curse for us. Why? Because of sin. (See?)

20. First, second, let's find out more about It, get the picture. Why is this done? 2 Corinthians 5:21,

(21) For (God) hath made him (Jesus who knew no sin, He made Him what? A sin offering;) that we might be made the (righteous) of God (by our union) in him.

Here is what God did. God took Jesus as a sin offering, and that way He became a propitiation. Which means 'a mercy seat', an atonement. The turning away of the wrath of the offended one from the offender. So, that when Jesus died upon Calvary the wrath of God was forever stilled, forever stilled concerning mankind.

21. As It says in Romans 5: over here in verse 1.

(1) Therefore (having) being justified by faith,… (not being justified, having been justified. It's not a work that going on, it's a work that's completed, having been justified) we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

And what peace is this? I've explained it many times. This is not the peace that you've got in your heart. This is not a peace that you've got toward God. This is a peace that God has got toward you. For it is the wrath of the King Who has been offended, has been turned away from the offender and He's granted amnesty, He is no longer angry. And that's one thing this nation cannot understand, how to grant amnesty to his public contention. I'm sorry for that man that stood up there. I'm sorry for him who had be in prison for all those years. But he railed out against those ones in another contention, the same way. They railed out against those one, those boys that deserted.

Let me tell you flat, the government should have been railed at. They are the ones who did it. (See?) You understand, they don't understand amnesty. Therefore if you don’t understand it, that this nation as a government should now take down bars, and say, "Yes, I know." But there's got to be a place where you stop and turn around. But they won't stop and turn around. This nation doesn't understand amnesty. Therefore this nation doesn't understand spiritually how the wrath of God has been saved and He's no longer at wrath toward His people, but there's rest in Jesus Christ.

22. Oh, everything is a type today. Look around you, this nation [Revelation] chapter 13. This nation building the image. This nation where the Pillar of Fire came down. He with one foot on land, (which is America) and the other foot on the rest of the nation. All the world combined, two-hundred and twenty million people in America, had one foot here, and the other three billion people had one foot out there. That's why America is going to get doomed. Turned down the prophet. The Prophet was here. Seven times around the world is nothing. He was here all these years in America. And America has never learned, she doesn’t understand the first thing about amnesty. Can't quit her wrath, can't quit her fussing, can't quit her fighting. They had an old doctrine one time, they haven't got it anymore. You see, everything typing out.

People right today don’t understand how the wrath of God is turned away. I can make a challenge this morning, do you understand that God is not angry with you, but you still don't understand and neither do I. Oh yeah, we think we're punished, we're this and that. God doesn't punish and beating it up, He corrects, He chastens, He trains.

23. You show me one place where God is going to correct the Bride in anger. You show me one time where God can be mad. You can't get God angry. Oh, a lot of preachers understand this. (See?) They think God's got to be angry. That's the old Catholic, the old Oneness situation. Old Oneness doctrine. Hold a club over you. I'm going to hold no club over anybody. I don't want a club held over me either. There isn't any club. The Blood of Jesus Christ has settled the club. And God is not angry because of the Blood of Jesus Christ. God cannot be angry. No sir. He'll correct in love and mercy.

Let a man disobey Him and walk in sin, like Bro. Branham's own brother Howard. Would not clean up. Would not preach, would not serve God. One day God spoke and said, "You're going home." Now Howard had a bad heart. But every time his brother Bill walked in the room Howard could get up if he was three quarters, if he was a hundred and ten percent dead, he'd have still got up I think and walked out of the room.

So, this time God said, "You're going to go."

So, he said, clean my suit, press my clothes, get me ready I'm going."

They said, "Oh no, Bill will pray."

"No, (he said) Bill is not going to pray, (said,) I'm going." He got cleaned up and went.

24. What about that woman that God cleaned up? Bro. Branham told you the story about it. The girl was having a baby, the baby died. So she was dying. No hope for the girl. She was so full of poison there wasn't a chance. The doctor's stick a knife into her, she's gone. Just that minute. That's how many cancer patients die, cancer goes through the body. So, what happened, she got better.

And God said, "You're going home." Got her cleaned up, you're going home.

She said, "Mother, I'm going home."

She said, "Wonderful daughter, I know you're going home." She said, You're better now, a couple days you'll be back home."

"You don't understand mother, I'm going to die."

"Oh, (she said) you're just over wrought nervous, you're not going to die." She did.

And Bro. Branham said, "What's going on here? Why she was better, how come she died well?"

And God let him stew for several months. When he got through stewing, God said, "All right, I'm going to tell you something." Like a father tells his children. He said, "Now, I let you just go on your way for awhile, and then I'm going to let you in on a little secret."

And He gave him a vision, saw the girl drowning maybe three or four years ago. But they pulled her out of the water the third time she was going down. He said, "Now, she wouldn't live the life, so I had to clean her up and take her home." You call that wrath? You call that anger? I call it mercy. (See?)

25. Certainly, God's not mad at anybody. The Cross forever stilled the wrath of God against sin, because sin has been dealt with. You know something? I keep saying and I say again, so many people don't like this kind of preaching, because they're like a friend of mine in Lima, (a real sweet guy in the Assemblies of God church, I guess he's gone by now) he could never understand the doctrine of 'eternal security'. He always thought because I preached that to my kids, that's why they're out in the world. Oh no, no, no, it's a revelation my brother/sister that's missing. If the revelation of truly eternal security in the Word of God seen for ever got down in the heart, that is the one remedy for sin, and nothing else.

The way a man walks, is walks in his strength. He does not walk in his weakness. And strength is a revelation for the gates of hell cannot prevail against it. Let a person truly understand he is a sheep, still acts like a sheep. Let a person truly understand there is no wrath he won't go against God, he'll be so full of tears for every thought that even might be a little out. He'll be full of remorse and only too glad to try to please the Father. But It comes by revelation, It doesn't come any other way. (See?) Yes, the wrath of God forever stilled.

26. Now, let's go further, the wrath of God is forever stilled, because forever still, forever satisfied are the claims of justice. Let's go over to Romans 3:25. Now:

(25) Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

Here's a righteous God. Now, there's got to be a penalty for sin. Something's got to be done about it. Now, a righteous God has got to do something. Now what's He going to do? He's going to justify the ungodly. He's going to turn right around and say, "This fellow over here is living in the pig pen, this fellow that's acting a chicken down there in a chicken run; his sheep that's in the sow wallow; this eagle that's in the chicken coop, now He said, Something's got to be done about it."

Now, He said, "I'm going to declare them righteous." Now, how can God be righteous and do it? Through the death of Jesus Christ. Now you see, justice had to be met. A penalty had to be given. Because It says here God sent forth Jesus as a propitiation. And a propitiation means 'an atonement'. It means, 'a price paid'. It means something had to be done in reparation. Because something was done, something else has got to be done. Something must be done to counteract it.

27. Now, here's every single child of God's fallen son, what's God going to do about it? The Scripture says right here that, "Jesus became the propitiation." He became the One Who turned away the wrath of God, because God accepted a guiltless life, for the guilty lives. Now, in ourselves we are not guiltless. Let's forget that nonsense. There are people right now trying to bring us to a place of guiltlessness by the stature of a perfect man, it won't work. There's nothing you can add, you add all you want to, you're still a skunk and a mess. Yes sir. It's got to be something He did. You see. And this is the truth of it. It's that Jesus died and shed His Blood, and only by the propitiation or our Mercy Seat, which is Jesus Christ.

Remember, Bro. Branham constantly used the term 'Mercy Seat', instead of propitiation. Because that's what It is, a Mercy Seat. And He was the One Who shed His Blood so that God could take the guilty one into His arms, because of the guiltless One. And remember, let's face it, you and I were separate from it. We were separate, separated from that as the goat is from a human being. Because under the propitiation of the Mercy Seat the high priest took a goat. And the goat did not do the sin. The goat was not guilty of sinning. It was the people guilty of sinning. But as soon as that goat dies, and the other ones were put in the wilderness with him, the lions and the bears would try to eat him up. Then the people were free.

28. But you know, people always just want to try to wiggle in. "Something in my hands I bring, not exactly to Thy Cross I cling. Oh, Rock of Ages cleft for me, see something pretty good in me." And now that, "I got the Holy Ghost, O Lord, I feel I can boast. To me myself, I'll drink my toast, O Lord, I'm pretty good today." (Yep) I'm sarcastic on purpose. So was Jesus. So was Job, so was Paul. I don’t know one that wasn't sarcastic, it's a virtue, when you use it right. But I needed …?... and all the rest of us are really going to learn what we're supposed to learn about this true rest in Jesus Christ, so we're going to be ready to sing the songs of the Lamb when we get there. We better get our practice here. We better. (You see?)

But the claims of justice have been met. How can God be Just and what? Now listen, let's not use technical terms. God is Just and the Justifier of what? "To declare through His righteousness the He might be just, and the justified is him that believes in Christ." Now, who believes in Jesus? The sinner! Now, It says, "How can God be just, righteous and declare a sinner righteous?"

That's like saying, "I declare this green book red. Book, be red." Well, unfortunately it didn't turn red. I didn't have what it takes. No, but the Bible says that's what God can do. And God can be absolutely just in doing it. Then the claim of justice has been met when Jesus died. Why? Because He turned away the claim. Christ took in His bosom the full brunt.

Bro. Branham often mentioned that fellow, (what was that fellow's name in Switzerland) Arnold von Winkelried, I remember it. And he stood on the bridge, and the troops are coming to destroy the Swiss, in that little camp where they were. And he said, "I will show you how it's done." And he rushed to the bridge and gathered all the spears and swords to his own bosom. Now, that's what Jesus Christ did when he took all the sins of mankind. For God had laid on Him the iniquity of us all, and therefore the claims of justice have been met. You don't need to worry about justice anymore. Why? Because it's mercy, the throne of grace and mercy forever still.

29. Now, let's go to Romans 8:31-34. And you know this is really some of my favorite Scripture.

(31) What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

How was God for us? Through Jesus Christ. Now He tells you and I'm telling the truth.

(32) He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

That's exactly what the Book of Daniel said. Exactly what Daniel said. I hope you're seeing this, to me it's just as clear as ABC. One and one make two, two and two make four. Four and four make eight, eight and eight make sixteen. Sixteen and sixteen make thirty-two. Thirty-two times two is sixty-four, times two a hundred and twenty-eight, and so on right down the line, five-fifty-six, and keep moving. It's just clear as ABC. Keep piling up …?... Now listen:

(33) Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect?...

Who is going to declare this man guilty or unrighteous, when it's God who justified. God declared the man righteous. (See?) Now, who's tribunal are you going to be in? The tribunal of God. All right, how are you going to bring a charge, how is a man going to be charged guilty if God says he's innocent? (See?)

And remember, Bro. Branham said, "That the Blood of Jesus Christ destroyed the evidence." How can you make a man a sinner he said, "When the Blood of Jesus Christ stands between Him and Almighty God? Why, (he said) that would scatter sin until there be no evidence whatsoever, or sign of it?" Even as bleach. He also mentioned, one drop of ink in a washtub full of Clorox. Certainly. Why? There's no evidence.

30. Now listen,

(33) …God (judges.)

(34) Who is he that condemneth?...

First of all It says, "Who dares bring me into God's court? Who dares tries to drag me into a court of law?" Said you can't do it. Then It says:

(34) Who is he that condemneth? (that means condemn me to death, and judges me) It is Christ that died, (now listen) yea rather, is risen again, who is at the right hand… (making sure that nobody can ever be judged who comes to God by Him.)

As Bro. Branham said, "When you got a judge and a jury and a lawyer all of one cause, (he said) it's a stacked court, forget it." Now, he said, "As God as my Judge, and He is my jury, and He is my Attorney and He's all for me, who is going to be against Him?" (See?) There you are, forever satisfying the claims of justice.

Now notice, He forever paid for our sins. You know, all those people think they've got to pay for their own sins. Now, you'll be corrected for your sins, but you don't pay for it. To pay is a different thing. You say, "Well, I paid for what I did." You don't pay for what you did when God Almighty is correcting you and giving you something better. You're not paying. People get so scrupled up in their statements which is so far from the Scripture it be pitiful. No wonder Bro. Branham was misunderstood by all the theologians, and by all the fundamentalists. Nobody could understand him, because he didn’t talk their language. I don't say you can't understand him, I just said the people out there couldn't do it. They don't know.

31. Now, let's look at It. Romans 5:19

(19) For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Now watch, by the disobedience of one, by the sin of Adam we were all made sinners. By the righteousness of Christ we're all made righteous. (See?)

Now, what happened? The claim of sin was paid. Look at It, [Romans 5:]

(12) Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all…(that's right, everyone a sinner, ever since Adam. Everyone a sinner, no doubt.)

What about today? In Christ, everyone in Him perfect righteous, not a sinner, but a saint. And no longer not just a saint, but today Bride, because there's coming a …?... which we won't talk about.

32. All right, let's go to Romans 5:21

(21) That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ…

And this is not speaking of you and me now, this is speaking of what Christ does for us. For as sin hath reigned unto death, (and it's doing it right now) even so is grace reigning through the righteousness of Christ unto Eternal Life, which is New Jerusalem. No doubt about it. How is it done? Through Jesus' death upon Calvary.

33. Romans 6:14

(14) For sin shall not have dominion over you: for (you're) not under law, but under grace.

What is grace? The shedding of the Blood of Jesus Christ. How can sin have dominion? Sin brings death, sin brings separation. Sin brings the Lake of Fire. How can that happen when Christ died upon Calvary? You're not under law, you're under grace. What's grace? Shed Blood of Jesus Christ. Grace extended through Christ dying. How could grace be extended without Christ dying? Tell me? It couldn't be. People say, "It was grace that brought the death of Jesus." I say, "No!" It was the death that brought the grace. Now, maybe I'm wrong, but I can't see any other thing but that.

34. Now, let's go further, Hebrews 10:18, see what Jesus did.

(18) Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

Why? Because the other verse said, "Under sin and of grace, I'll remember no more upon what grounds the death of Jesus Christ." Impossible. Then sin cannot be remembered. Why? Because they're forgiven. How can God forgive a man's sin and keep a record of it? Look at Hebrews chapter 11, not one record of sin. Not one record of sin! You think Moses was Jesus Christ, and Abraham was Jesus Christ, and Pharaoh was Jesus Christ, everyone you think was Jesus Christ in that Scripture. And they are! To the identification what He did for them, because there is not one record of any thing where they went wrong. And Abraham in his own, heir of adoption made his wife lie for him, so did William Branham. Don't go looking at people, everybody's got straw feet. All except Pentecostal's. Oh, yeah, they think they've got it. There's no sin, except what somebody else does. What they do doesn't matter.

And the guy in Columbus can divorce his wife and marry somebody else, live in adultery, that's okay, glory to God, hallelujah, talk in tongues. You say, "That's not all of them." No, I admit it, but the same spirit goes all down the line. But let them get back to God. Let him get and see what the Blood of Jesus Christ truly did, and what the Spirit of God truly answering back to. Let the revelation come in. You won't find a guy divorce his wife and marry somebody else, living in sin. No, you won't find a guy running around, take another man's wife. No, they don't. They don't. Why? Because they begin to act like teens or sons, which they are, and proven to be by the shed Blood and the sealing back by the Holy Ghost.

35. Now, He paid forever the claims of sin. Why? It says, "There's where the remission of these is, there is no more offering, because by one offering He satisfied the claim and sat down forever. How? He rose as a memorial of what He did. And now He makes …[end of side one] [blank spot]… [Romans 10:]

(12) (For) this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

(13) From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

(14) For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Here we see in here the grace of Almighty God. Verse 19

(19) Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

You come to Him in the holiest by the Blood. People think it's the Holy Ghost, but it's not. It's by the Blood that you come. It's by the Blood we have a direct confrontation. It's by the Blood that God can take the filthiest sinner and say, "Come in unto My place, come, let us reason together, I'll entertain you, I'll talk to you and I'll give you the Holy Ghost." How? By the Blood of Jesus Christ.

36. God doesn't clean a man up and then let him come. He justifies the ungodly, "Just as I am without one plea, but by Blood was shed for me." And that's …?... "Oh Lamb of God, I come back perfect theology." Rhymes with the Scripture. Oh, who made that up? Fanny Crosby? That was old Fanny Crosby, she had more truth-theology by the Holy Ghost, than ninety-nine of those that claim to be preachers. True. And then when you do come, don't pretend you got something as though you had. Because God said, "From that time on, (He said) what have you got for what you received?"

Then He said, "If you receive, then why do you act as though you got it yourself?" That's why you'll see brother/sister when a man's truly born of that Spirit, that Spirit answers back to that Blood all by the Word of Almighty God. You watch how softly that man walks, there's no boasting. He doesn't say, I've arrived, hallelujah.

You didn't hear Paul the apostle say it, you didn't hear Daniel say it, you didn't hear Job say it, you didn't hear one person in the Word of God ever say it. Isaiah, the great prophet of God in the Presence of God said, "O God, I'm a mess, I'm just …?... I can't stand." God took a coal from off the altar and purged the fellow's lips. He said, "You'll stand, because of what I'm doing." Sure.

37. Why do I get a little bit alarmed when I hear all these boasting things going on? I don't mind boasting in Jesus, that's fine, but you start boasting in yourself, "I added this, I did that, I did the other thing. You watch me, you watch my smoke." Forget it. No, brother/sister, It's the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son. I love it. It opened the way for sinners that all may come unto Him. And that door cannot be closed. No sir! There's only one time that door will be closed, and that is when He Himself has to close it by virtue of the fact that the Bride is made up. Then it's still not closed, because all the others come in on judgment day who have not sinned away their day of grace, by either being serpent seed…they're the only ones that would blaspheme Holy Ghost.

They'll still come in. The Blood still stands. Just like for every little baby out there that's born. Let it die, that baby won't make it. The Jews under the Fifth Seal, either at this point denying the very Christ that bought them. Do you think they're lost? They are not lost. No sir, they're not, they're blinded. And under grace shall come in by the very Blood they denied, not knowing. But they'll be brought to recognition when they see the hands and say, "Now surely, that wasn't the way it really was." Yet, the way it really was. Oh what a mourning Israel will go through. The day of mourning. When they mourn as one who lost their only son. Yes, they'll mourn. They're mourning now, but you wait until they really mourn. (See?)

38. Now, He opened the way for sinners to come, and that door never shuts. Now listen, He forever took away judgment and the curse so that no man will face judgment. No man will worry about it. We covered that in a certain area up here concerning the wrath of Almighty God. But let's go to Isaiah 53, and look at It. Because there's some of these things you just sort of cover the second time, because they've got double aspects, or such enlarged aspects you just don't get under one heading, nor should you. Because there's just too much there. Far too much. Okay, Isaiah 53: Now,

(1) Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

Well, of course if He hasn't revealed you never believe it, that takes a revelation. Then It says here:

(2) (It'll) grow up before him as a tender plant, a root out of a dry ground: no form nor comeliness; when (we'll see) him, there is no beauty (to) desire him.

What is He?

(3) (He's) despised and rejected of men; (he had to be) a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces…we esteemed him not.

Now, what's He doing?

(4) (Bearing our sorrows carrying our grief's) stricken…of God, and afflicted.

And listen, that's the only place you'll really esteem Him. Is afflicted for our sins. Now, I know people want to see Him elsewhere as the great Holy Spirit. Now look it, I'm not against that, so please don't misunderstand me. I'm not denigrating, I'm not denying, I'm merely trying to throw back and balance by moving the pendulum where it belongs. The pendulum has got to come back to His death. There is only one place where He is esteemed, and that is stricken. Why? Because He couldn't be held in death! (See?) The Resurrection is not it, it's His death! (See?) Christ could have died and God could have raised Him. But that was not it, because God raised old Lazarus. He was stinking, he was decaying, an absolute resurrection, and he died again. So, it's not the Resurrection. Oh, that's wonderful, it's the death. And It's the Resurrection that proves the death, what the death is all about. And in the Resurrection He brings to pass everything He accomplished in His death. Hope you're getting the picture now, that's the rounded picture the way I see it, that's what I see.

39. That's why Bro. Branham said, "Every Sunday morning you come here, (he said) you commemorate His Resurrection, but what do you come for? To show, (he said) every time you meet you show His death." (See?)

What's the Resurrection all about? Not the fact that Jesus rose. Elijah went up, Enoch went up. God can raise any dead man, but that's not the point. The point is, He died, and a certain One died for certain others. And this was that One, this is that Redeemer. Now, we have seen Him smitten, stricken of God and afflicted.

Listen, He said, "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men." Lifting up from the earth is what? His death upon Calvary. The death upon Calvary is what draws. Not anhideous fascination that God was angry and took His wrath out on somebody. But a fascination by grace that here as Paul said, "Is it possible some person, that's a fine person, or somebody might say, "Here's a fine person, he's going to die, I'll die for him." But here is Jesus Himself, a the sinless One dying upon Calvary to redeem wicked ones. Here we have seen the smitten of God and afflicted. Because God took Him a good sacrifice. Then if God smote Him, how are we going to be smitten? Did God judge Him, how are we going to be judged? If God denies Him for us, how are we going to be denied?

How is a faithful God going to deny a bargain struck? The bargain struck was a sacrifice to redeem the rest. Then if the bargain was struck, then they're redeemed. "Oh, how I love to proclaim it. Redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb. Redeemed by His infinite mercy, His child forever I am."

40. Oh, we don't that Word. How are you going to stop a bargain struck? How, how is anybody going to get thrown out for that righteous Blood is sitting there, and those hands always open and say, "Father, I died for them?" (See?) Understand what we're talking about? This is what redemption is all about, the Book of redemption opened, is not some fly-by-night thing down the road. Not some great swelling mysteries. Sounds great to me it is, anyway you have what you want, I don't fight with anybody.

But I keep telling you, I go to the library and I buy a book on how to trim the dog. Feed the dog, raise the dog. And open the first chapter, it said, "Now you take the puddy-cat, when it gets two weeks old from his little mommy, you do so and so."

I said, "For that sounds great the first chapter. I go to the second chapter, it says, "Now, you take the puddy-cat to the veterinarian he'll give it shots. Now, that's still very strange. The third chapter, "Now you take the puddy-cat and you do so and so." Forget it, that's not a book on dogs. Not a book on dogs, it's a book on cats.

You show me where the problem with the Book of Redemption is going to tell you this, that and the other thing. It's the Book of Redemption. And Who's the Redeemer? Christ. Now, what's He going to do? Draw the whole picture, that we may stand in wonder and look at Him, our Redeemer Who died upon Calvary. And rose to make sure that everything He procured would be ours. So must Melchisedec come down and prove it.

41. How many saw Bro. Branham in those last few years? How many? Let me see your hands. Get your hands up, don't be scared, I'm not going to come down and clobber you, I just want to see. All right listen, every time you and I were there we saw that discernment, and we saw him standing by…like the tent, you saw the High Priesthood of Jesus Christ, Melchisedec. The High Priest of your and my calling in Him, actually come down and prove that He was raised. Absolutely showing us Who He was and what He was doing to see Him as He is, "the same yesterday, today and forever." [Heb 13:8] How much simpler can it get?

The first law of teaching is not by precept as though you're going to tell a person something, it's by showing, the eye-gate. And we saw Him, we saw the Holy Spirit actually come down as the seventh Spirit before the Throne. It was God with a skin on. Now, he wasn't God, but the Holy Spirit's God. And that Holy Spirit in you and me is just as much God as God Himself is we haven't got. And there when that Holy Spirit came down and He was literally veiling that Pillar of Fire as it were, that Word, then He stood there and we actually saw God, because He did the works which no man could do, and Jesus said that was God. We saw God come down, we saw Melchisedec. And Bro. Branham just a little before he died he said, "This is one of those great mysteries and the end time all mysteries are revealed." (Yeah) And I just found another mystery, 'Anointed Ones at the End Time', is another end time mystery. I hadn't caught that one before, but it's right in there, (page 10, I think it is.) And there that great mystery of Melchisedec was: He the Eternal One became flesh once more at the end time to show Himself. And what was He? High Priest.

42. High Priest to what? His Own Blood. And every time the resurrection was demonstrated, shown, it was proving that what He accomplished is ours, and He's saying, "Look it's in His …?... would you believe it?" But you know something, we don't get a revelation by just running around thinking, thinking, running, running, tarrying, tarrying. There's got to come a day we settle down like the prophet said and just give ourselves over to it.

Yes, we have esteemed Him, smitten of God and afflicted. And that's the only way that we're going to esteem Him is to see Him in His death. Never mind the resurrection my brother/sister, I'll tell you this reason, because millions are going to see Him in a resurrection having missed His death. I want to see Him in His death. I do, and esteem Him, then I'll know that I'm somewhere close to the High Priest's ministry.

43. Now, you go back over the tapes again, especially The Seals, and you're going to see more and more about the Blood than you ever saw before. "He was wounded for our transgression." See, not His own. The goat had nothing to do with the sins of Israel, he was a victim to the sins of Israel. Here's a victim to my sins. "He was wounded for my transgressions, He was bruised for my iniquities, the chastisement of my peace was upon Him; and with His stripes I am healed." [Isaiah 53] Why, because He stood for me. "He was oppressed, He was afflicted …and so on. Taken from prison, who will declare His generation? Cut off the land of the living, stricken for My people." You see, He couldn't marry and have children. "Made His grave with the wicked, with the rich in His death. He had done no violence. There was no deceit."

He was such a perfect sacrifice that God could honestly say, "Look, I'll take Him, and in taking Him I'll excuse every single one of you." The Books are closed. Anybody that comes unto God by Him now is free. So, we have the truth. For they shall never, never, never come into the judgment. How could they? He was Judge for you and me.

How can God go back on His Word when He declares a sinner righteous. Not because He just…I declare you righteous, I had fun doing these things you know to confound the people. I'd likely change My mind too, it's very nice, (you know) I keep you guessing. There's no gifts, there's not changing of mind, He demanded a penalty, and He got it, and Jesus died, the Books are closed. …?... The Book of sin and judgment closed, and the Book of Eternal Life open and we see It. (See?) Yes, He did it, He took away the curse forever, annihilated judgment.

44. Now, let's go to Hebrews 2: and see what He did to the devil. Now, here's something right here that people don't understand. I'll only take a minute on, all right, Hebrews 2:14.

(14) Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood,…

And remember, that proves pre-existence. They said children took part of flesh and blood so the children must have been there somewhere before they came here. The seed was, you bet it was. It was there, was in Him. Just like Levi was in Abraham. Now:

(14) …he also…took part of the same; that through death he might (bring to nothing) him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

And that's true, because through His death will be annihilated every trace and fragment and memory of whatever Satan did down here through the fall of Adam and Eve. Through the fall of himself, and his angels. That's right. There'll be absolutely not only a disannulling, but a complete annihilation of bringing to nothing as though it had never been.

You know, that's the way God forgives us. Because God removes the guilt of the parties so thoroughly, that before God that person is as guiltless as though he had never, ever sinned during his entire life time. No remembrance of sin. There is an annihilation at that great day in New Jerusalem. I don't know just exactly, because I haven't searched certain Scriptures too thoroughly, but I know this, that day when God wipes away every tear, there'll be no more remembrance of this earth, and things of the earth. Except one thing, we'll rejoice in it, and how, I don't know that we will, of the wounds in his hands and his side of the Lamb being continuingly with us.

45. In other words, we'll remember every good thing, which is eternal. Which is of God, and the memory of nothing else. And since redemption is of God, we'll understand redemption somehow. I don't pretend to have all the answers, what I know is this: that Bro. Branham said, "When those tears are wiped away, that is the hour that the former things are forgotten."

He just is God, broke His …?... How can there be a [re]membrance of Him? (See?) Oh, brother/sister let me tell you, the prophet made it so clear and so true. He said, "Look, don’t try to get anything without a revelation." Don't look for healing, get a revelation on. Don't look for this thing and that thing, get a revelation on. The prophet is a revealer which behooves us not to entangle ourselves any longer that things that are so complex and driving us apart, because they are. But to begin to esteem Him smitten. And to recognize that that resurrection of Jesus Christ proven to us, has proven the full effect of His will at this present moment. And we're going right now as Daniel saw, and seal up.

Daniel, stop it he said. But a day would come when Daniel would be unsealed, that's what was unsealed, not just Seven Seals, those thunders, that very hour, all the mysteries of God. And brother/ sister, let me tell you something: what does it matter how intricate the mysteries of God are? What does it matter how great and how confounding they are if you and I don't have the key to open the door to where the goodies are? Let's not put the cookies on the top jar, the top shelf where the children cannot reach them. Bring the cookies down to where they can be reached.

46. And then how is it done? Through the death of Jesus Christ, and His Resurrection, High Priest through His Own benefits, and coming before us now, and say, "See, I told you all along, and I'm showing you the whole picture and you're invited to the Marriage Supper."

Oh, what Christ hath wrought for us, bringing it all to nothing what Satan has done. Do you realize in the future every thought that you want to have changed now is going to be changed. You won't be thinking… I know we're undergoing the thought change even now. And oh, I know we're way, way behind that where we should be. But you realize there's something way ahead yet? You won't be thinking as we're thinking anymore. Our values won't be the same values.

Poor old Abraham, there he was in the very hour of the adoption, and we're in the very hour also of the adoption. Saw the manifestation. Saw, proven wheat in a prophet. Saw Melchisedec come down. Saw of God's favor. And yet, how many are perfect? Not one. You're not going to get it this side of the veil. You're just going to be shown those things will be yours, and what the hour we're living in.

47. We don't feel like a Bride, but we are. We don't feel like we're adopted, we are. We don't feel like any manifestation, but it's still here. This is that hour. Bro. Branham said this is that age. And it goes right into the Resurrection. And it's in the Resurrection you get the change.

How are we going to walk up to Abraham and say, "Abraham, you remember the day you made poor old Sarah lie for you?" Oh, you talk about Abraham, you know you should have never gone to Egypt. You're the guy that's our Father by faith, you're the fellow to look up to, and how come you went down to Egypt? And Abraham…I want to ask you a question: Isn't it true that out of your descendants, so Jacob gets the roughest end of the stick? Isn't he the fellow everybody calls a shyster and a …?... and this kind of guy? But isn't it strange Abraham that you and I see both went down into Egypt, but Jacob wouldn't go down when God sent him?"

That's right. You going to say that? No. I'm not going to be saying that, nobody remembers. There's no record. Right in the adoption the man sinned. Joseph most perfect type, sinned. David, prophet, king, oh Lord, did he foul up. I'm glad I got him as my whipping boy. The Bible says, all this is for an example. I'm glad I can see there wasn't one sin, but Jesus. There wasn't one who was without sin, but Jesus Christ. He was the only One that didn't. And God said, "I'll take that life for every other life that's forfeited.

48. As in Adam, they all died, even so in Christ every life come back. And I believe that this morning brother/sister, without a doubt that Jesus Christ accomplished what we're talking about for you and me. I'm going to close in reading Hebrews 10:12-15, read part of It already. Now, It says:

(12) But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

(13) From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

In other words, absolutely until the devil, even the devil's destroyed. Why? By one sacrifice, just like Daniel said. Now:

(14) For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Perfection by the Blood. That's your perfection and my perfection. Now listen:

(15) Whereof the Holy Ghost is witness to us:…

We're of this morning to hear His Voice, the command when he showed him Christ had died. Showed him His Resurrection power, who but Christ could come back by the Holy Spirit doing the same works He did in His flesh. Showing He was indeed the Messiah, showing that He was the sacrifice.

They said, "What are we going to do?"

He said, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, for the remission of sin, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, the promise unto your children and all that afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." [Acts 2:37-38]

49. What am I trying to show you? I'm trying to show you the terms He Appears, showed him that this man died. The Blood absolutely stands this morning as it did at Pentecost, at the third hour, nine o'clock in the morning, when he preached that Sunday morning at nine o'clock, because it was the first day of the week I suppose. …?... I suppose it was. (I don't have a calendar to prove it) But there He stood on that witness to the Resurrection.

And he said, "Jesus died for your sins."

And they said, "What are we going to do?"

And he said, "I'll tell you, you believe on His death. You believe on His Blood." And he said, "If after you've had a change of mind, where you absolutely see now, and you'll put away everything else. All your other sacrifices, your former religion, your former ideas, and you're willing to stand on this fact that Jesus Christ was taken by wicked hands and crucified. But death could not hold Him, God raised Him, proving that He was that sacrifice that He was the One to bear away the sins of the world. If you believe that (he said) be baptized in His Name right now. And God will come down with the Holy Ghost and fill you."

50. What's the witness to the Blood? The Holy Spirit. What's the witness to the Blood? Holy Spirit. If that Blood is covering this morning, I say this about Pentecost, I say it again, they certainly had it true back when I was a kid. They said, "The Spirit answers to the Blood." Today they have the same Blood, Blood, Blood, Blood, Blood, Blood. You can say, Blood, Blood, Blood and you die. That's not fear of the Holy Ghost, it's the revelation, the truth, that you're under the Blood. And if you're under the Blood this morning my brother/sister, then God will fill you with the Holy Ghost.

That's what people are all wrong. …?... just say, "Well, I believe He died," That's wonderful, He did die. What did He die for? To have all the inheritance laid in your lap. "We'll how am I going to know that I've got It?" The Holy Ghost will bear witness to you. "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?"

Paul knew that John's baptism had been preached. He knew they were looking for Messiah, because that was what John pointed to. Now he said, "I want to ask you a question, (he said) you've been believing, have you got the Holy Ghost?"

"Well, (they said) we don't know whether there be any Holy Ghost."

Now, this morning, do you know if you're baptized with the Holy Ghost?" That's the question. Now God will answer back to His Blood, by baptizing with the Holy Ghost. Not speaking in tongues, not sensation, no. No, he didn't do it that way at Pentecost.

Because Peter said, "You repent and be baptized, you receive the Holy Ghost." I want to see where they had all those sensations, they didn't have them. But I want to tell you one thing, when they accepted the Blood of Jesus Christ and were baptized in that water, God was obligated to give them the Holy Ghost, He did. That's where we stand.

Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? Maybe you weren't baptized right. Father, Son and Holy Ghost is no baptism. That's not a name. (See?) Father's not a name. Son is not a name. Holy Ghost tells Who It is. What's the name? Lord Jesus Christ. His Name is to be called 'Jesus', Jehovah Savior. Baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, he said, "You believe because of the Blood shed, you can receive the Holy Ghost." What about this morning? See what happened? It's been made too complicated. It's just too complicated. When did It become so complicated? Well, let's undo the complication this morning. Because the prophet said, "it's so simple, it's going over their heads."

Why not just say Lord, I'm uncomplicated today, I know that Scripture says that His Blood had to be shed. I know it's proven His Blood was shed, there's no doubt now, I know it, I know He's High Priest His Own Blood. I'll accept Jesus Christ as my Savior preached on the fact that He died upon Calvary. And I'll receive Him as the High Priest to this salvation which God is calling me by the fact that He's proved that He's living amongst the brethren right at this moment. I'll accept that, and I'll be baptized in His Name. And brother/sister that's what they did at Pentecost, that's how they got the Holy Ghost. That's why people are not receiving the Holy Ghost, or getting just the anointing, getting gifts.

I say as Bro. Branham, "Look, I give you this pen, this pen is not Lee Vayle, that's a gift from Lee Vayle." A gift of tongues is not the Holy Ghost. The gift of healing is not the Holy Ghost. A gift of prophecy is not the Holy Ghost. A gift of faith is not the Holy Ghost. A gift of miracles is not the Holy Ghost. A gift of discernment is not the Holy Ghost. Bro. Branham's of course was not a gift. That was the Word Itself as evidence. The discernment out there a man with x-ray eyes, look and tell you about yourself. …?... it's not God, the Holy Ghost my brother/sister is not that. The Holy Ghost is a Giver, but we must have the Holy Spirit.

Now, how is He going to come? There's no other way I can tell you, what Paul told you, "If God should say I should glory save the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. Peter said, "This man that God said you killed by wicked hands that crucified and slain, but God raised up, (he said) now believe on Him." He's come back. Manifested Himself, showed you. What are you going to do? Just believe what I told you. Just believe what I told you. Told you about the Blood. Proved it to you. Showed you. Just believe Him. Get baptized in His Name, and you shall receive that gift.

See, men have said, "Well, maybe." There's no 'maybe' to it. Men have said, "We hope so." There's no hope so to it. Men have said "We'll try." There's not trying to it. It's God. God Who sent His Son. You see what I'm trying to tell you? I didn't ask Him to die, I didn't ask Him to come, any more than I aked to be born. I didn't tell Adam to sin, I didn't ask to be born, I'm here. I didn't ask Him to come, He came. Now, He said, "The sheep hear My Voice." Right? It's that simple. There's no room to doubt any longer. You don't have these fears and foibles that come across anymore. They're all gone. Why? It's been proven in our midst, the Blood is in effect. "Come ye blessed," The Holy Spirit will witness to you that you are under that Blood. You follow me?

The Holy Spirit Himself bears witness by coming in. It's the full work of Jesus Christ …?... Totally identified with Him. That's grace my brother/sister. Anything else is works. And Paul said, "If it be by works, then let it be works, if it be by faith and grace, let it be by faith and grace." Once and for all, let us get rid of our foolish ideas, our misunderstandings and come back to the simplicity. I went to a strange land, but I came back in Jesus Christ. Sealed in by the Holy Ghost. It's out of my hands entirely, it's in His hands by grace I stand. Let's rise at this time.

Dear Lord Jesus Christ, we stand in Your Presence knowing what You have accomplished for us, proven in this hour by Your Resurrection amongst us. How wonderful is Your grace. Now, Lord, there be amongst us perhaps those who are not filled with Your Spirit, not born again. But this morning anxious to come under the Blood. Anxious, Lord God, to partake of your grace, to accept Jesus and the full meritorious work which was accomplished by His Blood in redemption.

Stand here, Lord, anxious to be proven sons of God by the infilling of the Holy Ghost. Lord, if there be those amongst us, I pray, Father, with right at this very moment they will put their trust in You for the complete remission of sins and the baptism with the Holy Ghost. Grant that, Lord, because…and we don't even have to ask You to grant It, because we know it is so, we can only pray, Lord, that You'll open the hearts to receive It. Because except the Father draw him, there'll be no coming. May, Lord, there be a drawing this morning which we believe will certainly come to those who open, who are here this morning, Lord, listening, we believe You'll do it.

While our heads are bowed, our eyes are closed, maybe someone here, I can't save you. One step you take will not save you, there's just One can do it, that's Jesus, because he died and rose again. And in His Resurrection sent back the Holy Spirit proving that what He accomplished is real for you. You can come to Christ this morning with every sin forgiven. Yes sir, absolutely every sin can be forgiven. Washed as white as snow by the Blood of the Lamb, and you then can receive the Holy Spirit. There's not one who cannot, if God's tugged at your heart. Don't think you can't, because you can. The very fact that you're here this morning as a sinner having been born that way. You can't help it, you didn't ask to be. That's the same with salvation. God's tugging at your heart, it means that you're one of those that God wants to redeem.

Now, if God's tugging at your heart, we'll be glad to pray for you. Just raise your hand and say pray for me, I feel the tug of God in my heart I want to be saved, want to be full of the Holy Ghost. I want Christ. That's all you've got to do, that's all we'll do is pray, no altar calls. It's up to you from there on. Anybody, that's fine.

Heavenly Father, You know every heart, not here to plead and beg, but, Lord, done my best now in a certain sense of the Word. Don't know we ever do our best, but, Lord, done some little thing in a way, my ignorance and incapable ways to show what the Blood of Jesus Christ means standing before You. O God, Your Word cannot fail. It cannot fall to the ground. It's got to burst forth, enlighten us in the revelation in what we said, because here it is in Your Word, not our words, but Yours. And It will accomplish to understand, and, Lord, now stand in It.

Now, unto the King Eternal, immortal, invisible the only wise God, may we give You all honor and glory forever as we by revelation give back to You praise for this so great salvation, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. The Lord bless you.

Shall we go singing a little song: 'Take the Name of Jesus with you'. What is that Name? Jehovah Savior. Take the Name of Jesus with you, Jehovah Savior and that will see us through. (Right!) It's bound to, it's bound to. Lord bless you, because that's our salvation.