No matter how noble the intention or how something seems so right, we MUST find the Lord's perfect will before we can do Him a service. It might be the right thing to do, but it also might be the wrong time. Brother Branham is again at his church in Jeffersonville, when he preaches the first of two Sunday services, and explains the right way to serve our Lord Jesus.
In a time of emergency that’s the time to look to God. And look to Him, and be on friendship with Him before the emergency arrives. We know this. If we have favor with God, we can ask Him anything, like you would any other friend, and He is a very present help in time of trouble.
Look what’ll take place. If that thousands of square miles falls down into the lava of the earth, and slides in, there will be millions die at one time. And that’ll cause such a tidal wave!
But God does not give us merits on good intentions. There is only one way to serve God, that’s by doing His will at His command.
No matter how sincere, and what good motives, and what good objectives, and how people want those things and see the need of it, there is a will of God to be carried out in these things.
By going to the priests, by going to the theologians, and by going to the military forces, and not even considering their God-sent messenger of the hour, Nathan, they did it wrong.
The Word of God is not to be handled by denominations; It’s to be handled by the heart of a man, where God can come in there and reveal Himself. And if he reveals it according to the Word, it’s God; if it isn’t, it’s not.
There is no great ones among us. There’s only one great One, and that’s God.
First, it must be His time to do it.
And it must be according to His Word that has been spoken.
And it must be given according, to the person He has chosen to do it by.
And it must come, first, to His prophets.
And the prophet must be vindicated by the Word of God.
I don’t care what your pastor says, don’t care what I say, or anybody else says. If it’s contrary to God’s vindicated Word, the hour, the time, the Message, and so forth, forget it.
There is only one Ark to follow, that’s, the Word of God. Anything contrary to that Ark, stay away from it! It’s on a new cart, and not on the shoulders of God. Right. Stay away from the thing. Don’t have nothing to do with it.
Remember, Christ our Ark!
And one day you’ll see that the One that you feeled in your heart, and see His identification, will become personalized before you, then you and He are One. You’ve united by the Word.
So say I, in the Name of Jesus Christ! Don’t you add one thing. Don’t take, put your own ideas in It. You just say what is said on those tapes. You just do exactly what the Lord God has commanded to do. Don’t add to It.