66 But if He is ever God, He is still God. He always was God, and He can’t be nothing else but God. And He is God, Eternal. Therefore, we want to look to that Target; not what target the church is shooting at, but what Target that Christ is shooting at.
67 “We look for Christ to appear, the same Jesus.” He said, when He was on earth, “A little while and the world seeth Me no more. Yet, ye shall see Me, for I’ll be with you to the end of the world.” That same One Who could direct the Word, and be the Word, and direct It right straight on to the Target, that same Lord Jesus is here this morning in the form of the Holy Spirit, to direct our thoughts and focus down, His Word, to one true and living God, to one purpose, to one achievement. And if we’ll just let Him do it, He will focus the Word right into a place that’ll prove that He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. Depends on what you want to look at.
68 We must focus our lives. Not what somebody else says, but focus our lives to Him. And He is the Word. See? If we get our lives lined with the Word, then the Word and our life becomes the same. He said, “If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you, then ask what you will. It’ll be granted to you. Verily I say unto you, if you say to this mountain, ‘Be moved,’ and don’t doubt in your heart, but believe that that what you have said will come to pass; you can have what you have said.” Oh, my! “Not what I said; what you said, you can have,” because you and He become the same. Because, the mind that was in Christ is in you. And the mind that was in Christ was to fulfill the Father’s Word. Which, He was the Word. There you are. Then you and the Word are focused in, together. You become a living unit of God. How great!
69 There was a time when man’s sins…When man sinned before God, he crossed a great chasm. As a writer said here, that “He appeared on the last days for salvation to those that look for it.” Now, this great chasm man crossed, left hisself no way back. He could not get back again, because he’s crossed that separation between him and God.
70 God, being full of grace and mercy, took a substitute, and it was a lamb or an animal, was offered, a substitutionary death. “But the blood of bulls and goats,” as Hebrews here said, just previous to where I read, “cannot take away sin.” It only covered sin. It was a propitiation, truly, but it just covered sin, for it was speaking with a good conscience, looking forward to when the Blood would come that would cleanse sin, divorce it, put it away forever.
71 Now, when Jesus came, He wasn’t just a man. He wasn’t just the third person of the trinity. He, He was God. He was God, Himself. He, He was Emmanuel. And we’re taught, in the Bible, that, “We’re saved by the Blood of God.” When God Himself became one of us, He-He changed His-His-His, what He was. He changed His tent. He came down, condescending from Glory, and became man. Therefore, born without sex, He created Himself a body that He lived in, Himself. Emmanuel, God represented with us, the Word made flesh among us, and lived with us, to redeem many sons back to God, through the shedding of this Blood.
72 The body, sure, was Christ. It was the anointed One. And if Christ means “the anointed One,” and He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He is the Word, then the Word is the anointing. “If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you, then say what you will.” It’s the Word of God, the anointed Word, that’s what does it.
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Rev. William Marrion Branham
8 окт 2024
