The Value of God's Promised Word to This Age
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Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord.
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.
Introduction
Introduction
Illustration: Wildcat with no teeth.
He has been successful in the area of deception. He has taken away the value of the Promised Word of the Age. The people were gathering and listening to Ezekiel but they valued the wrong things.
Now, he said he would exalt himself above the most High; he would ascend above the clouds and the stars, and he would sit there like God, and be above the most High. And he has succeeded in carrying out his threats.
He has certainly had a marvelous success in carrying out his threats, by the people letting him explain away, in every age, the value of God’s promised Word to that age. 65-0829 - Satan's Eden
What is the Value of God’s Promised Word to This Age?
To know the value of something you must determine what it is, how it has been handled, and what it does.
1. What is God’s Promised Word to this Age?
1. What is God’s Promised Word to this Age?
Remember the former things of old: For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times the things that are not yet done, Saying, My counsel shall stand, And I will do all my pleasure:
For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Every Word of God is a seed, and every seed brings forth of its kind, in its season.
Noah
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
This was the Promised Word for that day. Noah built it, and his family had to get in it and ride out the storm until the waters receded.
They believed and went in. Once the ark was built, the focus was no longer on the ark, but on the people going into it.
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
The Word for Noah’s day does not work for today. It’s still the Word, but the ark has already been built.
“Let no man, by his creed, deceive you.” You stay right straight in the promise of God, the Word of God. And that Word, if It’s a Word for this day, God vindicates It so. If He doesn’t, it’s not the Word for this day.
The Word that fell on the Day of Pentecost will not work this day. No, sir. That was for Pentecost. This is for the Bride, going Home of the Bride. We got something different.
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The Pentecostals represented that, again. We’re in the Bride age. No more than the Word of Noah would work in the days of Moses; no more than Moses’ law would have worked in the time of Paul here. He tried to tell them, “You are dead to that, and you cannot have that.” 65-1125 - The Invisible Union Of The Bride Of Christ
Same as in the times Noah’s seed-Word erected a floating transformation from the earth to the sky. It sounded crazy to the people, to have a little cult like Noah had. And he told them, said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD. God has spoken, and there is coming a rain.”
Science, and the educated and religious of that day, said, “Look at that old quack. He is getting old, his mind is slipping.”
See, but he was right, because he was a vindicated prophet. And then, at the end time, his message was truly vindicated.
What would he do? He transformed from the earth to Glory, by an ark, of the Word that he was preaching. It was transformed. 65-1031M - Power Of Transformation
When the New Testament began the Promised Word of the day was John’s ministry, until John’s ministry came, but once he made everything ready, the people of that day had to go on into Christ.
He must increase, but I must decrease.
The Promised Word of this age was, first, the coming of Malachi 4, the ark has been built, but now it is the Rapture of the Bride. That is the portion of Word for this day that is left to us. We must go in to the Word ark of our day.
If I was a young man, and looking for a wife, to be married; and here stood a girl that met every qualification that I thought it took to make a woman. Why, morally she was a queen, and lovely, and a fine personality, a real Christian, everything that I could think of, to make me a good wife.
No matter how much I say she’s perfect, she’s exactly right, she isn’t mine till I accept her and the responsibility of her being my wife.
That’s the same thing the Message is. You might say, “It’s right, or this, that, or the other.” And say, “I sympathize with It. I believe It’s the Truth.”
But you’ve got to accept It; and It’s got to become a part of you, and you a part of It. You’ve got…Then, It’s yours.
When you marry this certain woman that you have chosen, you are one then.
And that’s the way you are with Christ. When you see Him manifested and made real, then you are a part of Him, and He is part of you. And, together, you’re a part of the Message. 65-0217 - A Man Running From The Presence Of The Lord
The focus has turned from the Prophet to the Prophecy, the Promised Word of this Age is the Rapture.
When he was debating with the priests across the river, they said, “God built this altar. God told us to do this. Moses is the prophet. We believe Moses. The sacrifice will never be done away with.”
I can hear John answer back, said, “Have not you read in the Scripture what Daniel the prophet said, ‘The daily sacrifice will be done away with’? And that hour has arrived!
Have not you read what Isaiah said in the 40th chapter, ‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord’? There is two prophecies for me.
And another thing, did not you recognize our prophet four hundred years ago, Malachi, when he spoke in the 3rd chapter and said, ‘Behold, I send My messenger before My face, to prepare the way’? Don’t you know this fulfills prophecy?” Prophecy was being fulfilled!
And about that time the prophet turned and said, “Behold, there comes the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world!” Now what’s the attraction? It’s changed from the prophet to his prophecy. 65-0725E - What Is The Attraction On The Mountain?
The spotlight does not continue to look for the previous actor that has stepped behind the curtain, but the attraction changes to the current act.
This is the prophecy for our age.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
The ark had to finished at some point. The Shout had to be complete at some point. It is complete, but you must walk into it to manifest the Word for your day.
2. How was God’s Promised Word to the Age Brought?
2. How was God’s Promised Word to the Age Brought?
How was it handled?
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
The Messenger did not point to Himself, but he held something precious, the Promised Word for the age.
Now, I want you to know this is sure, and you that listen to this tape. You might have thought today that I was trying to say that about myself, being that I was packing this Message.
I have no more to do with It than nothing, no more than just a voice. And, my voice, even against my better judgment; I wanted to be a trapper. But it’s the will of my Father that I declare to do, and determined to do.
I wasn’t the One that appeared down on the river; I was only standing there when He appeared. I’m not the One that performs these things and foretells these things that happens as perfect they are; I’m only one that’s near when He does it.
I was only a voice that He used, to say It. It wasn’t what I knew; it’s what I just surrendered myself to, that He spoke through. It isn’t me, it wasn’t the seventh angel, oh, no; it was the manifestation of the Son of man.
It wasn’t the angel, his message; it was the mystery that God unfolded. It’s not a man; it’s God. The angel was not the Son of man; he was the messenger from the Son of man.
The Son of man is Christ; He is the One that you’re feeding on. You’re not feeding on a man; a man, his words will fail. But you’re feeding on the unfailing Body-Word of the Son of man. 65-0725M - The Anointed Ones At The End Time
As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
This isn’t about me, or any other ministry, or any other church, it’s about the Message.
This Message had such great value that He had to purify the Messenger before he could bring the Message.
And when the Word of the Lord comes to a true servant, he must go, regardless of circumstances, or regardless of difficulties. He must go, anyhow.
Whether he’s prepared, whether he feels like it, whether he wants to, whether whatever more; he must go, anyhow. It’s God speaking, and he must carry this Message.
He never goes for foolishness. He never goes for money. He never goes for popularity. He only goes in the Name of the Lord, for one thing. He’s got a mission, and he’s sent of the Lord.
And he is the Word of God, because he’s carrying the Word of the Lord. That is a true prophet of the Lord. 62-0513M - The Way Of A True Prophet Of God
We all carry this Message, what value do we give it?
We didn’t always have what we have now.
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Does it still mean anything?
Illustration: Postage stamp
The value wasn’t in the tape or book, but in the Word that was spoken. How you handle it shows the value you place on it.
3. What Happens if You Walk into the Promised Word to this Age?
3. What Happens if You Walk into the Promised Word to this Age?
You become the Word. You become the Revival. Do you realize the value of that?
When Noah’s family walked into the Ark, they were sealed away from destruction, sealed out of death and into life.
We find out that when a man comes, sent from God, ordained of God, with the true THUS SAITH THE LORD, the message and the messenger are one and the same.
Because he is sent to represent THUS SAITH THE LORD, Word by Word, so he and his message is the same.
A denominational man under denominational auspices, he and the church is the “one.” A theologian under theology, made by some denomination, he and his message are one; church of theology, a theologian.
Then when a man comes with THUS SAITH THE LORD, he and the Message is one. And when Elijah come with THUS SAITH THE LORD, he and his message became one.
Just as Jesus, when He come, He was the Word, Saint John 1. So the Word of God and the messenger of the age was the selfsame thing, all the time. That’s right.
Jesus was the Word that was prophesied of. He was what the prophets said would happen, “A virgin shall conceive and bear this Child.”
Way back in the beginning, God told them, said, “The woman’s Seed shall bruise the serpent’s head, and he’ll bruise her heel.” All these prophecies had been given. David crying, all the rest of the prophets down through the ages, speaking of Him. He was that Word manifested! Hallelujah!
Now do you see where I’m trying to get to? I spoke with you pretty plain this morning. Don’t you see the authority of the living God in the living Church, the Bride?
The sick are healed, the dead are raised up, the cripples walk, the blind see, the Gospel goes forth in Its power, for the Message and the messenger are the same. The Word is in the Church, in the person. 65-0718E - Spiritual Food In Due Season
Identified! Oh, the devil is howling about this: the manifested Truth of the promise of the Word in Her alone.
They don’t have the answer. When Jesus come, why didn’t those Pharisees? He said, “If I cast out devils by the finger of God, who do you cast them out by?” See? He stood alone.
And His Church stands alone. She is not hooked with nothing. But He was identified by God, being the body that God dwelt in; and the Church is identified by His Body, doing the same thing.
She is His Body, the manifested Truth of His promised Word for the last days. And She, and She alone, stands by It.
That’s why the devil is howling, these great organizations, to set up something to close Her up. They’ll never do it.
She’ll be taken up, not closed up. She is now risen, and by the power of the vindicated Word promised to Her. Amen!
How a Bride holds that promise! “He told me He would return after me. I’ll believe it.” Yes, sir. To meet Her Headship, Her Redeemer, Her Husband, Her King, Her Lord, Her Lover, Her Saviour, in the provided meeting place! 63-0728 - Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
What value did He place on you? He gave Himself for you, so you can be God’s Promised Word to This Age, Manifested.