Quotes
used in the message
“From Mortal to Immortality Pt.11(The
Seed)”
JOHN 8:37
37 I know that
ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in
you.
JOHN 8:38
38 ¶ I speak
that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with
your father.
JOHN 8:39
39 They answered
and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith
unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do
the works of Abraham.
JOHN 8:40
40 But now ye
seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God:
this did not Abraham.
JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the
deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not
born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.
JOHN 8:42
42 Jesus said
unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and
came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent
me.
JOHN 8:43
43 Why do ye not
understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my
word.
JOHN 8:44
44 Ye are of
[your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no
truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of
it.
JOHN 8:45
45 And because I
tell [you] the truth, ye believe me not.
JOHN 8:46
46 ¶ Which of
you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why
do ye not believe me?
JOHN 8:47
47 He that is of
God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear [them]
not, because ye are not of God.
JOHN 8:48
48 Then answered
the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and
hast a devil?
JOHN 8:49
49 Jesus
answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father,
and ye do dishonour me.
JOHN 8:50
50 And I seek
not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
JOHN 8:51
51 ¶ Verily,
verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
II TIMOTHY 1:7
7 For God hath
not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound
mind.
II TIMOTHY 1:8
8 Be not thou
therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be
thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
II TIMOTHY 1:9
9 Who hath saved
us, and called [us] with an holy calling, not according to our works, but
according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus
before the world began,
II TIMOTHY 1:10
10 But is now
made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus
Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to
light through the gospel:
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How is this Bride going to do this? How is this Wheat going to do
this? Malachi 4 said in the last days it would be restored back. What? Restored back like the
beginning, take it back. "I will restore, saith
the Lord, all the years the palmerworm, and cankerworm, and all
these other things has eaten. I will restore again." Malachi 4 said He
will restore the hearts of the people, and the faith
of the people back to the original fathers again. See? We see this right before
us, Church. Where are we at?
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153 Now notice. If the
Bridegroom, the beginning, the first Bridegroom... This is the Bride coming
forth. Remember, the
Church begin at Pentecost, and It fell at Nicaea.
It sprouted, not like the real grain, no; it was some of the Life in there, but
it sprouted in order to make an organization. And it pulled through that
organization. And then what did it do? Then it went, from that organization it
went into another organization, went into another stage of the Word:
justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost. See? And as it went
through this stalk and process, it kept coming on more.
Remember, the little pollen is more--the tassel is more like the
seed than the stalk is. And the husk is more like the seed than the tassel was.
But the seed itself is beyond that. See? It just used that for transportation
to take itself through.
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Now, here is the interpretation thereof: The
reason... Now, remember. I had just got through writing... I hadn't finished; I
hadn't wrote these notes yet. But in preaching this
morning, I caught what it was right in my sermon. Did you notice, the church
only came in view... Now, that's the truth, friends.
The heavenly Father, Who writes the Word, knows that I tell the truth. See? I
know--I just say the truth. And not knowing it till just a few minutes ago,
looked like or just recently... See? Did you notice the Bride come in view
twice? The
first Seed and the second Seed, both of them exactly the same one. And the reason they were
dressed--dressed in different parts, she'll come from all nations;
it'll make up the Bride. Each one had long hair and no makeup, and real pretty
girls. And they were watching me. That represented the Bride coming out of all
nations. See? She... Each one represented a nation, as they marched perfectly
in line with the Word. See?
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112 Notice. And it started out as the original. As
Jesus said, "The Word of God is a Seed that a sower
sowed." And He was the Sower. The Seed was the
Word. And notice. Any seed that abides alone never does nothing. It's got to
fall into the ground to bring forth its production again. And this Seed, that
perfect Church, fell to the ground at
Now historians, remember, and you who's going to hear this tape,
check it up and find out if that's not right. The church died at Nicaea,
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Finally it come to
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The Seed fell in the ground at
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35 What would God call a people
out of this evil age for His Name? The reason it is, is to try Her, His Bride.
It's to... When She is made manifest, been tried, is
proven, proved to Satan... Like it was at the beginning, so shall it be at the
end.
As a seed starts in the
ground, it comes up through carriers, the life of it. But it ends up the same
seed that it was when it went in the ground. And the same way the seed of
deceit fell in the ground in
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Luther went to husk with his first word, "the just shall live
by faith." Wesley had two words, sanctification: second, definite work of
grace. Pentecost had
the third word: the restoration of the gifts. But the entire seed has to come
forth. See how they denominated on one word, and another word, and
another word. But there's got to be something cannot be denominated. It's the
entirety of the life that's in there has to produce itself again for a Bride.
There cannot be any more church ages after this. We're at the end, brothers and
sisters. We're here; we've arrived. Thanks be to God.
Amen.
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89 Notice, see how close it
looks. Matthew said--St. Matthew 24:24, said that the
two spirits in the last days, the church spirit of the church people and the
Bride Spirit of the Bride people, would be so close together till it would
deceive the very elected if it was possible. That's how close.
Look how it's come through the stalk. Now, notice, we're going to
type something here. Luther in the church age a-bringing forth the Bride Seed
was the same in spirit. Just one little grain of seed Luther stood out on; that
was justification by faith. He was a very type of Hagar, the stalk. Notice, Wesley
was type of Sarah, the Philadelphian, the age of love, that
brought forth the tassel that... In Wesley's age there's
more missionaries than any other age we've had. The great missionary age of
John Wesley's time...
But Pentecost represented Mary,
Mary, the last stage of it. Now, she was not the Seed, yet the life of the Seed
was in her. But it hadn't matured yet. I feel very religious. It hadn't matured yet.
It was there, but it wasn't matured. So is it with our Pentecostal age that
we're living in. There's got to come forth a--a Word of God that's
inter--undenominational, outside of the realms of that denomination.
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29-4 The works that Jesus did--if
a man has the Seed of God in him with the Spirit of God watering that Seed, the
same works that Jesus--was manifested in Jesus, Him being the original Seed of God, His death brings
you back to the original Seed of God, and if the same Spirit that was within
Him is in you, then the same works will be manifested. You don't
believe that? All right, let's turn over to
You say, "I'm a believer, Brother Branham. I sure am a
believer." All right, I'm going to see if Jesus would call you one, see if
the Word of God calls you one...
Verily, verily,... (absolutely,
absolutely)... I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do
shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to the
Father.
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314 Notice, what does it do? It
finally returns back to
the original Seed again. When He come in the form of Martin Luther, when He
come in the form of John Wesley, when He come in the form of the Pentecostal,
He's supposed to reveal Himself again like the same Seed went in, the Son of
man. He revealed Hisself as Son of God
through the stalk age, and so forth, but in this last age He's to reveal Hisself as Son of man again. Get it?
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All right, like the beginning, molded. And what does that stalk
grow? It's growing all the time. That little stalk grows; still it's not like
the original grain: neither was Luther's message. No. Along come the--the other
messages, Finney, Sankey, Knox, Calvin, on down, none
of them; they were still the--the message; but what it was, they didn't get the complete revelation of It 'cause it wasn't time. You can't put the ear on the corn
before it's time to come. See? Then finally there comes back again
the original Seed that went into the ground.
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81 But like faith in the Word
brings more to the real image, like as the corn matures, or the wheat... It
comes forth a stalk; then it comes forth the pollen; then it comes forth a
shuck. But when... You think... That shuck, if you
don't watch, it'll look just exactly like the real wheat. But when it's opened
up, the real wheat's on the inside. It's only a carrier again.
So you see Mary, not through sex, but through faith, something
exactly like it... Mary was not that Seed. Mary was
a carrier of the Seed. He was the genuine faith Seed, because the Word of God
is by faith that He give to Abraham. And only faith can produce what God said
He'd do, faith in His Word.
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83 Notice, how more like the real thing Mary was, but
like the shuck. The shuck hugs this seed in itself, and protects it, and
nurtures it, until it's standing alone, mature. So has this third church age of
Pentecost matured holding this grain until it's time to open up the shuck. Mary
being the mother of Christ, just a incubator... He was
no blood of Mary; He was no blood of Jew; He was no blood of
Gentile; He was the Blood of God. God created this Blood. It could not be sex.
He wasn't Jew nor Gentile.
The baby's not one speck of the mother's blood. The blood comes from
the father. We know the hemoglobin's in the male. Like a chicken, it can lay an
egg, a hen can, but if she hasn't been with the male bird, the rooster, it'll
never hatch. It's unfertile, though it looks exactly like a real fertile egg.
Every nature of it looks the same, but it hasn't got the life in it.
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87 Carrier, the shuck, it
nurtured it. That's right. Then it, that is, the seed itself has to leave the
shuck, or the shuck has to leave the seed to get the seed in the presence of
the sun so it can be ripened. All in type we see.
See here now how close she, the church of this
last days gets to look like the Seed Itself. Look how this denomination
of Pentecost that's raised up in the last days--and we'll explain it little
later on (See?), how they come so close to looking just exactly like the Seed.
When a shuck comes forth out of a grain of wheat--or a blade of wheat, after
the pollen has fallen in there in the second stage and produced the third
stage, which is the--the--the shuck... And how that that, if
you are not a real close observer, you'll never be able to tell but what that's
the real grain of wheat in there. When that first little grain comes
forth, look like a grain. But you set down and open it up, and you'll find out
there's no grain there at all. It's only a shuck, a carrier of the grain. Now,
the grain comes forth from that. But remember, there is no more after that
shuck. Remember, there
was no more Seed promised through a woman anywhere after Mary. And
there's no more denominations promised after Pentecost. It's the rapturing Bride coming forth from there, the seed, the Word
made manifest again.
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96 Mary was not the Seed in the representation here of the
stalk. She was only a carrier of It, like the rest of
it. But being called and chosen first by God Himself for this purpose, it looked more like,
as our Catholic friends would think, that she was the mother of God. No, she
was not the mother of God; she neither was the Seed of God.
The woman produces the egg; God produces the--the life. The
hemoglobin, the blood, is in the male sex. A hen can lay an egg or a bird can
lay an egg in springtime build its nest, but if that female bird hasn't been
with the male bird, it won't hatch. It's dead. It'll rot right in the nest.
As I often said, that's what's the matter with
the churches today; they're rottening right in
the nest, called Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostals, and so forth. If they're not
in contact with the Word Itself, they rot right in the nest in their
organizations.
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97 Just like Paul said here,
"Did not the--the seed of the--of the freewoman or the bondswoman
persecute the seed of the freewoman? And so does the seed of the denomination
persecute the genuine grain. It's always got to be that way. They'll not be
heirs together. They're not associated together. They're absolutely two
different promises, two different times, two different peoples
altogether. One's a Bride and other one's a church. No comparison at all with
them.
But still they are not the
seed that's promised to come. Neither was Sarah; neither was--and neither was
Hagar. Neither Sarah was or--or neither Mary was the Seed. Mary was not the
Seed. She was a carrier of the Seed. But she had nurtured, brought forth out of
her womb, just like the shuck brought from it's womb
the real Seed. But the shuck is not the Seed. It only... It's closer to the
seed. It's hugged up around the seed. Way back up in the stalk, the life is
scattered all through the stalk. And when it comes to the pollen, it's gathered
down closer. But when it comes to the shuck, it's right down there like the
seed, and forms it almost like the seed. Jesus told us what would be in the
last days: be so close it would deceive the very elected if possible. But then
the seed comes forth from there. And the shuck, the life leaves the shuck. And
the shuck is a carrier. And that's just exactly what our denominations has
been, a carrier. Luther, Wesley, Pentecostals, and now it's time for the seed
to come forth.
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105 That's the way it's been in
every age, denominations has been the carriers of part of it. Part of that is
the Word, for it has been hid from the wise reformers or the--sealed away from
them until the age of the eagle's appear. The Bible said so. Yes, sir. 'Cause we're promised that in Malachi 4. Exactly, we are.
He's hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent. And as we've just went
through the Book of the Revelation, we find out that every--all three of those
messengers, or those beasts that went forth, each one suited Luther just right.
Each one seeded the other one just right, which is the
ox and the different animals of the Bible. It went forth to justification,
sanctification, even into the Pentecostals; but the fourth was an eagle. That's
right, and through that age God raised it up. So it'd have to come through that
age to be correct. Yes, sir, the eagle promise being
fulfilled of--of Malachi 4...
Jesus was not of Mary, but came
through Mary, like the life through the shuck.
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77 Now, Mary was not the Seed; she was only the shuck through
the Seed. The two others was carriers of life, only
the natural seed. Mary was not the Seed herself; but like faith in
God's Word, brought a more real image of the Word, because He was the Word. But
like the shuck, the--of a wheat, the corn of wheat, the shuck holds the wheat
inside of it and protects it until it is able or matured to go on its own. See?
Then it was the Seed Itself that left her. Just like the Seed was in her womb;
she wasn't the Seed. She didn't produce the Seed. God is the Seed.
Now, the blood then, many people think
that it was Jewish blood that we were saved by. And some of them said,
"Well, we got a right through the Gentiles, because Rahab
the harlot, and--and Ruth the Moabite, and so forth, they were Gentiles."
You have no claim of that at all, neither one. He was neither Jew nor Gentile.
He was God, the Logos, the Word that went out of
God.
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149 Notice, there will be no more
carrier, mother churches, denominations, after this carrier shuck, because
after the shuck there's no more... There's nothing left but them and just the
grain. Is that right? Got to be the grain. It's got to
be the same kind that went into the ground: Jesus Christ the same yesterday,
today, and forever.
A
Spirit come upon the Bride to do the same things that
He did. See, it's the reproducing again of the grain.
The
Word, yet young, spake for Itself.
"And know not that I must be about My Father's business?"
There's
the secret of the Message now. Just exactly, the Father's
business. What is the Father's business? Could you think of
what the Father's business was to Him? To fulfill what Isaiah said, "A
virgin shall conceive." Fulfill what Isaiah said again, "The lame
shall leap like a hart," and all these thing
that'd take place; like Moses said, "The Lord your God shall raise up a
prophet among you liken unto me." It was the Father's business to fulfill
that Word. Well, if that come down through them stalks of them natural women,
what about these stalks of these spiritual church women? Churches
means women--women means churches, rather. Is that right? Then what is
it now?
"We must be about the Father's business," the wheat would cry back,
the grain. Yes, sir. What must it do? Vindicate Malachi 4; vindicate Luke
17:30; vindicate Hebrews 13:8; vindicate St. John 14:12; vindicate all of His
Word: vindicate Hebrews--I mean, Revelation the 10th chapter, of the opening of
the Seven Seals; and the mysteries of God, even to serpent's seed, and all
would be manifested: Marriage and divorce
and all these other mysteries that's been hid under the pillars from all these
years from the theologians and so forth, but it's now the hour. That's the
Father's business. Think they would receive it? They want to be dignified and
say, "Our denomination don't teach us that." But the Bible does.
That's right. God vindicates it to be true. Sure it is.