Our works prove who we are. It might be helping your neighbor, or it could be praying for the sick, but the world sees us by our works.
Brother Branham is again in Shreveport for the Friday evening service with Brother Jack Moore and his congregation. Here are a few highlights from "Works Is Faith Expressed."
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
11 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
6 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
And I turned and picked up a shovel, there by the side of the place, and walked off from them ’cause I knew it would come where I was at.
And you watch, the water will come plumb back into the Salton Sea. Los Angeles is doomed for judgment. I tell you before it happens, that you might know when it does happen. I never spoke that by myself. And I’ve never had Him to tell me one thing but what happened. And you can bear record of that. That’s right. When? I don’t know.
But if we’re afraid to act on what we believe, then we do not believe It. See, you’ve got to believe It.
You didn’t work yourself up into faith. You ever have faith, it’s give to you by the grace of God. And God reveals it to you, therefore faith is a revelation. And the whole Church of God is built upon the revelation.
So, God, in sovereign grace, prepares the heart first. He prepared you before the foundation of the world, to receive Him in this age. He foreknew you by His foreknowledge, and ordained you to Eternal Life. He knew you, therefore He prepared you.
But if he’s a genuine, if the Word of God has bedded into him, then It’s going to bring forth Its kind, you’ll see that man preparing for that great hour.
Hallelujah! We know where we’re going too, at the end of this journey. God has promised! There’s a Land beyond the river. Be fearless in your testimony. Amen. If it’s revealed to you, you are fearless. You don’t care if the whole world what they say; you’re fearless. When it’s revealed to you, that, “This is the Truth coming from God,” then you’ll be fearless.
They said, “You say, ‘The Messiah is coming’? Why,” he said, “man, what’s the matter with you? We been looking for Him for four thousand years.” He said, “He’s standing right among you now.” Hallelujah! So is He tonight!
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.
And we are the children of Abraham (Hallelujah!), not as Isaac was, but his Royal Seed (through Jesus Christ) by the faith that he had, Abraham’s Seed coming forth in the last days to shine like the stars. Abraham’s children!
When it’s revealed to you, when it really something...You can’t make it happen, it’s got to be revealed to you. Then you don’t even consider anything else: how impossible it is, don’t consider what the doctor said, you don’t consider what mama said, what papa said, what the preacher said, what anybody else said. You just consider what God said!
The Son of man will be revealed in a body of flesh, you people the Church, just exactly like it was before the days of Sodom, a called-out group away from all of them, setting out, believing the promise of God. Glory!
You, what your afflictions are, whatever it is, if you believe Him, stand upon your feet, right now, and believe.