Quotes used in the
message
“The
Approach to God” Pt.10 ( The Family Name )
PSALMS 100:1
1 ¶ A Psalm of praise. Make a joyful noise
unto the LORD, all ye lands.
PSALMS 100:2
2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before
his presence with singing.
PSALMS 100:3
3 Know ye that the LORD he [is] God: [it is]
he [that] hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the
sheep of his pasture.
PSALMS 100:4
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,
[and] into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, [and] bless his name.
PSALMS 100:5
5 For the LORD [is] good; his mercy [is]
everlasting; and his truth [endureth] to all
generations.
ACTS 3:16
16 And his name through faith in his name hath
made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath
given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
MATTHEW 10:18
18 And ye shall be brought before governors
and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
MATTHEW 10:19
19 But when they deliver you up, take no
thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour
what ye shall speak.
MATTHEW 10:20
20 For it is not ye
that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh
in you.
MARK 13:11
11 But when they shall lead [you], and deliver
you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye
premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for
it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
BOOK.OF.EXODUS.1_ CHICAGO.IL WEDNESDAY_
55-1005
E-8 Jesus said, "Except a man be borned again, he cannot
understand the Kingdom of heaven." There's no way of understanding it
until you are borned again, and then God reveals
Himself to you, and then you know that you've passed from death unto Life,
because no man can call Jesus the Christ, only by the Holy Spirit. See?
The only way that you'll ever know that Jesus is the Christ,
is when the Holy Spirit personally witnesses to you that He is the resurrected
Lord Jesus. No matter what He would do, what kind of signs, what kind of
miracles, you'll never know it until your personal experience with God.
You say, "Well, I believe it because the Bible said so."
Well, that's good. The Bible, it's true. It knows it. "Well, the preacher
said so." Perhaps, he knows it. "Mother said so." She knows it.
But what do you know about it? You'll never know it until it's
revealed to you individually by the Holy Spirit. And then, by accepting it, you
become a new creature in Christ Jesus, borned a
second time.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD
SUNDAY_ 59-0628E
369-47 Now, now, I knowed
that great Scripture; I use It myself--I've got It
written here:
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth
my words, and believeth on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall
not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
"He that believeth on Me..."
Now, the Scripture says that no man can say Jesus is the Christ only by the
Holy Ghost. So you cannot believe that Jesus is the Christ until you
have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You're only testifying
or saying what the Scripture says, saying what the pastor says, saying what
mother says, or some good preacher says. But you don't know it yourself until He has witnessed His
resurrection to you. No man can call Jesus the Christ until by the Holy Ghost.
WHY.CRY.SPEAK_ CLARKSVILLE.IN SUNDAY_
59-1004E
E-29 Jesus said, "The works that I do, he that believeth
on Me..." Saint John 14:7, "He that
believeth on Me the works that I do shall he do also.
He that believeth on Me..." No man can believe
Jesus Christ to be the Son of God until he's received the Holy Ghost. You're
only taking it by faith and accepting it. You can't say that it is. You can
say, "I believe it is." But no man can call Jesus the Christ until
the Holy Ghost is in him. The Bible said so. The Holy Spirit has to come in
first, then It gives a witness. You know yourself that
Jesus is the Christ because He lives in you.
SUPER.SENSE_ JEFF.IN V-20 N-7
SUNDAY_ 59-1227E
60 Now, you cannot believe it until you are
regenerated. The Bible
said that no man can call Jesus the Christ, only by the Holy Ghost. We
went through that this last week. And it's been such a stumbling block,
especially to the Pentecostal believing people, when they hear me say that.
Jesus said in Saint John 5:24, "He that heareth
My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal
Life." Eternal
Life comes from God alone. "And no man can say Jesus is the Christ, only
by the Holy Ghost."
You're only taking what
somebody else said, what you learned by intellectual, what you learned by the
natural five senses. But when the sixth sense comes in, the Holy Spirit, It takes away
all the reasonings of these six senses--and five
senses, and lifts you up into that sixth sense, to make you believe things that
you can't see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. It does something to you. Then you
can say Jesus is the Christ, because you have witnessed it; not what
intellectual teaching has taught you, but what you've experienced.
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.
ANGEL.OF.THE.LORD_ TOLEDO.OH WEDNESDAY_
51-0718
E-18 Even the Son of God, He said, "I can
do nothing except the Father shows Me first." And
if He couldn't, how much more I, as a man, a sinner, and He never was a sinner.
And He was borned the virgin Son of God. And I was borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world
speaking lies, worthy to go to hell, but He redeemed me. And only hands He has
on earth tonight, is my hands, and your hands. The only mouth that He has, is
my mouth and your mouth.
"I will be with you,
even in you, to the end of the world." Is that His Word? See? Then it's
Him, "It's not you that speaketh," He said,
"but your heavenly Father that dwelleth in you, He doeth, will tell you at that
hour." You see?
INFALLIBLE.WORD.OF.GOD_ CHICAGO.IL FRIDAY_
56-0406
E-63 That was Jesus yesterday. Now, that... If
He--that was Jesus yesterday, and He's got to be Jesus
the same today if the Bible's true, and we know it is, then how could we touch
Him today? Say, "Brother Branham, you said you was a fundamentalist, what
about the Scripture for that?"
The Bible said, that, "He is our High Priest that can be
touched with the feeling of our infirmities." Is that right?
Then if your--that woman's faith could touch Him then, what was
she touching? Not Jesus, she touched His clothes. But what did she really
touch? She touched God. And she could... Jesus didn't know who it was. The
Father hadn't showed Him that, but she drawed from God her desire, and Jesus was
God's mouthpiece. So He spoke to her, what she done it, and how
she done it, and told her she was healed. Now, Jesus was gone away and setting
in the Presence of God with His own Blood as a High Priest. Now, He has to use His Church tonight for a mouthpiece. Is
that right? "Take no thought what ye shall say, for it's not you that speaketh but your Father that dwelleth
in you; He speaketh." Then your faith touches
God.
JEHOVAH.JIREH_ BROOKLYN.NY SUNDAY_
56-1209E
E-98 See, He can... We are the--the branches to
the Vine. In Saint John 15 He said, "I am the Vine, you are the
branches." Now, the only hands that He has tonight on earth, His body is
setting in the--at the throne of God. And the only hands that
He has is ours. The lips He has is ours. It's not you that speaketh,
but your Father that dwelleth
in you. He doeth the speaking. You understand? It's
not my eyes that sees; it's His eyes that sees through
mine and gives the vision.
Now, that's just a gift. That was nothing,
don't mean you're any more than anybody else. It's just a man. And I'll--I'll
have to answer for my calling. And you'll have to answer for yours. And I want
to be reverent. And you know, lady, without any shadow of doubt, in the last
minute or two since you've been standing there, something's going on. You're
aware of that.
Now, if you ever seen that Angel picture, that's just what is
there now; between you and I is a Light. And it's Christ, the same One that
appeared to Paul. If you'd see It with your physical
eyes, It would do the same thing, perhaps, as there. But now, as the Spirit
anoints, I can see It, because it's another world.
It's another dimension.
IMPERSONATION.OF.CHRISTIANITY_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_
57-0120M
E-48 No, no, that ain't
the way the Holy Ghost behaves Itself. No, no. See? Ticks her off in decency. As Paul stood before Agrippa, and
brought the Word, he said, "O Agrippa..."
And Agrippa said, "Paul, thou almost persuadeth
me to be a Christian."
He said, "Agrippa, is it strange to
you, being a Jew, that the Bible has already said and talked about Jehovah? Is
it a strange thing to you, that God would raise the dead?"
Not, "Agrippa, Hallelujah. Glory to God,
Agrippa. Hallelujah." No, that was crazy.
"But Agrippa, the Scripture said..."
See where the mainspring ticks you to, right back... You don't have
to worry about it. It's all in God's program. It ticks you right back.
"Don't get no thought what you'll say," said Jesus, "it's not you that speaketh, it's your Father that dwelleth
in you. He's doing the speaking."
AWAKENING.JESUS_ TEMPE.AZ THURSDAY_
63-0117
E-59 Let us remember also that He created our
bodies. Won't our bodies obey His command? "Spit out that cancer," He
says to the body, and away it goes. You just take that Word and plant It in here and see what happens. Sure. Yes, sir, our bodies
has to obey His command. You say you're a Christian; I believe you are. You
believe... What are you resting in? Someday He'll raise our bodies up after
they've absolutely, completely, perished.
If you don't believe that, why do you go to church? If there's no
resurrection aren't we amongst men most miserable? But His Word of promise,
"He that believeth in Me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live. (Amen.) I am the Resurrection and Life. (Amen.) He that eats
My flesh and drinks My Blood has Eternal Life, and
I'll raise him up at the last days." My. Why? The body,
the ashes, the volcanic ashes that we're made out of, obey His command
because He's the Creator of it.
The life that's
within us is not only a creative Life, but it's part
of His own Life. That's the reason we have the authority to speak to a devil,
'cause it's God's own creative Life, if you're anointed. See? Correctly. Not you, it's not you that speaketh,
but the Father that dwelleth in you. "Take no
thought what you'll say 'cause it'll be added at that time." Just go on. Stay with it. Oh, I love that.
WHAT.HOLY.GHOST.WAS.GIVEN.FOR_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-3
THURSDAY_ 59-1217
74 "If ye abide in Me
and My Word's in you, ask what you will," because you're asking His Word, and
His Word is Life. Speak it; if God said it and you're sure He said it, the Holy
Ghost bears record that Word's right, then there you are, brother. Speak it.
There it is. "Say to this mountain, 'Be moved.'
Don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you said's
going to come to pass." It's not you that speaketh,
but the Father that dwelleth in you, He doeth the
talking. It's not you talking to that mountain; it's the Father
that's in you speaking to that mountain; it has to move. "All heavens and
earth will pass away," He said, "but My Spirit shall not--or My Word
shall not pass away." Certainly, It cannot pass
away. "Father..."
JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME_ MIDDLETOWN.OH SUNDAY_
58-0323
E-37 Here He told a mortal man, "Say to the mountain and believe that
it's being done." Only Deity can move a mountain. Only God can do it. Then
if He told a man could--could do it, it would have to be God speaking through
the man. And the only way a man could know it was God, would be the right
objective, or, and the right motive.
If your objective is right and your motive is right, then it's not
you speaking anymore. It's the Father that dwelleth
in you. "Take no thought what ye shall say in that hour; for it's not ye
that speaks; it's My Father that dwelleth in you. He doeth the speaking."
CONFERENCE.WITH.GOD_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_
59-1220M
E-75 Now, the Bible said that He's the same
yesterday, today, and forever. That's the same in principle, the same in power,
the same in attitude; the same God that lived in Christ lives in the Church,
not as much of It. He had It
without measure, we have It by measure. But if you had a spoonful of water out
of the ocean, the same chemicals is in the whole ocean is in the spoonful.
Remember that. That's right. It's the same God.
Now, the Bible said in Hebrews, he said that Jesus Christ, right
now, is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.
How many knows that? Well, if He is the same High Priest, wouldn't He act the
same way if He was touched? What are we? His mouthpiece. We submit
ourselves to Him, and our words are not our words. "Take no thought what
you shall say, 'cause it's not you that speaks," it's the Father that dwelleth in you, He speaks.
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THURSDAY_ 62-0705
137 A psychic belief, mental belief
without a born again experience, emotional, ecclesiastical creed... If true
genuine Holy Spirit's in there, will punctuate that Word; and that Word will
live just exactly like It said It would, because It's
the same Spirit spoke It, is speaking It through you. It has to live. Certainly, it is. Not you that speaketh, but the Father that dwelleth
in you, He's the One does the speaking. All right.
COUNTDOWN.THE_ SHREVEPORT.LA SUNDAY_
62-1125E
E-56 How many wants to be an astronaut for God?
God, grant it. Now, the Bible said that He's a High Priest that can be touched
by the feeling of our infirmities. (I'm fixing to call a prayer line.) You
believe that? He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, if He is in us, in you, in I, then He will live through us,
work through us, preach through us, act through us, do through us, because it's
not us--not ye that speaketh, but the Father that dwelleth
in you will do the speaking. Just like He says, "Not Me
that doeth the works. It's My Father that dwelleth
in Me doeth the works." You all believe that.