L'Eden de Satan
1-1 Let us bow. Dear God, we're grateful to You tonight for this grand opportunity to come again in the Name of the Lord Jesus, to meet our enemy, Your enemy out here on the field of battle with the Word to drive him away from the midst of Your people, that they might see tonight, Lord, the Gospel Light. I pray that You'll anoint our eyes with the eyesalve that it might be opened to the Truth; that we might leave here, saying within our hearts. "Did not our hearts burn within us as He spoke to us along the road." Heal the sick and afflicted. Encourage the discouraged. Lift up the feeble hands that once hung down. May we look to the coming of the Lord Jesus, which we believe is at hand. We ask this in Jesus' Name. Amen. Be seated.
1-2 I will try to be briefly tonight, because I know many has come from different sections of the country to--for the service, or stayed over, some of you, and have to go back for maybe a way to get back, and I thank you. This morning I wanted to hear Brother Neville myself. I heard him many times, and never heard him anytime but what I appreciated him, but this morning--that timely message--I know I had the leading of the Lord to listen to that this morning. Very fine. And I see why you people like to come and listen to him also. And he will always do you good; I am sure, to listen to him.
1-3 I was trying to catch up on
some of my interviews today; this morning, and this afternoon. I still
have many, many, many to go.
And I... as... I believe it was Jethro told Moses one time, said, "It's
just too much for you." So we've got plenty of brothers here on your
problems, and every one of them have been legitimate, and they're fine
things that have to be taken care of. And I would recommend our pastor,
or Brother Mann, and other ministers of our faith here; you can go to
them. They'd tell you just exactly the thing to do. Some people, their
children, intermarrying, or things that's wrong. These men can help you
just the same as--as anyone else, because they're servants of Christ.
And go to them, and I'm sure they will--they will give you the help
that you need.
I can't get to all of them. There's just so many everywhere you go;
they just keep accumulating higher and higher (You see?); and--and you
want to get to every one of them, but you can't do it. But I'm
constantly praying that God in somehow will work it out all right for
you.
2-1 Now, the--tonight we want
to go to the Scripture and read a portion of the Scripture out of
Genesis the 3rd chapter, and just refer back a little bit to some
things that we've been talking about in times past, and see if the Lord
Jesus will give us a little bit more to what we will know when we go
out. I pray--pray that He will.
Now the serpent was
more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
And he said unto the woman, Yea, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of
every tree of the garden?
And the woman said
unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
But of the fruit of
the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall
not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
And the serpent said
unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
For God doth know
that in the day that you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened,
and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
And when the woman
saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the
eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit
thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he
did eat.
And the eyes of them
both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed
fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons."
May the Lord add the--His blessings to the reading of His Word.
2-2 Now, I would like to take a text tonight out of that, and call: "Satan's Eden," very crude little thing to say of Satan's Eden. It kind of matches in the other Sunday night, I believe, when I was speaking to you here about a "Thinking Man's Filter, and a Holy Man's Taste." And sometimes these little crude expressions brings us to something, and gets us to study and puts you to reading the Word. And that is what I want all my congregation to do. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." So read the Word; study It. And study It with the eyes of--of God to give your intellectuals understanding of how that we should live in this present day.
3-1 Now, to come down tonight just to speak to you to say, "Well, I could do this or that." I'd like to speak with the people, as much as I'd like to even go home with each one of you tonight. God knows that's truth. I'd like to go home with each one of you, and--and eat--eat breakfast with you in the morning, and--and--and go out and squirrel hunt with you tomorrow afternoon. See? I--I'd like to do that, but I--I can't do that. And I would like to go home and just set down and talk with you; sit on the porch after the service, and speak with you awhile and talk to you about your welfare and about God. I would love to do that. Men and women in here, God knows I'd like to do that, but I can't do it. See? There's just such a pull and a strain. And--and in this nervous age that we're living in... And I'm a nervous person myself.
3-2 Today I got my mind made up, just something I've just got to do it, and tomorrow it is a million miles from me; something's done cut in and done this and that. And you have a time trying to keep your wits together. But my main achievement is to preach the Gospel to the Church, and do all that I can to bring honor to Jesus Christ in this day while I'm here on earth, and what time I have left on earth.
3-3 I come to try to--to say something to you that would help you, something I studied after I went home this morning: What could I say tonight, Lord, that would help those people. Listening to that mighty message this morning on... Brother Neville brought us, about... I thought it was so wonderful, how he said there, "A doctor will diagnose the case, but the man that comes with a pan full of needles; he gives the injection"; so I thought that was really a real cute little expression. I thought about that--the serum, after the case is diagnosed. And so that's a very good thing.
3-4 I wanted to speak to you something, to bring something to enlighten to you the promise of God for this age (See?) something, not something that somebody else was in some other day, but something... And them things are all right; we all refer to those things. But I thought I would try to bring something to your mind with these Scriptures I got written here, that would enlighten you to know--make you a better soldier in the field that you're fighting in now, to learn the tactics of the enemy so that you can block everything before it gets to you. See? That's the main thing: is to learn to keep the--the punches off of you as much as you can.
4-1 Now, let us look now to this great (for a few minutes), this great sinful day that we're now living in. I don't believe there ever was a day that I've ever read in history... There's been greater days of persecution when the children of God was put to death on every hand, but to see the deceitfulness of the enemy, we've never had a day like this we're now living. It's the most cunning, deceitful day. And when I see that, it brings this that the Christian has to be more on his toes today than he ever was in any age.
4-2 Now, back in the days of the persecution of Rome to the Church, a Christian make a mistake, he went into the arena and was fed to the lions or something like that, when they found him being a Christian for his testimony. But his soul was saved, because he was a purely, unadulterated believer in God and gladly sealed his testimony with his blood as the veins let loose, or holes in his body, and the blood bleed out, he would scream up with real loyal faith, and say, "Receive my spirit, Lord Jesus."
4-3 But now, the cunningness of
the devil now, makes the people believe that they are a Christian when
they're not. There's the thing. You don't have to seal... It's--it's a
more cunning day than it would be when you had to seal your--your life
away with your testimony. The devil has set every cunning trap that he
can to... He's a deceiver.
And Jesus told us in Matthew 24 how this day would be that we're living
in--the most deceitful day that ever lived; so close that it would
deceive the very elected of God if it were possible for him to deceive.
4-5 Now, let us compare some
Scriptures (or prophecies) spoken of in the Bible for today, and
compare it with the day that we're now living in. In II Timothy 3 we
learned this: That the prophet said that it would come to pass in this
days; that men would be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more
than lovers of God.
Compare that now, just for a moment. We won't... We'll just brief it,
because we haven't that much time to go through it all like we should
duly take it, but just to highlight it, so that you can see when you
get home and study it. Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than
lovers of God; truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, and
despisers of those that are good. Now, the Spirit spoke expressingly
that these things would be in the latter days. That's these days, the
prophecy speaking to it.
5-1 Now, we read also in Revelations 14--Revelation 3:14, rather (the Laodicean Church Age), that how the church would be in this last day. And it would be... It said it would set as a widow and have need of nothing. It--it was rich, and increased in goods, and know it not that they were poor, miserable, wretched, blind, and naked, and didn't know it. The...
5-2 Now, remember, He's speaking to the church of this age: wretched, blind, naked, and don't know it. That last phrase--that last word is what makes it so striking. They think that they are well filled with the Spirit. They're all ready... The Laodicean Church Age is the Pentecostal church age, 'cause it is the last church age.
5-3 Luther had his message. Wesley had his message, and Pentecost had their message. Also, it said, "That because you are lukewarm, neither hot or cold," the emotions of the outside, the mental conception of the Gospel... "Because" He said, "you're that way, I will spew you out of My mouth." In other words, it made Him sick to see the church in that condition. And remember, they spew Him out, and He was on the outside of the church trying to get back on the inside in that awful Laodicean Church Age.
5-4 The god of this world
today, the worshipped person of this world today is Satan, and the
people are ignorant of worshipping Satan. But it's Satan impersonating
himself as the church (See?), as the church. They worship Satan
thinking that they are worshipping God through the church, but it's the
way Satan has done it.
Oh, you say, "But wait a minute; we preach the Word." Look back here at
my text tonight. Satan was the one preached the Word to Eve first. "God
has said." See? It's that misconstruing that part of the Scripture that
applies to the day. He will let you know all that Jesus did was
perfectly well. He will let you know all that Moses did was perfectly
well. But when you take the promises that they gave for this day; then
that was applied to another age. That's just all he has to do (See?) is
to get the people to believe it that way, and that--that's all. For you
cannot take one word away from It, or add one word to It, but that's
what he does.
5-6 People, ignorantly
worshipping Satan, thinking they are worshipping God. As we're warned
by prophecy in II Thessalonians that... Let's just read that: II
Thessalonians, the 2nd chapter. Let's just get it a moment, if I can
right away. I'd like to read that just a... I believe II Thessalonians.
I got the Scripture here and say...
Now we beseech you,
brethren, by the coming of the Lord Jesus, and by our gathering
together unto him,
And see the coming of the Lord and the gathering to Him, as God will
gather His people to Him in the last days: the gathering of the people
to the Lord, not to the church, to the Lord.
... gathering
together unto Him.
That ye be not soon
shaken in your mind, or troubled--troubled, neither by spirit, nor by
word, nor by letter as from us, as... the day of the Lord is at hand.
Let no man deceive
you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a
falling away first, and that man of sin... (man of sin, watch
what he is now) ...
man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, (That was Judas. See?)
Who opposes and
exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so
that he as God setteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is
God.
6-1 That deceitfulness of the
church of today... See, the son of perdition, the devil, the son of
perdition, the devil... Then people worshipping Satan in this day,
thinking they're worshipping God... But they're worshipping him through
a creed, a manmade denominations and creeds that's brought the people
right down to the greatest deception that the world has ever knowed of.
No matter how much the Word of God promised for this day, is preached
and vindicated, they still won't believe It. They won't believe It.
Then why? We wonder why. Why doesn't it... Why won't they believe It,
when God said He would do a certain thing, and He does it; and still
they turn their back from it, and turn away from it? Just as Eve knew
that what God said, God would do; but she turned her back on it to
listen to what he had to say. Just remember, in other ages, it's always
been the same thing. In every age it's always been that Satan tries to
pervert that Word to them, making them see some other age.
7-1 Look, when Jesus come... See, Satan was in that bunch of Jewish teachers and rabbis and priests, trying to tell them to keep the Law of Moses, when the very Word said, that in that day, the Son of man would be revealed (See?), that He would reveal Himself. So they was trying... As long as they kept them religious and on the Law of Moses... See what he did? He was trying to tell them, "That part of the Word is just exactly right, but this man isn't that person." See how deceiving he is? That's that real day of deception.
7-2 It's been, and now is, Satan establishing his kingdom in the earth. That's exactly why he's doing it, for he wants to establish his own kingdom as a businessman that's not a Christian. He will work every scheme he can to make you see something the wrong way. If he's got a purpose and a personal gain in making you doing that, making you see it that way, he will show you everything he can and keep you off from the truth of it, because he's got a feeling only for himself. No matter how much he lies and cheats, and whatevermore, he's got personal gain. And that's why Satan's done this. And he's worked through the ministry to do it, as God promised He would do.
7-3 Now, he began by a
religious deceit in Eden and has continued ever since, not by setting
up a bunch of Communists. Communists has nothing to do with this. It's
the church that's where you have to watch. See? It's not the--it's not
the Communists that will deceive the very elected; it's the church that
will deceive the very elected. See? It isn't Communists. We know they
deny God, and they're antichrist. Sure they are in principle, but they
are not the antichrist. The antichrist is religious, very religious and
can quote the Scripture, and make it look so plain, as Satan did back
there in the beginning. He quoted everything right down... God has
said, "Thou shalt not eat every tree of the garden," See? Pulled
around...
She said, "Yes, we may eat of all the trees of the garden, but there's
a tree in the midst of the garden that God said not to eat for, not
even touch it, because the day we did, that day we'd die."
7-4 He said, "Oh, surely you'll
not die, but let me give you the reason why God said this. Is
because..." See, now what he quoted was truth. You see? He said, "It'll
open your eyes, and it'll make you know good and wrong. You'll be like
God then, if you can do it." That's just what he wants to do; that's
just the same thing he's trying to do today. It's been a religious
deceit since the very beginning of Eden, and has been ever since.
In Adam's time it was a deceit. In Noah's time, it was a deceit. In
Jesus' time was the same, and now is the same, the same way, a
religious deceitfulness.
8-2 Now, we will notice the
earth, when God had it under control... Now, when God had it
control--had it under His control; then when Satan took over by
rejecting the Word of God. God one time had the earth under His
control. He set it in its orbit. He put it to make it work. He done
everything; He had it in His control. Now, we'll compare that with
after Satan took it in his control.
Now, it took God six thousand years. It didn't take Him that long, but
He took that long. Six thousand years, because we're taught that one
day in heaven is a thousand years on earth; and it was six thousand
years, or six days that God built the earth.
8-4 Now, it took God six thousand years to establish it; plant it with good seeds and to bring forth everything after its kind. Everything must come forth of its kind. All of His seeds were good, and so it must bring forth after its kind. God took six thousand years.
8-5 Finally, when He got it all made, and finally we finally arrive with it's headquarters of the earth in a beautiful spot, laying east of Eden, called the garden of Eden. God made the world's headquarters in the garden of Eden, in Egypt, right at the east end of the garden was the headquarters. And over the whole situation He put His son and His son's wife over all of it. Right. That's what God did.
8-6 He put them in full control. They could speak to the winds, and they would cease to blow. They would speak to the tree, and it would move from here to there. The lion and the wolf fed together, and the lamb laid down with them. There was no evil. It was perfect peace, perfect harmony, everything in perfection, and when God had it under His control. And it... Notice. He had His--He had His world; He had all in operation. He had everything coming, everything eating vegetation, nothing to die, nothing to be ruined, nothing to be spoiled--nothing... It was just perfect. And over it all, He placed His beloved children--His son and His daughter; a husband and wife to control it.
8-7 God was so satisfied, and He rested from all His works at the seventh day, and hallowed this seventh day, Sabbath, for it. Because God looked it all over; after He'd been six thousand years in molding it and fixing it out; making it come into existence, and put the mountains up and make the volcanics; push the mountains up and the things that taken place in the eruptions; dried it off and fixed it the way He had it, and it was a beautiful place. There was nothing like it.
9-1 The great paradises of God, and the great dinosaurs, and whatevermore, crawling through it, and the great animals, no harm in them, they were just as gentle as a little kitten. They had nothing at all. No--there's no sickness, no sorrow; not one disease germ on the earth. Oh, what a place--the great birds swinging from tree to tree, and Adam could call them by name, and they'd fly upon his shoulders and--and coo to him. Oh, what a wonderful place God had.
9-2 And then made one of His
attributes from His Own body. God has attributes in His body, like you
are an attribute of your father. And you notice, you was in your
grandfather's grandfather's grandfather. But in that, say, we'll take
it down to like you and your father.
Now, you did not know anything when you were in your father. The germ
of life comes from the male. The male has the blood cell; the woman has
the--the egg. Now, therefore the blood cell has the life in it. And
then when you were in your father, you actually knowed nothing about
it; but yet, science and God's Word proves that you were in your
father; but you knowed nothing about it.
But then the father longed to know you. And with the union of
connection with mother, then you were made known to father. Now, you
are your father's attribute. You look like him, and you've got parts of
your body that looks like your father.
Now, that's the way God was in the beginning. Every son of God and
every daughter of God was in God at the beginning. You don't remember
it now, but you were there. He knowed it, and He wanted you to become,
so He could contact you, speak with you, and love you, and shake your
hand.
9-5 Don't you want your own
boy... Isn't it a great day when your boy can come home and set down at
the table; when he comes back from the battlefield, or something
another, scarred up, how you fix the dinner, and you kill the fatted
calf or whatevermore, and prepare for him? It's your own flesh and
blood, and he was in you. You didn't know him then, but you knew he was
there.
And so God knew that we would be here, but then He put us in flesh so
we would be contacted. In order He could contact, He become one of us,
when He become Jesus Christ the Son of God Himself, the fullness of the
manifestation of God.
10-1 Therefore, that was God's purpose to display His attributes in fellowship. When I was in my father, I knew nothing about it. But when I become his son and was born of him, I was a attribute, a part of my father. And you are a part of your father. And as children of God, we are a part of God's attributes that was in Him, made flesh like He was made flesh, so we can have fellowship one with the other, as a family of God upon the earth. And that was God's purpose at the beginning. Yes, sir. That's what God wanted at the beginning. He had everything under control, and He turned man over into the garden of Eden on free moral agency, and say, "Son, it's yours." What a beautiful place.
10-2 God was so satisfied till
He just went back and rested from all of His works. Every tree never
brought forth thorn's and thistles. No berries ever come off of a thorn
tree; everything was perfect; all seeds were perfect. Everything was in
perfect condition.
Then when He went to take a little rest, His enemy slipped in with
deceit and took it over by misinterpreting His program to His children.
When He put trust in His own child, as you put trust in your daughter
when she goes out at night with a man, when you put trust in your son
when he has to go with a drinking boy or smoking boy (See?), He put
trust in His son that he would not do anything wrong, and would keep
every Word that He said. But the enemy slipped in. Like that greasy
slicker that would take out your daughter and misbehave himself, or--or
some woman would go out with your son and the same thing. See? He
slipped in; the enemy of God slipped in and misinterpreted the Word to
Eve.
10-4 Now, he, by this fall, it has took over and possessed the garden of Eden, himself. He took it over. And now, he has had six thousand years of deceitful rule, deceiving the people (God's children) as he did then, because they were based on free moral agency to act any way they wished to, and believing that they would act right, or trusting they would act right, then they came with the wrong act, and sold their birthrights as Esau did for the world; and Satan won it, and he took it over. And he's had six thousand years to build up his Eden, as God had six thousand years to bring His Eden to a close, and by deceit (deceit of the Word or the people) now, established his own Eden in this earth in sin.
11-1 God's Eden was established
in righteousness. Satan's Eden is established in sin, because Satan is
sin. God is righteousness. And God's Kingdom was established in
righteousness, and peace, and life; and Satan's establishment is in
sin, and religious sin.
Notice how he deceived it in deception as he said he would. He promised
to do this. Did anybody know that? Let us turn to Isaiah, if you want
some of these Scriptures, if you... I ought to quote more of them, I
guess. Let's turn to Isaiah the 14th chapter just a moment and just see
what Satan said here, just a moment. In Isaiah 14 we'll read it. And
watch what this fellow done: Isaiah 14, begin with the 12th verse.
How art thou fallen
from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to
the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
For thou hast said
in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above
the stars... (That's
sons.)... stars of God: And I will set also upon the mount of
the congregations, the sides of the north:
I will ascend above
the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
11-3 Now, compare that over here
with our other Scriptures over in Thessalonians awhile ago, how he said
he sets in the temple of God, exalting himself above all that's called
God, so that he as God, is worshipped as God upon the earth.
There's the god of this world that I preached to you about last Sunday.
Here he is today in deceit. That treacherous hour, the tremendous time
that we're living, it's the most glorious time of all the ages, because
we're facing the great millennium again. We're facing the Eden again.
But right at this age (all the deceit and every tactic that he's ever
used and been able to deceive with) he's gathered it all together and
reinforced himself, and come down like God, and put hisself in place of
God, religious, and can quote the Scripture, and can tell you
Scripture, just as Satan did to Eve in the Garden of Eden. But leave
out one spot of it is all he has to do, make that gap, where the poison
doctrine of the devil can pour through, like "the thinking man's
filter" we was talking about the other night.
11-5 Now, he said he would exalt himself above the most High, he would ascend above the clouds and the stars, and he would set there like God, and be above the most High. And he has succeeded in carrying out his threats. He has certainly had a marvelous success in carrying out his threats, by the people letting him explain away in every age, the value of God's promised Word to that age. That's exactly how he's done it. In every age he explained it away.
12-1 In the days of Noah, he explained that it was impossible for it to rain from heaven, for there's no rain up there. Great scientific gospel that he preached in the garden of Eden, he could shoot the instruments to the moon, and prove there's no moisture up there. But God said there would come a rain, but Satan succeeded and poisoned the mind of the people by scientific research that it could not be done, but it was done. God said it would be done, and it was done. He did.
12-2 Now, in the days of Jesus, he did the same thing. He poisoned their minds again by deceit (See?), misinterpreting the Word. "If Thou be the Son of God, now let me see You do something about it." Jesus didn't clown for him. He never did. God's not a clown. He don't have to answer anything that Satan asks. He only has... Jesus said, "It is written, thou shalt not live... Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." See, He didn't have to clown from him. He didn't have to make bread. He could've done it, but He'd been listening to the devil, and so He didn't have to listen to the devil.
12-3 And again, it is religious
sin, as at the beginning, so deceitful. Watch it now. It's not just
purely old everyday sin, committing adultery, and getting drunk, and
using God's Name in vain. That's not it. No.
You remember years ago, many of you here, the old timers, remember that
sermon I preached on the disappointments at judgment? The harlot, she
ain't going to be disappointed there. She knows where she's going. The
drunkard ain't going to be disappointed there. The bootlegger, the
gambler, the liar, the thief, he's not going to be disappointed. But
that man who thinks he's right, there's the disappointment. That's that
fellow said he come said, "Lord, have not I preached the Gospel; have
not I cast out devils in Thy Name."
Jesus said, "Depart from you--from Me, you that work iniquity. I never
even knew you."
12-6 There's the disappointment
(See?), that deceitfulness. That's what I'm constantly; that's where
I'm so misunderstood. It's not that I want to be different. I don't
want to be different, but I've got to be honest.
I have a Message, and that must go to the people. Makes it very much
misunderstood amongst the people. They think I'm against everybody. If
they only know, I'm for everybody and trying my best to bring them
what's the Truth, just as it's laid on my heart, and the way it's laid
in the Bible here. And God proves that to be the Truth, so there's
nothing else can be done about it. So men either they look at it or
they don't.
See, they don't want to see it, because they've already sold out, sold
their birthright to some organization, some denomination, to tie their
birthrights to get to heaven upon the basis of some organized religion,
which Satan is the head of every bit of it.
13-3 God never did have an organized religion, never did. And they sell out to that. Where they--a bunch of man interpret the Word, and say it means this, and it means that. God needs no interpreter. He does His own interpreting. He doesn't need anyone else to tell Him how to do it. He's sovereign. He said how He would do it, and that's the way He must keep His Word. When He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe," He meant just that.
13-4 Whatever He said would take
place, He said it would happen in these last days that He would do
certain things, and He done it. He has to ask nobody whether it's time
or not; He knows what the time is, and what the plan is.
Now, Satan, this deceiver, as spoke of in Matthew 24:24 with so much
deceit.
Now, we find that by his gospel program of knowledge: better education,
higher ethics, civilization, and so forth, has bewitched the people
that wants to serve God into believing his lie. Eve did not want to do
that, but he showed her how it was more wisdom in it.
She didn't know. She wanted to know. She didn't understand, but she
wanted to understand. And God told her not to try to understand. How
can I understand any of these things? I cannot understand them. I
believe them. I don't have to understand them. God is faith and not
understanding. We just believe what He said.
13-7 Now, compare God's Eden to Satan's now, after six thousand years of perverting of the true interpretation of God's promised Word to the age. Let's compare it now, and see where we get it. Like He did to the church in--in Christ's time, in Jesus--trying to keep--keep back God's loyal sons from knowing the Truth. That's God's... God put His sons here, His attributes, to fellowship with Him by hearing His Word.
14-1 What if your father told
you... And you are a loyal son to your father, and he told you, "Son,
don't you go in that water out there, swimming, because there's 'gators
in that water."
And a fellow comes back and says, "Surely, such pretty water as that,
there's no 'gators in it."
Now, who are you going to listen to? If you're a genuine son, you'll
listen to your daddy. And a genuine son or daughter of God takes God's
Word first. I don't care what anybody else says about it; they take
God's Word first. There's poison in the cup, and they believe it.
Having faith in all His Word, His Seed, brought a Eden of holiness,
love, and Eternal Life.
That's what God's Eden produces: holiness, and it brought an Eden of
holiness, of love, understanding, perfection, and Eternal Life. That's
what God's planning: His Word, His Seed, that's what His Church will be
at the end. It'll be the same thing.
14-4 Notice, here's a thought. Don't forget it. I'll get to it some other time, or some other message, but you know, God said, "Let every seed bring forth of its kind." Is that God's commandment? Now, what good is any preacher or anybody else try to make that Word say something else? See? Every Word of God is a Seed (Jesus said so.), a seed a sower sowed. So if Mark 16 is God's Word, it'll bring forth if its kind. If Malachi 4 is God's Word, it'll bring forth of its kind. And every other promise must bring forth of its kind.
14-5 You see? See Satan out here
in disguisement? He's trying to say, "It's not--it's not so." Do you
understand it? See, Satan say, "Oh, that ain't for this day.
That--that--that was some other time. That--that don't even mean that."
Every seed must come forth of its kind. That's how God established His
Eden. Is that right?
And here it is. That's how God establishes His Church: every Word after
its kind. "Men shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
proceeding out of the mouth of God." See? Satan, he will take something
else, but God said, "Every seed after its kind." If the promise said,
"These signs shall follow them that believe..."
Now, the church says, "Join the church, recite the creed; know the
catechism." There's not such things in the whole Bible. But Jesus said,
"These signs shall follow them that believe. In My Name they shall cast
out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. If they take up serpents
or drink deadly things, it won't harm them. If they lay their hands on
the sick, they shall recover." Who is any man to deny that? See?
15-1 Every seed will bring forth of its kind. If you are a seed of God, an attribute, a son of God, then the Word of God is sown in you. See? And then when you hear the Word of God, "My sheep hear My voice; a stranger they won't follow."... You get it? Then every seed comes forth after its own kind.
15-2 Now, we find out that every
seed bringing forth of its kind, there was no death in the new--in that
Eden. There will be no death in the new Eden. See? There was
no--nothing else but holiness, purity, and Eternal Life.
Now, by unbelief in all of God's Word has brought the seed of
unholiness in Satan's Eden. We are now entering in where Satan is
taking the throne as the antichrist in a Eden of this earth, a Eden of
sin, perverted religion. He started, not upon: "I am Satan. I am the
great angel." No, not upon that, but upon perverting God's Word. And
that's how he's brought his kingdom in every age. And now in this great
deceitful age, ready to take his throne by his people. He's built
himself an intellectual, educated, scientific Eden. Right. Scientific
preachers, scientific church, scientific theology--everything is
scientific. Everything's on basis of knowledge. The whole church is
built upon knowledge. It ain't built upon faith.
15-4 One time I went in to hold
a meeting to a man's church. It was a great auditorium in the west. A
fine man, and he denied these things that we're talking about. Yet he
was a... I liked him, fine man, an old man. When his congregation went
out... It seated about six thousand people. When his congregation went
out in the afternoon service (about fifteen hundred), they were all
fine dressed intellectuals I set there and watched them. He preached a
very good sermon, the man did. And then he asked if anybody wanted to
accept Christ, just to raise up their hand. And no one raised up their
hand. Till finally a woman raised up her hand.
He said, "All right, now you're a Christian," and made her for baptism.
And then he went out, he dedicated a baby (kissed a little baby), and
made a prayer over it, and dismissed the audience.
16-1 When his congregation went out, all fine, scholarly, educated people, then I was standing on the side to shake the man's hand, and wish him God's speed, as he went out. And when I did, here come my crowd in. They couldn't let them in while his crowd was there. Here come mine in wheelchairs, stretchers, straitjackets, insane, and everything else. See the difference? That's it. That's the thing I'm talking about. See, see? It's something different.
16-2 When by scientific
knowledge, you can make a understanding gospel of... "You--He that
believeth on Jesus Christ shall not be condemned (See?), but these
signs shall follow them that believe." See, he fails to put that in
there. See? She believed on Jesus Christ. She's saved, if these signs
follow the believer. "And he that heareth My Word," not just make
something, not hear It with his ears, but understand it... Anybody can
hear it.
A prostitute can hear It and remain a prostitute. See? A drunkard can
hear It. A liar can hear It, and still remain a liar, but, "He that
understandeth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me has
Everlasting Life." There you are. See? And no man can do that except
God foreordained him.
Jesus said, "No man can come to Me, except my Father draws him, and all
the Father's given to Me will come to Me." Amen. It's all the
sovereignty and foreknowledge of God. He lives alone, and there's
nobody tells Him what to do.
16-5 Now, by unbelief and no
taking all the Word of God, has brought a seed of unbelief, unholy,
sinful, hatred, and eternal death is in this sinful intellectual church
age. Now, you got it? In this day that when the whole world is
religious... Did you know that? The whole world is religious. And in
this religious age, big churches on every corner, every thing... The
whole thing winds up in Satan being worshipped. Here it is right here
in the Bible. That's right.
And in this intellectual, theological seminary that's brought out an
intellectual person that's been trained how to speak, what to do, how
to make their emotion, and everything like psychology, three and four
years to know how to deal with a man's mind... See, it's... The Spirit
of God is not something that you--is schooled into you. It's something
that's predestinated into you by the hand of Almighty God. Your
experiences cannot be schooled or taught into you; it's predestinated
by God's hand and God's foreknowledge into you. That's right.
17-1 Now, he brought forth this
great Eden that they now live in--a church world's Eden. They're all
uniting together now at the great Ecumenical Council, and going to have
the world church, all coming under one head where Satan will be
throned, just exactly.
And the last call's going out to catch the Bride before She gets into
that. For once in that, she's took the mark of the beast, and doomed.
She'll never come out of it. That's the reason it said, "Come out from
among them, My people, before it goes into him. See? Come out from
among them, and be ye separated."
17-3 Now, hatred, and death, and
eternal separation from God in this Eden, lust, filth, perversion. How?
By sowing the wrong seed.
Reminds me of the vision I seen before I ever met the Pentecostal
people, of that man going around the world in white. You've heard me
tell it many times. One came in behind him sowing seeds of discord, but
he won it fairly in Eve in the garden of Eden by the lust of Eve for
sin--the lust for Eve of sin.
Then if Eve lusted for knowledge, it was sin. And when we lust for
knowledge (want a Ph.D., LL.D.) it's sin to do so. That's a strong
statements, but that's the Truth. No matter how strong it is, it's
still the Truth. See? To lust for knowledge, understanding...
The thing of it is, is today we don't try to establish the Word of God
in the people's hearts. We're trying to establish ourselves. Churches
are trying to establish the doctrine of the church in a person's heart.
We are commanded to establish the Word of God. Paul said, "I didn't
come to you with enticing words of man that your faith might rest up in
the knowledge of men, but I come to you in power, in manifestations of
the Holy Ghost that your faith might rest in God.
17-6 There you are. Man mustn't establish theirself. We find it amongst... Let God do something for a person, send him out, you find every man trying to impersonate it. See, they're trying to establish themselves. Every man, "I did this, me, I, mine, my denomination, me this," establish themselves. What are we preaching about, ourselves, or the Kingdom of God? Establish the Word of God. Take out the unbelief and establish the Kingdom of God in a man's heart. And the Kingdom of God cannot be established in a man's heart, 'less God made that man thus. He cannot be established in a... And remember, the deceitful part, that men think that it's right. See? "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man." Every intellectual being seems right.
18-1 As I told you a few Sundays
ago; when I stood by my dying baby, and Satan standing there and said,
"There's your daddy, died in your arms the other night. There's your
wife laying down there in the--in the morgue; and here's your baby
going, and you ask Him to answer you, and He pulled your--He pulled the
shade down over you. Now, and yet He's a good God, and yet you said He
was a Healer. And you, who are standing for what you said was right,
you're wrong."
Oh, every reason, every mental faculty had to agree that it was right,
and he was right, that much.
So was he right when he told Eve, "Your eyes will be opened, and you
will know right from wrong, and you will be as gods that way," (knowing
right from wrong), because God didn't let them see themselves yet, that
they were naked. So they knowed they would know right from wrong. And
he was right. But, you see, it was contrary to the Word of God.
18-4 And so does ministers in
seminaries learning manmade theology. It may seem right; it may be a
good understanding of the thing, but it's wrong. We don't have to
understand it. We believe it, because God said it's so, and that
settles it forever. See, the whole things... Way to believe it...
Oh, how Eve lusted to have a Ph.D., and how she lusted to be smarter
than what she was.
18-5 Notice, how much alike man
and his wife... Now notice, man and wife, both naked in the garden of
Eden, God's Eden... Now, I'm going to close; I said I'm going to hold
just a few minutes. Look. Watch, watch now, in closing.
Compare this now. How much alike that man and his wife, both in God's
Eden, without one stitch of clothes on them, and knew it not... For why
didn't they know it? For they were veiled to their senses of nakedness
by the holy Veil of the Holy Spirit. They could look right at each
other, and they didn't know that they were naked. They were veiled with
the Holy Spirit of holiness. They were veiled.
18-6 God's veil, yet today, can
look and not lust. They turn their head. It's a holy Veil (See?), holy
Veil. God had their eyes. They were both... One was man and the other
was woman, and they did not know they were naked, because the holiness
of God kept their eyes veiled. Notice, God hid their conscience from
sin by the holy Veil. Wish we had some time to lay on that a few
minutes.
Looky here, "For he, the worshipper once purged... (Hebrews) the
worshipper once purged has no more conscience of sin. Sin is passed
from Him.
19-2 I heard Brother Neville say this morning, someone might've been asking him, "Why didn't I preach on the Holy Ghost? Why didn't I do this?" Here it is. The Holy Ghost is the action in you. It's a Life, not an emotion; not some sort of a fleshly evidence. But it is a Person, Jesus Christ, the Word of God established in your heart to quicken every word of this age. Right. Watch the Holy Ghost in action, not so much in demonstration, but in action, what it does according to the Word.
19-3 Notice, now, the Holy
Spirit of God's holy Word had a man and woman naked, and didn't know
it. How beautiful--life of the Word, the Seed, the Word... God said,
"There is a tree in the midst of the garden the woman. And in the midst
of the garden is this tree. Don't even touch it, for the day you eat
thereof, that day you die." They were holy veiled from it--didn't know
nothing about it, daresn't to touch it.
They were holily veiled. They were safe in God's pavilion. They were
alive. They had no death around them. Hallelujah. They had perfect love
one for the other, perfect Life forever. They had perfect love, perfect
understanding of the love of God. They had God's Word and kept It. And
they were alive and safe in God's Eden with no death at all around.
19-5 Then, Satan got Eve to listen to his gospel of theology, the gospel of knowledge, higher schooling, higher ethics, better civilization, higher education, and so forth, Then when he got the--her to stop and listen to him a minute (to his reasoning, which we are commanded to cast down) when he got her to listen to it... "Now, looky here. The church is so and so. It's been established for so long, that we're one of the oldest churches in the country. The mayor of the city goes..." No, I don't care what it is. See? If it's against God's Word, be against it. That's your enemy. Anything that's against the Word is your enemy. Everything that's for the Word is your brother. He's a part of you.
19-6 Notice, she pulled off the
holy Veil to see what sex really was (Compare that.), what lust really
would do. She pulled the veil from off her eyes. The holy thing that
God had put over her eyes, she wanted knowledge to know what it was all
about. So she pulled the veil off to see what it was all about. She
listened to the devil, and notice what a place it put her in.
They have done the same in each age thereafter: always taking the
intellectual side, and has now built a kingdom of Satan knowledge (his
seed that he had sowed) and has took the world to be an Eden of death.
20-2 Now, notice. Now, look at Revelations 3, the Laodicean Church Age. You think it in your mind. Now, notice. She, Eve, is Satan's queen. See, Satan, the serpent got to Eve before Adam got to her. See? That's right. So he beguiled her, (see?) so Satan, the serpent was the husband of Eve before Adam ever knew. See? He beguiled her. The Bible said he did, and she knowed she was naked then. See?
20-3 Now, look at the--at the Laodicean Church Age. She, Eve, is setting as Satan's queen. She's rich in worldly goods, blind, naked again, and don't know it just like it was in God's Eden. But now, not because the holy Veil is over her face, but the lust veil, that she took off God's holy Veil, and put on a veil of knowledge for lust. And now she has a lust veil that she's blind to it being sin. She's naked on the street and don't know it. She's a prostitute on the street. Women with these shorts on in God's sight is a prostitute and don't know it.
20-4 Notice, take our women. Now, if you want to see what condition the church is in, watch the way women are acting. She always represents the church. In Satan's Eden of sin and unbelief, a religious perversion, perverted kingdom... Instead of taking God's Word, they have took the intellectual learning of man. Instead of taking the Church, they took the organization, and they're bringing it to one great head.
20-5 Now notice, perverted from
innocence... Don't miss this now. The church has been with this lust
veil on. Notice what it's done to her. It--it's perverted her from
innocence to knowledge. (See?) The holy Veil, she was innocent; with
the lust veil, she's knowledge. She knows it's pleasant. She knows what
it does. See? The fruit, a tree to be desired, making one wise, she is
perverted from innocence to knowledge, from holiness to filth and lust,
and from Life to death.
This kingdom has to die. This kingdom shall die. The God of heaven will
destroy it from the face of the earth.
21-1 Notice in this perversion, it's become from a man to a woman and from a woman to a man, and don't know it: a very good product of Satan's Eden if you'll watch the streets today, at our modern people.
21-2 Notice, it was Eve that Satan used to make Adam sin by her power of lust. Now, the same, doing the same thing today... Notice, bobbed hair, painted faces, sexually dressed (See?), she does that, and don't know that every one of those things is contrary to the Word of God. To cut her hair makes her a dishonorable woman, a prostitute. To wear shorts puts her disgracefully. Put sexy dresses on her makes her a prostitute, and she don't know it, not because of the holiness of God; because the lust of Satan.
21-3 She caused her A--she
causes her Adam to lust for her. She took off the clothes that God
dressed her in back in Eden for her journey through the--this
wilderness; she took them off. She stripped herself down, when God had
her wrapped all over in skins; she's begin to shave a little off each
time. Now, she's back to where she was at the beginning. Now, she's got
her Adam to wearing her underneath clothes.
A man, put on them little old sissy looking shorts, and get out here.
He... I don't think there is much man to him. He is the biggest sissy I
know of. See, she's got her perverted Adam to act like she (See?),
wearing her underneath clothes. She seen what she could do out yonder
when she took off all her clothes, but her underneath ones; that's the
shorts, of course that's a woman's underneath clothes.
21-5 And here her Adam is
wearing them now, which according to God's original Word is an
abomination for a woman to put on a garment that pertains to a man, and
a man put on a garment pertains to a woman: from the original Word.
Think of it.
Now he now wears her bangs also. He combs them down, puts a curler in
them. Some of the most sickly sights I've ever seen in my life is some
of those kids out here today with their bangs combed down like this,
and colored bleached hair with some kind of peroxide something and
bleach in it, and roll it in curlers making bangs. You big sissy.
That's a horrible thing to say from a pulpit, but judgment begins at
the house of God. You don't even know whether you're a man or woman.
And I understand that our United States Army is coming out next in
shorts. That's right. See what the perversion is? It is a woman's
clothes, wears her bangs.
22-1 The other day I was over at
Howard Johnson's, not this one here, but one on the road going out, and
I just set back in amazement. Here come a little boy along, his mouth
open. And he had dark hair here, and had combed it over this away, and
put a roller in it, and curled it up around the top of his eyes;
looking out of the top of his eyes, going around... If I ever seen a
perversion...
See, he wouldn't believe it. He could prove maybe he was male, but in
his spirit he's female. He don't know what side of the house he belongs
on. That's right. How perverted. That's what Satan does. He perverts
the nations. He perverts the church. He perverts the people. He is a
deceiver, a perverter of the original Truth. God made a man a man. He
made a woman a woman, and He dressed them different, and He meant for
them to stay that way and to act that way. One is feminish, and the
other one is masculine. He separated Adam in the garden of Eden and did
this, separated Eve from him.
22-3 Now, wears her bangs, she
cuts her hair like his, and he tries to wear his like hers. She wears
his outside clothes, and he wears her inside clothes. Now, that sounds
sacrilegious, but I don't mean it that way. It's the absolute Gospel
truth. If you don't know it, then there's something wrong with you.
You're either blind or never been on the streets. And she thinks and he
thinks that it's right. They're getting along somewhere.
Women says, "Well, it's so hot." Them old Apache Indians out yonder
would make you ashamed of yourself. The more heat they get, the more
clothes they put on, keep the sun off of them. Oh, make you sweat so
you can have an air-conditioner as they walk. See? They stand right out
in the sun. You couldn't stand nothing, you'd blister and burn. But,
you see, it's what they call higher education. Modern science has
produced this.
22-5 Oh, my, there she is naked
in Laodicea and don't know it. She was naked in Eden. See the two
kingdoms alike? One is of sin and death. The other one is Life and
righteousness. In there she was veiled with a holy Veil. They were both
naked. They didn't know it. They didn't know nothing about it, because
they was veiled with God's Spirit.
And here they're veiled with lust, and they look at one another to...
See, Adam could look at Eve and didn't know she was naked. But now with
this lust veil, she doesn't realize she's naked, but she does it under
this lust veil to make men look at her. It's the only thing she can do
it for. You don't believe that, but you do it anyhow. And men look. And
he found out you got so much attraction, till he come around and put
some of your clothes on himself.
23-1 Oh, what a perversion, what
a age, what a time we're... How deceitful it is. Oh, all these things
and don't know it, a perfect perverted spirit is in the man. He's
veiled from the lust of Satan, and the woman is too. It is the satanic
spirit of a great society. See?
They don't know, but they're an organizations. Women with shorts on
belongs to a organization. Men dressed like that is on a organization.
I'll give you the abbreviation of it: BSS., Big Sisters' Society. So
that's what they belong to. Come out there with a big sissy society
with them little old pants on, big old knotty-looking, dirty-looking
thing.
23-3 Men, now, you may differ me with this, but that's the truth. You have been perverted and don't know it. You're not--don't act like a man no more. Coming so soft and they soon be nothing to them anymore, men and women, too. They are a society. There's an organization. Why? "John next door wore shorts, so why can't I? Luella wanted me to wear them, because John wore them next door. And well, if--if Susie Jane can wear them, so can Martha Jane wear them, or Susie Lou," or ever who her name is. See? See, it's a society. It's an organization. You spiritually belong to it and don't know it.
23-4 And if that's so, and we
see it's so, so are you blinded. You're blinded to these denominations
that Satan has twisted you into. And It's a perversion of God's
original Word, and His Kingdom, and His plan for His children. Satan
has twisted men and women into these things, and they don't know it: a
perverted. No longer a son of God, bangs hanging down in his face and a
pair of shorts on tromping down the street, a son of God, deacon in a
church, a pastor in a pulpit? No. That ain't a son of God.
He never come through God's thinking filter, and he wouldn't have them
women's clothes on. He sure wouldn't; neither would she have the man's
clothes on. See? It's not a son of God; it's a son of Satan and a
daughter of Satan (hard thing to say). Satan has succeeded in
perverting and taking over this world, and making it his kingdom that
men was put on by free moral agency to choose for themselves what kind
of life they desired. That shows what's in your heart. See?
24-1 Your voice... You know
what? Your actions speak so loud, it drowns your voice. Uh-huh. Let me
go to a man, say, "Oh, I... We're all Christians. We belong to church,"
and strip teases hanging all over his office? It wouldn't make no
difference what he's told me; I know better; so would you.
Let a women say she is a Christian with short hair? You know better
than that. See? Yes, sir. Let her say she's a Christian wearing paint,
and makeup, and shorts, and say she's a Christian? You know better than
that. The Word of God teaches you better than that. The Word says she
can't do it and be a Christian. She is even dishonorable and
everything. How's God going to put a dishonorable thing in His Kingdom?
No, sir, not at all. No, sir. Theirselves--it shows their desire.
24-3 You can't get a dove to eat with a buzzard, not at all. A dove don't have any gall. He can't eat that old carrion. If he took a bite of it, it would kill him, and he knows it; but a buzzard can eat most anything he wants to. See? He's got plenty of gall. So then you find out, that's the way it is with the world today, same thing. They're naked, blind, and don't know it. Satan did it by the woman's lust for knowledge, for sex, which she chose by her own choosing.
24-4 Now notice, it was Eve that
led Adam to the wrong, and it was the woman that took off her clothes
before her Adam took off his. See? It's a woman, always. It's always
been. It still is the same way.
It's the church that leads the man astray. It's the church (See?), that
leads the men that wants to be a son of God; it's a woman, the church.
Not the Bible, God, for the Bible is Man. Oh, yeah, the Word was made
flesh, and He was a Man. See? The Bible is Man; the church is woman.
See? It isn't the church--the Bible that leads the man astray. It's the
church that leads him astray. It's the church he went naked with, not
the Bible. See? No indeed. The Bible tells him he's naked. Yes, sir.
Now, notice how by sex (desire of sex), she lusted for knowledge to
know what was this, and how whether this fruit was good or not, and she
did it.
24-7 God will take it back someday though by a man. It was surrendered by a woman, but it was redeemed by a Man, the Man Jesus Christ, which is the Word. And then what is it?... (Notice in closing.) Here not long ago I made this statement. I got about four or five more pages in there, but I... of Scriptures and things I wanted to refer to, but listen. Let's close in saying this.
25-1 Remember here not long ago, I was teaching you on the Seven Trumpets, the Feast of Trumpets and so forth? And I said, "There is an eighth day festival." So the seventh day would be the last; that would be the millennium. But there is an eighth day festival, which if it was the eighth, and there's only seven days, would make it the first day again--come right back to the first day. Then after the millennium is over, then there will be an established Eden again. God's great Kingdom will be taken back, because Jesus fought it out with Satan in the Garden of Gethsemane, and won back the Eden, which He's gone to prepare in heaven to return again.
25-2 Up in heaven, He said, "Let
not your hearts be troubled." When He was here on earth. He said,
"You--you Jews, you believed in God. Now, I know I got a bad name," He
said. "and they say I'm this, that, and the other. But you believed in
God, and as you believed in God, believe also in Me."
He was God manifested. See? Believe also... "In My Father's house are
many... or in My Father's economy, in My Father's plans is many
palaces. I'll go to prepare a place." Look how long it is fifteen
hundred square miles. "Say, where's it at?" He's gone to prepare it.
He's Creator. He creates all that gold. The streets are transparent.
He's Creator. He's making a place.
25-4 Over in Revelation 21, he
said, "And I, John, saw the holy City, the New Jerusalem, descending
from God out of heaven." There was no more sea. The first heaven and
first earth was passed away.
What was the first heaven? It was the millennium. What's the first
earth? Was this. It'll be renovated, just like it was baptized by Noah
in the days of his preaching; was sanctified by Christ as He sprinkled
His Blood upon it, and be renovated (take all the germs and everything
off of it) in the renovation at the end with a fire baptism that'll
kill every germ, every sickness, every disease, every filth that was
ever on the earth. She'll burst forth, and come forth a new earth. "And
I saw a new heaven and a new earth. First heaven and first earth was
passed away, and there was no more sea. And I, John, saw the holy city,
the New Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven."
25-6 There God will be with His true attribute sons and daughters, where He can fellowship with them in holiness with their eyes blinded to any sin. There'll never be no more sin from there on. Let us strive hard. Don't be deceived in this day, but strive to enter in at the gate; for all that'll be left out, will be whoremongers, lusters. "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already." All with--outside will be ill-fame women, ill-fame men, and so forth, and only those that are redeemed, and in the Lamb's Book of Life will enter in at the gate. So strive, friends; don't be deceived in this last day.
26-1 This is a great time.
Everybody's got money. Everybody can do this, and everybody can do
that. There's money flowing every way and big cars and everything;
there won't be one of them in that city. There won't be one car, one
airplane. No, it'll be a altogether different civilization. It'll be
again a civilization, not of knowledge, not of science, but of
innocence, and faith in the living God.
Let us strive to enter into that, for that's my whole purpose, is to
enter into that City someday. And just look back, coming along with me,
see everyone of you marching, when we sing, "The saints go marching in.
I want to be in that number, when the saints go marching in." Let us
pray.
26-3 Dear heavenly Father, as
the days are closing, and we see it drawing nigh, the promise is
drawing nigh, we pray, dear God, that You'll place that upon our
hearts, so we won't make any mistakes.
Dear God, keep our conscience pure. Keep our hearts veiled, Lord, our
eyes veiled from the things of the world, and vain things of the world,
vain glory to become some big somebody. No matter how big they are, all
kings, monarchs, potentates, and everything else has to perish, and
they will not rise in the sec--in the first resurrection; for it's
written, "Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first
resurrection on which the second death has no power." O God, the second
death, the spiritual death, has no power. He's redeemed.
26-5 O God, to think that one of
these hours, one will be going to visit the other and be caught up.
"Two in the bed, I'll take one, and leave one. Two in the field, I'll
take one and leave one."
O God, help us to be pure in--in the sight of You, Lord, no matter what
man thinks about us, what other peoples say. Lord, let our holy--our
conversations be holy. Let it be seasoned with God's Word, that's so
seasonable, Lord, that there's no guile found in us, while we plead in
our all mistakes that the Blood of Jesus Christ will stand between us
and God. That He will look down upon us through the Blood of Jesus. Not
upon our own righteousness, or who we are, what we've done, but upon
His merits alone. God, grant it.
27-1 May not one who set here
tonight and heard the message, may not one of them be lost from the
least child to the oldest person. May their holy desire be only for God
and His Word. We know not what hour He may appear, or what hour He may
summons us to answer up yonder at the judgment. We don't know what hour
He may, as it was, take our card from the rack, say, "It's homecoming
time. You've got to go." God help us to keep pure. Grant it, Lord.
May we live till the coming of the Lord if it be possible. May we do
everything that's in our power with love, and
understanding--understanding that God is searching the world today,
finding every lost sheep. May we talk to them with seasoned prayer of
love and the Word of God, that we might find that last one so we can go
home, and get out of this old Eden of Satan here, Lord, that's all
built upon lust, and beautiful women as so-called in the world with
their advertisements on there: "We advertise, and want boys to come
with jam on their faces, and pretty girls with shorts on."
27-3 Right on our radios and
televisions, and all kind of filth and gaum, and Hollywood; all kinds
of sexy, dirty, filthy dresses for women. And--and men being perverted
and taking women's apparel, and cutting their hair like women, and
women like man. O God, what a horrible hour we're living in.
Oh, come, Lord Jesus, come. Come, Lord, cleanse us by the Blood. Take
all filth and guile away from us. Let us live, Lord. Let us live under
the Blood constantly before You. It's our heart's desire, and our
sincere plea.
27-5 Dear God, laying on this
plat--or those desk tonight, where the Gospel has been laid, Lord, here
lays handkerchiefs and little parcels that going to the sick and
afflicted. Let the prayer of faith, Lord, fall from our hearts now in
Your sight. Then, Lord, if there be any unclean thing in us, Lord, take
our--take us to judgment now; and we plead for mercy.
Reveal to us what we're doing wrong, Lord, so we can ask and take the
Blood and cleanse us. Heal these sick people and make them well,
Father. Whatever it is going to; wherever they go. Let it be so, Father.
28-1 Give us the determination to serve You, and You only. Grant it, Lord. Grant safety to these dear people that's on the road home. Thank you for how You've healed the people, and Sister Shepherd, and Brother Shepherd's little boy hurt on the bicycle. I pray that no evil will come to that. The little fellow riding his bicycle, I pray that he will be all right. We thank You for Your healing of these others that we've asked for. And we know that what we ask, we receive, because we have confidence in the One that made the promise. Give us of Thy grace, Lord, and forgive us of our sins, we ask in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
28-2 Do you love Him? Do you
believe Him? Are you sick and tired of Satan's kingdom? Do you believe
it's coming to the millennium--unto His millennium, His, to His Eden?
You believe it's being formed today? Look, everything is based upon
intellectuals. All--everything has to be scientifically proved before
they'll believe it, and you cannot scientifically prove God. You have
to accept Him by faith, "for he that cometh to God must believe that He
is, and a Rewarder of those that diligently seek Him."
Oh, God, I don't want to know nothing, but the Blood of Jesus Christ
that cleanses me from sin. I know nothing but Jesus Christ. And as Paul
said of old, so say I tonight, "I know nothing among you only save
Jesus Christ and Him crucified."
28-4 That's all I know to tell you, that this Bible I believe with all my heart, if I know my heart, to be the perfect unadulterated Word of God. By this I live. By this I stand. And if I had ten thousand lives, I'd like to give every bit of it for this Word, for it's the Word of Jesus Christ. And I don't care how much they can try to disprove It, how much science tries to say It--It isn't trustworthy, and so forth, to me It's the only thing in the world I can trust is this Word. See? He is mine. I love Him, don't you?
28-5 If there's a sin in your
heart; if there's a fault in your heart; if you've got anything, pray
now, and ask God to forgive you. You pray for me; I will pray for you.
God bless you is my prayer.
Till
we meet, till we meet,
God be
with you till we meet again.
Do you love one another? John said, "Little children, love one
another." Love one another, for love covers a multitude of sin. Now,
let's shake one another's hand.
God be
with you till we meet again.
Till
we meet, till we meet, (Now,
be kind to one another, be kind to everybody. Treat your neighbor
right. Keep yourself unspotted till Jesus comes.)... feet,
Till
we meet, till we meet,
God be
with you till we meet again.
29-2 You love Him? That's my
prayer. You pray for me; I'll pray for you. I've got to go back to
Tucson now. And I--I pray that God will bless you all. I'm going from
there to Canada, and back to Colorado, and around, and around, and
around. See? Until... Brother Tony is over there, and a great thing is
happened. Right under the Vatican in Rome, they're calling for a
revival meeting, me come there and hold a revival in Rome, in Rome. He
just returned back. The people's all together. They got a great arena
there, seats thousands of thousands, and they want me to come for a
revival. They want to see the glory of the Lord in the ministry. I
don't know. I'll have to pray over it, and see what the Lord will tell
me. Oh, my. Remember, pray, all of us together... We're working...
We're
watching for the coming,
Of our
blessed Saviour,
Lo,
and behold the fig leaves
Now
becoming green,
The
Gospel of His kingdom,
Has
gone to every nation,
And
were near, the end can be seen. (Is
that right?)
And
gladly may we'll herald the message,
Of His
blessed appearing.
Soon
He's coming in Glory, to tell the one and all.
Then
awake you saints of the Lord,
Why
slumber when the end is nearing,
Let's
get ready for that final call.
29-3 She'll turn at the west and
ride back again one of these days. Just remember. She sure will. And
that's right. Until then...
Take
the name of Jesus with you,
Child
of sorrow and of woe;
It
will joy and comfort give you,
Take
it, everywhere you go.
Precious
name, O how sweet!
Hope
of earth and joy of Heaven;
Precious
name, O how sweet!
Hope
of earth and joy of Heaven;
At the
name of Jesus bowing,
Falling
prostrate at His feet,
King
of kings in Heaven we'll crown Him,
When
our journey is complete.
Precious
name, O how sweet!
Hope
of earth and joy of Heaven;
Precious
name, O how sweet!
Hope
of earth and joy of Heaven.
30-1 Now, on this last verse,
let's sing it with bowed hearts now: Take the Name of Jesus with you as
a shield from every snare. And when temptations around you gather,
these things of Satan's kingdom (See, see?) just breathe that Holy Name
in prayer, that's all; then walk away. It works. I've tried it. Just
believe it, now, 'cause it will work, just breathe His Holy Name in
prayer.
...
the name of Jesus with you,
As a
shield from ev'ry snare;
When
temptations 'round you gather, (What
do you do then?)
Just
breathe that holy name in prayer. (The
veil will come over your face then.)
Precious
name (Precious
name), O how sweet!
Hope
of earth and joy of Heaven;
Precious
name, O how sweet!
Hope
of earth and joy of Heaven.
Let us bow our heads now, while I ask Brother Beeler back there to come
here to the platform. [Brother
Branham begins humming--Ed.]
Just
breathe His holy name in prayer (You
dismiss them, Brother Beeler. You dismiss them in prayer.)
... (Precious name)...
Hope
of earth and joy of Heaven;
Precious
name (Precious
name), O how sweet!
Hope
of earth and joy of Heaven.
30-3 Now, with our heads bowed and our hearts bowed, Brother Beeler, one of our associates here, Brother Estle Beeler, fine Christian brother, loyal man, I'm going to ask him if he will dismiss the audience tonight in prayer. God bless you, Brother Beeler.