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There Is A Man Here That Can Turn On The Light (63-1229M)
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1 Let us bow our heads now. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee this morning for Thy goodness and mercy, for giving us the privilege of assembling here together again, a day this side of the great eternity to worship the lovely One, the Lord Jesus Christ. We thank You because that He come to the earth to--to redeem us from a--a life of sin and to give us this great heritage that we have through His righteousness. And as we, this morning, are here as His ambassadors to--to break this Bread of Life to this waiting congregation, may the Holy Spirit inspire every word and place it into the hearts of the people just as we have need. We ask this in Jesus' Name. Amen. (Be seated.)
2
Certainly deem this a great privilege again this morning to be standing
here with you. Sorry that we don't have no more room than what we do to
take care of the people; our tabernacle isn't quite large enough. And
we are very grateful to be here through this holidays from--from down
at our home in--at Tucson. And the weather was kinda rough, but we was
happy to be here and to have the meeting.
4
So you... If you're sick or have loved ones that are sick and want to
bring them in, come about 6:30, something like that, 7:00 o'clock, and
get a prayer card; He'll be at the door however he gives them out--as
you come in. 6 And I'm glad to see Brother Shepherd here this morning, I--from the hospital. I was out to see him the other day. And Sister Shepherd, I didn't get call you yesterday. That dream that you sent me was very, very fine. You seen, as it was, Christ in a--on a--in a--in the skies upon this white horse, but yet being bound. You see? But yet, before it faded away, all your family got to see it. That--the dream interpretation is that your family has seen His move of this last day before it passed away whatever... 'Cause it--it was a very spiritual, and a very good blessing to you--you family. That family come up out of some great tribulation to come to where they are today. 7 And now, we have something a little on the sad side this morning. Since I met here, one of our precious friends and--and comers to this tabernacle, the Coats family, which we all love them. They come down from the east and--or from Chicago around. And Sister Billy Habib, and--and there's Sister Armstrong and all the girls. They--I think they were formerly Nazarene and has come to the Lord, and they're very precious friends of ours. And Brother and Sister Coats, their father and mother, was on the road home the other day from over in the west, and someone slid on the road and--and killed Sister Coats instantly. And--and while they called me over in--in Tucson, and I heard about it, I was setting right there then with a box of candy that she had just made for me setting on the--on the table. And you know how that made me feel. But I--I think that--thank the Lord this morning she didn't have to suffer. She was getting aged, and she didn't have to suffer. And she went home to be with God.
8
I was just thinking and talking to her two girls just now, in the room
in there. Brother Coats is here this morning; he got some broken ribs.
And I called him in the hospital and where he was hospitalized over in
Missouri, and his ribs broke and things, but he certainly had a real
courage, a real Christian, knowing that his little queen is not dead;
she's alive forevermore with Christ. See? And there'll be a uniting
time. 10 Did you ever notice God in nature does the same thing? Like the sap that's in the trees up here, holding on the leaves, and 'fore wintertime comes, the wrath that's poured out upon the earth... See, at one time the earth didn't have winter. And in the millennium there'll never be any more winters. You see? So it's the wrath upon the earth. Then when that happened... See, before the wrath comes, God in His mercy sends that sap right down into the--underneath the ground into the roots of that tree and keeps it there until the wrath of the winter be passed, then raises it back up again in the springtime. "Oh, that Thou would hide me in the grave and keep me in the secret place until Thy wrath be passed." That's what He's done for our sister; that's what He does for all Christians.
11
Brother Coats, God bless you. I'm so happy to know that--that the Seal
of God holds in a hour of trouble. I know what he going through with,
'cause I went through with something similar years ago. But I'm... One
by one we have to cross over this great river, and I--and it'll be my
time one of these days and your time one of these days. But as David
said, "I'll fear no evil, for Thou art with me. Thy rod and Thy staff
they comfort me."
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Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the memories of Sister Coats.
What a precious, dear sister. And now, time comes that when we live out
our span in life that's been 'lotted to us; we must cross the river. We
thank Thee because that she didn't not have to suffer. There must not
been anything against her here that she had to suffer for; she just
went straight into the arms of God just in a moment.
18 Now, it is warm in here this morning, because it's a bodies, you know, so much being--the heat of the human body.
20
Now, soon, the Lord willing, this coming, just as soon as I leave
here... I'll be leaving, the Lord willing, tomorrow morning sometime
back to Arizona, because I've got a meeting coming up. And then it's
just all the way across the south. And you southern people from down in
Georgia, and Mississippi, and Texas, and Alabama, we're coming right
down in there, all the way into Florida right away.
22
And then, you keep praying for us, and we'll let you know when... If
we--the Lord puts upon our heart now to hold a--a few days here this
coming summer.
24
Now, I see you're changing seats with each other and--and out in the
halls and so forth. We wish we just had place to set down. And now,
when we have those Trumpets, that's--we want to get the high school
gymnasium; I think it seats fifty-five hundred; and then we'd have a
chance to--everybody to have a seat and set down and listen quietly
while we're--while we're preaching, or... The--the Trumpets, they're
very, very fine. I... In looking at it the other day...
26
And tonight I have a very important message that I want to speak just
before the--the--the healing service. And if you're here and are going
to stay over, why, we'll try, if it'd possible to start just a little
bit early, 'cause there'll be a prayer line. I won't preach too long,
but there's something that I wanted to say to the church for some time
and kinda post you on the--the--the--the--how things are running at
this time and just where we're standing, and--the best of my knowledge
through the Scripture.
28
We're very happy this morning also to have Brother Dauch setting with
us here. While you're turning... You know, they thought he wasn't going
to live here in Shreveport the other day, and he's certainly got faith.
Yes, sir. He climbs right out of it; the Lord blesses him. I don't...
See, Brother Dauch's ninety-one years old and had a complete heart
failure and heart attack on top of it. And the very doctor that said
that he didn't see there's any way for him to live, Brother Dauch is
living, and the doctor's dead. See, just... See? Brother Dauch sets
here.
30 Now, we're going to talk on healing tonight and things. They got some real outstanding things to tell you for tonight.
33
Now, in the Matthew's Gospel the 4th chapter I wish to read the
fulfillment of that prophecy given by Isaiah. In the 4th chapter of
Matthew I--I will begin to read. If possible let's begin at the 12th
verse instead of the 15th.
34
And now, a odd little text that... I heard someone speaking said this,
but I want to take this for a text: "There Is a Man Here That Can Turn
On the Light."
36
And then in there I--typing of David which was a fugitive at the time
of his excommunicating from his people, he was turned out, and
Bethlehem was besieged, and the Philistines was garrisoned around
Bethlehem. And David, a fugitive, a type of the church today of
Christ... See, Christ is a fugitive to His own church today. They
have... A fugitive is something that's refused. And David had been
refused, yet he was anointed to be king, but--the prophet had anointed
him.
38
What a type it is today of--of Christ, a Fugitive? You say, "Christ a
Fugitive?" According to the Bible that we--God has gallantly taken us
through those Seven church ages--this Laodicean church, Christ was a
Fugitive outside of His church, rejected, trying to get back in again.
See? He's a Fugitive to His own church. And the reason He is a
Fugitive, is because He is the Word, and they won't let the Word in;
they've accepted creeds instead.
40
If you notice how Bethlehem was formed? Don't want to get on that
subject. But how Bethlehem... Actually, Rahab the harlot, her son was
the one who founded Bethlehem. It was a wheat center, and a lot of fine
water there. And he founded the little city. And it was the smallest of
all the cities, 'cause the prophet said, "Out... Bethlehem of Judaea,
aren't thou the least amongst all the princes of the cities of
Jerusalem--or of Judaea, but out of thee shall come the Governor
that'll rule My people." Out of the little one.
42
Then we find after he come Obed, and after he come Boaz, and there come
another Gentile in, which she come in by Ruth. And out of there come
Jessie; and out of Jessie come David. And a little hillside stable out
there brought forth the King of kings, Jesus Christ, the Son of David,
his spiritual Son. 45 So is it today, the least of Jesus' thoughts--or how about His Word--should be a command to we Gentiles who love Him. For we know He's coming into power no matter how much He's rejected. Heavens and earth will pass away, but this will still reign just the same when all heavens and earth is gone. And we know He's coming into power, 'cause nothing will keep it from happening. This is Christ, the revelation of Him, and this is going to happen just the way the Word says it is, 'cause He is the Word. And the least of His commands are... No matter how little it is... If it's to be rebaptized or whatever it is, we'll do it anyhow. It's His command.
46
And the least of David's thought was a command to those Gentiles, for
they--a type of the Gentile church today, gallant men. See? Those men
who stood by David were Gentiles, but gallant men. They were fearless.
They didn't know what fear was.
49
Did you notice, them being so gallant to David, when David finally come
in power, he made them ruler over cities. Didn't Jesus promise the same
thing? The same thing, make them ruler. 53 Oh, Gentiles, as I have said, who'll pull that sword with me? He wants a fresh drink this morning, not this old stagnated church creeds and things we're fooling around with; He wants genuine faith in His Word who'll believe every Word of It. Let's go to the well and bring back a drink, a refreshment, a worship that's built upon, not creeds and denomination, but a genuine Spirit worship with Christ among us living His Life the way He wants to among us. That's--that's not with creeds and different things; let's just--just have Him that way. 54 Now, the next was how God dealt with the people through a dream in the days of--of Joseph. Did you notice, a dream is secondarily; it's a secondarily way of God working. Some people can have dreams, don't mean nothing. You can eat too much and have nightmares. And dream is secondarily way. See? Well, why would God protect His own Son through a secondarily way? He appeared to Joseph. The welfare of His own Child He sent in a secondarily way. Did you ever think of it? 'Cause there was no prophet in the land. He had to work through dreams. And it wasn't a dream that had to be interpreted. The Angel of the Lord said, "Joseph, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost." 55 It was a unusual thing for that to happen. Joseph being a just man... He--He was unusual; God is unusual. And the unusual's hard to understand. That's why it's hard to understand Truth today; it's so unusual. A woman to have a baby without knowing a man, that was very unusual. But if you're honest and sincere, God can appear to you yet in a dream. It goes to show that anything that you have, whether it's your mind, whether you can whistle, sing, testify, or whatever you can do, if in your whole being is committed to God, God can use it if you'll just let Him do it. 56 Then the following night up here Brother Neville preached on the subject of escaping, how the--the man escapes. And I thought it was kinda remarkable, and this morning the Holy Spirit seems to have me to deal upon the subject of the Light, the very next. Go right on in the beginning how Christ's Life started at the manger. We're walking right back through it again in our text. And he didn't know it; I didn't know it; and here it is right at the same thing. See? Right on, the next thing is where He enters His ministry. And tonight we got something that'll blend right with that, to go right on tonight, the Lord willing.
57
Now, great Light, the Gentiles who set in the regions of the shadows of
death, great Light sprang up among them. And Zabulon, the Nephthalim in
the--by the way of Galilee of the Gentiles, great Light--they saw a
great Light.
60
Now, when you see His Word being vindicated, or other words, made
known, proved, that is a--the Light of His spoken Word. And without
light nothing can live, without light. There is no life upon the earth
today that--but what has to come by the--the light of the sun, in--in
botany life and so forth. And there's no Eternal Life outside of the
Son of God. See? He is the Light.
63
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." It might've
been a hundred million or billion, or whatever it was. And how He done
it, that's up to Him to know (See?) not to me. But the world was... The
earth was without form and void, and water was upon the--the earth; and
God said--moved upon the water and said, "Let there be light."
65
And I believe that's God's way of doing things; He... In the Bible the
next verse says--the 4th verse says, "And He separated the light from
the darkness; and the light He called day, and the darkness He called
night." And God's Word always separates light from darkness. See? It's
the Word that does the separating (See?), light from darkness.
69 I was talking... I had--I had, I think, eleven interviews just 'fore I got to the pulpit this morning in there. So bad...
71
Now, what... God separates darkness from light--or light from darkness,
and He separates death from Life; and He does it by His Word. His Word
is what always brings this forth.
74
All life... So life is only by the Word of God made manifest. Life
comes only by the Word of God made manifest. As long as it is just in
the Book like this, it still can be questioned; but when it's made
manifest, then you see the product of what It spoke of being
manifested; then that is Light on the--on the Word. See? That's what
brings... The Word said so, and then when it comes to pass, that is
Life in Light, Light bringing Life.
76
Oh, how we appreciate these great things, how that the Word being
vindicated is the Light of the spoken Word. See? God said, "Let there
be light." Now, what if He just said it, and no light come? Then we
don't know whether it's true or not. We don't know whether He's all
right; we don't know whether He's God or not, because He just said,
"Let there be," and there wasn't. See? So then when God speaks and we
see it is, then that's the Light that shines forth, the Truth of the
Word. See? There is Light and Life.
78
And spiritual Life, Eternal Life, can only come by God's spoken Word of
Life. Life was the S-o-n this time. In Him is Light, and in Him is no
darkness; and He is God's spoken Light (Is that right?), God's spoken
Word; for In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. And It's forever God. See? And it takes the Light of
God to strike the Word to make It live. Here's what He spoke, now let
the Light shine (Amen.); let the Light shine. And the Light will bring
every Word to Its right position in its season. Amen.
80
God's Word comes only by the Bible. God's Bible is the--the printed
form of the Son of God, because the Bible said that it is the
revelation of Jesus Christ. It's God revealing Himself through Christ,
and Christ is the Word. And it takes the Light of God to shine upon
that Word to vindicate It, to prove that God still speaks Life--Eternal
Life, He speaks... The natural light brings the life. Life only comes
by the Light, the Word made manifest--or made flesh... When all the
promises become--in the Bible--become manifest is when Jesus Christ,
the Word, was made flesh among us. God always works through men. Man is
God's subjects.
82
Notice. Now, made flesh... When the Word becomes flesh, It becomes
manifested. Like take the Word and put It in the right position, the
right kind of ground, It'll bring forth. The--the seed will bring forth
its kind. And the Word brought into the right kind of a heart, it'll
manifest Itself. It'll bring forth the light. It'll break forth upon
it. All right. 84 Now, could you imagine some man today saying, "I just refuse to say there's such a thing as a sun. I don't believe there is a sun." And he runs down into the basement, and--and shuts all the doors, and sets back in the darkness, and said, "There is no such a thing as sun; there is no such a thing as light." You'd know right away there was something mentally wrong with that person. See? There's something wrong when he runs back into a dark basement and refuses to accept the benefit of God-given light. There's something wrong with him. He don't want its warm rays. He doesn't want its health-giving substance. He doesn't want its light to walk in; He'd rather set in darkness. It shows mentally something wrong, natural, with the man. 85 And I say this with all love and respect: so is there something spiritually wrong with a man that'll run back into his denominations of creed and refuse to see Bible Light when it's shining right before him. There's something wrong with him. He goes back into his creeds and forms and shuts the door, and says, "There is no such a thing as that. The days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as Divine healing. There's none of these things. That was for an apostle." The man is spiritually crazy. See? There's something wrong with him. He--he--he pulled down the curtains and--and rejected the Holy Spirit that can come upon him. If He can... "If ye abide in Me and My Word's in you, then (the Light shining upon this Word) ask what you will." See, see? 86 There's something wrong that he would reject the God-given sources that God has give to us to live by: His Word. "The just shall live by faith. And man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word, not part of the Word, every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." And when a man would just refuse that, there's something wrong with that person, something wrong with his experience that he claims to love God and then refuses God. There's something gone wrong with the person. We know that without a shadow of doubt. He rejects it, runs into that place, and says, "Now, I just--I don't want to know nothing about it; don't tell me nothing about these things. I--I don't believe nothing about it. You... Don't matter what you say..." 87 A fellow said not long ago (I was telling you about) he said, "I don't care if you'd bring fifty cancers and bring fifty doctors to testify of them, I don't believe. I don't care if you'd raise up the dead right before me; I wouldn't believe it." See, there's something wrong with that person. See? There--there--there's... And yet the man was a minister (See, see?), supposed to be a minister. But just because that organization doesn't believe in--in the powers of God, don't believe that the Word meant just what It said, the man runs into this basement, old musty, dirty, filthy basement of a organization and refuses the warmth and Life-giving rays of the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Then there's something wrong with that person. See? He would rather live in that must, darkness, and so forth, than to live in the Light of the God and of the Bible that said that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. "The works that I do shall you do also; even greater than this shall you do, for I go to My Father." There's something wrong with that person. Without a question at all, there's something wrong.
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And to you men that's listening to this across the world, wherever you
may be, there's something wrong with your experience when you say that
you love God and refuse His Word. There's something... You refuse the
very... No wonder the things can't--the church is in its condition and
things cannot be done as God promised, is because you won't even
receive the Word or walk in the Light. The Bible said, "Let us walk in
the Light as He is in the Light, then the Blood of Jesus Christ God's
Son cleanses us from all sin." Sin is unbelief.
91
Now, we find that the--the wise men, the wise men of old followed the
God-given substance; they followed the Word of God to the Light,
because it was the Word that brought Life.
93
No matter how many observatories, how many other things told the wise
men, "Why, you are out of your mind."... Two years they was in travel.
They passed by many nations, and they said, "Where you going?"
95
Notice, they were wise men, and wise men today, not wise... The wisdom
of this world is foolishness to God. All your scientists, and you
people who are depending on some great scholarship or something another
telling you how to split a atom, it can't give you Life. There's
nothing can give you Life but the spoken Word of God. It's the only way
that Life can come is through His spoken Word. 97 It was the Angels of God that showed light upon the hill to guide the shepherds to the eternal Light. See, it only comes by Light. Life can only come by Light. The shepherds wanting to know... You know, when a king is born, they have singing, great carrying on when the king is born. Now, He was so secretly born and borned in a stable, in a--a manger where the cattle and horses was eating, but yet He was a King. And the--the Angels came down and sang the hymns to the shepherds in the light. The Angels themselves were lights that showed with the Word of God. They had the Word of God and told them, "Today in the city of David, over there in Bethlehem is born Christ the Saviour." The Angels had the Word, and the Word came by Light to guide. And they followed the Word of the Angels to the eternal Light. They found the Baby there wrapped in swaddling's cloth as they had said. For you see, Life only comes by Light.
98
Notice, He was the Word made Light, or became Light. The Word... In
that generation He was the Word Light of that generation, because the
prophets of old had spoke of Him, and here He come and vindicated He
was the Light of God's spoken Word. See? All the prophets had--had said
had been fulfilled in Him. See? The prophets back here with the Word,
like God was at the beginning when He said, "Let there be light," and
light came... Now, the prophet said, "A virgin shall conceive, bring
forth a Son. They shall call His Name Immanuel, for It'll be God with
us." Now, they had spoke it; the Word had went out, but He was the
Light. What was He? The fulfillment...?... He was the fulfillment of
that Word. He was the manifestation of that Word.
100
And when the prophets inspired by the Holy Spirit said, "Unto us a
Child is born; unto us a--a Son is given--or a Child is given; and His
Name shall be called Counselor, Prince of Peace, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father," there it was. What was He? The Light that
fulfilled that Word (Amen.), the Light that fulfilled that Word. 102 On the day of Pentecost that was the Light that showed when the Holy Ghost had come. Isaiah said in the 28th chapter of Isaiah, Isaiah said that with--"precept must be upon precept; line must be upon line, here a little and there a little; hold fast to that what's good; for with stammering lips and with other tongues will I speak to this people; and this is the rest--this is the Sabbath that I'll give to you." In all this they would not hear, walked away and wagged their head. And when on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Ghost fell upon those people, and they acted like drunk men and women, staggering under the impact of the Holy Spirit, and the--walked away and wagged their heads, and said, "This people's drunk, full of new wine," and so forth. It absolutely was the Light, the Word that had been prophesied made manifest.
103
So is it in every age. The Word made manifest, come to light is the
Light of that age, there--the Word made manifest just like it was in
Genesis 1 when God said, "Let there be light," and there was light,
when God said there will be a Son, and there was a Son.
105
Now, in all ages God has set forth so much of His Word for each age.
God always sends somebody that that Word can get into and show the
Light of It. That... In every age it does the same thing, always does
that.
108
Look at Him when He stood there. He said, "If I do not the works of My
Father, then condemn Me. (See?) But if you can't believe Me, believe
the works that I do. They testify Who I am. They tell you Who I am."
You see that blind, darkened hour that they live in, they couldn't see
it. They just couldn't understand, how could He be that. "How can he be
any son of God when he's born right down here in Bethlehem?" If they
only knowed, the Word said He would come that way.
111
Notice, we find out, Light of each age made manifest just the same.
Then I want to ask the question as--'fore our time gets away. Why, why
then were they--did they turn it down? How could they do it when
the--their very Bible that they was reading was being made manifest
before them. Now, study real hard now. 114 Then why were they--did they reject the Messiah? Is... Why did they reject that Light? Here's the Word that they knowed was coming to pass, but when the Word was made manifest to show that the Word of God had been fulfilled... Compare that with today. See? When there, written in the Word that would take place... Then why did those men reject it, teachers? Because they were living in a glare of another light. That's it. They was living in a glare. That's the thing they're doing today. They're living... The reason they turn it down is because they're living in a glare of another light. See? Now, they was living in the glare of what Moses said; they claimed. They was living in the glare of what another age had passed by. And that's the very reason today that this Message that Jesus Christ still is the same is turned down, because the people are living in glares of other ages. The same reason, they turn it down. 115 Now, we notice. And Webster says that a "glare" is "kind of a false light." A "glare" is "a false light," same thing that glares. Like--like a mirage on the road, you go down the road, many of you driving cars, and look down ahead of you when you see that sun on the ground, it reflects a light, and like a mirage, look like there's water all over the road. But when you get there, there's nothing there. It's only a false mirage, the glare of a true light. That's what the devil's doing today is showing people a mirage, a Council of churches, a group of denominations which will turn out to be false. Because it's because there's a real Light shining. That real Light wasn't shining a mirage couldn't be there. A real Light shines. In that they're living in a glare of another age, another thing, for it's hit and passed on.
116
Now, a glare, this mirage is false. It's a glare of the sun. And that's
the way, they did the same thing. A false glare of the true Light...
119
Now, they said, "Who do you say we are?" "Why," he said... "You try
to... We know that you're crazy. Why, you're a Samaritan; you haven't
got your right mind. Well, you try to... Who can tell... We know you
was born in sin. We don't know where you come from. We have no record
of your identification in our groups. Why, you're crazy. You got a
devil." See? Said, "Why, you're out of your mind." But He was actually
the genuine true Light of God shining, and the glare had put their eyes
out.
123
Now, think of it. Think of it. They claimed that they believe that
Word. But their traditions had turned their faces from the true Word to
a glare; therefore, they couldn't see the real thing. So is it today.
So has it been in every age. See, the--the true Word shines, but they
have been so traditionalized that they can't see that Word. They're
looking at a glare, and they're blind. A glare will blind you. There's
a arc off of it; it'll blind you, and it'll... When the...
125
Now, a glare, as I said, is a false light, a mirage, a false conception
of the true Light: false conception. It's something that--that's
supposed to look like it, but it isn't that. 128 Now, stop just a minute and find out what the Word says for today. If they'd have stopped and thought, "Here He is fulfilling to the letter exactly what the Word said He would do,"... And He challenged them as I'm challenging you. I'm challenging you to look in the Word; search the Scriptures; see if this isn't the hour, "Search the Scriptures; for in Them you think you have Eternal Life; and They are They that testify of Me." They are They that testify of this work today. The works itself testifies, that it's being done. And the Scripture says it'll be done, so it's the Light of the hour. God's Word said so.
129
Your traditions and things is exactly what the Bible said, like those
who wagged their heads and walked away. All the tables become full of
vomit the Bible said. And that's the way they... They wouldn't believe
it; they wagged their heads. And gentlemen, do you realize, and
brethren, do you realize this, that when you are rejecting the very
thing that God's vindicating before you, that you're doing the same
thing they did, going back to your traditional vomit?
131
Glare, walking in a glare (See?), a mirage, a false conception of true
Light. He proved that He was the Light, because He being in the--way in
the minority (oh, my.), millions against Him. There was not one sixth
of the people, one ninetieth of the people on the earth ever knowed He
was here. Not I guess, one--one hundredth of the Jews, or hardly one
fiftieth of them or fortieth of them, I'll say--maybe less than
that--of His own country ever knowed He was there. And them that did
know He was there, considered Him a false something, because the
denomination told them that's what He was. See? But yet He was the true
Light that had been spoke since Genesis in the beginning, and asked
them to search the Scriptures and find out if He wasn't living just in
that time, if He--the works that He did didn't fulfill exactly what was
promised of that time. Amen. 133 He was the very Light that they claimed they were worshipping. They claimed to be worshipping that Light. And so is it today. They claim they're worshipping that. Pentecostals claim it. They claim they are, and so blind they can't see it. Why? They organized and put a glare in their face. See? A tradition is what some people set together and said, "We'll go and make this, and this, and this, and that. Now, we're going to come to why that has to happen, the Lord willing.
134
Notice, His works was the living Word Itself. What He did was the
living Word Itself, showing He was that Light that had been promised
since the beginning of the world. He was that Light. His Light on the
promised Word of the age made It live to exactly what the promise said
It would do, but they had it so turned around until they couldn't see
it. See? But He was the Light of that age.
136
"Oh," say, "oh, we have the Word." Why, the Word, everybody can pack a
Bible that wants to, but when the Word is vindicated, made manifest...
138
My son Billy Paul, he talks in his sleep, but he doesn't have dreams
very often. He had one the other night that shook him up. Said he'd
dreamed he was at a church, and--and they... I hadn't come in yet. Said
when I come in, fire was flying out of the eyes. And I said, "The time
is here; it's over." And everybody begin screaming, "I can't, my
children." And me...
142
It may be later than we think. There... See, that's exactly Scriptural
(You see?), the Stone without hands cut out of the mountain. And so one
of these days it's going to be that way when you're going to scream for
something. I said to him, "You've already had that time. God has
constantly warned you time after time." Yeah, I said, "Even if it's my
own kid or whoever it is, the hour is here. I can only say what He's
told me to say, and it'll be here, and it was." And--and then all of a
sudden here He come a Stone cut out of the mountain without hands.
Daniel saw that, you know, back many years ago. And Billy knowed
nothing about that, but it was a--it was a dream sent to him from the
Lord.
144
Look what darkness we're in today. Look what's going on today. Look at
murder, rape, strife. Why, it's come to pass... I believe it was Billy
Graham said in his last meeting, "In ten years from now every citizen
of California will have to pack a gun to protect themself. You can't
put enough law enforcement." The people's just gone insane. Shooting,
and murder, and rapes, everything (See?), it's just gone wild (See?)
upon the streets. See, it's a--it's a day we're living in, a Sodomite
day. See? But there is a Light shining if they'd only look, if they'd
only see--look into the Word and see what's supposed to be in this
hour, they would know what's trying to be done.
146
Creeds and traditions and their blinded condition had turned them from
the true Light of the promised Word. The Word that God had vindicated
by Jesus the Light of the world came and made that Word live right
exactly through His time, exactly to the days. He'll be cut off in the
midst of the seventy weeks (That's right.), which is the three and a
half years of His prophecy. The Messiah would come, the prince, and
would prophesy. And three and a half days of this, then He'd be cut off
from the living and make a atonement. And that's exactly. He preached
three and a half years, and...
148
Could you imagine a sensible person doing that? No more than I can
imagine a sensible person running down in the basement and getting in
must and pulling his doors together and say, "I refuse to see there's
light." It's insanity. And his spiritual slipped somewhere, when a man
sees that the Bible has promised this and see it living right out
before him and made manifest, and then continually stay in those creeds
and things out there that reject it. It's a spiritual delinquency. It's
exactly right.
150
Remember, we cannot live by yesterday's light. Yesterday's light is
gone. It isn't no more. It--the... Yesterday's light is only a memory.
Yesterday's sunlight is only a memory, or it's history. We cannot live
in yesterday's light. No more... And the same... Though it's the same
sun, the same sun, but each day it brings forth it's strength a little
stronger to ripen the grain for the harvest. See?
153
Now, let's watch a minute. We'll watch the church ages. There's seven
church ages. In those church ages, each one, watch how He spoke to them
what would do, how the grain would mature and come down to this last
hour here, this last hour that we're living in. So the churches must do
the same thing (See?) the churches.
156
Now, we're in another age. Why won't they receive it? Why won't they
see that the grain is matured? Here's the promised Word for this day.
Why don't they see it? Because they're living in Lutheran glare,
Wesleyan glare, Baptist glare, Pentecostal glare. They're living in the
glare of another light. That's the reason they can't receive the Light
of the total Word being a-vindicated as God promised of them seven
seals, where the whole mystery was revealed, would come back and tell
why these mysteries was done like that... And yet when that comes in,
they walk farther away from it than ever. They're without excuse. 158 I only say that reverently (See?), but you're--not to hurt you, but to wake you up. You're living in a mirage where Jesus said, "Why, you're blind and you're leading the blind." And they...?... He tried to tell them and then just said, "Let them alone. If the blind leads the blind, they'll all fall in the ditch." That's the hour I've come to. If they're going to stagger, I can't help it. I've done all I can do. I've done exactly. I've done this at Your command, Lord. You're a witness. Since 1933 down on the river when that Light there you see shined down, It's been right here in the tabernacle and witnessed to you all these years. And everything It's said's come to pass. And continually they go on. Let the blind lead the blind. I'll just wait for that hour. He'll arrive one of these days.
159
Notice, living in a glare of Luther, living in a glare of Wesley,
living in them glares back there, that's the reason they can't see true
Light. If they would stop for a few minutes and just pick up the Bible
and read It, they would see that the--this is Light promised for the
hour.
162
Yesterday's, Luther's manna would not work for Methodists. Methodist
manna would not work for Pentecost. Pentecostal manna will not work for
today. See what I mean? Every day it come day by day, fresh, and so has
it to the church ages. Luther's manna was the message of justification.
Wesley's message was the manifestation of sanctification; Pentecostal
was the restoration of the gifts. But this is introducing the
Headstone, the last day, the Bride Tree. It's contrary to all of it.
And yet It's the same Light for the matured, like the same sun shine
today will be ripening the grain for the harvest in July. See what I
mean? But the Light today won't do any good back there in July. It's
stronger; the wheat's more advanced. It's ready to take it. Amen.
Certainly it is. It couldn't take it now. It can then. The season
wasn't right then; it is now.
165
Now, yesterday's manna... Look here. Did you ever notice, the sun,
s-u-n, has traveled east to the west as it's went each time. Did you
notice that? And notice, the church ages did the same thing. What...
The sun, s-o--s-u-n started in the east. And civilization has traveled
with the sun, God's spoken light for them to live in. They've come on,
followed the sun, see where it was going.
168
Look. Paul... The early church started in the east; it went from there,
jumped across the--the--the--the sea over into Germany. And it's made
three pulls. Looky. From Asia down in--in Palestine it jumped across
the ocean to Germany. That was Luther. And it jumped from Luther across
the English Channel over into England by Wesley. And from Wesley she's
jumped to the west coast to the United States. And this, if you go any
further, it's coming back east again. This is the evening time.
170
And watch, as it went forward, it grew stronger and stronger. And so
has the real little minority of the church growed from justification,
sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, and now to the coming
Capstone, shaping itself up. No more organizations after this. There
won't be no more. See? Can't be. See, we're on the west.
173
And the same thing has happened today, that happened back there. The
same thing has met at the west that was met at the east: the people
living in a glare of another light that was absolutely trying to show
forth the Light was to come and reject It, because they got the glare
instead of the Light. Oh. "And there was great Light in the land of the
Gentiles... Zebulun, Nephthalim of--and Galilee, land of the Gentiles."
175
Did you notice... And watch real close there in Malachi how he 'lotted
that, "The faith of the father's to the children and the children to
the fathers"? See, the same Spirit where It raised back yonder, where
It raises here again, the same thing... See, just vice versa exactly,
setting right back again. 'Cause why? East and west has met. See, just
exactly right under our face, and yet they don't see it. Why? No wonder
Jesus said, "Just let them alone then; they're blind lead the blind,
they'll all fall in the ditch."
177
And then here the children, immediately after them founders, what do
they do? They didn't stay on the stalk. They pulled away from it and
made themself a little husk thing out here which you get away from the
real source of life you have no life. You take a husk off the thing and
plant it out here in the ground, it'll lay there and rot. And so will
you, trying to eat rotten manna from back in them days. The harvest is
ripe. Jesus has a table spread where the saints of God are fed on the
ripened food of the day, by the Gospel Light that a-vindicates
it...?... that He's here today. The saints eat the bread.
179
How we ought to see that, see that the rotten things of yesterday,
don't eat them today. See? It's got worms in it. You know these little
wiggletails that I call them? I don't know; I don't know much about
germ life, but I know we always called them wiggletails. It gets in
anything when it gets a little rotten. See? I don't want it then. If
you're satisfied with it, go ahead. But not me.
181
Like the Queen of England once, she went to a great paper company. And
she said she would like to see through the paper mill. So they showed
her the paper mills (many years ago before they went to making it in
pulp and stuff, so they--making papers out of it), so they... After
while she come into a room that was nothing but a big old pile of dirty
rags, and she said, "Where did this come from? What's this?" "Oh," she
said...
183
Now, that's what it is, the dead things of yesterday, the message of
Luther, the message of Wesley, the message of Pentecost, if it can only
go through the process of God's Holy Spirit and the Word of
a-vindication, it'll bring forth the reflection of the Jesus Christ the
King. Amen. But if you leave it lay, it's dirty rags. See? It's got to
be molded into something else.
185
When a man in a foundry is making a bell, he's got a certain tone he
has to put in it. When he's setting his mold and pouring his iron, he
puts in so much brass, so much steel, so much copper. Why? He knows
just exactly how much to put in the--to make--give it the right tone.
And that's what Jesus has done by His Bride. He had to put so much
Luther, so much Methodist, and so much Presbyterian, so much Pentecost
in it, but what does He come out with? His own reflection. Why is it?
Just like the pyramid message. You see, it's heaping right up till it's
coming to the minority for the Headstone. The ministry of Jesus Christ
on earth has to be the same as the ministry He had, or He can't come to
it. It's like the head to the feet. The head--feet's not the head, but
the head packs the feet, or makes the feet, tells it where to go. You
get it? Beautifully, it's the Light of the hour. 187 No. Yes, sir. The clean rags--or the dirty rags of yesterday, if you remain that way, it's got to--it'll just become dirty rags all the time. It served it's purpose as clothing, but now it's become paper. Justification served its time in justification under Luther, then it had to become sanctification through Wesley. And sanctification served its time till it come the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And the baptism of the Holy Ghost has served its time until the Holy Spirit (which there's only one God) blends into the church, or the church into Christ, that makes Jesus Christ reflected on the earth. It's what He promised here in the Bible. Might not believe it. I can't make you do that. I'm only responsible for the Word. See? That's right.
188
So you see it? Do you see that? If you do, it'll be like the--the man
one time went to--to--went over to Wales during the time of the Welch
revival. A bunch of men went from the United States. So they goes down,
and they said they wanted to find out what building they was holding
this Welch revival in. Many of you remember the Welch revival, great
revival broke out amongst the--the Welch people in Wales. So these men,
these great big ministers and so forth went from the United States,
they--doctors of divinity. They wanted to go over and see what great
thing they'd done, you know. So they was walking down on the street and
they said--met a little old policeman standing on the corner whirl his
club around, you know, and whistling a--a hymn, like that; they said,
"Oh, he's just whistling a hymn. We might go up, see him, see what he's
going to do--ask him a question." So they went up to him and said,
"Sir, where is the Welch revival at?"
191
He's the Light. So was Noah the Light in his day. He was the Light.
Noah was that Light. He was the Light to what? To make God's Word. "I
will destroy man upon the earth that I've created. Build an ark, and
all desires to come into it will be saved."
194
Pharaoh might've had everything he wanted to have, and the rest of
them, all the priest had what they wanted, but Moses was the Light.
Why? He was showing forth God's Word manifested. God promised, "I'll
bring them out under a strong hand, and I'll get Myself glory." That's
what He was doing. That's the reason Moses proved that he could create,
not because he wanted to create, because God told him to...?... Go to
the congregation, say "Tomorrow... The Lord God has just spoke to me.
'Take a hand full of dust and throw it up in a sky like this and call
for it. There's none here, but It'll be there.'" Amen. Oh, I hope
you're not asleep. Oh, manifestation...
199 Elijah was the Light. "Go out there and set on that hill; I've commanded the ravens to feed you." Amen.
201
They say, "Hey, what become of that old holy-roller we had around here?
You know what, somebody was hunting the other day, and said they seen
him setting up there by the--way up on top that mountain there. I bet
that old fellow's about dried up by this time." Oh, no. He was the
Light. He was the Light. He was the Light of God of his day.
203
He also said in the last days (Amen.), the Light of the hour, crying in
the wilderness of Babylon, "Come out of her My people, that you be not
partakers of her sins. Touch not her unclean thing; get away from it.
Flee from the wrath that is to come."
205
Don't you think because you're Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian that
you have any hold on God. God's able to take bootleggers or harlots out
of the street and make saints out of them. Somebody's going to hear it,
and somebody's going to believe it.
209 He spoke there would be Light in this day, and there is Light. He's coming. I believe it. 213 The Light, the evening Light's a-shining; the Bride Tree is blooming. Oh, you remember, they pruned that old Tree. And what the cankerworm left, the palmerworm eat; and what the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eaten. What the Methodist left, the Baptist eaten; and what the Baptist left, the Pentecostal eaten. He said this Tree (as Joel there) was cut all down to a stump, but he wanted to know if it would live again. Oh, yeah. He reserved it. He reserved that Tree (Yes, sir.), for it was His Bride. And He said, "I will restore, saith the Lord." What is it? "I'll bring it forth, all that the Lutheran eaten, the Wesley eaten, and all them. And I will restore it, 'cause it's all still in the root of the Tree." See? It's laying yonder in the ground, just like the sap that went down, as I said about the sister, it's laying there. And the trumpet of God shall sound someday and them elected Lutheran, Methodists, Baptists, that had nothing to do with any organization...
214
Luther never organized nothing. Moody never organized nothing. It was
that group of Ricky's after him is what done the organization took the
husk. John Smith organized nothing. None of the rest of them organized.
It was the Light of the hour. Luther, Wesley, or none of the rest of
them, it was that group afterwards come by that made the organization.
216
But we find out this Light, this Tree... Christ rejected again by the
church... Why? For the same cause they did at first, the old false
glares of lights of other day. And He's the same yesterday, today, and
forever; Hebrews 13:8 says He is. He's the same today as He was then,
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