He Kept His Word
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In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
And the Lord gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand.
Introduction.
Introduction.
We don’t often take time to reflect on what God has done. In fact, we tend to dwell on what satan has done. Human beings are just geared that way, we trend toward the negative.
God is positive.
Some of the Corinthians were saying Paul didn’t keep his word to come to them a 2nd time. (Those folks are still around today)
When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
So what we worried about? What we stewing about? Why we go along, great big long face? Let’s look up and grin.
Look up, and not only grin, but laugh, not only laugh, but raise up holy hands everywhere, giving praise and glory to God, for His promises is yea and amen,
not yes and no, not yes and no, but yes. There’s no no in it. Yes.
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There is no negativity in election.
So in Abraham is election. God calls man by election, foreknowledge. “No man can come to Me except my Father draws him first.
All that comes I’ll give them Eternal Life and raise him up at the last day.” That settles it.
I’m so happy to know this one thing, friend: That Christianity has no negative nothing to it. It’s everything absolutely positive.
A man that becomes a child of God has a positive hold on Calvary, and Calvary has a positive hold on him with the assurance by Almighty God by an oath to Himself that He will raise him up in the last day and take him to glory.
There’s not no “if” or “and” or nothing. It’s something that’s positive.
Now, you can be a mentally worked up or emotionally worked up and just imagine your faith,
but when your spirit bears record with His Spirit, and your life compares with God’s Bible, you’ve got a pretty good conception it’s all as at peace.
That’s right, but if it don’t compare with that, then you better come back again.
If you don’t love Him with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, if sin doesn’t just make you tremble at the thoughts of it, you’d better come back and be sure.
You might’ve danced in the Spirit. You might’ve spoke with tongues. You might’ve put your name on every church book in this city.
You might’ve been baptized three times forward, backward, sprinkled. That won’t have one thing to do with it, not one thing.
You’ve got to be borned again, something that takes place, a regeneration, and you become a new creation.
Old things is passed away, and all things become new. You’re a new look on everything.
The birds sing different. Your enemies that you once couldn’t stand, you love them.
You really love them, and everything’s changed. Then you know you’ve passed from death unto Life. 56-1208 - Abraham
Abraham was given the promise, but Joshua saw the fulfilment of it. Joshua could stand there and say “He Kept His Word”. In spite of all the difficulties, He did what He promised He would do.
Can we stand here in 2022 and say the same thing? I believe we can.
How did He keep His Word to give them the land?
1. By Protecting His Messenger
1. By Protecting His Messenger
The promise never looked farther away than it did when Amram and Jochebed had a little baby boy.
He kept His word by keeping Moses safe. He kept Bro. Branham safe as well. He has done the same thing for you.
(old Gabe and the Hunt)
Oh, if we would just look behind our shoulder and see how good God’s been to us, just see His goodness to the sinner, to see that He’s brought you safe thus far.
Setting in your right mind, look back, Who’s fed you? Who’s clothed you? When those brakes were squeaking and the car almost rammed you, Who protected you then?
Who was that that hour of sickness when the doctor shook his head and said, “I don’t know no more to do.” But you’re here tonight. Look back a little piece and see what happened.
To you Christian, just take a look around and see the sinful world, how it is, and to know that God before the foundation of the world chose you by election, and put your name on the Lamb’s Book of Life, and knocked at your heart.
And you opened up and let Him come in. How good He is. 60-0711 - The Door Inside The Door
You are kept by the power of God.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
In the time of trouble I had here not long ago, lost wife, children, everything. Somebody said to me, said, “Did you keep your religion?”
I said, “No, It kept me.” See, I had an Absolute, to know that someday I’ll see them again. Amen. I couldn’t have made it if I wouldn’t have had that Absolute.
It made the difference in me, where I was tied, because I knowed that I’d see them again. 63-1201M - An Absolute
2. By Providing A Brass Serpent, a Smitten Rock and the Shout of a King
2. By Providing A Brass Serpent, a Smitten Rock and the Shout of a King
Balak hired Balaam to curse the children of Israel.
And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; Hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
God is not a man, that he should lie; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; And I cannot reverse it.
He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, Neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: The Lord his God is with him, And the shout of a king is among them.
God brought them out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, Neither is there any divination against Israel: According to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
And look at Balaam, the priest, come out there and made an altar, offered the same kind of sacrifices, just as fundamental as he could be.
And he had celebrity with him. He had the king. He had all the great men, the princes and the eunuchs, standing with him.
But there was One standing with Moses that he didn’t see. That’s Who stood with Amos. That’s Who will stand with every person that’s here, tonight, that’ll stand for God and righteousness.
No matter how much potentates, monarchs is there, doesn’t have one thing to do with it. They’ll never be able to curse what God has blessed.
Why? It’s a living Seed. It’s a Word of God. It’ll grow to Its perfection.
Oh, signs of the living God in the camp! That’s, looked like that Israel had done wrong down there.
But they fail to see that smitten Rock, and that Atonement being made for Israel.
And there was a shout of the King in the camp. God was with them. Why? He was healing the sick, and doing great miracles, and signs and wonders, and a Pillar of Fire hung over them.
Moses was following the Pillar of Fire. The children of Israel was following Moses. And they were on their road to the promised land, and there’s nothing going to stop them. Amen.
Oh, could it not be easy repeated today, if God could get somebody in His hand, in His control? That Pillar of Fire is still alive. He is still the same yesterday, today, and forever. The Word still lives. 63-0119 - The Way Of A True Prophet
3. By The Leadership of Joshua
3. By The Leadership of Joshua
Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying,
Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
The Pillar of fire was no longer visible when they crossed over.
(Captain of the Lord’s Host)
Joshua pulled his sword, and run to meet Him. And the Man pulled His sword and come to meet Joshua. Joshua raised his hand, said, “Are You for us, or are You of our enemies?”
He said, “Nay, I’m the Captain of the host of the Lord.” Amen. Oh, my. What had happened?
That Pillar of Fire had been made flesh, standing here then, a pre-figure of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Captain of the host of the Lord. 55-1004 - Come, Let Us Reason Together
And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
Joshua was a type of the Holy Ghost, and also a type of the Messenger of this day. Our type is Caleb.
Joshua could look back and say “He Kept His Word”.
And the God of Heaven promised the evening time would have evening Lights. Three years ago this mystery was a prophecy, “What time is it, Sir?” But now it’s history. It’s passed.
The promise is fulfilled. What time is it, sir, and what’s this attraction? God fulfilling His Word! He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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God has promised, His Word, how It would be fulfilled and how It would come to pass when He chose His Bride, how it would be done.
It’s happening right before you, in the Name of the Lord, and that’s by the original Word! The evening-time Message is here.
Yes, the evening promise of the Seven Seals, of Revelation 10, Malachi 4, Luke 30 and 10. Read Deuteronomy 4, 4:1 and 4, then 25th and 26th verse, and see what He said about for this last day.
Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day.
When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
This was Moses saying to Israel to “keep every Word, don’t you add one thing!” Moses, that prophet had been up there and seen that Word of God.
And It was wrote out to him and vindicated by God’s Own hand writing It. He said, “You keep every Word, don’t you add one thing to It or take one thing from It.”
Notice! Don’t you add to It, don’t you take away from It; ’cause if you do, God will take your part from the Book of Life. And it shows that you wasn’t His seed.
Remember! Everything that God has promised us, everything that God’s spoke to us, everything that’s been told to you in the Name of the Lord, it has happened!
God has never made one promise null, but He’s kept every promise that He said, has told us, has been the Truth.
For these twenty years, Shreveport, I’ve preached to you through the power of God, and the courtesy of your pastor, and I take you to record today.
Even to women past bearing; men, children, afflictions, healing, prophecy, things that would happen, not one of them has ever failed!
Now, stay away from those denominations, they’re leading you to death. 65-1127B - Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God's Will
And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
He kept His Word, don’t rebuild the denominational walls.
And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
In his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Has He kept His Word to us? To Word of Life Tabernacle? To the Families represented here? I say He has.