Matthew 6:10 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Hebrews 12:18-29 18For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 19And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: 20(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: 21And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) 22But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than* that of* Abel. 25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more* shall not* we* escape*, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 26Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29For our God is a consuming fire.
Colossians 1:12-13 12Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 13Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed
July 28, 1963 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
154First, to express Hisself completely, God in Christ.
155Second to have the preeminences, by this, in His Church, which is His Body, the Bride, till He could have the preeminence to express Himself through them. All right.
156And, thirdly, to restore the Kingdom to its rightly position, that fell by sin by the first Adam, back to where He walked in the cool of the evening, with His people, talked with them, fellowshipped with them.
Five Definite Identifications Of The True Church Of The Living God
September 11, 1960 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
180What is the identification of the Church? What is She to be? What was She? What is It? The called-out group. Who set It up? Jesus Christ. Not a bishop, not the Catholic church, not Methodist, not Luther, not Wesley. No, sir. Who set It up? Jesus Christ. What is Its Message? Repentance, water baptism, baptism of the Holy Ghost, Divine healing, salvation. How do we become a member of It? By being born into It. Can we get to Heaven without It? No, sir. “For those that are dead in Christ will God bring with Him,” and not—not anyone else but those who are dead in Christ. Jesus is coming for those that are dead in Christ. Ephesians 4, chapter, said that the…No. Galatians, I believe it is, the 4th chapter. Said, that, “Those that are dead in Christ will God bring with Him. Those that are dead in Christ will God brings with Him.”
181Now, therefore, She is a called-out group, a mystical Body. Christ set It in order. Before He died, He spoke of It coming, He said, “I will come and be King over this Domain. A little while and the world won’t see Me no more, yet you shall see Me. You won’t have nothing to do with the kingdom of the world.”
JOHN 3:3-8 3Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be BORN AGAIN, he cannot SEE the kingdom of God. 4Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? 5Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be **born of water **and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 8The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Balm in Gilead
July 7, 1959 · Cleveland, Tenessee
20…Our spirits has been born from above. And in that land where we come from, the nature and the habits of that land is holiness, cleanliness, godliness. And if the Spirit of that land moves into us, then this land is strange to us." ‘Cause your soul and your spirit motivates you; it makes you what you are. And you’ll never be able to join churches and get that out of you; you’ll still be a church member and make fun of people who preach against such immorals.
21**You’ve got to be borned again from above. **Then you are new creatures in Christ Jesus, and you’re as Abraham was; you’re his children. You are seeking a City whose Builder and Maker is God. That’s why you act different. That’s why you see things different. You never get customized to this world, because you’re from above. You act like the Kingdom you belong in.
The Future Home Of The Heavenly Bridegroom And The Earthly Bride
August 2, 1964 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
232There is your holy convocation, not have anything to do with the literal things. It’s beyond that. It’s into the Kingdom of God, with Eternal Life, with the predestinated that never did start. It never started on any day. You wasn’t saved on any day. You was always saved. Amen. Jesus just come to redeem that; but you was saved, from the beginning, because you had Eternal Life, to begin with.
Matthew 4:23 23And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
1 Corinthians 4:20 (KJVS) For the kingdom of God* is* not in word, but in power.
Mark 9:1-4 1*And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power. 2And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them. 3And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them. 4And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.
Matthew 12:28 28But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
Luke 9:1-2 1Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. 2And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
The Angel of God
November 2, 1947 · Phoenix Arizona
20…Now, God could have sent the Angel down. Couldn’t He? He could have let the Angel come Hisself, but instead of that, He sent the Angel to speak through the voice of a man. God always used man for His work. Is that right? **He don’t use organizations, or so forth, and mechanical devices, but He uses men. **The Holy Spirit fell upon men. That’s God’s instrument here on earth.
Faith in the Son of God
July 15, 1952 · Hammond, Indiana
2…I don’t know what—what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future, that’s the main thing. I—I know that He holds all the future, and whatever mine shall be; it’s in His hands. So each day I want to live, not for myself.** If I live for myself, I live a selfish life.** I want to live for others, and give what strength I have, not to myself, and to my own pleasure, but for the benefit of others, that’ll build the Kingdom of God.
The Mighty Conqueror
January 10, 1958 · Chicago, Illinois
9…You can’t conquer by wrong. Only right will conquer. You’ll never conquer by cheating. You’ll never conquer by proselyting in your church. You’ll never conquer by building up one denomination above another. You’ll only conquer as you let down the bars, and let the Holy Spirit come in to the entire body of Christ. We’ll never conquer as long as we’re selfish. God hates sin. And He will not let it triumph over wrong.
The Queen of the South
January 25, 1958 · Waterloo, Iowa
30…You see what pride and selfishness does? It shuts you out from the Kingdom of God. I wonder sometime, as we think, what will happen to this generation.
Christ Is Identified The Same In All Generations
April 15, 1964 · Tampa, Florida
10We all believe in the Coming of the Lord, that His Coming is soon at hand. We believe It’s at hand now. We don’t know just what time it’ll be that He will arrive. In view of this, we want to put forth every effort that we know how, to further the Kingdom and get that last person saved into the Kingdom. And when the last one is saved, there will not be—there will not be one extra. It’ll just be just so many. And when that last one is brought in, the Body of Christ is completed, the Rapture will come.
A Total Deliverance
July 12, 1959 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
87Jesus was completely, totally man. He could cry like a man. He could eat like a man. He could be tired like a man. He was completely, totally man, in His physical being. And in His Spirit, He was completely, totally God, so He made His flesh submissive to the Spirit that was in Him. You see, He was tempted in all manners like we are. He was man, not an Angel. He was a man. He had desires and temptations, just like we do. The Bible said He did. He was a man, not an Angel above temptation. Hebrews 1 said, that, “He was…” Hebrews 1:4 said, “He was made lower than the Angels.” He was man, completely man; that God took a complete man, to bring total deliverance, and He filled Him with His Spirit. The Holy Ghost was in Him, without measure. And He was tempted like we were. And He was completely God. He proved it when He raised the dead, when He stopped nature, the roaring seas and the mighty winds. When He spoke to the trees, and so forth, they obeyed Him. He was God, inside. And He could have been man, for He was man, but He totally and completely delivered Himself (as a man) into the hands of God, for the service of God.
88And He is our example. We are men and women. We’re also Christians. If He’s our example, let us completely deliver ourselves into the hands of the Holy Ghost, that we might be subjects of the Kingdom of God.
89He was totally man; He was totally God. But He surrendered His natural parts to His…and His physical parts, and His own thinking, and His own doing, and His own cares, and, “I do only that which pleases the Father.” There you are. Totally delivered from human beings. The priests come to Him, the great men, and said, “Rabbi, so-and-so,” and tried to bribe Him into their affiliations and denominations. But He was totally delivered because He trusted in God.
Matthew 6:31-33 31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Revelation, Book of Symbol
June 17, 1956 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
55Angelic beings associate together. Oh, I hope you get that, that just dropped right down, free. Look! And if you’ve got the Holy Spirit in you, then **you’re a candidate for association with the unseen world and the Supernatural. **No wonder people can’t believe in those things, they’ve never come in contact. They got nothing in here to believe with. But when the Holy Spirit comes into the heart, quickly he becomes then a—a twofold being: one of the earth, to die; and one of Heaven, to live. Amen. In his body, he’s still subject to death; but in his soul, he’s passed from death unto Life. In his body, he has his earthly contact with his five senses; in his spirit, he has a contact with God through the Holy Ghost. And the Angels of God visits them, speaks with them, and they are Messengers sent from God to reveal, and to bring messages from God to the individual. He’s out to get the first thing first. You can’t put the cupola on before the foundation is laid. See? So we got to remember that, put first things first! “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; all these other things will be added unto you.”
…angels sent to signify these things…
Five Definite Identifications Of The True Church Of The Living God
September 11, 1960 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
30We have access to our King. We have an interview with Him whenever we want to call upon Him. We have no other intercessors, no other mediator between the King and us, but that one Man, Christ Jesus. So we are living in a Kingdom. And It is called, in the chronology of the Bible, “the Messianic, Messianic Kingdom.” In other words, where the Messiah rules in every life in His Dominion, ruling the lives of His people, a called-out people from every walk of life, gathering them together in a group, and calls It, “His Church,” or “His called-out Ones.” Isn’t that a beautiful thing? [Congregation says, “Amen."—Ed.]
Five Definite Identifications Of The True Church Of The Living God
September 11, 1960 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
33Now, Christ is the Head of this. Christ is the Head of this Messianic Kingdom. And you cannot organize a Kingdom of which Christ is the Head. You cannot denominate a Kingdom which Christ is the Head. Because, Christ is King, and you cannot take the intellectuals of a man and make an organization to which Christ will govern. Therefore, any companies, any peoples, any groups of men, that tries to organize the Kingdom of God, is going contrary to the King. And if they’re going contrary to the King, it would be against the King. So if it’s against the King, it would be an anti-Christ. That’s pretty rough. If I had just a little more voice, we’d make that clearer. It is a anti-Christ. And if you’ll bear with me a few minutes, I’ll prove that. An anti-Christ spirit tries to take a—a people and call them from organization to organization, organizing them together, which never was the will of God. People has always fussed at me because I struck so hard at organizations. It isn’t the people in there, that I’m striking at. It’s that dominating spirit that makes the people think that, “We are the people.”
34God’s people is His called-out people. I believe they’re in every denomination. They could be Catholic. They could be Protestant. They could be Jewish. They could be any kind of a church. But the real Church is the mystical Body of Jesus Christ.
Five Definite Identifications Of The True Church Of The Living God
September 11, 1960 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
67Now, now you see what Church means? Church means a “called-out” bunch, a called-out people that’s governed only by the King of this Messianic Kingdom. Oh, isn’t that wonderful? [Congregation says, “Amen."—Ed.] I love that. When I read that in the…today. And when it said there, “The Kingdom, the Messianic Empire.” The writer put it, “Messianic Empire.” The writer also said, “There is not such a thing as the Church of the living God ever being organized. An organization is something that was adapted, adopted into, to take the place of.”
Five Definite Identifications Of The True Church Of The Living God
September 11, 1960 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
79Who is the Head of this Church? Jesus Christ. What Kingdom is it? The Messianic Kingdom, the Church, not an organization; a Church, a mystic Body to which Christ is the Head. Oh, I love that, walking in the Spirit, obeying the King. Foolish to the world; precious in the sight of God. Walking in the Spirit; misunderstood, laughed at, made fun of. “All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecutions. If they persecuted the prophets which were before you, called the Master of the—Master of the building, ‘Beelzebub,’ how much more will they call them of His disciples?” But you’re walking in the Spirit, turning your back on the things of the world, not bound by any fetters. “He who the Son has made free is free indeed.” Amen. That’s the Church of the living God. That’s Who set It up.
80Now we see, in witnesses, in Acts 1:8, He said, “You shall be My witnesses after the Holy Ghost has come on you.”
81What is the Church? The mystic Body of Christ. Who set It up? The Lord Jesus, Himself. It wasn’t set up at Rome. Neither was it set up in England, by John Wesley. Neither was it set up by Calvin, or in America, the Baptist, by John Smith. Neither was it set up in California, by the Pentecostals. It was set up by Jesus Christ, the King of the Messianic Kingdom. That’s Who It was set up by. He is The King. He wants to be King. He wants to rule us. He wants to be Lord.
The Falling Apart of the World
December 16, 1962 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
191So why yoke up to an organization when the Kingdom of God is offered to you that you’re born into it? And there’s not a hypocrite in it! All pure, unadulterated sons and daughters of God, that believe His Word from Genesis to Revelation and stays with It. And your life proves it, and God confirms His Word to it. That’s the Messiah. That’s the Wife of Messiah. And God sets in that system teachers, pastors, prophets, and so forth, to keep that Messiahship of His straight in there, not mixed up with denominational creeds, but weeds that thing out and keep the Church pure, unadulterated to Christ and His Word.
Matthew 13:10-16 10And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11He answered and said unto them, **Because it is given unto you **to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 12For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. 13Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 16But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.