62 You know, the Scripture says, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
63 The old infidel and critic used to say, “How foolish God was, to say that there was mental faculties in a man’s heart, for there is nothing in there to think with.”
64 But about four years ago, science found out that in the human heart there is a thinking faculty. There is a little room, a little place where there’s not even a cell; a little compartment in the human heart. It isn’t in the animal or no other life. But in the human heart there is a little place, and they never could come to conclusion what it was, but finally they said this, “It’s the place where the soul dwells.”
65 So God does speak His Words right, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Not in his head! If God would have meant head, He would have said, “head.” He said, “his heart.”
66 What if, Moses, when he come up, and Moses…God said, “Take off your shoes, Moses, you are on holy ground.” What if Moses said, “Now wait a minute, Lord, I know You meant my hat. I’ll just take off my hat, that’s more reverent”? He never said hat, He said “shoes”! That’s what He meant.
67 He never meant shake hands and join the church. He said, “You must be born again, and that from Above.” Not put your name on a book; but be regenerated, and your soul changed, your entire being made new again.
68 Now, when man has-has never had that experience, he is still a son of God, in creation, a fallen son of God. That’s the reason he can take wood and make buildings, he can take iron and make machinery, he can take jewels and make watches. What can he do? He can take something that’s out of the original creation, and pervert it from its original stand, to make something great, but he cannot create. Only God can create, Him alone.
69 And we notice in this, then, that, Satan choosing the man’s head, he took his intellectual part. And now the church has begin to move in the intellectual parts of a man. “Oh, it’s a great church. We have a great denomination. We’re the oldest in the country.” But, brother, until that man or woman, or boy or girl, is thoroughly converted, he’ll take them intellectual conceptions, and say, “The Bible don’t mean This, and It don’t mean That. The days of miracles is passed. And there is no such a thing as these other things. There, That, That’s not right,” you say, “and the days has passed.” Because he’s intellectually looking at It.
70 But let that same man take what little knowledge he has in his head, and give it over to God, and let the Spirit of the living God come down into that heart of his, he’ll call every Word of God, “the Truth,” and every promise, “Divine.” Then he can achieve for God.
71 You see, that little part, compartment in a man’s heart, God made that in there for Himself. That’s His control room. He sets there to control you. That’s His place. That’s where He sends His messages from, the control room.
72 How can He work with you when the nature of the spirit of the devil is in there? “And every man born on earth is born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies.” That’s right. So, in that carnal, Adamic nature, how can a man achieve anything, only by through his intellectuals?
73 But when he comes to be a new creature, and the old man has passed out, and the new Man, Christ, takes His throne in the human heart, then life looks different, then he starts on a new road. From his own selfish motives, till, the big ideas to make himself something big, he starts right towards Calvary, to recognize God. Then his all, his objective, his motive, his achievement, and all that he is, lays in the glory of the cross, where Christ paid the price for human life. Christ is our Life.
74 There is why Jesus said, “Except a man be born again, he can’t even understand the Kingdom of God.” You can’t do it. It’s not in you to do it.
75 Then why did God make that little place? He made it so you could be filled in there. You’ve got to be filled with something. You can’t be a human being, without being filled. The time has come where you are forced to make a decision, and that’s now, because it’s forced all over the earth.
58-1221E - The Unity Of One God In The One Church
Rev. William Marrion Branham
8 окт 2024