Brother Branham returns home to his Tabernacle for a series of meetings in the Jeffersonville area. He opens the first of seven consecutive sermons with, “A Man Running From The Presence of the Lord.”
Starting tomorrow, we travel over to Parkview Middle School. Here are a few highlights of today’s sermon.
You're the Lord's lambs that He has let me feed.
And that’s what we’re here for, friend, stay in the Presence of the Son till our little group of people here, till it becomes so ripe to Christ, it become bread on His table. That’s what I want it to do.
And here we find an example of all of us. Every one of us, we always are running from something. We run from trouble. We run from responsibilities. We, we’re all prone to do that. We, we are, we are more prone to run than we are to stand and face it out.
The reason, the principal reason, that I believe that he did this great thing here, was because Jonah was a Jew. And he was asked to go to a Gentile city, to cry out against it; thinking that he would not be received.
And when you see then, in this day now, when the Word of God has made these promises of things that we see happening now, then we’ve got the responsibility to either face up to It or get away from It. You have...You just can’t stay neutral.
Christ is the revelation of the whole Bible. In Him, Christ, all the fulness. Fulfilling of all the prophecies of the Bible is met unconditionally in Christ Jesus, ’cause He was God manifested in the flesh.
That’s the same thing the Message is. You might say, “It’s right, or this, that, or the other.” And say, “I sympathize with It. I believe It’s the Truth.” But you’ve got to accept It; and It’s got to become a part of you, and you a part of It.
Christianity is a everyday, rugged life, living for God in the... this presence world. It’s a constant burning of the Fire and love of God, in the heart, that sets you afire and puts you out yonder with the people, and making converts to Christ.
Who could ever stand where He stood? Who ever talked like Him? Who could ever say the things that He said? Who could ever do the things that He done? His uniqueness proved He was God.
But, look, if God has called you, and you are sure that God is in the Message, there is nothing going to turn you back.
But you must face up to it. It’s either right or wrong. And if it’s right, let’s stay by it. If it’s wrong, get away from it. That’s all.
Lay out in the Presence of God, then, with our hearts; not our hands, so much, but our hearts before God, until He has seasoned us, through and through, like that, with the rays of His glory; and baked into us His-His goodness, and ripened that which we have got, into reality, see, to where we can show others that Jesus Christ live. Oh, my! We want to believe that.
And if He’s ever after you, you might dodge over here, and dodge over there, but you’ll be miserable until you come back and do the thing you started out for Him to do at the first place.
And when God tells you something, you’ve got to do it; nobody else. See, we just have to face up to it, and, and go do it.
I am duty bound to a Message that’s been given to me from Almighty God.
There's something laying right ahead for us. Now, just remember, I believe I am prophesying. Great joy lays ahead.
As John of old, when he got too old to preach, he would just set and scream, they tell me, with all of his might, "Little children, love one another!" Love one another. Don't let nothing come among you, see.