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If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: (Psalm 124:2-3)

244 I’ll tell you what happened the other day. I was down in Texas. ’Fore leaving…And the—the brethren here are witnesses to this. The Oneness church, seventy-two churches, sponsored my meeting. And I put Brother Petty, the Assembly of God brother, up on the platform that night. Now, you know that’s true. He’s a precious brother, Brother Petty, if any of you know him, from Beaumont, Texas. He’s one of the finest man I ever met. His wife is a converted Catholic, a real sainted woman. He’s a real man of God.

245 Tell me who is a finer man than Roy Wead, of the Assemblies of God. Mention any of these men, look here, all these brothers I know around here. Brother from the Philadelphian church here, and the Assemblies of God men, and who is any finer people? Tell me where. Tell me who is a finer man than Jack Moore? Tell me that. He’s a what they call…They belong to them. He’s not a radical. You find radical on both sides; and that’s where the people point, and that’s where the devil points.

246 But they’re all men of God. God has give them the Holy Ghost. If it wasn’t for the grace of God, we’d all be gone, with our fusses and things. That’s exactly right. But the grace of God binds us together. No wonder we can sing, “Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love.” That’s what we need, then.

247 And so you know what? The General Superintendent over the—the church, called me up, and he said, “Did you know what you did last night?” My second night there.

I said, “What?” I said, “Had a wonderful meeting.”

Said, “You had a man on your pulpit was a sinner.”

I said, “I didn’t know it.” Where was…

Said, “That Mr. Petty.”

248 “Oh,” I said, “a sinner? What?” I said, “He’s an Assembly of God preacher, brother.”

249 He said, “Yes, but he is still a sinner, because he hasn’t been baptized right.”

250 And I said, “Brother, pray tell me why.” I said, “He’s got the Holy Ghost.”

251 He said, “Brother Branham, what did Peter say? ‘Repent, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins.’ Therefore your sins cannot be remitted until you’re baptized in Jesus’ Name.”

I said, “Is that the formula, my brother?”

He said, “That’s the formula.”

252 I said, “God upset His Own applecart then, in Acts 10:49, for, ‘While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell upon them which heard the Word,’ see, and they had never been baptized, at all. Then, God give the Holy Ghost to people that wasn’t even converted?” I said, “Where in the world are you standing now?”

253 He said, “You know what we’re going to do?” Said, “We’re drawing a little ring, and drawing you right out of our circle.”

254 “Then,” I said, “I’m going to draw another one, and draw you right back in again.” I said, “You can’t draw me out, ’cause I love you. See, you just can’t do it.” I said, “There’s too many of your—your brethren out there that love me and believe in me.” I said, “You, I’ll—I’ll…They’ll come, anyhow.” I said, “They’ll come. And you can’t draw me out. If you draw me out, I’ll draw you back in.” I said, “When you make one circle, God, by His grace, will let me draw another and pull you right back again.” That’s right, draw them right back again.

61-0425b - "The Godhead Explained"

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So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives. And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. (1 Samuel 30:3,6)

8 Here sometime ago down in Louisiana, Brother Moore, here on the platform, and I, we were going down, way down to some little city, to a little church, and have a meeting. And his beloved daughter, and wife, and all of them was along. And I was—had my suitcase that some folks give me many, many years ago, over in California, and I’d just bought me a new suit. I had it in the suitcase, and had an old one on. And he had it laying on top of his car, driving fast down through Louisiana. All at once, when we got down there, we found out the suitcase wasn’t on top; it was gone. I didn’t even have a pocket handkerchief. So he was very much discouraged. I said, “Oh, the Lord will take care of that.”

All my wardrobe, complete, was in it, besides my overalls, at home. So, he said, “Brother Branham, I’m going out and buy you a new suit.”

I said, “No, it’s all right.”

He said, “You haven’t got a chance, Brother Branham,” said, “that was lost way up, along the road there,” and said, “just… lot’s of colored people live up through this way.” And said, “Now, the first thing,” said, if some man come along the road and he found the suitcase…”

I said, “My Bible is in there, had my name in it.”

He said, “Well, if he found that suitcase, Brother Branham,” said, “the thing he’d do, is sell those suits,” and so forth like that.

I said, “Well, maybe he needs it worse that I do. ’Cause the Lord gave them to me, so maybe he needs them worse; the Lord’s giving them to him.”

He said, “Well, and if he found my Bible, and if he knew me,” I said, “he’d bring it back anyhow.”

He said, “Oh, no, Brother Branham,” said, “if a sinner finds it,” said, “he will sell the clothes.” and said, “If a Christian finds it, they’ll cut those suits up, and sent them to one another for prayer clothes.” Said, “You haven’t got a chance.” So I said, “Well, we’ll just trust the Lord.”

9 Two days past, and Brother Brown, over there, he said, “I want in on this too. I want you—I absolutely want to get you some new suits.”

I said, “No, the Lord will bring them back somehow.”

So we… Two or three days past; he said, “You see,” said, “we met a police down there, and the police said, ‘Sure, I’ll—I’ll go up the road looking for it.’ (His mother had been healed in my meetings), he said, ‘Certainly.’” One of the state police, and we’d told him we lost the suitcase up there, way up in the swamps somewhere, oh, maybe a hu—two hundred miles, three hundred, up and down the road.

So then the next day, we went over, and Brother Jack was just persistent that I was going to get a suit of clothes anyhow.

Said, “Boy, a thousand miles from home, no clothes at home, and none here.” Said, “My, what are you going to do without even a handkerchief or a clean shirt?”

Said, “Well, the Lord will take care of that.”

55-0223 - "Job"

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I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. (Psalm 122:1-2)

331. Brother Branham, do you teach that the Bride must not attend any church unless you are there preaching, or else the tabernacle, other words, the tabernacle? (Got “else,” it means “other words.”)

332. Also, do you teach that we need not keep the—the Sunday or holidays, as working, fishing, or so forth? Or…(I’d say that was Sunday. It looked like Sunday to me. Or right at the bottom it look like…or Sunday, I guess it is, holidays or Sundays. Yeah, Sundays, that what it look like? [Brother Branham speaks to someone—Ed.] Holy days—holy days, Sunday and holy days.)

122 No! You’re mistaken. See? Let me go over and just answer it as I come by.

Do you teach that the Bride must not attend any other church unless you are preaching—preaching or else, otherwise, the tabernacle?

123 No! I don’t teach that. I don’t believe that; I do not believe it. We’ve got ministers setting here that’s scattered all around through the country, and I believe they are part of that Bride. I believe that a man or woman can go to church anywhere they want to go that teaches the Word. And I believe, if they don’t teach the whole Word, and you can’t go to church any other place where they teach the whole Word, go where they teach half the Word until you can get to where they teach the whole Word. Go to church whatever you do. Do that.

Also do you teach that we must—we must…need not keep Sunday, or any holy day, or—or working, or like working, or fishing on Sunday?

124 I believe it’s a sin to fish, and hunt, and work on Sunday when you can go to church. Now, I believe you’re transgressing the laws of God. “Is there a commandment to such?” Yes, sir! Now, in the Old Testament we had a type of the Sabbath day. It was all…And Jesus did not come for you to keep Sabbath days. The old Sabbath day was Saturday, which was the end of the week. Sunday is the eighth day, or the first day of the week, which Jesus rose on.

125 I do not believe it’s right to…Now, if you’re way away into a wilderness somewhere, and you’re out there on a hunting trip, there’s no church around, anything like that, and there’s nothing you can do; and if you was fishing, I believe that would be all right. But if you’re around in the city, or around where church is going on, you should attend church by all means, somewhere.

126 And I believe, as far as working, I believe if the ox is in the ditch, or something has to be done on Sunday, you go ahead and do it, if it’s something that you couldn’t help, it had to work that way. But if you just do it, and wait till Sunday to do it, or just do it like that, you’re wrong. See? We must not do that, we must respect that holy day.

64-0830m - "Questions And Answers #3"

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89 When we come to the healing services, if you’ll notice on the discernment in the line, it’s constantly, “Tell people to repent.” See? There you go, till our prayers has become a tradition. We kneel down at night and say, “Lord, bless So-and-so, and bless So-and-so, and do this. And help John do all this.” You make God a—a mascot, or you make Him a—a some kind of an errand boy. “God, You do this. And You do this. And You do this.” That’s not the way Jesus told us to pray.

90 He said to pray like this, “Our Father Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thine will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven.”

But we try to order God, what to do for us.

91 And that’s the reason the church is cooling off. That’s why the great revival that’s just struck the land, has put millions into the church. It’s, it, they have got to a place that they’re using these experiences, and so forth, as a tradition, instead of being godly sorrowful, and letting the Holy Spirit do the work of His office within you, and creating in you a new life, and making you so hungry to go to church that you can’t stay away from church. Then, that’s what it is. Not to sign tickets, and join, and have so forth. It’s to be have the Life of Christ in you, that you just longs to go. There is Something within you, pushing you.

92 As I was saying to a young man yesterday, in a talk, a little interview. I said, “I used to pass by a little spring, when I was a game warden in Indiana. And there was…”

93 It was always the happiest spring I ever seen in my life. Great springs in Indiana, they bubble up with that fine cold water, of limestone water. And one day I set down by the spring, to talk to it, just like I guess that Moses would have set, to the burning bush, to speak with it. And I said, “Little spring, what makes you so happy, that you’re bubbling all the time? If I come here in the wintertime, you’re bubbling. If I come spring, autumn, summer, whenever it is, you’re bubbling. Is it because that maybe, perhaps, you’re so happy that the rabbits come and drink out of you?”

94 Well, now, if he could talk, he’d say, “No, that’s—that’s not it.”

95 I’d say, “Well, maybe because deers come by and drink out of you.”

He’d say, “No, that’s not it.”

96 I’d say, “Now, well, maybe it’s because I come by, once in a while, and drink from you.”

97 “No, that’s not it. I’m glad that they all come and drink, but that’s not the reason that I’m bubbling all the time.”

98 “Well, what makes you bubble like that? What makes you so happy, always gushing up?”

99 If he could talk, he’d say, “It’s not me. It’s something behind me, pushing me.”

100 That’s the way it is with a Christian experience. It isn’t something that you’re trying to work up. It’s something behind, working in you. It’s Eternal Life that’s moving up, gushing up. Like as He told the woman at the well, “It’ll be wells of water springing up into Eternal Life.” It’s something within the worshipper when he’s been identified with Christ, because he knows that He is alive. But we don’t want it become a tradition.

63-1028 - "Pardon"

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If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. (Colossians 3:1-4)

192 You want to belong in Heaven! That’s where your affections ought to be, on things above. Jesus said, “Set your affections on things above, not on things of the earth. They’re going to fail.” Stay with God. Stay with realities. God is a God of reality. He has always been, in all ages. Any time that man ever walked with God, God become a reality that performed signs and wonders and miracles with His people. It’s God’s purpose to do so. Surrender all.

193 Right here in Louisville, Kentucky, not long ago, there was a very nice family of people. They had a sick baby. Called to pray for it. The doctor walked out of the hospital. “And what about the baby?”

194 He said, “That baby is dying. There is nothing else can be done for it.” Said, “It’s got leukemia.” Said, “The baby has to die.”

195 Thought, “O God, You ain’t said that yet. You never witnessed that.” Went and talked to the parents, and the parents was crying and sobbing. Their—their—their baby was gone, as far as they knowed. But what did they do?

196 The doctor was right. He, everything that he knowed to do, he had done. Leukemia is a killer, and nothing can stop it. Said, “The baby is going to die.”

197 The old grandfather of that baby. You all know the case. And the old grandfather of that baby come along. When he heard me speak about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, he said, “I used to remember years ago, when an old preacher said there would come a time that people would receive the Holy Ghost again, and signs and wonders would be done.” He went off in a little room to himself. He wouldn’t stay with his son or his daughter-in-law no more. He stayed in there, crying and praying. When the old fellow walked out of there, the sweat hanging across his bald forehead, his eyes glistening. He said, “That baby will live.”

Said, “What?”

198 He said, “Doctor, I respect you as a—as a man of science. I respect you and your intelligence that you have learned through medical research. But,” said, “I prayed and I prayed, and I prayed until I surrendered everything I had to surrender, and the Holy Spirit said, ‘The baby will live.’” It did. Why? He surrendered everything he had.

199 God got a hold of him and could talk to him, when he was willing to surrender everything. That’s what we lack. You don’t want to surrender your ways. You don’t want to surrender your societies. You don’t want to surrender the little click that you belong to. You don’t want to surrender any time, you’ve got to do this, that, or the other, instead of praying. You don’t want to surrender things to God. God wants you to surrender! Closing, I want to say this. Whole lot more here I’d like to say, but I haven’t the time. God wants a complete surrender. When you surrender everything, then you will find out what I’m talking about is the Truth.

60-0626 - "The Unfailing Realities Of The Living God"

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Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. (Colossians 2:8-9)

125 I heard someone say the other night in a message, said that they come to…I believe it was Billy Graham, last night, was watching him as he said that he went to Israel and he went into Palestine, and he said, “I come to believe your people,” something on that order. And I certainly admired him as he appeared on that worldly program last night. Many of you turned the man down for doing that. But, look here, he got before the whole nation then. And he never took it back, he stood just exactly on what he believed. And I certainly admire him for that. And he said, “I went to Israel and I told them, ‘I worship one of your Children,’ in other words, like this.”

126 I thought, “Billy, that’s wonderful. I’d like to see that God-given power that you have to stand there in the midst of all that Hollywood glamour and give a testimony by Jesus Christ, but He was not a Jew.” Jesus was God, not a Jew. Remember, the blood cell comes from the male sex. And He was not no man, Jew or Gentile, He was God created in flesh. We’re not saved by the blood of a Jew or blood of a Gentile, we’re saved by the Blood of God. He was God, nothing less. He wasn’t Jew nor Gentile. God’s creative Blood in Him, we become…If He was a Jew or a Gentile, we’re all lost. He was God in flesh. Right.

127 I don’t worship a Jew, I worship God when I worship Jesus Christ. I don’t worship some fiction or some kind of a historical something. I worship Jesus Christ, the Presence of Jesus Christ right now, which is His Word that’s manifested in this age.

128 God in every age allotted His Word from the beginning, and every time in which one of those ages passed by, God sends down an anointed prophet for that age. In the days of Noah, days of all the rest of them, when He made the promises. I don’t care what kind of a condition the church got into, He always does that, He sends a man anointed. For the Word of the Lord comes to the prophets. And here he stood there, each prophet, and was condemned by the organizations of that day, but he stood on the Word and made the Word live.

129 Jesus was the fulness of God’s Word, for He was the fulness of the Godhead bodily, and in Him dwelt the fulness of God. God lived in Jesus Christ. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Not Jew nor Gentile, but God! There He stood, making Hisself. How fitting! And God’s Own Blood had to shed upon the ground, from the innocent blood of Abel on down, to redeem us. He didn’t take His own life, He didn’t hold His own life; He said, “Father, is it possible this cup should pass from Me? But, nevertheless, not My will, Thine be done.” He give in to the Word.

130 Today we can do the same thing. You can either take your creeds, take your so-and-so, and go wherever you want to with it; but you can say, “Not my will, but Thine be done.” Come back to that Word of God. Take your tinsel and Christmas and do what with it you want to. But give me Jesus Christ in my heart, no matter how humble It is, and how people laugh at It, or what of It. Watch—watch its nature, see if it does just like He did. If it didn’t, and it don’t compare with this Word, leave it alone, it’s not Christ; ’cause Christ is the Word.

63-1214 - "Why Little Bethlehem"

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Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God. Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. (Daniel 6:4-9)

17 And the time that… Every fellow has to come to a time where you make a decision. There’s got to be a time where you make your decision of whether you’re going to be married or not. Then the decision that you and your girlfriend has to make, whether you are going to live together or get married or not. There’s all kinds of decisions to be made in life, and they’ll linger long for a certain period, and then a time comes where it’s got to be settled. That’s the last time; it’s got to happen now one way or the other.

And Christian friend, I believe that we’re living in the end time, that when all things that was written in the Bible, it’s time now for all these things to come to pass. And I believe that the very things that we see happening now, it’s just exactly in season with God’s Word.

18 Now, there was a time when God made the heavens and earth and put men on the earth. And then when man begin to multiply, and wax great in the earth, building cities, and many people begin to be fully populated, wickedness set in among the hearts of the people, and the time came where God had to send judgment. God set a time for that judgment.

And then, He also had a preacher of righteousness by the name of Noah, who preached a hundred and twenty years and was turned down by everyone except his own family. Then the time come that what Noah had prophesied through God must come to pass. And the antediluvian destruction taken place and God floated the ark through, preserving Hisself a seed.

19 There was a time when God spoke to Abraham and told him that his seed would sojourn for four hundred years, and be evil entreated in a nation, a heathen nation, but He would bring them out with a mighty hand.

Now, before that could take place which God had said, God had to have this nation ready; He had to have the people ready; and then He had to have a Moses ready to—to go down there. God makes everything work together right, just like cogs coming together.

We see it off, sometime in the distant and wonder, “Could it ever be?” But it always happens just the way God said it would be.

And when the time of the promise drew nigh, there come a pharaoh who did not know Joseph. And then at the time of the persecution and killing of the little children, God sent Moses; a prophet came on the scene. And miracles and signs begin to happen in the age because the time of that age was finished.

20 There come a time where the Hebrew children had to make a stand, whether they were going to bow down to a heathen image or whether they were going to keep their faith in the true and living God. The time came when the decision must be made. And they made the right decision and God was with them.

56-0408e - "The Time Is At Hand"

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. (Philipians 4:8)

104 And these, no reverence, no respects! The people today, they don’t respect God. They have no reverence. They take His Name in vain, and tell dirty jokes. And—and even ministers do that. You hear a—a joke, I guess would be all right. But ministers should be examples, I think, of what of—of righteousness and holiness. And that’s the reason I think maybe we—we don’t get no farther than we do; we’re not, don’t come this, the sincerity that we ought to have in it. When you’re carrying on, and going on, you lose that little grain of sincerity, you know. There is something about it.

105 You must remember that God is watching you, every hour. He watches you when you’re asleep. Now, I think the reason that people do those things is because, they—they—they, they’re not conscious of His Presence, see. But yet He is there, whether you think He is or not. He sees every look that you make, and every—every move that you make. He knows all about it. But we ought to realize that.

106 We used to have a little song, when I first come among the Pentecostals, they sang.

All along on the road to the soul’s true abode,

There is an Eye watching you;

Every step that you take, this great Eye is awake,

There is an Eye watching you.

See? You remember the song? [Congregation says, “Yes.”—Ed.] Now that is true.

107 God’s omnipresence knows what you’re doing, and even your thoughts. One time while I was in a vision, I was speaking to a Being standing by me; and He said back, He said, “Your thoughts are louder in the Heavens than your voice is on the earth.” He knows what you’re thinking. You might say you—you do this and you do that, and it, but, you see, down in your heart, if you think different, you’re—you’re doing something wrong. You should be just what you are, see, the—the heart. The mouth should speak what’s in the heart. See? And so we find that the people doesn’t realize the—the Presence of God.

108 You know, they ought to be like David, the man was after God’s Own heart. He said, “The Lord is always before me.” Wherever he goes, he remembers God is always before him. “He is on my right hand, and I’ll not be moved,” because God is on his right hand.

63-1114 - "Influence"

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But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; (Philipians 3:7-10)

73 If anything turned me the first time against my—made me ashamed of America, was…I was in Switzerland one day, and Brother Arganbright and I had found a good place way down by Lausanne where we could get a big, fine steak, about so big around, weigh about three-quarters of a pound, I think, for around thirty cents in American money. Oh, we were living like kings! Every day we’d go down there. And all of them there drink wine, you know; their water’s no good. And I wouldn’t drink that wine, so I got me a little jug from the—a drugstore that had distilled water. And I packed that jug wherever I went. I guess everybody thought, “That boy carries his own brand.” So I had it in my hand. We went down there to this place where all the—selling these steaks, and one day Miss America drove up. About a ’28 model Chevy, had a poodle dog setting on the lap and brought that in there, and she had enough…Them two women had enough ten cent store jewelry, great big, long things, and earrings, and hanging way down, and paint; and both of them fifty years old, as old as me. And you’d thought they wanted to be fifteen. But what are they trying to do? They’re trying to drive life’s road looking through a rear-view mirror, looking back to what they used to be.

74 Now, Christian don’t do that. A Christian don’t try to be what he used to be; he’s not looking where he’s been, he’s looking where he’s going. See, see? Don’t pay no attention to what you was then; you’ve done lived that out. You’ll never return to it; that’s in the past. And any man that drives life’s road looking through a rear-view mirror will go to wreck; and so will you on this Christian road. Don’t look back what you was, look what you’re going to be. Paul said, “Forgetting those things which are in the past, I press towards the mark of the high calling.”

75 Now, but it made you ashamed. They brought this little, old stinking dog in there and set it upon the table! Now, that would make anybody vomit! And fooling with that dog right there, setting it right up there with their hands, and then going to eat with them same hands! And the waiter come over there, and blabbed off something. Dr. Guggenbuhl was with me; he started laughing, and turned his head.

I said, “What’s—what’d say?”

Said, “The waiter said, ‘Take that off!’”

They said, “No, she’s an American; let her alone.” In other words, “She don’t know any better.” See?

64-0823e - "Questions And Answers #2"

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Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philipians 2:5-11)

26 Moses, when he turned aside, looked at the bush, God was going to send him, but before Moses knew, he said, “Show me Your glory.” You know, sometimes when God does things, He does it in such a funny way, an odd way, peculiar way to the people of this world, it seems foolish to the carnal mind. How that God does things so—so simple, it just confuses the carnal mind.

For instance, the virgin birth, and many things that’s yet got the carnal mind all broke up. They don’t know what to think about it. But God does it.

Just like when John the Baptist came. Why, the Scripture said, when the inauguration of Jesus down there, at the river that day, that the… “All the high places would be made low and the low places brought high. And the—the leaves all clapped their hands, and the mountains skipped like little lambs.” Just think of it. And what was it? An old woodsman type of a preacher, with the beard out over his face, like a fuzzy worm, and a big piece of sheepskin wrapped around him, standing on the muddy banks of Jordan, preaching repentance. Amen. (No fine, dressed lace, silks, and satins and whatever it was.)

27 And there’s where God spoke from the heaven, and he saw the Spirit of God coming like a dove, falling upon a Man Who’d been born in a manger. See, what the world call great, God calls foolish. And what the world calls foolish, God calls great. That’s right. So don’t mind to be called foolish.

’Cause remember. You can’t have the mind of Christ and the mind of the world at the same time. You can’t be in your way and God’s way at the same time. You have to get out of your own way to let God have His way. That’s the only way you’re ever going to do anything. You got to get away from your own thoughts, your own reasons. Don’t try to reason; just believe.

28 What if Mary tried to reason about the new birth, or, not the new birth, but the virgin birth. Pardon me. What if she tried to say, “Now, wait a minute. Now, look. I don’t know no man. There’s never been anyone like that. How would I ever have a child? Oh, you can’t tell me that.” She never waited for anything. She just took God at His Word and started thanking God for the baby. Before she felt any life, before she felt anything, before one sign was given to her, she just took the Angel’s Word and went rejoicing and praising God, telling everybody she was going to have a baby, knowing no man. God give us some more Marys around Phoenix here, that can take God at His Word and start rejoicing before anything happens. That’s what you need. That’s all. For she was overshadowed by the Holy Ghost. And when the Holy Ghost truly overshadows a person, they take God at His Word. That settles it, what the Holy Ghost said.

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