Romans 8:1-23 1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.10And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11But if the Spirit of him 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. 12Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Romans 8:1 1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Acts Of The Holy Spirit
54-1219E · Jeffersonville, Indiana
78 Now here is my idea of it, brethren. When the . . . That temple there represented the Temple, spiritual, the Temple that we are now in. They come into the temple for their blessing. We are baptized into the Temple of God, into the Body of God, into the Body of Jesus Christ. And we’re in Christ, by Holy Spirit baptism; First Corinthians 12. “And there is therefore now no condemnation to them that’s in Christ Jesus,” Romans 8:1, “that walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” They desire spiritual things. They don’t care about the fleshly things.
My flesh says, “I’m too tired.”
79 My spirit says, “You’re not. I’m your Boss. Follow Me.” Amen.
Romans 8:3 3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Why It Had To Be Shepherd
64-1221 · Tucson, Arizona
98 He had started a new creation. What was it? A creation of Himself. God was made flesh and dwelt among us. That’s . . . The Bible said, “In the beginning of the creation of God.” God was created in human form; in Jesus Christ, His Son, God dwelt. He built His tabernacle of flesh and bones, and lived in that tabernacle; God, Emmanuel, “God with us.” He built Himself a house, to live in it, so He could reflect His Word to His subjects through that. You know what God is, when you see Christ.
Demonology, Religious Realm
53-0609A · Connersville, Indiana
199 If I could think of how that Jesus, when He died, He went and preached to the souls that were in prison**. He died, a sinner, knowing no sin, yet our sin was on Him. And God, for His sins, sent Him to hell. The Bible said, “He went and preached to the souls.”**
Romans 8:6-8 6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Another translation says:
Romans 8:6-8 6For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, 7because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so; 8and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Proof Of His Resurrection
55-0410M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
134 Isn’t that just the modern Christian today? Oh, let the healing take place, and they’re shouting the victory. Let the Power of the Holy Spirit fall, and they’re shouting the victory. And those who are really filled with the Holy Ghost, remains that way down through life’s journey.
135 But the man that’s still walking with the carnal mind, let a little discouragement come up, something go wrong, and they go away, saying, “Well, I thought it was all right, but, oh, my, look at it now. I thought that little church would never fail. I thought this person . . .” You got your mind on the wrong thing. See? Put your mind on Him that can’t fail. Let your conversation not be about your church, but about your Lord. That’s the One. Not about your neighbor, but about your Lord. Let your conversations be of Him.
Romans 8:8-10 8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
The Uncertain Sound
60-1218 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
42 And yet, the man, somewhere down in him, somewhere in him, if he could only let that little . . . As I illustrated it, like a button. When a man is saved, that much of him is God. That’s the little Light that comes in, to make him quit doing what’s wrong. Now, if you can take all the malice and envy, and strife and unbelief, out, that little button-like of the Light and Power of God will keep growing, growing, growing, growing, crowding out unbelief. And you don’t do it by exhortations of—of bodily exercise. You do it by a sanctified, consecrated Life that the Holy Spirit moves through you. I caught some of It in a place, where, not long ago.
Romans 8:11 11But if the Spirit of him 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.
It Is The Rising Of The Sun
65-0418M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
110 That’s what He proved! Hallelujah! That’s what Easter proved. He wasn’t only the Word, but He was God Himself, the Dynamics, in the Word. That made the body of Jesus Christ (cold, stiff, and dead, in the grave) shake into Life and rise again, and roll away the stone. “I am He that was dead,” so dead till the sun said He was dead, the moon said He was dead, the stars said He was dead. All nature said He was dead. And now the whole world has to recognize that He’s alive again. He was not only the Mechanics, God’s Word, He was the Dynamics to prove It.
Romans 8:13 13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Romans 8:14 14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
- Mortify means “put to death”.
- Mortify: be dead, to make dead, to put to death, slay, worn out; to deprive of power, destroy the strength of.
Romans 8:17 17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint- heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Three Kinds Of Believers
63-1124E · Jeffersonville, Indiana
100 Sometimes, believers put to the test. Not sometimes; every time! “For every son that cometh to God must be chastened, tried, child-trained.” Remember, the trials, the dusty roads, the hot sun of persecution, but the loyalty of your heart beats that material till she is ready to go into the mold. God’s children is made up correctly on His Word, for they are living examples, and the Word of God living through them. See? The trial comes to shake you, to put you to the very bottom, to see where you’ll stand. They tested, try every son that cometh to God.
101 Job went through the trials and the tests. His children taken; everything else taken. The church members come, accused him of being a secret sinner, and tried to say everything against him, but yet he wouldn’t listen to any of it. He knowed he had met God’s requirements. He knowed there’s no need of Satan trying to tempt him. He knowed it was the devil. And as long as Satan can make him believe that his sickness was his God doing it, he had Job whipped. But when Job once struck that revelation, that it was not God! He was only going through his trials to make him something. It wasn’t God doing it. It was Satan doing it.
102 And same thing today. He’ll try to tell you these trials and thing is your God trying to put punishment upon you. It isn’t so. No, sir. It’s Satan doing that, and God permitting it, to temper you; to make you see if you’re—you are tied to this earth, by the earth cares, or whether your treasures is in Heaven. “For wherever your treasures is, there you are also.” That’s right. Your heart is where your treasures are."
Romans 8:22-23 22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Believing God
52-0224 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
94 But before this body can ever become perfected, the Spirit will bring it in submission to God, to make you. It’ll war all the time, a constant. Paul said! We’ll never get more than he. See? Paul said, “When I would do good, then evil is near me, see.” And that’s a constant war, the flesh against the Spirit.
He Swore By Himself
54-1212 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
148 Notice, then God Himself come into the womb of virgin Mary, and wrapped Hisself in a created Blood cell. Hallelujah!
149 That’s the reason we have Eternal Life. Then when that Blood cell, because of sin, was pierced with a sword yonder, and broke, it freed God yonder. And it broke open the Blood cell and washed us, and brought us into Himself, by the Holy Spirit. There you are. And now we are sons of God, part of God. Deity Itself lives in every believer. Every man that’s born of the Spirit of God is a part of God.
150 No wonder he believes in the Supernatural! No wonder he can believe in anything! Why is it? In him is a portion of God, wrapped up in that mortal body there; where there’s sin and everything else, has created this body. But down in there, some work of God alone, in regeneration, has come down through there; by the shedding of His Own Blood . . .
The God Of This Evil Age
65-0801M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
189 And if out across the land, or even in here now, that there’s some that’s sick and afflicted, and has to be gone for tonight, won’t be here, or be out there in the churches or places where they’re met; I pray You heal them. Now, Lord, but for the greatest of all healing! If You heal their physical body from cancer, TB, pneumonia, something, they’ll get sick again, no doubt, if they live very long, for their body is still under sin, the curse. But let them get the—the real Divine healing, the healing of the soul, which makes a new creature, passes from death unto Life, and then waiting in this old tabernacle for the redemption of the body after the soul has been redeemed. Grant it, Lord.
Galatians 2:20 KJV 20I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20 AMP 20I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Galatians 2:20 CJB 20When the Messiah was executed on the stake as a criminal, I was too; so that my proud ego no longer lives. But the Messiah lives in me, and the life I now live in my body I live by the same trusting faithfulness that the Son of God had, who loved me and gave himself up for me.
Souls That Are In Prison Now
63-1110M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
44 But, that soul that’s in there, see, that soul is what God is working on, see. If He can only get that nature, that spirit, to agree with Him, then that nature dies, the nature and the love of the world dies, and the things of the world is dead. See? Because, “If you love the world, or the things of the world, the love of God is not in you.” See? And a man must be born again. So, this nature has to die, and the nature of God comes and lives in you. And God is the only thing there is that never did begin or never can end.
45 So, therefore, He has partnershipped, you see, and taken this man, earthly, and this Eternal Spirit, and put it together. Because, God reflected Himself back in that, that He become a Man when He become Christ Jesus, and He was God, see. God was in Christ; that, see, lived in Him, reconciling the world to Himself. And, through that perfect Man, each one of us imperfect that believe in God and has accepted That, becomes the perfection of Him.
Believest Thou This?
50-0716 · Minneapolis, Minnesota
15 . . . That’s not why I’m saved. Satan could whip me around the stump anywhere, and he can you too upon your feelings. That’s right. [But when I walk back and say, THUS SAITH THE LORD, my faith is built on the Word of God]. And he can’t whip that away.
God Keeps His Word #1
57-0306 · Phoenix, Arizona
34 . . . You’re not saved because you feel like you’re saved. I’m not saved because I feel like I’m saved, ‘cause a lot of times I don’t feel that way. [But I’m saved because God gave the promise.] I met God’s conditions, and upon God’s holy Word I can defeat Satan seven days in a week, and as many nights, ‘cause it’s God’s Word
The Seven Church Ages
54-0512 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
83 When a little confusion comes in the church, you don’t run over to one side and pout now. If you are, you sure ain’t a priest. See, you pray through. “Spiritual sacrifice, the fruits of our lips giving praise to His Name.” See what I mean?
84 “Well,” you say, “I just don’t feel like going to church.” But you’re a priest. It’s your duty. You’ve got to be there.
85 “Well, I just don’t feel like taking a part in the service.” You’re a priest, “making a sacrifice, a spiritual sacrifice.” But, it’s you, you making the spiritual sacrifice, “the fruits of your lips giving praise to His Name.”
Revelation, Chapter Four #2
61-0101 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
250 . . . Now, what is the outer courts? That’s the flesh. See? That’s the first thing you come to, the flesh. You’ve got to consume that first. You’ve got to pass beyond the flesh. “I don’t feel like getting up and going to church; the roads are too slick. It’s too hot. Oh, church, I don’t know.” That’s the flesh. All right. Now, you got to consume and walk through that; God has to get through that.
Faith Is The Substance
51-0508 · Los Angeles, California
35 Our bodies are groaning, and we have an inheritance. And we’re children now, heirs of the Kingdom (Oh, my.), kings and priests unto God offering spiritual sacrifices. What does a priest do? Make a sacrifice. What is a sac—a spiritual sacrifice? That’s what these sons and daughters do, which are kings and priests, yet not in full possession, but they’re making sacrifices, offering to God spiritual sacrifices: the fruits of our lips giving praise to Him (Amen.), fruits of our lips. You say, “Brother Branham, I just don’t feel like praising Him.” That’s the time to make the sacrifice. Praise Him anyhow. Kings and priests, sons and daughters offering spiritual sacrifice, the fruits of our lips, giving praise unto His Name.
The Power Of Decision
55-1007 · Chicago, Illinois
46 What was God saying there? The same thing He said to Moses. In other words, “This Holy Ghost manna that begin to fall on the day of Pentecost was to sustain the Church, and the Church was to live only by the Holy Spirit until the day we enter the Millennium.” Hallelujah. What is it? The same Holy Ghost. Now notice, it was for everyone that was a priest in the Old Testament. Everyone in the New Testament that becomes a Christian, born again, becomes a priest to God. And we are priests and kings. A priest is to make sacrifice. And we give to God the sacrifice of our lips, giving praise to His Name. Say, “I don’t feel like it.” Do it anyhow. That’s a sacrifice. Hallelujah. Say, “I feel too tired.” The devil will tell you that, till he takes you to hell. That’s right. You’re to make a spiritual sacrifice: the fruits of our lips giving praise to His Name, priests and kings unto God. The Bible said we were, made us priests and kings unto God.
Love
57-0519E · Saskatchewan, Canada
96 . . . You just get all kinds of feelings. There’s really nothing wrong. Hormones is ceasing in your body, and it don’t put out no more. Don’t you let a doctor give you any hormones. That’s the first case of taking cancer, it’s cells they’re putting in you. You keep them out. Go right on; believe God. What is cancer but a multiplication of cells.
The Hour Is Come
51-0415E · Phoenix, Arizona
[21] . . . The time comes when you have to stand on God’s Word. Stand alone. But when that time comes, stand there. There’s got to be a time when you’ve got to separate yourself between your feelings and your faith.
The Testimony Of Jesus Christ
53-0829 · Chicago, Illinois
34 . . . Unless you die to yourself and your feelings, and act on God’s Word, you’ll never have Life. **Forget your feelings . . . **
Jehovah-Jireh #1
62-0705 · Grass Valley, California
212 . . . And, brother, I didn’t want to hurt your feelings, but sometimes a little shaking with the Word helps you.
To See Jesus
54-0718E · Chicago, Illinois
17 Those who desire to see God must come with a perfect heart, with all strange feelings set aside, with all malice towards their neighbor set aside, with all malice towards other churches, and other individuals, and forms of worship. You must come with that perfect heart. “Could I see You, Lord Jesus? Now, I’m . . . ? . . . take all my superstitions away, and I am going to seek tonight, to see the Lord Jesus.” Now, I hope that your intention, every one of you.
And I believe, that if you come with that kind of an intention, that God is under obligation to reveal Himself to you. Don’t you believe that? That God is under obligation to reveal Himself to you here tonight.
Faith By Experience
58-0325 · Middletown, Ohio
11 . . . The devil can beat you around the stump on your feelings. If I had to go by my feelings, there’d be many times that I’d be all out of condition. But I don’t rest on my feelings; I rest upon the unconditional Word of the living God Who made the covenant with me, if I would believe it. It’s not what I feel; it’s what I believe. Jesus never did say, “Did you feel it?”; He said, “Did you believe it?” Faith happens. It’s far beyond feeling. You could feel tonight, like you’re saved, and run around and praising God, and the next morning you wouldn’t have any feeling about it at all. Then you say, “I’m lost again.”
But when faith takes a hold, that Jesus Christ, God’s Son, died in your stead, and He become you in your sins, that you in your sins might become Him in His righteousness, and accept Him as your only Propitiation for your sins, then faith takes a hold, and all devils out of hell can’t move it. Faith endures. Faith locks something; it seals something.
Faith Once Delivered To The Saints
57-0610 · Indianapolis, Indiana
27 . . . The spirit that was in you, controls you. And if the Spirit of Christ is in us, the body of Christ will be Christ-like in its feelings in its actions. Whatever it is, it’ll be Christ-like. It’ll do the works of Christ. God wants to work in the body of Christ as He did in the physical corporal body of the Lord Jesus. He wants to work in this body of Christ, if He can only get them to a place where they’ll stand still long enough, that He can place them on the foundation of His Word so He can work. God cannot work contrary to His Word.
The Smyrnaean Church Age
60-1206 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
53 The only thing the matter, get all these little differences away from you. Little isms, and little funny feelings around you for brethren, and things like that, shake it away! Don’t let no root of bitterness ever get into your soul. If you do, it’ll canker you. Right. Keep love! I don’t care how much people hate you, you love them anyhow. If you can’t do that, you need . . . the . . . you the ain’t . . . you ain’t sealed, you got a loose place yet. So come on, on back, and get that sealed up right good with the Blood of Christ. It’ll cleanse you from all roots of bitterness. Yes.
The Second Seal
63-0319 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
343 Now let me say something, brother. There is something fixing to happen. And all these big, old ecclesiastical walls are going to collapse, and go right back over yonder, and agree. Cause, they’re going to do it, as certain as I’m standing here. There is “an image to that beast,” just as certain as I am standing here; and this nation took it, according to the Word of the Lord. Listen, when you feel that little, funny feeling, you get away from them walls. Get away! You’ll die in there. Don’t do it! Come out of it! Get away from all this stuff! Flee to safety, as quick as you can. Ask God for mercy.
A Trumpet Gives An Uncertain Sound
63-0114 · Phoenix, Arizona
248 “Not how I feel, ‘I was prayed for last night, Brother Branham; I don’t feel any better.’” That don’t have one thing to do with it. I’m not riding upon my feelings. I’m riding upon His Word. It’s His promise.
Mark 7:24-30 (KJVS) And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid. 25For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: 26The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. 27But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. 28And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs. 29And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. 30And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
Matthew 15:21-28:
Brother Branham said that Jesus was testing her.
He said that Faith always admits the TRUTH.
Perseverance
62-0520 · Chicago, Illinois
43 Oh, it’s true. She had many hindrances, but her faith didn’t have any hindrance. You might have some. I have plenty of them, lot of hindrances. But about your faith, that’s the thing. If you can’t be persistent, if you’re going to let everything hinder you. Now, physically, you might feel bad. Physically you might not feel well. And otherwise, you might not feel like —going to church. You might not feel like doing anything. But your faith don’t have no hindrance. It moves on anyhow. Maybe your pastor prayed for you, anointed you with oil. That’s what he’s supposed to do. And you go back and say, “Pastor, I don’t feel any better.” Oh, my. You’re not . . . You oughtn’t to have come up in the first place. See? See, you’re going by your feelings. But your faith, if you’ve got faith . . . Well, you’ll say, “I will just wait till Brother Roberts comes by, or Brother Branham, or some of them others.” Oh, my. That’s not it. It’s your faith in the Word of God. God said, “Call the elders and let them anoint you in oil and pray over you. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick.” If you’ve got faith in God and faith in the prayer, then go on anyhow. There’s nothing going to stop it. See? Why? You got faith. You believe it. Faith don’t have any hindrances.
Perseverant
64-0305 · Dallas, Texas
84 She wasn’t —a hothouse plant that had to be babied, one of these kind you have to spray all over, you know, and keep the bugs off of it. A good healthy plant, you don’t have to spray it. A good healthy plant, a bug can’t get to it, it’s full of health.
85 And a good born-again faith in God, a real genuine Holy Ghost faith, nothing is going to turn it down. It can’t do it. It’s persistent. It’s going to the goal that God has promised to it. There is nothing going to turn it down. It’s going anyhow. Yes, she wasn’t a hybrid.
Perseverance
62-0520 · Chicago, Illinois
42 You know, somehow faith finds a source that others don’t know nothing about.
Perseverant
62-0623 · South Gate, California
67 See, that’s the reason people miss it. They want to get it the way they want it. God gives it the way He wants to give it.
A Secondhanded Robe
56-1206 · Brooklyn, New York
42 And when we turn aside today looking at this, and looking at conditions, and looking at **symptoms . . . ** Oh, we say, “Now look, I was prayed for last night. You see, my hand’s no better.” And it never will be like that. No, sir. You don’t look at the symptoms; you look at the promise. Amen. The promise is what it is. Look Who made the promise. It was God Who made the promise. It’s God’s Word Who’s in authority. It’s God Who spoke the promise. That’s Who it is. And you look at your symptoms. Symptoms are one of the greatest hindrance God has to work with, is symptoms. And if ever if anything that is wrong is a man or woman who will look and say, “Now, I don’t feel any better. Now, they prayed for me over at my church last night. And they believe in Divine healing, but really I don’t feel any better.” [You don’t never go by your feelings.] Jesus never did say, “Did you feel it?” He said, “Did you believe it?” See where you get the thing all turned around? It’s your faith in His promise that does it. Like Elisha, he wanted the promise. And if Elijah said he could have it, if he kept his eye on him, he kept his eye on him. That’s all. Amen.
Romans 8:14 14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
The Word Became Flesh (India Trip Report)
54-1003M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
176 And every Word in the Bible is God’s thoughts laying in seed form, that if received into the human being, and spoke by the same thought that materialized the Bible, brings the thing to pass. See what I mean? How powerful could the Church be! The Bible said, “Let this mind that was in Christ be in you. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Now, your thoughts, if they become expression!
177 Like, God said, “Let there be a world.” Before it could be a word, it had to be a thought. So, God, in the creation, created the world by His thought, first, then exp- . . . spoke it. And the thought, expressed, became material. See what I mean?
178 Now, if that same Spirit that said, “Let there be Light,” and there was Light; that said, “Let there be trees,” and there was trees; and if that same mind that was in Christ, be in you, how much could it say, “Let there be no cancer,” and it would be gone; “Let the blind eyes be opened,” and it would be so! See? It, it’s your thought. Jesus said, “Verily . . .”
You said, “That was Jesus.”
179 But wait a minute. He said, “Have faith in God. For, verily, verily, I say unto you, if you shall say to this mountain, ‘Be moved, plucked up and cast into the sea,’ and don’t doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will come to pass, you’ll have whatever things thou sayest.” Is that right? “You shall have it. Not Me; you shall have it.” What power has been given to the Church!
**That, now, you can express it by mental conception . . . **
180 But if it becomes a real revelation of God, that you see it before it happened, and express it in word form, that word takes a hold and becomes material; a thought expressed! Oh, my, how God could . . . See it? Your heart and your mind is so, and filled with God’s Spirit, until your thoughts become His thoughts. Amen. There you are. When your mind, and your leading, and your guiding, becomes a direct place, or a direct inspiration of the Holy Spirit that’s moving your mortal being! Oh, my!
181 What kind of people should we be? If the very Holy Spirit has you so embodied, or empowered, that you don’t use your own thoughts, you don’t use your own mind, you don’t use your own opinions; but the Holy Spirit has you so built, until your thoughts and your being is God’s Spirit expressing Itself through you! What kind of a church would we be?
182 What kind of a people would it be, this morning, if this Branham Tabernacle, this morning, was so filled with the Presence of God, why, when you didn’t even use your own mind, didn’t even use your own thoughts, didn’t even have no ultimity of your own, but just to be led by the Spirit?
183 “And they that are sons of God are led by the Spirit of God.” Then when the human element goes out, and the Spirit of God fills that vacancy, where you empty yourself, amen, then will be when the Church, in Its Power of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, will walk in His steps, in His Power, in His thoughts, in His Being, in His moving! You see what I mean? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Then your thoughts will become words, and words will become material. That’s, when, the Church in it’s Power.
184 I believe it’s on its road, that when the Church will be so wrapped in Christ, the Holy Spirit, mankind so away from theirselves, that they don’t see themselves, they don’t have no [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] but to serve God. And their thoughts move on. They refuse the things of the world. They just move in the Spirit, live in the Spirit, move in the Spirit, walk in the Spirit, so fulfill the law of Christ. Then, the love of Christ in the human heart, moving in the Holy Ghost, that great wonderful Church will go forth with Power and Deity; because Deity will be revealed in human beings, by the Holy Spirit, bringing to pass, the thought of their mind.
Galatians 3:1-6 (KJV) 1O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? 4Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. 5He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 6Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Galatians 3:2-3 (AMP) 2** **Let me ask you this one question: Did you receive the [Holy] Spirit as the result of obeying the Law and doing its works, or was it by hearing [the message of the Gospel] and believing [it]? [Was it from observing a law of rituals or from a message of faith?] 3Are you so foolish and so senseless and so silly? Having begun [your new life spiritually] with the [Holy] Spirit, are you now reaching perfection [by dependence] on the flesh?