God’s army is to cast him out

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341 Satan’s army brings diseases. That’s what Satan is, he’s a destroyer. Satan, the whole kingdom of Satan, is sickness, death, and sorrow, and flusterations, and worry, all on Satan.

God is Life, faith, joy, peace, over here. See?

342 Now, that’s the two great forces that’s coming together right now. They’re battling. They’re battling right here in the building right now. They battle, day by day, with you, every force.

343 Satan, following you along, that great, big, kingly, priestly Goliath trying to scare the liver out of you. He’s right, but God…

344 You’re fortified, amen, with the Gospel, with the Word of Truth around your loin. Glory! Preacher, that’s what it is. Helmet of salvation; the shield of faith; and the Sword, waving It in your hand! “Satan, I’m coming to meet you. You meet me in the name of science. You meet me in the name of—of culture. You meet me in the name of organization. You meet me in the name of this, that, or the other. But I meet you in the Name of the Lord God of Israel. I’m coming after you. Give way!” Even death itself can’t stand there. Chop a hole right through it. That’s right.

345 Satan’s army brings diseases, and God’s army is commissioned to cast them out. Amen. There you are. Every time Satan throws any on, onto you, God’s army is to cast him out. Amen. Cast out!

The Greatest Battle Ever Fought - 62-0311 - William Marrion Branham

He’s just exactly like you

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How that the Holy Spirit must feel today, when It goes before God with a bowed, shamed face as it was, to have to take a report of our indifferences in the church today. How we’ve laid aside all the baptism of the Spirit, how that the churches are having a form of godliness and denying the power thereof. How He must blush to say, “Your daughters are dressing immorally.” How He must blush to say, “Your children can’t even agree with one another long enough to have a meeting.” How that they’re making fun of your people that’s been called out and filled with the Spirit. How the Holy Ghost must feel to go before God with such messages as that. Coming back, saying they’re having a form of godliness…They don’t believe in the supernatural no more. They won’t even go to church on Wednesday night; they stay to watch some favorite television program. How it must be…

28 “And Your gifts that You send down to Your church to confirm Your Word that You promised, people walk away and call it the works of the devil.” Now remember, the Holy Spirit’s got to bring to God everything that every professing Christian says about it. Because He sent…

Well, may the Father say, “Did You try? Did You knock at the heart’s door?”

“I knocked night after night, and they won’t listen.” How He must feel. How can…He trusted us. Like He did Adam and Eve, put them in the garden of Eden and trusted them to be right, to obey His Word. They fell; and as soon as man gets things in his hand, he will fall every time. He cannot hold it himself. It takes God to hold us.

29 Then we notice again, that when…What if that boy was a good boy? Oh, how the teacher would shove out his chest, walk up to the father, and say, “I am so glad, sir, to bring you the message of the—how your son is progressing. He’s just as smart as he can be. He’s just—just like you. He’s a…as we would call it a chip off of the block. He’s just exactly like you; he loves the same thing you love. He does the work just exactly like you done it when you was out there.”

That’s the kind of a church that the Holy Ghost likes to witness for before God. “The kind of works,” Jesus said, “that I do, shall you also.” That’s the kind of a church that the Holy Spirit likes to witness before God.

30 And then if that child (that son) did not obey and was not obedient child, it never was no more than a son; it remained a son, but yet it had no inheritance.

Now, we don’t want to stay in that place. The church ought to be a thousand miles up the road farther than it is tonight. The Pentecostal blessings has been falling on the people here in America for fifty years; and if anything, we’re dwindling instead of going on. “What are you preaching such as this for, Brother Branham?” I want to see the church of God in deep sincerity; I want to see the old fashioned prayer meetings. I want to see them times when they can’t leave church; they just stay all night, and pray, and fast, and call out till God answers. Instead of that, it seem like love has dwindled away from us. The love of God…just love…

Why, a real Christian can hardly wait: when the bell rings, he’s got the front seat, and there ready with the song book in his hand. But now, we say, “Oh, my, I don’t know.”

Oh, blest be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love; The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above. When we asunder part, It gives us inward pain; But we shall still be joined in heart, And hope to meet again.

That’s the way real Christianity is a living experience. Pentecost is not a denomination; Pentecost is an experience that anybody can have if they’ll wish to have it. It’s something that you experience, the Holy Spirit.

Hear Ye Him - 60-0313 - William Branham

They stick their Tents down

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103 You know, it used to be, if a woman or a man said they was a Christian, people respected it. But, today, they just like to see how much fun they can make out of it. See? See? Irreverent group! My!

Why? You know what? This is the reason. They’re not conscious that That’s the Truth. They’re not conscious of God. They don’t remember that the Bible says, that, “The Angels of God are encamped about those who fear Him.” They don’t only just come and visit them. They, They stick their Tents down. Amen. “The Angels of God are encamped about those who fear His Name,” stay there day and night.

The old colored brother sang that song, The Angels Keep Watching Over Me. Said, “All day, all night, Angels keep watching over me.” That’s right. “All day and all night, Angels keep watching over me.”

104 Jesus said, about, “Them little ones,” said, “take heed that you don’t offend one of them, for their Angels always beholds My Father’s face which is in Heaven.” See? They’re always camped about, watching those.

The Influence Of Another - 62-1013 - William Branham

But let me tell you a little secret

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But let me tell you a little secret, the most powerful force in the world isn’t speaking with tongues, or interpreting tongues, or being honored by God to be a minister, or to be an evangelist, or to be a prophet, the most powerful weapon that I’ve ever found in my life, is love. It’ll…The phileo love, which the Greek word comes from friendship, like you have for your wife. There’s a difference. It’ll make a mother for that baby, run through a blazing fire, her life means nothing, that’s phileo. What will Agapao do? See? The godly love.

We must love, Divinely love one another, then you don’t see your brother’s mistake. If he does make a mistake, you never, you look over the top of it, and you love him anyhow. See? That’s it. Love those that love you, then does not the sinner the same thing? But love those who doesn’t love you, that’s what shows the Spirit of God is in you, ’cause He loved you when you were His enemy, and He loved you. And if that Spirit’s in you, It’ll make you love your enemy, as you do your friend.

From That Time - 61-0415B - William Branham

When God raised Jesus from the dead, He raised up you, also

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240 Now notice this quickening Power, Zoe, bringing the Word, the mind that was in Christ was in you then. I’m trying to show you, that, you, when you raised. When God raised Jesus from the dead, He raised up you, also. And also quickened to Life, with Him, you are now quickened to Life, although then you were but an attribute in His thoughts, but God had saw all in Him, at the finish, see. When God looked down upon the body… 241 The Spirit left Him, in the Garden of Gethsemane. He had to die, a man. Remember, friends, He didn’t have to do that. That was God. God anointed that flesh, which was human flesh. And He didn’t…If He’d a went up there, as God, He’d have never died that kind of death; can’t kill God. But He didn’t have to do it. 242 But, remember, He went there with you in Him. See, God had never separated the Bride from the Groom, yet. So when God looked down upon the body of Christ, He saw both male and female. It was all redeemed in that one body. See? They are one, same, same Word. The same Word, spoke of the Groom, speaks of the Bride. 243 Well, how can the Bride come, and fail to manifest everything was promised of Him; and the Groom come, and He wouldn’t be the Bride? But when He did everything, even to proving it by raising Himself up from the dead, afterwards, then don’t the—the Bride have to do the same thing, have to be exactly what the Word said She would be in these last days? Don’t She have to return through Malachi 4? Don’t She have to be manifested like it was in the days of Sodom? Don’t the world have to be just exactly like it is? Isn’t these things a perfect identification of the Word of God made known to us?

It Is The Rising Of The Sun - 65-0418M - William Branham

It's up to you

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129 It’s up to you, you remember. You are the one. Are you a sinner? Are you a backslider? Are you cold and away from Christ? Do you want to be raised anew with Him now, start life anew? How about you, husband and wife that’s been at—been at outs for a long time, fussing in your home? Won’t you come and straighten that thing up with God and each other now? Make Easter really an Easter for you, start a new home.

130 What about you that’s never been, has never had prayer in your home, you just go home from church and try to live the best you can, never bring the family together and pray? That’s why we got juvenile delinquency and the things we got. That’s why the American homes are broke up. Won’t you come, start anew tonight? Will you do it? You’re invited. Remember, I’m your minister now; I’ll be a witness on that day.

While we have our heads bowed, then, now for prayer.

131 Our Blessed Heavenly Father, tonight we bring to Thee this audience, in the most solemn sacred solemnity that we know how. We humbly approach Thy Throne. And after the Message tonight, that, that great entombment, He never layed silent, His soul went right on into the regions and finished the work of God, that He was ordained to do. And tomorrow morning, we find where He went through the realms above, conquering everything, in His resurrection. But He come out on Easter morning for our justification. And we find that He sent the Holy Spirit back, to convict men of sin.

132 And we pray tonight, Lord, that those who raised their hands may be remembered before Thee. May their decision be from their heart tonight, that they have received You, and believe You, and may they be sealed away by the Seal of promise tonight, the Holy Spirit. Grant it, Father. For, we commit them unto Thee, with this Message tonight. May It bless those who heard It, those, Lord, who will take It with them to their home, and sink It deep in their hearts. May they live on the Word of God. Grant it, Father, for we ask it in Christ’s Name. Amen.

The Entombment - 57-0420 - William Branham

Make a way for Liberty!

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