Full Transcript for Search The Scriptures

respect and honor God's prophet, and I believe his message with all my heart. 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:52.959 However, message believers over the years have made serious mistakes in understanding this glorious ministry, and have even failed to listen to the humble pleas of the prophet. 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:56.480 And let's look at some quotes from Brother Branham. 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:02.319 He says, These couple requests, I don't know whether they got the recorders going yet for this or not. 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:03.279 Might be good. 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:06.639 Well, I guess it's all right for the outside, the public to hear this. 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:07.680 It's a request. 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:15.040 Did you prophesy that there'd be a million negroes killed, or did you just announce that there would be this happening? 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:19.279 Now see, I've always asked you to be careful what you're listening to, see? 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:22.480 There's so much of it that it's just the human side. 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:26.000 But always if there is something that goes forth, it will speak it. 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:29.759 It's thus saith the Lord, even to visions or anything. 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:33.120 The visions on the platform in the audience, you're doing that yourself. 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:34.720 It isn't God, it's you, see. 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:39.920 God doesn't produce that vision, you do it yourself by your faith in a divine gift. 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:41.759 Like the woman touched his garment. 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:46.240 He didn't know who she was or what was wrong with her, but she did that herself, see. 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:53.759 Now that wasn't thus saith the Lord, it was it was thus saith the Lord when Jesus spoke back and told her that her faith had saved her. 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:55.680 But see, you have to watch. 00:05:56.000 --> 00:06:03.279 No, I was just talking about Martin Luther King on this great disaster that they're having in the South with the colored people. 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:09.519 That's from the sermon He Cares, Do You Care, July 21st, 1963. 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:14.720 So I gather these three important points from these things. 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:18.560 Not everything he says is thus saith the Lord. 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:23.120 Therefore, we must be careful to listen to whether it contains this statement. 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:31.519 If it doesn't contain that statement, it doesn't mean we dismiss it, but that we must see its continuity within the message itself. 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:45.279 Continuing with a quote from Brother Branham, I pray for each one that you'll grant to them, Father, is my sincere prayer, and excuse me, Father, for being so nervous tonight, jumping up here late and being shaky, and saying words broke up and cut up. 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:58.319 Somehow another, great Holy Spirit, splice them together in your own divine way and deliver them to the hearts of the people from my heart, and the motive and the objective that in my heart I have towards you, won't you, Lord? 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:02.639 From the Sermon The Rapture, December 4th, 1965. 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:12.800 In this, Brother Branham humbly states that he felt that he didn't deliver the message well, but that the Holy Spirit would take what was said and reveal it properly to his people. 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:19.439 It isn't every word that counts, but the message behind the words that counts. 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:25.360 Read another quote from the message marriage and divorce. 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:28.160 But a woman is designed for any time she desires. 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:30.319 I've got some stuff crossed out here now. 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:31.839 You can imagine the rest. 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:34.319 A dog can't, woman can. 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:39.839 I hope that the Holy Spirit reveals to you the rest of this I crossed out here. 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:46.240 My so that's Brother Branham in the sermon marriage and divorce. 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:53.920 So he believed that the Holy Spirit could reveal things to us as believers that were in his notes, but he never said. 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:58.800 We can take what he said, go back to the scriptures and see what was in between the lines. 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:00.879 Continuing reading from Brother Branham. 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:04.639 Now remember, these things that I say must come from the Word of God. 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:12.399 It can't be my own opinion, because my opinion is just like anybody else's marriage and divorce. 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:14.000 Brother Branham speaking. 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:21.199 So one, we take from all these three different quotes that I read, not everything he says is thus saith the Lord. 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:24.560 Some things are his opinion and observation. 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:30.879 Two, the Holy Spirit can reveal a truth to us that the prophet did not directly utter. 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:39.120 Number three, though he didn't communicate the message well, the Holy Spirit can take it and make it even clearer than he delivered it. 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:43.679 For he didn't view his own opinion as more valid than anyone else's. 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.720 Truth had to come directly from the word. 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:52.559 Within this, I want to say now, I know I'm not a vindicated prophet. 00:08:52.799 --> 00:09:02.960 I know that the interpretation of the word comes to a prophet, but that the prophet himself is subject to the Bible, and that the means of our teaching and preaching is the Bible. 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:10.080 Many false doctrines have been born because people didn't take Brother Branham's message in light of the Bible. 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:13.120 You took it in light of what you think he was saying. 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:17.120 As I say these things, I realize that some will be

offended. 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:19.600 Some will say, I don't believe the message. 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:21.120 But let's be clear about this. 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:30.320 I believe it and I respect the prophet, and therefore I take what he said seriously, and I seek to take it in light of the Bible, just as he instructed me to. 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:43.759 Unfortunately, the political ways and means of the message movement are a sad testament to the fact that people may have received the words of a prophet, but they did not receive the same spirit that was upon that prophet. 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:49.360 My desire is not to shake you or make some sort of statement to get to people to follow me. 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:53.759 My purpose is to get you to take a plain look at the Bible and the message itself. 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:56.480 If I'm wrong, then don't spread rumors. 00:09:56.559 --> 00:09:57.679 Come to me directly. 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:01.759 A simple Google search will get you my email, phone number, and location. 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:04.879 Let's speak plainly in love together. 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:07.679 Don't be one of the gossipers that spreads slander. 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:15.679 Let's go and read Acts seventeen and see how we are to take a message when we hear it. 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:27.440 So Acts seventeen, verses ten through twelve, and the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea, who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:37.360 Verse eleven These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily whether those things were so. 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:43.519 Therefore many of them believed also of honorable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few. 00:10:48.799 --> 00:11:00.240 So we see here in the scriptures that the Bereans, the Jews of Berea, heard the word, and they didn't just take Paul's word for it. 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:03.440 They heard it and they said, Okay, he's referencing the scriptures. 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:13.120 Let's go back, let's read those scriptures and search them, search throughout the scriptures to see if any other scriptures would contradict what message they're bringing. 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:18.879 Now, granted, this is Paul, the vindicated prophet and messenger of that age. 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:22.240 So they're taking his word and saying, Let's search it by the scriptures. 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:23.039 Amen. 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:28.480 And so they they did that, and as a result they became believers. 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:37.919 And so you say, Well, now I am a believer in Paul, so now I don't have to search what he said by the scriptures anymore. 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:45.200 Well, that's the problem, is you must search it by the scriptures because if you don't, you may be taking something too far. 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:48.320 You may be misunderstanding what was said. 00:11:48.799 --> 00:12:06.320 Many times we think we know clearly what is said, but when we don't understand the context of what the prophet is saying, we will enlarge upon what he says to the to the extent that we take ourselves totally outside of the Bible. 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:08.960 Now let's read what Brother Branham said. 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:10.960 That's the best thing to do. 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:29.759 Now just don't stay home and say, Well, the Joneses said so and so, or today we can say the Pruits said so and so, or the the the Reagans said so and so, or Cloverdale said so and so, or whoever put it in. 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:32.000 Jason DeMars said so and so. 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:33.039 Don't do that. 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:37.440 Come, bring your Bible and search the scriptures and see if it's right or not. 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:38.799 Come see for yourself. 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:43.440 Don't come just for an hour, come to stay till you're thoroughly convinced that it's right. 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:44.159 That's the way. 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:54.320 Check it by the scripture, knowing that whether it is true or whether it is not, when you're convinced to the scriptural teachings of the Bible, whether it's right or not. 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:56.240 Now that's what he was referring to. 00:12:56.399 --> 00:13:01.840 Come see very for yourself whether it is truly the Messiah or not. 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:07.279 In the sermon It Is I in 1960, that's Brother Branham speaking. 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:12.320 So he's encouraging us to search what he said by the Bible. 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:13.919 And let's continue reading. 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:22.080 Brother Branham says, so maybe this will stir up your spiritual gastronomics somewhere that'll make people search the scriptures, for they are the truth. 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:26.799 They are the word of God, they are the infallible ones, they are the ones that testifies of Messiah. 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:27.440 Amen. 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:28.879 He stands by his word, amen. 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:32.240 I'm not amening myself, but amen means so be it. 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:38.080 I believe it with all my heart that heavens and earth will pass away, but that word will never pass. 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:41.840 In the sermons, Sirs, we would see Jesus. 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:44.080 Continuing to read. 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:46.080 Now that's a good idea. 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:47.759 Go find out for yourself. 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:49.919 Don't take what somebody else says, go find out. 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:51.759 Search the scriptures, Jesus said. 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:56.559 For in them you think you have eternal life, and they are they that testify of me. 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:01.679 Just what he said in the sermon, Greater Than Solomon is here. 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:09.519 And so we look at what Brother Branham is

speaking about is we search the scriptures. 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:10.879 That is the basis. 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:18.399 If if we start adding a new Bible to our understanding, we've made a mistake. 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:20.799 We are to search the scriptures. 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:23.759 This is the basis of our truth. 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:30.320 Now the message provides for us interpretation of that, but we must understand it in light of the scriptures. 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:34.720 We must have the same heart towards the scriptures that Brother Branham himself had. 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:37.360 Continuing to read from Brother Branham. 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:41.600 Now notice again, he said, Search the scriptures, for they are they that testify of me. 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:45.039 Search the scriptures, search the scriptures, the entire scriptures. 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:46.480 What am I trying to do? 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:51.279 To show you that this Bible is the thing that's right. 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:56.159 Preached in the sermon, Christ is the mystery of God revealed. 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:57.679 Now let's keep going. 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:03.440 Let's look at the absolute Brother Branham speaking. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:05.519 Lovely person the other night talked to me. 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:13.039 Come put their arms around me and said, Brother Branham said, I want to ask you something, said, if you would just compromise a little this stuff that you're talking about. 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:14.000 Said what? 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:20.320 Said all this baptism, said the churches of Chicago and all around just want you so bad, but they're afraid you'll mention that. 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:21.679 I said, Sure I'll mention it. 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:23.039 Certainly I'll mention it. 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:26.720 Said, Well, that's the only thing they got against you. 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:29.600 I said, then they're not got against me. 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:30.879 I wasn't the one that said it. 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:31.759 God said it. 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:34.480 I challenge any of them to come prove it wrong, see? 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:38.080 Said, Well, you see, you you ought to agree and make fellowship. 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:40.720 That's the same thing they wanted him to do. 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:43.440 God's God don't compromise, no sir. 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:44.399 He doesn't compromise. 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:46.559 He said, Now, Brother Branham, I want to ask you something. 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:49.360 Did the angel of the Lord said, We all believe the angel of the Lord? 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:50.720 Did the angel of the Lord tell you this? 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:53.679 I said, I don't care what the angel of the Lord would say. 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:59.600 If it the angel of the Lord, he will say that, but if he said something contrary, he wasn't the angel of the Lord. 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:08.159 I said, regardless of what angel or anything else said, Paul said, Though an angel from heaven preach any other gospel to you, let him be cursed. 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:20.720 Angels and everybody, some fleshly puffed up something, say about angels, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and all different cults of the Adventists and everything else, they see all kinds of things like that, but it's always contrary to the word. 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:23.600 But God backs up his word, it's his word. 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:25.840 I said, It's the word of the Lord, sure. 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:28.720 All I ever knowed was taught to me by him. 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:31.360 I never went to seminary or school, it comes from him. 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:36.720 I said, Whether it was contrary, it was contrary to that, I wouldn't believe him, because that's God's word is first. 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:38.320 Everything else be a lie. 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:41.840 God's word stay with it. 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:46.480 That's from a true sign that's overlooked, Brother Branham speaking. 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:54.240 So no matter what angel, what supernatural happening, it has to be subject to God's Bible. 00:17:35.490 --> 00:17:37.009 Continue reading from Brother Branham. 00:17:37.170 --> 00:17:38.210 This is going to be lengthy. 00:17:38.289 --> 00:17:46.689 Lots of quotes, about almost nine pages of quotes from this, because I want it, I want you to see this is how Brother Branham looked at it. 00:17:47.089 --> 00:17:50.769 And I think we should look at it the way Brother Branham looked at it. 00:17:51.009 --> 00:17:59.490 So then that same groove group of men sent a lady down, said, Brother Branham, if the angel of the Lord told you, the angel of the Lord, you know, his his picture is there, you see. 00:17:59.730 --> 00:18:02.609 The angel of the Lord told you that, well, we'll believe it. 00:18:02.769 --> 00:18:12.929 I said, anybody that a ministerial group that would be that weak, if the angel of the Lord said, that angel said something contrary to this word, it wouldn't be the angel of the Lord. 00:18:13.169 --> 00:18:15.009 The angel of the Lord will vindicate the word. 00:18:15.169 --> 00:18:18.369 That's exactly what he's always done through every age. 00:18:18.449 --> 00:18:19.889 He still does the same thing. 00:18:20.129 --> 00:18:21.089 He stays with the word. 00:18:21.250 --> 00:18:29.009 And any minister anointed with the Holy Ghost will stay by the same word, because the Bible said that the entire Bible was wrote by the Holy Ghost. 00:18:29.169 --> 00:18:32.609 And how can you have the Holy Ghost and deny what the Bible says? 00:18:33.409 --> 00:18:36.689 From the sermon, The Restoration of the Bride Tree. 00:18:37.490 --> 00:18:38.449 Continuing to read. 00:18:38.529 --> 00:18:43.169 I said if the angel of the Lord said anything contrary to that, it wouldn't be the angel of the Lord. 00:18:43.250 --> 00:18:47.809 See if any angel says anything contrary to this

word, let it be a lie. 00:18:48.049 --> 00:18:51.889 That's from the sermon, The Way of a True Prophet of God. 00:18:53.649 --> 00:18:54.689 Continuing to read. 00:18:54.769 --> 00:19:05.490 And if I stay right with that word, and if I say it's that way, and God it's in the Bible, if the angel of the Lord told me something that wasn't in the Bible, it wouldn't be the angel of the Lord. 00:19:05.569 --> 00:19:06.369 That's right. 00:19:06.689 --> 00:19:09.009 A testimony on the sea. 00:19:09.409 --> 00:19:10.449 Continuing reading. 00:19:10.529 --> 00:19:20.929 I would like for you to, if you have your Bibles, and many times people like to attend the services and then listen to what the minister reads, because after all, the word of God is truth. 00:19:21.089 --> 00:19:23.089 There's no other truth that can take its place. 00:19:23.169 --> 00:19:23.970 It's all truth. 00:19:24.209 --> 00:19:26.769 The word is God, it's God in letter and form. 00:19:27.009 --> 00:19:29.649 God is going to judge the world someday by Jesus Christ. 00:19:29.809 --> 00:19:30.289 We know that. 00:19:30.529 --> 00:19:31.889 He cannot judge it by a church. 00:19:31.970 --> 00:19:35.490 If it would, the Roman Catholic said he said he would judge it by our church. 00:19:35.649 --> 00:19:37.009 Then what about the Greek Catholic? 00:19:37.169 --> 00:19:38.849 The Methodists say judge it by our church. 00:19:38.929 --> 00:19:39.970 Then what about the Baptists? 00:19:40.049 --> 00:19:41.970 So you see, there's too much difference. 00:19:42.049 --> 00:19:43.730 There's got to be some standard. 00:19:43.889 --> 00:19:46.929 And if Jesus Christ is the word, then he'll judge it by the word. 00:19:47.329 --> 00:19:50.609 So whatever God has said in his word, that's what we live by. 00:19:50.929 --> 00:19:57.089 Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 00:19:57.809 --> 00:20:01.250 In the sermon investments, Brother Branham speaking. 00:20:01.409 --> 00:20:03.730 And that's the way it is in Christian life. 00:20:03.970 --> 00:20:07.009 There is a stopping place and there is a going place. 00:20:07.329 --> 00:20:09.329 God's word is that absolute. 00:20:09.409 --> 00:20:10.929 That's Christ, yes, sir. 00:20:11.409 --> 00:20:16.049 If you if the traffic signals are not on, then we got a traffic jam. 00:20:16.129 --> 00:20:26.449 And I think that's what we've got up here in the religious Pentagon today, a traffic jam of make believers, unbelievers, and everything jammed together. 00:20:26.769 --> 00:20:28.129 You just got a traffic jam. 00:20:28.209 --> 00:20:28.609 Why? 00:20:28.769 --> 00:20:30.049 They don't have no absolute. 00:20:30.209 --> 00:20:32.289 One say, Well, we're the absolute. 00:20:32.449 --> 00:20:34.529 The other one say, We're the absolute. 00:20:34.849 --> 00:20:36.049 God is the absolute. 00:20:36.369 --> 00:20:39.649 He said, Let every absolute otherwise than mine be a lie. 00:20:39.889 --> 00:20:40.849 Mine is the truth. 00:20:40.929 --> 00:20:43.169 So there is the absolute to Christianity. 00:20:43.409 --> 00:20:44.769 That's the end of all arguments. 00:20:44.929 --> 00:20:45.730 The Bible said so. 00:20:45.809 --> 00:20:46.529 That makes it right. 00:20:46.609 --> 00:20:47.329 Yes, sir. 00:20:47.569 --> 00:20:49.809 There must be an absolute in everything. 00:20:50.129 --> 00:20:54.609 An absolute the sermon and absolute Brother Branham. 00:20:55.169 --> 00:20:59.169 Well, every denomination is an ultimate to their believers. 00:20:59.889 --> 00:21:10.929 But to me and to the ones that I hope that I'm leading to Christ and by Christ, the Bible is our ultimate, no matter, 'cause God said, let every man's word be a lie and mine truth. 00:21:11.089 --> 00:21:13.730 And I believe that the Bible is God's ultimate. 00:21:13.809 --> 00:21:16.449 No matter what anyone else says, it's the ultimate. 00:21:16.689 --> 00:21:19.169 The Bible is not a book of systems, no, sir. 00:21:19.409 --> 00:21:22.929 It is not a book of systems, nor a code of morals. 00:21:23.089 --> 00:21:26.369 The Bible is not a book of systems, so many systems and so forth, no, sir. 00:21:26.449 --> 00:21:28.449 It's not a book of morals, no sir. 00:21:28.689 --> 00:21:29.649 It's not. 00:21:29.970 --> 00:21:37.970 Nor is it a book of history altogether, or neither it is a book of theology, for it is the revelation of Jesus Christ. 00:21:38.209 --> 00:21:41.569 Christ is revealed in his own word. 00:21:42.289 --> 00:21:46.049 Where the Branham says, Now I believe that God can do things that's not written in the Bible. 00:21:46.209 --> 00:21:48.369 I believe he can, because he's God. 00:21:48.529 --> 00:21:53.250 But just long as he does what he promised here, it's good enough for me. 00:21:53.490 --> 00:21:57.169 I don't believe that anything should be added to this book or taken from it. 00:21:57.250 --> 00:22:00.849 I believe that it is the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. 00:22:01.009 --> 00:22:07.250 I believe that's what it is, and all doctrine, anyhow, must come from the Bible. 00:22:07.490 --> 00:22:12.049 That's from the sermon Christ is identified the same in all generations. 00:22:12.369 --> 00:22:21.169 So we see how how critical it is to understand and realize that all doctrine must come from the Bible. 00:22:21.329 --> 00:22:23.409 This is a clear principle. 00:22:23.569 --> 00:22:30.849 We cannot take what Brother Branham said and enlarge upon it and make a doctrine that is outside of the Bible. 00:22:31.009 --> 00:22:35.009 Now, you say, you believe that Brother Branham's teaching things outside of the Bible. 00:22:35.250 --> 00:22:38.849 No, I do not believe that Brother Branham is teaching things that are outside. 00:22:39.409 --> 00:22:40.129 Of the Bible. 00:22:40.289 --> 00:22:50.289 However, when you take what he said and use it as the basis of doctrine, this is where we come into a problem. 00:22:51.970 --> 00:22:54.129 All doctrine must come from the

Bible. 00:22:54.209 --> 00:23:04.049 So when we're looking at, when we're looking at what Brother Branham said, then we take it back to the Bible and see whether where it is, to rightly place it. 00:23:04.369 --> 00:23:07.169 When we begin to look at it that way, we can see the big picture. 00:23:07.250 --> 00:23:15.649 But if we take just what he said and try to enlarge upon what he said, that's where many, many errors and false doctrines come into the message. 00:23:15.809 --> 00:23:21.009 Now I realize that you people are going to say, give me examples of this. 00:23:21.409 --> 00:23:35.409 Good example is when we look at the statement that he makes regarding, he's telling the story, story of Lot bringing his family out of Sodom. 00:23:35.809 --> 00:23:42.929 And Brother Branham then goes on to make this statement: your pastor is your husband, spiritually speaking. 00:23:43.490 --> 00:23:47.490 Now, when we take this as a type, it works beautifully. 00:23:47.649 --> 00:24:00.209 Brother Branham in his ministry was leading a church out of a church, a bride out of a church, people out of Sodom. 00:24:00.449 --> 00:24:07.009 And so there the at Branham Tabernacle, their pastor was their husband, spiritually speaking. 00:24:07.329 --> 00:24:16.769 So as Lot brought his family out of Sodom, Brother Branham was bringing a church out of Babylon. 00:24:17.089 --> 00:24:32.849 All right, now then when we take that and say the pastor of every local church is the husband of the people, as soon as we take it to mean that, now we've arrived in a place where we're outside of the scriptures. 00:24:33.089 --> 00:24:39.569 Now we've created a doctrine that's not scriptural whatsoever, because the husband of the church is Christ. 00:24:39.809 --> 00:24:41.889 The head of the church is Christ. 00:24:42.209 --> 00:24:59.409 A pastor is a minister, part of the five-fold ministry by whom we believe it's a part of the ministry of equipping, bringing to maturity and for the purpose of edification for the body of Christ. 00:24:59.649 --> 00:25:03.889 But the pastor, any preacher is not the husband of the church. 00:25:04.209 --> 00:25:14.209 See, so we've taken a statement of Brother Branham, totally separated it from the scriptures, and made a doctrine out of it. 00:25:14.449 --> 00:25:23.250 And this is this is outside of the scriptures, and it even is outside of what Brother Branham taught us directly. 00:25:23.490 --> 00:25:28.769 Now, we can go on and speak about many things like that, but I think that is a great example. 00:25:28.929 --> 00:25:40.769 Another one, another example is where Brother Branham is speaking and he's telling about difficult uh situations in the church, and he says, stick with your pastor, you're he's ordained to lead you through. 00:25:41.009 --> 00:25:56.129 Now, when I first came to the message, I was being told by people in the area in Minneapolis that your what it means is your pastor is ordained to lead you through is stick with your

pastor because he's ordained to lead you into the rapture. 00:25:56.449 --> 00:26:02.049 And I looked at this and said, This is absolutely absurd and unscriptural. 00:26:02.289 --> 00:26:04.449 I said, Where does Brother Branham say it? 00:26:04.529 --> 00:26:05.490 They showed it to me. 00:26:05.649 --> 00:26:25.089 I said, Dear brother, the plain meaning of what Brother Branham is saying is that there's someone who has been injected by something with the devil, and he's coming to bring division into the local church, and he's telling the people that this is going to happen at Bratham Tabernacle. 00:26:25.250 --> 00:26:27.409 Now stay with Brother Neville. 00:26:28.449 --> 00:26:30.609 He's ordained to lead you through. 00:26:30.849 --> 00:26:31.730 Lead you through what? 00:26:31.809 --> 00:26:32.449 To the rapture? 00:26:32.609 --> 00:26:45.809 No, lead you through hard and difficult circumstances where there is division and arguing and so forth coming up in the church. 00:26:46.129 --> 00:26:47.809 So, yes, stay with your pastor. 00:26:47.889 --> 00:27:03.970 But there's circumstances in the world and in life, you can't make this into a doctrine that no matter how many mistakes my pastor makes, no matter how many times he spiritually abuses people, no matter how many times he's teaching false doctrine, if I just stay with him, I'm gonna go in the rapture. 00:27:04.129 --> 00:27:10.609 That's not at all what Brother Branham was saying, not what he was teaching, and neither can we find that in the scripture. 00:27:11.169 --> 00:27:18.929 But we can find simply saying that's advice that Brother Branham is making to the local church. 00:27:19.089 --> 00:27:23.089 Stay with Brother Neville, he'll help you through the hard, hard difficulties. 00:27:23.329 --> 00:27:27.009 You can't take that and apply it to every circumstance and every situation. 00:27:27.169 --> 00:27:33.250 Sometimes the person that's been injected with something from the enemy is the pastor himself. 00:27:33.409 --> 00:27:38.449 And he's a false teacher, and he's bringing bringing spiritual abuse upon the people. 00:27:38.609 --> 00:27:40.049 Now we're not supposed to stay with him. 00:27:40.209 --> 00:27:42.769 We should run from him as fast as we can. 00:27:43.569 --> 00:27:48.689 All right, so these are two examples that we must make sure that what we're teaching is biblical. 00:27:48.929 --> 00:27:53.409 The head of the church is not the pastor, the head of the church is Christ. 00:27:53.649 --> 00:27:56.929 The leader in the local church is the pastor, absolutely. 00:27:57.089 --> 00:28:07.490 But as far as headship goes, we have to stick with what the scripture says, and the scripture says Christ is the head of the church. 00:28:07.809 --> 00:28:08.449 All right. 00:28:09.169 --> 00:28:10.049 Let's keep going. 00:28:10.289 --> 00:28:27.809 Reading from Brother Branham says, now someone has been, many have been saying this to me, and theologians said, Brother Branham, if the Lord God said, if with your experience that the Lord has given you for his people, humbly saying this, said, you would be eligible to write a Bible yourself, your word, if God is manifested. 00:28:27.970 --> 00:28:29.409 I said, That might be true. 00:28:29.569 --> 00:28:31.329 See, he was trying to catch me, see. 00:28:31.730 --> 00:28:33.730 I said, but you see, I couldn't do that. 00:28:33.889 --> 00:28:35.089 He said, Why couldn't you? 00:28:35.329 --> 00:28:36.529 You have all the qualifications. 00:28:36.689 --> 00:28:40.449 I said, but you look, one word cannot be added or taken away, see. 00:28:40.609 --> 00:28:45.569 And he said, Well then them seven thunders, you see, said, wouldn't them seven thunders blasting out? 00:28:45.809 --> 00:28:48.289 Won't that be a revelation be given to some man? 00:28:48.449 --> 00:28:49.649 I said, No, sir. 00:28:49.889 --> 00:28:53.730 It would be adding something to it or taking something from it. 00:28:53.970 --> 00:28:56.129 It's all revealed in there. 00:28:56.689 --> 00:29:00.369 And the seven seals open up the revelation of what that was. 00:29:00.609 --> 00:29:01.569 That's what it was. 00:29:01.649 --> 00:29:03.009 See, it still is in the word. 00:29:03.250 --> 00:29:05.649 When he says the word, he means the Bible. 00:29:06.609 --> 00:29:08.449 You see, you can't get out of that word. 00:29:08.609 --> 00:29:12.369 It won't leave that word, and God's spirit will never leave that word. 00:29:12.609 --> 00:29:17.409 It'll stay right with the word, blinding some and open the eyes of others. 00:29:17.569 --> 00:29:18.929 It'll always do that. 00:29:19.089 --> 00:29:21.649 And that's from the sermon The Unveiling of God. 00:29:22.849 --> 00:29:30.289 Continuing to read from Brother Branham, what if it had been said Can you find any fault in Zedekiah, Micah? 00:29:30.449 --> 00:29:30.769 No. 00:29:31.009 --> 00:29:32.609 Did you ever catch him in sin? 00:29:32.849 --> 00:29:33.329 Nope. 00:29:33.649 --> 00:29:35.409 Did you ever hear him cuss anybody? 00:29:35.649 --> 00:29:36.369 Nope. 00:29:36.609 --> 00:29:38.049 Did you ever catch him drunk? 00:29:38.289 --> 00:29:38.769 Nope. 00:29:39.089 --> 00:29:40.769 Can you dispute his education? 00:29:41.009 --> 00:29:41.569 Nope. 00:29:41.809 --> 00:29:43.889 Do you believe his doctor's degree is false? 00:29:44.129 --> 00:29:44.689 Nope. 00:29:45.009 --> 00:29:46.849 You believe his PhD is all right? 00:29:47.009 --> 00:29:51.169 Sure, by the Sanhedrin Council, I guess it's all council, I guess it's alright. 00:29:51.329 --> 00:29:53.169 Well then why don't you join with him? 00:29:53.490 --> 00:29:55.089 Because he's off of the word. 00:29:55.569 --> 00:29:59.409 Well, we'll have a showdown of it then, like Elijah the prophet before this. 00:29:59.569 --> 00:30:03.649 And if you're a child of God, you'll stay with the prophet of this Bible. 00:30:03.889 --> 00:30:04.689 It's the word. 00:30:04.929 --> 00:30:07.409 Notice the hour, the season.

00:30:07.649 --> 00:30:10.769 That's from the anointed ones at the end time. 00:30:10.929 --> 00:30:19.089 So Brother Branham is telling us that if you're a child of God, you'll stay with the prophet of this Bible. 00:30:20.049 --> 00:30:31.970 And that any what we read in the any any revelation that he's giving must be understood in the light of the Bible because you can't add to or take from the Bible. 00:30:32.129 --> 00:30:37.409 It's only the message is only revealing what is already in the Bible. 00:30:37.490 --> 00:30:39.970 It's not creating a new Bible. 00:30:40.369 --> 00:30:52.369 Continuing to read from Brother Branham, we find that in the sacred scriptures all the way through, that just at the ending of the old age and the new one coming in, that age fades out and a new age comes in. 00:30:52.689 --> 00:30:54.289 God sends the messenger. 00:30:54.369 --> 00:31:01.490 And out as always, always every time at a messenger comes, it's always a call back to the word, never fails. 00:31:01.809 --> 00:31:06.369 Remember, this is the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. 00:31:06.449 --> 00:31:09.490 There cannot be nothing added to it or taken from it. 00:31:09.730 --> 00:31:11.889 It's the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. 00:31:11.970 --> 00:31:18.289 And the only way that we can ever be sure if anything rises among us that's contrary to this revelation, then it's wrong. 00:31:18.449 --> 00:31:21.970 See, it's back to the word and always calling back. 00:31:22.129 --> 00:31:27.730 And in every case in the scripture, every case, God uses a prophet to call that age back always. 00:31:28.049 --> 00:31:30.689 Makes no not one time to fail. 00:31:30.849 --> 00:31:32.289 He always sends a prophet. 00:31:32.449 --> 00:31:34.049 And now why does he do that? 00:31:34.209 --> 00:31:37.889 It is because the Bible says it's the prophet that the word of God comes to. 00:31:38.129 --> 00:31:38.449 See? 00:31:39.169 --> 00:31:40.609 The revealer of the word. 00:31:40.849 --> 00:31:43.730 That's from the evening messenger in 1963. 00:31:44.209 --> 00:31:51.250 Then a prophet means not only to speak the word, but also to forthell and a divine interpreter of the word. 00:31:51.649 --> 00:31:52.769 Divine word written. 00:31:52.929 --> 00:31:54.449 The word came to the prophet. 00:31:54.769 --> 00:31:57.490 And this is the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. 00:31:57.569 --> 00:31:59.569 This is the revelation, the Bible. 00:31:59.730 --> 00:32:01.809 It's revealing Jesus Christ. 00:32:02.129 --> 00:32:05.970 See that's 1964 paradox. 00:32:07.889 --> 00:32:09.970 That was Brother Branham speaking. 00:32:10.289 --> 00:32:13.970 Now, way I always find my messages is by prayer. 00:32:14.209 --> 00:32:17.169 I'll be sitting in prayer and something reveals to me. 00:32:17.329 --> 00:32:20.529 And I wait on it a few minutes and see if it's right. 00:32:20.849 --> 00:32:26.369 Then I feel it closer, and then sometimes I keep waiting till it breaks into a vision.

00:32:26.609 --> 00:32:32.529 But when it begins to come and I'm satisfied it comes from God, then I go to the scriptures, see? 00:32:32.929 --> 00:32:37.009 That is ought to be the confirmation of every spiritual thing that's done. 00:32:37.329 --> 00:32:40.529 Because the Bible is a complete revelation of Jesus Christ. 00:32:40.689 --> 00:32:42.449 See, it is his body. 00:32:42.689 --> 00:32:47.490 And now in that, maybe I find a place in the scripture that doesn't sound just right, and I'll wonder. 00:32:47.649 --> 00:32:50.769 I go back again to prayer, it comes again. 00:32:51.009 --> 00:32:54.209 Then I begin to examine my scripture. 00:32:54.849 --> 00:32:58.849 That's from the future home of the heavenly bridegroom and the earthly bride. 00:32:59.089 --> 00:33:00.049 Continuing to read. 00:33:00.129 --> 00:33:07.730 And in the last chapter of Revelation, Jesus himself, the same God, said, Whosoever shall take one word out or add one word to it. 00:33:09.409 --> 00:33:11.409 Now Brother Branham pats his Bible. 00:33:11.569 --> 00:33:14.129 This is the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. 00:33:14.289 --> 00:33:23.889 And the seven seals had the mysteries hid, and it what it all was, and is supposed to open it in the last day at the Laodicean age at the end of time. 00:33:24.129 --> 00:33:25.809 Thanks be to God. 00:33:26.049 --> 00:33:28.529 That finishes the message to the church. 00:33:28.689 --> 00:33:29.649 That finishes it. 00:33:30.449 --> 00:33:32.289 It's from the feast of the trumpets. 00:33:35.409 --> 00:33:43.970 Brother Branham says, These men, if they pick pick up this and goes out with it, they can make more sense to it, see, to bring it to a place you would. 00:33:44.129 --> 00:33:48.929 I just want to lay this seed, then hope they make it come to life. 00:33:49.169 --> 00:33:49.730 Notice. 00:33:49.970 --> 00:33:50.289 See. 00:33:51.169 --> 00:33:51.809 Alright. 00:33:52.049 --> 00:33:59.009 Now, Brother Branham's telling us everything, everything has to be based on the Bible. 00:33:59.250 --> 00:34:01.809 So we catch a revelation from Brother Branham. 00:34:02.049 --> 00:34:04.609 He's preaching, say, the rapture message. 00:34:05.009 --> 00:34:07.970 And we go in there, he says a number of things. 00:34:08.050 --> 00:34:16.289 He's trying to make different points about what a vindicated prophet is, that the word of the Lord comes to the prophet, and the context is important. 00:34:16.449 --> 00:34:18.449 He's preaching to Pentecostals. 00:34:18.530 --> 00:34:33.730 He's trying to emphasize to them the need for a prophetic ministry and that it's not just about miracles and prophesying future events, but it's about the word of the true doctrine is revealed through a prophet. 00:34:33.889 --> 00:34:44.130 And so Brother Branham's ministry was sent to straighten out and give us the correct interpretation of the Bible so that when we read the Bible, we understand it. 00:34:44.289 --> 00:34:51.250 Now, we can't take the message

and try to make it something beyond the Bible, further past the Bible. 00:34:51.410 --> 00:34:53.730 I don't need the Bible anymore, I have the message. 00:34:54.050 --> 00:34:57.090 See, these approaches are completely wrong. 00:34:57.250 --> 00:34:58.690 The Bible is the basis. 00:34:58.930 --> 00:35:02.690 And so Brother Branham's coming and he says, There's people that are going to come after me. 00:35:02.930 --> 00:35:06.130 I believe this is speaking of the five-fold ministry. 00:35:06.370 --> 00:35:12.769 They're coming after me and they're going to make it make more sense. 00:35:12.930 --> 00:35:16.530 They're going to make more sense to it and they're going to bring it to life. 00:35:16.690 --> 00:35:21.250 He's like, I'm just laying the seed, and they're going to be the fruit of that seed, right? 00:35:21.410 --> 00:35:32.289 And so Brother Branham didn't view it as we just have to look at everything that he said and look at every word that he said, but we have to take the words that he said and bring them back to the Bible. 00:35:32.530 --> 00:35:45.329 If we don't understand it, if we can't teach the message from the Bible, and we need a whole giant pile of that's I know that's ironic because I just spent, but I'm addressing message believers. 00:35:45.650 --> 00:35:51.890 I spent nine pages reading quotes from Brother Branham teaching us that we have to go back to the Bible. 00:35:52.130 --> 00:35:53.650 And I this is important. 00:35:54.289 --> 00:35:55.730 We have to go back to the Bible. 00:35:55.809 --> 00:35:57.170 The Bible is the basis. 00:35:57.329 --> 00:36:05.010 Brother Branham is bringing us the correct teaching of the Bible so we understand it in light of the Bible. 00:36:05.250 --> 00:36:10.769 So we understand when the seals were opened, Brother Branham says it became a new book to him. 00:36:11.890 --> 00:36:15.250 So prior to that, Brother Branham says, we were just probing at it. 00:36:15.329 --> 00:36:17.650 Even himself he includes himself in that. 00:36:17.809 --> 00:36:18.850 We were probing at it. 00:36:18.930 --> 00:36:25.010 Now, Brother Branham, even probing at it, he preached serpent seed, he preached baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. 00:36:25.170 --> 00:36:27.809 He preached on the Logos and the Godhead. 00:36:27.890 --> 00:36:36.850 So God was revealing things and dealing with things, but it was never going to be fully unveiled to him until the opening of the seven seals. 00:36:36.930 --> 00:36:40.130 Then the opening of the seven seals came and it became a new book. 00:36:40.210 --> 00:36:45.010 You could see it clearly from every doctrine that he brought from Genesis to Revelation. 00:36:45.170 --> 00:36:51.570 And so we should, we as believers should be able to take the Bible and to teach the message from the Bible. 00:36:51.730 --> 00:36:53.809 I don't have a problem with quoting Brother Branham. 00:36:53.890 --> 00:36:54.690 I don't think it's wrong. 00:36:54.850 --> 00:36:55.890 I don't think it's sinful. 00:36:56.050 --> 00:36:58.769 Obviously, I was quoting Brother Branham. 00:36:58.850 --> 00:37:00.370 I'm not saying we don't need to. 00:37:00.530 --> 00:37:14.850 However, I believe we're living in an hour where more outreach needs to take place, and we need to be able to communicate with people that don't believe Brother Branham's words, that don't respect Brother Branham as a prophet. 00:37:15.090 --> 00:37:18.370 Now we can say the predestinated seed will hear. 00:37:18.530 --> 00:37:20.050 We could say different things like this. 00:37:20.210 --> 00:37:21.250 I agree with you. 00:37:21.570 --> 00:37:29.090 Predestinated seed will hear, and we can preach as the Lord lays things upon our heart, and he'll take care of the rest. 00:37:29.170 --> 00:37:35.890 However, I believe we be able need to be able to take the message and preach it from the Bible. 00:37:36.130 --> 00:37:38.610 Make it very, very plain and very, very clear. 00:37:38.850 --> 00:37:49.970 I think for personally for me in my ministry, as I teach things from the Bible, the message becomes more and more clear to people's hearts. 00:37:50.289 --> 00:37:54.130 Now, do I think people shouldn't quote Brother Branham? 00:37:54.210 --> 00:37:56.050 I think you should quote Brother Branham. 00:37:56.130 --> 00:37:58.050 I think that's just fine. 00:37:58.289 --> 00:38:04.450 I think, but I think we should do it in the light of the fact that Brother Branham himself said, take it back to the Bible. 00:38:04.690 --> 00:38:11.809 The Bible is our absolute, it's our final authority to those he's leading to Christ and by Christ. 00:38:12.050 --> 00:38:14.850 The Bible is our absolute, is our ultimate. 00:38:15.090 --> 00:38:18.610 The world is going to be judged by Jesus Christ, who is the word. 00:38:18.930 --> 00:38:19.410 What word? 00:38:19.730 --> 00:38:20.690 The Bible. 00:38:20.930 --> 00:38:34.690 Brother Branham says, I'm gonna take, I'm gonna, I'm, I, whatever I preach and whatever I teach, it can't be outside of the Bible because you can't add one word or take one word from it, or add one word to it. 00:38:34.930 --> 00:38:37.730 It's the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. 00:38:38.050 --> 00:38:43.010 But the by the message is revealing the mysteries laying hidden in there. 00:38:43.410 --> 00:38:47.650 And so, whatever doctrine we have, we have to be able to take it back to the Bible. 00:38:47.890 --> 00:38:53.890 And we have to make show it plainly from the Bible based upon what Brother Branham taught. 00:38:54.210 --> 00:39:05.090 And also from there, as we've talked about before, I want to, as I mentioned before, I want to continue looking at this subject of search the scriptures in the future. 00:39:05.250 --> 00:39:20.050 We're gonna look at some specific teachings that Brother Branham brought, and I can just highlight them quickly in order to things that once the seals were opened, he updated his teaching. 00:39:20.289 --> 00:39:32.370 The Lord corrected him

and his revelation about it under changed, and so his understanding of the predestinated seed changed when the seals opened. 00:39:32.610 --> 00:39:38.690 His understanding of the new birth and the baptism of the Holy Ghost changed when the seals were opened. 00:39:39.010 --> 00:39:51.410 His understanding of who of the four horse riders, who the white horse rider was, the identity of that horse rider changed when he when the seals were opened. 00:39:52.210 --> 00:39:54.289 The evidence of the Holy Ghost. 00:39:54.850 --> 00:40:01.250 Uh his understanding of the evidence of the Holy Ghost changed when the seals were opened. 00:40:02.690 --> 00:40:08.930 Even his teaching on adoption was adjusted after the seals were opened. 00:40:09.170 --> 00:40:13.170 And so many of these things we look at, and we can go on and on. 00:40:13.329 --> 00:40:17.010 Marriage and divorce was opened up to him more clearly, more plainly. 00:40:17.170 --> 00:40:17.570 Who is this? 00:40:17.650 --> 00:40:21.250 Melchizedek was opened up more clearly and plainly. 00:40:21.410 --> 00:40:28.930 His understanding of Logos and was updated after the opening of the seven seals. 00:40:29.410 --> 00:40:30.690 You know, we can go on. 00:40:30.850 --> 00:40:45.250 There's there's more, but those are just some of the major ones off the top of my head that would be important to realize that Brother Branham was corrected by the Lord at the opening of the seven seals. 00:40:45.650 --> 00:40:50.050 And so we're not here to try to say, don't listen to the message. 00:40:50.130 --> 00:40:52.930 I think we should all listen to Brother Branham's message more. 00:40:53.410 --> 00:41:04.610 Daily listen to listen to tapes, listen to Brother Branham, but go back and listen to what he actually said and not what other people's interpretation of what he said was. 00:41:05.650 --> 00:41:14.450 You know, we have we have many of these things, and I and I I believe that we can be as message believers united together. 00:41:14.610 --> 00:41:20.769 My purpose isn't to bring any kind of division amongst us or say this one's wrong or that one's wrong. 00:41:21.010 --> 00:41:32.690 I believe if we take what Brother Branham taught and bring it back into and preach it in the light of the Bible, it will bring so much unity amongst us as believers. 00:41:33.090 --> 00:41:39.250 We don't need to be in this place where we're fighting one another, battling one another, where we're suspicious of one another. 00:41:39.410 --> 00:41:42.530 We this one doesn't believe the message, that one doesn't believe the message. 00:41:42.610 --> 00:41:51.650 I think we should just begin to back away from this sort of attitude and approach that we're the only ones that believe the message because we see it. 00:41:51.730 --> 00:41:53.410 We're the only ones that see it right. 00:41:54.450 --> 00:41:58.289 I believe the Lord is dealing with us individually. 00:41:58.450 --> 00:41:59.570 I think it should encourage us. 00:41:59.650 --> 00:42:12.370 If Brother Branham was dealt with progressively and God corrected him on doctrine as a prophet, how much more should you and I have patience with one another? 00:42:12.610 --> 00:42:19.809 I think if we could just have this core thing, is I want to understand what Brother Branham taught in light of the Bible. 00:42:19.970 --> 00:42:23.090 I want to be able to teach it from the Bible, I want to see it live. 00:42:23.250 --> 00:42:29.890 I want to see, I want to see it live in my life, the character of Christ, the fruit of the Spirit on display. 00:42:30.130 --> 00:42:34.050 I want to I want more uh supernatural in my life. 00:42:34.210 --> 00:42:40.769 I want to see God moving supernaturally by the Holy Spirit as we teach and preach from the Word of God. 00:42:41.010 --> 00:42:49.010 I want to see more dreams and visions and revelations coming forth from the believers' lives. 00:42:49.090 --> 00:42:51.090 I want to see greater edification. 00:42:51.329 --> 00:42:54.210 I'd like to see more outreach done. 00:42:54.610 --> 00:43:08.210 Let's reach out to our communities and people around us and teach them what the message is from the scripture and to help them understand and truly get saved and filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:43:08.450 --> 00:43:14.930 We have communities to reach, uh, we have nations to reach, and we can't do it as a divided people. 00:43:15.090 --> 00:43:18.130 We must do it as a united people. 00:43:18.610 --> 00:43:30.769 And we need to maybe lay aside a little bit more of our own opinions, and let's just go by the word and let's give people room to grow. 00:43:31.010 --> 00:43:33.490 I want room to grow, you want room to grow. 00:43:33.650 --> 00:43:41.809 Let's all give each other room to grow and to connect with one another and cooperate together and spread the message around the world. 00:43:42.289 --> 00:43:51.329 Many times there's hard feelings when churches split, and a minister raises up and a pastor goes and starts a new fellowship. 00:43:51.490 --> 00:43:53.730 I say we need this to happen more. 00:43:54.530 --> 00:43:59.970 Not out of anger and frustration, but we should encourage it more. 00:44:00.769 --> 00:44:06.610 We should see pastors raising up other ministers, sending them into other neighborhoods and communities. 00:44:06.850 --> 00:44:10.610 Yeah, we have a church, we have a church here in Arizona. 00:44:10.690 --> 00:44:13.570 There's one in Surprise, there's one in Glendale. 00:44:13.809 --> 00:44:15.490 Well, why is there not one in Peoria? 00:44:17.970 --> 00:44:19.970 Maybe there is, and I don't know about it. 00:44:20.130 --> 00:44:21.570 But why isn't there one in Peoria? 00:44:21.809 --> 00:44:25.490 Why isn't there one in in why don't we have an outreach up in Sedona? 00:44:26.370 --> 00:44:31.170 Why don't we why aren't we doing some kind of outreach in the Grand Canyon area? 00:44:31.570 --> 00:44:46.930 These are things that I I think about is if we would cooperate

together as the Holy Spirit leads us and not Be so uh intent on protecting our own selves and our own territory, we would see greater things happen amongst us. 00:44:47.090 --> 00:44:58.050 And so my message is not to divide and say we're the people that are just the believers of the Bible being the absolute, and then there's these people over here. 00:44:58.450 --> 00:45:00.289 No, I don't believe in doing that. 00:45:00.370 --> 00:45:01.809 I think that's a mistake. 00:45:02.450 --> 00:45:07.570 Let's love one another, let's go back to the Bible, let's be believers. 00:45:07.890 --> 00:45:08.450 Amen. 00:45:08.690 --> 00:45:12.210 So that's my that's my closing salvo. 00:45:12.610 --> 00:45:22.130 Um in conclusion, dear friends and believers, fellow believers, as we wrap up this episode, let's go back to the example that started it all. 00:45:22.370 --> 00:45:24.690 The noble Bereans in Acts 17. 00:45:25.170 --> 00:45:29.329 They received the word with readiness of mind, but they didn't stop there. 00:45:29.410 --> 00:45:33.090 They searched the scriptures daily to see if those things were so. 00:45:33.329 --> 00:45:36.370 And because they did, many believed. 00:45:36.769 --> 00:45:40.530 Brother Branham constantly pointed us to this same standard. 00:45:40.610 --> 00:45:43.809 He never wanted us to follow a man, not even himself. 00:45:44.130 --> 00:45:46.530 He wanted us to hold the Bible as our absolute. 00:45:46.769 --> 00:45:51.170 He openly told us that not everything he said carried a thus saith the Lord. 00:45:51.329 --> 00:45:53.650 Some things were his own thoughts and opinions. 00:45:53.890 --> 00:45:59.650 He trusted the Holy Spirit to take even his imperfect delivery and make the truth clear in our hearts. 00:45:59.970 --> 00:46:04.370 My prayer is that we would return to this humble, Burian spirit in this hour. 00:46:04.610 --> 00:46:11.730 Let's stop building on doctrines on what we think the prophet said, and instead take every teaching straight back to the written word of God. 00:46:12.050 --> 00:46:14.610 If I'm wrong about anything, come to me directly. 00:46:14.769 --> 00:46:20.450 My desire is not to gather followers, but to point everyone back to Christ and his unchanging word. 00:46:20.769 --> 00:46:25.090 Heaven and earth will pass away, but this word will never pass away. 00:46:25.250 --> 00:46:27.570 So here's my closing challenge to you. 00:46:28.850 --> 00:46:33.170 Don't just listen, search the scriptures for yourself. 00:46:33.329 --> 00:46:36.210 Stay with it until you're thoroughly convinced. 00:46:36.450 --> 00:46:39.730 That is the safest and most noble path. 00:46:41.250 --> 00:46:42.690 Thank you so much for listening. 00:46:42.769 --> 00:46:47.090 If this episode blessed you, please share it with someone who needs to hear it. 00:46:47.490 --> 00:46:54.769 Remember to keep the Zambia Missions trip in prayer, and I'll see you in the next episode as we continue this series. 00:46:55.090 --> 00:46:57.250 This has been the Jason Demars Podcast. 00:46:57.329 --> 00:47:04.210 Stay in the Word, stay close to Jesus, and may the Lord richly bless you, is my prayer. 00:47:04.690 --> 00:47:05.329 Amen.