Sufficiently Impressed with the Word in Our Midst

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John 1:1 KJV 1900
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:2 KJV 1900
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
John 1:3 KJV 1900
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
(go to verse 14)
John 1:14 KJV 1900
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
(2nd Scripture)
Luke 4:16 KJV 1900
16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
Luke 4:17 KJV 1900
17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
Luke 4:18 KJV 1900
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luke 4:19 KJV 1900
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Luke 4:20 KJV 1900
20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Luke 4:21 KJV 1900
21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
Now we want to draw, from That, a conclusion of how dynamic is the Word of God! 65-0219 - "This Day This Scripture Is Fulfilled"

Introduction

3:00 service youth “How Do I know for certain I have the Holy Ghost”
Jesus identifies Himself to to the Pergamean church age as the one who held the “sharp sword with two edges”
Revelation 2:12 KJV 1900
12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
The sharp two edged sword is the Word.
Hebrews 4:12 KJV 1900
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Ephesians 6:17 KJV 1900
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Revelation 19:13 KJV 1900
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Revelation 19:15 KJV 1900
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Now we can see His association with the Word. HE IS THE WORD. That is Who He is. THE WORD IN HIS NAME.
In John 1:1 where it says, “In the beginning was the Word,” the root from which we get our translation for “Word” is “Logos” which means “the thought or concept.”
It has the double meaning of “thought” and “speech.” Now a “thought expressed” is a “word,” or “words.” Isn’t that wonderful and beautiful? John says the concept of God was expressed in Jesus. An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages (5 - The Pergamean Church Age)
Are we sufficiently impressed with the Logos, the expression of God in our midst?
Impressed means “to affect especially forcibly or deeply: gain the admiration or interest of”
Has the Word affect us deeply enough? Does it have our interest?
What should we be impressed by?
The Word (Logos) is God’s thought expressed.
Now, in Saint John 1, He said, “In the beginning was the Word.” And the first…“And the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” God unfolding Himself, down to a human being. Now watch how He did it.
Now, back there, then, when this little halo comes. Now, we can’t see nothing yet, but just by eyes of just supernatural we see a halo standing there. Now, that’s the Son of God, the Logos. Now, I can see Him playing around like a little child, before the Father’s door, with all Eternity. See? And, now, then in His imaginary makeup He begin to think of what things would be, and I can hear Him say, “Let there be light.” 53-0729 - "Questions And Answers On Genesis"
He made all things.
John 1:18 KJV 1900
18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
That was called, by Bible readers, “Logos,” or “the anointed,” or “the anointing,” or the…as I was going to say, the part of God begin to develop into something so human beings could have some type of an idea what It was.
Was a little, low…a little Light, moving. He…That was the Word of God. 53-0729 - "Questions And Answers On Genesis"
He is the one who brooded over the earth.
Genesis 1:2 KJV 1900
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
He was God, the Logos, the Word that went out of God. When, It begin to brood upon the earth, and It brought forth marine life. When the Spirit of God, the Logos, the Word, which God said, “Let there be,” and there went the Logos, which is the Word.
(Brooded over botany life, animal life and finally human life in his own image)
That man fell, like the seed has to fall. And then God begin to brood over that, after the fall. He brought up a Enoch, He brought up a Elijah, He brought up a Moses, He brought up prophet after prophet, trying to restore that image again.
And, finally, upon the earth came the genuine image of God Himself again, which was God, the Logos made flesh and dwelt among us.
Now that same Logos has a part, He has got a Bride, and the same Logos, this Word that cannot be tampered with, is brooding over the churches today, trying to bring back the Word to Its full manifestation. 65-0429B - "The Seed Shall Not Be Heir With The Shuck"
This Word is in our midst.
Matthew 18:20 KJV 1900
20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
John 14:20 KJV 1900
20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
That day is this day.
And today He is standing among us, in the Person of the Holy Ghost, manifesting Hisself more and more, coming into His Church, making Hisself known; because, Him, and the Bride and the Groom will be the same, making Hisself known.
And one day you’ll see that the One that you feeled in your heart, and see His identification, will become personalized before you, then you and He are One.
You’ve united by the Word. And the Word, was in the beginning, will go back to the beginning, which is God. “And that day you’ll know that I am in the Father, the Father in Me; I in you, and you in Me.” Hallelujah! We’re here. Hallelujah!
I’m so glad to see Him personifying Himself right among us, and see what He promised for the Word; not what’s somebody’s emotion, singing, and jumping, and dancing. But by His Word, amen, He is making Himself known.
Look, when they brought, built the temple and brought the ark into it, God went in there with a Pillar of Fire. Amen. It was David jumping and screaming, it was all the singers and the priests carrying on, when they was out of the will of God.
But when God identified the ark in His place and position, before they could get the ark in there, here come the Pillar of Fire leading the way; right down over the cherubims’ wings, and right in behind the Holiest of holies, His resting place; the Pillar of Fire!
And the glory of God was in there, till they couldn’t even see how to minister. Amen. It’ll close the eyes of every theologian, when He comes for His Bride. She’ll be taken up in the middle of the night, as it was, to them. They won’t even see Her go. Oh, praise be to God! 65-0718M - "Trying To Do God A Service Without Being The Will Of God"
And He is here, but He’s in a Spirit form. And this is Him you see in the picture there. See? It’s He, the Lord, the Logos, the Angel of the Covenant. And He’s standing present. 54-0301 - "The Angel Of The Covenant"
But this is my ministry, see, to declare Him, that He is here. 62-0713 - "From That Time"
And think of It! The same Pillar of Fire that come upon those men that wrote the Bible, is the same Pillar of Fire here, today, interpreting the Bible. Amen! How we thank Him for that! Same! What a comfort! What identification!
I’m so glad to be identified in that, I don’t know what to do! I’d rather be identified in That than all the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and all the rest of them. Identified in that Word where that Shekinah Glory and Revelation lays!
The Pillar of Fire appearing visibly among us, identifying that the Message is right, like He did at Mount Sinai. 64-0614M - "The Unveiling Of God"
1 John 1:1 KJV 1900
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
1 John 1:2 KJV 1900
2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
1 John 1:3 KJV 1900
3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
The evidence of receiving the Holy Ghost today is just the same as it was back in the day of our Lord. It is receiving the Word of truth for the day in which you live.
(More on this tonight)
Jesus never did stress the importance of the Works as He did the Word. He knew that if the people got the WORD the works would follow. That is Bible.
Now Jesus knew that there was going to be a terrible drift away from the Word in the Pergamean Age which was as yet two hundred years off from the Patmos vision. He knew that drift would cause them to go into the Dark Ages.
He knew that the way man originally got away from God was by first leaving the Word. If you leave that Word, you have left God.
Thus He is presenting Himself to the church at Pergamos, and indeed to all churches of all ages, “I am the Word. If you want Deity in your midst, then welcome and receive the Word. Don’t ever let anyone or anything get between you and that Word. This which I am giving you (the Word) is a revelation of Myself. I AM THE WORD. Remember that!”
I wonder if we are sufficiently impressed with the Word in our midst. Let me give you a thought here. How do we pray? We pray in Jesus Name don’t we? Every prayer is in His Name or there isn’t any answer.
Yet in I John 5:14 we are told, “This is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us: and if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.”
Now we ask, “What is the will of God?” There is only ONE WAY to know His will and that is by the WORD OF GOD. Lamentations 3:37, “Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?” There it is. If it isn’t in the Word you can’t have it.
So we can’t ask unless it’s in the Word, and we can’t petition or ask unless it is in His Name. There it is again. JESUS (the Name) is the WORD (will). You can’t separate God and the Word. They are ONE.
Now then, this Word He has left behind on the printed page is a part of Him when you accept it by faith into a Spirit-filled life. He said that His Word was life. John 6:63b. But that is exactly what He is: John 14:6, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” Romans 8:9b, “If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.”
There it is, He is Spirit and He is Life. That is exactly what the Word is; that is exactly what Jesus is. He is the Word. So when a Spirit-born, Spirit-filled man in faith takes that Word into his heart and places it upon his lips, why that is the same as Deity speaking. Every mountain has to go. Satan cannot stand before that man.
If the church, way back there in that third age had only held on to the revelation of the living Word in their midst, the power of God would not have faded as it did in those Dark Ages.
And right today, when the church returns to the Word in faith, we can say without doubt that the glory of God and the wonderful acts of God will be in her midst again. An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages (5 - The Pergamean Church Age)
The Word is alive! It is dynamic.
We should never look at the Word of the hour as a dead letter. It is only dead if you have not been quickened.
The Word is the dynamics, because the Word and the Spirit is the same.
Bro. Branham taught that the church system was waiting on dynamics, which was Satan himself, the incarnate antichrist.
The dynamics are a person.
There you are, that’s the hour that we have arrived at, and that’s the big machine that’s set up. Now they’ve got the mechanics. The only thing they have to have is Satan in there, with the dynamics, to force the marking of the beast.
When she is forced down, then the dynamics is working. The mechanics is there. They’ve already got them.
(When the Bride is “forced” up by love, the dynamics is working)
Let me say something, too; this uniting time, to see churches uniting, nations uniting. It’s a uniting time of God and His Bride, too. And I say this with reverence and respect. I believe that the Bride of Christ is called. I believe She is sealed in the Kingdom of God. I believe the mechanics is there.
They’re waiting for the Dynamics that’ll take Her off the earth, into Glory, in the Rapture. I believe it with all my heart. Yes, sir. We don’t know how He’s going to do it, but He shall do it.
(The part we do know is that rapturing faith is in the Opening of the Word, the seven thunders revealed)
He is the Dynamics. We just become members of the machine, of His Body, forming ourself into His image, and see Him uniting Himself with us, in His works, with His love gifts, as He hands them to us just before the Wedding Supper. And we’re waiting, watching for that. Their big church is to be united.
The Dynamics of this Church will be a refilling of the Holy Spirit that we have worked in a small measure while the Headstone is coming down to unite with the Body.
But when that Head and Body unites together, the full power of the Holy Ghost would raise Her up just exactly like that; even the dead, that’s dead in Christ, for hundreds of years ago, will rise in the beauty of His holiness, and take a flight to the skies. The Dynamics is the Holy Spirit. 63-1124M - "What Shall I Do With Jesus Called Christ?"
Not dynamics just to run and shout, but dynamics that change our bodies. The person of Jesus Christ the Word fulfilled in us.
The Holy Ghost will always point to the Word. If It points to a creed or denomination, it is not the Holy Ghost. He couldn’t do that, point away from His Word, when He died to confirm that Word and make that Word a positive. Amen.
He died so He could come, Himself, into that Word. He is the quickening Life that makes that Word live again. That was His purpose of dying, that He could still project Himself through His Church, and make every Word, through every age, act just exactly the way It’s supposed to act.
He is the dynamics of the mechanics. The mechanics of the Church, what is it? Apostles, prophets, teachers, so forth. And He is the dynamics that works that.
And it’s worked by a certain dynamic which is called like…He, He is the Fire that fires off the gas. He is the Fire that’s in the combustion chamber, that when the gas, the Word, is poured over that combustion chamber, He is the One that sets her afire. He is the One that confirms it. He is the power of the resurrection. He is God. He, He is the Fire, that’s what He is.
“Without controversy,” said First Timothy 3:16, “great is the mystery of godliness; for God was manifested in the flesh, seen of angels, received up into Glory.” He was God, come to take the sinners’ place. Yes, sir. And when He, God, raised Him up on the third day, was for our justification.
Therefore, exalted at the right hand of the Majesty on High, He is an Intercessor, to make intercessions upon our…for our weaknesses, as we confess it to Him, and die out to ourself; placing His Word back in us, the promise. And our faith makes that Word live, because Christ is in us, the quickener to the Word.
How I wish the church could see that, all arguments and strife would be over! That would be the Supreme Court. That’s the North Star. Hallelujah! That’s the end of all strife. That’s the end of all questions. That’s the end of everything. “God said so,” that’s the Absolute. Tie yourself to It.
He is our Absolute because we have the assurance of the resurrection, because He is raised in us. How do we know? He lives. He does exactly here what He did when He was here on earth.
He’s the same Pillar of Fire, we got the picture of there. He’s the same one in the Church. He’s here today, and in this body He performs and acts exactly like He did then. 63-1201M - "An Absolute"
Illustrate: GM designer
In this hour, brother, when we wonder what’s the matter with our revival, what’s the matter? We got the material and everything, we got the mechanics, but where is the Dynamics?
That’s what we need, to move Jesus Christ in on the scene. What’s the matter? I tell you, there is One here today, hallelujah, called the Holy Ghost, that can touch the Dynamics. He is the Dynamics of the mechanics.
(The Pentecostals needed Him, the Word)
We stand today, us Pentecostals, one of the greatest churches in the nation, thousands times thousands added each year, but where is that Holy Ghost? We’ve accept it, by speaking in tongues, and we seen how it’s acted. Methodist accept it, by shouting. Luther accept it, by faith, and so forth like that. That isn’t It.
It’s the Word! It’s the Word turned on, the Light turns on the mechanics and they become Dynamics. They are Dynamics, when the Dynamics, when the Dynamic comes to the mechanic. It starts the thing rolling. That’s right. Take the Word.
If there is one little thing missed up, on It, it won’t start. Lay aside every weight, every ism, every creed, that the Dynamics, the Holy Spirit, might flow through the Word and vindicate the Word that’s promised of this day; then the great Church of God will rise to her feet like a jet propelled plane, take off to the skies to meet her Master. 64-0125 - "Turn On The Light"
Are we sufficiently impressed with the One who can turn on the light?
(Tell story)
The Word is no longer a dead letter, it has come in it’s fulness.
Do you want revival? Come back to the Word. Do you need healing? Believe the Word. Do you want to see a rapture? Become one with the Word.
Do you long for manifestation? Keep the Word pure.
In every age we have exactly the same pattern. That is why the light comes through some God-given messenger in a certain area, and then from that messenger there spreads the light through the ministry of others who have been faithfully taught.
(Why don’t you just play tapes? because the Messenger told me to say what he said. That’s all I can do.)
But of course all those who go out don’t always learn how necessary it is to speak ONLY what the messenger has spoken.
(1 Cor 14:37)
They add here, or take away there, and soon the message is no longer pure, and the revival dies down. How careful we must be to hear ONE voice, for the Spirit has but one voice which is the voice of God.
Paul warned them to say what he said, even as Peter did likewise. He warned them that EVEN HE (PAUL) could not change one word of what he had given by revelation.
Oh, how important it is to hear the voice of God by way of His messengers, and then say what has been given them to say to the churches. An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages (4 - The Smyrnaean Church Age)
You might say “I thought the letter kills?”
2 Corinthians 3:6 KJV 1900
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
The letter is no the manifested Word, the letter was the law. It was the written Word only.
Jesus was the life of the letter. He was the Word in their midst.
John 6:63 KJV 1900
63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Many people just taken the letter, “The letter killeth, the Spirit giveth Life,” see. See? And they take these creeds and so forth, still killeth, but when you are taking the Spirit, that’s God, Himself.
How do you know It is God? Because He is taking the Word and manifesting It. See? Then it’s God, Himself. Oh, my! Spoken Word. 62-0607 - "Putting On The Whole Armor Of God"
When He was born of a virgin Isaiah 7:14 was no longer dead letter. It was God manifested.
When the Word is born in you it is alive and powerful.
Are you sufficiently impressed?
He told John to prophesy again, and to do that he had to eat the Book.
Revelation 10:8 KJV 1900
8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
Revelation 10:9 KJV 1900
9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
Revelation 10:10 KJV 1900
10 And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
Revelation 10:11 KJV 1900
11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
He didn’t tell him to jump up and down and speak in tongues. Eat the Book. He didn’t say play fast music and dance, eat the book.
When the focus of our ministries becomes the production of gifts or some sort of response we are no longer walking in the light of the hour. This is the hour of the full Word!
So therefore, no matter what a church would say, what anyone else would say, if you’re born of the Spirit of God, you become part of the Bible. God told Ezekiel, he, the prophet. He said, “Take the scroll and eat it,” then the prophet and the scroll became part of each other.
And that’s the believer when he receives the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit wrote the Bible, and the Spirit of God is the Word of God. 65-0919 - "Thirst"
Are we sufficiently impressed? He is in our midst.

Conclusion

Is there darkness in your life? The dynamic Word is here to bring light. Eat it up. Be clothed with it. Become one with it, it will change you like it did the earth at the beginning.
(No slide)
Oh, just keep following after Him! See? As Elisha followed Elijah, let’s follow Him. For we must be taken up, too, someday. We seen the chariot of Fire that lifted Him out of the grave. We feel It among us now. Someday He is going to unhook the horses from the bushes. We’re going up. 65-0718M - "Trying To Do God A Service Without Being The Will Of God"
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