FULL OBEDIENCE TO THE WORD

ENTITLES US TO THE TOKEN

CHAPTER TWO

<Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.

Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.> (Acts 5:29-32).

May the Lord add a blessing to the reading of His Holy Word.

It is certainly a pleasure to be in the House of the Lord, and to stand in His presence where the anointing of the Holy Ghost can be felt: It breaks the heart, yes; It humbles the proud, yes and causes us to understand that we serve a great and a fearful God. We love His Word.

And, I have something upon my heart this morning which the Holy Ghost placed there just about an hour ago and turned around my message in a marvelous way. I want to borrow the words of the prophet, Brother Branham, from the message entitled ‘The Token’. In that message the prophet cried out, and said:

Quote W.M.B.: Full obedience to the full Word of God entitles us to the Token. (The Token. 64-0208).

I want to dwell upon that subject. I lay emphasis upon the words ‘full obedience’. And that was a scriptural statement that the prophet made because we could find that statement over here in the Book of Acts 5:32 that God giveth the Holy Ghost to them that obeys Him.

It was soon after Pentecost that a healing revival broke in Jerusalem, the Holy Ghost was being imparted. The real Outpouring of the Spirit that Joel prophesied about.

Joel 2: 28- 32 <And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.>

And they held the apostles, and they were mindful to do them harm and being full of the Holy Ghost Peter spake up and the other apostles and said,

Acts 5:29-31 <…We ought to obey God rather than men.>

Boldness of speech. And, then they gave the Jews an exhortation and concluded, saying, “We are witnesses that God giveth the Holy Ghost to them that obey Him.”

Beloved, we are after that same promise that they had on the Day of Pentecost. And if obedience was necessary for them to receive that Outpouring of the Holy Spirit in that age and in that day, I believe it is needed today. And this was confirmed by Malachi 4:5-6, our precious Brother Branham in the message called ‘The Token’ that full obedience to the Word of God entitles us to the Holy Ghost, to the Token.

For those who do not understand the term Token: it is a little Bride language. It represents the Holy Ghost. And if you read carefully in that message we will understand that he was making reference to the Outpouring of the Spirit like it was on the Day of Pentecost. People just slight that over and make belief, that it is just an anointing or what the people call the Holy Ghost in so-called Pentecost but it is not. In that book he spoke of the Covenant that we must come under to receive that Outpouring of the Holy Ghost. He called on the deacon’s board, he called on Brother Neville and he called to the Branham tabernacle saying, “You must receive the Token or perish.” He let them know that without receiving this article that he was preaching about that morning, that they would perish. Yes. It could not be the article that was being given out in a small measure. No. It was the article of Pentecost. And, if obedience was necessary to receive that Outpouring on the Day of Pentecost then we must be obedient to the Word of God to receive it. That’s the commandment of the prophet and I wish that you would go and read that message sometime. The prophet said, “Full obedience to the Word of God entitles us to the Holy Ghost or the Token.”

Friends, in all the decades that we gathered here, we have one aim and one ambition and that is to receive that Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And every time that you come to church, every minister that preaches to you has one thing in mind and that is to bring you into obedience to the Word of God, to the Message of the Hour.

OBEY HOLINESS MESSAGE OF MALACHI 4:5-6. HOW?

The prophet of God brought a Holiness message into the world. Bringing a Holy Ghost message into the world, beloved, that Holiness message came first to prepare the people to receive another Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. People think that the message just says, “Come out of organization and God sent a message”. No, the message is more than that. The message is the Token. It was the highlight of Brother Braham’s ministry, according to his own statement in the Book called ‘Desperation’. Yes. And we must obey in order to receive the true Outpouring of Holy Spirit. What do we have to obey? First of all we must obey the abc’s of the holiness message. That is why God sent a prophet and his first mission was to bring a holiness message to the world before the Seals were opened.

The Seals made a way for the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Before that time the prophet of God was revealing the mysteries of God that was written in the Book and he was laying a foundation of a Holiness message. Everybody that will go in the Rapture, everybody that will receive that Outpouring of the Holy Spirit must come into full obedience to the Word of God and the message that Malachi 4:5 brought to us. There is no way to enter into this Outpouring nor go in the Rapture without full obedience to the Word of God.

And, there is a way to become fully obedient and that is first to surrender your heart. It’s not a matter of law. No. It’s a matter of grace. Yes. And your desire must be to fulfill all of His Word. And as much as you stumble and fall rise up again and continue to fulfill the Word of God.

Proverbs 24:16 <For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again…>

So, this is not speaking of being faultless. This is not speaking of coming to a place of perfection where you don’t make a mistake. It simply means: surrender. Yes. It simply means to surrender your heart and desire to obey with all your heart and soul. And the sins that easily beset you, you must cry out for grace in prayer and desperation, night and day, yes, beg God for grace to obey His Word. Now, I believe that makes it very easy.

Yes, and the apostles heard the Word one time and because of the stiffness of God’s Word they cried out to the Lord and said,

Luke 18:26 <…Who then can be saved? >

And sometimes it sounds impossible but by the grace of God we will make it in. God is looking for empty vessels. He is looking for hearts that are surrendered. He is looking for hearts that desire Life above every other thing and that is where the secret is. Beloved, the secret is wrapped up in that little statement that I just made there: ‘desiring Life above all things’.

Matthew 6:33 <But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.>

We must surrender our hearts to obey God’s Word.

PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT A PEOPLE

As Brother King rightly said, this morning, that we are a people who were not a people but now the people of God. Little did he know that he was reading right from my notes here by the Holy Spirit, where I wrote that we are a people that were not a people, taken from the Book of Ephesians. And we are now called out from Laodicea, blind Laodicea. A people who were not a people in our churches. A people who were not a people in our organizations. A people who were not a people as sinners, yes, drunkards and harlots, beast. The time will fail to tell about our rotten condition. We were really a people who were not a people. I preached a message from the Book of Ephesians, concerning a people who were not a People, and ‘From a dog to the habitation of God.’ And that is who we were. We were dogs without a hope. Yes.

Oh my God, sometimes I look at people in the world there, and it seems like if they are just going down the road innocently, ignorant of a God, ignorant of judgement, ignorant of having a soul, ignorant that they are lost, and I picture myself and many times I say, “I could have been like that man or that woman that’s so ignorant of the things of God.” Think of the mercy of the Lord that you could have walked in here and walked out again and still be ignorant of Eternal Life. Beloved, we ought to be ever grateful. And, if you see what you came to, there must be gratefulness in your heart, and out of that gratefulness and thankfulness and out of shame it will compel us to serve God.

Anybody that sit and hear this and will go out and wallow in sin, turn their backs upon it, friends, they have not seen anything. No, it has not dawned to them. The time will fail to speak of where the Lord brought us from, but once in a while we ought to look back to the rock from whence we were hewn. It’s a rock of disgrace and shame, and we ought to look upon the Rock that we are now standing upon: the Rock of divine revelation. Yes, the Rock that is Christ that bringeth forth water in a dry and thirsty land.

We were called out as a people that were not a people, out of blind Laodicea. We were lost in our churches. There was not one of us born again in our religion or in our churches. I say that boldly. Organization cannot produce the New Birth. You could accept the Lord Jesus in all sincerity, and if you never heard the truth and turn it down you could die and go to heaven but friend, they cannot produce the New Birth. And the prophet of God made that very clear in ‘Spoken Word is the Original seed’. He said that organizations and denominations, which are harlots and cannot, give spiritual birth.

Quote W.M.B.: 85-3 Now, the Protestant hasn't got Jesus; it's got a denomination (See?), same thing, a image unto the beast. So she can't give Word birth to her children, none of them. She is a harlot herself. The Bible said she was. (Spoken Word Original Seed 62-0318e).

Quote: 86-2 She left Jesus, her Word Husband to marry a pope, so she can't give birth, spiritual birth; she can give denominational birth now; she's got plenty seed of that. She can't give spiritual birth, because she was a harlot. Only thing she can give is denominational life and a lot of ballyhoo. (Spoken Word Original Seed 62-0318e).

We were lost with a Bible in our hands. We were lost, friends, praising God. But we are a people who were not a people and we came from those kinds of blindness: cults, isms and don’t talk about sin. A sinful people! Oh brothers and sisters, how can we ever describe ourselves in the world back there.

Children, who were born under this Word of God and you are seated here today, you are a privileged people. But your parents, your fathers, your mothers, if only you knew where they came from, you would give thanks that God called us that you could have a seat today under the Word of God. If only you understand the suffering that were in our minds, our souls and our hearts seeking peace, that we never found until we found the Truth. When we experienced His joy, when we experienced his forgiveness, then with all our hearts we wanted to hang on to that all the days of our lives, never to turn from that because we knew that the world cannot give this kind of joy. Try to enter into that feeling, if you have an experience with the Lord you will know what I am talking about, even though you were born in the church.

We were called as a blind people, groping in darkness and the blind was leading the blind, yes. That is where the Lord called us from: blind, wretched, miserable and knew it not.

And then, we were called by the voice of the prophet. We heard of a prophet, a mighty prophet by the name of William Branham, Malachi 4 and he was strange to us. God in His grace had to open our eyes. We were blind to God’s purpose of this age but God in His mercy opened our eyes to His servant.

Think of how many other people that are blind to the purpose of God through out the world, good people, wonderful people: rich, poor, lovely people. There are many nice people in this world. I am telling you the truth. In our little corner, friends, we meet many nice people, they are just void of the truth and there is no way to tell them what we know. It just doesn’t seem that they could grasp it. Lovely people, nice people, who even appreciate the life that we live. They even appreciate the principles that you uphold. They just grope in darkness. They just could not grasp it like those people behind those ten inch thick bars, and the prophet cried out and said “snap out of that.” And that lovely brother said, “I just can't grasp it, Brother Branham. I just can't grasp it.” (Works Is Faith Expressed 65-1126)

Beloved, but you grasped it. You need to stop for a moment and in your heart thank God that He gave you the grace to grasp it. What about if you had come here and never grasped it? What about people who were born here and dedicated from this pulpit and never grasped it? You would have been on your way to hell. But we have found the purpose of God. God’s grace did that. How we ought to behave ourselves in all praise worthiness, and thankfulness and reverence to God and His Word.

PURPOSE OF MESSAGE - MALACHI 4: 5-6

A little later when we thought that we had known the message from whatever assembly and we thought that the message was to come out of organization, get baptized in Christian baptism, we heard the voice of the Master call out that you will receive the Token or perish. You are still hearing it tonight, that we will receive the Token or perish. Then our hearts trembled, then we understood the purpose of the message. Yes. And the purpose of the message declares that you must have the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit to be qualified for the Rapture.

That was the entire message of Brother Branham summed up in the Token, that you will receive the Token, the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit or you will perish. We thank God for all the mysteries that were revealed. We thank God for all the other messages: eleven hundred and fifty messages. But the prophet said that the Token was the highlight message and the capping of his ministry. He said, it is linked to the Opening of the seals. He said, one of these days I will tell you how.

Quote W.M.B.: 28 Now, this morning I told you, being not with you, II think we had another two or three hour message this morning…I believe that one was it (See?), the one that's needed to follow those Seven Seals. (Desperation 63-0901e).

Quote: This morning, the message this morning was to me the highlights message of my entire ministry…Someday I'll tell you how it come about. And I know that everything has worked for months and months and months up to that one message, moving up to come to that place. (Desperation 63-0901e).

But he never got time to tell us but God in His grace sent a man our way to tell us the meaning of the Token’s message. And it is very simple today concerning what Brother Branham said on the Token message. You will receive the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit or you are tribulation bound.

But, friends, there is a preparation for this great Outpouring. This message of another return of Pentecost has gone out into more than a hundred countries around the world and maybe stretched out to many other countries. And for the first time people started understanding about the Outpouring of the Spirit in the way that It should be understood. It challenged the world. It challenged ministers. It challenged congregations. It challenged the message world and they had nothing, to say against It. They had no defense against It.

IRREFUTABLE DECLARATION BEFORE PUBLICATION OF E.O.D.H. BOOK 14

Dear Christian friends, E.O.D.H. publication has compiled almost all the major quotations concerning the doctrines of Brother Branham on the next outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the fullness of Pentecost.

 This document is meant to be the 1^st chapter of E.O.D.H. book 14, entitled: “The final outpouring of the Holy Ghost for rapture power”, but because of its importance and present need to the brethren around the world, E.O.D.H. is offering it to them before the book is completed. Bound copies will be in circulation no earlier than next year, 2006.

It is a thirty page document, consisting of the direct words of the prophet, teaching and emphasizing the necessity of the final outpouring of the Spirit.

 Those who live in expectation for the fulfillment of God’s promises, and especially the rapture, would find this teaching of the prophet to be of tremendous importance for the ministry and the congregation. It is a great tool to silence the voice of the enemy, which spew out unbelief in the promises of God.

This document and the audio version, which are identified by numbers 67-70 of 2005, can be freely downloaded from this site. I anticipate that many will be blessed by the teachings of Brother Branham concerning the final outpouring of the Spirit.

            Another reason why this chapter is published ahead of time is to invite questions on the subject, which answers can be included in the continuing chapters of this book.

             Negative comments and questions are also invited. Such comments should be supported by the scriptures and the message of Malachi 4: 5-6, and should be done in a sensible manner, as it may be also included in the writing of this book. Comments motivated by the wrong spirit and arrogance, and without proper message and scriptural support, may be placed on a special list with the names of critics under it, or be simply disregarded. However, our effort is to include questions and answers, from worldwide message source, on the subject of “The final outpouring of the Holy Ghost for rapture power.”

RESPONSE TO DECLARATION

Ephesians 6:24: <Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.>

We are delighted to inform our friends and associates that all responses concerning God’s promised outpouring were positive and that many now support the prophet’s revelation of the final outpouring. No one accepted the invitation to ask critical questions or engage us in any form of discussion or debate, after this notice was posted on our website for several months. This does not indicate that all are believers who read our notice and studied the quotations of the prophet on chapter one of E.O.D.H. book fourteen.

Reports of faithful ministers who contend for the faith of another outpouring of the spirit are as follows:

“Heretics continue to oppose God’s promised outpouring. They are afraid to openly oppose the authors of E.O.D.H, because of fear of public exposition.

They contend with local ministers in various countries, bitterly opposing God’s promise.

Some who previously denied God’s Promise, arose after many years and now teach it in a perverted form, not knowing what they assume. They have formulated heresies of various kinds, upon the subject.

Some have arisen as deceitful workers to hold their congregations to other erroneous beliefs. They now proclaim an outpouring of the Spirit to come, pretending that such a revelation came to them first handed, and not through the influence of E.O.D.H. They follow the pattern of Trinitarian ministers who stole the vital truths of the message of Brother Branham and then denied him as God’s servant.

As a result of such reports and act of cowards, Pastor Dalton Bruce requested from faithful ministers overseas a documentation of such controversial, erroneous and heretical questions and also similar statements, which opposes in any form the teachings of the prophet on the final outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Inclusive of questions which message believers and ministers ask for edification about the subject.

His request was granted and questions and heretical statements sent to him were exposed which are to edify, equip and strengthen ministers, loyal to the Word and message of Malachi 4:5-6. Thanks to Brother Daniel Seebrat {senior minister of Bethel} who was used of God to help in answering such questions under the guidance of Pastor Bruce.

This chapter is a documentation of such questions, statements and E.O.D.H answers. It is evident, by the prevailing attitude and the fear of Message ministers to attack the teachings of the prophet, that E.O.D.H book 14, upon the subject of the “Final outpouring of the spirit for rapture power”, is undefeatable.

Thus the above notice remains in effect. E.O.D.H stands ready to entertain the comments of critics by the principle and policy of the above notice. Amen!

I placed the first chapter of book fourteen on the Bethel Website, with a notice there. I said, “Any man that could refute what I am saying here come and challenge It. I want to continue to write this book and your objections will be included in this book. Bring evidence to show that what I am saying is off the message and off the Word.” I had not one dog to bark through out the world. You better know where you are standing when you say something like that. And although they would not attack us, friends, they started grumbling behind the barn because they were afraid of exposure. Then, I took all their grumblings and I put it in the very book, and refuted them.

Now, the Token’s message is right. Brother Branham was correct when he said that we will receive the Token or perish. Now that is becoming an established doctrine in many parts of the world. In India It is like wild fire. In Africa It is like wild fire. In the Philippines It’s like wild fire.

Almost every letter that comes in speaks about another Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and they cannot help but associate the man of God called ‘The First martyr: Robert Lee Lambert’ with that Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. They desire to know more about that man. Yes, some wrote and said, “I laughed, I cried, I jumped, I praised, when I read the life story of Robert Lee Lambert. Tell us more about him.” Yes. And I told them, “He was a man sent from God, pastoring a little church there in Connecticut. He had never made himself of any reputation. All that he spoke about was that you will receive the Token or you will perish. Ye must be born again.”

PREPARATION FOR THE OUTPOURING:

OBEDIENCE, SURRENDER

So, my beloved, in all this great wild fire that is going around the world and as much as we have heard about an Outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the necessity of It, before you go in the Rapture there is a preparation for It. That’s my highlight. And the preparation for It is obedience. To be obedient you must surrender.

Nobody here has a perfect wife. Every wife makes mistakes in all different fashions but many a man today have wives whose spirits are surrendered. The Lord looks upon the hearts of men and women but man looketh upon the outward appearance. We the church are the wife of our Lord Jesus Christ and we are not perfect but, we have a surrendered heart and mind to Him, and that is what He is looking at. Obedience is a surrendered heart. That woman whose spirit is really surrendered to her husband, she weeps and cries, yes, and don’t know what to do with herself when she disobeys. Yes. She wishes that she could remake herself, and wishes that she would never make those mistakes again.

But there is another type of wife that is just rebellious, whose spirit is not surrendered, and they don’t care what they do, and how they talk to their husband, and if they rule over him or if they even go in the Rapture. Now, that’s a different kind. That’s organization in type.

Now, that is the way that you husbands ought to look, and try to discern the purpose of your wife and your children. That is the way that pastors ought to view the congregation, not just looking at the faults. Faults must be corrected but you’ve got to look at the motives and objectives of what they are trying to achieve. And if they are after Eternal Life, and they want to obey with all their hearts, the Lord will take care of the mistakes. What the Lord wants is a surrendered heart.

I want to highlight, I want you to get the essence of this message. That as far as the Token: it is coming, it is a settled issue. As far as there is an Outpouring of the Holy Spirit coming to the world, It’s a settled issue. That had been settled a long time here in Bethel. Yes, for many decades It has been settled in my heart. You are convinced and it’s becoming a settled issue among the elect of God around the world. It’s a settled matter in Guyana. It’s a settled matter in St. Vincent. It’s a settled matter in Grenada. It’s a settled matter in St. Lucia. It’s a settled matter at G.C.C. It’s a settled matter in India. It’s a settled matter in Africa. There must be an Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And I must mention a gallant minister over there in Germany and a few brothers; it’s a settled matter with them. They send that message like wild fire wherever they go: ‘An Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We must have that Outpouring of the Holy Spirit.’ It’s catching fire even in Europe. In the Philippines it’s a settled affair.

I will highlight that you must be prepared to receive this Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And the preparation is full obedience to the Word of God. The prophet said, “Full obedience to the Word entitles us to the Token.” Don’t get the law in your mind, my friends. Don’t get ‘faultlessness’ in your heart and let that scare you. Don’t start looking at your faults. Beloved, what God wants is a surrendered heart. I don’t care about your condition. I don’t care about your faults, yesterday. I don’t care what you’re trying to get rid of in your life. The idea is that you are willing to obey the Word of God. I don’t care what condition the wife is in and how rude her mouth is to her husband, if she is striving to become obedient that is it right there. I don’t care how unruly children are, if in their hearts they want to do differently and are striving towards that, God is looking at that.

Full obedience to the Word of God entitles you. It will cause you to get the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Don’t get discouraged and say, “I cannot obey all the Word of God. It is too strict and it is too much for me, Brother Bruce.” Don’t get discouraged and go back in the world. You will be a candidate for the Tribulation. To turn back is to be lost. My soul shall have no pleasure in that man that looketh back. Yes. To turn back is to be lost.

Let us go forward. If you have to be lost let us go forward. But I assure you that if you go forward you cannot be lost. A coward turns back from the army, and runs back, but then he has to face the firing squad in the army for being a coward and turning back in battle. Yes. But Christian soldiers have no turning back. Yes. No turning back. Like the “Bush Negro” in Suriname told me, “Me wane waka, na Jesus backa, na sambarro, na sambarro.” He means, “No turning back, no turning back. I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back.” To turn back is to be lost. Yes, we’re going forward. Never mind the faults and mistakes that you might have, your attitude and your desire counts at that moment. And if your desire is right, your ambitions are right you will manifest that.

OBEY HOLINESS MESSAGE

What is the Lord calling us to when He said ‘Full obedience to the Word of God entitles us to the Holy Spirit-the Token’? Friends, Brother Branham had already preached the holiness message and laid down all the holiness standard. The next important thing was the opening of the Seals. Next to follow the Seals was the Token’s message. Thus, he was referring to obedience to the holiness message that was established by him for all the years. That is it.

Now, follow the ministry of John the Baptist in the scripture and you are going to see that John the Baptist came with a holiness message. He said that he was making His part straight. The soldiers said,

Luke 3:10 <…What shall we do then? He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none…>

It was a message of rebuke. Yes. And after that holiness message foundation was laid, then, what was on the way was the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

Now, this holiness message is most important, it’s the foundation and the prophet of God called us to obedience. Friends out there on the field, you cannot bypass the abc’s that Brother Branham laid down and go in the Rapture. You have to come out of the sports field; you got to get rid of your television; you got to dress right; you got to be men of your homes. You sisters got to be in subjection to your husbands; children got to be in obedience to their parents; you must obey the holiness message. Nobody is going in the Rapture until they obey the holiness message that the prophet brought.

Full obedience to the Word of God entitles us to the Token. You must surrender! You cannot say that I have so much revelation now that I don’t have to do this, and I could put on high heeled shoes; I could wear those kinds of clothing of the world; I could show my belly out; I could show my back out; and I could do this and do that. No. full obedience to the Word of God entitles you to the Token. Yes sir.

How does full obedience start? Full obedience to the Word of God starts with humbling our hearts. Alright! Except a man humble himself and become as a little child he shall in no wise receive the Token. I hope that you are awake. Oh that’s a beautiful message to speak on “The Children’s Kingdom, The Kingdom of Children.” Oh, it’s a fantastic kingdom that exist right here in this sinful world. And Jesus used that as an example to the Christian church itself. Think of that sometimes.

Except a man humble himself and become as a little child he shall in no wise enter God’s kingdom. Don’t you know, friends, that unless you humble yourself you cannot obey? Why is that child disobedient? Why is that wife disobedient? Why is that member of the church disobedient? They are disobedient, because pride is in their hearts. They have not humbled themselves.

But beloved, after we see where the Lord brought us from shouldn’t we humble down? Shouldn’t we forgive our brethren? Shouldn’t we remove the malice and the hatred? Shouldn’t we try to soften our hearts towards the Word of God, even in thankfulness, as a little contribution of thanks to Almighty God? When we look back to the rock from whence we were hewn, and realize that we were drinking rum, we were cussing, we were on cocaine, we were on marijuana, we were immoral people. Beloved, when you look back to the rock, how could you be proud? You cannot be proud. This is the big problem that will keep people from the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Jesus never joked around in laying emphasis. He said that except a man humble himself and become as a little child he shall in no wise enter into this Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In other words, unless you humble your heart there is not a way in the world for you to get this Token. That’s what the Lord is saying.

Brethren, I want to humble my heart. Brethren, let us humble our hearts. We have nothing to be proud about. We are “nobodies”. We should not be proud about our looks, our hair, our clothes, our money, our home. We could get sick tomorrow. Proud about our strength; proud about our education. What do we have to be proud about? Let us humble our hearts and try to fulfill the Word of God, knowing that if we miss this Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, friends, we are doomed forever if you receive the mark of the beast. Your only chance after that is to be found in that foolish virgin bunch. They missed the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And what kind of a chance that is, friends? If you cannot live for the Lord in a time of peace now, friend, how are you going to live in a time of wrath? “And the dragon spurting water out of his mouth”, floods of persecution and killing Christians? How are you going to do it?

We must humble our hearts. Except a man humble himself he cannot obey. It is true that full obedience to the Word of God will bring you the Token. But, how are you going to obey unless you first see that you need to humble yourself? Consider that we came from no where. Consider that you were lost in your organization. Consider that you were lost in sin. Consider that you were lost with a Bible in your hand. Yes. Consider that you never knew God; you never knew nothing about the opening of the Seals. You never knew about a prophet. Yes. What do we have to be proud about? Nothing! No.

You must humble yourself and obey the abc’s. Yes. Now, pride is a terrible thing. It could cut you off from God. Pride will cause you to resist correction. I Peter 5:5 <…for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.>. Examine yourself to see if you are an obedient Christian or you need to buck-up. We must obey the abc’s. Yes.

PUNISHMENT FOR DISOBEDIENCE

Under Moses there was a great bunch of people, they were murmurers and complainers after seeing all the miracles and all the signs they did not look to the rock from whence they were hewn. God brought them deliverance from the task master’s whip, beaten for generations upon generations. Because of their disobedience and unbelief they perished in the wilderness though they had a mighty prophet and a Pillar of Fire.

They were a disobedient people and even caused Moses to disobey. I feel sorry for Moses. Yes. He fought with that rebellious bunch all the days of his life in his ministry. They got him so angry one time: God told him to touch the rock and it shall bring forth water, he said,

Numbers 20:10 <Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?>

And he forgot what he was doing, smote the rock two or three times and water came out. The miracle took place but God was angry with Moses.

Beloved, let me show you something on disobedience. Regardless of what caused Moses to be disobedient God never let him enter the Promised Land, and that was a man, that God spoke to, lip-to-ear and the Bible said,

Numbers 12:3 <Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.>

I always feel sorry for Moses, and it helped me to see how close a man could live to God. And one day when Moses thought that God forgot his disobedience, he said, Lord, would you not let me go into the Promised Land. We are such friends. The Lord said, speak no more unto me about this matter.

Deuteronomy 3:24-27 <O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.

But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.>

I was telling a couple brothers last night. “We read the things in the scriptures but we don’t get into the vision of scriptures.” At the end the Lord told Moses,

Deuteronomy 32:49-52 <Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession: And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people: Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.>

My God! You’re talking about punishment for disobedience. That land represents the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The disobedient will see that Outpouring of the Holy Spirit and would not be able to enter in. The foolish virgins will see that gift and blessing manifested among the Bride and they’ll say, Matthew 25:8 <…Give us of your oil...>and they would not receive it. Why wait for that time? I say, ‘Obey now.’ Surrender that spirit now! It doesn’t’t matter how hard it is, surrender that spirit now.

Oh God, I feel so sorry for Moses. “See that you talk to me no more about this matter. Come up into this mountain Moses that you may die.” Think of the scripture. I believe that was the slowest walk that Moses ever walked, up to that mountain. He was a human being looking back at his children and the church. Oh my, I don’t want to start preaching on that now. “Come up into this mountain that you may die. Stand up here Moses look at the land but because you did not sanctify me, respect me and gave me the reverence that I deserve you shall not enter into this land.”

Beloved, if God did that to his prophet to whom He spoke to lip-to-ear, and the meekest man upon the earth, because he was disrespectful to God in that one instance, He cut him off that he never entered the land; what would He do to people today that are rebellious to the message? You will receive this Token or perish. That’s the declaration of the prophet. Let us humble our hearts as we have never humbled them before, my friends.

And to finish that little story that many of you probably never read. After showing him that land, Moses died and the Bible said, "And the Lord buried Moses." (Deuteronomy 34:5-6). He had the privilege for God to bury him, and where God buried him no man knows up to this day. When God buries a man, oh God, you cannot find him at all and we want to be buried in Christ. If we are buried in Christ nobody will be able to find our grave after a certain time.

I Corinthians 15: 52, I Thessalonians 4:17 <For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible… Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.>

Nobody will be able to find our graves because we are buried in Christ. We must be obedient. If you have a spirit of disobedience you got to pray against it, you got to fast, you got to beg God on your knees. There are children of disobedience, that God cannot do anything with them. They are children of disobedience. In other words they made up their minds to disobey regardless of all the preaching, regardless of all the church they attend, regardless of all the council that father, mother, brother, sister and pastor give to them.

Ephesians 5:6 <Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.>

ENDURE CHASTENING

Disobedient to the promise of God for the hour, regardless of all the counsel. Israel was a disobedient and gainsaying people, and the Lord stretched forth His hands all the days unto them. They never entered the Promised Land, which is a type of this Outpouring that is coming today. We live in the most rebellious generation that ever existed upon the face of the earth. Proudest generation. You cannot tell them anything. They know it, they just know it. That is the prophecy for today.

We’ve got to examine our hearts. Let me find out what kind of spirit is in you by the Bible. “Brother Bruce, what kind of spirit do I have? I believe I am saved, I believe the message. I believe in an Outpouring of the Holy Spirit.” So did the people of Israel. They believed they were going to a Promised Land. But friends, there is a preparation for it. There is a preparation to enter this Promised Land. You just cannot say, ‘I believe the Outpouring now’ and go on in your own ways and your unholy condition. You cannot continue with a denominational style of living. You cannot come with your Egyptian ways and enter the Promised Land. You have to leave your Egyptian ways in Egypt. You have to leave the onion, leeks and garlic over in Egypt land. Yes, you’ve got to come up to that place. I read this scripture here,

Hebrews 12:5 <And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord…>

Listen to these scriptures, friend. You might say, “Brother Bruce, you are going off your message.” No. I am talking about, full obedience to the Word of God, entitling you to the token, and let us see if you have a spirit of obedience, or disobedience.

Hebrews 12:5-8 <…nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.>

Friends, I want to highlight the words ‘endure chastening.’ Everybody, sometime or the other is chastened by the Word of God. All are partakers of chastening, but all do not endure it. But if you could endure the chastening, then God is dealing with you as with a son, and if you cannot endure that chastening, then it shows that you are bastard born. Now, what am I trying to do? I am trying to test the spirit of every preacher, test the spirit of all brothers and sisters; I am testing the spirit of all heretics and bringing it down to the Bible.

If ye can endure chastening, then God is dealing with you as with sons, and if you cannot endure that chastening, then you are a bastard. I could split that up into about three categories for your understanding. People claim that they are saved by accepting the Lord Jesus, even from organization, but friends, they cannot take the message of rebuke that came by William Branham. They cannot endure it. Now what does that reveal? It reveals that they have a bastard birth. It reveals that their claims are false. It reveals that they are not saved, which is the biggest deception upon earth today. The Devil is making people believe that they are saved, when they are not saved. Anybody that claims to be saved and cannot take the correction of the Word of God from the message of the hour in organization or otherwise, is not saved.

Try the spirits and see whether they are of God or not. Friends, you are wrong. You did wrong. Every one of us do wrong sometimes. We were all wrong together. We were all born wrong, together; we lived wrong, my friends. You come to a place of truth. You say ‘Amen’ to It. “That is the truth. Yes, yes, yes. That is the truth. Yes, the preachers here are gifted of God, yes, it’s great.” But friends, there is a Word test, to prove what kind of a spirit that is upon you. The Word test is simple to test your spirit, to test your birth.

There is only one way to test the spirit of any man, prophet, priest, king, evangelist, any great man, or lay member. I am reading in my Bible here, that if you could endure chastening then you are a Son of God and if you cannot endure that chastening, then you are bastard. Now, that is the sum of it. A person could be saved and cannot endure the Word of God. Then a person could claim that they have the spirit of Christ in them, but they cannot take Christ Word. It goes to show that their claims are false. Then another category I would put that into. You could claim to be born again and you cannot take that Word of God and you cannot endure correction. Friend, your birth is a bastard birth, and lastly, if you continue to be disobedient and rebellious at the Word of God and the Word of correction, it shows that the election is off.

Titus 3:10-11 <A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.>

So there are two or three categories. A man could be wrong and be rebellious and yet a child of God. “Scripture for that, preacher?” Saul the theologian. He was rebellious insomuch that he threw the brethren into prison, but later he was an obedient son of God. He obeyed the Word of God. Do not put all such people into one category. This examines if you are saved. It examines what kind of a spirit, if a Christian spirit is inside of you. It examines if your birth is of the Lord and then finally it examines your election. The Bible said to make your calling and election sure. It examines your election. What kind of a spirit do you have when corrected?

Let me stop for a moment here and speak to the gospel field. When the truth came by E.O.D.H., what was your attitude to it? You heretics outside there: Gan, Jackson, Santiago, Frank, Vin and all notable heretics. When this Word of God projected an Outpouring of the Holy Spirit and tried to bring to you the abc’s and show you that you should not be on the sports field, you should not have the women dressing like that, and you should not be having false prophecies in the church and all these things, what was your attitude to what I quoted on E.O.D.H. books? All that E.O.D.H. is saying is what the prophet had spoken. I am establishing the abc’s right in E.O.D.H. Books and I am highlighting the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit and I am exposing heretics.

What is your attitude? Did you call it false? Did you jump up and start fighting? Did you publish me as a heretic or did you repent? Did you write a sarcastic letter? Did you try battling against what Brother Branham said on those books? Then you are a heretic. After the first and second admonition, I rejected you. According to the scripture,

Titus 3:10-11 <A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject.>

After reading those books, say that you never knew those things before, after seeing what Brother Branham said right on those books and the tapes that I have sent out by the hundreds, around the world, and you know that is what the prophet said and you still have a spirit to fight, it shows that you are a bastard and all that follow you are also bastards, who fight the Word.

You are not saved and you could not be saved in your organization. It challenges the spirit that is upon you. Only the spirit of the Devil will fight the Word of God. It shows that you are a bastard, and it also challenges your election, if you continue to fight the Word of God, you will fulfill Hebrews 6 and Hebrews 10, because you are not fighting me, you are fighting William Branham. You are fighting the message of the hour. Yes, you are fighting the Holiness Message and you are not going to get this Outpouring, because full obedience to the Word of God entitles you to the token.

Anybody that rises up locally or from a foreign land, after the Word of God goes forth and corrects their sins and you see that they become rebellious, it challenges their salvation. It challenges their birth. It challenges their spirit. It does not matter what they say and how much they believe and how many years they follow and what is their testimony. Friends, there is a measuring rod in our Bible. If you cannot endure chastisement something is wrong with your spirit. That is what the Bible is saying. Now can somebody rise up and tell me that I am wrong? No sir! Now let me show you how strong that measuring rod is, in Hebrews 12 and 7. A man could work all the miracles, raise the dead, heal the sick, cast out devils, have a great ministry for years, and he comes up to the Word of correction, and he resists that. It shows that he has a wrong spirit.

Matthew 7:22-23 <Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.>

What we sent out on E.O.D.H. Books is, “Thus saith the Lord.” Because we quoted William Branham and we quoted the Bible only. Yes sir! That is not, “Thus saith the Lord” from Bruce. That is, “Thus saith the Lord” from Malachi 4: 5-6 and from the very Bible.

Yes. If you cannot agree there, Mister Heretic, that sports is of the Devil, where Brother Branham said that multiple times and you have your own opinion, you have a contrary spirit and the spirit that is upon you is a devil. If you disagree and you say the women could wear high heeled shoes, you have a devil. I am telling you the truth. If you say that the women could wear tight dresses, you have a devil. If you cannot understand that you should not show out your belly and your back down there in India, you have a devil inside of you. Oh it is getting pretty stiff. There is a devil down inside of you. Yes, that nasty style came from Bombay to Trinidad before this modern style from Hollywood and Bollywood. For years those Bombay women used to have their bellies out and their backs out. A woman’s own sense of morality ought to tell her that she is naked, much more to be under this message and expose your back and your belly and wear pants, which you are calling churidar. It is a slacks, and slacks is condemned by the message of the hour.

SLACKS – WORSE THAN SHORTS

Quote W.M.B.: E-22 I happened to meet a lady today, and she was very much upset on what I said the other night about women wearing little short clothes; it was not nice for Christians to do that, and it was absolutely unscriptural. She said, "Young man, you'll ruin your ministry." I said, "Oh, no, no. If I don't, it'll be ruined. See?"... I said, "Are you guilty?" She said, "No, sir, I don't wear shorts." I said, "Well then, what's you fussing about?” She said, "I wear slacks." I said, "That's worse." She said, "Oh, no," she said, "--it's decent like if..." And said, what are you going to do with a woman out in the field?" I believe is the way she put it. Said, "Yeah, riding a horse." Said, "Out with my husband to help round up some cattle. You think I ought to wear a skirt?"

Said, "..." I said, "You oughtn't to be out there in the first place. That's what's the matter; women's trying to take man's work now; we got so many men out of work." That's right, that's right. She said, "What about in the garden --when you're pulling up stuff, a garden with a--with a dress on. Don't you think it'd be better with--with slacks?" I said, "No, ma'am. My wife has no trouble about it, neither did my mother. I don't think you will either, if you'll just take care of yourself." I said, "I don't...?..." She said, "And slacks is wrong?" I said, "The Bible said that a woman that'll put on any garment that pertains to a man, it's an abomination in the sight of God." That's right. (Abraham's Covenant Confirmed 61-0210).

Yes, and blind preachers that will fight the Word of God after it is made known unto them that have a contrary spirit. Yes sir! If you have the correct spirit, what you are going to do is to humble your heart and say, “I never knew that, I never knew the prophet said that. Thank you, brother. I am sorry, I am ashamed.” That is the behaviour of a Christian spirit. Yes, but the behaviour of a bastard spirit, a spirit of the Devil, is so proud that they would say, “Nobody can teach me anything. Those Trinidad boys cannot come and tell me what to do in India. We were in the message before them.” It is not the Trinidad boys, it is God talking to you, and He already spoke that through His prophet Malachi 4:5-6 and all that we are doing is repeating what the prophet said and we are right and you are wrong. Yes, obey and live, or reject It and die.

You got to obey the Word of God, and full obedience to the Word of God, entitles you to the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. If you can endure correction, then you have a Christian spirit, but if you could look at the very quotations of the prophet saying that you should not be on the sports field, you should not have a television, you should not be wearing immoral clothing, you should not be wearing a dress as a man and want to reject that, your spirit is contrary. First of all I would start with the mild one. You are not saved as you claimed that you were saved in organization. I will go a little higher again, you did not get the Holy Ghost yet, child of God. I will go a little higher, that you are not born again yet.

BASTARD BORN

You have a bastard birth from the organization, a bastard birth from Coleman, a bastard birth from Vin, a bastard birth from Frank, a bastard birth from Santiago, a bastard birth from Gan and you need to be born again and now I would go a little higher to finalize that. You might say, “Preacher, you could say what you want and all what the prophet said there I do not care about that. I would show you that I could enter the Kingdom of God.” Then your election is off. You are a heretic and after the first and second admonition you are rejected. God said so. He said to reject you, after I talk to you once or twice.

So now, rebellion challenges your salvation. When you get angry at the Word of God, because it does not fit your conception, something is wrong with your birth. Friends, there are people that read those books and get so angry that they burn them with fire. God would curse you, Mr. Franco Torgonon (Philippines), because you burn the Word of God. One man wrote to me and said, “I have this pile of books and I am going to burn it.” I said, “Listen to me before you burn them. When you burn that, you burn the Bible and you burn the quotations of Brother Branham. He said, “Then I would keep them on my shelf.” I hope somebody comes and get them. I said, “When you burn those books, you are burning the written Word of God and you are burning the quotations of Brother Branham, because all that I have in there is the truth.” O yes! Rebellion against any correction, any form of correction, challenges your salvation, challenges your birth, challenges the spirit you have in you and challenges your election.

My doctrine is that, the races should not be married to one another. We do not believe in mixed marriages. And if while I am preaching a certain doctrine here, friends, on any item, you would get huffed up and puffed up, kick up and fuss, go and speak evil after the meeting, you have a Devil inside of you. I do not care who you are. That is the words of William Branham and the Word in the Bible. When I preach here, friends, that certain men are heretics and you will get angry and rebellious, you have the same Devil as the heretic. When I expose those heretics and you will still be reading their books and be in contact with them, you have a contrary spirit. No heretic can bring anything to edify the church of God. The spirit behind them is contrary. You got to follow the Holy Spirit.

Why are these heretics rejecting the Word of God and rejecting the message of Brother Branham? Because of pride. What would cause these heretics outside there to teach contrary to Brother Branham in every respect and try to show, how much they know more than Brother Branham? They try to show how much more educated they are and tell you that you do not have to listen to Brother Branham. “He was not so educated.” He was not educated, but he was revelated. He was not educated, but inspired of God as no man was inspired upon the face of the earth. We believe William Branham; we believe all of his message. Yes, we believe all his teachings. Yes sir! We are contending for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints. Yes sir! Proud devils around the world rise up to pervert the message of the hour. Yes! Your rebellion against the Word of God, challenges your birth. Whether I preach about mixed marriage, preach about a heretic, preach about the nasty life that you are leading, preach against you trying to catch another woman outside of your wife and you become rebellious. Tell me what kind of a spirit you have.

How many say it is a contrary spirit? Contrary spirit! If you will turn back and try to fight me again and bring me down. What kind of a spirit that is? I am saying you are not born again. I am saying you have a bastard birth from so called Pentecost and the Baptist that you never changed. If ye endure temptation, then God dealeth with you as with a son, and if you cannot endure that temptation, my friend, you are a bastard. That means you are not saved. That means to say that you have a contrary spirit. That means that you are not born again and it could very well mean that the election is off and that you are a Judas or you are an Esau.

REBELLION AT CORRECTION

God have mercy. People look at these things as small items. They are not small items. You see a man resist correction, run from him. He is going to put that unbelief on you. Yes sir. Let me make this statement here, the first martyr made this statement. He said, “You can never know a person and the spirit in that person until they do wrong and you have to correct them by the Word of God.” Let that soak in a little bit. You will never know a person and the spirit that is in him until they do wrong and you have to correct them and when that spirit rebel at that correction of the abc’s, you know right then, what kind of a spirit, is on that person.

I am a gospel preacher for the past forty years and I have proven that statement to be true. Listen to Brother Bruce, you do not know who is who, until you have to take that Word of God and chastise them and then see their reaction, under that chastisement. In my years of preaching this Gospel, beloved, I esteemed men and women to the highest heights of spirituality and they were buddies as we are buddies and I never knew what spirit was in them until I had to come to the pulpit and correct those spirits and say that you are following a false doctrine. It is an antichrist. That resurrection doctrine is of the Devil. Brethren, I never knew those men until I had to come to the pulpit and say that you are an adulterer, you are a fornicator, you should not be wearing that kind of dress, you should not be trimming your hair and I seen them same loving brothers turned, like a chameleon. That is a lizard.

Their colours changed, and friends, became enemies overnight. That taught me a lesson that I would never forget all the days of my life. People look at resistance to correction as a simple thing, it is not. When you correct a man about anything, friends, about a simple thing like ‘you as a husband should not be flirting with another woman.’ Instead of repenting, continue to do the same; then go about to run down the preacher’s name. Is that the spirit of Christ? Come on. I say it is the spirit of the Devil. Your Pastor is correcting you, trying to save your soul and you could not endure that correction.

Why could you not endure that correction? Are you a bastard, not born again, not saved, or are you a Cain seed? That is what it amounts too. You decide wherever this message goes. When you cannot take the correction of the abc’s, something is wrong. Let me encourage the hearts of you brothers there on the field in Africa, India, Philippines and Europe. When you take the abc’s of E.O.D.H. and the message of the hour and what you heard, from Bethel, from the Seals and you take the Word of God and lay the axe to the root of the tree, even like John the Baptist, everything that fusses against the Word of God, is bastard born. Everything that forms a clique in your church and fights you, run down your name and says that you are off the message is not of God.

II Timothy 4:2-3 <Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; >

For the time has come, when they will not endure sound doctrine.”

II Timothy 4:3-4 <…but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.>

When you lay down the holiness message there in India and the other churches in other countries, when you lay down the abc’s of the message: dressing right, no high heeled shoes, no television. Every spirit will make manifest.

Yes, when they cannot endure sound doctrine, the next thing they would do is to find a preacher that could tickle their ears. Do you know how these preachers tickle the people ears? Tell them their shoes are not too high after all, “I do not think that the tight dresses are so tight after all, and I think that you could keep the television in your house but monitor the shows.” Who is monitoring what show? You have an evil spirit inside of you to begin with and when it looks a little bit, it wants to look at a little more. The Bible says to flee the presence of evil. Brother Branham said he would blow it out of his house with a shotgun. I would blow it out with a cannon, because the days are evil and the shows are more wicked and nasty.

All these cell phones, with all the pornography on it, all those games in there that you are allowing your children to have and you yourself as big men and women involved in that. You are wrong. Pornography right on those cell phones. They are downloading it right from the internet and they are sucking on that. You are a disobedient spirit. How on earth can you be a child of God, born again and be sucking on something like that? My God! Brothers and sisters, I have never seen a blue movie and I do not want to see any. My God! Nasty, filthy, and Christian people are looking at that and calling themselves Christians. Young fellows have that right on their phones. Get it out off your phones, brethren, or it would damn your souls to hell.

It would spark the fire of hell in your flesh and in your bones. You would lust and you would daydream. Get it out. Get it out. Get rid of those nasty newspapers, with all those naked females. Now they cannot sell a phone, without putting a stinking, nasty female. If you see the rotten, nastiness, trying to advertise T.S.T.T. phones. After they fool the people for years and sold them dead phones. Digicel came into the country; they are exposed, because the Digicel phones are working efficiently. From east to west, north to south. It showed up T.S.T.T. phones, and do you know what these bastards are now doing? Trying to put up poles all around.

It goes to show that they knew that they never had the facilities for the cell phones. Digicel exposed them, and now they are trying to put up poles. Yes, that is like the Gospel. E.O.D.H. went and exposed them everywhere, now they are putting up big poles. “Outpouring, Outpouring, Outpouring, Outpouring.” That is not going to save you. You’ve got to be prepared for the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Total obedience, full obedience to the holiness message, will entitle you to the token.

Yes, there came a time upon the earth friends; that there was a drought, according to the vision of Brother Branham. There came a drought and the wheat lifted up their heads and said, “We want a rain,” and then the tares lifted up their heads and said, “We want a rain.” This is the hour of that prophesy that we are living in. Beloved, prophesy fulfilled. E.O.D.H. books have gone and highlighted the Outpouring and now the tares are lifting up their heads and saying “We want a rain. We want a rain.” Mister tare, if you want the rain, be prepared. Full obedience to the Word of God entitles you to the Holy Spirit. Full obedience to the Word of God entitles you to this Outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

You will sigh and you will cry for the abomination that is done in the city before you get this mark upon your forehead. That is what the Bible said in Ezekiel 9. Oh my God. The Lord showed me some things on that. Oh, it might make book fifteen. Preparation for the Token and the Rapture. Pray for me. When you miss me, I am not idle friends. I have no holiday. Day and night, I have no holiday. I have never gone for a holiday, where there are no churches, where there are none of God’s people. If I go, I go to another church over there. I go to another church in Cedros, when I go, I go to another church there in St. Vincent, Grenada, Guyana. I go to another place in GCC. I am at work.

The hour is late. We cannot afford to idle. Yes, thank you brothers for all your help, thank you sisters for all your help. Yes, my mind is upon that promise day and night. My mind is upon deliverance of God’s people day and night. Yes, my beloved. But do not think I am idling at all when I go out there. He has revealed that to me more than thirty years ago, “How not to get mad.” Yes, you’ve got to know how to balance yourself; and it takes the Lord to balance you. Brother Bob said, “You would be like a coon dog chasing your tail right around and trying to catch your own tail if God don’t hold your mind together.” Yes, my beloved. Do not wish for this little ministry that God gave me. Friends, it takes God to put you there and if He does not put you there, you will go into the mental asylum. Yes, mental asylum. It takes God to hold a man, yes sir.

Then friends, when that Word of correction comes and you get angry, something is wrong with your spirit. I am examining your spirit. Let me stop here a minute. When you become arrogant, when somebody reports your wicked ways and you would brand them as traitors and brand them as betrayers, something is wrong with your vision. That is rebellion. If you cannot see, as a man or a woman, that your brother is trying to help you, something is wrong. Now let us stop preaching and discuss this thing. Brethren, if someone is trying to court another woman, outside of his wife, telling her how much he loves her. Things that he never told his wife, buying all kinds of gifts and the thing is known to his children. His wife knows that and they make a report to the Pastor that this man seems to be carried away, how could he have the Spirit of God and call that betrayal and call them traitors?

How are you going to do that? Impossible, impossible. Not the spirit of God. It would not do that. The spirit of God would make you feel ashamed. If you have big children: seventeen, eighteen, twenty years of age, and you behave like a teenager, the spirit of God will make you humble yourself, bow your head, and if necessary put your head in a sardine pan, in humble repentance. It will make you realize that you are not so handsome after all. Now on top of that, brand people as traitors, betrayers, and try to attack the preacher’s character, showing how he is a compromiser, with others and he did not compromise with you, for your nasty sex spirit.

Come, tell me if that is the Spirit of God. It cannot be the spirit of God. He that endureth not chastisement has a bastard birth. That is the only way that a man could do that. He got to have a bastard birth. When your thinking is so carnal, that you could call your children bastards and call your wife a traitor, because they reported your wicked ways, something is wrong with your spirit. That is arrogance! Arrogance! Alright, here you are corrected by the Word of God and you say I never meant to divide the church, I believe that, but you went out and speak evil of your Pastor. Wherever you are, whoever you are, you went out and spoke evil. Why have you done that? “I was frustrated.” No friend, it is more than frustration. I am showing you in the Bible it is more than frustration.

You are not yet saved; my Bible is revealing that you do not have the Spirit of God in you. My Bible is revealing that you are not born again and if you continue in that course, you are a Cain seed. That is what my Bible is revealing. You say, “Frustration.” You mean the Word of correction frustrated you? How come the Word of correction frustrated you? There is something wrong. You mean the Word of God; frustrated you that you could speak evil of your Pastor? Something is wrong and I would tell you what is wrong. Anytime the Word corrects you and you feel that you are frustrated by the Word, you do not believe the correction.

You have not received the correction. You want the pastor to correct you in a certain way. You want a flowery bed of ease and you want the preacher to fan you with feathers. I threw away the feathers a long time ago and I have a fist under your jaw. At all cost I would try to save your soul. It is your soul that I am after, not your friendship, not your money, not your house, not your land. I am after your soul. There was a man after the souls of the people and they crucified him. Yes, but that is the kind of price that preachers got to pay, in order to snatch some out of the fire.

Jude 1:23 <And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.>

Why were you frustrated? You say, ‘frustration’. ‘I went and spoke evil of my Pastor.’ What frustrated you? The way that the man corrected you?

You have not received correction in the right spirit, because you do not have the right spirit. That is all of it. You say it is only one person I told. How many persons that person told? How many persons others told? A mouth that speaks evil to one person, could speak to others also. Why would you pick up your telephone, and say, “I do not like what the pastor done.”

Now watch out, friend. Listen to me there, India, Africa, and other Pastors of the message. When you lay down the Word of God and you see men get together and start forming cliques, start hanging around a man or a woman that is corrected from the pulpit. They have the same spirit in them. After the meeting they go to meet such people to ‘soft soap’ them, to repreach the message and pass judgment on the message that was preached. The Bible say,

II Thessalonians 3:14 <And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.>

You went out there to pat him on his back. You have a contrary spirit and that is how cliques are formed in the House of God.

Now preachers, listen to me. When you correct that churidar and that kind of immoral dressing that you have in India, also that kind of tight wrap that you have in Africa, you will find that you have two or three children of disobedience that will rise up and they will be talking together and they will repreach your message, and will disagree with that kind of dressing. You preach against high heeled shoes and three or four women will get together and say “I do not think that is bad. I do not know where he got that new doctrine. It is from Trinidad.” It is not a new doctrine from Trinidad. It is the Word of the Lord. It came from the message. But you were blind to the message, and I am trying to open up your eyes.

Now look at rebellion. Let me show you a little something on rebellion. You do not have to be rebellious in big things. There was an experience that, Brother Branham’s mother had. There was a woman with a pair of high heeled shoes and Brother Branham cried out to this woman. He said, “Sister, you cannot walk that narrow way with those high heeled shoes on,” and the woman started twisting and she told Brother Branham, “I will show you that I could walk this road, with this high heeled shoes on and she started twisting and marching through the narrow way and she fell into a chasm of darkness, screams went out and she was lost.

Quote W.M.B.: 33-3 My old mother…she dreamed a dream that I was standing here by the side of a three steps. And I was standing preaching to everybody that they must walk up these three steps before they hit the highway. And on the highway's a little pearly-liked white line run right into the doors of heaven, to the pearly gates, and that pearl had been stretched out to the top of these steps. If that ain't my Message exactly today: justification, sanctification, and baptism of the Holy Ghost.

Now, I was saying that a person has to come by these three steps to be able to walk that highway…(Now, you know what kind of shoes people wore thirty-five years ago.) Well, there was a lady come by, had on a great big pair like they wear today, spike-heeled shoes. And she come by and I said, "Wait a minute, sister. You can't walk that highway with that." And I said, "You can't do that."

And she said, "Aw." She said, looked around at the rest of the women and said, "Don't believe him; he's a madman. (See?) Don't believe him. I'll show you I can be justified, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost and still walk that."... I just let her go, couldn't do no more about it, couldn't stop her. And she jumped up on the highway, she looked back at the sisters and said, "See, I told you." She started to run up, and she... You know what the Bible said in Isaiah, 5th chapter, said they'd have outstretched necks (they have to; they're pitched over. See?)… (have to twist)--mincing as they go, making a tinkling with their heels (See?), the daughters of Zion in the last days.

And she started up that highway just as hard as she could run, and after while the road got narrower and narrower. She started reeling, mincing like that, and off she went. And mother said, "The horriblest screams that I ever heard in my life was that woman falling into those flames and smoke, going down, down like that." Said I turned around and said, "See?"

She just obeyed everything but one Word (See?), everything but one Word. Sure, Pentecostal women can be saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost and then fail. Absolutely. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word…And she failed it. And as I said (See?), she'd have went on in all right, but (See?) she failed to listen. Telling her what was ahead. (Rising Of The Sun 65-0418m).

That is the attitude of the women that follow this message today. They want to show you that they could fellowship with whom they want to fellowship. They could fellowship with the backslider, and they could hug up whom they want to. Oh yes! They could be against the ones that report them. They could carry back the message to the backslider. You are a rebel, you are a traitor. You have betrayed the Word of God and then despise those that reported your wicked ways. You are a child of disobedience to the promise of God. That is the truth of it. That is the Word of the Lord.

When you lay down the Word of God and you have disobedient spirits. Preachers, you could expect cliques to rise up in the House of God and give you pressure as a minister. Young men, some backslidden preacher in your church there, and when you lay down the abc’s of God’s Word, these spirits of disobedience, would rise up and form cliques in the house of God and tear up your whole church. Let me tell you something. Do not let that stop you a bit.

After you lay down the Word of God, if five souls remain there, stay with those five. The Word of God will catch the elect of God and he that is of God will hear you and he that is not of God would not hear you. We are not looking for numbers there in Africa, India, Trinidad and wherever you are. We are looking for the elect of God. Few there be that find it. I think that you have gotten this vision good and solid, to understand that anything that cannot endure chastening on God’s Word is bastard born and no matter how small it is, when correction goes forth from the sacred desk and somebody rises up and will speak contrary to that correction and persecute that minister, it is a contrary spirit. You do not have to bother, when that contrary spirit arises. Pay no attention to that; do not give your ear to that. Do not support that. Otherwise that spirit will jump on you. It is a spirit of disobedience. Do not look at that slightly.

Think of Abiram, Korah, and Dathan, who arose with a spirit of unbelief and rebellion. See how many people they caused to be lost. The earth opened up and swallowed all of them at that time. Now friends, this is the most rebellious generation that we are living in and they are going through the tribulation for their rebellion. Do not follow those paths. Full obedience to the Word of God, entitles each one of you, to the token. We want to obey. We are endeavouring to obey. I thank God for your surrendered spirits. You have proven that over and over and over my brothers and sisters, for decades. Do not let anybody come in here and persuade you differently. People came here; they met us and left us here. Let them go about their business.

We are about our Father’s business. We want to obey God’s Word. I thank God for obedient children. This message is not for everybody here. No sir! I have obedient children that follow the Word of God. Young and old. I have brothers and sisters that will lay down their lives, for the Word of God. I am persuaded that we will receive that Outpouring of the Holy Ghost, when it comes. I just believe it. Do you believe that? I believe that with all my heart. Give us a song there Brother Peter.