Promise of the Spirit

Promise of the Spirit

Bro. Lee Vayle – November 15, 1970

Let's bow our heads in prayer.

Gracious Heavenly Father, we come now with the merging of our minds with Thy great Mind, Who is the Holy Spirit Word revealed entity amongst us. Now, Father, I pray that every Word that is to be said will be Thy Word, and accepted by the people of such, in this solemn hour. And no matter what it costs us as to our feelings as to anything else we will know that it is the truth, and simply wait on You for the reality of It, to come into existence what's in these mortal frames of ours, the glory of God in the Name of Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.

1. The message this morning is on the 'Promise of the Spirit'. The promise of the Holy Spirit and the text is found in Acts 2:38-39, which we already know.

(38) Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, … (not remitting your sins by water, but because of remission of sins) and (you) shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

(39) For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.

Now, if any one subject in the Bible needs to be understood, it is that one concerning the true infilling of the Holy Spirit. It is not understood by many people, yet it should be. And I hesitate to speak this morning upon it, except William Branham a vindicated prophet has spoke many, many times upon this very subject.

2. Now, the major reason, the truth about the Holy Spirit indwelling man is so obscured is because me go by their own personal experiences instead of the Word of Almighty God. These men start with whatever spiritual experience they received, or have observed in others. They start with those experiences, either those which they have had themselves, or which they have seen in others, and then the adapt the Word of God to it. And then they form their doctrine which is an error.

Now, let us get this by Scripture to see exactly how men and woman could go astray by spiritual experiences that come unto them that are genuine, but they building their own ideas upon these experiences go contrary to the Word of God.

3. Now, let's turn to 1 Corinthians 14:29-38

(29) Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.

(30) If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.

(31) For (you) may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.

(32) And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

(33) For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

(34) Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.

(35) And if they will learn … (it doesn't say if they will teach, It says they’ll learn, because can't teach) they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

Now listen:

(36) What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

(37) If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

Now, here are people who are claiming to be spiritually filled. I won't argue the point. They claim they've got the baptism with the Holy Ghost. I will not argue that point. As far as I know, this is correct. But, here they are in a meeting where everybody is speaking in tongues. Where everybody is in disorder. It is a disorderly meeting. Something is going on here that's wrong, and the Bible distinctly teaches that, "God in not the author of confusion." [ 1 Cor 14:33a] But they have made it a place of confusion.

4. Now listen, what has happened? What did happen there, is what happened in modern day Pentecost. They found out they could all speak in tongues. They found out all of it, that it all felt good. They got an edification out of it. They got a blessing out of it. It was wonderful. It was uplifting, and they enjoyed it. (See?) And so, they said, "Everybody can talk in tongues anytime they want to do it."

Now, you've heard what modern day Pentecostal people say. They say this, concerning tongues, there's about three kinds of tongues. There's a tongues’, whereby you speak as the initial evidence, and you'll never speak again maybe. Then there is the gift of tongues whereby that you can speak two kinds. One is wherein you will speak in tongues of praise and therefore you can all pray together at one time. Then there is the other kind of tongues that you can get up in, and you'll give a message, and it's interpreted.

5. Now, you can't find one bit of Bible for any of those three. Yet it is taught. Why? Because people receive genuine manifestation in the Holy Ghost. There were genuine gifts of the Spirit of God in absolute disarray and disorder, but they were real. Then they began to build their doctrine upon it. And they said, "Well, look it here, we're doing it, it's got to be right." Why? Because you're doing it? "Yes!" Well, who made you the authority.

Paul said, listen to me: [1 Corinthians 14:]

(37) If any man…spiritual, (let alone prophet, he said, you'll admit that what I say is a) commandment of God.

Call a separate meeting, and everybody 'shut up', (that was Lee Vayle, not Paul) but it meant the same thing. "But one of you, one at a time, up until three, can give messages in tongues." [1 Cor 14:27] Now, that's the Word of God. But people don't believe it to be the Word of God. They make up their own rules and ideas, and they say, "Listen, that's the genuine Holy Ghost demonstration manifestation they're right way to do it, because we're doing it. We haven' t been stopped by God." I'll tell you one thing, if God wanted to stop, He'd stop it.

6. All right, let's take another example. Let's go to Matthew 7:21-23. If the first one was a little bit tame, let's get the one that tough.

(21) Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

(22) Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name?...

Now listen, prophecy is the will of God, because God said, "Forbid not to prophesy." He said, "Covet to prophesy." [1 Cor14:39] Yet, these men are accused of not doing the will of God right here, and they're doing the very thing that God said to do. Is that, right? Right.

(22) …have we not cast out devils (in thy name?) and in thy name done many wonderful works?

(23) …then (He will say to) them, I never knew you: depart from me, (you) that work iniquity.

Here are, absolutely genuine, manifested, evidence of the Holy Spirit that have been done in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And God calls it a "work of iniquity." That's right. God calls it a "work of iniquity." And He turns the people that did it into the lake of fire under the strictest condemnation.

7. Now, these people defend themselves by their experiences. They say, "Lord, have we not cast out devils in Thy Name? Have we not done wonderful works in Thy Name?"

He said, "That is correct."

Then they say, "Then we must be alright, because we could not do these works, the Holy Ghost did them, and if they are genuine manifestations, then we must be allowed in."

He says, "Depart from me, you workers of iniquity."

See, they built upon their experiences, and they attempt to prove their justification by their experience. Is this correct? Now, let's watch it.

8. All right, we go to the deeper ones still. Matthew 24:24

(24) For there shall arise false Christs, (even lying) prophets, (the same thing) and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Herein we have genuine manifestation again. But, "blind leading the blind, and they both fall into the ditch." [Mt 15:14] Because the genuine manifestations are fooling everyone but the Very Elect of God.

Now, take all three of these cases. All three cases. There is not one time that the manifestation is said to be false. There is not one sign, it is not said to be of the Holy Ghost. The experiences are genuine, yet something is wrong. (See?) Can the Spirit of God be guilty of leading men into sin? Now, let's listen: Can the Spirit of God be guilty of leading these men into sin, because He called them workers of iniquity? And the work that they did, (though it was of Holy Ghost) was iniquitous work. How can a man be wrong, if the Spirit of God is with him doing these great things? How can they be wrong?

9. Now, this is exactly what we must labor to see. Sometimes we've got to struggle to see it. The experiences that people receive in the realm of the Spirit, are entirely misunderstood many times. But, because they are genuinely of the Spirit, they're really the Spirit, (see?) the Word of God then is twisted to suit the experience. They teach from spiritual experience instead of the Word of Almighty God.

Now, this doesn't sound serious to some people, but is desperately serious. Then a whole erroneous dogma is built up. Can you call these truly spirit filled people when this happens? Would you believe that these people are full of the Holy Ghost if this can happen? It's impossible. It could not be so. (See?) Can one be out of Divine order, and be really filled with the Holy Ghost? Are you reading in between the lines? You better be. What about 'Questions and Answers' [08-23-1964] when Bro. Branham brought this very same thing up, when he brought up Church Order?

10. You can go from the doctrine of devils so fast from this very point. We stand this morning just to stun you. Because there's only a bare thread line, between this and devil power. Just a shadow. We can't afford to bypass the Word Living God as brought to us by the prophet William Branham was vindicated with 'Thus Saith the Lord'. When he in 'The Unveiling of God' [64-06-14] put church order right with the Seven Seals, because they are.

And don't you forget it, 'Marriage and Divorce' [65-02-21] is part of those Seven Seals. Exactly why God took him back to Arizona. And kept taking him back, until the revelation came. And there was a revelation came, the Pillar of Fire descended, and the black cloud descended as it was on Mount Sinai, proving that William Branham was a giver of the law of Almighty God speaking mouth to ear, and lip to ear. Amen! I've got no vindication, but I walked with the man that had it. You can't build by spiritual experience.

Looking at these three examples again. The supernatural by the Spirit has been manifested. And yet, God brands some of them who are manifesting, as false, because of the manifestation. Now listen, (I'm reading my notes, I've got to) because of the manifestation, the manifestor's, those doing the manifestation, and most of the onlookers seeing the manifestation claim the reality of a Holy Ghost baptism, and because of those great things, or those who are manifesting that thing. You hear what I said? You understand me?

11. All right, but if the people doing those things, (or those works) are truly filled with the Holy Ghost, the cannot be rejected. In Matthew 7: according to what It says, in Ephesians 4:30, 2 Corinthians 5:1-5, let's read It. Now, we're not going be interested in one thing in an experience this morning. I don't care two cents for yours, and you don't care two cents for mine. This is ''Thus Saith the Lord'. All right: [Ephesians 4:]

(30) …grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby (you) are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Right? 2 Corinthians 5: let's read It. We won't have to read it all, because you can read It yourselves, in those other verses, 1-5. Now listen: (Well, I better read It, it wouldn't make sense.

(1) For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, (we've died) we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Now, whoever thought of that? William Branham.

(2) For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

(3) If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

(4) For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

(5) Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who hath given unto us the earnest of (His) Spirit.

It tells you right here that God is revered to you by the Holy Ghost, so that you cannot be lost, and guaranteed you'll come in that First Resurrection and be a part of It.

All right, how then can you possibly believe that these people and in Matthew 7: had the Holy Ghost? They cannot have had the Holy Ghost. Oh, says my Pentecostal doctrinaire friend, "We believe that these people once had the Holy Ghost, but they backslide got unfilled, and not they're lost."

12. All right, you believe that? Let's find out if you've got any grounds to believe it. In John 10: 28-29

(28) And I give unto them eternal life; (which is the Holy Ghost) and

they shall never (never) perish, …

It's always a double negative in the Greek, and sometimes a triple. It is either, never, never, or never, never, never.

(28) …neither shall any man pluck them out of my (Father's) hand.

(29) My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man (none) is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

You cannot take Scripture and make Scripture fight Scripture. You cannot cross Scripture. You got to admit this morning is there such a thing as having genuine gifts of the Holy Ghost in absolute manifestation, and yet you'll go to hell as a blasphemer against God. Now, that's what the Word of God says. You can see what happens if we want to make experience the criterion instead of the Word. You don't know where you are going. You don't know where you are going. If you've got a thousand experiences, and you've got to adapt the Word of God to it, you're going to have a thousand dog fights over the Word. (See?)

13. Now, listen closely: since it can be shown that some people manifesting genuine signs and wonders by the Spirit can themselves be lost. Let's watch this: they can be lost, how much, if any of the Spirit do these people have who don't even manifest any signs of the supernatural. Oh, how smug some people get over the Scripture.

And they say, "Well, now look it, you can talk in tongues; you can dance in the Spirit; you can raise the dead; you can have miracles, and that's no sign of the Holy Ghost baptism, because Matthew 7: says, "They'll go into everlasting destruction." What about you people that haven’t got any signs or wonders? What about your dead churches that think God is a little half the brown and black and garments made out of denim? (Uh?) Where are these people that go by a dress? Where was God before you got your dress. Did you condemn to hell everybody else before you, because they didn't wear that kind of a dress? You go to your miserable church creeds and dogmas, and try to deny like the Church of Christ the power of Almighty God. I want to tell you it is, if signs and wonders is no evidence of the Holy Ghost baptism. And yet they've got signs and wonders proving the Holy Ghost is somewhere there, what about the folk that haven't got any signs? Where does it put you? You got to live.

14. Because God said in His Word according to Mark 16: now let's read It, when you believe unto Eternal Life.

(16) He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; (and) he that believeth not shall be (condemned.)

(17) And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

(18) They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

That's what God said.

15. Let's go to Hebrews 2:1-4

(1) Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

(2) For if the word spoken by angels (or messengers) was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recom- pence of reward;

(3) How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

(4) God also bearing (those witnesses) witness, (see?) both with signs and wonders, and divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to (but the secret is, according to) his own will?

Now, where does that put the folk that don't believe in signs and wonders? You see, many people got very, very wondering about Bro. Branham. He kept saying to all these denominations that didn’t have signs and wonders. He said, "You turned down tongues." He said, "You turned down that." He said, "You turned down prophecy, you turned down all these things." He said, "You're wrong." It made the Pentecostal's very happy to think then if they had it, they're right. But he said, "You're wrong also."

Now, where are those denominations, they don’t have a sign? They don't pray for the sick. They don't believe God like God said. (See?) But, there's a group without it, and there's a group with it, and they're both wrong! This is the church …?...

16. Now, we must not be surprised at this. Because I want you to notice I taught you the other night, and you cannot deny what I taught you being correct from the Book of Acts 2: when the Holy Ghost fell on the day of Pentecost. They came to Peter and said, "What is This anyway?"

And Peter said, "This is That, which was spoken by the prophet Joel."

The very and baptism of the Holy Ghost, the very Spirit of God in that day that fell, the genuine Holy Ghost came down, And Peter said, "This is the Holy Ghost Himself." And he said, "Listen, this Thing that you see today, is going to come in the last day!" And here's is where everybody gets fooled. They don't project this to the last day. And they don't read what God said by His holy anointed prophet, Peter.

Here's what Peter said, repeating Joel by the Holy Ghost. In the very last day, that your day and mine, Laodicea God said:

(17) …I will pour out of my Spirit upon (a-double-l all) flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your (young) men shall see visions, and your (old) men shall dream dreams:

(18) And on my servants (men servants) and on my (women servants) I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:

17. It tells you right there, there are two groups of people. Those who are of God, and those who not of God. So, therefore in Matthew 7: is correct. When He said, "There'll be signs and wonders that are genuine by the Holy Ghost." And He'll say, "I never knew you, because you never were one of mine." Is that clear? I'd like to see anybody prove it wrong. You can't do it. That's right. (See?)

We do not go by experience to learn the truth. We must not be fooled by experience. It does not teach us the truth. Today I'm just learning what I said thirty years ago, that young preacher, "The world says experience is the best teacher." I said that's wrong, is the teach good and bad? The Holy Ghost is the only teacher. Today I'm just learning what is said thirty years ago, over thirty years ago. (See?) Proving if you're seed, you got to come down that line.

Now, how true this here, for we see in the Bible that God gives us the experience in the Word and corrects that experience if it's wrong to correct it in the Word by the Word. Because you can't go by experience, you see.

18. Let's turn to Genesis 2: 9,17

(9) And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Verse 17

(17) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Now in, [Genesis] 3:6-7

(6) And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, …

Notice, she looked at it, (experience right there. Experience by observation coupled with reason. "Why, (she said) that's right." (See?)

(6) …pleasant to the eyes, …desired to make one wise, she took the fruit… gave (to) her husband…he (ate.)

(7) …they were naked; … (they died, experience.)

If they'd have stuck with the Word of God my brother my sister, and waited for God to give them proper experience according to His Word they'd have made out. But, when she went by experience she did exactly what Twentieth Century Pentecost is doing. What is it, how could it be wrong?

"It's the Holy Ghost, isn't it?"

"Well, yup."

"It's the Bible, isn't it?"

"Yup."

"We're not sinning, as though we're out robbing the bank?"

"Nope."

"Well, I want to tell you, I sure get strength by coming to a lot of folk, we all talk in tongues."

"That's right, never said you didn't. You said wrong, because you're out of order. You're not by the Word of God."

Because the Word of God said in the very beginning, "Watch out, because it's the perversion and twisting of My Word to get experience thereby and you'll lose out with God."

19. Line up your experience with the Word, because that's what this whole Book is about, when men got off the Word, then God had to take them back by the Word, they always had to line up their experience. Just like that time when Israel was in such deep sin. When Nehemiah and Ezra went back to build up the temple, (you know, build up the land again) they had the priesthood so mixed up with sinful women, they had to kick a whole lot of them out, they had to go right back to the Word to put the priesthood in order. And God wouldn't move until they did. God correcting the people's error of their experience by the Word. Now, we understand this, right.

Now then, because we understand this that this happened, and people do not really have the Holy Ghost in spite of manifestation that they’ve got. There's a possibility, a very great possibility that they're not truly baptized with the Holy Ghost. If they were, they would receive the correction of the Word, as Paul said, "What came the Word of God unto you, or came It out of you?" [1 Cor 14:36] Now, he said, "If you're spiritual and you've got a genuine absolute ministry, (a gifted man) by the Holy Ghost you're real, (he said) you'll admit I'm saying the truth, and you'll line up with what I'm teaching."

20. Now, the question arises, first of all Who is the Holy Spirit? Who is He? All right, John 14: We've established our facts, you can't go by experience. People misinterpret the Word by experience. This morning it's our job to find out from the Bible exactly what 'Thus Saith the Lord' is according to God's Word. Then we'll get our experience based on the Word.

All right, [John 14:]

(16) And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, … (Even the Spirit of truth, though He may abide with you forever.)

(17) Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but (you) know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. (I will not leave you comfortless.)

Notice, He said here, "I will send you another Comforter. But, He says, "It's the Spirit of truth." Yet, He was the truth. So therefore, the Comforter is His Spirit. The world cannot receive it, because it sees nothing, they didn't see Jesus, so they won't see this.

(17) …neither knoweth him: but (you) know him' for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. (That was Jesus Christ Himself.)

(18) I will not leave you comfortless, …

(19) Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; …

Now, let's go to verse 23

(23) Jesus said, If a man love me, (he'll) keep my words: my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode…

He said, "I'll sent the Holy Spirit." He said, "I'll come back to you." He said, "The Father will come back." He said, "We'll both come back." What came back? The Holy Ghost. Who came back? Jesus came back. The Father came back, the Holy Ghost came back. How? One God, one Spirit. (See?)

21. I'm going to prove it to you brother/sister, I'm not a man to use light terminology. Here's I'm going to fool you. Let's go and see what no Trinitarian theologian can deny, because I took this from the smartest Trinitarian theologian in the Greek the world's ever seen...Dr. Vincent.

We go to Ephesians 4: This is not a Oneness preacher this morning, this is a Trinitarian truth right here. No Trinitarian can deny this.]

(8) Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (That's Jesus.) Now listen:

(9) Now that he ascended, (that's go up) what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

Who was that? Jesus. "Thou will not leave My soul in hell, neither wilt Thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." [Acts 2:27] God raised Jesus, way up past right hand. (Right?) Up His right hand. All right, that's what it is. Now listen:

(10) He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, …

This is not saying the same thing two different ways. It's saying two different things about one man. It says, "He that went up there was the One that died and went down here. Then when He got up there, He came down, because He descended. Just like He said in John 14: What descended? The Holy Ghost. Who is the Holy Ghost? It's Jesus. Who's Jesus? He's the Father, one God.

22. All right, let's find out Acts 3:26

(26) Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in (the) turning away every one of you from (your) iniquities.

Aw ha, now, was that Jesus when He came back from the dead, and walked amongst Israel? No sir! No sir! Nobody could have his sins forgiven until Jesus was on the Mercy Seat. Because He's Mediator, and Intercessor. And mediator means, 'bring them in', intercessor means 'keep them in'. Look up your Greek. Then Who came back? Jesus came back. What was He? The Holy Ghost. The promises are unto you first Israel, then to the Gentiles. Right?

Romans 1:3-4

(3) Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

(4) And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

What's the Son of God? Holy Ghost. Jesus was not the Son of God, except for the Spirit of Almighty God. The Son of God is amongst us now being the Holy Ghost. You can take any Scripture you want and you cannot find three gods, you'll find one God.

23 Therefore, Who is the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit is Almighty God in Spirit form. God changes His form, but not His nature as we saw in this Scripture. The Holy Spirit now is no longer in one body as He was in John 14: (which we read from John 14:16) when He was the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He is now in a multi-membered body, many body of many people, who comprises His earthly temple according to 1 Corinthians 12:12-14, 27-30.

(12) For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also, is Christ.

There you are, He changed His form. God is no longer in one person. No longer does one person have it all. It's many membered, many people.

(13) For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

(14) For the body is not one member, but many.

It used to be one, but no longer anymore. [1 Corinthians 12:] 27-30

(27) Now (you) are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

Are you the body of Christ, and members in particular. Everyone is part of that body, but each one has his own personality and distinction and his own ministry. And by the way, a ministry doesn't mean you got to be in the five-fold, or one of those nine gifts.

24. Many people get so messed up here, just leave it for a second and let's find out in Romans 12:6, let's look at It.

(6) Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given us, whether prophecy, (will) prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

(7) Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;

(8) Or he that (exhorts), on (exhorting): he that giveth, (that's the ministry, doing it) simplicity; he that (rules), with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, … (that's the ministry too.)

How many would like to have that one? Every single person in the body of Christ has got a ministry. And because you don't talk in tongues doesn't mean you haven't got it. And because you don't prophecy doesn't mean you haven't got it. (See?)

Those signs are in the body. But everyone's got a ministry, and a whole lot of those ministries are just like Paul said here, they're showing mercy and giving. As Irenaeus said, "There are hundreds of gifts of the Holy Ghost in the body of Jesus Christ." A man that was taught by Polycarp, who was taught by John. (See?)

25. The Holy Spirit today is now in a multi-membered body, who composed one membership under one Headship, and makes the body of Jesus Christ. Different, sent around the world, yet by the Holy Ghost makes one body manifesting Jesus Christ. He changed His form. Not in one human form now, but in many forms. (See?) Constituting one form, a Word body, nothing but a Word body.

Now, how does He come to the individual? That is, how does He indwell these individual members? Why does He come in? What will He do when He comes in? Why do we need Him? What are my qualifications? All of these are questions. I don't necessarily need to answer all of them, but they're all here in the Word of God before us here, and they can be answered from that same Scripture.

Now, to begin with, now that we know Who He is, (this would take more than I thought of time that I took, but you have an understanding of what it is all about) now that we know Who He is, let us make this very clear concerning the Holy Ghost, and this is why you need Him. "Because without the Spirit of Christ you are none of His." [Rom 8:9b] You have no part with Him. Without the Spirit of Christ, you'll never be in the First Resurrection. Without the Spirit of Christ, you won't be in the Rapture, it's impossible. Now, these are all, these three are all actually synonymous, they mean the same thing, because if you've got the Holy Ghost, all three of these are yours right now and you'll never lose them.

26. Now let us look at the truth of these three things that I've said. Romans 8:9 is just one part of it. It says in here:

(9) …Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

If you haven't got the same Spirit that Jesus had. If you're not filled with the Holy Ghost, say what you want, you are none of His. That's what they said at that day in Matthew 7: "Oh, Lord we got to belong to You. We did those miracles, we cast out devils, we had the Holy Ghost."

He said, "You're not of Mine, depart I never knew you."

But, without the genuine Holy Ghost baptism, filled by His Spirit, you are none of His. Secondly Romans 8:11

(11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, …

What Spirit is that? That's God Almighty Himself indwelling Jesus. If that same Spirit dwells in you, It says,

(11) … (that Spirit of God) that raised up (Jesus) …shall also quicken your mortal bodies by (the very fact that that He's indwelling you now, you'll be in the Resurrection.)

You'll be one of them, you'll be like unto a first group, because He is the first-fruit.

27. All right, Ephesians 4:30 which I read awhile ago.

(30) …grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby (you're) sealed unto the day of redemption.

What is that? That's redemption of your body. Not the day you were born again. The day you're born again is spiritual, that's the day you're sealed. You want to see God in my flesh and dwell on this land. You're sealed to the Resurrection. What Resurrection? The First Resurrection.

28. Romans 8:23

(23) And not only they, (that's creation) but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit ,…

What's the first-fruits of the Spirit? The Spirit that brought Jesus out of the ground. The first-fruits is the Resurrection. Right? So then, let's read It this way: It says here then: "We which have the Resurrection spirit." Bless God, if I've got a resurrection spirit, He's a liar, because He doesn't bring in the Resurrection, I've got a phony spirit. That's right.

If I've got a brown horse and I think I haven’t, and he's a black horse something's wrong somewhere, forget it. If I've got some kind of a spirit of God in me that's supposed to be a resurrected spirit, I'm going be in the Resurrection. It's His job to put me there. Why? Because I'm not the Holy Ghost. …?... No wonder you're sealed to the day of resurrection. How could you not be, if you've got a Holy Ghost sealing you to the day of resurrection. And He's the Holy Ghost Resurrection Spirit, what more do you want?

29. I think I've got some legal Canadian tender. Think it's more tender than I. Two bits, [twenty-five cents] I don't know what your local bread is here, but years ago, I used to them… (what?) five for a quarter, or less than that. Well, let's add ten cents to it. This here is legal tender. If that loaf of bread is for sale, and this is loaf of bread money that my mother gives me to get a loaf of bread, I'm going to have a loaf of bread.

Some people can't think that way about the Holy Ghost though. You always wonder, you look at this miserable stinking stuff that keeps going down the drain, until it's nothing but almost nickel, or tin, or something. Your silver is just about all gone, you've got faith in this junk here, and forget the Word of God. What a terrible thing. (See?)

He's a Resurrection Spirit. You're here: you'll be with Him. Thirdly, they'll put you in the Rapture. Matthew 25:1-13, which we won't read, because it's about the oil, which is the Holy Ghost. They went to the wedding supper, because they had the Holy Ghost. Right?

30. So, let's read I Corinthians 15:20-23 All right:

(20) But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept.

He came up and brought the rest with Him, Old Testament Saints.

(21) For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

What did life come by? It came by a man. It didn't say like by God, it came by man. Right? Man brought death, man brought life. Is that, right? Don't be afraid to read your Bibles, because you got some silly Trinitarian theory in the back of your mind. Throw it out in the garbage can. Open your minds this morning. It doesn't say, "God." It says, "Man." (m-a-n) Go ahead and change it. Go ahead, be my guest. I'll meet you on judgment day. Because I'm preaching, I'm preaching the truth.

Read your Bible the way you want to read it. "For since by man came death by God came resurrection." Go ahead and read it that way.

You say, "Bro. Vayle, I can show you another place It does say that."

It does not. I does not, you think It says that. It says, "God raised Him." Put it where it belongs. How? How it's supposed to be said. Just like, "There's one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus." [1 Tim 2:5] In Galatians It says, "God is the mediator by Himself." That's right, put it in Galatians there, put it over here right, He's both God and man. But don't get it mixed. Don't try to make God the man, and man the God. Put it where it belongs. They'll never understand the truth.

31. Now listen, it says here,

(22) …in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

If there hadn't been a Christ, if that man had not been born, we wouldn’t be alive. Now we're in Christ we can have that life. We do have the life.

(23) But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

There It is, if you're His you've got His Spirit, or you're not of His. If you're His you'll make the Resurrection. If you're His you'll make the Rapture, because that's when He comes to take you to Himself. You see?

32. Now listen, all those things therefore are the same. Now, let's begin to examine this truth here what I'm preaching this morning on the Holy Spirit. Because It's from Romans 8:9, that most everybody goes astray. Where It says in there:

(9) …if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none if his. (See?)

How do you get to be one of His? How did He get that way? What does It say over here in the Book of Acts 2: we read It.

(38) …Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and (you) shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

(39) For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and … (so on.)

Now, what do you got to do? You got to repent. Is that, right? (See?) Why do you repent? Because you believe, because something strikes you. You repent. And the word 'repent' in the Greek is 'to have a change of mind', and don't ever forget it. (Remember, that's this afternoon, when I preach another sermon.)

People say, "Bro. Vayle, repentance is godly sorrow?" You don't know your Bible. The Bible says, Repentance works godly sorrow, or "Godly sorrow (works) repentance." [2 Cor 7:10] They're not the same thing. One comes out of the other. Godly sorrow brings the change of mind. That's right. "Repent and be baptized everyone of you." How? "In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will receive that gift of the Holy Ghost." Christ will come in. Is that what he said?

33. Let's see if He does it. Acts 8:4-8. Alright, they saw mighty miracles down there. Is that, right? That's what the Bible says. Okay, go to verse 12

(12) …they believed (the preaching of) Philip…concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, (and) they were baptized, …

Now, that tells you right there they're baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. They believed in that Name. That's how they were baptized.

(13) Then Simon himself believed also: … and so on.)

Then It says in verse 14

(14) …when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent…Peter and John:

(15) Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:

(16) (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only…

That's all they had, …only, …they got to the door, they didn't come in. They only sat down at the table, they didn't eat. The only place they did, they didn’t get anything for it. The only place for your car and it got wet. Didn't do you any good. Something was still wrong. They got this far, but they still had not received the Holy Ghost. It said, "He had not fallen upon them." They had only been baptized correctly.

(17) Then they (laid) hands on them, (then) the Holy Ghost (came on them.)

And that was it. That's what the Bible said.

34. Now notice, these people following the Word of God set forth by Peter got a genuine experience. They took the Word, they believed It, they did what the Word said, they received the Holy Ghost. Acts 19: the same thing.

Paul went down there preaching the Word. He knew something was supposed to be right, but something was wrong. They knew something was wrong. Because he said,

"Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? "

They said, "We haven't even heard of Him."

He said, "My, my, my, what were you baptized under?"

They said, “John's baptism."

He said, "That's wrong. You got to bet baptized over again."

What was he doing? He was preaching the Word of God. They believed the Word of God. They got baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost fell on them. (See?)

35. Now, that's what the Word of God teaches. Let's prove it. If that's the doctrine.

Ephesians 1:13-14

(13) In whom also (you) trusted, after that (you) heard the word of truth, …

What do you got to do? You got to hear the Word first. And what about those folks that claim to get the Holy Ghost and don't hear any Word? What about those grand old meetings we've had when…oh, we had such a great time the preacher couldn't even preach. You talk about a bunch of puffed up nincompoops. Wouldn't know split beans from coffee. Sure. These people heard the Word. (See?)

(13) …the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that (you) believed, (you) were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

(14) Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, … (the Holy Ghost which seals you in until the resurrection morning, and you come out of that ground.

Now, listen to me, you can see the Word of God preached correctly. And the people believed It, then they've got an experience. And this is what we're talking about this morning. Receiving a genuine baptism of the Holy Ghost, really receiving God.

36. Now, what about this new birth that people talk about today according to John 3: you must be born again? What do they teach? They teach when you come to the altar… (and what's an altar doing…what then, we don't have one, good.) Where did you get an altar? Put an altar in the Bible, and what do you do? You give it a little water. Right?

The Bible doesn't say, "Come to the altar." It says, "Come to the water." Is that, right? Who changed it? Methodism changed it. Where are they today? (See?) Can't do it. Stick with that Word of God. Now, what do people do? They give the message out, then they cast the net. Right? They have an altar call. And the people repent. And they call that repenting, what? The rebirth.

Then they say, "Now, come and get baptized." Proving their rebirth. So, they get baptized in water. They say, "Now, you go on and get the Holy Ghost." Now, find that in the Bible. What about those who just stop at the water? They already think they've got the Holy Ghost. But they haven't got the Holy Ghost, because the Bible said, "All they've got is repentance." Now, were does it leave your Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist all the rest of them, Missionary Alliance, Church of Christ, the rest of them? I'm not running those people down. There's no hidden in my heart, I'm just asking the question.

37. How can you claim to have something, when God says you don' t have it? You say, "Well Bro. Vayle, the thing is this, when I went to that altar, I changed." Oh, what do you expect would happen to you? I'm questioning…I won' t ask the question to embarrass anybody, but is there anybody here that took a step then you prove mentally deficient?

Now, if you're mentally deficient I can't talk to you. But, if you have one ounce of intelligence I can talk to you. You ready for it? Okay. Boy, “I tell you If I've had a tough week I've had it,” said the guy, “oh boy. Man, (he said) …I tell you, the only thing to do is go get drunk, I've going to get so hoot-owl-ee drunk, and I'm going to have a weekend, oh am I going to have a weekend." Then he changed his mind. Said, "I can't do that to my wife and kids." He doesn't do it.

38. A sinner comes to the church, he hears the Word of God. He says, "Aw man, (he says) I've been a skunk, I can't live that way." He changed his mind, and his life cleans up that's all he's got. That's right. Any reason, any skunk any rotter can do that thing and not have once ounce of the Holy Ghost, because he changes his mind. And when you change your mind, you change you, because you are your mind. Now, where's your Holy Ghost there, where's your rebirth? "Bro. Vayle, you're knocking everything I've got in the top hat." Better have knock in a top hat now, and find out where we're going to get the truth.

Because I told you the truth and you know it, because when a man changes his mind, he goes in a new direction. And changing your mind which is repentance is not being born again. It's repent, change your mind, get baptized in water, then you are first fit for the first time in your life, in position to receive the Holy Ghost. But you did not receive the Holy Ghost when you changed your mind. Is that, right? Do what you want. Yet millions of people right today claim that when they repented they were born again, they felt powerless, (even though baptized in water) one day they heard they could receive the Holy Ghost, so now they've got the baptism. So, what do they teach? The teach what Dr. McCrosson’s folks brought out which was so wrong; you receive the spirit of life when you're born again, (that's Jesus Christ) then you receive the power of Almighty God for service. Find that in the Bible.

39. Now, do you see what he did? He twisted the Word of God to suit experience. And millions of people right today have had a change of mind, and therefore a change of life. But, they have not Eternal Life, they merely change this one around. "I want to tell you something right now. I'm a different guy." So, what?

I know a fellow one day was a biggest old crank in the world. You couldn't get a good word into him. One day he had a heart attack, he almost died. And when he thought he'd never see tomorrow's sun, he had a real change of mind. He said, "Boy if I pull through, from now on I'll never grouch or grumble, I'll be happy. And from that time on he was a happy sinner instead of grouchy sinner.

But, a million well meaning folk say, "Oh boy, you got born again." In other words, it's pure unadulterated nonsense. See what your experience will do to you. Your experience instead of taking the two gods, even in the name of God, will take you from God. Because even Simon had a change of mind up to a point, and he didn't have a change of heart. [Acts 8:9] (See?) Because when the showdown came, he wanted to buy the privilege of laying on of hands to give people the Holy Ghost. He wanted money out of it.

40. What about that fellow not long ago in Pentecost said, "If someone here, (you know in this meeting, he said) you're seeking the Holy Ghost." That happened to Dauch's didn't it? Yeah. I won't name them, the guys name. But I think the Dauch's were in the meeting and they knew that the Daugh's were there, and they were fairly well off, as I understand it. (And I'm pretty good at under-standing too.)

So, they said, "Somebody here is seeking the Holy Ghost." And Bill give a thousand dollars, (God showed him,) to the Holy Ghost." I don't think he gives a thousand dollars, because you can't buy the Holy Ghost. Now, the cursed at Peter, I mean Simon the sorcerer, but he’s got a great healing ministry. He did have. It he's got it now or not.

How much Holy Ghost you got? None. Be honest, none. "You're judging." I'm not judging, it's the Word of God. If I can't go by that Word, and preach that Word, and try to live it, where am I at? (See?) Shows you manifestation, is not the answer. And …?... is not the answer. There's a place where you have both, and the experience lines up with the Word. (See?)

41. Now, let me say this is all we have to know is exactly what Paul said, and there is no controversy. How do you receive the Holy Ghost? By hearing the pure Word of God and believing It, and doing It, and you'll get It.

"Bro. Vayle, I've got to carry…"

No!

"Got to do it."

No, no. You got to believe the Word of God, you got to get the pure Word of God, that's all you've got to have. Get baptized in water like they did in the New Testament. And then the laying on of hands, God said He would do. What more do you want? Now, you see if you want add something to that, that's the way you put God on the spot, you're going to go your own way ten to one, you're not going to meet God. (See?)

42. Now, today for the first time we're right back where Paul and Peter was. The pure Word of God received by any people, baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ in faith, and they shall certainly receive the Holy Ghost. What else can God do? What else can you do? Well tell me, you've got two things is that right? Three things? Repent, baptize, receive. Right? What two things do you do? You repent, (right?) you get baptized. What does God do? Gives you.

"If you being evil know how to give good gifts, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Ghost?" [Lk 11:13] Is that, right? He said, "You live up to your word, and you even hadn't even got a word. Then how much should I live up to my Word?" Right? Then why do you believe, what's all this commotion about? You know what it is? People get an experience. Now, let's make the Word of God tell the world my experience.

43. Now, this is a good time right here to talk about evidence, because here's the people want to hear about. They want to know something they can put their finger on. They want something physical. Why? Because three out of five times in the Book of Acts people spoke in tongues. So now the Pentecostal's call it, 'initial evidence'. Where does this initial evidence come from? Did you ever hear a man called Charles Parham? P-a-r-h-a-m, Charles Parham? He's called the father of Pentecost.

I think he was in Kansas City one day when he said to three young boys; now why did he call three young boys, why didn’t he call three young boys, (why didn't he pick up the old mature Christians? Pick up three kids, he said, "Boys study the Bible and find the evidence of the Holy Ghost." They read the Book of Acts, and they came back designating the historical account of how the Holy Ghost fell as evidence.

Oh, that poor Philippian jailer, folks there's no use believing in God till the earthquake come, and when the earthquakes comes that's the time to believe. Don't you know that Acts 2:4 in the Book of Acts is nothing but a historical account of how He fell, and is not the doctrine of evidence? You get me this morning? That's history! He doesn't come as a fire anymore and a wind. That's how He fell, that's what happened. That's no blue-print. That's not an evidence, that's history.

44. Now listen, if tongues is, the initial evidence, what's the rest of it? Because initial needs to begin with. Now if the Holy Ghost begins with and He's got to end with, because He's Alpha and Omega. And what's Alpha and Omega is the same in the middle. So, there's only one evidence according to Pentecost, and that's tongues, that's got to be all of it.

But listen, Peter at Pentecost said they were prophesying, is that right? Well come on? Said they were prophesying. Now listen, what about Matthew 7: "Many will come in that day, having prophesied, I never knew you." Now, where's your evidence? Where is It?

"Bro. Vayle, that doesn't annul the fact that I had an experience." But he said it did. But are you resting on the experience of the Word? Are you believing this morning, because you have some-thing and now you simply got to wait, and you can't relate to the Word, because you're holding this thing up? Why don't you junk it? Amen, lay it to one side. Maybe that word 'junk' is too strong and vulgar. That's lay it to one side. Let it sit there. If it's of God in there, it'll prove out. If it's of God, He’ll prove It. Even afford to watch it, put to one side. Get your experience lined up.

45. Listen, let's go to Hebrews 6:4-6

(4) For it is impossible (not hard, but impossible) for those who were once (for all) enlightened, …

Not listen, enlightenment comes by revealed Word of Almighty God. There's a once and for all enlightenment and you'll never, ever, get it again said God. It's the end of this Age.

(4) … (you can taste) the heavenly gift…(partake) of the Holy Ghost,

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

(6) (And still fall away, and crucify) …the Son of God afresh, … (doing it.)

There you are, Matthew 7: once more. Matthew 24: once more. (See?)

Now listen brother/sister, if you can have all of this by manifestation and still not be baptized with the Holy Ghost, there's only one thing left not mentioned here, that's tongues. So, tongues would have to be all of it. But you see, devils can talk with tongues too. You can't make it evidence, because it's not.

46. Well, what is the evidence? Are you ready for it? I don't think you really are, but you're going to get it anyway. I'm not insulting you, but I just doubt, you heard of Bro. Branham said, "There is absolutely no certain evidence as to any certain manifestation that has to take place physically to convince you, or anyone else you got the Holy Ghost." I'm sorry, but that's the Word.

Because your, speaking in tongues, of lack of it, doesn't prove a thing. Your, doing miracles, or lack of it, doesn't mean a thing. Because you may have a ministry of giving, or ministry of being cheerful, or a ministry of forgiving, or pouring oil on the troubled waters, and you're just as important as a fellow that's got a great big ministry of miracles and signs and wonders. Because you're a part of that body.

And because the finger is not the eye, would it say, "I am not of the body?" Oh, it does right now. "Oh, that couldn't be, you know how we get so…" Oh my, we're so vulgar, craft, crude and rotten. But on judgment day if we should find our humility which we are so humbled down to, “Well, I don’t have it.” [said sarcastically] You wait until the chips are down, and that wedding supper is called off, you'd be “Oh God, let me…I won’t believe a lie!” Too late you changed your mind, too late. You were just too humble to give. [inaudible comment] …?...

47. That's right, there's going to come a day when we'll stop smarting off. But, it’s going to be too late. There's going to come a day when we revere this Word, and say, "I stand with that Word." There's going to be a day like the Hebrew children. They’re going to have to say, "King, I don't know if he's going to phase me or not!" There's one thing I'm going to do, I'm going to do what He said. Because the Bible says, "There's coming a day when the faith of Job and Abraham and Noah won't save you." That day is around the corner. Right here.

There is no certain evidence as to a physical manifestation you can put your finger on. I've covered them all, this afternoon I'll cover more. But I want to take a new slant this afternoon. Yet there's got to be some kind of an evidence, so it's not a certain physical evidence. (See?) Evidence of the Holy Spirit in you, is the evidence that anything else has to prove what it is. It will act like it, (see?) it's all act like dogs. That's what makes them dogs and cats.

Every hear a guy say, "Pussy cat, pussy cat, why don't you bark?"

He's say, "You, stupid guy, I'm a cat, I go meow."

48. It makes you laugh, doesn't it? And why do you expect the Holy Ghost to make a fool of Himself? Can't we find what the Holy Spirit is, and by what He is, know what He will do an evidence itself? Then why don’t we go to the Bible and find out? Not try to take a conglomeration of Spiritual experiences, and then go to the Word of God and find we're continuously fighting each other in ourselves, and grieving the Holy Ghost, because we're way of the outside of what He said. Chris-crossing Scripture until we see in Matthew 7: to mean, "Well, the guy's backslid." What about David? Talk about a backslider…oh, man.

God didn’t say, "Get rid of that guy, dump him off the throne, He's no more our prophet. However, let him be my type," No sir! "I'll send another man, and I'll let him be my type." All down the Ages, Jesus is called the 'Son of David." Hallelujah, not for sin, but for grace. Hallelujah, for election based upon grace. I'm getting feeling good, now.

Because the Bible says, "Election is the mark of God's love." Then we ought to praise Him for It. I'm going to praise Him for election. As David said, "I'm going to praise You for Thou art our Righteousness." The only time that we praise God is when we feel we've been a little better today, hallelujah, I sort of have to meet You before I die. You can believe everything and go to hell. It's His Righteousness. Oh, I'm going to sing a new song one day, glory to God. I'm not dancing here, I want to dance there. I could dance here too, I prefer it there.

In plain words, the Holy Spirit will be simply Himself when He comes in. As Bro. Branham said, "There's one genuine Christ's Spirit, and that's the Word made flesh as He promised to do."

49. Then what is He? Always said He's God, (He's the Holy Spirit) what is He? John 16: let's find out. (Oh my, this is not genius to me, I hope it's okay for you.)

John 16:

(12) I have yet many things to say unto you, but (you) cannot bear them now.

You never will till the Holy Ghost comes in either. It won't make a bit of sense to you. You get to first base, you fall flat on your face. “I can't take that, I can't take it.” Well, He says so. That you can't bear it now. It would do you a bit of good as I told you.

(13) Howbeit ("Aw, (he said) I'm opening door to you.") when the Spirit of truth, (who's the truth? Jesus) when my Spirit is come, he will guide you into all truth: he shall not speak of himself; but (he'll speak what he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

In other words, there's not a blessed Holy Spirit coming down and saying one thing contrary to what the Word of God says. Hallelujah, they'll speak exactly what the Word of God says. Amen! Oh, I feel good now, don't go away.

50. Listen:

(15) All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

All right, let's go back to John 14:26 (I'm not excited, I'm just getting a little wine, that's the kind of wine I like. The bottled stuff is not good, but the revelation, oh that does me good.)

(26) But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, (what) I have said unto you.

51. All right, 1 Corinthians 2:11-14, (we can read many, but we're getting these important ones.) All right:

(11) For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?

All right, there I told you awhile ago. A man acts like a man, a horse acts like a horse, a dog acts like a dog. Why? Because he is a man, he is a horse, he is a dog. Bring on the Holy Ghost. All right!

(11) …even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

How are you going to get a difference out of that, brother/sister? The Word is the evidence now. Oh, what about? Where's your tongues…talking in tongues now? Scream and jump up and down and talk in tongues and call Bro. Branham a soothsayer. When you wouldn't even know…and you can't even accept the Word of God, of what a prophet is, a man that comes in the Name of the Lord, 'Thus Saith the Lord', and it comes to pass, that's the Word prophet you hear, and you can't even understand that?

52. And you say you've gone to grade ten, you're nothing but a Roman Catholic. It'll be a Catholic with a college education when he knows it was three popes at one time cursing each other. And knows the awfulness of the Roman Catholic sin where they never apologized for the millions of the blood of the martyrs. And live like the devil himself, and give us a few bucks to bring you out of purgatory. Or to send armies across the seas to slaughter men, so that Jesus can work. A Missionary Alliance said that not long ago, (I think I told you that, didn't I?) out of the United States, a Missionary Alliance preacher went over there to get Viet Nam, and came back and said, "That's God for the armies over there."

So, the Christian said, "I'm going to tell you one thing, don't send an army for me." I'm trying to forget me, I'm a big enough fool to run, but don't send an army to embarrass me. I'll do my own running, my own cowardice, but don't embarrass me further, I want to try to trust God somewhere." Heard enough?

53. Only the things of God knows the Spirit of God.

(12) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

(13) Which things also we speak, …

There you are. You say you've got the Holy Ghost? You'll agree with every single Word Paul said, you won't change one single solitary Word, you won't actually add to It, you won't take from It, you'll be right with Paul one hundred percent. That's your evidence.

Paul said here, "The Holy Ghost told me these things, and He'll tell you what He told me by revelation. But I I've got it first, said Paul. And if you've got the Holy Ghost, you’ll hear me, and you'll know what I am saying.”

54. Now, let's watch, oh, this is good. (Yeah) Now, compare spiritual things:

(14) …the natural man (receives) not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness (to) him: … (yeah)

A vindicated Elijah. They say, "You people following a message. Oh, they say, “That’s intelligent? Are they? It's nice thought, who would believe it that? I know in suffering and stupidity. There is no blessing in being stupid, because God said, "Be wise as serpents, harmless as doves." [Mt 10:16] The Holy Spirit revealed Word, will make you sharper than anybody in this world. But you won't be blowing about and causing a fight, you just have to admit it. Certainly.

(14) …they are foolishness (to) him: he (cannot) know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Now listen,

(15) But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, …

You just watch when they come, and the Holy Spirit says, "That's of God, that's not of God, that's the Word, that's changed." Now listen,

(15) …yet he himself is judged of no man.

That's, "You haven’t got the Holy Ghost, you didn't speak in tongues." Yeah, yeah, right there

you’ll see just what they’ve got. (See?) "You haven't got the Holy Ghost, you don't believe It like

I do." Shows right there, you can't judge any man, It's the Word that's got to do it. And brother

when he doesn't go by the law and the prophets it shows just what he is.

First of all, you've got to believe every Word in this Book, verbatim, you can't change one, then you've got to receive the revelation for your day. Because Israel believed the Word verbatim, but they had their own ideas. As Bro. Branham made that monumental statement, "Jesus came according to the Word, but not according to their interpretation, so they destroyed Him.”

All right:

(16) For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. (The Holy Ghost is the very mind of Christ, it's the very Word brought to life by revelation.)

55. Now, watch what happened and how a genuine manifestation can come with the Word. First of all, it comes before the Word to prove the person that you should listen to. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2:1-5

(1) …I came to you, not with excellency of speech…wisdom, declaring unto you the (the Word of God, His) testimony.

(2) …I determined (nothing but) …Christ, and him crucified.

What do you think of that? "Christ and Him Crucified." Ever heard anything so silly? Israel hearing of crucified Christ. He said, "Now listen, God said don't you dare put a man through the fire, or kill a human sacrifice. How are we going to believe that nonsense?"

"You trying to tell us that God came down and had intercourse with a woman, and brought forth a child, the heathen believe, that junk. Why (they said) that's ridiculous. Preach to us smart guys the Greek. Why, (they said) you've got to be kidding. God come down and sacrifice for us, when we know that God's only indulge in orgies and they hate us, and they blast us, and they bang us and they ban us. And now you want to talk about a Lord that died,” Oh they said, “ …?.." [inaudible] It's always that way.

56. Let the Word of God even be revealed in flesh. Let It come to pass under your very eyes, and the average man says, "Oh, ho, ho, ho, please, please, please don't insult my intelligence." Oh no, then, they turn around. That’s right. That's, what happened. So, Paul said, "I never came anyway, I laid it on the line it looked so foolish, so crude and so silly, but (he said) you watch I've had a ministry." He said, "Nobody could do what I do. When I had 'Thus Saith the Lord', it stood. I raised the dead, show me one time I failed? "Listen, you Corinthians, (he said) you got off the mark. Did the Word of God come to you, or come out of you?" [1 Corinthians 14:36]

"Now, why did you take the Word?"

He said, "Because you know I've got the power, and if I come again I'll put you in your place." Oh, they buckled right down.

Now listen, when the Word comes that way, and we know less the Word of God, God's vindicating and interpreting the Word for that day, what happened? It happens like It says over here in Hebrews, when men begin to preach It, and preach that Word true, God will give the signs and the wonders according to His will. Now, you can see where William Branham stood alone. And William Branham stood all alone with the only authenticated Holy Ghost ministry, Word vindicated right, of all men in the world and nobody else. Thank you, I know you’re used to it, others won't, but it's alright, we understand.

57. Now then, are you ready for it? Where are your women preachers? They're forbidden to preach. That's right. "Oh, (they say) Bro. Vayle that’s wrong, you see, we don’t take authority over the man." How naïve. The Bible says, "Obey those who have 'the rule' over you, who teach to you the Word of God." [Heb 13:7] The rule is by the Word, and when a woman uses the Word she is ruling, and so she's a monstrosity when she gets in that pulpit. Where are they now? Signs and wonders? Talk in tongues? Winning souls? Great ministries? "Oh, Bro. Vayle, it's got to be so."

A man tried that in Switzerland, he said, "Bro. Branham used psychology." Well, sure anybody does. You want to make your kids eat? Put sugar on it. Very bad psychology you'd ruin their teeth, But, I wouldn’t disagree. Oh, I was glad God's been with them, just because I trapped him, and he pulled that one about women preachers. I said, "Your psychology stunk." You're rationalizing.

The Word says this! Are you denying God's Word saying you've got the Holy Ghost? Round and round he went, brother. When the …?... went his way, I went mine. He's not convinced. Let the day come. I'm not judging the man, He's in sin. But if he departs this world the way he is now, he's turned the truth of God into a lie, because women cannot preach. They cannot teach. They can learn, then they have a right to say what they have learned, but not as preachers, as witnesses.

58. Where are your great men now with great ministries, who teach a Trinitarian dogma? When, here is where the Lord our God in one God! Jesus said It. Now, I can just see Him that He said, "Here is the Lord our God is one God." He said to the disciples, "But Father, I'm fooling, you got that right that's Me, because I'm the other One."

Can you imagine Jesus standing there smirking and pulling a lulu on the people? Telling them there's one God, but really, He's the other One, there's One more to come. Okay. Do we want to take all the dignity away from Jesus Christ? Here's the point, I love Him, I worship Him, I'm sincere brother/sister. In vain do you worship Him if you've got a creed or a dogma. The man ran for the train, he had a heart attack and died. He missed the train. In vain didn't run.

Did you ever hear Paul saying, "You might run in vain." (Huh?) "We aren't running, oh as long as that..." Oh no, you might run in vain. Paul, said so. Where are those men, that blasphemed by saying there's three gods and turned truth to a lie.

59. What is the evidence you want? What are you looking for? Should we not be seeking,

Ephesians 1:15-23 Wherein It says:

(15) Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith…(listen)…after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

(16) Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

What's he praying for?

(17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of (himself.)

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

(19) And (then, and then only) what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of (that) mighty power,

(20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, …

There it is brother/sister, Pentecost turns It right around, they said, "Power, power, power, signs, signs, signs, wonders, wonders, wonders."

The Bible says, "Revelation, revelation, revelation, revelation." And then, and then, the power delivers. That power aside from revelation is a trap. You say, "A trap, would God give a trap?" How naïve can you get? Didn't He say He would send false prophets among the people to prove them, whether they'd listen to God or not?

60. Now, supposing I'm a merchant and I want to see if my customer’s are away. And I say, "Look now, I'm some eggs in a basket, and everybody buys the basket, and there's going to be one uncandled [term for uninspected] egg that’s rotten. [Bro. Vayle sings] "Merrily we crack the eggs, crack the eggs, crack the eggs." We've got eighteen eggs cracked for the big omelet, and 'boing' the rotten egg appears! Whoooo, screaming and screaming the rotten eggs in my omelet. We told you there'd be a rotten egg, why don't you crack them separately in a dish?

God's not stupid. He warned you. He said, "At the end time this would happen. That's why he can judge us brother/sister. What's He going to judge the world by? The Word. (See?) This is your evidence the revealed Word by the Spirit, which is the revelation of Christ. This is what He said in John 15:12-15, which we read, (and I won't read It now.)

61. But we'll turn to,

1 John 3:2 and read that.

(2) Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, …

That is the complete revelation of Christ, we'll be like Him. That's what puts you in the Rapture. Gives you the resurrection, because Christ has been revealed to you in the Word. Now then, how will I receive Him? How, am I going to do it? Now, some of you folk here, you know that you've been taught the truth since you've heard this Word. You've been baptized in water, but you might say, "I don't know if I really got the Holy Ghost?" Have you had hands laid on you, since you received, the Holy Ghost? Have you called the elders? Have you set a time aside? Why don't you? This is no time to show everything to the wind. We are at the onetime where we can see the Word of God in absolute perfection. The perfect revealed Word as It was at Pentecost with men and women being baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ upon repentance and confession of faith, and having hands laid on, and by faith received the Holy Ghost.

62. You say, "When did that happen?" How many times have you heard Bro. Branham talk about these men who came to him and simply laid their hands on him, and he said they received the Holy Ghost? Then, what more are you looking for? See, that old Pentecostal dogma, that old experience that, “Oh my, when I receive the Holy Ghost I saw a burning ball of fire." Where's the chapter and verse, please, please, please, please? "Oh, I had this great majestic feeling, I felt like a giant." Oh, please, please, please, please. I got to know where that is. Yes, he says here, said Paul, …does he? "What do you want It for?"

When the woman came to Bro. Branham to receive the Holy Ghost, he said, "Lord, just help her, come to her heart, let her have some kind of evidence Lord." You want a man of God to create that kind of prayer over you? You want a prophet of God to say to you, "Would it make you feel better if you spoke in tongues?" "Many will come in that day." [Mt 7:22] You blew that one, didn't you? Won't work.

63. You say, "Bro. Vayle, here's what I really want, I want something real. Want something that I can stand on. I want something that won't desert me, that's the thing I really want. Can I have that?" I'm sure glad that you asked. I got the rest before you. "Who do men say that I the Son of man am?" [Mt 16:13b] "Some say, he's John the Baptist." Was He? No. Good guess but wrong, perverted word. "Some say, Elijah, are You?" Very good guess, wrong, perverted word. "Jeremiah." Whoo, they missed it. They haven't got a thing on that one.

"One of the prophets." [Mt 16:14] Ah, you're coming close. Deuteronomy 18: wrong guess. Very good, but wrong.

"Who do you say I am?" [Mt 16:15]

"Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." [Mt 16:16]

"Blessed art thou." Now He's smiling. "You're blessed." [Mt16:17a]

"Well, (said Peter,) ho, ho, ho, as far as you can be blessed, because that's …?... When I could be doing miracles. Let's nail it down, sarcasm won't hurt anybody, that's what I'm here for. I don't care how sarcastic I get, if I can nail it down and show you something's wrong my brother, my sister with it.

64. Time to go up, time to be so dedicated in all of our hearts so circumcised by the Holy Ghost and so filled with the Word of God, we know that we know that we know. He said here, "Flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father which is in heaven." [Mt 16:17b]

And Peter you have delivered the foundation, you that want something real, something that you can stand on, something that'll get you there. The gates of hell will not prevail against you. What about yourself? Okay, what about it? What about your miracles? Be fine. What about great brains? Wise and prudent don't get it. What are you going to stand on? What are you standing on? The fact that you felt good? That's great, most time I feel rotten. Oh ho, I tell you I just them waves of glory, hallelujah. What about George Brainerd? Ever read his life? Read it. Read it, he wasn't jumping up and down screaming and shouting hallelujah. He trembled and hung in the presence of Christ, knowing he should be destined to hell, wondering if God had really saved him. What a masterpiece in the hands of Christ, because he believed that Word. He stood with the Word of God, his only hope in his desperation was that Word of God, God.

65. The gates of hell will not prevail against your revelation. Here is where we stand. Today the revelation is faith. Certainly, faith is a revelation, and it will put you in a Rapture, because the gates of hell, (which in this case is death) cannot prevail against you. Surely, we see this from,

Revelation 1:10,12-13,20 John:

(10) I was in the Spirit …

That does it, that does it, now you're going to hear what the Spirit tells. Now, you're going find out what it is to have the Holy Ghost. Now, we're going to know something. Because here's an authenticated man that said, "I handled, I saw, I know it, and I want you to know it. And I was in the Spirit, let’s go, …the Spirit of God, what is It?

(10) … (I heard) a voice (like) a trumpet,

First thing, (are you ready?) verse 12

(12) And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;

He turned to see the Voice of God the Church, the Bride. Ah ha, what does this Spirit crieth?

…?.. I don't know, but it sure sounds interesting. Verse 13

(13) And in the midst of the seven candlesticks (in the midst of the Church) one like unto the Son of man…

The Greek interpretation, 'who says the same thing as the Son of man'. He has to, because He's a Voice. How are you going to identify a voice? You get it? All right, now listen:

(13) …clothed with a garment… (and so on.)

66. Now listen, lets read further, verse 20

(20) The mystery of the seven stars (that you saw) and the seven candlesticks. The seven stars are the (seven messengers of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks… (are the seven churches.

Now, he's in the Spirit, and he's hearing something, but the Seven Church Ages. Let's go now to, [Revelation] 2:1,8,12

(1) Unto the (messenger) of the church (which is in) Ephesus write; These things saith he… (that's the seven stars, and so on.)

Verse 8

(8) …unto the (messenger, which is in) the church in Smyrna write; these things saith the (Spirit, because It's Christ, so on.

Verse 12

(12) And to the (messenger) of the church i(which is in the) Pergamos … These things saith he which hath the sharp sword…(he who carries the Word of God.)

67. Listen, trace it down to the next two chapters, or the next chapter all the way through. Let's double back to, [Revelation 2:] 7,11,17 now.

(7) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; …

Verse 11

(11) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; …

Verse 17

(17) He that hath an ear, let him hear… (and so on.)

The Word of God comes to the messengers every Age, and you hear the Spirit of Almighty God. As you hear that man talk you, and as you receive his Word the Spirit of God reveals It. And the Bible says, "Take how you hear, with what measure you hear He'll reveal to you, and if you don't take It, I'll be taken away from you." (Paraphrasing, over in Luke, you can look for yourself.)

God tells us right here that the Holy Spirit is given to us, and the evidence of His incarnating, and indwelling us, is that we hear the messenger and identify with him in every Age, and we listen to him and hear the Voice of God.

68. Surely, this scientific generation wants something other than that. What does It say in,

Isaiah 28:8-10 Let's find out. Verse 8

(8) …all tables are full of vomit…

Isn't that nice, just before dinner. Let's get good and nauseated. No table of God where the Word of God is, is anything but vomit. What is vomit? It is partly digested food regurgitated, and that's the worst kind there is.

Some preachers take the Word of God and he gets part of It, brings it up, and you say, "Oooh, oooh, oooh, wasn't that …?... They hear the revealed Word of God from serpent seed to prophet in the former rain, and they say, "Spit in it, what a terrible thing." They got used to vomit. How can they take good food?

(9) (To) Whom shall he teach knowledge? (Now, Who's the teacher? The Holy Ghost.) …whom shall he make to understand doctrine? (The Word, that's the doctrine, the Word of God. Only those) that are weaned from the milk, and (those taken) from the breasts.

The Pentecostal babies you cannot teach, you got to get away from them.

(10) For precept …

The doctrine, the enlarged, the ordinary doctrine. Slam bang, serpent seed, and the serpent and the woman. Don't say a word about it, just slam it home. There it is. One God, slam it home. Don't explain It, slam it home. After that It says: [Isaiah 28:]

(10) …line upon line, … (start explain It, then It says,) here a little, and there a little: (take It Word by Word.)

(11) For with stammering lips and another tongue (he'll) speak…

This is not a foreign language, because Paul says, "You can't teach in a foreign language." He says, "It’s a man coming who stutters and stammers around, and you wish he'd just want to stand up and go, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. And put a little blindfold, and say, "There it is." That's denominations. With stammering lips and a stuttering tongue, is that you don't understand his language, because you're so used to your own dogmatic interpretation of the Word of God, when you hear him say a thing, you say, "forget it," because you interpret it according to the way you believe it, not according to revelation, and the Holy Ghost is blocked out.

69. Now listen,

(12) To whom he said, This is the rest…

This is the real Holy Ghost. This is the real Token. Now, He's going to apply It. Now, it's all over. You don't have to doubt anymore. No fear, the vindicated Word prophet is bringing you 'Thus Saith the Lord'. Believe It, rest in It. This is your rest. No more you have to wonder. No more you have to run. No more sensation. No more a miracle, or lack of a miracle, it's all vindicated Word. (See?) The Blood carry it through is a messenger which is in the Church of Laodicea. 'Thus Saith the Amen', the last Message, the last revelation, the last thing, all the signs and wonders, but there's a Voice that brings the Word of God, this is your identification. This is your evidence. If you have the Holy Ghost, because if you didn't have the Holy Ghost you couldn't receive them in.

70. Oh, some may want to say, "I want my own sign, that will be my token." Well, that's alright, go ahead, that's not for me. I stand with what the prophet said when I was with him in Phoenix, for four and a half hours on one point alone, what is the baptism with the Holy Ghost? It's in the Church Age book. I said, "Bro. Branham, I can't get what you're driving at, surely by your own experience where you saw the Cross of Light that spoke to you in other languages, and in the woodshed, where an experience of rain pelted your body, the Holy Ghost, by your own experience you must admit, that there is a rebirth and It happened in the Holy Ghost." I never had Bro. Branham treat me like that in my life. He drew himself over the furniture saying, "Bro. Vayle, we don't go by experience, we go by the Word of God."

Wouldn't you like to have what he had by experience?" [low audio] Oh no, folks, nobody's got what I've got. No, nobody, nobody. Bro. Branham laid it all on the altar. He said, "We don’t go by experience, we go by the Word of God."

71. Something like Peter. 2 Peter 1:15-17

(15) Moreover I will endeavour that (you) may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

He doesn't say, "I'm going to be sure that you get miracles, signs and wonders. You get a good happy feeling." He said, "I'm going to make sure you get reality. You're going to have something in your mind."

(16) …we have not followed cunningly devised fables, (something that's merely got a moral, something that you can't make stick.) when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, (we were our witnesses) …

(17) …he received from God the Father honour and glory, (we were separated, singled out to be with Him on that Holy Mount. We heard Him say,) This is my beloved Son, …

But, we've got something bigger and greater that that! That's the Word of God. Spiritually given, and spiritually revealed Word. Now, where do you stand this morning brother/sister? What do you want really? What are you looking for?

72. The apostle Peter said, "I don't go by evidence. I don't go by the fact that Jesus singled me out, and bore me in His arms to the Mount of Transfiguration. I was singled out, such honor, and such glory. Standing alone, generation after generation will call me blessed. Let me tell you I stand as amazing glorified figure, because of Jesus Christ, but I put it to one side, there's something bigger. There's a sure Word of prophecy.

"I don't care (he said) what manifestation there is, there's only one thing that counts, and that's the Word!" Why not? All things are made by the Word. All things are maintained by the Word, what more do you want, but revealed Word? (See?)

73. Now, if you are one with the revealed Word, by the vindicated such Word as vindicated by the prophet, then we have the evidence of the indwelling of the Spirit. We have Eternal Life, where It says in Romans 8:14,

(14) …as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

And they're led as people hear a Voice. Led to the Word, and made one with the Word. One day soon the Bride will be one with the Word. She'll be glorified with that Word and have 'Thus Saith the Lord'. That's that Isaiah 28:12, that great rest coming on her, the Word, the Spirit and the Bride becoming one. There's your evidence. Where's your evidence that Bride will suffer brother/sister?

What's that Bride…how do you get that Bride will suffer? Got to have the oil. What's the oil? It's the garment. That's right. It's actually a garment. The Holy Ghost is actually your garment. And remember, that garment according to 1 Corinthians 15, is that inner garment. It is the revealed Word of God, which Bro. Branham screamed out in prophecy when the Sword struck his hand, "Bring on your holy vesture, with the Word of God standing by,” clothed with the divine revelation of the Word of Almighty God by the Holy Spirit. Now, where's your tongues? Now, where's your sensation?

74. You know brother/sister, what I'd like, as God knows my heart, and I know it a little bit myself, I know one thing, I would love nothing better than my evidence and to stand on the revealed Word of God. And is His desire as Bro. Branham said, to cast me into hell, that's His business. But, I want it known, I'd still know what was revealed to me.

What are you looking for? Don't look for it. Well, Bro. Branham said a woman could no more have a baby and not know it, unless she's hypnotized, or chloroformed in the manner received the Holy Ghost, that's right. I want to tell you one thing brother/sister, just having a baby isn't it, it's bringing that baby up. Life is not giving a birth, life is a process. And the Bible said, "It's precept, upon precept, it's line upon line, until here a little, and there a little," [Isaiah 28:10] it all comes into perfect union by the revelation of the Spirit of God. That's your evidence. That's your evidence.

75. Sure, I spoke in tongues. I was taught wrong. I thought I was right, was right for my day. But the funniest thing happened the night that I received the Holy Ghost and did speak in tongues; I stood under a lamp post with the snow gently falling. And you know how it makes a long light up toward the sky and it sort of a light… underneath you see that sort of shadow in light. And I said, "Lord it's strange how I rejoice and full of the Holy Ghost, but I don't understand, I could see being one of them. The very night I was baptized with the Holy Ghost, I knew something was desperately wrong. Although something was desperately right. Today brother/sister it's all desperately right. Don't be afraid, don't be afraid to stand where you stand with your evidence. If you know, because you have identified yourself with the Word for that day. That's where the apostles stood, they identified with Jesus. That's where that first glorious crowd stood they identified with the Holy Ghost the revealed Word for their day.

I'm identifying today brother/sister whether I raise or fall, sink or swim, live or die, I'm determined to identify with the Word of Almighty God, as the one evidence I hold to, because the prophet said, "There is no certain physical evidence you can put your finger on, it's something between you and God, no man can judge it, you stand alone in your faith." You can't produce a thing the world would believe. The only thing that gets real is what the Holy Ghost produces in you. He came to reveal Christ, that Living Word.

76. What more do you want? There's nothing, but you're training I know, throws a spell on you. Your training confuses your heart. You know what it’s time to do this morning? Repent. There's one message to Laodicea, repent. Not get up and shout and scream and get a lot of gifts going. Repent, repent, repent. "And as many as I love, (He said) I'm going to take you, and I'm whip you. I'm going to dog you and bring every one of your thoughts under control. I'm going to make you acknowledge as a Bride, every word, until you stand with everything the prophet revealed, and you'll know it, I'm going to whip you, I'm going to train you, I want you to repent."

If you repented this morning because you want some endorsement of preachers. "Well, (you say) I've changed my mind." That's repentance, sure, but you felt sorry too. Because sorrow brings repentance. Have you repented because you took your stand that tongues is the evidence? Have you had some sorrow about the past, that you let your mind was cluttered up? You can't witness to God apart from that Word. It must be with the truth.

77. So, the prophet was right. Everything he taught was right. There's only one thing God's going to back up, that's His truth. He's not going to back me up, He's not going to back you up. That’s right. He stands behind His Word. …?... But, if I am His Word, by virtue of the Holy Spirit then He will back me up. You believe that this morning? I told you it's kind of hard to take. It is hard. (Yep) If you knew before what I believe is going to happen? I believe like Noah, we're going to sit in a very dark ark. That's right. And like Abraham when it's too late by what people might say, we're still going to believe, and by faith we're going to make it. The squeeze has not even come down yet brother. But, I believe when it comes, we’ll be ready. And I believe that it’s this Message that does it. And not because I'm preaching It, God forbid that I make this statement. But, I really believe that this kind of preaching is going to take us through. Because I believe with all my heart it’s what the prophet of God said. And I cannot see it any way, except Scripture by Scripture as It comes out from the Word.

The Lord bless you, shall we rise.

Heavenly Father, I want to thank You now for these attentive people that I believe understood very clearly what was said, and will hold in their hearts, O God, to see if it's exactly right. For, Lord, knowing that they have the Holy Spirit that we're able to judge absolutely, there'll be no problem, they will know, because the sheep hear the Voice, Father like Son, there'll be no problem.

And now, Lord, I thank you by faith that the spirit of the enemy was not here amongst us, and therefore could not take from any of us the truth of the Word of God. Waiting only now, Lord, for the complete revelation which will give us this tremendous rest that we know the prophet had, because he knew 'Thus Saith the Lord', and we're on our way to It too.

Grant, Lord, that this Bride may come to that rest where she knows, that she knows, that she knows, because she is the Word, because she has the Word, and know what to do with It. And just like that Holy Spirit we'll be automatically in our lives what He is, so she will be automatically what He is, which will be that revealed Word.

Lord, I know that's coming and this is what my heart cry is Lord, ever since I was born again. I only say I can be here when it happens. But, if I'm not, Lord, I pray I'll be in that First Resurrection. And together, Lord, when the Saints go marching home, rank upon rank, tier upon tier, we'll be rising into the glorious realm. Not that we're looking for a Wedding Supper, and looking for Millennium, (although that's fine) we're looking to see Jesus. The man, the man that made it all possible through God His Father.

Now, unto the King Eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be all power and honor and glory for He is worthy, through Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you.