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...drops of mercy shine brightShine all around us by day and by nightJesus the Light of the worldOh, walk in the light, beautiful lightComes where the dewdrops of mercy shine brightShine all around us by day and by nightJesus, the Light of the world.Thank you, heavenly Father. Shall we bow our heads in a word of prayer. Our

gracious Lord, how thankful we are tonight, God, to be gathered here before Thee Lord,the High Priest that we can come boldly to the throne of grace tonight. And Father,knowing that Thou art a Living God, we have that confidence, that faith tonight.

And we would ask Lord, that you would sprinkle the blood of Jesus Christ uponus tonight. Lord, for we are mortals, and you know that, Lord. And you saved usbecause we were mortals, we couldn’t help ourselves. And we cannot help ourselvestonight.

Oh, the blood of Jesus. Oh God. So heavenly Father, forgive our mistakes andmay you just come down tonight in one great unity of love and catch us up, God, into anecstasy that we’ve never known before. Lord Jesus, may you just strip ourselves down,and show us that we are nothing. And we’ll be so happy to know by revelation that weare nothing, Lord.

We’ve been trying to reach that place, Lord. But oh God, just one revealed oraclefrom God that we are nothing. We’ll be so happy to learn that we are nothing, and thatyou are everything. So, heavenly Father, may the Spirit of the Lord move tonight like it’snever moved before, Lord.

May the sick be healed by a word. Oh, God, may old wounds be healed uptonight, Lord. May we be able to fall upon the sword. Oh God, may we march out ofhere in ranks and not thrust one another, Lord. Not breaking ranks, but oh God, unitingin a love. Sticking together by honey, Lord. Oh, God, may the honey fall upon ustonight, Father, and unite us, Lord.

And, God, may the cripples walk and the blind see in here tonight. Lord God,may anything happen tonight. We believe tonight, Lord. Now we believe, now we arethe sons of the Living God. And it does not appear what we shall be, but we know thatwhen you shall appear, we shall be like you. That is a predestinated promise of God.

Now, heavenly Father, take a hold of my mind, my thoughts, Lord God, andcarnal thinking, and move it out of the way. May fire...we are sacrifices here tonight,Lord. And if we are sacrifices and you are fire, nothing can be left of the sacrifice, soconsume us tonight, Lord. Oh, God, consume us, and when the cloud moves away,there’ll be Jesus standing there Lord. Jesus speaking, Jesus listening, Jesus healing, Jesusmoving in our midst tonight, Father.

Now...and heavenly Father, we’ll be careful that no man shall ever get the glory.No man is worthy to get the glory, Father. We’ll give all the glory to you. We thank youtonight, Father, for allowing us to vessels that you might come into us and live a life,your own life, and then give us a reward for what you did. How we thank you, LordGod, for that privilege, Father. We’ve done nothing, Lord. You have done it all throughthe blood of Jesus Christ. And may we have the victory tonight, and may we be able tosay that we are one in unity of the Spirit, in unity of the Faith.

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Heavenly Father, bless Thy people tonight, and may you confirm the messagewith signs, wonders, and miracles. We pray and we ask it in Jesus’ Name and His sake.Amen.

You may be seated. Oh, we’re certainly happy tonight, to be gathered here in thehouse of the Lord under this pyramid building. Amen. Looks like a pyramid to me. Ithink it’s fitting in this hour, to be sitting in the pyramid. Praise the Lord. Amen.

And so we’re certainly happy to be here, tonight, and we certainly thank BrotherLee Vayle for those gracious words, for Brother Branham always said, Praise the Lord,“Rather receive a bouquet now than a wreath on your grave.” So we thank the Lord forevery kind word that is spoken. For the prophet of God did exhort us to say somethingnice, and say something good. Amen. So we try to say something nice and somethinggood to one another. And you know what that does?

It brings the Spirit of the Lord on the scene. And all the old doubt and funnyspirits move away cause they don’t like anything nice and good. Jesus loves it. Amen.Praise the Lord. So, we thank God for that.

And now I wanted to say that I feel that we’re looking at Esther, tonight. TheBride that was called out of Laodicea, because Vashti in type, and Esther of theLaodicean church, she refused the headship. See, and therefore, He had to put her away,and He called Esther. Amen.

Esther’s sitting here tonight. Praise the Lord. And the eunuchs, they’re sittingbehind me, and they’ve been feeding Esther. Praise God for them. Amen. And now, werealize that when Esther was called, that Hagai, he was the chamberlain there, I believe,and but the Bible says that Esther listened to everything that Hagai told her to wear and touse that would please the king. For Hagai, I feel, a type of the Holy Ghost, and he knewjust what the king wanted.

So, Esther listened to Hagai. And then the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit hasrevealed to us just what the King loves. And that is the Word. To be in obedience to theWord of God. And then when Esther went out, the king just loved her. And he put thecrown upon her head, and then she received the headship, the word, that Vashti turneddown.

And, but a time came, I believe it was in Exodus...Esther 4, the fourth chapter,where Haman was afoot and he was getting ready to move against God’s people. Andthere was one who was trained and called for the job to be ready to go out and standagainst Haman, and the World Council and them. And that was Esther, Praise the Lord.

And then, but Esther was safe in the kingdom there. She knew she was the bride,but Mordechi, he exhorted her, that there’s yet other people there. And that’s the way wefeel, going after the lost. Amen.

And then Esther was told to go in to the king, and it was death to go in thereunless the king called you in there, see? And to come into his presence. But thank God,that God has made a way for us to walk into His presence through this bloody message ofMalachi 4. Praise God. As the blood atonement has laid out the way, we had...andEsther had courage to go in there, for she said, “For such a time is. How do you knowthat you weren’t called tonight for such a time as this?”

Do you believe friends that you weren’t called tonight for such a time as this?This very hour, to be able to walk into the King’s presence? And when you...she walkedin there, she put on her royal apparel, and the crown on her head, she walked into his

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presence. He was so moved when he saw how beautiful she was dressed in her gown. Inthe headship, the word, all over her. That he, he just loved the way she looked.

And he put out the scepter, the authority. Said, “Whatever you want, Esther.Whatever you want, just, anything you want. You want to be healed, you want the HolyGhost? You want your loved ones saved? You can ask anything you want, even to halfof my kingdom, you can have it.”

Oh, I see that scepter stretched out here tonight. Don’t you see it, friends? It'shanging all over the place here. It’s the authority of Jesus Christ that He wants to handthe Bride. Oh, I feel it can happen tonight. Praise God.

And now I wanted to say, I certainly enjoyed the messages this morning. BrotherJonckheere, and Brother Rosaiki was here. And Brother Rosaiki, he gave us cornbreadand beans. We certainly thank the Lord for the doctrine going forth. Brother Jonckheerefrom Belgium came along and gave us ice cream and cake. Praise the Lord. We’recertainly happy for that. We like...we got to have the cornbread and beans, and wegot...we like the ice cream and cake, also.

But it was wonderful this afternoon, and we’re trusting that the Lord will give ussomething, tonight. And I’m trusting and praying that the sick will be healed with theWord tonight. You know, and I’m thinking about that there, I have something here. Thisnote was given to me by Brother Jack Palmer two years ago in Jeff. And I don’t think heknows anything about it, cause he may have forgotten about it, and he gave me this here,and I’ve kept it in my Bible for two years and never thinking that I would be here withBrother Jack Palmer. But this is what he gave me, a message, “Then Jesus Came.”

Jeffersonville, Indiana, 4-7-57. “I was just inspired to speak them words and saythat some glorious day, that all of the gifts that’s in the church would just be set aside onthe mantle, as it was, and the Holy Spirit Himself would just take the church in such acontrol of divine love until the sick will be healed, the blind will see, the lame will walk,without being hands laid on them. It’ll be just one great unity.”

Well, Praise God, Brother Jack, may...he didn’t know it, but may that come topass tonight. I’m hoping that God cap this off tonight. For he’s the one that had thefaith, and the burden to get God’s people together here. In spite of understandings, andthis one and that one, he didn’t care. He had a...he had something in his heart burning toget God’s people together.

And, so therefore, I, as a minister, I don’t feel worthy to even be standing here. Somany fine brothers here, and such a fine spirit here that any minister could stand up hereand speak tonight. I heard Brother Jack Bell last year, speaking in this very spot onhealing, and it was a tremendous message.

So therefore, just a night of healing. But I just want to see the Lord bless BrotherJack for his faith, and his church, and what they did to bring us together. I think weshould really pray for him, and also, appreciate him for what he’s done. Praise God forBrother Jack.

And now, tonight is healing. And so now we know that we can have healing evenwithout hands laid upon us. St. Mark 11: 23, “Whatever you want, whatever you believein your heart, when you say it, it shall come to pass.” Or we can have hands laid on also,St. Mark 16: it’s still the Word, but it’s up to you, whatever you want. Amen.

I just want to give a little testimony. In my own church, December the 2nd, lastyear ’73. I believe it was Brother ??????, happened to be up, and he was there. And a

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sister in our church was there. She had...what had happened, I had came into the church alittle late and she had missed her prayer request, and she had a tremendous boilunderneath her arm. And that morning, I was reading the message, “End Time SeedSign.” Brother Sparks edition.

And there, Brother Branham was reiterating how he was teaching his church inIndiana on, “The Greatest Battle Ever Fought,” how there was a woman on a stretcher, ayoung lady laying on the stretcher. And he just looked at her and went ahead andpreached the Word. And when he finished preaching that message, “The Greatest BattleEver Fought,” the woman got up off the stretcher and walked out. Amen.

So, I was reading that over, and that morning I was inspired to reading that there,and came into the church and they handed me the note. And I walked into the pulpit, andwith that upon my heart, I prayed that when the Word...while the Word yet went forth,whether she be in the basement or the balcony, cause the Word can find you, you know?

I don’t care where you go at. That Word would go out and find her, sitting in herseat. And Brother Ned can give witness to it, cause he was there. And that afternoon shecalled back to my wife and says that, “Before the message was over, she felt somethingtrickling down her sleeve and had busted open by the Word of God.

I believe God can burst open cancers, tonight. I believe He can bust openanything, tonight. Amen. The Word can paralyze the world. Praise God.

That’s the way I feel tonight, friends. So, I feel that those who need healing, youcan be healed while you sit in your seat. For we have witnesses in this church to provethat it happened in New York City. The prophet taught it, we just come right back towhat he said. He knows what he was talking about, Amen. See, we’re in the Word age,we done high, way up, Amen.

We’ll just say it, Amen. Cause see, it’s God’s mind, these are...it’s not our wordshere, this is not our minds. This is God’s mind for this age. Whew! God’s mind for thisage. That we should just say it, and it would come to pass. Oh my, what a message!Praise God.

We’re not even worthy to handle this here. If we could just keep that in mind,that we’re not worthy, Amen. The way the prophet kept it that way, I know that anythingcan happen here tonight. Do you believe that, friends? Praise our God.

Now, I want to, by way of a text, I want to read from, I want to read fromNumbers, the 20th chapter, verse 7 through 11. If you’re writing down the scriptures,Hebrews 10, 19 through 25. And Jude, the 22nd chapter through the 25th verses,inclusive. Reading from Numbers, the 20th chapter. This is a healing night.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thybrother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth hiswater, [the rock, it shall give forth his water]...and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give thecongregation and their beasts drink.And Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him.And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together the rock, and he saidunto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and thewater came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

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And also Hebrews, 10th chapter, 19th verse:Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood ofJesus,By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil,that is to say, his flesh;And having an high priest over the house of God;Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our heartssprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; [for he is faithfulthat promised;]And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:And Jude 22:And of some have compassion, making a difference:And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garmentspotted by the flesh.Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultlessbefore the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. May God add a blessing to the reading of His Word. Can you imagine that God

is able to present us faultless? Praise...just that one thought alone is enough to sit downfor a million years and think about it. The grace of almighty God, faultless, blameless,spotless. Praise God.

That’s the way He sees us right here tonight. I’d like to take a thought out ofhere, “And Of Some Have Compassion.” That’s my burden tonight. You know, andmany people think that you have to hear a lot of strange doctrines to know what’s goingon. No, you should learn the truth first, then you can discern what’s going on. Amen,see?

So, we don’t have to hear a lot of funny things, we just want to hear the truth.And then when the funny things come along, we know what it is. And we have peace,because that’s the way, like in the natural in the banks, they train their bank tellers on thereal dollar bills. Not the counterfeit ones. And they learn how to count the money withthe real bills. They get the feel of the real dollar bills.

And then when a phony is presented, they got it right away. They got it. I don’tcare what spirit moves around, you got it. Amen. And you have enough time to getcomposed and, well, Lord bless you brother. But you got the spirit already, cause youlearn to count with the real dollar bills.

And I feel that God has given us the real dollar bill, Bill Branham, that is. Praisethe Lord. Do you believe that, friends? Therefore, I know all the counterfeit BillBranhams, cause I’ve seen the real one. Amen. And the dollar bill that he gave me, Iknow it will take me in the resurrection. I know that the bank teller shall receive it. Iknow I can cash in on the real dollar bill. Cause it’s the same one from the foundation ofthe world.

Oh, Praise God, what promises, what faith, what hope we have tonight in thismessage that we have received from the King. Amen. It’s vindicated already. Don’tneed anything added to it. That’s why I was rejoicing last night, the Wave Sheaf. Andthen when I get low, I’m wondering this is going on, the devil saying this here, I says theWave Sheaf, and it sweeps over me. Amen, Praise God.

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Then I’m all right then, see? I know that it was already waved and presented, andthe blood dripped all over me. Ain’t nothing I can do, nothing, I can’t figure it out, I’mgonna make a mistake tomorrow. I’m gonna make one Monday and Tuesday andWednesday, but the Wave Sheaf was already presented for our...my justification. I’malready accepted. I was there before the foundation of the world, and so were you.

And as Brother Jonchere brought out this morning, before God made an atom, wewere there. Amen. Before He made the sun, the moon, the stars, we was there. Weshouted for joy, Amen. We sang together with the morning stars, when we saw the Capcoming upon the pyramid. We praised God for it. Amen.

So now, and Brother Branham taught us that when Jesus cursed the fig tree, that itwas already moving away, see? So therefore, Malachi 4 has come on the scene andcursed every fig tree, as it was. Anything that had to be moved, God has done cursed italready, and it’s moving out of the way. Amen. Our sicknesses, our whatever it is, it’salready cursed. Praise God, we have the victory already.

Now what happened here? What was God doing here? God was showing themHis power first to know that it was possible. And that’s why God used Brother Branhamto show us those five manifestations, and all those are signs, wonders, and miracles. Thatwas to show us that it could be done first. Then all we have to do is to believe that itcould be done. And we have seen it done, we know it has been done. All we have to dois to believe it, tonight. It’s already been done.

The sickness in your body is already cursed already. Praise God. So God firstproves it Himself. Then you ask for it, so let’s ask for it tonight. Amen. Praise God.

Now it said that a helpless sparrow can drift with the wind, see? But it takes aneagle to fly against the storms of doubt and unbelief and see through the storms, and seethe promises of God on the other side. Oh, I can see the eagles with their wings spreadout tonight. Amen. Ready to fly with every promise of God. Let the current, the HolySpirit just sweep you up. You’ll go places you’d never been before. I believe that.Amen.

But all we have to do now is take both the Old and the New Testament. I believethat God can take any portion of this Bible and interpret through you. Wherever it is, Idon’t care if it’s in the Book of Ecclesiastes, or in the Book of Esther, that can beinterpreted through you. Yes sir, I believe that tonight.

Now tonight, my message is dedicated to the “Stature Of A Perfect Man.” Forsomehow I feel that that message is a KEY message for the Bride. And so much so thatBrother Branham...this was part of the stored-up food. And I even believe that BrotherBilly Paul even had a dream about this here. Hope he don’t mind me saying it. But hedid have a dream, because he made it public. I suppose it’s OK to say it. And had adream about...I think it was 19 tapes, and so forth like that. And Brother Branham wassaying in the dream to him, “Before, Paul, you can come to me, or I can come to you,there is a condition. And these tapes, and there’s 19, and they must have these 19.”

And I never forgot that, you know? And it stuck to me, and then he said, “Well,how will I know what...how would it be? He said, it will be like a stature of a perfectman.” And that was the only tape that he named in that dream. So I, brother I’ve beensearching this book for a long time. Amen.

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For if the prophet gave it to his son in a dream, there’s got to be something in heresomewhere, for he named this book right here, the only one. So therefore, let us go backto this book here, maybe something is in here. Praise God.

And so therefore, it was beautiful and I began to chase Billy Paul for I sawsomething in the Word and having a dream like that. And I saw his dream in the Bible.For it’s in the Bible in Leviticus 25 and Deuteronomy 28:8. For God commands ablessing on the storehouses. Amen. Everybody’s storehouse, there’s a commandedblessing which is a different blessing from an ordinary blessing. A commanded one fromHeaven upon the storehouse. Praise God.

And so therefore, Brother Billy Paul moved under this commanded blessing andopened up the storehouse. And we’ve been going there all these years. And so I saw thatin ’68, and I wanted to tell him about it, I never got a chance to tell him, but I’m tellinghim tonight. Amen.

But anyway, and cause back in there in Leviticus, 25th chapter, verse 1 through 6,it says, “Sow the seed for six years.” I just want to strike that 20th verse here.

And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall notsow, nor gather in our increase:Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bringforth fruit for three years.And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of the old fruit [that’s the oldstorehouse tapes] until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of theold store.Oh, I saw this here, this...these tapes would be right here ‘til the harvest. Amen.

The old fruit would be right here. And then I saw from ’66 through 1971 was six years ofsowing. I saw the ministry here sowing that seed. I saw in their places there, I sawBrother Billy Paul doing what he was supposed to do, playing those tapes in thatstorehouse. I said, how wonderful this is. Everybody’s in their own order, doing whatthey want...doing what they’re supposed to do, led by God.

And we have got to come to a spot in the ninth year, somewhere in there, where’sgonna be a unity in there somewhere. Amen. It’s got to be, I feel it. It lays in heresomewhere. Praise the Lord.

So when I saw that there, and then we had a little type of this in our own church.For Brother Hunte and I labored from ’66 through ’71. And in October 1971, two hippytypes, beards and boots and all, Jesus People walked into our church in October. And wewas preaching in there, and then the Holy Spirit was all around them, and we didn’t quiteunderstand it. This was in our sixth year, and we didn’t get it. And then after the service,I threw everything but the kitchen sink at them, trying to understand it, the beards andwhatnot. Trying to figure out what it meant, and they just ate it up. Praise God.

Next thing I know, they was baptized. They were from New Jersey. And therenot even knowing, there was a commanded blessing for New York City. And then in theseventh year, Brother Hunte and I was laboring, we were tired and weary from justpounding away, sowing that seed, sowing it faithfully, staying at the post. And theseventh year, God gave Brother Hunte and I a rest. For these two brothers begin to bringthem in from New Jersey.

And brother, they begin to come into our church from January ’72 all the wayaround, and we begin to eat in the seventh year. We didn’t have to do nothing. We just

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baptized them. And our own people, they ate as they saw the new souls come in. What arest! What a refreshing it was! That was God taking the portion of the Word in Leviticusand interpreting it in New York City in this day. I know what I’m talking about, for I’veseen God vindicate just this right here in our own time in 1972.

And then in the eighth year, he says, “Sew that seed.” And last year, we sowedthe seed from faith all the way up to brotherly kindness, to adoption, Praise God, torapturing grace, to rapturing faith, divine love, the resurrection, the rapture, the weddingsupper, the whole bit. Last year the church was sowed down. The old-timers with thesenew people coming in in 1972, ’71, everybody was sowed down together with theoriginal seed.

And New York City is here tonight, and they’re waiting and looking with theircups empty, Amen. Looking up for God to pour it down. I know you’re here also, forthe same thing. And then this being, last year was the last year and it says, “Keep eatingfrom the old fruit, the storehouse, the tapes, until the ninth year, until her crops come in.Oh my. This is the ninth year, friends.

Eight and a half years already. And I feel that the sowing time is over. I feel thatthere’s got to come forth an in-gathering. And what a beautiful month to have an in-gathering of the wheat in June, right down here in Georgia. Praise the Lord. My, I’mlooking for an in-gathering tonight. All the wheat, the finest of the wheat has beengathered here in Georgia tonight. Amen.

I believe we are right. I believe we are mature. I believe we are ready to manifestthe brotherly love that is supposed to be our virtue in the top of the pyramid. And thenwhen Jesus can look down tonight, and see faith, and virtue, and patience, and godliness,and knowledge, and brotherly kindness, the honey stuck in the rock-box faith, then He’llseal it up. Praise God.

And then we’ll see a stature of a perfect man. Oh my! You brothers believe itover in the back, over here? Brother, I’m looking for it, and that’s what He said.

Well anyway, I just want to read to you about five minutes or so, fro page sixhere, “Stature Of A Perfect Man.” Want to read something to you, page six.

“Now we’re approaching the Seven Seals, we just finished the Seven ChurchAges, and this a message on teaching that ties a man in that’s gonna be redeemed by theblood of the Lord Jesus, and it’s going to be in that church age, the Eternal Church Age atthe end of the seals. That’s the one that I want to be in.”

And now, Brother Branham took his church in ’62, and he stood them up, and hemade them pledge. And he said these words on page 65. “Add to your faith virtue, addto your virtue, knowledge, to your knowledge temperance, to your temperance patience,to your patience godliness, to your godliness brotherly love, to your brotherly love theHoly Spirit, and Christ will come. Because just beneath him, the Holy Spirit IS the Spiritof Christ into the church to manifest those virtues.

I pledge this morning to Him with all my heart, that by His help, and by Hisgrace, I pray that I’ll seek daily without ceasing until I feel every one of theserequirements flowing in this little ‘ole stature of mine. ‘Till I can be a manifestation ofChrist. For He became sin like me, that I might become righteousness like Him. He tookmy place. Lord, let me take His now because that’s the purpose He died for. I love Him,I pledge it, Lord. This church pledges it. The full stature of Jesus Christ.”

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My, I said my, there’s got to be something laying in there somewhere. And I suream looking for that Living Image. For Brother Branham said, “Then you’ll see sons anddaughters of God, living monuments, images of Jesus Christ. That’s what He died for,that’s what He’s coming back for.”

And I feel that something can happen before these services is over to start us, topush us off toward what we’re talking about here in this book right here. Page 52, “Isn’tthat wonderful, and then God through that has brought also Seven Church Ages to showthose seven steps that He brought. Building His individuals into His image. He has builta complete church in His image. At the resurrection, this complete body will be raised upto live with Him forever, because it is a Bride. So that cuts in every age, every agecomes.”

And he goes on reading here in Hebrews 11: And he reads on this wise, andspeaking about those who wandered about in deserts, mountains, and dens and caves ofthe earth.

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, [here, a good reportthrough faith] received not the promise:God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should notbe made perfect.You get it? These people who died in here are depending and waiting on us. So

this church has got to come to perfection, in order to bring the resurrection.”My, what a calling we have! What a vocation! You and I, mere human being.

And even, Brother Billy Paul in the dream. He said," Paul, before you can come to meand I can come to you, there’s something here’s got to be made here.” Praise God. Iwonder if somewhere in here somewhere. And this was the tape that he named, and herethese people over here cannot come to us, and we can’t go to them, until this churchcomes to perfection.

The prophet’s own words in here. I know it’s got to mean something. Why, I’mlooking for something like this to happen here, friends. Aren’t you looking for the samething? I know I am. Well then, II Peter: this very message here, says that, “By thesepromises, the Word, we might be made partakers of His divine nature.”

So then, we realize that it is trough God’s nature, through His promises, rather,that we will be made partaker of His nature. Now the Token is the Life, which is theWord. He allowed this Life seed to grow in Him, like I spoke last night for thirty yearsby the promises. Brother Branham, the Holy Spirit, the nature of God came into BrotherBranham through the promises. And it’s got to come to us by the promises.

A much shorter time, but it still got to come by the promises. And BrotherBranham hacked the promises out for himself against the entire world. Amen. And thenthe anointing come down, and brought out the life of the Word. And we have thepromised Word in us. God, like we was saying last night, He compressed the Holy Spirit.Whew, like an accordion, and slipped it into our hearts for eight and a half years andsowed a seed.

Now, He’s getting ready to expand our borders. Amen. Oh my, when He expandsour borders, it’s a fullness of the Holy Spirit just comes around us, the canopy of lifedrops over us. And we’re under the canopy of life. And we’ll become livingmonuments. Then the charity comes down, and then we see a living faith, a living

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knowledge, a living temperance, a living virtue, a living patience, a living brotherlykindness when charity does it. The anointing of God.

And we’re all waiting for that, I know we are. Amen. But we had to go throughheartaches and trials and temptations to literally die out to ourselves. But He showed usthe way and it can be done. He also provided the way. He said, “This will bring to pass atremendous victory in the love divine.”

So, I’m looking for the love divine to mate with the Word. And the two becomeone. And “The Token,” I feel, was his keynote message in ’63, for he said, “That was mygreatest message by inspiration, outside of the Seven Seals, those were the directcommission.” But he said, “That was by inspiration.”

So there’s something, inspiration, I feel that God wants to reveal to the Bride howto get out of the way. Oh, if He would do it tonight. Reveal to us to get ourselves out ofthe way that we might see Jesus. The Greeks said, “We would see Jesus.” Amen. Theworld is wanting to see Jesus. They don’t want to hear about it, they want to see Him.Amen. This is the seeing age, they want to see it. And we have the calling to produceJesus Christ. To be a reproduction of Jesus Christ through the seed, sperm Word, that’salready in us already.

Every promise in there already. All we need is for God to come down and bring itout. So I feel that the seed of Abraham, Christ, is in the Bride. And the Bride, likeMalachi 4, adds the Life of Christ by the promises. And the promises must be sowed,must be preached by the ministry. Or if you don’t have a minister, you hear the tapes andso forth. If you have a minister, hear the tapes, and hear him preach also, and read thebooks. So long as this message is sowed in there. Long as you know it’s a Biblepromise. Praise God.

If a donkey speak it. As long as it’s a Bible promise. Amen. God can usedonkeys, anything He want to do to speak the Word of God. We ain’t nobody. Amen.Praise God. If He use a donkey, he ain’t got no mind of his own, anyway. Amen, see?

So therefore, oh God, make me a donkey tonight. Amen. Every promise isquickened by the Word of God, enabling us to add the life to the seed. Now, brotherlykindness is forgiveness, it’s the virtue, I feel, of the hour. That’s burning in my heart. Itmust be displayed. It must be ripe, and it must be seen. And the perfection, the seed, theseed of God is the baptism of the Holy Ghost coming in.

And then now we’re looking for fruit. This is the hour of the fruit; way up in thetop of the tree. And the fruit is the harvest of the seed in the heart, and that’s charity.That’s the full Word added to the seed. Now I feel tonight, that the ripeness is brotherlykindness, forgiveness, honey, the rock-box confession. And I feel that Charity seals aman up for service. This is to take place as Brother Branham said, on so many tapes.The Adoption Tapes, and oh, “What The Holy Ghost Was Given For,” and oh, so manyof them, “Blasphemous Names,” “Desperation,” we know them all.

But he said that, “That there would come forth a power of the resurrection.” Ithink it’s page 5 of the “Questions and Answers on the Holy Ghost.” He said, “When thepower of this church rises, [the power of that church rises] it will bring its brethren.”When the power of the church in Georgia rises, the church in Jeff. and Tucson andAlabama and all around rises, the power of the Holy Ghost moves in, Charity sweeps in.You’ll be caught up into Charity, into rapturing grace. It’ll bring you. Praise God. Itwill kick you up and reap you like a sheaf coming up in the reaping season.

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And you’ll know who you are. You’ll know you’re a son and a daughter of theLiving God. A living monument. Praise God, ready to work for the Master. Oh, you’llhave THUS SAITH THE LORD, you’ll keep still. You’ll have the mind of God, Zoe,eternal life moving through your members. Praise God.

“Move here, go there, say this here.” Something’s gonna happen now, friends,cause it’s THUS SAITH THE LORD, or you keep still. And then you have, oh, God iswanting to put us into a position, St. John 5: 19. A position in the Word when He canshow us anything in the Word, He can bring it to pass, cause Jesus Christ was in thatposition. St. John 5: 19, “I do nothing except the Father show me, reveal to me how to doit, what to say, and I do that.”

Oh, if we can get that position, tonight. Where we won’t back up from any part ofthe Word. No matter if it doesn’t cope with our doctrine or our idea or not. Lord God,get my idea out of the way. We’ve all found out all these years, whenever God actuallycomes on the scene, it’s always different from the way we thought it was. I believeeverybody can say, “Amen” to that. It’s always been different from the way we actuallyhad it figured out in our own mind. Oh my, Amen brothers?

So therefore, let us get our own minds out of the way. What a tremendous callingwe have tonight. What a responsibility that we have. We have a wonderful exhortationhere tonight, here in the Book of Hebrews, the tenth chapter here. And so we realize thatthrough these promises of Charity we will be like Him. But it’s got to be a Biblepromise, and this is a Bible promise, add to your faith, and so forth. And the last thing isCharity. And now here every believer is a priest and is exhorted to enter into the holiest,and to enjoy his full rights in Christ.

Christians today should exhort one another to faithfulness more and more. Asthey see the day of Christ draws near, “Come on brother, help that brother, help thatsister, come on, come on now, come on. Praise God.”

I always believed this here, Brother Branham said to a ministering brother,“You’re walking up to Mt. Zion now, and on the side is serpents hissing this way and thatway. Don’t fight them, don’t even look at them. Amen, keep on walking up thosebloody footprints on up to Mt. Zion.” Praise God. Keep moving on brother, I don’t carewhat those serpents are hissing about, it don’t mean anything anyway. Amen. Cause healready spoke what means something. There’s only one thing that mean anything, that’sthe Word of God.

This is LIFE, this is REAL. Amen, Praise God. Oh, blessed be the Name of theLord. Assemble thyselves together, considering one another. Oh, how the Lord loves tosee us consider one another. One another’s feelings, one another’s thoughts. HowBrother Branham wouldn’t even let no man open the door for him. You’d go to open it,he would get around you some kind of way, open it up for you. Praise God.

I used to watch all those little things there. And oh, he was a master boxer. Onetime he had us all down there in Indiana, in February ’65. It was Thursday evening there,in those meetings there. And for some reason we was in the school auditorium, and theywouldn’t open up the other side. I was watching that there, there’s something wrong inhere, something right in here, too. Amen.

And then he said, “Will all the minister come up on the platform.” I said, oh oh,he got us up here for something up here now. I knew that, Amen. We was all up there,every minister was sitting behind him. But what a feeling to sit behind a prophet. Whew.

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What an experience, first time I ever sat behind a prophet. My, what a blessing it was tosit there. And then, he went to preach, “The Seed Shall Not Be Heir With The Shuck.”And he was saying, “Oh, you Pentecostal hawks! Get off of them telephone wires andthem things and soar on up into the Spirit like eagles. Go on up and get that Bride food,ministers.” And he pointed behind him, there. Amen.

It was so real, we knew something was going on behind us there. So one brothersaid, “Who’s he talking about?” Another brother said, “He’s talking about us, man.”Praise God. Amen. So, I never forgot that. I said, Praise God, let me. I said, it’s adreadful place in here, Amen. Praise the Lord. I never sat there again cause the next dayit was all open, wide open, both sides. So, I knew that was for the ministers, there.

So brothers, hear that tape again. Amen. Praise the Lord. Soar up into theheavenlies. Spread your wings out, ministers. Every promise belongs to the bride ofJesus Christ, tonight, for Jesus died for every blood redeemed promise, and it’s for you,the bride of Jesus Christ. Therefore, we have a charge ministers, to preach the Word inseason and out of season. Oh, what a charge to preach the Word. Praise God.

Now I believe this is the season when the people will stop running from the Word,and they’ll fall upon the sword. And you put it in with love. Speak the truth in love. Notspeak lovely in the truth, halleluiah. Just speak the truth in love. Amen, Praise the Lord.You know the Ten Commandments, the first four is our attitude toward God, and the nextsix is our attitude toward our neighbor. Amen. If you love your neighbor, you will tellyour neighbor about God first.

And then as a minister, if I love my neighbor, that’s you, I’ll tell you that Goddon’t want no idols before Him. Amen. Because I love you, I speak the truth about Himfirst, but I speak it in love for you, so you know that. Amen. Praise God. So now, we’reexhorting one another to good works and provoking unto love. And I’m here to exhortyou, Praise God, the people to enjoy their blood-washed redeemed rights unto love andunity of the faith.

But now watch here, there are many weak ones and those who don’t understandGod’s will. And so, therefore, there’s a scripture here, “And of some have compassion.”Oh, what a revelation, brothers. There are weak ones, there are ignorant ones who don’thave the same revelation that you have. And here is...we’re in the Word now, back to theWord. Every Word. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word thatproceedeth forth from the mouth of God.”

Therefore, I’m not interested in what that brother believes, as long as they believein Malachi 4, that’s the beginning there. Does he believe that? Well, he may be all thisway and that way, that’s all right, see?

Temperance, Amen; Long-suffering, long-g-g-g-g-g -suffering, stretch it way out.Amen. Praise God, see? And I’m persuaded that God’s able to take care of His own now,see? Therefore, the...I feel that there’s coming forth a true revelation on brotherlykindness that will just sweep over us and something will happen to us.

Brother Branham said on “The Throne Of Mercy And Judgment,” “Oh whatJeffersonville, Indiana needs tonight, what the world needs tonight is thousands of livedvoices.” Did you hear what I said? A lived voice. Then the voice of God come downthrough Malachi 4 as a shout. And we were...we’re just supposed to walk around Jericho,as it was. And He said, “When I bid you to shout, shout.”

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Maybe tonight, we can begin to shout. Amen. And the Holy Spirit anoint ourmouths to shout the real message out, not some interpretation, but what he said. Shout itout, but it takes a lived voice first. You must live the Word first. Add, add, add, add,add, add, oh my, and the devil’s getting madder and madder as you add. And when youhit that brotherly kindness, oh brother, I see him going out the door tonight.

He said, “Don’t let them add that, please, Philistines. Please demons, don’t letthem add brotherly kindness, for we’re gone. We’re finished, if they ever get therevelation to forgive their brothers, we are finished.” Praise God. So, he said, “They’regetting close, they’re getting close, they’re laying Word, Word, Word, they’re gonna findthe secret. It’s laying in forgiveness.” That’s the condition that man’s sins are forgivenon, forgiveness of man. Praise God.

When you stand praying, before you can receive the Spoken Word promises,forgive your brother. Oh my, if you don’t forgive him, if you have an ought, you got agrievance, if you’re right, he did something to you, you forgive him. Otherwise, yourheavenly Father cannot forgive you in the Bride age, in the Word age. And the devilwant to keep that away from you now. So he won’t let nobody preach that, now. Scurryall around it, but I feel maybe tonight, the secret is out. Praise God, you’re talking abouthealings, the faith bank will sweep all over this place here.

It’ll blow off the cap up there. Amen, Praise God. What a revelation! “And ofsome have compassion.” “But you don’t understand brother, he did the terriblest thingto me. Talked about me in a dirty way, told lies on me.” “And of some havecompassion.” My, “But you don’t understand, I mean, he did this, he did that.”Shammai kicked dirt on David. “Should I cut that dog’s head off?” “Let him alone, Godhas bid him to do it.” Amen.

What about David, he had Saul death right twice down there. Had his sword, theword upon him, could have chopped in pieces, he was God’s anointed. But here wasanother man that was God’s anointed also, he didn’t have the same revelation, sotherefore David had him. Brother, what a Pentecostal bait. David said, “I got a witness tochop your head off, devil. But David had compassion. “Touch not God’s anointed, anddo His prophet no harm.”

Praise God. Oh I feel good tonight. Amen. Praise the Lord. Wow, I’mpersuaded that God will send forth that revelation like a thunder. My, just thunder alldown through it. Brother Branham said, “Then it’ll take a lived voice, that’s the thunderthat shakes the devil.” Can you imagine brothers? Seven thunders in the Bride, livingthe Word. Enlarge your minds now, open up your hearts. Think on it, get big, think big.

You know like the old evangelist? “God’s a big, He’s a good God.” Yes sir, weknow He is a good God for what He’s done for us. He opened our eyes up, and rubbedcracker crumbs in our eyes to see. But think on that now. Seven thunders in the Bride.And one lived voice shakes the devil? And God sent a Seven Thunder voice message inthe Bride, and she’s been living it and not worrying about no feelings? And many drytimes, Amen brothers? Many rough times, scratchy times. But still the Seven Thundervoice is there. Amen.

And there’s a blood atonement moving all through you for your mistakes andyour sins. ‘Invisible Union Of The Bride,’ never did it in the first place. Oh, the secondsection of that book, the bloody book, Amen, names written in blood. It’s dripping withblood. This Holy Ghost Gospel is dripping with blood. Your name, Brother Bobby, is

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dripping with blood. Oh my, praise...I tell you, it’s too much for me. Come on, BrotherJack, preach for them. Amen, Praise God.

‘Stature Of A Perfect Man,’ to move along. It’s very nice in here tonight, I feelreal, a lot of faith in here tonight. Amen. Just want to read this to you and then I’ll justmove along. ‘Stature Of A Perfect Man’ page 45. “See, after you done come here tohere to here to here to here, now you’re coming to the full stature, now the Son of God.And you’ve got to have this, plus all this, and you can’t even start until you get this. Nowremember the black bird with the peacock feathers, don’t forget him, see?

Don’t try to add until you’re actually borned again, because it won’t work. Youcan’t make it work, it’ll come to this, or this here. It’ll crumble somewhere. But whenyou get down here to genuine borned again dove, then you don’t add nothing, it adds toyou, comes on top.”

That’s what I’m trying to say, we cannot add that. It just comes on down to you.It finds you out, see? The dove just hunts out that lamb, that lived voice, and just comesup on top of it. Oh my, you know, ‘The Church And It’s Condition,’ the dove come tothe lamb nature, and the power is in the blood. So then, when the lamb, the bloody lambhumbles it’s nature. It’s to humble itself before the Word. Then when it confesses, andrepents, and forgives, that’s the lamb. Then the dove just sweetly comes down. Whew.Oh just whew. The sweet lamb and the sweet dove. Praise God.

Oh my, comes on top. Alright, coming in to perfection now. Alright, then sixthly,let’s add. The Bible said adding, brotherly love, brotherly kindness, now that’s a goodone right here, the sixth one, seven, all right. Adding brotherly kindness, alright. Whenwe get to that, brotherly kindness, put yourself in his place on the matter. Now you say,“My brother sinned against me,” said Peter, “shall I forgive him?” He said, “Seven timesa day?” He said “Seventy times seven.”

Forgiveness is brotherly kindness, see? Forgiveness, brotherly kindness, now yousee if a brother is all out of tune, don’t be impatient with him, no, be kind to him. Goanyhow. Somebody said not long ago, “How can you believe these things the way youdo, and still go to the Assemblies of God, and the Oneness, and all the rest of theseplaces?” Brotherly kindness, hoping someday, patience with him, temperance, enduringwith him. Knowledge to understand what he believes. Oh, there it is brothers.Knowledge to know what spirit is moving in the brother, you see? Praise God.

And remember, it’s in his heart, that’s what it is. So therefore, if it’s in the man’sheart, you can’t do anything about it. God must do it. But we can pray for him, andforgive him, and then with that attitude, the Holy Spirit can move upon him, and thenwhat a blessed time it is when you say, “Forgive me, brother.” Even if you’re right, andjust break him down. You just heap coals of fire upon his head. Well, he know he didwrong to you, and you say, “Please forgive me.” And he just burn with shame, as thecoals of fire is heaped upon his head. Just burn with shame in themselves. Amen.

Somebody said long ago, “Patience with him, temperance, enduring him.Knowledge to understand what he believes, and remember, it’s in his heart, that’s what itis. Virtue in yourself to let it go out with kindness, meekness to him, having faith thatsomeday God will bring him in.”

There’s your faith, see? Brotherly kindness, the seventh thing, one, two, three,four, five, six, seven things. Then, now, you’re coming. Next thing, then add Charity,which is Love. That’s the capping stone, and one of these days,” he says here.

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Now, here we are friends, brotherly kindness, hoping some day; patience withhim, temperance; enduring with him; knowledge to understand what he believes, andremember, it’s in his heart, that’s what it is, see? Meekness to him, knowing thatsomeday, God will bring him, see? Brotherly kindness, it’s that seventh thing. Thennow, you’re coming. Now the next thing is that capping stone, love. Now, just beforeCharity, God must see the brotherly kindness in us.

And brotherly kindness is the seventh virtue of this age. It’s the rock-box faith in‘Blasphemous Names,’ and the honey held, it stuck. But the honey is at the top of thepyramid, there. As we are with the Holy Ghost and through these divine promises, weare to add, to add, to add, to add, to add. But there comes a time where God must see thebrotherly kindness. And brotherly kindness is forgiveness. Then, when God now, notjust make believe forgiveness, now, cause God knows the hearts. So you can’t fool God.Amen.

See, it’s got to be real. It’s got to be a revelation, see? And when you see sonsand daughters of God with the real revelation in there, God sees matured seeds, and Heknows when they’re ready. [May I take off my coat?] Praise God, getting a little warm.As the brother said this morning, “The flesh get warm,” Brother Jonckheere. Amen, theflesh get warm, Amen, the body.

So now, this must be displayed, see? And if we have the honey here tonight, thenthe love comes down and sticks to the honey. Oh my, just love sticking to the honey allover the building here. All up here on the platform, up here. Then you see a ripe seed,see? It’s all right. How beautiful, God testing us by each other to see if we have the rightspirit. Brother Branham said, “You can be wrong in your doctrine, but right in yourspirit.” That’s a tremendous statement.

You can only understand it through this message here, ‘Of A Perfect Man.’ Forthen, when you get the revelation of this age, through the temperance and the patience,then you got the revelation of having the right spirit, and the man with the wrongdoctrine, for you have knowledge to understand what doctrine he believes. And if it’s offthe Word, don’t rail at him, just have temperance and patience with him. God will bringhim in. Amen.

We know who we are. If a man stand over here in muddy water say, “Come onover here and fight with,” I’m gonna stand right over here. Let him stay in his muddywater. I’ll pray for him over there. Amen.

Now, the virtue of this age, see? Praise God. Oh, if this was manifested tonight,the Charity would come down and seal us. Friends, tonight, we are the lilies. He’swaiting for us for His wedding table. Amen. And yet He knew that we was in thefilthiest, mucky, dirty water. But He planted some lilies down here in this earth in thisseventh age when it’s just abomination, pollution, the water’s all polluted. And the liliesare down at the bottom, all the muck and the mire.

But, there are some lilies here, Amen. So therefore, I say you know you are a lily.So I say, press lilies. Keep pressing lily. Keep on pressing, keep...you are ordained topress your way through the muck and the mire. You have got to come up, for you arepredestinated to press, press, press, press on out of everything around you. Overcomeevery temptation, every trial, keep pressing. When you have done all to stand, as theBrother Rosaiki said, stand. Stand anyway.

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I never forgot Brother Neville. I used to wonder, what should you do in yourchurch, when odd things happen? I asked Brother Neville one time years ago, he said,“Brother Coleman, I just stand there and I look with authority.” And I don’t know you,but I’m in the office. And if I’m in that office, something's going wrong, God is dutybound to tell me what to do. Amen, that’s wonderful, Amen. I’ll just stand in my churchlike I know what I’m doing in there. Amen. Praise God.

I’ll stand there and presently, something come sweeping down, “Do this, or saythat.” That’s wonderful. Praise God. So therefore, stand. Run into a tight spot, standanyway. God will never leave you. “I’ll never forsake you, I’ll be with you always. I’llgive you a mouth, I’ll give you wisdom, get you out of all kinds of situations. I’ll bringyou this way, and that way, but I will bring you.”

None shall be lost, none shall be plucked from His hand. Praise God. We arelilies, brothers. He need us for His wedding table. They’re going to be there. So, Iexhort you tonight, unto love and to good works. I exhort you to press. Amen. Say, thebrother had a bad spirit, but that’s all right. Paul went through all of that, Luther did too.Amen, see? Doesn’t matter, see? Can you imagine, like I said last night, one little bladestand against Rome over there. One grain of Word stand against Rome. One little blade,Luther. And the Catholic Church couldn’t stomp it out. All that fanaticism, followingthe message, couldn’t stomp it out?

How in the world can these little old things that we worry about, ain’t nothinggonna happen to this Word. Are we kidding? You mean that the devil can stop thismessage? We don’t have to put our hand to the ark and try to steady it, like Uzziah. Godknows what He’s doing. They put that ark in there with Dagon one time. Amen? Theycome back, he was on the floor. Amen. Have faith in God. They put him in again, onthe floor. Those Philistines got that Word out of there.

Yes sir, they’ll get it out of here too, brother. Just put the Word there, put thatmessage and hang in there. Just stand there. Amen. They’ll back up, Praise God. Getyour ox goads out like Shamgar. Praise God.

Now, what about the Bride today? With the entire revelation of God to add to ourfaith. Samson standing up there, Praise our God, look at Samson there. Amen. And hesaid, “One more time, may I be blinded to this world, may I be blinded to my brothersfaults, blinded to his odd doctrines, blinded to his ideas, his interpretations. Lord God,blind these things to me.” Amen. And all these pillars of unbelief making sporty outhere. They’re gonna fall down, brothers.

There’s a power coming upon that Bride to push that stadium down. Amen. Andall them come tumbling down, Praise God. So may we stand like Samson, with ourbrotherly kindness, and ask forgiveness. Praise our God. And all the towers of Satanwill fall over. Let us stand stuck in honey. Amen. Let’s...I want to read something toyou here.

‘Second Coming Of The Lord.’ This book 2 here, volume 9. Want to read frompage 12. I feel it’s timely tonight. “So it was getting along toward dark when sherealized that she had lost something.” This is about that lost coin. “Time for her husbandto come, it was getting late, the church better be examining themselves, their selves bythe Word of God. Our purity, our loyalty, our devotion. We’ve become tattlers, tale-bearers, cigarette smokers, back bitters, painted up Jezebels, everything in the calendar,that the rest of the world does.

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The Christian is associating in those things today. You can’t hardly tell one fromthe other. It’s time we took inventory. It’s getting late. Now in order, it was so late, ‘tilshe had to light a candle, and she got her candle. Not only did she get a candle, but shegot a broom, and she went to house cleaning.”

Oh, thank God for the candle from Malachi 4. Amen. To go through our dustyhearts. All the cobwebs laying up in there. Ezekiel said over there, in the images alongthe walls of the heart there. Thank God to light the candles to see all the cobwebs way upin our hearts. Amen. And then get the broom of the Word, and begin to sweep out thedust. Brother, dust went a flying everywhere. Amen.

When Malachi 4 come on the scene, talk about a dust...?... Praise God, dust flewup everywhere. Amen, but we had a revelation. Our candles was lit, and we had abroom, we had a revelation, the light, and we had a broom of the Word of God to sweepit out. That’s what it means for us tonight. And he goes on saying, “Oh, brother, if thereever was a need, a need of time of a lighting of a candle to sending forth of a Gospellight,” that’s Malachi Four’s message, “The Holy Ghost back into the Church. Not somuch for emotion, not so much for fantastics, not for emotional work-ups, not forjumping for joy, but for heart-searching experience when men and women get right withGod. We’re at the end time.”

And there is what I was speaking about, the Holy Spirit, not for emotion andjumping for joy, but being contained for heart-searching, soul-searching experience.Amen, Brother Lee? That’s that Word coming in for eight and a half years, not forjumping for joy. Brother Branham said, “This is dreadful times that we have to go andstabilize yourself with the Word in the boat there.” Amen. And get ourselves, examineourselves, to see if we are right with God. We want to be right with God. We ain’tworrying about jumping for joy, that comes later. That’s in the reaping season. Amen,but let us sow the message in there, brother.

“And she lit a candle and gave her light, and brother, every little candle in hereought to be lit tonight. Not only that, but she got the broom, and the neighbors could seethe dust flying. She had a real house-cleaning time, for her husband was about to come.And if he caught her with that one coin out, she was a harlot. And brother, we the churchof the Living God, in these great hours that we’re living now, it behooves us to check upand go before God, light the candle of the Word of the Gospel and examine ourselves andfind out if we’re not falling short.

And especially when we see all these things coming. We’re at the end time. Thecoming of Christ is at hand. There’s not another hope in the world for the church. Andlook, the church is lollying. The church has no conscience no more. You can hardlywake them up. The Bride...the Bible said, they would come in that condition whenthey’d say, “Lo, our Lord delayeth His coming.” And they’ll be devouring and fightingone another, and so forth, and fighting around. It’s just exactly that hour. Everything isready. The pages is turned.

As it was like that, and it’s ready, the coming of the Lord. The Lutheran churchlost her light, the Methodist church lost her light, the Baptist lost her light, thePentecostals lost her light. Every light seems to be gone. The Pentecostal people, theholiest people, is acting just exactly like the Methodist. The Methodist is acting just likethe Baptist, the Baptist like the Lutherans, the Lutherans like the Catholics, and it’s all

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going back to one great big conglomeration of sin, that’s right. We’re in the end time, thecoming of the Lord.

Now hear this! Now, she had a house-cleaning time. She scrubbed the floors; sheswept the walls; she took down the cobwebs; she kept on, [these past eight years now]Amen. Until she found what she had lost.”

Oh, Praise God. For eight and a half years we had a house-cleaning time, didn’twe? That Word come in to examine, to examine, to line us up with every Word. Here alittle, and there a little. Precept upon precept. Praise God. And some, they got a littleraspy too, that’s all right. Examine yourself to see if you be in the faith. Amen. Nowhere he goes here.

“The cobwebs, she kept on until she found what she had lost. And when she did,hear this now, she called her little sister churches to come now. Oh, Praise God. I don’tcare if you’re a Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, come. Let us rejoicetogether. When that time comes, when the Church finds its brotherly love.”

Oh, Praise God. When the Church finds its brotherly love. It’s brotherlykindness, it’s honey, it’s forgiveness, when the Church of the Living God, tonight, findshoney in the rock, Oh, Praise God. When that time come when the Church finds itsbrotherly love, when the Church finds it’s holy decency, when the Church finds its placein Christ, it’ll call to the other members of the Body, “Come and rejoice with us.” Godwants the Church to love Him.”

Oh my, what a revelation. If we could find that brotherly love tonight, at the topof that pyramid. What a rejoicing in the reaping season, for that brotherly love makesyou mature, makes you ripe, makes you ready for the things of God. Then God can comedown, and you’re a nine month baby. You’re ripe; you’re ready to come forth and burston the scene. A spiritual manifestation of Jesus Christ again. Praise God.

Jesus Christ in Mary was a physical manifestation of the Living God. And now aBride, another Mary. It’s pondering in our heart, “I’m gonna bring forth the Christ. Me,little Mary’s here tonight?” He said so. God said so. That you have the seed of God inyou tonight. Amen. I don’t care if you feel just one little foot kicking around, that’s allright. He’s there. He may not move for two or three months. That’s all right, brother.He’s there. You can see the shape of Him. Just about nine months, just heavy, hardlymove around. So weary, so tired, it’s laboring time. Oh, Praise God.

Just about laboring time. Sweet honey in the rock. Sweeps around the mother,she gets so sweet. Oh that’s that honey, that’s that brotherly love, she finds it. Justbefore...whooo...[Brother Coleman makes blowing sound] gets ready to come forth and aspiritual manifestation of Jesus Christ comes from within. And there’s that imagewalking upon the earth. That’s Jesus on two feet in you and me. Oh my.

I can see the great cloud of witnesses saying, “Come on, come on, come on, youcan do it.” Hebrews 12; come on, for Malachi 4. Oh, I can see oh, Malachi 4, the prophetraise up, when all the unbelief, it cannot happen, Malachi 4 raised up from way back inglory, he said, “It will happen, for Thus Saith The Lord God, I'll send you Elijah.” It willhappen, and we saw Malachi’s words come to pass in our generation. So we know thatwe know that we know it’s going to happen. For we are pregnated with God. Oh my.

Can you imagine, Almighty Creator God in us? A seed in us brother. Amen.Think on that now. Think on whatever’s lovely, whatever’s pure, and of a good report.Amen. Forget about the other thing. Just get your mind channeled, swept up into

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heavenly places. Joshua said when he was weary, he was wondering, “How in the worldcan I take care of Jericho down there?” He laid up there, trying to figure out it out in hisold carnal mind. And all of a sudden, somebody swept on the scene. He stood there,“Who art thou?” It was kind of spooky. “Who are you? You for us or against us?” “Nay,I’m the captain of the host.” Amen.

“Well, I’m trying to figure out how to tear down Jericho, because I have apromise of God to take it.” He said, “That’s what I’m here for.” Amen. He said, “Don’tyou try to figure it out.” Amen. He says, “You- I got a message for a shout, just goaround the building, seven times, seven times, and on the seventh day walk around seventimes on the seventh day.”

“But that’s nothing, the people, so I can see those soldiers up there in Jericholooking down and laughing at those fools walking around that building.” Can youimagine, those great denominationals laughing at you all these years? You’re justwalking around, just walking around, walking around, Amen? But oh God, each day theydidn’t know that the walls were beginning to crumble, the fig tree had been cursed. Ohmy, it’s already cursed for it is cursed tonight, and Malachi 4 done cursed everything outof here. Yes sir, all we got to do is just walk around, just keep walking. Thesemountains shall be removed.

Amen, they’re coming down brother. Yes sir, I see THE mountain coming up,Mt. Zion, is on the scene. I see it with these eyes, my eyes is anointed to see Mt. Zion. Isee it, Praise God. Ain’t nobody gonna stand in my way. Oh, I don’t care how tired Paulsaid, that’s why last night he said, when you fight, don’t fight like a woman like this here,scratching and fighting like that; stand back and know how to fight brother.

We’ve been trained how to fight. Don’t beat the air, swinging wildly like that.Hit it with a punch. Hit the mark. Amen. Jesus taught us how to hit the mark. Amen,for we had missed the mark in sin, Amen, and unbelief. But He taught us how to believeand hit the mark. Amen? Every Word of God, hit it right on the dot. Amen, Praise God.

That’s why when I run, I run to win the race. I used to run track up in New Yorkfor the New York Pioneer Club, and I didn’t believe that nobody could beat me running.No sir. Can’t nobody beat me doing anything. I’ve always been that way, yes sir. And Iwas running track there over in Randall’s Island, New York City. And running for the??? High School. And our New York Pioneer coach, Joey ??? and a fellow namedJohnny Taylor, the flying Scott, from another High School. He was the top City runner.

And it was a 1600—16 relay, yard relay. And therefore I was running anchoragainst him, and nobody could beat Johnny Taylor, or he could catch anybody, but hecouldn’t catch me. Yes sir. Coming right up that 4-4, that last turn, I was coming aroundthere, and I heard him running behind me. But I said, I can do it, I can do it, I can do it.And when I came around that last turn, the coach had taught us how to save a kick, yessir.

He said, “When you get to that last turn, lean on the turn like this here and get alittle relaxation there, and when you come off of that turn, you come out of there like youknow you’re gonna win it. Raise those knees up and pump those arms.” I don’t care ifyou’re half dead brother, begin to pump them arms and raise them up. Praise God.

I can see old Abraham, 99 years old, coming around that turn. Amen, Praise God.I can see old Sarah coming around that turn, 90 years old. But God had give thepromise. “You shall have the son, Isaac.” And God has given you a vindicated promise.

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He has saved a kick: Dynamics to your mechanics. Therefore, just...you must believethat the dynamics is coming. For if you raise your knees and pump your arms, down willcome the dynamics. Oh brother, you’ll shoot down the last home stretch. Praise God.

And I can see Malachi 4 saying, “Come on, come on, come on, come on.” PraiseGod. I can see Paul and Iraneus and Polycarp, and the early Bride, “Come on, come on,come on.” Praise God. Amen. You believe that brothers? Believe that there? Come onLee. I can see old Lee, he’s ready for that last kick, brother. He’s tired, he’s weary, weall are. But He saved something for you, beloveds. Oh, Praise God.

I mean it’s here brother, yes sir. All we have to do is to believe it. Amen, oh my.Whew, 9:15 all ready, Amen. So when that Bride finds that lost coin, she said, “Comeand rejoice.” Oh, God wants His church to love Him. Amen, the Spirit and the Bride saycome. May we here in Georgia tonight find that brotherly kindness. Find that coin. Justthink if we can find that coin tonight, we’ll go out of here and tell the rest of the sisterchurches across the country, “We have found it.” We’ve found it brothers, I love youbrother, I forgive you, I got it brother, I found it. Glory to God, we found it.

Satan is a liar, and all the old funny walls will come down. Tears of joy willstream down the faces. Oh my, and the blood will just drip all over you. We found it,oh, He showed us the way. That honey, that missing link in the pyramid, the honey, theforgiveness, that will enable the Charity to fall upon us. And then if the brother is out ofwhack somewhere, and of some have compassion. There’s the Word humbly going tothe cross. Amen. See?

So there we are, back to the Word. And so like Jude 22 says here, “Now of somemake a difference.” Now we know the difference between a tare and a wheat. IITimothy 3: we know the difference. So there’s brothers and sisters maybe in out midst,they can’t seem to get the victory, but they believe Malachi 4, therefore don’t push themout the door. As long as they believe it, have compassion. They’re here, I mean Godmust have put them here.

He told me in ’64 through prophecy in the Church, He said, “The weak mustharvest with the strong.” And I never forgot it. Amen. So I try to prolong the weak, notknowing what I meant...not knowing what it meant. But here June the sixth, the HolySpirit gave me understanding June 6th of what this meant here. And you can see anyoneof the New York Church here, we just had some real experience the last month; they canall say, raise up their hands if that’s so, see? All over the building there, Oh Praise God.

It’s real brothers. I couldn’t say it tonight unless there was something there to sayit. There’s a hand, I can’t make them raise up their hands. They’re here for a witnessthat God has done something. God has given them a revelation of this brotherlykindness. And tears of joy is just...something has happened to the New York assembly. Imean, it’s real. Oh my, I just love Him more, I got a fresh vision of Calvary. And whenyou get a fresh vision of Calvary, all the old things just disappear out of the way.

I just seek Him, I see Jesus therefore on the cross. And maybe like Simon ofCyrene, I can help Him along maybe, you know. Cause Brother Branham dragged thatcross for over 30 years. Who’s gonna help him drag it to the resurrection? Who’s gonnacome and as it falls over, and pick it up? Be some cross-backs, like the early Church, andmarch on. Praise...sweep it on to the resurrection. Oh my. And of some have mercywho waiver and doubt, Have compassion of some, making a difference between thosewho are weak and ignorant, and those and arrogant of heart.

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Make a difference by knowledge of the Word. See, make a difference, see? Ohbrother, save the willing with fear. If the man is willing to come and sit there in themessage, save him. See? Save him, pulling out of the fate of separation from God,because it is unbelief. Oh, Praise God. The Word says, “Whosoever will let him come,whoever is thirsty let him come.”

I remember over here in Puerto Rico, one of the churches over there, they had aproblem with the deacons in there. They were very legalistic, and some Spanish friendsof ours, one of them backslidden for ten years. And I went over there in March, and gotthem to come to Church and the man wanted to have his little baby dedicated, and thedeacon wouldn’t let the family in, because the young daughter, 15, had on a mini skirt.And wouldn’t let them in the House of God.

And I heard about it, I was resting, I came back there on March 24th. And Godjust, and this same man, I spoke with him Friday, and then he said, “Well, I used tobelieve the message, now I’ve been backslidden for ten years. And you all are talkingabout the Bride and rapturing faith, therefore, and God won’t do that for me.” I said, nobrother, I says it’s a revelation. “Well, I can’t have a revelation.” I said, yes you can, Isaid because Jesus Christ, He lived by revelation, St. John 5:19. You see?

So therefore He can give you revelation also. That very night, he received a dreamfrom God. Backslidden 10 years. And the dream was that he was, there was a wholegroup of people down in the valley, and they was wondering could they be saved, couldthey be saved? Fearful people. He looked up, and he saw me coming down a mountainthere, just in the dream for this brother there. Looked, and I walked straight up to him,and I said, “Lloyd, exactly 70 of your grandfather’s grandchildren shall be saved.” ThenI drew a circle and I handed it to him. It was circle like a clock, and the hand wassticking straight up and it said 70. Then it had times, times, times, times seven. Seventytimes seven.

God gave him a revelation, 10 years backslidden through a dream that he could besaved and forgiven seven, seventy times seven. You talk that God ain’t real tonight. Youtell me that? When I know what happened. That Sunday morning, and bringing this outa li8ttle bit. And thinking about Revelation 22: 17, thinking about my father and my twosisters, one of them backslidden, and my brother, and wondering where in the Bible here.And I looked over there, “Whosoever will let him come.” Oh my, I hang on to this Wordfor my family. Hang on to it for your loved ones, for your husbands, for your wives, Godis able. Praise God.

Adoption Itself is going after the lost. Abraham went down for Lot who wasbackslidden. He went after him, Amen. And that Sunday morning there. There Godcome down there and fire swept down through that Puerto Rican Church there, and whathappened there. I said, Oh Praise God, this very hour God is able to bring in thebootleggers, the drunkards, the winos, the drug addicts. Even those with mini skirts on,even those with pants on.

I said, I tell you what, when I see the power of God in my Church, I’ll tell myushers and my deacons to throw them doors open and let whosoever will come throughthe door. For the waters of Eternal Life is waiting for whosoever will. And brother, I’llnever stop looking for the lost sinner, or for those who have missed God, or missed Himsomewhere. I’ll try to reach out for that brother, I don’t...that sister, I don’t care whothey are.

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So therefore that happened March 24th. And then went up here to June 6th andbecome real...[second tape begins, sentence incomplete. ED.] I’m a changed mantonight. So therefore, I have a understanding, “And of some have compassion.” So Idon’t care what they say about me, they can put me out of the message, they can call mea seed of the serpent, that means nothing to me. Because I know He saved me. I knowHe saved me, and God don’t care about nobody’s color. My color is amber color. PraiseGod. Amen.

I’m an attribute. Praise...color don’t mean a thing to God. But He want to knowwhat’s in that heart. What seed is in you, it’s a seed, an attribute, a Word of God in thesoul. And if it is in there, we’re the same color, amber, burning with God. Praise theLord. This is a healing night. I’m almost losing my voice here.

Now, this is a healing night. St. James 5: 13 through 16. Healing and forgivenessgoes hand in hand. I’ll skip along now. And a two-fold, the two-fold secret of bodilyhealing, [could I have some water please?] there’s the two-fold secret of bodily healing,St. James 5:16. Confess your faults one to another, pray one for another that you may behealed. St. Mark 11, spoken word scripture; speak to the mountain, prayer of faith. Theanswer is based on the condition of the, it’s on condition, forgiveness of man, it’s acondition here or forgiveness for you.

Now concerning our mistakes, on ‘He That Is In You,’ page 16, Brother Branhamsaid these words, “What I’m trying to say, don’t never lose your confidence. Don’t letSatan tell you evil about me, cause there’s much. But you can keep that confidence causeif you don’t, it won’t happen. Don’t look at me as man; I’m a man. I’m full of mistakes.But look what I’m saying about Him. It’s Him. He’s the one. Let’s look to him.Amen.”

Now I’m gonna read something to you. Brother Branham’s vision here. He had avision way back, and this is what changed my heart June the 6th. First I wanted to readabout the middle of the road here in ‘Divine Healing.’ This is a book a brother down inTexas sent me, and I read...I’ll read it to you. ‘Divine Healing.’

“I believe in grace, but on the other hand, I also believe in holiness. Isaiah saidthat, “There is a highway, the way of holiness.” And any incorrectly built road is higherin the center than it is on the sides, so that the trash can wash off. Now when a man isborned into the kingdom of God, he’s put right straight in the middle of the road lookingtoward Christ, the Savior. If he doesn’t watch, he’ll gradually move over to one sidewhere he’ll get so cold and starchy, or he’ll get into fanaticism.

Right in the middle of the road, there’s a true same path of those who will obeythe true gospel of Jesus Christ. It is a gospel that you don’t have to be ashamed of. It isthe power and manifestation of the Holy Spirit.” Isn’t that wonderful? We are not afraidof the gospel, for it is the power and the manifestation of the Holy Spirit. All they needto do is look to their advocate, that’s all. God will bring them back to grace. May Godhelp to keep us balanced. Praise the Lord. [thank you brother, thank you.]

Now we have always tried to stay in the middle of the road, and not to get off toone side. And that’s the rough spot there in the middle. Cause we have...cause you havea pull from both sides. Amen. And as a minister of sowing, sowing, and having, Ibelieve, a revelation by the grace of God of the true holiness of God, and what BrotherBranham stood for, and we in New York wanted to walk that same middle of the road.

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See, we wanted holiness and everything right and pure and church order, whatever hesaid, do it.

I mean, there was a prophet. Everything he said was for my church. Because hischurch was the Bride. And we was in the Bride, therefore that’s his church. He said,“This is for my church.” For every...marriage and divorce is for his church also. So ischurch order, so is everything else. But if a brother ask me, “Do you believe that?” Isay, you don’t have to believe that, see, it’s ok with you. Because I believe it, see?

And then says along those lines and like people don’t understand you, and you getkind of weary and tired, and then you see those who are weak, and just seem to be doingthe same thing over and over and just sort of give you a complex. And then you don’teven like preach no more to them, see? And you get into a corner, and then during the6th, that morning there, I was sitting there tired and weary, and thinking about Georgia,and wondering there like Jericho maybe. What’s gonna happen down there? Amen.

And then this come to me, and I want to read it to you. Brother Branham’s vision,the one he had back here a few years ago.

“A thrilling story of how a soul was won to Christ” by Reverend WilliamBranham. And the name of it is, “And Of Some Have Compassion.” And that’s when itstruck me. And I hope it’ll strike you tonight the way it struck me.

“Friends, there are so many things that we can say about perfection. It is so easyto try to gouge the eyes out of somebody else to make ourselves appear just a little holierthan they. But if we could only see the true picture, it is only by God’s grace that we arewhat we are.” Praise God. Oh, this is God speaking here. “Some time ago in ??? Ohio,where I was having a meeting, I learned a lesson the hard way. We had been eating at alittle dunkard restaurant, where they had such lovely little lady-like waitresses, decentlydressed and clean as they could be. It was a real treat to eat in such a pleasant place.Their kitchen was spic and span.

On Sunday, they closed up and went to their church. I was going to preach thatSunday afternoon, and feeling a little hungry I went over to what looked like an ordinarylittle American restaurant. As I walked in the door, what did I hear, but a juke box goingfull blast. I looked toward the back of the building, there was a bunch of teenage boysand girls, playing those old rock and roll records on the machine. A young woman about18 years of age was standing there, her dress hanging low in front. Was letting one of theboys act indecently towards her.

They were all smoking and drinking. I thought, Oh God, how can you see all thisand stand it? Hearing someone make a big groan, I looked over to my right, and there satan elderly woman probably 60 or 70 years of age. She had on those little skin vulgarclothes. Her poor old wrinkled flesh was just as flabby as it could be. Make up coveredher face; her hair was cut real short, curled up and died blue. Her fingernails werepainted deep purple; the little open shoes she wore showed purple painted toenails.

I looked at her and her two drunk men who sat across her table; it wassummertime, but there was one sat with a big old army overcoat on, and a gray scarfwrapped around his neck; long whiskers all over his face, belching, and his friendexcused himself from her and staggered to the restroom. Standing there, I asked Godwhy don’t He destroy such ungodliness. Why He didn’t just sink it beneath the earth? Iwondered if my little Sarah and Rebecca would have to grow up amidst such stuff. I

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said, God, how can you, in your great holiness, every stand to look at such a thing as that,and not send an earthquake and sink it?

As I stood there, condemning the woman, I felt the Spirit of God. I steppedbehind the door and a vision came to me. I saw the world turning around and aroundwith a scarlet streak around it. It came closer until I saw myself as little boy doing thingsthat I ought not to have done. Maybe they wasn’t bad like I just saw, but they was sin.Every time I did anything wrong, I saw a great black shadow go towards Heaven; Godwould have had to slay me for that thing; then I saw standing between God and me JesusChrist, that perfect sacrifice.

Oh, I saw Him standing there with the thorns on His head, spit hanging on Hisface, every time my sins was ??? towards God, He would reach out and catch them. Likethe bumper on the car, He was protecting me from death. Every time I would doanything wrong, God’s holiness required death for me. Certainly. His loyalty requiresfor anytime I would do anything wrong, the Blood of Jesus Christ acted like a bumper.The scarlet streak meant that the Blood was available for me. I got a little closer to Him,and I could hear Him say “Father forgive him. He does not know what he’s doing.”

Looking down I saw a book and its recording angel there by His side. He wasrecording my sins in the book. It had my name on it. I realized that someday that bloodstreak would be lifted and I would have to stand in the presence of God with my sinfullife. I saw that His mercy was holding off my judgment. Humbly I went to Him, I kneltand said, oh Jesus, Thou son of God, I am unworthy to come into your presence, but willyou please forgive me for what I have just done.

He touched His side with His hand, and took the old book and wrote “pardoned”on it; threw it behind Him. My sins were gone. He looked at...He looked me straight inthe eyes as He said, “Now I have forgiven you, but you want to condemn her.” I sawthen what it all meant.”

And that’s what I saw June the sixth this year, what it all meant to me, then Hespoke to my heart and said on, “And of some have compassion.” Oh Praise God, I don’tcare what anybody say about me. I don’t care what ought I would have against a ministerbrother or anybody else, I forgive them. Amen, I don’t care what...it doesn’t matter whatit is. William Branham had that revelation. They sent him dung in the mail, they cursedhim, they did all kinds of things to him; he went and prayed for them. Yes sir!

And the more he humbled himself, the more he prayed for them. I don’t care ifthere’s doubters and odd doctrines and funny spirits, I forgive them, yes sir, makes nodifference brother. Just think, you come into real maturity. Then you begin to get realripe, you begin to grow up into the things of God. You begin to be like your Father,going about forgiving, doing good, being kind, no matter what they do to you. Whenthey revile you; you’re in the Word now. You’re in the sermon on the Mount now.Brother, you’re moving with reality.

When they revile you, you bless them. Oh Praise God. If God can get a Bridelike that; that’s back to the Word. There’s the real back to the Word, not legalism andchopping them down and grace grace, but walking down the highway of holiness,brother! With hands stretched out to both sides, the legalists and the grace gracers, andtrying to pull them on up to your road. Don’t go down there now. Just pull them upbrother and keep moving on down the King’s Highway.

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That’s why I believe that, yes sir! So therefore, I feel brother, and in the whilelet...June 9th. And while I had just finished preaching this message here, and then all of asudden I turned around, the Holy Spirit spoke to me, and Brother Hunt sitting right overthere, I said Brother Hunt, Brother Tony, he’s over here somewhere, and Brother Kurtand Brother Deliotte, Please forgive me. And then all of a sudden swept throughout, Isaid Church, God bless you, please forgive me. And then a spirit of forgiveness sweptdown through the New York Assembly. I didn’t even know what I was even doing.

It wasn’t until four days later the Holy Spirit said, “Read St. Mark 11: 24, 25 and26. If you have ought forgive.” Brother Hunt rushed back he said, “You didn’t doanything to me.” And the others, “You didn’t do anything to me.” I said, I know it, Idon’t understand it. Then the Holy Spirit begin to speak. He says, this happened to menow, I mean I don’t know what happened to you. But He said that “There’s a lost coin,there’s brotherly kindness, it must be shown, it must be displayed, it must be revealed.I’m fixing to come down and bless my people. If they can only get the revelation thatthey’re nothing, and I am everything. Oh, that ye are the branch and I am the vine. Iforgave you your sins like my prophet showed you.”

And when William Branham, that really came to him, brother, I know it changedhim. He believed it all the time. And naturally all the things happening to him, it’s awonder he even remained sane, the things that happened to him. And we have a few littlethings to overcome, just a few little trials and temptations, that’s all we have. Then allthe glory of God is waiting for us then. If we can just overcome about eight or nineyears, that’s all it is. And we all at the end. Don’t let no brother upset you or sister upsetyou with some funny spirit. Forgive him. If you’re right, forgive him anyway. Yes sir!

Confess your faults, you’ll be healed. We’re in the Word now, Praise God.Amen. So therefore, that begin to come real to me, and the Holy Spirit begin to say,“Forgive forgive.” Than it came back to me this dream that Lloyd had back in PuertoRico, and then the Holy Spirit said, “When you stand praying, if you have anythingagainst anyone forgive him; let it drop, leave it, let it go. Forget about it. In order thatyour Heavenly Father who is in Heaven also may forgive you your failings, yourshortcomings.”

Think of it now, He let our mistakes drop. He don’t bring it up, He won’t keepharping on it. We ask Him to forgive us and He does. Here’s a brother, we keepbringing it up, bringing it up, bringing it up; let it drop, let it go, forget about it. Throw itbehind you, sea of forgetfulness. Oh Praise God, if we ever get that revelation; and thedevil is fighting, fighting, fighting, he don’t want you to get it. He knows when we reachthat plateau, then you have made the mark; you’re ready for anything the Father wantsyou to do.

Oh Praise God, you’re ready; you’re mature minister or Christian worker, you’reready. You’re no more in swaddling clothes. You don’t need that pacifier no more. Themilk bottle comes out brother, you’re ready for strong meat. Yes sir, you’re ready.Praise God, just forgive anything. If you have anything you’re holding, any long holdingthings, forget it, let it drop, let it go. “But he did this to me in ’63,” let it go, let it drop.We’re living in the hour of the resurrection brother.

I don’t want any sin or weight that doth so easily beset you. Let it drop, Amen. Idon’t care brother, we’re here, the hour is here. Anyone so that your Heavenly Fathermay forgive you. Praise our God. And of some have compassion. Oh Praise our God.

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Listen now, what about Job when it came to self judgment, Job 42: 5 said, “I have heardof Thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eyes seeth Thee.” Is that right?

He had walked in the light, he was tempted. Job 19: He even had seen...he said,“I know my redeemer liveth.” Listen, he knew that he would be in the resurrection, heknew that, and yet he had not matured yet. And Job 38: the whirlwind struck him andthen he went to that whirlwind experience, then he came to these noble words, “I haveheard of Thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eyes seeth Thee, and I repent, Iabhor myself, I hate myself and I repent in dust and ashes.”

He had a revelation; he knew he was nothing. Oh Praise God, what about Jacob?He had the promise, Amen. He was on his way back to the promise land there, for thepromise; and he met up with the Angel of the Lord there. Is that right? And he begin towrestle with him. He was wrestling to keep the Word in his soul all night long. Andthere he was wrestling, and then God made him spill out to him, He said “What is yourname, spill it out?” He said, “My name is Jacob, I’m a cheat, I’m a swindler, I’m nogood, I’m a deceiver, I’m nothing.” God said, “Now I can bless you.” Praise God. Hehad finally admitted though God had blessed him and been with him and everything else.

But still I don’t care how much God has blessed us in the ministry or whateverwe’re doing, we have got to come to that place sometimes where we are nothing. Be aminister, be whoever we are; every Bible prophet of character come to that place.Malachi 4 come to that place, I just read it to you. He said, “Then I saw what it meant.”And he stopped condemning her. Oh Praise God, Amen. What about Isaiah, a prophet ofGod went into the house of God, and there he looked up and saw the Lord high lifted upand His train filled the temple. The Seraphims were flying to and fro, “Holy Holy LordGod Almighty.”

His holy presence moved the posts, and Isaiah looked up in that vision and Hesaid, “Woe is me, I’m a man of unclean lips and I dwell among people of unclean lips.”What a vision he had. What about Daniel? His virtues, his good things, his comelinesswas turned into corruption when he met the Lord. And we have seven visions manifestedthrough a Seven Seals. What is our condition tonight? Who are we tonight? Can we saythat we are nothing? Have we reached that time? Have we been matured? Are we readyfor the third pull to be made manifest in our lives?

Have we come to that spot friends? Do we understand the grace of God for youand for me? The same grace for your brother is for you also. Same grace is for him. Ifwe do this then let us forgive one another in our hearts, confessing our faults one toanother. Amen. And then praying one for another that we may be healed. We can have ittonight friends. Now, of course the enemy he don’t want it right here right now youknow. Oh no, he’ll move throughout here with negative thoughts; “We don’t have to dothat.” The Bible says so friends, yes sir! Amen, but I’ll tell you one thing, Malachi 4 hasshowed us this channel of communication.

He said, “I have a secret, I know how to get out of the way.” He showed us thesecret. He gave us the Word. We become perfectly weak, and we are nothing, and thelast thing that makes us perfectly weak is brotherly kindness, forgiveness. Then we areabsolutely totally surrendered to the Word. Oh, the Word says brotherly kindness. TheWord says forgive them, the Word says honey. Are you gonna surrender tonight? Or areyou gonna stiffly fight it? Are you gonna yield, surrender to the Holy Spirit? You can do

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it right now. Oh yes sir, Praise God. If we do, we have a perfect channel ofcommunication to meet God.

And oh, He’s waiting to get into the battle. You better flee, go up tonight. Hewants to come right down in here tonight, and heal everyone in the building here tonight.Oh yes sir, Praise God. Hebrews 10:19 “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enterinto the holiest by the blood of Jesus, to a new and living way.” Over the house of God,He’s the high priest here; Amen. And God has provided a smitten rock. If you read backin Numbers there, the first...Exodus 17, rather, when the...when he first smote the rock, itwas only the elders out there. There was no people there, and we was not there when thatrock was smitten at Calvary either. We didn’t have to be there, but we can accept ittonight. Yes sir!

But the next time He told him to speak to the rock, but notice when he spoke tothe rock, it was when Israel was complaining and murmuring and unbelief and sin andwanting to stone Moses; it’s when sin is at it’s greatest height. That’s when God loves toshow His grace. Yes sir! That’s when we have that promise, we can speak to the rock.Amen. That’s when He says speak to the rock, don’t smite it. But just speak to the rock.Obedience is better than sacrifice, no matter what we think.

And here we have the rock the second time as the high priest. And that’s what Heis here tonight. He’s a high priest here tonight. Notice, it was the people’s sins which ledto the smiting of the rock. Amen. And out of the rock comes rivers of living water. Yessir. And Israel had grace, and they had a smitten rock and a brass, a prophet of God and apillar of fire. They had all these things here, and we have them here in this end-timenow, just to hurry along.

Aaron was the high priest, and therefore Aaron has a rod of life and Moses had arod of power. Amen. And here we are here tonight, and we have Aaron’s rod, the Word,eternal life. We have that tonight friends. And Aaron’s rod budded and brought forthbuds and blossomed blossoms and yielded almonds. And the fourth time, it yieldedalmonds, fruits. Oh, I know that Aaron’s rod will yield fruit tonight. All we have to is tobring it to the presence of God, it will yield almonds, all we have to do is speak to therock. The hour is here for us ourselves to speak to the rock friends.

It’s time for this tonight. Do you believe that there friends tonight? Do you knowwho we’re talking about? We’re talking about I AM. I AM is that rock. I AM that IAM. We’re talking about that cloud like a man’s hand that Malachi 4 saw. We’retalking about those five manifestations that he saw; the spoken word, the resurrection, thesquirrels, the salvation, the power. Amen, and the healing. Praise our God. And who isthat person that did these things for you and me? It was none other than Jehovah of theOld Testament. Came back to Malachi 4 and manifested Himself as Jesus of the NewTestament.

He come back for a third exodus. He come back to get you and I, and He gaveMalachi 4 to give us everything for the journey. We’re on our way to the resurrection.Do you believe that there? Yes sir! St. John 8:58 Before Abraham was, I was. But Hesaid, “Before Abraham was, I am. He could have said I was, but He said I am. Presenttense friends. Without any doubt, He was taking us back to that day when Moses bowedbefore the burning bush. We’ve got to know who our I am is tonight. Amen.

Asking God in what manner he should go that God could give him that wassending him, and when he was going down to Egypt and God said, “I am that I am, that’s

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who I am. I am who I am and what I am. I will be what I will be, Amen, that’s what I am.You go on down and you tell those Israelites, I am has sent you.” Yes sir! And Jesustold those Jews, “If you believe not that I am He, you shall die in your sins.” Yes sirfriends.

Therefore, the meaning of that great name we know is Jehovah and all this hereand Jesus claimed the same name, and revealed it to Malachi 4 one day out there squirrelhunting. He says, “I am Jehovah.” He said, “Jehovah of the Old Testament is Jesus of theNew.” I think about 1960, ’61, somewhere around that time there. Now watch now,we’re moving up and for a healing line now and watch, it’s two fold now. He is the everpresent one that stands outside of time to whom there is no past nor future. He’s now,right here, right now. Oh yea.

But to whom everything is present, that’s why He could say, “Before Abrahamwas, I am.” I am right here right now. This of course means eternity. It’s another realmaltogether where everything is one glorious present. We are there tonight by illustrationhere, now by relation of a reader to the events in a book, as you read a book. The story ina book there is a sequence of time. As the pages are turned, certain incidents go into thepast and others come into the present, and yet others are laying in the future. Yet thereader himself is in another realm altogether. He’s reading that book there, and to himthe incidents they are all present.

You can get into a book and go way back maybe to 1920 sometime in a book, andyou’re right there. Amen. We can begin to read this Bible and we can then go back toDavid, you feel that you’re right there. Oh, Praise God. I begin to read about thewedding supper, I begin to get in the spirit; I feel that I’m there. I’m already there,already rejoicing, it’s a promise of God, it’s the I am present now. He’s the sameyesterday, today and forever. Amen. He can open the book at any page. God can openHis Bible any page, that’s where He’s at, right there, and make it real to you tonight.

Well then, if He said St. Mark 16, you open it up tonight. He’s right there in St.Mark 16, though it was written two thousand years ago. He’s right there tonight, Amen.These things are all present tonight. A vision of Jesus to him, our lives with their past asa sinner and future Heaven, they’re all present right now. We are free of our sins rightnow tonight. Our yesterdays as well as our tomorrows are all now to Him. He loves usright now. He’s not gonna love us more when you get to heaven, He loves you right nowtonight.

He wants to bless you tonight. He loves you right here tonight, now. He’s a nowGod right now here tonight. Amen. As He reads us tonight, we are written epistles, nosin at all. That’s where we stand tonight. Now Jehovah was a special revelation of thegrace of God to Israel. I am is an unfinished sentence. I...cause it has no object, I amwhat? Amen. We discover that He was saying to Moses, “I am whatever my peopleneed.” Yes sir, yes sir! And that’s sentence is only left blank that man may bring hismany various needs as they arise to complete the sentence. I am is here tonight.Whatever you need, I am whatever you need.

If you need a healing, I am your healing. You need salvation, I am your salvation.You need comfort, I am your comfort. You need life, I am your life. I’m whatever youneed tonight present tense, I’m here. I’m here to heal you, I’m here to bless you. I amthat I am, whatever you need, and I will be what I will be to you as you believe it. OhPraise God. Apart from human need, this great name of God goes round and round a

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circle. Do you realize that the pillar of fire swung over Malachi 4 in a circle, I am that Iam.

And somebody had a need over there, a cripple. And that person had need that Hewas that person’s healing. He was a blank check, I am that I am. I am that I am, a blankcheck, I am that I am. You ask for it, you write it out, you fill in the check. Don’t yourealize what we have here tonight? I am, the pillar of fire has returned back to Malachi 4,and Malachi 4 left us a blank check here, five manifestations for the third exodus, and wehave it here tonight friends. That’s that rock that was back there in the beginning is herenow tonight. I am whatever you need tonight. Oh Praise God, the resurrection is upon usnow. Amen, and we all know that, and it’s time for us to speak to that rock.

We have Moses’...I mean Aaron’s rod here with us tonight. Amen. All we haveto do is speak to that rock tonight and we can have something happen here tonight.Amen. Now watch now, you’re ready for the resurrection, and as they went on down toEgypt, Aaron put down his rod and it became a serpent. Jannes and Jambres put downtheir rods and become serpents and then Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. That wasbecause life swallowed up death. Yes sir! And we have Aaron’s rod tonight to swallowup the death. We have the rod, the Word of God. Devil can’t hurt us, yes, but we haveresurrection power in us.

Oh my, it’s time for the tribes to bring the rods before God, the head. Bring yourrods and say, I know I got the right rod tonight. I’m not fearful to walk in before theLord. I have Aaron’s rod, the Word of the Lord. Yes sir, I don’t have a denominationalrod tonight, and interpretation rod tonight, I have Aaron’s rod. I have full confidence ourGod is living tonight. All the authors of religion have died and Christ among them.Buddha’s tomb is occupied, dead bones, Amen.

Muhammad’s tomb is occupied, dead bones. Confucius’ tomb is occupied, deadbones. Jesus’ tomb is empty, Praise God, He rose from the dead. He’s alive tonight;He’s I am, I am whatever you need tonight. Yes sir, He’s here tonight. Oh Bride, we’rejoint heirs. Where’s our faith? The fig tree is already cursed, it’s time to bring the rodsbefore God. Oh, listen friends, even the baseball is a type of it. Aaron over here inAtlanta, about 80 miles away over here, you all know about it I suppose. I like the littletypes in running and boxing and baseball and whatnot. Praise the Lord.

Babe Ruth, we all know about him, I believe here in America anyway, cause hewas immortalized into eternity in the natural world for hitting 714 home runs. And if youunderstand numerology, that’s number 3. Amen. And whenever they show a picture ofhim they always show up in a cloud, like he’s up there in Heaven somewhere;immortalized in man’s mind. Well we have a Bride that was perfect in the early days,and she’s up there also. Number 3, Amen. Who could ever break Babe Ruth’s record, aperfect record? Who could ever break the early Bride's record?

Malachi 4 said, this ain’t their age, this is going to surpass their age. We’re gonnabreak their record, Amen? Oh, Praise God. I tell you tonight, Amen, Aaron, HenryAaron had a rod, a bat. Amen? Praise the Lord. He swung a homerun bat. Praise God.Even we noticed through numerology that number 4 is the Bride’s number, deliverance.Number 8 is a new beginning, a new creation, number 8. Is that right friends? Now herewas April the fourth month, the eighth day, April the eighth, the fourth month, the fourthinning, he was forty years old, and his number was 44. Amen, Praise the Lord.

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The opposing pitcher, Arnold Downing was number 44; Romans 8:28, all thingswork together for you from the opposing pitcher. I don’t care how many fast balls arethrown right at your head, it will work together for good for the Bride. Even his numberwas 44, Amen. Here is...this is our age here friends. And Aaron walked up there today,we are Aaron today. Aaron, A-a-r-o-n. We got a rod, we got a bat. Amen, Oh PraiseGod. The bases are loaded. Praise God.

Luther chopped one down to first base line and got on first. Wesley bunted himalong to put him in scoring position. Brother, the Pentecostals sent a blue dart down tothird base line. The enemy made an outstanding catch on the base line, and held them toa single. Amen. Praise God. Held them to a single, and the opposing pitcher ready tothrow a fast ball down the pipe, but Aaron was standing there. Praise God. He had a rod,he had a homerun bat. Amen. When the ball come down there, he blasted one. Andbrother, Luther come blasting across home plate, Wesley come tearing around third baseto home plate, and the Pentecostals come blasting around the home plate.

And oh Praise God, I believe Henry Aaron tonight, I believe the Bride Aarontonight, can swing the homerun bat to break the old Bride’s record, Praise God, andmarch into the resurrection, a perfect Bride, and stand in her atoms and be changed andresurrected and surpass the early Bride, for the early Bride swung a homerun bat, andthey’re waiting at home plate, cause they swung homeruns, Praise God, everyone ofthem. The early church blasted homeruns. Iraeneus blasted a homerun. St. Martinblasted a homerun. Polycarp blasted a homerun. Columba blasted a homerun, dynamicsand mechanics together. Praise God.

And Luther hit a single, and Wesley hit a single, and the Pentecostals singled butwe have the homerun bat. Amen, Praise God, we have it tonight friends. It’s time forthe individuals. Do you believe that friends? Oh my, new creation to swing thathomerun bat tonight. Oh my, we have Aaron’s bat, the Word, and it’ll bring the power ofthe resurrection down, it’ll raise the brethren. I believe it with all my heart tonight.Praise God.

Even the New York Times said these words here, when they had the picture there,everybody was waiting with abated breath, and it was dead silence was in the ball park.And they waited for him, and the ball come down the pipe, and Aaron’s bat hit it, and itsaid it went for a homer and a loud thunder clap went off, broke the dead silence, oh my,I’m waiting for a loud thunder clap to break the silence of this eight and a half years. Ohmy, I’m waiting for a thunder clap, thunder all down through me with rapturing grace,and I’ve swung the homerun bat, and I know who I am.

The dead silence, oh, that it could be broken tonight. Praise God. And whenAaron finished it all is was rough. He had to overcome this, overcome that, overcomethis here, and only 80 miles away over here, in Georgia. My. if General Jesus couldcome marching down through Georgia tonight with Holy Ghost fire, it would set Atlantaon fire, wouldn’t it? Praise God. And he said, “Thank God,” Aaron, a natural man said,“Thank God, it’s over.” What will we say when we get into the resurrection and see ourloved ones, and see the ones that we love in this age, see ole Malachi 4 standing there; heswung that homerun bat brother.

But he’s waiting for us; they without us are not made perfect. He gave us thehomerun bat to knock them home, brother. Yes sir! They’re waiting for us to swing thehomerun bat. Now, what will we look like if we got the bat in our hands and we don’t hit

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the ball? Pick up the bat brother and hit the ball, and see the almonds, nine-fold fruit, thatBride Tree moving upon the earth again hitting homeruns. I mean, every swing is ahomerun. Thus Saith The Lord out of the ball park. Thus Saith The Lord, another one,Thus Saith The Lord out of the ball park. There we are. Praise our God.

Oh lets, in closing now, Malachi 4, since 1946 all the way through, he spoke tothe rock for he knew who he was. He knew that God sent him, and therefore he knewthat he could speak to the rock, don’t smite it, but speak to it sweetly and tenderly withlove and compassion for them souls. He don’t care what they did, he went out for them.Going after the lost. Where would we be if he didn’t go for us, and of some havecompassion? Where would we be tonight, if Malachi 4 just didn’t look over ourmistakes?

And the people came to him with all kinds of stuff, and then we should be mad atsomebody? Oh get that revelation, and of some have compassion, Amen, and speak tothe rock. Don’t you want to get on speaking terms with God? Well, if you want to get onspeaking terms, perfect faith, you just walk in there with no oughts, confessing yourfaults, and you’re on speaking terms. No sin, no nothing binding you nowhere; a bloodatonement hanging over you, and Moses stood under the blood of bulls and goats andspoke flies.

We have the blood of Jesus Christ over us, every Word of God. Amen. No sinnowhere. No unbelief, who can condemn you of sin when you’re speaking the Word ofGod? Forgiveness puts us on speaking terms with God, He said He forgives our sins thenwe have speaking terms. Amen friends? That’s still the commandment tonight, speak tothe rock and use the name of the rock and God will bring His waters forth out of the rock.I believe tonight that we can speak to that rock; that rock that high priest was there, Hewas smitten for you and me; there’s no man worthy. There’s not one man here worthytonight for anything. We should have death, and we all know that.

He’s worthy. Oh Praise God. In the midst of all the sin, God forgave their sinsand blessed them anyway. That rock, oh my. Now tonight, Adam spoke that rock whenhe fell into sin, is that right? Hagar spoke that rock, and she was a bond woman. AndSarah put her out in the desert out there; she was a bond woman, and she went in thestrength of a bow shot; a man would...you could take a bow and arrow and fling it and asfar as that arrow could go that’s as far as she could go in her strength out in the desert,then she fell down. And her son there, he was thirsty for water, and she wept before God,and then she looked up and He said, “What aileth thee, Hagar?” It was that rock. Amen.

Then she spoke to the rock, a bond woman. God loved that bond woman. Eventhough it was the will of God to cast her out, but He still loved her, and she spoke to therock, oh my, and God opened up her eyes and she saw a well of water in the desert. Idon’t care what desert of unbelief you’re off in tonight, you can speak to the rock. Hecan give you water in your...you’re trying to fight your way out of some problemssomewhere in a desert of some problem; temptation or trial in a desert? Just look to therock and speak to the rock tonight. Oh Praise God, Amen, I believe it tonight.

He’s the same I am here tonight. If the doctor turns you down, speak anyhow.Yes sir! The devil say this, the devil say that, speak anyhow, God’s able to bring Hispromises to pass. I believe it tonight, and vindicate them. Noah spoke to that rock, andthe rock told him to get into the ark. He got in there. Amen? Daniel spoke to the rock inthe lion’s den, and the rock told the lion who he was, ease, at ease. Praise God. The

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three Hebrew boys was down in the fiery furnace, they spoke to the rock and cool watercome out and cooled off the fire. Cool, refreshing water friends, it was there.

Moses had smitten the rock, in type, of course, years later Moses was seenspeaking to the same rock upon Mt. Transfiguration. Oh, the grace of Almighty God.Seen years later speaking to the same rock. I don’t care whatever you’ve done, you canspeak to the rock tonight. Get on speaking terms with God; it’s grace that has brought usthis far tonight, and grace will take us through. He gave her a drink.

The woman at the well spoke to that rock in her condition, six husbands andwhatnot, God spoke to a prostitute in her condition. God on two feet. Grace andcompassion, and of some having compassion, and spoke to her and reaped the harvest thesame day. Amen. She ran on into the city and she told the men, and they came on out,and He spoke to those men. But He knew that in eight or nine years later, He’d sendPhillip down and baptize them. Amen, Praise God . Don’t ever worry about it. God cantake care of His seeds. Just have compassion on them. Amen. Let God take care of it inthe season, in the time. Yes sir!

And she confessed to the Word, He gave her a drink. Amen. Blind Bartamausspoke to that rock and cried out, “heal my eyes” and He healed his eyes. You can speaktonight, He’ll open your spiritual eyes also. God is able to open your spiritual eyes. Ifyou’re in here tonight in some blind denomination, God can speak, you can speak to therock and open up your eyes. For Hagar was in some denomination, some bond woman, atype, and if you’re in a denomination tonight and you’re here, God has led you here.

He wants you to speak to Him tonight, He wants to give you some water. Somerefreshing water from Mt. Zion. Amen, Praise God. A woman with a blood issue spoketo that rock, she said, “If I can only touch that rock.” And she crawled through on herstomach under, in dust and dirt and everything else under their legs, and she got to thatrock. And she touched the hem of the garment. Yes sir, and the water gushed out. Wecan speak to the rock tonight. Can we have a chorus here, Amen, a chorus of ‘JesusBreaks Every Fetter.’

If you need eternal life tonight, speak to the rock. He’s here tonight friends. Ifyou’re backslidden tonight, speak to the rock. He’s here tonight. If you need joy, speakto the rock, if you need healing, speak to the rock. If anybody here is out of speakingterm with the rock, He’s here to forgive you. He loves you. He has compassion on you.On the cross, they mocked Him, they cursed Him, they spit at Him, they crowned Him.He said," Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

That same Jesus Christ went through, Malachi 4 went with Him. And stood outthere among thousands times thousands, and no matter what they said against Malachi 4,Jesus in Malachi 4 forgave them, forgave them. And He has forgiven you and I; won’tyou come and speak to Him tonight? Let us bow our heads, every head bowed.

Is there one here tonight that’s not on speaking terms with that rock, and youwould like to speak to that rock tonight? Just show us by an uplifted hand. Praise God,Praise God, Amen.

Our Heavenly Father, as we hear the sweet strands of, ‘Jesus Breaks EveryFetter,’ we know it’s real, Lord. We know, Heavenly Father that you gave your prophetthe rock of healing and with it went forgiveness. So we ask now, Heavenly Father, thatthe hands that has gone up, you know what’s under those hearts, dear God. HeavenlyFather, we ask that you would forgive every sin there. Oh God, and whatever is the need

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there Lord, come down now Heavenly Father, break every shackle, break every fetterLord, and give them that homerun bat Lord to hit that homerun and go into theresurrection Lord.

Forgive them of their sins. Lord, if there be any backslider here, we pray now thatthey would be reconciled to God and they could speak to that rock tonight, and get backon speaking terms with you Lord, and you’ll forgive their sins if they confess them now.For we know you’re here Lord. We know you’re here Heavenly Father. And Lord, aswe bow our heads now, realizing that we’re coming to a healing, we are confessing ourfaults, we are forgiving those we have oughts against, we are praying one for another tobe healed, and we’re gonna come now Lord in this healing service to speak to the rock.

Lord God just now, may the sweet honey in the rock come down now Lord andsweeten us up now heavenly Father, and just move into our hearts and sweep across usnow Lord, as we sing this sweet old hymn. May the Lord bless you...

Jesus breaks every fetter, Jesus breaks every fetterJesus breaks every fetter, for He sets me free.I am now on the altar. I am now on the altar.I am now on the altar which was made for me. [oh everybody all over the

building]Jesus breaks every fetter. Jesus breaks every fetter.Jesus breaks every fetter, for He sets me free.I will never doubt my Savior. I will never doubt my Savior.I will never doubt my Savior for He cleanses me. [As she continues to play]All of us have suffered for these past eight and a half years, and God knows that.

But He give us a promise, “If you suffer with me, you shall reign with me.” We’ve hadmuch pain, we’ve been bruised and stabbed and chopped up and cut up, so was Jesus, sowas the early Church, so was those who followed the early Church, so was Luther andWesley and the old Pentecostals who stood out there under great persecution, so wasMalachi 4. Amen.

But to me, you know there’s a little story about an oyster, just want to tell it toyou before we pray for the sick. First there is in the oyster, first then that into the oystershell is introduced a substance which becomes the source of great irritation and suffering.A small stone or some foreign body. And once this irritation is in the oyster, it’s there forgood. It’s a real thorn in the flesh for the oyster. But the creature has to live with it.Amen.

Yet God has provided the oyster with a wonderful way of handling the source ofsufferings. The creature is able to manufacture a wondrously smooth material with whichit covers the irritation. Oh my, we have something in us. Sweet Holy Spirit, movingsweet, and it covers every irritation. Isn’t that wonderful friends? This protectivecovering is what makes the actual pearl. And as the years go by the oyster continues tocover the problem. Whatever problem you have, the Holy Spirit can cover that problemtonight, with more pearl material so that in God’s good time this thing which came inoriginally as an irritant or a thorn becomes transformed. Amen.

So we learn that a precious pearl really is a problem covered with the provision ofGod, the Word. Heralds of faith learned this, life without the provision of Christ is oftenjust a string of sorrows, and tragedies and sufferings. But Praise be to the Living Godtonight, when our problems are covered with what He has provided, the string of

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problems become a string of pearls. So all our problems and sufferings and trials andtemptations, anything that has happened to you, all things work together for good.

“But I’m tired, Lord.” Hold still, the great physician has written out theprescription. He says we must be baptized with this baptism of sufferings. We’ve got todrink the cup, the prescription. Malachi Four drank that cup; can’t we drink that cupalso? We have the string of pearls. Amen. Revelation 21: the twelve gates, and eachgate is a pearl, and the redeemed, the Bride, enters in through a pearly gate.

So all our sufferings and trials and temptations is nothing but pearly gates to enterinto the joys of the heavens. Oh, Praise our God, can’t we rest on His promise?

I will rest on His promise. I will rest on His promise.I will rest on His promise which is given to me.Jesus breaks every fetter. Jesus breaks every fetterJesus breaks every fetter...