Brother Branham is at a Full Gospel Businessmen’s banquet at the Stardust Hotel in Yuma, Arizona.
He starts his sermon by telling us that he’s a little scared, because it’s been three months since he preached his last message. As you will soon find out, he quickly relaxes. He takes his text by reading the entire 53rd chapter of Isaiah, and then preaches a beautiful message on the same topic that he bases every sermon: The Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
We might see little things different from one, from the other. But, outside of all of that, we're still brothers, because we're born of the same Spirit. We are the family of God.
God wants you to separate yourself from everything that's called sin. Completely set aside for Him, and for He only.
He has a purpose in your life, each individual, that no one else on the face of the earth can take your place. God has got something for you.
And a palm tree can never be a hickory. A hickory tree can never be a palm. Nobody can take your place, and you shouldn't try to take anybody else's place. Because, you are an individual, to God, and God has a purpose for you. He made you thus. You say, "Why did He do it?" He is sovereign. He's got a reason for it being that way.
... our lives don't qualify and meet exactly what the Word said, then we have no right to call ourselves Christians if we're not born again.
One man surrendered into His hands fully, that's all God needs.
We see too many movies. We got too many televisions. We got too many other worldly amusements, until the church has lost its taste to the people. It's because the Holy Spirit moves out, and something else moves in.
Politics don't belong in Church. The Holy Ghost is to take the Church over, and not a politic vote of who is who. "God placed in the church some apostles, some prophets, and some teachers, and evangelists, and pastors," Not men voted them in there. God placed them in there, by the calling of the Holy Spirit, prayer meetings, and laying on of hands, and staying before God.
But, today, we have socialized our religion to a place till it's almost like politics, itself, that we play it in all of our denominations.
Get back to the Gospel again! Get back to the power of God! Get back to pentecost, the... like the original was.
God has no other plan than let the Holy Spirit rule and reign in the Church.
And there is where we're failing today. We're reading everything else but the Bible.
He showed that how the weakest of Christian can defeat Satan just with the Word.
Now, for nearly two thousand years, God has been trying to cut Him a masterpiece Bride, called a Church.
He is trying to separate His church from the world, but the church wants to go on with the world. But His people is still segregated, segregated to Him. Who is He? The Word.
Now, the Bride is part of Him. She is part of Him. The Word for that day, the Bride becomes part of that Word, for it's Christ.
He is making a Bride. Yes, sir. He's hewing the chips now, chopping off the world.
I don't care what you are, what kind of an experiences you have, let that Word reflect through you each day, because God, in this last days, is taking a Bride for His Son, Jesus Christ.