The world is covering the thing over, and worldlyism has took the whole thing. Then isn’t God right? By worldly things, and worldly dressing, and worldly acting, and worldly living, it’s the world. Ye are not of the world, little children. You are of heaven. This is not your home.
Why should I look to, us older people try to look back and get young again? We can’t do that. But we’re looking forward, not looking back. Looking here, what has been, and we want to know what’s going to be. And we’re looking for that hour, pressing for it
Rev. William Marrion Branham
We can change everything in the world, but if man doesn’t change God can’t be happy. Man can’t be changed by anything permanently, it takes only the Power of God to transform or convert or turn a man around. And the transformation begins from the mind. So the scriptures says we must be renewed in the spirit of our minds. See? So we need to guide our minds and be very careful so that we only get influenced by the things of God. We need to get all the worldly ideas off our minds and get our ideas on the things of God and that is what can help us to prove all things. Eph 4:17-24; 1Thess 5:21,22, Rom 12: 1-2. You can’t judge properly without the Word of God 2Tim 3:15-17. And as Christians, we must be able to judge between good and evil. Sin is very attractive, but when its reward is coming it’s heavier than a ROCK. If you follow naked beauty you’re doomed; the pleasures of this world – You’re dead.
And you can’t choose properly if God is not on your side. Beauty is fine, but without God, it is Satanic. Anything that attracts but has no good character behind is Satanic. My dear and beloved sister, check the character behind your beauty. What do you use your beauty for? To cause men to stumble and then fall? Then the Bible says you’re a wicked woman and Satanic inspired. No matter how you claim to be religious. He, Satan, was religious too and he is still religious today.
You can only give what you have. So you must know first, what you’re giving to someone else. Women like flowers a lot. But we don’t want or are not after flowers. It’s the seed, the word, not beauty, of religion. Because the flowers won’t abide for long–Isa 40:6-8; 1Pet 1:22-25. This is the mistake that the Pentecostals have done. They have gone after gifts, and have left the Giver, the Word Himself, behind. But gifts are for attraction, very beautiful. And gifts can do great wonders. Every parent that knows that doesn’t joke with gifts for their children at all. They get the children always close to them, so that they can tell them what they want them to do for them. The gift is just a bait on the hook, but we Pentecostals have only centered on the gifts and refused the Word and what It says we should do. I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. You know better than that.
After the flower, the next thing that develops is the seed. And that is what has the life in it, that can reproduce itself again. And that’s what the farmer is after not the flower. Paul said it plain. He proved it right, when he said “if I have all these flowers – gifts of prophecy, speaking in tongues, discernment and have not the seed – charity, which is the Word – Obedience to the Word, he said I am nothing”. You hear? Charity is LOVE and God is love and God is the Word. And Jesus said “if you love me obey my commandments”. But today Christians and these so – called leaders are probing, presuming, thinking, feeling and suggesting about the Word of God. Which they have no right to.
Growth is mysterious. There is no scientist, who can measure that. And that is how the Word of God grows. It’s not seen. Yes, Sir. We’re not saying that we’re the only true Church in this world. But look, we have good churches, but that’s not what we’re talking about, we have acceptable churches but we’re not after that. What we’re after or we want is a perfect Church. And what is that perfect Church? It is the church that takes the Word of God at work. That church which is trying to become like the Word. That’s right. Yes, many Churches are good, but are not accepted. Some are also accepted but they are not perfect, and we’re after a perfect church. Not good and acceptable ones. They are fine, but the question is, are they perfect? He says “take not away” and “add not ”. We must preach the full word. But what do we see? We don’t judge a Church by the things they have or have done or the dignitaries that attend it, or how old it is.
No! But, by the WORD. You become perfect by the Word of God. Not by speaking in tongues or prophesying or healing or doing miracles and so forth. They are all fine. But remember the same Jesus who told us to do these, just as he told the disciples came to testify, that He will tell others, I never knew you – “Ye workers of iniquity” and what is iniquity? It is Knowing the right thing and doing otherwise or the wrong. And so many Churches, believers and ministers are doing that today because of fame and membership, so that they would be accepted. They teach all manner of doctrines that they know for sure is contrary to the scriptures.
I have nothing against your good deeds and your doctrine or good churches with thousands of members. But remember, Christianity is a footprint. We have an example before us. And we have been warned to follow such examples and not our own theologies, feelings and suggestions,(Heb13:7, Jude5). And keep this in mind that Abraham gave the others, apart from Isaac; gifts and sent them away. Never had anything to do with them any longer. And the Pentecostals today, a descent of Abraham, spiritually – have got gifts and they are gone away from the Word. Think about that. They are becoming more like the world in everything, taking and fusing the ideas of the world into the Church and forgetting about where they were before God by grace brought them out and blessed them with the gifts, the flowers, to draw them closer so that He could tell them His mind about the things He brought them out from.
Beloved brother and sister don’t be a casual Christian. Be the best, a permanent Christian. Don’t live for the day but live for eternity that you will be told “faithful and sincere servant enter into my rest”. Now the perfect has come, so put the casual away. Let it go. God gives good gifts to everybody, but when it comes to the Inheritance, adoption, sealing or giving of the Kingdom, the Holy Spirit, it’s not to everyone.
It only to “those that does the will of my father” Not those that spoke in “tongues or can sing, or prophecy”, but those that are lead by the Spirit. We have three women. Hagar, who had a son by Abraham, but not through the right way. She was a concubine, not legally married, but she came in and had a son. She was “the good”, but her way of coming wasn’t accepted, so she was sent away, never to be thought of or remembered. So we have people as good as they are and being creatures of God, they shall come and just go off the scene into perdition, destruction. The Bible wsays, so no too ways about that, my friend (2Pt2:12). Begin to examine yourself to see if you’re really in the faith. (2Cor13:5)Sarah – she also had a son by Abraham, through an acceptable way, properly married. And Isaac had the physical blessings of Abraham; man’s effort brought him up, but though, through the acceptable way, he couldn’t meet the standard. He couldn’t be perfect. For he was still a sinner. That is Christianity without revelation. This is the “acceptable” but they lack the truth.
Mary – also came on the scene, and had a Son, who became the spiritual SEED of Abraham. He was born through or by the Word and He was the Word, Perfect, without sin, because He always does that which pleases the Father. This is Christianity by revelation. Christianity is by Birth through the Word. If you are not born through or by the Word or become as the Word you might be good, well accepted by others, yet, you shall die and go to hell, period –we got to be perfect.( Matt5:48). Man was perfect, when he was created, then he sinned and dropped down from perfection to be acceptable, then became good, then he begun to do many inventions, bringing His own ideas of doing things and became evil.
And man is just degenerating on – and – on. But now it supposed to be from Good, then to acceptable and then be perfect. That is Justification, Sanctification then Holy Ghost Baptism. Go for the best. Remaining Good, just being justified is not the best, neither being accepted or just begin sanctified, cleansed and washed and set or put aside is the best. But to be perfect is to be Baptized with the Holy Ghost, becoming a child of God, then you’re put into service, you’re adopted. And become a child of God.(Rom8:14)
This is the cardinal point of Christianity. It is to be TRANSFORMED, changed, converted, turned around from this world and it’s ideas unto Christ. It is the life. To know Him is life. A change – old things are passed away, the old nature, that old man is gone, the new nature, Christ is come. Then you can be safe then. It is not conforming to the world or living and thinking as the world but letting the mind of Christ be in you and the Word dwelling in you richly. (Rom12:1,2;1Cor13:10; Col3:15,16;Ph2:5; 1Jn2:15-17). God Bless You. Amen
