Notes used in the Message
07-0624pm - The Gospel Pt 8 ( His
Soul a Ransom ) - Samuel Dale
II TIMOTHY 1:9-10
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,
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:
HOSEA 13:14
14 I will ransom them from the power of the
grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave,
I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
BOOK.OF.EXODUS.1_ CHICAGO.IL WEDNESDAY_
55-1005
E-13 A man said one time, said, "Brother
Branham, to redeem," he says, "the Devil put me in the pawn shop. And
the Lord Jesus redeemed me." I thought that was pretty cute and right too.
That the Devil put you in the pawn shop, but Jesus come by and redeemed you.
And there's always a ransom to be paid when any thing is
redeemed. And Jesus was our ransom. God sent Him, and made Him in the likeness
of sinful flesh, yet He was Emmanuel. A created Blood dwelt within Him, and He
gave His Blood for the redemption price, to redeem us back into reconciliation
to God, that we might walk with Him as in the beginning. When man... In
the beginning when He didn't have to shift for himself, God provided everything
he had need of. But after he got reckless, and shiftless,
and--and done wrong, and sin separated him from God, then he had to shift for
himself.
And now, Jesus came to redeem this man back into the care of the
hands of a loving Father: redemption, brought back, replaced, put in position.
LIVING.DYING.BURIED_ JEFF.IN EM 1-14
SUNDAY_ 59-0329S
31 Man will never know what that was. That's
the reason there could be no one else could ever die like that. I don't care
how much that you could be tormented, how that they might put your feet in
stocks, or saw you by inches, or burn you by inches; you could not die that
death, because your makeup's not like that. He had to be God. He had to be more than man
in the makeup,
God died. He died of a broken
heart, with such grief for the world, until a chemical reaction taken place in
His body that could not take place in you. You cannot suffer like that. There's
no way for you to have that kind of a grief. So there's only One
could do it, and He did it.
CONVINCED.THEN.CONCERNED_ TEMPE.AZ THURSDAY_
62-0118
E-108 Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the
virgin-born Son of God? Do you believe that His--His holy Blood was not by man?
That we know that the blood cell comes from the male sex, and this way it was
God alone Who created a Blood and
brought forth the Son Christ Jesus. And He was the Son of Jehovah God. God
dwelled in Him. And then, when He gave His Life a ransom on the tree, and He
washed the sinner that will believe on Him, and has taken Him, and a
propitiation for our sins has been made, and has washed us by the water of the
Word and has cleansed us... And now we become sanctified, not
our goodness, but His mercy, that the Holy Spirit might continue the work to
the church down through the age, to declare Jesus Christ the same yesterday,
today, and forever. Amen.
LAW.OR.GRACE_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-7
WEDNESDAY_ 54-1006
52 Now, it isn't what I can do. It isn't
whether I'm good or not. It's whether He was good. I can never be good enough
to make it. You can't be good enough to make it. If you ever make it, you'll
stand in the merits of Jesus Christ. I'll tell you that now, 'cause there's
nothing else you can do.
But God transferred all of our sins upon Him, and He
died. And because He died a sinner, the Bible said, "His soul went to
hell." That's right. And while He was there, He preached to--to those that
were in prison, that repented not in the
long-suffering of days of Noah.
"But it wasn't possible that He would leave His body
see corruption, neither His soul in hell." And on the third day,
He rose up for our justification, showing to us, that as our faith is confessed
in Him, and we've been born anew of the Spirit, that as sure as He come from
the grave, we'll rise also in His second coming. Oh, what a perfect hope.
HE.SWORE.BY.HIMSELF_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-11
SUNDAY_ 54-1212
245 And God, showing that through the hardest, most cruelest death that mortal could ever die, God run the
Forerunner, Jesus Christ. And He come down here as a
man. He lived. He eat. He drank. He cried. He slept.
He rejoiced with us like men. And He laid out there on
the cross and died, and was embalmed. With a sword, pulled the Blood from His
body... And was wrapped in the cloth, and put in the grave, and
was in the grave for three days and nights. And His soul went to hell. The
Bible said so. Yes, sir.
But then He rose again. God would not, wouldn't let His Holy One
see corruption, neither His soul stay in hell. And He rose Him up on the third
day for our justification, ascended Him up on high for our justification.
BALM.IN.GILEAD_ SAN.JOSE.CA TUESDAY_
59-1124
E-27 He was put to the test. There He went to
Calvary, mockery spit all over His face, His face bleeding where they jerked
handfuls of beard out of His face, beaten, when He could have spoke one word and
it would've changed the whole thing. But the Toxin held. He died. He had the
sins of the world. Every sin that was ever in the world was placed upon Him.
Under that burden of sin, with all the weight of sin laid upon Him, He died. He
died until the sun went down in the middle of the day. He died until the stars
wouldn't shine. He died till the moon wouldn't shine. He died until the earth
had a nervous prostration, shook so hard with the chill until the rocks run out
of the mountains. He died a death that nothing could die. The Toxin held.
And when He died, His soul went to hell, because it had the sins of the world
upon it. And He was in hell three days.
But on the early Easter morning, the Toxin begin
to go to work. He rose on the third day, and appeared here on earth again. And
He said, "Because I live, you live also." The Toxin worked with
temptations. The Toxin worked in every trial. The Toxin worked in death. The
Toxin worked in burial. The Toxin worked in resurrection.
JESUS.CHRIST.SAME_ GRANDE.PRAIRIE.AB TUESDAY_
61-0516A
E-6 Now, before you can believe anything you
have to have some kind of a conception of what you are believing
and why. I do not believe that God heals people just to show His power to heal.
I believe He heals people to show that He fulfills His Word and keeps His
promises. When He came on earth the first time, He said that He did this
"that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet." All
God's Word must be fulfilled, all of It.
When Jesus died at
The Bible said His soul--He went to hell and preached to
the--the--the ones was in prison, that repented not in
the long-suffering of the days of Noah.
His body, we know, they put away in a grave and sealed it with
a--with a rock: great stone was rolled up, and sealed.
EVER.PRESENT.WATER_ JEFF.IN V-14 N-6
SUNDAY_ 61-0723M
148 Jesus, when He was here on earth, when He
died, His soul descended into hell, and preached to the spirits that were in
prison, the souls in prison, that repented not in the long-suffering of the
days of Noah. His body went into the grave. But before He
died, He commended His Spirit into the hands of God. His Spirit went to God;
His soul went to hell; and His body went to the grave. And Jesus was barred out
from resurrection until the Scripture could be fulfilled. He could not come
back, because He had to stay in the grave for three days and nights. But when
the Scripture was all fulfilled, this bar was taken away; His Spirit descended
to His soul, His soul to His body, and He rose again.
FAITH_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_
61-0813
E-1 When you've got to use faith in God to make
it work. See? So you got your own resurrection inside of you.
Your resurrection lays inside of you, in
your spirit. Now you know, when Jesus died on the cross, His soul descended
into hell and preached to the souls that were in prison, that
repented not in long suffering in the days of Noah. His body went into the
grave. But before He died, He committed His Spirit into the hands of God:
"Into the hands... Into Thy hands commend My Spirit." So you see, His
Spirit went to God; His Soul went to hell; His body
went to the grave. Now, that Spirit that was in Him was the Spirit of God. And
that Spirit in sundry times and divers manners
anointed the prophets to bring the message to the people. In the last days
through Christ, and now in these days here through the Gospel...
TOKEN.THE_ BAKF.CA V-22 N-8
SATURDAY_ 64-0208
31 Now, our sacrifice today, It not only an
ordinary human being, but it was God Himself that was identified in flesh here
upon the earth. When that Blood cell was broke, not only did the soul of a
man, or a spirit of a man, but God Himself, Who was identified in
that man, returned back upon the believer in the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
That's the Token that God requires today. The Token of today that we have to
have must be the Holy Spirit. That's God's required Token. We'll prove it to
you by the Scriptures.
Without the Holy Spirit, you do not display the Token. That's... The
Token shows that the--that you have identified yourself with the sacrifice, and
God has sent you back the Token to show that you've been accepted. Until that's done, no
matter how good you are, how much you know, how much... A college professor,
good person, preacher, whatever it might be, you are
absolutely not recognized until you can show the Token.
QA.HEBREWS.PART.2_ JEFF.IN COD
WEDNESDAY_ 57-1002
277-412 Yes, notice, Now, my Jehovah Witness
friend, I'd like to ask you about that. See? If hell is a place... Hades, Sheol, whatever you wish to call it, if that ceases at the
grave, then why did He say, "I'll not leave My
soul in hell, neither will I suffer Thy holy One to see corruption"? How
about that? See?
Here His body was in the grave, and his soul was in hell,
preaching, alive. What about that? He was in His Theophany
again. His soul was down there with those people that were in...?... theophany also, and was witnessing
to them that they repented not in the long-suffering.
He... In other words, He'd knocked at the door. And when the door
swung open, and all those souls that repented, He said, "I'm the Seed of
the woman. I'm the One that Enoch here..." Over in
paradise, another place... Don't never lose
them three places, now: the place of the wicked, the place of the righteous,
and hell itself (See?), just like a trinity of heaven: like Father, Son, Holy
Spirit. Like the trinity of the beast: the false prophet, the
beast, and the--and the mark of the beast... And all that, remember, it's all in trinity. Trinity makes one, perfected. One is
perfected. You're perfected, one in three: soul, body, and spirit: water,
blood, and nerves. See, whatever you was, you have to
take three to make a perfected one.
Take a three cornered piece of glass and put the sun on it, you
got a perfected rainbow. See, everything, you have to have three to make a perfect
one.
MANIFESTED.SONS.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN AD.2
WEDNESDAY_ 60-0518
97 And Paul said, "It does not yet appear
just exactly what kind of a body we'll have, but we know we'll have a body like
His." What? Did He ever have that theophany
body? Yes, sir. When He died, the Bible said that, "He," is a
personal pronoun again, "He went to hell and preached to the souls in
prison." Hallelujah. How did He do it? He had senses of feeling; He had
senses of hearing; He had senses of speech; He preached with that same kind of
body I saw those glorified ones in the other night. He preached to the souls
that were in hell, that repented not in the
long-suffering of the days of Noah.
But when He rose up on Easter, it was not possible that that Body
should see corruption, 'cause David the prophet foresaw it, "I'll not
leave His soul in hell, neither will I suffer My holy
One to see corruption. Moreover My flesh shall rest in hope, because He will
not leave My soul in hell, neither will He leave My
holy One see corruption." And on seventy-two hours before
corruption could set in, that theophany, that body
that went and preached to the souls that were in prison, that
repented not in the long-suffering of days of Noah, rose again, and the mortal
put on immortality, and He stood and He eat, and He told us that He was a Man.
Hallelujah.
ENTOMBMENT_ JEFF.IN ER 55-72
SATURDAY_ 57-0420
77 Here He goes. Where did He leave when He left? The Bible
said, "He ascended. He went and preached to the souls that were in prison, that repented not in the long-suffering of the days
of Noah." His soul, His Spirit, His Theophany of
His Own Being, went down. Let's follow Him. Would you like tonight to follow
Him a few minutes? Let's see where He went.
Just below the regions of mortal beings lays the realm of demon
power; below that--just above that lays the souls of the unjust; below it lays
the very domain of Satan: hell. Then just above us lays the Holy Spirit; then
under the Altar lays the souls of the just men; the next is God Himself. One
going downward, one going upward; the two spirits are here on earth,
influencing the people of this earth.
QA.ON.GENESIS_ JEFF.IN COD
WEDNESDAY_ 53-0729
24-82 I can't touch Brother Neville in--in up
there, 'cause John saw them. They was souls under the altar, crying, "How long,
Lord, how long?" You know why; we went through Revelations. And
how that in there they desired to return and be clothed upon with mortal
bodies. They were crying, "How long, Lord?"
Now, they knew each other, but they couldn't talk and shake hands,
or I beg... They could talk, but they couldn't shake hands and so forth.
Here's the image to prove it. When the witch of Endor called up the spirit of Samuel, and Saul looked at
him, he recognized him to be Samuel. And Samuel recognized Saul and said,
"Why did you call me out of my rest, seeing that you become the enemy of
God and God's departed from you?" Is that right? And there stood old
Samuel with his prophet's robe on, and he looked at him. He was in the
spirit...
The witch seen him and fell on the ground, said, "I see gods raising up out of the earth." He said, "Why did
you disturb me?"
And he said, "Well, I want to know how the battle's
going."
Said, "Tomorrow you'll die in battle, and your sons would,
and by this time tomorrow night you'll be with me." See? Now, he was
conscious, and he looked just like he did when he was here on earth to that
witch that was standing, looking at him, and Saul.
THINGS.THAT.ARE.TO.BE_ RIALTO.CA V-4 N-6
SUNDAY_ 65-1205
127 And then so I looked, and these women,
and... They picked me up, these brothers, and set me upon a place. I said,
"Why'd you do this?"
He said, "In earth you was a leader,
and said--and said; "You... These are the people."
And then some women come up, and she said, "Our precious
brother." Most beautiful woman, when she passed by, this voice, something
said, "Don't you remember her?"
I said, "No."
Said, "You led her to Christ when she was past ninety. See?
Can't you see why she says, precious brother?"
And I said, "Well, do--do you go..."
They said, "No, we are waiting here."
I said, "Well, if I've passed over, I want to see
Jesus."
Said, "You can't see Him now. This is the
Scripture said 'souls under the altar.' He's just a little higher. Someday He
will return. We'll go back to earth. We don't eat or drink here."
MIGHTY.CONQUEROR_ CHICAGO.IL FRIDAY_
58-0110
E-18 He went into the regions of the devils,
demons; He scattered them. And right to the very pits of dark hell He went,
still in existence. Though His body was quiet on the cross, He was still the
great and mighty Conqueror. And after nineteen hundred years has passed, He's
still the mighty Conqueror. And He will forever be the mighty Conqueror.
Then when He got to the very doors of hell, if we could use a
little drama here, the devil step out and say, "So I finally got You. So You've finally arrived. I
tried to destroy that seed all along. I destroyed Abel. I thought I had You. When I destroyed the prophets, I thought I had You. I was sure when I got John that I got You. But now, here You are, and
You're in my kingdom, and You're under my domain, and You're in my power, for
You died as a sinner."
I can hear Him say, "Satan, I am the virgin born Son of God.
My Blood's still wet on the cross. I have met every just requirement for Adam's
fallen race, and I've come down here to conquer and to take over." Amen.
Reached to the devil and grabbed the keys of death and hell, and hung them on His own side, and kicked him into the pits where he belongs.
Still the mighty Conqueror.
E-19 He started back to the earth triumph over
death and hell, to win the victory over the grave. But as He went up along the
great paths, He heard some hymns being sung, and He knew He was coming near the
gates of paradise, where those who heeded the message of Noah, those who heeded
the message of the prophets were waiting, because they could not go up.
There was a mist of sin over the earth. And the blood of bulls,
and calves, and sheep could not atone for the human. Therefore they were kept
in a place called paradise. There was a mist hanging over of sin. They could
not ascend up, only He that come down.
And He walks to the door, and He knocks lightly at the door.
Father Abraham opens up the door, and He stood spellbound. And he said,
"Sarah, come here just a moment. Isn't that the same One that you baked
the cakes for? Isn't that the One that set under the oak tree that day?"
Sarah said, "That's the One that had His back turned to the
tent, and He perceived my thought when I laughed at what He said."
E-20 He said, "Children, I've come to take
you now. I've conquered that horrible thing called sin."
And just then right over behind his shoulder Abraham's shoulder
and Sarah standing looking, I can see another head moving up. And it was
perhaps an elderly like man, and he looked over the shoulder of Abraham. And he
too stood spellbound. It was the prophet Daniel. He said, "That's that
Stone that I saw cut out of the mountain without hands that would destroy the
kingdoms of the world."
Someone come running. Who was it? It was that prophet Ezekiel. He
looked over the shoulder of the prophet, and he said as he stood spellbound,
"There is the Wheel in the middle of the wheel that I saw turning way up
in the middle of the air." Each one had seen Him in the
form that they preached of Him in.
Oh, what will it be when we see Him as the Rose of Sharon, as the
Lily of the valley, as the Fairest of ten thousands to my soul? What will He
be? Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the Root and
the Offspring of David, the bright and the morning Star.
E-21 And as they went out, He'd conquered the
grave. And then there was a great mist hanging over the earth yet, so He had to
conquer that mist of sin, that mist of stench of the sins of the people. And
with His own Blood, His vesture dipped in Blood, He conquered the atmospheres
above. Blessed be His holy Name.
He cut the fogs of hell from place to place, until He cut a hole
through the sky that Adam's lost children could pray through to the victory. He
conquered the atmospheres. He conquered sin. He conquered death. He conquered
hell. And He rose triumphantly.
On beyond the moon and stars He went with the Old Testament
saints. Oh, what a victorious march that must have been with the real
Conqueror. After while they come in sight of that glorious
city. Abraham says to Sarah, "Come here, honey." And she gets
Isaac and comes along. Isaac gets Jacob. Jacob gets Joseph.
And he said, "That's that city that daddy saw, whose Builder
and Maker is God. I walked about on the earth looking for a city to come, whose Builder and Maker was God, and now I'm coming near the
gates." Although the great men that they were, they could not conquer it.
It taken One to come down to do the conquering. Though
Abraham conquered difficults, Isaac, and Jacob, and
Joseph, but there was only One Who could conquer sin. That was Him, the Lord
Jesus.
E-22 And as they seen the light from the inside
the city, and the great pearly gates a shining, Jesus in the forefront,
marching on. And the Angels begin to ascend to the top of the buildings. And
they looked coming, and the Old Testament saints cried
out, "Open up, ye everlasting gates, and be ye open. And
let the King of glory come in, the mighty Conqueror."
And the Angels screamed back and said, "Who is this
King of glory?"
And the Old Testament saints cried out, "The Lord of
hosts, mighty in battle." And the gates come open. And He placed at the
gate, the old rugged cross, that every man or woman ever comes into that gate
will have to bow before that cross and recognize Him as the mighty Conqueror.
And as the Angels, ten thousand times ten thousands of thousands
screamed and shouted and praised the Lord, as this great mighty Warrior, He led
captive captive, and give gifts unto man. Not at the
Arch of Triumph like Adolph Hitler, but in the realms of glory.
E-23 The Angels sang and praised the morning
Star as it moved down the street as the mighty Conqueror Who had conquered the
sins of the world and had brought forth the righteous triumphantly. On down
through the city they went, till they come to the throne. There upon the throne
set the mighty Jehovah.
And as Jesus came to the throne, He fell to His knees, and He
said, "Father, I have finished that work that You
gave Me to do. I've paid the debt for sin. I have the keys of both death and
hell. And Your enemy is defeated. And these are those
who waited patiently for this hour."
And I can see the Father, as He said, "Climb up here on My throne, My Son, and set here until I make every enemy
Your footstool." There He sets, the mighty Conqueror. Trusting in His
Word, believing every thing He says, trusting Him as my all, as my breath, as
my life, as all that I have...
Tonight I fully
surrender myself to Him both soul, body, and spirit. Looking for His second coming in glory. When I'm sad, I
trust Him. When I am glad, I trust Him. When I'm sick, I trust Him. And when
I'm lost, I trust Him. Whatever befalls me, I trust Him.