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1-1 Be seated. Morning,
everyone. Happy to be in the service of the Lord, this morning, back
again on... Didn't know whether we'd get back or not, but the Lord
provided a way, and we returned for the service today.
Now, we're expecting great times today; this morning in the Sunday
school lesson in the Word. And tonight will be healing services again,
with communion service following it.
1-3 And now, we have a--a dedication of baby, I believe the... Brother Neville was just telling me that someone had their baby to be dedicated. And if they'll bring the baby at this time, then--and the brother will remain, or some of them at the organ or piano, one. And then, they bring the baby up; we'll have a dedicational service, so we can get right in, quickly as we can, to the Word, because we like to--to lay to the Word; that's--that's the main thing: give our time exactly to the Word of the Lord. So we are very thankful for the opportunity to meet with you all here today, and to--and this--this service.
1-5 I must have been mistaken.
That's all right, sister, I--I thought there was. Maybe it's just a
mistake. Okay. Now, thank you very much, just the same. That maybe
this... I think it's come through somebody else, through somebody else,
and it just made it kind of a difficult.
Now, everybody feeling good? Glory to God. Now... Oh, yes, here is the
little fellows. I'm sorry, I... All right. Will you come, elder. Well,
what two fine little girls, little brown eyed girls. Now, that--that's
pretty. What's her name? Look here. Jenny? Jennetha Ailene. What's the
last name? Soralle. Where you from, sister? DeSalles, Illinois. How
nice.
1-5a Now, in the Bible... Now,
usually they--they have such as a baptizing of children. We don't
believe in baptizing children, because they have sinned not yet, 'cause
they're too young. But we believe in dedicating children to the Lord.
Now, the elder and I will lay hands upon the little baby.
Jennena--Jennetha. All right. Let us bow our heads.
Heavenly Father, as this morning we bring this little girl called
Jennifer to Thee... The mother and loved ones has brought her from a
long ways to be dedicated to the Lord. We know that You laid Your hands
upon such little ones in You days and--and said, "Suffer little
children to come to Me, and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of
heaven." Now, we give her to You for a life of service, in the Name of
Jesus Christ. Amen.
1-5b What's the other little
girl's name? Connie Lynn. All right. Little Connie, make--you make me
feel kinda small. Oh, are you scared? Oh, I am afraid that won't
work...?... All right. Let us bow our heads.
Lord Jesus, the mother brings this little Connie to us this morning in
dedicational service to the Almighty. You gave her this child to raise,
and she's bringing it to You with her little sister. I pray, heavenly
Father, that You'll be merciful; bless the family; bless the little
girl as we lay hands upon her; in the Name of Jesus Christ we give her
to You for a life of service. Amen.
God bless you and your little children.
1-5c My, we got lots of little
babies now. What's the little boy's name? Joe Watkin, Joel Lee Watkin.
What a fine boy, great big blue eyes. Now, where you all from? From
Georgia. I thought you was from the south. I didn't know...?...
Oh...?... Oh, hi, this is a fine little Georgia boy then, huh? All
right, sister. So that's very fine. He can talk too, can't he?
Let's bow our heads. Heavenly Father, we bring this darling little boy,
as the mother and father strands here. In--in regards to their union
You have given them this little boy to raise, and they're bringing it
back to You. What a--a beautiful scene this would be. Like Hannah of
old who prayed for a child, and--and God gave her the child, and she
brought it back to the temple of God in dedication. Grant, Lord, that
this little boy will be Your servant, that the father and mother will
be blessed and have health and strength to raise him. May it live a
long happy life and be Your servant, as we commit it to You in the Name
of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Bless you and make him a fine man, maybe another little prophet like
Samuel.
1-5d Now, here's two fine little
boys, my, three of them? Well, that's a whole family. What's your name?
Michael. And yours is? Paul. What fine names. Yours? Deborah. That's
really fine. Michael, and Paul, and Deborah. What's your last name?
Ella. Well, that's a mighty fine little family; I'm telling you.
You know, when I see little fellows like that, it always takes me back
to when I was a little boy. And now, the old saying is, you know, "They
tramp on your feet now, and your heart later." But I don't believe
it'll be so when we dedicate them to the Lord. We have a responsibility
here, and God's placed this in your hands. He made a preacher out of
you. I always said about women preachers, you know, but every mother is
a preacher; here's her congregation, to raise these little fellows
right while dad's working. And you got a responsibility. God bless you
both. You got a fine little family.
1-5e Our heavenly Father, we
come with little Michael, look like being the firstborn, and we place
our hands upon him in dedication to Jesus Christ. His family brings
their little ones, because You placed this in their--their care, and
they know that they're insufficient without Your help; so they bring
their little family to dedicate. Now, I give little Michael here to You
for a life of service, in Jesus Christ's Name.
Likewise we lay hands upon little Paul, and we dedicate his life to
Jesus Christ for a life of service for the glory of God.
And upon little Deborah we lay hands upon her, Father, in dedication,
commemoration of Jesus Christ, Who laid His hands upon little children,
said, "Suffer them to come to Me; don't forbid them." May this little
girl's life be blessed in the Kingdom of God. Bless the father and
mother, and may they live long happy lives to see their children in
service of God. We ask this blessing for the glory of God as we
dedicate them in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
Bless you. Bless you for a fine little family.
1-5f Well, you know, I think
little girls get--is prettier now than used to be when I was a little
boy. Yes, sir. What great big pretty eyes. What's her name? Joanna. And
you're last name is? Blair, Joanna Blair. You that looking, like ain't
she a doll? And how are you, Joanna? Little bit bashful?...?...
that's... A lovely little thing. Let's bow our heads.
Our heavenly Father, this family of Blair has had this give to their
union, this little Joanna, and we know that the days are evil when
Satan's on every hand to decept, especially these little girls. And
they know that they're insufficient to--to raise her up right, and they
want her raised right and to be--be a servant to You, and to raising
this little girl to honor You, Lord. And now, they bring her in
dedication to Thee. We lay our hands upon her in the Name of Jesus
Christ as we dedicate little Joanna Blair to the Kingdom of God for the
glory of God. Amen.
Bless you, Brother Blair. The Lord be with you.
1-5f Morning, sir. What a fine
boy this is. Hey, how are you? Well, well, my, you look better when you
turn around this a way. He says, "Yes." Got a nice pretty little head
and a face to go with it. Huh? Name? Daniel Mark, and the--your last...
Cardinal, Cardinal, Daniel Mark...?... you thought about? Where you
from? From New York City...?... here. Well, it's a great state. I got
some people lives there. My uncle lives at Plattsburg. Oh, I've had a
lot of fun in New York. Going up there with my next meeting in New York
City...?... there. All right. Now, his name is Mark, you say? Daniel
Mark, what a fine little boy. Let us bow our heads.
Lord Jesus, we bring to You little Daniel Mark in dedication of his
life that's been given in the hands of the father and mother to raise
this little child in the admonition of God. And they know that they're
insufficient, so they're bringing it to You, Lord, that You would bless
its life. And now, as we know that the day is evil that we live in, we
see these little fellows; we just don't know what tomorrow holds. But
whatever it is, we trust them into Your hands. We lay hands upon this
little boy and dedicate his life to You for a life of service in the
Kingdom of God, in Jesus Name we pray. Amen.
God bless you, brother; and well, bless you...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
...
them in, bring them in;
Bring
them in from the fields of sin;
Oh,
bring them in; bring them in,
Bring
the little ones to Jesus.
1-7 That's wonderful. Thank
you, sister. How many were here Sunday, was prayed for last Sunday,
feels the results and feels you're healed, raise your hands up and
praise the Lord. Oh, my, looky here. Just about every one of them.
I... Yes, sir, I have too. I just wondered who says it. Listening to...
See, something's taking place that I'll tell you about later. So...
It's glorious and wonderful, and we--we'll talk about it in some other
meeting, you know, sometime. It's just beginning to take place, and
we're so thankful for it.
2-1 And I've been down in Kentucky (as I do each year), going down there. Some of my friends down there... It ain't altogether to squirrel hunt, and you know that. So we're just having a glorious time, and we're thankful to the Lord.
2-2 I got to go now to--got to
go home after this meeting. And then... And we're... Then I'll be back
through again, after while, going to New York for a meeting. And if we
can have a chance to stop over a little bit, why, we would be glad to
have another meeting here at the Tabernacle.
Then I've got to come back, going to Shreveport. And then we go back
home and aim to be here through the holidays, the Lord willing, bring
the family back. And then--and then I want to... Then my meeting comes
up in Phoenix in January. (It's the annual meeting there for the
Christian Business Men.) And about a week or ten days before that, I'm
going to try to--to rent that big... The Jesus' Name people, used to be
Brother Garcia, and the Spanish brother there, had a wonderful big
place there. They just built it. It'll seat several thousand people,
brand new, and their congregation is very small. They told me I could
rent it any time I wanted to.
Instead of just taking a--a panoramic, just around through the valley,
church to church, I think I'll just concentrate the thing all in one
big union meeting (You see?), then have it there. If we can rent the
temple (We're going now to find out if we can.) and then have the
Christian Business Men's Convention then.
2-5 Until the overseas gets
straightened up, we're going to try to set meetings down through the
south for January, and February, and March, through the south-lands.
And then--then till... 'Cause, if we start now and go in to Africa
(See?), this Christmas time to them is the fourth of July. See, it's
rainy and bad, and you can't get in there at that time. So the best
time to go in there is later on.
And then we want to start, if we can, in Norway and come down, around
the world and work into Africa, to end up down in there, the Lord
willing.
But pray for us now. And we love you; and you know that. So we're
expecting the exceeding abundantly above all that we could do or even
think the Lord to do.
2-8 And we believe tonight,
there'll be a great healing service; we believe there'll be a... I
won't speak but just a little bit, 'cause they have got communion
tonight--and so about twenty or thirty minutes, and then we'll have the
prayer line, and--and then immediately after that, we'll have the--have
the communion.
And you're welcome to stay with us, we'd be glad... We don't have a
closed communion; it's to every believer, every believer.
And before I read the Scripture, I wonder if we'd bow our heads just a
minute. I'm going to ask a good friend, Brother Lee Vayle, if he will
lead us in a word of prayer, that God will bless His Word. Brother
Vayle, will you do that for us?
[Brother
Vayle prays--Ed.] Amen.
3-2 Now, solemnly, reverently
we approach the Word. Now, I wish to read this morning from Exodus the
12th chapter, and the--beginning with the 12th verse, the 12th and 13th
verse inclusive. And listen close now. And then before communion,
tonight, read the 12th chapter of--of Exodus, the entire chapter. For
just the 11th verse here is the getting ready for the journey and the
communion before the journey. And we want to approach this very
reverently now. Now, the 12th verse of the 12th chapter:
"For I will pass
through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn
in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of
Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
And the blood shall
be to you for a token upon the house where ye are: and when I see the
blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to
destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt."
May the Lord bless His holy Word.
3-3 Now, I want to take a text out of there, just one little five lettered word: "Token, Token." I want to speak on the word or teach the Sunday school lesson on the word of a "Token." And the Bible said here, "And the blood shall be a token unto you." And we want to use the word, "Token."
3-4 Now, we don't know; when I
watch the clock, and when it gets time, well, these... Or I got many,
many Scriptures wrote down here. So not knowing that I won't be with
you for a while... And how do we know that this won't be the last time
that some of us will ever meet together.
So let's try to approach It just as reverently... I know that it's
hard. The Lord's gave us a nice morning now to--to--for the service,
just nice. And let's try to concentrate now on everything that--as we
speak of, so that the--if there's anything in there that the Lord would
want you to know, that it would be given to you.
4-1 And we don't stand here just to be seen. We never come here just so others could see what clothing we were wearing, or... We--we come here for one thing, as our brother prayed that prayer: "We are here for to hear the Word--the Word coming to us." We want that, 'cause that is the only thing that's going to mean anything to us--anything that's going to be substantial, anything that's--that's going to help us.
4-2 And we are a dying people.
All human beings are headed towards eternity. And then we got this much
time to make our decisions on which way we're going to head. And the
road is before us. We can take either side we want to choose. That's
the way He put Adam and Eve, and that's the way He puts us.
We must remember that no matter what we do or how successful we are in
life, without Christ, we've totally lost everything. See?
4-4 So if He is, after... If
He's all that there is to look forward to, then we'd be most foolish
people not to accept It (See?) and--and cherish It. Not only accept It,
but you come to something greater than that. After you've got It, don't
take It and lay It on the shelf; It is to be put into use. See?
Like going to the doctor to get medicine and then set it upon the
shelf... If you go to get the medicine, take the medicine. If there's a
disease bothering you, and this remedy's suppose to help you, you take
what he gives you. And just the way he says, give it, because
sometimes, just a few minutes makes a lot of difference in the way you
give it.
And how do we know, but in this case today, just one moment of your
decision might determine your eternal destination? Take It just as He
hands It to you.
4-7 A token, "The blood shall
be to you a token." Now, what is, first, a token? It is a word that's
commonly used among we English speaking people, especially here in
America.
A token is a--really, the dictionary says that a "token" is a "sign."
It is a sign of a fare price paid (See?), that the fare or--or a--or a
price (a required price) that's been paid, like a fare on a railroad or
a fare on a bus line.
You go in and purchase your--your fare, and then they give you a token;
and that token cannot be spent for nothing else but to that railroad
line. And it is a token to the railroad company that you have paid your
fare. It's a token, and you can't spend it for nothing else. It doesn't
work on any other line. It just works on that line only, and it's
a--it's a token.
5-3 Now, down here, that we're
speaking of, where we're starting in, is God saying to Israel, "The
blood of the lamb is a token for you."
Israel's lamb slain was Jehovah's required token. It must be the blood.
God made a token and give it to Israel, and no other token will work.
See? It cannot be recognized.
To the world, it's a bunch of foolishness, but to God it's the only
way; the only thing that He requires is that token. It must be there,
and you cannot have the token until the fare is paid.
Then you are a possessor of the token which gives you the privilege of
a free pass: "I'll see the Blood; I'll pass over you."
5-6 What a time that--what a
privilege to know that you pack within you the pass. "When I see the
Blood, I'll pass over you." It's the only thing that He'll recognize.
Nothing else that can take its place: no substitute, no denomination,
no nothing else; it takes that.
God said, "That alone will I see."
No matter how righteous they was, how good they was, how much education
they had, how they dressed, the Token was the only thing. "When I see
the token, I'll pass over you."
The Blood was a Token that the requirement of Jehovah had been met,
that it had been done. The Blood stood for the Token. The Blood was the
Token. See?
5-10 The Life that God had said,
"That the day you eat thereof, that day you die," and there'd been a
substitutionary life taken for the life of the believer. God in mercy
accepted a substitute for the life of the defiled person.
When His child had defiled himself with sin of disbelieving the Word,
then God, rich in mercy, made a substitute, and that was something had
to die in its place. Nothing else could work.
That's why Cain's apples, and peaches, and so forth didn't work. It had
to be a life that had blood in it. And the life was gone from the
sacrifice. And now, the blood was a token that God's order had been
carried out.
6-2 Now, what did God require?
The life. And the blood showed that there had to be a life gone, so the
blood was the token that the life had been given, that something had
died, God's requirement that a life had been given, and the blood had
been shed; and the blood stood for the token that the life was gone.
The life of the animal that God had spoke should be taken was--the
blood stood for the token.
See, the--the--the believing worshipper was identified with his
sacrifice by the token.
6-3 I don't wish to stay too
long on these little quotations--but (which you could take the entire
service on one of them), but I want to stop here a moment to express
that the--the--the believer had to be identified with his sacrifice.
See?
If it--just the sacrifice and--and made somewhere out there, he give
it; but had to be identified in it. Frankly, he had to place his hands
on it first, to identify himself with his sacrifice. And then the blood
was placed to where he could stand under the blood.
The blood must be over him, and that was a token that he had identified
himself, guilty, and had proven that an innocent substitute had taken
his place.
6-6 What a beautiful picture.
Oh. A redeemed... See? Justice had been met, and the requirement of
God's holy justice had been met, and God said, "Now, I require your
life."
And then when the--the--the life had sinned, then an innocent
substitute took its place. And it was a blood beast, not apple, peach.
That ought to absolutely make the serpent's seed so plain to everybody,
that it was blood, and this blood which could not come out of fruit,
come out of an innocent substitute. And the life had gone out
to--to--in his place, and the blood was a symbol that the beast had
died, and the blood was gone out.
6-9 And the worshipper,
applying the blood over himself, showed that he was identified in the
redemption, because he has identified himself with the--at the
sacrifice, connecting himself to the sacrifice, and the blood stood for
the token. How--how wonderful. What a picture it is. It's a perfect
type of Christ. Just exactly.
The believer, today, standing under the shed Blood, identified with the
Sacrifice--just as perfect as--as it can be.
And how that Christ, not--not being an animal... You see, the--the
animal died, but it was the most innocent thing that we have, I
suppose, would be the--the animal, the--the lamb. When God wanted to
identify Jesus Christ, He identified Him as a lamb. And when He wanted
to identify Himself, He identified Himself as a bird, a dove. And the
dove is the most innocent and cleanest of all the bird life, and
the--the lamb is the most innocent and pure of all the animal life.
7-3 So, you see, when
the--Jesus was baptized by John, and the Bible said, "And--and he saw
the Spirit of God like a dove coming down upon Him."
Therefore, if it had been a--if it would've been a--a wolf, or if it
had been any other animal, the--the nature of the dove could not have
blended with the nature of the wolf. Neither could the--the nature of
the dove blend with any other animal but the lamb. And those two
natures came together. Then they could agree with each other.
7-5 Now, do you see
predestination? It was a Lamb when He come there. See? See, it was a
lamb when it--when it was brought it was a lamb. It was borned a lamb.
It was raised up a lamb. See?
Therefore, that's the only kind of a true Spirit that can receive the
Word, that can receive Christ. Rest of them try. They try to get it,
and put the Spirit of God upon a wolf (See?), angered, ill, mean. It
won't stay there. The Holy Spirit just flies right away. It will not do
it.
7-7 What if that Dove had come
down, and instead of it being a Lamb there, would been some other
animal? It would've quickly took its flight and went back. See? But
when It found that nature that It could blend into, It just become One.
And then, the--the--the Dove led the Lamb; and notice, It led the Lamb
to slaughter.
Now, the Lamb was obedient to the Dove. See? No matter where it led, it
was willing to go.
7-8 I wonder today, when God
leads us to a--a life of complete surrender and service to Him, I
wonder if our spirits then sometimes don't rebel, kinda showing that:
wonder if we are lambs. See, see?
A lamb is obedient. A lamb is self-sacrificial; it--it doesn't--it
doesn't take--claim its own. You can lay it right down and shear the
wool off of it (That's the only thing it's got.), it never--never says
anything about it, just sacrifices everything it's got. That's a lamb.
It gives everything to its--gives everything away--itself and all it
is. And that's the way a real Christian is. If they're--self-sacrifice
themselves, caring nothing for this world, but giving all they got to
God. See?
8-2 And now, this was a perfect
Lamb: Christ was. And then through the shed of this lamb, the natural
lamb in Egypt, the blood was applied. And when it was, it stood for a
token. Then what would the Blood of this Lamb stand for? See? The Token
that we are dead to ourselves and identified with our Sacrifice. See?
Then the lamb and the--and the--the Blood and the person becomes
identified together: the Sacrifice and the believer. See?
You are identified in your life by your Sacrifice. See? That makes you
what you are.
8-3 Then the blood was a token
of our identification. The blood identified that the worshipper had
slain the lamb, and accepted the lamb, and applied the token to
himself, that he was not ashamed. He didn't care who saw it. He wanted
everybody to see it. And it was placed in such a position, that
everybody passing by could see that token.
See, many people wants to be Christians, and they--they--they like to
do it secretly, so nobody would--would know that they were Christians.
Or the--the associates they run around with, some of them would think,
"Well now look, I want to be a Christian, but I don't want so-and-so to
know about it." See?
Well now, you see, that's not Christianity. Christianity has to display
its Token (See?) publicly, in public life, at the office, on the
street, when trouble is around, anything, in church, everywhere else.
The Blood is the Token, and the Token must be applied (See?), or it's
not--or even the covenant is not in effect. The blood was a token or an
identification, identifying this person has been redeemed.
8-7 Now, why notice, they were
redeemed before there was anything had ever happened. By faith they
applied the blood. See? Before it actually happened, the blood was
applied by faith, believing that it was going to happen. See?
Before the--the wrath of God passed through the land, the blood had to
be applied first. It was too late after the wrath had done fallen.
Now, we have a lesson there that we could really, maybe bring it to
your thought, just a moment. Look: before it happened. For there's
coming a time that when you'll not be able to have any blood applied.
9-3 The lamb was killed in the
evening time after being kept up for fourteen days. And then the lamb
was killed, and the blood was applied in the evening time. You get it?
The token never come into existence until the evening time. And this is
the evening time of the age that we live in. This is the evening time
for the--for the church. This is the evening time for me. This is the
evening time of my message. I'm dying; I'm going; I'm moving out in the
evening time of the Gospel.
9-5 And we've come up through justification and so forth, but this is the time that the Token has to be applied. I told you last Sunday, I had something I wanted to talk to you about; this is it. The time that when you just can't play with it. It's got to be done. If it's ever going to be done, it's got to be done now; because we can see that the wrath is about ready to pass through the land, and everything from under that Token will perish. The Blood has identified you.
9-6 Notice, for the animal life could not come back upon the human being. When the blood was shed, the life went out, of course, 'cause it was a unit. And when the life's blood was gone from it, the life being different from the blood... Now, the blood is the chemistry of the life, but the life is something different from the blood. But the life is in the blood. And the animal life could not come back upon the worshipper. When he shed this blood of the lamb, he had to apply the chemistry, because that the--the life was gone and could not come back. Because it could not come upon a human being, 'cause the animal life doesn't have a soul. The animal doesn't know that he's naked, and he--he just--he doesn't realize sin. It knows none. So therefore, it is a living being, but not a living soul. Therefore, that animal life could not come back upon a human life, because it didn't have a soul in that life.
10-1 Now, there's a life, a
blood, a life, and a soul in the life. The soul is the nature of the
life. Therefore it had no certain nature. It was an animal. Therefore,
the blood stood for a token that the life had been given.
But in this glorious place, under this covenant, there is a difference
between the Blood and the Life. The Token for the believer today is the
Holy Ghost, not a blood, a chemistry; but it is the Holy Spirit of God.
That is the Token that God requires of the church today. God must see
this Token. He must see it in every one of us.
Therefore, as the evening shadows are appearing, and the wrath is ready
to be poured out from on high upon the ungodly nations, and upon the
ungodly unbelievers, upon the--the professors without a possession,
upon these things... And I've tried to unfold myself and live right
among it to see where it was standing before I said these things.
10-4 Now, we are living in the
shadows, and the wrath is ready to strike, and God's requiring a Token
that you, yourself, have received His Token, the Holy Ghost. It's the
only way and the only sign that God will ever pass, because It is the
literal Life of Jesus Christ returned back into the believer.
The animal life could not return back. Therefore, a blood had to be
placed on the door, upon the lintel, upon the post of the door, that
every passer-by, the whole public, everybody coming by the house, knew
that there was a sign on that door of blood, that a life had died at
that door. Amen.
10-6 That's the way it has to be
with every believer today filled with the Holy Ghost, a Token that the
shed Blood of the Lamb, that Life that was in the Lamb, has returned
back and is publicly sealed in there, that everybody passing by,
talking to you, has any associates with you, is seeing that the Blood
has been applied, and the Token of the Life that was in that Blood is
upon you. You are safe from the wrath. That alone, not membership...
No, sir.
The animal life could not come upon the believer, because it was an
animal, and it only spoke of a conscience showing that there would come
a perfect Sacrifice.
10-8 And now, how could there be
a more perfect Sacrifice than God Himself becoming the Atonement
Himself? When God was made flesh and His Own creative Blood that
it--only way that a Life of God could ever come back, because all of us
was born by sex.
And therefore, the life that's in there is of the world, and that life
will not stand. It's a thing that is already judged and condemned. You
can't patch it up. There's no way to patch it. There's no way to--to
smooth it up. There's no way to make it better. It's got to die. That's
the only requirement there is.
It's got to die, and the substitute, a Life of Jesus Christ has to come
into you, which is the Holy Ghost, God's Token, that you have accepted
the Blood of His Son, Jesus Christ.
Therefore, in the days of Wesley, or the days of Luther, it was thought
to believe--in the days of Wesley, the chemistry of the blood. But this
is the last day where the--the Token is required. That makes together
the whole unit for the rapture. You see it?
11-4 Water, blood and spirit
come when a mother gives birth to the baby. The first thing breaks in a
normal birth is a water; the second thing is a blood; and the next
thing is life.
There come from the body of our Lord Jesus Christ, water, blood and
life. And the whole church, the Bride, together has been made up
through justification, sanctification, and the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, which is the Token.
11-6 As Hebrews 11 says, "All
these who wandered about in sheepskins, and goatskins, and was
destitute, and all these things that they done, yet was not made
perfect without us."
And the church in this day that's received the Token of the baptism of
the Holy Spirit, that the Blood has been shed, and that the Holy Ghost
is upon the church. Without us then they could not raise, but they're
depending on us. For God promised He would have it, and somebody's
going to be there. I don't know who it's going to be, but somebody's
going to receive it.
11-8 There's only one thing I am responsible: is to preach it. It's God's business to look out for that predestinated seed. There's going to be there, all because... They're going to be there each one of them, one with the other: the water age, the blood age, and now the Token age of the Holy Ghost.
12-1 And remember, Israel came
through many things, but it was evening time when the token was
required, not in the morning, not in the preparation of the fourteen
days of the keeping up of the lamb.
Israel knowed something was coming; so did Luther know it; so did
Wesley know it; so did Finney, Knox, Calvin know it. This is it.
They knew there would come a time that the Pillar of Fire would return
back to the church. They knowed there'd come a time that these things
would happen. But they didn't live to see it, but they looked forward
to it.
Israel knew something was coming, but it was in the evening time when
that lamb's blood, the token, was placed on the door. Yet the lamb was
already put up.
12-5 It's been the lamb all the
way through. It was the lamb in Luther's time; it was the lamb--lamb in
Wesley's time. But now is the Token time, that each house must be
covered by the Token. Each house of God must be covered by the Token.
All that's inside of it must be covered by the Token.
And the House of God is the Body of Jesus Christ. And by one Spirit
we're all baptized into this Token and become part of it, that God
said, "When I see this token displayed, I'll pass over you."
12-7 What a hour that we're now
living. Oh, a blood identified--identified the believer, because that
he--the life had gone out, could not come back, so he had to have a
chemistry. He had to have it like a paint, a blood, a chemistry that
showed that life went from it.
Now, the very Spirit Itself is the Token. The Holy Spirit Itself is the
Token, not the Blood.
The Blood was shed at Calvary, that is true, but the Blood, as far as
it is, went back into the elements to--from which it come, from the
food that He lived on. But you see, inside that Blood cell was a Life
that started the blood cell to moving. If it wasn't, the chemistry had
no Life in it itself; and therefore it could not move. But when the
Life come into the chemistry of the blood, it formed a cell. It formed
its own cell, then cell after cell. And it become a Man, and that Man
was God Emmanuel in flesh. But when that Life returned back the
chemistry went to it. But the Token is the Holy Ghost upon the church,
that they see Christ.
13-1 It has to be, because a
woman and her husband become one. They become one, and so does the
Bride and Christ become One. The ministry of the Bride and the ministry
of Christ is the same.
You remember, "These former treatise, oh, Theophilus, have I wrote to
you, that Jesus begin to do and continues to do..." His death didn't
stop Him. No, sir. He returned again, not a third person, but the same
Person returned back again in the form of the Holy Ghost; and It
continues to work on and continues on, said the Book of Acts.
"Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever." That's the
Token. That's the sign.
13-5 When Peter and John passed
through the gate called Beautiful, there laid a man who had been
crippled--lame from his mother's wombs. And he said, "Silver and gold
have I none; but such as I have, I give you. In the Name of Jesus
Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk." See?
And they talked to them and knowed that they were ignorant and
unlearned men, but they taken notice to them, that they had been with
Jesus. See, the Token was there displayed. See?
"Such as I have..." Seeing a poor fallen brother laying there,
crippled, and disfigured, and everything, and the same Life that was in
Christ was in them: "Such as I have..."
"In My Name, ye shall cast out devils." Not "I will; you will. If you
say to this mountain...," not if I say. "If you say to this mountain..."
Oh, brother, the hour that Token to be displayed is at hand. We can see
it. We know that we're near the end now, for all kinds of messages up
to show signs and wonders.
And now, here we come back for what the church has got to do: the
Token's got to be displayed. "When I see the Blood, I will pass over
you." Nothing else would work. It must be the Blood.
13-8 Now, the Holy Ghost is our
Token from God. As a great theologian, a--a scholar, a Baptist brother,
fine man, fine character, when he come to me one time, and he said,
"Brother Branham," he said, "you talking about this Holy Ghost." He
said, "Why, that's nothing new." Said, "We've taught it all along
through the ages."
And I--I said, "Well, I..."
He said, "We received the Holy Ghost."
I said, "When did you receive it?"
He said, "When I believed." (Because I knowed that was the Baptist
theology, that you--when you believed, you receive the Holy Ghost.)
I said, "Then, Paul said in Acts 19, to a bunch--a group of Baptists,
which a Baptist preacher that had been one of John's converts, was
proving by the Bible that Jesus was the Christ... When he passed
through the upper coast of Ephesus, he find certain disciples, and he
said unto them, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you have
believed."
They said, "We know not whether there be any Holy Ghost."
14-2 Then he asked how was they
was a baptized. They hadn't been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ,
the sacrificed Lamb. They wasn't identified with Him at all. They just
believed it, like the medicine setting there and hadn't took it. Paul
commanded them to be baptized over again in the Name of Jesus Christ.
And when he did this, then the Token came upon them. They were
identified by the works and signs of the Holy Ghost, speaking in
tongues through them, and prophesying and magnifying God. They were
identified as--as with their sacrifice.
And the Holy Ghost is our identification. It's what identifies us as
Christians, not our membership in churches, not our understanding of
the Bible, not how much you know about the Bible; it's how much you
know about the Author See?, or how much the Author is living in you.
14-4 It's--it's yourself gone.
You're no more... You're--reckon yourself dead, and the Token is what
lives in you, and it's not your life; it's Him. Paul said, "The life
that I now live..." He lived a different life from what he once did.
"It's not me, but Christ liveth in me." There is the identified Token
that God required.
Identified with our--identification with our sacrifice. The Life of our
Saviour in us, the Holy Spirit... Oh what a... A positive Token. There
cannot be any more Token.
Oh, my, if you'd only could catch the--the thought of it. If I had
the--the power this morning with words to express and place into your
soul that's on the in--not your ears, but your soul. If you--if you
could see the guarantee of it. It--it takes... It makes you so relaxed.
15-2 What if you were--had
committed a crime and you were going to be tried in a federal court,
and you knowed that if they found you guilty, that you were going to
die, you were going to the electric chair, or the gas chamber, or
whatever public execution they were going to have for you: maybe hung
or something, lynched, whatever the penalty was, and you knowed that
you had--you were guilty... You know you were guilty, and you must die
if you don't get some attorney to represent you that--who can get you
out of the thing. And now, you'd want the best attorney that you could
have. And then, getting an attorney that was a good, shrewd attorney,
you'd feel that your case was a little; you could relax a little bit,
because you had an attorney. But still there would be a question
whether this attorney could change the judge's idea or change the jury.
If this attorney with his shrewd speaking, and the knowing of the laws
could change that, and could plead your case, and prove that you should
live...
But yet in all of his great authority and the great speech that he
could make, and the impression he could put upon the jury or have with
the judge, you'd--you'd--you'd--maybe you might get a relax for a few
minutes; but still there'd be a question in your mind: "Can he do it?"
15-4 But in this case, the Judge Himself has becomes our Attorney. God became Man. There was no attorney could do it. We couldn't find one. Moses and the law, the prophets, nothing could do it. So the Judge become both Jury, Attorney, and Judge Himself and took the justice of His Law in His Own hands and paid the price of it Himself, how much more secure could we be? and sent His own Life back upon us as a Witness that He's accepted It. How safely. "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil: for thou art with me..."
15-5 When He becomes both Judge,
Jury, and--and--and Attorney, He pleaded our case. We, found guilty by
His Own law, and He come and took the guilty person's place that was in
the sanctuary. He took his sin. He took it upon Himself, and died, and
paid the price, and shed His Blood, and give back His Own Token: His
Own Life.
Why, we are perfectly... The case is dismissed. There's no more sin to
the believer. Oh, God, have mercy. If the people can't see that--that
there's no more case. "He that heareth My words, and believeth on Him
that sent Me, has Eternal Life, and shall not come to the judgment,
but's passed from death unto Life."
There's the case. Case dismissed; no more case to it. Amen. Then
safely--safely with the Token applied, when Death begins to smite
against the door out there, it has no control.
16-1 Yes, the Token is applied. Only the Token's recognized now. See? He did that so that the Token could come. The Token was God's Life, and when God made the first man, He made him a son. And the son was so corrupt, that he listened to his wife instead of God, and the woman listened to the devil instead of her husband. And when he did, it so corrupted them together, that it brought a pollution. And He knew that when they did that, they'd have to bring children into the world. The fruit in the midst of the tree could not be touched. And then when it was, they brought this sin upon themselves; and therefore, the whole human race that was born, was in sin.
16-2 There's no way to come out.
And then God came down. There's only one way to get him back; that's to
get him back a son again. And how can He do it when His Own law stood
there and said he is condemned?
Then the Father Himself become one of us. That's the real Lamb. That's
His purpose He had in mind. That's the reason the Lamb was so
identified in the Garden of Eden; knowing that the Lamb and Dove would
meet at one time, when the Lamb and Dove would be together; that's how
he know through that we can all be together. And He was willing to make
such a sacrifice now, that the Token could be applied, that we're no
more aliens, we're no more strangers, but we're sons and daughters of
God. Both Adam and Eve, the woman and the man joined together are sons
and daughters of God in Christ Jesus, by His great Sacrifice.
16-5 And then, so that there
would be no mistake, the seed of this life that must be planted in the
earth of this body, that is a perishable seed... And the life--if it is
a perverted life in the seed, it perishes with the seed. But He put
Eternal Life into it and identified it as His Own. But in the
resurrection He'll raise it up again, and nothing will be lost. Do you
see what I mean? There it is.
It cannot perish, now. The Life lays over it. It's a Token lays over
that little body, lays over that soul, that person. There's a Token
over there, the Holy Spirit, that it belongs to God; it's His, "When I
see the Token, I'll pass over you": a positive Token.
17-2 The Holy Spirit is our
Token. Therefore, when you receive the Holy Ghost, you pass from death
to Life. That's all there is to it, 'cause Life is in you. You can no
more perish.
The Bible said, "He that's borned of God, does not commit sin, for he
cannot sin, for the Seed of God (Amen!), the Seed of God remains in
him." And how can he sin, when the sinless God is in him.
When he is in a sinless God, how can he sin? No matter what he's done,
the Blood's covered him. See? He's a new creature, now. His desires and
ambitions is of heaven, because he's changed from a cocklebur to a
wheat. His desires ain't the same as they once was, and he displays it.
You say, "Oh, I believe that." And still sinning? Huh-uh, you're
deceived. See? It can't display nothing but the Token.
17-5 Israel was commanded to
stay under that blood until marching orders come. Don't go out from
under it. When once under that token, they were sealed in there. Don't
leave that. They stayed right there until the midnight struck and the
trumpets blow. And when the trumpets blow, the old ram's horns begin to
blow, each one marched out with his provisions, going to the promised
land.
So does the man or woman who's filled with the Holy Ghost. He's sealed
away and secured from all harm and danger. His whole life displays what
he is. Wherever he walks, whatever business he does, whoever he talks
with, when he comes in contact with women, when he comes in contact
with associates, when he comes in contact with everything, that Token's
laying there. Amen.
When he comes to death, "I'll fear no evil; for Thou art with me," that
Token lays there. When it comes to the resurrection, He will be there,
for God will raise him up at the last days.
Jesus said so: "When I see the Blood (the Token), I'll pass over you."
Oh.
17-9 Remember, if that Token was
not displayed, even the covenant was annulled. That's right. The
covenant was annulled. There was no--there was no covenant as long as
that Token wasn't there. The Token stood for the covenant. God made a
covenant with them. Yes, sir. But the Token had to be... It wasn't in
effect (the covenant wasn't) unless the Token was there.
There might be many Jews could say, "Come here; I ain't got no blood on
my door, but I want to show you something. I'm a circumcised Jew. I'm
circumcised."
That didn't mean that hardly. [Brother
Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] "When I see the Blood, when
I see the Token..."
You might say, "I'm Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist," or whatever you
want to be.
"But when I see the Token..."
You say, "I'm a believer. My mother was a member of this church; my
daddy was a member of this church; I've been a member there since a
child."
That don't mean that. [Brother
Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] I don't lie, steal. I don't
do this, I... That don't mean that. [Brother
Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.]
"I belong to Branham Tabernacle; I do this, that, the other. I believe
all the Word."
Them Jews could say, "I believe Jehovah."
18-7 You'd have listened to the
message of the hour, if you did. Certainly. They'd had a lot of
messages, but this was the Message of the hour. See? I believe the
Message of the hour. Yeah. The blood was applied at the evening time.
They might have said, "I--I'm a Jew."
People say today, "I'm a Christian. I can show you my long membership.
I want you to tell me where I ever stole anything, was ever in a law
court. Show me where I ever committed adultery, I've ever done all
these things (or something like that). Show me one place."
That don't mean a thing now. No, no. See? No matter how much trouble he
was, the covenant is without effect. It's non-effective.
You say, "Well, I'm a Bible student."
I don't care what you are. Without that covenant, the wrath of God's
upon you. That's right. It's caught up with you. Yeah, your sins will
find you out.
19-2 What is sin? Unbelief.
You've disbelieved the message. You've disbelieved the Word. You've
disbelieved the witness of the Token Itself, when It's identified
Itself in the midst of us. And have you disbelieved that? No matter how
much you disbelieve It, It's got to be applied.
You might say, "I believe it; I believe it. I believe It's the Truth. I
accept It as the Truth."
Then that is all good, but yet, It's got to be applied.
19-4 What if there was one Jew
standing there stirring the blood as the lamb was bleeding, saying,
"This is Jehovah."
And there stood a priest saying, "Yes, sir, I believe that's true." But
on his own house, it hasn't been applied. He don't want to identify
himself out there with that group (No, sir.), with this fanatics with
the blood on the door. He don't want that identification; no matter how
much priest he was, how much he knowed the Word, how well he had been
raised, what works he had done, how much he give to the poor, how much
he'd sacrificed...
Paul said, "I give my body to be burned as a sacrifice, give all my
goods to feed the poor, I have faith to move mountains and so forth,
and speak in tongues like men and angels; and all these other things,"
and said, "I'm nothing until the Token's been applied."
Until this Token (That's what I'm speaking on tonight, the love. See?),
now, until this has been applied, I am nothing. See?
19-8 I don't care. You might've
cast out devils; you might've healed the sick by your prayer of faith.
You might've done all these things, but if that Token's not there,
you're under the wrath of God.
You might be a believer. You might stand in the pulpit and preach the
Gospel. "Many will come to Me in that day and say 'Lord, Lord, have not
I prophesied in Your Name? preached in Your Name. Have not I cast out
devils in Your Name?' (That's both Methodist, Baptist and
Pentecostals.)"
Jesus said, "Depart from Me, you that work iniquity; I never even knew
you. But when I see the Token, I'll pass over you." It's God's
requirement of the hour. The evening time message is to apply the Token.
20-1 Satan's throwed all kinds
of counterfeits of shaking hands and evidences and everything like
that. Forget it. The hour has arrived that the Token Itself, not some
counterfeit, make-believe substitutionary, anything; the hour is here
when the Token Himself is identifying Himself right among us and
proving that He's the same Jesus yesterday, today, and forever, and
He's right with the Word.
It's got to be applied. A man that says that he's got the Token, deny
this Word, then what about it? See, you can't do it. The Token's got to
be there. When I... "The Blood shall be a Token unto you."
Now, the Holy Spirit, the Life that was in the Blood is a Token unto
you. (Get to it in a moment. See?) The Holy Ghost is the Token. The
case is closed. Yes, sir.
20-4 Now, remember, and
I--doesn't matter what you are, how good you are, how many times you
jumped up and down, how many churches you've joined, how many good
things you've done; it won't mean one thing to you, if the Token isn't
applied. This is the evening time. That worked all right in the days of
Luther. That worked all right in the days of Wesley. But it don't work
now. No.
Yeah, keeping up the lamb was all right then. Those who died then
before the lamb was applied, the blood, it was different. Yes, sir.
They went on because of good conscience. They'd be judged whether
they--they were... If they were predestinated, it struck them. If it
didn't, it don't. That's all. It's just God.
He--He justifies who He will, have mercy on who He will, and He condemn
who He will. He's God. That's all. He has mercy on whom He has mercy
and condemns who He wants to condemn.
20-8 A Jew could plainly show by
the circumcision, that he is a believer. There's many men, fundamental
men who can take this Bible, say, "I am a believer."
And Jesus said, "By faith we are saved."
And, "I am a believer, but that baptism of the Holy Ghost is nonsense."
Then the Token isn't applied, no much--how much he believes; it's
annulled.
Just like the circumcision of the Jew. He said, "I'm a Jew. Why do I
have to go out there and act like that other bunch of fanatics."
21-2 Moses standing up and down the streets said, "The evening message is here. It shall come to pass, at the end of the fourteen days, you shall gather the congregation together and kill the lamb. The whole congregation of Israel shall kill it, putting their hands upon it, identifying themselves with it. And the blood shall be struck upon the post and upon the lintel of the door; 'And when I see the blood, I'll pass over you, for it's a token that you've accepted the death of the lamb that I've provided for you.'"
21-3 The blood was a token. Now, the Spirit is the Token. "You shall be filled with the Holy Ghost not many days hence." And when the Blood was shed, the Token was sent down on the day of Pentecost like a rushing mighty wind. That was the theme of every apostle. That was... "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?" "Repent everyone of you and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, and you shall receive this gift of the Holy Ghost, for it's a Token (Amen!) that you've passed from death unto Life." There you are.
21-4 When the Jewish church
faded out, the Gentiles taken it over in that perversion like that, now
she's come out to get that remnant of the Gentile for His Namesake: the
Bride. See, what I mean? See what the Scripture's speaking of here? If
the Token was not displayed, then the covenant was not effective. See?
It must be; because if you say you believe, and you don't follow the
instructions of the Word, then you don't believe. See?
Though you be circumcised, though you join, though you're baptized,
you've done all these things like that, that still isn't the Token. The
Holy Ghost...
21-6 This fine scholar went on
talking to me, as I said awhile ago. He said, "Billy," he said,
"Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness.
What more could the man do, but believe God?"
I said, "That is true, doctor. It's right. He did believe God. The
Bible said so. You're right. As far as you've come you're correct. As
long as the--the--the twelve spies that were sent out to go over to spy
out on the land of Canaan, as long as they went forward towards Canaan,
they were gaining ground; but when they came to the border line, then
they rejected." I said, "You Baptists are all right as far as you come,
but have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?" I said,
"Remember, God recognized Abraham's faith. He--he believed God, and it
was imputed to him for righteousness. That's true. But then God gave
him the seal of circumcision as a sign--a sign to him. Not that his
flesh circumcised had anything to do with his soul, but it was a sign
that he had--God had recognized his faith. And He gives us the sign of
the Holy Ghost that He has recognized us as believers. For, 'Repent and
be baptized every one in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of
sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise
is unto you...'" You get the point, now?
22-1 The Jews, no matter how
much they could prove that they were circumcised, but the token had to
be showed. If not, there the covenant was not effective. It was... Same
now, same thing. No matter what you do, no matter how much you can--you
can explain the Bible; you might be a Bible student and oh, my... You
might--You might say, "I'm a believer," and everything, but still the
Token is required.
A Bible student, you say, "I was a good person, Brother Branham. I
don't care what anybody says, you can't beat that man. I never saw him
do anything wrong in my life." That don't have that [Brother
Branham snaps his fingers- Ed.] to do with God. There's one
requirement, and that alone, and you cannot do that. You cannot put the
blood on the lintel of the door, where the token could not be, unless
the lamb died. And the blood was a positive sign that the lamb died, no
make-believe; the lamb died.
22-3 And the Holy Ghost is a
positive Token that your Lamb died, and you received the Token upon
yourself; for His very Life is in you. See? There's no make-belief.
There's no put-on. There's no impersonation. It's there. You know it.
You know it; the world knows it. The Token is there.
No matter how good the person was... Might been a Bible student; it
might be... It might be any kind of a good church member. It might be a
good person. It might be a--a denominational head. It might be the
hierarchy of Rome. I--I don't know who it is, it's not... But don't
make it anything.
23-1 But Israel... Any Bible student knows that Israel was a type of the church, exactly, to the promised land. That's where she's journeying. But when the evening time come and the journey was on, there was one solemn requirement. No matter how much Jew he'd been, how well he kept his crops, how well he'd taken care of the neighbors, how much he had done, how good a member he was, how much tithes he paid, all these things was fine; that was okay; he was a good man, recognized among his people as a good man; but without the token of the blood, he perished...?...
23-2 Oh, may God help me, both
present and in the tape to pin that down. That no matter... You
might've preached the Gospel; you might've cast out devils; you
might've spoke with tongues; you might've shouted, danced in the
Spirit; but without the Token...
You say, "Can I do it?"
Paul said you could. "Though I speak with tongues like men and angels;
though I give all my goods to feed the poor, my body to be burned as a
sacrifice; I have faith to move mountains and these things; I'm nothing
yet." Hallelujah. Don't rely upon that. It's the Token. No matter how
much you've done, how good you are, when the wrath of God flashes,
it'll only recognize the Token.
23-4 It is a Token that a price
has been paid, that's been required; and the price that was paid was
the Life of Jesus Christ, and He gave His Life, and His Spirit comes
back upon you as a Token that you're received.
Then you carry the Token with you day and night, not just on Sunday.
It's all the time. You have the Token. "When I... The blood shall be a
token unto you."
You say, "I still believe. I am a believer." That's all right, but if
you reject the Token, then how you going to be a believer? It speaks
against you. See? It speaks against your testimony that you do... Bible
student, good person, church member, ever what you are, doesn't mean a
thing. Yes, sir.
Maybe your father's a preacher, maybe your--your mother was a saint.
May... That's--that's okay; they have to answer for themselves.
23-8 As I've said, try... People
try to make God some big old fat doting grandfather (See?), a bunch of
grand-kids that's like little Rickys and Elvises, and there's no harm
in them. Not God, He has no grandchildren; He's a Father. You got to be
borned again. He's not big, soft, doting; He's a God of judgment. The
Bible speaks He is. His wrath is fierce.
Don't you trample on that and expect the goodness of God someday take
you in your sin and to take you to heaven. If He'd done that, He'd
excused all of this here and have took you. You'll believe His Word or
you'll be--you'll perish. And when you believe His Word, the Token will
be upon you.
24-2 Death was ready to strike
Egypt that night at any time. It was a fearful time. All their
ceremonies, all their feast days and fast days... God had visited them;
God had showed His great signs and wonders in the midst of them. What
is that?
Now, stop a minute. God had showed them His grace. He give them a
chance. They couldn't turn it down. They said, "Aw, there's nothing to
that. It's nonsense. It's just something up in the cataracts; there's
an eruption of--of red mud flew out. That's what made the sea red."
Then the hail came. Then the frogs came. God had prepared a place and
put His Word in a prophet's mouth, and when he spoke, it come to pass.
And they seen it; they couldn't deny it.
What Moses called for, that's what Moses got from God, because, he only
spoke the Word of God. He said, "I'll make you a god."
Moses was a god to them. See? They knowed no difference, so He said,
"You'll be a god, and Aaron will be your prophet. (See?) "You'll be
like a god. For I'll take you, your voice, and I'll create with you.
I'll speak, and the people can't deny it, 'cause right there it is.
What you say will happen."
Oh, my. "I'll show you those things." And Egypt saw it. They saw it,
just before the evening time or just at the evening time.
He showed them His goodness. He showed that He could take it way, heal.
24-7 Magicians tried to do the
same thing, the impersonators. You always find them. There was Jannes
and Jambres; they stood there. But when it comes to the real thing,
they didn't have it. That's right. They followed along a little while,
but after while, their folly was made manifest.
And don't the Bible say that the same thing will happen in the last
day. "As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses..." But their folly was
made manifest. So will it be again. See? There it is.
Men of perverted minds, reprobates concerning the truth--the fact, they
might have congregations, and great things, great high, big, flowery
things, but the hour will finally arrive. Stand steady with the Token.
That is what God wants us to do. Hold to His Word. Don't move from It.
Stay right with It. The Bible said so.
Death was striking. God had showed them mercy, showed powers and signs.
25-3 Now, let's stop just for a
moment or two on that clock there. Let's just think in our minds back
what He promised would happen in the last days. I wonder if we hadn't
just about check up too.
He done all these things, and yet they still desired not to repent or
to believe the message of the day. They still didn't want to do it.
Although it'd been displayed before them, and had been surely made
known...
And when you see such things taking place, it's the sign of oncoming
judgment. Judgment will follow those things. It's always done it, and
this won't be no exception. See? Judgment follows grace. When mercy is
spurned, there's nothing left but judgment. So it'll always follow.
25-6 Now, a scene. Every
spiritual happening is a sign from God. Be careful; notice that. See?
Watch. Every spiritual happening, everything that happens is a sign.
We're not here by accident. These things just don't happen by accident.
It's a sign. It's a sign to get to--get to safety quickly.
Noah was a sign to his generation; Elijah was a sign to his; John was a
sign to his. See? Everything... The Message of the hour is a sign.
Watch it. Look what it's doing. See? It's a sign. Everything has a
meaning.
At no other time could this type of a message ever happen. It could not
have come in Luther's day, couldn't have come in Wesley's day; it
couldn't even come in Pentecostal day. It couldn't do it. See? There's
no--been no such thing happen. And yet, it was promised in the Bible.
See? We're at the end. Nothing could happen... It couldn't have happen
till this time, and it's happening for a sign, wonder. What is a sign?
Oh, little people, my brother, sister, get under that Token quickly.
See? Don't, don't take no substitute. Don't, don't, don't, don't do
that. See? Don't just imagine it. You stay there until you know that
the Token is applied, until your whole--the mind that was in Christ is
in you; until all the nonsense of the world is gone, until the whole
heart's desire is Him. See? Then you know--then you know something's
happening.
Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe," not
make-believers, but believers. See?
26-3 Now, we don't want to take
any--any chance on it. You mustn't do it. The Message of the hour is a
sign to the churches. It's sign to the people. Don't...
Are--are you--are you catching it? I hope on the tape, that they're
doing the same thing (See?), and other parts of the world. See? The
hour sign is here. There's a Token that's got to be applied, and no
other time could it have come.
26-5 Notice God's preparation
for that time. Now, as we know that the Bible said, all those things
happened for an examples to us... Notice, when God got ready to judge
Egypt, first He made a preparation. What did He do at the first time?
(He never changes His order.) The first time, when He got--when He made
His preparation, He sent a prophet with a message. First thing He done
to His people was send a prophet with a message.
The next thing He done, to identify this prophet He sent a Pillar of
Fire for identification, to identify it.
And the third thing He sent was the Token. That's exactly right. The
Token... What was the Token mean? Assurance.
First, His prophet with the message. He identified Himself among
the--with a--with a Pillar of Fire, with His prophet. Then He sent a
Token to get under this Blood, that He'd accepted this substitute death
in your place; then the Blood was a Token that He looked at you that's
heard the message, believed on the Pillar of Fire, and had accepted the
substitutionary that He had provided for you. And you were under the
Blood of the very chemistry of the Life that went out for you.
26-9 My, what a perfect--what a perfect thing that is. See? You're under the Blood. Now, you're under the Spirit, under the Holy Spirit. See, you believe the message of the day. See? You believe the--the--the--the power, the--the--the Pillar of Fire. You believe that (See?), and you do.
27-1 Now, now, look, just to
believe it, is not enough--not to--to--to walk around where it's at,
isn't enough. See? That's to make yourself worse. "For he that knoweth
to do good and doeth it not, to him it's sin," See?
Those borderline believers... Jesus spoke of the same thing, Hebrews
the 6th chapter. "For it is impossible for those who were once
enlightened and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have
tasted of the good Word of God, and the world to come, if they shall
fall away, to renew themselves again to repentance; seeing that they
crucify to themselves the Son of God, and count the covenant of the
Blood, wherewith they were sanctified with (the chemistry
there)--sanctified..." It ain't the Token.
27-3 The blood's not the Token
now, the Life is the Token. The Life could not be there, 'cause it was
an animal. The chemistry was the Token. You'd have to have literal
blood applied on the door; but now, it's the Holy Spirit. We're coming
to it just in a moment to prove that. See?
It's the Life that is the Token. Your life is gone, and you are dead,
and your life is dead. You are hid in God through Christ, and sealed in
there by the Holy Spirit. The mind that was in Christ is in you, and
Christ, and the Bible, and the Word is the same.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God." Then you, and the Word, and God, and Christ are the same.
"And if ye abide in Me and My word, you ask what you will, and it'll be
done." See?
27-6 Put the power right into
Moses' lips to go out there with His Word and speak: Frogs come. Speak:
Frogs left. Speak: Lice come. Speak: Lice--lice left. Amen.
But then, the token was required for all Israel. All Israel was
required of this token, "And when I see the token, I'll pass over you."
Oh, my, my. What an assurance.
27-8 Israel coming out of Egypt was a type of the antetype today. Egypt was the church, and Israel represented the Bride. And as Israel come out of Egypt, so does the Bride come out of the church. See? 'Cause there has to be something there for it to come out of, and it's got to come out of. So if it was the type... The--the church is down in Egypt, in the world, and in sin, and does not care a tinker about your Token. They don't even believe it. But Israel loved it, for it was salvation to them.
28-1 Oh. Oh, it should make us
be--should make our hearts... Oh, apply it, church. Don't--don't fail.
Will you not? Don't--don't--don't let the sun set.
Don't--don't--don't--don't--don't rest day or night. Don't take no
chance; it won't work, children. It won't work. You must have the Token.
You say, "I believe, yes. I go... Yeah, I believe the message." That's
all right, but... That--that's good. But you must have the Token. Do
you hear, Branham Tabernacle? You must have the Token displayed.
Without it, all your believing's in vain. See? You'll live a good life;
you listen to what the Word says; you go to church; you try to live
right; that's fine, but that's not it.
28-3 "When I see the Blood,"
that's the Token, and the Token here is not... 'cause what did... He
had to see the actual chemistry, because the life had gone, he--had
gone from it. It was an animal. But here it's His Own Life that was in
the Blood, and the chemistry was only a signal, or sign of
sanctification. But the Life Itself is the Token.
For without the circumcision, without the Token, you're not even in the
covenant. The whole thing works together.
If you say you're circumcised to the Word, and It only, then you'll
believe the Word. If you believe the Word, then the Token's got to
come. For He said, "Repent, and be baptized everyone of you in the Name
of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the
gift of the Holy Ghost." There you are. Oh, my.
28-6 Notice, then the
preparation for His promised land people... Notice, what he did. First,
He had a people that He had made a land for them. He had prepared a
land for them. And now, He sent down there a preparation for it, for
the promised land people. It was only for those who were predestinated
to that promised land. Right.
And how He done it, He sent a prophet with a message, identified it by
a Pillar of Fire, and gave a token that they could rest assure that It
was right. That's right. It was for consolation.
Israel coming out of Egypt then was a type. This is the antetype of the
church coming out of the denominations. Now, not all denomination... I
mean the Bride. See? Some people, there's some of the independents are
just as bad as the denominationals, sometimes worse and... I'm talking
about the applied Token.
The Token agrees with every word. See? It's got to, because it is the
Word. It's the Life that was in the Word. "My Words are spiritual; they
are Life," said Jesus. See?
29-2 When Moses begin His
ministry in Israel with great signs (You see?) Israel quickly gathered
from all over Egypt to Goshen, coming back to the home place, 'cause
they knew something was fixing to happen. Oh, what a type.
"Oh,
they come from the East and West,
They
come from the lands afar;" (That's
right; you've heard the song.)
"To
feast with the King, to dine as His guests,
How
blessed these pilgrims are!
Beholding
His hallowed face,
Aglow
with love Divine;
Blessed
partakers of His grace,
As
gems in His crown to shine.
Oh,
Jesus is coming soon,
Our
trials will then be o'er.
Oh,
what if our Lord, this moment should come
For
those who are free from sin.
Oh,
then would it bring you joy,
Or
sorrow and great despair?
When
our Lord in glory comes,
We'll
meet Him up in the air."
Displaying the Token. "I'll raise him up at the last days." Certainly.
We're in the days.
29-3 The people gathering into
Goshen. They were ready. They knowed something was fixing to happen. It
was just like... You take ducks when it's time for swarming, they all
run right together. When bees, everything else gets ready, there's some
instinct draws them.
The Holy Spirit draws the people. Oh, when it come time for the great
wrath of God to fall, every... There come two ducks: male and female.
Here come two geese: male and female. Here come two horses: male and
female, something another pulling them: the predestinated. The rest of
them perished. Oh. The rest of them perished.
30-1 But those who felt that tug to come in, they knowed that ark was prepared. It was a token that there's coming a rain. They knowed that there was coming a rain. No matter what the display was and what other people's thought, they knowed; there was something inside of them said, "Get into there, right quick. Get into there. Because that's the only place that is going to be safe," because God prepared a prophet. He sent the ark as a sign. Said, "Get in there." And the rain was coming, and they went right in there, two by two. All the animals went in two by two into the ark, because they got... They needed... No matter what the rest... And all outside of that ark perished.
30-2 All outside of the token of
the blood perished, everyone. And everyone outside of the Token of the
Holy Ghost will perish. No matter how good, how much church members...
There's a lot of them in the days of Noah; there's a lot of them in the
days of Moses, but a man that failed to apply the blood as the token,
was--he perished.
Those who failed to go into the ark, perished. Those who fail to come
into Christ, for He is the Ark... I Corinthians 12 said, "By one Spirit
we're all baptized into one body." The mystical--not church, but the
mystical--not the denominations, the mystical Body of Jesus Christ; by
one Spirit, capital S-p-i-r-i-t, Spirit, we are all immersed into this
one Body.
Then the Token is on the door, for you are in Christ, and He was the
One, your Sacrifice Who stood the judgment; and when God looks upon
that, He can't do a thing. You're just as safe as you can be, because
God and Christ is the selfsame Person. The Spirit being made flesh and
dwelled among us. And there is God with His Own self, and you, His Own
children, into the Body. There you are. Not a chemical, but the Spirit.
"I will pass over you."
30-5 They come from all Egypt to
gather into this one place so they could be under this token. And they
have come from Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans,
Pentecostals, everything else, to get under the Token, just exactly
like it was then.
It was a Pillar of Fire was represented them. And one told the other,
another told another, another told another; and first thing you know,
here they all begin to come. They begin to come, and they watched the
sign of God. They said, "Judgment's at hand."
Then the prophet said, "I have heard from God. There will be a token.
And you put the blood upon the door; slay the lamb, put the blood upon
the door. And that'll be a token, because death is fixing to strike."
31-3 Let me tell you today as
His Servant, unless the Token is on the door, there is a spiritual
death going to strike, and all churches are headed back for the--for
the Council of--World Council of Churches. They're all going back to
Catholicism, and only those who are genuine, borned again, are going to
stay out.
Remember, not you Pentecostal denominations, 'cause they're already in
it. Shows they are dead. They are perished. They sacrificed; they went
back; they put Him outside the door. But He's looking for the Token.
Because the only thing they relied upon was speaking in tongues.
Don't you rely upon no speaking in tongues, no nothing else, but let
the Token itself be there, the Person of Jesus Christ, His Own Life in
you. Circumcised--not just this, that, but circumcise your whole being,
till you and Christ are One. Christ is in you, and His Life lives out
through you.
31-6 Now, now, from all Egypt...
And look, now as we see what they did. As we see the time appearing,
we're commanded to do the same thing. Did you know that? Watch what the
prophet said.
And we're going to read now (if you want to read) in Hebrews the 10th
chapter. And if you want to read with me, I want to read a verse or two
here now, before we go on. Hebrews the 10th chapter, and let's begin
with the 26th verse of the 10th chapter of Hebrews. Oh, let's see.
Yeah. Yes, sir. The... Hebrews the 10th chapter and the 26th verse. See?
For if we sin
wilfully after that we have received... (Let's see, have I
got that right? Yeah, that's right. Yes.)
... if we sin
wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there
remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
But a certain
fearful looking for the judgment the fiery indignation, which shall
devour the adversary.
(Look.) He that despised Moses' law
died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
... how much sorer
punishment, though suppose ye, shall he be though worthy, who has trod
under the foot--under the foot the Son of God, and counted the blood of
the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has
done despite unto the, Spirit of grace?" (Which come from the
blood...)
32-1 Minister, member, good man,
moral man, whatever you are, and you know that God taken cigarettes
from you... Women, you know He taken shorts, and--and short hair, and
everything from you. You know He did that, but then if you turn around,
and do despite, and count that Blood of the covenant as was an unholy
thing, that sanctified you and brought you this far...
Like the spies, if they come right up here to the borderland, looked
over and said, "Well, I know it is there, but the obstacle's too great.
We look like grasshoppers." They perished in the wilderness: borderline
believers.
32-3 Don't just come this far,
say, "I believe the message." You obey the message. Come into Christ.
You say, "Oh, I believe every word you said, Brother Branham."
That's good. but that's just--that is just being able to read. Take the
Message; take it into your heart, that you must have the Token, the
very Life that was in Christ, be in you. "When I see that, I will pass
over you."
32-5 As we see the great end
time signs on earth today, we know that that's right. Now, look, I've
waited for this for a long, long time, for this Message to you (See?),
and you've seen the end time signs. And I've preached it to you and
showed it to you by everything that Christ said. Is that right? You'll
admit that. At the end time, I don't see nothing left.
You say, "What about the mark of the beast?" Those who reject the Holy
Spirit, is already marked by the beast. The punishment will come later.
See?
32-7 In Israel, when the trumpet
sounded in the jubilee year, every man... Did you notice Christ a
reading that? He just read half of it, 'cause just half of it was
applied to that time. See? "He sent Me to bind up the broken hearted,
preach deliverance (and so forth See?), and the acceptable year of the
Lord." The rest of it, He never--He never read that; He laid the Scroll
down, for that's for this day. See? He just read part of it: part was
His day.
Now, this is what He's going to do today. This is what He's speaking
through His anointed Spirit to the church today. Now, is the hour. Now,
is the time. Receive it, people; receive it.
33-2 Watch. We see the great end
times, the flashing red lights everywhere; upon nature, we see nature
flashing the light. The time is at hand. We see it upon the church:
flashing light; she's condemned. The time is at hand. She's in the
world. We see it upon--upon the skies, upon the sea, upon the nation,
upon everywhere, in the sun, moon, stars, signs. We see the end time
signs of the Holy Ghost return back upon the people.
As it was in the days of Lot, how the Holy Spirit worked through that
human flesh there: that was God manifested in flesh. How God would
manifest Hisself in His Bride in that day and show the same sign. Jesus
said, "It'll be the same thing in the last days." We see it. We see the
same Pillar of Fire. Even science has took the pictures of It and so
forth. We see the end time signs is at hand. We know it's here. And
then seeing this, if you believe me, if you don't believe me, believe
the signs. Believe the Word, for they speak of what I'm telling you.
33-4 If I ain't telling you the truth, they'd never speak back. God will never speak to a lie. God speaks to truth. And these words are testifying that I'm telling you the truth. They are the one that testify of the Message that I'm preaching. Not only the Angel down there on the river that day that said, "Your message will forerun the second coming of Christ," the works itself... If you can't believe that Angel told the truth, believe the works, for the Bible said these things would happen at the end-time. They are they that testify. They're the ones that speak louder than my words, or anyone else. It's His Word. They testify of the time.
33-5 And we see these great,
horrible ensigns upon the people, and signs of the time upon the earth:
distress between the nations. We see Israel in her homeland, the
ensign, the six star point, Star of David flying, the oldest ensign in
the world, the oldest flag in the world. She's a nation; she's a
government; she's her own people; she's in the League of Nations;
she's--she's...?... she's all these things; she's in the U.N.; and
she's got her own currency, everything.
Jesus said, "This generation shall not cease until everything be
fulfilled." And you remember, the very night that Israel was made a
nation, that was the night the Angel of the Lord appeared to me right
yonder. That's right.
34-2 There we all are.
Everything is pointed up exactly the truth. I have not lied to you. I
have told you the truth. God has testified that I've told you the
truth. Now, remember, I'm your brother; I'm a man. See? I'm just a man,
just like you all; but somebody's got to bring it; somebody's got to
say it. That wasn't my choice; it was His choice. And I've told you the
truth, and He's testified right back that it is the truth.
When we see these things upon the earth today, oh, people, this is the
last hour. Get that Token over you, quickly as you can, or you get in
the Token; get in the Token.
34-4 As we see the great ensign
of the time at hand, warning us: time is at hand... Oh, take this
solemnly. We should love one another. Oh, my. We should be so in love.
Don't never speak evil against one another. If somebody makes a
mistake, pray for him, right quick. We are together in this with God.
We are brothers and sisters. Oh, live godly. Live--live like daughters
of God. Live like sons of God. Live sweet, kind, humble. Let no evil
come in your mind in your thinking; just--just dismiss it. If it knocks
on the door, take it away, just say--just show your Token. Just keep
walking. "I'm under the Blood."
34-6 Remember, there's a lot of
them come by, them women, that night, and say, "Hey, girlie, Lily, some
of you, come on out; we're going to a party tonight."
"Huh uh, I'm under the Blood. I'm under the Token to stay here. My love
is to my Maker. Death is in the land tonight."
And death is in the land today. Judgment is waiting; she's pending.
Atomic, and hydrogens, and all kinds of disaster is waiting for the
nations. And God is moving His church and showing all... We been
keeping the Lamb up now for quite awhile, watching, seeing what He's
doing, watching His nature and everything, but now the Token's got to
be applied. It's got to be applied. It's the only thing. "Except a man
be born of the Spirit and of water, He will in no wise enter in."
34-9 You should love one
another. Believers should separate themselves from the world. Don't
just take it now, lightly. And then, you people that's listening to
this on tape, you women, you men, you listen a minute. If you ever
believed me, you believe it now. It's time for--to quit fussing with
one another. Believe the message of the Bible. Believe Jesus Christ;
and love, and honor, and respect one another.
Men respect your wives; you respect your home. Bring your home
together, because, you remember, this Lamb was for the home, not just
one. The whole home too had to be brought; everything had to be brought
in. We should love each other, and believers should separate themselves
from the world.
35-3 Notice, they were not just
yet come together to talk about the message. They come together to
apply the blood, to apply the token. That's what you must do.
Pastor Neville, and to this congregation, trustees, deacons, to you
brethren, it's time that we laid aside all the foolishness of the
world, time we laid aside everything else. We've seen enough now, that
we're positive, sure, and the Token must be applied. Without it, you're
going to perish; you must perish. That is the only thing. Oh, don't
come together, say, "I believe it." Get beneath it. Get into it. How to
do it? By one Spirit we're baptized into the Body of Jesus Christ.
Everybody believe with all your heart. See? He was not responsible for
any out from beneath it.
35-5 [Interference
from a short wave radio, caused Brother Branham to stop and comment on
it--Ed.]
Who was that talking? Short wave from above? Through the speaker, they
got it in there? I heard somebody... Short wave, yeah, oh, they--they
got it hooked up... I guess they take... Oh, to the cars, excuse me. I
know somebody said something, and I thought somebody wanted to say
something to me, and they didn't get it (You see?), and that's the
reason I--I said what I did. I seen you look around... I heard a voice,
and I thought somebody raised up to say something and I didn't know
what it was. Now--now, thank you.
35-6 But you believe. Get
beneath it. Israel didn't come together to say, "Let's all go over to
Goshen today. We'll drive up to Goshen. You get on your camel, and
we'll take the ox cart, and we'll take the Joneses over here, and so
forth, and--and the Goldbergs, and we'll all go up to--to Goshen. And
you know what? Moses is going to speak today."
That wasn't it. No, sir, brother. It's to get beneath that blood. Yes,
indeed. Not to talk about it, get into it.
One of them say, "You know, Mr. Goldberg, I actually know that's the
truth. Yes, brother, I believe it is the truth. I know that it is the
truth."
"Mr. Levinski, what do you think about it?"
"It is absolutely the truth. I seen the power of Jehovah God, speaking.
I seen those frogs come out of that land. I know that it didn't happen
until he said it, and I know that that's Jehovah God." Now, that is all
fine.
"Are you circumcised?"
"Yes, sir."
"Are--are--are you a believer?"
"Yes, sir."
And then, when he heard Pastor Moses speak that day, he said, "But
you've got to get beneath that blood, for God said the blood is a
token."
36-3 It's a token. No matter how
much you believed, or how much you are circumcised; that's a covenant
God gave to Abraham, and so forth; that is the covenant; but you've got
to get beneath the blood. That's a token. For He said, "When I see the
Blood, I'll pass..." Israelite or any, that's denomination or not
denomination; either one, you must come beneath the Blood: Methodist,
Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Undenomination, whatever you are,
it's for an individual; you've got to come beneath the Blood.
Now, just don't talk about it; receive it. Hear me; hear me; in the
Name of the Lord, hear me. See?
Got to come beneath the Blood. He was not responsible for any person
from beneath the Blood. God made it clear, that all from under that
blood would perish.
May I use His Words? "All outside of Christ will perish."
36-6 How do you get in Christ? I
Corinthians 12: By One Spirit (not by one handshake, by one membership,
by one denomination. That's what they're trying to make it. They may do
that,)--but by one Spirit, we are all baptized into one body."
"If an angel from heaven teaches anything else," Paul said, "let him be
cursed."
That's the message. Come into Christ.
Look, any persons outside of the token, God was not responsible. And
God is not responsible for any person, big or small, popular or
unpopular, rich or poor, bond or free, male or female; He is not
responsible for anybody that's from under the Token covenant. He's not
responsible.
37-1 You say, "Oh, Lord, I did
this; I cast out devils. Lord, I did this; I--I preached the Gospel."
"Depart from Me, ye that work iniquity. I never even knew you." He only
recognizes the Token. Do you hear it? Say, Amen. Now, so, it's upon you.
He... Setting down there in that woods the other day, and the boys, one
of them said, "Here's two days, you ain't..." I didn't even shoot a
squirrel. Say, "What was the matter?" See? That's what it was. See?
Said, "Place it upon them: upon them." Said, "You have talked to me
about it. Now, it's in your lap. It's in yours."
37-3 He won't recognize nothing
but that covenant of the Holy Spirit. And you cannot receive that
covenant, unless you are saved, sanctified, and then baptized into the
Body. He will not... You might have an impersonation; you might feel
good; and jump up-and-down, and speak in tongues, and dance in the
Spirit. That don't have one thing to do with it. Hear it, in the Name
of the Lord. God don't recognize that. Heathens do that. Witches do
that.
You say, "I'm a scholar. I do this, that, or the other." He don't care
how much scholar you are. The devil is too. See? He only recognizes
the--the Token. That's the message of the hour. That's the message of
this day. That's the message of this time. In the Name of Jesus Christ,
receive it.
37-5 Not a substitute, something
the devil can place over on you; like a phrony love to make a man love
some other woman besides his wife; or a wife, some other beside
her--some of this here, something dishonorable thing. That's not real
love. That's the devil. That's his work. It's something he's tried to
hand instead, a joy to drink, and feel good about it. Say, "I got the
blues; I'll go out and get me a quart of liquor and forget about it."
That's the death. God is your Joy. God is your Strength. Knowing the
message, knowing the truth, that's our sufficiency. He's my all
sufficiency. In Him, all things I have need of is in Him. That's our
Strength. My help cometh from the Lord.
You Christians, look to Him for your joy; look to Him for your
strength; look for Him for your happiness; He is my Peace; He is my
Joy; He is my Love; He is my Life. That's the covenant, the Token upon
the door.
38-1 Not responsible for one
person: one person, no matter who you are, He's not responsible out
from under it. And remember, all the family was brought together. Oh,
my. Oh. Remember, you say, "Well, my daddy's a preacher. My brother, my
pastor, my..."
That might be true too. But what about you? Uh-huh. Remember, only safe
when the token was displayed. If a man was here--under here and his son
was across the street, he was in danger. He would perish. His daddy
would be safe. Or if the son was over here, and his daddy was over
there, his daddy would perish. Only the token... "When I see the token,
I'll pass over you." That's the only thing.
You say, "Well, my son's a preacher." You mothers say, "I got the best
boy or the best girl. I tell you, they're the sweetest thing. They've
been filled with the Holy Spirit, and such love... They're obedient; I
never seen..." What about you, mama?
You say, "My mother's the sweetest thing. I know if she dies, she's
going to heaven, 'cause she's really got the Token, Brother Branham."
But what about you, sis? The whole family must be brought under it.
38-5 Are you tired? I'll just
close just in a minute. I could cut it off and start tonight again, but
if you--if you want to wait just a little bit longer, I'll try to
hurry. I want to place this right in, 'cause I think right now, while
you're under the anointing of it, it'd be better to get it right now.
Only when the token is displayed... Then the whole family must be under
that token blood. Papa, mama, I know how you feel. I've got children
too. I got to see them saved.
I'm talking to myself today. See? I got brothers; I got sister; I got
loved ones. I want to see them saved too; but remember, without the
display of the Token, they'll perish. There's no resurrection for them.
That's right. They're gone. Only when the Token's displayed...
38-8 Look, Joshua... Wish we had
time to read it. Mark it down. Joshua the 2nd chapter, believing,
Gentile, harlot, Rahab...
Oh, I just wish it was about nine o'clock. I'd like--I'd like to take
that and just show you how brother that...?...
This harlot, Gentile... Watch. All her family... She was a believer;
all her family had to get under that scarlet streak, that token. They
had to go under it or they perished.
They had heard of the wrath of God; they had heard of the displaying
signs and miracles of God among His people, and they had to receive it;
she had to receive it. God's destroying angel was coming. They knew it.
Joshua was that angel. They were in line. And so is every nation in the
world in line of God's judgment.
This little old harlot, she had heard. "Faith cometh by hearing." She
said, "All the country's disturbed about you." That's right.
39-3 Now, the spies that were
sent in there to make arrangements, and so forth, she honored those
men. And she--she wanted to be saved. She said, "I know that your God
is God, and I've heard what great things that He's done. I know what He
done to Og, and I know what He done to the different nations. And I see
that those who accept Him are saved, and those who does not accept Him
are destroyed, and I want to live," she said.
Oh, my. There you are. "I want to live, for they just..."
39-4 Notice, Jericho, had heard
what God was doing, but they didn't want to take the warning. And there
isn't a denomination in this country around, but what's heard what
God's a doing. They don't want to take the warning. His great power and
signs have been displayed. What He done, He crossed right through the
Dead Sea, as if it was on dry land. He's caused... He created things,
and made frogs, and lice, and fleas to come into the air, created them
by His Word, through His prophet. That was no secret, They know it.
And Rahab said, "I've heard that. I don't want to perish with these
unbelievers."
No, sir. Knowed judgment had to follow it, 'cause they was right in
line. She knowed it. So they made a way for her to escape it.
39-6 They must have believed
that their own big denomination of Jericho was able to resist the wrath
of God. See? Their own big denomination... That's what many of them are
thinking today. "Oh, surely, God won't do that."
That is what Satan said to Eve. "Oh, surely, God won't." He will,
'cause He said He would (See?), and that's His Word. Yes, sir.
"Except a man be born--and these signs shall follow them that are born.
(See?) This will all men know that you're My disciples," and so forth.
See?
40-1 All right, wanted to do
it... Oh, what happened? Now, they were shut up. "No revival's going to
happen here. Our denomination won't sponsor such. We'll not have that
kind of nonsense among us. I forbid any of you to go to that meeting."
Jericho, right in the line of the damned...
But there must've been some tape boys slipped in somewhere, for the
predestinated seed. They slipped over to her house and played some
tapes. She made her--her own house a church to receive the messages.
(They still got them, you know.) The message got to the predestinated
seed anyhow. We don't know how it got there, but it got there, so that
the just will not perish with the unjust. God's seeing to that today.
Some way it slips in. They don't know how, though they won't sponsor
it; but there is some seed out there that's predestinated.
40-3 Anyone knows anything about
the Bible, knowed that that harlot was predestinated. She sure was. She
didn't... The Bible said, "She perished not with them who believed not."
That's right. But she believed the message of the hour, and God give
her a sign by His messengers; said, "Take a scarlet red streak and tie
it on your..." Said, "Remember, if you don't tie that streak there and
leave it there, what we've escaped by, we're not responsible for our
oath." And said, "If you're out from under it, we're not responsible."
Oh, my. "Rahab, every predestinated seed in here, you get out there,
and go to hunting them. Get your daddy, your mother, for we've just
come under that atonement. Down in Egypt and everything that we didn't
have under that token, perished. Rahab, I'm giving you a sign. It's a
token."
And I say in the Name of the Lord, it's the same. If you'll put that...
"I'm acquainted with that--with the messenger. I'm acquainted with the
angel of wrath, Joshua, God's destroying messenger. I'm acquainted with
him, and he know's that there has to be a token sign. And you hang that
there, and I'll assure you; I take oath."
40-6 God took oath too, that
what was out from under it would perish, and all that was under it
would live. Now, the same oath is today, the same thing. See? "I will
not let you perish with them who doesn't believe the message. And
they..." She'd heard the works had been done, and she believed it.
But about... She's... Her and father, and couple of brothers or
something, was the only one believed in the whole city. See how few it
is? Just one here and there. A little family will come out from a
state. Is that right? Exactly now, we're talking facts.
41-2 We're... If--if you're
going to see what the antetype is, you have to see what the type was
first. You have to see what the shadow is, then you know what the real
thing's going to look like. See?
His power was displayed: judgment was in line. They must believe in
order to be saved. Yes, sir. And these little--there fellows went in
there, these messengers, and--and caught that predestinated seed that
believed.
41-4 She used her house for a
church to receive these messengers. They wouldn't let them in their
churches. No, sir. So she... They won't let you either. They kick you
out, if you say anything about it. Yes. See?
They got all in her city that would believe under the token. That's
exactly what we better do today. If you want some loved one saved,
you'd better get them in right now. See?
When God's wrath destroyed that big city, the token sign held her house
safely. In what? The sign was on her token, or the token was on her
house. When the rest of the city shook to the ground... What was it?
What was it?
41-7 Joshua, the messenger of
God... God Himself recognized His messenger's message. Amen. It proved
it; it proved it. They recognized the message. He recognized His
messenger's message, and when all the rest of the city shook down,
there stood Rahab's scarlet token over the door, and the rest of them
was gone.
Then, right straight up, went the destroying angels, and destroyed
everything that was in the city. Not even a piece of goods was left.
One took out a piece of goods, and had to perish with it, out of that
denomination. Took the whole thing and destroyed it. Cursed be the man
that ever tries to build it. His firstborn will die when he starts, and
so forth. God cursed it, like that. That big thing that rejected
the--the message of grace and mercy, thought they were safely secured...
41-9 Many people thinks today,
"Because I belong to the church, I'm safely secured." Don't you believe
such nonsense, when the Blood shall be a token unto you.
The Spirit now is a Token unto you, the Life that was in the Blood.
Same... Just think of that... The same token that they used in Egypt,
the same life token, that was in the Egypt--is in Egypt, God used the
same symbol up there.
42-2 Joshua, a perfect type of
Jesus, was true to the token sign, that his messengers had preached.
Joshua, when he said that, said, "Don't touch that house or anything in
it. It's reserved for the Lord." Amen.
A Gentile, a harlot, streetwalker, but she heard and believed, and she
applied the token.
No matter how stooped you are in sin, what you have done; that doesn't
have one thing to do with it. You apply the Token. It's for you. If you
feel in your heart there's something tugging, it's for you; you apply
the Token.
42-5 And the great... The word
"Joshua" means Jehovah Saviour. So does "Jesus," means "a Saviour." And
Joshua, when he knowed his messengers--his messengers turned back and
said, "I have obeyed your orders."
And there was a woman we found... (When we played the tapes, you know.)
We found a woman that believed, and we told her that all that would
come under that red sign back there, the token, it would mean... Now,
I've preached that. Will you honor it, Joshua?"
"I sent you to do it." Amen. And then when that. God honored that. The
house never shook down.
And then, when Joshua stood there and gave the signal to destroy the
whole thing--went right straight up, and Rahab and all her people set
right--and all their possession. Amen. Amen. All their possessions was
in the house, safely. They just stood there, and didn't have to look
out the window. They could read the Scripture while the battle was
going on.
She come right back and quoted--courted the general in the army, and
was raised up, and come up in Bethlehem, and her portion was 'lotted up
in there to them. And she brought forth a--she brought forth a famous
son, and that famous son brought forth another famous son, and that son
brought forth another famous son, until the great famous Son came.
Right back down and on through Obed, and on through Jesse, and on down
into David. That's right. Harlot Rahab, because she believed the
messenger, she applied the token, and her house was saved, or she'd
have perished down there where she was at.
43-1 Listen close now. Oh, say,
he recognized it? All under it was saved in Egypt. All under it was
saved in Jericho, All under It will be saved today. The blood-bound,
blood lamb is a type of Jesus Christ.
In Hebrews 13:10-20... I ain't got time to read it. Put it down, I was
going to read it. It is called the "Everlasting covenant." The Blood of
Jesus Christ is called the everlasting covenant." Yes, sir. Everlasting
covenant...
Why wasn't it called the eternal covenant? Because that it wouldn't be
eternal. When we're redeemed, it's all over then. It is an
"everlasting" which means "certain amount of time, till time is up."
There'll never be another one. When time runs out, we won't need no
covenant; but until time runs out, we need the covenant.
43-4 Now, remember, Hebrews
13:10-20, a everlasting covenant... God's blood-bound promise makes us
free from sin. Amen. There's no sin in them. Sin, self, flesh worship
Him, and show forth His promised power. God's blood-bound, Token-bound
covenant people, has the Spirit of Jesus Christ in here that, "He that
believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he do also."
Displaying the covenant... See? New Testament... "Testament" means
"covenant." That's right, isn't it Dr. Vayle? Testament means covenant.
The New Testament means the New Covenant: The old Testament was the
old... Under the lamb, that the life could not come back on the
believer. The New Testament was the Lamb of God, and His Life comes
back on us.
Blood's Life. See? Blood is Life in the New Testament. See? Life is
from the Blood of the Lamb, which means the New Testament, new
covenant, that God... "After those days, will I write my law upon the
fleshly tables of their heart." See, see? Not upon the stony tables of
lamb's blood, which you had--say, "Yeah, I got the blood over here.
Now, what does it say do?" But upon the tables of your heart. See? "The
Spirit covenant will I make with the people."
43-7 And it displays His power.
John, 14:12, says, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall
he do also." New Testament is new covenant, new life. Shows Jesus has
met every requirement for us that God required to make us back truly
sons and daughters of God, under the Blood where there is no more
condemnation.
Romans 8:1, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in
(not those who are believing it), those who are in Christ Jesus, that
walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."
"And My Word is Spirit and life?." Oh, couldn't I take a text from
that, and stay about a couple more hours, but we'll hurry over it. You
see?
No more condemnation; free from sin; free from the cares of the world.
No condemn... Why? To them that have been by one Spirit baptized into
one Body, there the Blood of the Lamb has been applied. The God of
heaven has accepted you. And your... His life is in you, and you are
sons and daughters of God.
Your character is God's character. What is it? A little pushover? No,
sir. God's a God of judgment. He's a God of correct. It must be on the
line. Nothing else will do. That's the kind of character you are,
because you're the character of your Father. See? Watch.
44-5 The life--what was it--the life is took for the blood. See? The life itself is took. See? The life is took for the blood. See? The blood was applied, and the life could not come on the believer then, for the life of an animal, not the life... But see, instead of a human being, it was a super, super, super human being. See, see? And that makes the human being now, not only human being, but he's a son and daughter of God, of the super, super, super, super, super Life that was in Him comes back up on you and changes you from a sinner and the things of the world, a church member, and a denominational goer, to a borned again Christian, filled with the Spirit, and the Life of God just flowing from you like sparks from an anvil. As you walk full of virtue, and love, and gentleness, and the Holy Spirit moving, speaking. Oh, my. There you are.
44-6 And with the what? Hearing
the message, watching the Pillar of Fire, and the blessed assurance:
"I've passed from death unto Life." No... Therefore no condemnation at
all. "If our hearts condemn us not, then we have our petition." See?
We know--but if sin is in our heart, then it condemns us; we--we might
as well not even start. See? You've got to get free from sin, and the
only way you can get free from sin, is get in Him. That's the only
covering there is for sin, is Christ.
Remember, the covenant blood, the covenant blood is not recognized
without the Token. See? You cannot, you will not... You say, "Well,
I--I've been sanctified from things." That's not the Token. It's the
Spirit is the Token, the Spirit of Christ upon you; believe it.
45-3 Now, look. The Word assures us of the promise. All these are texts I've set down here. Just keep on preaching all day, look like (See?), on this. See? The Word assures us of the promise, because It is the Promise. The Word is the Promise, and the Word is the God, and the Word is--is ours. And we become the Word, and the Word becomes us. And, "If ye abide in Me and My Word in you..." then, it just becomes one great big family. See? It assures us, because why? Why, it's part of us. See, see, see? It becomes part of us (What a text. All right.), assures us of the promise.
45-5 The token is a sign that
the purchase has been made and been accepted. Now, you can't get the
token from the railroad fare, until you pay the price. And the only way
you're going to pay the price... Just pay it. That's right. What?
Believe it; accept it.
Full obedience to the whole Word of God will entitle you to the Token.
Full obedience, not to part of It, as far as your denomination goes,
but all of It. Full obedience to the Word, which is Christ, brings you
into Christ.
45-7 Now, what if you was all in
but your feet hanging out? What if you was all in but hands hanging
out? Most all of it's in but the heart hanging out? See, see? The
heart's in the world yet. See? But we don't do that. Full, complete
obedience puts you and the Word one. You believe It every bit, and all
of It's in you, and you watch It working through you.
You don't go about with a bunch of carrying on. See? You're a
Christian. No matter what anybody says, they'll never touch you; you're
in Christ. You're safe as you can be. When death knocks at the door, it
has no hold (See?), not at all. Why? It's just stepping out of here
into there.
45-9 Age means not a thing. You
done passed from age; you're in eternity; 'cause you're in Him. He's
eternal. Don't mean a thing, whether you're young, old, middle-aged, or
whatever you are. Pretty, ugly, short, fat, what, don't matter a thing.
It doesn't...
You don't go around, and all these other things. You done passed from
that. You're dead. You're life is hid in God through Christ. You're
sealed in there by the Holy Ghost, walking in Christ. The only object
you see is Christ. That's all. That's all you want. Oh, my.
No wonder we used sing that song:
Fill
my way every day with love,
As I
walk with the heavenly Dove;
Let me
go all the while, with a song and a smile,
Fill
my...
46-2 Let me be a brother. Let me
live the example, what Christ said a man should be. Let me be a brother
to a brother, a brother to a sister. Let me be a--a minister to the
ministers. Let me be an example of examples. Let me show to the world
that this Word is Christ. The only way I can do it, is come into Him,
'cause I can't do it myself; you can't do it; but let the Word and you
become one; then It lives itself out.
You are a walking epistle of Jesus Christ, when He's got complete
con--total control of you to make every word... If He comes this way,
"I want to do this," and you say, "No, no, I don't believe that." See,
you're not in the Word yet. See? Full...
46-4 Now, watch fully now. Fully
obedience to the whole Word of God entitles us to the Token. Then when
we pay--pray, we must have the Token to present with our prayer. If you
say, "I pray, Lord, but really I haven't..." Well, there you go. You
just might as well stop. See? Go in first and get the Token (See?),
'cause that Token's what He will recognize. See? Yes, sir. When we
pray, then we must present the Token: "Lord, I have obeyed You fully.
I've repented of my sins. I feel that You have forgiven me. I've been
baptized into the Name of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is upon me.
Now, I have need of certain thing for Your glory. Lord, I ask for it.
It's mine now."
Then there's something anchors back there. Whew-whew [Brother
Branham makes whistling sound--Ed.]. It's yours. So then it's
all over; it's all over and settled. "I ask for this. I ask for it. I
must have it. (See, see?) I--I want it for Your glory." See? Now,
listen to it. Then He just gives it to you. Then you know it's yours.
That is the way it is with our children, and so forth; we apply the
blood. Believe it. That's all.
47-1 All right, what does He do
then? When you have--can present the Token with your prayer, it shows
that you have fully come to obedience to the whole Word of God. When
you've got the Token, it shows that you have obeyed every Word; then
you and the Word are one. You're only asking for the thing that you are.
Then, why, you know. If I say to this, "Hand, you obey me. Reach out
for that handkerchief." It does it. See? Hand obeyed me. Why? It's part
of me. See? Then when you and the Word becomes one, every promise...
Glory to God. Every promise is yours. It obeys you. See? Then you want
to watch what you want to do.
You wouldn't put your hand in fire to say, see you do it. Oh, no, no.
See? But if there's something in that fire I got to reach for, it'll
obey me. That's right. See? You want to watch what you're doing.
That's the reason the Holy Spirit is sparingly given out and things.
You know what I mean. Because some... You don't want to... You... But a
real servant of God, don't show off with it. You see? That's a--that's
making a show.
When we pray, we present the Token; it shows we have fully obeyed.
47-6 Paul tells us that the
blood speaks. That... Anyone knows that the blood is, actually, itself,
can't speak. It's a chemistry. Is that right? How many knows that? But
how many knows that the blood speaks? If you want to put that down:
Genesis 4:10. God said, "What about your brother?" Said, "His blood
cries from the earth against you." Amen. Is that right? His blood's a
speaking. Hallelujah. God said, "What about him?"
He said, "I'm not my brother's keeper."
He said, "His blood's crying out. His blood's a crying out." It's a
token. It's a token that he'd been killed. His blood was crying out
against him.
47-6 Now, if you get that in
Genesis 4:10, then in Hebrews 12:24, start reading. In Hebrews 10...
12:4 said, "The Blood of Jesus speaketh better things than that of
Abel."
See, Abel, he was a righteous man. He died; he died innocent because he
was in the way. He was in the way, standing for the real revelation he
had. He spoke; it's cried out; the justice blood of Abel cried out
against Cain. But the Blood of Jesus Christ not only cried out, It
redeemed. Amen. It speaketh better things. It makes you sons and
daughters. It hides you from the wrath of God. See, the blood of Abel
could not hide Cain (See?), but the Blood of Jesus can. Amen.
So Cain come out today. If you've been a persecutor against the Word,
and say, "Days of miracles are passed. And this thing's all nonsense,
and things..." It's crying out. See? The Blood of Jesus Christ cries
out, that there's forgiveness in It, if you'll just accept It.
Wish we could stay a little while on that (See?): Blood speaketh better
things.
48-3 Flee for safety; then
apply. See? Believe for... Here's what you want to believe for. See?
You want your own safety. You believe for your safety, and then apply
the Token for the whole family. See?
You say, "How can I do that?"
Claim it. If it worked on you, then you and the Word becomes one. Amen.
Amen. See, it... See, it works for both of you. You and the Word are
one. Then apply it to your children. Apply it to your loved ones like
Rahab did. She applied the token to her father; she applied it to her
mother; she applied it to her brothers and sisters, and got them all
in. You apply it. Say, "Lord, I'm going after my son. I'm going after
my daughter. I claim her; Satan, you turn her loose. I'm coming after
her. I apply my Token." The Holy Spirit... "Oh, Holy Spirit that lives
within me, catch my daughter there. I'm going to her now with Your
anointing upon me. He will do it. Amen.
48-5 That's what they did in
Egypt. That's what they did in Jericho. If you want to read another
one? Acts 16:31. Paul told the centurion, "Believe; I'm the messenger
of the hour. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, thou and thy house shall
be saved." Is that right? Believe for your house. Bring them all under
it.
Now, you've seen the God of heaven perform a miracle, just before
judgment. You believed it. "Yes, what can I do?"
He said, "Rise and be baptized."
Paul took him out and baptized him, said, "Now, believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and thou and thy house shall be saved." Believe what?
Believe the Lord Jesus Christ for your house. Apply the Token to your
house. Then what do you do when you apply It to your house? Move all
the trash out. Get all the short skirts, and the shorts, and the cards,
and the cigarettes, and televisions, and whatevermore, and kick them
out the door. You're going to apply the Token, won't stand still for
it. Yes, sir. Take it all out. All the dances and the parties, and
rock-and-roll, and old vulgar newspapers, and the stuff that's of the
world, kick it out the door. Say, "We're cleaning out this place around
here."
49-1 Like Jacob did. He
said--told his wife and all of them, said, "Wash your clothes and
everything. Put away them gods." Amen.
You know what Joshua said 'fore crossing over? He said, "Wash your
clothes, come not at your wives, and so forth, and get ready. For
within three days we'll cross Jordan." Amen. He was getting ready. They
was applying the token. Amen. That's it.
Get ready. Apply it. Believe it. Clean up. Let your children, let your
family, let your loved ones see it in you. That's right. It'll take
effect. Yes, sir.
Then apply the Token in prayer with--with--with consideration, with
believing. Apply it with such love and so forth, you know it's--it's
going to take place. That's all. Apply it in confidence, believing it's
going to help. When you talk to that child, when you talk to your
husband, talk to your wife, talk to this loved one, believe that it's
going to help, and stand there and say, "Lord, I've claimed them;
they're mine. I'm getting them for You, Lord."
49-5 Apply it, create that
atmosphere around you, that they'll just drop right into it. See? Oh,
you are--you are--if you've got the Token, you create a spirit around
you of power, that when you walk, people know that you're a Christian.
They love for you to say something to them. They believe your word;
what you say, they hold on to it. See? That is it.
Apply the Token; then walk with it. Claim your household. You must do
it now. This is evening time.
Now, you've been listening a long time; now this is evening time. It's
applying time now. The wrath will strike one of these days; it might be
too late then. See, see? Apply the Token with confidence.
49-6 If you wanted to read that,
read something here, my Scripture I got wrote down for this is read
Ephesians 2:12, and if--if you want to put that down. Notice in
Ephesians 2:12, when you read it, it says this that we don't serve dead
works, but we serve a living God, with living works. Amen.
Oh, my. With living works, living signs... You believe in living signs?
Also put down Hebrews 9:11-14, if you want to put that down. Living
signs, living works, apply that. Not dead creeds. "I'll take my boy
over to the church, and see he joins the church."
Some fine Christian boy here, a good friend, old buddy, a real fellow,
he--he come down here, was baptized. His mother said, "I wished you'd
went to a bigger church, if you wanted to be baptized." See, see? He
just didn't want old dead creeds and things. See?
50-3 We don't serve dead creeds
and dead gods. We serve a living God, Whose Blood was shed back there,
and the Token's been applied to us that we live also. Amen. Yes, sir.
Don't serve some dead creed. They even deny such things as the Token.
They say the days of miracles is passed. There's no such thing as the
baptism of the Holy Ghost. Why join something like that? See? Don't do
that.
Apply the Token, then serve the living God, for living works, living
signs: signs that heal the sick, raise the dead, foretell things, speak
in tongues, interpret every time perfectly right, prophesies and says
this and such a thing will happen, show signs in the heaven above and
on earth, signs and wonders. Amen. Speaking exactly what the Bible said
would take place... Serve the Living God. Apply the Token.
50-6 Don't go to them churches,
and join them old dead works and things like that, 'cause they don't
even believe in such things as signs, but we who believe (Amen.) know
that...
They say there's no such a thing as a sign. That... "Oh, that's
nonsense, what they talk about up there is crazy. Why, there's no such
a thing. Why, you women, all of you--you... Why, you don't... What
you're dressing..." It does; the Bible said so. "What your hair have
any..." The Bible said so. That--that's just the differences. See?
Touch not; handle not; taste not; He's God. See? Now, it does mean
something.
50-8 Now, they think it's crazy,
but to us who believe and know the truth, we know It is His living
Presence, for It does the same things that He did when He was here on
earth. Amen.
Oh, they say, "They just imagine they see that Pillar of Fire."
Oh, no. Oh, no. We don't imagine nothing. They thought Paul imagined it
too. Egypt thought Israel imagined it; but it taken them to the
promised land. Yes, sir. We don't...
Hebrews 13:8, you know, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and
forever," if you're putting that down. See? That He's the same...
It--it ain't... They say... some imagination...
51-3 When I write this here
Scriptures I write down here, I know where the Scriptures are, and
that's how I go to it. See?
Know it is His living Presence, for He does the same in this Spirit.
Now, if--had done went off into some creed or denomination, we'd know
right quick, it wasn't Christ. Is that right? If I led you into some
creed or something another, I'd be sent from some denomination. But I'm
not bringing you creeds, and I'm not teaching you denominations; I'm
teaching you the Word of God, which is the power of the resurrection of
Jesus Christ, manifested, not only for me, but for whosoever will. See?
51-5 That you--you are my
brother. I'm not a great person, and you a little person. We're all
little persons in God. You believe it? We're His little children. We
know nothing what we really ought to know. He lets us know as He will,
and we are thankful to Him for what we do know of His blessings.
And I don't share this by myself; I want to share it with you. See? I
want you into it, and I want you to receive this Token. And if you
haven't done it, many of you... Most of you has already done it; but if
some of you haven't done it... (See, I'm talking on tape too; you
understand that.) And many of you--and I don't say here in the church,
we're all come out, suppose; but there may be thousands times thousands
that hear the tape. You see? And that... It's a ministry. There'd be
somebody to slip into Jericho, you know, with a tape. So we want to...
We want to catch that predestinated seed when it goes in there (See?),
'cause the wrath is coming.
51-7 Know that it is the
Presence of the living God. Proves that God has raised Him up according
to His promised Word. "A little while and the world won't see Me no
more (Jericho, Egypt), they won't see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me,
for I ('I' the personal pronoun is always referred to. See?), I'll be
with you. I am the Token. My resurrection is the Token. The works that
I do will identify you--will identify Me in you."
"As it was in the days of--of Lot, so shall it be in the coming of the
Son of man," when the evening message goes forth. For it shall be Light
about the evening time. Just about the evening time the Light will come
on. Oh, glory to God. Makes me feel like I could run through a troop
and leap over a wall. See?
It shall be Light about the evening time." That's right. The prophet
said so. "Now, I'll be with you. I'll be in the Lutheran age; I'll be
in the Wesleyan age; I'll be in the Pentecostal age. But it--right at
the evening time, it'll come Light." The denominationals will fade
away, and then the Token will be applied.
52-3 And all these that's honest
in heart, down through that... Without--without you they won't be--be
made perfect, but in you... It's like... The head has to go to take the
foot. The head has to go to take the hand. The head has to go to take
the heart. The head has to go to take the mouth. See? The head has to
go. And now, we're at the time when the token was applied on the lintel
of the door (See?) and on the post. And then, "When I see the Blood
being a token, I'll pass over you."
I'll hurry now, just as quickly as I can now. Just about five more
minutes or ten, we'll be done.
52-6 Proves that God raised Him
up from the dead. You believe it? He's a living among us today. And
that "I," is Christ, and that "I," is with us to the end of the--that
says "consummation," which means "the end of the world (See?), the--the
end of the world." According to His promised Word; He promised it. "And
the works that I do shall you also."
It's not nonsense to us. It's the Token. It's the Token. We accept this
sacred Blood sacrifice... We accept His sacrifice Blood. Then give
(See?)--that gives us the Life, the Token, a seal of His promise.
Ephesians 4:30, said, "Grieve not the" blood?--no, "Grieve not the Holy
Spirit, whereby ye are covenanted (put away)--you are covenanted; you
are a Token; the Holy Spirit will be the seal..."
52-8 When anything's sealed
inside of a seal, you better not break it. Can't break it, you--not
God's seal. No. For you are... "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God,
whereby you are sealed until the day of your redemption, when the
body's raised up."
It is a seed, a sign, that the seed has been germitized with Eternal
Life, Zoe, "My own life, and I'll raise it up again, at the last day."
And as you walk, you have confidence that the Life of Christ is in you,
and you are in Him. By one Spirit we're all baptized into one Body, and
sealed there by the Holy Ghost, among this believers like this, until
the day that Jesus raises us up.
53-3 Oh, my. Apply the Token.
That's what it means to us. We expect the sacrifice to give us Life,
and it does. Then it gives us the Token, and we apply the Token, which
is the seal until...
Being--be partakers of this. What a great thing it is. Being partakers,
baptized by this one Spirit into that one mythical Body. Did I say that
word right? Mystical--mystic, mystic body. Mystic body of Jesus Christ.
See, the Holy Spirit said, "You're saying that wrong." A dummy, like
me, but He said, "You're saying that wrong." I caught mythical, which
is mystic body of Jesus Christ. See? The mystic body of Jesus Christ. I
don't... We don't need an education; we need the Holy Spirit. He's the
one; He's the one. See? That would might've stumbled somebody
somewhere, some educator. And I hope he gets it right. The mystic
body... It'll be for something, 'cause He wouldn't have said that. He's
right here now. He's right here at the pulpit. He's right out there.
It's Him. See?
53-6 And in Him is no death; in
Him is no sorrow; in Him is no weary; in Him is no sin; in Him is no
sickness; in Him is no death. We are in Him.
If Satan tries to hand you something like sickness, just take your
Token and apply it. Oh, my. Take your Token and apply it, that you are
a purchased product of Jesus Christ. The Token stands that your fare is
paid.
He says, "When you die, you're lost."
Say, "You're wrong. I have the purchased product. I'm the purchased
product. I have the Token."
What is the Token? He knows what it is. Don't--don't fool him, he knows
what it is.
Now, you might talk to some of these preachers, and they'd argue with
you. Not Satan, he knows better. Oh, yeah. He come against it two or
three times, you know, and made a mistake of temptation. Satan knows
what you're talking about.
Just show that Token; he'll fly. It's 'cause... What is it? It's a
sealed product. He can't break that open and give something in there
that's not right. Say, "Take your hands off, I'm sealed."
54-1 Oh, my. A sealed product.
Yes, sir. You are purchased. Hold the Token over your unmovable faith
in His promise. Watch him go. "The effectual fervent prayer of a
righteous man availeth much." See?
Take that Token. That's what it's for. Satan's there to tempt you. He's
in Egypt to tempt. Why, you know that they--when Rahab put that... That
harlot--the harlot put that string down--that string--that I imagine
some of them soldiers laughed and made fun, and said, "That crazy old
woman up there. She's off of her head. Look, she's got it bad.
Ha-ha-ha-ha--why, did you ever hear of such? Why, Dr. Jones said down
here, there's nothing to that."
But there was, because the messenger from God brought the message and
told them.
54-3 Could you imagine the
Egyptians say, "Look...?... Look--look at that crazy bunch of
holy-rollers, putting blood... Ha, ha. Won't they have a mess to wash
that off now. Oh, my, them big fine homes, all covered over with blood.
Oh, such a stink. I'll bet you that'll be horrible in a few days. It
don't mean a thing. You know why? Holy father so-and-so, said so." But
there was; there was; it did mean something. It does mean something to
us who believe it.
Just remember, your unmovable faith that you got in this word... Now,
you're not Eve no more. See? You're not one of these doubters, and
well--compromising with Satan; you hold every Word of God.
See, Eve said, "Well, the Lord said so."
Satan said, "But, you know, the Lord surely won't do a thing like that
to a nice person like you. Oh, you're so lovely." He... Oh, yes, He
will too. He said He'd do it.
"Well, my father was a minister; I've been a minister..."
I--I can't help it. Without the Token, you're lost. The wrath is upon
you (That's all.) without the Token. See? He said He'd do it, and He
will do it. That--that just settles it. He says He'd do it.
"Oh, I believe the days of miracles..."
Yes, but He said it was. "I'm the same yesterday, today, and forever."
See? That's just what He proves to be.
Now, to us, we know it. To them, they don't believe it. But we do
believe it. We know it is the truth. See?
55-3 Now, being in that, we
become part of the Word, and then take the Token, the Spirit, over the
promise. "I'm the Lord that healeth thee." Now, get ready for the
healing service tonight. See? Take the Token. Hang it over the Word on
your unmovable faith in that Word; you'll get out. See, that's--that's
the thing that puts him out, 'cause in Him there's no such.
Wished I could testify a little bit now of some things I've seen happen
just in the last few weeks. See, see? Oh, what I could testify. You
know, Luke said, "If all Jesus done would be put in books, the--there
wasn't enough books in the world to write it."
Just what I've seen in my own ministry, seen Him done, you couldn't
pile the volumes on this platform here, if I wrote it in details, what
I seen Him do, just in my own ministry--seen Him do it. See? He had
more success in my ministry, than He did in His own. Now, remember, He
had more success now, not me; He had. Glory. Hallelujah. He had more
success in Jeffersonville, than He did in Nazareth. He did. In that
wicked city and this wicked city... Amen. Glory. 'Cause He could
perform no miracles there, but He did here. He finally broke through
here. He got it done here.
55-6 He might've had to get
people from somewhere else, but He got it done anyhow. So He had more
success right here, than He did in--in Capernaum, or--or Nazareth in
that... He done more miracles right here in this Tabernacle, than He
did in the entire ministry on earth. That's right. He did it.
Now, what about the rest of the world? Oh, my. Now, that's what He
done. Now, remember: He done. Now, I didn't say that I done (See?),
'cause I didn't do it. I just stood... And I just loved Him and just
submitted myself to Him, and said what He said; and the Holy Spirit
went to the other people, they believed what He said, and then He did
the work. That's all.
If He can get all of us believing it... What would He do right now, if
He can get us all believing it right now, right? There wouldn't be a
feeble person around the country. That's right. If He could get
everybody to believe it, it'd all be over. See?
Hold your Token over your unmovable faith in His promised Word, and
Satan will go.
Now, I am going to close now.
56-3 God once gave another token
to the world. It was a rainbow. You remember that? He ever, ever
remained true to that token, 'cause He gave it for a token. All these
thousands of years, He never has failed to display that token. Is that
right? Why? He honors it. He gave it. He gave the world a token that
He'd no more destroy the world with a flood. And He's ever, ever since
that day displayed...
There's same elements in the air that makes that rainbow. When it rains
and the sun comes out, that shows it. The sun dries up the rain; so He
put the rainbow there to prove that there'd never be enough water to
fall to the earth to destroy it again. That's His covenant; it's a
token. He said, "I'll give it to you for a token."
56-5 He honored His token. He
honored His token in the days of Noah. He shows it yet. He honored His
token in Egypt. He honored it in Jericho. He honors It today. He ever
honors His token when it's displayed.
All these thousands of years, He has loved to display that token. He
never forgets it. He don't forget His token. Now, no matter how much
the world changes, the rainbow's still there. See? He honors the token.
So does He now. He honors His Token.
No matter how much the church changes, how much it does this, God still
honors His Token, that only. Shows us He never fails to honor what He
does and what He says. We accept the... We--we respect that. I do.
56-8 He expects us also to
display His Token over our faith, to Satan and all his unbelieving
cults and denominations, that we believe that His promise is true, and
He will do what He promised to do. There's the church.
No wonder you can't get to first base out there, as we call it. (Excuse
the expression.) No wonder they don't get nowhere but go back to
denomination, and make a bunch of dressed up, polished up people,
intellectual, educated, never get anywhere; because that's what they
display: "I am Methodist." "I am Presbyterian." That's all they are.
But believers take the Token.
57-1 And what Jesus begin to do
in Galilee, He continues to do now, through His display of the Token of
the Holy Spirit back upon the church. For it was not the acts of the
apostles, it was the acts of the Holy Ghost in the apostles, and that
was a Token.
They said they had to take heed to Peter and James, as they--Peter and
John--as they passed through the gate called Beautiful, seeing they
were ignorant. They might say, "hit, hain't, tote, fetch, carry, I'll
tell you 'bout this," See? They might've had all kinds of grammar that
they couldn't understand. They might not have knowed the difference,
all the--the--all the mathematics of the Scripture, but they had to
notice they'd been with Jesus. They had displayed that Token, because
the same Spirit that was upon Him before His crucifixion, was upon them
after the resurrection. Amen. [Brother
Branham claps--Ed.]
57-3 Then that makes Him Hebrews
13:8, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." There's
how we know He lives. Because why? How do we know we live? Because He
lives. And because we know we live, is because we're like Him, and
we're in Him. And he said, "Because I live, you live also. I am He (in
Revelations) that was dead and alive forever more."
And if--if we die to ourself, and become alive in Him, we're alive
forever more. And then His Life in us, is just like the life of
anything else. It displays what He was. And that makes Him the same
yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, how can anyone to deny that? Don't you see dead works? Serve the
living God by the Eternal--I mean the everlasting covenant of the Life
that was in the Blood of Jesus Christ.
Now, going on to the end... I... Oh, I wished... See? Displaying the
Token of His grace, His love... Now, without this Token applied...
57-7 Now, it is a token. What is
a token? The token is a sign of a debt been paid: a price required has
been paid. The price of our salvation was death (See?), and no one
could pay it but Christ. And not the--the spirit of a denomination, not
the spirit of a pope, not the spirit of some man, or some saint, but
the Spirit of Jesus Christ upon the church is a Token that the debt has
been paid, and He's met every requirement that God required; and we and
Him are one. "That day you'll know that I'm in the Father, and the
Father in Me, I in you, and you in Me.
Apply the Token. Apply the Token of His resurrection, that because He
was raised up for our justification, He has raised us also with Him.
And now we set in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, under the fellowship
of the Token.
58-1 As Israel set there, and
the screams was going on out there in the street, they didn't have one
thing to worry about. Only thing, just be sure the blood, the token,
was showing.
That's the only thing we have to worry, right now. There's trouble in
the--in the way making, friends. It ain't going to be long. Trouble's
striking. You know that. Be sure the Token's showing, and the Token is
the Holy Spirit. "For by one Spirit, we're all baptized into one Body,
and made partakers of His glory," on our lap home march now to the
promised land.
Do you love Him? You believe the Token? How many would like to say,
"Oh, Brother Branham, pray for me that I will come under this Token."
Let us bow our heads.
58-4 Lord Jesus, most gracious
One, when the world was in sin and no one could help; God in mercy,
foreshowing by a type, that there was coming a Token that could take
away sin, not just cover it, but could take it away; and Jesus came in
the right time, and He shed the Blood, His own Life, taking--making us
an atonement for our sins, and then presenting Him back in the form of
the Holy Ghost, which is now a Token that's to be kept to the church
until He comes. For the Apostle Peter said, "The promise is unto you,
and to your children, and to them that are afar off, even as many as
the Lord our God shall call."
Lord, by Your grace, Your help, I claim every one that hears this
message. I claim them for God; I pray Thee, Lord, both here this
morning, and those that'll hear on tape.
And if there be a seed anywhere that's predestinated, Lord, to hear the
Word of this last day, may they come now, sweetly and humbly, and lay
their trophies down at the cross, or their self as a trophy of the
grace of God that's called them. And may they be filled with the Holy
Spirit and display the Token of the Life of Jesus Christ in His
resurrection, as long as they remain here on earth. Grant it, Lord.
58-7 These words, Lord, I might
not have said them right; and if I didn't, I pray that the Holy Ghost
will take those words and present them the way that they should be
presented, that the people will understand, and know without malice,
and let them know that love is corrective. And that they might know
that it's because of the hour that we're living in, and the close
coming of the Lord; and we see the great red lights a flashing all over
the world that the time is at hand.
May the people receive the Holy Ghost this day. I pray and present them
to You, in the Name of Jesus Christ. And let it be a Token to us as
long as we live, which You promised it would be. It'd be easy to ask
that, because You promised it would be, and I know it will. In Jesus'
Name, we pray. Amen.
59-2 Now, with our bowed heads
just a moment, with faith believing, I have prayed for you, all that I
knowed how. I--I pray with sincerity, with all I know how to pray for.
Look, I realize that... You know what? It's your tithe and offerings
that I live by. It's your support here at the church that I have
somebody to preach to. It's your love, and your amens, and your
fellowship, and your kind words amongst out in the world there, where
you go to--the different states across the nation. It's your words that
helps take the message. It's you. We're partners in this with Christ.
We are brothers and sisters, and He is our King. And I love you.
I--I--I'll-- I... Where I am, I want you to be.
I drive across the nation to speak to you a couple of times. I long to
meet with you here on Sunday morning. I love you. I've always loved
you. Sometimes I have to speak real harsh, but it's only corrective.
You see? It's because I love you. See?
59-4 And I don't want you to miss it. You can't--you mustn't do that. Now, just sweetly and humbly with all that's in your heart, way down deep, just accept it. Say, "Lord Jesus, right now, just take all that's in me, that is unlike You, and let me move all my pride, all that's in me, out. All the trash, all the unbelief that's in me, I'll--I'll--I discard it now, Lord. I just kick it out. And let the sweet Holy Spirit of God, like a dove, move down in me. I--I want to live eternally, Lord, and I--I want You to help me at this time. Grant it, God."
59-5 While you pray, and we're
going to hum this song, or sing it low and together, "I Love Him." And
you remember, it comes by love, for He is love. While I'm holding my
hands over these handkerchiefs, 'cause the people might get them before
the night.
I love
Him, I love Him,
Because
He first loved me;
And
purchased my salvation
On
Calvary's tree.
I love
Him, I love Him,
Because
He first loved me; (Now,
just surrender your life.)
And
purchased my salvation
On
Calvary's...
Love, love, love Him. See what He done for you. It's by love; love
brings obedience; love brings courtship; love brings marriage; that's
where we're headed: Marriage Supper of the Lamb. I hear my Saviour
calling that He loves me too.
... me
too.
I
love... (Just
all your heart, just feel something real sweetly coming into you;
that's the Holy Spirit.)
Because
He first loved me;
And
purchased my salvation,
On
Calvary's tree.
60-2 I raise up my hands with the audience to the music, if I have sinned, if I've done anything wrong... I'm praying for you now myself. If I've done anything wrong, my hand to You, Lord, means I'm sorry. I--I... My hand to You, Lord, means that I don't--didn't want to do it. And I know I'm dying, Lord. I've got to leave this world in physical form. I want to meet You. My hand means, take it, Lord. Fill me with the Spirit. Give me the Token of Your love upon me, the Holy Ghost, that'll make me live sweetly, gently. Make me live the Life that was in Christ, that my heart will burn for others, that I'll just not rest hardly day and night, till I can get everybody that I can.
60-3 I'll be like the messengers
at Jericho; I'll go to every person that I can and see if I can get
them to come under the Blood covenant, under the Blood of the Lamb,
that they might receive the Token. See?
The Blood cleanses. The Spirit is a Token that the Blood's been
applied. See? The Spirit is the Token that the Blood has been applied.
Until the Blood's applied, the--the Spirit cannot come. But when the
Blood is applied, then the Spirit is a Token, sent it back to you, that
your faith in the Blood has been accepted. Your fare's paid. Your
fare's paid. It's all over. The case is closed. You're a Christian. You
are a believer. Christ is in you, and you're in Christ.
...
first loved me;
And
purchased my salvation,
On
Calvary's tree.
61-1 With your hearts bowed now
before God. Your pastor, Brother Neville, with his closing words, what
he's going to say... Remember the services tonight, healing service.
Come early. Let's begin at seven. Let me on the platform at
seven-thirty. All right, Brother Neville?
Then I'm going to have communion (You see?) tonight. Come. This
afternoon. Stay right with it. Don't let this message depart. Remember,
never let this message depart. The Blood shall be a Token that the Life
has been given. See? And when I see the Blood, I'll pass over you.
The Holy Spirit is a Token that the Blood has been applied to your
heart, and it's the Token that the Blood has been applied. If it never
has been applied, then the Token won't come. You understand, say,
"amen." The Blood must be applied, and then the Token comes. It is the
Token that the Blood of redemption has been applied, and your fare is
paid. God bless you. Brother Neville.