Same
thing it is right here in the Gentile church now. It's an elected group. You
can't pull them in that kind of stuff. They won't believe it. No, sir. When the
Light once struck them, that settles it right then... (Seals - 63-0324.2E.)
You just
might as well just quit fooling with them because they believe it. That's all.
That's all. Though they can't explain it, but they know they've got it. As I
say, "There's a lot of things I can't explain, but I know it's real
anyhow." (Seals - 63-0324.2E.)
Resting
upon His ability! That's my hope and stay. I'm resting upon His ability. I'm
resting upon what I am; what He is. I'm resting upon His promise because He
made the promise and He swore to the promise. (The Comforter - 61-1001E.)
Some one
said to me once, "Brother Branham, aren't you afraid when you go to the
pulpit there, and are called to a showdown? Aren't you afraid sometimes
standing in that line, there will be a mistake?" No, Sir! I'm not afraid,
because I solemnly rest upon His Word, "I'll be with you" when He
said to me that night. "No man shall stand before you all the days of your
life," He said, "I'll be with you." And He has cut off every
enemy. He has stood by me when I wasn't deserving to be stood by. But because
He promised it, because of His grace, I've rested solemnly upon that Word. Why?
Because He promised it! He promised it, He is able to keep what He promised.
That's right.
Ruth,
making her decision a type of the Church, the Gentile Church. She decided, and
crossed over into the land. Now, a lot of times, we Methodist and Baptist, we
think that's all you have to do. She just got started! She hadn't got nowhere
yet, she just got over into the land. (Revelation
Ch 5 #II - 61-0618.)
Now, the
next thing she had to do, she had to work. She become a legalist. She had to
"work out her own salvation with fear and trembling" like you did.
She went out into the field and put her clothes upon her, and went out into the
field and gleaned behind the maidens in order to get sustaining food for the
day. Is that right? What was she doing? She was trying to find favor with Boaz.
So she worked her way through the stage of legalism.
And
that's exactly what the Church did. The Luther's believed It by faith and come
into the land. But the Methodist taught sanctification, which was the
legalistic standpoint of It, see, "You've got to do something. I got to
quit! I got to let my hair grow out," said the woman. Course, they don't
do it no more; but they - they did do it, let their hair grow out. They had to
quit wearing the paints in their faces. They didn't wear their - their skirts
wrong and, or, short like the others did. They had to do something. See? That's
what she did, the state of justification, the state of sanctification.
Now,
when finally she found favor with Boaz, what happened? Then Naomi told her,
"You wait here while Boaz does the work of a kinsman redeemer, 'cause he
is the only one that can do it. He is our next kinsman redeemer, and you just
wait here. Don't go in the fields no more. Don't do this, that, or the other.
You just wait until the kinsman redeemership has been fulfilled." And she
rested. Amen!
That's
exactly what the Church has come to in this last stage of Pentecost. See? In
the beginning of Pentecost they all worked up and they "had to do
this," and they shook them and everything else. Now what is the Church
doing, the true Church? Is just resting. What is Rest? Here it is, Rest is the
"Holy Spirit," the Sabbath day. (The Seventh-day Adventists want to
tell us, you know, about being the seventh-day Sabbath or something like that.)
In Hebrews the 4th chapter, said, "We which have entered into His Rest
have ceased from our works as God did from His." So the Sabbath is the
Holy Spirit.
And when
Ruth was resting, it was a type of the Church resting in the promises of God!
We have the Earnest now of our salvation. We're not worried whether we're going
over there or not, we're going! That's right. God said so! God promised it and
we've got the Earnest (amen), done been received, Christ has accepted us. No
way to get away from It now, we're there! Amen! All we have to do is just wait
till the... He takes, He's down doing the Kinsman Redeemership. We have the
Earnest of it right now, waiting for the time that when He comes back. (Revelation Ch 5 #II - 61-0618.)
Moses.
Notice, a very, very real type of our One that was given to bring us to the
Promised Land, Christ. Now we have a promise, 'cause our promise is spiritual
Rest, where, theirs was physical rest. And so they was coming to a land that
they could say, "This is our land, we are no more wanderers we've settled
down, this is our land, and here we have rest. (Adoption #II - 60-0518.)
"Thus
saith the Lord, It'll take perfect love to put you in that place, for that's
all there was there." (Adoption #IV -
60-0522.2E.)
When we
enter into God, we rest all the time; not from one Sunday to another. We rest,
Eternal. You got Eternal Life. The Holy Spirit gives you Rest. (Unfailing Realities of the Living God - 60-0320.)
And the
separating time is NOW taking place, when God's a-calling a Bride, and the
devil is calling a church. (Ashamed -
65-0711.)
God's a
separator, not a mixer. (Feast of Trumpets -
64-0719M.)
God had
to separate Cain's people from Seth's people.
Can a
man who believes in all the Word of God have a unity with them who just
believes part of the Word of God? God wants separators.
That
same Devil got among them and brought them together again. What happened? How
did he do it? "The sons of God, seen the daughters of man." (Oneness - 62-0211.)
Look
what happened! Why? The same God that separated and come to Abraham and showed
him the vindication of his separation... Uhm! O God! How I wish I could just
could do something to let you see It. God showed Abraham, being that he had
separated himself, He showed him the a- vindication of it, that He was with him
and right in his midst. And Jesus said the same thing will take place in the
last days. Not a nation was Abraham, he was in the minority, but God was with
him. He had separated him then. We're supposed to separate ourselves in this
last days.
Stay
with God's Word, It's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Stay with His Word. To separate from
It is breaking your fellowship with God, God's oneness by the Holy Spirit. Then
if you say you got the Holy Spirit and it's not in agree with the Word, then
you're not oneness with God. (Oneness -
62-0211.)
They seen
the glory of God; they walked in the Light of the... They walked in the Light.
They walked in the Light of the Pillar of Fire. They walked in the presence of
His power. They walked through the places that the Holy Spirit made for them to
walk. They eat the manna that fell out of Heaven that God provided and lost and
went to hell. They're everyone dead and if you take that word, it's Eternal
separations from the presence of God. (Seals
- 63-0317.1M.)
Brother,
has God give you a spirit of this world till you can't see that that's wrong?
Has he blinded your eyes to the ethics of the church, the denomination, the
creed, and so forth, that you can't see that God is vindicating His Word and
making It so? Has your job, has your boss, has your wife, has your children,
has your church, or anything, separated you from the Word of God, which is the
only source of Life? Flee it, my brother. (God
of This Evil Age - 65-0801.1M.)
Notice,
here it is! And when Israel, before they could come into fellowship in the
worship, they had to first pass through the waters of separation -
justification by ... Faith cometh by hearing; hearing the Word. Then they
entered into the congregation under those seven stripes, the blood, to show
that something died and went before them for their sin. They were separated by
hearing the Word, the Waters of separation, then entered into fellowship. (Thinking Man's Filter - 65-0822.2E.)
Now do
you understand what we have said? That it is absolutely impossible for a
borned-again Christian (that ... I don't mean now he calls hisself
borned-again, I mean a real borned-again Christian) to ever fall from grace. He
cannot do it. He can fall, that's right, but he cannot (never) get out of that
grace. Abraham fell from grace, sure he did, God told him to "stay
there," he went out of it, but he never lost his covenant. He was still
God's chosen. He was a prophet setting there. He will... always was. He will
always be God's. (Hebrews Ch 6 #II -
57-0908.2E.)
Remember,
if you don't walk up to the correction, and you do something wrong as a
Christian, God will warn you, and then if you don't take the warning, He will
just take you right off the earth. That's what He done.
So God
cannot lose you after He's saved you, but He can shorten your days here, and
make you pay for every sin you've done. So if you sin, you're going to have to
pay for what you've done. Just remember that. (Hebrews Ch 6 #II - 57-0908.2E.)
But when
you come to say, "I and my Father are one, and these other things, then
the shuck pulls away from it. (Seed Is Not
Heir With the Shuck - 65-0218.)
Know ye
not that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates. (II Corinthians 13:5.)
And this
that comes among us as a Pillar of Fire, as something that changes our hearts,
that is the same God that said, "Let there be light," and there was
light! He's the same yesterday, today, and forever (Melchisedec - 65-0221.2E.)
But
there is another dimension that can be seen by a transformation by television.
Now, television does not manufacture a picture. A television only channels it
into a circuit, and then the television screen picks it up. But the picture's
there to begin with. Television was here when Adam was here. Television was
here when Elijah set on Mount Carmel. Television was here when Jesus of
Nazareth walked the shores of Galilee. But you're just now discovering it. They
wouldn't have believed it back there. You'd have been crazy to have said
something like it. But now it's become a reality! And so is it that Christ is
here! The Angels of God are here! And someday in the great Millennium to come
it'll be just more real than television or anything else, because they are
here! Now, here He is in the form of Spirit.
You
became from the attribute to the flesh to be tempted. (Melchisedec - 65-0221.2E.)
Notice
how ridiculous that the Word of God to a people who's supposed to believe It,
and yet It's so unusual they cry out, "Well, what's this? Where'd you get
that stuff? Who is this? What is this?" When they ought to have been screaming,
"Hosanna to the King that cometh in the Name of the Lord." (But
there's just a little group doing that, just a little group.) Of four thousand
years of prophecy, for the greatest thing that could ever happen to the nation,
for all the hope of the dead rested upon It, all the future laid in It, and the
religious people that claimed they believe It was screaming out, "Who is
It? And what's this attraction?" Something unusual! About the same, it
just don't change, now unusual. (What Is the
Attraction on the Mountain - 65-0725.2E.)
That was
the attraction at the Dead Sea. What was the attraction in the second day after
that, at Mount Sinai, when all the people was commanded not to come at their
wives, when they was asked to wash their clothes and sanctify themself, and
gather around the mountain where a man by the name of Moses had said he met God
in a Pillar of Fire? And God had said to Moses, "I'm going to come down
amongst the people. I'm going to confirm that what I told you and Who I am, I'm
going to show them that I am that God." That was the attraction, God
fulfilling His Word.
Satan is
defeated! The stripes of Jesus Christ healed you, and the Presence of Jesus
Christ verifies the fact that He's a-living today, ever able to keep every
promise that He made. (What Is the
Attraction on the Mountain - 65-0725.2E.)
See that
Holy Spirit can fall upon a man in his spirit, but his soul is his germ. That
germ is the Word. See? (Christ Is Revealed
in His Own Word - 65-0822.1M.)
No
matter how good, how bad, whatever, you're in that Kingdom by Holy Ghost
baptism. See? That's the only way you'll overcome. It's all that is under the
shed Blood is overcomers, 'cause you cannot overcome yourself, it's He that
overcome for you. You're resting. (How Can I
Overcome - 63-0825.1M.)
We call
Him a meek Man; He was, but many times we misunderstand what meekness is. He
was a Man of compassion, but yet we fail sometimes to understand what
compassions is. Not human sympathy isn't compassion, but compassion is doing
the will of God. (This Day This Scripture Is
Fulfilled - 65-0219.)
Think of
love and grace as sisters, twin sisters. You can't have grace without having
love. They're twin sisters. Exactly right. Before you can have grace, you have
to have love. (Message of Grace - 61-0827.)
That's
what it is, grace, the grace of God. The grace of God has brought forth a
shadow ... God brought grace into our lives by His love for us. Here's
something else grace can't do: grace cannot be bought, grace cannot be sold.
It's grace! It's by a sovereign One. Yes, sir. You cannot bargain for it. You
can say, "God, I'll do so-and-so if You'll do so-and-so." You can't
do that. God won't do it. You can't pull nothing out of God. God gives it to
you by His grace.
You're
not even saved just because you preach. You're not saved because you speak with
tongues. You're not saved because you do any of these things. I Corinthians 13
proves so, "Though I speak with tongue of men and Angels, though I
understand all the mysteries of God (a preacher), though I do all this, and
have faith to move mountains, I am nothing until charity comes in, which is
love." Love is grace. The grace of God that does all. God's grace cannot
be bargained for, "Nothing in my arms I bring, simply to Thy cross I
cling." (Message of Grace - 61-0827.)
So it's
not you that keeps yourself, it's the grace of God that keeps you. You didn't
save yourself, or nothing you've done to deserve being saved, it's God's grace
that saved you. (Hebrews Ch 7 #I -
57-0915.2E.)
So how
can you say it's something you could do? It's nothing you can do. It's God's
love and grace to you, that you're even here. Nothing you could do, God called
you by His grace; you listened, heard, accepted.
"Well,"
you say, "Brother Branham, that makes it awful loose." Certainly, it
does. You're free. "Well, that fellow can do anything he wants to."
Absolutely! I always do what I want to do, but if you're a Christian, you don't
want to do wrong. (Hebrews Ch 7 #I -
57-0915.2E.)
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