Brother Branham is now in Los Angeles, California for the first in a series of three sermons he will preach over the next three days. His first meeting was at the First Assembly Of God in Rialto.
1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
The Church is growing. Each age, it’s lotted in the Scripture here. So, God, through the Holy Spirit, reveals His Word, by manifesting It and vindicating It, Hisself, showing that It’s His Word being brought to pass in the day that It’s promised.
If we know the Word of God, we know where we are living. We know the hour that we’re living in. We know what lays ahead. We see what we’ve passed.
A prophet is a reflector of God. He is made so that he cannot speak his own words. It has to be God’s Words that he speaks. He’s just like a reflector, and he is God’s mouthpiece.
And God, before there was a foundation, world, knew that you would be here. And when the Word, or the water, “the washing of the water of the Word” fell upon you_you, it was expressed in a being. Now you have fellowship with your Father, God, just as you have with your earthly father. See? You are citizens of the King; not citizens, but you are children, sons and daughters of the living God, if it be that the Eternal Life dwells in you.
You see, the whole - whole program, the whole Church, is built upon Divine revelation.
So, you see, your coming, He knew your nature and what you would be, so He made it just the way that you could enjoy it. Oh! I think that’s a wonderful Father, see, know that He made it like this.
It’s a perfect Kingdom, so it must be a perfect people come. Because, you have to stand and be married to a perfect Son of God, and you must be a perfect Bride. So how can you do it through anything else but the perfect Word of God, which is, “The Waters of separation, that washes us from our sins”? Amen. That’s right. The Blood of Jesus Christ, think of It, the dripping, Bloody Word. Amen.
The devil got a trap setting there. But you got grace to come back, if you’re a real Christian, say, “I was wrong.”
Why does the Holy Spirit keep crying out? It knows there’s something lacking there. We must be in the full stature of Jesus Christ. We must be sons and daughters of God. We must act like God’s children.
Ask God to pile Word on top of Word, like that, until you become the full stature of a son of God, or a daughter of God.
You must be filled with the Holy Ghost. See? Just keep adding on, as you keep on going. You’re growing into the stature of a son and daughter of God.
Jesus only asked for one thing, in His prayer to the Father. You know what that was? One thing, after all of His sacrifice that He did here on earth, the life that He lived, the path that He walked. He asked for one thing, “That where I am, they may be also.”
And if you come to the end of your life’s journey, without reservations, there will be no One there to meet you. You’ll have to step off into a dark Eternity where there will be screaming, and weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. You must. You can’t get into the City, you, because you haven’t got reservation.
The real gift is your soul down in there, see, that was born of God, and that controls the whole thing to the Word of God and the will of God. And there you grow up, see, then you’re a son and daughter of God.
You’re sons and daughters of a King, the King. Be lady and gentleman. Walk like Christians. Live like Christians. Act like Christians. Remember, I’ll meet you at the Judgment Bar with these remarks.