Vol. 54 No. 2          February 2022

Preached on July 12, 2020 – am

As I look into the word this morning, I want to go to Jude first of all. To me, it paints a picture of the day and hour in which we live. He is very concerned with what is going on because he is talking to the saints of God about what happened, and would happen, just as Paul did in Acts, chapter 20. I will go to the book of Jude first and see what he has to say about it all. It is something else how two men can peach a message and it agrees together, even though they are not close together. Some have said, especially one, that said I preach exactly what Bro. Jackson preached. But he read the Contender, then three months later he preached from the

Contender and said, I preach the same thing Bro. Jackson preached. Well, that do not always work. Because as the Bible says, your sins will find you out. In Jude here, we see a man who is a brother to James. Jude is more or less of the family of Jesus. Of course his name is really Judas, but it starts out as Jude here. “Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, (This is the way he starts his message here.) to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: Mercy unto you, and peace and love, be multiplied.” The same story as with John, is with Jude, as with all the others that spoke. We have the book of James, the three books of John, then we have two books of Peter, and most of the books of Paul. Paul is really speaking to the first church age, which would be the Ephesian church age. The reason it is mentioned as the Ephesian church age, is because Ephesians, at the time of Paul being there, is the model church of that time. We see by the time of 96 A.D. that things are beginning to happen that is not well pleasing unto the Lord. He more or less does speak well of them, then He does say that He had somewhat against them because they had left their first love. Their first love had been diminished by things that were going on, things in the world that were happening, especially in Asia where the other churches were. They were all within a small radius of a country, the seven churches of Asia. This was a type of what would be in the church ages to come. So he was really dealing in these churches, all seven of them, Paul’s ministry had gone

there. We find by 96 A.D. that things had dropped off so much, to where in Laodicea, God is not having anything to do with it. This is a replica of what happened in the ministry of Bro. Branham by 1963. Because God closed the door on the denominational world, but we find it was not long after that, that the Catholic church began to speak in tongues and all, it went up into Canada and around other places. But the statement was made by Bro. Jackson, wait and see what happens. Now we see that it did not last very long. Because it was not really ordained of God. God has a lot to do with a lot of things, but He does not ordain a lot of the things that men do, especially in the church world. Here he goes on in this, “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend (That is why we have the Contender publication, which has gone around the world. It had to be for a purpose, for the people to contend for the faith that was once delivered, for what will happen before the end comes. All these little differences in people that cannot get over things, sometimes if people do not walk, they will walk along the edge, which is very dangerous. It is just like the other day, there was a woman who was at the Grand Canyon. They had a little fence around a certain part. This woman stepped over the fence to take pictures and she fell and lost her life. That is what can happen if we do not watch our walk with God, because our walk with God is more important than our daily

walk, how we would walk in this human flesh. So God is watching for that. Here he is talking about the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend….) for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” Jude is one of the last ones to speak. You find the book of Peter, the last book of Timothy, it is all 66 A.D. that is about the end of what the apostles wrote before John did in 90 A.D. when he wrote the three books of John. There is sort of an ending of it when Paul is taken from the scene, when he gives his life. So I emphasize this again this morning, do not walk too close to the edge because there is a bluff just beyond that. We want to be care not to do that. “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.” We see the happenings today, that people really do not care for the Lord Jesus Christ, and they do not care for God. Whenever people can look up into the heavens and curse God, as some have done in their marches and protests, they think they are big. They are just about ground level, which is just about what they are, they are the snakes that crawl in the dirt, for people who go that far with what they are doing. “I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that

believed not.” We remember that. He goes on into this to tell just what really happened, as we go on further with the word here. Then he goes ahead to talk about the angels. “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, (They had a habitation there with Lucifer. They had everything that was needed, just as you have everything that was needed in the word of God, they had everything needed to be bright, and morning, and shining stars. But something happened to them. They left their first estate, left their own habitation…) he hath reserved in everlasting chains (They are reserved. Many of them are reserved, they have never seen the light of day since that time. I know there are fallen angels that have. But many of them here, as he says here, left their habitation, and they are under chains, he hath reserved in everlasting chains…) under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.” They are chained in darkness. They are not necessarily in hell, because that will be their last state, hell, or you might say the lake of fire, which really turns out to be the same thing whenever it is all emptied out. Because hell is cast into the lake of fire, which already burns. It is already in the heart of the earth, but the souls of them that are there are kept in a separate place until the day of judgment. When the judgment comes then their spirits are brought out, and their lives are brought out to be judged. The Bible says, know ye not that we shall judge angels. Judgment of angels will be the life that we have lived and the way that we have walked our lives, in

order to be able to judge angels, those fallen angels. “Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, (You know what that means. Sodom and Gomorrah, going after strange flesh.) are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” Everlasting fire, eternal fire is a substitute for everlasting, because hell is not eternal. So we are looking at it in that way. “Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.” It is in the streets of America today. They do not want to be told what to do. It is just like a man in Utah, supposedly a Republican, Mitt Romney, he ran for president. The man has lost his equilibrium. Because of the way he is acting, he has already said that he would vote for Biden. He is just a scab, which is all he is, he is not somebody that could be trusted with anything. Because he lost the race, now he has it in for Trump. He was never for Trump. I am not here to preach President Trump this morning, but I am here to say that there are some things that are right and some things that are wrong. Many people today walking the streets are on the bandwagon of the wrong. How distasteful it was this week when they printed Black Lives Matter on the street right in from of Trump towers. There was the mayor and his wife, some of the others that are out in mockery, trying to make an image out of America of what it never did come to be. But they are out there to

destroy all our history, the history we have in times past, they are out to destroy it by getting rid of all the monuments and things of that nature. It is disrespectful what they are doing. These filthy dreamers defile the flesh and despise dominion. They do not want anybody to tell them what to do. They just walk the streets with rage in their hearts today. Even the mayor in Louisville went down in the west end to cut a ribbon for an apartment building. They want to get rid of the police force. He got down there and there were around a hundred demonstrators that ganged up around him. He got so afraid that he had to call the police. What if the police had not been there? He was afraid they were going to attack him and maybe kill him. The police are not needed as long as there is nothing going on. But let something start happening, that is the first people they will call, because they are calling them for protection. But when they did not need them, they would speak against them in every way they could. They would ridicule them. I realize that there are things that have been wrong, I know that. But not all police are in that category. They said it was maybe one in one hundred. Look at the world today, how they are going against our flag. Somebody commented the other day when we had the flag up here on screen. There were people that liked that. But there are those that tromp on it, burn it. They burned a flag as they pulled down the Washington monument. They put a flag on it, poured something on it that would burn it. God is going to burn somebody one of these days if they do not watch. “Yet

Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.” We do not have the right to get out here and rebuke these things as far as our concern is. But the Lord rebuke them. That is what I say today, the Lord rebuke these devilish things that are going on today in the streets of America. “But these speak evil of those things which they know not:(So many people are marching today that do not even know why they are. Somebody is paying them to do so, otherwise they could not exist. Some of these rich people that have a lot of money are paying poor people to get out there and march and to show themselves, because it is speaking for them. They do not want things to go right in America. If things go right, then their agenda will not be carried out. Because what they want, as it says, war in the streets. They have done said that, if it takes war to get Trump out of office, let it be. What is wrong with people? What is wrong with their minds, that they have so corrupted themselves in that way, that they do not care for America. Five or six months ago things were going well. Then this virus came along. This other thing happened right after that. Nobody should have to have somebody’s knee on them to kill them. This should not happen in America. But the thing about it is, people just build up on something like that and go crazy with it. But these speak evil of those things they know not…) but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, (The spirit of Cain is alive in America today. Whenever it speaks of

brute beasts, Cain was half beast. He was half man and half beast; he had a half soul. As Bro. Jackson said, he was soulish. He did not know what kind of gift to give. If he had looked at Able, he would have. If this church world had looked at William Branham, they would be different today. If the Branham move had listened to him, they would be different today, but they did not listen. As brute beasts, this is a spirit that is in this world today. If all happened back in the 4^th chapter of Genesis, when Cain walked away from God. He had his opportunity, God talked to him. No doubt in my mind, God has talked to some of these people today. There are even ministers that He has talked to. About eighty five percent of preachers today in these big churches know better, but they will not speak it because they would lose their congregation. Do you think they would preach from the book of Jude today? This is not popular with the world.) in those things they corrupt themselves. Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, (Balaam had every chance and opportunity, even when the beast he was riding on spoke to him with man’s speech. He was so delirious in his mind when this animal spoke to him, he did not know what to do. God can use animals, and He does. Female animals are not acting like the women of today. If they did, there would not be any reproduction. Male animals do not act like men do today.) and perished in the gainsaying of Core.” Now let’s go back to Genesis 4. There is a little heading

above the 16^th verse here, the first civilization. This is completely opposite to the Adam line, but I see where it leads to. “And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, (He did not want it anymore because it convicted him. He had killed his brother; he was a murderer. God puts this in the Bible for education for us, to the world.) and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.”  This would be Persia. Bro. Jackson told us that. Cain went across the river, on the east of Eden. Eden was where the four parts of the rivers go together, Euphrates and so on. This is where Eden was. But he went east of Eden, across the Euphrates into the land of Nod, Persia. “And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: (Listen to the names, much of them sound just like the sons of God.) and he builded a city, (the first city ever built,) and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mahugael began Methuselah: (See how close the names are.) and Methusael begat Lamech.” Go on down the line, it sounds the same, it sounds good. Here is where polygamy begins. “And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.” I love Christian organ music, but they have used the organ for the horror movies. I can imagine what

it all was about, kind of like the music of today, or what they call music. It was just a horror film that they were looking at in that time. “And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah. And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, (How many generations has it gone there? Seven. This is the seventh generation. As I read in the book of Jude, we find that Enoch was the seventh from Adam. I see a parallel here as time has come along, because after the seventh generation of Cain, there is no more mentioned. Something happens right there. As Enoch is the seventh from Adam, he sees something that is going on here for God to take him out. It has to get this way before God takes us home. As it was in the days of Noah, as it was in the days of Lot. We see the parallel here today, which is being justified. You have homosexual preachers in pulpits today. You have them running governments. The Black Lives Matter movement, the gays and lesbians have joined together with that for advantage. The more, the merrier. Bro. Branham said that before the end comes women would be walking the streets wearing nothing but a fig leaf. If this lasts another three years, you will see it in the streets of America. Parts of America is already that way. The more vile and more vulgar they can be is what they are pleased with. Lamech said unto his wives…) Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.”

Somewhere he crossed the river. No doubt the reason this is mentioned here is because of what he said here, he has gone across the river a killed one of the sons of God. “If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.” Murder happens among them again. In America today, hardly anything is mentioned when a policeman is assaulted, and since this thing has started there have been nine hundred cases, and nineteen killed. Cain’s line did not care for life. He did not care for life. Can we prove that it was one of the sons of God? Why would he have been wandering about? Enoch saw this. He saw what was going on. The thing about it was that it just drew him closer to God instead of further away. This is a type of the Bride of Jesus Christ. When the seventh church age is ending, then the Bride of Jesus Christ is going to go away. If there is something, anything in your life, confess it before the Lord and get it out of the way. I am not talking just to Faith Assembly. I am talking to whoever is hearing this today. This is strange that I would say things like this, because it is really not in my nature, it is not in the message I feel that I have been given, but I see something here that is going on. Because since this thing has come and people have not been able to gather together, then they can get used to it. Well I have just been watching this for this long, so why not keep on doing just that? The Bible says to gather together when you see that day come. We see it coming. There is no reason why we cannot. I would rather be here and hear the word of the Lord,

than I would be anywhere else. When I had that spell six or seven months ago, then I could not be here. I was so glad that I had a means to be able to see the service during that time. So here we have seven generations. There are seven generations to Enoch. There is something here because by the time you get to seven generations to Lamech, then the thing has just spread. The women have begun to cross the river. The sons of God looked upon the daughters of men because they were fair, because they wore no clothes. It is bad to have to talk like this, but that is exactly what was happening. That is why they are stripping off today. They have to be like this. Let’s go back to the book of Jude. Verse 12, “These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, (I have told this before, this fellow from the east went out to the plains of the west. He went out there to visit a friend which had always lived there. He got out in the countryside riding horses, clouds came up. This fellow from the east said, we better get in, it is going to rain. The fellow that lived there looked at the clouds and said, no, it is just a bunch of empties. Clouds without water.) carried about of winds; (all the winds of doctrine) trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots.” I remember when things began to happen in the Branham Tabernacle. Some of you others may remember that. Bro. Neville was preaching one day and said, it is hard to preach to twice dead people. That statement stuck with

me. Plucked up by the roots. “Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.” My, just think. Darkness where demons dwell. It is where some people are today across America. The blackness of darkness, who wants to be a part of that? “And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints.” I know this is hard, but listen to what Enoch said, listen to what Jude said, listen to what Paul said. Why am I preaching this? Get away from this evil world. You live in it, but you do not have to be a part of it. Now listen to what it says, “To execute judgement upon all, (ten thousands of His saints, for what? To execute judgment. Know ye not that we shall judge angels. To execute judgment upon all…) and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, (Listen to Enoch.) and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, (They are on television today, preachers with swelling words. People go out and say, I have never heard anything like this, it makes me feel religious. Did Cain ever start killing animals for his sins? Never. He started building cities. He started planning ahead for this world, while Enoch is getting ready to go. We are Enoch today, we are his seed, we are getting ready to

go. This is the seventh church age, the end of it. Their mouth speaketh great swelling words…) having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.” How many people today are speaking of William Branham that do not believe the message? It is all for advantage. How many today are speaking of Raymond Jackson, for advantage? You can quote him, whatever you want to do, but if you are not a part of the message, then you have no part of what they were. You will never speak truth because it is not in you. You have to have it in you to preach it. Having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage. How true that is today. Verse 11, “Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.” Verse 17, “But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Here he brings in the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ, what they taught, what they preached. He is reminding them of it. There is something going on in 66 A.D. causing him to speak the words that he does. You can see it in Romans 20 where Paul speaks. “How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.” I am just saying what the Bible says. “But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, (There is something

here, we have to keep ourselves in that word, in that anointing. Keep yourselves in the word of God, keep yourselves in the love of God…) looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.” There is an old song that we used to sing, what would you give in exchange for your soul. “And of some having compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, (Maybe this is a message of fear this morning.) pulling them out of the fire; (I remember a doctor back in the 1980’s. He was the second most recognized surgeon in Oklahoma. This preacher came and talked to him. The doctor would mock him, and talk against him, belittle him. Then one day he had an awful bad thing wrong with his stomach. He told how he began to look for a doctor to operate on him, because he did not trust all doctors. He was a doctor himself, a surgeon. So when he was operated on, he felt himself dying. He said that all night long he looked down through a tunnel, at the end of it there was fire. He could see the flames coming up. He would pull himself back. This went on all night until finally at daybreak there was a release. Do you know who he called for? The preacher that he had ridiculed. The man was healed and told his story for many years after until he finally did die. Pull them out of the fire. If you get too close this morning, I want to pull you, come a little closer. Do not get too acquainted with the world. What we are doing in our lives, we are breeding the same thing into our children. Like father, like son, like mother, like daughter. What do we talk about before our children? I

do not know anything, that is not why I am saying that this morning. But just do not get too close to the edge, because there is a fire there. He said, pulling them out of the fire…) hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.” Remember what it says in the 5^th chapter of Ephesians? He is coming after a church that is washed in the water of the word. What is he talking about? He is talking about things of this nature, being washed by the water of the word. Let me ask you a question this morning. This is getting personal; how do you feel about your brother or sister? If there is something wrong, cannot we make it right? Do we have to live with a grudge? I know this is plain, but I will not keep it up, I have other things to preach. “Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.” I have more scriptures, but we will get to them at another time.

Prayer

Preached on July 19, 2020 – pm

TextI said something to Bro. David this morning about the city of Jerusalem, of course the United States is right in the heart of Jerusalem. Did you know that? J-e-r-U-S-A-l-e-m. Maybe there was a reason why that was put there like that, because we do care for Jerusalem. The United States, a lot of the leadership today, would be glad to put the embassy back where it was in Tel Aviv. But that is 2

not going to work. It will not work with the Israeli people because they have declared Jerusalem to be their capital, which it always was. President Trump has declared it to be the capital of Israel and put our embassy there. We thank the Lord for the good of that. God is always doing whatever He would desire to do in the hearts of His children. There are certain things that would be kind of difficult for people, as far as being able to be here, but everybody is able to be here now. As I look around, some have chosen otherwise. I read the scripture from Jude the other day, talking about pulling some out of the fire, I feel that the feet of some people are burning right now, and they need to be pulled out. The things of the world are entering in to where people have other things to do on their weekend, other than coming to church. You are fooling yourself today by doing something like that. If there is any way we can, we will pull you out of the fire. I see these things happening and it is really sad to see that people are losing interest. When you lose interest, you are not losing interest in Faith Assembly, you are losing interest in the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. That may be hard to hear for some, but I am ordained here today to preach the truth to you and to tell you when everything is not exactly the way it should be. I am not talking about somebody that has to miss every so often. Sometimes people do have to miss, but when they receive the opportunity to come back, there are right on schedule. The devil will make people use any kind of excuse to not be here. But excuses do not meet God’s

criteria. I know there are people today that would probably feel better being home and laying in the bed, but you have made it out. That is very good. Today I am still on the same subject as I was before. I see agreement between all these apostles and what they had to say, from the book of 1^st John, to Jude, to Romans. These are the scriptures I have; 1^st Corinthians and 2^nd Peter. See how much in agreement these men are, with one another. I know there has been a lot of disagreement on what we stand for here at Faith Assembly, but we cannot change truth. Others may say, well we have truth. What is your truth? As was said the other night about Paul not seeing the two phases of the coming of the Lord. Matthew 24 does tell the difference there, it looks like the same, but it is not the same. We will go to Matthew 24 in a minute, and we will see the difference here. Even though Paul did not understand it, Jesus in verse 27 and 28, then from 29 through 31, tells you the endtime, the end of the seven-year period of time. The first part, “For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” So shall also the coming of the Son of man be. “For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.” That is talking about Revelation 10, the eagles there, whenever Jesus came back to open the seventh seal in angelic form. I always have to put that in there, because people will accuse me of something else. Jesus will come back in angelic form to claim His own, to claim the Bride. But

then it says, “Immediately (This is another coming. The first is verses 27 and 28, the first coming. Let me go over that again. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. That is where you find that two shall be in the bed, one shall be taken, and the other left. One shall be taken and the other left. Then in 29 it says, Immediately…) after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.” When it talks about the powers of heaven, that is the powers of darkness, the powers that are in control. “And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven (This is when the last part of the tribulation happens, whenever Armageddon has taken place. Not when Armageddon takes place, but when Armageddon has taken place, then whenever man has come together from the east and the west to meet in Israel, then there will be the sign of the coming of the Son of man. Then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven…) with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels (then, after the sign of His coming with His Bride, chapter 19 of Revelation, when He comes with His Bride. That has been explained at different

times… He shall send His angels…) with a great sound of a trumpet, (the trumpet, which will be the last trumpet,) and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, (That is the foolish virgins that have died and gone on. This is coming back after the dead, the great multitude, the foolish virgins, the Jews that went through their ordeal in the holocaust, this is when He comes back for them. But the Bride is already in heaven with the Bridegroom. They shall gather together His elect from the four winds…) from one end of heaven to the other.” We see here the two comings that He is talking about. The dead in Christ, as Bro. Jackson said, this is all part of the first resurrection. Because we read in Revelation 20, they that are in the first resurrection will not be a part of the ones that will be raised there for judgment. They will be raised in their natural bodies there at the end of the Millennium, they will be raised in their natural bodies to receive their punishment. They are not going to be raised in beauty, they will be raised in some kind of degraded nature. The Bride of Jesus Christ is going to come back in their natural bodies, which is a spiritual body. The difference is that the body is changed, changed to be eternal. Not changed from what it is, for what it was meant to be. In the beginning if you go back to Genesis 1:31, then we find that when this all happens, then the tree of life is going to be heaven. Because the tree of life is in the hearts and minds of the people of God right now. We are a part of that tree of life. Paul explains this in the 9^th chapter of Romans. In his

way of thinking, he tells you there in the last part of that, what is going to happen all the way into the Eternal Age, as being brethren of our Lord Jesus Christ. He will be head over the family. Remember that. He is never brought down to a natural man as far as working the earth. The ones that will work the earth are the ones that go out of the Millennium, which have lived through that Millennium. There has been many born during that time. Then they go into the Eternal Age. God has already taken the water that is upon this earth, up to make a canopy. Kind of like it would have been back before the flood came, because the water came up out of the earth and watered the ground by dew. The moisture from God’s canopy came up out of the ground, because there was a hovering of water over this earth. I have mentioned this at different times, I saw a weatherman talking about the rivers that are up above us. There are mighty rivers that are up above us that are in the atmosphere. That is what it will be again. Let us go to a different scripture now, in 2^nd Peter, 2^nd chapter, 1^st verse. “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, (damnable heresies. We look at the gospel, and Jesus’s prayer in John 17, as He prayed, He said, I pray not for the world. What is He talking about? He is not praying for the multitude of people. I know they say we have to love everybody. That is the saying. And we have to forgive everybody. Bro. Jackson made a statement one time, he said,

what if they do not want forgiveness? There are people today, do you think this bunch out here protesting, making trouble, do you think they want forgiveness? They are happy in the state they are in. They do not care for America; they want to change it. They do not love the flag because of what it stands for. When we look at the state of American youth today, I am not talking about my brothers and sisters, I am not talking about young people that want to do what is right. There are some out there that do not want to go along with it because there has to be people go into the Millennium that will not go along with this thing. They may be silent in what they are doing, but they are not going to accept it. They say that a young person just out of high school still has some choices that they can make, but the same survey said that ninety five percent of college students, I did not say a hundred percent, they said ninety five percent of college students do not love America. They have been taught against America in the colleges where they go. Young people, if you go to college, make sure you know what you believe. Just go there to get an education and leave the garbage alone. Because it is garbage. Now they are talking about, some of the places may not even open, Harvard, and some of those places may not even open for school. Because they want to study online. I have something to say about that this morning because of what has been said in the news this past week. They said they do not want children back in school because their parents can find out what they are teaching them. If they school

online, then the parents do not know what they are putting forth, because they are putting evil on there, from the teachers. It is about the homosexual experience and all such things, they are putting it online, teaching five-year-old children, girls and boys, to undress in front of each other. They are devils, which is all they are. It is ready for the garbage heap. Am I supposed to love that? That is why Jesus would say what He did. He said, I pray not for the world, but for them that you have chosen out of the world. We are a privileged people today. But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies…) even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.” Whenever it comes, it will be swift. They will not even know what has hit them. God’s judgment will be upon the earth. What does it say in the 6^th chapter of Ephesians? It tells you there to take the whole armor of God. “And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.” This way is hated. Anyone that would stand up against the evil that is going on has a black mark upon them. Many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. “And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: (You are just merchandise to them. You are very lowly esteemed of the world today. Even if you name the name of Jesus Christ, or call upon God the Father, you are very

lowly esteemed. We sing the song, this world is not my home, I am just passing through, that is the truth. The Bible said, love not the world. What is He talking about? Love not the world, neither the things in the world. Those are two different things, love not the world, neither the things in the world.) whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.” Is this easy preaching? Is this something that would be preached today in the big churches? You can take a marking pen and mark through all the scriptures they do not use, and you would not have much left. As the Bible said, they have pleasure in unrighteousness. “For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.” That is the same thing that Jude said. These men were not copying after one another, this was given by inspiration. “And spared not the old world, (which is talking about the flood) but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.” The scripture, God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him, should have eternal life. Whosoever believeth on Him would have eternal life. Everybody is not going to believe. God’s desire was to see righteousness. It was to see holiness. But then God said, it repents me that I have made man. This may not be appetizing this morning, but it is something that all the apostles looked at. Paul said, I believe it is in the 9^th

chapter of Romans, where he said, I fought with beasts at Ephesus. Beasts, that is the same thing that Jude saw. Just as in Romans 1, we have gone over that. The Lord willing, I plan to preach this, this morning and tonight. It may not be appetizing to some people, but I want to show you this morning what the world is. “And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly.” This is coming. The nation we are living in is at war this morning. This election, whatever it brings, whether it would be Trump or Biden that wins, there is going to be problems. Because people are upset today about everything. There is nothing pleasing today about the America we are living in because they have invited all these people from overseas into the country that do not love the country. I heard a Muslim who had been converted to Christianity. I have heard it said that ten percent of the Muslims are problems. He said if anything comes about, it will not be ten percent, he said it would be eighty five percent of Muslims, converted to Christianity. “And delivered just Lot, vested with the filthy conversation of the wicked.” Women are taking their little girls into these people who are rioting, and all they are hearing is curse words, dirty words that only the devil would hatch up. “For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds.” Bro. Branham said he was the type of the foolish

virgin. He said Billy Graham and Oral Roberts were as the two angels that went to Sodom, which blinded the people. The message they put forth blinded the people. Oral Roberts had a great healing message in the beginning. He went to Bro. Branham. Bro. Branham said he had a little old, ragged tent. He went to Bro. Branham and asked him if the Lord would hear his prayers as he had Bro. Branham’s. He told him, if you are obedient. But all he had was a healing message. Then in the later 1960’s he went on television. He had dancers, dancing women dressed in flowing outfits, half uncovered. I saw it on television. But I remember the last meeting that Billy Graham had in Louisville, Kentucky. He had some singers to come there. He used to have great singers, different ones to sing at his meetings. This time he had a bunch of these crazy singers, which is what I will call them. We get messages every week, them wanting to come to Faith Assembly. The doors are closed to such as that. The doors are closed to foolish singing. Do not ever try to bring it in here, it will not work. The messages they send will show a picture of them. They look like Duck Dynasty. People on Duck Dynasty may be good people, but I cannot stand the way they look. If you look like the world, then you are part of it. “The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished.” God knows how to separate. He knew how to separate Lot from that bunch. I do not know why Lot stayed there. Why did he stay there? Because he was sitting in the

gate. They made him royalty. The only royalty we want is what God gives us when this is over. I remember the last time a certain time a certain man sat on this platform. He sat right here. There was a certain woman that saw me and him in a dream. I was sitting here in a regular chair, and he was sitting here in a king’s chair. He thought he was. Make me like Moses, is what he said. It would be alright if it was truth. Whenever we go seeking some kind of elevation among a spiritual people, as Paul said, I have taken no man’s money. I have not taken this, and I have not taken that. My desire is now and always has been, that Faith Assembly would prosper in God. I have done my best to make it where it would be a prosperous church. Faith Assembly has helped me travel around this world, but I have not gone out after these big things and put big signs up, things of that nature, just to let everybody know that I am pastor. I said whenever they put the sign up, I said, just put Faith Assembly Church, so that when people go down I65 will know this is a church. It is a “Faith Assembly” today. We are here by faith, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, for the glory of God the Father. That is why we are here. We are not here to build ourselves up to some great reputation, but it has become something that the world has looked at for truth. I have no other desire than to bring truth to you. I am not here to make everybody love me. I am here today to tell you the truth, then you will love truth. All God’s people will love truth. As a minister that has been called of God, I know I was called, I was

called when I did not know anything. I remember the first time I ever preached was at Cincinnati Ohio, in an independent church. It was where I was going to church at the time. I was raised up as a Methodist. It never did mean that much to me. I called the preacher and told him; I feel like I have been called to preach. I had not been a Christian that long. He said, well, I think you should wait on that awhile. I said to him, I was given some scriptures, Luke 4, where Jesus was tempted. He said, if you have been given scriptures, then come and preach. That is the only time I ever remember asking somebody to preach for them. I know there have been interruptions here at Faith Assembly by people that come here thinking they had a message. Bro. Jackson told them to sit down. They wanted to make themselves known, wanting to make themselves a name. You do not have to make a name; God will make it for you if you have anything. God has called a ministry here at Faith Assembly, brothers of like faith. “But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, (This is an hour of that today, uncleanness. But we have been washed by the water of the word, getting these unclean ideas and opinions out of our head, giving the grace of God a chance to live in our lives.) and despise government. (No president that has ever lived has had to go through with what President Trump has from the Democrat party and the media. It had to be ordained of God for this hour, for the help, the benefit that he is. I am not talking about righteousness; I am talking about what he has done for this nation and how

he stood for Israel.) Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Whereas angels, which are great in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. But these, as natural brute beasts, (Cain’s line) made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption.” In their own corruption. “And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. (Think about it.) Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children. Which have forsaken the right way, and gone astray, following the way of Balaam (for reward. That is what Jude said, for reward. Following the way of Balaam…) the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.” He sold Israel out, knowing what he was doing. It took a dumb animal to stop him, speak to him, it looks like that would have woken him up, just an old donkey talking to him. If they are not going to listen to a donkey, they are not going to listen to us. “But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet. These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. For when they speak

great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them that the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. (That goes to the people who have heard this message.) But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.” I will finish now and hope to finish this up tonight.

Prayer

To be continued in next issue…

Vol. 54 No. 1          January 2022

Preached on July 4, 2020 – am

Our flag is taking a beating at this time across this country, and even around the world. It has an effect, to be able to see “Old Glory” wave. You wonder how much longer we will have that opportunity the way things are going. This nation may have already seen its best days. The flag still waves in the hearts and minds of a lot of people today. I have scriptures to read this morning, scriptures that have something I never thought I would deal with, especially at this time. But I have a responsibility to truth. Today there is no excuse for not being here today because of the things that have gone on. We have gathered with just ten or a few people here for weeks, finally it opened up to where anyone can come that

feels they would like to. I thank the Lord for this opportunity to be able to be with you. God be praised for His wonderful love and grace. I praise the Lord for the grace He has shown unto me. I have some scriptures that does not connect to my message, but it is the scriptures of the time we are living in now, as we see the nation stooped in all the filth and everything that is going on. We see how they are trying to push their way over on us, like it was said in a certain ad concerning someone running for senator, he was talking about the different statues of men, George Washington, they poured paint on it and pulled it over. Jefferson was pulled over, half of his nose broken off. Grant, who liberated the black people, his statue was pulled over too. That same person running for senate showed Vladimir Lenin, his statue was still standing. He was a Marxist. They do not want to bother something like that because they have made gods out of different things. Washington was not a god, Lincoln was not a god, but they did have principals about them that taught this nation right from wrong. Now they want to destroy all those

statues, take it all out. Our country today is feeling the effects of all this. This virus, as it took over a few months back, and the marches that are going on today, the last four or five months have had things happen so quick. We are in that time when we are looking for Israel to get her land back. Sooner or later, as Bro. Jackson said, our troops will have to come home to this country. You can see that happening today, to bring them back, because our shores will sooner or later have to be defended. The streets of America, with what is happening now, I did not realize the things that have been spoken about for so long, was going to be as it is now. But here we are in that time that the Bible talked about, perilous times will come. We are in the perilous time. Paul talked about perils, how he was in different perils, perils of water, perils of his own countrymen, all of that. Now it looks as though a certain party gets to be president, then very soon after that, the religious places of worship are going to be closed, or people will be marching at your doors, and churches will be vandalized, and people will be in danger. Am I saying that to scare somebody? I am saying it as a fact this morning. If a certain party gets to be president, they have no regard for the constitution of the United States. They have no regard for morals, because their moral value is zero. You see them marching on the streets today with their compass at zero. In New York and different places, they have closed the churches, but the marches go on. They do not care how close together they are, they do not care whether they wear a mask or not, most of them are not wearing masks. That is alright for them, but they close the churches. Preachers have

been afraid to say anything, now they are suffering the consequences because their church buildings are closed. In many states the church buildings are closed or can only gather with ten people at a time. That is the way it is in New Jersey with Bro. Jonathan Cahn, just a few people can come for a service. That is the way it is all over this morning at different places. They have closed down again, the places that had opened up. But I thank God that here in Indiana, pray for us, pray the Lord will help us to stay open, that things can be as they should be at all times. I will start reading today in Romans 1. This is a very sobering thing this morning. Let us start with the 16^th verse. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” The message went to the Jews first, then to the Gentiles. That is what he is talking about. “For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: (from faith to faith) as it is written, The just shall live by faith.” The justified people shall live by faith. “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness, and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness.” Who hold the truth in unrighteousness, in other words, they know better. “Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.” Do not throw it up to God because of

what is happening. Because this was promised, we are in the days of the beginning of sorrows. “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.” In other words, clouded over with cares and things of the world. “Professing themselves to be wise, (That is where we are at today, they think they know it all.) they became fools.” We have that running the country today. Many people in the government think they are smart, or wise, actually they are fools. They fool themselves. Here he is saying, there is no excuse for it. “And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.” Here he is talking about the gods that were in those days. People had gods of different things. There are gods of sports. This nation has been cut off from sports that it has once enjoyed, and many of the things that people have lived for. They spend their time enjoying those things that God is really not concerned about. God is not concerned about sports. He is not concerned about basketball, He is not concerned about football, He is not concerned about baseball. He has cut it all off. The hockey, or whatever, it has all been cut off. “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness (uncleanness, what a word. God just gave them up to uncleanness, let them live their lives the way they want to. Paul spoke this almost two thousand years ago, but it is happening today. This is more or less a prophecy for the day and time in which we live. The Bible speaks in

Luke 21, and Matthew 24 tells you as it was in the days of Noah. What was it like in the days of Noah? It was pleasure filled, but it had an abrupt end. It said it was filled with violence. Look at the streets of America today, they are filled with violence. In Luke it said, as it was in the days of Noah, as it was in the days of Sodom. That Sodomite condition today is rampant in America. LGBT, whatever they want to call it, they are such words that is better to abbreviate it, than to go on trying to say what all it is. Little children five years old in kindergarten are being taught the ways of uncleanness, the ways homosexuality. These things are things that God is going to judge the world over. I am being honest with you today, because no matter how religious a person gets, I do not care how religious they get, you cannot live that lifestyle and be a Christian person. It will not work, it never will. “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature (the creature, the man. There are different sports figures, their names are blasted out as being someone who is a spokesman, when their lives are filled with filth that is in the world today. They worshipped and served the creature…) more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.” I say Amen also. We have a great privilege and a great responsibility. We have a responsibility in this hour. “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature.” You know what that is, I do not have to spell it out. I do not have to name it; you know what is going on today. God just gave them up to their vile affections. “And likewise

also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.” Or which was worthy. “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.” These things are not convenient. You have to give yourself over to that and to other things. “Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents.” It just goes on and on and on, without stopping. Man has invented things for the wrong purpose. God gave man and woman to be husband and wife. He did not give man with man to be husband and wife. He did not make women husband and wife. No matter how you try to justify it, it will not work. It is just an evil disease that has gripped the hearts and minds of people, whether it be family members, whoever it would be. It is wrong. It is wrong. “Without understanding, (They are in the pulpits today. They are in the ministry today claiming that everything is alright. We are the minority. We are the minority because we are true believers. You can never justify wrong; it will not work. We have to have a standard in our lives to where we know how to resist evil. The thing about it is, if you do, it will always be before you to resist whenever things are wrong. It will be in front of your eyes. Disobedient to parents. A lot

of these young people today that are marching, I am talking about people in their late teens and twenties, on into their thirties, all they are saying now is, we listened to you when we were young, but you were wrong. Our parents were not wrong. I remember something my mother told me when I was a young boy. She said all the sins you do you get something out of them, but you get nothing out of cursing. I always remembered that, and I listened to that. The thing about it is, as Bro. Branham said, if you embrace another man’s wife, then that imprint is on your body. Let’s wake up brothers and sisters. These things are knocking at the door. Are we listening to this? This will speak to our hearts, to our minds. Without understanding…) covenant breakers, (Just tear down all these old statues of Washington. This morning on television it showed all these people cheering and jeering because they threw Columbus in the Boston harbor. Such ignorance, such evil. That is why I wanted that song sung with the flat waving this morning. We can rehearse something that has been so precious through the years that now has come down to where it is despised.  Washington thrown on the ground, and the flag being burned. You are a bunch of devils. That is plain talk, I know it is. But it is going on in America today and we are watching it. We know it. I am telling about it this morning. I am talking to my brothers and sisters here and around the world. It is time that we wake up as families. What are we talking about to our children?  What are we showing to our children in our daily lives? Is it showing pleasure? Is it showing things that maybe we missed out on when we were young? I did not miss anything. I was sixteen years

old before I ever saw a high school football game. Do I miss that? Do I say my parents were mean to me? No. I was a country boy that grew up in the sticks. I was thinking back about things that went on in my time. People were poor. My dad said it will not hurt you to be poor, but sometimes it is inconvenient. Without understanding, these people do not even understand what they are doing. Their minds are seared. The Bible said with a hot iron. Do you know what that is? That is a stamp just like they put on cattle. You cannot remove it. No hair will grow on it. Without understanding, covenant breakers…) without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful.” What is paying for all this sit-down stuff? They are killing one another and do not say anything about that. Look at Chicago, California, Los Angeles, what is it? Since all this stuff is happening, the rate of crime has gone up 400-500 percent. Some of the trucks will not even make deliveries in Los Angeles unless they have a police escort, because they are afraid that will not make it out alive, or that they will be robbed. Without understanding, they do not want to understand. They would rather listen to the squad, that bunch of evil women. “Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, (Here you come down to these last words. Some people never commit stuff like that. But what does this say. Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy death…) not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.” Today is the day of pleasure. I have other scripture I want to read, Romans 2.  This is continuing on. “Therefore thou art

inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering: not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life. (That is a good thing.) But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, (That is the answer to that.) Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; (Because the Jews heard it first.) But glory, and honour, (Listen, the right things, listen to this, But glory, and honour…) and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.” Now I want to go to 1^st Corinthians 6, starting with verse 9. “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor

idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, not extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.” That gives a list of who is not going to make it. You cannot justify these things; they are not going to make it. Not thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, not extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God. But here is an answer to it. There is an answer to your wrongdoing. It must be adhered to. “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, (He is talking about someone cleaning their lives up from these things.) but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, (You cannot think, well He really did not mean for us to live that way. He meant us to live that way, because He speaks about it, without reproach, living a life without reproach. That is not for old fogeys, it is the same for young people, for children. Such were some of you, but ye are washed, sanctified, justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ…) and by the Spirit of our God. All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.” It is there, Paul is saying it is there, but by the grace of God I am not going to be caught under the power of any of these things, I am going to live my life right. This is a great lesson. Let us go to 1^st John 2, verse 15. “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” If you see these things and you see what is going on, ungodly movies. If you just love sports and you hate to see them go

away, let them go, that is not going to bring you righteousness. That is not going to get you close to the kingdom of heaven. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, (That is what the world is, the lust of the flesh, just cannot get enough pleasure.) and the lust of the eyes, (Sometimes we think if we see something, oh, that is beautiful, I have to have that. I am not saying go to some cave somewhere, I would not want to live in a cave. Some of the old prophets had to. I do not know what is coming next. I do not know what is coming the rest of this year. By this time next year, you may wish you had this place. This morning we are getting ready for the rapture, we are getting ready for Israel to see her land come back to her. According to George Washington’s vision, whatever comes to this nation, somewhere the standard is going to stand. This old devilish thing that is going on right now, it is going to be defeated. When I say something about one party, there are others that are in the other party just as bad. The Republican party is not my God. All that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes…) and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.” That is what I want. I have one more scripture this morning, which is in the book of John, 17^th chapter, start with verse 1. This is a prayer before He goes to the cross. It is encouraging. He encourages His disciples all the way to the cross. Because these are people that He has chosen for a purpose. Peter, who was going to deny Him, but He chose him. You see that in the

book of Acts. “These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, (He is praying now.) Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.” That He may give eternal life to as many as is given Him, not everybody. “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” The only true God. He did not say there were not gods. There are many gods. But there is only one true God. This is life eternal, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” He said that on the cross, it is finished. He had not built a building. He has not built anything in heaven. He has been sitting on the right hand of God all that time, except as I read earlier, the 7^th chapter of Acts where Stephen was stones. I remember Bro. Jackson saying something about it. He said that is the only place you ever see that Jesus is standing on the right hand of God, when Stephen was stoned. It is the only place that He is standing. That is the truth. “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” In other words, He is not saying I was there. But whenever God’s plan came into effect, then that life that was in God that was going to be given to Christ, it comes back and praises the Father. Jesus is not saying that He was created at that time. But it was the glory of the Father that was shown through that life that would come to where it glorified the

Father to see what He would do. Remember that. “I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: (Out of the world. They are still in the world, but they are out of the world.) thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: (See? His prayer is, I pray for them. Remember the words He says here.) I pray not for the world, (He is not sending up a prayer for the world. He is praying for those that God has given Him out of the world only. You are not going to change the world. I do not care how much you pray for the world. I do not care how much Jim Baker prays for the world, oh, we are going to have a great revival. When is it going to start? What they are expecting is not coming. It is not. I pray for them; I pray not for the world…) “but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.” He is including us in a union with the Father, that we may be able to have a relationship with the Father, through Jesus Christ. Our life is from the Father. When you receive the Holy Ghost, you receive a part of God. The different parts of the body are explained in the 12^th chapter of 1^st Corinthians. As the body is made up, that body on earth is supposed to be equal to Jesus Christ, because we are His Bride, taken out of His side. When they put a spear into His side, then there came forth water and blood,

which represents baptism and the Holy Ghost, which represents a new birth. “And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee.  (In other words, He has surrendered himself unto the Father, and this is His last prayer before He goes to the garden. It is an encouraging prayer to the disciples because they do not even know why He is saying this.) Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.” That they may be one as we are. He is talking about the church, one, one in thought, one in desire, one in ambition. I am going to close this out now. I want to pray at this time.

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     I am going back to my scriptures again. I felt the way things are going in the country and in our own lives, if we do not watch, because the Bible does not say to watch and pray unless there was something needed to be watching and praying about. God gives us ample room. He really has given us ample room to be able to contact Him and to be able to live for Him. Most of us at this time, even young people, have either matured or are maturing in the Lord Jesus Christ. It has to be that way before the rapture comes. My thoughts and my ideas are not going to change the rapture. It is going to come no matter what anybody feels about it. Whenever that time comes, there will be nothing to hinder it. Jesus said, you do not know the day nor the hour, but it is evident that we are

seeing the things happening just before that time. We know that Israel has to have her land back. There is turmoil over there, they were even showing it today. Hamas is planning on things and Iran is interfering in the middle east, with Israel and other

countries that she is trying to put a foothold in. But we know there is a time coming for Iran, there is a time coming for Russia, for Turkey, and the different nations that will be in that war that will come against Israel, which will come against Saudi Arabia and so on. You can see some of the friendships that are happening between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is by no means a nation that is to be desired right now. But God is going to take care of that because there is coming a war in Israel. It is very close at hand. We see this nation and all that is going on. I know the National Cemetery was going to be invaded by people burning the flags yesterday, but the militia showed up with guns. So there was nobody that came to burn flags. This is getting to a boiling point right now in America. They are dismembering the statues, pulling Columbus off into the Boston harbor. This is a chance for President Trump to put some of the leverage on them that. He said some would be getting ten years of sentencing for that. This was a statue that President Reagan put up. But now they are just taking whatever they want. They think they are going to get by with it. Because “All

Lives Matter.” Not just certain groups of people, and not just the gays and lesbians, which are joining in with the Black Lives Matter movement. They feel they can gain leverage by joining together so that nobody will be able to do anything with it. As Bro. Jackson said, the red blooded American, they are beginning to wake up now. It is not going to be pretty by the time it is over. Whenever the cities which they are talking about, that are going to be burned, the one who had the switchblade, he talked about how he saw in a vision New York City burning, a thousand buildings at one time. Whenever this thing happened in Minnesota, they burned seven hundred and fifty buildings. Bro. Darrell was telling me that, I believe it was seven hundred and fifty, something like that. Bro. Darrell was talking about that when he was here last week. I pray every day for all our brothers and sisters, wherever they are around this country, those that are in like faith, I pray that the Lord will help you and take care of you in this time of need. It is time we as Faith Assembly, respect the word of the Lord to where we are going to do exactly what the word says for us to do. I have something to go along with what I have already been on, I had Ephesians 6, which I will go to right now. I feel that we are in need of what the word says at this time. Ephesians 6 sure does give us hope if we look at it in the right way. He has gone through all these things that are really uplifting to the church, he goes through the Bride part, as he talks about man and woman, comparing that to Christ, or I should say husband and wife, not just man and woman, husband and wife, compared to the Bride and the Groom, as he talks about it. He has talked about the Jews and Gentiles

in the earlier chapters, about them coming together as one. God made it to be that way. Then he goes ahead to talk about the ministry and what God is expecting out of the ministry in the hour in which we live. Then he sums it up here, verse 10, “Finally, my brethren, (after he has spoken of the unity and everything, he has talked about in chapters 4 and 5, he goes ahead to say finally, my brethren. This would include both male and female. When God looks upon the scene, He is not looking at what He is doing in the lives of people as man only, because it said of men and women both, let Him be the hidden man of our heart. Finally, my brethren…) be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.” Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might, not in our might. Not in our thinking, not in our hopes, not in our desires, but be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” We see it in the time that we are living in, there is pressure that is put upon the saints of God that is coming on gradually, slowly to a certain point, then all at once at some time before too long. I talked this morning about the things that are happening now, what they are planning on, to be outside the churches and desecrate the churches, to throw paint and other things on them, I have said before, I am glad we have this fence row out here with all the trees to where Faith Assembly is not recognized too much as a church, because of it being hid. I have hated those trees, but I am loving them right now, because it is a guard to us. “For we wrestle not (We are not in a wrestling match against the things of the world because that will not work for us to take up things on our

own. But it is important that we protect ourselves and our families, I believe that, by whatever means God has given us to do so. Because the devil is on a rampage tonight to try to affect people’s lives. I hope you understand what I am saying. We wrestle not…) against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” That is America today. We are not wrestling against it because if we do, we are losers. But we are looking out

for our own. He tells us here just what to do. “Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” Stand, we are not giving in, we are not giving up. Whatever is placed before us that we have to deal with, we must deal with it. We are not out trying to hurt people or cause commotion. We are just out to serve the Lord. But we know what happened to people in Bible days that did serve the Lord. I am not saying that because this is going to happen, but

we know that sooner or later it will happen to foolish virgins because it said so. And about people who are trying to do the right thing. We are the minority today among religious denominations and organizations. But on the other hand, as Bro. Branham said, one and God is a majority. We are depending on it to be that way within our lives. Having done all to stand, He said stand. “Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, (girt your loins with truth, not with error, not with our own ideas. Because the word of God covers everything. It covers everything in our life, and it covers everything that we need to stand for. Because God is with us. I have to say that tonight, because God is with us, as a people not only of Faith Assembly, but wherever this message is preached by the ministry that God has raised up in the hour we are living in.) and having on the breastplate of righteousness.” Everything he is talking about here; he is looking at a soldier. He has seen the Roman army, how they dressed, he is looking at that and dressing us down with the same thing, but it is all spiritual. It has nothing to do with fleshly getting out here and protesting, showing what we are by our protests. I protest evil, but it is in my heart, it is not in my fist. Because I would be a loser that way. It is in my heart that I protest the evil that is going on here tonight. I am not talking about in Faith Assembly, but I am talking about here in the world we are living in, wickedness in high places. That is what is going on. Tonight it is going on in Washington, it is going on in the state houses, it is going on in the cities, it is going on in the country towns and everywhere else. These things are working against the

things that are right. Because people want to compromise. They do not want to stand for things that are right. Some are. I am not talking about everybody. I am not just talking about Bride people. But I am talking about how some people cannot stand what they are seeing in the streets today in America, even though they are not Christians. But we see and understand it. He is speaking of our day and hour, where he is talking here, because it has never fit another time. It has to individuals. It has to countries, but not like it is now around the world. This thing is on fire now around the world. I even saw signs where it talked about the Black Lives Matter, even in Australia. It is hitting every country, here and far away. Something is happening in the world to bring about something to let us know what is going on. It is not just in America. This thing is a spreading disease. I know when it first started it was covid. But it has gone from that to other things. Of course there are certain people that are talking about it a lot, but it is not being talked about among the ones that are spreading it. Because they do not care for other people. Young people have said, I am going to go here, and I am going to do this, it makes no matter what my old man and old woman say, even though they are only in their forties or fifties. To a young generation they are still an old man and old woman. Anybody that would think that way toward their parents is not thinking right. I remember a fellow at work years ago. He was talking about his old lady. I thought he was talking about his wife. Oh, no, I am not married, I am just talking about the person I am living with. He called her his old lady. The thing about it is our parents are not our

problems today. It is the people that have come along and do not want to obey the law. They have learned it in these colleges and universities. Even Sesame Street, something children have watched, has a gay thing going on in it now. So we have even had to watch what our children watch. They are promoting something from within, they are trying to make it look as though this is a right way of living. It is not a right way of living. It never was and never will be. It started out in the Old Testament. In Solomon’s time it was going on then. We know that before that Sodom was burned because of that lifestyle. “And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.” The preparation of the gospel of peace. Young people, our only hope in this hour is Jesus Christ. The better days are gone, when you could even play out in your yard. These things are gone. I know there are some places that is O.K. But in the cities, a seven-year-old girl was shot in Chicago just playing in her grandmother’s yard. There were thirteen people killed in Chicago this weekend. It is just happening. I am preaching here about taking the whole armor of God because we have an enemy tonight. The devil is our enemy, but he is using a lot of people. This may seem to be a doom and gloom message. But wait, it is going to be needed as time goes on. Because the devil is not playing. At one time in America he was haltered. The halter is off now. As the Bible talks about men and women being violent, it is not just men. That politician in Minnesota, a Democrat, came out to talk to some of these protesters. A couple women ran in on him and caused him to have a concussion. They did not even want to hear it

because I guess they did not know who he was. But he was a Democrat. Maybe you think I should not talk like that because I am scaring you. I do not mean to scare you, but if you see a red light, you say something. I remember when I moved to Indiana. The first night I heard Bro. Branham preach, after my family moved here, he preached on the flashing red light. Tonight it is flashing. The red light is flashing. What hope do we have? We have the hope of getting out of here. This world is not our home, we are just passing through. This is a dressing place, where we must dress for the world to come. If there was no opposition, then there would be no reason for this scripture to be here. If we did not have opposition, he is talking about the Christian life here, he is not talking about the physical life. He is talking about the Christian life. If we did not have opposition then the scripture would not have been written in this way. Here he says, “Above all, taking the shield of faith, (This is what our defense is, taking the shield of faith. This defeats the enemy. As I said this morning, Jesus prayed for those that God had given him out of the world. He did not pray for the world. He knew the world would never receive it. John saw it. As I read this morning from 1^st John, chapter 2, as he talked about the world and the things of the world. How these things should not be something in our lives to affect our Christian walk.) wherewith ye shall be able to quench (to quench, the arrows will come. I am sure he was looking at that, and as you look at countries that do not have arrows, they had poisonous darts that they threw. All these things are quenched by our faith. Ye shall be able to quench…) all the fiery darts of the

wicked.” All of them. That is not part of them, but it is all the fiery darts. That shield of faith, as he expresses it, he is making it as though you are in a battle. We are tonight, we are in a battle against our faith, against the word for which we stand. You might say, well I do not feel it. You will. I am not making an advertisement. We are people that God has put His word here for us to enjoy, to exercise our faith. The whole program of God is wrapped up in this as far as our protection. The apostle Paul wrote this. In two more years he would be assassinated. But he still had this armor even though he was assassinated. People are being killed in their own bedrooms. Gangs are shooting into people’s houses, never to be caught. “And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” Why does it say the sword of the Spirit? Because there are things that we need to cut loose of. Now I want to go to Acts 3. The revival has just started. I do not want you to think that I am just a doom and gloom preacher. The day of Pentecost has fully come. Jesus has been with the disciples for forty days, off and on, not all the time, but off and on, He has been with them for forty days. It says when the day of Pentecost has fully come. It did not happen a day before. It did not happen the day after. That is the reason I have talked about the fall of the year as I have, in past messages. Because I believe according to the scriptures, according to the way the scriptures are laid out in the 23^rd chapter of Leviticus, that the happenings that will come will be in the fall of the year. Because the others worked out that way. As I said, God has given three feasts for the children of Israel to go to Jerusalem. That third one has not yet

happened. It begins with the feast of the trumpets. It goes on for twenty three days. As it does then we find that it finally stops after that period of time. It is all in the fall of the year, the seventh month, which ends in November. This is part of the first message that Peter ever preached, that we know about. Of course Jesus sent the disciples out, two by two. He sent the twelve disciples out. At another time He sent out seventy. They are a part of that also. I think Peter has preached a pretty good message. Because it said the eleven stood with him. That was Matthias, the last one. The eleven was standing with him and he began to preach, these men are not drunk as you suppose. They thought because they were speaking in tongues, which was different languages, there is something wrong with these men because they are all Galileans. They are just mumbling. To the crowd, which is all they were doing of Jews that had turned Jesus away. They were saying, these men are just drunk. They tried to dismiss it. They are trying to dismiss this message tonight. I am not talking about what I am preaching. I am talking about the truth, the word of God. They are trying to dismiss it as though it is nothing. But after Peter has preached, then they interrupt his message and said, men and brethren, what must we do? Because they had fallen under conviction. He did not say be baptized. He said, repent, every one of you, AND be baptized. He did not put the cart before the horse. He knew exactly what he was saying. God had inspired him. He is preaching by the Holy Ghost. So they were baptized. There was a miracle that took place. A man that had been sitting there for years, begging alms, because his

legs would not work. God has given Peter a privilege to be able to speak something for him, as he does this. The miracles were to draw people unto the message. That was not all they were for. It was for healing of bodies, but those bodies are going to die sooner or later. It is something that cannot be disputed. Because all of them had seen him sitting there in Solomon’s porch, day by day, year by year, for many years. He had been sitting there, begging. Peter looked steadfastly on him and said, silver and gold have I none, but such as I have. He had something. He did not have gold, he did not have silver, but he had something more precious than gold or silver, more precious that a doctor’s office. Such as I have, in the name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk. The man walked. He did not only walk, but he also leaped. He went into the temple area leaping. Here was all these Pharisees and Sadducees, all that did not believe in Jesus, which had crucified Him. He is walking, leaping, praising God in front of all of them. But they cannot understand. Then Peter began to preach. This opens the way for him to preach. Verse 11, “And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, (He is not holding them to be able to walk.) all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.” What is this? What is going on? This opened up an avenue for Peter to be able to preach. When I was young the healing ministry was going on in tent meetings and all. Some of these tent meetings were very small, two or three poles were all they had. Country preachers would put a sign out, come and see healing. They would put their ad out. But Peter did not do that, he

proved the word of God. “And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? Or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?” Why are you looking on us? They were not drawing attention to themselves; they were drawing attention to Jesus Christ. But preachers have drawn attention to themselves by sweeping congregations off their feet. Listen to Peter. “The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.” Peter is getting right to the heart of this thing. He is telling those Jews as they are standing there, ready to criticize, he is telling them exactly what they have done. “But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer (Barabbas) to be granted unto you.” Now they are having to face what they have done. This nation and this world are going to have to face what they have done. These people that want to remove every remembrance of Jesus Christ, it is not going to work. They think they know something. They are fools. “And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.” For forty days they witnessed it. Then they went into the upper room. The Holy Ghost was not going to come until that fiftieth day, after the sabbath. Jesus laid in the grave on the sabbath, came forth on the first day of the week. “And his name (This is the good part about it, and his name…) through faith in his name hath made this man strong, (It still works

today. God is still a healer. He is.) whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.” He could call them brethren because they were Jews, but that is as far as it went. “But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.” Now they know it. Now I am getting down to the part that I want you to understand. “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing (the times of refreshing) shall come from the presence of the Lord.” This is a refreshing time for us in a way. But he is talking also about the time when the Bride will be called away. “And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you.” They had nothing that they could bring against Him. So they set up false witnesses. If you are concerned about your soul, take heed to the word of God for this hour. If you have anything in your life, any feeling toward your brother or sister, get rid of it. If you have to apologize, do so. Let us make things right. This is an evil hour. Why am I talking like this? It is because I do not desire to see anyone fail in this hour. You are my brothers and sisters. You are my family. I am just amazed at some of the young people, how they are taking hold and learning how to play the piano, to sing. Whatever you do, do it for the Lord. It is not to impress people; it is to impress Him. “Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of his

holy prophets since the world began.” Since the ages began. We read that Noah was a preacher of righteousness. He warned the people. “For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; (Because he was going to be a law giver. That is what it is talking about here. Not the old law, the new law.) Him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.” He was more than a prophet. He was more than Moses. Moses gave the people a way out until the time of refreshing that was to come. The thing about it is, He washes us every day. He is getting our garments as we are. There are certain things we have to do. We have to get the spots out. I am amazed that they have stuff that will cause spots to disappear. If you get it on your tie, which I have done that, they have stuff that you just rub on it and the spot will disappear. The blood of Jesus Christ just takes it all away, it does not leave a spot or anything of that nature. All you have to do is apply it. You have to apply it. You have to apply the blood. You have got to ask the One that shed the blood to come in, because He took our place. “Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.” Peter, an unlearned man, who was what they thought he was, he is preaching a good sermon to be an unlearned man. He did know scripture because he went all the way back to Abraham, to bring in Abraham as the one who was

the father of the faithful. “Unto you first God, (Unto the Jew, which is what he is talking about, unto the Jew first. Unto you first God…) having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.” That is the way out. That is the only way out. Going back up to verse 20, “And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you.” He is giving them a way out. He is telling them to listen. “Whom the heaven must receive (He is there now.) until the times of restitution (or restoration, as I said a while ago, when Jesus died on the cross, He did not go to build buildings. He went to sit beside the Father, to make reconciliation for us. From the very beginning, from the foundation of the earth, the Bride already had her place. She just had not occupied it yet. Whenever God got through, whenever He finished it, whenever Jesus died, He said, it is finished. He is just waiting for that new Jerusalem, which is the saints of God. I remember when Bro. Jackson first preached that. A sister in Canada, she called Bro. Jackson and said, you tore up my streets of gold. She was not complaining about it, she believed it. Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution …) of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.” Peter is preaching a great message here, for the second time out. Why? How did he do it? By the Holy Ghost which he had just received days before that. He received the Holy Ghost on the first day of the week. This might have been the second day, or the third day, but it was not long because the revival had just started. On the day of Pentecost, the revival, or the refreshing, has

just started. Now this is drawing all these people in from these different nations, who wondered what was going on. How is it that we hear everyone in our own language from whatever nation we are from? Some were saying, oh, they are just drunk. I remember having a meeting down in Knifley Kentucky. Two of the sisters that come here received the Holy Ghost. They still live down there. Someone said, oh, I have seen this before, it will pass. I saw one of those sisters this morning, she could not contain herself, she was shouting. As the world might say, she is just going wild. But with God, it is not wild. There are different things that I could be going into, which I will later, the Lord willing. But a lot of it would not fit with tonight’s message.

So I am going to close for now. Prayer

To be continued in next issue…