Christ Is Revealed In His Own Word

CHRIST_REVEALED_IN_HIS_OWN_WORD JEFF_IN 08-22-65 Morning

24 Well, every denomination is an ultimate to their believers. But to me and to the ones that I hope that I’m leading to Christ, and by Christ, the Bible is our Ultimate. No matter… ‘Cause God said, “Let every man’s word be a lie, and Mine Truth.” And I believe that the Bible is God’s Ultimate. No matter what anyone else says, It’s the Ultimate. The Bible is not a book of systems. No, sir. It is not a book of systems, nor a code of morals. The Bible is not a book of systems, so many systems and so forth. No, sir! It is not a book of morals. No, sir, It is not. Nor is It a book of history altogether, or neither is It a book of theology, for It is the revelation of Jesus Christ. Now, if you’d like to read that, you who have your papers, marking it down, that’s Revelation 1:1-3 Is… The Bible is the revelation of Jesus Christ. Let us just read it while we got the time. I believe my… Haven’t got too many notes here to speak from. If the Lord tarries, why, we’ll try to get from them…

25 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show to his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified…

by his angel to his servant John:

Who bare record of the Word of God, and… the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the word of this prophecy, and keep the things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

So the Bible is the complete revelation of Jesus Christ, and It was wrote by prophets, Hebrews 1:1, “In… God, Who in sundry times spake to the fathers by the prophets, in this last day speaks to us through His Son, Jesus Christ,” which was the prophets, all of them put together. Jesus was Malachi; Jesus was Jeremiah, Isaiah, Elijah. All that they were, were in Him. And all that you are, and all I am, is in Him: Words, witnesses of the Word. So It is not a book of systems, a code of moral ethics, neither is It a history book, or a book of theology. It is not. But It’s the revelation of Jesus Christ: God Himself revealed from Word to flesh. That’s what It is. The Bible is the Word, and God is the flesh. God in…

26 God is the Word, rather, and Jesus being the flesh, It’s a revelation how God, the Word, was manifested in human flesh and revealed to us. And that’s why He becomes a Son of God. He is a part of God. You understand? Now, He is not… The body is part of God, so much that it’s a Son. A Son… As a Catholic puts it, eternal Son (and all the rest of the churches), the word don’t even make sense. See? There cannot be eternal and then be a son, ’cause a son is something that’s begotten from. And the word “eternal”… He cannot be an… He can be a Son, but He cannot be an eternal Son. No, sir. He cannot be an eternal Son. Now, but He is the Son, so much that all the Word that was in Jeremiah, in Moses… And all those Words, like He said, “They speak of Me.” All that true Divine revelation of Word was wound up into one human body, and God put flesh around It. That’s the reason He was called “Son,” reason He refers, “Father.” Why, it’s just as simple, if you just let God pour it down into your mind. See? God revealed in a body of flesh (Notice.)–revealed from flesh–or from Word unto flesh. That’s St. John 1:14: “And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us.” Now, notice this Bible. Some of them said, “Oh, well, It’s done this; It’s done that.” But let me tell you something; let’s just–let’s go into the history of the Bible just a minute and see where It come from.

27 It was written by forty different writers. Forty men wrote the Bible over a space of sixteen hundred years apart and at different times, predicting the most important events that ever happened in world’s history, and many times hundreds of years before it happened. And there is not one error in the entire sixty-six Books. Oh, my. No author but God Himself could be so accurate. Not one word contradicts the other. Remember, sixteen hundred years apart, the Bible was wrote, from Moses to–to the death of–of John at Isle–or the Isle of Patmos: sixteen hundred years. And was wrote by forty different authors. One didn’t even know the other one, and they never had It as the Word. Some of them never even seen the Word. But when they wrote It, and was understood to be prophets, then when they put their prophecies together, each one of them dovetailed one to the other. Look at Peter, who announced on the day of Pentecost, “Repent every one of you and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins.” Paul had never heard nothing about it. He went down to Arabia for three years to study the Old Testament to see Who this Pillar of Fire was that spoke to him on the road, saying, “Saul, why persecutest thou Me?”

28 How could he be wrong? He never even consulted the church at all. And fourteen years later when he met Peter, they was preaching the same thing, word by word. That’s our Bible. Let other men’s words fail. This… No man can add to It. You don’t add no more to the Bible. No, sir. This is a complete revelation. That’s all. Like the Seven Seals. The Seven Seals… Someone kept saying to me. “There you’re… The Lord will speak to you, Brother Branham, when these seals are revealed and will tell us how to get closer to God, and how to do…” I said, “No, sir. It can’t be, because the Bible, the Seven Seals on It had the Seven Mysteries hid. It was already wrote, but they didn’t understand what it was.” Watch how they plowed along with that being baptized in Jesus’ Name. See? That wasn’t it: the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. See? All those things, how it was… ‘Cause there’s many Jesuses… I got several friends here on earth named Jesus, minister friends. It isn’t that; It’s our Lord Jesus Christ. No author but God could be so correct.

29 Now, let’s just see how this Bible was written. Now, say for instance, from… What if we went now and took sixty-six medical books that deals with the body, wrote by forty different medical schools, a hundred and sixteen–or sixteen hundred years apart? Wonder what kind of continuity we’d come up with? When George Washington, our president… About two hundred years ago for pneumonia they pulled his toenail out and bled him a pint. What if we took… Let’s go a little further on some things that we so attracted to today; that’s science. What if we took forty different science from–sixteen hundred years apart and see what we’d come up with? A French scientist three hundred years ago proved by science, by rolling a ball, that if any terrific speed was obtained over thirty miles an hour, the object would leave the earth and fall off. You think science would ever refer back to that? Is any continuity with that now, when they drive down the street on the road here, hundred and fifty miles an hour? See? But he scientifically proved that by the pressure of the ball rolling across the ground, that at thirty miles an hour, that any object would lift up off the earth and go away, fall off in space.

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30 No, there’s no continuity to that, but not one word in the Bible contradicts the other. Not one prophet ever contradicted the other one. They was every one perfect, and when one come in and did prophesy, that real prophet raised up and called him down. Then it was made manifest. See, see, see? So the Bible is the Word of God to all true believers. Now, you couldn’t get no accuracy in what doctors would agree upon. You can’t even get accuracy of them now. You can’t get accuracy in science now. Now, you know, sometime ago they told us that the–that when the Bible said that he saw four Angels standing on the four corners of the earth, that that couldn’t be; the earth was round. But the Bible said “four corners.” Well now, you seen two weeks ago (Three weeks ago it’s been now.), the papers packing this article; they found out that the world is square. How many’s seen that? Sure. See?

31 I got it all copied off and just waiting for somebody to say something. And they’re going to find out someday that they’re not seeing a hundred and fifty million years of light space either; they’re going right around in a circle. That’s exactly. You’re going to find out one of these days that when you go to heaven, you don’t fly off somewhere else; you’re still right here too, just in another dimension faster then this. Right through this room’s coming color. Every color shirt, dress, whatever you got on is eternal, laying right on records, going around and around the world. Every time you bat your eyes, it’s right on record. Watch, television will prove that. When you’re born, God sets a record on. It don’t make… Put a record on, it don’t make much noise for a little while, you know; that’s the little baby till it comes to accountability. Then the noise starts. He starts saying things and doing things he has to answer for. And then when that life ends, that record or tape is took off and laid in the–in the great big library of God…

32 Now, how you going to get around it at the judgment bar? It’s played right back in front of you: Every move you made, every thought that went through your mind. Can you see that? Now, can you see where God… Standing here the other night, and there’d been a man on the platform, tall, bald-headed man, real handsome looking fellow, strong. And he went out… The Lord had told him a whole lot of things about his family and what he should do. And he went out and set down. In a few minutes here come before me another man like that, but he had his head down. I couldn’t make out, and I looked at the man again out there; and he wasn’t him, because it was something else. And this man, I couldn’t find him. I looked around, no body behind me. I said, “The man is setting inside of those curtains there.” And it was our–a brother that comes to church here, tall, bald-headed, handsome sort of a fellow setting up there like that. And he had his head hung over, praying, because he was just about to die with stomach trouble. He was going to get a pair of shoes. His wife wanted him to get a new pair of shoes. He said, “No, I don’t have to get them, ’cause I ain’t going to live to wear them.” He was dying. And setting there (You see?), in that dimension… Hallelujah. God just moved over in there and said, “There he sets,” just the position he was in. See what I mean? Now, notice. And there is not any error in the Scriptures.

33 Jesus, the Word of God, perceives the thought that’s in the heart. The Word of God is stronger, sharper, Hebrews 4:12: “The Word of God is sharper, more powerful than a two-edged sword, even a Discerner of the thoughts and intents of the mind.” See? Goes way down into the mind, and pulls out, and discerns. What is “discern”? “Make known, reveal out.” And that’s what the Word of God does. Today we say, “The Catholic church is the Word of God, the Baptists, the Methodists, the Pentecostal, the tabernacle.” That’s wrong. The Word is the revelation, God revealed by the Word. No, we could’ve got–get any continuity amongst medics, amongst scientists, different ones. If Einstein had only had the spiritual application, as he had the–the physical application, as he studied the laws of light and so forth, he could’ve told us something. When I heard his message on that great center somewhere into the skies, that ever contacted with that center, you could create earths, do anything that–the power would be unlimited. See?

34 He had seen that. You see these little pockets going through the air they call “saucers,” so forth. People so that… Well, we better leave that alone. “Hear how these people come up missing?” you say. Don’t hear from them; they’re standing there, and they’re not there. That’s the way the rapture’s going to be. One of them would drop right down, and this terrestrial body will take on a celestial body. And they’ll be hide, hair, or bones left. It’ll be transformed in a moment of time, dropping right out of space and taking home that… We see all this going on now, and the–and the Pentagon wondering about these lights, and mystic lights, and everything they’re seeing in the–in the sky. You seen they had one here in the paper at Jeffersonville this week and so forth, a mystic light saw. Oh, they don’t know what that is. But listen, little children, it’s going to pick you up one of these days (See, see?); don’t worry. You remember, Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Sodom…” What happened just before Sodom?

35 God came down with some Angels, and they had an investigation judgment. Said, “I’ve heard the cry that is so sinful, so great, so I’ve come down to find out whether it’s altogether the truth or not.” Is that right? Watch, that main One that stayed with Abraham could discern the thoughts was in Sarah’s heart behind Him. Now, you’d look around just a little bit and notice (See?); watch what It’s doing, the same thing today. It’s an investigation judgment. When after while the church, when It can stand that place and every seed has been brought to it’s spot, they’ll be gone. They won’t know what happened to them. One will be going one way. See? One will be going over to the pastor’s house, and one will be going here or down there; and the first thing you know, they’re not there. For Enoch which was the type, God took him, and he was found not. Come down to investigate… The continuity, how that Enoch translation, a type of Israel being carried over in the ark… So perfect… The Word of God is so perfect, even to the Old and New Testament is two halves and one whole. Right. Old Testament’s half of It, and New Testament’s half of It. Put It together, you got the whole revelation of Jesus Christ. There’s the prophet speaking; here He is in Person. See? Two halves and one whole. Now, we don’t want to take too much.

36 Now, remember, the Old Testament is not complete without the New. And the New could not be complete without the Old. That’s the reason I said, two halves: one whole. For the prophet said, “He’ll be here; He’ll be here; He’ll be here. They’ll do this to Him; they’ll do this to Him.” And here He is, “He was here; He was here. And they did this to Him, and they did this to Him.” I just preached on that a few nights ago. Now, in order to study the Scripture… Paul told Timothy, “Study It, rightly dividing the Word of God which is Truth.” Then there’s three musts in the Scripture. In using God’s Word there is three things that you must not do. Now, let’s study those for the next ten minutes: Three things that you must not do… And all out in the land wherever you are across the nation, be sure to put these down in your mind if you haven’t got a pencil. You must not do these things. We tell you all the time how you must do; now, I’m going to tell you what you must not do. Now, you must not misinterpret the Word. You say, “Well, I believe It means this.” It means just what it says. It needs no interpreter. And you must not misplace the Word. And you must not dislocate the Word. And if we would do either of these, it throws the whole Bible in a confusion and in a chaos. Notice.

37 To misinterpret Jesus in the form of God in a man you would make Him–you would make Him one god out of three. To misinterpret Jesus Christ being the Word, you’d make Him one god out of three, or you’d make Him the second person in a godhead. And to do that, you’d mess the whole Scripture up. You’d never get nowhere. So It must not be misinterpreted. And if you say that a certain thing, you put an interpretation on It, and you apply It to another time or It’s been applied to another time, you also make an incorrect interpreting. If anybody misinterpret Jesus Christ in the Bible of not being God Himself, make Him the second person, or, one god out of three, this would upset every Word in the entire Bible. It would break the first commandment, “Thou shalt not have any other god before Me.” All right. It would make the whole Christian race a bunch of pagan worshippers worshipping three different gods. See what kind of a Bible you’d have? Then it’d make us what the Jews say we are: said, “Which one of them gods is your god?” See? So you see, you can’t–you mustn’t misinterpret the Bible, for Jesus Himself is the Interpretation of the Bible when He’s made manifest in the age that the part of His Body is being made manifest. If it’s a hand age, it must be a hand; it can’t be a head age. If it’s a voice age, well then, it can’t be a foot age. See? And now, we’re at the eye age.