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Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved. (Psalm 15:1-5)

172 Could you imagine the wise men coming to see Jesus? I’ll just take a little drama for a minute. I can see…They say three wise men. We’ll just say there was three. Jim, John, and George, we would say their names was. And they’re coming to see Jesus. And I can see them all getting ready to go. We’ll take this fellow Jim. He’s quite a man. He runs and tells his wife, said, “Wife, you know what? I seen the star, so I’ve got to go.” And so he goes over and he packs up, to go.

173 That’s what’s the matter with people today. They’re trying to pack up, to be a Christian. If there’s anything you need, is “unpacked,” to be a Christian. Got too many things hanging on now.

174 “Mom!” Say, “Now, mother, you know, I couldn’t go along unless I took my card table,” so he hangs that on the camel. “Because, you know, the other boys wouldn’t appreciate me going along if I didn’t have my card table along.”

175 All these other little old things that keeps you. And you have a little box of selfishness, you have to hang that on, too. And you have to hang on a little tattling, a little backbiting, a little of this, that, hang it on the camel.

176 And the first thing you know, he jumps up, astraddle the old camel, say, “Come on now! Let’s go!” The old camel can’t hardly move. He’s mashed down so hard till he is bow-legged, almost.

177 And you’re always kicking and complaining about your church you are going to, and maybe it’s you’ve got so loaded up till it can’t run. That’s what’s the matter. You need to unload, wash up, clean up, get right. Amen. What’s the matter with me? Notice. That’s what it is.

178 I can see the others going, moving on. And the first thing you know, he got down and looked at that star again. And so, the first thing, he begin to throw tables one way, and packages the other way.

The wife said, “Where you going, John?”

179 Said, “I’m laying aside every weight that so easily beset me. That, I’ve got to run this race with patience. For straight is the gate and narrow is the way, but few they’ll be that’ll find it.” There’s only room for you and Jesus. Nobody else can go through. Amen.

180 She said. I can hear her say, “Well, look, you’re forgetting your compass.”

“I don’t need any compass.”

181 “You’re forgetting your seminary degree. You’re forgetting your baccalaureate services and all these other things that you hang on.”

He said, “Listen. I don’t need any compass.”

“How you going then?”

182 He pointed up to the star, said, “I’m going God’s provided way. God provided me a star to follow, that’ll take me to the Christ.”

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But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things. (Acts 5:1-5)

91 Notice. As they moved on, we find that Lot saw the opportunities for a—a fatted cattle. Many see the opportunities of a fatted pocketbook. Many sees the opportunities of a better social standing. He saw the possibilities of a few extra dollars. He saw the possibilities of being the mayor of the city. Being a stranger, and a pretty smart man, as he was, “Maybe I will become the chief man of the city.” He saw the possibility because they were laying before him. But he did not see the fire that was to destroy the land. He did not reconcile himself, that the land was full of sin, and God had to destroy it.

92 And, today, people try to reconcile themselves by saying, “Are you…?”

I’ll say, “Are you a Christian?”

93 They say, “I’m an American.” That has no more to do with it than try to say to a crow he was a frog. It has nothing to do with it. [Brother Branham claps his hands one time—Ed.]

94 She’s going to be destroyed, because God is just. And if America gets by with her sins, the just and sovereign, holy God will be duty bound to—to resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them for burning them up, because of their sin; if He let’s us get by with it.

95 If He lets you get to Heaven on your injustice works, He’ll have to raise up Ananias and Sapphira and give them another opportunity. He certainly would. But He’s just. Ananias saw his money. Peter saw Christ.

96 Oh, my! Lot didn’t see the destruction of his children in that place.

97 Many of you, today, holding around these old formal creeds and things, you don’t see the juvenile delinquency and the destruction of your children. You don’t see your daughter in a prostitute house. You don’t see your son a drunkard, or at a card table somewhere.

98 “Because she’s well-watered.” And sin is not touched. He didn’t see his wife, the head of all the societies, turned to a pillar of salt, when he was looking. He didn’t see him escaping only by the edge of his teeth, to a little city somewhere, for his life. He didn’t see that, because he only looked at what he saw in front of him.

99 But, Abraham, he didn’t notice the well-watered land, for he lifted up his eyes and saw the tomorrow, for he would inherit all things. The real Christian today lifts up his eyes and sees the promise of Christ: “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit all things. They shall inherit the earth.” The real Christian, by faith, looks up and sees that. Call him what you want to. He lifted up his eyes. And when he did that, God said, “Abraham, walk through the land, she’s all yours.” By faith, Abraham did this; the same faith that Moses had.

100 It was wrote by one commentator, that said this. I thought it was the most beautiful words. That Abra-… “Moses took the best of the world and put it in one scale; and the worst of religion, and put it in the other scale; and the worst of religion out-weighed the best of the world.”

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And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is: Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? (Acts 4:23-25)

47 Peter said, “I have silver nor gold, but such as I have I’ll give you: In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” And the man hesitated a little, and Peter grabbed him by the arms, him and John, and lifted him up and his ankle bones received strength. He begin leaping and praising God.

It did something to the congregation. They took them in, and whipped them, and threatened them, that they should no more preach in such a Name, no more scatter that heresy of Pentecost any farther.

So when they did that, they went out with that threat, that they’d be throwed into prison if they preached it again: said anything about the, Jesus being raised, and the Holy Ghost here, performing miracles. You know what they done? They were in trouble. There was an emergency. So they went to their own company.

That’s where we ought to go tonight, not go out and ask the mayor of the city how we should do this, or how we should do that. We shouldn’t send off to some school of education, and ask how we must do this, or how that, we must do that. If our church is getting lean in the Spirit, the thing we should do is hold a conference with God.

48 Acts 4 they held a conference. And they preached, and they prayed like this, “Lord, why did the heathens rage and the people imagine a vain thing? Is it right for us to refuse to preach Divine healing in our messages? Should we preach Divine healing, or should we refrain from such a thing? O Lord, we know what Your Word said; then give us boldness, courage.” Oh, my.

Then the house was shook where they were assembled together. What an answer. Give us a conference like that on Eleventh and Garfield; we’ll preach the full Word of God; we’ll stand on everything that God said stand. We’ll believe in being dead from sin and alive in Christ. We believe that a—a man that’s dead from sin, refrains from the things of the world, because they’re dead to him. There’s no more gossips, and pouts, and fusses, and fights, and stews. He’s at peace with God and with the church from then till the day he’s taken out of the world.

49 I believe that the Holy Spirit kills the nature of the world in a man or woman. Yes, sir. I believe that Divine healing is right. I believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is just as great today as It was when It was when It was poured out at Pentecost. I believe It breaks down the walls of partition and brings a brotherly love, that the devil and all the cares of the world can’t separate us from the love of God that’s in Christ. We need a conference, a real conference to bring us together in these kind.

There’s another conference coming. And that’s the conference of judgment. Now, you might not have been at the Big Four; neither was I. You might not’ve been at the Geneva; neither was I. But brother, sister, let me say this to you as your brother; that one, you’re going to be there. Every time that ambulance screams out there on the street, it let you know that you’re going to be there too. Every time you pass by the graveyard and see a tombstone, something tells you you’re going to that conference. Every time you hear the warning voice of your pastor across this pulpit, it tells you you’re going to the judgment. Every time you comb your hair, and see the gray, or it falling, the wrinkles in your face, your eyes dimming, what is it?

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Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. (Acts 4:13-14)

38 When Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever is revealing Himself, making Himself manifested to the people, showing signs and wonders, the same thing that happened in the Bible. Search It out, try It out, It’s infallible. Oh, my. Here we are.

All the disciples, they’d been moving around and speaking Word, because there wasn’t the slight doubt in His Word. Now, she has never done that. But He knowed men that’s fooled with it and tampered with it, and try to have seminary experiences and great things like that. Not as I’m downing the seminary. It’s all right. Go ahead. But brother, God…?…

I’d rather, my boy, here, he’s fixing to go to Bible school, I suppose; but I’d rather that boy knowed God and being—in a new birth of being borned again, if he didn’t have enough education to know his ABC’s. That’s right. I… Education’s all right, but I tell you this. Now, put on your shock-proof coat, ’cause here it comes. Education has been the greatest hindrance that the Gospel of Jesus Christ has ever had. Thank you. That’s exactly right. We’ve got some—we’ve got some educated infidel dummies. That’s exactly what we got.

39 Here a few days ago, there was a woman standing to me, and she was talking to me. She said, “Rev. Branham,” she said, “I was in that meeting out there, and—you had in Louisville.” She said, “I just don’t believe in that.”

I said, “Certainly you don’t. You’re a heathen.”

She said, “I resent that.”

“Well,” I said, “you just admitted you was.” I said, “What is a heathen?” If I know my English right; it’s an unbeliever. An unbeliever is an heathen. I said, “You said, yourself. You said, ‘I’m an unbeliever in that,’” I said.

40 She said, “But I have so many of this. I’ve got my education. I’ve took… I went to this school. I went to…”

I said, “I don’t care. You’re just an educated heathen. That’s all.” Exactly right.” [Congregation claps their hands—Ed.] Thank you. And friends, that’s the worst type there is.

Now, look. I ain’t spraying at you women, understand that. I’m not saying this; that’s between you and God. But the woman was standing there with enough makeup on to paint a barn almost. And I just come out of Africa, down there where the Hottentots was, and that’s exactly where that come from. “You look down with that mud on your eyes and paint like that.” I said, “You’re not too far out of the tribe yet, you have tribal paint yet.” I said, “Don’t tell me you’re not a heathen.” Yes, sir.

Oh, let me tell you… Hallelujah.

41 Education is one thing, but Jesus Christ is another. That’s right. There wasn’t an educated one in the bunch, but Paul; he said, “I had to forget all I ever knowed in order to know Him.” That’s right. Peter and John couldn’t even write their name, ignorant and unlearned men passed through the gate, called Beautiful. The man laying there crippled from his mother’s womb… Said, “Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have.” That’s what I want.

“Such as I have. I have not a Bachelor’s Degree, or I haven’t come from so-and-so college, but what I have, I will give you. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up.” That’s what he said. Walked over there and picked him up by the hands and stood him on his feet. The man went leaping and jumping. When it come…?… Peter and John never used their grammar so bad. “Why,” they said, “they perceived that they were ignorant and unlearned men, but had to take notice though, they had been with Jesus. That’s what…?… kind I want to have, somebody that knows that Jesus is around. Oh, my. Now, isn’t He wonderful?

The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup. For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright. (Psalm 11:5-7)

232 Brother Cox, not long ago, was setting on my runway before we put the…after we had the rocks there, and he picked up a little, old fossil, and he said, “Brother Branham, how old is that?”

233 “Oh,” I said, “chronologically, you might say it’s ten thousand years old. Some kind of a little, old sea monster that lived at one time, a little sea animal, might have lived way back in the ages gone by.”

234 He said, “Just think how short human life is to that life.”

235 I said, “Oh, but, brother, that thing has an end, but the Life that we have in Christ has no end. That may live two or three forevers, but it’ll never have Eternal Life, ’cause Eternal Life comes from God alone.”

236 Eternal, “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Eternal Life and shall NEVER come to the judgment but passed from death unto Life.” There you are, you get Eternal Life by being a believer. An unbeliever has life forever. An Eternal…a believer has Eternal Life, and cannot perish because It’s Eternal.

237 But a believer, he will go…An unbeliever will go through the world, he’ll have miseries, woes; what he calls having a big time, “whoopee, having a big time.” Women, wine, and big time, he thinks he’s going on. He’ll die, he’ll go into a lake of fire and brimstone which burns, where burning is going on forever and forever, and maybe for a hundred million years his soul may be tormented in a lake of fire and brimstone.

238 I…You say, “Will it be just like regular brimstone?” I believe it’ll be a million times worse than that. I believe you couldn’t describe it by fire, by a literal fire. The only reason it’s put “by fire,” that fire is the most consuming thing that we had. It absolutely consumes and destroys everything, fire does. Well, then, it’ll be in there, but you’ll have a soul that’ll have to be punished through some kind…

239 Now, you have to watch the word fire, because the Holy Ghost is used “the Holy Ghost and fire”; ’cause Holy Ghost fire burns sin out, see, and makes clean.

240 But this fire, it comes from hell, it said a “lake of fire.” And ever what it is, it’s a punishment with torment. The rich man lifted up his eyes, being in hell, and said, “Send Lazarus with a little water on his fingers, to put on my lips, for this flames are tormenting me.” Don’t think there isn’t a burning hell, and a literal hell, there is. If there’s a literal devil, there’s a literal hell.

241 But, you see, everything that’s perverted has a end to it, because it finally must come back to that purity and holiness of God. And God is Eternal; and if we have Eternal Life, God is in us, and we can no more die than God can die. There you are.

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Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. (Acts 2:38-40)

196 Remember, there was never a person in the Bible, or any time before the organizing of the Catholic church, was ever baptized any other way than in the Name of Jesus Christ. There is no place found in Scripture, or history, that any persons was ever baptized, in to the Church of the living God, in the name of the titles of “Father, Son, Holy Ghost.” It is a Catholic dogma, and not a Bible teaching.

197 Being interviewed by a priest, I asked him that. He said, “That is the truth. But we are the church; we can change whatever we want to. The solemnity is in the church. God is in His church.”

198 I said, “God is in His Word. And if the church is…” I said, “God is the Word. And if the church is contrary to the Word, then I don’t believe the church.”

I let every man’s word be a lie, whether it be priest, pope, whatever he might be, and God’s Word be true.

And Paul caused every man, no matter how he had been baptized, if he wasn’t baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, to come and be baptized over again.

199 And after some had already received the Holy Ghost, Peter said, “Can we forbid water, seeing that these have received the Holy Ghost,” Acts 10:49, “seeing that these received the Holy Ghost like we did at the…” And he commanded them, “Before you leave the place, although you’ve received the Holy Ghost, come and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ.”

For, Peter was given the key to the Kingdom, saying, “Whatever you bind on earth, I’ll bind it in Heaven.” And what does a key do? It unlocks something, the mystery.

200 And when Jesus said, “Go, baptize them in the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost,” setting that there to blind the unbeliever.

Watch! Why didn’t Peter carry that out, word by word? He had to.

If a man is baptized in the titles, “Father, Son, Holy Ghost,” he’s never been baptized at all; he has no Name. Father is no name, Son is no name, and Holy Ghost is no name. The Holy Ghost is what It is; like, I’m a human. It is the Holy Ghost.

Father is a title; I’m a father. Son is a title; I’m a son. Human is a title; that’s what I am. But my name is William Branham.

And the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost is the Name of “Jesus Christ.” Jesus said, “I come in My Father’s Name.” What is the Father’s Name? Any son comes in his father’s name. And the Father’s Name is Jesus Christ. See? See what I mean?

201 If I told you to go down and get me something off of the counter down here, in the name of the mayor of the city. How many knows who the mayor of the city is? My good friend, Rich Vissing. Well, you wouldn’t go down there and say “in the name of the mayor of the city.” You say, “In the name of Richard Vissing.” You people here in Jeffersonville knows who he is.

And that’s the reason He said, “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” In Him dwells the Deity, the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He said, “Baptize them in the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost.”

202 Peter standing there with the revelation on which He built the Church, of Who He was, he said, “Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ.” And never…The keys turned in Heaven and on earth. “There’s not another Name under Heaven given among men whereby you must be saved.”

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And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (Acts 2:1-4)

85 So I just happened to investigate. I went up to a fellow, I just taken the negative side, on both sides, to test out. I went up to a bro-…, this brother, and I said, “I hear that you belong to the Assemblies of God, a minister.”

He said, “I am.” He said, “What are you?”

I said, “I’m a Baptist.”

And he said, “Well, have you received the Holy Ghost?”

I said, “Yes.” I said, “I received the Holy Ghost?”

He said, “You speak in tongues?”

I said, “Yeah. Yeah, I spoke in tongues.”

86 He said, “Brother, you’ve got It. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. That’s It.”

87 I said, “Yeah,” I said, “I received the Holy Ghost, and spoke in tongues, and for the evidence of it.” And I said…

88 He said, “Oh, you’ll come out of that old, stiff, formal Baptist church, then. Hallelujah!” And he spoke in tongues a few times.

89 I said, “Yeah, I received the Holy Ghost, was baptized in Jesus Christ’s Name. And…”

He said, “You what?”

90 And I said, “I received the Holy Ghost, and was baptized in Jesus Christ’s Name.”

He said, “You don’t get the Holy Ghost like that.”

91 I said, “You told me a little too late.” I said, “I done done it.” So he said…And I said, “I—I—I just…I just done done that.”

92 And he said, “Oh, you can’t get That like that.” Said, “You believe that kind of heresy?” See?

93 I—I said, “Oh, I wouldn’t call it heresy.” I said, “It teaches in the Bible.”

94 He said, “Get out of my house. I don’t even want nothing to do with you.”

I said, “Okay. The Lord be with you, brother.” Walked out.

95 Not long ago, an old Baptist preacher out there…That was my first trip to Phoenix, Curtis. I went to see this old boy. Walked into him, and I said, “Howdy do, sir.”

He said, “Howdy do.”

96 I said, “I hear you’re a Baptist preacher.” Way back over there, at the time when that little old boy, back over in that place was healed, with that lung trouble, back, where that tubercular place is back there. I forget the name of the place. And so I just said, “I hear you’re a Baptist preacher.”

He said, “Yeah.”

I said, “Have you received the Holy Ghost?

He said, “Well, what are you, Pentecost?”

97 And I said, “Yeah, I’m Pentecost.” I was a Baptist to the other one, but I was a Pentecost to this one. I said, “Yeah,” I said, “I’m Pentecost.” I said, “You got the Holy Ghost? Evidence, speaking in tongues?”

98 He said, “Uh-huh,” he said, “well,” he said, “I tell you, brother,” he said, “that’s all right.” He said, “But, you know, I never did just… Somehow, I just never could see it just like that.” He said…

99 And I said, “Oh, you haven’t got nothing then. That’s all there is to it. You ain’t got a thing, ’less you do it. That’s all.”

100 He walked over to me, took a hold of my hand, looked me right in the eye and put his arm around me. He said, “But we’re brothers, aren’t we? We’re going to Heaven, aren’t we, brother?”

101 I said, “Yes. And, brother, happen to be, I’m on your side.” See?

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Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus. For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry. Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood. For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take. Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection. And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles. (Acts 1:16-26)

34 When Judas fell, by transgression, by the love of money and the pride of life, he fell from grace and went to his place. And the disciples said, “There must be twelve.” And the church, with all of its dignity, to show you what the church is; with all of its dignity and all of its power, it’s still millions of miles short, at its very best. They said, “We’ve got to look out, one among us, who will take the place.” And they chose, by casting lots, Matthias. Mattheas, I believe, or Matthias. Matthias, I believe it is. And whenever they chose him and put him with the twelve, with the eleven, which made up the twelve, he did not do one thing. That’s the only time his name is ever mentioned in the Scriptures. That was the church making its choice.

35 Now, they thought, “He is a gentleman.” No doubt. “He’s a wonderful man. He’s a scholar. He’s smart. He’s educated. He’s a wonderful person. He would take the place of Judas and be one of us.”

36 But, you know, God sometimes makes some of the…to our opinion, some of the most foolish choices. Now, God seen a little hook-nosed Jew, just as full of temper as he could be, with his mouth setting sideways, “I’ll go down, arrest every one of them. I’ll—I’ll throw them in jail. I’ll do this.” That was God’s choice.

The rest of them taken a scholar and a diplomat. That’s the church’s choice.

37 See, you don’t know who that is at the altar. You don’t know who that is you’re testifying, in jail or wherever it is. It might look like a pugilist, his ears broke down, eyes skinned up, and, but you don’t know who that is. You just cast your lot, that’s all, give him the Word. God takes the choice.

38 And God choose this little high-tempered Jew, or chose him, rather. On his road down, “I’ll go down and get them. I’ll—I’ll show them what I can do like that,” and God just knocked him down.

God said, “That’s My choice, right there.”

39 Wouldn’t that be foolish, to the church? “Why, he persecutes the church. He’s a carnal man.” But God knowed what was on the inside of man. See what I mean?

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So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. (John 21:15-16)

80 Well, that is merely this. See, Christ is the Shepherd. He was going away, and He was leaving the commission of His Sheep, which any shepherd feeds, which is His Flock, His Church…See? He was leading—or leaving the commission with these disciples to continue to feed the flock, the—to be a shepherd, feed the sheep.

81 In other words like this, if—if you look out here…Here this morning, that’s what I’m doing. Now, sheep will only grow as you give them sheep food. Now, if you’d fry up a big hamburger and give it to a sheep, he couldn’t grow on that, ’cause, see, he don’t—that’s not sheep food. See? And—and if I would fry up or be a—have a nice T-bone steak fixed up, and give it over to a sheep, it—it’s not sheep food. He just couldn’t eat it, that’s all, because he’s a sheep. But sheep like sheep food. Well then, when you’re to feed the Flock of God, don’t feed them on some man-made theology; feed them on the Word; that’s where the sheep grow from. Feed the Word!

82 Be a shepherd, a true shepherd. “Feed My sheep.” Lamb’s is the little ones, of course, and sheep is the adult. So both young and old, feed the flock of God! See? And feed them with the Word! The Word (you see?) is the Truth! Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Is that right? So then, if man is to live and they are the flock of God, this—the church, then they are to thrive upon the Word and Manna of God. This is His Manna!

83 In the—the Bible, we just come through it over there in the—in the—in the Church Ages. Jesus is the hidden Manna; Christ is the church’s Manna. What is manna? Manna in the Old Testament was that what come down from Heaven fresh every night to sustain the church in its journey. Is that right? Now, in the New Testament what is the hidden Manna? “A little while and the world seeth Me no more (hidden); yet ye shall see Me, for I’ll be with you, even in you to the end of the world.” And Christ is that hidden Manna that comes from God out of Heaven afresh every day—every day.

84 We can’t say, “Well, two weeks ago I had a great experience of God.” What about right now? See? Every day, fresh, a new blessing, a new something coming from God, the hidden Manna coming down from God out of Heaven, Christ. And we feast upon this Manna which is Christ, and He sustains us through the journey till we reach the—the land on the other side.

85 Now, that’s what He meant by, “Feed My sheep.” We’d get on that, we’d never get to the rest of the questions, ’cause that’s a good one for me. I like that, when I talk of Christ being the Manna and the Food for the sheep.

86 Feed them Christ from His Word. See? Take the Word of Christ just exactly the way it’s wrote here and give it out to the sheep. No matter what anybody else says, “Oh, they need a hamburger!” Don’t you believe it. Here’s what they need, right here! This is It. See? Give them This! This is sheep Food. That’s what makes them grow. The Holy Spirit, this is His Word, His commission. The Word is a Seed. The seed brings forth a plant; the plant we eat. Now, this is what brings forth the plant that the Holy Spirit thrives upon, is the Church.

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But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. (John 20:24-29)

35 Watch here, Oral Roberts, a bosom friend of mine, used this Scripture after, I believe he got it from Jeremiah. Jeremiah said, “God is a good God.”

And my friend, Oral Roberts, has used that many times, that expression, and that’s true. God is a good God. He… Certainly, He is. I want to ask you something. God being a good God, did you notice at the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, Peter was at the grave and some women, and Peter recognized the Lord had raised from the dead. He come right back to the disciples, and he said, “The Lord is risen.” And the rest of them began to praise the Lord, ’cause they knowed He was supposed to raise from the dead. So, don’t you remember what he said to us? They began to rejoice, because the Lord had risen.

36 In this group there was two missing, and one of them was called Cleopas and his buddy. And they were on the road to Emmaus, going back home very sad. They never heard the word yet. So as they journeyed on, Jesus appeared with them. And notice, He didn’t go to tell them some kind of fantastic, the first thing He went to, was back to the Word, said, “Fools, slow of heart, don’t you know the prophets have said, the Word has said, that Christ must suffer to enter into His glory? He begin with the Word. And Christ always begins with the Word, and stays with the Word. And when He made hisself known to them by a sign, not a fantastic, a sign that He did before them here on earth, which made it a Bible sign, they rushed back, and in this midst of people, they found a guy named Thomas.

“No, don’t believe it. No, don’t believe it. I’ve got to have bloody hands before I believe it.” He was the first Pentecostal. “I’ve got to have a sign. I’ve got to have some kind of a feeling, a sensation.”

God’s a good God. He appeared and said, “Thomas, come here.” Said, “Put your hands here in My side. Do you feel Me? If you want to feel something, here it is Thomas. Feel Me. Touch My hand.”

And Thomas said, “Oh, now I believe.” He had to have a feeling.

37 The others didn’t have to have a feeling. They had faith. They didn’t need a sensation. Thomas had to have some evidence. They needed no evidence. The written Word was written, and they had faith in the written Word. Not special hard, brother, that’s what Phoenix needs—faith in the written Word.

And He said, “Thomas, now, you’ve had all the feeling and sensation, and you say you believe.” He’s got many children, Thomas has. He said, “Now you believe. How much greater is their reward, who has never seen, or had any sensation, and still believe?” I want to be on that side—the greater reward.

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