Supernaturally Kept
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3 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,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Introduction
Introduction
We live in what the Bible describes as “Perilous Times”. A time of trouble, an hour of deception, 200 million demons released on the Bride.
The early church that Peter wrote to also faced perilous times, mainly through physical persecution, but also the deception of the false vine.
He told them, and us, that we are kept by the power of God.
Kept
The New Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew and Greek Words phrŏurĕō φρουρέω
to be a watcher in advance, i.e. to mount guard as a sentinel (post spies at gates); fig. to hem in, protect:— keep (with a garrison).
You are garrisoned or shielded by the power of God, through faith, unto salvation.
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
The Bible says we are protected by Angels.
7 The angel of the Lord encampeth Round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
And God is always present. If we could only remember that. “The Angels of the Lord are encamped about those who fear Him.” In this building, tonight, stands Jesus Christ. In this building tonight is hosts of Angels, thousands of Them gathered around.
You don’t see Them, but you can feel the influence of Them, telling you that They are here. If that isn’t so, then the Scripture isn’t so. And if the Scripture isn’t right, then God isn’t right. The Bible said, that, “The Angels of God are encamped,” They don’t leave, “They stay near those that fear Him.”
Jesus said, “Wherever two or three are gathered in My Name, I’ll be in their midst.” Then that makes Him in a world that we cannot see, that our five senses doesn’t contact. Jesus Christ is here, present. If we could be conscious of that!
And, remember, not only here, but when you’re walking down the street, wherever you are, you that profess to be believers and fear the Lord, remember, the Angels of God are moving with you wherever you are. They watch everything you do, every thought that goes through your mind, and They know all about you. Therefore, we must be conscious of that.
If we’re not conscious of it, then you act any way. So people mostly, today, too many people, are not conscious of the Presence of the Lord Jesus, that’s the reason (they) we have these things that we have going on now, that’s not right. 63-0803E - "Influence"
8 I have set the Lord always before me: Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Everything I do, is in His presence.
10 There shall no evil befall thee, Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways.
12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
You might say, “this makes it easy on me Bro. Ben, especially when it comes to my children.”
If angels are always surrounding them, why should I worry about them? Let them be just like the other kids, they have been baptized, they attend church, everything is okay.
If you have that attitude I hope you never have children.
We looked at this last week:
5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Just let go. Do what you want, regardless what the Word says.
7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
We want to be borned of His Spirit, and recognize, and watch for Him. He’s so close to you. He’s not only close to you, you borned again people, He’s already in you trying to will His…
And the devil standing there saying, “Don’t believe it; don’t believe it; don’t believe it, this, that. It ain’t for you; it’s up for another day.”
Oh, say, “Get thee behind me, Satan. It is written, ‘The works that I do shall you also.’”
That’s what Jesus defeated Satan; He never used His power. He was God manifested in flesh, but He didn’t use His power. All the gifts that there was in heaven, He had them in Him, but He didn’t use that. He just took the Father’s Word.
He said, “It’s written, thou shall worship the Lord thy God. It is written. It is written. It is written. It is written.” And He defeated Satan.
And the Word of God will defeat Satan anywhere on any grounds under any conditions: God’s holy Word. 60-0731 - "Show Us The Father And It Will Satisfy Us"
Lets go back to what Peter said:
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Who?
Who?
The Elect Child of God who has been born again by the Spirit of God.
13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
How do you know you have it?
The Holy Ghost is the action in you. It’s a Life, not an emotion; not some sort of a fleshly evidence. But It is a Person, Jesus Christ, the Word of God established in your heart, to quicken every Word of this age.
Watch the Holy Ghost in action, not so much in demonstrations; but, in action, what It does according to the Word. 65-0829 - "Satan's Eden"
The new creature in Christ will not wilfully cross the Word.
Are Kept by the Power of God
Are Kept by the Power of God
Shielded, Garrisoned.
Would you like to join? The only way you can join is be borned. Now, the great thing is open here, the altar of God, there’s room at the fountain.
Any man in here would like to join these ranks this afternoon, that will lay aside every creed that’s contrary to the Bible, every thought that’s contrary to the Bible, every doctrine that’s contrary to the Bible, and with faith walk up here and say, “I accept Jesus Christ upon the basis of His shed Blood and His Word,”
I tell you something will happen to you right here, and you’ll be fortified with the power of the Holy Ghost. 62-0701 - "To Take On The Whole Armor Of God"
It is the Holy Ghost that fortifies you behind the Word.
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Come in and take a taste of the original Manna, the kind that fell on the Day of Pentecost, the Manna for the Church, the Holy Ghost, the Armor, what we’re fortified, not with intellectual education, doctor’s degree, but we are fortified with the baptism of the Holy Ghost to prove the Word of God is the truth. 62-0701 - "To Take On The Whole Armor Of God"
It is the Holy Ghost that teaches you to stay behind the Word.
This is why a prophet said to pray for revelation more than anything else.
Example: Peter before and after Pentecost.
Through Faith
Through Faith
We are kept by the Power of God, through Faith.
Application: This is not only saying “I believe my kids will be okay”
If you believe, apply the Token. If you believe, get in the ark!
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
But one day, while Noah was out in the field, maybe fixing his crop, God appeared to him and told him, “Make ready for the saving of your household, and build an ark. And it’s going to rain.”
(They could prove there was no water)
But Noah could say, “God said that it would rain, and that settles it. God said so.” A hundred and twenty years, he was persistent in the face of the scientific world of his day, still claiming his Message was right because It come from God.
He had a goal to make. He had a Message to take care of, and he was persistent in doing so. No matter what the rest of the world said, Noah heard from God. That’s all that mattered to him.
He had heard the Voice. He was sure It was God, and he was making ready something that seemed very silly to the world. But, yet, Noah knew that God would keep His Word.
Should that not be a lesson for us today, the hour? As Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man.”
A Message that’s silly to the world, they don’t understand It, but yet those who contacted the Holy Spirit, knows that He will return again.
I can see the people as they pitied poor old Noah, about how much fun he was missing, and of the world and the things that’s going on. But Noah, still persistent, held right on.
One day God said to Noah, “All right, you’ve done your part now. Now come into the ark, you and your household.” 63-0113E - "Perseverance"
His family was kept by the Power of God through Faith, unto their Salvation.
23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.
He was supernaturally kept by the power of God, through the faith of his parents.
And they put this little baby in the ark and pushed him out. I can hear God say, “Gabriel, come here a minute. Call ten thousand Angels on marching orders, and line them all up and down the Nile. You see that not any crocodile comes near that; and when it gets into a whirlpool, see that it gets out all right.”
You’re going to hit many whirlpools in this life, my brother, but if God has called Angels on marching orders to take care of you, don’t worry, He will get you out of it. 56-0621 - "The Law Having A Shadow"
6 Train up a child in the way he should go: And when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Oh! Your family is what you are. You raise your child in a certain environment; it’s got a ninety-eight percent better chance to go right than it has if you bring it up in the wrong way.
“Bring up a child in the way that it should go, and when it’s old, will not depart from it.” Be brought up right. Teach your children to do right, to be honest, to be square and fair, even when they’re in school. 62-1013 - "The Influence Of Another"
Don’t teach your children to fall. David found grace, but his family was destroyed.
Unto Salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Unto Salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
We aren’t home yet, we are still waiting for the salvation of our body. This Message reveals that salvation.
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
23 And 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.
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
We are supernaturally kept, under the mystery of the Rapture, which is the revelation of our salvation.
Every age was supernaturally kept by the revelation of the Holy Ghost to their age. Luther, Wesley and Pentecost.
Our Message is the rapture. The Shout is the Message of the hour.
But, to the Church, the Bride, the Rapture is a revelation to Her. It’s revealed to Her. That, the revelation, the true Bride of Christ will be waiting for that revelation of the Rapture.
Now, it is a revelation, for the revelation is faith. You cannot have a revelation without it being faith. Faith is a revelation, because it’s something that’s revealed to you. Faith is a revelation.
Faith is something that has been revealed to you, like it was to Abraham, that could call anything contrary to what had been revealed to him, as though it wasn’t so.
Now, faith, that’s what faith is, is the revelation of God. The Church is built upon a revelation, the whole entire Body. 65-1204 - "The Rapture"
This was the revelation we were waiting for.
Now we’re ready, waiting for the raptures, the Rapture of the saints. It’s been spoken, and so shall it be. When God says anything, “All heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word will never fail.” 65-1204 - "The Rapture"
God bless you. It’s been spoken, it has to come to pass, it will come to pass. 65-1204 - "The Rapture"
Bro. Branham famously uses an odd text for his rapture message.
1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, They stumbled and fell.
3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: Though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
4 One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock.
Our children are not kept under a pentecostal message, or a lutheran message, but under the rapture Message. We are set on a rock of revelation, that is our shield of faith.
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Satan will do everything he can to get you out from under this Word. Why?
He knows that if the people get the TRUE REVELATION of the TRUE CHURCH and what she is, what she stands for and that SHE CAN DO THE GREATER WORKS, she will be an invincible army. An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages (1 - The Revelation Of Jesus Christ)
She is the final voice to the final age. She has been supernaturally kept by the Power of God.
Stay with the Word. Parents stay with the Word, children stay with the Word. The Ark that will save your family has been built, stay in it, and you are supernaturally kept.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Illustration: Easter flower under the rock.
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