Notes used in the message
“The
Revelation of One God Pt.12” (Christ Is The Mystery)
COLOSSIANS 1:12
12 ¶ Giving thanks unto the Father, which
hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
COLOSSIANS 1:13
13 Who hath delivered us from the power of
darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son:
COLOSSIANS 1:14
14 In whom we have redemption through his
blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins:
COLOSSIANS 1:15
15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn of every creature:
COLOSSIANS 1:16
16 For by him were all things created, that
are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be]
thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by
him, and for him:
COLOSSIANS 1:17
17 And he is before all things, and by him all
things consist.
COLOSSIANS 1:18
18 And he is the head of the body, the church:
who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] he
might have the preeminence.
COLOSSIANS 1:19
19 For it pleased [the Father] that in him
should all fulness dwell;
COLOSSIANS 1:20
20 And, having made peace through the blood of
his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, [I say],
whether [they be] things in earth, or things in heaven.
COLOSSIANS 1:21
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and
enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
COLOSSIANS 1:22
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to
present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
COLOSSIANS 1:23
23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and
settled, and [be] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have
heard, [and] which was preached to every creature which is under heaven;
whereof I Paul am made a minister;
COLOSSIANS 1:24
24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you,
and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for
his body's sake, which is the church:
COLOSSIANS 1:25
25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to
the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil
the word of God;
COLOSSIANS 1:26
26 [Even] the mystery which hath been hid from
ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
COLOSSIANS 1:27
27
To whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory
of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7
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17-4
Therefore, the entire Bible is the revelation of God's
mystery in Christ. Huh? The entire Bible is an
expression of one goal that God had, one purpose He wanted to achieve in the
entire Bible, and all the acts of the--of the believers in the Bible has been
in type and expressing what God's great goal is. And now in this last day He
has revealed it and shows it. And God's help, we'll see it right here this
morning: what the Lord has had in His mind all along and has expressed it.
Therefore, you can see the great meaning of what it's been to know this and
then try to bring it to the people. See? And then you don't... I haven't went into details and tried to explain it as God has
revealed it to me.
CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7
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19-6 He is the principal Theme of the
entire Bible. If you read the Bible and don't see Christ in every verse of It, go back and read It again. See? If you can't see Christ
in every verse of the Bible, then you read It again,
because you've missed something. The Bible is Christ. He is the Word.
When you read, "In the beginning God created..." there's Christ. See?
Every... From that to the "Amen" in
Revelations is every Word testifying of Jesus Christ.
That's why these added books that's
called II Book of Daniel and the--the Book of the Maccabees,
Agges Purgatory, and stuff like that... See, it's not
spoke of in the Scripture. See? It doesn't theme up
with the rest of It. There's no place to place
purgatory in there. There's no place to place intercession of saints, and
things; there's no place in there for that. There's no place for denomination.
There's no place for--for creeds outside of it--of the Bible. See? So when you
see those things, they--they just don't come into the picture.
CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7
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36-4 Look, Christ in you makes Him the center of Life of the
revelation. See? Christ's Life in you makes Him the center of the revelation.
Christ in the Bible, makes the Bible a complete
revelation of Christ. Christ in you makes you the complete revelation of the
whole thing. See what God's trying to do?
What is the new birth then? You say, "Well, Brother Branham, what is the new birth?" It is the revelation of
Jesus Christ personally to you. Amen. See? Not you joined a
church, you shook a hand; you done something different; you said a creed; you
promised to live by a code of rules; but Christ, the Bible... He is the Word
that was revealed to you. And no matter what anybody says, what takes place,
it's Christ. Pastor, priest, whatever it might be... It's Christ in you. That
is a--the revelation that the Church was built upon.
MASTERPIECE.THE_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-7
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65
Now, the foundations was laid through faith,
love, grace, and to perfection through the patriarchs. Now, the body work that
come on to this great masterpiece was the prophets, which was the Word (I hope
you can read it. See?)--the prophets, not the laws, the
prophets. For the prophets was the vindicated Word which makes the
body, not the patriarchs, the prophets. They were
the Word.
Finally, as He started way back in the days of Moses and come down
through the prophets, to each one, it finally--building up the body, coming closer all
the time... And the greatest of all of them was John. The Bible said so. Jesus
said it: "There's not a man ever born of a woman as great as John the
Baptist," for he was the one that could introduce the Word. And then come
finally the great Head, the Head of all of it. The rest of the body just spoke
of It.
68 The foundation was laid by the patriarch, but the body was
built by the Word, which was the prophets. And here
comes the Head of all of it; Jesus came on the scene. There when this Headpiece
was put upon it, we find in Him the entire handiwork of God. We find in Him the
perfect reflection of the Word, for He was the Word, the fullness of the Word.
Now, again God has the perfect Masterpiece again, as Isaiah said, "Behold
My Servant, My Masterpiece that I have portrayed through all the ages of this
perfect One coming. And here He stands right before Me, a perfect..." There in His own image reflecting
God, for He said in
SOULS.IN.PRISON.NOW_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-22
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20-5 The ministry of Jesus Christ reincarnated
in His church in this last day... That's what many of us believe. I believe
with you. I believe this. If I didn't believe it, I'd do something else about
it, because after all, this is me that's concerned in
here. And if the Spirit of God be in you, you're concerned about
the people. There was a Scripture that always puzzled me: How that Moses could
tell God a better idea than God had, till I found out that it was the Spirit of
Christ in Moses. See?
God said, "Moses, separate yourself from them. I'll destroy
the whole thing and start with you."
He said, "Lord," he throwed
himself in a breach, said, "take me. Blot out my
name."
TURN.ON.THE.LIGHT_ PHOENIX.AZ V-22 N-3
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27 By the Word of God the sun shines today,
because the very sun that we're enjoying is God's Word made manifest. This very
sunlight that we see outside is nothing but God's Word, when He said, "Let
there be light."
And what if He'd said, "Let there be light," and there
was no light? Then it wasn't God spoke. When God says, "Let there
be," there will be. And so we find out that the sun that we now are
enjoying is the manifestation of God's Word spoken in Genesis.
And we realize that--that God's Light of the day is His Son. The
one was s-u-n; this one is S-o-n. S-o-n is the Bible. He was... "In the
beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
Hebrews 13:8, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." It's the
Word of God always. It was Christ in Noah. It was Christ in Moses. It was
Christ in David that looked up as a rejected king, upon the city; where eight
hundred years later, Christ set there weeping over a city, being a rejected
King, just like David was. It's always the Spirit of Christ. And the full manifestation of God's Word was made known
through Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God.
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E-72 You know what "Son of man" means?
Look at Ezekiel the 2nd chapter and you'll find it: Ezekiel 2:1. Jehovah,
Himself, called Ezekiel the prophet, "son of man." He called all the
prophets, "son of man."
And why, then, did Jesus call Himself Son of man? Because
He had to come in the way that the prophet said He would come. Moses, in
Deuteronomy 18:15, said, "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet like
me." And He come to reveal Himself to the natural
seed of Abraham as Son of man. And they called it the work of a devil.
So has the royal seed. That sounds harsh, but it's corrective and it's love. The royal seed today's done the same thing, tried
to call it mental telepathy or some devil. It's the Son of man, Christ. That
was Christ in Ezekiel, Christ in Moses, Christ in
David. It was Jesus, the same yesterday, today, and forever. What? The Word being made manifest by these prophets.
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E-46 But watch the Word pick it up. He was the
Word. "In the beginning was the Word; the Word was with God; and the Word
was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." The Word
picked it up to correct the error. "Know ye not that I must be about My
Father's business?"
If Joseph had been His father, He'd been down in the carpenter
shop in His business. But His Father's business was condemning those
organizations and things, that He was condemning them up there, where He--where
He belonged. He was having a time there, where they couldn't even understand
how this Boy would know such as that. But He was the Word. Never a man spoke
like Him. What He said, He had the authority to make it work.
Those prophets did too, 'cause they lived in the hour. He
was--He--He was all the prophets made in One, plus
even that, 'cause He was the Fullness of the Word. He was all the Word. The prophets was just the Word to that age. But He was the Word
to all ages. He was God Himself coming down and manifested in a body of flesh,
the Word made flesh and dwelt among us.
UNVEILING.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-9 N-1
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300 The Pillar of Fire appearing visibly among
us, identifying that the Message is right, like He did at
Oh, in this last days to see that same Pillar of Fire right among
us, speaking the same Word, not only that, but interpreting It by making It
manifest and proving that It's the Truth. So the people has not one way to
disbelieve, lest they just wilfully want to, and
then, "He that sins wilfully after having a
knowledge of the Truth, there remaineth no more
sacrifice for sin."
PARADOX.A_ PHOENIX.AZ V-19 N-1
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65 They started out, really, with grace to
begin with. Before they had law, they had grace. While they were in
So there was Joshua, representing grace, was right along with law,
but could not be enforced as long as law was in its proper place.
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E-6 They stand just about like our Pentecostal
fathers did about forty years ago or a little better, after we had seen the
same things that they had seen, one of the mightiest revivals that the church
ever had: Seen divine healing, the people brought out of bondage, being bound
by fetters of denominations and so forth, been brought out into a freedom. Grace had provided them everything
they had need of: an Angel of God to lead them, prophets, great men.
KNOWETH.IT.NOT_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-10
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14-5 God... Notice here.
Just wait. I--I believe I read this just a few minutes ago. Listen to this.
... unto the angel of the
God is the Creator and how was He ever created? But this is
the beginning of the creation of God. When God, the Spirit,
was created in the form of a man, that was God being created: God the Creator
Himself becoming a creation. God Who made the dirt, made the calcium made the potash,
cosmic light, and petroleum took the thing together and created Himself in the
beginning of the creation of God: the Amen, the final. "Amen" means
"so be it." The final of God
when God completed in His creation.
Now, how was it? No man has seen God at any time, but the Only
Begotten of the Father has declared Him. You get it?
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110 Now, to show that He was the "First"
also, as He was, He's the beginning of the creation of God. Oh, do you catch
it? See? How could God be created that He's a Spirit? How
could He be? He's--He is eternal. He never was created; He never will be
created, because He was God at the beginning. But He that is the beginning of
the creation of God was Jesus Christ when He was made manifest, when God lived
in Him. He is God's creation. Oh, my. See? "The First and
the Last, the Amen, the beginning of the creation of God." When God
created Himself a body, He come down and lived in it,
that's the beginning of the creation of God. See? Oh, isn't He wonderful?
KNOWETH.IT.NOT_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-10
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28-4 If that Holy Spirit in you makes you speak
with tongues, looks back there and doesn't agree with the rest of the Word,
then it's a wrong spirit. See? It's got to come from the inside, which is the
Word from the beginning. In the beginning of the creation
of God when God begin to create and bring you into existence... You see, you started back there as a seed and worked
down to where you are now. And then you were all in Christ. Then when Christ
died, He died to redeem all of you. And you are part of this Word.
And how can the Bible--all of it precept upon precept, line upon line, here a
little, there a little, not one jot or tittle shall
fail... How in the world can you, being part of that Word, disagree with the
rest of it, or any part of it?
PROVING.HIS.WORD_ JEFF.IN V-9 N-6
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146 So He, God, came down after going through
this, and now every son, that you eat and born of a natural sexual birth, the
way you come; then when it comes to a place to where you go through water baptism,
then Holy Ghost baptism, then the Holy Ghost comes down at the fire baptism and
claims this creation, the same as it did Him. The Holy Ghost and God is the
same Spirit (See?); It comes down and claims this body
for the resurrection. And He was raised for our justification, "All the
Father has given Me will come, not one will be lost.
I'll raise it up at the last day. Not one hair of their head will even
perish." That is the beginning of the creation of God. This is the
continuation of the creation of God. Then the whole earth has to have a baptism.
And then the Holy Ghost comes down in a city to dwell upon the earth, and the
tabernacle of God is with men, and dwells with them; God has tabernacled here on earth. This whole redemption plan,
justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, the same as it is
then.
336-4 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.9
But now He is standing in the midst of the Church. As He stands
there revealing Who He is in this last age, He calls Himself the "Author
of the creation of God". This is ANOTHER CREATION. This has to do with the church.
This is a special designation of Himself. He is the CREATOR of that church. The
heavenly Bridegroom created his own bride. As the Spirit of God, He came down
and created in the virgin Mary the cells from which
His body was born. I want to repeat that. He created the very cells in the
womb of Mary for that body. It was not enough for the Holy Spirit to simply
give life to a human ovum supplied by Mary. That would have been sinful mankind
producing a body. That would not have produced the "Last Adam". Of
Him it was said "Lo a body hast Thou (Father) prepared for Me." God
(not Mary) provided that body. Mary was the human incubator and she carried
that Holy Child and brought Him to birth. It was a God-man. He was the Son of
God. He was of the NEW creation. Man and God met and joined; He was the first
of this new race. He is the head of this new race. Colossians 1:18, "And
He is the head of the body, the church: Who is the beginning, the first-born
from the dead; that in all things He might have the pre-eminence." II
Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation,
old things have passed away, behold all things are become new." There you can
see that though man was of the OLD ORDER or creation, now in
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD
SUNDAY_ 64-0830M
1113-Q-362 362. Please explain the mystery of
the translation of the Bride.
Just a change (See?), our bodies
now... Let's say our. You know what I mean when I say that? I don't mean to be
sacrilegious. I don't mean to say ours; I don't mean to say this church; I mean
to say every believer.
Abraham, He was looking for a promised son that was promised him.
Is that right? And the church is looking for a promised Son. The Bride (Is that
right?), the Bride is looking for the promised Son.
Before the promised son could come to Sarah and Abraham,
their bodies had to be changed. Is that right?
She was too old to have a baby. She had no milk veins in her
breast; her breast was dried up. Her womb wasn't fertile; she was sterile. She
could not have the baby; her heart was too old to stand labor. So what
happened? God changed her back to a young woman. And He did Abraham the same
thing, 'cause He said his body was as good as dead. See? And He had to change
their body in order to receive the promised son.
And we cannot receive the promised Son that's promised us today in
these bodies that we live in; these bodies are sin.
1114-247 This first
conscience controls this body with see, taste, feel, smell, and hear, and it's
just got us all scrupled up; we reason and everything else. But that new body, that comes from this borned
again (not this first conscience, it'll pass away)... It's that inside
something that lives. Everybody understand it say, "Amen."
[Congregation replies, "Amen."--Ed.]
It's not this outside see, taste, feel, smell, and hear. It isn't. It's subject to death and will die, but the
inside part of you, down in here, inside, that is the person that cannot die.
See? And that's the person that the new life starts from, from this new birth;
and it builds another person in the image of this person you are, around that
life. You get it?
1114-249 So potentially
it's in here, and what is it? The Word promised before the foundation of the
world. And around there, this only reflects the negative; that will reflect the
positive, the Word. See? And the same thing is--or the translation of the Bride
will be the same thing. The Word that's in you, the body
will materialize around that Word, and the same thing did by Sarah.
Before... When that old body that she had, that
first body, it had to be changed in order to produce a son. You get it? That
body could not do it. This body cannot do it, so it'll have to be changed the
same way to receive the Son.