Pentecostalism under the message:
Had God spoken only by branham?
CHAPTER FIVE
<And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the
sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
Is it
a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk
and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a
prince over us?
Moreover
thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given
us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these
men? we will not come up.> (Numbers
<And
Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had
married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
And
they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also
by us? And the LORD heard it.
(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all
the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
And
the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the
tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.> (Numbers
12:1-5).
<And the LORD said unto Moses, If her
father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her
be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in
again.
And
Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till
Miriam was brought in again.> (Numbers
<Now
these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil
things, as they also lusted.
Neither
be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to
eat and drink, and rose up to play.
Neither
let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three
and twenty thousand.
Neither
let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of
serpents.
Neither
murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
Now
all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our
admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Wherefore
let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.> (I Corinthians
10: 6-12).
May the Lord add a blessing to the reading of
His holy Words. And we greet all in the name of Jesus Christ: locally here, and
all our precious brethren over in G.C.C., and wherever they are hooked up in
And we welcome our precious brother, Peter
Baptiste. The Lord bless your heart. He is a gallant soldier standing in
I want to dwell on a little subject. “Pentecostalism Under the Message.”
This is about our fifth message, but then I always have a subtitle to divide
the subjects, so I will speak on the subject, “Had God Spoken Only By Branham?” Now, that goes a long way.
Brethren, there are different ways that you could say the same thing and God
don’t hear it, but it happened that God heard what those people were saying.
They were saying it with a different
spirit, insomuch that it attracted the Almighty and He spoke out suddenly.
I am telling you, that is a fearful thing. Brethren, immediately when those
words fell from the mouths of Miriam and Aaron it attracted the attention of
the Almighty, and He was ready to judge, not the words, but the attitude behind
the words.
Ambition, pride, jealousy
and contention
I could ask a simple question: “Had God only
spoken by William Branham?” And I could give you the answer, “Yes!” He had only
spoken by William Branham for the seventh church age; none other. He was right
and everybody was wrong. For anybody to contradict that, they are out of the
Spirit. He had only spoken by William Branham; likewise He had only spoken by
Moses at that time. So, you can ask a casual question, but behind this question
there was a lot of things that went with it and that was ambition, pride, self,
lust, jealousy and contention, for more
than what God allows you to do as a Christian or a minister. That was what
was behind that. They were not satisfied with the position that God ordained
them unto. They had great positions.
Look at the position of Aaron. Don’t you
think that that man should have been contented? Look at the gift that Aaron got
because of Moses. Those were Moses’ flesh brother and flesh sister. And God was
so gracious that when He called Moses, He gave Aaron a place next to Moses. And
Moses said, “Lord, I am not an eloquent man, I cannot speak.” He said, “Who
made the mouth? I made the mouth. I called you to be a prophet, whether you
could speak or not, you will remain my prophet.” (Exodus 4:10-14).
God called Brother Branham and his English
was not so polished, but he remained God’s prophet. People find faults with the
little impediments of William Branham, but Moses had a certain thing in his
speech, he felt that he was not the man for the job. The Lord bypassed the
man’s speech and said, “Okay, if that is your problem. I will settle that
problem. I will give you a prophet. And since you are a prophet I will give you
a prophet. I have changed your position to god on earth and I will remain God
over all, but I made you a god. And since you are a god, God speaks through His
prophets, then I will give you Aaron as your prophet.” (Exodus 4:15-16). Aaron was Moses’ prophet, but Moses was God’s
prophet and nobody should have touched him.
Psalm
105:15 <…Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.>
And only an evil spirit could come up against
such a man like Moses, who was the meekest man upon the earth, that even God
had to comment and say, “Were not you afraid to speak evil of my servant Moses?
Listen to me. Come, come let me talk to you.” And He gave them a good lecture.
Friends, this is a fearful thing that I am talking about. (God heard the evil
speaking, and it never brought His attention with all the evil speaking of the
man’s wife and the Ethiopian woman, and all what they said. Maybe they
gossiped, and they spoke evil of the man’s family, starting from
In the history of Josephus, Moses was sent by
the Egyptians to fight the Ethiopians, and when he went down there he besieged
the city.
Now, Miriam and Aaron had known the man’s
past life, and the only thing that they could have picked upon was his past
life. They talked and they talked, but then, friends, they said something too much, that brought God down from heaven and that
was: “Had God spoken only by Moses? Had He not spoken by us also?” My God! That
attracted the attention of God.
Everything evil that the Pentecostals and all
the gainsayers are saying today concerning William Branham, God is hearing
them, and it is going to bring Him down in supernatural power at the outpouring
of the Holy Spirit, to prove the ministry of William Branham, that God had only
spoken by Moses through the seventh church age, and after him God is speaking
for Himself through the ministry of the Son of Man.
Look at the privilege those men had;
privileges that we long for, for God to come down and counsel us in His own
audible voice. And when they went out, He said, “You three, come to the
Tabernacle.” You could imagine the fear of that voice. It was a voice of
judgement. “You three, appear at My tabernacle, for I will speak to you.” My
beloved, God gave them a lecture to show that Moses was different from all the
prophets. He said, “According to My law I speak to prophets in visions and
dreams, but My servant Moses is not so. I speak to the man lip to ear. Were not
you afraid when you lifted up your tongue to speak against such a holy man,
that I am in contact with? Weren’t you afraid? You put God out of your thoughts
to speak evil of that anointed servant of God.” (Numbers 12:6-8). And look at the meekness of Moses. He knew what
was coming. He bowed down to the ground and pleaded for them. They were
supposed to have died right there, but God heard the prayer of Moses.
We were supposed to die, children, because of
all our evils, but Christ intervened. He is our intercessor. He is our
mediator. And Moses was a mediator between the living and the dead. What a
thing. What a horrible thing.
O brethren, study that story. It was not the
words that were used but the attitude
behind it, and behind those words were jealousy, hatred, lack of
appreciation for what God had given to Aaron. Aaron was next to Moses, and then
God on top of that, called the man and made him the high priest, that he alone
could have entered the holy place to offer the blood sacrifice every year. No
other priest could have gone there; and he was not contented with that, or took
pride and made himself equal with Moses
It is a terrible thing when a servant of God becomes common to you. And what could
make a servant of God become common to you. It’s jealousy, hatred or the gift
that God gave and how God uses him. You want to match that servant of God and
you want to be equal with him. And that was what happened to the Pentecostal
world, when Brother Branham came here they thought they were equal with William
Branham. None of them were equal to William Branham! God had spoken to Moses
alone and no dog should bark; otherwise you will face Almighty God. God had
spoken to William Branham in our age. And there is not a university graduate,
there is not a "big brain", there is not any anointed Pentecostal,
there is not any great man that could change that message, add to that message,
take away from that message and reveal more mysteries after William Branham had
spoken. None! Everyone who arises like that is an imitator, and there is nobody
sent of God to extend the message or to correct
the message of William Branham.
Only one extension
to the message of W.M.B.
Let me put this in right here. There is only
one extension to the message of William Branham, and that is what is hiding
under the seventh seal. That is the only extension. There were seven seals
binding up all the revelation that God could ever reveal to humanity. Six seals
were revealed and the seventh seal was not revealed, therefore the only
revelation that was not given to the church then, is hiding under the seventh
seal, and that is the only extension,
and that is going to be broken to the public shortly, but I assure you that it
is in secret some where in the back part of the desert. Just like David was in
the back part of the desert and one day he surfaced at the howling of Goliath.
At the howling of the Pope today, David, the little church, is going to surface
with the revelation of the seven
thunders to destroy the enemy. O glory! Don’t you feel to give Him a praise
offering? Give Him a praise offering. Praise be to God. [Congregation praises the Lord.]Brethren, let us be contented.
I
Timothy 6:6 <But godliness with contentment is great gain.>
That is what the Bible declared. And you
could see the incontentment in those people. Truly they were gifted, truly they
had positions, but they were jealous inside, they were full of jealousy, they
were full of ambition, they were filled with malice and that was surfacing on
that day. How long did the both of them speak those kinds of things against
Moses?
Now, when you become dissatisfied with how
the Lord is using you, you would jealous another man. Now, pride is connected
with ambition, ambition is connected with jealousy and jealousy is as cruel as
the grave. Out of all such things comes all kinds of evils, and that spells out
Pentecostalism against William Branham today.
Now, let me put in a little something here
that will brighten up the subject of, “Had God Spoken only by Branham?” I did
not say Brother Branham for a special reason, because that is the way that
these jealous Pentecostals refer to him. They speak with scorn, and that was
how Miriam was speaking, that was how Aaron was speaking, with scorn, like if
they were somebody great. I want you to understand as message believers, the church
here and abroad that William Braham was a type of Moses and he came with three
different ministries: the ministry of
Moses, the ministry of Elijah
and the ministry of Christ.
Now, I looked at the message recently, and I
observed, that the woman who prophesied; she was a Baptist and she prophesied
that those ministries would be preaching to them in three months time, and it
came to past.
Quote
W.M.B.: 40
Many years ago when the Angel of the Lord had met me down here at the
river the first time, and appeared in that Light, and the Words that He spoke
there; eleven years later, when I walked into a meeting, this little woman rose
and spoke in tongues and interpreted. It was word for word the same thing that
Angel said.
…
when I walked into… the place at
Before
that, a little woman stood up in the meeting, a Baptist woman come over there
not knowing what she could do. And she was standing in the midst of the
meeting, and the Holy Spirit fell on her, and she begin to speak with tongues,
a Baptist woman from the First Baptist church at Shreveport; and then she
didn't know what she had did. And then before she could say anything, the Holy
Spirit give the interpretation, said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, 'Within three
months there'll be the Spirit of Moses, Elijah, and Christ, ministering in this
tabernacle.'" There it happened, perfectly. (The Revelation Of Jesus Christ 60-1204M).
So now, since William Branham was our Moses today,
the Pentecostal group that he was sent to typed out
Now, you had these people coming out of
so-called Pentecost by the millions, but they were not following the Word. They
were following the signs of the
prophet, and that was what
Hebrews
4:2 <For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word
preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
>
Followers of
message of Malachi 4: 5-6 – who?
They had no
revelation on the message. I want you to get the real picture. When we talk
about the followers of the message and messenger, we are not talking about this
latter day group here. I am going way back down there, to let you know, that at
the first appearance of William Branham, he was sent to so-called Pentecost and
he stayed there for thirty years. He had followers by the millions, and he was
accepted, hailed as the mighty man of God and even a prophet. After the death
of Brother Branham, Oral Roberts himself published on his paper: “Twentieth
century prophet died.” T. L. Osborn hailed him as the mightiest prophet that
ever walked the face of the earth. That is his own testimony. So, when you are
looking at this great group who accepted the messenger for the age, get your
picture right. We are talking about all the Pentecostal people, who accepted William Branham, and the
signs, and the wonders and the miracles. You are talking about millions, just like
Moses had millions that followed him, and he was bringing them out of
As they continued, the prophet of God started
to preach the Word of God to the Pentecostals, they disbelieved the Word of God
because they were gifted men too, (signs and wonders,) they were doing
fantastic things, they were operating even like Aaron, without revelation and
as they journeyed they started to pull away from 1960, and they started to deny
the holiness message that he was
bringing to them: no high heel shoes, no women preachers, no immodest clothing,
no pants for the women, no chopping of the hair. He started to get deeper: that
God is not a trinity, He is one God, baptism in Jesus Christ’s name, the seed
of the serpent; salvation is by grace, and all those other things. They pulled
away and they manifested their unbelief, even as the children of
Right now the whole of the Pentecostal system,
(not every individual,) has blasphemed their way and they are atomic fodder,
cursed to go through the tribulation, unto hell and the lake of fire. I know
that is a big mouthful. Do you think the Pentecostal system will ever believe
that? No, friends. Do you think anybody would have believed in that time that
God cursed two million people, and swore that they were not going into that
land, but they were going to perish and die in the wilderness? And Christ came
after that and confirmed that they are everyone dead, eternally separated from God because of their attitude. Now, what
will He do to the individuals that manifest such a proud and a haughty attitude
towards the truth, towards the Word of God? Isn’t He obligated to do the same? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] He has got
to do the same. You are going to fulfill Hebrews
6 and Hebrews 10. As much as I
want you to be saved, friends, God judges such kinds of people. Yes. Our duty
is to continue to pray: “God have mercy,” but it is not going to work out so easily,
friends.
Book of exodus – present position of
the church
Moses stepped in the way and said, “God have
mercy. God have mercy,” right down the line. There came a time that He had to
curse them at Kadesh Barnea, and they caused that man not to enter the Promised
Land. The present position of the
followers of the message is determined by the book of Exodus. The prophet said
concerning the book of Exodus: “And when I cannot do that I read the most
chapters that I can because it reveals the journey of the church.”
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W.M.B.: 48 We're taking
Now,
there He led
Now,
we're moved by the Holy Spirit, in going now into the promised land. You
believe we're on a road to a promised land? "In My Father's house is many
mansions. If it wasn't so, I would've told you. I'll go and prepare a place for
you." Is that right? Now, we have a promised land that we're going to, and
each day marks a milestone; another day, another milestone. (Redemption In Completeness 54-0330).
He knew very well that was his ministry, and
to find out where the church was at he continued to read that book. I think
that is so wonderful. He was accepted by so-called Pentecost. Let me divide
that line just a little for you. About 1963, the system of so-called
Pentecostalism rejected William Branham. They were afraid to call him a false
prophet until many years after he died. They never coined those words because
they knew his reputation concerning the many people that died for withstanding
him. They became brave enough. After the
seals were opened was the rejection of the Word. You will find that in
Revelation 3: 14-22 where they put Christ outside of the church. Where was
Christ? He was dealing with His servant, Brother Branham. So, when they rejected
the Word, they rejected Christ and they had Him outside of the church.
The Laodicean church, Revelation 3:14-22, is
the so-called Pentecostal church and they put Christ outside of the church. He
is the Word of God. Now, when that happened, there were a bunch of people from
so-called Pentecost, from unsaved groups, and a few from denominational
churches that remained faithful to the message and they became the followers of
Malachi 4:5-6, William Branham. Do you understand the difference? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] So, what we
have under the message today is a mixture of other churches. You have under the
message a bunch of Pentecostals that did not want to stay any longer in that
system and they continued in the message. So, when we refer to the followers of Malachi 4:5-6, we are speaking of
that group that came out of Pentecost, we are talking about three kinds of
believers that are under the message. We are calling that the mixed multitude.
However, the bigger part of the mixed multitude fell away and they remained in
their old system, but here we have a few million people that are now claiming
to follow the message of the hour, and they are not afraid to be identified
with the message and the messenger and preach his name.
Now, that lie that was spread around the
world, that the people that follow William Branham, worship William Branham,
was spread by the Pentecostal system, because their people came out of their
churches and followed William Branham. The inventor of that big lie is one of
the head Pentecostal men and his name is Kenneth
Hagin.
Egyptians ways brought over under
the message
Now, one important thing here that we must
understand is, that when the Pentecostal people who accepted Brother Branham
and the message came over under the message, friends, they brought over their Egyptian ways. O my, I want that to sink down.
They brought over their Egyptian ways even like the Israelites that followed
Moses. Now, let your minds go back. There came a time under Moses that they
still had their golden calf, which they worshipped in
Now, under this Moses, the big problem that
now faces the message and is responsible for all the confusion, all the
divisions, all the gainsaying, all the Korahs and the Abirams and the Dathans,
and all the Miriams and all the Aarons is that they brought over their Egyptian
ways and their Egyptian spirits and their Egyptian seeds right under this message.
Nothing was wrong with Moses, nothing was wrong with the message of Moses. No,
friends. Moses was a great man and his message was a great message. And so we
can say likewise of William Branham, that William Branham was one of the
greatest prophets that ever walked the face of the earth, outside of our Lord
Jesus Christ. He brought the greatest message of any prophet that ever walked
the face of the earth. He came right up to the opening of the seals and to the
impersonation of the ministry of Christ in the endtime. Not that he was Christ;
he was Moses, he played out that part; he was Elijah, he play out that part,
and at the opening of the seals he played out the part of Christ, the Lamb of
God opening up the seals because only the Lamb could have opened the seals, but
He had a man upon earth, behind the pulpit while Christ was opening the seals
in the endtime. He was the greatest prophet in the endtime. The things that
your ministers are preaching, is greater than what Moses preached. To touch
that is to play with fire, for the Lord said, “For I have made My ministers a
flame of fire and they beareth not the sword in vain.” (Hebrews 1:7, Romans 13:4).
Now,
imagine if God spoke with such wrath in that time, what will He do for the opening
of the seals? There is much wrath that is going to be expressed. Friends, I am
not dealing with some little, petty thing. This is a message of warning to the whole world and the message followers,
that have risen up in the endtime here to make themselves equal with William
Branham. To misinterpret the Word of God, and think they have the ability to
correct the message of William Branham to show the people the errors he made,
and show what is truth, and sift it out and divide it in two. You are a Korah,
you are an Abiram, you have the spirit of Miriam: finding fault with the
message of the hour. It’s a devil’s spirit. Yes sir. I do not care who you are.
Some of these heretics are due for another
licking and it’s coming soon.
The last licking they got, they went into their holes like
"Zandolees" and they stayed there for a couple of years, two or three
years, and they are now putting out their heads again. Yes. Now, the Word
exposed them so much that they don’t have a place to hide, and lots of people
came out from under their cults and are delivered today. They have no hold in
certain places. Yes. Certain men that followed them are new stalwart men for
E.O.D.H. with the same zeal and same zest. Yes. I tell you.
Now, I want this anchored; it is going to
come up a little later again, that it’s a carry over of Egyptian ways and that
was not left in so-called Pentecost, that is under the message today and that
is how the people that follow this message function. It’s a terrible thing. If
they hear me, they will not believe that, but the first mark of identification
of Pentecostalism under the message is a know-it-all
spirit and lack of repentance. Go back to the Laodicean message: “We have
need of nothing. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire.”
Revelation
3: 17-18 <Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have
need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and
poor, and blind, and naked.>
Now, that spirit is a know-it-all spirit. And
the next thing that is highlighted there is imitations. For you to say that you have need of nothing, you have
to be imitating something. So, these are two outstanding characteristics in the
Pentecostal realms, and those are the same things that have shown up under the
message today. What are they imitating? They are imitating the baptism of the
Holy Ghost that they received on the day of Pentecost. And the same imitation
that Pentecostalism had, and propagated from 1906 that they are filled with the
Spirit of God, (‘I have the power of the Holy Ghost’,) but they are powerless
and they live in Sodom and Gomorrah like dogs, that’s the same spirit that’s
under the message today. They are powerless, and they are going closer to
There is as much sin under the followers of the messages as there is in
so-called Pentecost: adultery, fornication, homosexuality, sodomy, money
spirit, pride, self, showmanship, Hollywood is in the church, nakedness, and
these are the traits of so-called Pentecost, and that is under the message, and
I challenge the world to come and disprove what I am saying. You are powerless! I am not talking
about the little signs and wonders here; I am not talking about the dead being
raised. Yes, we admit that God is a miracle worker but we want to see another
book of Acts, and we are going to see it. The prophet of God said if a church
really has the baptism of the Holy Spirit as they claim, it is going to be
another super church, another power church, it will be Deity speaking, where
your word is as good as God’s Word. Those are two or three quotations that I am
paraphrasing.
Quote
W.M.B.: 171-1 In these last days the true
Quote:
240 If a real church was ordained of God, really filled with the Holy
Spirit, if sin would appear in the church, it'd be another like Ananias and
Sapphira. When a real church... I'd like to walk into one, see all the women
and men under the power of the Holy Spirit. If somebody had done something
wrong, the Holy Spirit rise right up and reveal it. They'd have to clean up.
That's gifts of the Spirit in the church. O God, send us a church like that;
send us one like that. You believe it? Christ, is He dead? He's alive. (Perseverance 62-0218).
Quote: 186
Church, that's the reason I can't take the baptism of the Holy Ghost of crying,
shaking, or speaking in tongues, or any sensation…But the Holy Ghost is Deity,
God tabernacled in men. It's more than a sensation. It's more than speaking in
tongues. It's more than shouting in the Spirit. It's more than weeping. It's
more than joining church. It's God living in men, Deity, God Himself
tabernacled into that person, when he can speak and it's just the same as God
speaking; that's the
Imitation of the Pentecostal
blessing
If
you have what they had on the day of Pentecost, show me one Ananias that fell dead, show me
one Sapphira that fell dead, show me one Parham that died. It is coming. Men
that tell such lies are going to fall dead.
Pentecostalism itemized
Pentecostalism: let me itemize just a little,
for a few minutes so you will get a picture of what is under the message,
because you got a picture of how it came over. All right! Who is handling this
message now is generally Pentecostal. Now, there was a crop that was born on
the way under Moses, and they were the ones that were going into the Promised
Land. All under the age of twenty were going to enter the Promised Land. All
over the age of twenty that left
Pentecostalism is built upon pride,
know-it-all: “We have need of nothing. We are rich.” It is built on
showmanship: and hold that word there, friends. It is built upon imitations and
fanaticisms. That spells out Pentecostalism. And most of all, from the very
start in 1906 it was built upon the imitation
of the Pentecostal blessing. That is why they called themselves
Pentecostals, and they took the initial evidence of speaking in tongues as the
proof that they had it, not knowing that the devil talks in tongues too. Then,
the traits of so-called Pentecostalism are resisting the truth, (because they
rejected Christ and put Him outside of the church,) and the love of money.
Most people go to the Pentecostal church to
become rich. It is a system like that. It is preached to them in such a way,
that if they give to God they are going to get so many times more. So now, the
members that belong to that system came there for an investment in natural
things, not an investment for their salvation. But we have an investment today
for our salvation. We have invested in the blood of Jesus Christ, all that we
have. We sold all our pearls and we purchased the pearl of great price. We have
a great investment and that is an investment
of eternal life.
In so-called Pentecost we have false prophets
and we have a false five-fold ministry. Demon possession is mistaken to be the
baptism of the Holy Ghost. There are many testimonies of our brethren. There
were cases of local people trying to cast devils out of certain people, and
when the great evangelists came down, they confirmed that to be the baptism of
the Holy Ghost. Pentecostalism you have sexual perversions, and every item of
Now, the people did
not deny the Ten Commandments. No. They did not deny all those things, but hear
the voice of Korah. “You told us that you are taking us to a land of milk and
honey, but
And the big problem around this message
today, that the man called Lambert fought all his life until he sealed his testimony
with his blood, was to project the highlight message of Brother Branham called,
‘The
Token,’ telling them that they must have another outpouring of the Holy
Spirit. He died and he never saw it accepted, but with a few people in the
United States, but we are alive today to see that, that revelation has gone
worldwide and God has raised up sons of God, ministers around the world,
ministers in India, ministers in Africa, ministers in the Philippines,
ministers in Europe proclaiming that there must be another outpouring of the
Holy Spirit. I thank God. I praise God. I worship God. We have entered into the
labours of other men. Entered into the labours of other men. Yes sir. That
thing is going; it is catching like "wild fire".
Brother Bob never seen
that. That cursed nation,
Anointing of 1906 came over under
the message
This is what the devil wants to stop. So, the big problem under this message today is
a know-it-all spirit that was brought over from so-called Pentecost. And no
doubt, the people are anointed, because they accepted the truth. So, the anointing
that was upon so-called Pentecost, when the people accepted the message and the
messenger, some of that anointing came over. I hope you understand that. It
came over with the followers of Malachi 4, and that is the anointing that they are working under. And so-called Pentecost, the
system, became demon possessed, just like when the Spirit of God left Saul and
an evil spirit troubled him. I am saying that there are evil spirits troubling
so-called Pentecostalism today, and they do not have one speck of the Holy
Ghost. That spirit came over amongst the followers of Malachi 4, who are trying
to follow the message of the hour and the messenger. Amongst them that pervert
the message and follow heresies and heretics, they are void of the Spirit.
The token by faith
The only way to have the real Spirit of God is
to follow the message without perversion. Yes. And I say this humbly, that is
why the quality of the Spirit is in this building, even since it was
inaugurated. And every where that they accept the further light and
understanding of the message; in India, and Africa and wherever it goes, and
they preach an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the same Spirit is attendant.
Every minister is a blessing to us: every song leader, every musician, every
brother, every sister. We are moving closer to that token. I am telling you. I
do not care what are your battles. I do not care what goes through your mind.
Friends, you want eternal life? You are going to have it. You want that token?
You are going to have it. I am telling you. “It is not by might nor by power,
but by My Spirit, saith the Lord.” (Zechariah
4:6). “By grace are we save through faith and not of works least any man
should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9). Yes
sir! Glory to God!
I remember that great dream that the Lord
gave me many years ago. And I dreamt that I was preaching to you here and I
said, “Are you ready for the Token? Are you ready for that outpouring of the
Holy Spirit?” And beloved, the whole congregation was under condemnation and
they became very silent. And then, the Lord whispered to me, “You are saying
that wrong. Say, are you ready for the token
by faith?” And I said, “Are you ready for the token by faith?” And a great
roaring went up from the congregation, “Amen!”
Unbelief will take you away from this
outpouring; faith will carry you in. If unbelief took the Israelites away from
the Promised Land; faith is going to get us in. And that is what Joshua and
Caleb had, with the second generation. They believed that they were more than
able to take the land; “The giants are bread for us.” I say, all your faults
are bread for you. All the giants that have arisen against the Word are bread
for us. Yes sir! We are marching to the Promised Land. We are more than able to
take this land. We are more than able to get the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
You are more than able to get that down there, Watson. You are more than able
to get it there, Brother Mc Ghee. Yes! It does not matter how the devil may
afflict you and howl we are marching to the Promised Land. More than able, down
there in
Now, you see the same thing that Miriam
expressed, Aaron expressed and Korah expressed? It is the same thing that destroyed so-called Pentecost. “Had God
spoken only by William Branham? He hath also spoken by us.” God did speak
through Aaron; God did speak though Miriam, but beloved, in a different fashion
and it had its place. God did speak to the people that were in so-called
Pentecost in a certain measure, in a certain way. Yes. God did speak to me. God
did speak to the ministers here. And no doubt, God spoke to many of you but in
a different way. But when we will pick up our rude selves, and try to correct a
prophet, and want to be equal with Malachi 4 and misinterpret the Word of God,
our portion will be the same as Miriam, with leprosy. Your portion will be the
same like Korah, Abiram and Dathan, with all their children, their houses, and
their lands and everything. Yes. God did speak by William Branham alone, our
precious brother, for the seventh church age. Yes. And the Laodicean age had
one messenger, Brother John:
Revelation
“In the days of the voice of the seventh
angel, the mystery of God would be revealed.”(Revelation 10:7). A singular messenger. There is no man’s brain
that is so big, to come and add or take away from this message, unless he is
bringing the revelation of the seventh seal and the seven thunders. And when
any man thinks that he has the revelation of the seven thunders, it must
dovetail with the Word of God, so declared William Branham.
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W.M.B.: 284-5 {42} And when anybody thinks that he
has those seven thunders, if it don't compare with the rest of the Word,
there's something wrong here. See? (The Fourth Seal 63-0321).
All contrary to W.M.B.’s message is
of the devil
I have spoken enough, brothers and sisters,
where I could just close my Bible, and let us praise the Lord. Yes. But I think
that this is sheep food. Anything contrary to the message of William Branham is
the devil! Anything that rises up against William Branham and this message is
the devil! Yes. Anybody that lives contrary to the message and the holiness
standards is wrong, and they are anointed of the devil! No man is great enough
to change the message of the hour.
If he said, ‘no adultery,’ it means no adultery. ‘No fornication,’ it means no
fornication. If it says, ‘no homosexuality,’ it means that. That man is wrong.
He is devil possessed. And anybody that takes up for him is going that way too.
You are going down to the pit.
This message is as clear as a whistle. The
same spirit that dominated Miriam and Aaron caused the both of them to die in
the wilderness; they did not live very long after that. “And Miriam died and
Aaron died, and were buried in the desert.” (Numbers
20:1, 33:38). It was not too long, it was a matter of hours that the earth
opened up and swallowed Korah, his wife, his children, his relatives and
everything that took sides against Moses and the Spirit of God. My God! It is a
fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. (Hebrews 10:31).
You say, “Preacher, you are trying to
frighten us?” You better get frighten, and you should not wait for me to
frighten you. The Bible said, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of
wisdom.” (Proverbs 9:10). And if you
do not fear God and His wrath, something is wrong with you. I fear hell,
friends. I fear the lake of fire. I fear to blaspheme. And that is what will
keep us. You do not want to be like blasphemers. You do not want to be like the
backsliders. You do not want to be in that category. O God! Brethren, I want to
be on the side that will be judging on the day of judgement, and that should be
the desire of every one of you. All these backsliders that are full of hate,
full of malice, full of jealousy and wish our evil, are going to be on the next
side. Strive hard not to be there.
“Know ye not that the saints shall judge the
world? Know ye not that the saints shall judge angels.” (I Corinthians 6:2-3) Yes. Earthly messengers. The fallen angels
who followed Lucifer and his tale that pulled down a third of the stars from
heaven, will stand before us also.
That same spirit started in heaven with
Lucifer: dissatisfaction, resisting correction. “Had God spoken only by Michael
the
Give Him a praise offering for that. [Congregation praises the Lord.] Thank
You, Father. Yes. O, praise the Lord. Thank You, Saviour. Thank You, my God,
and my King and my Lord. Glory, and honour, praises and dominion and power
belongeth unto the King that reigneth forever and ever. Take up Thy scepter, O
Lord. Rule and reign in the hearts of Your saints, Thou Mighty One of Israel.
Thou Mighty One of Israel, send forth Your power upon Your people. O God!
Pride, ambition and contentment
Brethren, let us be careful with such
attitude. Let us be contented with the money that God gave us, the houses that
God gave us, the wives that God gave us, the children that God gave us. Let us
be contented with food and raiment, brethren. We are rich people, if we have
food and raiment, but brethren, we are never going to be contented with this
amount of Spirit. No! We want more of it.
We want the fullness of the Holy Ghost. Yes. Let us be contented with how the
Lord is using us. If He made you a song-leader, brethren, do not try to be the
"boss-man," don’t try to take that attitude: “Well, I am in charge!”
From the time you get that "in charge" spirit; what you are saying
and what you are putting in order could be right, but friends, the spirit you
are doing it with is the spirit of Miriam and Aaron. Watch out, friends! Watch
out! Brethren, let us humble our hearts. Yes sir. Be contented. God gave you a
little something to do in the House of God, friend, beat your chest and be
humble. Yes. Do not puff your chest up. “I am a deacon.” You could walk over
people; God will kick you out. God hates pride. He hates self. He hates
boastfulness.
A little brother prospering and you get that
jealous spirit against him. God does not like that. No sir. And He will deal
with us. May God help Brother Bruce. I want to be contented. I want to be
contented with whatever God gave me, and He has given me that spirit and I
thank Him for it. I do not want to be a rich man. No. I do not want to be a
popular man. I want to see others become popular. I want to see others prosper.
Yes. What will I do with money, children? What will I do with a barrel of
American dollars? When I was “scrunting” as a
poor man, I rejected all the offers from
Let us be contented. Do not jealous. God gave
you a little something to preach, be thankful, and smite your chest. Be
thankful for what God uses you for. Do not try to be a Brother Branham. No,
friend. Do not try to be a prophet. This is the spirit that is prevalent under the message today. That is why we
have the eighth messengers. That is why we have a bunch of false prophets. Now,
it is the same pride. It is the same pride, same thoughts like Miriam, and
Korah and his company, that causes people to pervert the message. In other
words, “I am anointed. I am gifted like William Branham, and God is speaking to
me, too. He did not only speak to Branham.” It is the same spirit of so-called
Pentecost. Under the message men think that God is revealing mysteries that
were left out by William Branham. You have the spirit of Miriam and Aaron. You
have the spirit of Korah and Abiram. From the time you start thinking that, the
devil will jump on you, and cause you to pervert the Word of God in a ridiculous
way.
This here is the problem of Gan. This here is
the problem of
If you have a spiritual dream, stay in that
category. You had a vision: thank God for that. That does not make you a
prophet. “Your young men shall see visions. Your old men shall dream dreams.” (Acts
I want that to sink down into the ears of all
message believers around the world, who follow these heretics. I boldly declare
that all these men are Korah, Abiram and Dathan: false anointed ones. This is the present position of the message.
It is the rising of Korah, Abiram and Dathan, which represents the false
anointed ones, who are now trying to make themselves equal with the ministry of
William Branham, trying to interpret the message of William Branham, correct
the message of William Branham, extend the message of William Branham by this
kind of a mystery, and that kind of a mystery, like in the case of Gan. He
wants to bring out mysteries, after mysteries, after mysteries. And so too was
the honourable Mr.
This message is clear enough to help the
dullest person to understand what I am saying. It is going out in another book.
Do not forget that message that I am going to preach: “Soul-deep Anointed.” This
is where the problem is. Besides all these problems, why they could behave like
that? Why do you have jealousy? Why do you have hatred? Why do you have malice?
Why do you have unbelief? Why do you follow a heretic? Why do you believe
heresies? Why do you believe another man is equal to Brother Branham, that
could reveal to you more mysteries? Something is wrong with your soul. There is
room in your soul for that. O yes.
In other words, the spirit that is prevalent
under the message is: “We know something too. We are functioning today, but
William Branham functioned forty years ago; yes, so, God is revealing the
thunders to us. He is revealing the seventh seal to us. He is revealing other
mysteries that Brother Branham never touched.” Let me tell you the truth, my
brethren. I do not touch anything more than what was given to William Branham,
and that is the straight line we have been running for the past decades. If I
cannot find something in the prophet’s message, I am silent about it. But I
speak very loud, and clear and boldly where he has spoken. I am walking
straight with this message, just like the Lord showed me. Anything outside of that is fanaticism. It is
the only way to go down the road. I do not regard the revelation of any man,
that cannot fit back in the message of Brother Branham. I do not regard any
opinion and any heresy that a man would say that contradicts Brother Branham’s
message. It is of the devil! Have nothing to do with it. Yes. I do not care how
anointed a man is, how gifted the man is.
What is prevalent under this message is that
know-it-all spirit. They do not have need of anything. Pentecostalism rejected
William Branham. And further to that, as the time went on, they became
impersonators of the true article of Pentecost. And that is the mistake that
they made. That was the biggest mistake. Instead of waiting on a true
outpouring of the Holy Spirit; when they realized that they did not have the
same power of Pentecost, when the revival broke in 1906, they started to
impersonate. They started to impersonate the power of God. In other words, “God
is speaking to us, too.” They started interpreting the message. Death followed.
Message ministers are repeating the same mistake.
Korah, and Abiram and Dathan had the same
spirit. And look at what happened when a man started thinking like that. They
challenged Moses. Moses sent for them. “Come, brethren. Let us talk this thing
over.” Brethren, they got a devil upon them. When you become ambitious, proud
and a know-it-all, when you think that you are in contact with God the same as
William Branham, you are going to get
that attitude. But if you respect the prophet and the message, and you
would say, “When I came to this message I had not known anything. What ever I
know now came from that message, came from the servants of God who God is
using.” But people forget the rock from whence they were hewn. And that is the
big problem, friends.
The big problem around the message
The
big problem around the
message is not the people. The big problem around the message is the false
anointed ones. The big problem under Moses was not the people. It was the false
anointed ones. It was gifted men, anointed men. Yes. They were the problem.
These men, who had that spirit upon them, were misinterpreting the message. And
propagating themselves as men equal to Moses and it confused the whole congregation,
but that was not an excuse. They were going to die. Anybody that followed
Korah, Abiram and Dathan was going to perish. The only way that the church
could go on is that Miriam must be cleansed from her leprosy. And the church
journeyed not until Miriam was cleansed from her leprosy. She had to be
cleansed from her leprosy. She was cast out of the camp. And that is where the
followers of Malachi 4 are today, because of their jealousy and know-it-all.
They are stricken with leprosy of
unbelief, leprosy of sports, leprosy of high heel shoes, leprosy of immoral
dressing, leprosy of
But what is it? You should not come under the
influence of Korah and company. You imagine a man like Aaron came under the
influence of his sister? That woman was the ringleader. Do you know that she
had a spirit of gossiping? And it
pulled the high priest into it, showing you what a loose tongue could do,
showing you what a woman with jealousy could do. Pulled the high priest into
that gossip. You say, “Well, Brother Bruce, you look like if you are picking up
for the man and not the woman.” Maybe God picked up for the man too in that
matter. Because when God dealt in judgement, He put the leprosy on Miriam, to
show who was the ringleader and who was influenced. So, this woman was the
ringleader. Do not think that only started with Aaron and Miriam. That woman
had already talked to the whole of
When you have a long-tongue woman, and a man
to listen to that long tongue, he is going to be a tool in her hand. Bad talks the minister’s wife. She carries it
over here, carries it over there, takes the telephone and calls over here, and
calls over there and breaks up the whole church.
That is one of the warnings that Brother
Lambert gave to me. He said, “Cut the long tongues of every woman, for they
will destroy the church. You go and tell these men that entered the pulpit
without a divine call, that hell is too good for them.” Yes sir. That is the
truth, and that is what I have been doing even since we crossed parts, which
was ordained to be. It never happened by chance, friends. O God, be praised the
day that I crossed parts with that man that was highlighting the token or I
would have been numbered with the followers of Malachi 4 today, thinking that I
am some great evangelist. I was getting ready to go into the interiors of
A man will be a fool, who has heard this
truth and this message, to put himself up into a category that he is an
evangelist. You are powerless! The prophet of God said on the Church Ages, “You have no right to be out on
the field, until you go in power.”
Quote
W.M.B.: 304-2 You haven't any business out on the field unless you are filled
with the Holy Ghost and preaching the true Gospel in the demonstration of the
power of the Holy Ghost. If you are not seeing the results that Jesus said you
would see, it's because you are not preaching the true Gospel." (
Message ministers are powerless
impersonators
Any man that says that he heard what E.O.D.H.
or the message preaches, and he pretends to be an evangelist, and to be the next
man after Brother Branham, like these fanatics outside there are saying, “I am
the one to follow Brother Branham.” I guess Aaron thought so, “If Moses dies, I
am going to be the next in Moses’ place.” God will call you to His tent, and He
will speak to you, and He is going to give you leprosy and your life will be
short. A man has to be a dumb man concerning the things that we are preaching
and this message, to think that he is a great evangelist. You are a powerless
man.
And why a lot of people that preach the
message, want to be evangelists, I will tell you. They have the same
Pentecostal spirit, to go out there and collect money. You heard what I am
telling you? [Congregation says, “Amen!”]
That is why a lot of them changed from pastors to evangelists. And if you do
not know the system under this message, let me tell you, friends. When you
claim to be an evangelist, and you go from church to church in America, they
take up an offering in every church for you, and so too in those other big
countries. So, those big evangelists are going there for an investment. He is
expecting a few Yankee dollars. He collects all that money when he goes to five
churches or ten churches in the year, then he is a rich man. He is a hypocrite!
You are powerless! God sent you no where.
Some of them are trained to be apostles. Why are you pretending to be an
apostle? It is money, pride, the spirit of Korah, the spirit of Abiram and
Dathan. That is what is upon them. That is why they claim to be interpreting
the message and misinterprets the message. I make no apology whatsoever! All
these men that I just called here are heretics, and they mishandle the message
of the hour. If you have what they had on the day of Pentecost, show me the
apostles, show me the prophets, show me the teachers, show me the pastors. Show
me the teachers and show me the gifted men with the power of God. Show me
Ananias and Sapphira falling dead. Show me the next book of Acts. Do not tell
me it does not have to be written. It must be written according to the promise
of this message. Yes. ‘If this church
puts forth another branch, there will be another book of Acts written behind
it.’
Quote
W.M.B.: 61 The world is wanting to see Christ. Jesus said, "I am the Vine;
ye are the branches." And the branch bears record of the Vine, because it
draws its energy and Life from the Vine. Well, the first Vine, first branch
that came from this Vine, it--they wrote a Book of Acts behind that branch. We
see the way the Holy Spirit acted in that first church, that
And
if the first branch put forth a bunch of grapes, and then we find a bunch out
here that's got watermelons growing on it, or pumpkins, or cucumbers, we know
that it isn't the--the life that's in the vine.
Therefore,
I think, even where we would call ourselves Pentecostals, has failed to
represent the--the real thing that Christ has set forth for us to represent,
the--the Holy Spirit and the Life of the Spirit. See, we represent sometimes
sensations, and we represent joy, but, and--and that's good, but there's more
to it than that. There's a fruit that goes with it, that the hungry man is a
looking for this fruit of the Spirit, and this is the quality that was in
Jesus. (Investments
63-0803B).
So, the people under this message are living
under an impersonation. After Pentecostal preachers rejected William Branham,
rejected the Word, they are still around the place, on the television, on the
field as great evangelists but powerless! Oral Roberts is powerless. T. L.
Osborn is powerless. All those evangelists are powerless, and so too are the preachers under the message.
I challenge the world! Yes. You are powerless and you got to go back to
Pentecost. You are going back to Pentecost or you are going to perish. Yes sir.
I know that I am loud. Excuse me, but something articulates my soul, and in
turn articulates my voice. And don’t you think that is natural. No sir.
There was a miracle that happened during the
seventh church age. I think it was with Martin. He was singing a song and a
bunch of heathens came by, and they started to sing aloud to "drown"
him out, and then the Spirit of the Lord came down upon Martin and anointed
him, and his voice was amplified so high that he "drowned" out all
the heathens. And so will the voice of Christ today "drown out" all
the voices of the heretics, all the voices of the false prophets, yes sir, and
the
The problem under this message is Korah,
Abiram and Dathan, long tongue women like Miriam, unbelievers that will bad
talk Brother Branham, and pretend to have the same power like him to interpret
the Bible. They came as dogs under the message, not even knowing if they were
going or coming. Yes. Dogs, rum drinkers, cigarette smokers, adulterers,
fornicators, sodomites, who pack their heads with a little bit of knowledge and
after that they think that they know more than the prophet. You are a bastard!
You are a Korah. You are an Abiram and a Dathan. I have no respect for a man
like that, that will speak evil of Brother Branham. God will cut your nasty tongue out! Yes. You so-called
Pentecostals, God will damn your souls to hell. The earth will open up and
swallow you, as it swallowed Korah and his company. Yes. I believe, help Thou
my unbelief. The Word that you are hearing is the truth, children. You are
hearing from the throne of Almighty God. You are hearing from the true Spirit
of God. You are hearing from the spirit of truth. This is the spirit of truth.
Have no fear, have no doubt.
And when a man will arise and say, “Moses was
a cultist, and this is the land of milk and honey over here in 1906 Pentecost,
over in
And so was William Branham, God’s seer for
the age, a divine interpreter of the Word of God! Anything that comes against
that is going to hell and the lake of fire! Yes sir. I believe this message,
friends. How many believes this message? How many believes that William Branham
was our Moses for today? How many believes he was our Elijah? He many believes
that he had the Christ’s ministry in the Shout? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] I believe it. That is all. This is not
for unbelievers; it is for believers. Yes.
Nasty tongues of unbelief
You say, “I do not believe that.” Get out and
go! You say, “I believe Parham.” Get out and go! There is no room for you under
this message. If you want to support sodomy, go ahead. Yes. Go ahead and
support it. We support the Word of God. Yes sir. We support the message. If we
say no high heel shoes, it means no high heel shoes. No immoral dressing means
just that. No sodomite practices means just that. No sports means no sports. I
do not care about what Joseph does down at
Quote W.M.B.: 11-6 But they
hybrid the church like
they did the chicken...breeding in the
world, the things of the world, basketball games, and soup suppers, and
bunco games, and all kinds of things of the world. (Condemnation By Representation, 60-1113).
EVEN THE CHURCHES HAS GOT BALL TEAMS
Quote: 71 Even
the churches has got ball teams…and cricket parties, and "lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,
truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are
good." (
Quote: E-51 Oh, ball games, and frolics, and so forth, that's all right; but it don't belong in the church…That's
what the church wants, what they ought to want. Depends on what their appetite is (See?). (Micaiah The Prophet 61-0426).
Quote: E-79 That's what's the matter with our church today; they
got the lady's society, and the men's society…and ball games, and everything else. And prayer meetings is left off, you know.
And the Holy Ghost promised He'd only seal those who sighed and cried for the
abominations done in the city. (Expectations 61-0308).
Quote: E-14 And then the church sets, dead. Ball games, attractions of the city,
and the worldly things has the church
all lured away. The Bible said they'd be heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, having
a form of godliness. (Abraham's
Covenant Confirmed 61-0318).
Quote: E-37 Lovers of
pleasure more than lovers of God."… the other night; it was altogether too snowy... But they had a
basketball game, and they had to turn
hundreds away. What is it? Their God is basketball…But they want to see
that. The kind of spirit in them draws
for that. The Spirit in a Christian draws him to Christ. (Escape Hither
Come Quickly 58-0202).
Quote:
95 Like I said the other night about the hog, about the sinner…If he goes to the movies, and he goes to ball games, and he does all
these things; he's a sinner to begin with. His nature's like a hog. The
old hog stick his nose down in the manure pile and eat all the grains out of it
and everything. Well, he is a hog. You can't blame him; he's a hog. That's the
way with sinners. But when you go and
call yourself a Christian and stick your nose in with him, then you're no
better than he is; but you're worse, "Come out from among
them." Let go of the world.
Let go. Let God. (Enticing
Spirits 55-0724).
CHICKENS LIKE THAT KIND OF
STUFF, BUT EAGLES DON'T
Quote: 23-4 and I tell you one thing brother, when a man is
born to be a child of God, old creeds and denominations will never satisfy him.
No, sir. The things of the world:
basketball games, and parties, and bunco games, and all these kind of
entertainments that the modern churches do today in our day, no wonder they've
grieved, "Where is God?" They've grieved God away from them. That's exactly the right. Yes,
sir. Chickens like that kind of stuff,
but eagles don't. That's not
eagle food. (As Eagle Stirreth 60-0403).
Be careful with that nasty tongue of unbelief. Be careful with that nasty serpent’s
tongue that tries to change the message and say, “I will show you a better church.
Listen to me, I found out that William Branham is a false prophet. I found out
that Bruce is a deceiver. I found out that
You want to follow Korah and die, go ahead
and die. Follow him and die. Yes sir. If a man could open his eyes, and see the
nastiness of Parham the heretic and sex pervert, and has the guts to follow
that, you are possessed of the devil yourself! Talk on telephone with him, you
are devil possessed! Take his side, you are devil possessed! Go to court with
him against a pastor, you are devil possessed! And anybody who hangs around
with those people who support Parham, you are part of that too. I do not care
if it is your daughter, your wife, your son; you have no business by that
house. You have no business to communicate with them. This is right and
everything else is wrong.
You say, “People take sides with the wrong
things?” Read Numbers 16. And after
the earth opened up, and swallowed Korah, Abiram and Dathan in such a mighty
judgement, there were those that left their tents, and were sitting under
Moses, sitting in
I am saying that this Word is true and
everything else is wrong. William Branham was God’s servant. “Hath God spoken
by William Branham alone?” Yes! Yes! He and him alone! “You are a worshipper of
Branham.” Call me what you want, but God had spoken to Moses alone. I do not
want to hear an Aaron. I do not want to hear Miriam. I do not want to hear
Korah. I do not want to hear Parham. Yes sir. I am following the Word of God.
Let us give Him a praise offering tonight. [Congregation praises the Lord.] Thank
You, Saviour. Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Saviour. Blessed be the name of the
Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Thank You, thank You, thank You, thank
You. Thank You for Your Word. Thank You for Your people. Thank You for their
patience. O my God, have mercy upon us, O Lord. Bless Your children, O Lord.
Bless Your children tonight. Bless them in