God's Great Symphony Part 2 "Harmony"
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Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Introduction.
Introduction.
I think it’s an understatement to say that people don’t always get along.
Mark Twain once said,
"I built a cage and in it I put a dog and a cat. After a little training I got the dog and the cat to the point where they lived peaceably together. Then I introduced a pig, a goat, a kangaroo, some birds, and a monkey. And after a few adjustments, they learned to live in harmony together. So encouraged was I by such successes that I added an Irish Catholic, a Presbyterian, a Jew, a Muslim from Turkestan, and a Buddhist from China, along with a Baptist missionary that I captured on the same trip. And in a very short time, there wasn’t a single living thing left in the cage."
We are called to live peaceably with all men.
Music is not written randomly, but their are laws to music. These law are not made, they are “discovered”.
When these laws are broken you get heavy metal music. It sounds awful.
One of those laws is called “harmony”.
Harmony is “the combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords and chord progressions having a pleasing effect.”
It injects melody with emotion. It actually adds “undertones” which can’t be heard in the notes separately.
Without harmony you have a bunch of notes, which are pleasing in themselves, but when put together in the wrong way they are discordant, they sound awful. (Heaven’s Parade)
When notes are put in their proper place, they sound beautiful together, and they call for the next chord, or group of notes. (Chord progression)
“The key to pleasant music may be that it pleases our neurons. A new model suggests that harmonious musical intervals trigger a rhythmically consistent firing pattern in certain auditory neurons, and that sweet sounds carry more information than harsh ones.
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have known that two tones whose frequencies were related by a simple ratio like 2:1 (an octave) or 3:2 (a perfect fifth) produce the most pleasing, or consonant, musical intervals. This effect doesn’t depend on musical training – infants and even monkeys can hear the difference.”
Show Circle of Fifths.
Show harmony Line.
When you sing the harmony part you are not looking to see how you sound alone, but how you sound together.
The opposite of harmony is discord.
“Discordant” definition
(of sounds) harsh and jarring because of a lack of harmony:
The Word is the music and the Holy Spirit is the conductor, but we are only playing a part.
Our part by itself would be okay, but the full sound the composer calls for only comes through harmony.
Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Agree
symphōneō: be of one mind; agree
St. Matthew (Vol. II) Chapter 18
Shall agree (συμφωνήσωσιν). Be in complete accord, like the notes of a perfect strain of music. Here one man’s infirmity is upheld by another’s strength; one man’s short-sightedness compensated by another’s wider view; this man’s little faith overpowered by that man’s firm confidence.
If two of you shall agree] Συμφωνηστωσιν, symphonize, or harmonize. It is a metaphor taken from a number of musical instruments set to the same key, and playing the same tune: here, it means a perfect agreement of the hearts, desires, wishes, and voices, of two or more persons praying to God. It also intimates that as a number of musical instruments, skilfully played, in a good concert, are pleasing to the ears of men, so a number of persons united together in warm, earnest, cordial prayer, is highly pleasing in the sight and ears of the Lord.
Sometimes in order to harmonize you must learn to listen to the other voice and let it be dominant when the music calls for it.
He’s not asking you to be the same, but to complement one another.
I believe that God is a God of variety. The world proves that. He’s got big mountains and little mountains. He’s got plains. He’s got deserts. He’s got different things, because He made it the way He wanted it.
And He made the seasons; summer, winter, spring, autumn. He made the seasons. It shows He’s a God of variety. He made you in a variety.
Some men are real blusterous; and some are real dogmatic; and others are fine; others are kind. And you just find all different kinds of people, and in His Kingdom. 65-1205 - Things That Are To Be
He made men and women differently.
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
He sang lead, but it was more pleasing to God to have a harmony.
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary Help-Meet
HELP-MEET—(Heb. ʾezer ke-negdo; i.e., “a help as his counterpart” = a help suitable to him), a wife
This is not limited to husbands and wives.
The name Eliezer is derived from the Hebrew for “help” Literally God is Help.
(Moses Son, Abraham’s servant)
This is an attribute of God manifested in a wife, or a trusted servant, or in the church.
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Faithlife Study Bible Chapter 12
helps The Greek word used here, antilēmpsis, refers to assisting people in need (see Acts 20:35), but it also entails the idea of calling upon God in a time of turmoil so that He may act in the situation with His full power and force.
Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
Without Divine Love the gifts are discordant.
Bro. Branham is asked the question “Can you have the Holy Ghost without signs following immediately”
46 Now, the Holy Spirit appoints these offices, but when you try to force yourself into it…If I said you had to eat cherry pie, what if cherry pie made you vomit?
You’re hurting yourself, and that’s the way you try to do when you try to force yourself to do something that’s contrary to the Spirit. He’s got your life lotted for a certain thing. Do you understand that? 64-0830M - Questions And Answers #3
Can you imagine how it sounded to God when Adam and Eve were in perfect harmony in the garden!
What about when His Bride on the earth was in an upper room!
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
This harmony exists again at the end time. The great symphony all comes together at the end.
358 Notice what harmony! Jesus never did anything until seen of the Father, or, the Father showed Him first. Harmony between God and Christ, see, John 5:19.
So will the Bride, and He shows Her His Word of Life. He shows Her, and She receives It. She never doubts It. Nothing can harm Her, not even death. For if the Seed be planted, the water will raise It up again.
(Amen. Then I got a great big “Hallelujah!”) Here is the secret. The Word is in the Bride, and the mind of Christ, to know what He wants done with the Word. And She does it in His Name. She has THUS SAITH THE LORD. 62-0318 - The Spoken Word Is The Original Seed
She is a help suitable to Him. She is His harmony part.
(Leo and Gene)
But what a greater thing God has did for them, than to make tapes, see. Most anybody can make a tape, that’s got the intelligence to turn on a tape recorder, or can sell.
But it takes guidance of the Holy Spirit to guide a little group together like this, this morning, and keep them together in harmony and unity, and still clinging to the Message. 65-1031M - Power Of Transformation
They didn’t stay with that leadership.
Notice, if every person in here was in perfectly harmony with the Holy Spirit, every one of you was filled with the Holy Ghost and in harmony with the Holy Ghost, these signs would be just multiplying among you all the time; it’d just be constantly going.
But where there’s confusion, where there’s difference, and where we set up, the Holy Spirit can’t move itself. You see? It can’t operate through the people. 64-0830M - Questions And Answers #3
54 Now, if the whole church would work in harmony like that, then among us we’d be casting out devils, taking up serpents, drinking deadly things, all kinds of things going on.
But when you try to force that to individuals, then you get yourself…That’s Pentecostal again. Then you get Babylon, confusion. You can’t judge that. 64-0830M - Questions And Answers #3
How do we have this Harmony today?
When the music changes, God “en morphe” changes His mask. The musicians change what they are playing.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
The same One that come down on the Day of Pentecost, is the same Holy Ghost that’s manifested today, from Glory unto Glory, to Glory.
And is back to Its original Seed, with the baptism of the Holy Ghost; with the same signs, same wonders, same baptism; same kind of people, acting the same way, with the same power, the same sensation.
It’s from Glory unto Glory. And the next will be, “Changed from this Glory, into a body like His Own glorious body, where we shall see Him.” Abraham saw the same.
160 Now notice. We see how it was changed. Since Calvary, we are invited to share His Glory. Now, in First Corinthians 12, “We are baptized into His Body.
By one Spirit we are all baptized.” Not by one “water.” “One Spirit, we’re all baptized.” That’s right, now, and then we become part of Him.
162 But, it’s just like a great symphony that’s playing out, or acting out a drama.
163 I don’t know too much about symphonies or drama. But I was watching this play…I was talking about Carmen, when my daughter and them was in it.
And they were playing in this symphony, in Carmen. They was acting out. The music was acting out the same thing.
164 That’s the way it is when you’re baptized by the Holy Spirit, into Christ.
165 Now, see, many of you has read or heard the story of the great Russian composer who composed Peter And The Wolf. And how he, they act that out on cymbals and everything.
And anyone who knows the story, that’s reading it off of a paper, and can hear that symphony, how it’s acting that out, the drama, playing it out, why, they know every change. They can look at it here, and see the change.
166 But, now, what happens if the composer writes something, and we find out that it isn’t just acted out right? We find out then that there is something that happens. There is something lacking, when we see them.
He who composed it has made it up and wrote it out, and then the symphony is a playing it, hits a wrong note. There is something wrong. The director gave the wrong motion. See?
167 And that’s what’s the matter today, my Lutheran brethren, my Baptist brethren, my Pentecostal brethren. All my brethren from all different denominations, that’s what it is.
You’re trying to give a note that hit back in the days of Luther, Wesley, like that, when the, actually, the music Sheet here shows that it’s another day.
We can’t live in the light of Luther; he was a reformer. We appreciate his part, but we played that out. We’re way over here at the back of the Book now. See? We can’t play It out like that.
168 Now, the only way that you’re ever going to be able to do it, my brethren, is this. And brethren of the world, of the different parts of the world, I might say, there’s only one way for that director to do.
He has to get in the same Spirit that the Composer was in, then he’s got It. And when the Church, the Symphony Itself, where the world is a watching for these signs and wonders; when the Church, and the Composer, and the director, all get in the Spirit of the Composer.
169 Then when they say, “The days of miracles is past,” it don’t hit the right note.
170 But when it gets in the right swing of It, and the right Spirit of It; how you going to do it until the Spirit comes down, of the Composer? Amen.
Then when you say, “The days of miracles never passed,” the Symphony cries out, “Amen!” When we hit, say, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever,” the Symphony cries out, “Amen!”
“You shall receive power after this the Holy Ghost is come upon you.” The Symphony cries, “Amen! I got It!” There’s no more guesswork about it then. The whole Symphony is right in harmony with the Word.
It’s going…[Brother Branham claps his hands together three times—Ed.] That’s it. Oh! It’s a magnificent thing. The director and the Composer must be in the same Spirit.
And so must the musicians be in the same Spirit, to act It all out. And the world is wondering what’s going on.
174 Let’s get back and get the Symphony playing right, where they of the world can see. Jesus said, “If I be lifted up from this earth, I’ll draw all men unto Me.” And, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
175 Let the directors get in the right Spirit, with the musicians and with the Composer, everything will be all right. Then we’re, no guess work about it, we are identified with Him then. 64-0629 - The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us
What part are we acting out?
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
Already fulfilled.
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Already fulfilled.
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.
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.
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.
And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
This is the part we are playing now. The Bride being the final voice.
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
That was the Opening of the Word, This is the Opening of the Word in flesh.
That is what the composer wrote for this hour.
Enoch Pleased God