Perversion of New Testament Word

Perversion of New Testament Word

'That Which is Beyond the Acme'

Bro. Lee Vayle - March 19, 1969

1. I trust we're happy to be in the house of the Lord tonight. And I was just sitting here thinking, going back in my mind, oh it's a long, long time now, (you know) don't think you'll see fifty, and then pretty soon you wonder where it went. Know anything you don't know where it went. The only thing you don't know where it went is a fact that accumulate as you age, you know, then you got to take it off. It's kind of a bad existence we have looking a long way back. Now, it seems a long, long time, I guess about thirty years. We used to be highly critical of the people who just wanted to know the Word. We said, "Now we see they're dead." Just dead word.

I think the Baptist's are one of our prime targets a way, way back in those days. Very critical of them, and we always liked our sensations. We go to church and we didn't really too much care about the Word well. Oh, we were glad It was there, you know, sort of take a nail of the keg once in a while. We could hang hat on it, and if that nail didn't work we'd pull another nail out and wham that in the wall. They're putting, they're sending gold nails out now to hang your hat on if you send them spend the money. We didn’t that when I was a kid. But that we missed a trick there somewhere, because it's a thing that brought this forth. I mean, [Bro. Vayle laughs] it had to come from somewhere. There are things that don't just come into being, that's silly.

2. That's like these people who believe in evolution instead of God. Just came. Well now, these gold nails that you hang your promises on and send money for. And noted pocket books, now that just didn't come. That came from the same place we came from, it's a perverted part of it we're into this. But we used to like a....oh, I guess it was like the people today, they say, "We had a great time, the preacher never even preached, we had such a good time."

And think of the night in these sense, (you know) how we used to come together and we liked the sensation, you know. And (you know) this kind of meeting would not obtain at all from our background. I don't know, I think most of us come from sort of an emotional background, which is alright if it (you know) the right kind of emotion. You know, well you just kind of recognize that's all there is to it.

3. Now today, we can come together and we get our satisfaction out of the Word, and It's apart from sensation. It's apart from visual observation is founded in the ward. We're learning what it is, to be like Abraham. When the older he got, the more convinced he was that he was father of multitudes. That's actually presages senility, not stupidity, but insanity (you know) to the world.

They say, "That's Abraham, he's bad enough when he was Abram, was nothing then. But now he's going around saying he's Abraham he's worse shape than ever now. That's carrying things too far. (See?) But Abraham stood in the Word. So, it's nice to stand on the Word, and to come together for the Word.

4. Now, I don't believe in unanointed preaching. I don't know when to preach, that, would be kind of ridiculous. You know, anybody can take the Book and murder It. You know, the either add to It, or take from It. If you take from It, you take away the Life, if you add to It, you smother the Life. You got to stay with It. (See?) That's how it is.

Like you take away one of the little valves out of your heart, you just get blue in the face. You've taken away your life. You add fat to your heart you smother it. You can't add, this is our life. You can't add to it, you can't take away from it. You’ve got to have the Word the way the Word is, is not say, "Well, bless God, my parents taught me to believe in this Book cover to cover." And I'm like the little old lady even believe the covers.

Now, you say, "Oh, tell me what that Word is?" Do any good to give them a creed, or a dogma, or some book that your grand pappy, your church authorities nailed down for you? Supposing they say wrong? (See?) Supposing they don’t say what God said, where does that put you? (See?)

5. Now, I hope you caught something there. This will help you to understand why there's a Word and a Message for every Age. This whole Book is not for this Age. (See?) "You say, "I believe in the whole Book." So, what? I can go one better, the devil doesn't know what he's believing in, he knows a whole lot more than most folk, and he's in hot water. Doesn’t do him a bit of good. He does a revealed Word for each day. See, the Bible says, "When the Word of God is fulfilled It passes away." It says, "Not on jot or one tittle will pass away till It be fulfilled." [Matthew 5:18] When It's fulfilled it's finished.

Bro. Branham said, "When the Word's been fulfilled it rots." Right? Sure, might as well, that's a good strong. I like that better than my statement. That's a good strong, I like strong things. And that's a good strong statement. (See?) It's over, you never revive Isaiah 53: that's finished. If you try to bring that back, never work. As I was talking to Bro. Thompson the other day, I got sold immediately against what the preachers preach and teachers taught, that Ezekiel was the Millennium. How in the name of common sense can you have the blood of bulls and goats sacrificed for sins when Jesus paid it all?

6. Right away you know that it doesn't go in that direction. (See?) Bro. Branham always said, "Now, look watch where it's going."Now, if it ends up over here, it's over here, you know you made a mistake. Come on right back now and start over." You see, every Age has got a Message.

It's in, Titus 1:3

(3) But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Savior;

A literal translation: "But his own private strategic season, He made known His Word in a proclamation." And that's exactly what Bro. Branham taught in [The Token 64-02-08] on page 18. It's what he was teaching us. It was so hard to get it's a Message in each Age. (See?)

Now, remember what Jesus did on the road to Emmaus, He began at Moses and all the prophets concerning that which concerned Him at that time He opened the whole Book. Now, we're getting from Genesis to Revelation that which concerned us at this time. Remember how neatly the Lord turned Bro. Branham's revelation down, (or revelation of) when Bro. Branham wanted to preach in the Seven Trumpets? The Lord said, "No, you can't do it." The Bride would have been gone when this comes into being. You don't need it, instead he preached 'The Feast of the Trumpets' [64-07-19] which was relevant. Right? So, there's a Message for every Age. And we're glad we have that Message.

7. Now, before I get into a little message on something to hear if I ever get to it, I want to if you don't mind, (if you don’t feel too bad) about me talking a little bit more about spiritual perversion. Because many times something is said which is not thoroughly clarified. And I want go into that a little bit. Remember it was Eve that opened the door to the problem in the beginning. Now, you recall that she was not a part of the original creation. Right? Well, she was a part of the original, original when she was with, in Adam as the feminine spirit. (See?) But he wasn't part of that physical manifested creation. And then later on God separated the...put Adam into a body making him sensate so he could till the soil and be a sensate being. And then later on He separated then, the feminine part from Adam, taking out the female spirit by means of a rib and multiplying those cells. In other words, Eve was nothing but a part of Adam and in multiplied cells.

And it was this woman who was able because of her not being a part of the original, she was open to being perverted. (See?) And she took the perverted word, and when she took the perverted word, that put her in a place where she could not stand. (See?) She had to fall.

Now, we brought up the question how was it that the early church fell under the perverted word away from that Word which Paul so roundly brought to the people's attention? By saying, "If any man thinks he's a prophet or spiritual, let him admit that what I say is the commandment of God." [1 Corinthians 14:37] He stood up and he said, "Count yourselves and count yourselves fast." He said, "I'm the only one that has that Word, and brought to you that Word. And I stand, and if I change one word let me be accursed." Just like angel from God said, "Let it be accursed, if he changes one word." (See?) Now, what is this come in? All right, it has to come in to the very same way it originally came in. (See?) Which is by something not in the original. You follow me? Okay!

9. We go to the Book of Ephesians 4:8, 11-13

(8) Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

Now, what were those gifts? Verse 11

(11) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; some, evangelists; some, pastors and teachers;

Now, this is what He gave. He gave to the Bride, to the Church for their perfecting.

(12) For the perfecting of the saints, ...

He gave men, He gave men ordained, elected men. and these men had their authority vested in them due to an office which enabled them (see?) to carry out this function. And the function was:

(12) ...the perfecting of the saints, the work of the ministry, the edifying of the body of Christ: (That's building it up.)

(13) Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Now, Bro. Branham preached on that from Peter of course, the stature of a perfect man.

10. Now, you notice that Paul said here that God gave men, vested men, officed men, titled men, who were to be used in this regard. And of course, these men would have their authority in the Word of God, because It says in the Book of Hebrews 13:7

(7) Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: ...

Notice, they ruled. Many people don’t like that. "I'm not having any man rule over me." Okay you anarchist, you Laodicean, was nice having met you. Nice having met you, I hope you make out there, as you think you've made out here. But, I've got news for you, you're not going to make it. (See?) Not because I say so. Not because I say so, the Word says so. When Peter was called before the Lord, He said, "Lovest thou me more than these?" [Jn 21:15] He didn’t say as the Catholic version says, "Rule my sheep, rule my sheep, rule my sheep." Nor as the Protestant version says, "Feed my sheep, feed my sheep, feed my sheep," It says, "Feed my sheep, rule my sheep, feed my sheep." (See?)

And how do you do it? By the Word of God! These vested ministers are those who having the Holy Ghost, having the revelation for their day, see the revealed Word for their day, and thereby secure the sheep in the fold that they will stand in that perfection. (See?)

11. Now, you'll notice in here however, that when Paul spoke to Timothy, he told him to ordain elders. Now, where in the world can you find anything about an elder over here in the Book of Ephesians chapter 4? They're not in the original creation. Now, pardon that expression, you know what I meant when I said it. I'm tying it, they're not in the original, bestowment of gifts to the church. (See?)

But notice what the Bible says about them, in 1 Timothy 3: (we'll go there first of all) and this is a true saying. Not notice what Paul says about It. He never said It was ''Thus Saith the Lord' either. He said, "It's a true thing." Now, he's got something here and he's speaking not by permission actually, and yet in a way could be by permission, but it's by God.

(1) ...If a man desire the office of a bishop, he (desires) a good work.

Now, It doesn’t say if a man can desire the office of an apostle, or a prophet, or a teacher, or an evangelist, or a pastor. Now, you say, "Why did he put them in that order Bro. Vayle?"

Well, I'm glad you asked that question, because it's answered over here in the Book of 1 Corthians12:28,

(28) And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, ... (then Bro. Branham said, evangelists, pastors.)

Notice in Ephesians Paul was not enumerating. But in 1 Corinthians he was. And Bro. Branham finished it for us, and showed us the truth.

12. Now, notice as I said, none of these men mentioned in what we call 'the five-fold' ministries, the elected offices. Election of course in God's foreordination. The elder is not there, and you cannot seek those offices. You are just a much sovereignly ordained to be what you are in one of those offices, as you're ordained to be anything else. As you're ordained to be a child of God, or reprobated. (See?)

Now, but It says here, "If a man desires the office of a bishop." But, you cannot desire to be a pastor, evangelists, or a teacher, or an apostle, or a prophet. You can't desire that. It's impossible. You got to be born to it. (See?) If the prophet is born to it, the rest has got to be born to it. If the apostle is born to it separated from his mother's womb, he wasn’t even born again, he was what you might call a Christ hater in destroying the Bride. Which as we showed you in the White Throne judgment there will be many who come and gain eternal life, because they were good to the Bride. How terrible then that a man should be found murdering the very Bride of Christ. Which was Paul. Yet, he was born to be an apostle to the very Bride. (See?) You can't desire that, you got to be born to it, it’s elected. Speaking now in terms of election, called out to it in the foreknowledge of God. Now, It says here, "that if you desire the office you desire a good thing." [1 Tim 3:1] (See?) You desire a good work. Now, you can desire this.

13. Now, we showed you here that there were certain qualifications if met. You could be an adjunct, or an aide in the ministerial group. I don't want to sound like I'm a Nicolaitaine here, now I'm just trying to get you scriptural terms, you know, to the ordained gifts of the church. They’re ordained gifts.

And it teaches also, you can be a deacon. And now, if you want to have the office of a deacon, you can qualify for that. And it's a lot like an elder, and you've got to have one wife, rules his children and their own house as well. And they have used the offices of a deacon well, purchased themselves to a good degree, decrees, and great boldness in the faith, which is in Jesus Christ.

14. And then over here again in Titus 1:5-9 Paul says here:

(5) For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

Now, the word 'ordain' means to 'appoint', or 'constitute'. And the word 'appoint' to Timothy is 'gave charge'. So, Paul said,

(5) ...that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and (and appoint, or constitute) elders in every city, as I had (given) thee (a charge.)

(6) If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

(7) For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self- willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

(8) But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

(9) Holding fast the (faith...and so on.)

Notice the qualification that Paul lays down, are the qualifications he lays down also in the Book of Timothy. And these men are...notice here, I'm just going to bring to your attention, It doesn't say here that this man desires the office. This looks like Timothy has got to look around to find them. And when he finds qualified men, he could say, "Now, have you ever felt that you'd like to help in the work of the Lord?"

15. Now, we're going to go back here now to the Book of Acts and see where this little group here called elders. And they're not called deacons now, they're called elders. Now, the elder, deacon maybe just about the same as the elders in this category, could well be, I'm not going to say. All I know is that in the Book of Acts 20: we're going to find out what Paul has to say to about these elders. In [Acts 20:] 17,25-27

(17) And from Miletus (Paul) sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.

Now, let's turn a little further over in that same chapter 20, and notice in verse 25

(25) And now, behold, I know that (you) all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.

(26) (There)fore I take you to record this day, (see, put it on the record) that I am pure from the blood of all men. (Why?)

(27) For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

See? In everything that God had for that Age Paul laid it out. He said, I haven't shunned, to lay it all out before you." How many men can say that today? Why they're so scared to preach the whole Word of God, lest they lose their church. And I've been around recently, and I don't say this to discredit anybody, but some preacher said, "Well, I believe this Message Bro. Vayle." And in my mind, I can just see him sitting on the fence. And he doesn't know just which way to make a quick turn. Whether now if it gets a little bit close to where Bro. Branham, this guy’s waiting to just jump quick. Well, by the time that's vindicated, it's going to be too late, he's left his jumping too late. I already told the other side.

16. And one fellow sort of sneak up on his congregation. (You know) He says he teaches the Message, and the first thing when he preached the Message, it said against short hair, and showed them how leave their hair long. Within three weeks his wife cut their daughter's hair, and all he’d do is cry about it. And then his sister playing the organ, in a panic and gets up and she cuts her hair. And then he pastors that bunch of goats? You can't keep your... he couldn't qualify as an elder. That's ground for divorce whether you believe it or not. Sure, a woman trying to do what I want, after he did. Let's see these elders do the same thing. Sure, Bro. Branham had to come. They said the same thing like Naaman.

They said, "Naaman go down and dip in the old River Jordan there seven times, you'll come up like a little baby." [2 Kg 5:10]

They said, "Nuts to that. Give us something big, mighty thing to worthy of our stature, bless God, I'm a general, glory to God."

"Well, (he said) okay then keep your leprosy."

He said to woman, let your hair grow and take off those slacks, and shorts and everything else you're putting on. Look like a female instead of a perverted something or other, from the other side of the town." It used to be the other side of the town the old harlot, they hung a red lantern out there, and you're sort of snuck over there. Now boy, she goes parading down the street. The fanciest, most authoritative, and best looked upon, woman in town. (See?) And she gets in the pulpit and preach. Sure, let's show us something big thing. Well listen, the Word of God said it's the little things. (See?) You'll throw everything you've got for the little things.

18. All right, now in this here Paul said, [Acts 20:]

(27) I haven't) shunned (to) declare unto you (all) the counsel of God.

Which I said is certainly more than most people are trying to get across to people today. "Well, we're going to preach some little thing, and see how they react."

Throw the book at them! Then you'll want the good reaction. I know what I'm talking about, I've proved this thing. I'm not up here as a preacher trying to tell you something I haven't proved, I've proved it. Throw the book at them. I wanted to see how people would react as sinners if you ever got the low down, that you couldn't come up here on your own, and accept Jesus Christ. You sit back there and you seem to accept him, you had to be called of God, and if God didn't grant your repentance you're a reprobate. (See?) You couldn't even crawl to God, unless He granted you repentance from the foundation of the world.

And turn around and preach there's no eternal hell, so they feel real good now. "Oh boy, there's no eternal hell, oh I can sin the way I want to." I threw the book at him. You know what I found out? I found when they came overnight they were so mature, they acted better than Christians, so called, after twenty years of hogwash and twiddle. Not telling you a lie, I'm telling you the truth. You can't bring in people on a perverted Word, and expect to have a true Word born child of God. Peter the apostle warned them, he said, "Being born again not of corruptible seed, but of the incorruptible." [1 Pet 1:23] You can get born again of corrupted Word, and be a corrupted seed. And you'll never make it. And stand back and... look listen, do you think Paul preached any different from these epistles?

19. I read a little book while I got some articles sometime ago and they try to tell you that Peter stood up after a Pentecostal, you know that great dissertation at Pentecost. Afterward (you know) typing out Almighty God through Scripture, (I'll get back to my text later on, don't worry. I got to talk about this, because I feel good about it) Peter out there on Pentecost, and after Pentecost bring the Whole Word of God categorically showing who Jesus Christ was, and say, "God had made this, Jesus whom you set aside both Lord and Christ." He's it, He's all three of them?

And then they try to tell you that Peter goes around preaching some little simple sermon, (you know) like Bro. Moody and some of those fellows, just taking a little text and departing from it and telling a story. And I read what they said about Peter and I said, 'yeck', I can't stand it. And then they go to the Bible where Peter really wrote it. Do you think Peter or Paul preached different from what he wrote? Why he'd be a hypocrite if he did. He laid it on, and brother/sister he'd have laid it on with a trowel. Why? Because he had a big God Who was a big Holy Ghost who could reveal the truth. Sure.

In fact, it got so thick Peter said, "Don't you know Paul preaches so hard that you can wrest what he said, and they'll do it to their own destruction." Now, how can wrest milk and water? Ha, somebody's wrong and we're not, glory to God. It's nice to know that you're right. I would Paul. Paul is, and so were you. And you're with me and we're with Bro. Branham, and he was with Paul. He had vindication.

20. All right, [Acts 20:]

(28) Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, ....

Notice, the Holy Ghost had made them overseers. But remember, they weren't part of that original. (See?) Yes sir. She was to be the mother of all living. She sure was too. But she wasn't part of that original. She was the open door to falling. Noticed It said:

(28) ...to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. (See, purchased with his own blood.)

(29) For (this) I know...

Now, notice now, this I know, he said, "I've got a revelation. You won't like what I'm going to tell you right now," He said.

(29) ...that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. (Notice:)

(30) Also of your own selves (you elders,) men (shall) arise, speaking perverse things, (speaking what? Perverted things,) to draw away disciples after them.

Notice, they were disciples of Paul. What is a disciple? He's a learner, they had learned from Paul. And now they're going to learn from these men who teach a perverted doctrine. Creeds and dogmas. As Bro. Branham said, "The Apostle's Creed." Where can you find that in the Bible? (See?)

21. My, you'd be surprised how you can get bound up on what you're taught. And you don’t even know you're being taught it. You know, one of those old, old, sort of, Catholic apostle creed, you usually get wound up in, where it says, you're sort of speaking about the fact that Jesus died and rose again, and the third day ascended up to heaven, sit at the right hand of the Majesty on High. The it says, Mary mother of Jesus pray for us. Ships it right in there.

My mother used to pray that year in and year out. After us kids got finished we'd hang them on a… Hold it. "Do you believe the virgin Mary can pray?"

She said, "No!"

We said, "Then why do you pray it?"

She'd scratched her head, and because she prayed that for fifty years, she thought that must be okay. She said, "I guess she can pray for us."

We’d said, "Oh for Pete’s sake."

You can be sincere absolutely, you can be going down the right trail, so to speak, (see?) and something you were taught, would just show you right now from that Word. (See?) Now, people are taught these creeds and dogmas.

22. Now, let's just hold our fingers there if you like, and we'll go to the Book of 2 Corinthians [11:] To see It now. Paul said,

(2) For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

(3) But I fear, (notice) lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, ...

Subtilty, is the product of the mind getting its own end, in the flesh. The cunningness with an ulterior motive.

(3) ...(and) as the serpent beguiled Eve (appealing to her mind) so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Again, Paul tells us what is going to happen.

(4) For if he that cometh (preaches) another Jesus, ...

And they did, they said, "There's three of them."

Paul said, "He's all of them."

Pretty soon the leaven was hidden in the three bushels of meal. The Trinitarian dogma came into existence.

"Why, (they said) there's three of them."

There's another one, see?

He said, "I'm the father."

The said, "Hold it, there's another one."

It didn't work.

(4) ...(which) we have not preached, (Paul didn't preach three gods, he preached one God.) if (you) receive another spirit, which (you) have not received, ...

"Why, (they said) there's a second one."

Jesus said His Own Spirit would come down. He said the Father's Spirit would come down. He said the Comforter is one Spirit, the same Spirit that indwells Jesus Christ that came back. (See?) But, they've got another one, figured up.

(4) ...another gospel, ... (oh, there's dozens of gospels since then. Paul knew it was going to happen).

23. Now, the point I'm driving at is this: it is ordained of God that this is how the perverted word comes into the church, and it came in. The question now arises in people's minds, "should we then disband elders?" Should we get rid of them? Should there be such a thing as not having elders and deacons? No! No! It's...look it, get the picture here, just because Eve fell, not being part of that original creation, does that make every woman a mucked up dirty vile creature? No! No, women have just as much as sanctified part in the body of Jesus Christ that make up just as much as the Bride, as a male does. But, they don't have any office. Can't preach, can't be an elder, can't be a deacon. They've got to leave that aside. They have their ministries which are far different. (See?)

Now, let's face it. Eve listened, because she was the weaker vessel. (See?) She was the one that was made ...she would fall, and did fall. (See?) You don't get rid of women because of that. No! Remember though, God by grace restores her, and she comes typing the church down the Ages.

24. Now, you've got the same thing with the elders. You don't get rid of the elders. (See?) Just because this opens the door to the perverted word, doesn't mean elders are perverted. And doesn't mean a man who wants to serve God, and is capable of serving God should not serve God in the church. (See?) If a man feels the call of God, and if some of them don't feel they should do it, the pastor is well authoritative in his realm, that he would look around and he would find a brethren, which line up the best.

A once married man, ruling his family well, experienced person. The world 'elder' means the oldest, the word 'bishop' is the office, and you're mature in Christ. And a man's a preacher may come to you and say, "Now, we would like some assistance in the body of the Lord here in this little group. We need someone who can teach, someone to help carry burdens. Someone who can deal with the people in the congregation. Now, I see by your life that you're a fine example, and we'd like to have you ordained as an elder."

25. Now, this is fine, (see?) but remember, this opens the door. But because it opened the door, you don't take a machine gun and shoot all the women and say, "Bless God, now we're going to get some new ones, that would have been women." You don't do that with elders. If you did, he wouldn't fall for things. (See?) Wouldn’t fall for things. Because why? Someone else would come in.

And you know, you just don't listen to somebody who has no weight. If you listen to somebody who has not weight in the house of God, oh my, you're in worse shape than I thought, or worse shape than you thought. The worse shape we all thought. Because you just don't listen to someone who doesn't have weight. (See?)

And by that, I mean there has got to be intrinsic manifested qualities, and characteristics, (see?) in a man, before you listen. (See?) So, someone would come in. And pretty soon you'd be listening. Whether you made him an elder or not, he's just sort of be a leader. See, right there. But you can see now where this came from. So, if you had any ideas that, "well now, I've got to watch brother so and so, because he's an elder, deacon, so and so. Don't worry about that. The thing to do is watch yourself, that's all. Because Bro. Branham distinctly warned us that either somebody would come in, or of ourselves. (See?) And even when he said to love each other and to do this, and do that, and even name names. It invariably closed his thoughts by saying, “But you won't do it.” Sure. He said, "Oh Lord, don't let them make a cult of what I taught.” But he said, "You will." You've got to hear it all the way through.

26. Now, what does this mean? It just means what he always said. Just watch out for yourself. (See?) Don't try to force things, and don't split amongst yourselves. This is one reason why I'll listen to my brethren many times of the day. And I hate to go to a church where's there's a spirit, where's there's division amongst the men. And pretty soon you get one group forcefully calling themselves the second cousins, or something. You know, it’s really, walk in humility.

Because if you believe that you're not a first cousin or a second cousin, but you're really Bride, though you differ a great deal from the other person, there's no room then for you to look down upon yourself and feel sorry for yourself, feel this and that, just stand up in your face. (See?) You don't try to push it. That's one thing the Bible warned in the last time when a man should get up, or anybody try to push. Just preach sweet, talk nice, be the best you can. Be a godly person. But he said, Bro. Branham warned us, “Don't be divided." See, Christ before he died he said...he told his disciples to love each other. Didn't he? Bro. Branham before death said, "Love each other." So, you see where your error came. (See?)

27. Now remember, there's no error in what Bro. Branham taught us. The verbatim account in my estimation, (and I say again in my estimation) because I'm quoting directly he said, "The food was stored up on the tapes." That's why I warned you a year or two ago. If I tell you something he told me in private, and I can't back it by a tape, you just be polite. Say, "Whatever that old hypocrite Vayle, he done told us not to then, listen now." Do you see where I stand? If I tell you something, if you could listen, but you better make sure it's on a tape or put it to one side way over there. (See?) Just leave it to one side. Because it's going to be on that tape.

Otherwise we've got a little...we've got to start looking to a little group now, to lead us in. Because he spoke to many of us. I wouldn't work. What is that? That is constituting the elders again wouldn't it? There it is to lead the people astray. No, I don’t believe anybody was to lead anybody astray. But remember, as long as we're human, there's a danger. Eve didn’t need to fall, but she did. (See?)

None of us want to jeopardize ourselves or leave off the good Word Bro. Branham taught us. No, but the danger's there. Right. That's why he said, "Now don't try to reach for it, don't try to figure it."

28. "Why I got a pretty analytical mind, I can take my pencil right now and start figuring, and I'm got a pretty good numerology too, maybe I could make that work." No, it won't work at all. Well, thy to sharpen your pencil and make it work. (See?) Just stick to the Word and go right along. If you're called to pastor, be a pastor, and elder, be an elder. If you're going to be a teacher, be a teacher, be the best you can. If you're just be a member of the church, you be the best you can. All of these things the best you can. Because just a sure as we’re here, brother/sister, remember it is. You know as well as I do, divisions come. (See?) Divisions come, but let us not be a part of that division.

Let the division come by itself naturally, which will be a Word separator. Because remember, the next showdown coming, is Mount Zion which is the Rapture. You say, "Well, I don't believe ...none of us here can prove a point. The best I can do is to say feel what I see, by Scripture. As Bro. Branham would get up and tell us, he said, "Oh, (he said) this would always puzzle me, I see it." Slamming into the Scripture. There it is, slamming into it. When we see by revelation what he taught us slammed into the Scripture, and then if that's not faith ground, I don't know what faith ground is. (See?) So, just watch with the Word. There is one brother once so clearly said, "If Bro. Branham came to bring you back to that Word, then he should get the Word out." (See?) Get It out. He told you, he can only get the highlights. And that's right, and he did, he hit the tall spots which I feel are very good.

29. Now there’s something I said awhile ago when I was here preaching on the Resurrection, I brought out a thought of what is it that is coming at the end of this Age in order that death will be swallowed up in victory? And you'll notice It says in 1 Corinthians 15: speaking of this thought, let's read It here beginning at verse 51.

(51) Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, we shall all be changed, ...

Now, that's no mystery right there, you know that. In what's mystery there. You’re … everybody's not going to die, but everybody is going to get changed. That's no mystery, that's a plain hard statement of fact. But it was thrown in here under the chapter of the Resurrection. Which means, you've got to die and then come up. (See?) And you can't have your change until you die.

Now, somebody says, "Well Paul, if that's the case, everybody in the Bride has got to die to get the resurrected body. He said, "Hold it, there's a mystery there." And what's the mystery? There's some big mystery here. Because the Bible says, Paul said it, "It's appointed unto men once to die." It is reserved, it is laid up and stored, it's you're going to die. There's just one thing you know for sure when you're born, you're going to die.

The old Bro. Carter, the old Assembly of God preacher out of England said, "Write above your mirror, you're born to die.” (See?) "I'm born to be a world leader," said one fellow. "I'm born to be a great person." You're born to die, and after that the judgment. Sobering thought, see?

30. Notice: [1 Corinthians 15:]

(52) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we (should) be changed. (It's going to be an instantaneous thing.)

(53) For this corruptible must put on incorruption, (actually, it's incorruptibility, that which cannot corrupt) and this mortal must put on immortality. (That which cannot die.)

(54) So, when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

Now, you notice in here that the question is concerning those who are living, and they're going to have their bodies changed, but they themselves not die. Because remember, resurrection speaks of a resurgence, your body has got to go down. (See?) But, you're going to get the same change. It's going to happen, just 'bingo; there it is. (See?)

But notice what he said about this. He didn't say, "This which has corrupted, " (which has gone down in the grave) It says, "This corruptible." He's speaking of his own body. (See?) Looking forward to the time when other people standing in their bodies will not die like Paul's got to die. (See?) And this mortal.

31. Now, what does the word 'corruptible' mean? That which corrupts, or actually wears out a little at a time until it is made useless. It's like you taking and let's say you've got a piece of furniture in your house, and you don't notice what the cat's doing to your furniture. Its claws are kind of sharp and it's digging in there but you don't notice it. And then the claws keep digging in and they keep digging in and wearing away the fabric, you see a little at a time. Or just take your sleeve tonight and do this, and just keep doing this. Keep it up! You'll wear a hole in it. (See?) This is life, see, wearing away a little at a time. Little at a time, not a sudden heart attack, but just going downhill, a little at a time, see wearing out.

32. Now, the word 'mortal' from the Greek word ‘ftharmenó’ [means;] the one that wears out, or fades away. That picture on the wall there, Bro. Branham, that Bro. Arganbright took. The one that looks like the death head almost, is what the Angel of the Lord told Bro. Branham, referred to the fact that the outer man perishing, fading. (See?) Cheeks wizened, the eyes hardening and the sight failing. See, well maybe malnutrition sets in and the flesh begins to waste off the body. (See?)

Now, immortality is that which never dies, stays eternally. It refers to the gods. This is the Greek now. Refers also to the glory after death. See, that’s immortality. The incorruptibility means 'that which you can't wear it out'. See, that which can't. Now, right now we don't have it. No sir! No sir, we don't have it. Those old sore throats we get, (you know) and the aches and pains down here. And man that's...we're wearing out honey, I can tell you that right now. The old sacroiliac ain't sacking so riliac(?) anymore, as it used to be. It bothers them and you know what I'm talking about.

I may a few years ago I could, I'd be...you know I read a book one time about a fellow that was very sick, and he was playing out until the age of fifty-four, he got a hold of himself and he began to feel good and he lived to be about ninety-eight and just passed on you know. I thought, boy, maybe I'll start at fifty-four years of age, till I have fifty-four and I started it. Oh boy, I want to tell you, you talk about creaking joints, I'll never make it till ninety-eight, even if the Lord does tarry.

I’ve had it, I'm fading, wearing out. (See?) Having got it. My whole nature, my whole previous disposition by the way I've been born, my nature all, says I've got to fade, I've got to wear out. (See?) Yes sir, even a little at a time.

33. Now, this mortal, this corruptible, that's what I'm corrupting now, the wearing away will put on that which cannot be. In other words, something has got to happen it won't so… You couldn’t be a chance to do this. And the mortal would be the same way, it won't fade away.

Now, It says, "This corruptible must put on, put on incorruptibility, that which cannot be worn away." No matter how you use it, a little at a time won't wear away. This mortal, this which fades, put on that which cannot fade. Notice, it's going to put it on.

Now, this put on is as I mentioned is like a sinking into a garment, or, as an investure when you put it on. But, notice in the Greek it says, 'I covered something that pre-existed, or already was with a substance of new material'. (See?) I'm going to cover up what was, with something which wasn't there before. Then It says, "When I do that, then shall be brought to pass." The word, 'brought' means, 'I receive into existence'. Something comes into existence, and this which comes into existence in the Greek and you'll be surprised how many ways you can use this word. ' An exceeding growth, (watch now) involving perception'. (See?)

34. Now, the inner garment you're putting on, that's in the Greek. It's not an outer garment now, it's an inner garment. And what's coming into existence, this which is…you put on, coming to pass, (now brought to existence) is an exceeding growth involving perception.

Now, when considering the time element It says, "You shall receive the beginning of knowledge and understanding." You started then. (See?) The beginning. In other words, it's giving you an absolute fresh start at this end time, whatever it is. Apply to the person, it means their they're origin. In mathematics, it's the taking of total stock, and then moving on afresh. Like adding up all your numbers and starting over, starting off. (See?) That's all part of the message. You had to take stock with it too. And also, which is very peculiar, all the can be shaken, is shaken until it's taken out of the way. In other words, this will literally shake what shouldn't be there, removing it, leaving only that which was right in the first place.

35. Now, how many of us as we stood before the prophet and heard him preach, didn't have a part of it, we all had a little part of it, unless we were sinners with no knowledge at all. (See?) But, there was a part of it that couldn't stay. (See?) That It had to be shaken out of the way. (See?) Because you can't have a part of error. You've to come into the full revelation. And this is revelation we're talking about. (See?)

Now, I remember many things, I had partly right. For instance, I believed in the election and reprobation, understood sovereignty of God to a point. I understood a part of how there couldn't be an eternal lake of fire for the wicked, as though they're eternally lost in the sense of living in that condition, eternally, does even as the Saints of God live in glory with the Lord, and so on. And many things that I had in part. But there was something that absolutely were error. Absolutely error, had no foundation in the Word whatsoever. Was not in the mind of God. Was merely a creed, and a dogma. Thereby, voiding the effects of the Word of God on my behalf, which in this end time wanted to insure the Rapture was destroying the very Rapture. The very Word of God I was standing on to believe the Rapture, was cut away by my misunderstanding. (See?) The falsity of my knowledge in the Word. (See?)

36. Now, notice what It says over here in the Book of Hebrews 12: concerning that being shaken. In the Book of Hebrews 12: Now, remember that Paul here is speaking concerning men who speak as well as God. He speaks of Moses speaking, he speaks of Abel having spoken, the blood of Abel and so on. And now in verse 25

(25) See that (you) refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

Now, that word speaks from heaven doesn't necessarily mean speaks from heaven, could be that One which is from heaven. (See?)

(26) Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he (is promising) Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. (See?)

Now, that didn't happen when Jesus was on earth. The only time we know the earth really shook was the time that they were on Mount Sinai shook. There was an earthquake of course after Calvary. But the sun was darkened, but the earth wasn't shaken, the earth shaking, wasn't there at that time.

(26) ...Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

(27) And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

(28) (Therefore) we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

(29) For our God is a consuming fire.

37. To me, as I look at this, there is...if this is not actually an end time Message pronunciation, It certainly types It, that God's speaking once more. And God did speak from heaven by the mighty manifestation of Thunders which were opened in the Seven Seals. (See?)

Now, he tells you here that this is, this which we're putting on, (see?) this which we're putting on, as I described to you in the Greek in false perception. (See?) Receiving in the beginning of knowledge and understanding, and now with it, it's taking of stock adding up where you stand, starting afresh. That's what we did, like a fresh start. And just like, well, is there supposed to be a latter rain? Sure, certainly. There's a Spirit of God coming upon the Word to bring forth a crop. That's like a fresh start, like a fresh deluge. Here we were stagnating, we never would have made it. That's the way, (you know) as well as I do the Scripture said, 'If God didn't send Elijah, the Bride in such a condition she's just die with the rest of them. Well, this is a fresh start.

You talk about old Bro. Meuller telling you how that he believes that he was born again many years ago when after sort of floundering, he came into what you describe as a rebirth of the re-birth. That's what we've got. That's what it's like. (See?) I'm just using these terms to help our under-standing.

38. Now, notice this what the prophet brought us in the Seven Thunders, the Seven Seals revelation, deliberately, it shakes way all of that. And he said that, "for the first time in two thousand years, the Holy Ghost has been unbound from the creeds and dogmas which bound it." So, what? He can do the work of the latter rain, the Holy Ghost now can fall upon the crop and bring it to maturity. Which is a Word matured Bride. Knowing no creeds and dogmas, knowing only the Christ Who appears to her, which is the revealed Word. (See?)

Now, this comes about by this last day prophet. Again It says in Paul's knowledge, "I learned, I understand." But listen, the ability to separate and discern. Now, where is that found? I sure just love to pick up the Greek, because I don't know the first thing about it, until I read what the scholars say, and I can pick their brains. And that's just the best thing I know to do.

39. And It says here in Malachi 3:18

(18) Then (you) shall (turn back, and then when you turn back, only then will you) discern between righteous(ness) and the wicked(ness)... (see, It says here,) and between him that (serves) God and him that serveth not (God).

And Bro. Branham said as God gave him the writing in that 'Spoken Word is the Original Seed' [62-03-18] that this end time prophet would transplant the seed of the entire Bible that we need to know, from serpent seed, to the prophet in the former rain. And the prophet in the former rain is where he stands out, and by his ministry which is a sign in the hand, (see?) brings on these carnal impersonators to manifest their folly. (See?)

And then when the world goes looking at them, and everybody says, "Well, look at those millions? By their fruits you know them, but now it can't be, it must be of God. Because look at the mighty power they got." The same trick that women pulled on people, when women got in the pulpit and they preached with what was seemed to be great anointing, and great powering, great demonstration, like a McPherson, and a Kuhlman and all the rest of them. And the little ones too, little angels, these little Kuhlman's around the country. Sure. People said, "Now that's got to be of God." Why? Because they were so blind, there was no discernment. (See?)

40. Now, what is this that brings discernment? It is that which we put on. (See?) Now, we're leaving this old corruptible. You know there's a people right today they're like old Abraham, when he believed God and the Lord revealed that mighty work to him, and he's going to receive the promised son. Why, it wasn't...see I don't believe for a split second he was Abraham junior. But he's got that which was necessary by that faith in God, and it wouldn't be long now going down that road, he'd be a young man. (See?)

And this is what this Word does to us. It gives us this, which though we're growing older, minute by minute we're fading even at this moment. That's alright. One of these days it'll be a reverse process. But, it won't be long in doing it. Because when this comes to a full revelation, It says, "in a moment (see?) you'll be changed." [1 Cor 15:52] But in the mean time, this revelation keeps moving on and on, until we come to a place where we'll be changed in our very atoms, and we'll have a glorified body just like the Scripture says.

41. Now, notice It says, "I learn, I understand the ability to separate and discern, and to put the whole thing and the parts together." To put together. In other words, able to put together that which is written. What is it? For this day, the Bible is coming into focus in the people of God. (See?)

Coming right in, a revelation what the prophet gave us making us ready.

And this same phrase is a peculiar phrase, because it says, "This is 'beyond the acme.' (See?) This is beyond the very acme, (see?) people striving, striving, and striving, but now there's some-thing greater. What's beyond the acme? Well, we'll go to 1 Corinthians 13: we'll find it. It says here, "Love is the greatest of all."

[1 Corinthians 13:1]

(13) ...now abideth faith, hope, (and love, and) the greatest of these is (love.) (Right?)

But notice now, in, [1 Corinthians] 13:8-13

(8) (Love) never (fails): whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; there tongues, (they fail, they'll) cease; knowledge, (it'll) vanish away.

(9) For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

(10) But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

42. What is perfect? The perfectly revealed Word for this day. (See?) And when that happens, that's why your gift ministry has to cease. Say, "Bro. Vayle, isn't it alright, to lean on those?” No sir. No sir. When you come into this, you leave that alone. Just go on, right on. (See?) The he says here:

(10) ...when that which is perfect is come,...

The perfect is 'Marriage and Divorce ' [65-02-21] and 'Questions and Answers', [??] both absolutely categorically states the perfection of the revealed Word.

(10) ...then that which is in part shall be done away.

That's the restoration of gifts, so called. Now notice:

(11) When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Now listen:

(12) For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: ...

What are we coming face to face with? The revealed Word, which is Jesus the Christ. Your mate, your Bridegroom. (See?)

(12) ... I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

As Bro. Branham also said, "The Bride is going to know who she is, she's ready for the Rapture."

(13) And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is (love).

43. Sure, the greatest of these is love. But there's something greater, which is beyond the acme, and that is this revelation at the end time. Because love won't get you there, you've got to go back to being a restored virgin, a virgin of the Word. See, knowing she come to Him with no seed, except His Seed. That's why the Bible distinctly says back there, the wife of Isaac was a virgin and neither had any man known her.

Now, I realize that the literal physical meaning of a virgin is that no man has known her. (See?) But, it says in there she was a virgin, and neither had any man known her. And you know, I think I brought it out here on one occasion or better the fact that when a man said my wife was not a virgin when I got her, he was to complain to the parents and they would bring the menstrual cloth. (See?) Proving what? Not that she hadn't been touched by somebody, (see?) but that she wasn't pregnant by somebody else’s seed when he got her. (See?)

We all fear there's no bride that was born a perfect one from the mother's womb. Why, we're all sinners, we've all been tampered with. We've all messed up. But, in that day if we stand His Seed alone, we're going to be found to make it. (See?) Certainly, it's got to be His Life, and His Life is that Word. Because everything that God brought into existence life, is brought by the Word. (See?) Because He is the Word. Follow me? Now, that perfect has come. Sure, we're right here today in that perfect, that which is perfect has come.

44. Now, let me show you what I read in 1 John 3: the other day, and It says,

(2) Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

Now, every fundamental student, Bro. Branham himself said, "Before you can be caught up to that Supper, (you know, caught up and be in His Presence there in the Marriage Supper and all) you got to be changed." The Bible says that. (See?) But the point is, the fundamentalist doesn't realize that this Word says here, you've got to see Him first to be caught up. (See?) That's an Appearing.

Now, how did He Appear to the people this day? Well thank God, the prophet told us. That's shows that we got to come again with the same Spirit that was John. He introduced the Messiah. And how will the Messiah? The people that's believing and going unless they're constantly in the Word to know what He is.

Daniel said, "The wise will know, but the foolish are unwise wouldn't know. They shall know their God." Now how? Notice: Now how He shall Appear, or the way the He shall Appear in the last day is to bring the people back to the Word, so that the Bride will know her Husband. Know her mate, the revealed Word. (See?) "Behold your God." Only a prophet can say, "Behold your God."

45. There He is in that Book. There He is the revealed Word. What is this revealed Word. Why everybody argues and fusses about. Some of the old hard shell say, "Well, bless your heart you're predestinated, you're reprobated or elected." And there's no special means to an end, all we have is a hope, because we think we see the truth, and on judgment day we'll know if we're right or wrong. And they carry that so far, it came after nomianism. Where they said, "What are you worried about being born again or anything. Only the judgment can tell. So, whether you're elect, that if you're elect you've made it. If you're reprobate you haven't made it. You just preach the Word and never mind about any personal experience with God." (See?) That's what they said.

And now they some other Baptist came along and they're not hard shell. These Baptist aren't hard shell, and they say, "No siree, there's no such thing as election." They say, "Oh, well we admit there's election, of course you were predestinated in Christ." And that's how it is. God, gave His Son. And He saw in His Son all who came that's election. In other words, it's a very impersonal thing. If the Son brings Eternal Life, and you come into the Son, you've got it, that's election. It was in Him. The Bible doesn't say that. No sir, the Bible doesn't say it. But, are we going to prove on our own, who's vindicated? (See?) We had the Voice of the sign. There's nothing in this world, there's not a means to it, everything has a meaning.

46. Now look, I'll show you everything's got a means. It feels like everything has a measurement. Am I right? I'm going to talk a pair of glasses. That's a measurement. I talk about a Kleenex, two of them, that's two measurements. That's measurement right there. I talk about a microphone, that's a measurement. You follow me? Everything is a measurement, there's nothing that's not. (See?)

All right, every word also, is a measurement. (See?) It's like the blue-print. And then you see, say ‘spoon’. There's a spoon, because the spoon's showing. Same with same we have here now in the Word of God. We can reduce the whole thing to Word. Prophet comes on the scene with the Words of Almighty God, he can absolutely bring you a complete measurement in a revelation of Jesus Christ the Word. It's what he does.

And here's what... Bro. Branham mentions, this actually came to pass. The Bride at this time knows her mate. Why? Now, when she knows her mate, (see, the revelation is coming) this is what Paul spoke of back here than in,

1 Cor. 15:53 he said here:

(53) ...this corruptible must put on incorruption, ... (that which cannot be corrupted, he's got to put it on.)

All right, what can't corrupt? Being born again of the incorruptible Seed, which is the Word of God. (See?) Only the Bride is born of that incorruptible.

47. Now, why must this Bride but on that which cannot corrupt? Or the pure unadulterated Word of God? Because if she doesn't she'll die. There's no recourse for her. After, she's got to die. Now, what's going to get her back restoration? The very thing that took her away. Which was what? Perverted word. She's got to get back to being un-perverted woman. That's why Bro. Branham had to talk so much about women. Not running down women, most of them didn't understand, our sisters do. All they're doing is typing. They're standing as a type women are, for the church. Perverted church. (See?) And you talk about perverted.

I think I mentioned the other day, was in the pulpit here or not, can't remember. I pick up one of those, Mad Magazines, sometimes they're very cute, because they're satirical. It's like a real parody and what's going on. And so this fellow, I don't know who he was, but he was making a real a dagger-like justice to two great lovers, (you know) Richard Burton and the great Elizabeth Taylor on the ‘Sandpiper’ [movie those two stared in]. He calls a sin-piper. And you ought to get it to read it. Because it talks about a priest who was either seduced by a woman, or he seduced her, I don't know how it went.

But anyway, the idea was you used to preach against evil. But, he found out evil was not entirely evil, it was a little maybe, evil good, or good evil. And then he found out whether evil good, and he found good evil. (See?) And that's the perfect picture of today. (See?)

48. There's nobody will stand up and call a spade a spade. (See?) They're scared of women, scared of anything, scared of the government. Except a prophet or a few people who'll listen to a prophet, have enough nerve to stand up and call evil, evil, and good, good! (See?) And you can't know which is which, unless the Holy Ghost falls upon you, as It fell upon the prophet giving a discernment. Because you don't know evil from good, and good from evil. The Bible says so, and who serves God and who doesn't. (See?)

Now, that's turning back to God. Now, if that turns back to God, it means everybody is turned away from God. Now who will admit to that? They won't admit. Why they say, "We got more God than ever. Look at the gifts we got." See why Bro. Branham had to hammer on these gifts and things, and show you where the trouble lay. Because the world says, "Well, now that's God." That is God, that's God amongst the people. A-m-o-n-g-s-t, amongst! But not in the people! God in the people, It'll bring forth a Word people. And there will be no short hair, and short skirts and floozy looking floozies, and God knows what. And perverted men up there preaching like little sissy mamby pamby's and what have you. Why the last I heard several years ago up in a Ohio where I live, they already had a circle of homosexuals Pentecostal preachers. That shows how far it's gone. Exercising gifts.

49. I talked to a friend of mine today, or last night about a man, I won't call his name. But I could call his name, and he can do what he wants about it, but I can prove what I'm talking about. All I do is subpoena you witnesses he'd bring me to court, and I bring my witnesses. And he's supposed to have a tremendous healing, and he did too. His daddy was in a wreck and he was almost killed, they were given up to die. And this boy was absolutely fantastically healed by the power of God. And he went preaching, and I've seen him on a platform. We had a vision like Bro. Branham, and just almost pass out, you know, like after Bro. Branham had several. And he was the filthiest mouth sex monger in the country. Preachers had to kick him out.

That's what I'm talking...name, names. I won't name the name of the preacher that did it, but I'll name the preacher taken him out, Paul Cane, up there in Indiana. And a traveling evangelist I know, he's so embarrassed by what the man said in his presence in front of his wife. Praying in the Name of Jesus Christ, and seeing signs and wonders. (See?)

50. Now, brother/sister this is what we had to have. Listen, we're not knowing in part anymore, No siree, we're not known in part. No sir, we don’t have to worry and wonder anymore whose committing iniquity, and whose doing what. We don't wonder anymore. We know by their fruits, and I'm not talking about love and sweet little gentle spirits, because you can have all you want of those. Because even Jesus said, "The lying prophet was a wolf in sheep's clothing. He'd looks like a sheep, he talks like one, he acted like one."

We're going beyond love, brother/sister. We're going to the acme. That which is beyond the acme. We're going right to the place, bless your heart when our dear loved ones have gone on. They go up there to meet us, a body which is reserved in heaven, the Bible, I don't understand this anymore than Bro. Branham would explain it. But he explained the way the Word said It. There it is, I've seen it, I still don't know anything about it, except It says it.

We're not trying to be unclothed. We're clothed upon, when we leave here there's something waiting for it. You slip into that, until you come down here and get your body. But, bless God, we'll have our bodies and that thing will slip down, and slip into us. Amen. It never happened before. Glory to God, it'll never happen again. Yes sir, what did this? Yes sir, what did it? Elijah, had to come first. And then people say we don't need him. Yes sir, I want to tell you, I needed Him so bad, I could wish tomorrow, but I got no proof. And I don't say that He will. I doubt it, I don't believe that He will. But I wish that He were back here tomorrow, did it tomorrow. But I won't fight anybody who believes. They can believe what they want. I'll not fight about it. Because they're not vindicated. I'm not vindicated. Who's to know? Who's to know, I don't know all the answers. But, I know one thing, everything that Bro. Branham taught that I get my hands on, slides right into this Word I stand with It. And then I stand with everything. I can't see sliding in the Word, till I say slide in. Because I'm not up here as though I got it all. I don't. But this slid right in the Word. Just what he said.

51. Talk about a private conversation, I didn't have, but a friend of mine, one day talking to Bro. Branham he said this great tremendous thing. The greatest ever, is going to happen. For this, the Bible says right here what it is, right here. That which is beyond the acme. He said, "I warned you, it's not love. And I warned you it's not character." Now everybody's got to have if you're a child of God you're going to have character, brother/sister. But this isn't going to do it. Because you can be the sweatiest most gracious character first in the world, and you'll miss it a million miles. Because you just a sweetly turned down the prophet of God.

Well, I was at a dinner table not long ago, (I'm not going to preach, I've just been talking, I'll let you go pretty quick.) I was up there in Denver at a dinner table, and I want to tell you poor Kenny Southwick and me, that's why I think my trouble came the other day and my stomach bothered me. A week later, she opened her mouth, a dear brother up there began talking to her a little bit. She sat there, (you know) her locks cut off, the older she got, (you know) the more cut them. You know how they do? You women used to go to beauty parlors, the older you got the more snip, snip, snap, snap. You might as well take a razor (switch) take it off. Yeah, they said, "The older you get the more you got to cut your hair. (See?)

52. Don't you see how it fits. Listen, you can't turn anywhere but you see the handwriting on the wall. Pardon me, that's where I get my vulgar expressions that's where I get my kicks. Maybe I should say thrills. I guess that's a better word, but I'm just a vulgar type of person make it...let her fly the way I think of it. But, I get my real lifts in life, I just see these things. But anyway, we sat at this table we ate (you know) First Cafeteria up there in Denver, a pretty good cafeteria, like down here. Had our plates loaded up and this dear brother said to this sister so called, about the Message. And she said, "Well, (she said) let's just not talk about that, let's just talk about Jesus."

Right in my stomach 'boing', and I knew that [laughter] if I ate a piece of ice cream, or a piece of butter it’d go 'ching-chong' like a chunk of lead. So, I'd gulp push the meat in, put the things in, push the lettuce in, this in, my tongue going [mmm…mmm] and Kenny Southwick’s face got so red like a little girls jacket back there, and he'd go...and I never saw...I thought I could eat fast. [laughter] You never saw a baked potato and a hunk of meat go 'choop, choop, choop'. And I thought he was going to be sick, and he was too. He left that table and his stomach going, his heart going, and my stomach going, heart going and she's sitting there all of a sudden mincing around, "We should talk about Jesus." And I thought, "Yes you..." And I didn't say a word. Was too busy eating, my stomach my stomach go 'chung, chung, (you know) something like a balance had gone off your motor, you know.

53. There it is, there it is on every hand. Now, she'll talk about going down visiting the bad girls and the bad boys and talking about Christ, and talking about miracles and miss Him a million miles. Not because I say so brother/sister. Because, all I got ...

"You worship God."

"Yes."

"How many gods you got?"

"Well, there's three of course."

"Well, our God says there's only one."

"Well, there's got to be three."

"How come? If you've got three gods, one was born. God can't get born."

Protestants say, they're not Catholics. Protestants say that three measures of meal weren't hidden in their dogma? Why there's measures of meal, Trinitarian gospel is absolutely diabolical and hellish, because they're saying the same thing whether they believe it or not, Mary was the mother of God.

If Jesus was not a man, and if he was God, and Mary was the mother of God. The Bible says, "Even today there is one Mediator between God and man, the 'man' Christ Jesus." [1 Timothy 2:5] Doesn't say he's God, says he's a man. He was a man, every inch a man. He was the last man. He was the second Adam, and God came and indwelt that temple.

54. I've been searching where it is, and I got it, I can show you out there in Grassy Lake, California, Bro. Branham preached on 'Jehovah Jireh' [61-02-12] He said, "God ripped that body apart." Tore away the spirit, put the body in the grave, then raised the body up and set it on the Throne. That body isn't God! It's the body of God. But, the body is not God. I'm going to preach a sermon on that, I just tipped my hand a little bit, what I'm going to do. I'm going to have two hours on just Jesus Christ being a man. When I get finished what God is going to show me, because He's showed me a few things. I know I'm going to have faith like I've never had it before.

I know I'm going to understand justification, know a little bit what David could say in the Spirit of God though he was caught in his sins. "My sins before me." But being in the first person, "I know," he said where he stood. I thank God, he became a man.

Like Bro. Branham said, it's going to dawn on us one of these days, He become us, that we might become Him. (See?) Yes sir. On every hand, they have their dogma and their creeds. What God do you worship? A God, of three gods, or do you worship one God? Jesus was the all of it, sure, because the whole thing was in him.

55. When you saw Him, you saw It all. And I'm glad he wasn't associated with angels. He said, "Angels do my will, go on down there and help poor old Vayle down there. He's just a big mouth bird, just go and help him anyway." See, that's good. Just an old stumble bum, I've got angels helping me, but God identified with man. He never took upon himself a nature of angels. He took upon Himself the form of a man. Not becoming sinful flesh, they're looking just like the real, just like sinful real. There he was. But they've got two gods, three gods, you show me. People, don't you see what Bro. Branham said was a showdown? It's was over the Word brother/sister, it's over the Word. It's so simple, it fooled them all. They're looking for a great big showdown. The showdown is over. There's only one showdown left, that's Mount Zion, but, that's the Rapture. They'll be scurrying around wondering, but it's too late. We don't want to be in that crowd, no siree. Now, there's just one thing brother/sister, that's that Word that counts.

As I said at the start, we used to come to church one time, we're too anxious to get to preaching we'd get around that altar and start really feeling good. Praying you know, I think that's wonderful to praise the Lord. We ought to praise the Lord even more than we're doing. That's fine. That's great, but my goodness me, when you can find a heathen going to a witch doctor, thinking he is actually coming to God and getting a healing, it make him happy, and he's still lost and will be in the judgment of debt, because he's got something from God, and then didn't worship Him. (See?)

56. Brother/sister, we got to know God. We got to worship Him in spirit and in truth. You say, "I've got the spirit." Have you got the truth? It didn't say spirit without truth, the truth without spirit. That was the old Baptist used to say. Years ago, they had the truth and not the spirit. I want to tell you one thing, I've been amongst Southern Baptist, bless God, who had a lot more spirit, looked like, than, Pentecost.

I'd go to a Pentecostal church, and they're so dead now you couldn't have a hallelujah in a car load. I can go to some Baptist church and they're just praising the Lord day and night having a great time. But, where are they? Got to be in the Word, by the Spirit. Word without Spirit, won't work. And Spirit without Word won't work. Because you see God can be among us right tonight here, doing signs and wonders. (Uh?) Do you believe that?

57. Did I ever bother you sometimes when you see these things and makes you wonder. It says here in this Book, he said it is vain to serve God. (Huh?) You look around and say, "Well, would I see these fellows out here and the way they're living and the way they've got gift ministries and God's amongst them? What am I doing humbling myself and pulling a long face and my fasting and praying and trying live right. Oh, man I haven't had one answer, these guys get car loads. So, what do you do? You get a spirit on you, don't you? I've been all through this, it's vain to serve God.

What prophet teaches ordinances? We must walk more reverently, before the Lord of Hosts. And now we call the proud happy, yea, they that work wickedness is set up, yea, they that tend God are even delivered. That's in this day going on here. (Uh?) That's in this day. See, the greatest authority since Christ Himself stand on this earth. I showed you last time I think in (maybe the time before, I was in this pulpit here) up in Portland, Maine, Bro. Branham and I watching Bro. Oral Roberts on TV. He called me into the room, there we stood looking. Saw the thousands, saw the multitudes going to Bro. Roberts' tent meeting. See Bro. Branham stand there and weep, because he knew that he had more authority then all of them put together. And he didn't dare use it.

58. Saw those men like a sign. Now listen, I've got nothing against God ministering see. God is in amongst His people. He's amongst them. Sure, He amongst His people. Sure, He'll do signs and wonders. That's what He said He's doing it right today. You're first example was back there in the days of Moses. But remember, he had it first. Then when the rest came in, it wasn't under the Word, it was under a sign ministry and led people astray. Right from the Word, he took them right from that Word, they took them. And that's what these men are doing.

Here's Bro. Roberts saying, "Now, ladies just do you hair real pretty. I don't know if you should cut it or not, because that's not maybe scriptural, but I want you dress a certain way, like (you know) be modest. You go in now and see fingernails all painted, and eyebrows all done up, every-thing like that. Well, maybe that's alright too. I don’t know.

But, you see, if you play around with short hair you know you're wrong right there. Unequivocally, It says, you don't dare cut that. Unequivocally the Bible distinctly says, the Holy Ghost gives gifts to whom He wants. But he'll tell people now come on, pray and fast and get those gifts. Just dig in there and make God give it to you, hallelujah glory to God.

59. We looked at that TV screen and you could see them going down there, by the hundreds. I tell you though, there was a way to see God moving in Bro. Branham's ministry. And I say this to the glory of God was in Ohio. In Lima Ohio when Bro. Branham came out of a little town outside of that area. And he said, "I'll come to your church."

And I said, "No, it wouldn't be fair, you come to my church, it's just a tiny church, it'll never hold a crowd, it wouldn't be worthwhile." But, I said, "Let me get you a building in Lima." When I said that, it was just like a light flashed across. He said, "That's it, it's Lima we're going to."

And in that meeting we had prayed for weeks and weeks and weeks, until we got to prayer, to a chain prayer of hours and hundreds of hours of prayer. And it was believing prayer. Because when Bro. Branham came, there wasn't one prayer that was left unanswered. We prayed for God to stagger them under conviction until they held on to benches. They held on to benches they would have fallen onto the ground. We prayed until we believed, that Bro. Branham picking them out of the audience they'd be healed. I don't know of one case out of hundreds that wasn't healed, as he picked them out.

60. And one night for the first and last time the gift of healing went into operation, and there were fifty miracles in fifty minutes, in 1957. But that wasn't because there was any organization, or any-body trying to put on a side show. No sir. It was because, people prayed and loved God and honored His servant and wanted to be right. And there was nothing holding up that man before God. And God did those great works. Sure, He did, but there was no perverted Word brother/sister, he stood right up with that Word. (See?)

Yes, there is a way to see God move. Sure, according to the Word, God hasn't stopped moving brother/sister, just because we see signs out here of God amongst His people. Because these men they got more signs then (you know) Bro. Branham had. I say he wept when he saw it. He said, "Lee, (he said) I could have had that. But (he said) God won't let me have that."

You think he couldn't see multitudes healed? Why he had...before he died he said, "Lee, I haven't lost a thing." The sign in the hand. The revelation. The vision. The power ministry. That was not lost, "the gifts and callings of God are without repentance." [Rom 11:29]

61. But what was it? He was under obedience to the Word of God. (See?) See, out here now you say, "Yea, those that do wickedly are held up." Dupe the widows. My, what a tear jerker it was when a certain great man, I suppose he's the greatest man in America now. His business man wrote a little story about him having gone to Chicago and there a dear old Indian man who had nothing but fifteen hundred dollars of their old age pension, or whatever it was, (you know) in a little old attic up there, and they were going to give it all to God.

Now, if Bro. Branham had taken that money they'd have bombed him as the biggest charlatan, and the biggest crook, and money monger. Why you got around America, they try to say that Bro. Branham has a ranch in Colorado. A big ranch with cattle. Someone tried to give him six or seven acres and he turned it down. That's a big ranch with cattle. Oh, I can get a ranch that big. I can go some place and get a six or seven acreage for fifty cents an acre if they still got it. It might be the Sahara desert, but I can still get it. [laughter] Put a few bed bugs on it, and call it cows. My God, have pity what's the matter with people.

But, they'll hold up the wicked ones. The same man that said that will hold up the wicked ones, and say that man got to be of God, bless God, because after all, Bro. Branham petered out. Bro. Branham didn't peter out, he petered up, bless God. The wicked out there held up. And they that do wickedly are healed. (See?) My, how come? That takes discernment brother/ sister. I'm going to tell you right now, if it weren't for the prophet of God, William Branham, Elijah for this day, (that the body Elijah for this day, because Christ Himself, was the spirit of Elijah. See?) If it weren't for that man we wouldn't understand this. I couldn't be up here preaching that night. You know where I'd be? I don't know where I'd be tonight, except for this Message. As far as I'm concerned, I would have maybe quit by now. (See?) Thank God.

62. Thank God which that which is perfect, that Word is come. Thank God, we're putting it on brother/sister. And one of these days there's going to be a reverse process. As God put that cherubim before the Tree of Life so they couldn’t get to It, now, one of these days we're going to walk right into It. (See?)

You say, "Bro. Vayle, you believe it?" Sure, do believe it, my hope is built on nothing less. Sure. I've got no problem, I'm sold out. I don't have to sit on the fence anymore and wonder which way I'm going to fall. Bless God, I know one thing, I know which way I'm determined to fall. And if God has other plans and I'm not ordained to that Bride, then I'll have to go the other way. But, as far as I know humanly speaking, I believe to that end. I know which way I've fallen already. It's right in this Message.

I've said it, and I'll say it again, if I were to leave and become a pastor in some church, and I knew nothing at all about the end time Message as I know It tonight, I would be duty bound to accept what this man has taught on the Word, because to me It's the only thing it'll fit the Word, the only thing that will make sense. Nothing else.

63. I couldn't have a church and teach any doctrine, to the best of my knowledge that would line up to what he taught. It wouldn't work. (See?) Well, the Lord bless you. I hope without getting to preach. I was going to preach on 'Can a Man get Angry and be Justified'. [laughter] Because a man did in the Bible. And there are some lessons in it, but we'll let it go tonight.

But, I hope now, if you've had some problems in your mind about what was said, because I talk very fast, and sometimes say, put a great deal of material out. And many times, we don't dwell long enough on one phase. But, I hope now that you understand if there's any thought in your mind, well, my goodness me, I couldn't if I was asked to be a deacon or something, I just wouldn't do that. No, don't be afraid of that. No, don't be afraid of that. No, that's no problem anymore than a woman say, "Well, I just got to be a man now."

Ho, ho, watch it, that's real perversion. (See?) Women just find their way they are. Just fine, that's just perfect to be that way. (See?) Or he can just be a deacon. Or if you aspire to be one, you feel you could help, do it! Just do it! Don't you dare hold back. (See?) That's all right. And then want to show you what it is we're in today, brother/sister. This real rich thing, we're putting on. We're putting on this inner garment. Not another time. (See?) It's inner. See, this is going to stop wearing away one of these days. (See?)

64. Bro. Branham said, "Old Abraham looked in a mirror that morning, and maybe just rolled over and looked... I think what he saw his wife, I bet he got out of bed in a hurry." Said, "What's going on here anyways, …beautiful. She'd look at him, she'd wondered, said, "My, must be in the wrong house, what's going on here?" So many years since they had...didn't realize how young they looked. Well, if I was ninety years, I'd wonder if my wife could recognize me, if I turned back when I first knew her, about the age of about twenty-two. And I was ninety, a hundred years old. The difference. You would just be startled. My what a great thing God's doing. Amen. The Lord bless you. I'm told, I’m to just dismiss you, so let's rise and be dismissed.

If you still got questions on the subject, just write me a question, hand it in Sunday morning and make it very pointed, so I can find what you're missing. And I'll be glad to do anything I can to help you. Because to me these things are so necessary and so vital. Amen. Let's be dismissed.

Gracious heavenly Father, we praise and thank You tonight, for the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is our Life. And, Lord, we thank You that not only is He our Life, although that would encompass at all, that He is our revelation. And tonight, we are walking in a revelation. And, Lord, we know that this revelation is what it really counts. The simplicity of it, this in going to bring us into reality. For You have shown us only too well, my God, that it takes a revelation to bring about power.

We, Lord, have thought that if we had power that would do it. But it was a power, Lord, which has ended up with you bring amongst Your people. And the wicked that do wickedly are built up before the world, and know, to tempt God to deliver. And we found ourselves, Lord, in an untenable position. And as the prophet of God said go completely screw up. Absolutely in a ridiculous position, wondering what is it all about.

Anyway, confusion reigning supreme, but now we're going down a path right shortly to know as we are known. Go down this path of revelation, hallelujah, the full revelation of our Bride group. The full revelation of our Lord, they're our mate, the revealed Word. And, Father, I know tonight and You know my heart. And if I'm like these people and they're like me, we've only got one oath, and that is, Lord, that this is exactly right. Because, Lord, we've given up trying. We've given up trying to produce or be something. Lord, we simply cannot look forward to turning here, or turning there.

Tonight, O God, we're like people with their feet stuck in the quicksand, and we're just got our eyes riveted on You, the Revealed One. And, Lord, if You don't do it for us, there isn't anything going to be done. You’re our hope. And, Lord, I believe that any people ever felt locked up to God, we at this end time, in this age of complete anarchy, and refusal of the Word, Lord, if anybody needed the revelation of the Spirit of God to bring us into that relationship, this is the people. We're that people, Lord, and humbly and sweetly as we can as Your prophet told us. We're just going to have faith. Only believe, what was brought to us. Now, unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be all power and honor and glory through Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you.