Building YOU Part 5 “Born by the Word into the Bride Age”
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22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Communion Tonight
Bro. Stuart speaking
Camp starting Thursday
Born By the Word into the Bride Age
Born By the Word into the Bride Age
Introduction
Introduction
The prescribed antidote for sin is the same as it has always been.
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
You might find a quack doctor to tell you different, but the truth is still the same.
Peter said, “I’ll give you a everlasting prescription, for you, and to your children, and them that’s far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.”
Not, “Come and join.” But, “Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the results,” amen, “the Holy Ghost. For the promise, this prescription, is for you, and to your children.” 64-0719E - "Going Beyond The Camp"
Does it still work? YES
That is repentance and faith.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
To hear is to understand.
“And he that heareth My Word,” not just makes out, not hear It with his ears, but, “understand It.” Anybody can hear It; a prostitute can hear It and remain a prostitute; see, a drunkard can hear It; a liar can hear It and still remain a liar.
But, “He that understandeth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life.” There you are, see. 65-0829 - "Satan's Eden"
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
These folks proved they understood what Peter preached because when they took the medicine, it had the intended effect.
41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
They continued, that proved they were born of the Word.
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
The reason they could be born on Acts 2 is because the Word was preached in it’s fulness.
Christ was the fulness of the Word manifested.
15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
He is not a type or a portion, He is the fulness.
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
He is the fulness.
He was manifested in His fulness on the earth. He was manifested in His fulness to the believing Jews at Pentecost, but before the Gospel goes back to the Jews, He promised to manifest Himself in His fulness again.
20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
21 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
22 Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
He went into the ground, and it produced Pentecostal fruit.
22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
That wheat seed fell into the ground and died as well.
4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
The wheat became bread at Pentecost. (Old Testament type)
It had to die, so it could be reborn, and become bread again for the 2nd coming of Christ.
3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
Now, bread is typed. Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word.” Not 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.
That’s exactly what you see at night in the discernments, and all these other things, because it’s a promise that God made. And He stood by me and told me that, and told me these “fakers would rise up, but hold steady.” I believe It.
And no selfish motive, to hurt anybody, but to be reverent to God and to do the work that He called me to do, that’s why I say these things. And God confirms it back, and receives the offer and the sacrifice, by vindicating it to be the Truth. No question to It! Now watch that Word!
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.
(Dark ages-critic)
If the man had been spiritual, he would have knowed that that corn of wheat has to die, it had to be buried in a Roman cathedral.
But then the first little sprout of Life come forth in the reformation by Martin Luther, that, “The just shall not live by a blessed kosher that a priest does, but by the Word of God. ‘The just shall live by faith!’” He put up two sprigs. The corn of wheat begin to grow.
Then along come John Wesley and added to that. (There was many of the others, that…Zwingli and them come forth and denied the virgin birth, and it just died down.) But along come the Methodist, the tassel, the pollen, the missionary day. And they preached sanctification; added the tassel.
Then along come the Pentecostals in the shuck, so much, to deceive the Elected. Looks like a real grain of wheat, opened up, there’s no wheat at all. But the Life’s passing through the shuck.
Now, have you noticed, every three years after a great meeting, what takes place? A denomination. This is twenty years and no denomination. Dear dying Lamb, may it never do that. If I go in this generation, may the people who believe this Message never stand still for a denomination!
God will…You’ll die right in your track! Remember that! The very hour that you mention denomination among you, I don’t care how sincere you are, take man for your leader instead of the Holy Spirit to confirm this Word, that’s the hour you die!
The genuine Seed cannot, because there’s nothing left after the seed, it’s the same thing was back at the beginning. It’s the Bride that fell into the ground to bring forth the corn of wheat again. 65-1128M - "God's Only Provided Place Of Worship"
The Lutherans, Methodist, Pentecostals, were born of the Word for their day, as the life traveled through that portion of the wheat plant.
It could not produce a birth of the full Word, no more than David or Joseph could be Jesus Christ.
If there was a fulness of the Groom body, there must be a fulness of the Bride body.
They could not be Messiahettes.
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.
He made man a god, a god in his domain. And his domain goes from sea to sea, from shore to shore; he has the control of it.
And when Jesus came, being the One God without sin, He proved it. When the winds blowed, He said, “Peace, be still!” Amen. And when the tree, He said, “No man eat from thee.”
“Verily, I say unto you, you that’s little gods, if you’ll say to this mountain, ‘Be moved,’ and don’t doubt in your heart, but believe that what you’ve said will come to pass, you can have what you’ve said.”
Go right back to Genesis, to the original, what is it? Now the world and nature is groaning, crying, everything’s moving.
What? For the manifestation of the sons of God, when true sons, born sons, filled sons speak and their word is backed. I believe we’re on the border of it right now. Yes, sir. Say to this mountain, let it be so. 60-0522E - "Adoption #4"
Now, then, you are a son of God, in the house of God, you are a part of God’s economy. Romans 8:1, “Then there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” For they are dead to the world, alive in Him, and living in this present day, making the Word that God has used them, or foreordained them, placing their name in this Bride Book.
And when the Waters comes upon that seed that’s in the heart, raises it up to the Bride of Christ. Oh, my! Just perfect as it can be. In every age it’s been that way.
The Lutherans, under justification, the feet, raised it like that; Wesley, under sanctification. The Pentecostals under the arms, the works and deeds and so forth, had to be Calvinists…or had to be Arminian, had to be legalists. But now we come to the Head, the Capstone. “Grace! Grace!” the Capstone cried.
The Headstone crying what? “Grace! Grace!” Passed from death and creed, into a living Word of the living God.
God’s only provided plan for His age, His sons in the Word age quickened by the Spirit like a spark that’s lit off of something to make it alive; and seated now in Heavenly places (in present tense), already alive and subject to every promise in the Word.
Then what does that do? You being a part of God’s gene, a part of the Word, other men a part of God’s Word, seated together, manifest the entire Body of Christ, because there’s no leaven among you.
No leaven among you, just the Word only, seated in Heavenly places, in the door where He put His Name: Christ Jesus.
No leaven among you, that brings the entire fullness of the godhead bodily among you.
Couldn’t do it in Luther’s age, couldn’t do it in Wesley’s age, couldn’t do it in Pentecostal age; but in the day when the Son of man will be manifested, revealed, brought back the Church together with the entire Deity of God amongst His people, showing the same visible signs, manifesting Himself like He did at the beginning when He was manifested on earth in a form of a Prophet-God.
Oh! Glory! Promised by Malachi 4, promised by the rest of the Scriptures. Where you worship at? The house of God, seated (in present tense). 65-1128M - "God's Only Provided Place Of Worship"
When the woman at the well saw the Sign of the Son of Man, she knew the Messiah was there in His fulness.
He told her her life, then revealed to her where God’s place of worship was.
25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
This is the fulness. They never said that about Moses or David.
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Look what happened to Lot and them down in Sodom. Look at the Billy Graham and Oral Roberts, them down there amongst those denomination. Look at the elected Abraham Church, pulled out.
Look what kind of sign, that Jesus Himself, the incarnated God standing there in human flesh. You say, “That was an Angel.” The Bible said It was God.
Lord God, Elohim, standing there in human flesh, showing that He would so anoint His Church in the last days, it’d be God working in human flesh again. “As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man.” 65-1125 - "The Invisible Union Of The Bride Of Christ"
This is why the discernment Bro. Branham had was unique, and why it had to be one to an age.
It was the sign that the Messiah was back in His fulness.
What does that mean to us?
“And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man. And as the days of Lot,” when a modern Billy Graham and Oral Roberts went down into Sodom and preached to them Sodomites, and blinded their eyes, see, with the Gospel.
One Angel stayed back, a Messenger with Abraham and the Elected group, and what kind of a sign did He do? See? And what did Abraham call Him? Elohim, God manifested in flesh.
Jesus showing that He Himself, God in Him, will be manifested in His Bride in the last days! 63-0728 - "Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed"
You are born of the Word.
Birthed by Justification, Sanctification and the True Baptism of the Holy Ghost into the Bride age.
There are four stages of growth. Stalk, Tassel, Shuck, Grain.
(Horse and buggy, automobile, airplane, astronaut)
And when a man is filled with the Holy Ghost, there is something in him, that’s full of God’s spiritual Vitamin, makes him praise God, shout, and act different. Because why? He is no longer earthbound. He is in the Heavens, sailing around, in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
He left them earthbound with their bicycles and automobiles, they’ve went to the air. Yes, sir. Practically has taken them out of there, out of date. They healed the sick. They spoke in unknown languages, and done many things.
But now, friends, may I say this. It has come to the age of astronaut. We have moved out of the airplane age. We got more power now. The astronaut age has come in. What is it?
We’ve come into a spiritual age of astronaut, see, going above. It’s not…It’s the same Spirit, only more power, only lifted higher, can go higher, see more, believe more, be more like Christ.
Not the automobile, not the horse and buggy, not even the airplane, but, the astronaut, he sweeps on and above each one.
It’s called the eagle age, in the Bible. God calls His prophets…Eagle age! We realize, over in the Bible, we find, in Malachi 4, that we’re promised that in the last days. Now, He likes His prophets to eagles. He calls Himself eagle. He is the great Jehovah eagle.
He is able to achieve, to Himself, a Bride. He is going to, in the last days, be able to get a Bride, that with a ministry that’s so exactly, the…like a man and his wife becomes one. And when Jehovah gets His people like Him, then He lives in His people. They are one.
It fulfills the Scripture, exactly what He said in Saint John 14:12, “He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he also.” It also fulfill what Jesus said would take place, “As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man.”
Now is the astronaut age. And the astronaut sees things that the horse rider, automobile, or airplanes, either, sees. He goes higher. The airplane is still down here bouncing around in the clouds, and having blowouts, and hit-downs, and everything else.
But he goes beyond the clouds of creeds and denominations, moves on up into the Heavens, plum away from everything.
The astronaut age, we are living in the astronaut age. Just as sure as God has testified by the natural happenings there, so is He testifying now that, if we’ve achieved an astronaut, God has achieved what He promised to achieve in the last days, according to Malachi 4.
Only thing He has to do is get somebody in His hands, that can cut loose from the airplanes and automobiles, and what-more.
Not look back to what it was, but more power to lift him higher, lift him into the Presence of God, lift him up there where all things are possible. Now we see it’s happening. There is no doubt to it.
So does the spiritual astronaut, as the natural astronaut goes on above the planes; the planes always wrecking up, and fussing in the clouds, and everything like that. There can be nothing greater, no more achievement, than the astronaut.
Only thing he has to do is just keep putting more power, he’ll go anywhere he wants to, see, because he’s done gone into space. Airplanes are still down, wrecking, fussing, grounded, and everything like that.
But the astronaut don’t have to be grounded. He goes on above the clouds. He goes on above, on above the creed, on above the denomination, on above those say, “It isn’t so, It isn’t so!” He has got a guide, the Holy Spirit. The Word tells him so, and he moves on! 64-0209 - "Countdown"
Conclusion
Conclusion
We are born by the Word into an astronaut age, where all things are possible.