It's the last day of the Thanksgiving meetings with the brothers and sisters in Shreveport, along with quite a few friends who made the trip across country to hear Brother Branham preach. He takes his text from Deuteronomy, and titles his message "God's Only Provided Place Of Worship." Here are a few highlights.
1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there.
3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee:
6 But at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
It’s just begin blooming now, just begin, the shuck’s pulling away so the wheat can lay out there now. See? So just keep reverent, keep praying. See? Remember, “They that wait upon the Lord, renew their strength.”
Then there was another law given to Abraham, which was by grace, unconditionally: “I have saved you and your seed after you.” Amen! That is a type of Calvary, not the type of—of—of Adam covenant, it’s a Abrahamic covenant.
Well, that’s the way it is in this age that we’re living in, you’ve got to find what is God’s way of doing it for this age.
What does that typify in the sacrifice? Don’t mix it with any creed, got to be the Word. “No leavened bread.” Leaven is the... You know what a leaven is in anything. “A little leaven leavens the whole lump,” the whole lump is the Body. You can’t put one speck of denomination or creed into Christ. No, sir, it won’t work.
And God confirms it back, and receives the offer and the sacrifice, by vindicating it to be the Truth. No question to It! Now watch that Word!
God help us to do the same thing. We don’t have to answer the devil’s questions, that’s right, “If thou be, do so-and-so.” You’re responsible for that Gospel, a preacher is, and that’s all; not how It’s written, it’s just responsible for saying It.
And no genuine prophet of God could deny one Word of It, but believe every Word and preach the same. And then God’s obligated out of that channel to make that Word come to pass just exactly the way It’s promised, the Seed will grow.
If I go in this generation, may the people who believe this Message never stand still for a denomination! God will... You’ll die right in your track! Remember that! The very hour that you mention denomination among you, I don’t care how sincere you are, take man for your leader instead of the Holy Spirit to confirm this Word, that’s the hour you die! The genuine Seed cannot,
When did Rebekah find Isaac? When did Eliezer call her to be the bride? Evening time!
When, a genuine, born-again Christian, born with the Word of God, he’s rugged. That’s you. The lice and things of the world don’t bother him. He’s an eagle, he flies plumb past it. See, soars in the heavenly.
And believe it or not, this morning, you are standing by something. There’s only one thing that you can live and stand by, and that’s Christ, the Word.
But in Christ, you come in by election; not by force, your heart pulls you in.
Then the Father put His Own Name, which is “Jesus,” in the Son. And He’s the Way, He’s the Door, He’s the House, He’s where God chose to put His Name. God never put His Name in me, He never put It in the church, He never put It in the Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, but He put It in Christ the Anointed Emmanuel. And the Name is in the Word because He is the Word.
My house! My children, borned of My genes!” Amen! Glory to God! “My genes are in them! My... I put My Word in them. I’ll write them upon the tables of their heart. That’s My family, the family of the Body of Jesus Christ; the family.
“Then there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” For they are dead to the world, alive in Him, and living in this present day, making the Word that God has used them, or foreordained them, placing their names in this Bride Book. And when the Waters comes upon that seed that’s in the heart, raises it up to the Bride of Christ. Oh, my! Just perfect as it can be.
Couldn’t do it in Luther’s age, couldn’t do it in Wesley’s age, couldn’t do it in Pentecostal age; but in the day when the Son of man will be manifested, revealed, brought back the Church together with the entire Deity of God amongst His people, showing the same visible signs, manifesting Himself like He did at the beginning when He was manifested on earth in a form of a Prophet-God. Oh! Glory! Promised by Malachi 4, promised by the rest of the Scriptures.
But when once that Holy Spirit really... genuine Word comes into you (the Word, Jesus), then, brother, the Message is no secret to you then; you know It, brother, It’s all lit up before you. Hallelujah!
Now, church, we’re teaching now. But, remember, when you leave here, start moving out of the shuck now; you’re going into the grain, but lay in the Presence of the Son. Don’t add, what I’ve said; don’t take away, what I’ve said. Because, I speak the Truth as far as I know It, as the Father has given to me. See? Don’t add to It, just say what I said.