Quotes used in the sermon "Represented us"

PROVING.HIS.WORD_ JEFF.IN V-9 N-6 SUNDAY_ 64-0816
177 "Well," she said, "now, wait a minute, I--I understand, You being a Jew." Said, "Now, you Jews," said, "You mean to tell me that You're greater than our father Jacob who dug this well?" He was the God of Jacob. See? Said, "You mean that You're greater than--than Jacob that dug this well?" An ordinary Man (See?) looked like, that's all you seen, an ordinary man. Said, "You say You're greater than our father Jacob who dug the well, and he drank from it himself, and his cattle? Well, we are just blessed by drinking this well where that prophet digged." He said, "Uh-huh." He said... "And we worship in this mountain. You say at Jerusalem." He said, "Salvation is of the Jew, woman; we know what we're talking about." He said, "You worship you don't know what." A Jew's suppose to know the Word (See?), how It was supposed to be. But, see, He was watching now. Watch. He's going to... What is He going to do? Prove His Word. See? Why, she said... He said, "By the way, go get your husband and come here." And she said, "I don't have any husband." "Why," He said, "you've told the truth (See?), because you've had five, and the one you now have is not your husband." See? Watch. Something happened (See?); something took Life. Now, if it hadn't have been in there to begin with, if she hadn't have had representation from predestination, it'd never took hold.


FUTURE.HOME_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802
37-4 Now, you say, "Well, look at this priest; wasn't he a son of God?" It proved he wasn't; he couldn't recognize what? Did he say, "I believe the Bible?" Sure, but he couldn't recognize the expressed Word of the hour. He only had a intellectual learning from some group that'd been back before him. And it's the same thing today. See? I know that's strong but it's the Truth. There was the Word, as spoken exactly for that day, and he... Yet he was a scholar; yet, he was a renown person, but he could not recognize It. Why? No matter how scholarly he was, anything like that, he still didn't have representation of predestination. See? Only the predestinated will only be the one that does it. Only can be. And you only can do it because look; it proves predestination, 'cause if you've got Eternal Life, you had to be a part of God all times 'cause He's the only One that's eternal. You see it? Oh, my. Think of it. Now, watch what happens through the great millennium.

PROVING.HIS.WORD_ JEFF.IN V-9 N-6 SUNDAY_ 64-0816
180 There stood priests there, said, "This man's Beelzebub." See, no representation. Eternal Life, "you always was." See, you have Eternal Life, there's only one form of it; that's God. You were His attribute, He thought of you and knowed you before the foundation of the world in His mind. See?
She looked around. Look what a--what a sinful shape she was in. But, see, He couldn't--He couldn't get that priest, because the priest was a educated scholar, a theologian in the Word, but no representation in heaven (See?), wasn't in God's thinking at all. But this woman was. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." That's just all He wanted her to see. See? Said, "We believe that You are... I believe You're a prophet. Now, we know. We don't understand about the prophets now, because it's real late; we know that there's a Messiah coming. And when that Messiah comes, He's going to be the Word. See? He's going to know the secrets of the heart; He's going to do the same thing that--that You did there." Said, "You must be one of His prophets to forerun Him or something." He said, "I'm He."

FUTURE.HOME_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802 21-3
Now, we want to get this real clear, so now, watch close now on this...?... Now, this here, here is God. God, which is the eternal without... There's no one but Him. But in God, He has attributes. Now, this here represents the Word, the Word of God, which was made flesh and dwelled among us in the Person of Jesus. Now, this here--fellow here we're going to make him like this. Now, this is called the woman at the well. This is the priest, Pharisee. And where you see this open blackboard, means grace and salvation.

 FUTURE.HOME_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802
21-4 Now, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." The three stages: it was an attribute first, was in God that He thought of Himself as being human, and that transmitted Him down to be Jesus. And now, if you'll ever be there, you was with Him then. For there's only one form of Eternal Life; that's God. And you had to be a part of God at the beginning. It's not what you just chose down here; He chose you. "All the Father has given Me will come."

FUTURE.HOME_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802
21-5 Now, look at this priest here. We find his bottom part here, his back life, back behind him, his predestination back here is sinful. Here's hell down here. Now, this little part in here (looks like the blackboard), that represents his purity. He was a priest; he was an honorable man. That represented this. He was also had to be a good man or he couldn't be a priest. But you see how he got it? With intellectual learning.

FUTURE.HOME_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802
24-7 Oh, make known by His prophets all of His manifestations, because it's His attributes of His thoughts expressed. Now, here it was in this little woman; she was one of His attributes. See? And there was a priest representing the Light: he had learned it from the Bible; he had learned that God was God; he had learned that holiness was right; he was learned that there was a law of God; he'd learned it because of intellectual conception. And he was born of the right lineage: he was a Levite; but he only knowed it by intellectual conception. And when the Light of the hour... See, he learned it by what had happened; not what was happening, what had happened. And when he found what was happening, his denomination said nothing about it; therefore, he had no representation of it. But here was a Redeemer on earth at that time to redeem those attributes of God, and she received it.

FUTURE.HOME_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802
22-1 Now this little woman, her first life up here, she was a prostitute. She was all marred up, but way down in her here was just a little bit of understanding: "I know when the Messiah cometh..." See? That was there.
Notice, when Jesus came and manifested the Word, because the Word discerned the thoughts that was in the heart (as Hebrews 4 says It will--4:12--that He would)... The Word was a discerner of the thoughts of the heart, and He came as the Son of man, the Prophet. What happened? This priest with only intellectual learning said, "It's a devil," because that's what his denomination called it. What did it do? He had no representation, so it blacked him out.

FUTURE.HOME_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802
22-3 But this little woman had nothing to present; she was as filthy and dirty as she could be. But notice, way down in her she's got representation...?... And then, she was looking for this to be made flesh, and when He said, "Go, get your husband and come here."
She said, "Sir, I have none."
Said, "You said the truth, 'cause you got five, and the one you have now is not yours. You've had five; that makes six you have."
She said, "Sir..." not... You're not Beelzebub." No. "I perceive that You are a Prophet. Now, we know the Messiah, which is called Christ will come; and when He does, He will do this."
He said, "I'm He."
No more doubt. He didn't have to explain it. She saw it; she believed it; and away she went. Why? What did It do to her? It redeemed her.
Now watch, He came to be a Redeemer. Is that right? What does redeem mean?--bring back. Why didn't He get the priest? He never was up there. See? He had no representation.
He came to redeem that which had fallen. In the fall this got messed up of that girl, but God had her in His thinking before the foundation of the world, and He come to cleanse her. Then He has to have Eternal Life. See?

FUTURE.HOME_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802
22-8 Where the priest... What did it do to him? It sent him right back to his destination. He had nothing to begin--only intellectual learning.
Now listen, friend, if the only thing you've got is just intellectual learning, you get something different from that. And you'll never be able to get it unless you got representation. That's the reason I believe you come from the east and west, north and south: the Word, living, made manifest.

FUTURE.HOME_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802
23-2 Notice, now, how He makes His Way known by His prophets in the beginning. He's never changed it. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... salvation: He justified a man, sanctified him, sent the Holy Ghost and Fire, and burnt the sin out him, and dwelled in him Himself.
He does the earth that He's going to use in a plan of redemption the same way. It repented and was baptized in water in it, by Noah. Jesus come and sanctified it by dripping His Blood upon it and claimed it. And in the new earth that's to come, it's to have a holy fire baptism to clean it of every devil, every germ, every sickness, everything that there is, and make it anew. "I saw a new heaven and a new earth."
You become a new person (Amen.), not just an old one patched up by joining church or trying to turn a new page, but you are a complete brand new unit. God takes the old man and burns him completely out with the Holy Ghost and Fire and comes Himself, sends down your representation. "No man can come to Me except My Father has drawed him. And all the Father has given Me will come to Me." You see it? Same plan, same way.

FUTURE.HOME_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802
23-4 Satan was--will be taken from the earth, just exactly like Satan was taken from you. Satan cannot bother... He can tempt, but he cannot get a borned again Christian, for God from the foundation of the world foresaw him, and sent Jesus to redeem him, and the Blood speaks for him. How can he sin when it can't be seen even by God? He don't even... The only thing He hears is your voice. He sees your representation. Amen. That is true. See?

FUTURE.HOME_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802
23-5 By the same means... For the world is one of His attributes just the same as you are one of His attributes. The world becomes one of His attributes, because it was God's thinking in the beginning to have a world, to be on a throne, to be a King, to be a Redeemer, to be a Healer. That's His attributes, just like an attribute of you.

CONDEMNATION.BY.REPRESENTATION_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-13 SUNDAY_ 60-1113
19-5 She caused it all. Many times I've heard people say, "Then, Brother Branham, because Adam and Eve did the evil, hybrid the Word of God, and caused us to get in this condition, God's unjust if He condemns me. I had nothing to do with it. I never sinned, It was Adam that sinned." The Bible said, "I was borned in sin; shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies." So somebody represented me.
Oh, here's a thought. It might choke you. Somebody represented you as a sinner. That was the one that hybrid the Word. And today if you're expecting the Pentecostal church, or the Methodist, Baptist to represent you, it's a hybrid word and condemned. You're condemned because that Adam condemns you. Adam and Eve, being one, accepted the hybrid form and condemned the world.

CONDEMNATION.BY.REPRESENTATION_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-13 SUNDAY_ 60-1113
20-2 Then you say, "Brother, Branham, why should I... Why should God hold me responsible? Because one man represented me, and then I die because that that man sinned, then I'm a sinner by representation." That's right. You're a sinner by representation. You never... God don't hold you responsible for being a sinner. He don't hold you responsible 'cause you lie and steal and--and--and the things you do. He doesn't hold you responsible for being a sinner. He holds you responsible because you don't help yourself. There's a way made for you. You reject the way that God laid down; that's what God condemns you for. There's a way of escape.

CONDEMNATION.BY.REPRESENTATION_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-13 SUNDAY_ 60-1113
24-6 Notice, also. You say, "Well then why does that condemn me because Eve and Adam done this? They represented me as a sinner. I can't help it."
Yes, but brother, one day there was One come from glory again. Oh, He's the One I want to talk about for about two minutes now. One came from glory and become earth. One came and taken on the form of sinful flesh. He come to represent us too; and Satan tried to cross Him up. Oh, he did. Every hand Satan was there to cross Him up, but He never crossed up; He took the cross and went up. Amen.
Satan couldn't cross Him up. No, no. He was a different type of Adam. He come from glory to represent us. What? "Well," Adam said, "if my wife says so, I guess that's all right."
"Well, she said she had a revelation, and this is the way it's supposed to be. I know God says it's this a-way, but my wife said..."
That's the way with the local church member today. "Oh I know the Bible says that, but my church says so and so."
Oh, you poor miserable hypocrite, don't you see, God said, "Let My Word be true and every man's word a lie." Take God at His Word: God's Word. Care what my wife said, what my church said; it's what God said.

EXPECTATION_ BINGHAMTON.NY MONDAY_ 54-1206
E-10 Our loving Father, we thank You tonight for Thy love, that sent the Son of God from glory to earth, to become sin. And tonight, with our throne blessings in our heart, by His grace, to know that we were sinners, and He came and took our place and died as a sinner. Died in my place, He died my death at Calvary. He died all of our deaths at Calvary. And the sin, my, me as a sinner, He represented me in His death at Calvary. He represented every believer tonight in His death at Calvary. And God, reconciling us and His love to us, raised Him up again for our justification. And therefore, being raised up with Him, we're seated tonight in heavenly places in Christ Jesus with every blessing that God promised is our redemptive blessings in Him. We thank Thee for this. And You, by faith, Father, foreseeing it, knowing what would take place, has blessed us together with Christ. Every blessing that He died for, is ours right now, for we're seated in Christ. We're resurrected with Christ. And now, we're seated in Him as believers, in this heavenly place in Christ Jesus.

JEHOVAH.JIREH_ PHOENIX.AZ TUESDAY_ 55-0222
E-29 And if we could ever get the scare out of the people, that's something, oh, I don't know, you're wanting a little "touch me," or hocus-pocus. God's word is your basis. God said so. Just laid it out there perfect. That's where we believe it. See? It's not nothing... "Oh, if I can do this or that." It's not what you done; it's what God has done for you. It's...
People say, "Oh, if I can just keep holding on." It ain't you holding on; it's whether He held on or not. It ain't what I am; it's what He is, what He represented me as. God don't see me as I am. If I'm in Christ, He sees Christ. He don't see me no more, for I'm dead. My life is hid in Him, sealed by the Holy Spirit, covered by the Blood. You get it?

FUNDAMENTAL.FOUNDATION.FOR.FAITH_ CHICAGO.IL THURSDAY_ 55-0113
E-74 Our heavenly Father, I lay my hands upon this woman in a representative way as she stands here in a Christian act to represent someone. You stood to represent us all. You represented us in death as a sinner. You represented us in sickness as a Healer. And, Father, You represented it in the resurrection as immortal life someday. And we thank You for it. And I bless this woman that when she goes to the person that she is standing for, may the person not die but be made well through Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Amen. Tell your friend... Your handkerchief, you had it in your hand now. When you take that handkerchief, you place it on him.
How this audience ought to be shook by the powers of the Almighty God. How strange we can set still in those things.

CONDEMNATION.BY.REPRESENTATION_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-13 SUNDAY_ 60-1113
29-1 Now, to you that says it's wrong for you to be represented by Adam as a sinner, what about through representation we have salvation also? You can no more save yourself, than you could take your bootstraps and jump over the moon with it. You can no more... You're born in sin; you're a renegade to start with: everyone of us. And we could not help ourselves. And how we ever going to be saved? One come to represent us: Jesus. He came to represent us before God as sons and daughters of God. And He sent His Holy Spirit, now that He's brooding over the place, trying to bring us back to birth, to be--die to ourselves and be reborn again to be sons and daughters of God, to take God at His Word, to believe God's Word.

TRUE.EASTER.SEAL_ JEFF.IN V-14 N-3 SUNDAY_ 61-0402
67 That's in man; he can't help being what he is, because he's borned in that condition. Man is represented in heaven as a sinner, by a sinner. I was speaking on that sometime ago, and someone said, "Then that's not just. If I am to be represented by one man's disobedience, then I don't have a chance."
I said, "That's true, because you are borned a sinner, but you are represented. You are condemned to condemnation by representation."
Well, then, that looks very cruel. But turn it on the other side, then we are--we are ordained to Eternal Life by representation. Where one represented us to death, Another represented us unto Eternal Life; so it puts us back again before the--the throne again. Every human being comes right back to the same place to make our choice.

IDENTIFIED.CHRIST.OF.ALL.AGES_ LOUISVILLE.MS WEDNESDAY_ 64-0401
E-23 Now, what if I'm speaking here to a person that would actually cannot receive it? There's nothing in him to receive from. The Bible said, "She that lives in pleasure is dead while she's alive." Why was it those Pharisees... Look at Jesus, all that we know. He was a manifested Word of God. We believe that. The Bible said it was. Well, watch when He done His Messiahic sign. The Pharisees that had a little bit of light... They was good people, lived a good Christian life--or a good religious life, had a little light about them. They had organized in a priesthood. They had a little light, but down in the bottom of their heart they had no eternal representation in glory. So when they seen that supernatural done, they said, "This man's Beelzebub, a devil." And what happened? That put what light they had out.

IDENTIFIED.CHRIST.OF.ALL.AGES_ LOUISVILLE.MS WEDNESDAY_ 64-0401
E-24 But here was a little ill-famed woman, a prostitute. Down in her heart, well, she had a representation of one of God's thoughts. There she was, weighted in sin. But when she seen that happen, she said, "Sir, I believe You're a prophet. I know when the Messiah cometh, He'll tell us these things." What did He do? He cleansed her life. He was a Redeemer to her, because He could lift her up where she come from.
But this Pharisee, think of it, religious as he could be. And Jesus said, "You are of your father the devil, and his works you'll do." Religious men, belonged to fine high orders, and Jesus called them snakes in the grass and devils. They rejected the light of the hour. That's exactly what it was.

JEHOVAH.JIREH.3_ LOUISVILLE.MS SATURDAY_ 64-0404
E-7 And now, we notice no matter what the others done, how they walked away, those disciples were predestinated. They were ordained to Eternal Life. No... They couldn't explain it. They couldn't explain it no more than the rest of them could, but there was something in them. That--that representation in heaven, a thought that God had of them before the foundation of the world had manifested itself here. And they were connected with God, and were sure that was God's promise vindicated. And nothing's going to change it from them. That's real, genuine Christianity.

IDENTIFIED.CHRIST.OF.ALL.AGES_ BIRMINGHAM.AL THURSDAY_ 64-0409
E-57 Look at that little woman. See? She had fallen from God's thoughts. She could be redeemed. She was a subject. She had representation in heaven. She turned around. Look at the difference between her and them preachers or priests. Them preachers, when they saw it they said, "Why, this man's a fortuneteller." They didn't know the Word.
Look what she said. "We know, Sir, You must be a prophet. We haven't had one for hundreds of years. And we know when the Messiah cometh, that's what He's going to do."
Oh, my. She could--she could teach Birmingham something. She could teach the rest of the world something. Yes, sir. She could teach these theological seminaries something. See? "Same yesterday, today, and forever."