The mysterious title of this sermon sets us on guard. The word, discrepancy, gives us ideas of conflict, doubt, and corruption. Where does this seed come from? Where is it today? We are about to find out.
Brother Branham is again at the Westward Ho Motel in Phoenix, when he lays the axe to the root of the tree with this message. As you listen, think of how that seed of discrepancy has grown over the past 50 years, and is clearly visible to us today. Here are a few highlights from the prophet’s message, 65-0118 “The Seed Of Discrepancy.”
And I went down and found the word of discrepancy, so I got the dictionary and looked what the word discrepancy means. And it means it's "sowing discord," or--or, "being contrary," as Webster says, "sowing a discord, something different," or, "being contrary to what's already been." So I thought, the text tonight, I'd call it: The Seed Of Discrepancy.
Then you see that now, since wild oats, or wild wheat and grain sometimes impersonates a genuine, domestic grain, so close that it would deceive the very Elected. I think we're living in a timely age, when these things should be preached on and talked about.
An angel is coming to bring the separation, the segregation between the right and the wrong. And no one can do that but the Angel of the Lord. He's the One that is going to tell which is right and which is wrong.
One, the sower was He, the Son of God, Who went forth sowing Seed. And an enemy came behind Him, which was the Devil, and sowed the seed of discrepancy, behind the sowing of the right Seed. Now, friends, that has happened through every age since we've had a world. Exactly. All the way from the beginning, it started the very same thing.
Jesus said, in a certain place, that "The Word is a Seed." And every seed will bring forth of its kind. And now if the Christian, the children of God, the children of the Kingdom has become the Seed of God, then they must be the Word of God, the Word of God manifested in the age that they're living in, for the promised Seed of that age. God gave His Word at the beginning, and each age has had its Seed, its time, its promises.
At the beginning, when God sowed His Seed upon the earth and gave it in the hearts of His children, His family, to keep that Word, that was their only defense, keep that Word! Here come the enemy in and broke that barrier, by sowing the seed of discrepancy, contrary to the Word of God.
When a man stands and says that he's a minister, a pastor of a church of somewhere, and he does not believe that Jesus Christ is the same in every detail (except the physical body), same yesterday, today, and forever, that's the seed of discrepancy. When he says that "miracles and apostolic age passed," that's seed of discrepancy. When they say, "There's no such a thing as Divine healing," that's seed of discrepancy. And the world is full of it. It crowds out and chokes out the wheat.
And a genuine faith of God will believe in God, and God is the Word, it'll never add nothing to It.
No man has a right to interpret God's Word. He's His Own interpreter. He promises it, then He does it, that's the interpretation thereof. When He promised It, then He fulfills It, that's the interpretation of It.
And a man who will compromise on this Word of God being the Truth, he's got a make-believe faith. Genuine servant of God will hang on that Word.
And every borned-again son and daughter of God of this age is the interpretation of the Word. You are written epistles, read of all men.
Look, each age produce such a crop, every age has did it, and ours is no excuse. We have the same thing, and a greater age of it than all the other ages put together, for this is the ending of world's history. This is the great discrepancy that's ever been upon the earth, is on the face of the earth today. Discrepancy in other ages pulled them away from the true and living God, to idols.
There was, again, Cain manifested in the--the person of Balaam. And there was God manifested in the person of Moses, interpreting His Words through a human being, making Hisself known, His promise, through a human being. And the discrepancy raised up.
Now we notice that today our churches, all--all of our churches has sowed to the winds, and are reaping the whirlwind. We don't have the prayer meetings, we don't have the services we used to have. What's the matter? We've let down the bars on everything.
God, give us men who's not connected with nothing but God and His Word, that'll tell the Truth about it. That's exactly what we need. What have we done? Sowed discrepancy. We've sowed to the winds, and now we're reaping the whirlwind.
You put this, it's on tape, and you remember. The very God that... These people now that's gathering all this great big harvest of--of World Council of Churches, and you're going to have to go into it. You can't stay out of it. You're either going to be individually get out of it, or you're going into it. There ain't going to be no middle grounds. It'll be the mark of the beast. No man could buy or sell, except he that has the mark, or has got the discrepancy. Now, stay out of it! Get out of it! Flee it! Stay away from it! The God that they claim they're serving will destroy them.
And the Father was the Word, and He was the Word made manifest. He was "One" with the Father, because He was the manifestation of God's promised Word. And so is it today, or any other day. Yes, sir. The God is One. He wants us to be one.
Now, Jesus said, "Just before this great discrepancy is gathered and burned, that the Son of man will reveal Himself in the same manner as He did then." And that's... What is it? It's a lifting up, afresh, before you, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you believe it?
But, see, here's what I'm trying to get you to do: get that discrepancy away from you now, and believe the Word when the Word is made flesh right here among us. The Word becomes alive in our own flesh, that shows the Presence of God.
Now, He's already give it to you. Only thing is just enough faith to believe it.