Congregation sings “Only Believe”.

Let’s bow our heads.

Precious Lord, our God, thank you for this privilege to come together again. Thank you, Lord, for everyone that’s here. Lord, we pray for those who couldn’t be here tonight, Brother Tiny, Sister Juanita, some of them may be up there with him. Lord, we know that the suffering has been hard and the struggle has been great, but we have always believed that you are a miraculous God. As we have said when someone asks us anything, Lord, we would say, “It’d take a miracle, and He’s a miraculous God.” And that’s what we believe and that’s what we’re looking for. We pray, Lord, that you’d be with him tonight. Let him have a good night, Lord.

We pray now, Father, that you’d be merciful to us here as we break into the Word of God. We know that no one can do that except the Holy Spirit. All we can do, Lord, is open and read and then we depend upon You, Lord, whatever you do, whatever you say. We know, Lord, that You prepare a people to receive that that You put out. You said that... You told us to cast the Bread upon the waters and It would not return again without doing what It’s suppose to do. And, Lord, we’re here tonight as a vessel that we feel that You’ve called us to pastor a group of people. Lord, Jesus, we know that without You we’d be a failure, we’d know nothing, we could do nothing, Lord. We humble ourself in Your Presence, tonight. Speak to Your people. We ask in Jesus’ Name, the Son of Man. Amen.

You may be seated.

It is good to see you, tonight. It’s good to be back. It’s good to see Sister Edith back with us and Brother Glenn and them, to have them back. We miss you when you’re away and we’re always so glad to see you come back. Brother Don says, “Don’t stay too long.” You know, it’s alright to go visiting, but, you know, don’t take up abode there. You might miss something.

I tell you, something is happening. Something is going on. I guess I stayed up at the hospital today about two hours and a half probably. We thought that they were going to take Brother Tiny down and work one him, but they decided, well the doctor had, I think, an emergency surgery that he had to do and so he didn’t get a chance to get to Brother Tiny. So they put it off and then they have decided... Some of you that I talked to, I told you that they were thinking about gall bladder surgery. And so, the nurse when I went in today, she went over the list of the things that they were going to do to Brother Tiny and that was not on there. And I ask her, I said, “Well, what about the gall bladder?” She said that they’ve decided not to do that. So, tomorrow morning he’s suppose to have some more pictures, I think, a scope work that’s suppose to be done tomorrow and they’re going to look around in there and see exactly what’s going on and see what they can do.

I guess today was the first time that I have had a chance to see Brother Tiny respond in a way that I felt like he knew exactly what we were saying, he knew what we were talking about. Since this thing has been in his throat and his mouth so long, the respirator has been there so long until it’s caused his mouth so get sore and his throat. He’s beginning to get a lot of mucus coming up. And so they have to go in there, you know, every once and a while and suck it out and get it out of the way, to keep him from choking, you know. So, when I went in Sister Juanita was there. I guess this was about 1:30 a quarter till 2, maybe 2 o’clock, I don’t know what time it was, but anyway when I got there we went in and he was asleep. And so, I stood by the bed there a while and watched him. And so, the nurse come over. She heard a little rattle, you know, and so, she come over and she took this little thing you know this little suction and she said, “Mr. Richardson, I’m fixing to clean you mouth out.” He opened them eyes and he looked right straight at her. So, she worked on him you know and got all that stuff out and so when she did that he didn’t go back to sleep. And so I said, “Brother... Well, Sister Juanita said, “Tiny,” said, “Brother Holmes is here.” And so he cut his eyes over there and I got up there and I spoke to him. I talked to him. I said, “Brother Tiny,” I said, “You’re coming through it.” And he said, he done like that. I said, “You’ve had a rough time.” He looked over at me and he you know kind of nodded his head a little bit. I said, “But, you’re showing some good signs now,” I said, “You believe the Lord Jesus will bring you through.” Of course, he nodded his head.

So, he’s showing some good response now, in other words, he knows what you’re talking about. He sees you and he can’t talk. He tried his best to talk to me. He tried his best to say something. I said, “Brother, don’t talk. You can’t do it.” You know, with this thing down his throat and I said, “You can’t talk. Just wait.” But he wanted to say something so bad. But anyway, we’re still believing that everything’s going to be alright. I had a lot of questions ask me Monday. Some of them ask me, “Well, Brother Holmes, how do you feel?” I went in there and stood by his bed and I prayed and I ask the Lord to let me see something. I even ask him if you’re going to bring him out of it, just let him, you know, move his eye lids or do something, let us see, so we could tell the family something positive. Of course, we’re all positive as our faith, you know, but you know we are, we know that it would take a miracle. The doctor told us, you know, he said, “I would give him less that ten percent.” So, naturally, when yougot less than ten percent and four of you vital organs shut down, you know, it’s a pretty gloomy looking little picture, you know. It’s just about like a dead man laying there right.

And so, of course, we just kept believing, and I ask Sister Juanita, I said, “How are you feeling about it?” And she said, “ I believe he’s going to be alright.” I said, “Well, that’s what it takes, you know.” And so, Brother Gerald called me and said, “Well, how do you see? Well, what do you think?” I said, “Well, Brother, I’m going to tell you, I’ve seen many of them go on a respirator. I’ve seen many of them put on a respirator. I have never yet seen one taken off the respirator and live. I never seen it yet.” But I said, “It’ll take a miracle.” Is that what I said, Brother? And I said, “God is a miraculous God, and that’s what we’re believing in.” That’s what I told Brother Gerald. That’s what I told the family.

We’re believing that God has begun a miracle there and the doctors know it. The nurses know it. The nurses know that ordinarily he would have been dead and he’s still living and not only that but, he’s so much stronger today. And so we’ll just continue to believe. We appreciate everyone of your prayers and how you’ve stood behind Sister Juanita. We appreciate that. And give her a break and that has been so much help to her. So everything is looking up now.

Now, we want to take this little lesson tonight a little farther, you know, we’re talking about the anointing. And Sunday morning it was a real sweet anointing here and everything was so good. So, we’re believing that the same Lord Jesus is here tonight, and I want to start off with a quote tonight that’s taken from “Revelation Chapter IV Part 3”, titled, you know, “Throne Of Mercy”. I want to read that and then I want to take another quote from “It Becometh Us To Fulfill All Righteousness”. I want to take a quote there. We’re going to start off with reading  the Spoken Word tonight. Alright.                                                                                                      

“LOOK AT AARON, IN TYPE. BEFORE... NOW, REMEMBER, THE CONGREGATION IN THEM DAYS COULDN’T EVEN APPROACH IT IN NO MANNER. (No way.) BUT WHEN AARON WENT IN... (Now) HOW MANY TIMES DID HE GET TO GO (in there? Brother Branham said:) ONCE A YEAR. HOW DID HE... HE HAD TO HAVE ON CERTAIN CLOTHES THAT WAS MADE WITH CERTAIN HANDS,...”

Now, I want you to listen to this.

“...HE HAD TO HAVE ON CERTAIN CLOTHES THAT WAS MADE WITH CERTAIN HANDS,”...

I hope you can see in this what the Lord let me see as we move on.

“...HE HAD TO BE DRESSED IN SUCH A WAY. HE HAD (pomegranates and bells,) THAT EVERY TIME HE WALKED IT PLAYED ‘HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, UNTO THE LORD.’ HE WAS APPROACHING THE MERCY SEAT, WITH THE BLOOD.”

“AND IT HAD TO BE ANOINTED WITH A CERTAIN OIL, PERFUMED WITH A CERTAIN PERFUME MADE OUT OF THE ROSE OF SHARON. And Jesus was that Rose of Sharon. AND, NOTICE, A ROSE IS A BEAUTIFUL THING, IT HAS PERFUME IN IT. BUT BEFORE THE PERFUME CAN COME OUT, THE ROSE HAS TO BE CRUSHED, AND THEN THE PERFUME IS SQUEEZED FROM THE ROSE. JESUS, IN HIS LIFE, WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIFE EVER LIVED; BUT HE COULDN’T REMAIN THAT WAY,...”

He couldn’t stay that way. If He had stayed that way, like a corn of wheat. If you take that one grain of corn and put it away that’s all you’ll ever have. See? But, He said, “If you put it into the ground then it multiplies and brings forth many corns of wheat.” Alright, so watch what Brother Branham said here close.

“...HE COULDN’T REMAIN THAT WAY...”

He couldn’t remain  with that beautiful Life that He had without being crushed.

“‘CAUSE HE HAD TO ANOINT HIS CHURCH TO APPROACH HIS HOLINESS, SO HIS LIFE WAS SQUEEZED OUT. AND THE SAME HOLY GHOST WAS UPON HIM IS PUT UPON THE CHURCH,’ (The same Holy Ghost is put upon the church.) AND HE MAKES HIM THE SAME YESTERDAY, AND TODAY, AND FOREVER, THE ROSE OF SHARON, THE PERFUME THEREOF. THE PERSON THAT’S APPROACHING INTO THIS HOLIEST OF HOLIES HAS TO BE ANOINTED WITH THE SAME HOLY SPIRIT. AND AS HE WALKS, ‘HOLY, HOLY,’... (NOT WITH A CIGAR IN (your) MOUTH) ‘HOLY,’ (NOT WITH HIS COLLAR TURNED AROUND) ‘HOLY, HOLY, HOLY,’ DRESSED IN THE HOLINESS OF JESUS CHRIST. HOW WONDERFUL THOU ART! OH!”

Now in the next quote, “It Becometh Us To Fulfill All Righteousness,” Brother Branham said:

“SEE, AARON THE HIGH PRIEST, BEFORE HE COULD EVER BE ANOINTED HE HAD TO BE WASHED WITH WATER. THEREFORE, WHEN JESUS, BEFORE HE COULD BE ANOINTED OUR HIGH PRIEST, HE WAS WASHED WITH WATER.”

“AND THEN, NOT ANOINTING OIL POURED UPON HIM,” (That wasn’t what was poured upon Him. That wasn’t) TO ANOINT HIM, LIKE AARON WAS ANOINTED WITH OIL, HE WAS ANOINTED WITH THE HOLY GHOST. ‘FOR JOHN BARE RECORD, SEEING THE SPIRIT OF GOD DESCENDING LIKE A DOVE, AND GOING UPON HIM; AND A VOICE SAYING, ‘THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM PLEASED TO DWELL IN.’SO THE BIBLE SAID THAT ‘JESUS WAS ANOINTED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD THINGS.’ ...HE WAS ANOINTED.”

Now in Exodus, I want to go back in there where we were Sunday morning and just read a few verses. I want to begin reading at Verse 31 there of Chapter 30, and read down through 33, if you’re reading along with me.

AND THOU SHALT SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SAYING, THIS SHALL BE AN HOLY ANOINTING OIL UNTO ME THROUGHOUT YOUR GENERATIONS.

UPON MAN’S FLESH SHALL IT NOT BE POURED, NEITHER SHALL YE MAKE ANY OTHER LIKE IT, AFTER THE COMPOSITION OF IT: IT IS HOLY, AND IT SHALL BE HOLY UNTO YOU.

WHOSOEVER COMPOUNDETH ANY LIKE IT, OR WHOSOEVER PUTTETH ANY OF IT UPON A STRANGER, SHALL EVEN BE CUT OFF FROM HIS PEOPLE.

Now, what I see in that... Now this whole thing, this whole series of messages, as I told you in the beginning, is what I see, is what the Lord, I feel like, has let me see and understand about the way of salvation, about righteousness, about the sacrifice, the anointing, the resurrection. I’m trying to cover the whole Bible all the way through. And you notice that. And we are going from Genesis to Revelation and then going into the Message of the hour. And these things are real. It has...

I believe one of the greatest failures among the Christian people today is the failure to see the importance of worship. Did you hear what I said? This anointing oil could not be put upon no one’s flesh. It could not be compounded. It must never be put upon a stranger. Brother Branham spoke of people taking part in worship services that were not Christians. We sometimes get to a place to where it don’t make any difference. Sometimes we don’t think anything about it. But, if we look close and see how serious it is to come into the presence of God,  and how that that high priest, he had to be dressed with certain kind of clothes. Those clothes had to be made by certain hands that were ordained to make them. That anointing oil had to be precisely measured out and made. There was nothing that was haphazard. There was nothing that was slack. No formality. It was absolutely the Word of God that was to be carried out.

And in looking at this, I thought how we ought to come in like the Scripture said, we ought to enter into His house with praise. We ought to come in here with nothing upon our minds but worshipping God. That should be in every heart. We should have so much of the anointing of the Holy Ghost upon us until every sinner that sits in the presence would feel guilty, and feel their need of doing something. We take it a light thing many times. We come in, maybe aggravated with one another or maybe aggravated with the children or maybe wife aggravated with the husband or the husband with the wife, and coming in to worship God. We must never do that. We must never do that. We must be sure that we have made preparations when we come in, because when you come into this place, you are coming in here to hear the Word of God. Is that right? And the Word of God is God. And the anointing is always upon the Word.

As I was talking to Brother Kenan, I believe, Monday, Brother Kenan was talking about how important it is to have the Word, not the revelation, or the unfolding of the revelation, which the prophet brought the revelation, but to have that unfolding of it not just to lodge in our minds, but to drop down in our heart. And as he was talking the thought came to me like, you know, and if it does drop down in your heart you can talk about it tomorrow. You can talk about it next year. It’s there, see. But so many times it’s like a man getting sweaty and dirty and he wants to take a bath, so he goes in and he takes him a good shower. He feels good while he’s in the shower and then he comes out and the first thing you know, he’s forgot all about it. That’s the way a lot of times people do about the Word of God. You know, they come in, they feel good while the anointing is upon them, while the anointing is here you can rejoice and raise your hands and praise God. But that’s not deep enough. We don’t want it upon the flesh only. We don’t want it upon the spirit only. But we want this to get into the soul. And it’ll do something for you.

My prayer is now, “Lord, every time I preach something, get in a place where I have not yet reached in reality, help me to take that Word to myself and act it out.” Not just stand up here and tell you what it said, but I want to walk with it. I want to live with it. I want that to be a part of me. And you must feel the same way.

You must not feel that this is just a filling station, you know, because when you go out there and you fill your car up with gas and ride around a little bit, the first thing you know, it’s gone. This is more than that. This is suppose to be something that’s bubbling up. See, like we talked about Sunday morning, something that’s inexhaustible. Something that don’t run out. When you get kind of bored with something, when you get, you know, when you get a little bit sticky, you know, this is not suppose to run out. Under the worst circumstances that you could live under, you’re suppose to be holy, not through your own holiness, but through the righteousness of God. The Holy Ghost in that vessel is suppose to keep this vessel respectable before God at all time. Amen. At all times we have to watch our actions. We have to watch our life. We have to be lead by the Spirit.

So, when Moses went in with this anointing oil, we said Sunday morning, he anointed the tabernacle. He anointed the tabernacle first. And then he walked in... Of course, that was to sanctify the tabernacle, see. The sacrifice had to be washed before it was anointed. Alright, now we got into that here while... And I don’t want you to forget the line that we’re going through. Do you remember that Aaron was washed? He did not wash himself. He was washed before he put those clothes on. Amen. Moses gave him a bath. Moses, a type of God, amen, he gave him a bath before he put the special clothes on, and Moses anointed him. Now he goes in here and he sprinkles this, after he sprinkles the tabernacle the goes into the altar, the next place, and he sprinkles the altar seven times, a type of the seven church ages. Amen. Alright, and then, he goes to the lever where the sacrifice is washed and he sprinkles that. He sprinkles the foot of it. And he does that to sanctify these things. All of them are washed and sanctified. Alright.

Now if you want these Scriptures, if you want to put them down now, I’m paraphrasing because I cannot take all of these Scriptures, there’s no way possible to do it and try to get as far as I’d love to get in each service, alright, in each message. So in Leviticus 8, Verse 10 and 11 He speaks of this anointing. Also, in Exodus 30, Verses 26 through 29; Exodus 40, Verses 9 through 11, you’ll find all of this that we’re talking about, where we’re talking about now. Alright.

So then, the vessels of the sanctuary had a special meaning. They represented something. See? Every part of your body, it represents you. I’m told if you lose... And you could talk to Brother Tiny and you’ll find out that after he lost one of his toes he lost some of his balance. If you lose one finger, you are not complete. You cannot do everything that you could do before you lost your finger. See? Every part of your body is essential to that body. Amen. And every little bitty, what we might think least of the Christians, the one that might not have nothing to say much, the one that might be the quietest, they are sometimes the most important, because many times that person is praying when you need prayer. When you need something, they can somehow another, get ahold of God. So we need all of the vessels of the sanctuary.

And the priesthood, which now, he was to make sure that all of this was carried out, everything was carried out in there when he went in to worship. Now if we look at and multiply ten millions of times and billions of times the same eternal Holy Spirit, how it was offered, or how it came upon the Lord Jesus, which was the sacrifice, which was without spot, or blemish or any such thing. If you’d like to read that, you turn to Hebrews 14, Hebrews 9, rather, and 14, you’ll find... But the thing that so many people fail to see is, that the anointing is still just as rich today, if we pay the price. There was a price that had to be paid for that perfume, that oil that was put upon Aaron, was put upon the vessels, was put upon the altar. There was a price that was paid for that. There was labor that went into it. There was work. Everything was precisely done, everything. Amen.

We have to be conscientious enough of our Lord being present with us that we wouldn’t want to hurt Him. Amen. We wouldn’t want to do anything that would cause Him to feel bad, because we are identifications of His holiness. We have got to get to a place. We have to get to a place, there is no way out of it. We have to get to a place to where our whole mind, body, and soul is preserved blameless before God. Blameless! And the only way that we can do that is to fall so much in love with Him until we don’t want to leave Him. We don’t want to get away from Him. We want to be around Him. We want to know that He is with us. We want to know that He is close. We’ve got to be so conscientious of it until when we get ready to go to bed, we have lived that day so that if something happened before morning we didn’t have no evil thought about somebody. We didn’t say something about somebody on the telephone. We didn’t discuss a brother or a sister’s weakness to one another. If we did we have broke God’s Word.

You say, “Now, you’re preaching it to close, Brother Holmes.” Brother Don, it’s the truth. When we say something about a person, out of that person’s presence, we have broke God’s Word. Until we can get condemned over the little things, we’re not going to get the big ones. We have got to understand that to ones own master he stand or falls. Amen. And God knows them that are His. Alright.

So this same eternal Spirit that was on the Lord Jesus, the reason He was crushed so that that anointing could come back upon the Church. Is that right? Well, if it did then it’s still here. Now, if you’ll notice, after the resurrection of Jesus, and I’d like for you to turn to Acts 1, and I want you to read this. Acts 1, Verse 2. We find out that after He was resurrected that He still was speaking through the Holy Ghost, the anointed Holy Ghost.

UNTIL THE DAY IN WHICH HE WAS TAKEN UP, AFTER THAT HE THROUGH THE HOLY GHOST (He through what?) HE THROUGH THE HOLY GHOST HAD GIVEN COMMANDMENTS UNTO THE APOSTLES WHOM HE HAD CHOSEN:

Just before he left, He was still speaking through the Holy Ghost giving them commandments on what to do, the ones that He had chosen. See? So you see, Moses, after he had sanctified everything in the house, then he took the oil and poured it upon Aaron. Amen. He poured it upon his head. The mitre being upon his head it come all down and Brother Branham said, well the Scripture said, “It come down upon his beard, and upon - down on his loins, you know.” The anointing oil. You’ll find that in Leviticus 8, Verse 12, if you want to pick it up and read it. And then, he was the only anointed one. Oh, my, I hope you get this. That priest, that high priest was the only anointed one to do that service. Amen.

I don’t care how many people jumps up and says they’ve got the power to do this and they can speak in tongues and prophesy and they can do all of these things, you know, discernment. They was told not to impersonate. Amen. Brother Branham said there was one Moses. Is that right? But there was many Dathans and Korahs. See? But they were imposters. When a man stand up and says that he’s got a revelation over that prophet today, he’s an imposter. I don’t care who he is, and he’s hell bound. There is no hope for him, because he’s taking away from the Holy Ghost, the righteous thing that God put here for us. Amen. We must abide by that Holy Word that has been brought to us by that anointed Christ that come to us in this day in the form of a prophet, the holy Christ come to us. Amen. You say what you want to. It was God in flesh. Amen. I don’t care who says it wasn’t. It was God in flesh, amen, that said, “Let there be a squirrel over there. Let there be this. Let there be that.” Amen.

We can say what we want to and if we ever expect to get out of here, we’re going to get some of that anointing on us. We’re not going to go out and speak squirrels into existence, but we’re going to declare that what he said was “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” every bit of it. Amen. To turn one Word of it down, you might as well turn it all. Go have you a frolic. Amen. Because you ain’t going no where, no way. It takes all of it. Amen. They couldn’t put a little bit of that oil on Aaron. Now look. Now, he was the only one that was anointed. Alright. You say, “His sons was anointed.” They were sprinkled. They were sprinkled. Amen.

We’re sprinkled. We’re sprinkled with the same anointing that was upon Brother Branham. But Brother Branham was anointed. He had it poured on him, in him. Amen. We’re sprinkled with a little bit of it if we walk in the way that we’re suppose to go. You hear me tonight. Nobody is going to step in that man’s shoes. Nobody is going to change what he said. Nobody is going to do something different from what he does. Amen. He was the Christ for our age, absolutely the Christ. I told you this was going to get strong, and it’s what I see, and people ignore one Word and see where we wind up. We have got to believe every Word. Every bit of it, we have got to accept it, we have got to believe it. Amen.

Of the anointing of Aaron and the anointing of his sons in Leviticus 7, Verse 35. You say, “Well, it sounds like that the sons was anointed.” They were sprinkled. Study it all the way through. You’ll find out. They did not have the oil poured on them. Amen. There was one Jesus Christ and He was the true anointing, and He promised to come back in this day in the form of the Holy Ghost, and He did. And that was the true anointing for this day. Amen. And there was one of them, just one. Amen.I don’t care how many 700 Clubs and PTL Clubs and everything else that come along, there was one. There was one of them. Amen. And that Word come to him and to nobody else. Amen. That’s where the Word come. And if we want to get the Word, we’re going to get that Word from him. And if God wants to break it down, He’s got a way to break it down, He’ll do it, but I’m going to tell you one thing, it ain’t going to change what he says. Amen. I want you to understand that.

See, when Aaron was about to die, what did Moses do? I mentioned it Sunday morning. Moses stripped off his garment and put upon his son, Eleazar. Is that right? Alright. Now, that’s found in Numbers Chapter 20, Verses 23 through 28. And I challenge you to show me where that man was ever anointed. He wasn’t. Because the anointing that was upon Aaron come right over on him. Amen. Amen. That’s right. Oh, do you get it! Amen. It’s a chain reaction. Amen. But you see, there couldn’t be in that day, but just one priest, but now he’s got priests and kings. See, priest and kings, now. The anointing oil was sprinkled, as I said, upon his sons, but was not poured upon them. Of course, that makes a big difference between the high priest and his helpers. Amen. Alright.

And the Lord Jesus was anointed from His birth. How many of you believe that? From His birth He was anointed. John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost from his birth. There was an announcement from heaven that declared the birth of William Branham. Did he declare the birth of you by a visitation of a Pillar of Fire over your cradle when you were born? No, he didn’t. Do you see what I’m saying, Brother Don? Amen. These people that are running out across the country and saying that they’ve got a new revelation, well, they’ve got to have something other than what Brother Branham said. Now, get away from them! They’re death in the pot! There’s one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one Holy Ghost, and that Holy Ghost was represented in that prophet. He was that Holy Ghost that was spoken of that was to come. And to speak one word against it, you’re done for. You say, “Now you’ve got plumb out of school.” My prophet said, Brother John, my prophet said that the Holy Ghost - the prophet is the Holy Ghost of the age. I believe it.

Now, we don’t just pick around and see what we want out of that Message. You’d better get on your face and say, “Lord, show me, every bit of it, show it to me Lord. I want that. I want that.” Amen. Alright. And that’s exactly what you’re going to have to have if you make it out of here, you’re going to have to have it. Alright. So now, notice Jesus at His birth he was anointed. He was also anointed with the Holy Spirit at His baptism. Right? Alright. And then He declared that, when He stood in the synagogues and began His ministry, public ministry. He went to Isaiah 61, Verse 1, and He said, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me for He has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor,” and so forth. Right? So He was anointed. Alright. So now,

Let me just settle down here and make sure I get all these Scriptures in here, because that’s more important than anything.

“How God...” Peter said, in Acts 10:38, he’s preaching to a bunch of Gentiles, which he said, “I will not do it.” How many of you know...? “I’ll - never have anything common or unclean entered into my mouth.” Huh? But, boy, when he heard that Voice, He said, Buddy, “don’t you call that that I have cleansed common or unclean. That that I have cleansed, don’t you  call it common or unclean.” Amen. Oh, my. So he got ready then. He said, “Now you go on down, there’s somebody at the gate waiting on you.” And when he got over to Cornelius’ house he was ready to preach. He was ready to tell them the same thing that they had received up there on the day of Pentecost. Amen. If you got the revelation, you are ready to tell somebody about the same thing that you got. Amen.

You know, when it begins to come against the flesh a little bit, Brother David, and stir up the household a little bit, and separate a few things, then preachers want to run off and say, “Uh-oh, I better hold on to this.” Huh? “Cause they’ll go. Don’t rock the boat.” Well, I heard a big man say one time, you were there, you were there, he stood up there and he said, “ Invite me to come to your church,” he said, “I’ll preach, I won’t rock the boat.” Is that what he said? Hypocrite. You hear me? What if God wants the boat rocked? A man stood right back here one time said, “Brother Holmes, I’m going to a certain place to preach. Do you know what they believe? “ I said, “Brother Noah, if you’re going down there to preach and you’re going down there to preach the Word of God, what difference does it make what they believe?” I said, “Preach what God lays on your heart. What you believe. Don’t go down there afraid that you’re going to offend somebody.” Amen. You ain’t going to get it that way. No. Go preaching what God has put upon your heart and what you see, what’s been revealed to you. Amen. Alright. So Peter... Talk about, well in the 2nd Chapter of Psalms, He talked about this.

YET HAVE I SET MY KING UPON MY HOLY HILL OF ZION.

In Verse 6 of the 2nd Psalm. Alright. And in that same Psalm he also spoke of “his Christ.” See? And Peter quotes that Psalm. He quotes a Psalm here, now. Watch what he says now in Acts 4, Verses 25 and 26. (Note: this is actually verse 27.) He said:

FOR A TRUTH AGAINST THY HOLY CHILD JESUS, WHOM THOU HAST ANOINTED, (whom thou hast anointed comma.) BOTH HEROD, AND PONTIUS PILATE, WITH THE GENTILES, AND THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, WERE GATHERED TOGETHER.

What for? Against it. Yes, sir. Against that anointing. Oh, somebody say, “Well, you got a  awful little bunch.” Jesus preached three and a half years and He had a little bunch, but look what they done. Look what they done. Amen. Brother Branham said, “Give me twelve men full of the Holy Ghost and I’ll turn this world upside down for God.” Is that what he said? Twelve. Amen. Oh, my. It don’t take many. It just takes the revelation. Amen. It takes a God-sent revelation. That’s right. So, . . .

AND NOW, LORD,...

See, that old spirit was still on them, the same ones that crucified Jesus was still on them against those apostles. They were not against them. They were against the Christ, that had chosen them. Amen. That’s what Satan is against. See? He makes it appear that he’s against you, but he wants you. Satan wants you. He’s not against you. He wants you. He’s against that Christ that’s in you. That’s what he’s against. If he can damper that down, if he can get that out of the way, then he can get you. See? Amen. That’s what he wants. Alright. But you see, he can’t do nothing with that elect. He just can’t do nothing with that elect. Alright. So now, let me see if I can get this now. If I can settle down enough, I’m boiling tonight. Amen.  

AND NOW, LORD, BEHOLD THEIR THREATENINGS: (He’s praying now. Look at their threatenings. Look what they’re doing.) AND GRANT UNTO THY SERVANTS, THAT WITH ALL BOLDNESS THEY MAY SPEAK THY WORD,

With all boldness, grant unto thy servants, if there’s ever been a time, Brother David, that that prayer ought to be prayed over, it’s now.

...GRANT UNTO THY SERVANTS,...BOLDNESS THEY MAY SPEAK THY WORD,

BY STRETCHING FORTH THINE HAND TO HEAL;  AND THAT SIGNS AND WONDERS MAY BE DONE BY THE NAME OF THY HOLY CHILD JESUS.

Verses 29 and 30, Amen. You know it’s... I mean it’s all there ain’t it? It’s all there. Look in Psalms 45 and we’ve read that and we’ve went back to it the last two services and now we come back in it on the third one.

THOU LOVEST RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND HATEST WICKEDNESS: THEREFORE GOD, THY GOD, HATH ANOINTED THEE WITH THE OIL OF GLADNESS ABOVE THY FELLOWS.

That’s in Verse 7. Now, if you want to read something else tied into that read Hebrews 1:9. Alright. And then in Act 2, Verses 30 and 31, Peter, speaking of that resurrected Lord, that the tomb couldn’t hold, hell couldn’t hold. He come forth. Amen. And he spoke of David as being a prophet.

...AND KNOWING THAT GOD HAD SWORN WITH AN OATH TO HIM, THAT OF THE FRUIT OF HIS LOINS, ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, HE WOULD RAISE UP CHRIST TO SIT ON HIS THRONE;

HE SEEING THIS BEFORE SPAKE OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST,...

Spoke of the resurrection of Christ. So now, you say, “Well, Brother Holmes, you’re back in there around 2000 years ago.” But now, what happened this year. What happened in this time where we’re living now? Amen. As we were talking to Brother Don the other day in... And every time I get to thinking about this I get happy. I remember when the Lord showed me that Revelation was not a part of the New Testament. I remember when He showed me that. I said, “Now, you know, everybody’s going to pick at that like a crow.” You know. But, Brother Branham said when the Seven Seals were opened that closed the New Testament. But He sure didn’t close the book of Revelation, did He? No, sir, that  book of Revelation was just beginning to spark, see.

And somebody said, “When you say that the Seven Thunders were not written in the Bible, you’re taking something away from the Bible.” I said, “If you say they are written, you’re adding something to it.” That’s right. Because the Bible says they weren’t written. The prophet said over and over and over they weren’t written. Amen. So they was not written. Amen. What was it? It was a day that was going to come when Christ was going to return, in the 10th Chapter of Revelation. Amen. And He was going to come down and have the book in His hand. Amen. And He’s going to have all the names in that book that He redeemed, that He died for, amen, that He purchased, amen, that belonged to Him. The names are in there. Whether they ever recognize where they are or not, it doesn’t matter. He’s got them in His book. See? So, He’s going to call them.

And one day the last one will get the Message. It may be in Africa. It may be in India. Australia. I don’t know where it will be, but they’ll get the Message. I’d like to be preaching to that one. Wouldn’t you? When that one says, “I can see it!” And about that time something happens. Then... Like when Jesus went down and preached to those that were in prison, they saw it. What happened? When He come out, they come with Him. Amen. All of them that saw it. All of them that had believed it. All of them that had relied upon it. They come out with Him. Amen. Oh, my. So, He said, “I got to hang around here a little while.” Brother Branham said He told them said, “I’ve  got to be around here about forty days just have yourself a good time around here, before we go on up.” Amen. And so they got to scouting around there and having a good time and the first thing you know Brother Branham said old Abraham said, “Sarah, we’ve been spotted. Somebody has saw us.” Amen. In that spiritual Jerusalem. Right? In that spiritual Jerusalem, somebody caught eyes on them. Amen. Brother Branham said he might be about forty days, you know. Amen.

Well, it’s been about forty years. What about that? He’s been here. He’s been here ever since. Brother Branham said that that 10th Chapter of Revelation, it was that Seventh Seal. That Seventh Seal was His coming. That was a secret coming. Alright. So that 10th Chapter of Revelation, that 1 to 4 is that Seventh Seal. Amen. That... Hey, how many of you remember when I preached this years ago? I said that Seventh Seal had to be broken before the rest of them could be broke. Do you remember me saying that? I said the rest of them could not have been broken unless the seventh one come, because He was  the one that was to break them. Amen. So he had to come, Brother David, before the other six could be broken. See? He had to come... I’ve drawed it right on the board right here. Remember? And I said that Fourth Seal, you know that’s the end of the church. The Third Seal, you know, it goes, the church goes up in the 3rd Chapter, you know. I mean in the 3rd Chapter, and don’t come back no more until the 19th Chapter.

Some people get that all mixed up and they don’t know what in the world is going on and they’re carried right out of the church, the secret coming of the Lord. And they’re carried away from all those filth and things and fornication, Christian fornication. That’s what’s going to get them. That’s the thing that’s going to get them. They going to be standing around pointing their finger at people and they themselves professing that they’re married to Jesus Christ and denying Him every day. Amen.

Oh, you say, “Brother Holmes.” Now listen, I know my times up and I ain’t going to look at my watch. I’m not looking. But I know, I’m right on the closing anyway so I know it’s about time and I’ve talked a lot now.

But the Lord Jesus is the High Priest. Right? And He’s the High Priest among the brethren. Like Aaron was the high priest among the brethren. See? He’s the high priest among the brethren. Alright. Now, He stands as the anointed One, the Christ,  in the midst of His Church. Right now the anointed Christ is here. He come down. He didn’t go away. The old house, the old carcass went on out there in Indiana and probably done gone back to ashes unless the Lord saw fit to take him and hide him somewhere like He did Moses. I don’t know about that, but He might have done it. But he was a prophet greater than Moses. Huh? He was a... And Moses brought the law. And Paul brought the New Testament. And Enoch took the rapture. Didn’t it? And Brother Branham said this last day prophet was greater than any prophet that had ever come since Enoch, because this last prophet is going to do the same thing that Enoch did. He takes the rapture. Amen. He takes us into the rapture. Amen. The rapture started in ‘63. You know that. Amen.

Oh, I got peace like  a river. How about it? I’m not going to be disturbed. I’ve made up my mind. I am not going to be disturbed. I am not going to let  the devil wear me out. You know, I’ll just give him a little boot, you know, and say. “Buddy, you’ve come to late. You’re not going to disturb me, because I got my mind on something that’s real.” It’s real. Amen. And it’s been real for a long time. That’s right. And it gets more real every day. The more you study that Message, the more you look into these things the more real it becomes to you. Amen. It becomes real.

Now, look. What if... Now that song that you sung a while ago, we’re in the rapture at the Marriage Supper. That sounds so far out, but you see, this anointed One, standing among us, amen. Watch now. Christ, alright, what is He? He is the Leader. What is Christ? The anointed Word, isn’t it? Is that the anointed Word? Christ, the anointed Word. This great Christ, the anointed Word, is saying, “Fall in line and follow Me.” Amen. Is that right? So we all fall in line and here we go. And He’ll call us by name.

I like that little dream that Brother Branham talked about. He said that he was standing off over there, you know. And he heard somebody call a name, “Orman Neville!” And here come Orman Neville taking theses big old ivory steps, you know, going up. And said he was rejoicing so. Directly they called somebody else, they called somebody else and he was standing there just rejoicing over it. He forgot about himself! He was so happy to see all of these people. Could we be in that now? Could we be living right around in that time now? When the last one comes in and the book is closed then He’s going to come up and He’s going to say, “This one is my child. There’s no fault. There’s not a spot, not a blemish.” He’ll call everyone of them. He’ll have plenty of time to do it, an eternity, and present everyone of them in His glory. Brother Branham said, “We are His victory.” That’s the glory. Amen. And He’ll present everyone of us in His glory, by name, and say, “Now, this is one that’s spotless. This is one that’s spotless.” And call their name.

Brother Branham said he got so carried away and said he forgot about his ownself, you know, said after while said, “William Branham!” He said he started walking up them big old ivory steps he felt something on his arm and there was Hope. Felt one on his right, Meda. The two members of his wife. Come on! Amen. He carried them... Their names wasn’t called. They were in him. They were a part of him. They were a part of him. So they went walking in. You that’s scared of this you’d better get down on your knees and say, “Lord, help me to accept it all.” Amen. You’d better accept it all because I tell you right now, Jesus has got a whole bunch of members and all of them are one. Amen. And that man is in His image. Amen. So He’s going to present us all. Oh, my. And I like to think of that. I like to say, “Lord, I want to be there. I want to be there.”

Well you say when the last trumpet sounds. We use to sing that old song, you know. “When The Last Trumpet Sounds”. The Scripture said, “And the dead in Christ shall rise first,” and you know the messages that we preached, “Are We Now Resurrected?”. You know that when you once pass from death into Life you cannot die. You have already raised from the dead. Amen. The Scriptures said so. You can not die no more. You are resurrected in Him. Amen. Sitting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus right now. I believe it’s getting about time. Don’t you?

Come on, Sister.

I believe the time is short now. I believe the time is short. Amen. I’m more prone to believe that the things that are happening in these elections now is ordered of God. Amen. How many of you saw where the F.B.I. man sold us down the river? But you know what? When all of that is dug out, he might have had some help. We had a man up there that would do anything for money. You know that. And popularity, he wanted that. Amen. But come up here and let’s sing that, “We’re In the Wedding Supper In the Sky”. Come on.

Let us stand. Amen. Oh, I didn’t go but fifteen minutes over. That’s not bad. And I tell you what, I thought I had so much to say that I would never  get done until 10:00. But we did and everything is alright. We’re in the wedding supper in the sky. We’re all at home with Jesus you and I. Huh? Spiritually speaking now. We don’t have that... We don’t have that eternal body, yet but in the spirit, we’re in a spiritual kingdom just having a jubilee. Having a jubilee. Alright. Let’s go. Amen.

Congregation sings, “The Wedding Supper”.

Praise the Lord. Amen. I want to tell you right now, if you don’t have the Holy Ghost tonight, you ought not to sleep good after this service. You oughtn’t to sleep good. Amen. You ought to be up and down on your knees and saying, “Lord, I want that. Thatwhat I need. That’s what I want.” Old Buddy Robinson got out there in that old cornfield, he said, “Now, Lord, if you don’t give me the Holy Ghost, when you come back you gone find a pile of bones right here.” Guess what? Huh? He got the Holy Ghost. Yes, sir, he got the Holy Ghost. Amen. When you get down to business with God and you mean business you can get the Holy Ghost. You can’t play around and get it. No, you can’t play around. He knows them that are His. Amen. And when you come after that, you’ve got to come after that and that’s that one foremost thing in your heart, in your life. “Lord, that’s what I want. If it takes every bit of hair off of my back, the hide and everything else, Lord, I want that. I want that.” Because there’s no life outside of it. No life outside. There’s no birth outside of that. “Lord, let me, let me walk holy before you, clothed in your righteousness.” Clothed in the garments of the High Priest. Amen. Jesus Christ, Himself. I love Him so much. I appreciate Him so much. Amen. “This Is Like Heaven To Me.”Amen..

Congregation sings, “This Is Like Heaven To Me”.

Brother David, come on and dismiss us. Amen. Just praise Him, one time. You know, we get so... Sometimes if we’re not careful, we’ll get callused. Raise your hands and praise Him.

Brother David Cathey closes with comments and prayer.

Listed below are the Scripture and Quotes that were taken from the Message of our Prophet for the basis of this sermon.

REV CHAP 4 PT.3 THRONE MERCY  JEFF.IN  ROJC 645-716  SUNDAY  61-0108
306 - Look at Aaron, in type, Before... Now, remember, the congregation in them days couldn’t even approach it in no manner. But when Aaron went in... How many times did he get to go into it? Once a year. How did he have... He had to have on certain clothes that was made with certain hands, a peculiar type of clothes. He had to be dressed in such a way. He had a pomegranate and a bell, that every time he walked it played, “Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord.” He was approaching the mercy seat with the blood.

And he had to be anointed with a certain oil, perfumed with a certain perfume made out of the rose of Sharon. And Jesus was that Rose of Sharon. And notice, a rose is a beautiful thing; it has perfume in it. But before the perfume can come out, the rose has to be crushed, and then the perfume is squeezed from the rose. Jesus, in His Life, was the most beautiful Life ever lived; but He couldn’t remain that way, ‘cause He had to anoint His church to approach His holiness, so His Life was squeezed out. And the same Holy Ghost was upon Him is put upon the church, and He makes Him the same yesterday, and today, and forever, the Rose of Sharon, the perfume thereof. Oh, the person that’s approaching into this holiest of holies has to be anointed with the same Holy Spirit. And as he walks, “Holy, holy, holy, unto...” (not with a cigar in his mouth) “holy,” (not with his collar turned around) “Holy, holy, holy,” dressed in the holiness of Jesus Christ. Hm. How wonderful Thou art. Oh.

IT BECOMETH US TO FULFILL  JEFF.IN  V-15 N-4  SUNDAY  61-1001M
88 - See, Aaron, the high priest, before he could ever be anointed, he had to be washed with water. Therefore, when Jesus, before He could be anointed our High Priest, He was washed with water.

And then not anointing oil poured upon Him to anoint Him, like Aaron was anointed with oil; He was anointed with the Holy Ghost. “For John bare record, seeing the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and going upon Him, and a Voice saying, ‘This is My beloved Son in Whom I am pleased to dwell in.’” So the Bible said that, “Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost, went about doing good things.” See, He was anointed.

EXODUS 30:31 - And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.

EXODUS 30:32 - Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.

EXODUS 30:33 - Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

ACTS 1:2 - Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

PSALMS 2:6 - Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

ACTS 4:25 - Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

ACTS 4:26 - The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

ACTS 4:27 - For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

ACTS 4:28 - For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

ACTS 4:29 - And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,

ACTS 4:30 - By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.

PSALMS 45:7 - Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

ACTS 2:30 - Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

ACTS 2:31 - He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.