God is our King! He never intended for us to be ruled over, and He certainly did not want us outside of the Word and into the things of the world.
Although it is not exactly part of the Adoption series, Brother Branham preached The Rejected King on Sunday morning, and then went on to Adoption #1 that evening. Here are a few quotes from this morning’s sermon, “The Rejected King.”
19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.
22 And the Lord said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.
But it has never been, in any age, God's intention for His people to act like the people of the world, or to be governed or controlled like the people of the world. God's people is, always has been, a--a peculiar people, a different people, a called-out, a separated, an altogether different in their action, in their ways, in their manner of living, than what the peoples of the world has. Their appetites for things and all that their makeup is, has been always contrary to the things that the people of the world desire.
And that has never been the will of God. It never was the will of God, or never will be the will of God for man to rule over one another. God rules over man. God is our Ruler, our King. And it's a very very much of a parallel of today, because that man seems to have that same idea. They don't seem to be able to grasp that God still rules man, instead of man ruling man.
God is to rule His people, to govern each individual.
God sent, on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Ghost to rule in man's hearts and rule in his lives.
But man wants to rule, and rule over man; and man wants man to rule over him. He doesn't want to have God to rule.
God wanted His faithful old prophet to direct them and speak His words to them.
Politics, we have voted man in there under buying and selling and promises of falsehood until our nation, and our politics, and our democracy is so polluted until it's--it's interwoven with Communism and all kinds of isms.
God's men are humble men. God's people are humble people.
Do you see the Holy Spirit is our Judge? God never give us a pope, or a bishop, or anybody to be a judge. The Holy Spirit, the Person of God in the form of the Holy Spirit is our Judge and our Guide.
The Holy Spirit wants you to live godly every day in the week and every night, separating yourselves from the things of the world.
I said, "I have never preached anything in my life that I was ashamed of. I'll call back no tapes or no records. I'll remain with what the Holy Spirit says; that I'll live by and die by.
The Holy Spirit is God's Mouthpiece, that speaks just exactly what the Bible said, that believes just what the Bible said and won't vary from it one bit.
Oh, my precious friend, my beloved, my darlings of the Gospel, my begotten children unto God, listen to me, your pastor. You... I wish there was some way I could explain it to you. There's no words. I couldn't find it. It's not found anywhere. But just beyond this last breath is the most glorious thing that you ever... There is no way to explain it. There's no way; I just can't do it. But whatever you do, friends, lay aside everything else till you get perfect love. Get to a spot that you can love everybody, every enemy, everything else. That one visit there to me has made me a different man. I can never, never, never be the same Brother Branham that I was.