Attributes of God

Brother William Marrion Branham.

Query: Attribute, Zoe

EASTER SEAL. 65-0410

19-6 057 When we see a group of people setting together, and
those signs manifesting themselves, that's the assurance that the
abstract is there to vindicate that that's property of God. Amen.

So we are Easter also. Amen. We are now in our Easter. We've

already raised (Hallelujah.) from the things of the world to the
things of God's promise. Not we will; we are. It's the potentials. It's
God's promise He'd pour out His Spirit in the last days, and that's
what they would do.

20-1 058 Notice, laid their hands on the sick. Everything that was
in God's promise... "I shall pour out My Spirit in the last days upon
all flesh. Your old men shall dream dreams; your young men shall
see visions," and all these different promises that He made.
Everything's laying right there in God's promise.

Jesus redeemed it to us, and when we become... Or we--if we are

ordained on that ground, if we are ordained to be on that ground
(like the eagle walking in the chicken's nest), if you're ordained on
that ground, the Holy Spirit is here to find you; and when It finds
you, you recognize His call. You know the hour you're living. You
know that these things are supposed to happen, quickly you're
raptured up to meet it, and now you're setting in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus. Oh, what a promise. What a heavenly Father Who
would give us these things.

20-3 059 The Spirit quickens their fellowship with God, so that they
call the dead back to life in that day. They laid their bodies upon
the dead; they come to life.

Listen closely. They done the same things that Jesus did, because
the same Spirit was upon Him was upon them. If one Spirit makes
a man act this way; it makes the other one act that way. If one...
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How can this come upon and say he's got the Spirit of God and
deny the works of God? Cannot do it.

20-5 060 Notice, God's life, which is in the Greek called Zoe,
moving through them and in them, quickened their minds to His
Word. Now, let me say that real quietly now. The Spirit of God that
moves among the people, quickens the mind of the person to the
promise of God. See, it does it.

Look at... I'm trying to show you the--the... and let you realize that
I'm speaking now of the church, and also quickened to life in Him.
Although they only was His attributes to begin with, but if God said
in this day (back in the beginning), "John Doe will be My servant,"
millions of years ago... Now, John Doe was born in sin, shaped in
iniquity, come to the world speaking lies, because he's a mortal;
but maybe he gets a little religious feeling. He will go join a church.
Maybe he will join a Pentecostal church; I don't know. He might
join anything. But let him get under the atmosphere of God once.
See? John Doe is bound to recognize Who his Father is. Just as
that eagle recognized who the mother was.

It's got to realize it. See? Only that John Doe is God's attribute
that's become a Word spoken, and then the Holy Spirit seeks that
Word out. Here it is. He calls him, gives him Everlasting Life, and
brings him into the Presence of God, God's Word.

21-2 061 Look, God had to same when He saw Jesus. It was a--it
was a finished work that God finished with Jesus when He said,
"It's finished." All the plan was finished. And when the Spirit of God
comes upon you, and you truly are one of God's attributes that He
spoken of... Now, if you're not, you'll wonder and fluster, and run
here, and there, and everything else, and never come to the
knowledge of the Truth.

But if you are one of those, the old things pass away right quick
(You see?), and you become new, and the plan of salvation is
finished. You're ready to obey every Word that God ever spoke of
you (See?) for you to do. You're submissive to His Word.
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The contract, exactly, the abstract to the contract, the title deed
belongs to you. The debts are all paid. It's all struck off, and as it
was at the day of Pentecost.

RISING OF THE SUN. 65-0418M

31-1 078 Now, listen, here's another thing for proof. It so
quickened them in such a way till you know what? They was lifted
up in heavenly places, and their mortal bodies was so quickened
till their language changed. It only--It quickened their language.
That's what the Bible says. It's... Their mortal bodies being
quickened, their language was quickened; their thoughts were
quickened; their spirits were quickened; their life were quickened;
they were quickened altogether. They tried to talk and couldn't talk
in any more human languages. They was so quickened up in the
Presence of God till they spoke in a new tongues, a heavenly
language. Whew. What a Quickening Power.

31-2 079 If the Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in
you (Oh, hallelujah.), It will quicken your mortal bodies. It'll make
you do things you didn't do before. They was full of the Quickening
Power then. See? Your body ain't subject to sin no more. You--
your--the desires... He say, "Come on out here."

You say, "Shut your mouth."

"Oh, we got the biggest..."

"Shut your mouth." Ah, you're a eagle.

Did you ever see how independent an old eagle walks? He don't
hop like a vulture (See?) to every dead and all the carrion laying
on the ground. No, sir. He walks proud. "Shut your mouth."

"Oh, here's a good dinner over here."

"Not for me. My desires is changed; my appetite is different, for

man shall not live on the world of carrion alone, but by every Word
that proceeds out of the mouth of God." A genuine quickened
eagle lives by that. Amen.
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31-5 080 Oh, when He raised up Christ from the grave, dwelling
in you, is quickened your mortal bodies unto His Presence. You
recognize It; you are no longer a scavenger; you're an eagle. You
don't want the things of the world. You're a son and daughter of
God. You're feasting at a fountain that the world knows nothing
about; you're drinking at--somebody knows--the world knows
nothing about. You're eating hidden Manna that the world never
even knew nothing of It, for you're an eagle; you're quickened up
where you can get to It. You can't get to It down here; you got to
get up here. You got to be quickened, lifted up there, so It will
quicken.

32-1 081 And what did they do? They spoke in another language.
The Bible said they did. They spoke in every tongue under heaven.
Could you imagine that? Them old mortal bodies that's in there
say, "Well, I don't know now whether I can believe this or not." All
at once, they were so quickened till the bravery of the Lion of the
tribe of Judah fell into them over that waving Sheaf. Oh, that Eagle
come to call Its own. And they loved not their lives unto death.
Amen.

And there's going to be more who'll give their life's blood.

For this Holy Ghost Gospel and Its crimson flood.

There the Son has got to be--be revealed again in the Bride in the
last days, a Quickening Power has got to come, quicken out of
these dead denominations and creeds to a living Word of the living
God. Ohhh, no. It quicken them to new Life. It does the same thing
for us now.

32-3 082 Notice. Then they was so quickened in that Quickening

Power, now, I... (Listen close now. I'm trying to show you.) The
Quickening Power wasn't only in their soul, but It was all over
them. It... Not only the Dynamics come in to quicken, but It
quickened the mechanics. You see what I mean? They were so
quickened till their tongues begin to speak in another language.
They were so quickened by the power of the resurrection of Christ,
until they laid their hands... They were so quickened with
Quickening Power, till when they laid their hands upon the sick,
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they got well. It quicken your mortal bodies. They were healed by
laying on their hands.

32-4 083 And the Spirit quickened their fellowship together with
God, till they also were so quickened into the Presence of God,
until when a person died and their soul had gone off, It called him
back to life again. Amen. Glory. (Now, I'm feeling religious.)

That's right. Quickened... Not only was His resurrection for

Himself, but for whosoever will--to this predestinated seed that's a-
laying there quickened, quickens their mortal body. They laid
hands on the sick; they recovered. They prayed, and in the Spirit
they saw visions, called the dead back to life. That's right.
Quickened their mortal bodies; and if It comes into you, if it be so...
Now, you can say it's so, but if it be so, these signs follows them.
See? And It quickens your mortal body; It'll quicken you.

Now, Notice. Quickened into the Presence of God. Why? It was

the Spirit of God that raised up Jesus from the grave. And the
Spirit of God... "I give unto them Eternal Life (come from the Greek
word, if you look it up, Zoe), which moves It through you and then
quickens their, even their mind.

33-2 084 Now, look. How can you say that that Spirit dwells in you
though you done everything that you thought was right? Here's
your evidence whether you've got It or not: if the Spirit that was in
Christ is in you, It also quickens you to the Word, for He is the
Word. And if it, contrary, quickens you away from the Word, then it
isn't the Spirit of Christ. Don't care what you done, until that moves
you in the Word... "My sheep hear My Voice and they shall live by
every Word," every Word.

33-3 085 I was talking on that the other day. My old mother, she's
gone on now, and she was a very odd woman. And she was, you
know, about a half Indian, and she was odd. But in there she was a
person didn't dream. But I only think she only had four or five
dreams all of her life, but every time she dreamed a dream, it was
true. She had a dream, it was true.
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I remember one time when I first started preaching, many years
ago. We was living right up here on the road, right just above here.
And I was preaching right here at this church. And she dreamed a
dream that I was standing here by the side of a three steps. And I
was standing preaching to everybody that they must walk up these
three steps before they hit the highway. And on the highway's a
little pearly-liked white line run right into the--the--the doors of
heaven, to the pearly gates, and that pearl had been stretched out
to the top of these steps. If that ain't my Message exactly today:
justification, sanctification, and baptism of the Holy Ghost.

33-5 086 Now, I was saying that a person has to come by these
three steps to be able to walk that highway. And said that there
was a lady came by. (Now, you know what kind of shoes people
wore thirty-five years ago.) Well, there was a lady come by, had on
a great big pair like they wear today, spike-heeled shoes. And she
come by and I said, "Wait a minute, sister. You can't walk that
highway with that." And I said, "You--you--you can't do that."

And she said, "Aw." She said, looked around at the rest of the
women and said, "Don't believe him; he's a madman. (See?) Don't
believe him. I'll show you I can be justified, sanctified, and filled
with the Holy Ghost and still walk that." And she... I just let her go,
couldn't do no more about it, couldn't stop her. And she jumped up
on the highway, she looked back at the sisters and said, "See, I
told you." She started to run up, and she... You know what the
Bible said in Isaiah, 5th chapter, said they'd have outstretched
necks (they have to; they're pitched over. See?), mincing as (have
to, have to twist)--mincing as they go, making a tinkling with their
heels (See?), the daughters of Zion in the last days.

And she started up that highway just as hard as she could run, and
after while the road got narrower and narrower. She started
reeling, mincing like that, and off she went. And mother said, "The
most horrible screams that I ever heard in my life was that woman
falling into those flames and smoke, going down, down like that."
Said I turned around and said, "See?"

She just obeyed everything but one Word (See?), everything but
one Word. Sure, Pentecostal women can be saved, sanctified, and
filled with the Holy Ghost and then fail. Absolutely.
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Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word, that can be...
See, see? And she failed it. And as I said (See?), she'd have went
on in all right, but (See?) she failed to listen. Telling her what was
ahead. And He's wrote the Gospel by the disciples, apostles, and
doctrine of the apostles and prophets, and so forth, and they won't
listen.

34-5 088 Now, notice this Quickening Power, "Zoe," bringing the
Word, the mind that was in Christ was in you then. I'm trying to
show you, that you, when you raised--when God raised Jesus from
the dead, He raised up you also, and also quickened to Life with
Him (You are now quickened to Life.), although then you were but
an attribute in His thoughts, but God had seen all in Him at the
finish. See?

When God looked down upon the body... (The Spirit left Him in the
Garden of Gethsemane; He had to die a man.) Remember friends,
He didn't have to do that. That was God. God anointed that flesh,
which was human flesh, and He didn't have... If He'd went up there
as God, He'd have never died that kind of death; can't kill God.
But... He didn't have to do it, but remember, He went there with
you in Him. See? God had never separated the Bride from the
Groom yet. So when God looked down upon the Body of Christ,
He saw both male and female. It was all redeemed in that one
Body. See? They are one, the same, same Word. the same Word
spoke of the Groom speaks of the Bride.

Query: Attributes, Zoe

TOKEN THE. 64-0308

31 016 Now, I know somebody says, "He was the Jewish blood."
You hear the Jews say that. He wasn't Jewish blood, and neither
was He Gentile blood. He was the Blood of God. He had neither
Jewish... He wasn't neither Jew nor Gentile. He was God. "A--a--a
virgin shall conceive."

Now, I know many of you people and the Protestants think that the
egg was Mary's. And the--the hemoglobin which comes, the life
comes in the blood cell. Because a hen can lay an egg; without
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being with the male bird, it won't hatch, because it's not fertile. Life
comes from the bloodstream, which comes from the male sex. But
in this case there was no male sex, so the Life in the blood, it had
to come from God alone, and He created a Blood cell in the womb
of Mary. God Himself, the Creator Himself, created a Blood cell.
Now, look. They say, "Well, it was the body. Mary had the egg."
No, sir. She was not no egg. If it was an egg, you cannot get the
sperm without a sensation. And if he--she had a sensation, what
do you have God is doing?

He created both egg and Blood. That's exactly what He was. "We
handled God," the Bible said. I Timothy 3:16, "Without controversy
great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh.
We handled Him with our hands." That body was God. Certainly
was. He was God all over, in a form of a human being.

34 017 Now we notice in this, that that Blood cell being broken,
that released God. "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to
Himself," where no other one could do it, nothing else could be
done; it taken that holy Blood Himself. God had to come down and
become man to suffer His Own law. If Jesus was just a prophet, a
man separated from God, then God is unjust.

If I could say, "Let Brother Grant die for some sin that Billy ought to
die for, or something else, some penalty," that would be unjust. If I
had my own boy to die for a penalty that I had pronounced, it still
isn't just. There's only one justice I can do, that's take his place, if I
want to save him.

And God had to become flesh in order to take the sinner's place:
God manifested in the flesh, nothing less than God Himself. Now,
here He was manifested in the flesh to take away the sins of the
world. And He identified Himself in us, that we might be identified
in Him. See the purpose of it?

37 018 Now, we find out our identification with our Sacrifice: the
Life of the Sacrifice in us, which is the Holy Spirit. When that cell
was broke, it released God, released God, that He'd sanctified a
people with His Own Blood and put God in the man again: God in
you, Eternal Life.
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And any Greek scholar knows that that word, "Eternal Life," comes
from the word "Z-o-e, Zoe," which means "God's Own Life." That's
right. The only way that you ever can have Life, there's only one
form of Eternal Life and that's God's Own Life in you. See? Then
you have Eternal Life, because He is the only Eternal there is. And
we are the attributes of His thoughts before there was even a
foundation of the world or anything. All this is just His thinking, and
we're the display of His thoughts of what it was.

Query: Attribute, Sons

CHRIST IS THE MYSTERY. 63-0728

27-2 092 Now, notice, again. Now, what's the threefold purpose?
Manifest Himself in Jesus Christ; to come into the Body by Jesus
Christ to have the preeminence to what? Restore back Eden, bring
back that which lost. That was the only thing out of order. All the
rest of His things was in order.

But He had to let--put man on free moral agency to fall, so that He

might be a Saviour to display what's in Him (See?), His attribute of
Saviour. Something had to be lost, and the very thing that man fell
and became lost, He become the Saviour of that, taking His own
law. And He could not do it as that great Jehovah that covered all
space, time. See, He couldn't do it, and He had to become a man.
And He took kinship with the man that was lost (Amen.) and
become a man, God made flesh. Hallelujah. Think I'm excited, but
I'm not. Something inside...

27-4 093 God became from God and become me, to take my sin
upon Him, that He might make me Him (Amen.), back to His great
purpose of sons and daughters of God, for He is an eternal Father.
That attribute was in Him (See?), so that had to be displayed.

Now, see the whole threefold purpose? See? To express Himself.

He wants to become... Now, the--the world is lost. Now, He has to
express Himself in a Man to become a Saviour through the
reconciliation of the Blood from His cross. Now, He had to become
that to die, in order to save and to bring Himself back into the
Church to have the preeminence in His Church.
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EASTER SEAL. 65-0410
9-6 026 Now, we notice it's the same Spirit that raised Him from
the grave that is dwelling in us. Now, how could that be the Spirit
that raised up God, Jesus, from the dead has--dwelling in us?
Now--now is the Spirit that quickens. It's not the Word that
quickens; it's the Spirit that quickens the Word, or gives the Word
life, gives It wings to fly, gives It access. It's the Spirit that does
that.

Now, the wheat alone is just a wheat, but when the quickening life
gets into it--into the wheat, then it gives it life. And we which were
once dead, made in the image of God, and yet dead in sin and
trespass, there's some way God had to get this quickening life into
your mortal body.

9-8 027 I'm talking about your body. Now, Jesus was the Word.
You believe that, don't you? "In the beginning..." St. John 1, "In the
beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word
was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us."

Now, as the promised Messiah, He quickened every Word that

was prophesied that He would do: healed the sick, and how He'd
be born of a virgin, all that, made it--it's true. He was the Word
manifested here on earth, but He could not do this just as a man. It
taken the Spirit of God dwelling in Him to quicken these promises
to Him.

10-2 028 I hope that we get this real clear now. Jesus, being a
Man Himself, the body; but it took the Spirit in Him: the Spirit. "It's
not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me.
He's the One that does the work." See? And Jesus Himself was
the Word, because He was... Before God... This is a bad word to
use, and I hope you take it right before a crowd, but He was
predestinated by the foreknowledge of God, how God's plan was
to be, that He would send a Redeemer, and this Redeemer could
only be His own Son.

So then, that was God's promise all the way from the garden of
Eden, that Jesus would be here.
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Here He was, as a Man born of a virgin. But it taken the Spirit of

God to quicken that Word to Him, and He was the Word
quickened, the Word quickened for that hour.

10-4 029 The time had come when you had to have a Redeemer.
The law had failed. Other things had failed. Now, it takes a
Redeemer, and He was the promised Redeemer. He was
quickened by the Word of God.

And now, if that same Spirit that was upon Him to be the
Redeemer in that age, that we have accepted... Now, the promise
of in this last days what would take place, if you become part of
that Word, you are redeemed with Him; because the same Spirit
that dwelt in Christ is dwelling in you, quickening your life to this
age. And it will also in the end time quicken your mortal bodies,
resurrect them, bring them up again. That takes the gloom away
when we look at it in that, and that's the truth. See?

10-6 030 Romans here, Paul has proved it to us. See? "If the Spirit
that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, It will also
quicken your mortal bodies." This is the same Spirit that raised
Him up that quickened the true believer to Eternal Life. The Spirit
that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells into the believer,
quickens the believer to Eternal Life.

10-7 031 There's only one life, one Eternal Spirit, one Eternal Life,
and that's God. God alone is the Eternal. And then we, being His
children, are part of Him; that is, the attributes of His thinking. And
the thought is expressed, and becomes a word. Then each
individual in here that possesses this Eternal Life was before the
foundation of the world in God's thinking. That's the only way it
could be, cause you are an attribute. That's an expression of a
thought has been come a word, and a word has taken life, and it's
eternal. That's the reason we have Eternal Life.

In the same principle that the great Son of God, the Redeemer...
We become sons and daughters of God through that same Spirit,
by the same foreknowledge of God.
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Look at the millions on earth that didn't receive it when Jesus was
here. But how thankful that we should be this morning to know that
we have the direct evidence and the Bible proofs that we are
included in that great resurrection morning coming, that great
Easter. We have the earnest of it right now in our mortal bodies.

11-3 032 The predestinated ones are the first, of course, to be

quickened, when the Holy Spirit comes to claim its own. Now,
there is a great statement; and I want my minister brothers to try to
understand this. See?

In the beginning, God, the great Spirit... He wasn't even God then.
He was the eternal One. "God" is an object of worship. He had
nothing to worship Him. There was no--there were no angels, no
nothing, just God alone. Him alone was eternal. But in order to be
God, there had to be something to worship Him. So He created
Angels, and beings, and Cherubims, and so forth to worship Him.
And His great plan begin to unfold.

11-4 033 But remember, you, in the--the statue that you are in this
morning, if you wasn't in His thinking then, you're not now. For
you... There's some part that's in you that's eternal; and eternal
only belongs to God.

And in God was His thinking of you setting right where you are
now. In His thinking I stood at the pulpit this morning, because
He's infinite and knows all things. Therefore, He could tell the end
from the beginning, because He's eternal. And you, being a son of
God or a daughter of God, then you were in His thinking at the
beginning.

11-6 034 And then when the Holy Spirit come... And you're on
earth, walking around here as a sinner; way down in your life
there's something. You don't know what's taking place, but you're
hungering.

I heard the Presbyterian brother, I heard the--the Baptist, talking

about back there, He was a Freewill Baptist, preaching where he
can--my fellow brother. That--you...
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There's something in you, something that you never put in there.

It's something that you couldn't desire to be in there. It's something
that's contrary to your own nature. It's the foreknowledge of God
taking place.

12-1 035 God's Word, as Jesus, was born the Son of God to be
Emmanuel, God's full expression in a Man... And He found Him in
perfect obedience down at the river of Jordan, being baptized by
that prophet. And as soon as He obeyed Him and walked out of
the water, the heavens opened to John, and he saw the Holy
Ghost descending from heaven, saying, "This is My beloved Son."
See, perfect obedience, the Spirit had sought Him out in
obedience.

Oh, wayward man or woman this morning, when you're setting

here and there's something in you telling you this is right, it's the
Holy Spirit seeking you out to bring you to a knowledge of truth of
this hour that we're now living: not some hour that's gone by, the
hour now.

Query: Attributes, Sons

AT THY WORD LORD. 51-0928

E-3 003 The acoustics so much better here, can you hear me up
there in the back all right? Well, that's fine.

And it just works through like that. See? And it could pass right...
It's just a flow of the, I believe, that even the Holy Spirit and
Angels, and all are just attributes of God; it's just a part of God. It's
His make-up; it's part of it that went off, His Spirit and so forth, that
He created to be His helpers around in His great office of glory.
And I believe they're just like secretaries and so forth, to--to help
carry on the Master's work, and they come to the earth for us
earthly people, and--and they... certain times and certain...

I believe that we must be born for these things; I--I do that. I

believe that we're all baptized with the Holy Spirit and brought into
the Body. And then we become sons. But then after sons, there's a
placing of sons, or the adoption of sons.
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SERPENT'S SEED. 58-0928E
…It's not him that willeth, or him that runneth, but God that
showeth mercy. So you have nothing to do with it. You haven't one
thing to do. If it's grace, if it's a free gift, there's not a thing you can
do about it. God has give it to you, and that's the will of God. That's
the thing that God has predestinated to you.

13-4 040 The Bible said that we were predestinated to the sons
and adoption of the sons of God before the foundation of the
world. Then when God slew the Lamb in His own thinking before
the foundation of the world to prove out His attributes, what He
was, when the Lamb was slain, we were slain with It. When the
blood of the Lamb was caught in His Own mind back there before
the foundation of the world, mine and your names were written on
the Book then. All in His great thinking. He's infinite. If He didn't,
why did He permit it?

PARADOX. 64-0206B
72 031 Now, to make the mockery out of it, the Romans hung
Him on a tree: "Cursed is he that hangs on a tree," to make a
mockery out of the Son of God. He was despised, rejected. He
came from the highest of heaven, and become the lowest on earth.
When He was here, He went to the lowest city. The smallest man
in the city had to look down to see Him: Zacchaeus. He was give
the lowest name. He was treated the worst, and hung on the--died
the cruelest death that could be died. That's what people thought
of Him. That's what the world thought of Him.

But God lifted Him so high till He has to look down to see heaven;
give Him a Name above every name, that everything in heaven
and earth is named after Him. That's what God thought of it. See?
If we're sons of God, the attributes of His thoughts before the
foundation of the world, we'll think the same of Him. And
remember, brothers, He is the Word. See?

The message always follows the phenomena. Jesus, as a young

rabbi, as He started preaching, healing the sick, everybody wanted
Him in their church. You know that. But that was just the
phenomena, what He had--is producing, He caught the eyes of the
people. But one day He set down and begin to speak to them;
there come the ministry to follow the phenomena; then nobody
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wanted Him then. It's too bad, but it--it just repeats itself. You'll
understand from there on.
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IDENTIFIED CHRIST OF ALL AGES. 64-0401
E-58 058 Now, it wouldn't be me if He did that, because... First it
was God in the Pillar of Fire: God above us, then God with us in
Christ, now God in us (See?), sons of God in the adoption that
Christ come to do, to redeem God's attributes as He did at the
beginning. Now, if His Word dwells in here and I've told the truth,
and that is it, and the Word is in here in my heart, then God will
identify Himself as that being the truth. Then what ought that to do
to this congregation? What ought it to do, when you see the
Scripture right here before you.

Now, now I have to talk to the woman because I've been

preaching, just talk to her just a minute till the Holy Spirit gets to
moving. And then you all start believing. Now, we'll see you
tomorrow night. Now, see, this here, you're--you're in another
world, another dimension. You just... You don't know what's taking
place. Ever who's on the microphone, just keep it stepped up.

MIGHTY GOD UNVEILED. 64-0629

12-3 035 Now, when Jesus come, if He'd have come with Noah's
message, it wouldn't have worked: to build an ark and float out. It
wouldn't have worked. But that--Noah was a portion of God. He
acted a peculiar way, because he was peculiar. And his message
was peculiar, because it was the Word being made manifest. He
could not have come with Moses' message, because it--it wouldn't
have worked. Moses was God in a portion made manifest; he was
the Word expressed for that hour. But Jesus could not come in
that. The Bible never said He would come in that way. But when
He come expressed exactly like the--the Testament had said He
would be expressed, then all those who was redeemable believed
it; because they were the thoughts of God. The attributes of Him at
the beginning was made flesh and redeemable, and was brought
back to God. "As many as received Him, to them gave He the
power to become sons of God," because they were redeemable.
They were from the beginning in the expression.

12-4 036 If we could stop here a moment (if it would be possible)

and think of that tonight, of the message of the hour, the expressed
thoughts of Jehovah... Before the foundation of the world, we are
told our names were put on the Lamb's Book of Life. Then we can
see the two sides, as I first said, why one is odd to the other. It
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must be that way. It was always; it always has been that way; and
it always will be that way. He was the Word, and the Word was
made flesh and dwelt among us.

13-1 037 Now, God in--back in the days of the Old Testament we
find that after He'd appeared to His people in different forms, He
veiled Himself behind old badger skins: God, hiding behind badger
skins at His mercy seat. We find that how that Solomon, when he
dedicated the temple of the Lord, and these badger skins was
hanging there, the veil--how that He came in as the Pillar of Fire
and as a Cloud, and went down behind there, and veiled Himself
to the outside world. But by faith Israel knew that He was back
there. They knew He was there, regardless of what any of the
heathen worlds had to say. He was hid from the unbeliever, but the
believer, by faith, knew He was back there; they had mercy. And
He was at His mercy seat, which was a great secret.

13-2 038 You know, in the Old Testament to enter behind that skin
was death. Now, to stay from behind it is death. Then to enter into
His glory was death; now to stay away from His glory is death.
That happened, of course, at the renting of the veil at Calvary,
when the veil was rent, the old veil. Now, to stay out of His
Presence is death. Then to enter His Presence was death. See? It
changes back and forth, and you must find the Scripture to see
what day we're living in.

13-3 039 Now, when the veil was rent at Calvary, the Mercy Seat
came into plain view, but what happened? It was hanging on
Calvary, dripping in Blood. As they had took blood year after year
at the cleansing of the sanctuary and the sprinkling of the mercy
seat, there, God, with His great, mighty stroke of lightning power,
split the old badger veil from top to bottom, and the Mercy Seat
came into plain view. The real genuine Lamb of God was hanging
in plain view on Calvary, the real Mercy Seat, when God had paid
the price Himself and become one of us, and had manifested
Himself as a man to get acquainted with us and we to be
acquainted with Him.

13-4 040 The Mercy Seat was in plain view of all Israel on that day
of the Atonement. But alas, the traditions of the church fathers in
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that day had, by their traditions, had veiled the true Mercy Seat
from the people. If they would've knowed the Scripture, each piece
would've come like the Chinese tag. The Old Testament prophecy
would've been fulfilled, and it was. And if they'd been taught the
Scripture, they would've seen the Mercy Seat.

14-1 041 As Moses said in here that... To this day they're

veiled. It's still over their hearts; they don't see it. But He was God,
the suffering and the Atonement. He was the genuine Mercy Seat
standing in full view. As we sang the hymn:

Lo! behold Him in plain view,

There He is, the mighty conqueror,
Since He rent the veil in two.

See, He came the Mercy Seat, hanging in clear view of the

congregation. But them being under the popular opinion... Now,
men and women, and delegates of this convention, I want to say
this without respect of person. But in the view of today, in view of
what we're here for today, I'm afraid that the traditions of the
fathers, the church fathers, has hid this from too many people.
Since the Holy Ghost is come in this last days as prophesied, and
the veil has been rent, too many people try to hang to their
traditions of the fathers; and that's why they can't see this extreme
joy, and peace, and things that the church has today. Yet it's in
plain view of those who believe. He hid the Word, the promised
Word of this day.

HARVEST TIME. 64-1212

122 047 Now, we're just looking for what day we're living in, the
harvest time.

Then God, after Adam had fell (tried by the Word, and fell), God
continued in His creation to try to find a man who would live every
Word. Now, look. He tried to find that, that is, live the Word for his
age. Now, you see, God scattered His Word out, 'cause He could...

He's--He's infinite, and He's--He's omnipresent, omniscient,

therefore He knows all things. He can't be present everywhere. By
being omniscient, knowing all things, then He can be present
everywhere. Because that's the way He predestinates us by
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foreknowledge, not because He desired that this person should be

saved and this one lost. But He knew who would be lost and who
would be saved. See? Therefore, by His foreknowledge He can
predestinate. And He makes everything work to His glory. That's
what His attributes are doing, displaying to His glory. One vessel of
honor and one of dishonor, but it's God that maketh it. "Not him
that willeth or him that runneth, but God that showeth mercy." See?

125 048 "No man can come to Me," said Jesus, "except My Father
draws him. And all that the Father hath (past tense) given to Me,
will come to Me," to the Word. How can they come unless they
were--are all--they were foreordained to come? "As many as
received Him, to them give He the power to become sons of God."
See? 'Cause their names were on the Book; He come to redeem
what was on the Book.

In Revelation, we find out, when the Seals were opened, there was
a Book. And Him that set upon the throne, God, had It in His right
hand. And there wasn't nothing, nobody in heaven, or in earth, or
anywhere, was worthy to come take the Book, or to even to look
on It. John wept with great... Because the whole Book of
redemption was there.

127 049 It was at the meeting the other night, that little Assembly
of God brother and sister sang that song, "I wonder if John saw me
when he saw all the nations gathered. Did he see me?" Sure he
did, if your name was on that Book. And when...

John's name was on it too, and he wept because there was

nobody that could touch It. And then it--one of the elders come and
said, "Weep not, John, for the Lion of the tribe of Juda has
prevailed."

And John was looking around to find a--a lion, and out from behind
the curtains come a Lamb, a Lamb that had been slain since
before the foundation of the world. Then he saw a bloody Lamb
come out, and He come and took the Book out of the right hand of
Him, and called everything what was on that Book. It's the
complete Book of redemption. And this is It. The Book of
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redemption, He redeemed all was in that Book, not out of the
Book.

Anything that had a beginning has an end. But if you've got Eternal
Life, you never did begin and you cannot end, because you're
sons and daughters of God, attributes of His thoughts and His
Word. You have no ending of Life, if your name is on that Book.
The Lamb come to redeem It. Not all that profess Christians, not
all that try to live good and holy; but those whose names were
written on there, He redeemed that, and that alone, whose names
were on the Book.

GOD WHO IS RICH IN MERCY. 65-0119

34 013 Now, we're going to read tonight from the 2nd chapter of
Ephesians. I was just saying that so you could get to the--the spot,
or turn to the chapter.

You--and you has he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and

sin:
Wherein in times past you walked according to the course of this
world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that
now worketh in the children of disobedient:
Among whom also we all had our conversations in times past in
the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desire of the flesh and of the
mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he
loved us,
Even when we were dead in sin, has He quickened us together
with Him,... (or)... quickened us together with Christ, (by grace are
ye saved;)
I want to take from there a few, or part of the verse, "but God...
The God Who Is Rich In Mercy."

Oh, I'm so glad for that, that He being rich in mercy. If He was just
rich in money, if He was just rich in materials, which He is, but yet
the greatest thing is being rich in mercy. Oh, what a great word
that is, how that we were once dead.

36 014 I want you to notice here of the prophet, apostle, rather,

Paul, who--who, how he made mention of this, how, "You has He
quickened, who were once dead. You hath He quickened, who
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were once dead, dead in sin and trespasses, walking after the
things of the world, the desire of the flesh, and fulfilling the desire
of the mind. Has..."

What caused this change? you see? And what caused it from one
time being dead, to quicken? "Quicken" means "made alive."
There was a change from death unto Life. There's no other--
there's no other thing that could happen to any person, so great,
as to change him from death to Life. A man, if he was dying,
physically, and could be healed physically, that would be a great
thing, but nothing so great as when he is spiritually dead and God
has quickened him to Life.

38 015 You once in times past, dead... You were dead. Even many
here tonight, one time can look back and know that you were
dead. But now why aren't you dead tonight as you were then? You
deserve to be that way, because you was a sinner, but God Who is
rich in mercy. That's the--that's the thing: God Who was rich. All
these things that we were, but God. That made the change right
there: God Who is rich in mercy.

40 016 And we was speaking the other night on how the seed
must die. And everything around that germ of life must not only die,
but rot. If it doesn't rot, it cannot live. And rot is "completely done
away with; it's finished." And until we get to the place that our own
ideas and our own thinking is completely gone and it's rotted away
from us, then the germ of life can begin to live.

Now, now, we might, I might inject just a little bit of doctrine here
that I don't... If you don't believe it, all right. That's just okay. I do
believe it. I believe that--that a man, when he's born in this world,
that when you're a little baby, born into the world, you could not
have been here without being the foreknowledge of God, because
He is infinite and He knows all things. And when that little baby is
born into the world, there's something in that baby. If he's ever
going to have Life, there's a little something in there, in that child
then, that he comes to sooner or later. That little seed is in him.
Now, if you'll take... The Scriptures plainly declare that.
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42 017 Now, if you've got Eternal Life tonight, if we have Eternal
Life, then we always were, because there's only one form of
Eternal Life. We always were. And the reason we were, because
we are a part of God. And God is the only thing that's eternal.

And like Melchisedec received tithes from Abraham, and it was

allotted to his great-grandson, Levi, who was yet in the loins of
Abraham; paid tithes, for he was yet in the loins of Abraham when
he met Melchisedec. I want to speak on that over at the other
place, one morning: Who Is This Melchisedec? Now, notice that.
Way back, God knew this boy coming down. He knew all things.

Now, we are a part of God. You always was. You don't remember
it, because you were only an attribute in God. You were only in His
thinking. Your very name, if it ever was on the Book of Life, it was
put there before the foundation of the world. He knew what you
were.

45 018 I'm only saying this, not to mix up doctrine, but to straighten
it out, that we might get away from this fear and scare: you don't
know who you are. You are not going to be, but now you are the
sons of God. See, you always were the sons of God. See?

For when God had you in His thinking at the beginning, you have
to be, some part of you, your Life that's in you now, had to be with
God before there... Well, when you--before you even become
material here on earth, before there was anything, but God, you
were one of His attributes. He knew what your name would be. He
knew the color of hair you'd have. He knew all about you. The only
thing happened is when you, being a sinner...

47 019 Many of you can--can fellowship with me on this thought.

When you was a little boy, or a little girl, you'd walk around and
there would be certain things that would just, where it wouldn't
bother the other kids, it seemed like there was something in you
that cried out. There was God somewhere, yet you were a sinner.
You remember that? Certainly. Now, what was that? That was that
little form of Life in you then.

And then after while, you heard the Gospel. Maybe you went to
church; you picked out this and that, and went from denomination
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to denomination. But one day, you being part of God, you had to
be part of the Word. And when you heard the Word, you know
where you come from, you knew what was the Truth. You were
always, the seed was in you always. The Word seen the Word that
was in you, that was before the foundation of the world, saw the
Word and you come to It.

RISING OF THE SUN. 65-0418M

7-3 018 Now, the sun, at this rising of the sun... Well, there was a
time when the world was laying in utter darkness. It was without
form and was void, and it was all covered with water, and was
laying there in the dark, dismal, gloomy atmosphere. And the Spirit
of God moved upon that water and said, "Let there be light."

God had a reason to do that, for down beneath that water there
was seeds that He had planted, and it had to have that sunlight to
make it live. And the first Light was ever given in the earth was
God's spoken Word. The first Light that ever struck the earth was
God's spoken Word; He said, "Let there be light." And there was
light, that turned darkness into light in order to bring forth a
creation of joy and life upon the earth.

7-5 019 Then the Spirit of God, as It moved with love and
compassion at that great day, the first day of the dawn of creation
upon the earth, the sun rose and swept across (its rays) and dried
up the waters from the earth and made an atmosphere above; and
for its first time it was to bring joy and life to the earth by a seed.
That was a great hour.

But oh, it wasn't nothing, that sunrise, like the sunrise on that
Easter morning. This time, with the sun leaping into the skies, it
brought forth a greater sunrise then ever; because it came greater
news with this sunrise, than it did with the sunrise at the beginning.
This sunrise brought a news that "He is risen. He is quickened
from the dead as He's promised. He's risen from the dead."

7-7 020 The first time the sun rose in Genesis, it was bringing a
message that there will be life upon the earth: mortal life. But this
time when the sun rose, there was a--a dual sun rising, another
sun rising. It was a not only s-u-n rising, it was a S-o-n had risen to
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bring Eternal Life to all God's promised seed, that by
foreknowledge He's seen laying upon the earth.

No more could the--the botany life live back there at the beginning
without the s-u-n to bring it to life; no more than today, when sons
of God is upon the earth, it take the S-o-n Light to bring them to
Eternal Life. His chosen ones that He knew before the foundation
of the world, He had chosen them in Himself before the foundation
of the world. And on Easter morning then, in this dirt somewhere,
laid our bodies at that time, for we are the dust of the earth; and in
heaven there was a book of memory, and His attributes was in
Him, knowing that because this Son of God raised, It would also
raise to Life every son that was foreordained to this great time. He
knew it would be, and what a more glorious sunrise that was than
it was at the beginning, at time when it first dawn.

Query: Attribute, Cell

WATER OF SEPARATION. 55-0121

E-24 024 Now, the water of separation separates you from sin. If
you are weary, apply the water of the Word. And if you are sick,
apply the water of the Word. For it separates us from sickness; it
separates us from sin; it separates us from weary; it separates us
from every attribute that sin produced. Oh, I love it. For He has
washed us and cleansed us through the washing of the water by
the Word and separated us unto Himself, a believing people set
aside from the world to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ; that He
might manifest Himself to the outside world through the Holy Spirit
operating through this inside of the blood cell.

Oh, I hope you see it. The blood cell burst at Calvary. Life was
inside the cell. And then it broke the cell, Christ did first, bringing
Himself into the womb of a virgin and creating around Himself a
cell, a blood cell that multiplied into many cells and brought forth
the Son, Christ Jesus. And at Calvary this blood cell was broken by
a sinful Roman spear as it pierced Him in the heart.

E-25 025 Right in the middle of the heart is a little place in a

human being that isn't in a animal, a little place in there which is,
they think it's a soul of man. There's not a blood cell touches it or
anything. And in there is the human soul. And Christ was speared
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through there, that the blood cell was pierced like that, tore loose
the blood cell, and set the Holy Spirit at liberty for God to call
through there and bring believers through the blood cell back into
fellowship with Himself again (Oh, my.) through the washing of the
water by the Word. What does it? "Faith cometh by hearing, and
hearing by the Word of God." And we accept the Word and believe
the Word, that He was wounded for our transgressions.

E-26 026 What was that separation to do? What did it separate
them from? As soon as they received the separation, they were
free. And what was Christ separated from? What did He separate
us from? The Bible said, "He was wounded for our transgressions;
He was bruised for our iniquity: the chastisement of our peace
upon Him," and with His stripes we were separated from our
diseases, separated from our sins, separated from our weary,
separated from our iniquity, and separated from our sins by the
Word, which was Christ that was made flesh and dwelt among us.
The Word become flesh, and the flesh was broke that the blood
cell was broken loose, that the believers could be brought through
the spray of the Blood from Calvary. Oh, my. What a...

Query: Attribute, Soul

HEAR YE HIM. 58-0301E

E-17 017 Now, Divine healing is not a hocus-pocus. It isn't
touching a totem pole or pouring some mysterious stuff from--
that's run out of somebody's hands on you.

Divine healing is an act of faith in the finished work of Calvary.

That's just as purely the Gospel as I know how to place it. It's a
finished work that Christ died for at Calvary. "He was wounded for
our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed."

Now, healing is not on the same basis as salvation. When you're

born again, you receive a new spirit, new Life, Immortal, cannot
die. But when you're healed, it's just an attribute of the Divine love
of God that healed you temporarily for a while. Your body must be
born again just like your soul.

WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC. 65-0221E

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95 042 Now, the true revelation of Melchisedec comes into view
was--that He was God, the Word, before He became flesh, God
the Word. 'Cause He had to be; no one else could be immortal like
Him. See, I had father and mother; you did too. Jesus had father
and mother. But this Man had no father or had no mother. Jesus
had a time He started; this Man didn't. Jesus gave His life; this
Man couldn't, because He was Life. And it's the self same Man all
the time. I hope God reveals it to you, the self same Person all the
time.

Notice His title, King of righteousness. Now, Hebrews 7:2: King of

righteousness and King of peace, He's two Kings. Now, watch,
Hebrews 7:2, King of righteousness, also the King of peace. He's
two Kings there. Now, since He has come in the flesh and received
His body up, in Revelations 21:16 He's called the King of Kings.
He's all three of them together. See? King God, King Theophany,
King Jesus; He's the King of Kings. It's all met, just like soul, body,
and spirit. All comes to make one.

Also He is the Father, which was the first, Son, and Holy Ghost,
the Spirit. King of righteousness, the Spirit attribute; theophany,
King of--of peace, theophany; and in flesh He was King of Kings:
same Person.

Query: Attributes, Soul

HIDDEN LIFE IN CHRIST. 55-1110

E-17 017 Now, in the Old Testament, being a type of the New, and
the works of the inward courts of the tabernacle was a beautiful
picture of God's plan of salvation for His mankind today. And if we
can only learn by this now, and how to get ourselves in the
condition to receive what God has in store for us, it'll just sweep
the whole valley here. See? But don't you think it's better to always
know how and what you're coming for? You got to know the way of
approach to anything.

I've prayed for kings in my day. And I noticed how they taken the
cuffs out of my trouser legs and when I walked before the king.
And they told me not to turn my back on him; but when I left, to
back up. And it's a certain way of approach. Otherwise you'd be
called down.
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In the courts of the land when you're going to speak to the judge,
you don't just holler, "Hey Judge, like to talk to you a minute." See?
You got to come a provided way, appropriated way: "Judge, Your
Honor..." and so forth.

And we must meet God upon His appropriated, provided plan of

how we must approach Him. And if we could only approach Him
through that plan and get it right, we are sure to get an audience
with God.

E-18 018 Now, in the Old Testament there was what they called
the outer courts. We watch what was in the outer court. Then there
was a holy place, or the first veil, and then inside the holiest of
holies. And what furniture was in the outer court, what was in the...
at the veil, the holy place, and what was in the holiest of holies...

Now, we're going to speak tonight on the holiest of holies, the

dwelling place where God Himself dwelt.

Them days, He dwelt in His tabernacle. And today He dwells in

you as His tabernacle. But we must make this place a dwelling, not
an outer court place, or the first holy place. But we must live with
God in the holiest of holies, a consecrated, hidden life, alone, quiet
with God.

We become too excited, upset, about too many things. It shows

there's something lacking. The church ought to be a million miles
up the road to what it is now. We're still back down in the
adolescent age, fussing, and fighting, and quarreling, and stewing,
when we ought to be consecrated, hid away in the holiest of holies
with God. It's better that we come easy, take our time, see where
we're going.

E-19 019 Now, in the... Just like God living in those three courts,
He surely lives in the court of the congregation. He lived at the...
He also lives here at the holy place. But His abiding place... This
was just attributes of His Presence from the holiest of holies.
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Now, it's just like you. If you'll notice the Bible, mathematically
speaking, three is God's perfected number. God is perfected in
three. The Godhead is perfected in three: Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit, the one true God. And--and the dispensations are perfected
in three. And threes, sevens, twelves, twenty-four, forties and fifties
is God's mathematical numbers. It's runs completely through the
Scripture.

And notice. Now, you yourself, you are perfected in three: soul,
body, spirit; water, blood, and spirit. Three things come from His
body that makes up the new birth. There's three things that come
from His body makes up the new birth: water, blood, spirit.

Same thing it takes to make a natural birth. I got a mixed audience,

but, you listen to your doctor. I'm your brother. When a baby's
born, a natural birth, the first thing is water, then blood, then life,
spirit.

REV CHAP 4 PT 3. THRONE MERCY. 61-0108

224 096 Now, now, there's one way to get into the body. How's this
body controlled? Now, watch real close now and you get your
pencils ready. Here's the gate on this side that goes into the body:
one, two, three, four, five. Now, you got that drew? Now, the first
gate over here is, see, smell, hear, and taste, and touch or feel
(either one it wants to be, doesn't matter). Now, that's the senses
in the body. Is that right? How many knows that? Six senses
control the body. Now, we got a soul after you get through this. The
senses is outside; that's the outer system.

Now, in here there's one, two, three, four, five, five attributes in the
soul. Now, you want to write them down? The first one is
imagination, imagination. The second one is conscience. And the
third one is memory. And the fourth one is reason. And the fifth one
is affection.

Now, did you get them all? If you don't, then let me know now. You
got them all down? See, taste, feel, smell, and hear: the body,
that's the open to the body.

The soul is imagination, conscience, memory, reason, and

affection, is the senses or the attributes, or like the senses of the
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soul. And the soul is the nature of the spirit that's on the inside,
'cause the soul only puts out an atmosphere of what's on the
inside of you. It takes the place of sanctification, the soul is, sets in
the same category there. All right, now, every--everybody got that
all down? All right.

Query: Attribute, Seed

VOICE OF THE SIGN. 64-0321E

E-21 021 And there was a little woman, a prostitute. Her fore-life
up here was as black as it could be; she was ill-famed. But down in
her heart she was predestinated to Life. And then when Jesus, the
Word, came on the scene, those Pharisees said, "This man is
Beelzebub." What did it do? It blackened out what little light they
had.

Jesus said, "You are of your father the devil, and his works you
do."

But when this little foul woman come, and she seen the Word of
God, she knew It. She didn't live It, but she knew It. And as soon
as It spoke to her, she said, "I perceive You're a prophet." And
He... She said, "I know the Messiah will do this."

And He said, "I am He." What did it do? It cleaned out the
blackness, and made it all white. Why? There was a seed laying
there, a predestinated seed that was in the--is God's thought
before the foundation of the world.

There's only one form of Eternal Life. If you've got Eternal Life then
you, yourself, was in God's thinking before the world was created.
You're an attribute of His thinking, 'cause eternal never did begin,
or never can end. You're a part of God's economy always. It's just
reflecting.

E-22 022 It's becoming... Now, you've got one more picture to
develop, that's death. Then the negative becomes positive. Then
you're in the Bride, and with Christ. As He taught, like husband and
wife today, so God, Christ and the church will be the same.
30 The Spoken Word
Now, the elected, called... Moses was born a proper child. The
Bible said that, one of the prophets, Jeremiah, God said, "Before
you was even formed in your mother's womb I ordained you a
prophet to the nation."

John the Baptist, why, he was identified in the Scripture. Isaiah,

seven hundred and twelve years before his coming said, "He's the
voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way of the
Lord.'" And about four hundred years before His appearing, again,
we find Malachi said, "Behold, I send My messenger before my
face to prepare the way before the Lord." See, he was
foreordained.

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15-1 048 Every seed will bring forth of its kind. If you are a seed of
God, an attribute, a son of God, then the Word of God is sown in
you. See? And then when you hear the Word of God, "My sheep
hear My voice; a stranger they won't follow."... You get it? Then
every seed comes forth after its own kind.