After the Easter message this morning, Brother Branham digs in and shows us that we have our will, and God has His Will. He uses Balaam as an example and brings the question right into our personal lives. Here are a few highlights from, "Does God Ever Change His Mind About His Word?"
Then, you, the devil will punch at you, and he’ll say everything to you, and accuse you, and-and try to make you think that you’re not. But don’t you listen to him.
Oh, Christians, let us buckle on the armor of God. Let us do all that we know how, to serve Him, love Him, and wait for that great time.
Don’t you stop. Don’t rest, day and night, until that quickening Power has brought you from the things of the world, into the Kingdom of God.
And now we find, always, that when these natural and spiritual, spirits of churches and organizations, meet, there is always a clash. It’s never failed to be so. It always clashes.
So, you see, the beginning of righteousness is God’s revealed Truth, and the entire Church of the living God is built upon that.
The spiritual Bride of Christ is so much different from the carnal organizations, till there’s no comparison in them at all.
Even they try to destroy the influence. They try to destroy everything, because it’s nothing but jealousy. It started in Cain and proved that it was jealousy, and it’s still the same thing today when the natural (the carnal) and the spiritual meet together.
But, who He calls, that’s who He ordains. No one else can take that place.
Therefore, in the great Millennium when the resurrection comes, we will not have to be reborn again by our fathers and mothers, but God like He did in the beginning will call man from the dust of the earth, and his helpmate with him.
We must submit ourselves to His will and His Word. Don’t question It. Believe It. Don’t try to find a way around It. Just take It the way It is.
But Israel had a prophet with them. They had a smitten Rock with them. They had a Pillar of Fire. They had a brass serpent, for healing. They had the blessings of God moving right along with them, and they was the called-out children of God.
Because, being a prophet, the Word of God comes to him.
And they’re trying to, they’ve tried it for years, to smother It down. But more they try to smother It, the greater It grows. You can’t curse what God has blessed. You just can’t. You just can’t do it.
He failed to see that smitten Rock and that brass serpent, that Pillar of Fire. He tried to judge them from a moral standpoint. He failed to see the higher call of God. By grace, by election, they were in that line, and with God’s Word.
How He sent His Son, I don’t know; but He did it. How He rose from the dead, I don’t know; but He did it. How did He save me? I don’t know; but He did it.
He promised to give you the desire of your heart. And let your desire be the Word of God. Let your desire be His will, never your own will.
You go in by keeping every Word. That’s the evidence of the Holy Ghost, when you believe the Word of God.
But, the thing is, keep His original Word! God don’t change His mind, friend. You’ve got to keep His commission, His will.
If you want to know where the church is, watch the morals among your women. Cause, she is, the church is a woman. If you want to know the national status, watch the Jews.
You’ve got to come back and start where you began, or where you left off, and take every Word of God.
We are joined to Church, to Christ, by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And the way you know the baptism of the Holy Ghost, is ’cause that Spirit in you identifies every Word of God to be the Truth.
You’ve got to change. You can’t have God’s Word to match your experience; you’ve got to have your experience to match God’s Word.
But God’s little group is His Bride, centered on that Word. May the dear Heavenly Father ever keep you stabilized right there. Don’t you never move from that Word.
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.