The Key to Every Promise
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6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
Introduction
Introduction
Gabe and Millie unspoken request
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The chasm between faith and doubt is so great, that with faith all things are possible, and without faith it is impossible to please God.
Christ is the Door
9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
In Him lay all the promises of God.
He is the land where all the promises lay.
The Message is Christ. He is the third pull. He is the Seventh Seal. He is the One who can open the Book and loose the seals. He is the Book.
20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
He is the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
All the promises are unlocked by Faith in Him.
Faith is the key and the hand holding the key.
If I have the faith, the door is open to me and everything in the room is mine, if I do not have the faith, the door is closed, and the Word actually becomes a hindrance to me receiving my promise.
Knowledge doesn’t unlock the door. Holiness doesn’t unlock the door. Begging doesn’t unlock the door. Only faith can unlock the Door, Christ.
When He was on the earth He had Perfect Faith.
The disciples could see the difference in their faith and His faith.
5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
They could not take the hard cases.
19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Jesus had Perfect Faith. He had it, and it come because He was the Word. And you become the Word; you become the Word, as you receive the Word.
“If ye abide in Me, and My Words in you. My Words which…” (this Word) “abides in you, then ask what you will, and it’ll be done for you.”
“If ye say to this mountain, ‘Be moved,’ and don’t doubt, but believe in what you’ve said, then you shall have what you said. When you pray, believe that you receive what you ask for, and ye shall have it; it’ll be given to you.” Time, space, nothing else will ever change it. You know it’s done. It’s already over with.
Now, and He said to us, “If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you,” Saint John, here, “you can ask what you will, it’ll be done.” Then, recognize your position in the Scripture, as a believer. See, you’ve got to recognize your position, as He recognized His position. 63-0825E - "Perfect Faith"
He knew who He was.
Now, you must believe what you ask for. If you are a believer, recognize yourself as a believer. Recognize that these things are for you. 63-0825E - "Perfect Faith"
Your heart must be assured that you are a believer. Faith in action.
Faith is a Revelation
4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
The antidote for original sin was a revelation to Abel, and that revelation was faith the slay the lamb and offer blood on the altar.
When the finished work becomes a revelation, you recognize that He died for you. You really see it, and you act on that revelation.
Behind this Door, Christ, is God’s treasure.
(Polio vaccine, light bulb)
There is a treasure behind the door, otherwise it wouldn’t be locked.
Now we read in Saint John, the 10th chapter, Jesus said, “I am the Door to the sheepfold. I am the Door,” not a door, “the Door, the only Door. I am the Way, the only Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.
I am the Door to the sheepfold and all that comes before Me is enemies, thieves and robbers.” He is the Door to the sheepfold. He is the Door to salvation.
“There’s not another name given under Heaven whereby you must be saved, only through the Name of Jesus Christ.” No church, no denomination, no creed, no doctrines of anything; only through Jesus’ Name. That is the Key.
No wonder Peter could use one of them on the Day of Pentecost! They wanted to know how to get into that Door. He used the Key. And there’s only one Key, because there’s just one Door. “I am the Door.” And Peter had the Key to It.
And he said, “Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sin, and you shall receive the treasures of God.” It’s the Key to the Door, and Jesus is the Door. There’s only one Door to healing, and Jesus is that Door.
There’s only one Door to peace. Yeah. “My peace I give unto you.” He’s only one Door to genuine peace. You might think you got peace. You might accumulate enough money to buy your home, you might accumulate enough money to get your children clothes, have food to eat, but you might have accumulated enough popularity to be popular amongst people.
But when you slip off your shoes at night and get ready to lay down, there’s only One Thing can give you peace. That is, if you know you were dying that night, there’s only one Peace, and, that’s, Jesus is the Peace. He is our Peace.
He is our Healing. “I’m the Lord thy God that heals all of your diseases.” He is the Door to Heaven. And there’s no other door or no other way but through Jesus Christ. He is the Door to Heaven.
And now Jesus is the Door to all these things, and faith is the key that unlocks the Door. Now, if Jesus is the Door to all these promises of God, faith in His finished work unlocks every door to every treasure there is inside the Kingdom of God.
Faith is the key that unlocks every promise He makes. The key of faith does that, faith in His finished work. 62-1007 - "The Key To The Door"
You can have confidence in the key you have, because it moves the levers of the Word.
Any correct made key has levers on the inside of the lock, and it takes a certain form, a certain shape of them keys to turn those levers. And just one little lever out of the way, will mess the whole thing up.
Therefore, I believe in the full Gospel, every Word of God, that turns the power of God loose, that turns His blessings to the people. It’s the key to the Door, that unlocks It. Oh, those great heroes, those prophets and great men of the Bible, that had that key!
That’s the reason they could stop the mouth of lions, quench the violence of fire, escape the edge of the sword, bring the dead back to life again, and do all kinds of miracles, is because they held that key and they knowed it worked, because it was a Scripture-born key.
Now, if I’m progging with a creed key, I don’t know what it’s going to do. If they say “my church teaches this,” I don’t know about that.
Progging
British slang or dialect
to prowl about for or as if for food or plunder
But when the Bible teaches it, and I hold the faith key in my hand, or in my heart, that says “that’s God’s Word,” that’ll quench the violence of fire, it’ll unlock healing for the sick, it’ll unlock salvation to the lost. I have to come to the Door, everything’s in His Name.
“Whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in His Name.” Knowing that the key that you got is faith, because it’s a Scripture-made key. Now, if it’s a creed key, denominational key, I don’t know what it’ll do. But if it’s a Scriptural key, it’ll unlock, because God said so. 62-1007 - "The Key To The Door"
You hold the key to the door, because the Revelation, Faith, came to you. You saw yourself in the vision.
(Missionary in Africa)
When you got the key, there’s no fear, there’s no doubt, there’s no question. You don’t have to ask anybody else about it, you know exactly. You’ve got it in your hands, you know what to do. Amen.
You know what the score is, you know the door’s going to unlock. You’ve checked the levers and you know it’s strictly the right thing, the door’s going to fly open when you throw the key in it.
Oh, if the church only possessed the keys! If the church only possessed that key of faith, we could unlock any door, any sickness, any plague, any case that there is. It could be unlocked to us if we could only possess this key. This man had the key to his calling. 62-1007 - "The Key To The Door"
Bro. Branham had the key to divine healing. No one was doing it like that, but he had a key. The angel met him.
Everything was against him.
How are you going to face, with no denomination or nothing else to back you up? What are you going to do, Bill?” Somehow, another, it didn’t faze me one bit, for I held in my hand a key! They said, “Nobody will believe you. You won’t be able to do it. Nobody will believe you.”
I said, “I don’t care. There’s one thing sure; God called me, and I must go because God called me.” I held the key. He had called me, He had showed me, He had told me, and I saw His Presence when He commissioned me, and the key was there! 62-1007 - "The Key To The Door"
(Bro. Branham, Bud Southwick and the silver tip grizzly.)
And when we were almost within about five hundred yards of where the horses was, we had to rest again with the heavy horns and things on our back.
And he looked around again, and I seen his face as he looked at me, as if down in his heart he was wondering. See, he had hoped it would be there, but he didn’t have the key.
But somehow, by the grace of God, He’s never failed me. When He told me there would be a silver-tip there, I had the key. I didn’t doubt it one bit, not a bit. I turned to him, and I said, “Bud, it’ll be there.” And just as I turned, there was the bear standing right above us, about a half a mile.
He throwed the glasses on, he said, “Billy, so help me, it’s a big silver-tip!” See, the key, a vision, the Word of the Lord, there’s nothing can change It or stop It.
What the church needs tonight is not an education. What the church needs tonight is not a denomination. What the church needs tonight is not creed.
What the church needs tonight is the key to the Scriptures, the Door. Which, Christ is the Door, and He is the Word. Faith in the Word of the living God unlocks every door. 62-1007 - "The Key To The Door"
Elisha needed a key to the double portion.
9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
If you can see the chariot of fire, you can see the other dimension.
Can you see with the eyes of a prophet?
Elisha and Gehazi
15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
17 And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
And when He opened his eyes, around that old prophet was Angels of fire and chariots of fire. Then there’s more with us than there is with them.
And that’s the dimension now, by being born. Maybe you never will (See?) see such. But you believe it anyhow. “How much greater is their reward who has never seen and yet believe.”
But some of us were born for that. God places that in the church, from baby birth. Prophets are not just put in by man; it’s a gift borned; all through the Scripture, born from childhood. 55-1115 - "Blind Bartimaeus"
I have not seen what he saw, but I believed.
Then when Gehazi, being just a lukewarm church member, when…He had not seen what Elijah had seen.
Because, Elijah was used to walking by faith, and he was looking at the Unseen, all the time. And he knew that God had said, in the Psalms, “The Angels of God are encamped about those who fear Him.” That was enough for Elijah.
(The miracle wasn’t for Elisha. these signs will follow them that believe)
But Gehazi had just pro-…half-way believed it. He was just a church member. So, Elisha said to the Lord, he said, “Lord God, give a sign here. Just open this man’s eyes and let him see what’s around him.”
And when God opened his eyes, he saw horses of Fire, drawn by chariots of Fire, and they were all around that old prophet. They were there all the time, but he just didn’t see them.
And tonight I’d say the same thing, that, the God Who stood yonder in the 1st chapter of the Books of Acts; and as He was taken up, and the skies become under His feet.
That same Jesus said, “Lo, I am with you always. I will never leave you or forsake you. And the works that I do shall you always. I’ll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world.” 58-1003 - "Looking At The Unseen"
Bro. Branham went beyond the curtain of time, he was ordained to do that. He had the key to his calling. But if my eyes are opened by Revelation, to see myself there among those millions who cried out “We’re resting on that”, I now have the key, that unlocks the door, and in Him (Christ) is that land. He is the door to that dimension, and faith is the key to unlock it.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Can you see yourself in the vision, by faith in the Word? When you do, nothing can stop you.
If you can get the people to believe you, nothing will stand in the way of your prayer. Faith will unlock the door.
