Come up here where I am

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I believe I’ve told the little story here, about the man setting a hen and had an eagle egg under it. And when that eagle hatched out, he was the funniest-looking bird that them chickens ever seen. But, he walked around. He was the—he was the ugly one among them, because he just couldn’t understand how that hen will cluck and scratch on that manure pile and eat. He couldn’t get the idea. She would say, “Come on over and feast, honey!” But he—he was a eagle; he just didn’t eat like that. It wasn’t his food.

82 So she would catch grasshoppers and what-more, you know, and call the little chickens. And all them little chickens would go along, cluck along, and eat. But the little eagle just couldn’t do it. It didn’t—didn’t look right to him.

So one day his mammy come hunting him.

83 And he would hear that hen cluck. He would try his best to cluck, but he couldn’t do it. He tried to cheep like a chicken, but he couldn’t do it. See, he was a eagle. He, to start with, he was a eagle. He was just hatched under a hen.

That’s like some church members. Every…That’s about the way it is; about one out of a setting, is right.

84 But one day his mammy flew over, and she screamed. He recognized it. That sounded right. Why? He was a eagle, to begin with.

That’s the way it is with the Gospel, or the Word, or the Power of Jesus Christ. When a man has been predestinated to Eternal Life, he hears that true ring, scream of God, nothing can keep him from It.

The church might say, “Days of miracles is past,” cluck, cluck, cluck. “Stand here and eat this, and stand here and eat that.”

85 That barnyard stuff won’t do for him, anymore. He is gone! “All things are possible!” He gets off the ground.

That’s why, the matter with so many Christians today, they can’t get their feet off the ground.

The old mammy said, “Son, jump! You’re an eagle. Come up here where I am.”

He said, “Mom, I never jumped, in my life.”

86 She said, “Well, you jump! You’re a eagle, to begin with. You’re not a chicken.” So he made his first jump and flopped his wings; didn’t do too good, but he got off the ground.

That’s the way we do. We accept God by faith, by the written Word. There is something in there; it’s that Eternal Life. You were predestinated to it.

87 His grandpa and grandma were eagles. He was a eagle, all the way back. Eagle don’t mix with other things. He is not a hybrid at all, he is a eagle.

88 Then, after you recognized the very Word of God was Eagle Food, then you left the other thing. You have then been formed into the living image of the living God. You heard from your theophany. “If this earthly body be dissolved, we have one waiting.”

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So whatever you do, you lay aside everything else

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104 THUS SAITH THE LORD, it’ll take perfect love to put you in that place, for that’s all there was there. No matter what money, how much religious demonstrations, how many good deeds you done or whatever you done, that won’t count nothing on that day. It’ll take perfect love. So whatever you do, you lay aside everything else until you are just so filled with the love of God till you can love those who hate you.

105 I’m just, as I said this morning, I was made, my whole make-up is grace. A lot of people say, “Now, you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. Yeah, you do something for me and I’ll do something for you.” That’s not grace. Grace is, if your back is itching, I’ll scratch it anyhow, whether you scratch mine or not; you can slap me on the face, and say “my back needs itchi-…, or, needs scratching,” I’ll scratch it. See? That’s it, do something. I don’t believe in works. I believe that works is love. Works is—works is the manifestation that grace has taken place. I don’t live true to my wife because I believe she’d divorce me if I didn’t, I live true to her because I love her.

106 I don’t preach the Gospel because I think I’d go to hell if I didn’t, I preach the Gospel because I love Him. Certainly.

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You look on, towards Calvary

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You don’t live for yourself. You live for others, that you might redeem that man. You become sons. And the trouble of it is, the church has forgot they were sons. You’re a son. You’re taking Christ’s place. You’re a son, so don’t live for yourself. Live for others.
87 “Well, Brother Branham, I can live for this brother, because he sure is a nice man.” That’s not it.
88 Live for that man who hates you. Live for that person who would kill you if they could. That’s what they done to Him. They killed Him, and He died, that He might save them. That’s Eternal Life. When, you, that’s in your bosom, you’re facing Heaven then. But you sacrifice your own things, give them up, like the sheep gives its wool. You look on, towards Calvary.
89 I hope this helps you to get in a place. That’s what the tabernacle, that’s what all people, has got to do, is find out what you are, and what’s the purpose.

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Let your children, let your family, let your loved ones, see It in you

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361 It’s crying out, you see. The Blood of Jesus Christ cries out, but there is forgiveness in It if you’ll just accept It. Wish we could stay a little while on that, see, “Blood speaketh better thing.” 362 Believe, for safety. Then apply, see. Believe for…Here is what you want to believe for. See, you want your own safety. You believe for your safety, and then apply the Token for the whole family. See? You say, “How can I do that?” Claim It! If It worked on you, then you and the Word becomes one. Amen! Amen! See? See, It works for both of you. You and the Word are one, then apply It to your children, apply It to your loved ones. 363 Like Rahab did, she applied the token to her father, she applied it to her mother, she applied it to her brothers and sisters, and got them all in. 364 You apply It, say, “Lord, I’m going after my son. I’m going after my daughter. I claim her!” “Satan, you turn her loose! I’m coming after her. I apply my Token, the Holy Spirit.” “O Holy Spirit, that lives within me, catch my daughter there. I’m going to her now, with Your anointing upon me.” He’ll do it. Amen. 365 That’s what they did in Egypt. That’s what they did in Jericho. 366 You want to read another one, Acts 16:31. Paul told the centurion, “Believe on the Message of the hour. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, thou and thy house shall be saved.” That right? Believe for your house, bring them all under. “Now you’ve seen the God of Heaven perform a miracle. It’s before judgment. Do you believe it?” “Yes! What can I do?” 367 He said, “Rise and be baptized.” Paul took him out and baptized him, said, “Now believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou and thy house shall be saved.” 368 Believe what? Believe the Lord Jesus Christ, for your house, apply the Token to your house. 369 Then what do you do when you apply It to your house? Move all the trash out. Get all the short skirts, and the shorts, and the cards, and the cigarettes, and televisions, and whatever more, and kick them out the door, when you go apply the Token; won’t stand still for it. Yes, sir. Take it all out. All the dances, and parties, and rock-and-roll, and old vulgar newspapers, and the stuff that’s of the world, kick it out the door, say, “We’re cleaning out this place around here.” 370 Like Jacob did, he said, told his wife and all of them, said, “Wash your clothes and everything. Put away them gods.” Amen. Jo-… 371 You know what Joshua said before crossing over? He said, “Wash your clothes; come not at your wives, and so forth, and get ready, for within three days we’ll cross Jordan.” Amen. He was getting ready, was applying the token. Amen. That’s it. 372 Get ready. Apply It. Believe It. Clean up. Let your children, let your family, let your loved ones, see It in you. That’s right. It’ll take effect. Yes, sir!

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That's the greatest thing could ever happen

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128 “A little while, and the world won’t see Me no more, yet you’ll see Me. I’ll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world. I will not leave you comfortless. I’ll pray the Father; He’ll send you another Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the world cannot receive; yet, you can receive Him.” 129 Now notice. The “greater” works, was to have the Power in the Church, not only to heal the sick by prayer, cast out devils by prayer, but to impart Eternal Life to believers. The Holy Ghost was coming, and given into the hands of the Church, to impart Life. Oh! That’s what Calvary meant. It took stooped, degraded men and women, and lifted them into a place, to be sons and daughters of God, to heal the sick and to impart Eternal Life; by giving the Holy Ghost to obedient believers, men who were once unbelievers, be made believers, and impart spiritual, Eternal Life. 130 How much greater is it: To say, “This sick woman laying here, I can pray a prayer of faith and she’ll be healed,” that’s a great thing, that’s what He was doing then; “but,” said, “greater than this shall you do; I’m going to give you Power, not only to raise him up for a while, but to give him Eternal Life, which will be Eternal, forever.” 131 Poor, blind, wretched people, how do you miss that? Don’t you see what the “greater” thing is? That’s the greatest thing could ever happen, was to impart Eternal Life to people. What is Eternal Life? The Life that He lived, the Life that was in Him, impart That to others. Can a man do that? A son of God can.

60-0925 - "That Day On Calvary" Rev. William Marrion Branham

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.

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