Death and Life Chapter 13 -- Part 3

Congregation sings “Only Believe”.

Let’s bow our heads.

Precious Father, we realize that this is a time when we all need to be looking more into the depths of the Word and searching our hearts and our souls to make sure that all things are ready. We know, Lord, that our prophet spoke about the fire falling and when the scream went out down through the valley, all things are ready; let the fire fall. One day it’ll fall Lord. One day this earth will be shaken, we know that. Not only the earth but heavens also and we know Lord that we are living in a time of turmoil, a time of disaster; earthquakes, volcanoes, everything taking place now. We pray, Lord, that You’d help us this morning that we might anchor in that Rock, Lord, of ages. We know that there’s no other hiding place, there’s only one place that we can find refuge, and that’s in the Lord Jesus. We know that those that are baptized into that Body, this morning, they’re one with Him, Lord, and we thank You for that. I pray that You’ll bless us this morning as we look into this Holy Word, and one more time, Lord, try to bring our thoughts and our hearts together Lord, with the Word, and try to get it over to the people what we see, and what we believe, Lord, that You have tried to accomplish, or have been setting out to accomplish all of these years. Now, coming down to the finish line with one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and all these things working in order. We thank You for it, Lord. We pray that You’d bless everyone of us now. Be with Brother Tiny, Lord, and continue to strengthen him and Sister Juanita. Any of the others Lord, that might be sick and suffering, bless their hearts Lord, and heal the flesh for the glory of God. We ask in Jesus’ Name, the Son of Man. Amen.

You may be seated.

Good to be here. Good to have this opportunity. The Lord is good to us. Amen. He loved us so much that while we were yet sinners He died for us. That’s what the Scripture says, and I believe it. Just before we read the Scripture this morning I had a couple of questions I like to just go over briefly. It’s not that much; it’s just confirming, mainly.

From a message... (Brother Holmes clears his throat.) You excuse me now. This will all clear up after awhile. I don’t know why it’s got to bugging me so much and it wasn’t that way until I come into the church this morning, but when I got back there in my study it started clouding up on me. But it’ll all work out by the grace of God. Back, 2/25/90, 1990. I don’t know... Most of you were here in 1990. How many, of you here, wasn’t here in 1990, let me see your hand. In 1990 you were not in this assembly. Alright, there’s not but a couple of them that wasn’t here.

Alright. This was a message that we preached in the evening service, and we titled this message, “We Are Not Immortal In This Flesh.” How many of you remember that? A lot of things was said on that message. What brought that message on, if you remember, we had a visiting minister. And that visiting minister tried to insert the thought into the congregation here ‘that Adam come like Melchisedec’. See? You remember that? Alright. And so, we don’t believe that because we don’t believe that Brother Branham taught that. That brought on this message. We are not immortal in the flesh. We were not in a theophany before we came into this flesh; neither was Adam. Adam was in a spirit form, but he was not in a theophany. According to Brother Branham, he come like we did, you know, except he was spoken. He didn’t come by sex, naturally, but he bypassed the theophany. That’s what I’m trying to say. He was not like Melchisedec, amen, and he could die, and he did die. Amen. He did die. Alright.

So now, the question here was not that. “The seed that is in you, that come by the Word of God, had no beginning.” I made that statement in that message. Alright. “Brother Holmes, I believe I do understand this because Jesus had a beginning, but will you please explain it a little bit just to, kindly, dissolve all doubt.” Alright. In the thoughts of God, God is eternal. The thoughts of God were eternal because it was a part of Him. But the Word had to be... In other words, His thought had to be expressed. And when He expressed His thought it was a Word. And then that Word had a beginning, see. In other words, from the time He spoke that Word, that’s where the Word began, right there. In the beginning was the Word, not in eternity. In eternity was a thought, see. But “in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the same was in the beginning with God and all things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.”

So, we notice that the seed, which is the Word, had a beginning. Of course, we know that if it’s a Seed of God, if it’s the Word of God, it has no ending because it came from a manifestation... In other words, it is the manifestation of God; His thoughts. His thoughts being manifest. And then His thoughts then when He speaks the Word... Like when God spoke the Word through Isaiah, “A virgin shall conceive.” Well that statement, Brother Branham said, went around and around the world until Mary came on the scene. And then, of course, the Word was manifest. Alright. So, actually, each one of us are thoughts of God if we are a part of Him. If we were a part of His thoughts, then we were in His thinking, so He spoke these thoughts and these thoughts have to come on the scene at a certain time. Paul came on the scene in his time. Brother Branham came on the scene in his time. Everybody comes on the scene at their time, as He has spoken and ordained it to happen that way. So it did have a beginning. Alright. And then, of course, that was right.

Now, the next question was, “In the marriage supper of the Lamb, or in the Kingdom of God and the serving of Melchisedec”... The wine and communion. You know I covered that, in that message, if you remember. It’s just as real to me right now as it was... And I haven’t heard the message since. I never go back and listen to one of my messages. I never go back and read one of my messages. I believe what I preach. God laid it on my heart and I don’t think I’ve crossed one of them yet, by the grace of God. I believe that everyone of them, you can take them right on and you won’t see contradictions because we depend on God to do that, and so it’s not me. When I preach a message that’s it. So then, I’m going into another one, and another one, and another one, right on. If you’ll notice the things that were preached back there in 1990, they’re being expressed now in a more understandable way. If you’ve studied those messages, you’d be able to understand what we’re bringing about now. Alright.

But the question was, “Do it have to be two-fold, meaning spiritual and natural, this ‘communion’, this ‘wedding supper’?” Yes it’s two-fold. We’re in the spiritual part of it now. according to the message that Brother Branham preached on “The Future Home, The “Earthly Bride And The Heavenly Bride Groom”. If you’ll notice in that message, he put us in the eighth day. And in the eighth day is the new beginning of all things, so that would put us in the Kingdom of God spiritually. So, if we’re in the Kingdom of God spiritually, we’re feasting with Him. See? We are feasting with Him in the spiritual aspect. But we will receive a body that is not a mortal body. We will receive an immortal body of flesh and we will have a communion. I believe, with all my heart, and Melchisedec will serve us, which is Jesus Christ.

You know, Brother Branham said that Melchisedec was not Jesus Christ. And I had that out with my son-in-law one time. He never did agree with me, probably still don’t, but I still know what Brother Branham said. Brother Branham said, “Melchisedec was not Jesus Christ; Jesus had not yet been born.” See? But he said, “Melchisedec became Jesus.” See? Became Jesus. And so, then he said, “You never heard no more about Melchisedec.” See? Because Melchisedec was the theophany that was to become flesh, Jesus. See? You see, it’s simple when you look at it. That’s why so many people make it so hard and... I’ll tell you this, when you start studying those messages and things that the Lord has unfolded right here, you’re going to find some deeper things that you thought was in there. Because it didn’t come from me, see, it didn’t come from me, but it come from Him.

Alright. So now, this morning, by the grace of God, I’m going to try to wind up this part of “The Anointing Oil”. This is the third, I believe it’s the third service on it. Alright, and at the end of this service, brother, I’m going to try to cover those quotes. You that are printing up the messages and so forth, you can do this any way you want to. I mean, you can take these quotes and... My wife’s got them back there and she’ll give them to Brother Kenan or somebody after the service. You can take the quotes and insert them in there where I mention one of the quotes, or you can wait ‘til the last of the series. I’m not talking about the last of the series of “Death Or Life Is Set Before Us”, but I’m talking about, like these are three services of one subject, you know, subtitled, “The Anointing Oil”. So you can take all the quotes that I’ve used in this and put it at the end, if you want to, I mean, at the end of this series, “The Anointing Oil”. And then, of course, the people can see, the ones that read the quotes they can go back and see that Brother Holmes is saying exactly what Brother Branham said, see. That’s what I want you to do, I want you to see that what Brother Holmes is saying, is not his own thoughts. It’s like a mirror. When you look in a mirror and see yourself. Alright. And so, when you reflect something, you’ve got to reflect what is a part of you. Actually, this is a part of me because I received it into my heart. I received it into my heart because it’s the truth, what Brother Branham spoke. And if you’ll notice, we’re trying our best to cover the Bible. And those of you that have been writing down Scriptures that we have been referring to you’ll notice that we’ve been going from Genesis to Revelation. Genesis to Revelation, all the way through. And I know we’ve got some people here that are real good at writing down the quotes and don’t miss any of them, I’ll guarantee you, and Brother Don Scott was one of the best ones that I... I think Brother Lanny has got his notes, I think. Brother Lanny, you weren’t here when we preached that message, “We Are Not Immortal In This Flesh”, so you ought to dig through them and see if... I’ll guarantee you that message is in there. And that was preached in 1990. That was one of the deeper messages that we dug into about Melchesidec and about the theophany and so forth, and the Seed Word not being eternal, but It had a beginning. A lot of those things tie into what we’re talking about now.

Alright. So now... (Brother Holmes clears his throat.) I’ll get cleared up in a little bit, I’ll guarantee you. That’s right. Why? Because I’ve got faith. You say, “You’ve got faith?” Yes sir, I believe the Lord’ll do what you ask Him to do. Amen. And I’ve ask Him to clear my throat up so I could get a little better understanding out to you and it would be clear on the tape. Alright. I want to read, first of all, in Revelation, Chapter 1. I want to begin reading at Verse 4 and read down through 6.

John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth...

Now notice, we’ve been talking about the Prince, the King; you notice that, while we were talking in types. The Word of God declares everything that we’ve said to be the truth.

...Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

Now we’ve talked about the washing, now we’re talking about the anointing, see. Alright.

And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Alright. The last verse there is what I want to use this morning, a good bit there, and then we’re going to Ephesians, the 4th Chapter, and read a little bit. But I want you to notice here that He had made us kings and priests unto God and to His Father. Alright. Let’s go over here to Ephesians now and then we’re going to get... We’ve got a double-barrel this morning, so we want to make sure that we are able to cover it. I told Sister Darlene, I said, “We held a little over Sunday and I’ll have a hard time getting this message through, probably, as quick as I did last Sunday, or maybe somewhere around that time. It’ll probably take a little longer than our usual messages because I want to cover those quotes at the end. I want you to see what Brother Branham said about these things. I know you study the Message, I know you hear the Message, I know you read, but I’ve got a job to do just like... All of us has got a job. The body is one. But in that body is categories of services, you see. Not everybody... Everyone of you is not a preacher. See? And everyone of you is not a deacon. Everyone of you is not a trustee. Brother Branham said, “Some are called to be a housewife.” And he said, “Whatever you’re called to be, you be that at your best. See, at the best, be it. Amen.

Alright, in Ephesians, the 4th Chapter, I want to read the first 10 Verses there.

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Now remember Wednesday night, we talked about, “You’ll never get nothing unless you be humble. You’ve got to humble yourself down. You can’t be haughty and high-minded and feel like you’re better than everybody else and receive anything.” See, you’ve got to humble yourself.

Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Remember, we talked about peace Wednesday night.

There is one body, and one Spirit,...

You say, “Well now, that’s a contradiction to what you just read over there in Revelation, the 1st Chapter.” He said there were seven spirits, and now here, Paul is saying there is one Spirit. See? But, you see, there is only one Spirit, but that Spirit made seven visitations. See? Seven visitations of the same Spirit, seven church ages. See? Alright. Now.

...called in one hope of your calling;

One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

See, unto each one of us is given grace according to the gift of Jesus Christ. Whatever He decided to give you, that’s what you got. See? Of course, that has nothing to do with your eternal life, you know. I mean, eternal life, it stands, Imean as far as your work is concerned... That’s why everybody can’t be a preacher, everybody can’t be a deacon, everybody, you know,  can’t be the same thing. I mean my right hand can’t be my left hand. My eye can’t be my nose and my nose can’t be my mouth. See? We’ve got a body and that’s what we want to look at this morning, especially the body, moving and functioning in place where we were placed by Christ. And if we do that we find that the body functions perfectly. See? It’ll function perfectly if it’s in order. And so that’s what Paul is saying here; “Let’s get it in order.” Alright, now.

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

Now we’ve got something else on that after a while when we get over in Psalms.

He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.

So now I want to stop right there. Of course the next verse there, Verse 11 there, talks about apostles, prophets, and so forth, being set in the church.

Alright. But now, first of all, I want you to notice that we are priests and kings. Alright. Now that means that we are in a kingdom, and that is a spiritual kingdom. And that spiritual kingdom is the Kingdom of God. We are in that kingdom; working in that kingdom. It’s a spiritual kingdom. This heavenly priesthood that we’re talking about is the priesthood which is headed up by Christ. Is that right? This heavenly priesthood is headed up by Christ like the natural priesthood was headed up by Aaron. His sons worked under him. You get the picture now? So Christ is the Head and all of the body is working under Him. And then the anointing of the spirit comes....

Let me try to explain it like I see it, if I can. (Brother Holmes demonstrates.) If you sit this water over there and put this Bible over here. Now, I’m going to anoint this right here; I’m going to anoint it. Alright. That water’s over there, and that Bible’s over there. You’re not going to get no anointing; none of it. You see what I’m saying? So anything that is outside of the body of Christ is not going to get the benefits of the anointing, see. If we’re living in an age, and this is something that yougot to understand, if you’re living in an age when a portion of God’s Word comes... When that Messenger comes and brings that Message, then that is supposed to open the door to that understanding of that Message, you see? And then the anointing comes upon that. And then the benefits that God has promised through Christ, all of the gifts and so forth that goes along with this, it actually comes through unity, see. Not separation, not division.

And then another thing that we’re going to have to understand is that unity is not always like the... Well, I’ve got a thought on that in a little bit, and I’m going to leave that right there. I’m going to get my water back over here and I’m going to get my Bible back. That didn’t get anointed because it wasn’t there. And this didn’t, see? But you see, what was there, what’s in Christ, see. He’s the Head, and so that anointing comes down upon the body, His body, which is the Church, see? Now all this you’ll find in these quotes over here. You’ll find all of this. It was formed, actually,... If you want to go back and read “It Is The RisingOf The Sun” and “The Easter Seal”, you’ll see where Brother Branham is talking about the resurrection of Christ and then, we being resurrected in Him and all these things, see, coming to pass. This body was formed of Him in death. See? He could not form this Body outside of death. He had to die. He had to die. So that’s why I read that Scripture there. He had to first descend into the lower parts of hell before He could ascend upon high. See? In other words, before He could be a representative, before He could be your representative, He had to descend to the lower parts of the earth. And then, He ascended out of there, and when He did, then He begin to place gifts and those things where they were suppose to be; after He ascended out of the lower parts of the earth, in resurrection. See?

Now. Notice now, and this is something that I’ve tried to explain it, I’ve tried to work on this to make sure that I say it right, so that you’ll understand exactly what we are looking at and what we believe to be the truth about a woman and a man. See? So you listen to this close. Don’t miss it. Alright? Now listen. As Eve was fashioned by God’s hands, out of Adam,... Are you listening? While he was in a deep sleep... Are you listening? Alright. The Lord God had caused this deep sleep to come upon Adam. And there was a rib that was taken out of Adam. I want to read that,and I want you to listen to it close, exactly like it reads  It’s in the 2nd Chapter of Genesis, Verse 22. Watch this now. Watch the reading.

And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man,...

Didn’t say He took him out of, or of, said He’d take from man. Took from man.

...made he a woman, (Now the original says, “builded he a woman”)made he a woman,and brought her unto the man.

Alright, now. This is what we want to look at real close here this morning. The life, if you’ll notice, the life of the woman was part of the life of the man, because you can’t find where God breathes life into her. The same life that was in Adam, was in that rib. See? And so He took the rib and made the woman. Then He took the rib back in the form of a woman and gave it back to Adam. Adam doesn’t have all of his ribs, because his other rib is his wife, see. Can you understand what I’m saying? So he takes the woman as a part of his body, see, and they’re one, because she was taken out from him. And that rib become the woman. See? And the same life that was in Adam was in Eve, the same life. He never breathed into Eve life. The life that was in Adam was in the rib. See? I can’t express it like I see it, but God’ll let you see it; you’ll see it.

But anyway, I’m trying my best to get you to understand the closeness of Christ and the Church, and the closeness of man and wife. Amen. Watch. He brought her unto the man, the Scripture said. And Adam said, “This is now bone of my bone...” Right? “...Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman.” Now in the Hebrew that is “Isha”. I-s-h-a. How many of you know what that word means? Anybody know what it means? The definition of Isha is “female man”. Does it make any sense? The female man. See? Then, because she was taken out of man, “Ish” - which is the masculine. The masculine is I-s-h. The feminine is I-s-h-a. See? Alright.

So then... It’s a type of the church, the way Brother Branham put it, and Christ’s body. And then, of course, it was fashioned out of death and springing up into a union with Him in the resurrection. It actually consists of many members of His body. Talking about Christ now. Many members of His body, His flesh, and of His bones. See, we are partakers of His Life in union which came about through the resurrection. If there had not been any resurrection... What does resurrection mean? “Life”. If there had not been a resurrection, there would not have been any body of Christ, see, there would have not been. So God’s gift to Christ was what? A faultless, sinless, unadulterated Bride. That’s what come out of the death, burial and resurrection of the Son of God. What come out of Him was an absolute faultless, sinless, unadulterated Bride, that absolutely cannot sin, never did sin, never will sin. There is not one spot and never has been a spot upon the Bride of Jesus Christ. Never has been and never will be one spot upon her. She has never sinned. See? She did not sin.

There was a seed in there that was not manifested to the person, and then there was a soul in there that was a nature, and that nature controlled the fleshly house, see. And then when God got ready for the manifestation of His son or His daughter, He done away with the old husband. See? He absolutely separated that from this fleshly body. It doesn’t exist any more. It’s gone; it’s annihilated. Then He resurrected that seed, and that seed come forth in the nature, the soul of God, see, to manifest the Word of God for the age. See? For the age. So then, this brings about the presence of God upon this earth through the body of Christ, which is the Bride. “This body is now,” Brother Branham said, and I’ve got it over here in the quotes, “ is not complete” (See?) “but it’s in the process of being formed and every member of that Bride” (Now listen.) “is already written in the Book.”

Amen! I feel like running around the church a few times now. You see, He didn’t just put your name on there to try you out to see if you was going to be good. And then, if you wasn’t good, he was going to take your name off. No, He didn’t do that, no. See, before the foundation of the world, He put your name on there. Amen. Is that what the Scripture says, “In the Lambs Book of Life?”

Alright, so what He done then, He made up this Bride and put her in a book, her names, put her names in a book. Alright, And then she was then to manifest in the appointed time with Christ, the Head, and it would be such a union until nothing can disturb it. See, this Verse 9, where we read there in the 4th Chapter of Ephesians, speaks of Him ascending. Ascending. “Now, if He did ascend, (Paul said), then He had to first descend.” He had to first go down there, Brother Winston, before He could come out from there. So He went down there for a purpose. It’s expressing the lower parts of the earth. Then, of course, the 139th Psalm tells us about that in the 15th Verse. I hate to take all this time to do this, but I think it’s alright. In the 15th Verse,

My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written,...

Amen. And on and on, and on and on.

So, you see, we’ve got Scripture to back up what we’re talking about, and we’ve got the Word of God for this day to back up what we’re talking about. So the Lord Jesus raised up from the dead, and being exalted to the right hand of God, and then received of the Father, the promise of the Holy Ghost. Watch now. He said, “It’s good for you that I go away, for if I go not away the Comforter will not come.” So then when the flesh, when the man, our Kinsman Redeemer, when He paid the price and died, when He ascended back, He was to go into another order. See? No longer the flesh of Jesus Christ, but the Life of Jesus Christ; the Spirit of Jesus Christ. See? Moving from the flesh to the Spirit. Amen. And then that way He has a right to come into these little tabernacles. He could not come in here and live in us as a fleshly being. But after He died, and after He paid the price, when He went to the lower parts of hell and He ascended back on high, then He had all power in heaven and in earth, according to Matthew 28th Chapter, “All power is given unto me, both in heaven and in earth.” Amen! See? So He had to go back in the flesh; the flesh had to go back to the Father from where it come. See? It went back there and then come back in the form of the Spirit, His own Life.

There was nobody converted until the day of Pentecost. There was absolutely no conversion, no borned-again child of God, until Pentecost! The only one that we can find that had the Holy Ghost, was John, the Baptist. And he received the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb, and he was considered the least. In other words he was the greatest that had ever come as a prophet. The littlest one in the family of the spiritual body of Christ was greater than John the Baptist! Right? Because the price had not been paid when John come on the scene. But when we come on the scene, the price was paid and we could come like Him. Amen, we could be like Jesus. Amen, we sing that song, “To Be Like Jesus”, “To Be Like Jesus”. It’s not so much that we’re talking about the flesh, but when He went back to the Father and He come back in the form of Holy Ghost, then that is when He began to take over and to reign in His subjects. Amen.

Alright, so I want you to notice this real good now as we move on and I’ll try not to comment no more than I can help. We are knitted together by the Spirit of God. Brother Branham used the word “welded”. Is that right? And he said that, “This Body is welded together.” You know, the head comes down upon it and then all of the Word comes down through there and welds that body together. Right? Welds it together. He talked about it being like the pyramid, so closely knit together, the body of Christ. So closely knit together that you couldn’t even get a razor blade point between the joints of that pyramid, and this body of Christ is closer than that. See?

And yet we must know that whether you have a hundred people, whether you have five hundred people, whether you have a thousand people, that don’t mean that you have a hundred bride, a thousand bride, or five hundred bride. It simply means, that in there, you may have one. See? Amen. But if you do have one in there, and you find another one somewhere else, they’re going to believe the same thing. See? Amen. Because they’ve got the same Holy Ghost that you’ve got, see. Amen. God is not divided, see, so He is one. Alright. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God. See? Even our Lord Jesus Christ. Alright. So now, I want you to notice this good.

And then talking about Aaron, you know, and I never did read this Scripture. I want to go back over there and read it where he was anointed and it run all down upon his beard. Remember? How many of you know where that is? It’s in Psalms 133. I ought to know this Psalms because I read it so much.

...Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brethren to dwell together in unity! (Watch.)

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

Amen. So. Now, when he poured that oil upon his head..., Remember he had on that garment, brother, with one hole in it, just one hole, and that’s where it went over his head. Alright. So the reason they poured that on there, see, all of that anointing had to get in there on them clothes where he was dressed with, because everyone of his dress every piece of his dress represented something, so he had to be anointed.So it run down on his beard, Brother Chris, and then through that opening in that robe, it went down on the britches, on the everything, anointed the whole thing. Everything was anointed. See? It was poured out upon him, see. And when we get the anointing of the Holy Ghost, the real true anointing... Brother Branham said, now watch this. Oh my! See, it’s got to go through the flesh. See? Poured upon the head, go through the flesh, then go into the mind, see. Go on down under the garment. Brother Branham said, “You can be anointed on the flesh, you can be anointed on the spirit with the true Holy Ghost, and still go to hell.” He said, “That anointing has got to be the inside of the inside.” See? So the anointing has got to go deeper than the flesh, it’s has to go deeper than the spirit, it’s got to go all the way down into the soul. And when it comes down there, then it’s settled. It’s settled once for all; it don’t have to be anointed again, that’s it. In other words, that is it.

Alright. So, we know that He took His blood one time! Hebrews tells us that He took His own blood and come into your heart! And when He sprinkled your heart with that blood, you are just as... Now I’m talking about something that’s real. When He sprinkled with His own blood, His own life that come out of that blood, when He sprinkled you..., (that soul, that inside of the inside), when He sprinkled that with the anointing of His life... That’s what has to come on that seed, Brother Gerald, before it can resurrect. Then when that resurrection comes forth, it’s already anointed a son or a daughter or a child of God. It’s already anointed kings and priests. See, it’s already anointed kings and priests. That’s exactly the way you were born. You are born kings and priests in God. Not in this life but in God, because you’re the son of the Almighty. Amen. Alright. I mean it’s so real. Alright. So they poured it all over his head and it went everywhere, you know.

Now. I guess I covered most of that, so I’ll just... Oh yeah, now let’s see. We have three little books in the back of the Bible - 1st, 2nd, and 3rd John. And in one of those booksJohn talks about, “we having an unction, an unction with the Holy One”. Right? Alright. Then having that unction with the Holy One, we know all things.Is that what the Bible says? Exactly what it says! So that Spirit that we’re talking about; that anointing that we’re talking about, when it comes upon you, it’s the Spirit of Truth. Not the spirit of error. It’s the Spirit of Truth. That’s why we had to be birthed by the Word of this age. Because if we were birthed by the word of Pentecost, we would not be in this age. See, we would not be in this age. It would be alright in the age of Pentecost but it wouldn’t be alright here. We have got to be birthed by the Word of this age. The Spirit and the Bride say come. Amen. See, the Spirit and the Word is Life. Amen. And if that spirit is not in the Word and if it’s not the Word of the age, the spirit can be in that Word and it’s still of no avail because there is no life there, because He’s moved on somewhere else. We’re in the bride age. I see this so plain, until I know... Oh my! The Holy Spirit is so real! See? He’s so real and He’s so good to us. Amen.

And yet He is a person. He is the Person of God. Amen. Not the second or third person, He’s the Person of God. Alright. So now as believers, then we have an unction with the Holy One. Alright. Now we know He was called the Holy One, don’t we? (Brother Holmes speaks to a brother). Did you find it brother? I know it’s in 1st John 2:20. 1st John, 2:20. You put that down because it just come to my mind. We have that unction with the Holy One, and we know all things. Is that what He said? We know all things. So He’s not talking about we know all things in this world, He’s talking about we know all these spiritual things that God is going to tell us because it’s the Spirit of Truth! “When the Spirit of Truth is come, He will guide you into all truth and show you things to come.” Amen. Oh my! Well you say, “Well, who was that Holy One?” Well, I’ll tell you what, I’m going to give you three Scriptures for you to look it up. Mark 1:24, the legion of demons acknowledge Him as being the Holy One. That’s right. Amen. In Luke 4:34, Luke records it too, (of the maniac, the demon maniac). And then in Acts 3, Verse 14, He is called that Holy One. Amen. So we know who the Holy One is. So we have an unction with the Holy One, and He tells us, because this is the Spirit of Truth that is to come. And that Spirit of Truth that is to come is to anoint that believer and that believer understands and knows what is truth. Alright. Alright now.

The unction. Now, I’m going to tell you what happens most of the time. Instead of people... Now listen to me children, I want you to listen close. If God uses a man, it is not that man, see, that you are catering to. You understand what I’m saying? It is not the man that you’re catering to, but it’s the God that is using the man. See? You don’t ever want to get hung up on a man. See? And that’s what causes these denominations, because somebody will get a little fresh anointing and they’ll start something, and the first thing you know, they run aground. But by that time they’ve got hundreds of people following them and they are in oneness with that and they missed God. See? I’m not going to comment on that a whole lot because I don’t want you to... I’ve got something down here on it.

Now when the spirit of unity and of brotherhood; real spirit of unity and brotherhood, which helps us and keeps us in unity with God, with Him, that keeps us in that union. It is not that we are following one another’s flesh, but it’s that we are of the same birth, of the same family, spiritually, see. Spiritually. So, “the thing that separates and divides,” Brother Branham said, “was denominations.” Alright. And that’s what takes away from one another. That bond of brotherhood. The first thing you know, someone will come in with a little different thing, and then they’ll begin to pull this one and pull that one, and the first thing you know, you have so many different ideas and different opinions. And so we have to go back to the true witness of Christ, which I read over here in Revelation, Chapter 1, which is the Holy Spirit and we have to get into the presence of Him to find the truth. Of course, that does away with the fleshly associations and denominational systems and brings us under the unity of the Spirit of God, which takes away doubt.

See, the human leaders, sometimes, the heads of these great brotherhoods and so forth all time are not actually lead by the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth and sometimes they maybe are in error, and if they are, of course, they are in a carnal state of mind. And if they are in a carnal state of mind, then of course, then Brother Branham said, “No congregation can soar any higher than the pastor.” And so with a carnal state of mind, you’re not going to soar very high in the spiritual realm. You know, you can talk about all of these things. You can be a doctor of divinity, you can have all kinds of anointings upon you, but if you are not, borned again by the Word of the age you’re not going to understand the Word of the age. See? You understand? You have to be borned of this age. Alright.

Now the spirit will... Now watch this. Brother Branham made it clear that we must be lead by the Spirit; and if we’re not lead by the spirit, we’re none of His. That’s what the Scripture says. Is that right? Alright. And that that is not of faith, is what? Sin. That’s what the Bible says. The Bible said, “That which is not of faith, is sin.” What is faith? Revelation. If you don’t have a revelation you’re a sinner. See? That’s all it is to it. Alright. And what is sin? Unbelief. Alright. So now we’re getting it on down. So the Spirit that leads us into all truth, He will do that for us if we are willing to be lead. See? The beautiful story is, you can take - when Eleazer went to get a wife for Isaac, she was willing to be lead. And so, he being a type of the Holy Ghost lead the bride right straight to her husband. See? Amen. She was willing to do that. She was willing. So you have to be willing to be lead.

Now I’ve got a couple of things down here that, I feel like, that causes people, sometimes not to be lead by the Spirit, or to give up. One of them, Brother Don, I believe, is the prejudice feelings that they have gathered in their minds from Sunday school. From traditional ideas. See? They become prejudice to the Word of God, Brother T.B., without knowing it, by a former doctrine that they have heard. It has put a prejudice feeling in them and they will not break loose completely from this and be lead by the Spirit of God, to be lead into all truth. See? And that’s what happened to what? The foolish virgins. Why did Brother Branham say they did not get the Holy Ghost? Because they did not follow all of the truth for that age. They didn’t follow all of it. That’s what Brother Branham said. They followed a part of it, but they didn’t accept it all. They were not willing, they were prejudice. Oh hey! You know, we might hit around here somewhere, if we’re not careful. And we might hang on to a tradition, especially on marriage and divorce. We might hang on to a tradition and become prejudice to the Word of God that our prophet told us to bring peace in the home. Amen. That’s right. And when you do that, I don’t care how much you claim, you’ll wind up in the foolish virgin group if you’re not careful. You can’t take what you learned in Sunday school. I found out I had to get shed of that right fast. Alright. Imean, when I first met Brother Branham and found out about this Message, Brother John, the first thing I done, I went off and shut myself off for about four days without bread and water or anything else. I mean, a total fast. I said, “Lord let me die. Let everything that they ever taught me I want it out. I want to hear this Message. Amen. I want to hear it.”

See, the Holy Spirit is grieved when this things happens. And then, actually, the Word becomes of none effect to us. You understand what I’m saying? Because... “Why, Brother Holmes?” ...it is without love. Without love. It becomes a battle, a fight. And that’s why I know that before we reach the top, Brother Kenan, we ain’t going to fight no individual, not one. We’re not going to fight nobody. Amen. We’re going to move on with God. Amen. To one’s own master he stands or falls. It’s none of my business whether God called that man over there to be a vessel of dishonor, or whether He called him to be a vessel of honor. It’s none of my business. But what I’ve got to do, I’ve got to keep walking. I’ve got to keep walking in the Spirit, and let everybody do the same. Amen. Tell people wherever you go how you feel about the Message and what you see in it. And then, if they can’t receive it, don’t get mad at them. Don’t get upset with them, don’t start fighting with them. Don’t start arguing with them, no sir. Don’t start that because it won’t do not good. See? It’ll just make you get in some place where you’re not suppose to be, see. So you don’t want to do that.

The spirit of unity is described in these things that I read in Ephesians. I’m coming down to where I’m going to get into the quotes in a little bit now. One body... There’s seven of these things in that passage of Scripture there in the 4th Chapter of Ephesians, that I read to you. I don’t know if you counted them or not, but one body and one spirit. One hope of your calling. One Lord, one faith, one baptism. One God and Father of us all. One God and Father of us all. So we read that, didn’t we? Alright. We must remember, we must always remember... And I told you I had something on that in a little bit, and I started to bring it out awhile ago, but I wanted to wait until I got to it. We must remember that uniformity and confederacy is not, is not, and never has been, unity. All of us could dress alike. All the women could have long hair. All the men could be decent and everything. We could have a confederacy among us, and church rules. You see what I’m talking about? We could have a bunch of church rules set up, in which we have to do that, but that’s not going to make us in unity. See? If you do that, because you are told to do that, against your will, it won’t do you no good. But, you see, confederacy is not unity. No sir! It’s got to be the Spirit of God. You’ve got to have the new birth, you’ve got to be borned into the Kingdom of God.

See, the unity of the Spirit is in the whole body, not just one member of it. It’s in the whole Body. One little thing that disagrees in the Body will hinder... You say, “Brother Holmes, I don’t believe that.” Yes sir. It hinders the other members of the body. (Brother Holmes demonstrates.) Now you think, if my brain told my left foot to take a step, and that left foot refused to do it, see, I’m stalled. I can’t walk with one foot. See? When God calls and gives the Word, and when He unfolds the Word to a point, all of the body is suppose to move with that Word. Do you remember the cloud we preached on? When that cloud moved, the whole Israel moved with Him. So when this unfolding moves, we have to move with it because we know that the revelation hangs in a supernatural element. We know that. God will break it as He sees fit.

Now this will, actually... If there’s one member out of order there, it will cause a breach, actually, of the unity of the Spirit of God. Not only that, but if we’ll notice now, in this chapter that we’ve been studying over there in Exodus. It said, “As the Lord commanded Moses.” “As the Lord commanded Moses.” Not as the Lord commanded Aaron. Not as the Lord commanded Joshua, but, “as the Lord commanded Moses.” See? As the Lord commanded William Branham. That’s the one that we have got to pattern after. Wegot to follow that Message. We can’t conjure up our own ideas. We have got to see what he said, amen, and get it in our lives. And don’t fight it. Amen. Be lead by the Spirit. Alright.

Now, on a message, “Christ Is The Mystery of God Revealed”, Brother Branham said:

“She, the Bride, is independent from all others. She's a independent woman, a great speckled bird that's different from all others...”

Amen. This is where I got the understanding of what happened there when they took two turtle doves, you know, and cut one of them’s head off, and the other one was sprinkled with blood. And it flew away, see, with the blood of the mate. See? Alright. Now. He said:

“You remember the Bible on that: the great speckled bird, but she had His Name. She had His Life,...” (See?)

“How did they speckle the bird? (Watch.) They were both white, and then they pulled the head off of one bird and drained the blood out upon the other bird. And the other bird was speckled with the red blood, and it flopped its wings like this, and the blood cried, ‘Holy, holy, holy’ as it bathed the ground. So Christ, the dead Mate, put His Blood (His Blood from His Life)...”

Is that what I said? Is that what I said awhile ago? ‘His blood from His Life.’

“...into us, ...carrying His Blood crying, ‘Holy, holy, holy unto the Lord.’ It’s an odd looking bird. Sure it is. But She, the Bride, is--is identified by Him, and She's independent from all others, (See?) ‘Keep thee only unto her as long as you both live.’ Keep thee only to Him, the Word: (Keep only to Him, the Word.) no--no adultery, not one sign of denomination, not one sign of creed, (Huh?) no adultery at all, the Word and Him alone. ‘On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other grounds is sinking sands,’...”

Now this is on “Uniting Time and Sign.”

“And the church and the Bride, and the Word is becoming so one, until the very word itself is working out the works of the Bridegroom. Amen! You see it? A uniting! Not no more, ‘Join the church’; not more of this, but flee from everything and tied to Jesus Christ. See? It’s the uniting time: God, uniting His Bride together, bringing It back. Just exactly. Uniting the Words of His promise...”

Uniting the Words of His promise. Amen, alright.

“II Thessalonians, (He quoted that where the resurrection...) ...The saints that are asleep in the dust of the earth will waken. And then we will unite with them (the living ones, with the ones that's been dead), will unite before we even get up there, ‘cause the Bride will be complete when She gets there...”

The Bride will be absolutely complete all the way when she gets there.

“...The ones that's a-living is uniting itself with the Word, (Alright?) and those that are gone already did that; (Those that are gone already did that.) and It all comes together, (to) make one great union of the uniting before going up there...

Alright. So you see what’s happening now? All of it’s coming together. It’s got to be together here, before it goes up there. It’s got to be together here. Alright.

“The thing I’ve been teaching to you here, (I’ve been) telling you these signs and different things a-happening; I haven’t got time to do it now; I will in another message, the Lord willing. But there’s one little thing yet lacking in the Church. (Amen.) And we want that to get to that, and I’m right on the edge of it now. See? We want to get to (it)... You got to do it. If you don’t do it, that’s just all. You must do it. (Look), the uniting time is at hand, for God is getting the Church together (for) a rapture to go to the wedding for the great union (which) God and man will unite for eternity, when creatures of time unite with the (eternity)...”

“It was once done in the form of the Son of man on earth. And He had to give His Life to bring about a power to unite other men with this same power, for the Bride of Jesus Christ. And now, the Church is uniting Itself to the Body of Christ. It’s got Itself free, cut away from every little fetter, getting Itself ready, getting together, union among them; oh, a love and joy, and the Holy Spirit moving among them. Oh, my, what a time.”

On “God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship”.

“Notice Enoch, God’s perfect reflector in type. (Perfect in type.) When God was through...with him, He just translated him (See?), took him up. The mechanics that he had reflected become dynamics with the Spirit, and took him up.”

The mechanics that he reflected became dynamics. Amen. Those mechanics that you’re manifesting will become dynamics. It’ll take you out. Amen. Alright.

“Same in the days of Elijah. Elijah, even to his bones, where that reflection... Reflector of God in his body being made manifest the Word of God...”

This was Elisha of course. Elijah went up, you know, in a chariot.

“...a dead man on it; (why) he sparked to life again.”

Amen. You’ve got more power than you think you have, if you’re a born-again child of God. We just... You know, sometimes it’s like putting an eagle in a cage, and they can’t go but just so far, you know. Is that right, Brother T.B.? That eagle, he’ll fly against the cage and bounce back. See? But if you can get the cage out from around him there’s no limit. See? If we can get the cage of traditions and ideas and creeds and thoughts and doubts, there’s no limit to where the children of God can go. Amen. No limit to it. Absolutely not limit. You are little messiahettes. That’s exactly right. Alright.

“We are flesh and bone of Him, as long as we are the Bride of Christ. You believe that? All right. He died for us, and we die to ourselves and are buried in His Name, that we would no more be of the world, but in Him, of which both the family in heaven is named after Jesus Christ. That’s Ephesians 1:21. For both heaven--the family in heaven... What’s the family in heaven named? Jesus. What’s the family on earth named? Well, that’s the house of God where the Blood’s at...”

Huh? That’s on earth. The house of God.

“...Is that right? That’s the Door, that’s the Gate,   (Amen) that’s the place He put His Name, and the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us. It’s the Word reflecting and sparking off the age that you’re living in. That’s what He was; that’s what Moses was; that’s what Jacob was; that’s what the rest of them was: sparking off that Word of God, the reflector that God was reflecting Himself. And come to that perfect Image of God, Jesus Christ, God’s Masterpiece; was struck that He might take the rest of them for a Bride that’s been a reflector of Him.”

Amen. Alright. So now let me see. That covered a broad area of what we talked about this morning, just what we read there. Alright. Now so there’s some other things that we talked about. And I’ve got some more of these quotes here, but I want you to put it in there. Alright? But I’m not going to read it. Alright. Now.

I said, “We are flesh of His flesh, we’re bone of His bone, just like Adam and Eve. Alright, watch. He did not take another and produce a bride, but He took the bride right out of Adam. He took his bride right out of him, spirit and all, life and all, see? Amen. Not just part of him. She was completely a woman. Brother Branham said, “The most perfect that’s ever been.” That’s right. Alright.

On “Question And Answers” in 1961, Brother Branham said:

“...the Body of Christ (See?), the body of Christ was broken for our sins, and by one Spirit we’re all baptized into that Body and become members. And where did--where did the--the body... Where did my wife, symbolically speaking... Where did Eve come from? The body of Adam. She was taken out of his side. Eve was taken from Adam’s side. The Christ... And she was part of his body. He said, ‘She's flesh of my flesh and bone of my bones. And I’ll call her woman.’ See?”

'Now, and the body of Christ was taken out of the body of Jesus, for we are spirit and flesh and bone of Him. See? Because we are borned into His body. And because this body here belongs to Him, yet it’s born in sin, He has redeemed it. ‘God will raise it up in the last days, and I’ll live in it for eternally.’ See?” (That’s all there is to it.)

He had to redeem it before He could move in it. He had to redeem this part of the earth before He could move into it and live in it. You understand? Alright. Now. On “Oneness”, Brother Branham said:

“Adam was a part of--or Eve was a part of Adam; she was flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone. And that’s what the correct union is. (That’s what we were talking about this morning) That’s what the correct union of the church is: Spirit of His Spirit, Word of His Words, never deviating from the Word. (Never deviating from the Word.) The real true believer will not compromise on any Word. Remember, it was just one Word that Eve compromised on: one Word. But the true believer won’t compromise on any Word. It’ll hold the Sword of the Faith with--in faith, rather, the Sword of the Word, and claim every Divine promise God made. That’s it.”

Amen. Now that’s a deep one, brother, that’s a deep one. It’ll hold that sword of the Word. You say, “Well, the doctor said,...” But, “the Word said!” See? The Word said. See, that’s where it is. Alright, now I want to read one more quote here on “Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed”. We’re doing alright.

“Watch. He is to be the Head of the Body, (Alright.) His Bride’s body, which is taken from Him, flesh and bone like in Adam (See?), Bride, born from the dead (See?)...”

That’s exactly what I said, “coming through the resurrection”. Right? Alright.

“...that’s born from the dead, sin of unbelief. What killed Eve? Unbelief. Is that right? The unbelief in what? ...the unbelief in God? No, she had faith in God. Sure. Did she say, ‘There is no God’? No, sir,...”

She said, “God has said”, “God has said”. She recognized God. Amen.

“...she wasn’t an infidel. ...she said, “you know, I don't believe His Word at all.” Oh, no, (She didn’t.) she believed all but one little thing. See?” (All but one little thing.)

“...didn’t the Bible say over in the Book of Revelation--Jesus said Hisself, ‘I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify these things unto you. Whosoever shall take one word from It or add one word to It...’ And if all this heartache and sorrow had to come because a woman doubted one Word of God, will He let you back doubting one Word? (If He did) He’d be unjust. See? ...that wouldn’t be right. Condemned... Here’s one man standing: he caused all of his heartache because of one Word doubted, then he goes ahead and takes years of experience and everything in the Bible and so forth and the others whogive their lives for it and then say, ‘Oh, you can go ahead and eat it.’...”

You can’t do it. “Oh, you don’t have to...”, “That’s just the preacher’s idea.” Like that Presbyterian preacher told me when I had the meeting with him and Brother Mark Knapp and his wife, and he said, “Oh, Paul was an old woman hater.” I said, “He wrote the New Testament, and it’s Thus Saith the Lord.” Hmm! I told him this, I said, “If you don’t change your mind about the Word of God, you are going to hell.” And you know what he said? He said, “And you’ll be shoveling the coal. You talking about preachers now; I’m talking about preachers. No telling how many hundred people that man’s got in his congregation. And he told that little wife, “Don’t you listen to him, he’s a theologian.” I said, “You’d better let her listen.”

“...That’s all right. I’ll let you back anyhow.” Oh, God is no respecter of persons. But...?... all. See, see? God is no respecter of persons.”

Amen. I said that was going to be the last... I’ve got to read one more on it, “It Is The Rising Of The Sun.” Amen. Alright.

“When God made His first bridegroom, He made the bridegroom first, and he was both man and woman in spirit, formed him in the dust of the earth to make him material. And notice, when He made Eve from Adam, He took not another piece of clay, He took from the same piece of clay, the same Word; for Adam was a spoken Word. See?...”

He took from that same Word and made Eve. She was a part of the same Word that Adam was. See?

“...He took from him and then taken the... He had masculine and feminish spirit, and He took the feminish spirit away from Adam and placed it in Eve, so it’s still part of Adam’s spirit. (It’s still part of Adam’s spirit.) It’s Adam’s flesh. Then, it was Adam’s spirit, the dynamics, that quickened the mechanics of his body. So the Bride must also be flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone. Now, how is this mortal flesh going to become His flesh? We’ll get to it in a minute. See? How is it done? ...What is this great transformation? Notice.”

“Now, if the Spirit of him... (God)... that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken (our) mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.” (Amen.)

“Oh, my. The predestinated One, of course, like the seed laid upon the earth, the One that had Life in them. Many of them were dead. They were just rotten seeds; the waters and things burn them out. But you know, there was a seed laying there ready for life. (Amen.) God knowed (that) it was laying there.”

“Now, the predestinated Ones (Already was in the Book. Amen.) are the first to be quickened by the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit comes to claim Its Own. Now, this is deep now and be sure to catch this good.

May God bless you. Amen. I love to talk about It, don’t you? Where is our sister? Alright. Amen. So it didn’t take us quite as long as I thought this morning. If I’d read all of the quotes and commented on them, it would have, but I’d like for all these quotes... And you’ll have them back there, and also where we talked about the great Shepherd of the sheep, I’ve got those quotes. I’ve got the quotes on the ones that I had not given previously, right back there. Because Sister Darlene was out a couple of services and Brother Tiny didn’t get the quotes for those messages. Amen.

I’ll tell you, I’m happy. I’m really experiencing some things, going back through this and studying again, that is really giving me a new surge for the Kingdom of God. I want you to turn to 167. Everybody knows what that is, don’t you? “Joy Unspeakable And Full Of Glory”.

Congregation sings.

Praise the Lord. He’s God, amen, and He’s real, and He’s here. Amen. He’s with you, even in you. That’s what He said. “I will go with you, even in you until the end, all the way.” May the Lord’s richest of blessings rest upon you as we go now, and looking at another thought Wednesday. We’re taking another phase of it and moving right on. Now remember, this whole subject is “Life or Death.” To receive It is Life, to reject It is death. You say, “Brother Holmes, We don’t have to receive what you say.” I’m saying what He said. Amen. I’m saying what He said, brother. That’s the thing. Amen. Brother T.B., will you come and dismiss us in a word of prayer? We’ll see you Wednesday. Don’t forget Brother Tiny. Brother Don spoke of appreciating what has been done toward helping Sister Juanita, and I do appreciate that and I appreciate everyone of you that has gone up there and relieved her and has given her a little chance to get away. She’s stuck with him like glue, I’ll tell you that. She’s been a faithful wife to Brother Tiny, and we do appreciate her and how she’s stood right there with him. Amen. And never flinched, not one time. He’s coming out. Amen. That’s right. Praise the Lord.

Brother T.B. dismisses the service in prayer.

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

  REVELATION 1:4 - John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

REVELATION 1:5 - And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, [and] the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

REVELATION 1:6 - And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him [be] glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

EPHESIANS 4:1 - I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

EPHESIANS 4:2 - With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

EPHESIANS 4:3 - Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

EPHESIANS 4:4 - There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

EPHESIANS 4:5 - One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

EPHESIANS 4:6 - One God and Father of all, who [is] above all, and through all, and in you all.

EPHESIANS 4:7 - But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

EPHESIANS 4:8 - Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

EPHESIANS 4:9 - Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

EPHESIANS 4:10 - He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)

GENESIS 2:22 - And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

PSALMS 139:15 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

PSALMS 139:16 - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.PSALMS 133

PSALMS 133:1 - A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

PSALMS 133:2 - It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

PSALMS 133:3 - As the dew of Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

I JOHN 2:20 - But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

CHRIST IS THE MYSTERY  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-7  SUNDAY  63-0728
87-1 - She, the Bride, is independent from all others. She's a independent woman, a great speckled bird that's different from all others. You remember the Bible on that: the great speckled bird, but she had His Name. She had His Life, for the...

How did they speckle the bird? They were both white, and then they pulled the head off of one bird and drained the blood out upon the other bird. And the other bird was speckled with the red blood, and it flopped its wings like this, and the blood cried, "Holy, holy, holy" as it bathed the ground. So Christ, the dead Mate, put His Blood (His Blood from His Life) into us, sprink--carrying His Blood crying, "Holy, holy, holy unto the Lord." It's an odd looking bird. Sure it is. But She, the Bride, is--is identified by Him, and She's independent from all others, "Keep thee only unto her as long as you both live." Keep thee only to Him, the Word: no--no adultery, not one sign of denomination, not one sign of creed, no adultery at all, the Word and Him alone. "On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other grounds is sinking sands," said Eddie Perronett.

UNITING TIME AND SIGN  JEFF.IN  V-6 N-10  SUNDAY  63-0818
92 - And the Church and the Bride and the Word is becoming so one, until the very Word Itself is working out the works of the Bridegroom. Amen! You see it? A uniting! Not no more, "Join the church"; not more of this, but flee from everything and tied to Jesus Christ. See? It's the uniting time: God, uniting His Bride together, bringing It back. Just exactly. Uniting the Words of His promise...

II Thessalonians, 2nd chapter; It says, this 5th chapter says: The saints that are asleep in the dust of the earth will waken. And then we will unite with them (the living ones, with the ones that's been dead), will unite before we even get up there, 'cause the Bride will be complete when She gets there. The ones that's a-living is uniting itself with the Word, and those that are gone already did that; and It all comes together, make one great union of the uniting before going up there. Amen!

115 - The thing I've been teaching to you here, is telling you these signs and different things a-happening; I haven't got time to do it now; I will in another message, the Lord willing. But there's one little thing yet lacking in the Church. And we want that to get to that, and I'm right on the edge of it now. See? We want to get to that, if... You got to do it. If you don't do it, that's just all. You must do it. For looky, the uniting time is at hand, for God is getting the Church together to be a--a rapture to go to the wedding for the great union when God and man will unite for eternity, when creatures of time unite with the eternal.

It was once done in the form of the Son of man on earth. And He had to give His Life to bring about a power to unite other men with this same power, for the Bride of Jesus Christ. And now, the Church is uniting Itself to the Body of Christ. It's got Itself free, cut away from every little fetter, getting Itself ready, getting together, union among them; oh, a love and joy, and the Holy Spirit moving among them. Oh, my, what a time.

GOD'S ONLY PROVIDED PLACE OF WORSHIP   SHP.LA  V-7 N-4  SUNDAY   65-1128M
269 - Notice Enoch, God's perfect reflector in type. When God was through--through with him, He just translated him (See?), took him up. The mechanics that he had reflected become dynamics with the Spirit, and took him up.

Same in the days of Elijah. Elijah, even to his bones, where that reflection... Reflector of God in his body being made manifest the Word of God. They laid a dead man on it; he sparked to life again.

We are flesh and bone of Him, as long as we are the Bride of Christ. You believe that? All right. He died for us, and we die to ourselves and are buried in His Name, that we would no more be of the world, but in Him, of which both the family in heaven is named after Jesus Christ. That's Ephesians 1:21. For both heaven--the family in heaven... What's the family in heaven named? Jesus. What's the family on earth named? Well, that's the house of God where the Blood's at. Is that right? That's the Door, that's the Gate, that's the place He put His Name, and the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us. It's the Word reflecting and sparking off the age that you're living in. That's what He was; that's what Moses was; that's what Jacob was; that's what the rest of them was: sparking off that Word of God, the reflector that God was reflecting Himself. And come to that perfect Image of God, Jesus Christ, God's Masterpiece; was struck that He might take the rest of them for a Bride that's been a reflector of Him.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS   JEFF.IN  COD  SUNDAY   61-1015M 
684-199 - Yes, the Body of Christ (See?), the body of Christ was broken for our sins, and by one Spirit we're all baptized into that Body and become members. And where did--where did the--the body... Where did my wife, symbolically speaking... Where did Eve come from? The body of Adam. She was taken out of his side. Eve was taken from Adam's side. The Christ... And she was part of his body. He said, "She's flesh of my flesh and bone of my bones. And I'll call her woman." See?

Now, and the body of Christ was taken out of the body of Jesus, for we are spirit and flesh and bone of Him. See? Because we are borned into His body. And because this body here belongs to Him, yet it's born in sin, He has redeemed it. "God will raise it up in the last days, and I'll live in it for eternally." See? That's it. All right.

ONENESS  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-2  SUNDAY  62-0211           
30 - Adam was a part of--or Eve was a part of Adam; she was flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone. And that's what the correct union is. That's what the correct union of the church is: Spirit of His Spirit, Word of His Words, never deviating from the Word. The real true believer will not compromise on any Word. Remember, it was just one Word that Eve compromised on: one Word. But the true believer won't compromise on any Word. It'll hold the Sword of the Faith with--in faith, rather, the Sword of the Word, and claim every Divine promise God made. That's it.

CHRIST IS THE MYSTERY   JEFF.IN  V-3 N-7  SUNDAY   63-0728           
73-3 - Watch. He is to be the Head of the Body, His Bride's body, which is taken from Him, flesh and bone like in Adam (See?), Bride, born from the dead (See?) that's born from the dead, sin of unbelief. What killed Eve? Unbelief. Is that right? The unbelief in what? What? For the--the unbelief in God? No, she had faith in God. Sure. Did she say, "There is no God"? No, sir, she wasn't an infidel. "Well," she said, "you know, I don't believe His Word at all." Oh, no, she believed all but one little thing. See?

73-4 - Now, didn't the Bible say over in the Book of Revelation--Jesus said Hisself, "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify these things unto you. Whosoever shall take one word from It or add one word to It..." And if all this heartache and sorrow had to come because a woman doubted one Word of God, will He let you back doubting one Word? He'd be unjust. See? See, that wouldn't be right. Condemned... Here's one man standing: he caused all of his heartache because of one Word doubted, then he goes ahead and takes years of experience and everything in the Bible and so forth and the others who's give their lives for it and then say, "Oh, you can go ahead and eat it. That's all right. I'll let you back anyhow." Oh, God is no respecter of persons. But...?... all. See, see? God is no respecter of persons.

RISING OF THE SUN  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-12  SUNDAY  65-0418M 
19-3 - When God made His first bridegroom, He made the bridegroom first, and he was both man and woman in spirit, formed him in the dust of the earth to make him material. And notice, when He made Eve from Adam, He took not another piece of clay, He took from the same piece of clay, the same Word; for Adam was a spoken Word. See? He took from him and then taken the... He had masculine and feminish spirit, and He took the feminish spirit away from Adam and placed it in Eve, so it's still part of Adam's spirit. It's Adam's flesh. Then, it was Adam's spirit, the dynamics, that quickened the mechanics of his body. So the Bride must also be flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone. Now, how is this mortal flesh going to become His flesh? We'll get to it in a minute. See? How is it done? How... What is this great transformation? Notice.

Now, if the Spirit of him... (God)... that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

20-1 - Oh, my. The predestinated One, of course, like the seed laid upon the earth, the One that had Life in them. Many of them were dead. They were just rotten seeds; the waters and things burn them out. But you know, there was a seed laying there ready for life. God knowed it was laying there.

Now, the predestinated Ones are the first to be quickened by the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit comes to claim Its Own. Now, this is deep now and be sure to catch this good.