Contacting Your Heavenly Home Part 2
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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Introduction.
Introduction.
How many of you have ever seen an Impala in a zoo? Ever wondered why they didn’t jump the fence?
The African impala can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance of greater than 30 feet. Yet these magnificent creatures can be kept in an enclosure in any zoo with a 3-foot wall. The animals will not jump if they cannot see where their feet will fall.
Faith is the sense that tells us where our feet will fall if we take the leap into all the promises of God.
Last week we learned there are five senses of the natural body, and five senses of the spirit realm, and then faith is the sixth sense.
We talked about how God uses the sense of hearing to increase faith, which is the Sixth Sense.
We found that we don’t reject all the senses, only those that are contrary to the Word.
Faith is a Sense of Deliverance.
Faith is a Sense of Deliverance.
It delivers us and rescues from our five senses that we were put in in the beginning.
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Children Believe. Unbelief is learned.
Denominations through creeds and dogmas teach unbelief. That is why it’s so important who we yield our sense of hearing to.
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
Listen to the Word.
Let’s go back to the Message “Faith is the Sixth Sense”
Now, notice that these senses was given to you to only to contact your earthly home, that you might see, taste, feel, smell and hear.
But they’re by no means to lead you. And now many times…What if I refuse to look any more. And I just bind up my eyes and say, “I refuse to look.” All right, my eyes can’t serve me no more.
Well then, finally I’ll go blind. And then when my boy comes on, I’ll tie his eyes up, and say “No, sir, there’s no such a thing as sight.” I’ll just tie his eyes up, don’t let him see.
He said, “My father told me there was no such a thing as sight, so I’ll tie up my boys eyes.”
Well, the first thing you know, our generation would be born blind. That’s right. If you don’t use your six senses, they become dormant. They won’t act at all.
Brother, that’s what the church has done to the sixth sense God put him in. He’s just placed faith off in miracles and signs.
And the things that contacts God, gives him the Holy Ghost, and things, he’s placed that off over there or back over here somewhere, till the thing has become dead.
That’s right. He don’t know how to use it. The thing’s just nothing to him.
You say, “Well, God’s a Healer.” “Oh, what about that, ‘God’s a Healer.’” If He ever was a Healer, He’s still a Healer! If He ever was a Saviour He’s still a Saviour. If He ever was God, He’s still God.
So you see, it’s a lack of faith that’s been preached into the people, that makes them let that sixth sense, which is faith, lay dormant. 60-0611E - Faith Is The Sixth Sense
Example
And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
This should have been their great hour of victory, but they allowed the five senses to rule, and the preachers preached a lack of faith into the people.
Bro. Branham preached promises, not just problems.
Oh, brother, if that sixth sense could understand what we been preaching about this week (Amen.), that the Holy Ghost. God made this promise. Christ made the promise.
We took it through the Scriptures this week, back and forth and back and forth, and combed it over, until we know that God promised to do this thing He’s doing now in this day, the supernatural.
Now, real genuine faith would see that and catch a hold of it, and all devils out of hell would never shake him away from it.
But we stumble at it. It’s not used enough. We depend too much on the five.
And when most the time, to ninety-five percent of the people or better, as soon as they see the five senses is finished, “Well, it’s all gone. Dig my grave; get my casket ready.” 60-0611E - Faith Is The Sixth Sense
Unless you use your faith, it will become so dormant that you won’t even believe a move of God when you see it.
The spies tasted the grapes, saw the land flowing with milk and honey and still did not believe they could do it.
But we become so earthbound with our senses, just so, “Well, if I can’t see it, if I can’t…” And then them senses—the devil gets into those senses.
And he will let you see something with your eyes and then disbelieve it anyhow. Because many times you’ve kept your eyes closed so long until you’re blind.
A fellow said to me one time, said, “Smite me blind; smite me blind! You believe in Divine healing, the same Holy Ghost that Paul preached. Smite me blind.” I said, “I can’t do it, because you’re already blind.”
I said, “Your father the devil did that a long time ago. (See?) you’re already blind.” For the Bible said he’s blind.
This Gospel if it’s hid to anybody, it’s those that are blind, that hasn’t tried to use their senses. The sense of—God gave them.
That sense, if it’s used, it’s a sense of deliverance when the other five fail. 60-0611E - Faith Is The Sixth Sense
This is why we have prayer lines, and lay hands on the sick. We want to use this sense of faith.
If your faith is not dormant, when you go through the prayer line, or feel the move of the Spirit in the service, you claim your healing and hold on to it.
(Two Women and the Angel of the Lord)
What was it? Because they held onto that sixth sense of the Word of God that wouldn’t take “no” for an answer.
They come to the meeting about two months after that, both of them, showed me how they were healed and everything.
What was it? The sixth sense, that sixth sense, that sense of power, that thing that delivered them.
Not because I prayed, but because that they believed. That’s it. That done it. 60-0611E - Faith Is The Sixth Sense
(Insane woman)
About six months after that I was at Jonesboro, Arkansas, with Richard Reed at the Old Fashion Revival Hour Tabernacle at Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Used to be a big Baptist Tabernacle, seats many more than this here, this place. And I was starting to preach…And I kept seeing somebody waving at me out there, and I didn’t know who it was.
And she just couldn’t stand it no longer. She said, “You remember me?” Had four or five little children…And I said, “I don’t believe I do.”
She said, “I never seen you before either.” She said, “But I was the woman that was on my back, crawling.”
And her husband in that six months time had been called to the ministry, and he was going out to preach the Gospel. Oh, my!
What is it? Holding on to that sixth sense. Faith said so…He said, “I kept that in my heart. If God could do such a thing to others, he can do it for my wife.”
He kept holding onto that. Nothing would separate him from it. That’s what that sixth sense will do when it’s turned loose, and let it have it’s controlling power. 60-0611E - Faith Is The Sixth Sense
John Ryhn
He said, “I want to see that preacher.” And so they brought him up there again. He said; he said to me; he said, “You told me I was healed.” I said, “You are.” He said, “Well, if I was healed I could see.”
I said, “Oh, no, that has nothing to do with it. He said, “Well, you said I was healed.” I said, “You said you believed me.” He said, “I do believe you.” I said, “Then what are you doubting about?”
He said, “But I don’t understand it. What shall I do?” I said, “Well, the only thing to do is go on your road just praising God for giving you your eyesight.”
He said, “Where are you?” Started pushing on, said, “Wait a minute.” Said, “What is your name? And I said, “Branham.” He said, “Let me feeled you.” And I let him put my hands over.
(There was no virtue in Bro. Branham’s hand, but sometimes touch helps your faith)
He said, “Mr. Branham, as a Catholic I’m taught to believe my priest.” And he said, “I’ve come to you for help.
And you told me who I was and all about my conditions, what nobody knows but God. I believe it to be the truth, and I’ll keep on saying, “Praise God.” Off the platform he went.
Why I couldn’t hardly have the service the next two nights. He’d get up there where I was at, “Praise the Lord for healing me.” And I’d start preaching, he’d raise up over hollering, “Praise the Lord for healing me.”
They give him a job selling papers. Nearly a month was gone, hollering, “Praise the Lord for healing me.”
And he was down there, he hollered, “Extra, praise the Lord for healing me.” They laughed at him and made fun of him, little newsboys hissed at him. People on the streets said, “That old man’s lost his mind.”
And he’d say, “Extra, extra, read all about it: Praise the Lord for healing me. Extra, read all about it: Praise the Lord for healing me.”
They took him (And they thought they was going to have to send him to the insane institution.) and they questioned him.
He said, “I’m just as normal in my mind as I ever was. But I believe God. Praise the Lord for healing me,” on like that.
What was it? He was holding on to that sixth sense. Something in there holding that. He wasn’t paying any attention to whether he could see, that sight had nothing to do with it. He was seeing with another sight. He seen God!
We look at things we don’t see. All the Christian armor is by faith. He that cometh to God must believe that He is.
All the fruits of the Spirit, everything is faith, unseen. We look at the unseen. We look at the unseen, by faith we see it. Hallelujah!
A little boy led him across the street to get a shave in a barbershop. And some little smart-aleck barber wanted to make some fun out of him. ..Got shaving him, got about half side down, had towel laying up there, you know, and he said, “Say, papa Rhyn.”
He said, “Yes, son.” Said, “I heard you go over to see the holy-roller when he was up here.” “Yeah, I did,” he said.
He said, “Um, I heard that you got healed.” He said, “Yes, I did. Praise the Lord for healing me.” And when he did that, his eyes come open in the barber chair.
Out of that chair he jumped with the towel around his neck. The barber run to the door with the razor in his hand.
Down the street went old man Rhyn just as hard as he could go, screaming and shouting, “Praise the Lord, He has healed me.”
What was it? Holding on that sixth sense. That’s something that makes it real.
And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Through the sixth sense the sea could not drown Paul. When he went down there, when all hopes was gone, he saw a vision of the Angel of the Lord.
And he come back up saying, “Be of a good courage.” What was a matter? No moon and stars for fourteen days and nights, it was just as black as it ever was.
The storm was just as great as it ever was. But that sixth sense went to work when he seen the Angel of the Lord. Hallelujah.
That sixth sense could not keep Peter in jail. No, sir. The power of God sent an Angel in there and delivered him.
The sixth sense could not keep Paul and Silas in stocks. God sent an earthquake and shook the whole thing down.
That sixth sense, let it go to work for you sometime. Because of that sixth sense the lions couldn’t even eat Daniel. They couldn’t fool with that sixth sense. No, sir.
By that same sixth sense that was working in little Martha, when she come to see Jesus raised her brother out of the grave, after being dead for four days…
That same sixth sense raised up Jesus Christ on the third day. That same sixth sense will rapture the Church one of these days and take it out of here to glory.
Don’t rely on the five. They’re deceitful. But that sixth one’s right.
(Charlie and Nellie Cox)
What is it? If you believe it. We should believe it without any seeing. But yet God lets us see it anyhow.
He shows it to us. He shows us His Presence. Surely then there’d be no excuse that that sixth sense won’t go to work. 60-0611E - Faith Is The Sixth Sense
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
The Sixth Sense makes us aware of His Presence in the Five Senses.
A man that believes in God, can see the Presence of God, feel the Presence of God, sense the Presence of God, and know He’s here. 64-0206E - God's Provided Way For This Day
Moses negotiated with God for His presence to be with him.
And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
We don’t want to go without your presence.
And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
He put Moses in a clift of the rock, and covered him with His hand. His faith allowed him to s the back part of God.
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;
Now we have seen Him.
We see Him today by faith, but one day our faith will be a reality.
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