This Gospel Must be Preached
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And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Introduction.
Introduction.
Some time ago I was talking to one of the missionaries we support, Bro. Robert Wilson, about the trips he planned to take this year, and he mentioned something about Egypt.
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Egypt is not just the pyramids, there are people there. There are over 100 million people in Egypt, in an area one 10th the size of the US. Only 200,000 protestant Christians.
I didn’t know anything about Egypt other than there was a Message church there, but very few believers. Somehow the trip stood out to me. I told him, if I can get away, I’d like to go with you.
I had no idea what I was getting myself into. (I can’t provide all the details because of the security issue.)
There is only one Message church that we know of, yet word has gotten out among some of the pentecostal churches there that we are coming and we’ve gotten invited to speak at several of them, throughout the country. We’ll have two conventions and speak in those churches. Probably more than twenty services while we are there.
One of the things we found out is that there are very few Messages translated into Arabic. We are having translation work done and paying to have the books printed, someone has to do it.
Due to the security situation the trip will be very expensive.
I had one drawback, the covid test. this week while getting some thing ready I found out the US had dropped the testing requirement to enter the country.
Why go? Because This Gospel must be preached.
What is This Gospel? Peter call it the “Present Truth”
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
Paul calls it “My Gospel”
Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
A very fine scholar I was having dinner with, here some time ago, E. Stanley Jones, said, “Brother Branham,” said, “I see most of your meeting is made up of Pentecostal people.” Said, “Yes, sir.” He said, “Why so?” I said, “They’re the ones that believe.”
And he said, “Well,” he said, “Brother Branham, I think that Pentecost was a scaffold.” Said, “That God was going to put up a building and He put…made Pentecost the scaffold.”
“Well,” I said, “that’s right. I’ll agree with you.” And he said, “Well, see, after the scaffold work’s done, we don’t need the scaffold any more.”
I said, “But the scaffold work isn’t done. When the building’s completed, God will take it up. So we’re still working on the building.” Amen.
We still need every step ladder, every stepping stone. We need everything. Just exactly…The building is still in making and when it’s completed, this Gospel is preached to every kindred, tongue, and nation, then Jesus will return.
Now, we’ve had plenty of passing out tracts and theology around the world. But the Gospel is not the Bible altogether. The Bible…Paul said, “The Gospel came to us not in Word only, but through power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost.”
Then when Jesus said, “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature,” then He meant go into all the world and demonstrate the power of God to every creature.
And in order to preach the Gospel, before you can make it a Gospel preach, then you’ve got to have the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit to prove the Gospel. “The letter killeth, the Word…the letter killeth, the Spirit maketh alive.”
So it’s not just a ritualistic affair, but it’s absolutely a real, living reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, living among men. And that’s the faith that I’m trying my best to contend for today; that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever and His power is unlimited.
If you can limit God, you can limit Christ. And if you limit the Church today in its possibilities, you’re limiting God. “But all things whatsoever you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it, and you shall have it.”
He said that. I believe it and I know it’s the truth. 53-0614A - Earnestly Contending For The Faith That Was Once Delivered To The Saints
Jesus said when this Gospel is preached to Ham, Shem, and Japheth’s people, then the end shall come. 54-0220 - Expectation
(Africa, Asia and Europe)
Jesus said, “When this Gospel is preached—this Gospel is preached to all the world for a witness unto Me, then the end shall be.” Well, then, if that was what He was talking about, spreading out literature, sending out missionaries with reading, writing, arithmetic,
and passing out tracts and making people shake hands and believe that there is a God, if that’s all it was, then He’s far past His coming. Uh-huh. So it shows that the Gospel…Paul said, “The Gospel didn’t come in word only, but through power and manifestations of the Holy Ghost.”
Then when Jesus said, “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel,” He said, “Go into all the world and demonstrate!” Oh, I like that. “Demonstrate the power of the Gospel.”
Taking the Word, that what It says, and show the people what It says and then make It manifest to them. Oh, that’s the way. That proves It. 60-1210 - The Philadelphian Church Age
(Paris Reidhead)
God marks His when they come. God marks His by vindicating His promised Word through them. That’s exactly, Saint John 14:12. And another thing, you want to put down, Mark 16. Jesus said, “These signs shall follow them that believe.”
Now let’s just take that, a minute. Was He joking? [Congregation says, “No.”—Ed.] Did He just mean the…Did He just mean the apostles, as some would tell us? [“No.”]
Watch. Read the background of it. “Go ye into…” Where? [Congregation says, “All the world.”—Ed.] “All the world.” “Preach the…this Gospel to…” What? [“Every creature.”] “Every creature.” It has not even one-third of the way met it yet.
“These signs shall follow in all the world, to every creature, wherever this Gospel is preached. These signs shall follow them that believe,” not just to one little handful.
So now notice, “All the world, to every creature, these signs shall follow.”
Don’t take Satan’s unbelieving mark. Now, he’ll put it on you tonight, if he can do it. He’ll poke you up against the wall, and you’d walk out and say, “I don’t know about that.”
You go home and study It, and then be sincere, and pray. Cause, everything is too perfectly Scriptural at this very hour, this sacred hour in time. It’s done been for years, proved, come right up to it. And this is the hour. This is the time. 63-0319 - The Second Seal
Now, I can show you in the Bible where God gave His Church the authority by using His Name by faith to cast out evil spirits, to heal the sick and to do great signs and wonders.
I can show you where it was given to the Church, but there’s no record in Bible nowhere, where He ever took that power away from the Church or said He would take it away from the Church.
But this Gospel of this same deliverance was to be preached to all nations beginning at Jerusalem. And we was to be witnesses of Him in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth. That this Gospel, and these signs was to follow the believer until He comes again: “Go ye into all the world.” Mark 16.
Just only one third of it knows about Jesus now after nineteen hundred years. “Into all the world and preach the Gospel.” Now, the Gospel’s not the Word only, but making the Word manifest. Paul said so.
“Gospel came not in Word only, but through the power and manifestation of the Holy Spirit is the Gospel must be preached to every nation, and these signs shall follow them that believe.”
Now, we just can’t cut that out. We’ve got to face it. That’s right. We’ve got to face it. 56-1001 - The Ministry Explained
God chose to use the Preaching to save the lost.
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
The Voice of many waters.
The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: The God of glory thundereth: The Lord is upon many waters.
And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
All right, Voice. What a horrible thing for a drifting soul on the sea of life, no pilot to guide him, loose, floating with the tides, to hear the roar of the great cataracts, the falls! What a horrible thing it would be to a soul drifting! “Voice of many waters.”
What is His Voice? It’s the judgment, the voice of the ministers, through the Holy Spirit, that’s cried out to the people in every age, standing there, the Voice of many waters cried out, thickness and multitudes, the voice of those seven stars in His hand, to every church age,
preaching the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the baptism in Jesus’ Name, speaking in tongues, the power of God, the resurrection of Christ, the Second Coming, Divine Judgment. The Voice of many waters came forth from this one that looked like the Son of man, many waters. 60-1204E - The Patmos Vision
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Where can a voice be heard the loudest? Where there are no other voices. Bro. Hildebrandt’s voice was loud in Africa, because in many places he was the first to go.
I was told Bro. Byskal went 169 times in 50 years. Bro. Pearry Green went around the world many times, to hundreds of nations. Bro. Wilson has been going on three or more trips a year for nearly thirty years. Who will pick up the torch? May there be a multitude of voices speaking as one “Behold the Bridegroom Cometh”.
And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.
One voice from the throne.
And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Many voices. What were they saying?
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
The Bride has a voice.
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.
Conclusion.
Let me be one who is not afraid to go. This Message is worth it.
Nothing but lost souls, is the only thing that’s got any value in it. Money passes away. Homes decay and go away. Everything in the earth moves away. The only value, lasting value, I’d rather have one soul in glory, that I won to Christ,
to know and see that that Light of God circles around that soul, through all eternity, my name to be associated with that, than to have every penny of money in the whole earth, ’cause I’d have to lose it all. But what you send up there, is Eternal. And that’s the reason we’re trying. 56-0726 - Love
Some of you have supported missions, and given sacrificially to see the Gospel spread. Thank you for that. I pray that we would renew our vow today to get this Gospel to the World.