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PROOF OF HIS ELECTION
JOHN 4 19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I
perceive that thou art a prophet.
[2c) to ascertain, find out by seeing. This word is not used of an indifferent
spectator, but of one who looks at a thing with interest and for a purpose;]
HEBREWS.CHAPTER.6_ JEFF.IN HEB SUNDAY_ 57-0908E
213-292 Paul said, "Let's go on to perfection now." We're talking about perfected, and if we'll run this down,
you'll find out the perfected is the elected.
2 Peter 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give
diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things,
ye shall never fall:
JOHN 10 14 I am the good shepherd, and know
my [sheep], and am known of mine. 15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life
for the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and
there shall be one fold, [and] one shepherd.
JOHN 10 25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness
of me. 26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto
you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I
know them, and they follow me:
JOHN 8 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were
your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God;
neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do ye not understand my
speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word.
44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar,
and the father of it.
JOHN 8 45 And because I tell [you] the truth,
ye believe me not. 46 Which of you convinceth me of
sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear [them] not,
because ye are not of God.
CONCERNED.AND.CONVINCED_ S.PINES.NC V-3 N-3 SUNDAY_ 62-0610E
27-6 Now, the Bible said in the last days the antichrist would be so religious
and so much like the real thing till it would deceive the very elected, if it was possible. But it's not. That's right. And all... He would deceive all upon the earth whose names were not written in the Lamb's Book of Life since the last revival? That don't sound like the Bible,
does it? From the foundation of the world.
CONCERNED.AND.CONVINCED_ S.PINES.NC V-3 N-3 SUNDAY_ 62-0610E
You ain't going to deceive them 'cause they're laying right in that Word. When they see those things
appearing [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.], it's Life, they catch it right
now.Others will walk around and say, "Aw,
there's nothing to that." See, they're not convinced. There's nothing there to convince them, nothing in them to
believe with.Mother used to say, "How can you get blood from a turnip when there's no
blood in it." That's right.
DOES.GOD.CHANGE.HIS.MIND_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0418E
Out in the meetings where I go, you never hear me preach these messages.
No, I promised you to come to this Tabernacle. Right here is where I preach my messages from. I've got three or four more here that the Lord has given me;
I've got the Scriptures on it, that I would be daresn't to preach it
anywhere else but right here. Here's where the Word of God started going
from, and till God changes it, I'm staying right here and bringing it out right here.
DOES.GOD.CHANGE.HIS.MIND_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0418E
That's right. Out yonder in meetings, I pray for the sick and everything like that and on the side say things in a round
about way that the sheep hear it. They know what it's talking about.
Otherwise, it's just the bait on the hook. You see? I show the signs of--of trying to
show that God knows in discernment, and knows the hearts of the people, and
does these things.
DOES.GOD.CHANGE.HIS.MIND_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0418E
That's an evangelistic gift just to stir the people. The first thing you know, a tape drops into their house; that's got it then. If he's a sheep, he comes right with it; if he's a goat, he kicks the tape
out.
AS.THE.EAGLE.STIRRETH.UP.HER.NEST_ CHATAUQUA.OH SATURDAY_ 59-0815
Will we come to the Lord Jesus? We're getting ready to take a flight to never return again till the tribulation periods
are over and we return back for the Millennium. It's a long flight; it's all the
way into glory. Jehovah Eagle's a coming. We feel the power. We see the shadow. We hear His language as it's spoke
among His people. "My sheep know My voice, a stranger they'll not follow."
HEARING.RECEIVING.AND.ACTING_ CHATAUQUA.OH TUESDAY_ 60-0607
Now, we find out that these revelations come, and a man hears it. He
recognizes it to be God. Then he acts on it. The carnal mind hears it, and said, "Foolishness," and walk away from
it.
A real believer has heard the Word of God. He's recognized It to be the Word
of God. He will act on it.
DISCERNING.BODY.OF.LORD_ CHATAUQUA.OH V-2 N-25 WEDNESDAY_ 59-0812
4-2 Now, our eternal destination is not altogether determined by what we see
and what we hear, but it's determined on what discernment we have of what we see and what we hear.
1 Corinthians 2:14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he
know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
WHY.AGAINST.ORGANIZED.RELIGION_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-1 SUNDAY_ 62-1111E
91 And that's the way it is of a man that's predestinated to Eternal Life. When
he sees the Light of God, there ain't enough organizations in the world to
cluck him back into it. No. Why? It's his nature. He might've been dieting with them a long time, and eating their trash and socials, but he comes to a place he's found something different, so he knows
it. "My sheep know My Voice," said Jesus, "a stranger they'll not follow."
WHY.AGAINST.ORGANIZED.RELIGION_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-1 SUNDAY_ 62-1111E
They might be following something strange, but down in them there's
something different. Let them hear the Truth one time and watch them. "All
the Father has given Me will come."
pre-existence of souls?
It is not the person that comes predestinated eternally from God,
IT IS THE WORD, OR SEED.
154-3 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
Way back there, too far back for the human mind to grasp, the Eternal God with eternal thoughts, thought and decreed, "JACOB HAVE I LOVED, BUT
ESAU HAVE I HATED, (Romans 9:13) AND NEITHER WAS BORN, AND NEITHER HAD
DONE GOOD OR EVIL."
154-3 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
See, it was the THOUGHT, and then that thought became expressed, and God bought back Jacob, because Jacob alone
was SEED. Jacob, alone had the seed; that is why he had respect to the
birthright and covenant of God. If you are true seed, you will hear that
Word; the Spirit will baptize you into the body of Christ, filling you and
empowering you, and you will receive the Word for your day and
age.
154-3 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
Jesus WAS the Son. The Holy Ghost positioned Him as that Son before them all. Then having been filled thus (and the
same pattern holds at Pentecost and ever after), He went in demonstrated power, receiving the full revelation of God and from God, for that day.
154-3 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
Now we have been constantly saying that the true evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost is for the believer to receive the Word for the age in
which he lives.
154-3 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
...that message is received individually by only a certain qualified group in a
certain way. Each individual of that group is one who has the ability to hear
what the Spirit is saying by way of the messenger. Those who hear are not
getting their own private revelation, nor is a group getting their collective revelation, BUT EACH PERSON IS
HEARING AND RECEIVING WHAT THE MESSENGER HAS ALREADY RECEIVED
FROM GOD.
154-3 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
How careful we must be to hear ONE voice, for the Spirit has but one voice which is the voice of God. Paul warned
them to say what he said, even as Peter did likewise. He warned them that EVEN HE (PAUL) could not change one word of
what he had given by revelation. Oh, how important it is to hear the voice of God by way of His messengers, and then
say what has been given them to say to the churches.
166-1 PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.5
Did you get that last thought? I repeat, every church age ends with the same
admonition. "He that hath an ear, let him (an individual) hear what the Spirit saith
to the churches." The Spirit gives the Word. He has the truth for each age. Each age has had its own elect, and
that elect group always 'heard the word,' and received it, proving they had the Seed in them. John 8:47, "And he that is of God heareth God's Words. Ye therefore hear them not, because ye are
not of God."
166-1 PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.5
They refused the Word (Jesus) and His Words for their days, but the true seed
received the Word because they were of God. "And ALL Thy children shall be
taught of God." (Holy Spirit) Isaiah 54:13. Jesus said the same thing in John 6:45. Being ONE WITH THE WORD proves whether you are of God and Spirit-
filled. No other criterion.