The Effectual Working of God

Now, every now and then I think little thoughts. Of course, being what I am, they are very little thoughts. And yet, if they come from the Word of God, they are great thoughts in their simplicity. Remember years ago I took a series on faith. This is my little kind of a talk to the people, you know. Warm up, whatever you want to call it. Years ago I took a series on faith, and in there I brought to your attention that... It says in the book of Hebrews, the 11th chapter, that Jacob worshipped God, leaning upon his staff. Of course, we know the staff is in the Bible, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. And we know that the staff, as well as the rod, certainly represents the word of God. But what I brought out at that time was that Jacob literally, in faith, worshipped God. And your faith, which sets the atmosphere, For what comes out of the preaching service is so vital as to whether I or anybody else can truly minister to you, and the word of God would be very, very effective as

to its truth, its presentation, its reception, and actually what will come out of it. Now, you remember that the last time we spoke on The Easter seal, I think it was the last time it was, yes, that Brother Branham mentioned it, saying, well, we are having meetings for members, we're having meetings of youth for Christ, we're doing this, we're doing that. And he said, all of that is merely setting an atmosphere. And he mentioned that the church is empowered even without the power of God. but it has the ability to set an actual atmosphere in a meeting. And he was very definite and very strong about atmosphere.

Now, you know that you are creators in the sense that you create an atmosphere. You have the power to come to church chewing gum, scratching the back of your neck, leaping through scripture. dozing off at the appropriate time so nothing will hit you. You don't do that here. But I'm just saying that's possible. On the other hand, you have the ability to be so sensitive concerning your well -being, which comes from the Word, that you will do everything in your power to make sure that you get what you're coming for. As I mentioned, the Apostle Paul makes it very clear that you can come to church. You can engage in foot washing, even in communion. And you can go away in worse shape than when you came.

And I've mentioned many times, unless you're prepared to believe God, you can pray and merely spin your wheels.

Because every time you pray and you're not prepared to believe God, you become more and more negative until your prayer becomes a whine, or my prayer becomes a whine. And we merely dug ourselves in more and more.

He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and he's a rewarder. And so therefore the very atmosphere that should be in you and in me when we come to God is the atmosphere of a child. I'm going to get a reward.

You've got to be like Ned Iverson's ever perennial joke, which is really stupid, but it's a good joke and it has a point, so I'll tell it. Not to be funny. But the little kid went to school, and he came home, first time in school, and his mother said, well, how did it go? He said, very disappointing. So what do you mean? Well, the teacher told me to sit here for the present and then she didn't give me one.

Now that kid had the right attitude.

When the teacher said there was a present, he just got it wrong as to what it was, you know. It's just like the wedding invitation went out as your presents are graciously requested and they didn't put C -E, they put T -S. You know, the difference between presents as a noun that they want to get something and presents as a person. Well, listen. It's the truth. As human beings involved in the worship of God, there should be an excitement. And the excitement should be one which is based upon truth, not upon your emotions, but what God himself has distinctly said, and you come expecting. So he that cometh to God must believe that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. In other words, those that set their minds and say, My hope is built upon him and what he is going to do because he is the one that's going to have to do it for me. You put it in his hands and you really believe that he will do it and there comes an excitement. It's not the easiest thing in the world, but it is there for us. So as I say to you, as you have been well taught and you perform exceedingly well in what you have been taught. That you come here to these services, and I watch some of you, and your eyes are so intent upon me, and I can name names where some of you sit on the edge of your seats and you do not move, or do you want any interference whatsoever because you're dwelling upon every single word, I would have to be a brass statue not to reciprocate. Now, the point is, in your faith and in my delivery, which could be, you know, Jack. Thompson, God knows who the man could be. But it happens I happen to be the one. Just as this worked with Brother Branham, let me tell you that your steadfastness of faith to create an atmosphere for the word preached brings results that you might not be aware of, and yet you hope they are there, and somehow you know they are there. And the inkling of the word of God lets you know that they are there. So therefore, notice in James, the fifth chapter, and in verse 16, it says at the last little verse, the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Prayer is not always the continuous presentation of words to God, but it is an attitude wherein you're waiting upon him, having already... Taken his promise and asked concerning it. So therefore it tells you here that your effectual fervent prayer. There is a prayer that is effectual. There is a prayer that brings results. And we are looking at that with this congregation. Now the effect of the living word of God or this end time revealed message as you hear it today. and you've heard it every day as you hear it, that is when we're together, and you hear it from Brother Branham and so on. It is tremendously effectual, and it is doing and creating within you that which it is supposed to do. Now, God gave you a heart that pumps. You don't say, hey, heart, start pumping. The only time you know it or really take recognition is if it doesn't pump.

See, it's a part of life processes.

So, in here, we find a life process going on. Now, I want to talk to you about effectuality. And this is a little message that I wanted to talk to you and give it to you before we change back to the psalm service. Then I bring your brother around his message. What we were dealing with. Now, we go to 1 Timothy.

That's after Thessalonians. And in the second chapter, 1 Timothy 2, I've

got something mixed up here, but it is all right. What I had in mind here, and I guess I just put a wrong copy down, let me see. Sometimes I do that.

The artifact of the matter is here. Oh, oh, oh, oh. No, no, no, hold it. Hold it, hold it, hold it. It's not Timothy what I want. I remember where it is. Because

there's something in Timothy I'll leave out.

Notice in 1 Thessalonians 2 .13, For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard of us, you received it not as the word of men. Now see, there is the difference between this congregation and many people that I preach to. If I were to preach to them, they know I'm off the word. They know I'm a smart man that leads people astray.

They do not believe that I am preaching what William Branham preached, which Paul preached. Now listen, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

To believe whatever you hear as to be the life force which is coming from God. Whether it be the truth or a lie, it works in you. Understand what I'm saying? You are taking something that is not a part of you into you.

And if it's a lie, it will bring death.

If it is truth, it will work effectually. Which means whatever that word pertains to, or the promise or the comment, the command, whatever it is, is given to you. and you truly accept it, it goes to work within you. Do you understand what I'm saying? Now, the same word is found in Galatians 2 and 8. Now, listen. For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles. Now, in this case, He is talking about the Holy Ghost. Right? So now you have the Holy Ghost totally effective in the ministry. Right? And you have the Word of God totally effective in the minister and the people. Right? Now make up your minds. Because this settles this morning whether the Word of God is going to do anything in you and for you. Forget it.

See, that's why I kept hammering vindication. This is the Word of God. Period. But you say, Brother Dale, you don't sound all smiley and happy and bubbly and drop dead.

I am not smiley. I am not bubbly.

And neither is God. Judge!

I'm not even preaching yet. I'm just sweet, kind, and mild.

You can make up your mind.

I've got nothing to hide.

If he doesn't work, and this doesn't work, the

biggest flop as a deceiver I have ever heard about, because hardly, Nobody believes me.

I still say people made the ark. I'll stick with the word embrace. So, the same word which I have used, which is effectual, which would be effectively, effectually, that which is producing, is found in both Thessalonians and in Galatians. where it refers to ministers ministering a word, and it says it works.

As Jesus said, My Father worketh hitherto, and now I work. He

said, You say you believe Moses. Moses spoke of me.

John the Baptist said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness. I am Isaiah 40, verse 1, which they didn't have it in verses, made manifest in human flesh.

William Branham stood there and he said, Thus saith the Lord. Never fail once.

So we're dealing with something which is effectual.

Man's doing his best to be effective. He's taking every rule and everything he can possibly bend. It's contort, convolute, and God knows what to have an effect. Now here you have the Holy Spirit. and you have the word entirely effective, so therefore you know that God is in his word, right? Roman Catholic priest said to Brother Branham, God is in his church, and Brother Branham says, I beg your pardon, God is in his word. This is why I tell you that Rima and Logos are the same, and this is why I'm going to get kicked back from people, because the blood of Jesus Christ is not nearly as strong as the blood of their relatives.

So you'll die with Mama, Papa, Grandpa, and all the rest. Instead of going to the pure, unadulterated, vindicated Word of God. That's your business. All right, now what does this word effect for me? It means it's operated. It's powerful. It comes from the word energize, which means energies. It is an energy. It is a force which is effective. Actually, it comes from two words. Number one, the first portion means to be positioned. as an instrument or as instrumentality, plus the fact it works. So, therefore, something is within the individual which is placed there which absolutely works. He

said, my Father which gave them me is greater than all, and no man can pluck them out of my Father's hand. And he said, he that comes to me will never, never, never perish.

There's no way that he can. So you're looking at something here which is absolutely fantastic and vital concerning yourselves. The energy that you use, you come here, you sit on your seats, you're determined to pull out of me whether I want to pull out of me or not. That's why I say I spill my guts and it's your responsibility. You pull it out. Now the thing is, what does it do for you if you pull it out? What did it do if he made an atmosphere for Brother Branham and he had to come forth saying things he didn't even plan on saying? What was it? Remember the first time I met him, we had a meeting in our arena in West Palm Beach. And I wasn't supposed to do it. But I stood behind him. Now that I was supposed to do. And I was supposed to watch where he wouldn't get entangled in the big long microphone cord. That I was supposed to do. But I wasn't supposed to concentrate on him to make him whirl and look at me. But I sure did it. Because I wanted something. I wanted anything I could. I concentrated on that man, demanding to pull on him until about the second night or so he began to ignore me. It was all right. I didn't want to be ignored. I was going to pull on him until I pulled his wig off the head one. Pull on his heartstrings until his heartstrings begin to vibrate. Pull on his mind until his mind begin to grasp things I wanted to have grasped.

You say it can't be done? You're living proof that it is done. As

far as I'm concerned. Might not bear record with other people. Who cares? Ephesians, the third chapter. And in verse 20, Now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundant of all that we ask or think, according to the power that is at work within us.

There's something working within you.

Now you not only have the Holy Ghost, but you have the Holy Ghost bound by his word.

You have an abstract. You

see the thing coming together? Brother Branham preached this Bible intrinsically and in unmitigated manners. Too bad we all don't understand it. So now, unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to what? Not you, but the living word of God within you. Now,

how many would dare to ask to be positioned even as the new Jerusalem, according to the word of God, would position us? Uh -uh. It's even greater. So here is what you're looking at. You're looking at this fantastic effectiveness. The seventh verse of the third chapter. For I was made a minister according to the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. Now, Paul said, I was this ordained, vindicated, manifested prophet that I actually brought the word of God. to you, and you knew by vindication that it was the word of God. As Brother Branagh said, when the eagle screamed, the little eagles rose up. Right? That's exactly what he's saying. Now watch what he says here. He said, I was made a minister of this gospel of grace to bring the truth of salvation to the Gentiles, the great mystery of Abraham, the father of all nations. I was made a minister according to the gift of grace, and it was given to me. An effectual working power of God. And as Brother Branagh said, if God does it for one man, he's got to do it for the other man if that other man is supposed to have it. So now you see where you're at. You have this given as unto the minister Paul. And Paul himself admitted in 2 Corinthians, the third chapter, when the veil of creeds and denominations were ripped away from our minds by the experienced and forceful hands of the one who held the sword, who would unclothe the bride of her vulgar clothing and clothe her in the righteous clothing in the waters of separation. Brother Paul tells us, he said, a ministry does it.

We aren't in midst this morning. We are back to what I said the other day. We've been looking back down the road for the sweet Spirit of Christ, looking forward to the road to the sweet Spirit of Christ, not knowing that the sweet Spirit of Christ is here, and we just have to create the atmosphere, and He'll heal the sick amongst us. God

hasn't left one thing undone, as pertaining Himself and as pertaining us. So Paul mentions this great ministry. Now, let's go to Ephesians, the fourth chapter, and begin to see the same thing. Now notice in verse 16, it says, From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, make an increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. Now what does that mean? Well, it's over here in the book of Romans. So let's go to the book of Romans. You don't mind me preaching before I preach. I'm not even preaching. I'm just giving you some announcements. Nothing to it. All right.

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chapter of Romans. Now, verse 15. Rip the casting away of Israel. Be the reconciling of the world. What shall be the receiving of them but life from the dead? Now, you know Israel isn't dead. It's blind. So, therefore, blindness in part has happened to Israel. Now, when they get their eyes open, and they're just getting their eyes open, the hour of the resurrection is on us. And Brother Branham said, since Israel's in the homeland, waiting for the complete 144 ,000, which could be there by now because Ethiopians are in, almost all from Russia are in, almost everywhere around the world are in, except those that don't want to come in. That's your rich bunch of Wall Street Caesars over here. Why would they go back? But God uses them to finance it. All right. At that time, their blindness begins to disappear. Now watch in verse 25. For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel until the fullness. Of the Gentiles be come in. Now, that's not the times of the Gentiles. That's the fullness. No more to come in, as Brother Branham said. The last child is brought in and his child trained. So, therefore, when you see here, the measure, the effective measure of every part. Now, what does that refer to again? It refers to 1 Corinthians, the 13th chapter. Notice how it all comes together. It says here in the 8th verse, love never fails. Whether there be prophecies, they shall fail. Tongues shall fail. Whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. That prophecy up there is not the same prophecy in verse 8.

No way. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. And he's already telling you knowledge will vanish away. This is another kind of knowledge. This is another kind of prophecy. It's the prophetic word of God of its hour manifested and revealed.

You don't think so? Hold your finger there. Let's go to 1 Peter.

I guess I never should have started, but man, if I never finish, that's all right. That'd be a second Peter. All right, listen. 2 Peter, he's telling you about the end time. And in verse 15, first chapter, Moreover, I will endeavor that you may be able after my death to have these things always in remembrance. I'm going to write them down. For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming, the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. Now he's talking about something that is in the scripture, that is prophetic, that has to come to pass. And he's telling you what already has come to pass. Because he was there to see it. Verse 17, he received from God the Father honor and glory. When there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven. When we were with him in the holy mountain. Now Hebrews 12 says that voice has got to come again. We have also more sure word of prophecy. The word of prophecy made more sure. Where unto you do well to take heed as a light that shines in a dark place. Until the day dawn and the day star rise in your hearts. Knowing this verse that no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation. But for prophecy came not. In old time by the will of man, but holy men of God speak as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. And he says right there, he said, the prophets themselves did not know the times. They only knew it would take place. And Peter is spotlighting the times of the words that come to pass. So therefore, in this hour, there is a time when you know in part and you prophesy in part. And that's all over. What does it mean? There's no more to know and there's no more prophecy to be fulfilled.

Because that which is perfect or complete is come. You understand what I'm saying? So then the measure of every part is effective. It was effective in the first church age, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth. And under the seventh, it is totally effective because no more come in. No more will be child trained. The dead will come out of the ground. We will be changed and a bride will be called away.

Now then. That depends absolutely upon the presence. Which presence is caught by a camera? Which presence is also caught by a camera?

So we are sitting here this morning under a perfect vindication. So, all right, we are in Ephesians, the fourth chapter. Now, in the fourth verse, there is one body and one spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all is above all and through all and in you all. But unto every one... Now, that's just a brag. Don't become universalist. That's ridiculous. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Now, notice the very same thing that Paul said concerning himself. He said, I was allowed to bring the revealed truth. I was allowed to be that prophet, vindicated to be so. Strictly on the grounds of grace. I didn't ask for it. I didn't want it. I didn't apply for it. But to the exclusion of everybody else. You say, Brother Vail, that couldn't be grace, don't you know? If it excluded everybody else, why didn't you talk to God?

Why didn't you pull him down and beat him with a big club? Pounce some brains in his fat head.

Well, that can't be grace. It can't be.

Who said so? Who told you what grace was?

You saw grace is unmerited favor. Now, just a cotton -ticking minute. If grace is unmerited favor, who's the gracer?

Now, you tell me that you can switch to Scripture when it distinctly says, foreknown before the foundation of the world, he made his choice.

For there was a speck of stardust, the choice was made. You

want to revise your thinking this morning, we call a recess? If we do, you better go home and stay away for at least six years.

Because this is something you take or eat your throat in the garbage can.

Because I'm giving you the word of God. Not Lee Dale's word, not somebody else's word, but God's word. This man was chosen exclusively even as John the Baptist was born to it, even as Jeremiah was born to it.

Before thou was formed in thy mother's womb, I knew thee. As William Branham, prophet of God, and it shocked you right down to your T -bone. He said the only difference between you and Jesus Christ was... that he did not bypass his theophonic form and therefore could remember everything and say, Father, glorify me with the glory I had with thee before the world began. He said, you were there, but you can't remember it.

Any other grace but God's grace would upset the plan of God completely and destroy his integrity and everything about it.

Everybody here is an environmentalist of some description. We've got a few farmers here in the sense they know a little bit about farming, not too much. But you all read the newspapers.

You all know the Bible that says God's going to destroy those that destroy the earth.

You all know this, that you'd like something absolutely pure and unadulterated in the hand of somebody that knows what he's doing and will do it. Then why fuss about God?

We condemn ourselves by our own reasonings.

And why not enter a program of a new type of reasoning, which is called repentance, where we change our minds. To fit the mind of God. Now he says, every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of God. Every single one predestinated to replace the body of Christ.

Now he goes a little further. Wherefore, he says, when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. Now he that ascended, what is it? But he also descended first to lower parts of the earth. That's his soul. He that descended is the same one also that sendeth up a fire above all things in heaven. He went up and he came back. It was the Holy Ghost. Exactly true. And he gave. Now Paul is setting the church in order and he himself is the author of this. By that I mean he is the amanusis or he is the scribe from God. And God says this through Paul. Now Paul is not in this category verse 11. He is above it.

He is not a five -fold prophet. He's a word prophet. And he gave some under the real prophet, apostles and prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. For what? For the equipping of the saints, for the work of the ministers, the edifying of the body of Christ. Till we all come in unity of faith, the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man. That's a mature man under the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning trappers whereby they lie in wait to deceive, but holding the truth in love. They grow up unto him. You can't go into him. You're already in him. But you grow in his fullness, which is the head even Christ, from whom the whole body. fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supply, according to the effects of working in the measure of every part, make an increase of the body on the edifying of itself and love. Now, this is where a lot of pastors go haywire. They try to make Brother Branagh say what he didn't say. Brother Branagh said, the pastor is the supreme authority in the church, and you'll make it if you stick with your pastor. But he also said, if you haven't got any confidence, leave him. Now, I'm not saying this for leave. Hey, listen, my ministry is on tapes. And I don't mean to hurt you. You know that I love you, and I wouldn't want to hurt you. But my ministry goes out in lots of places in the world, places I don't know myself where they go. I hear from people I don't even know who they are, maybe living. One woman, 80 years old, wrote me, said, Brother Vail, certain lady gives me your tapes. I used to go to church so -and -so. I can't go anymore because I don't find he's teaching what Brother Branham teaches, but I like your tapes. I wrote her nicely. I said, thank you for your confidence. The Lord bless you. Didn't offer to send her a tape, and I won't do it.

I'm interested. Yet I have a tape ministry. See? But I want to tell you this morning, look here. If you consider me to be what people outside do, and I know that you do, you have got to listen to me and believe me that I am telling you what you need to know from God. Because I don't have an ax to grind with you.

I don't even assume to be a pastor. I can do a pretty fair job, but I am not a pastor. I have a pastor's heart in that I love and I want to help everybody do what I can. But I teach, and you have got to believe that I have that measure of grace in a ministry that will give you that which is effective. And I know that you believe that. But what I'm trying to get across this morning is not to confirm you more in your faith in me, because forget it, I don't even have faith in myself. Why should I? Like Paul said, I could be disapproved or cast away. What I'm looking at you and trying to get across is this. You have already taken the forward steps that are required in order to pull absolutely out of me if there is something in there. And then when you pull it out, you get it. And whether you know it or not, it's working in you and it's effective. And if it's a lie, you will go to hell with me.

And if it's a truth, there's no way you're going to miss what's at the end.

Now, you've got to be sold on it. And I don't have to have any deacons stand up here. and tell you like I don't know if it's the truth. You say, then why do you say it? Because I'm pretty sure it is because I know whereof it came. The very names of the people. Man's deacons got up in church in a certain place in this world and he said, Brother Branham is now out of the picture. He's passe. He is no longer the authority. Our pastor's the authority and he supersedes William Branham. Let me tell you with my hands raised before God in this Bible, I can never supersede William Branham.

I don't even come near him as though I could supersede.

If I were to compare my life with his, mine would be a manure heap that

would put any cesspool to shame. If I were to compare what truth I have to his, I'd be a little tiny molehill, and his would be Mount Everest.

If I were to compare ministry of grace, it would be nil while he had it all. And yet he was so kind to say that day to me, Lee, you and I are just alike. I've got a little gift of healing, nobody wants it. You've got a little gift of healing and nobody wants it. And if you think for one minute I have a knowledge of the word that's far superior to yours, it could be possibly quite correct. But insofar as the effectuality, mine is no more effectual in me than yours is in you. Though I might have an eloquent golden tongue, though I might live far above my peers, though I may manifest many things, as far as God is concerned, we are all equal in this race. And we're all part of each other. But let you know this one thing. That which is living is effectual.

Said many a time, you can't leave a church. Nowhere under any condition can you leave a church service and not be changed somehow. You sit here and you say, Brother Vail, I'd be fine. And I stand here and I say, you are a liar. You aren't aware of it. But one day you will. Because as I look you in the eye now shortly, I will see you all before the white throne.

And it's reality. I've got to be there. I've got no way out.

You've got to be there. You've got no way out. There'll be just one thing in your favor. Are you loaded with that word? Have you piled the living word? Word upon word. My Bible tells me that the sinner shall not stand in the judgment. He'll be blown away like the chaff. And the chaff is the Pentecostal. It's the last hour that we're living in. All that's left of the church in humanity, which means it's burned, burned, burned. Whose

span is in his hand thoroughly, purging his glory, the gathered wheat and the garn and the chaff. He burns up with fire and potential, but the righteous shall stand.

Now let me tell you, righteousness is not the absence of sin.

Righteousness is not the absence of sin, or then righteousness is a vacuum.

If you believe that sin is real, then righteousness is real.

You believe that? Romans, the fifth chapter. Hey, I'm getting so good, just almost the very chapter opens up.

Listen. Verse 15, Romans 5. But not as the offense, so also is the free gift. No comparison. Ripped through the offense of one man and be dead. Much more the grace of God and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. It does not deny sin.

No. But you know something?

One day you'll find that sin glorifies righteousness on the grounds of

what Polycarp said. You'll find it quoted in Arrhenius. I'm almost sure Polycarp gave him the gist of it. God being a savior, it was necessary that he predestinate a man who would require salvation in order to give himself a reason and purpose of being.

As Brother Branham said, it takes a bad woman to make a good woman look good.

So one day you'll see all this thing be burnt in the lake of fire. As we travel this road looking to him and he giving us a chance, giving us all opportunity, and we reciprocating, giving him his opportunity, one day come forth in his light, brightness, and his own majesty and glory, which could not have been except for the dark trail that we traverse through at this time.

Effectual?

How effectual?

Effective? How effective?

If there's going to be this setting down at the great table where he wipes away every tear, and there's no more remembrance of former things, then

there won't be. And

at this hour, you're not only complacent concerning the will of God, but you happily receive it without delving into your hearts and minds to get an explanation you like better than that which is manifested and vindicated to us. I say you're in a happy position. Let me explain myself.

When you get through studying, Brother Branham, and he lays it out cut and dry,

He shows you where the seed comes from. Goes into the book of life. The Lamb's book of life. Lays all these things out.

He delves into serpent feed.

And he comes up telling you what the apostle Paul told but did not use these words. He said, God knew every gnat or flea. Couldn't be either one. How many there'd be. How many times they'd bat their eyeballs. And how many it would take to make a pound of tallow.

He said, God knew I'd be up in this pulpit. preaching to you people, you'd be sitting right down there listening.

He's the author and finisher of our faith. He's the creator of all things and the ender of all things.

Do you hear what I'm saying now? You're coming right to where they said to the Apostle Paul. Let's go look at it. The book of Romans. My memory's not so good. I can tell you the page and everything else, but I think my memory's good enough that I can find it. Perhaps it's all just necessary. And

Paul is talking about this very sovereign principle. And in verse 13 in chapter 9, as it's written, Jacob of our loved and Esau have I hated. And that comes out of verse 10 and 11. And not only this, that's concerning Isaac by Sarah. And they had to get brand new bodies to have him.

When Rebekah conceived by one, even by her father Isaac, the children not being born, and neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth. not even the parents who wanted the kids. Everything

to do with the parents or the kids. The elders shall serve the younger. Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Can you stand this morning with me and see a vindicated man go to these scriptures and tell you this? If you didn't have representation then, you don't have it now.

That there's three kinds of believers sitting in every church. The believer, the make -believer, and the unbeliever. There's really only two kinds. He tells you that, but he puts in the three to understand it better. And in the believer, there's the wise virgin and the foolish virgin. That Judas had his name in the book of life. Not in the book of life. Now, the book of life. We can go into that. It's as simple as ABC. Because you're just one book.

With a lifeline going through it. The pruning off and everything else. And he stood right there and he said, using this very scripture. Now, here's the man. For unto Moses he said, I'll have mercy on whom I'll have mercy, I'll compassionate whom I'll compassionate. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. Now listen, before he was able to run, before he was able to do, before he was even born, he

was chosen. And Brother Branham said, that's not like God's, I'll take this one, I'll leave that one, I'll take this. Absolutely not. It's ahead of time.

Now, people write today they deny the wisdom of God and what He's doing. But if I were a father that had the power, I would be no less than God for I'd determine exactly how many children I'd have and what they'd look like and what they'd be doing and how I'd take care of them and where they would be. And I'd be a lousy father if I had the chance to do that and didn't do it.

And if I saw I had the power to give that child training by some obtuse way, the rubbing of shoulders over here, the rubbing of shoulders over there, and I didn't do it, I'd be lousy, Father. Yet you might sit here this morning, and this is the tough thing Brother Brandon preached, and he saw predestination, and they turned it down flat, and I saw where those men went. You

follow me?

It's not of him that will us, or of him that run us, because those kids didn't will. They didn't want to be born. They knew nothing of it.

They didn't know. That they didn't want to be born. It's come out of their choice. But Jesus, that Son of God, wanted to be born. Lo, a body hast thou prepared for me. Are you with me? That's not too deep. It's easy as ABC. All you've got to do is believe the Word of God. I'm just preaching what the prophet preached. I'm just preaching what Paul preached. Now, let's keep reading. God shows mercy. For the Scriptures have unto fair, even for this same purpose have I raised thee up. that I might show my power in thee, that my name might be declared through all the earth. When has the story of Moses and Pharaoh died? It hasn't died, and it'll never die. How

many people can write a book and tell that one? He

said, I raised you up to destroy it. I raised you up to be a thorn in my children's side. I raised you up to bring the good in them, right out in public, by all the bad in you, where their faith wasn't all. Now listen. Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Now listen. Thou wilt then say unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Now that's a good question. The

way it is. I don't want to hear from God. I don't want to talk to God. It is a cut deck of cards. It's a stack deck of cards.

You know what the answer was? Nay, but old man, are you to reply against God? Now listen to me. He's talking about Moses and Pharaoh, and there was a showdown. A showdown of manifestation of two signs, then ten mighty manifestations of confrontation miracles, of which the last one was the firstborn son in death. And what did Pharaoh do? He broke his word and came with his chariots, and he said, I'll still get him.

Now, one day in the holy encampment after the second resurrection, the devil and all his gang is going to come against God and his people. Oh, dear.

Yet man wants to reply against God when man's doing these things. You come to my house and try to steal what I got. I'll take your eyeballs to the back of your head. Oh, brother, you shouldn't do that because... Shut up! I

wonder if people get away with rape and everything else these days. They're all sick. But the judgment of God is in the room. Who are you now? I said a while ago. about Brother Brown and this message. When you get this message down pat, the way it's the truth, you can say, well, you

can get so hard in here. You

can get so bumptious up here. You can become a kind of a spiritual clod, an ignoramus, carried away with your own inflated ego.

I'm telling you what I know to be the truth. I'm in this thicker than any of you. Maybe all of you put together. I hope not. I certainly hope not. But I'm in the thick of it. I watch my thoughts. My thoughts come slanting in. I look at this word. Under a vindicated ministry, you can be so entirely food and so out of touch and so hard. But you're getting softened up this morning. But you forgot what I softened you with. Something inside of you is working that isn't working in somebody else. It

doesn't matter how this word looks so cut and dry. They say, well, who's God? What's God finding fault for? Hey, what's going on here anyway? What's this all about?

I can't take it. I

sat there in Yuma, Arizona. Brother

Branham said, the shout is the message. Brother

Branham, I've heard you say a lot of things, but this is the worst of the worst. I don't think I can take it. Like a boy said, when was he ever wrong? I said, shout's message. Keep going, buddy. That ended it.

From that time on, it developed and burned. I don't say I've got all the answers, but

I've got answers a lot of people don't have because they couldn't take it.

that they have their own ideas, not William Brannon's. And I'm so scared at times I preach my ideas about his ideas when I simply want to preach exactly what he said, which are the ideas, which means the thoughts of that revealed word of Almighty God. Who hath resisted his will? No, but, O man, who are you to reply against God? Shall the thing form Satan, the form of why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay? Of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, another unto dishonor. What if God willing to show his wrath and to make his power known endured with much long sufferings, the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction, that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had aforeprepared unto glory. Now listen, in verse 22 it tells you categorically that these people fitted themselves because they didn't have to. To do what they did. But they were anxious to do it. And they did it. Like their father the devil. Absolutely. But down in the bottom. In 23. The vessels prepared and fitted. It puts it right back on God. Now

where are you this morning in your faith? Where are you this morning in your anticipation? Where are you when you come in here? And I can feel the presence of God in your happiness. Your spirit drawing. Don't you know that which is working in you? To bring something out. is working for you because it takes it within. And this is the method that God has laid down whereby his people recognize the voice of God, enter back into that fold from which they inadvertently left by reason of birth to come into the fullness and greatness of God and God doing every single bit. And he says, even us whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. God only ever had one plan, to have a bride. It didn't matter if he had a group here called Jews for a couple of thousand years or so. What's that got to do with it? God's eternal. He takes his time. But God is effectual. I'm not going to preach anymore, don't worry. It's all over. But God is effectual. He is not an effect. He is omnipotent, omniscient, and he's effectual. He

brings about effects. And this morning we've learned how he does it. That is why Paul said, my gospel. That is why always the prophets and Brother Branham have always used Rimalogos.

That's why there's been the definitive in our day. And you're not out there somewhere as though you're going to be classified. The point is you are now classified. Believe it. Now listen, if you didn't believe it, you wouldn't be pulling.

You wouldn't be coming back. You're

part of it. I'm a part of it. It's all one Holy Spirit. It's all one word. It's all one body. It's all one grace. It's all one of God. There is nothing that isn't. God in us. Of us. In us. Through us. Amongst us. In that day you'll know that I am in the Father, you in me, and I in you. A spoken brother, Brandon, said of Pentecost and of this hour and of the white throne. So there it is. Effectually. It works. It works. God works. The word works, brothers and sisters. The word works. In that word is life. And the word received in the mind going to the soul. This is the process of your transfiguration. But it couldn't happen until this hour and it took the right word. That's when the seals were all broken. Seventh seal was Revelation 10, 1 to 7. And the seven thunders uttered. And Brother Branagh said, the bride now has. Everything she needs to put her in a rapture. Can you receive that this morning? Can you stand on it? Let me tell you. That's all you can stand on.

If I knew the slot machine took 15 cents, a nickel and a dime, to get a cup of water, and I had to have the cup of water, and I had the nickel and the dime, I'd just put the nickel and the dime in there and get the cup of water. I wouldn't worry about a sledgehammer trying to steal it, trying to beg it, trying to bore it. I'd just put in my 15 cents. Now, this morning, you've already put in your 15 cents.

And what you've got back this morning is the same word that you put your 15 cents into. And you've got the product. And the product was the effectual working of God through his word in you.

Can you believe the word's working in you? That's the thing that really counts. Because there isn't going to be anything else. Can you find one thing more in your Bible? Can you find anything vindicated other than that? Can you find the prophet screaming out any other place? He said, the sword of the king. Why? He said, the king is God himself and the sword is the word. And then he screams, bring on your holy vesture with the holy word of God standing. Dress a person with the sword? With the word of God. All glorious within and without. Thoroughly sanctified for presentation. See, it's not. It is not that you and I have anything to do with the plan per se. As just a plan. But we have everything to do with the plan. Because without us, there isn't a plan. And without the plan, there wouldn't be our positioning. And it all goes back to God. So what are you looking at? You're looking at the new Jerusalem and everything that's accomplished. You're looking at it now in this hour of the resurrection. Brother Branagh said, God saw us in Christ. There was nothing he didn't see in us concerning him. All poured into him. All for us and near we stand. And he are complete in him who is the head in

this hour that Brother Branagh speaks of. Now then, don't move your thoughts back any longer. Don't move your thoughts ahead any longer. Stand right in the gap where the door is open. And say we are moving and moving continuously. Now, not going forward. You're going upward.

You can't go forward because he said there's no more history. You can't go backward because the clock won't go back. There's nobody here to turn the sundial back because it's too late. The seals are open. You can't do it. You stand with the word.

Heavenly Father, we want to thank you for the privilege that you allowed us to be here this morning. And we thank you, Lord, for word and season, which word we do believe we have had in season. and I trust.

I believe what you gave us this morning was real for your people and we stand and abide by it. And personally, Lord, I like it very, very much because as it gets us off the hook, so to speak, it puts all the glory back on you. For there again we see if the Lord does not build the house they labor in vain, then build it. If the Lord doesn't watch the city, the watchman watches but in vain.

And yet, Lord, we see you building according to a vindicated word and we love it so much and we see a city. With a pillar of fire above the throne controlling everything, God having built it. We are your husbandry. We are your building.

And in all, through you, see all things of God. And we venerate and worship in place respectively. And with heartfelt love, that great begotten son in whom was the lineage, took upon himself a human form, died for us. Went down into Hades in the form of the Spirit. The soul came back upon this earth. And now right today, we see you coming forth in this hour, putting your church in order, leading us to the millennium by the pillar of fire. All these things are true. We receive them, Lord. It's the engrafted word of God, the living word. We know we believe them because anybody talks differently. We come right to the defense. We only know, Lord, we don't believe it as we'd like to believe it. But then we're not prophets. So then why should we try to step outside of our order and be foolish? Why should we not, like dear children of obedience, simply believe? And there's no room not to believe because we've seen the vindication manifest. So we bring it all down to the point, Lord, we do believe. And we're glad we believe with the intensity we do believe. And with what emotions and gratitude and all these things that bring forth knowing, Lord, that we are responsible to even have greater depth of that real. Love of the word and just soaking in it. So it becomes everything to us because it is. Wonderful that is because it was here before there was a speck of stars before we were here. And all coming into manifestation. We thank you now for the sweet spirit of Jesus Christ and we thank you because he is here. No longer moving into the church. We know he's in the church. In that particular measure, the way he's doing things. So there's none among us who can't be just

recognizing more and more. And giving way until there's not one thought here, animosity or enmity or division or diversion, whatever it might be. But that's sweet unity. And the end time is guaranteed.

Brother Brown said, and I know he did say, that every church could be heir to, absolutely able to have all nine gifts in its midst. It could certainly have all the nine fruits.

Though it might not have all five full ministries, that's not necessary. We know that. There's some of each coming in and so on and so forth.

We do know, Lord, all the promises of God are locked into us this morning. And we can all stand in that place where we are truly one with each other, not by some emotion or by some creed or by some dogma, but by the truly engrafted, spirit -filled word that lies within us, which your people here, Lord, have pulled upon to come forth. And what's come forth, I believe, Lord, is the truth. I know it's the truth because it is the truth

vindicated by the prophet. Let that now reside within us with all the richness of submission and prayer. Pride. As Brother Branham said to the women, wear your hair with pride. Let us be proud today and have this word in our hearts with pride that it's a vindicated word that God did it. So happy to be

standing here today placing ourselves as vessels in whom this treasure reposes. So

we're looking, Lord God, even also as Brother Branham said, to serve the Lord is entitled to a healthy body. And all your people here are trying to serve you. Not just me. I'd be silly to say I'm trying to serve the rest aren't. Who would they be serving? We're all serving you, Lord. All God. The abstract and full view, the entitlement's there. Where

Caleb's in Joshua this morning, we're well able to take the land. We're well able.

We've seen the power even in the world to come. By your grace, even if we have to grit our teeth and close our eyes, put blinkers on our eyes like they do on the horses, whatever it takes to stand right there and look,

looking at and overlooking everything else, we are well. And we will be

happy to have us. What a tremendous day that's coming, Lord. We thank you for it. Now as we dismiss, we just go our way, Father God, in the joy and rejoicing of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Thanking you for your kindness and your love. Bring us together again for your word, whatever time that may be, whatever it may be. And may it be, Lord, in a richer, stronger plateau, having taken to our hearts completely what we know to be the truth, as I tried to bring it this morning. There is no word void of power. And your word will not return void, but will accomplish unto usent. We give you the glory in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, the deacons are going to pass the plate. Is that right? You're going to sing with them? Then you're going to say, take the name of Jesus with you. Thank you for your kind attention. We love you.