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So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. (John 13:12-15)

72 Now, notice Him. As He, here on earth, we see some of His work. Let’s see what He meant in Christian faith now. Here He is here. The stream of all Christianity, the Head, the Beginning, the Origin of the Christian faith was Jesus Christ, God’s Son, the beginning of Christian faith, the starting place for all mankind of all ages to look to that starting place and begin from there. He was an Example to us. Is that right?

73 When, 13th chapter, Saint John, when feetwashing was brought along, and He said… Watch as Peter, self-starched, this Peter—Peter was, protected, sassed, stood there as a stiff collared. And He walked up to wash Peter’s feet. He said, “You’re never washing my feet.” Oh, my. We have so many of those today.

“You’re never washing my feet.”

74 Jesus looked at him, said, “Well, if I don’t wash you, you got no part with Me.”

75 Peter said, “Then Lord not my feet only, but my hands and head.” Kind of unstarched him, didn’t it?

76 Oh, I’d imagine those kind words, looking around at Peter and saying, “Now, now… If I—if I can’t wash you, you got no part with Me, if you can’t follow My commandment, if you can’t do the will of the Father; Peter, I love you, but you’ve got to do these things.” That’s part of the Christian faith.

77 Then after He got through washing the disciples’ feet, set down, said, “Now, you call Me Lord and Master: and you say, well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you ought to wash one another’s. For…” Listen at it. “For I have given you an example, that you should do to each other as I have done unto you.” He was the Example of Christianity. He was Christianity. He was our Pattern.

78 Don’t never try to pattern your life after some preacher, after some priest, after some great religious man here on earth, but pattern your life after Christ. He is your Example. He set an example. He lived an example and presented it to the Church. Oh, I hope that soaks so deep.

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And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke: And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face: And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times: And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin. (Numbers 19:1-9)

24 And then, I noticed the red heifer how He said she must be, not never have a yoke upon her; if you notice how it represented Jesus. When He come He never yoked himself up with any worldly order. He never taken Pharisee or Sadducee side; He stayed free from both. He declared God to both sides.

And another way, that she must be killed in the presence of the high priest. The priest must see the heifer killed. And so was Jesus, when Caiaphas even sentenced Him and so forth. There He was killed in the presence of the high priest, right upon Golgotha where he could look from the temple and see Him dying in the presence of the high priest.

What a picture, how it speaks of the Lord Jesus. And then when they must take his fingers, and pick up the blood, and make seven stripes across the door of the—right in the door of the congregation, that no one could come into the door except recognizing that something died to go before them. It was a public testimony of the Lord Jesus.

Oh, friend, I want you to see that so bad: a public testimony, seven stripes representing the seven church ages; which by Israel, the seven church ages, we’re in the last, the Laodicean. And to every church age, He was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Then it was to be burnt. All the body was to be burnt, and was to be made a waters of separation, mixed with water, and kept in a clean place outside the court.

Notice, that represented the waters of separation, represented the Word of God now: Wash us by the water by the Word. The Word is the waters of separation. Christ was the sacrificial beast. And He died in order…

You sick people listen to this. Christ died in order that He might be able to fulfill every Word. He was the Word. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us, and died making the waters of separation, and this is the Word.

This is Christ, every Word in Here is God Itself wrote in print. Receive It into your heart and watch what happens after you receive It.

Just take any Divine promise. Listen to this, and you can make this statement, it’s on recordings, everything. But I say this, and challenge anybody. The right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of this Word will bring it to pass, regardless of what it is. If God said so, you take the right mental attitude towards that Word, and see what happens.

55-0606 - "The Waters Of Separation"

And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. (John 12:20-21)

3 Now, these Greeks that came to Philip, their heart’s desire was to see Jesus. How many has that same desire tonight? Everyone. We all want to see Him. That’s the call of the human heart: Sir, We Would See Jesus. Now, that’s what we want to do tonight.

Let’s just think a minute. Now, let’s just get away from all of our fantastic ideas.

And if He’s so real as Christians claim He is, why can’t we see Him? We say He—He’s not dead, that He’s living. He said He’d be with us and every generation would see Him until the end of the world. Now, Jesus promised that. He said, “A little while the unbelievers won’t see Me no more. But you’ll see Me for I’ll be with you to the end of the world.” Then every generation has been promised to see Him. So let’s take a look for Him tonight. I want to see Him.

4 I remember one time I was getting up my little old cabin, cold, I was trying to make a fire, and oh, if it wouldn’t burn. And I turned on the radio, and a sister was singing, I want to see Jesus. I just set down in the floor and just started weeping. I raised up both hands and I said, “Yes, Lord, I want to see You.”

And you want to see Him. And if He is so real, why can’t we see Him? If you were looking for Him tonight, what type of person would you look for? Would you look for a man in long robes, dressed different from other men? Not Jesus, He dressed just like other men. He was… if He was here in a body of flesh tonight, He’d wear a suit of clothes like we have. And we couldn’t look for a well-dressed man, and I don’t imagine He would look like He was from a bandbox.

5 We wouldn’t go out to the great, great cathedrals to find Him, for when He was here they wouldn’t receive Him. And they wouldn’t again tonight. Would you go to a man that had a great forceful voice? No. Would you look for a man that had a great swelling education, that had so much education till He continually spoke in tongues? Just so common people couldn’t understand Him? Not Jesus. He talked like common people. So where would you find Him? You’d have to find Him among the common people. He’d be a common Man.

Then what would He be doing? Bragging on His education? Bragging on His affiliation in churches? No. Would He be bragging He was a healer? No. He’d be saying, “Not Me, it’s the Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.” He would look out over the audience, the people suffering, He’d say, when they had faith, “Daughter,” or “child, thy faith has saved thee from such and such diseases.” Then if the Father would tell Him something, He’d speak it out to the audience. That’s the kind of Jesus we’d look for.

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Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him. But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done. (John 11:39-46)

103 So Martha, when she come up… And she fell down at His feet, and she said, “Lord,” Lord, that’s what He was, “if You’d have been here my brother would not died,” See? Said, “But even now, whatever You ask God, God will do it.” Oh, there you are. There you are. “No matter what You’ve done, Your attitude, You’re following what God said do. Whether You said this or that, or whether You did come, or didn’t come, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You.”

He said, “Thy brother shall rise again.”

Said, “Yea, Lord, he will rise in the last days. He will rise… He’s a good man, he will—he will rise in the general resurrection.”

He said, “I am the Resurrection and Life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” Nobody could say that but Him. “He that liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?”

She said, “Yea, Lord: I believe that You are the Son of God, that was to come into the world.” There you are.

104 What is it? She’s acting. She wants to see a miracle, so she’s finding out what the Word says. “I believe the Word. It’s standing there in the form of the Son of God. His Words is not His. ‘Not Me that speaketh, but the Father that dwelleth in Me.’ Whatever comes from them little lips of Yours that speaks, I’ll believe it’s the commission of God. (Oh, my, my.) You are the Messiah.” What is Messiah? The anointed One. “You are God’s anointed One.”

105 God had an anointed one in a lesser measure one day, and his name was Elijah. And there Elisha… And the woman had a baby that died. And she went up to this servant of God, and she said, “Thou man of God.” She recognized him. And that anointed one of God come and walked through the floor (Oh, my.), laid his body upon that little dead baby, and it sneezed seven times and come to life.

And if God did that by His anointed prophet, how much more will He do by Immanuel? “I believe that You are the Son of God.” If you ever get anything from God, you’ve got to believe God’s servant, God’s Word. See? And He was the Word. “I believe. Just tell me what to do.”

“Where have you laid him?” Down He went to the grave, weeping like a man. When He got down there, what did He say now do when you get here? See, you got something to do too, you know. Said, “Take ye away the stone, if you want to see a miracle.”

106 You sick people tonight, if you want to see a miracle, take away the stone. Take away that stone, that sin that lays at the door. What is it? Say, “Brother Branham, I don’t do nothing.” But if you don’t believe it, it can’t happen. Take away that stone of unbelief and watch what happens. Just take away the stone. And when she obeyed the Word of the Lord, she saw a miracle. Sure.

62-0124 - "Have Not I Sent Thee?"

Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. (John 11:21-27)

19 And we’ll find out every time that God is right. He thinks with his head, but he believes in his heart. Now, the devil thinks through his mind to show him something with his eye. But his heart will make him believe something that would be impossible to look at, because it’s the faith that he has in his heart. He believes with his heart for things that he can’t see. And the devil turns around and takes his head and makes him scientifically prove something. And his heart turns around and denies it.

Oh, if we could get away from our head knowledge and head religion, to heart religion where God could go to work in the Church… Out of our head into our heart… A man believes in his heart. He thinks with his head, believes in his heart.

Now, the mind reasons things. The heart doesn’t reason at all. It just believes what God says. But you see, today we’re so scientific, oh, we Americans anyhow. We are so scientific; it has to be all proved out to us.

20 In the old days when someone said the Lord did a miracle they just believed it. They thought, “That’s all right. Thank the Lord for it.” But today, oh, we’ve got to scientific take it down and prove it. And if it can be proved scientifically, then it’s not faith any more. Oh, I hope you get that. If it’s scientific, it isn’t faith any more.

What if Moses would’ve said, “Wait a minute here. Let me stop for a minute. What kind of a chemical spray has been put on that tree? Them leaves are on fire, but they’re not burning. You know what I’ll do? When it quits burning, I’ll pick off some of those leaves and take them down to the laboratory. And I’ll have them, the chemicals analyzed, and just find out what kind of a scientific thing this is.”

If he would’ve had that kind of a thought, God would’ve never said, “Take off your shoes.” What did he do? He walked up humbly. He didn’t care what the fire, how it was burning, or whether the tree burned up or not; he was searching for God. And every other child of God will believe it the same way. He heard a voice that said, “Take off your shoes, Moses. You’re on holy ground.”

21 If you go down to the meeting tonight, and you come down to find some kind of a fault… “The people make too much noise. The preacher preaches too long. I can scientifically tell you there’s people there that’s weary. They oughtn’t to stay up that long at night.” Go ahead. But those who come with their shoes off, with their head knowledge left behind, and a heart open for God, you’ll hear a voice say, “I am the Resurrection and the Life.”

“I’ll go down and count how many members of my church attended that revival. And I’ll hurry right back to tell the pastor that our good Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist brethren are down there. What a disgrace.” Well, there you go again, back with the head. God deals with the heart.

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My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one. (John 10:27-30)

58 When was your name put in the Book of Life? As I said last night, the man that wrote the song, “There’s a new name written down in Glory, and it’s mine, it’s mine,” meaningly he was right, but Scripturally he was wrong. Your name was not written the night you come to Christ.

Jesus said, “All the Father has given Me will come to Me. And no man can come except My Father draws him. All that comes to Me, I’ll give them Eternal Life, and raise him up at the last day. There’s none of them lost. I loose nothing, ’cause no man can pluck them out of My Father’s hand, Who gave them to Me.” Oh, my! Whew! Saint John 5:24, “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life, and shall never come to the judgment, but has passed from death unto Life.” That’s why this church believes in the security of the perseverance of the saints, not in the Baptist form, not in the Presbyterian form, but in the Bible form.

59 “Well,” you say, “now, Brother Branham, I guess once in grace always in grace.” That brings a lot of disgrace. But when a man or a woman has been born of the Spirit of God, old things have passed away, all things have become new, and he’s been birthed and blessed by the Eternal God. And they can no more perish than God Himself can perish.

60 Do you mean to tell me that a God, the infinite God, would come down and give you Eternal Life, knowing that He was going to lose you? Save you here, knowing He’s going to lose you there? What did He save you for? Why, He’s working against Himself. If He saved you once, you are saved for all Eternity. There’s no demons in hell could upset you.

61 Now, the infinite God Who could tell the end from the beginning, and then save you here, this week, and knowing next year you’re going to backslide, and lose you? Well, what’s He doing a work like that for? That would be foolish; I wouldn’t do that. If I made you my friend today, knowing you was going to be my enemy tomorrow, well, I wouldn’t do it. I’d just let you alone. See? God makes you His servant, today, because He knows, and knowed before you ever come on the earth. When He was making the calcium that went in your body, when He created the cosmic light that you…that’s in you. When the petroleums and all that you’re made up of, when God created it on the earth, He knew every fiber of you and what you’d do. How can the infinite God…

62 “Well, I better walk careful today; I might backslide and be lost tomorrow.” You wasn’t saved at the beginning. You might be worked up, under emotions. You might just think you’re saved. You might feel like you’re saved. You might believe that you’re saved. You might join the church. You might be a good Baptist, Methodist, or Pentecostal. That don’t have one thing to do with it. Your name’s ever…If you are ever saved, you were saved before the world ever began, when God sent Jesus, in His mind, to save that one who He saw was savable. Now, He’s not willing that any should perish. He’s not willing, but, if He’s God, He knowed who would and who would not. The Scripture says so. So there you are.

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Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. (John 10:7-9)

37 I… One time when I was over in the orient, I learned a great lesson about… I seen in Saint John, I believe the 10th chapter, where He said, “I am the—the gate to the sheepfold,” or the door to the sheepfold. I often wondered how could He, being a man, be a door? But then when I was over there I learned what it meant. The shepherds drive their sheep into the sheepfold, and they got a—a arch that they go in at, and when he drives them all in there, then after they’re all in, then he counts them, and ev… If there’s one lacking, he will go out and get it. He has to bring it in. Every sheep has to be accounted for every hour of the day.

Oh, what a Shepherd He is. He had—gives an account for every sheep every hour of the day. No matter where you’re at, He knows where you’re at. He knows all about you. That’s the reason He can stand here at the platform through yielded people and reveal and tell and talk; He knows. He knows where you was at a year ago. He knows where you was at—at all the time. He has to give an account for His sheep, ever—and especially they’re all renumbered again after they’re gathered into the fold. I thought, “What a beautiful picture, gathering them into the fold and numbering them.”

38 And then after he gets them all numbered and they’re all bedded down, the shepherd goes down by this hole where the sheep come in at, and lays himself down across the hole. Then no wolf can come in, no thief can come in, no harm can come in, ’less it comes over the shepherd first.

What a picture of Christ laying Hisself down for us, that nothing can harm us unless it comes over Him. So if you’re sick and you say, “Brother Branham, sickness crossed over Him.” But it was for the glory of God. That’s right. He wants to maybe give you a testimony. As the fellow said one time, he seen a shepherd with its a—packing a sheep. And he said, “Well…” The… Had his leg all bandaged up, and he said, “Well, what did you… What’s the matter, did it fall off a cliff?”

Said, “No,” said, “I broke its leg.”

“Oh,” he said, “you must be a cruel shepherd to break your own sheep’s leg.”

Said, “No, the sheep wouldn’t mind me, so I had to break her leg in order to hold her, pet her, and love her, and give her a little special food, so that she would love me and follow me.”

And so sometime God has to do that to us. Let the doctor say, “Oh, it’s all over; nothing could be done.”

And then God takes you up in His arms and pats you a little bit, says, “Child of Mine, don’t you know I love you? Don’t you know I’m the Lord that healeth all of thy diseases?”

“But Lord, I was taught that the days of mir…”

“I know you was, but I just had to let this happen so I could just show you a little special favor. Now, don’t you love Me just a little more now I’m going to let you get well.”

Did you ever have that just come to you? I have many times. Let something happen, just to check me down a little, to let Him express His love…

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Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. (Numbers 14:22-24)

12 When Israel left Egypt, they all believed in one prophet’s message. They seen the signs of God, by Moses. Every one of them saw them. And they each one come out of Egypt, and walked through the Red Sea, and was baptized unto Moses. Each one saw the power of God strike him, when he sang in the Spirit; and when Miriam beat the tambourine, run up-and-down the coast. Each one of them, every night, eat fresh, heavenly manna out of the skies. Each of those drank from that spiritual Rock that was smitten. And there was two million people left Egypt. How many made the promised land? Two. One out of a million! Where they all at? Jesus said they perished. “Your fathers eat manna in the wilderness, for the space of thirty years, and I say unto you that they are all dead.”

13 Now there is about five hundred million Christians in the world tonight, counting Catholic, Protestant, and all. If Jesus should come in that Rapture, according to what I’ve just said, there would be five hundred missing in the world tonight, in the Rapture. And they probably is that every day, counting all the lands, that’s never accounted for. So it could be at any time, see.

14 Oh, Christians, let us buckle on the armor of God. Let us do all that we know how, to serve Him, love Him, and wait for that great time.

15 Now, there is not going to be a great millions and multitudes come out of a generation and march in. There—there can’t be.

Now, remember, each day ends a generation, each day. “As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man, wherein eight souls was saved by water.” But each day ends a forty-year period for somebody, for some. See? And each day, so many is sealed away in the Kingdom. One day, the last day will arrive.

Let us be sure now, while we are in our right mind. And in the church, and amongst the people, where the Holy Spirit so has identified Hisself with us, let’s be sure that everything is all right, and stays all right, before Him.

16 Don’t you stop. Don’t rest, day and night, until that quickening Power has brought you from the things of the world, into the Kingdom of God. And you that truly are brought into the Kingdom of God and quickened by the Spirit of God, how happy! With tears of joy we should be on our knees, day and night, thanking God for what He’s done.

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I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? (Job 31:1)

158 Now we are living in the last days, with a promised sign of the resurrection. After two thousand years of in-documenting and drawing off the road, and this way, and that way, till people don’t know what to do. But Jesus told them, and promised them, “As it was in the days of Lot and Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man.”

159 Compare it today. Take Genesis 6, and look what He said; how that “renown man,” how “women would get pretty.” We got the prettiest group of women that ever was on earth, since that time. Women are much prettier than they was years ago. They got so many different things to make them pretty. So many different paints and powders and fixes and hair-do’s and everything, and immoral clothes and things, till they make them attractive.

160 A man come to me yesterday, he said, “I got a boy, sixteen, Brother Branham. I got a boy, twelve. I take them on the street, these little stripteases out here.” He said, “The boys, they’re little males,” he said, “what can I tell them?”

161 I said, “Sir, I don’t know. Take them to Christ, and let them get saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, and they’ll turn their heads to them modern stripteases.”

162 Remember, when the sons of God looked upon the daughters of man and seen they were fair, they took unto them women, took unto them women. Look over here at this great scandal in England, look through the United States, look at these call girls in the U.N., everything else, oh, it’s just terrible. And that’s it, man “renown.” We’re right back in that hour, the red lights are flashing everywhere, the coming of the—of the Lord. And Jesus said, “As it was before Sodom was burned, so will it be at the coming of the Son of man.” [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] That’s right.

163 The women are becoming so, they don’t realize what they’re doing; an evil spirit upon them. Why would a woman take her clothes off like that, to expose herself? She don’t mean to be bad, they—they, they’re just caught in that trap, and they don’t know it. See, just like it was back there in that time. Female flesh being displayed everywhere, see, very attractive, runs the sons of God right out of their mind, nearly, and then a Sodom and Gomorrah law to protect her from it. What a disgrace, and our government standing for such stuff as that!

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And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. And they said, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the Lord heard it. (Numbers 12:1-2)

71 But I want to bring another thing into your—into your remembrance. If God sent the messenger, and vindicated, by the signs, that he was the messenger sent from God, then it’s up to them to obey this messenger. Exactly. They must obey the messenger and have respects to that messenger. Look at Joshua and Caleb, they stayed right by his side. Yes, sir. Whatever Moses was in, they was in it, too. Whether Moses was right or wrong, they stayed right with him, anyhow, see, because they knowed that was God’s messenger.

72 And there, one day, we find out that even Miriam, a prophetess, and Aaron, the high priest, made fun of Moses’ wife because she was an Ethiopian, and thought, “Wasn’t there enough women of our own group, to marry, instead of going down there and marrying that woman?” That wasn’t Moses’ choice; that was God’s choice for Moses. And when they made fun of it, that angered God in such a way until He struck Miriam, the prophetess, full of leprosy, Moses’ own sister. What about that? Her, a prophetess, but what was she doing? She was making fun and an irreverence to God’s messenger, the messenger of the covenant of that day. And she was irreverent. And also Aaron, the high priest, the very mouthpiece of Moses, right, he was with her.

73 And Aaron then, when he saw his sister struck with leprosy, he went in and told Moses, “Would you let your own sister die?”

74 And Moses went into the tabernacle and fell before the Lord, and begin to weep and call out for God, mercy for his sister. And the Spirit of the Lord came down and said, “Call Aaron and Miriam to stand here before Me.” Oh, my!

75 God demands respects! God sends His Message, you listen to It and you reverence It. Don’t care if they call It a bunch of holy-rollers, or whatever they call It; let the world do what they want to. But you give respects!

76 So, there stood Miriam. God said, “Call Miriam and call Moses…or call Aaron here, your brother and sister, to stand before Me.”

77 And when they come in before God, God said, “Don’t you fear God?” Said that to the high priest and to Miriam the prophetess. Said, “If there be any, a man among you, who’s spiritual or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known to him. I’ll speak to him in visions and reveal Myself in dreams to him, and so forth, if he’s spiritual or a prophet.” But said, “My servant Moses, I speak lip to ear with him.” Said, “Don’t you fear God?” In other words, “You talk about Moses, you’re talking about Me. If you can’t respect Moses, you don’t respect Me.” Said, “Haven’t I proved among you that he’s My servant? And you have no reverence for him at all.”

78 What that would be a lesson for the people of this day, no respects, no honor!

79 Now He said, “And because you didn’t do that, that’s the reason you got leprosy. That’s the reason these things has went,” said, “because you ought to have knowed that this was My servant. You do know it, so when you say something against him you’re saying it against Me.”

80 So Moses prayed for her life to be spared, and God did spare her life. She didn’t live very long afterwards, she died. But she did get cleansed of her leprosy, and was out of the camp for seven days, you know, for her…for having it, for purification, getting herself cleaned again from her leprosy. God healed her.

81 But what He was trying to get to them, was this, “You’ve got to respect what I do.”

82 And if that was the attitude of God in that day, and God can’t change, God wants us to respect what He’s doing. He demands it.

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