Quotes used in the
message
“The
Approach to God” Pt.12 (We Are Two Persons )
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.
HEBREWS 4:12
12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful,
and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to
the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is]
a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD
SUNDAY_ 64-0830E
1151-36 Somebody told me he had one, one time was
converted, received the Holy Ghost, and he said to him, "How you getting
along?"
He said, "Pretty good and pretty bad."
He said, "Well, how do you mean pretty bad and pretty
good?"
He said, "Well, since me receive the Holy
Ghost," he said, "there's been two dogs in
me, and one of them a black dog and one of them a white
dog." And said, "They argue all the time."
Said, "They growl and fight at one another." And said, "The
white dog wants me do good; the black dog wants me do bad."
Said, "Well, Chief, which one of them wins the fight?"
Said, "That depends on which one
Chief feeds the most." So I think that's a good answer here.
See? There just depends on the warring of the body that's in you; it depends on which one you cater to, which nature you
cater to, the carnal nature after the things of the world, or the spiritual
nature after the things of God. That does it.
LOOKING.AT.THE.UNSEEN_ LA.CA FRIDAY_
59-0410
E-4 I wish to read just a verse tonight out of
II Corinthians the 4th chapter, the 18th verse.
While we
look not at the things which are seen...
And my subject tonight is "Looking At The
Unseen." We are told that we have an outward man and a
inward man. And the outward man looks by his eyes. And the inward man walks by
faith. So
we have to be led by one of these two persons. Outside, outward man is self.
Inward man is God. You see, we do not see with our eyes, though many times
we have thought that we see with our eyes. We only look with our eyes, we see with our heart.
Jesus told Nicodemus once: "Except a man be
borned of the Spirit, he cannot see the
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD
SUNDAY_ 64-0830E
1148-Q-378 378. Romans 7:14-18, "We know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I would do--not: for
what I would, that I would not; but what I hate, that I do. If then I do that
which I would not, I (c-a-n-) un--unto the law,
consent to the law, that it is good. Now then, it is no more I that doeth it,
but sin that dwelleth in me." This I cannot
understand.
Well, they wrote out the Scripture; that's Paul speaking to the
Romans. Now, he said... Let me just kinda polish it
up so you can see. He said, "In me is two persons:
right, one wants me to do; wrong, the other wants me to do. And every time I
start to do right, then wrong hinders me."
How many of you people on the interviews this afternoon has run
that same thing in this morning (See?), same thing? I spoke on it this morning,
temporarily.
1148-28 You are an outward man which
is controlled by six senses; you are an inward man controlled by one sense
which is faith. And this faith disagrees with all six senses if the six senses doesn't agree with faith. But one is contrary to the other.
Now, as long as the six senses agree with the faith, wonderful; but when the
six senses disagrees with faith, then leave the six senses alone.
Now, for instance here, Jesus made a statement, a
promise. The inside man says that's true; the outside man reasons that it can't
be true to you; then ignore the outside man and accept the inside man. Now,
that's the same thing that Paul's speaking of. He was sold under the law to
carnal sin. Every one of us is the same. That's the reason we are--have the
troubles we do, of married four or five times, and this, and that, and the--all
kinds of sin, and adulteries, and everything else along in our lives, is
because of those things. We are carnal, and that part
must perish; but then, inside, we are a spirit man, soul inside, and that's
faith in God's Word; then we bring our outside body
under subjection to the Word by faith, by accepting what God said.
VICTORY.DAY_ SIERRA.VISTA.AZ SUNDAY_
63-0421
E-28 It never gives the inward man a chance to operate. Now,
we are a--we are a triune being: soul, body, and spirit. Now, but when the
natural mind... The two spiritual forces that works in
you is your mind and your--and your spirit. See? Now, the natural mind that's
highly polished will try to achieve something by his intelligence. See? And
when he does that, the very thing... When he does that, he throws hisself away from the spiritual man that's in him. And
there what causes the trouble, right there. See? He tries to make it out in
himself.
RAPTURE.THE_ YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14
SATURDAY_ 65-1204
144 You say, "I got the baptism
of the Holy Ghost." That don't mean that you're
saved, not by a long ways.
Looky here, you are a triune being. You
are... Inside this little fellow here is a soul; the next is a spirit; and next
is a body. Now, you got five senses in this body to contact your earthly home.
They don't contact the rest of it. You got five senses of the spirit here: love
and conscience and so forth like that. But in here is where you live. That's
what you are.
Didn't Jesus say the rain falls on the just and the unjust? Put a
cocklebur out here, and a wheat out there, and pour water on them, and keep
them under fertilize and things like that, won't they both live by the same
water? Sure. But what is it? One of them will bear a cocklebur, 'cause that's
all he is. The cocklebur will raise his hands and shout just the same as a wheat.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD
SUNDAY_ 61-1015M
676-Q-157 157. Please explain the difference between the spirit and the soul.
Well, now that's a hard one. But the first thing
you are, a triune being, just like Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is
three titles going to one Person, which is Jesus Christ. And you're soul, body,
and spirit. But it takes those three to make you. With just one of them, you're
not you. It takes the three to make you.
REV.CHAP.4.PT.2.24.ELDERS_ JEFF.IN ROJC 585-643
SUNDAY_ 61-0101
237 Now, the first throne was in heaven,
judgment seat. The second throne was in Christ; the third throne is in man.
Now, let me take this little thing that I got drawed
here. We're going to make... I wished I had a blackboard, and I could make it
maybe more sensible for you. We're going to take and draw the courts, only make
it in a round ring, or like this, either one. Now, we're going to take... I
believe, like this maybe would be the best; we're going to take and make the
courts.
Now, what is a man? He's a triune being: body, soul, and
spirit. How many knows that? Watch God's approach. What is his heart? You
remember my message, "God Chose a Man's Heart for His Control Tower?"
The Devil chose his head for his control tower. See? He makes him see things,
look through his eyes. But yet God in his heart makes him believe things that
he cannot see. See? See, God is on his heart; in the heart of man is the throne
of God. You get it? Man... God made His throne in the heart of man.
Now, watch. What's the first part of the man? The first
part of the man is body. The next part is his soul, which is the nature of his
spirit that makes him what he is. He approaches now. Now, the third part of the
man is his spirit, and his spirit is in the center of his heart, and in the
center of the heart is where God comes for the throne.
ENSIGN.AN_ PHOENIX.AZ FRIDAY_
62-0119
E-27 Now, a man is made up as a
triune being: soul, body, spirit. Now, the outside is the body. There's five gates to that body, and that's the five senses,
of course: see, taste, feel, smell, and hear. The inside, like the seed that's
planted... The inside of that is the pulp-like of the seed, which is the soul. There's five gates to that you enter into: conscience, and
memory, and so forth.
But then inside of that little compartment is the third
compartment, which is the spirit. And that's what controls the rest of it.
There's only one avenue through that, and that's self will. You can accept or
turn away and that's the only avenue to that. If you accept the will of God
through that spirit, God's Spirit takes His place in your heart and controls
the rest of you. And if you do not accept that, then the enemy takes that spot
and controls the rest of you. So it lays in that.
And man, being made up in that fashion, then it gives him the--the
something inside of him that makes him want to achieve something by himself. He's trying to do something to save himself.
He wants to get out of it, but he wants to do it himself. He wants to make his
own way about it.
QA.IMAGE.OF.THE.BEAST_ JEFF.IN SATURDAY_
54-0515
196-294 She said,
"I'll tell you, when He went down to pray for Lazarus, to raise Lazarus
up," said, "I'll prove to you He was just a man."
I said, "Let's see you do it."
Said, "The Bible said He wept. And that proves that He was a
man; He could weep."
I said, "Sure, that was the Son that was weeping."
He was
a God-man. He was a triune being just like I am, you are; we're soul, body, and
spirit. He was Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in the Deity of God; that's Who He was. He was Deity Himself. How could He do anything there
when the... His own children crying for His blood? If it'd been something else...
That was His own children crying for His Blood, no wonder He wept for them. How
would a man... And His own kids crying for His blood,
how could He feel? Either condemn them to hell forever, or give His life; He
was God giving His life for His children. Deity dwelt in Him. That's Who He was.
The woman said, "Looky," said,
"Reverend Branham, I'll prove to you. When He wept, it proved He was a
man."
GOD'S.COVENANT.WITH.ABRAHAM_ CHARLOTTE.NC SATURDAY_
56-0428
E-5 And Gehazi run
out, his servant, to ask. He said, "Is all well with thee, and is all well
with thy husband, is all well with the child?"
Now, listen. The child a corpse, and her husband frantic, and her
riding at a breakneck speed, she said, "All is well." I like that.
She was before the servant of the Lord.
I think that's where Mary got the idea of meeting Jesus the way
she did. Said, "Lord, if Thou would been here, my brother had not died,
but even now, whatever You ask God, God will do
it." See?
She knew that if God was in His prophet, surely, He was
in His Son. So she approached in the right way, reverent, and she got what she
asked for. That's the--the reason today that we don't get what we ask for; we
approach in the wrong way. We got to approach with a sh... "He that cometh to God must believe that
He is, and a rewarder of those who diligently seek
Him."
PARADOX.A_ PHOENIX.AZ V-19 N-1
SUNDAY_ 65-0117
102 So is it with an individual. As long as there's any human injections, human ideas, then God's germ
of Life, the Holy Spirit, cannot work. You cannot be healed as long as there's
just a--a fraction somewhere, that it's not rotten yet; it's got all the human
elements, all the scientific ideas, all the days of miracles is passed,
so-called. All that has to, all, not only die, but rot, then from there grows
the germ of Life unto a new life. That's the only way it can grow.
That's the reason we don't get what we ask for. We try to
take with us so much of our own ideas.
That's the reason the Lutheran church couldn't advance no farther
than--than it did, the Pentecostals and the rest; 'cause they inject by a bunch
of theologians, "This oughtn't to be this way. This is for another day.
And this was for that." There it stays. It cannot grow to that perfect image of Christ until
every Word of God is received into you, and then you become that Word, like the
seed that went in the ground.