Quotes used in the sermon "The Porter"
JOHN 10:2
1 ¶ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the
sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
JOHN 10:2
2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
JOHN 10:3
3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his
own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
JOHN 10:4
4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep
follow him: for they know his voice.
JOHN 10:5
5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not
the voice of strangers.
I CHRONICLES
9:17
17 And the porters [were], Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their
brethren: Shallum [was] the chief;
I CHRONICLES 9:18
18 Who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they [were] porters in the
companies of the children of Levi.
I CHRONICLES 9:19
19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his
brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, [were] over the work of the
service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, [being] over
the host of the LORD, [were] keepers of the entry.
I CHRONICLES 9:20
20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, [and]
the LORD [was] with him.
I CHRONICLES 9:21
21 [And] Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah [was] porter of the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
I CHRONICLES 9:22
22 All these [which were] chosen to be porters in the gates [were] two hundred
and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David
and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
I CHRONICLES 9:23
23 So they and their children [had] the oversight of the gates of the house of
the LORD, [namely], the house of the tabernacle, by wards.
I CHRONICLES 9:24
24 In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south
UNPARDONABLE.SIN_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-8 SUNDAY_ 54-1024
167 No wonder Jesus said, "A man come in without the wedding garment on." He
said, "Friend, what are you doing here? Who brought you in here?" And the man
stood helpless. Why didn't he? In the old--in the parable there.
The bridegroom in the Orients today, the bridegroom sets the wedding supper. And
when he did, it's up to him to furnish the robe.
Jesus Christ
set the Wedding Supper at the end of life, and it's up to Him to furnish the
preparation of the robes.
And at the door, the porter, as it was, or one of his close friends, stood
there. And every man that come up with a ticket got the same kind of robe.
They put it on him. If he was in rags or if he was in broadcloth, just
the same he wore the robe 'cause he looked just exactly like the rest of them.
That's exactly right.
And brother, when we come to the Wedding Supper, we've got to have on the same
robe that Saint Paul had on back yonder. We got to have the same baptism of the
Holy Ghost. We got to have the same Gospel burning in our heart, the same love,
or we'll be turned out. Say, "Well, brother, I was Pentecostal. I..." No, sir.
That won't shadow you a bit. "I was a Methodist. I was a Presbyterian. I
belonged to the Branham Tabernacle." That won't have nothing to do with it.
That's right.
REVELATION.CHAP.FOUR.PT.1_ JEFF.IN ROJC 551-584 SATURDAY_ 60-1231
106 Now, what do you think when the Bridegroom come back and found a man setting
there without a wedding garment on? Said, "Friend, how'd you get in here?" And
he stood speechless; it showed that he come some other way besides the Door. He
come in a window; he come in a back door. And He called him a friend: showed he
was a church member, "Friend, how did you get in here without a garment on?"
Now, Jesus
said this Himself. And He calls in the porter; He said, "Bind him foot and
hand." And he was cast out into outer darkness where there'll be weeping,
wailing, and gnashing of teeth. That's Christ's own Words. Right, "He was
cast out." Because it proved, without the wedding garment, he come some other
way besides the Door. If he'd have come by the Door, he would receive the
wedding garment.
TO.WHOM.SHALL.WE.GO_ JEFF.IN SATURDAY_ 60-0604
E-15 Now, I've had the pleasure of being at Oriental places and seeing Oriental
weddings; they don't change--the same customs for thousands of years. Now, when
there's a wedding supper to be given in honor of someone, the bridegroom
furnishes robes for all the people that come in, because his friends consist of
poor, rich, and indifferent. But everyone that he invites is given an
invitation, and in this invitation has the bridegroom's name on it.
And he
brings this invitation to the door, and there's a--a porter that stands at the
door, and he has the garments. Therefore, one man comes up dressed real
fine, and the porter puts on a regular robe on him. The next man comes up is
mediocre; he isn't dressed too bad. But he gets the same kind of robe that the
rich man got. And then the next fellow come up. Oh, no doubt but being invited
to the supper in such an honor to his friend, until he washed his clothes, and
oh, done so much to make hisself ready. But he only done it in vain.
So is it... We... There's nothing we can do about it. God has provided our
salvation through Jesus Christ. And it's not by what we can do, or how many good
things we can do (which is all right, nothing to say against it), but it's by
grace are you saved through faith.
And then this poor man gets the same kind of robe that the rich man got, and the
other man got. Then when they're setting at the table, all of them look alike.
PATMOS.VISION_ JEFF.IN ROJC
69-130 SUNDAY_ 60-1204E
71 Now, ask God to... While we're talking on Revelations,
ask Him to give you a revelation of
this. For
it can only be known by revelation, and you can only be saved by revelation. You
have a knowledge of it intellectually, but you can't be saved until it's
revealed to you. "No man can call Jesus the Christ, only by the Holy Ghost."
That's what the Bible says. No man can say Jesus is the Christ until he has
received the Holy Ghost. He might say, "The pastor said so; the Bible said so."
Them are true. "The church says so." That is true. But you don't know yourself
until the Holy Ghost has revealed it to you, and He's become in you. "No man can
call Jesus the Christ, only by the Holy Ghost." Not by knowledge, not by
intellectual.
299-1 PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.8
Now we will
specifically dwell on the OPEN DOOR that no man can shut. First of all I want to
dwell on the open door as signifying the tremendous missionary effort of that
age. Paul called a new missionary endeavor for the Lord an open door. II
Corinthians 2:12, "Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's Gospel,
and a door was opened unto me of the Lord." So we can see by the comparison of
Scriptures that this open door signified the greatest spreading of the Gospel
that the world has ever seen.
299-2 PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK
CPT.8
I want you to see something here. God works in threes, doesn't He? It was in the
third or Pergamean Age that the church was married to the state. The deeds of
the Nicolaitanes had become the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes.
That age was
the OPEN DOOR for the false vine. Once it was backed up by the power of the
state it became actually a world system even though it bore the name, Christian.
Thus it spread like wildfire. But now, three ages later, after a long and hard
struggle of faith, here comes the OPEN DOOR to the truth. The Word of the Lord
now has its day. Of course the fifth age had set the stage for this mighty move,
as that age gave us exploration, colonization, the printing of books, etc.
PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 373-423 SATURDAY_ 60-1210
141 Now, we find out that in this great revelation that God gave here to the
church in this last days, that God sent and reveals
Himself the open Door between the two
ages. It wasn't in the--the Laodicean age; neither was it in this other age, the
Philadelphian age; but it was in between, the lapover, 'cause the...
I'll prove it in just a little farther down, and you'll get it. You see? We'll
make it rich, so sure that you can't keep from seeing it, if you just want to
see it. See? All right.
Now, the revelation of Himself is where He's built His church. How many knows
that to be true now? He built His church upon the revelation of Himself.
TEN.VIRGINS_
JEFF.IN ROJC 425-492 SUNDAY_ 60-1211M
7 Now, tonight we're
going to have the final great age of this, Laodicea.
And last
night we took the Philadelphian age and come over into the beginning of the
Laodicean age and the lapover. And then them great mysteries that God
begin to reveal to us between those ages, "the open Door," and "a little
strength," "held My Word," "got My Name." All those little things in there, how
God did so marvelously make them real to us, to which we are very, very
thankful.
PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 373-423 SATURDAY_ 60-1210
107 Now, now, the age, the great age... Now, let's begin now. I believe we're on
the... That was the salute, the 7th verse. Through...
... unto the... Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that
is true, he that has the keys of David, he that open, and no man shutteth; and
shutteth, and no man open;
Quite a statement, isn't it? I--I'm going to come back to that just in a minute,
'cause it--it applies farther in the Scripture here.
I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can
shut it: for thou has a little strength, and has kept my word, and has not
denied my name.
Now, now, watch the--the time coming now,
after the
great missionary move that swept across the nations of brotherly love, to
take what they had. Nothing against it, of literature and whatevermore, into the
different parts of the world. Now, the church denomination had gone back to
education, works again (See?), gone back.
After the
great denomination had been set up, Jesus set an open door. After the Wesleyan
age had come in, and the Methodist church had been established in the earth,
taken roots, growing, making a great church which it is today, one of the
greatest among the Protestant churches, and that time, the thing that took place
then was Jesus set an open door for the church before they entered into the
Laodicean age.
PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 373-423 SATURDAY_ 60-1210
128 All right, how the Lord said now in the end of that age, "I am the Door to
the sheepfold."
Now, what
door was opened about Jesus, just between these two ages? 1906, about
when the Methodist age and--and--and Dwight Moody and them faded from the scene,
there come forth a break forth of the people receiving the Holy Ghost, speaking
with tongues and things come back into the church. That's about right in about
1906, along in there.
All right, what took place then? After that begin to come along, the first thing
you know, they organized the old General Council which went in, now called the
Assemblies of God (See?),
out of that
church that was lapped over. And what taken place then? He set an open door, an
open door.
PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE_
JEFF.IN ROJC 373-423 SATURDAY_ 60-1210
130 Now, let's just read it, and I'll catch it word by word just the way He
brings it. See, "Behold..." Let's see:
... no man shutteth;...
... set before thee an open door,...
It's on the other side.
I know Thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can
shut it:...
"A open
door," what was it? It was the revelation of the supreme Deity of Jesus Christ,
not being a second person of a trinity, but being God Himself made flesh and
dwelling among us. And the revelation...
Now, if you notice, just in a minute, let's just read just a little bit farther.
... shut it:... and has a little strength,... and has not denied my name.
The first time the Name's been spoke of now since back in this age back here,
lost its Name; and Luther come out with a name that he was alive and was dead
(Is that right?), Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Here comes
out the Name of Jesus again in between these two ages here, in between: the open
door. Now, it's a revelation what He was, the Deity, the revelations of His
Deity.
PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 373-423 SATURDAY_ 60-1210
143 All right. Now, what did He say? "No man can shut it."
I know Thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door,...
What is the
open door? The revelation of the supreme Deity of Jesus Christ. What did
He say to His first church back here, back in this age? He said, "I am He that
was, which is, and shall come. I am the First and the Last. I am the Almighty."
He said it three different times, made Hisself Deity to this first church here;
before He went into the last church age, He said,
"I've set before you an open door." If
you want to see the revelation, here it is, where He'd build His church. And the
only way He could take His church, is back to the revelation of what He is.
Truly.