Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed Part 8 “The Revelation of Christ in You”
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13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Introduction
Introduction
We found out last time that God foreshadowed what He would do in Christ in the prophets.
1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
203 All those things typed Him, just in type, but yet the mystery was hid. Them men didn’t know what they were doing. They only knew that they were led by the Spirit to do some. Now, holding it back in the last days, for the great revelation.
But, expressing it, express Himself in Moses, and David, and Joseph, and Elijah, and on down through. You…we could take each one of those prophets, and bring their lives out and show it expressed Jesus Christ perfectly, exactly.
Yet, never giving His secret in full; waiting for to make it known in the last days as He promised, waiting for it to be fully comprehended, see, before He could express it.
(Dan 12:9 sealed til the time of the end)
204 Because, the Bible is written in mysteries. Jesus thanked the Father for it, see, that It was wrote in mysteries.
(Luke 10:21 You’ve revealed it to babes)
205 Now, the Coming of the Lord is in mystery. We don’t know when He’s coming, how He’s coming, but we know He is coming. See?
(All the other mysteries were revealed)
And so was all the mysteries of God waiting for this last day. After it’s already been completed, then He reveals and shows what He’s done. Oh, my! Never gave His mystery in full.
(After it’s been completed. This is why the Rapture could not be preached at the beginning of Bro. Branham’s ministry. The revelation of the Shout of 1 Thessalonians 4 being the Message was revealed in the last hours of his life.)
206 It’s just like this, comparing the Seven Seals. Now, when God used Martin Luther for the coming out for that first church or that church age, and when He used John Wesley, and He gradually brought them out, and was revealing in them that church age.
When we…when it goes back through the Bible now and find out. But in the last days, the reason that was such a tremendous thing, that He spoke of it here and showed those Seven Thunders. And Look and Life ma-…
207 Life magazine then packed that Circle of a Cloud and Light there that they could not understand, and don’t know it yet. But here telling, “Go there and wait for these mysteries to be revealed,” and here months before it happened, and then it happened at exactly the way He said it would do.
(He preached “Is This the Sign of the End, Sir?”. What is the “this”?. It is the opening of the Word, beginning with the revelation of the Seven Thunders, which are the mysteries contained in the Seals. A mighty angel saying time will be no more)
Did you notice in that picture? Even that Angel on the right, when he was being materialized, coming down, with his wings back and his head setting sideways, there it is right there in the picture, just exactly.
Months before it happened, told here, that, “He’s going to bring the Body of believers together; to reveal, take up them lost ends.”
208 Here come Luther through, he only preached justification, just pounded away in that age. He didn’t know what the age was. Here come Wesley through, and he pounded his age through.
A lot of outfalls come from it, the other churches raising up. Then here come Pentecost, pounding away, and they organized and went right back into death again; as we’ll get to it in a few minutes, right back into “death.”
209 And then comes the revelation of the mystery, to reveal what it’s all been about.
(Little doctrines left off by the preceding three messages)
…Then come back in the last days and pick up all these mysteries and clearly explain it, reveal it. Why? It’s all the last days when this great mystery that God had in His heart is being revealed.
210 Do you get it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] If you fail, come back to this tape again. I don’t know how much longer I’ll be with you. Remember, this is the Truth, of THUS SAITH THE LORD. It’s the Truth. It’s the Scripture.
(2 Tim 3:16 “all scripture is God breathed”).
Every Message doctrine has a Scriptural foundation. If you think Bro. Branham taught something outside the Scripture then you don’t understand it.
Just because something is difficult to understand doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Paul wrote things difficult to understand for the Jews.
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Jesus spoke things that were difficult to understand for the disciples.
68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
This Message is not from Jeffersonville. It is not William Branham, this Message is Christ.
211 Like the seven mysteries of the seven last Seals, the mysteries of them. The Seals had done been broke, and every age had come down, and there they had left a lot of scattering.
And God, not willing that It should be scattered, He comes back and picks up those things, those doctrines they started, and brought it on out and revealed the whole thing.
Same thing He’s doing now in revealing the mystery of Christ, how He was God’s threefold purpose for the Church! Oh, my! Letting Him out. Reveal!
212 Reveal, Webster says, is to “Make known. Make known, and, especially,” Webster says, “in Divine Truth,” that revelation means. The revelation, it is Christ’s way of making Himself known to His Church.
213 Now we’re going to say, “Now, Brother Branham, you’re just saying this.” Now, we won’t say, just say this.
(Matthew 16:15-17.)
I’ll quote it. When they come from the Mount Transfiguration, He says, “Who does man say I the Son of man am?”
215 “Some says, oh, they think You’re ‘Elijah,’ and some says You’re ‘one of the prophets,’ ‘Jeremiah,’ or some of them.” But that wasn’t what He asked.
216 He said, “Who do you think that I am now?” Now there is the Church He is talking to. See? “What does man think I am?”
217 Today, “He’s a philosopher; this social religion. He was a good man. We believe his teaching is right. It’s a subject to be lived by. I think it’d make us all better, if we did. We ought to have our churches, our so forth.” That’s a Santa Claus, like a Santa Claus story.
218 It’s not expressions of some church that we should express something. It’s a life that you don’t live yourself, but He comes in you and lives by Hisself, and you become a prisoner; to any human intellectual being at all. You’re led by the Spirit. And how do you know?
219 Now, you say, “I might know I was losing my mind. Maybe a man that loses his mind does that.”
220 But if you have the mind of Christ, Christ expresses Himself through you, shows that it’s Him and not…you’ve not lost your mind.
221 Some people, under illusions of things, goes out and becomes insane. Well, that, we know that’s wrong. That’s the devil trying to impersonate the real thing before it gets here, see, always a bogus. See?
(We don’t order our lives by impression, sensation, illusion or emotion. We order our steps by the Word, and that alone. The Holy Ghost leads us to the Word.)
222 But a real man is to lose his own thoughts and his own thinking! Not come up blindly like that. No, sir. You come up with your right senses, and Christ takes you over and expresses Hisself. And now, to the world, you’re an insane person.
223 Now, if you’re insane, you’re actually insane, then there’s nothing…the devil can’t take you in complete control. He’ll make you do everything contrary to this Word.
(A lot of things have been blamed on God, but if it’s not according to the Word it isn’t Him doing it.)
224 But when Christ takes you over, He’ll express that Word right through you, because it’s Him. He is the Word! See? And then you can see the expression of Christ.
Not some illusion of some sort, but a real genuine Christ expressing Himself right through you. How beautiful!
(Why do we believe in Bro. Branham’s gift? Because it was specific, it was 100 percent accurate, and it was scriptural)
225 Now watch. He said, “Who do you say I am?” He is asking the Church, His twelve. Out of the millions of that day, He asked twelve, His Church. In the millions in the days of Noah, He asked eight.
226 And He said, “As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man, see, where eight souls were saved.”
227 I don’t say there going to be eight saved now. Now don’t get that all wrong. I never said that. I don’t know how many is be, going to be saved in that last moment to Rapture that little group.
(If he didn’t know, we don’t know.)
It’ll be a small group, I’ll tell you that. “For strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, but few there’ll be that’ll find it.”
228 But when the great ransomed Body through all ages comes up, then that’s going to be a great throne there! Revelation 7 express it, “Great number, which no man could number,” through all the ages has come up, them that’s walked in the Light of the Bible as far as It was revealed to them.
(It’s not how much light you have that makes you the Bride, but it’s how you walk in the light you do have)
And now we know that Wesley had more Light than Luther did. We know Pentecost outshined Wesley. See? Certainly, it does.
229 Because, it just gradually let loose, as it did down through the prophets, and so forth, till it was perfectly made known, “the Godhead bodily in Christ.”
230 And now the Christ in the Church is just being made known. The whole thing is the revelation of God, to take Eve back to her right position again with her Husband. Notice, and God is the Husband of the Church, and the Church is His Bride.
231 Now, Peter, when he called, said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
232 Now watch. “Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona,” says, which means, “son of Jona.” See? “Blessed art thou, for flesh and blood never revealed This to you. You never learned It from some school. But My Father which is in Heaven has revealed It to you.”
Notice what He said to him, “Upon this rock…” That’s Peter, the predestinated Seed of God that had received this Light, and given the keys to the Kingdom.
“Upon this rock of revelation of Who Jesus Christ is,” He is the full, manifested God. “Upon this rock…” Not a Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; and Him being the second Person.
“Upon this rock I’ll build My Church, and the gates of hell will never shake It down, never prevail against It.” See? “I’ll build My Church upon this rock,” a revelation of Jesus Christ.
18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Jesus uses two words for rock. “Peter” is “little rock”. “Petra” is a large rock. “I’m going to build my church on the revelation of who I Am, and you are a part of that revelation”.
233 Look, Christ in you makes Him the center of Life of the revelation. See? Christ’s Life in you makes Him the center of the revelation. Christ, in the Bible, makes the Bible the complete revelation of Christ.
Christ in you makes you the complete revelation of the whole thing, see, what God is trying to do. 63-0728 - "Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed"
His hidden purpose revealed in you and me.
26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
When He is in you, you will prevail against the gates of hell.
Bro. Branham said it “Showed the gates of hell would be against it, but it could not prevail.”
The church is on offense not defense.
The entrance to hell or “hades” is death.
This revelation means death itself will not hold you.
He conquered death in His body, but there is a generation that will conquer death in our bodies.
(Vision of the Mamba.)
… the devil does have a power, and that power is death. And after death, the devil can do no more. He’s finished at death. 55-1006E - "The Power Of God"
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
What saying?
8 He will swallow up death in victory; And the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; And the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: For the Lord hath spoken it.
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
We believe death will be defeated in these mortal bodies. “Christ in us makes us the complete revelation of the whole thing, what God is trying to do”.