Dynamics of Revelation ( No Date)

‘Dynamics of Revelation’

Bro Lee Vayle – (No date)

a. Try and recover my lost time so, unless there’s a feel that we will just continue that… thereof… I will be here at lease Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and then we'll see by Wednesday how we stand. See, I don’t intend to be able to finish the series we are starting tonight, on ‘The principles of Revelation’ but, we'll cover a certain amount anyway.

Now, to make the record clear, as I said to a group in Columbia, South Carolina, that I am deeply entrenched in what I believe to be the Last Day Message from a Last Day Messenger. I won’t be here to discuss what a lot of people may like, what they may think is the Word of God but, what a vindicated, indicated, authenticated man brought in the Last Day.

b. When a man can stand up before the whole world and say: “Bring me your worst case, and I will guarantee healing or, bring me the twenty-four, out of the audience!” No man in history has ever said that, not even Jesus Christ, although we know He healed them all. We've talked about God being the same yesterday, today and forever. But, I am sorry to say that even those people I used to worship with and came out who were so honest and so convinced. That God did vindicate His Word by the signs and wonders. I was amazed that they repudiated him, because he could do what they could not.

Now, when my God fails to do what He is supposed to do then there is something wrong with God. When a people who claim that they believe the whole Bible, and they believe in a vindicated Word, then they back off because that man doesn’t say what they say, there’s got to be something wrong somewhere. Because, when a man who doesn’t say what you say but, can do it, then that difference is that he’s got something you haven’t got and he’s further up the ladder. Specially if it's what the Word said could be produced and he can produce it.

c. Now, if you don’t understand me, let me put it this way, I got a friend back in Canada, who when the professors of the university couldn’t make the oil burner work, they were supposed to be able to do it but, when it came to the oil, they called in this friend of mine, because he could do without training what they are supposed to do with their training. And he did it. And that’s what we have today we have the man who came on this scene, and who like Christ, was to bring a Message because, Christ said, “I am sent.” Not only did He bring deliverance to the captives, but He also was going to preach the Gospel. He began to do and teach, they repudiated Him. And there’s never been a person yet that hasn’t been repudiated. There’s never been a person in the Word of God yet, who caught popular fancy. You ever find anyone that catches the popular fancy of the world you better believe he’s not of God. And yet, every movement that I know today are trying to catch popular fancy. I am against it, that’s all I can say.

So, when we speak, attempting to show you what we can from the Word of God, we will stick with the Word of God, and I am not attempting to give you anything original in the sense that I have some great message to bring you. But, I believe we had a prophet in this age, who when three hundred preachers stood up against him, not one dared to come forward as a gentleman and stand and discuss the Word of God. There’s got to be wrong with somebody somewhere. You can’t do that because I found him to be humbly and sweet. I've no problem, a man so thoroughly vindicated by God and His Word, indicated in God’s Word, he’s in there in the Book, he’s vindicated. I never knew a prophet that ever fell down, and never knew a time when he ever said, “Thus Saith the Lord,” didn’t come to pass. He was authenticated he certainly had the Pillar of Fire.

d. You know what’s wrong with people? They try to stereotype God! How many believe tonight that you got to repent before you are filled with the Holy Ghost, there’s no other way? Let me see your hands. You are all wrong! John the Baptist was full of the Holy Ghost in his mother’s womb. You see, you stereotype God! I know some of you didn’t raise your hands but, you got fooled too. I am not here to trick you, I am here to show you, don’t you stereotype God, because every movement done the same thing, put Him in a little black book and said, “We’ve got it this way.”

A friend of mine… I mean a preacher told us, a head of an organization told a friend of mine in Chicago, I give you the name and all about it if you want, and he said, “Listen, that man can’t be right, because if God sends a prophet, He’d send him to us, because if anything is going to be done, we are going to do it.” Want to bet? You're going to do what? Twist God’s arm? No!

e. So, the messages will be along lines of the various revelations in the Word of God. Preached as they are in the Word of God, as taught by a mighty man of God and I believe him with all my heart. And that’s what we are here for, at least I am here for. I have no apologies, I have no axe to grind, no fight. If you shouldn’t believe that’s your privilege, I stated why I believe. I have been in my seminary, not to ever finish a seminary, but I took some training, not too much. Took a little bit and I have found out that those who claim that stand in the Word, they more or less walked around a lot of It. I don’t intend to walk around any Word, I don’t intend to stand here and say, “Well, because I say it, it’s got to be so.” Because, I wouldn’t say that, nor do I say even that I can produce evidence, any more than you can. If we had a showdown tonight here and say, “Let God answer by fire.” Could you say, could I say we have the Fire from Heaven? Not one.

So, I say, “I stand under authority tonight, I believe what I was taught.” And I believe what I am going to bring you tonight because of that very thing. Just the same as I believe Timothy was neither indicated, nor authenticated, nor vindicated as Paul, but he believed what Paul said. I am no Timothy now, don’t get any ideas. Just merely making the statement not an illustration, that, somebody’s got to know something somewhere! And that’s what we stand just to bring you what? I have tried to show you, in the Name of the Lord Jesus what was taught me. Paul, says, “Teach faithful men what was taught you.” I'm going to do my best to do it, and I think if we could do it with the help of the Lord. Now, before we get into our study let us pray a little bit.

Heavenly Farther, Thou knowest that we are not here to please ourselves, nor I don’t believe anybody is here O God, to please him or herself. I don’t believe anybody is here to jive or to poke fun of, or to set themselves up in authority, certainly not this one here. Because, Lord, I have cleared myself tonight, that I am not any authority.

And, Lord, we are only here to look to You, which we sincerely believe that Your Spirit was sent to the great end, to teach us and to lead us into Truth. So, Father, we commit ourselves to You tonight the best of our ability that the Spirit of God may have right of way. That’s all we know and that’s all we can do and we trust You'll do it? Give us the Word, Lord, that the Word may be altogether in the tongue and, Lord, let the same Spirit as that Spirit really be of You, to be in the listeners while it’s in the speaker in order that they having the same Spirit will hear exactly what is said and know what is said, rather than to have perhaps an idea of what has been said.

So, Lord, we leave it this way and believe that You have heard it and therefore, Lord, great good shall come tonight to all of us, but above all may You receive glory, because we would like that above anything in this world. In Jesus Name. Amen!

1. Now, I want to talk tonight on the Dynamics of Revelation, or you may say that revelation itself as given by the Holy Ghost is a 'dynamic principle'; in other words, the power of revelation, if you want to put it that way. Many ways you could put it, but to give you the thought of what I have in mind.

Now, if you would like we could turn to Ephesians. 1:15-23. Paul speaking to the Ephesian Church.

(15) Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

(16) Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

(17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

(18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that (you) may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

(19) And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

(20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places,

(21) Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

(22) And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

(23) Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

2. Now, Moffatt’s translation said:

(17) May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, grant you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation for the knowledge of himself,

(18) illuminating the eyes of your heart so that you can understand...

That's to know and that word 'knowledge, doesn't mean simply a superficial knowledge, it means a true experiential understanding, even as Moffatt tried to bring it out here.

(18) (And to know) the hope to which He calls us, the wealth of his glorious heritage in the saints,

(19) and the surpassing greatness of his power over us believers — a power which operates with the strength of the might

(20) which he exerted in raising Christ from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavenly (places far),

(21) above all the angelic Rulers, Authorities, Powers, and Lords, above every Name that is to be named not only in this age but in the age to come —

(22) he has put everything under his feet and set him as head over everything for the church,

(23) the church which is his Body, filled by him who fills the (entire) universe.

Now, to grasp this portion of Scripture, which I have read from two translations is to come to the conclusion that a principle designated as revelation has the ability, or the dynamics to empower the believer. For you will notice that the words are; “May God grant you revelation, for the knowledge of Himself so that you can understand the hope to which He’s called us.”

3. Now, I never, ever heard anybody even preach on this, although this according to the Word is why God has sent His Spirit that we may certainly understand the hope to which He has called us. I’ve never heard anybody preach on the second thing we are supposed to know, and that is ‘His Glorious Heritage in the saints’. You know that we are His inheritance.

What does that mean exactly? I never heard it preached on. Never saw a book on it, never heard any comment, it’s all been bypassed. And yet Paul has prayed that this is what we may have and it's something that should come out of the revelation of Himself, it’s something we ought to know. And thirdly, I heard of but, never heard really got to the meat of it, ‘the surpassing greatness of His power, which is operating in His Church which is His Body’.

Now, I am not going to talk on those things, but I just wish to being to your attention that Paul prayed that this is what might happen in the believer’s life. And yet I don’t know if I go to any seminary even find anybody who can give me any insight on it. I never preached on it myself, to tell you the truth. Never, ever heard perhaps people have brought a lot of truth concerning this thing. But, never ever put their thumb on this as far as I know.

4. Now, what I have read here is no false conception that...revelation… (See? ) …gives us power that it is dynamic, that it does something in our lives: Now, to prove that you can go back to the Book of Matthew16:13-18

(13) When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

(14) And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: (and) some, Elias; others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

(15) He saith unto them, But whom say that I am?

(16) And Simon Peter (said unto him), Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

(17) And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

(18) And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Now, I realize that many people misapprehend this portion of Scripture, and they don’t realize that Jesus is saying that the Church is built upon revelation, a spiritual revelation. They think it’s based upon, …built upon Jesus. Now, that’s not really so. Because the Church is His Body and Jesus is the Cap-Stone. It says the Church is built upon the apostles and the prophets. But, you know you can’t really build a church upon a man, any more than you can build a church upon Peter. Because, Peter was a man who cursed the Lord, and certainly betrayed His trust, you can’t build a church that way.

5. How is it built upon the prophets and the apostles? Simply because to them was given the Word. It’s the Word and that’s where... and at the revelation of that Word that gives the people the power. It’s a revelation of His Word. (See?) Many people have an idea that, “Oh my, I am going to have great power once I am baptised with the Holy Ghost.”

Now, that certainly sounds good, because it is scriptural. “You shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you.” [Acts 1:8a] But, how does that prove out? It does not prove out. You know as well as I do that all the talk of people being filled with the Holy Ghost today, the church is about as powerless against sin and against the devil as you ever seen. It’s not as though the church were walking with the gates of hell upon its shoulders uphill now like Samson, it’s like the gates of hell or, rather hell has come and taken away our gates! It isn’t there, for all the great revivals that we've supposed to have had. And many of the evidences which we have supposed to have seen, the power isn’t there. Why? Because, the people have not understood! Jesus said, “Flesh and blood has not revealed it but, my Father has revealed it.” [Mt 16:17] And this is the empowering of the Church, is a revelation by God Himself concerning the Word, because, Jesus certainly is the Word.

6. Now, the prevailing empowered Church is one walking in the revelation of the Spirit. And… but of course, since the Church is a many membered Body, then of necessity we must individually be empowered by a revelation.

Now, let me illustrate this to you. Take for example a man like the great Sir Cecil Rhodes. Now, what did Cecil Rhodes have that made him such a fantastic individual in his day? He had a revelation. And his revelation was that he was going to build, because it was feasible to build surely someone should do it, a red line from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo, which would be a red line of British power.

Now, Rhodes did not have the money, you know as well as I do it would take a … enough money to almost bankrupt the world, if you put it all in one spot in those days, to do that. Also, he didn’t have men, he never had armies but, what did Cecil Rhodes have? He had a vision! That it could be done and he did it. Now, what about a man like Rockefeller? What did Rockefeller have? He never had the billions he set out to make, but he had a vision! (See.) And this vision is what gave him his power.

7. Now, listen to me. All Rhodes needed was a vision of the reality to accomplish it and immediately instead of him going out to make the thing weld itself in one mighty unit, it, it is true that all of the things which he lacked began to accrue unto him. Now, the same thing with Rockefeller, he never had billions to start with, but he had the vision that it could be… could take place, now what is it? Because of this revelation, somehow in a way that you can’t understand things around him began to flow toward him until it was accomplished.

Now, this is the same thing in the Bible, the Scripture said, “Without a vision, the people perish,” [Prov 29:18] What is a vision? A vision is a revelation. It is something given by God that is so real, the man becomes on fire because of it. And he doesn’t go out there to accomplish things it’s the forces of God out there that go to work for him. Now, you know that’s true, because if you do it, then the Holy Ghost doesn’t do it. And, if you do it, you don’t get one bit of credit, because that which man builds will fall to the ground. “Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain who build the house: (and) except the Lord watches the city, they watch but in vain.” [Ps 127:1]

8. Now, let me prove my point if you still haven’t got it. Let me ask you one question: “What did Luther have but, a revelation that shook the world”? Now, come on. You know he didn’t have one thing but a revelation, by the Holy Ghost. And that revelation because of its reality put the faith into action in that man’s life that caused the forces to begin to operate. Brother, when they said, “Luther, the whole world is against you.” He could still tack he ninety-five theses on the church in Wittenberg, and say, “I am against the whole world”.

Let me assure you brother/sister, there never has been one missionary who ever accomplished one thing in the realm of the Spirit of God, except he had a revelation. It was a revelation that sent [William] Carey to India and that’s all. It was a revelation that sent a man from the shores of America, Doctor John Lake, who when he wondered if God was really sending him to Africa. I understand that he had a wife and several children. Gave up a vastly paying job and then said, “Now Lord if you are in this thing, You, are going to take me.” He not only gave up his job, he sold everything he had and he gave it all away. Around midnight, one night, a woman in California was wakened and said, “Send My servant John Lake fifteen hundred dollars.” And John Lake went to Africa with nothing but a revelation. It was that revelation that allowed him to stand up before men, who would dare to mock him, when he spoke on the power of God, and a horse lay foaming in the street.

They said, “Why don’t you do something about the horse?”

He said, “Boys, I will show you a thing or two.” And he walked over and that horse was raised, literally almost from the dead because that man prayed for it.

9. Now, you can look all you want in every church history, you can look anyplace you want in this world, and you’re going to find it's a revelation is the source of a man’s power and without a revelation the church is dead! And that’s exactly what’s wrong today in this modern age. You know what’s wrong with it? Dead fundamentalism! They say, “We believe in the ‘Plenary Theory.’” If you don’t know what that means, it’s a little theological term that we mean that this Bible IS the Word of God! We do not mean it contains the Word of God, we believe it IS the Word of God, from cover to cover! We believe there is no mistake in this Book, but the people who say it, “Can’t produce it!” And they look at you and they say, “Well, brother, we don’t take anything out of the Bible.”

You say, “What about Divine Healing?”

“Well, that was for the apostles.” Prove it? “Healing was for the early church.” Prove it!

And they do their best, they go to text books, they look everything they can up from this seminary and that seminary, they go to this professor and to that professor, and you know what they have done? They have done just what Israel did. Jesus said, “You have voided My Word by your tradition”. [Mk 7:13] And there was no open vision, there was no revelation and Israel was dead, and the only folk who had a revelation were a few people.

And you know something? They were the only ones who recognized Jesus Christ. But, you see, they were dead in their traditions. And, I am going to say this tonight we are just as dead today in America with our dead traditions. Just as dead! Because, the people who talk about all the great things of God, and talk about the Word of God, when it comes right down to the reality of it... it isn’t real to them and they cannot produce it. Why? Because there is no revelation! It’s the revelation that gives you power. It’s not the Holy Ghost! You receive power after the Holy Ghost come upon you and it’s the Holy Ghost that gives you the revelation. That could show two things, that could show those people who talk about having the Holy Ghost, don’t have It. That’s right! Because, if I read my Bible correctly, He was given to us that we might have revelation.

10. Now, as we study tonight, I want you advise you, I am not speaking of revelation as it’s found in the first chapter… the first book of 1 Corinthians 14, we'll look at that just a second so I can show you on the negative side what I am not talking about. In 1 Corinthians 14:6, It said, and 26 also, I will read them.

(6) Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

(26) How is it then, brethren? when (you) come together, every one of you hath a psalm, a doctrine, a tongue, a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

Now, you will notice in here that Paul is speaking of that which is sporadic: that which is simply a manifestation of the Holy Ghost for just a minute. Just like tongues is, a word of knowledge, something like a gift of healing, just for a moment, in other words, a manifestation for a moment. Paul is not talking about what we're talking about tonight. We're talking about the knowledge imparted for a dynamic life, for a life that is real. Not something for a moment. Now, I am not against this, I am for it, but I am not talking about it. See, this is something for a moment, you can come together, someone can prophesy, “Thus saith the Lord, a hurricane is going to hit the coast.” Amen, that’s good! What has it done for you? Come on, what has it done for you? You just stand back and say, “Oh wasn’t that great?” And you wonder, but I am not talking about a wondering people! I am talking about a people who cause others to wonder, because they've got reality. We're not classifying in a moment now, we are talking about that which is basic for a dynamic life. It is not something for a moment. Some solution for a pressing problem, or a condition, but it is the continuing dynamics of an empowered life...in the whole calling of God. From your rebirth you might say, to your glorification.

11. Let me illustrate a little more, turn to Galatians 2 with me, please and a couple of verses, 1and 2.

(1) Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

(2) And I went up by (a) revelation, communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

Now, Paul said, “I went to Jerusalem, because God said, 'This is the time to do it'.” That’s wonderful, we want that, but that’s not what I am talking about. What am I talking about? I am talking about the first chapter and in verses 11 and 12 of Galatians.

(11) But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

(12) For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

It was this revelation I'm talking about. It’s the Word of God made real. The Word of God made so real, so he could say to you, “Glorify God in me.” That when you heard me preach, it was as though you looked at a man, and you simply heard a man speaking, but the Word of God, which indeed it was the Word of God and you took as though God Himself were talking.

Now, I submit to you, that that’s Paul. And I submit to you that everybody who ever shook his generation, or anyone who made his mark as a Christian had this same thing. It’s a revelation, in other words, it’s not the Word of God gone dead. It’s not the Word of God on ice. Neither is it a people who simply have a mind that is full of the Word of God. We are not talking about a mental concept, we are talking now where Paul said, "that the eyes of your understanding," that’s in the mind. In other words, you really get a hold by understanding. It is a revelation, it is a depth there.

12. Now, not only is this so, but the revelation which God gives, and of course this dynamism in this revelation. Giving it to the believer, is not based upon any human endowment what so ever, but a spiritual indument. [obsolete word meaning; clothing] Even your little revelation that comes for the moment, Daniel said of it. Don’t think for one minute that I am reading that handwriting on the wall, because I got something that’s above myself? He said, “Know, even this revelation, this momentary revelation, to read the handwriting”. He said, “I don’t have that in myself, that’s got to come from God”. And that’s good, we are for it. See? But, there is something deeper than that.

As we mentioned over here in Paul’s revelation of the Word that gave him that great power, because what did Paul have outside of revelation? He never had anybody for him he had everybody against him. He turned around and said, “Everything I ever thought that was useful to me, by background, my education, I counted as manure.” [Phil 3:8] What was it Paul had?

You say, “The Holy Ghost!” No, the Revelation! Because, if you’ve got the Holy Ghost, what kind of Holy Ghost you got, second-rate, third-rate, fourth-rate from Paul? Show me where the Bible said you got less Holy Ghost than Paul? You can’t do it. Well you say, “But, I am a lesser creature”. Show me you are a lesser creature! I defy you to show me; on the contrary, I'll show you that the uncomely members of the body, God has given a certain comeliness to bring them up to the same stature to those who are more comely, as we would call it. What is?

13. Why does the church cool off periodically? God raise up a man, what does that man bring? What did Knox bring? What did Knox have the night that he stopped the armies of the ‘Bloody Marians’ and prayed to God and she died? What was it Patton had? When he went to the New Hebrides, and there the head hunters, the natives who wanted to kill him couldn’t. They search his home looking for the nine feet tall shining giant, who stood outside ravishing their spears and protecting him as he went for water. What was it those men had? The Bible tells you what they had, just what he said to Peter. The revelation. The gates of hell cannot stand against a man that is imbued, because of the revelation. And all things began to accrue to those men.

What did Coughlin have when he left the shores of America and went to China first of all and to Africa? What did Hudson Taylor have? Hudson Taylor made sure he had nothing but a revelation. He took nothing with him. We talk about taking God, but where’s the revelation? There is something missing.

Over here in the 11th chapter of the Book Matthew, we find the every same thing brought to our attention, in the sense of the Word that is [Matthew]11:25, It said,

(25) At that time Jesus said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed (them) unto babes.

Notice, the revelation is unto babes. You will see what God is doing, God is bringing to His people a revelation. Jesus said It, and Paul says It. We need revelation that is where our empowering is.

14. Now, let’s turn to 1 Corinthians 2: just come right along with all this, and we'll see just where It leads. Where God is taking you to this, in that second chapter and we'll read quite a bit of It. Well, we'll at this moment the 14th verse, and read the rest later.

(14) But the natural man receiveth not the things of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Now, did you read this here? You see, just don’t just read your Bibles, read what’s in there. "But the natural man receiveth not." what? The "things—t-h-i-n-g-s, of the Spirit of God." What are the things of God? Well, think them over, they're many things of God. ‘They're foolishness unto the natural man’. You as an individual cannot receive them, simply because you're human being. See? You can’t know them, "neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned." Do you realize that even the things of God need a revelation, or they'll lie dormant? I will prove it to you. Just hold that in mind, I'll prove it to you. They need revelation. They are spiritually discerned.

Now, we won’t get this just because we have a grasp of the Word of God; as the Word of God stands. In other words, not just because we memorize It. Now, that’s good memorize all you can, that’s good, but that won’t do it. Back in the early days of the early church, back there when Arius and Athanasius had locked their spiritual swords, as it was, in mortal combat, it says the whole world was spilt by a diphthong, which is nothing but the sound of a double vowel. Because if you said it one way it made Jesus a sub-creation; it made Him the first creation of God and He made all other things. Even as the Jehovah Witness’s say. See?

The other one, Athanasius, the way he put it from the Greek, made Him God, every God, which He is, although he didn’t understand, the… much perhaps of what we understand today. But at least he said, “He is God!” And they fell, they had themselves locked in combat simply over the Greek.

15. Now, let me show you something tonight. I read a book and I and read different books, not too many, but I read some books. But I poured over a book by Dr. McCrossan called, ‘Christ’s Paralyzed - Church X-Rayed’. He quoted all the Greek authorities, and all the rules of grammar and he proved to his own satisfaction, and the satisfaction I think, multitudes of people that by the so-called infallible rules of the Greek, you can know exactly what the Bible said. And yet isn’t strange that Dr. McCrossan quoted one man more liberally than all men, Dr. A. T. Robertson.

But, it is my understanding that Dr. A. T. Robertson didn’t believe what McCrossan believed, and yet he used the Greek that Dr. Robertson put forward to prove Dr. Robertson wrong. It has ever … ever been in his power in your seminaries? Has there ever been any power your colleges? Have men, erudite men ever produced anything? No, they never have and never will. But, you can take a little humble man from the sticks. Oh, you can take a Luther, but take him from a seminary. Or you can take a Paul, but you take him from the Sanhedrin, it won’t come with him! You can take a Wesley, but the university got to fall off too. He was even too big to go into the field for many along time, until Whitby took him there and he saw the possibilities.

You can memorize all you want, but I will tell you one thing, before you put to many ideas in the Greek you better know one thing, my brother, my sister, neither the Greek nor the Hebrew have punctuation marks. So, how are you going to know? How are you going to know? Supposing you thought the thing said so and so.

16. Let’s look just for a second here without going into It. Look at your King James Version, It said over here: [Ephesians1:]

(4) According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

It doesn’t say that at all! And I can prove by Scripture, it can’t say that! But, It says, "We should be holy and without blame before him," Period! "in love having predestinated us."

Your Greek doesn’t set you on fire. Your education can’t set you on fire. And of all the people that say they have got the Holy Ghost are setting up Bible schools and universities and seminaries, and say they can lead you into by teaching! Let me say one thing: it’s the Holy Ghost who gives revelation it’s God the Father, not men and the power lies in a revelation. You know that’s true.

There never was one man in the history of the church who had anything but a revelation. Remember the little boy that went down from herding the sheep one day, to see his brothers in the army? And he said, “What is all this talk and all this story, and all this thing going on?”

They said, “Listen kid, it’s not that we should tell you, because you are too young and too stupid, but if you really want to know, there’s a fellow called Goliath that called our bluff.”

Why he said, “Your servant knows how to take care of bears and lions, and I believe your servant can take care of that dog, the Philistine.”

“Oh,” they said, “now look, that’s a pretty big job but, if you are willing to take a crack at it, which all the army of Israel isn’t, let’s put on some armours of warfare.”

Well, the poor kid got bogged down the more they did the worse shape he was in. He said, “Finely, take it off, take it off.” The revelation was, ‘don’t tangle with him’. Just stand far enough back with the revelation, let fly. Goliath the giant went down.

17. Now, I will ask you one thing: “What did David have but a revelation?” You think anybody in his right mind would attack a fully clothed giant with armour on with just a sling shot? Come on! How stupid can a man get? You know it was a revelation, ‘I can take him.’ The revelation was to one man. Israel knew that this man had defied the God of Israel, but they all stood trembling and fearful, but one man with a revelation, one kid with a revelation; had a revelation of the Mighty God who scatted his brains and everything else to the four corners of the earth. And he went towards the man in the Name of Jesus Christ and swung that stone. There’s many a man today in the pulpit flinging the Word, but, he’s got no revelation! Because, he’s gotten a revelation the people are being born of a dead word.

Now, revelation is purely spiritual to spiritual men, can’t come to anybody else. And it can come only by the Holy Ghost. Paul speaking in 1 Corinthians 2:

(1) And I, brethren, when I came to you, (I) came not with excellency of speech (and) of wisdom... (What excellency of speech? Human speech and human wisdom!) declaring unto you the testimony of God.

(2) For I determined not to know anything among you, save Christ, and him crucified.

Why? Because, it simply meant he wasn’t going to preach a man of great power on earth setting up a kingdom. He was going to preach what men and their minds couldn’t take. How come a crucified God? You know that’s about the most ridiculous thing in the world to preach, a God Who came and died on a Cross. It is, the Scripture said it's foolishness, preaching is foolishness, a peculiar thing.

(3) And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

(4) And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

(5) That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

(6) Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to (nothing):

(7) But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

18. Notice, "unto our glory."

(8) Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

(9) But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

(10) But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

(11) For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man (that's) in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

Can you figure out where ESP comes from now? And thought transfers and all those things? The spirit of men worketh the spirit of men. Mind reading, many things like that are just the realm of the spirit of men. It’s not the Spirit of God at all.

(12) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, (notice that) but the spirit which is of God; (why?) that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

It said right here that you need the Spirit of God to teach you what you already got of God!

(13) Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

And there’s where people go wrong right today! They think if you can put a great big move on, ordain woman preachers, and do a hundred things contrary to the Word of God to get results, it’s got to be God. You’re wrong! You don’t bring a spiritual thing out of anything that’s not spiritual, and the Word of God is spiritual.

19. Now, that may buffalo [confuse] some of you but, I am sorry for you. I got to preach what God's Word is and I am not going to back down. I don’t care what the results you think you see, and you can have results from here to the Mexican border and back, and then onto the North Pole and back. It does not bother me one little bit. The point of the matter is: you cannot compare a carnal with a spiritual. In other words, it's God’s Word all the way, or forget it. You can’t mix light and darkness and you can’t mix cotton and wool, and you don’t mix man’s understanding at it either. You don’t simply cross-reference your Bible and say, this is got to work out and that works out. Even the things of God take the Holy Ghost to show them to you. In other words, we can have things from God right tonight here and not even know about it! I'll show you, that's it, I don’t make any, any statements here I can’t back up.

Notice, though it said,

(14) But the natural man receiveth not the things of God: (nope, a natural man doesn't do it, he's got to be a spiritual man,) for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (The things of God need a revelation.)

Now, this revelation can come only to the spiritual and that spiritual man is he which is born-again. For that which is natural is first, after that, that which is spiritual. (See?) So, the truly born-again Spirit filled man is the only man who can truly be in the revelation. It’s just that simple. Now, the non-spiritual, (see?) call it the non-elect if you want, (which is the term that I use) cannot.

20. Now, let’s turn to the Book of John 8:40 and prove this. Jesus because He preached and told them truth said:

(40) But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth,

Now, He didn't say, "I performed the truth." He had already told them He'd performed the truth. He said, "Believe me for the work's sake." He's talking now about what He talked. He's explaining His sermon, which they turned thumbs down on. See?

(40) ...ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: (see, revelation) this did not Abraham.

(41) (You) do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

(42) (And) Jesus said..., If God were your Father, (you) would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he (that) sent me.

(43) Why (now listen,) why do (you) not understand my speech? even because (you) cannot hear my word.

Now, I know that you talk to people and you said, “Now, you can hear the Word.” Can they? Are we bigger than God? He said, “I am going to tell you Pharisees,” He said, “You know the reason,” He said, “Why we are not getting along?” He said, “I will tell why, you don’t understand what I am saying. There’s no revelation in you; you can’t hear My Words.”

21. Now, notice in verse 44,

(44) (You) are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father (you'll) do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

(45) And because I tell you the truth, (you) believe me not.

(46) Which of you convinceth me of sin? (In the original Greek they tell me that literally means, “Which of you can find one word I am in error in?”) (But) if I say the truth, why do (you) not believe me?

Notice, He said, “If I say the truth, why do you not believe?”

(47) He that is of God heareth God’s words: (you) therefore hear them not, because you are not of God.”

Now, go back over your ages, go back over the things of the past. Look about of the people who call themselves Christians, and stand on it that they are; dead fundamentalism. Now, the Bible said, "they can’t hear God’s Word because they are not of God." Yet, they claim that they are of God. What about your churches today that have rewritten the Bible to suit them-selves, they don’t even hear God’s Word. Yet, they will even use the term ‘Born-Again’, full of the Holy Ghost, talk about having gifts and within their church they repudiate the Word of God.

Now, the Bible said, “They can’t understand, they don’t receive it because there’s no place in them for that Word they are not of God.” That’s what Jesus said, “You can’t hear My Word because there’s no place in there for It.”

22. Now, there’s no place in there for the Word, there’s got to be something missing? There’s got to be a place somebody’s got that somebody’s else hasn’t got, or Christ wouldn’t had said that. See? There’s no revelation there.

(47) He that is of God heareth God's words: (you) therefore hear them not, because (you) are not of God.

(48) Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

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Now, anybody can get sarcastic and throw it back, anybody can cut this out of their Bible! Anybody can try and make it what they want to make it, that’s okay by me, I got no fight. But, I can read it just the way it’s written. And He told them, He said, “He that is of God heareth God’s Word.”

"That your eyes of your understanding may be opened; and you may know what is the hope of the calling, the inheritance of his saints," [Eph 1:18] and the exceeding greatness of his power’. [Eph 1:19a] See?

And Jesus said, “These non- elect,” they couldn’t hear the Word, there’s no place for It, they couldn’t understand. See? It takes the Spirit of God to show the believer His Word, to make It real. And then when It's real there’s going to be a transforming power in that’s man’s life.

Let me ask you this question, “How would you know exactly what is right except for the Word of God?” You wouldn’t know. You wouldn’t have any principle, you wouldn’t have any pattern of conduct. You have nothing to go by, the Spirit and the Word are One, they work right together. And it’s the Spirit that takes that Word of God by revelation and makes the man’s life real and abound within it.

23. Now, remember that the Elect, the true people of God, they are in no difficulty. A lot of you say, “I am not going to listen now to this man I'm not going to read that book. I'm not going to pay attention here.” And every denomination says the same thing. They say, “Don’t hear that man! You see, he’s different from us.” They teach you...to put a guard on your ears, but they don’t teach you to close your ears except to what they…or open your ears except to what they want to tell you. They say, “Close," to what anybody else said. "We have written it all out here in our little book."

The very people who came to organize, the independent church that I belong too, as a young fella, was born-again in, said, “Now look, you people we are just trying to help you. We just want to keep sin out of your church. And maybe false doctrine will come in.”

Why, that’s what they said about the apostles back in the days of Judaism. That’s what they said about Luther, that’s what they said about Wesley, and that’s what they said in my day! “We're going to help you!” But, the same people also had enough on the ball at that time to say this, “Remember, don’t close your ears, because if you close your ears and your heart, we may be like they were, when our forefathers came out of what they came out of. Because, their ears… the people they were with close their ears to truth and they came out. The people we were with closed their ears and we came out.

24. Now, don’t close your ears, because we haven’t exhausted the Word. And there may come a day when somebody else will bring us a revelation and if we're not open we will lose it.” The same people that told me that when I was only twenty years of age, closed their hearts and their minds, and wrote their little black book and they said, “We've died.”

What did they have? They had death! Do you know why? Because they said, “Now we are the Holy Ghost! We’ve got It.” You know where they went to? They went with Sunday schools until they are top heavy. I am not against Sunday schools, use then in the right way. So, where is your big money invested, where are your big plans? Sunday school plans, millions of dollars, the kids go once or twice a week. Who rules the church and causes a fuss? Your teenagers, they're backslidden according to God’s Word. And yet, they vaunt themselves saying they’ve really got it. I will show you something yet, don’t go away. We will see what the Word of God really teaches, not that I am teaching let’s hear what the Word says because, I don’t care. I learned long ago my word doesn’t mean a thing but His Word does mean a thing. But, if it is in the Word, I want to know about it. Don’t worry about the Elect they are not going to get deceived.

Jesus said in Matthew 24:24, “The Very Elect will not be deceived.” It said, “If it were possible,” it’s not possible. No sir! They are not going to get deceived, see, don’t be afraid to open your minds. Listen, you listen all you want, if I say a wrong thing, you got the Holy Ghost, don’t get your back up, He'll lead you right. Stephen in the Holy Ghost said, “You circumcised. The uncircumcised, you resist the Holy Ghost!” Why? Because, they wouldn’t listen; you can resist the Holy Ghost by not listening. They did it.

25. Here’s what it said in John 14:16-17, Jesus speaking:

(16) ...I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

(17) Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but (you) know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

Now, in verse 26;

(26) But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, bring all things to remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

And in [John]16:12-15

(12) I have yet many things to say unto you, but (you can't) bear them now.

(13) Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come...

Now listen, what is truth? Thy Word is truth, so, the Spirit of the Word. Right? The very Spirit that brought this Word. Now, how does the Word come? Only by the Spirit of God, holy men spake as they are moved by the Holy Ghost. Right? Thy Word was altogether in my tongue, not in my mind, but in my tongue. See? Now:

(13) Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for (he'll) not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will (show) you things to come.

(14) He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall (show) it unto you. (That’s what just Paul said.)

(15) All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore I said, he'll take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

26. Now, over back in the epistle of 1 John 2:18-21,27

(18) Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby (you) know that it is the last time.

(19) They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

(20) But (you) have an (anointing) from the Holy One, and (you) know all things.

(21) I have not written unto you because (you) know not the truth, but because (you) know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

Now, in verse 27,

(27) But the anointing which (you) have received of him abideth in you, and need not that any man (to) teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, (you) shall abide in him.

In other words, these people were coming by the false prophets and the teachers to lead them away from the Word of God. And John said, “Look,” he said, “You don’t need...They've gone out, don’t fuss about them, don’t worry.

He said, “You got the Holy Ghost and as long as you got the Holy Ghost, you will not be lead into error.” This drives home the point even more so! That the Holy Ghost is given to bring us revelation; which gives us power. Not written up in some little book, all some man wrote down, and said, “This is it.” And said, “Now, you got the revelation.” That’s not what it said.

27. Now, let’s go a litter further, the spiritual revelation for every age and the churches as had seven ages; as always come to the Elect.

Now, let’s go to the Book of, Rev. 2:1,7-8

(1) Unto the angel (the word is 'messenger' 'aggelos') Unto the (messenger) of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he (Jesus) that (holds) the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;

That’s the church! (See?) The Seven Church Ages!

Now...Jesus is talking to the messenger. (See?) That’s to whom He was speaking. Now, we know the revelation to the first Age, the Gentile church came to Paul. But, notice in verse 7.

(7) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches...

But, He’s not talking to everybody. To whom is He speaking? He is speaking to the messenger, who in turn will teach the people. And if they are of God, they will hear God’s Word. But, if they are not of God, they won’t hear It. And when Paul knew what you and I know, because he wrote It; where: "Grieve not the Spirit of God whereby you're sealed." [Eph 4:30] Or, as John said, “You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you don’t need to worry what men will teach you because, if you already got the Holy Ghost that Word will be real and no one can take It away from you.”

28. Now, notice, in the next church age, in verse 8, It said,

(8) Unto the (messenger) of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive”.

He gives the message and in verse 11, It says:

(11) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit (says to) the churches...

But God was not talking to everybody! As Paul said, “What came the Word of God out of you, or came the Word of God unto you? Let him that’s spiritual or a prophet, recognize I am telling you these are the Commandments of God. And if any man dare change one Word, even if I change one Word, let him be accursed.” [Gal1:8] See?

29. Now, the second age is the same thing. The Spirit speaks to the messenger, and the people of God hear him, and those who don’t hear, they are not of God. There is a different message for every age. It’s like the Manna that they took in the wilderness and put behind the sacred veil. And once a year the high priest could go in and a new high priest, no doubt would do it himself and go in, and he get for that day what he needed, because the Manna did not rot. Neither does the Word of God rot, but there is a message for every age.

Notice, in the third age,

(12) ...the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword... (and so on, the message.) .

But, notice again; [Revelation 2:17-18, 29]

(17) He that hath an ear, let him hear..."

Back to the people, but who did the Message go too? It went to the messenger of that age.

Then verse 18,

(18) (Write) unto the angel, (to the messenger) of the church of Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God...

And then again down below it said in the last verse 29;

(29) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Once more the messenger gets the message. Who is this, this time? It’s the Lutheran. We know that Luther was the one who… that successfully repudiated the Catholic Church, God raised him up to do it. And you can see that in this age here, it's every clear before us that was Reformation. With the… No that was the Dark Ages, I am sorry. The Reformation age came next.

30. [Revelation 3:1, 6-7, 13-14,22]

(1) And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven (spirits); I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

And then the end again He said,

(6) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith...

And then in the seventh one… the Sixth Age, the Philadelphia church,

(7) ...These things saith he that is holy... (and so on.)

He’s talking to the messenger! And then again, He concludes by saying,

(13) He that hath an ear, let him hear.

But how is he going to hear? He is going to hear the man with the revelation. And always every Age has had a man with a revelation. No church ever had any power outside of a revelation. (See?) Look at the Salvation Army, what did General Booth have but a revelation? Tell me, nothing. What did John the Baptist have but a revelation? What did Moses have but a revelation? He had a couple of signs but, he had a revelation. Every Age has had a man with a revelation, every generation God has used somebody, raised up somebody to bring the Word to the people. And those of God heard! They always will hear the Elect of God will always come in.

Listen to the last age, the last age has a messenger,

(14) And unto the (messenger) of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen...

It’s all winding up now. And then at the and it said in verse 22,

(22) He that hath an ear, let hear what the Spirit saith...

Our age has a messenger; there’s isn’t one Church Age that doesn’t have a messenger. See? Why, because, God is not left without a witness. And He doesn’t send angels to do it, He sends men. Why? Because, the Church is built upon the Apostles and the Prophets. And what did they have, the foundation is there. What did they have, they had that Word. See?

31. Now, we go further. Why has the revelation been given to every age? To make it an overcoming church! And there wasn’t one time when they organized, dead, formal, Word repudiating people were not confused and confounded, because in spite of what they did, men by a revelation stood up and even died for God! How many times blood was shed, we will never know, but that’s all they had, my brother, my sister was a revelation. They had no swords they had no learning, they had no power of the state, they had no government to give them aid. They stood alone as all men of all ages stood with the revelation, like every prophet, all they had was a revelation, they had nothing else. But, that’s all they needed. Because, the things of God where made real.

Now, brother/sister, when the things of God are made real, then nothing else is real. That’s what real! And remember, "the things which are seen, are not made of things which do appear." [Heb 11:3] We need revelation, it’s the revelation that counts. Now, you can see here why it is, I believe we can begin to see why we need a revelation by the Spirit.

32. Now, let’s go again to Ephesians 1:18, and we will look at this verse along with Romans 16:25. We are going to check the Word out and see what we get out of revelation. Ephesians 1:18, again,

(18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened... (In other words, it got to come, you see, to you. It’s got to be a real knowledge; it’s got to be something you know.) that you may know what is the hope of His calling...

Now, let’s just examine this for one spilt second, because we may talk about it in much more thoroughly, later on. My Bible said, "that you took joyfully the spoiling of your goods. knowing in yourselves (right?) that you have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.” [Heb 10:34]

Tell me how many can honestly say, that every time you endure someone talking away from you, you say, “Hallelujah, praise God, I know I got it made.” Come on, be honest can anybody do that tonight? I want to see one hand if you can?

Say, “Brother Vayle, I am in that class where Paul’s people were. I can take joy this morning to the spoiling of my goods. I do, when I am spoiled, I say, “Praise God, Hallelujah.” Well, do you? Come on. What’s wrong? You can’t have what Paul had; am I talking to a bunch of pseudo-christians, a bunch of make believers, am I? Have you just been kidding yourselves all these years, because you got something from God? You can’t do it, you know you can’t.

I am being mean right now, just going to let down a little because, I am in the same boat as you are. What’s missing? Revelation.

33. We don’t know if something …?... then we rejoice, we don’t know the things that are ours too. See? Tell me tonight, what do you need; what…be honest before God. I am trying to be honest…as in my weakness, I am trying to be honest, before God, answer. What is it you need tonight, to make you turn the other cheek and be happy when they spoil you?

You say I got the Holy Ghost, that’s right, you have, if you are born-again you got it. You haven’t got the revelation, that’s all, neither have I. Because, the revelation would make that so real up there. It's down here it begins to fade and go away, you say, “Praise God, I can I can take it.” My back gets up higher than a...what kind of a back that gets high? When people defraud me; I am not as bad as I was, maybe I am getting old, and that’s no credit to God, if I am just getting old and I am too weak to fight. Or, just too tired of it, is that what we want as Christians? Poor tired people, now God can work on us, because we are too tired. The Bible teaches how to resist evil, that’s by doing good. Where’s the revelation? Now, we claim to be born-again.

34. Many people speak in tongues, they’ve got it. Oh, I have been amongst them all my life and they ain’t got it. They ain’t got it, honey. No, they get higher than a cat’s back too, you just put your finger on it. They ended up on both, I got a million dollars, bless God, in fact I think I am the richest man, I got five. Go ask him for five bucks, the same men will write you letters within a week saying, “We are a little bit in debt, someone defrauded us, send us some money.” I got the letters. My God shall supply our needs. You know my God been so good to me I been puzzling about many things. I wonder if I should refuse gifts given to me personally from now on. I would refuse everything, except it comes by a channel that I don’t know who it’s coming from. So, I can say, “My God, I thank You”. That’s a little revelation that means something, but it not enough.

The people perish for lack of knowledge, but God’s knowledge, which alone brings Eternal Life, is by the Spirit of God.

35. Let’s turn to Romans 16:25, shall we. We will pursue the subject, now I just want to go much as I can with the help of God. Now, you will forgive me for just sort off, like pretending I was rough on you, because I just wanted to trap us, to help us. In 16: 25

(25) Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was…secret since the world began,

Now, notice, the power to establish, the power of the Gospel, lay in a revelation! And Paul said. "You can only become an established Christian through revelation." This is what I am talking about! People that are real, they are not up and down. They're not fussing. They're walking in victory, they are living in it! Not Pentecostals that come in and cut a rug and shout and dance, that’s fine, keep it up when the music stops though, and someone kicks you in the teeth out there. Because, that’s when you are in a prophet class! It’s not when you are in a building here with the walls all nice and everybody saying, “Hallelujah, glory to God;” playing the organ, and you can prophesy. That’s not the prophet class. The prophet class is when you and I go out in that street and get kicked in the teeth, for trying to serve Jesus Christ. The Bible said that. I’m not telling you a lie.

36. Established! What’s the meaning to ‘establish’? You got some permanency, you have arrived. The building is not on a foundation of trying, but that man established, he’s got his underpins right. It takes revelation brother/sister, and that’s all we hear. We lived all these years we've been sold a bill of goods, come and get the Holy Ghost and get power. [grrrufff] As I say, “It puts the tiger in your tank.” Oh, that’s the claim! A wildcat under the hood! And then tiger [makes a motoring sound] and I have seen it all go down the drain. The biggest men with the biggest talk with the biggest gifts, they'll pull on you for two hours for money. We didn’t say one thing saying about money. I don’t even need your money, I got it made.

You say, “Vayle, you rich?” No, I have already given to God.

He said, “Give and it shall be given.” Simple as A-B-C, right? It will take revelation, though it’s hard to do sometimes. That’s all it takes. They will get up and pull you for money by the hour.

One guy get up, just recently in Harrisburg, and he said, “I want twenty, twenty dollar bills,” and nobody moved. And he took his mike and he laughed and he said, “I'll get you, because you Pentecostal's are the biggest suckers going.” And he said, “I will get those twenty dollars bills.” He took his long mike cord and he said to the man, “You sir you are going to give me twenty dollars, aren’t you?” He said, “Because, you got so and so wrong with you.” And the guy got all …?... Oh, he wanted a revelation, oh, glory, hallelujah. But he wasn’t established! Neither was the man with the revelation, he took his money, “You want that, don’t you?” The man came forward and took his wallet, twenty-dollar bill and pretty soon everybody flocking forward with their twenty dollars bills; ushers stood on both sides taking twenty dollars bills. Oh, come on, that’s not being established. When you are that gullible, you are not established. I'm getting... listen, do you understand these things I'm talking about?

37. Revelation brother/sister is fine, little things are fine, I've laid hands on countless folks and told them about themselves. I even challenged a man to hide from me, not like Brother Branham, of cause not, just little thing. But, you know what God did in His mercy? He took it away from me. We're not here for a side show we are here for the Word. My life doesn’t count, except I live and I don’t live except I'm established. But, what is it that is draining us? There is a lack of revelation today! Because, we've been sold a bill of goods that the Holy Ghost brought a sort of virile power that made you a great big dynamic giant killer, and I have not seen one of them yet! They all been puny little imps alongside the devil out there. Because, when the chips are down with either what? Popularity, or money, or woman, they've all fallen, at least ninety percent of them have. I’m not trying to be crude and rude I am lust looking at life. I got a stake brother/sister, if this Bible said a certain thing should be produced and I claim I got what, what is the basis of production and I can’t produce it there’s something wrong with it!

38. You ever hear what Jesus said I think in one of the chapters of Isaiah about 18: I forget but I can find it for you, maybe 6: I don’t know, I can never remember where anything is, I know it’s there. He said, “You know the strangest thing has happen to me.” He said, “I planted a vineyard, but before I did, (he said) I looked over the ground, I got the best ground I could, took all the rocks out I put the drainage in just right. I fertilised it just right, I put a fence around, I put a tower in it and I brought the best grape...vines I could find, but, (he said) the funny thing is, they produced sour grapes, now, what will I do with that vine, that vineyard?”

Say, “I have got to get rid of it.” See? You don’t fool, and we have been fooling. We have been kidding ourselves this is the time to wake up. We must, we must come to the place and only can we come there is by revelation, where we become unshakable, always abounding. See? I'm not talking now about little gifts, I'm glad for them, thank God, I have nothing against the gifts of the Spirit, so called I want them. But, I am talking tonight now about our basic Christian outlook and reaction to life. It is the Spirit making the Word alive. It is a revelation, it is not simply a little single revelation, although a little single revelation is good, but it’s a revelation of the Word. And then we become alive.

39. Now, in, in the Book of Ephesians 3:3, notice:

(3) How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery...

Now, that’s along the same line you can see here that true revelation is comprehensive and removed out, because, as long as it is mysterious you can’t be truly unsettled, I mean, truly settled and unshaken.

Notice what he said, he said, “How by revelation he made know unto me the mystery.”

Now I submit to you it wasn’t Paul saying He showed me something mysterious, but He made known unto me something that I could grasp concerning the mysterious things of God.

And then he said, “There’s where my power lays.” And that is exactly true. True revelation is comprehensive, a true revelation is comprehensive it removes doubt. Thereby patterning… patterning a walk of faith. See? When you get real revelation, you can walk in it, and men do. See? That’s where the power lies. Now, let me… he said, “By revelation was made known”.

40. Now, let’s go a litter further to Galatians 1: now, and get the picture here because, I am leading up to this thought, now, of revelation in a person’s life. Paul in Galatians 1:15-16, he said here:

(15) ...when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

(16) To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the (Gentiles, and so on.)

You'll notice here that Paul claims the revelation of the Son was in him. Now, how would you and I reveal the Son today? Only by the Word! That’s when the Word of God becomes one with the individual. That’s what Paul said, “How that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery.”

What mystery? “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” [Col 1:27] It takes a revelation. Like I said a while ago, “The hope of His calling:” What is it? See, we need a revelation. We are trained students on grounds of theology. Our ministers can tell you what soteriology is, [study of salvation. Ed], what theology is, eschatology is, [belief in the end of the world, the coming of Christ] and Heaven knows what? They will tell you all about it, the seven, great, ‘ologies’.

But, to have a revelation of the dynamic measure and stature, which is set forth in the Word and is supposed to be our inherence in Christ. They haven’t got it, because they have played with words instead of the Living Word.

41. And the Pentecostals went astray when they went after gifts. And they are most illiterate in the Word when they should be literate. But, they are not literate anymore. They have gone astray for manifestations. I am not against manifestations brother/sister, but don’t tell me that manifestation will take the place of Holy Ghost revelation. Where men, of the giants of the Church of Christ have walked and not one that I know of had any gift of healing perhaps, or ever spoke in tongues or done one other thing, but they were giants. I've been in the presence of Jonathan Goforth, of China, [1859-1936] the old Canadian, just before he died, it was my God given right and pleasure to be in his presence. To hear that blind and deaf person speak, in his deaf… in his dull hush monotone, as any a deaf do speak. And he stood up there and he told us about China, and he told us about Christ. And I could have gone at his feet and wept, at his feet like Mary did, and try to wipe the tears off his feet with the hairs of my head because, I saw Christ in him. I saw God revealed in Bailey, of South Africa, I saw God revealed in William Branham, but I've been searching, but I don’t see Him revealed elsewhere. See, those men have revelation.

What gave them their power? A revelation that’s what! It was real, a revelation is where the things of God become so real that these things do not become real anymore. The unseen becomes our reality. Brother/sister, if it’s unseen has got to take a spiritual revelation. The Church is powered by revelation and the one we want to have, is the one that Paul said, “To that God might reveal His Son in us,” That’s our cry today, “God, reveal Your Son in me”. How’s it going to be? Only by revelation! See?

Now, there can be no doubt that we are no Bible grounds, in this Message. The things of God can only be made real by the Spirit of God, that’s true, the Bible said so. This revelation, this knowledge of the Spirit empowering men to reveal the Son; to make the Body, this Church the fullness of Him that filleth all in all, is missing. See? The missing revelation is the key to our apostate, Christ rejecting, Laodicea Age.

42. You ready for it? Okay, let’s turn to Revelation 3: you may not agree with me, but you are going to have a hard time getting out of it. Let’s go a read Revelation 3:14-17

(14) ...unto the (messenger) of the church of the Laodiceans write; (this is the last age, this is our age). These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

(15) I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

How in the world can you be hot outside of a revelation? The hottest Christian age was the First Age where the revelation was given by the Holy Ghost. For, He’s given in every age, but that was the full then. Now then:

(16) So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither (hot and cold,) I will spue (you) out of my mouth.

People say that means that you are not eternally secure. When where you in the mouth of God? You never were in the mouth of God, you were engraved upon His hand you're carried in His Bosom and in His sheep fold, you are not His mouth. What are they not warm about, hot about? The Word of God! Why? Because, there’s no spiritual revelation, I'll prove it to you!

(17) Because thou sayest, I am increased (in) goods, (I'm rich I've) need of nothing; and knowest not (notice it, and don't know...)

43. This is what the Holy Ghost says about our age. Now, it’s not very flattering, but do you believe it? You know the first place that you got… you ever get anywhere, is to take stock. You know, I drive a lot but I got the rottenest sense of direction, sometimes I don’t even know up from down hardly, that’s about the only two I really do know, and most of the time. But, up and down I know pretty good. But, East, West, North or South, so help me, unless I am just lucky to know just where the sun is, I have got awful job with directions, I've gone absolutely off the deep, fully convinced I was hundred percent right. That’s this age!

He said, “You're boasting that you got so much. That you got it! You are it!” He’s never said that about any age, this age takes the cake for pride…and nothing to back on. And he said, “You don’t even know!” Now, you can only know by the Holy Ghost, or you'll compare carnal to spiritual, thinking you are somebody because you got a big show.

Now then, listen, if it takes the Holy Ghost to show you, and they haven’t been shown, there can’t be too much Holy Ghost around the place. You don’t know He said, “That you are wretched, miserable, poor, naked and blind.” They got a… They must have substituted something for what shouldn’t have been substituted for.

44. Notice, he said,

(18) I counsel (you) to buy of me gold tried in the fire, (What’s gold tied in the fire? That’s the trial of your faith) that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes...

That isn't the way it is written at all. That's where it gets thrown, that's not the way it gets written, neither in the Aramaic, or the Greek. It's a mistranslation. Look it up. Because He says: "I counsel thee to come to me, see, to buy of me gold, to get white raiment, and also to get eye-salve." They haven't got the eyesalve. See? Even, the Scofield version, Scofield’s Bible It says, “Eyesalve to anoint thine eyes.” In other words, this people feel they've got the Holy Ghost and they haven’t! I didn’t write the Book.

Now, listen to me, be careful here, because here’s where you are not going to like what I am going to say. I have already said it, but here’s the point. If they got the Holy Ghost would He come and ask them to come and get It?

45. Now, would you admit the first part, they haven’t got the gold? Well, come on look at your Bibles, please, I am not fooling here, this is for students now, there’s people who want to know something. Are you going to tell me tonight that Jesus made a mistake when He said, “You already got…You haven’t got gold, and you are going to say, ‘I’ve, got gold.’” You wouldn’t do that, would you? If He said, “You haven’t got raiment?” Would you say, “Well now, just a minute Lord, just a minute, just a minute! I beg your pardon I have got raiment and I am not naked.”

Now, He said, “You should come to Me for eyesalve, to anoint your eyes.” What do you want… What does the Holy Ghost do? The Holy Ghost anoints your eyes. That you may know, you don’t see with your eyes; you see with the mind, the eyes are cameras, that’s all.

Now, you are going to come back and say, “But Oh, Jesus, there’s something wrong here. Because, this Twentieth Century is the age of the Holy Ghost! In 1906, It was poured out and ever since then it had people just speaking in tongues, and we had them having a great time, and we all got the Holy Ghost!” Now, come on, you tell that to God, don’t tell Lee Vayle, because Lee Vayle believes God. And Lee Vayle’s Bible says what your Bible says. Jesus, the last days said, “You better come to Me because you haven’t got It.”

“Oh, but we have got It” Who’s right, you or God? How much of going for the Holy Ghost is the Holy Ghost? I didn’t write the Book, and I am not trying to confuse you, or upset you. I am just trying to bring a point across tonight. And that is, the power we have been searching for all our lives, we been sold a bill of goods on! What we need is the Holy Ghost baptism, we haven’t got It. And then let Him reveal to us the wonderful things of God, until we are on fire for Christ. You are not going to get it praying for gifts of healing, my brother my sister. You're not going to it by having a great feeling that makes you want to just go out and rend giants as though you are a Samson. How'd anybody like to go down the street tonight blind, would you like to do it? You say, “No, Brother Vayle, I am not that kind of a fool.” We are that kind of a fool with God though, aren’t we?

“Oh, I don’t need to see, I can see now. Oh, my, I got this…”. The Bible said that we haven’t.

46. Now, He’s talking to the church of the Last Day. This is one reason we really need a prophet, you bet. This is one day we need someone like Paul to come back on the scene, with 'Thus Saith the Lord'. Because, we’ve cut everybody to ribbons with the Greek, and what makes me sick to my stomach is after having read as many books on theology as I've read. As many books on doctrine as I have read, I find every theologian uses the same so called infallible rules of the Greek to cut the other fella's throat who use the same infallible rules of the Greek!

The Anglicans fight the Presbyterians, with the same infallible rules of the Greek. The Presbyterians tromp in the mud the Pentecostals with the same infallible rules of the Greek. And the Pentecostals shout and scream the victory over the Nazarenes with the same infallible rules of the Greek. I say, “Hogwash!” You can take your stinking infallible rules of the Greek and bury them out there in the graveyard, because the Bible could have been and poignantly admits and no doubt was written in the Aramaic, so where’s your Greek gone now? Greek or Aramaic, who cares? I have compared both of them, I got thirty some translations, of the New Testament alone.

47. And I want to tell you this: there’s not that much difference between the two of them, or the whole bunch of them. What we need, revelation of reality! The revelation of justification in the days of Luther became dead and the people then also clung to the Cross and the Blood and they weren’t born again. And under Wesley they brought in sanctification and justification was real with sanctification added, and then that became dead doctrine! And there rose another group, but somebody’s got to be the True Church in the Last Days. Somebody’s got to have the Holy Ghost. We have come to the place where we must cry out to God for a real anointing. We have come to the place where we begin to give the Holy Ghost the right in our lives, which is to teach us and to lead, to take the things of God and make them real to us.

48. Let me show you something here. Turn with me to the Book of Luke 19:41 beginning,

(41) (Now,) and when he was come near, (to Jerusalem) he beheld the city, and wept over it,

(42) Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things (now, it's interpolated) which belong unto thy peace! (or the things of thy peace) but now they are hid from thine eyes.

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What gives the person peace? What would give you peace tonight? You people who are worried about money? What would give you peace, a million dollars? A lot of money, you say, “Yep, that would take care of my life.” What would give you peace about other things?

You say, “What would give me peace; is to know that I have the ability to stand against whatever comes. That would give me peace.” What would give me peace; to know I was established, I was strong I could take care of. See?

Now, what is going on here in this verse of Scripture? Notice it says,

(42) (You don't know, said Jesus, what belongs to your) peace! but now they are hid from (your) eyes.

(43) For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep (you) in on every side,

(44) And shall lay thee even with the ground, thy children within thee; they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; ... (and so on.)

Now, let me ask you a question: Do you know what Israel had and was not aware of? Do you know that Israel had tremendous potentials from God in her hands and didn’t even know about it?

49. Turn to Romans 9:1-5 and you will read about It.

(1) I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

(2) ...I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in heart.

(3) ...I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Now listen:

(4) Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, …

What’s the adoption? The placing of sons! Who got that now, we have. Is that, right?

(4) … and the glory, …

Who’s got the glory now? We have. Why? Why the glory? Because, God answers our prayers, the glory of God attendant upon the Gentiles.)

(4) …and the covenants, …

Who’s got the covenants? They had them, but we've got them.

(4) … the giving of the law, …

The Word ministry. Who’s got it? They had it, we’ve got it.

(4) … the service of God, …

Who is it that worships God? Offers the calf…the calves are our lips, they did, now we got it. Who’s got…

(4) … the promises?

We got it but, they had it.

(5) Whose are the fathers, ...

They had them, but now we've got them.

They didn’t even know what they had, but they had them. We got lot of thing from God and don’t even know we got them! This is perfectly scriptural brother/sister; it’s the revelation that counts, because, unless the Holy Ghost makes real to you what you already got, it lies dormant and dead. Unless the Holy Ghost reveals Christ within in us, it’s just like dormant and dead. Unless the Holy Ghost reveals what the potentials, all of the things, because the Scripture said, “If God spared not His Own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things!” [Rom 8:32] But, the all things of God must be revealed and when they are real, you don’t lack a thing, but you are strong and established, but we have been sold a bill of goods!

50. "Well," they said, “Vayle, when you get the Holy Spirit, you will feel, [Bro Vayle growls] I don’t want to feel [growls again] I want that taken out of me. That’s right! I got too much of that.

You don’t stand up and fight, you lie down and die, that’s God’s way. Let me stay long enough to preach in the power of the Cross, sometime, we will find out what God’s Word says.

You say, “Brother Vayle, you got it”? Only, only in the seed, I don’t have the revelation, I can talk about it like I am doing tonight. I'm not trying to sell you a bill of goods, I'm in the same boat you are in, but you have been sold a bill of goods, just like I was. The emphasis has been put on the wrong things, because my brother, my sister, knowledge is power.

Let me just tell you carnally, if you had a million dollars, but I knew how to get you wouldn’t have it long, I'd get it. If you had an atomic bomb, but I knew how to build a bigger one, I would wipe you out. Knowledge is power. And that’s why Paul prayed that you might have a revelation, by the Holy Ghost that you might know what is the hope of your calling. The riches of being His inheritance for He’s got invested in you; and the exceeding greatness of His power, which is yours. If we knew those things brother/sister where would we be? We’d be on fire for God!

51. The Bible says, that the things of God are made real by the Holy Ghost but, we wanted something else. We want to be dynamic and show off. We clowned until, until, we see men and I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, but I would hurt myself that night to see a man, jokingly, laughingly, take somebody demonstrate the power of God, bring on the next one, demonstrate the power of God. And I said, “Oh, God, I don’t feel reality here. I can only feel reality when men are slain by God; Christ is all and I am nothing.”

Paul said, “For me to die is gain. [Phil 1:21] I have been crucified with Christ.” [Gal 2:20] We need a revelation, brother/sister, you don’t need a lot of gifts; you've been gifted to high Heaven and back again. You've been indulged by a doting Father. God spared not the Son, but poured Him out upon you and in you and all the graces of God we still stink to high heaven! We don’t even know what we got. Ask any Christian exactly who and what are you in Christ Jesus and the revelation is dead and missing. But, let me tell you, every real man of God has the sense of death in him. Which lies only in one thing, something has been made real. And that thing is so real that nothing will stop you. And that’s what Jesus said, “Flesh and blood won’t reveal it.” [Mt 16:17] No, you can’t get it from man, you can’t get it from yourself, you won’t get it from your stinking organizations, your little black book, you get only from God if you got the Holy Ghost. But don’t you go to your closet and shut the door like many a man you have read about, and told you to get in face and fast and pray and make God give you gifts. Is that, right? My Bible said the Holy Ghost sovereignly gives to you what He wants to give. But, you make up your mind you are going to become great man for God. And you go in there, the next thing you are passing the plate, aren’t you? Oh, yes.

52. The next thing, you are so worked up in your nerves, you got to take sleeping pills. Oh, yes, brother, don’t brother Vayle me. One of mine dear sweetest friends was…yes, a false seed, but with an anointing, a boy that I loved with all my heart, finally wouldn’t answer my letters because, I said, “Don’t write letters begging for money.” Don’t do that, son, destroys the ministry doesn’t exalt God. But, he ended up where? Los Angeles, drug abuse, alcoholic and with women; entirely messed up.

Your country’s full of them brother/sister, that’s not what going to be the answer. Christ wants the Church spotless and fearless. I am not against ministries, I am for it. But listen, they follow the Word, they don’t go ahead of It. Not a man picking up the mic and telling the folk, “Look, we had enough Word, we have been preached to death, lets pray for the sick.” That’s good, I want the sick healed. I am for healing, except for the healing power for God I wouldn’t be here, I would be dead in my grave by now.

Either, naturally by T.B. of the pituitary gland, or suicide, because I couldn’t see to stand any longer. See, don’t, don’t leave this building saying, “Vayle downgrades this and downgrades that.” I don’t. I am only showing this one thing; don’t prostitute the Word of God, my brother, my sister! Go on prostitute yourself, that’s your business. That’s okay, do what you want, I can’t… I haven’t got any strings on you anyway. I can do the same stinking miserable thing, but listen, let’s not prostitute the Word of God. What God said is true.

53. We need a revelation brother/sister. The sinner had to have a revelation to know he's a sinner. Did you try to get saved many a time when you were a kid like me? Walk up and down and wonder what… what’s this and what’s that? Pick the little flowers out there and wonder about God, but it took a day when God revealed I was a sinner. But, He didn’t say like the judge, you got to pay a penalty or something in there said, “Oh, there’s mercy, there’s pardon.” And I knew if I just called somehow, I would be right with God, and I was right! It was a revelation, I can’t give it; you can’t give but God gives it.

The night people told me about I could have the Holy Ghost, and every night after night he preaches, “Ask, and it shall be given you.” [Mt 7:7] The night the revelation come and you realized I could be full of the Holy Ghost, you couldn’t have moved me with a thousand trucks, as it were you would have to kill me. But, I knew that’s the night. Listen, brother/sister, we begin to know God by revelation. Then we're going to get somewhere, you are not going to get Him because of gifts, no, you’ll not do it. You are not going to get Him a thousand different ways; it’s going to come by revelation. Because, this Word got to become real, we are living epistles read and known of all men. And there’s only one way would ever be that Word… End of tape…