PENTECOSTALISM
UNDER THE MESSAGE:

SPIRITS MAKE
MANIFEST BY TRIAL

12/11/2006

56X2006

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful
works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of
those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved…
Rebuked, corrected:…all things that
are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest
is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the
dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then
that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time,
because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what
the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be
filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;  Giving thanks always for all things unto
God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 5:11- 20

He that believeth on him is not condemned:
but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in
the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that
light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because
their deeds were evil.

It’s the
same thing.

For every one that doeth evil hateth the
light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he
that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that
they are wrought in God. John 3:18-21

May the Lord add
a blessing to the reading of His Holy Words. These are wonderful scriptures
that we should read over and over again. Paul
was saying over here, in the Book of Ephesians in the 13th verse,

But all things that are reproved are made
manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

REBUKES MAKE MANIFEST SPIRITS

He was typing
the natural with the spiritual. If there is a dark place here, a dark room and
you want to know what’s in the room, the only way that you will know what
is in the room is to shine the light. Now, Brother Paul was typing out that. He
said, “Whatsoever doth make manifest is light.” In other words,
there is only one way to see and understand what is the object in that dark
room is to shine the light on it. You could say, “I feel it,” but
then you have doubts. You could walk into that room and feel it and you say,
“It feels like a dollar bill or it feels like a ten dollar bill, it feels
like a hundred dollar bill.” But then, you are in doubt. Yes. You could
say that it feels like a piano, but then if you want to be certain about it,
shine the light.

So now, Paul was
taking that little topic there and typing it to the natural light and the
objects that you see. If you lose something in the yard, and then you search,
and search and search and cannot find it, you may say, “In the morning I
will find it when the sun is risen.” Even because the light is going to
make it manifest. Yes. Now, you got to understand the thoughts of the writer,
the scribe, because it is so brief with so much revelation in there. So now, he
is taking that same natural light and typing it to the spiritual. He said,
“The only way that you will know what is in a man is to let the gospel light shine upon him and reprove
him.” Isn’t that the correct understanding? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] He said,

Ephesians 5:13 But all things that are
reproved…In other words, rebuked, corrected.

<…are made manifest by the light.

Now, that light
is the spiritual light, the gospel light. So, he’s telling you that if
you really wants to find out what is right, what is wrong, what is in a person,
shine the gospel light. And when you
shine the gospel light in rebukes and reproofs then it got to manifest itself.
Now, that’s the truth.

Now, Jesus
confirmed the same over in the book of John;
He said that they would not come to the light lest their deeds be known. People that are in the wrong they are
afraid of the light and they would not come to the light lest their deeds are
made manifest. In other words, lest they cannot face the Word, they cannot face
the truth, they cannot face reproof, and they cannot face a rebuke. When you
touch that sin in their life they go to pieces. My! They turn into a beast
overnight because you touched that spirit.

We do not know people. You may think that
you know, but we do not know people until the light shines upon their sins, until
the light shines upon their unbelief, until the light shines upon their
heresies and then you see what they manifest.
Wait and see how they respond to that rebuke, that correction and then you will
have a better idea of who they are. If they walk away like a sheep and are
obedient, even with tears in their eyes, and maintain a humble spirit, and
promise to try again and overcome that, then you know that is a sheep of God,
that is the Spirit of the Lord that is a soul that had been touched by the
Spirit of the Lord. But if it rebels that soul
is not touched and it could very well be a Cain
seed.

Many times you take people for granted as the apostles took Judas for
granted and they had him elevated on top a pinnacle, because the man was
anointed, he had a wonderful personality, and he was a man with such an
influence and seemed to be so spiritual that none of the apostles ever blamed
Judas or was suspicious of Judas as the betrayer. No. They were not suspicious
about Judas in the least. So you say, “How you came to that,
preacher?” Beloved, when the showdown came for the exposition of Jesus, the apostles blamed themselves and not one man
asked if it was Judas. If they had suspicion, and they had doubts in Judas and
if he had a bad personality, one of them would have asked, “Is it Judas, Lord?” Now, that picture of the last
supper, that is only a mental picture. They showed you the apostles but Judas
with a different kind of feature, like a spy, and like some kind of a fellow
pulled in like and watching suspiciously Judas was right in the front line.
Nobody could have suspected him by his countenance or by the way that he spoke
or the love that he showed. Only Jesus
could have exposed Judas. And only the Spirit of the Lord could make manifest
the spirit upon a man when the right time comes. Notice, how long Jesus took, in order to expose Judas’s spirit.
You say, why did he allow him there? He had a part to play.

Every one of us
has a part to play and that part is
either good or bad. You are either a vessel of honour or a vessel of dishonour
and you must know what is down in your heart, you must know what is your
intention, you must know what your ambition is, you must know if you want life
one hundred percent at the cost of everything then you know yourself. I may
think differently of you but you know your heart, and if your heart is right
you will manifest that.

Matthew 12:34 <…for out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.>

You will
manifest that and when the Word comes and corrects you, you will not be a rebel;
but woe be unto you when you become rebellious as we have seen the example. And
it is an example that we should never forget. And I am looking at this in
different angles, friends. The Lord could be using this here for a great
purpose and that is, that every man pinch himself and I believe it has that
kind of effects upon the church, to pinch ourselves. Boy, I tell you, woe be
unto me.

I Peter 4: 18. And if the righteous scarcely
be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

So, if you are a
sinner here this evening, repent brethren, repent. Yes. If you are a
backslider, cherishing certain things in your heart you are coming to this
place that you saw manifested in that church there. You are coming to that
place. It may not be today, may be not tomorrow but you are coming down to that
place where that reproof is going to cause you to make manifest your spirit.

Jesus
said that one of you shall betray me. And I guess that the apostles went
through with a fine teeth comb and tried to guess who was that fellow. I guess
that they looked at Peter in his eyes; I believe that they peeped through the
door to look at James to see if he had some kind of a weapon hiding, they tried
to figure out because Jesus was singing that kind of gospel song way out there,
“One of you shall betray me.” Now, you could imagine how the
apostles looked at one another and tried to figure it out but none of them
could have figured that out.

Now,
Pentecostalism is very deceptive because
a person is anointed, they are gifted. Do you understand what I am saying? [Congregation says, “Amen!”]
And I will put in something here: they are a blessing to the people: in their
singing, with the gifts, I’m telling you, in their preaching and
it’s very deceptive. So now, if you follow that and say, “But, when
the man preaches, I just feel it in my heart; when the man sings, he takes me
up into glory.” You would be deceived Friends, the only way that you
could know is when the reproofs come. When the reproofs come it will make
manifest, not the singing, not the preaching. No, no, no! Not the kind heart,
not this, not the next, no, not how much he put’s his arms around you and
say, “Brother, I really love you.” Not that at all.

Now, Judas had such a personality that
the apostles were never suspicious about him. But do you know they were
suspicious about themselves? It goes to show what a superior personality that
fellow had that they were willing to blame their own selves and asked the Lord,
“Is it I? Is it I, Lord?”

But, the only
one that knows that spirit of antichrist is the Lord and you are not going to
know that spirit of antichrist unless the Lord reveals it. Many sit under the
spirit of antichrist and heresies around the world, but then brothers and
sisters, until Jesus sent forth a sop
in the E.O.D.H. books they could not identify Jesus.
They were like the apostles: afraid to judge. They knew that something was
wrong but when the Spirit of the Lord revealed and send forth the Word of God,
they were not afraid anymore, they sprang to life, they came out from Doctor Frank, they came
out from Santiago,
they left all those great names, and they became defiant.

Now, I believe
that the apostles became defiant when they got that dose of Judas. That’s a dose of Judas they got and when I say
a dose of Judas, it put them into shock. In other words: “Who? Who?
Brother Judas? You mean Judas who used to sing like an angel? You mean Judas
that used to preach? Judas that seemed to be so friendly and so loving and
everybody loved Judas?” Yes, that was the man.

What I am
saying, friend, is Brother Paul was saying that when you reprove a spirit that
is what makes it manifest; and we could see that right around the supper table.
The Lord said, “He to whom I give the sop, he is the betrayer.” And
he took the sop and gave him, and let me tell you something: that was an exposition, that was reproof, that was
a light shining upon the antichrist spirit and when the light shone upon the
antichrist spirit by giving the sop, the Bible said,

John 13: 27 And after the sop Satan entered into him.
Then said Jesus unto him, That thou
doest, do quickly.

It changed him
into a different man all entirely. It changed the man from a loving brother,
from an anointed man, from a gifted man and changed him overnight, and he
became a traitor “You see that fellow who rejected the Word? He’s a
different man.” Even because he had a change of spirit and the spirit
that came upon him was the antichrist spirit. Conviction will leave them, their
consciences are about dead. And Jesus said of Judas,

Matthew 26: 24 <…it had been good
for that man if he had not been born. >

Beloved, to
betray the Word of God in such a fashion it’s better for a man that he
had never been born.  For you to
follow Parham and such an influence or come under trial and fail, you are
without excuse. To follow a mouth that speaks negative things and support that
spirit, it is better for you that you had not been born. That will never stand
up at the judgement: “You cannot tell the Lord that I was being persecuted
and I had to go that way.” There is no excuse whatsoever. So now, you
don’t know who is who but you could know yourself, and beloved, you must
know if you are determined to stand for the Word one hundred percent. I know it;
the ministers know it; why shouldn’t you know it? And if you are a half
way Christian; I am not talking about your mistakes; I am talking about a made
up mind and if down in your heart you say, “If I get too much pressure I
will just quit.” Beloved, there is no Life down in there yet; and you
come under this same basis:
Pentecostalism under the message.

BASIS OF PENTECOSTALISM UNDER THE
MESSAGE

We spoke about
Pentecostalism from 1906 to 2006, I am using this opportunity of the latest
development in that church, which God allowed, to lay emphasis, that you could
be under this message but you are still
a Pentecostal: with the same characteristics, and the same traits and one
day you will manifest it. You could be under this message and depend upon that
anointing of 1906. You could be under this message, friends, and have all those
traits there with your soul untouched. Now, Judas heard all that truth, seen
all the miracles, was anointed, he preached the gospel, I guess he worked signs
and wonders but beloved, his soul was not touched, and that is the basis of Pentecostalism. Now, if you
could find the same basis under the message, then friends, it’s
Pentecostalism under the message. I believe that is abc’s, that if you
could find the same traits under the message. It is Pentecostalism.

Back in
so-called Pentecost, friends, men preached the gospel, they worked signs, they
worked wonders, they raised the dead, I tell you, mass healings, and then they
found them in sodomy. The very father of the thing called Parham. Then, they
found these people as adulterers, fornicators. Women preached contrary to the
Word of God: they were not called to do so but yet they were mightily used in
signs, and wonders and miracles. And that spells out Pentecostalism. Those
people who were deceived by Pentecostalism they were greater than anybody that is
now sitting under the message, because they had something that the people under
the message do not have today, except for the message of a true prophet called William Branham.

Those people
worked signs and wonders, spoke in tongues and manifested gifts. When I say
Pentecostalism: Pentecostalism means to be used of God in signs and wonders,
anointing, singing and preaching but the soul is yet dark as midnight. And
there are many today around the world who are under this message whose soul are
not yet touched. They make manifest that their souls are yet dark as midnight, even
because when the truth comes to them about another outpouring of the Holy
Spirit they resisted, fought and
condemned it. When correction goes out about their perverted lives, adultery,
fornication, sports, high heel shoes, the wrong type of dresses for the women
they retaliate and preachers say that they like to see the women the way that
they dress in their mermaid dresses.
Now, for you to make that statement you got to have a certain spirit in you. I
guess the serpent liked how Eve dressed because he had intentions. And these
preachers love the way that the women dress because they have eyes of adultery.

So that old,
carnal nature was in these men of so-called Pentecost, and then if we could see
the same things under the message it is the same problem, that men received
what they called the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the prophet of God said,

Quote W.M.B. 162 You can have the baptism of the Holy Ghost every hour in your life
and still be lost and go to hell. (Leadership 65-1207).

Yes. Anointed of
the Spirit, gifted men; we are not
doubting the gifts of so-called Pentecost; we are not doubting the anointing of
so-called Pentecost. No sir! We are saying that their souls were not touched
because if their souls were touched they could not have manifested the fruits
that they manifested. To prove that fact, when God sent a man called William Branham
to correct them and reprove them they rebelled.

Revelation 3: 19 <As many as I love, I
rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.>

When the light
came by William Branham, Malachi 4: 5&6 and he reproved the church, then
what happened? They rejected the messenger even because their souls were not
touched. ( Insert Script.)

And when a man
rejects correction and the truth of God’s Word his souls is not touched. As
a young man you could be seated here but then your heart is in the world, but
you enjoy the singing and you like to hear the Word preached. I’m telling
you. And then, you could feel the anointing on your body and you could enjoy
it, but then friends, you are worldly, and your spirit is not yet touched, your
soul is not yet touched. Yes. And as long as you stay in that condition without
getting desperate to go further with God you are going to manifest something
one of these days, and that is, you are going to make up your mind for the
world or the Word of God. I say, don’t
wait until that moment: make up your mind now, and it is so easy to cross
that chasm. Friend, all you have to do is to say, “Lord, I am a helpless
man, help me. My heart is in the world and Lord; I am thinking of the world, I
am between the Word and the world. Lord, I am a helpless man, please help me
Lord. If you don’t help me I’ll be lost. I will do the same thing
like other men under the message that are in so-called Pentecost I will do the
same thing.” Brethren, there is no other way; you got to manifest it; you
will be corrected.

It’s a
terrible thing when you get corrected, friends, and you start rebelling. It
could spell out two things. That is why you got to be cautious. It could spell
out one thing on one side: your soul is not yet touched and you are a rebel down in your heart. And then on
the other hand, friends, if you continue with that rebellion without being
corrected then you are a seed of the serpent. Now, that’s the truth of
it. Now, get that middle line that somebody could be corrected in a certain way
and they get real angry. Now, they are yet in their evil nature but they are a
child of God. But, if they continue to resist that correction over and over
again, and they don’t care what you have to say, they are wrong and
strong, it may be a serpent seed that you are dealing with.

Anybody that you see sit under the Word
of God, walk out, has their own plan, keep what they want. To do what they
want, live what they want, and they do those things right in front of the
brethren, the ministers, and the deacons. In other words, they indicate that
they do not care anything. Their
soul is not yet touched by the spirit. If you get hard upon them, and they
start fighting, start carrying on, they are making manifest something else. It
is one of two things that you could manifest and that is: you could manifest
that your soul is still dark or you could manifest that you are a seed of the
serpent.

Why can’t
you hear my voice? Even because ye are not my sheep. I say, but my sheep hear
my voice and a stranger they would not follow. (Ref. St. John 10: 25-27, St.
John 8: 43-47).

Now, these are
lessons for us. And sometimes the Lord gives a lesson by an example because
some people do not understand the Word and when they see such an example from
another church, another place, and you acquaint them with it then they start
pinching their consciences: “I don’t want to get like that man. I
don’t want to get like that woman. I don’t want to get like that
girl that ran away from the church. I don’t want to get that way. I
don’t want to be rebellious. I don’t want to ever fight against the
ministry.” As much as you desire that and have the right intentions, if you don’t go
further with God you will manifest that.

Do you know what
Parham said just a few weeks ago? Even though he backslides he will never turn
against the Word of God. Friends, you don’t know what next you will do
when you get demon possessed. And that was what I told him. I said, “You
will get demon possessed and you don’t know what next you will do
tomorrow.” When a man becomes demon possessed, what happens to him; is
that he is not his own, he is bought with a price and that is the price of sin,
the price of lust, he sold his soul for sin.

And Jesus confirmed that in John 3:19. And this is the
condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather
than light, because their deeds were evil.

MEN LOVE DARKNESS OF SIN AND UNBELIEF

Let us stop for
a moment and consider the master’s words. Why would a man reject the light?
Why would a man fight the light? Why would a man turn down the Word of God
after he sat and heard it? Why would a woman do the same thing? Why would light
come into the world? Because friends, they love sin. This is the condemnation.
Now, you are going to be condemned for that because you know what is truth, you
know what is light and for the desire and pleasure of sin, you rejected the
Word for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and say, “I want the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I want. I settle out for this.”
Light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light, because
their deeds are evil.

They love the
deeds of sodomy, they love the deeds of adultery, and they love the deeds, of
perversion. They love the deed of money, they love the deeds of marijuana, so
they rather sell their soul for that marijuana, that money, that woman, that
vice. They could have a bedroom problem
and they don’t want to give that up at all. Perverted! They will even
sell their soul for that. I could go into some stories which I would not go.
But, I dealt with men, personally who sold their souls for that kind of bedroom
perversion, yes, and they tell you
out flat, “That if my wife don’t do that she don’t love me.”
They are like corbeaux, vultures, nasty, unclean spirits the Bible called it.

Jesus said, “And this is the condemnation, that light is
come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their
deeds were evil.”

All right! They
cannot face the light. Now, such people cannot face the light because they have
secret sins in their lives that they don’t want to give up. Why does a
man sell out the Word? After hearing the Word of God like in the case of Judas,
why did his soul still remain unanointed? We could find the problem right here.
I will stop for a moment and I want you to catch this real good.

The reason why
Pentecostalism reached thus far with the anointing and the gifts of the Spirit
and everything that they manifested, and they could not go further was even
because when they came up to certain things in the Word of God from the prophet
they did not want to give it up.

Now, Judas was a
dead Pentecostal. If there is a type of Pentecostalism, we have it in Judas.
And now, we have it in men that are behind the pulpit today. Yes.
Pentecostalism: anointed the same way. They brought over their anointing from
Pentecost and they brought over their gifts from Pentecost. But, I want to tell
you something, beloved, they brought
over their deeds also. And do you know what they are trusting in? They are
trusting in the fact that: “I’m anointed, and gifted, I could sing,
I could preach so maybe that is all right with God.” No, friend. That
isn’t all right with God.

Every time you
resist correction when you hear the Word of God calling for that thing in your
life, your space of repentance
closes just a little bit. “Is there a space of repentance, preacher?”
Yes. The Bible said, “And I gave that woman Jezebel space to repent and
she repented not of her fornication and all those other things.”
(Revelation 2:22) Behold, I will cast her
into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation,
except they repent of their deeds. Every man has a space of repentance and
the space is not the same space of time. It does not have the same dimension. That
is why you see thirteen year old boys die: their space closed. Do you think
that these things are happening by chance? No. Do you think that’s an
accident? Their space closed: eighteen years, twenty years, thirty years, forty
years a man dies. And man comes right up to ninety-five years, one hundred
years and friends, his space was so big that on his dying bed he heard the
gospel, and he said, “I believe, pray for me.” The man took a
dangerous chance to come right down to the closing space but God still had
mercy upon the man. Now, every day that God
spares the lives of people, it is really for them to repent. You have one
purpose upon the earth, and that is to repent and be saved that you would be
given eternal life. You don’t know when that space is closing.

That little
fellow, thirteen years of age; that animal dealt with him, and broke his back and
sodomized the little fellow. It’s beyond comprehension. He broke the
little boy’s back, mashed up his teeth. My God! We live amongst beast.
But the fact is, that little fellow’s space of repentance closed that day,
and I hope that the little fellow accepted the Lord even prior to that, and
that criminal’s space had not closed. The man is thirty-four to
thirty-five years of age and how long he will be in jail: his space is not
closed. Every sinner could repent. Now, that is how it goes.

And this is a fearful thing that
I’m talking about. Young men, young women, I’m not trying to scare
you, friends, there is a space of repentance and then when you hold these
things in your lives, you take it for granted, tomorrow, next week, next month,
next year; you don’t know when that space will close. Meanwhile these
secret sins that you are cherishing in your heart are preventing the Word, and
the Spirit and the anointing from coming down in your soul while the door is
closing everyday.

A man came in
here riding a motorbike, several years ago, poor fellow! And he came and
enjoyed the meeting so greatly, oh friends, I tell you! He came over: what a
great excitement the Word of the Lord was and the next day he died. Something knocked
him down and he died.

Another man came
in here, and he heard the Word of God, he sat right there in the library where
it used to be. In a few weeks time after baptism he hanged himself. The man
went on with the Lord. His space was going to close and the Lord led him.

SPACE TO REPENT

Now, man has a
space of repentance; and when you have these things in your life, the Lord is
trying to deal with you to get those things out because he knows you cannot
enter the kingdom
of God with them. No.

Brother Branham sent a
message by somebody, to a relative and said, “Come and get baptized in
Christian baptism or the undertakers will come and get you in the
morning.” He said, “Tell Branham, I don’t have time with
that, such, and such, and such, mind his own business, so and so.” The
funeral agency picked him up in the morning; dead. Come when you are called. You
got counsel, you heard the Word of God, beloved; you have heard preaching more
than anybody on the earth. Yes. Repent!

The prophet of
God looked out upon a woman and said, “Young woman, the Lord is calling
you tonight.” She stomped out of there, and she met him outside and let
him have it: “Never you embarrass me like that again, Billy.” After a little while he met her coming
down the road, she said, “Billy,
you know that night you called me? I am gone, I am lost, there is no hope for
me again.” And that woman knew that she was lost; and she was drunk.

Another woman
came in and Brother Branham
was a young preacher.

Matthew 13: 57 <…A prophet is not
without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.>

And that woman
sat down there half naked and the prophet of God took his jacket, and threw it
on her and said, “Cover yourself!” And then she pitched the jacket
away, and stomped out of there and said, “I wouldn’t even give my
cow that kind of a doctrine to eat.” She left, and went home, screamed
for Brother Branham until she died. Before she died she said, “I’m
lost. I’m lost. Tell that preacher to forgive me. I’m lost.
I’m lost.” My beloved, the space closed that very moment that she
did that thing in the face of the prophet. And don’t matter how much she
called for Brother Branham, and how much she prayed her space was closed.
Brother Branham in love ran down there and before he could have gotten there,
her husband said, “She cried, her bowel gushed. She cried and she died
with her eyes open wanting to see the preacher. The husband said, “Brother Branham, say a
prayer for her.” He said, “That wouldn’t do any good now.”
That woman had crossed the line. (Hebrews:
6: 4-6)

Beloved, we have
to really watch our attitude. Secret sins were what Judas had in his life. I
may not be able to justify that but Judas was a thief, and he used to thief the
money from the bag, and being in love with money he was not willing to give up
that spirit. And he was anointed, he had gifts; and men today preaching that
message they brought over those traits from them, that prosperity gospel, and
they love money and they are behind the pulpit for money. Pentecostalism under
the message!

So now, these
people they fear the light, they live in fear that somebody will tell on them. People
that have those sins in their lives, friends, when they see you talk to the
minister or deacons they tremble, because they cherish those sins and they
don’t want anybody to know. They are hypocrites in their hearts. They
does wrong things at home and threaten
their children, threatens their wife: “Whatever you see in this house,
keep it here otherwise I will burst your face! I do what I want, I could look
at my television, I have my television. I don’t want this to go to the
ministry, I don’t want my business to go to the church.” You sound like a devil, you sound like a
rebel. They are afraid for the wife to come to the office, they are afraid for
the children to come to the office, because their deeds are evil and that
minister has the light. And they will sit down quietly there, and they will
listen to the Word of God coming down against those things, and they will act
normal as though they are not guilty of them, and clap their hands too and say,
“Amen!” You are a dead hypocrite.

Brethren,
didn’t Jesus preach a lot about
thieving, and covetousness, and a greedy spirit and the possessions of this
world? [Congregation says,
“Yes!”] Why Judas did not repent? He was a covetous man, and he
became so covetous and in love with money that he was willing to sell Jesus for
thirty pieces of silver. Now, you see why people go to hell? Jesus said,
“And this is the condemnation...” There is no two ways about it.
This is the condemnation. This is why a man is going to hell, this is why a man
is going through the tribulation, that is why a man is not going in the
rapture, that is why a man is going
into the lake of fire, because when light comes to him he chooses the things of
the world more than he eternal life. Don’t forget this. The scriptures
are plain. This is the condemnation. In other words, this is why a man is
condemned at the end of the road to go through the tribulation, hell and the
lake of fire. This is why. “Why, Jesus?” Because men love the darkness
of sin, the darkness of unbelief, the darkness of heresies more than they love
eternal life and more than they love the truth. You are not going to hell
because you are a sinner, because you are a Christian and are making mistakes
and are trying to overcome? No! You are going to hell because you rejected the
light and you chose instead darkness. “This is the condemnation, that
light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light.”
And it has a reason behind it. “…because their deeds are evil.”

Any man that
sits down and hears the Word of God year after year, month after month and he
cannot believe it, he cannot comprehend it, he has a thousand questions,
friends, his deeds are evil. That is
why he cannot get revelation. And on top of that he wants to keep his deeds
down in his heart, and figure out the Word. He then gets an intellectual understanding.
Their deeds are evil.

I
dealt with two big people, smart people, university graduates and everything.
They came right here, oh, they were around the message for several years and
they belonged to the States. And friends, I tell you, those people had a list
of questions, and questions, and questions and questions; they were trying to
prove the Word by their intellectualism. I took them out a little bit and they
asked me about my testimony, which I don’t boast about and I told them my
encounter with God, and the pillar of fire, and God’s voice speaking to
me and such and such. And oh my, the husband was elated. Now, the wife became a
detective and she came back afterwards to ask me the same thing. I said, “I
spoke to your husband but if you want to hear it I am going to let you
know.” Little did I know they were investigating my story with their
intellectual mind to see if it was consistent. I came to find that out
afterwards. But, that’s a story in my mind, and a picture in my mind and
I don’t speak contrary to it. I had be speaking about that for many years;
maybe one of these days the picture might go a little dull because of age but
then how can you forget such an experience
with God.

And those people
after sitting, every time they met me they had one list of questions, the wife used
to have a list of questions and those people will sit right there in the
meeting and take notes. I looked around there and thought: they are not getting
what I am saying. If you get what I am saying you will take very little notes, because you are caught up
in the Spirit. It went on like that; and I was watching those university
graduates. She had one problem and that was: she was a woman’s liberation
woman. They concluded one day that it’s a cult. They were found in two
shorts: he was wearing a short pants and she was wearing a shorts walking down
the road. Why? There were some deeds that were evil in these people, that all
what they heard, they were too busy with the things of the world, too busy in
their own program and never stopped to listen to the Word of God and get it
down in their souls.

When trials come, you are going to show who
you are; and because you never got the Word down in your soul what will happen
to you, is that you will become confused when heresies arise, when certain
things go wrong in the church. You’ll be confused: “Who is right?”
You will become an investigator: “Let
me investigate. Let me go and hear the enemy.” Let me tell you, friends,
when the spirit of antichrist arises in any church, let me speak to you far and
wide, in India and in Africa: stay with the true man of God. Anytime you try to
resist that enemy by investigation, and try to find out this and find out that
and say, in other words, “I want to hear the two sides.” It could
indicate that man could have no revelation and not be born again yet.

There arose a
battle in 1974 and Brother Sookdeo made a wise decision. He had now come to the
Word and the split took place: a division this way, a division that way. And it
had a liar on the pulpit spreading lies right through and they joined with a
whole team of churches, and ministers, ninety-five percent against five percent.
All those preachers from here back to Guyana, to the States and
everything were teamed up against us, and we had a little group there and we
were in a brother’s home: Brother Danny. God bless him. And Brother Sookdeo
was caught in the middle. He was trying to hear this side and that side; and
one day he came to the prayer house and he heard what I had to say. Although he
could not have comprehended it. He said, “Brother Bruce, I am going to
follow this and I am trusting my soul in your hand. You will be responsible for
me.” I
said, “Amen, I will take up that challenge.” And that is how you
have an assistant pastor today at Bethel.

When a sheep
cannot figure out something and they don’t know which way to go they come
near to the shepherd. The shepherd is set there to guide them into green
pastures and still waters. But, if you have an intellectual mind: you want to
listen to Tom, Dick, and Harry. You want to say, “What you think about
this, boy? Sister, what do you think about this? Brother what do you think of that?”
I say, away with it and stand with your shepherd!

Now, we have
seen that displayed in a wonderful way. Beloved, if those brethren had not
taken that line, and followed the corrections given, and listened to their
shepherd they would have been confused but they are sold out. And they listened
to their shepherd, and read between the lines, they listened to all the
corrections for one year. I went by preaching there and said, ‘Soul devouring offences.’ What was
Brother Bruce preaching? I said, “There are some offences in here that
will devour your souls if you get caught up with it.” That spirit is
still moving through the telephones and different mediums. It is soul devouring
offences. Now, it happened that those beloved brethren took heed, and they took
what I said there seriously and with fear and trembling. Thus when Mr. Parham
showed his colours, Judas showed his colours, they stood firm and said,
“Judas is wrong; Jesus is
right.”

MENTAL BELIEVERS - TRIALS

Now brethren, mental believers act in a different way.
Now, if you don’t have something down in your soul, in the time of
uprising in the church, when an assistant pastor wants to take over, when some
kind of a prophet rises up in the church, when you get opposition from your
neighbour in the faith: a mental believer becomes confused because they did not take enough time to put the Word down
in their soul. So then, they start wondering: “Who is right?” Do
you know how much of that we seen, Brother Sookdeo? “Who is right?”

Look at a man sitting
there. He is a lovely brother. I never thought he would have gone the wrong
way, but friends, when that thing hit, and those spirits started to move, and
ninety-five percent fought against five percent, that man got carried away. As
much as he loved me; and the man of God said unto him, “Brother Bruce is the man
of God, stay with him.” Not even that held him. He went way back until he
completely backslid and went down to India to bow down to Sai Baba. I am
talking about a man who was following the message who loved the Lord even
because his soul was not touched, but he was a sincere man. The Lord had mercy upon
the man and he returned. And the Lord showed me that he was going to return.
For years the Lord showed me that he will come and repent. I could not believe
it when the Lord showed me that man standing in the back of the congregation
and he will repent. He returned after many years; after bowing down to Sai Baba.
You will think that a man like that was gone but he was never rebellious
against the Word. That’s the difference.
He was never rebellious against the Word nor the message. No. That’s a
different spirit. It showed that he was not born again.

When things go
wrong in the church, like in the days of Jesus:
a big scandal came out of the church. What was the big scandal? Well, a man
manifested himself, and betrayed Jesus and sent Jesus to jail. Was that a
scandal? He sent Jesus to jail, and
beside that they sent Him to the cross and they killed him as a thief. Why did
the Lord allow that? That was to make manifest what people had in their hearts.

When things like
that goes on in your church there; in India, in Africa, and wherever it is and
even in Bethel or wherever you are, friends, these things are to make manifest how serious people are
after Life and if they have this thing up in their heads or they have it down
in the heart. After years of hearing the Word of God are we not supposed to
have all those things in our hearts? And if you don’t have it in your
heart there is some blockage where you love this world more than Life? And God
will send a trial to test you with it, and He will raise up trouble from inside
of your house, from inside of your bedroom. He will raise up problems from your
neighbour, He will raise up somebody in the church with heresies and then if
you cannot discern that spirit you are gone. But, let me tell you: if you love
the Lord, and your purpose is Life, and you understand the Word of God you
don’t guess who is right and who is wrong: “The Word is right, my
shepherd is right and everybody is wrong. I am called to follow my shepherd.”
Yes. So now, the Lord uses some of these things to test the souls of men.

Any kind of
development in any assembly that arises in that way is not by chance. Do you
think that God don’t know these things? Why would He allow it then? He
has a purpose. Why had He allowed that to happen in the days of Jesus? Did it
have a purpose and did it have a great purpose behind it? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] Why did He cause Judas to
manifest? Because there was a purpose behind it and the purpose for that thing
was, the Lord preparing our salvation. Do you see how great that was? So now,
these things don’t happen by chance. It happens for a purpose. In every
church these things happen for a purpose, yes, but be sure that you are on the
right side, be sure that you are standing with the truth, be sure that you
don’t take the wrong side. If you take the wrong side the earth will open
up and swallow you as it swallowed the leaders in the days of Moses.
Don’t take the wrong side.

Now, when people
fall in the house of God, whom the congregation looks up to. Now what happens,
it become a great trial to them around the message, we heard of stories around
the world, we heard of stories in this country, we had these Pentecostal
spirits preaching behind the pulpits and when those men fell in adultery, and
sodomy, and they pregnated certain sisters and had children with them, there
were people that almost destroyed themselves, even because they were ashamed of
what happened. Friends, they lost courage because they did not put their trust
in God and His Word. But that is not the case here and that is not the case
with our brethren who we are dealing with. No, friends. They put their trust in the Word, they know that this
Word is true, they know that this message is true and that’s the way that
everyone of us must stand. We must stand with the Word of God. The foundation
is the Word of God. We are not based upon a man called William Branham, a man
called Dalton Bruce. We are based upon the Word, we are based upon the message
that God sent to William Branham just like the church was based upon the
message that Brother Paul brought. And I believe that those brethren had loved
Brother Paul, that they would talk about Brother Paul, and everything was “Brother Paul”
even because Brother Paul
was representing Jesus Christ. He led them out of
darkness into the marvelous light, so they loved him. And jealous preachers in
that time might have said, “You worship Paul.” Do you know why they
were saying that? Because they wanted worship, they wanted the fame and they
wanted the glory without having the Word.

So, when we hide
our sins, and we don’t adhere to the Word of God and give ourselves to
the Spirit as we ought to give ourselves to the Spirit something will come down
the road to try us. You may be a child of God, but friends, it will come to try
you because God tries all His sons (Hebrews
12), He tries all His sons that He receives, and He’s going to try you.

And when that
scandal came out of some of these message churches around the country a lot of
people backslid: you heard the testimonies here. They backslid, went back into
the world, do this and do that. You see, they were not founded on the Word.
These things are to try us. Someone may say, “I can not belong to the
message again because the message has too much of scandals.”

Jesus’
church had a scandal. Come on. What was the scandal? The scandal was that one
of the fellows sent him to jail. And not that alone: they sent Him to the cross
because: “He was a bad man, that’s why He went to jail. It’s
good for Him even the apostle Judas sent Him to jail and sent him to the cross.
That shows the nasty man that this fellow was.” That’s the same
spirit, the exact same spirit. All the backsliders rejoiced, all the Pharisees
rejoiced, my, they mocked from one side, and wet their tongues on him.

There was a
church in Corinth
one time and the church was going real good; and then a little while after a
fellow went and took his father’s wife. Was that a scandal in the church?
[Congregation says, “Amen!”]
Well, then I guess nobody wanted to be identified with the scandal and they ought
to have left the church. No. That is the way of the Gospel. It is Satan at work.

John 21:22 <…what is that to thee? follow
thou me.>

Now, that is how
the mental believer thinks. And you have the devil’s mouth out there to
reproach you. “Hello, that church that you belong too, you know a man
took away his own father’s wife? What kind of church are you going
to?” And then if you have some pride and you thought it was a social
gospel. You are offended in the gospel. This is not a social gospel, friends.

This is a gospel
of battles; this is a gospel where three kinds of believers are sitting and
hearing. This is a gospel where the devil send his agents to nasty up the name
of the message. They come in and sit down quietly and then be sodomites,
adulterers, and  fornicators in
order to nasty the name of the message. We are big people and we need to have
some kind of sense to understand that the devil will send his agents in here to
nasty the name of the message.

And everybody hung
their heads in shame: “Oh my, look at what happened to the Corinthian
church; I thought that it was a famous church and everybody heard about it. Oh mercy,
I’m ashamed.” My brothers and sisters, the real believes lifted
their heads; and there were some who were compromising with that in the church
there and hiding it, maybe they were afraid of the shame if they expose it. You
know what happened? One brother wrote to Brother Paul
and said, “Brother Paul,
such and such thing is going on in the church, you know.” God bless that
little fellow. Brother Paul
said, “I learned that there is something inside of your church there, a
sin there, that is not even amongst the gentiles, that a man should take his
father’s wife! Listen to me, I’m a good distance away but I have
already judged that he that has done this deed should be taken away from among
you. Put him out of the church; put him in the hands of the devil. If he is a
child of God he is going to repent before he dies.” The Corinthian
church! That is only one case that was recorded in the Bible. How many other
cases that was recorded in Corinth
alone? Because that was the so-called Pentecostal church: they had the
anointing, and they had the gifts of the Spirit, and they were speaking in
tongues, and carrying on. But yet this man was speaking in tongues, and
manifesting gifts of the Spirit, and doing all what he done but he took away
his father’s wife. Is that Pentecostalism? [Congregation says, “Yes!”] Pentecostalism!

Well, those
kinds of Pentecostal traits are
under the message right now. Sodomites are surfacing, adulterers have surfaced
for years; they could preach with great power. But then these kinds of wicked
spirits surfaced right through Pentecostalism and they are surfacing right now
around the message. The amount of complains that I receive about adulterers
behind the pulpit, fornicators behind the pulpit, and nobody can handle them,
nobody can tell them anything, ministers around the message with nasty spirits,
some of them are sodomites preaching behind the pulpit and nobody can remove
them. Some of them have a bunch of wives because they believe in polygamy, and
then blames Brother Branham and says that Brother Branham preached
polygamy so they have a right. They preach and tell the people that Brother
Branham said that. No. When these books go out we give them the sop: exposed
all the polygamy, exposed all the adultery, and exposed all the homosexuality.

We had a man
from the south here; we have him right on the Book 9, under the topic called
“immoral missionary”. We had him in a meeting; some of the brothers
were there. Oh, he was a great missionary to Guyana and all about, oh, we got
him in that meeting there, and after getting him into that meeting we exposed
him. He said he’d seen an angel like a child. I said, “There is no
scripture for a child angel.” And this angel sent him and told him
he’s going to China.
I said, “Let us deal with the kind of nasty life you’re living. You
went and defiled little girls and you’re a pedophile!” That’s
Pentecostalism; and that man was preaching the message. Parham was right in
that meeting. Why Parham did not repent that at time? We exposed that man and every
one of us jumped on that man, because that is the order of the church. Brother Paul commanded
that if a man is found in immorality and nasty living like that, then brings it
to the church, expose the man, take that wicked person out from amongst you
then the church will prosper. You’re going to see how anointed that
church is going to get when you dismiss that kind of man from behind the
pulpit. Yes, my friends.

Because you
cleansed the leaven before he sodomized all the young men. A little leaven
leaventh the whole lump. Before you know it Parham would have sodomized all
those young fellows, but it had a Seymour
standing there, and I believe that Seymour
gave him the sword and exposed Parham. They put Parham in jail because he did
not behave himself.

So now, people
look for a social gospel. Those who were looking for a social, Roman gospel, when they heard that nasty report.
“My I tell you, I can not belong to that church.” Mental believers!
And when such situations arose in those churches then those who had their foot
in the world, what happened was they grabbed the opportunity to go out into the world. They said, “You see,
the minister fell, the deacon fell and who am I?” Your heart was in the
world all the time, you were serving tables so you are glad for that encouragement.
So now, you were looking for an excuse to go and the excuse is, “If he is
so great and he fell and he did those wrong things who am I?” You will
answer for your own soul, brother, you will give an account for the wicked
deeds that are in your heart, you will give an account for the wicked deeds
that you are keeping down in your heart, that you cannot grow and get born
again.

So now, you have
a lot of things that happen and God allowed certain things in the church like
that in order to manifest many things: to bring a trial, to see and give that
fellow a chance who really loved the world. He wanted to go and he wanted an
excuse for that. So, you find that when these things come up, and they get a
little encouragement and some serpent is there telling them, “You
don’t see that church? You see what came out of that church? You see that
man fell in adultery? Don’t you see that Jesus
was charged and the police held him? You still have the guts to go to that
church?” Brethren, the Word is true. I am not following Parham: I am
following the Word of God. And every man shall give an account for his own
self. So, mother, father, unsaved people that wants certain people out, when
they get those kinds of little things from an assembly they pump that, they
keep pumping it and pumping it. Now, if you are a mental believer you’re
going to cow down. “So, what do I do in such a time like that?” Don’t listen to the unbelief. If
you have to separate from the unbelief, separate yourself from unbelief. The
prophet of God said,

Quote W.M.B.: …Total Separation From Unbelief." (God's Word Calls For A Total
Separation From Unbelief 64-0121).

And who is vex,
please yourself. That’s the mistake that Eve made, by listening and said,
“Let me hear what the serpent has to say.” Brother Branham said, that’s
the mistake she made.

Quote W.M.B.: 23-1 Listen. It can batter against you, but it can't get to you until
you accept it. When Satan walked up to Eve and said, "You know, the
fruit's pleasant," she stopped for a moment. Oh, that's when she made a
mistake, when she stopped for a moment. Don't stop for nothing. You've got the
message. Jesus lives; God's a Healer; that's the message. Don't stop for
nothing, no reasonings, no nothing else.

But she stopped for a moment. That's when
Satan walked right into that mind. Said, "Well, it sounds
reasonable." Oh, don't do that. Just take what God said.

That anointing
that was upon that serpent jumped upon her and convinced her. Tell them flat,
“I don’t want to hear that! I know what I believe: if you believe
that go ahead and believe that. I know what I believe, I know what I want: this
is my soul. I have a free will to choose what I want.” “But you
cannot live here.” “Then, I will go.” “He that
forsaketh not father, and mother, and wife and brethren cannot be my disciple.”

Luke
14: 26,33 <If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and
wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he
cannot be my disciple… So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh
not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.>

“Well,
I had no where to live, I had nothing to eat, I had nothing to drink, and I
didn’t have this and I didn’t have that, so Lord, I had to cow down
to the unbelief.” Will that stand on the day of judgement? [Congregation says, “No!”]
It will never stand on the day of judgement. Beloved, we got to stand up for the Word.

SOUL DEVOURI NG OFFENCES

And that message
that I preached, ‘Soul Devouring
Offences’, friends, it lived on and it devoured those souls in that
church even because they failed to take heed. People got to take the Words of
God seriously. All that took heed came out and the few that failed to take the Word
of God was swallowed up. Now, that spirit is still trying to devour. Anything
that comes within range of that spirit it is going to devour them because the lies are serious, very convincing. The
spirit of antichrist is very powerful; and it is going to devour a few more.
It’s very sad. And that devouring could come right here amongst us. Yes.
Listen to what your shepherd is saying: ‘Soul
Devouring Offences.’ You got to settle your disputes, settle your
offences. And those soul devouring offences back there, friend, is that those
women took offence and they started bearing malice, and hatred, and variance
and contacted other women by phone. Yes. Soul devouring offences! Now, if it
destroyed them would it not destroy those that have taken offences? And say,
“She don’t love me, she only love my husband. She don’t love
me, she only love the next sister.” Those are soul devouring. “I
know they don’t like me so I have a stand off. Watch that spirit. That is the spirit that destroyed Parham’s
family. I am telling you the truth. And I had been following that for one whole
year and tried to deliver them out of that. And that is the spirit: “They
like me and they don’t like
the next one. They like my husband but they don’t like us.” And they
started saying blasphemous things, terrible things that they never repented for
and then they found company with people who had the same problems. It devoured
them and it is going to devour a few
more. I hope it’s not many.

Anybody who was
looking for an excuse to prove that it was a cult and the message is a cult,
friends, they will find the perfect man called “Parham” and it will
actually confirm that: “Yes, it’s a cult.” You will end up in
hell for your assessment! The message is the truth; the Word of God is the
truth. So now, when an antichrist spirit starts moving you have to brakes for
your life, brakes for your children, brakes be careful of what you’re
hearing, be careful who you are talking to, of what telephone conversations you
are having, and what mouth is talking to you. Parham himself would not come to
you but he works through another medium who got that anointing and who developed
a hatred for the ministry, and the Word and the message. The Bible said,

Mark 14: 27 <…smite the shepherd,
and the sheep shall be scattered.>

So
now, in all the effort of the devil, wherever you are brethren, there’s a
devil trying to smite the shepherd and he knows that if he could smite the
shepherd he could come for the sheep. Yes. So now, it’s your soul in
danger when you see allow the enemy to smite the shepherd. That is why any
person that you hear opening up their mouth, and spreading heresies in the
church, and carrying on against the ministry, and spreading rumours you need to
get a-hold of them and put a back bone in your back and stop them because they
are coming for the shepherd. And the strategy of the devil is to first get the
shepherd and then he has the sheep. I hope you understand this little message
about Mr. Parham,
in line with Mr. Judas and see how these spirits move. So,
the Lord bless your hearts.