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Joshua... Last night on David the great warrior, his position in Christ and
what he did about it, and tonight, Joshua... And tomorrow night, the Lord
willing, we'll get another great hero, or someone to speak on their life. I give a lot of the time to bringing forth
the Word to encourage and to positionally place the people. I
feel led of the Holy Spirit to do that (See?), to let the people, these who are
here... I--I'd say like this: How many Christians are here tonight raise up
your hands? Let... Christians, no matter what church you belong to... About
ninety-nine percent, maybe ninety-nine and nine-tenths percent (See?), is
Christians. Maybe there'd be eight or ten people in here, maybe tonight, that's
not Christians. See? Well now, and that... What must you do to that people?
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Such a beautiful type of the Church today, that how that the same procedure,
God just repeating history in another way. How the Church was called out, now
in their journey, and could've went on over into the promise, but has refused.
Now, a beautiful picture is before us. Now, as Joshua, the leader first, in the
wilderness where there was thousands times thousands of noblemen, yet Joshua
seemed to realize that he was, positionally he was elected of God. And when he
crossed and Moses died, then he was called of God. God called him out and give
him a vision, and said, "Now, as I was with Moses, so will I be with you.
And no man shall stand before you all the days of your life. Be not dismayed;
neither be discouraged, for the Lord thy God is with thee wheresoever thou
goest. And after the vision was over, then Joshua, being the warrior, elected
of God, chosen of God... Now, when he meets this king, or this great Man
standing at the wall near Jericho, he was positionally placed then; he was a warrior. And
then he seen what the real visible thing was. Who do you think
this Man was that was standing over against the wall? Now, Joshua knowing he'd
had visions, how the Lord had spoke to him, and he knowed that he was God's
servant, and he wasn't afraid. But when he went into the land, he crossed over,
the manna ceased, and then the old corn, they begin to eat it.
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And one day while strolling along in the wilderness, coming from Jer--from
Jordan up to Jericho, rocky, hilly, desert, wilderness like place, walking
along there he seen a Man. And the Man stood and drew His sword, just a Man,
looked like a man. And Joshua, perhaps being a chief warrior, drew his sword
too, walked to meet Him, said, "Who are You? Are You for us, or are You
our adversary?" The man I could see lift his sword high, say, "No,
I'm the Captain of the host of the Lord--of the God of Israel." The
Captain of the host, Who was this Captain of the host? Joshua reached down and
unloosened his shoes, fell on his face before Him, and said, "What would
the Lord have me do?" You see, after he had been--he was getting his
position then. He was to be the greatest military man that's ever been on the
face of the earth. There's never been a general like Joshua, no time, no age,
nowhere has ever been compared with Joshua. The
word "Joshua" comes from the word of "Jesus," means
"Jesus" or "Saviour, deliverer." And so when he seen this
Man, what was it? It was the Captain, in other words, the Leader of the host of
Israel. And that leader was none other than Christ Himself.
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And what
was He first seen in? A Pillar of Fire. And now the Pillar of Fire had become a
man. I hope you know what I'm talking about. He had become a man. Joshua, alone
by himself, seen just what it was: that that Pillar of Fire that had led them
as an Angel, here He stood and called Himself the Captain of the host. He was
the Unseen One. And He is still
the Captain of the host of the Lord, the unseen One, the invisible One, the
omnipotent One, here tonight just as real as He was standing there against the
walls of Jericho, the same Lord Jesus: a figurative type of course. He was
Melchisedec that met Abraham, many, many, hundred years before there: had no
father, no mother, no beginning of days or ending of years: Melchisedec. Who
was this great King, had no beginning of days, no ending of years, without
descent, without father, without mother? There you are. Here He is. He met
Abraham out there under the oak one day. And He had dust all over His clothes,
and said He was from a strange--a foreign country, and was on His road down to
Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Because one man stole a garment and done something that he should not done,
took the life of sixteen men. I think it was sixteen, maybe more. I believe it
was sixteen men that was dead. Joshua called, said, "There's something
wrong. God made the promise, and something's wrong." When we bring the
sick up before us and they fail to be healed, we need to call a solemn fast,
call an assembly. Something's wrong somewhere. God made the promise. God's got
to stick to that promise, and He will do it. And he called a fast. And they
found out, they cast the lots. And Achan confessed it. And they killed Achan's
family and all, and burnt their ashes, and left it there for a memorial. And
Joshua went right on through the battles, taking everything without a scratch
or a wound. There you are. One day he had--needed a little time, extra time.
The sun was going down; the men couldn't fight very good at nighttime. Joshua, that great
warrior, anointed of God, positionally placed into the land, like Ephesians to
the new church, possess--possessed in the--possessing the land, taking it over.
He needed some time, so he said, "Sun, stand still." And she stood
still for about twelve hours until he took the land. See? Now, the Book of
Ephesians placed us positionally in Christ, what they was in the holy land. We
are placed not in the holy land, but in the Holy Ghost.
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Didn't Nathan tell David... Nathan, the prophet, one time setting seeing David
the anointed king, he said, "Do all that's in your heart, for God is with
you." Told David, "Do all that's in your heart; God's with you."
Joshua was
anointed to take the land for God and for his people. The day was short; he
needed more time for the job that he was anointed and commissioned to do.
Joshua, a man, he was anointed. God told him, "As I was with Moses, I'll
be with you." Amen. "That land, I'm going to give it
to them. I want you to go over there and clean out the Amalekites and--and the
Hitt--all--all the others, the Philistines, and--and Perizzites, and all the
different ones; clean them out. I'm with you. I'll... No man will stand before
you all the days of your life. No man can bother you. Go on in there." And
Joshua drawed that sword and said, "Follow me." And he got over
there, and here he was fighting. And what was it? He routed the enemy. They
were little bunches here and little bunches there. When nighttime come they'd
all get together and garrison together and come with a big force against him.
And the sun was going down; he needed more light.
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The sun
was going down; he didn't fall on his knees and say, "Lord God, what shall
I do? What shall I do?" He spoke. He had a need. He said, "Sun, stand
still." And he cried at nothing; he commanded: "Sun, stand still;
I've got a need of this. I'm the servant of the Lord, anointed for this job,
and I got a need. Stand still and don't you shine, and moon, you hang where
you're at," till he fought the battle through and whipped the whole thing
out. And the sun obeyed him. No crying out, he spoke to the sun; said,
"You stand still. Sun, hang there, and moon, you stay where you're at."
He didn't cry out, "Lord, now what can I do? Give me some more
sunlight." He had need of sunlight, so he commanded it, and the sun obeyed
him. Oh, my. He commanded the sun to stand still. Samson, anointed, raised up,
ordained of God, given a gift of power, was ordained to destroy the nation of
the Philistines: ordained, born on the earth, anointed of God to destroy the
Philistines. One day they caught him out in the field without his sword,
without a spear, and a thousand of those armored Philistines run upon him at
one time. Did he get down and say, "Oh, Lord, I'm waiting for a vision?
Oh, Lord, what must I do? Direct me now what to do." He knowed he had a
need. He found nothing but an old jawbone of a mule, and he beat down a
thousand Philistines. Amen. He never cried to God. He used his anointed gift.
He knowed that he was sent for the job. He knowed he was born for that.
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He knowed
he was anointed with a gift, and he beat down a thousand Philistines. He didn't
cry to God. God ordained him and vindicated that he was by other things that he
had done, and he was a vindicated, anointed servant of God to destroy the
Philistines, and he did it. No matter what the circumstances was, he did it. He
never asked nothing. That was his job. That... God was dealing
through... He picked up that mule bone and go to beating Philistines. How
the... Why, one lick with that thing across one of them inch and a half brass
skulls like that would've shattered that bone into a million pieces, and he
beat a thousand of them down and killed them, and still stood with it in his
hand. Didn't ask no questions. He didn't cry out; he spoke. He routed them. Oh,
my. Take the Philistines. "Can I take the Philistines, Lord? I--I know You
sent me to do it, Lord. Yes, Lord, I know You sent me to destroy this nation of
the Philistines. Now, here a thousand of them around me. I ain't got nothing.
What--what am I going to do now, Lord." Oh, my.
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Nothing going to
bother him. He's anointed for the work. There's nothing can harm you. No, not one
thing. Hallelujah. He just took what he had and beat into them.
That's right. When the enemy fenced him in and said, "Now, we got him in
the walls; we got him now. We got him on the inside here with this woman. Now,
we got this good door shut all around everywhere, and he can't get out. We got
him." Samson didn't cry, "Oh, Lord, they got me all fenced in with
this denomination. What am I going to do? I've joined up with them. What am I
going to do?" He never did that. He just walked out, and pulled down the
gates, put it on his shoulder, and walked away with it. Amen. He was anointed
for the job. He was called of God: didn't fence him in. No, indeedy. He took
the gates with him. He didn't pray about it. He didn't ask God whether to do it
or not. It's right in the line of duty. Amen and amen, amen. Right in the line
of duty... "Why cry to Me? Speak, and go on." Amen. "Don't cry,
speak." He done quit whining and whimpering now: ought to be old enough to
speak. That's right.
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He knew his anointed
gift of power could destroy any Philistine that stood before him.
Amen. But we don't know that. You see? We're still little babies with the
bottle in our mouth and... He know it.
He knowed that God raised him up for that purpose, and there was nothing going
to stand before him all the days of his life. Nothing could destroy him. He was
raised for that purpose like Moses was: nothing going to stop him. No
Amalekites or nothing else can stop him. He's on the road to the promised land.
Samson knowed he was on the road. Joshua know he was taking the land. He was
a-vindicated. God's Word promised it, and the Holy Ghost was there vindicating
it. He was on his road, so there's nothing going to stand in his way. No, sir.
Right in the line of duty with God, there was nothing going to stand in his
way, so he just picked up the gates, and put them on his shoulders (weighed
about four or five tons), and walked up on top of the hill and set down on
them: nothing going to stand in his way. He had an anointed gift from God. He
didn't have to cry out, "Lord, what must I do now." He's already
anointed to do it. That was THUS SAITH THE LORD, "Get rid of them."
Hallelujah. "Get rid of them. I've raised you up for that purpose."
Amen.
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I led her out here in the Ohio River and baptized her in the Name of the Lord
Jesus. Now, my own boy. O God, if possible, let Hope look down over the
banister this morning, look across the veil, hangs between earth and glory. I
pray, God, will make a preacher out of my boy. I pray that God will anoint him
and give him a double portion of the Spirit. May God bless his life. Thank you
all for your prayer. Prayer changes things. I'll pray for your children too.
Billy, boy, some of these days, honey, we, if Jesus tarries, we got to go down
in one of these, they'll throw dirt on us. But, sonny, God will bring us up.
"I know my Redeemer liveth, the last days He'll stand on this earth."
I pray that God will bless him, keep the enemy from him. Give him a free access,
way down this long road, son.
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There's many souls dying down there, but throw out the lifeline to them, bring
them. I trust, Billy, that you'll stand and baptize literally thousands times
thousands for a testimony for the remission of their sins. God, bless my boy, I
pray...?... O Master, Oh, how I...?... My boy, Lord, that I've raised for thee.
Here's my boy, Lord; he's all I got. I bring him to You this morning. I'm so
thankful, Lord, that he believes this...?... So thankful that he's repented, God.
O Lord Jesus, O
Christ, anoint him with the Holy Ghost. Grant it, Lord, that the
power of the Spirit of the resurrected Christ; hold my boy. Grant it, Lord. May
he be filled with God's Spirit to preach the Word, unadulterated Gospel of
Christ, to all the ends of the world. Grant it, Lord.
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All right. Now, you come here, honey. Dear God, as this dear little,
Ethiopian boy standing here, and I hug him up to my bosom. I love these little
boys, Lord. And I pray that in the Name of Your Son Jesus, as this tender
little boy, that'll have to go through life with that asthma, O God, a poor
boy, would have to work for his living. And, oh, what a disadvantage it would
be. Now, God, I pray tonight that You'll heal him of this condition. Take it
away from him, and anoint him, and make him a preacher, Lord, to stand in the
pulpit, to preach the Gospel. I pray this prayer of faith, through Jesus
Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you, little lad. What's going to happen
now? Going to get well? All right.
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Now, Simon clearing his throat, and red in the face, and his righteous
indignation rose up, and he was ready to explode. Caught the attention of all
the people as he turned and straightened himself. "Hmmm!"
Self-righteous Pharisee, hypocrite, church member, that's the meanest rascal I
know of, is an old moss-back make-believer. He's meaner than all the prostitutes and teen-age
racketeers there is in the country. He will drive people farther from God than
everything else, every barroom there is on the street. There He's setting
there. And then she raises up, and she taken the alabaster box, and she tries
to break it. She's nervous now, because when she looks up He's looking right at
her. Don't worry, He's watching you too. He's looking at you right now. We can
just feel His piercing Presence. She was nervous. She tried to knock the top
off. She just broke the top off, and just poured it
upon His head, begin to anoint Him. Oh, all the crowd's looking.
"Yes, looky there. There his is. We never noticed him before. He's setting
in the corner, a prostitute around him." I can hear Simon
say, "Didn't I tell you? There's your prophet. There--there's him. See? He
would know what kind of a crowd he was associating with."
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Oh, how many times I've had that throwed in my face. "Brother Branham, if
that gift was of God, you wouldn't be with that bunch of Pentecostals."
They're the ones that receives it. They're the ones that believe it. The other
day I was talking to a man from the Methodist church. He come to write him a
thesis on Divine healing. He said, "Why don't you come to the Methodist
church?" I said, "Why don't you invite me?" I said... He said,
"I'm a pastor." I said, "Well, you get you deacons and your
board together, and your state presbyter, and all of them together, an see if
they'll invite me." He said, "Oh, they wouldn't do it, Brother
Branham." I said, "That's what I thought." He said, "The
only thing they can hold against you is you're a Pentecostal. You left the
Baptist church and become a Pentecostal." I said, "That's the one
that receives it." That's right. They're the ones that's willing to wipe
Jesus' dirty feet, stand the Name of Jesus, the reproach.
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So therefore, when we receive His Word into our heart, it's already done, it's
completed. And why would He then (it doesn't answer the question) be baptized?
Many has said, "Why, He was baptized because He was our example."
That is true to a certain state, certain place. That is true, but it isn't all
the truth. The truth of it was, that He was the Antetype, He was the High
Priest. And before
the high priest could be anointed, he had to be washed. I want
to read some Scripture for you, just a moment, over in the Book of Exodus. And
I want to begin here at the 4th verse of the 29th chapter.
And
Aaron and his sons thou shall bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and shall wash them with water.
And
thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron, and the coat, and the robe...
and
the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and to gird him with the curious
girdle of the ephod:
And
thou shall put the mitre upon his head, and upon the holy... upon the... crown
upon the mitre.
And
thou shall take the anointing oil, and pour it upon the head, and anoint him.
See,
Aaron, the high priest, before he could ever be anointed, he had to be washed
with water.
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Therefore, when Jesus, before He could be anointed our High Priest, He was
washed with water. And
then not anointing oil poured upon Him to anoint Him, like Aaron was anointed
with oil; He was anointed with the Holy Ghost. "For John
bare record, seeing the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and going upon
Him, and a Voice saying, 'This is My beloved Son in Whom I am pleased to dwell
in.'" So the Bible said that, "Jesus was anointed with the Holy
Ghost, went about doing good things." See, He was anointed. And before He
was anointed, He had to fulfill all righteousness. See, He had to be washed
with water before the Anointing come upon Him. And it's a very beautiful type
of us today. As priests unto God, we must be first baptized, confess our sins
and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, washing away our sins; and then
you shall receive the Anointing, the gift of the Holy Ghost. See? Washed first
and then anointed for the service... No minister should enter the pulpit
without first being baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. 'Cause there's
only... Remission of sins is only in Jesus Christ's Name, not another other
name under heaven given among man. "Repentance and remission of sin must
be taught in His Name, beginning at Jerusalem." That's where the Holy
Ghost fell and anointed first. So a minister or any believer must first be
washed from His sins in the Name of Jesus Christ; and then anointed with the
Holy Ghost to bring forth a testimony for God. And Christ was God's testimony,
because God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.
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He was in full possession (Amen.), for he was adopted into that family. And his
name on a check was just as good as his daddy's. Now, what God has done, the
reason we see these things, and know that there's something wrong, friend. We see the promises of God; we
see it in the Word of God. But God has just begin, to my humble opinion, to
adopting His son, positionally calling him out to one side, giving him a
certain ministry, anointing them for that purpose, and sending them out. Watch
what happens when He does. Everything that he give him possession over will
take place. God adopted His own Son like that. Jesus, walking as an ordinary man,
but one day upon Mount Transfiguration, He taken three as a witness Peter,
James, John: hope, faith, and charity. Called them out, and He separated Jesus
from them, and He over-shadowed Him. And the Bible said, "His raiment
shined like the sun in its strength." What was it? That special robe, God
adopting His own Son.
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And they seen Moses and Elijah appear and so forth. Then they show Him and they
seen Jesus only. And when He looked back then, God the Father, after putting
the robe on His Son, He said, "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him."
No wonder Jesus could say, "All the powers in heaven and earth is given
unto My hand," for He was adopted by His Father into the glorious
Kingdom of God. Now, sitting in the majesty at the right hand above
every Archangel, and Angel, every star, moon, or every name that's named in heaven.
It's subject to the Name of Jesus Christ. For He was adopted by God the Father.
Now,
into His church, you that's positionally is seated in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus, be humble, brethren. Someday the Holy Spirit will speak to you, call you
out to one side somewhere in a little cabin on a hillside, or in the washroom,
somewhere, and there will anoint you for a certain service, or certain thing to do. It
won't be the laying on the hand of the presbyters or elders. It'll be the
laying on the hands of God Almighty, Himself, to put a new ministry in you, and
a new robe on you, and to set you out as an example. And all the demons out of
torment will never upset you. God, grant, my brethren, that we'll each one
receive this blessing.
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Shall we pray. O God, our Father. We are grateful to Thee this afternoon for
Jesus, how that You took Him up there on Mount Transfiguration and was
transfigured before them; You changed Him. And Your Voice said as the adoption,
"This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him." And, God, we're trying our best to Him and follow
Him in everything that we do or say. Send Him into the building just now, Lord,
put a fresh anointing on every minister here and every laity here, Methodist,
Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, whatever they are, Father. They're here
because they love You. And we're groaning, waiting for that time of adoption.
And we believe that one of these days the Holy Spirit will move in, not with a
new birth, for we've received that through Christ, but You'll adopt Your Church
then. Then She'll be clothed in the power of the resurrected Lord. And we pray,
Father, that You'll do this quickly, for the days look so dark and evil ahead.
We pray that You'll adopt us now, Lord, into Your family. Give us the authority
that we need, Father, to make the gainsayer keep still. No
wonder they prayed when they come back. "Why did the heathens rage and the
people imagine the vain thing?" said. Truly, Lord, the stretching forth a
hand of thy Son to heal the sick... Save the lost in here today, Father. Heal
the sick. For we ask it in Jesus Name.
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"My Faith Looks Up To Thee." That's where we
stand; that's the only thing that'll move a mountain. That's when God has to
anoint you to such faith that it cannot fail. "My Faith Looks Up To
Thee,"
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Three offices like: fatherhood, sonship, and Holy Ghost. And you are body,
spirit, and soul. Now, the outside body has five inlets to it to contact your
earthly home: see, taste, feel, smell, and hear. The inside, which is a spirit,
it has five senses: conscience, and love, and so forth. But the inside of that,
the soul, has one thing. That's where you live. The Spirit can come out here
and anoint you to do certain things, and you do it, but that don't mean you're
saved. But think of it. Caiaphas prophesied. Judas cast out devils. See, the
Spirit anointed him. There's rain falls on the just and the unjust; the weeds
can rejoice with the wheat. But it's what it is at the core. There's where you
can, intellectuals can accept and say, "Oh, sure, that looks good. I
believe that." That still don't do it. No, sir. And the spirit can
actually make witness of it, and still it isn't so. Because if that soul hasn't
come from God, it can make all the impersonations out here, but it cannot be
real. You can act healing; you can act like you have. You can act like you
receive it. Christians can act like they're Christians, and act and be ever so
good at it, but that don't mean they're saved. That's exactly right. See? The Spirit can be there, the
real genuine Spirit. The Holy Spirit can anoint you; that still don't mean
you're saved. It's that inside soul that never dies; it's got Eternal Life. It
always was Eternal Life. See? It come from God; it goes to God;
it's the soul.
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David said, "I will go fight him." And there the pastor, big seven
foot Saul, cowed down in his tent, my. But David said, "Let me go."
Well, they took him up before Saul. Saul said, "Now, my son, I admire your
courage. But I will tell you, that man is a warrior from his youth, and you're
nothing but a youth. That man knows how to use a sword. Why, his spear is
twenty foot long maybe. Why, he'd just pick you up and... like that." He
said, "My Lord," he said, "your servant... God let him take
a--kill a bear with his sling shot, and I took a kid out of a lion's mouth. How
much more would He deliver that uncircumcised Philistine into my hands." He knowed what he was
talking about; he had God behind him. He knowed the anointing oil was poured on
him. Samuel had done done it. He knowed he was anointed. So nothing wasn't
going to bother him.
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What's the matter
with you anointed people? God's done poured the Holy Ghost oil on you. You're
anointed. You've got the privilege. Quickly, and look. "Why,"
he said, "you can't fight him." Said, "Well, if you're going to,
put on my armor." Huh. And the first thing you know, they got this great
big jacket of mail, you know, and put on little David. And I can imagine seeing
that little bitty fellow standing there with this great big jacket on, standing
like... He couldn't hold it up. Huh. He come to find out that that
ecclesiastical jacket didn't fit a man of God. It doesn't yet. When you have to
go away and get four years of embalming fluid pumped into you, when God says
go, get going. That's right. God says you can do it, you can do it.
"Whosoever will, let him come." That great big ecclesiastical jacket
on, you know, theological seminary experience, didn't fit David. David said,
"I haven't proved that thing yet. I don't know nothing about it, but I do
know what this is." Brother, I don't know about all about your teaching,
and all your doctrines, and all your Doxologies, and so forth, but I do know
what the Holy Ghost is. The very thing that saved me back there will heal me.
Hallelujah.
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God promised it and I believe it. Brethren, he reached down there and got a
hold of five little rocks as he crossed. And that old fellow just laughed at
him, said, "I'll feed you to the birds." He said, "You meet me
as a Philistine, in the name of a Philistine, with an armor and a spear. But I
meet you in the Name of the Lord God of Israel." He knowed where he was
standing. He reached down and picked up five little stones, put one in the
sling shot. Why, old Goliath was covered all over with steel, all up-and-down
like that, just one little spot. And here he comes across to meet him. A little
bitty fellow about like this, and Goliath about like that standing there with
his spear ready to pick him up and hang him up on a tree somewhere... Here come
little David just a bouncing in the Spirit, "Ha, ha, ha." Oh, what a
holy-roller. Victory already... Hallelujah.
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And David was a little shepherd lad; he lived in Bethlehem with his father,
which was from the tribe of Ephraim. And a noble little fellow, the eighth
child of this father, Jesse, which was a Ephraimite. And David, from the very
beginning of his days borned here on this earth, he knew that God was with him.
Before
he was ever blessed or anointed, he knew God was with him. If you'll watch the story real close, how that
God... Last night we were speaking on the same thing, that gifts and
callings are without repentance. It's God's election and foreknowledge is what
makes the thing so. If we have a desire, the Bible said, "It's not
him that willeth, or him that runneth, but it's God that showeth mercy."
See? It's not whether you will, or whether you want to, or where your desires
is, it's whether it
is God's will or not. Then we have to find out God's will, and if it's that
perfect, we can just set our faith to that and say, "This is it." And
we can run right on the way the will of God runs. Now, we know it's God's will to save
the lost. We know it's God's will to heal the sick. Now, if we can positionally
place ourself in His will, it's over.
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And now, David, positionally he was born by election, which God said,
"Gifts and callings are without repentance." And he was born, elected
a servant of the Lord. And when he was a--a little boy, Israel had, during
that day, had got away from God.
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Sure he makes his boast. He's still making his boast. We still got Goliaths. And we
still got Davids too. Thanks be to God for that. He made his big
boast, and it fell on the ears of the wrong fellow, a little old fellow walking
around there, he had to look up to see he's a man, like that. But he knew that
he was elected by God and had the anointing upon him. He'd put God to a test
and he knowed Who God was. He knowed where he was standing. Notice, David was called by election. He was
elected, called, anointed, and placed (See?): elected by God, called from sheep
herding to be the king, anointed, and positionally placed.
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Look. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph; Abraham: election, Isaac: justification,
and Jacob: grace, and Joseph: perfection, nothing against Joseph. All right,
there you are, called. Are you a David? Called, elected first by God... How
many Christians here, raise up your hand. You're not a Christian by your
desire; you're a Christian by God's desire. Amen. "No man can come
to Me except My Father draws him first." You was elected by God before the
foundation of the world to be a Christian. That's Scripture.
Jesus said, "No man can come except My Father calls him." First
thing you was elected, called. Then when God elected you, then He called you,
and you heeded to His call. Then He poured the anointing oil on you, the Holy
Ghost. When the cruse of oil... What does the oil represent in the
Bible? Holy Spirit. When he poured the oil upon him, he baptized him with the
Holy Spirit in a symbol form. Amen. I hope you get that. That just come fresh.
He poured the oil upon him, just went all over him, a whole horn full of it
(Amen.), not sparingly. And that's the way God pours the Holy Ghost on a
man, not sparingly, just baptizes him into it, anointing him with the Spirit.
Notice, he right then, when that anointing struck him, he was positionally
placed as king. Amen. You are placed positionally in Christ Jesus as
kings and priests. Is that right?
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The moment you receive the Holy Spirit, God places you in the Kingdom, an heir.
What a beautiful picture. There you are. Abraham: election, Isaac:
justification, he that's come will be justified by faith. Jacob: grace, nothing
you have done, but by God's mercy. And Joseph: perfection, placed. Amen. David,
elected, called, anointed, and placed: you elected, called, anointed, and
placed in the body of Jesus Christ. For by one Spirit we're all placed into the
body of Christ positionally. Have you ever tried it out yet? Every man or woman
in here that's a Christian knows that something's been on you all your life.
When you was a child, you longed to serve God. Something beat at your heart; it
was God's election.
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David, before
anything ever happened, before he'd ever had the anointing oil on him in
anything, he knew God was with him. He killed a bear; he killed a lion with
that slingshot. And he knowed that was super to an ordinary man to do that. He
knew what he could do. He knew God was with him, because his whole heart beat
after God. He said in the 47th Psalm, I believe or somewhere
there, "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so my soul thirsts
after thee, O God." No wonder he could play the evil spirits away with his
music; he had something to play about. And it come from his heart. And the
devil knew that was from his heart. And he knew that David was elected of God.
And there he was elected, called, anointed, and positionally already king.
Amen. Let me drop this on the side. Don't think I'm excited; I'm not. Look, let
me drop this on the side. They who had spent... How many here is justified by
faith, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ? Everyone of you put your hands up is
justified by faith. Is that right? The Scripture said, "Those who he has
called, he has justified; and those who he has justified, he hath
glorified." Amen.
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In the Presence of Almighty God your name's indelibly wrote with the Blood of
Jesus Christ, glorified in His Presence, positionally placed here on earth for
a purpose, to do the will of God. You see your position, Christian? Oh, my.
Them fellows up there couldn't understand it, but David had the anointing oil
on him. He knowed where he was standing. Old Goliath stood out there. And he
said, "Now, look, let's reason. Why, there's no need of God's armies being
defeated. Well, look at that fellow standing out there with his big boast.”
“Well,
we know God did it, but the days of miracles is past." Not for David, he
was anointed. He knowed where he was at positionally. You say, "Brother
Branham, can I accept Christ as my Healer now?" Certainly. "Well, if
I'm not well in five minutes, what about it?" You're healed anyhow. If you
believe it, you wouldn't ask me that question if you believed it. There's no
question in your mind when you really believe it. You don't question it; you
believe it. Other people might question it, but you don't question it. If you
said to me, "Brother Branham, give me an oak tree." You're from down
in southern Indiana where they have the big white oak and so forth. "Give
me an oak tree." And I'll give you an acorn. Well, you've got a oak tree,
potentially. It's in the seed form; but it's an oak tree; you've got it in a
acorn. When we take God's Word, we got in a seed form. When we can accept
Divine healing by God's Word, that settles it. Amen. It'll grow.
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They were
gods because it--they had completely surrendered themselves to the Spirit of
God, that they were working for the glory of God. And when a man is so anointed
with the Spirit... Now, let this go real deep under the fifth rib on the left
side. When a man is anointed of the Spirit of God, his habits, his actions, and
everything is God moving in him. Sometimes he's misjudged. Look
at David, in the 23rd Psalm he cried, "My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me?" as if he was, if David was the man. "All they that pass
me by shoot their lip out at me." He was so anointed with God, he was so
perfectly surrendered to God, and the anointing was on him in such a way and
when he cried by the Spirit of God, if somebody'd been standing there and say,
"Why, look, he thinks somebody is shooting their lip out at him. Why has
God forsaken him?" It wasn't David; it was the Spirit crying out through
David.
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She wasn't a modern hybrid, so-called believer of the crop today. She had a
hold of something. Not, "Well, I'm Methodist, and I don't have to take
that.” “Bless God, I belong to the Assemblies. I belong to the Church of God. I
don't have to take that." No, no. That's a hybrid type. You're bred into
some organization. But
a real true, thoroughbred Christians is born of the Word of God and holds on,
no matter what takes place. Anything that seems to be dumb to me
is a mule. A mule don't know where he come from. He's not mule, nor he's not
horse. He's a mix between a mule and a horse. He's not gentle; he's mean. He's
lowdown. He will wait all of his life to get to kick you just before he dies.
You can call him, he will just stick them big ears up, "Haw, haw."
See? He doesn't know. That's right. He's hybrid. That's what's the matter with
the church today: too many hybrid so-called Christians. That's right. They
stick their ears up, say, "Haw, the days of miracles is past. Haw,
haw." You don't know whether you're a Christian or a sinner. You don't
know whether you're a believer or an unbeliever. Hybrid. Anything's hybrid is
off the real main beaten road.
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No matter, he will wait all of his life to get to kick you 'fore he dies. You
know that. I've handled horses, worked on a ranch. I know what I'm talking
about. The thing's just an old ignoramus. But let... You don't know where he
come from. He don't know who his pappy is, who his mammy is, or nothing else.
That's the way with some of these hybrid religions today. They don't know who
their papa is. Say, "Are you a Christian?” “I'm Methodist.” “I'm Baptist.”
“I'm Presbyterian. I'm..." Oh, you don't even know where you come from.
But oh, how I love a good thoroughbred horse. Brother, he can tell you... They
can look on his pedigree, and you can see who his papa was, his grandpapa, and
his grandmama, all the way back because he's a thoroughbred. I like to see a real
thoroughbred Christian that's born of the Word of God. He knows where he come
from; he knows who his father is; he knows who his mother is.
It's not some social denomination. It's the power of God, the Son of God. He
died to himself, and he's born again a new birth. He's a new creature in Christ
Jesus. He's gentle. You can tell him something; he will punctuate every Word of
God with an "Amen."
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He's expressing Himself. That's His purpose. That's why He died. That's the
second fold of His threefold manifestation. First, to express Himself in Christ
and then He expressed Hisself through the Church, and the same thing, Christ
was the Word. And the church becomes the Word when it lets the Word go through
them. But when they accept the hybrid denomination, how can the Word go through
it? It's grounded; then it causes a short and blows a fuse. See? But when the current is flowing
freely, the Word of God, It expresses Itself. "The works that I do shall
you do also." And in the last days it shall come to pass,
"Behold I send to you Elijah, the prophet, and he shall turn the hearts of
the children back to the faith of the fathers." And in there, there'd be a time come forth
when He could express Himself in Fullness of His Godhead (Deity) through His
Church, have the preeminences in this Church. Oh, my. What? The anointed Man,
now the anointed people (oh, my) to bring back the
anointed Bride and the Bridegroom. Anointed by why? Accepting what Eve
turned down (and Adam), coming back with the anointing of the Word, because He
said, "My Word is Spirit." See? Anointed with the Word.
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What Eve turned down, He comes back and we accept. See how that hybrid
condition again... Just exactly what he done to Eve. He told Eve, "Don't
you do this, and don't you do that, and you can't do this and that." And
Satan said, "Oh, oh, you know..." But she turned around and listened
to him. But the Eve in the last day's not going to do it, because She's
predestinated not to do it. Yes, sir. God's going to do it. He knows... He'll
have... He said His spot--Church will be there without spot or a wrinkle. She's
going to stand there in the splendor of Him: His Word made manifest. She'll be
a token to the world. She'll be an... She'll be something to the world that the
world can look and say, "Well,..." The rest of the world say,
"Ah, she's a holy-roller. She's the second cousin. She don't belong to our
group." I know. That's a good thing. She belongs to this group up here.
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