Matthew 25:31-40 31When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Matthew 11:25-30 25At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. 26Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. 27All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. 28Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Shepherd Of The Sheepfold
56-0403 · Chicago, Illinois
57 The day is far spent, and You’re going to gather the sheep and separate them from the mules, from the camels, from the goats, and from the other animals that eat in the same pasture, from the same Word, from the same Bible, out of the same Book, out of the same building called church. But just the sheep will You call. “Many are called; few are chosen.” Thou hast said so. “Not all that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, will enter in. But the one that doeth the will of My Father.” And, Lord, they have did the will of Father tonight by accepting the Lord Jesus as personal Saviour, and we thank You for them.
God’s Word Calls For A Total Separation From Unbelief
64-0121 · Phoenix, Arizona
20 Jesus has constantly told us that there is a separation. And we find that the last thing that’s predicted to the human race, before the great final Day when we ascend into the Presence of God, there will be a final separation. He will separate the sheep from the goats.
21 God will, continually has been separating, separating, and that’s what He’s doing tonight. That’s what He always does. You can see it in every meeting. He separates faith from unbelief. He speaks out. He declares Himself to those who will believe Him and have faith in Him.
22 Now we find out, in Numbers, the 6th chapter, that a Nazarite’s call, a Nazarite call was to separate themselves from all the world, to the Word of God. That is a Nazarite call, separated.
23 We find out that Samson was a Nazarite, unto the Lord, and he was separated …by a sign. And this sign was that he was to wear his hair long, with seven locks. It was a—a sign of separation, that he was called for a purpose.
Nazarite: an Israelite, consecrated to the service of God, under vows to abstain from alcohol, let the hair grow, and avoid defilement by contact with corpses (Numbers 6).
God’s Word Calls For A Total Separation From Unbelief
64-0121 · Phoenix, Arizona
25 But I think, today, when we see our sisters wearing long hair, as the Bible said they should, I think it’s a Nazarite sign that they want to follow the Lord. And I know that sounds flat, and I—I—I want it to go home, see, because it is. It looks like somebody is trying to— do, keep something that God told them to do. No matter what the price, the world has to say about It out there, or how many scornful, or laughers, or critics, that doesn’t bother a person that’s totally separated from the things of the world, to the things of God. They’ll obey the Word, and separate themselves from the things of the world, because the Word separates them.
26 I know they stand criticism. But if we wasn’t criticized, then there’d be something wrong. The world always knows its own. But as I’ve said, that, remember, criticism, on account of the Word of God, is only growing pains of His grace. It shows that you have separated yourself to be a Christian, to act like one, to live like one, to obey every Commandment of God. And it’s a Nazarite vow, to separate, a call from God that separates you from the things of the World.
27 I believe, tonight, that every man and woman, every boy and girl, that’s born of the Spirit of God, is a Nazarite unto the Lord; because they have separated them things, themselves, from the cares of the world and whatever the world has got to say.
28 You live in this city here where there is great schools. And, and we see our nation calling for higher standard of education; which is all right, nothing to say about that, but that education cannot give you salvation. A scientist can split a grain of wheat and tell you how many different chemicals is in it, but it can’t find the life that’s in there. An education can learn you, or teach you mathematics, and—and it can teach you history and whatevermore, but it cannot bring Light to you. Your education will not do that.
29 God has one way of bringing Light to you: that’s when you’re ready to separate yourself from all the things of the world, and all the—the cares of the world, and cling only to God’s promised Word.
30 Paul was a Nazarite unto the Lord. He was separated from his orthodox church, to the Word of the living God.
31 Aaron was a Nazarite unto the Lord. He was separated from among the brethren, to bear the birthstones and to be the high priest.
32 It is a total separation. We’re not to go back into the world no more, or have anything to do with the world, but cleave only unto God. Jesus is coming after a Bride, a Woman, a Church that’s separated from the things of the world, or the cares of the world. She is separated from the fashions of this modern age that we live in. She is separated from the—the cares and the traditions of churches. She is separated only to God, and God is the Word. And as husband and wife is one, so does the Bride and the Word become One, for the Word is living through the Bride. That’s how. That’s her credentials. That’s her identification.
The God Of This Evil Age
65-0801M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
160 Now notice her long hair, Nazarite vow to the Word. I’ll picture the Bride of Christ now. We picture the antichrist, where she is, religious and everything, science. Now the humble little Bride of Christ just simply believes the Word, whoever She is. It’s individuals. I hope and trust that there’s many setting present, many listening in. And I hope that myself, and every one of you all, are part of that Bride. I hope many. And, it will, all that’s been ordained to that will be that, ‘cause it’s their nature. They see. The Word can only recognize the Word. It can’t recognize a denomination or a perversion. It knows better; It’s the Word. See? It can’t recognize nothing… A wheat can’t be nothing but a wheat. It started, a wheat; it’ll head up, a wheat. And a weed can never be a wheat, yet it’s watered by the same anointing. See? But it ain’t a wheat. As I said the other day, about the tree with the different branches in it.
161 Her long hair, Nazarite vow, shows that She is vowed to God. Her beautiful gown of His promised Word for the age that She is living in, wrapped around Her, vindicating Her with Himself, of Hebrews 13:8, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever**.” As, She is a part of the Word Groom, true to Him in every point.**
John 6:47-59 47Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. 48I am that bread of life. 49Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. 52The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. 54Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. 57As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. 58This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. 59These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
John 6:60-71 60Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? 61When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? 62What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? 63It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 64But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. 65And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. 66From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. 67Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? 68Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. 69And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. 70Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? 71He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.
Why It Had To Be Shepherd
64-1221 · Tucson, Arizona
160 Then He turned around and said, “Except you eat the Flesh of the Son of man, and drink His Blood, you have no Life in you.”
161 Now, what do you think a smart, intellectual person would thought? I imagine the priests that had had Him in the temple was very—was very ashamed of—of them having Him there. “To think that a man would stand up and say a thing like that, ‘Except you people eat My Flesh, and drink My Blood.’” Said, “This is a human vampire, see, ‘Eat My Flesh and drink…’ Why, he’s a cannibal. You good thinking people will…you’ll get away from such a lunatic as that.”
162 He never explained It, He just said It! He did it to stumble them, to separate His sheep from goats. He did it to throw them off. And then nobody wanted to cooperate with Him. They had no cooperation from then on. See?
163 Notice, at the evening time, God went out through the camps and seen who had believed. And He did the same thing in the days of the Great Shepherd. Notice the Great Shepherd-Prophet’s ministry, but notice this, to believers of His Message, but not…This evening Message, they wouldn’t believe It. They wouldn’t believe that He was God. They wanted to make Him a nice man. They wanted to make Him a prophet. He was a nice man, and He was a Prophet, but He was more than that. That’s the common teaching today, that “He’s just a good man, he was a prophet.” He was nothing short of Emmanuel! He was God manifested in Jesus Christ His Son, making Him and the Father one. That’s all He could be.
Oneness
62-0211 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
199 God’s gathering the Elect from the four winds of the earth. He said He’d send angels and gather them. Is that right? Gather them together, separate them from the tares. Amen. The tares will be burnt, not the wheat. Right.
200 But, they’re so headstrong, they’re going to have it or not, don’t make any difference. Oh!
201 But God’s chosen Ones are commanded to come out from among them. “Be ye separated,” saith God, “and I will receive you. Touch not their worldly things, and I’ll be a Father to you, or God, and you’ll be My sons and daughters. Yoke yourself not up with unbelievers, but come out of it!” God wants separation from the world. He wants to be unionized with you, Himself. And no man-made scheme of organization, denomination, or any man-made theories will ever stand. It’ll take God, the Holy Ghost, in you, to unite you to God. And how do you know you got It? The Holy Ghost that wrote the Word will bear record with every Word; and the same things that the Holy Ghost did in the Old Testament, He will do in the New Testament; will do now just the same, because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And you’re not yoked with organizations and the world. You’re not yoked with them. Yoke yourself not up among them, but come out from among them! Ye are yoked to Christ. Amen. Yoked to the Lord Jesus Christ.
202 The Bible says, in the last days there’d be churches, another tower of Babel like. They’d have a form of godliness, and to deny God’s Word and Power, the Power of His Word. And what is the Word? What is the Kingdom of God? We got to belong to the Kingdom before we can ever be subjects of the King. How many knows that, say “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Well, how do you get in the Kingdom? The Kingdom of God is the Word of God made back in power. Amen. Made power; taking away sin, giving signs. What kind of sign? If It’s the same Word that brought Moses out, It’ll bring the same sign.
Oneness
62-0211 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
203 The same thing that separated lukewarm Lot. Now, we know Lot was lukewarm, and Jesus said that’ll be the sign of the end time. Lukewarm Lot sitting yonder, he was religious, sure, him and his wife. And they belonged to all kinds of parties, and he was the mayor of the city, and, oh, there was a whole lot of things going on. He was very religious. He could entertain the evangelists and all of them come by, he was all right that way. But, oh, brother, he wasn’t that Elected.
204 Look what happened! Why? The same God that separated and come to Abraham and showed him the vindication of his separation…Uhm! O God! How I wish I could just could do something to let you see It. God showed Abraham, being that he had separated himself, He showed him the vindication of it, that He was with him and right in his midst. And Jesus said the same thing will take place in the last days. Not a nation was Abraham, he was in the minority, but God was with him. He had separated him then. We’re supposed to separate ourselves in this last days.
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? **for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17**Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 (AMP) 14Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness? 15What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial [the devil]? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? 16What agreement [can there be between] a temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in and with and among them and will walk in and with and among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 17So, come out from among [unbelievers], and separate (sever) yourselves from them, says the Lord, and touch not [any] unclean thing; then I will receive you kindly and treat you with favor,† 18And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
Oneness
62-0211 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
209 Here we are in the end time, coming from the East and West, North and South. What are we doing? Getting ready for that Rapture. Getting ready for…Holding ourselves steady for a few minutes till every fiber is filled with the Holy Ghost. Then She’ll go up. Oh, my! Calling His people together to Himself, in the true oneness with Himself, because it’s His one Holy Spirit. “By one Spirit are we all individually baptized into one Body, collectively the Body of Jesus Christ.” And Jesus Christ living with His Spirit in our flesh, is serving the Church and doing the same things He did, as a—as a sign, as an ensign to the world, that we’re in the last days, getting ready for the Rapture. Oh, I love Him, don’t you?
God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship
65-1128M · Shreveport, Louisiana
88 If I taught you a Methodist message, it would take no effect on you, this is Bride time. If Moses taught the message of Noah, it would take no effect. If Jesus taught Moses’ message, it would take no effect. Because the predestinated seed are laying there that will only be watered by that type of water that’s give for that seed. See? It won’t grow any other conditions. It must be the conditions that grows it.
89 Now, you can take a chicken egg and put it in a incubator, which should be under a hen, but it’ll hatch anyhow. Put it under a pup it would hatch. It’s the warmness, the condition that makes it hatch. So it has to be under condition. You could take a good live egg and put it under a dead hen, it won’t hatch. See? See, it’s the condition.
Revelation 18:1-8 1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 6Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. 7How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship
65-1128M · Shreveport, Louisiana
90 Well, that’s the way it is in this age that we’re living in, you’ve got to find what is God’s way of doing it for this age. That’s what Martin Luther found, that’s what John Wesley found, that’s what the Pentecostals found in their age. God’s age and time to do it.
91 Now, the Pentecostals. That brother, one…I believe his…one of his eyes was out, a colored brother who really started the Pentecostal message in California, the old Azusa Street. He was laughed at, because he was a negro. He was made fun of, but he brought a message for that age. Just a little body, a fellow could hardly sign his own name, but the Lord had revealed to him that this was the age for the restoration of those gifts, and they come. No matter what said, it come. But everybody got in the atmosphere of it, and seen it was that age, and seen God vindicating that those people could speak with tongues, and so forth, it happened. But then when he went and pinned it down that “this is the only evidence,” that killed it. See? Goes right on, see. That did it. Then they started separating this, that, and making denominations; and one’s coming on a cloud, and the other one’s come in a bush. And oh, my, there it goes.
92 That’s what denominations does. See? God is not a author of denomination, because denomination is Babylon, and He’s not the author of confusion. We see her all…You don’t have to be even intellectual to see that. It’s Babylon! See? Tradition (think of it), sincere people. Now, still, because they believe that, there still needs to be one sincere place where God meets.
93 Now notice verse 2. “Worship in the place that I have chosen.” The sacrifice, of course, where they worshipped over the sacrifice. “The place that I chose; not what you chose, what man chose. But what I have chosen, you worship in this place.” There shows there’s then only one place, others is vain. It must be not of your choice, but it must be His choice.
94 “Well, I don’t have to go to the church.” Or, “You are so narrow-minded! Why, you’ll even fuss at women about preaching, and…or women about bobbing their hair, and men about these other things. Why, you’re so narrow-minded!”
95 All right, you don’t have to take God’s way about it, you go on out where they do that at. See? And you’ll find out it’s in the Scripture, so, “In vain do they worship Me.” Jesus spoke of the same thing. See?
96 That every little jot, everything, you must be faithful in. It’s always the little—the little vine, the little—the little fox that spoils the vine. Sometimes you leave…It’s not the big things you do, it’s the little things you leave undone. Remember, a chain is only its strongest at its weakest link. “Blessed are they that do all the commandments of God, that they might have a right to enter in.” Do all God said.
97 If It said for women to have long hair, you say…a man told me not long ago, said, “I don’t preach a clothesline religion.”
98 I said, “Then you’re not preaching the Gospel.” Yeah.
99 God laid it out there, He said what to do. And you either do it…That’s your natural, reasonable thing. What little thing…what…the little insignificant. Jesus said, “Blessed are they that would take all the little things, do the little things.” And a woman to let her hair grow, that’s just a…why, it’s just something she can do, and she won’t even do that. She won’t even do that.
100 “Oh, teach us the great things.”
101 How can you teach the great things, when you won’t do the simple, common thing? Because, you see, your motive and your objective is wrong.
102 It’s your love to God, “Lord, I don’t care what You want me to do, I’m willing to do it.” Then you’re getting somewhere, but if you don’t do it that way, the way He said do it…
103 It’s His choosing, “The place that I have chosen.” That’s where you worship with your sacrifice.
Deuteronomy 12:2-3 (CJB) 2You must destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, whether on high mountains, on hills, or under some leafy tree. 3Break down their altars, smash their standing-stones to pieces, burn up their sacred poles completely and cut down the carved images of their gods. Exterminate their name from that place.
Deuteronomy 12:4-12 (CJB) 4“But you are not to treat ADONAI your God this way. 5Rather, you are to come to the place where ADONAI your God will put his name. He will choose it from all your tribes; and you will seek out that place, which is where he will live, and go there. 6You will bring there your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tenths [that you set aside for ADONAI], the offerings that you give, the offerings you have vowed, your voluntary offerings, and the firstborn of your cattle and sheep. 7There you will eat in the presence of ADONAI your God; and you will rejoice over everything you set out to do, you and your households, in which ADONAI your God has blessed you. 8You will not do things the way we do them here today, where everyone does whatever in his own opinion seems right; 9because you haven’t yet arrived at the rest and inheritance which ADONAI your God is giving you. 10But when you cross the Yarden and live in the land ADONAI your God is having you inherit, and he gives you rest from all your surrounding enemies, so that you are living in safety; 11then you will bring all that I am ordering you to the place ADONAI your God chooses to have his name live — your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tenths, the offering from your hand, and all your best possessions that you dedicate to ADONAI; 12and you will rejoice in the presence of ADONAI your God — you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves and the Levi staying with you, inasmuch as he has no share or inheritance with you.
God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship
65-1128M · Shreveport, Louisiana
48 … The thing I want to speak about this morning is that God has only one place that the worshipper can meet God, only one place. Through the ages many has sought for this secret place of God, through all the ages. Even Job wanted to know where He lived at, “If I could only go to His house and knock at His door.” Job wanted to find God’s dwelling place, ‘cause there God and His family is worshipped together.
Deuteronomy 16:2 2Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.
God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship
65-1128M · Shreveport, Louisiana
131 Notice, in here He said:
…seven days shall you eat this unleavened bread…
132 Now, bread is typed. Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word.” Not just—just a Word here and there as denominations would have you believe It. But the Word of God is perfect! It’s God Himself in letter form, called a “Seed.” And the right kind of unadulterated faith in that Word will bring that Seed to its Life.
God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship
65-1128M · Shreveport, Louisiana
134 Now, we notice here, “Seven days,” that’s for every church age. Now, as that Masterpiece had to die, in order to be resurrected to redeem us all. Then He had a church set in order at Pentecost, but that Church had to go through a sacrifice; and the Roman world killed it, put it in the ground.
135 As this author of this book, I can’t think of it now, made so much fun of me, and said, “Of all of the devils, it’s William Branham.” See, that’s what the devil tries to say. He said, “Visions and things,” said, “that’s of the devil,” he said, “or, he’s some kind of a hypnotist, or working in supersensory perception.” The intellectual world always trying to figure It out.
136 That’s where they tried to figure out Jesus. “How do You do these things? What done it?”
137 He said, “I’ll ask you a question. Was the ministry of John the Baptist…Was it of God or was it of man?” See?
138 Said, “We can’t say.”
139 Said, “Neither do I tell you.” That’s right. They went on. “From henceforth no man asked Him anything.” See? He just cut them off, He didn’t tell them nothing about It; none of their business. He had a work to do and He finished it.
140 God help us to do the same thing. We don’t have to answer the devil’s questions, that’s right, “If thou be, do so-and-so.” You’re responsible for that Gospel, a preacher is, and that’s all; not how It’s written, it’s just responsible for saying It.
God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship
65-1128M · Shreveport, Louisiana
210 But we must find where He did put His Name, for in It is His only provided gate. Amen! Glory! Watch! Where did He put His Name? In His Son.
211 “Oh,” you say, “now wait a minute, Brother Branham. That was the Son, not the Father.”
212 The son always takes the name of his father in every case. I come to this earth in the name of a Branham because my father’s name was Branham.
213 Jesus said, “I came in My Father’s Name, and you receive Me not.” You want the Scripture on that? Saint John 5:43. See? “I—I came in My Father’s Name, and you receive Me not.” Then the Father put His Own Name, which is “Jesus,” in the Son. And He’s the Way, He’s the Door, He’s the House, He’s where God chose to put His Name. God never put His Name in me, He never put It in the church, He never put It in the Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, but He put It in Christ the Anointed Emmanuel.
214 And the Name is in the Word because He is the Word. Amen! What is He then? The Word interpreted is the manifestation of the Name of God. No wonder. “Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in Heaven has revealed this to you, Who I am. And upon this rock I’ll build My place of worship, and the gates of hell can’t shake It down.” Amen! O living Church of God, stand in firm foundation on Jesus Christ alone. You can sing the song, but if you’re not on Christ the Word, you’re a teetering, faltering sand. “But upon this Rock,” Christ, “My Word.”
God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship
65-1128M · Shreveport, Louisiana
221 But He said, “I’ll choose the place to put My Name.” And the Name was Jesus. And Jesus is the Word, Saint John 1. Is that right? That’s the place of worship, in Christ the Word. “I come in My Father’s Name.”
222 The prophet said, “His Name shall be called Emmanuel.” That’s Matthew 1:23, if you want to wrote that down. Jesus, Jehovah, the Saviour.
223 Now, the 5th verse shows that He is the Door. By now, many other invisible proofs, this Gate, and Name, and place can be proved to be there’s only one place that God meets man to worship, and that’s when he’s in Christ.
John 10:7-11 7Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. 8All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. 9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. 10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. 11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
I Stand At The Door And Knock
57-1208 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
102 Our Jesus can come right into the midst of the people and perform those very same acts, and what happens? The people will go away and say, “It’s mental telepathy. Oh, he might be a spiritualist or a fortuneteller, something that’s happened in that manner.”
103 Oh, if God would open our eyes and let us see what these things are! That door to the eye is in the heart. It ain’t what you see with your eye. That isn’t seeing; that’s looking. Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” You don’t see It with your eyes; you see It with your understanding. You look with your eyes, and understand with your heart. So the door of your eyes is in your heart, because it’s a door of understanding.
104 “Oh, I understand that Jesus said He would do that in the last days. I understand that these things are the sign of God.” Then how different, how it becomes a reality to you, how things change, if our eyes are open. He’s with you all the time. He helps you. He is standing at your door, daily, but you don’t recognize it.
I Stand At The Door And Knock
57-1208 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
115 And that’s what’s the matter with you people. You seen the goodness, and the miracles, and the Divine things of God, moving and working, until it becomes common to you. You don’t notice it no more.
116 In the meetings, I’ve noticed people, where the Lord, under His discernment, will speak right out in the audience, just as He did when He walked in Galilee, and just His promise that He said He would do. And people, the first time, they say, “Oh, did ever…Oh, that’s got to be the Lord.” The next time, “It’s got to come.” And after a while, “Well, it’s just another thing.” It’s common. It’s passed over. You don’t notice it. Your eyes of understanding, your heart, becomes closed to it.
117 The thrill, the blessedness of knowing the risen Lord Jesus stand in our midst, should send every soul to heights beyond anything in this world could thrill. It should do something to you. It should shake your faith till you would open up every door of faith, and everything else, say, “Lord Jesus, take full possession of me now. Take me into Your caring. Here, come into my heart. Take my selfishness away. Take my misunderstandings away. Take my doubts away. Open my eyes, Lord, and let me see. And take all of me, and be my Lord.” Until the church does that, we are walking in blindness. Jesus is knocking at the door, and we’re leaving Him outside. [Brother Branham knocked on the pulpit four times—Ed.] Let us pray just a moment, while we bow our head.
The Door To The Heart
25 The goodness of God, we just take it for granted. He’s so good to come to us in this last days when denominations, and great moves against God, and all kinds of mechanical device-ities, and everything of entertainment to take the place of the church. All kinds of entertainment, and yet they turn their back on Christ. And yet He comes to us in His goodness to reveal Himself to us as the same yesterday, today, and forever. It’s beyond anything. As those dear people sung a while ago, it goes beyond the highest star and reaches to the lowest hell to know His goodness, standing knocking, trying to get in. Think of it just a moment as we bow our heads for prayer.