Why the Bible is Right Part 2 "Dressed in the Word"
Sermon • Submitted
0 ratings
· 10 viewsNotes
Transcript
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.
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.
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Introduction.
Introduction.
Duckworth Baby Dedication.
ISAIAH MATTHEW DUCKWORTH
The Bible is right. That is the foundation of our faith.
Our Faith has it’s foundation on the innerancy of the Word of God. That gives it a “perfect resting place”.
When Abraham journeyed he looked for a city with foundations.
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
The early church was built on the same foundation.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Each church age is identified with the foundation.
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
“And he that overcometh will I make him a pillar.” In other words, part of the foundation.
“What will I give him? I’ll put in him the Doctrine of the apostles and prophets from the beginning, and give him the Revelation.” What’d the prophets say about Him? He’s Counsellor, Prince of Peace, Mighty God, everlasting Father.
That’s what they said, the prophets, the apostles. “And he that can overcome all this synagogues of Satan, keep hisself free and look straight to the Gate, I’ll make him a pillar, I’ll put him back in the foundation of My Word in the House of My God.”
Oh, my! “I’ll put him right there in that pillar, in the foundation where you stay right in the Word.” 60-1210 - The Philadelphian Church Age
Our future home has the same foundation.
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
(Contrast) The Beast in Revelation 17 ascends out of a bottomless pit.
The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
What is it? The bottomless pits. There’s no foundation for a Catholic doctrine. There’s no Bible for Catholic doctrine. 58-0927 - Why Are We Not A Denomination?
The Wife of the Lamb described in Revelation 19 is different. She is a bride of the Word. She is going to a city with foundations.
Notice where she is going, what she is wearing, and how she wears it.
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.
C. Because the marriage of the Lamb is come (vv. 7–10).
The words “is come” (v. 7) may be translated “has been completed.” The bride is now the wife (v. 7), and the marriage supper is now to be served.
The Bride is Going to the Marriage Supper. Look at verse 9.
And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
“In that day the Son of man will be revealed.” What? To join the Church to the Head, unite, the marriage of the Bride.
The Bridegroom call will come right through this, when the Son of man will come down and come in human flesh to unite the two together.
The Church has to be the Word, He is the Word, and the two unites together, and, to do that, it’ll take the manifestation of the revealing of the Son of man.
Not a clergyman. See, it’s Son of man, Jesus Christ, will come down in human flesh among us, and will make His Word so real that it’ll unite the Church and Him as one, the Bride, and then She’ll go Home to the Wedding Supper. Amen.
She’s already united, see, we go to the Wedding Supper, not to the marriage. “…fill your flesh…self, of all the flesh of mighty men, ’cause the marriage of the Lamb has come.” But, the Rapture, is going to the Wedding Supper.
When, the Word here unites with the person, and they two become one. And then what does it do then? It manifests the Son of man again, not the church theologians. The Son of man!
The Word and the Church becomes one. Whatever the Son of man done, He was the Word, the Church does the same thing. 64-0816 - Proving His Word
She is getting dressed for that event. The process of courtship, engagement and preparation for marriage is over. She is his wife.
Where we are now is after the vows have been made, the ring is on her finger, the veil is on His shoulder, but the reception in heaven is about to begin. That is still part of the wedding.
The wedding began in His mind before the foundation of the earth, and we are now only waiting on the Marriage Supper.
And as He, being the Groom, the Bride has to come forth, ’cause It’s part of Him. And It can only be the manifestation of the fulfilling of all the revelations any others has spoke of the Bride; It can only manifest.
If it does something different from the Groom, it isn’t the Bride. Because, She is flesh of His flesh, bone of His bone; Life of His Life, Power of His Power! She is Him!
As man and woman are one, and woman taken from his side; She had taken a Spirit, the feminish Spirit, from Him. The flesh from His side, made both Mechanics and Dynamics, the Wife.
The Spirit of Him and the flesh of Him, and put it together, and made Mechanics and Dynamics. 65-0418M - It Is The Rising Of The Sun
She was chosen in Him.
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
He slipped the ring on you there.
Jesus First Miracle was performed at a Wedding Reception.
And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.
Blessed are they which are called.
And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
He has the servants pour water into wine vessels.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
This miracle speaks of the resurrection.
He is God. You fail to see Who He is. He’s the unchanging God. I’m glad I got faith in Him tonight, that someday when my life, my body with its sixteen elements will be back in the dust of the earth.
But He will say, “William Branham,” and I’ll come forth. He will breathe the breath of life into it, say, “There you are.” He will bypass the birth of through my mother, and so forth.
Like Jesus, on His first miracle, He turned water into wine. Eventually it would have been wine, but He bypassed all that procedure, and said, “Turn the water to wine.”
At the resurrection, He will not say, “Mr. and Mrs. Branham get married again and bring forth William.” He will speak, and I’ll come forth. Amen. That’s Him. He’s God. 62-0120 - The Unchangeable God Working In An Unexpectable Way
That ought to take all the fear out of our lives. “I’m afraid I won’t make it if I don’t dress myself correctly in the Word.” What wife would say that? She wants to dress in a way that is pleasing to me because she loves me.
She has made herself ready. Her overcoming is not to be His wife, she’s already His wife, but to be pleasing to Him.
We dress ourselves in the Word because we are Bride, not to make ourselves Bride.
She Has Dressed Herself in the Provided Garment.
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Contrast.
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, Shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, Weeping and wailing,
And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, That was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, And decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
The fine linen is the Word applied, but she added some things to it. (Esther)
The Bible said, “His Wife has made Herself ready,” at the end of the age. How did She make Herself ready, to becoming His Wife?
And what does She? What kind of a garment She had on? His Own Word. She was dressed in His Righteousness. 65-0124 - Birth Pains
What are the essential things that you need, other than a dress, to be ready for a banquet?
Light and a Mirror.
The Bible is our mirror and this Message is the light we need to apply the Word.
(Bro. Branham’s vision told in Present Stage of my ministry. This is not your Tabernacle. Fruit Trees)
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
He always stopped there.
He went on in that sermon to tell the rest of the story.
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
So, you see, it’s at that time when men forsake men, God’s servants that stay true to the Word, that God seals their ministry with a crowning time. 62-0908 - Present Stage Of My Ministry
I wasn’t disobedient to the Heavenly vision that happened down there on the river. I’ve stayed true to it. He’s been true to me. I’m trusting in Him, someday, I don’t know when, for a crowning of my ministry.
I’ve stayed just as true as I could be. I don’t know what it’ll be. I don’t know when it’ll be. And I, just when He’s ready, I am. I don’t care.
I hope He will crown my ministry of this, of letting me take the clothes of the Word, and dress His Bride in the clothe of the Word, and for His righteousness.
I hope He will crown me, let me stand on that day, say, “Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.” 62-0908 - Present Stage Of My Ministry
The Bride must step out of the way, to go up now; so the two servants, the two servants of God, in Revelation, the two prophets, can appear upon the scene, to sound the Seventh Trumpet to them, make known to them the Christ.
The seventh angel, messenger, say, “Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world!” Not, “behold my Methodist, my Baptist, my Pentecostal.”
But, “The Word, the Son of God, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world,” for no other foundations is there! You see?
How long have we got? The Jews are in their homeland. The Bride is called. Scripturally, everything just exactly what He promised. We’re ready. The hour is here. 64-0719M - The Feast Of The Trumpets
He was the friend of the Bridegroom who was able to turn the light on for the Bride to get dressed in the Word.
The fine linen was the righteousness of the saints. Our own righteousness is filthy rags, this must be His. We have put on the Word, in anticipation of sitting at that table thousands of miles long.
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
So there’s going to be a meeting in the air one of these days, in that sweet, sweet by and by. Just stay ready! Keep yourself ready! Purge your heart from all evil thinking.
Have faith in God, no matter how dark it looks and how many laughs and makes fun and says, “You’ve made a mistake.” Keep right on living holy and living for God. Just keep moving on, the hour will arrive! 60-1231 - Revelation, Chapter Four #1
I’m Going Home
There is Going to be a Meeting in the Air