Recognizing His Sovereignty
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Thank you for calling, he hasn’t been able to talk on the phone.
Listen to your doctor about vaccine. You need to be persuaded in your own mind.
If you are vaccinated, there are no quarantine requirements.
There’s many of men out there with medicine, and surgery, and stuff, that denies God and everything else, but there’s a many one that believes Him too. So if it helps people, it’s of God.
I don’t have to…I don’t have to take that car and ride home tonight. I can walk if I want to. But God made me a car, so I thank God for it. All these things come from God, but use them sensibly. Don’t go insane with them. See?
62-0601 - Taking Sides With Jesus
Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Introduction
Introduction
What is Sovereignty?
His rights as King.
Sovereignty in Salvation
Sovereignty in Salvation
Scripture
O clap your hands, all ye people; Shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
For the Lord most high is terrible; He is a great King over all the earth.
He shall subdue the people under us, And the nations under our feet.
He shall choose our inheritance for us, The excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
He chooses the inheritance.
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Some will be offended by what I have set forth because they fail to understand the sovereignty of God which sets forth that GOD IS GOD,
and because He is God one cannot defeat His counsels or thwart His will and purpose; but He, being omnipotent, is ruling in ALL affairs and is doing whatever He will with all His creation because all were created for His good pleasure.
CAB 07 - Sardisean
Paul was chosen from his mother’s womb, and allowed to persecute the church before becoming the messenger to the age.
If Jonah had went straight to Nineveh they would not have repented. God is sovereign.
99 And no man can do that except God foreordained him. Jesus said, “No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him, and all the Father has given Me will come to Me.” Amen.
It’s all the sovereignty and foreknowledge of God. He lives alone and there’s nobody tells Him what to do.
65-0829 - Satan's Eden
Sovereignty in Healing
Sovereignty in Healing
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Jesus spit on the ground and put mud on His eyes. God is sovereign.
9 Billy told me that he gave out prayer cards, totally. And we couldn’t get a prayer line up here if we had to. See, you’d have to go out around through there, and through a dark hall, and come up this way.
You’d stumble over everything, to get in here. And the afflicted and crippled would be in an awful shape, doing it.
10 But we don’t know what our Lord may do. He may fall right among us, tonight, and heal every one that’s here, every sickness.
Oh, I would rather see that than all the prayer lines I ever had in my life, just to see the sovereignty of God fall among His obedient children. I always like that.
65-0120 - Lean Not Unto Thy Own Understanding
Pool of Bethesda.
It wasn’t because He didn’t care.
18 At one time, Leo Mercier said, said, “Brother Branham, the time will come after this,” said, about five or six years ago, maybe seven, said, “the Lord going to change your ministry, Brother Branham.”
And said, “When He does, you’ll probably just line up hospitals, and speak them out of the beds and things.”
It didn’t sound right, although I believe Brother Leo was trying to be sincere about it.
19 But it didn’t sound just right, because, see, our Lord Jesus never did that. See? And He went into the hospitals. There was one in that hospital.
Do you remember where it was at in the Bible? The pool of Bethesda. Great multitudes of impotent people laid there, crippled, lame, blind, withered, waiting for the Angel.
Now, that was in a spiritual hospital where people waited on Divine healing. And here the Divine Healer Himself came in and healed one and walked out.
So you couldn’t expect a mortal man, or a ministry to come forth, would be any greater than that was. See? I couldn’t agree with it.
20 But as I started to turn around, the Holy Spirit come upon me. I asked Leo for a pen. I got a piece of paper, and I wrote it...
Said, “Someday you can pull this out. ‘God will never change the ministry, but He will change the man with the ministry.’” That’s what’s to be done. 63-0601 - Come, Follow Me
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Matthew 6:8 (KJV 1900)
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Recognize His sovereignty.
161 Now, how many in here…And out in radio, or out on the telephones across the nation, if you’re still listening in, get ready now for prayer, be praying, and you that’s got these handkerchiefs here.
Now, I cannot tell God what to do. No, far be it from me even trying it. He is sovereign; He does what He wants to. I can only obey and only can say what He says.
65-0725E - What Is The Attraction On The Mountain?
I know a young Catholic boy, one time, was had a prayer book, saying prayers, and for his mother to live. And she died, and he throwed the prayer book in the fire.
Well, see, I don’t go for the prayer book; but, anyhow, see, you take the wrong attitude. You’re trying to tell God what to do.
Prayer should be, “Lord, change me to fit Your Word.” Not, “Change,” not, “let me change Your mind. You change my mind.” See?
“You change my mind to Your will. And Your will is written here in the Book. And, Lord, don’t let me go till You got my mind set just like Your mind.
And then when my mind is set like Your mind, then I’ll believe every Word You wrote.
And You said, in there, You’d make ‘everything work together for good’ to them that loves You. And I love You, Lord. It’s all working together for the good.”
65-0822M - Christ Is Revealed In His Own Word
Sovereignty in Suffering
Sovereignty in Suffering
And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Suffering seems to be random, but it is the will of God in your life.
60 He has a purpose in your life, each individual, that no one else on the face of the earth can take your place.
God has got something for you. You’re made like that. You was did that way for a purpose. God is sovereign in His work. He even…Things different. We different, one from another.
61 We notice in the animal life. We find out, in the animal life, there’s one animal, God made a beast of burden, like the horse, and he has to work.
And the cow is a sacrifice. And, but, the lion and the tiger roams the forest without any labor or anything.
He made a great big animal like an elephant, and then made a little bitty fellow like a mouse. Now, who is there to tell God what to do and how to do it? He does it His Own way.
62 And He makes the mountains. He makes the deserts. He makes the seas. He makes the plains. He makes one kind of tree, hard wood, palm, and so forth. He does it.
63 He makes men different. He gives us, each one, a different place. And a palm tree can never be a hickory. A hickory tree can never be a palm.
Nobody can take your place, and you shouldn’t try to take anybody else’s place. Because, you are an individual, to God, and God has a purpose for you. He made you thus.
You say, “Why did He do it?” He is sovereign. He’s got a reason for it being that way.
But we find out that we’re all guarded by the Word.
64 In heaven, we look at the celestial bodies. The Bible says that even one star differents from the other.
There is Sirius and the different ones. And Mars and Jupiter, all those different ones, they different one from the other.
The sun differents from the moon, and the moon from the stars. And there is Angels, such as, there is Seraphims and Cherubims, and Angels and great Angels, in degrees.
And even in the new world to come, the kings of the earth bring their honor into the city.
65 We’re always going to be that way. Because, God is not a Sears and Roebuck Harmony House. He is a God of variety. He makes one one way, and one another.
But we must serve Him in the way that God made us, and be glad, and stay behind His Word. And that’s the way God did it.
64-1205 - The Identified Masterpiece Of God
Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months are with thee, Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Julius Stadsklev Baby.
And I started into the room. Just then I looked there, and there stood that Light hanging there in the door. Said, “Don’t put your hand on that. Don’t rebuke that. That’s the hand of God.”
126 I got her on the phone. I said, “Sister Stadsklev, bury your baby. It’s the hand of the Lord. It’s God’s will. Something would happen to that baby down along the line.
You let it go right where God knows where it’s at. You can go to it now. It lives, you won’t. You leave it right like that.”
63-0825M - How Can I Overcome?
And so when she come over to see us, the night…Left her at the house when I left yesterday. She said, “What was it, Brother Branham? My weakness of faith?”
I said, “You have great faith. You prayed for your baby. You and your husband held on to it, “God, raise that baby.” And He refused to do it because He knows what’s best.
And still you love Him. That’s real faith. Anybody, when mountains are moving and things can have faith.
But let it go backwards one time, and see how it works. That’s when you prove whether you got faith or not.
61-0117 - The Messiah
Conclusion.
No one suffered more than Job.
The Lord gives and takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Fanny Crosby
Blessed Assurance