Knowing the difference between Tares & Wheat

Knowing the difference between Tares & Wheat - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XasshQfgGiw Transcript: (00:03) The bank of heaven is all right. What separates the tares from the wheat? All right. This is a message that I feel nobody really quite comprehends this morning. The Lord woke me up after a long night of battle and he spoke to me and said, "I'm going to reveal to you the difference between the tares and the wheat. (00:25) " And um today it's my hope to be able to do this. Now, you can do this as well. Everybody in this room has heard the parable of the tares and the wheat. Amen. What is the parable? The parable of the tares and the wheat is a story that Jesus gave us. And he talked about two pieces of harvest. One on the left is a tare. (00:52) The one on the right that's leaning to the right is the wheat. And what he said in that parable was that in his house, in his church, that it's made up of two groups of people. All right. It's made up of tares and wheat. Or worshippers and true worshippers. Huh! He said, they said, "What what should we do with these tares that's in the church? There's some in this room today. (01:33) " He said, they said, "You know, what should we do with the tares?" They look just alike, don't they? You can't tell the difference. He can, but you can't. But today you're going to be able to tell the difference cuz I'm going to teach you the difference. What separates you from a worshipper or a true worshipper? Keep this in your mind, the Father does not seek for worshippers. (01:59) Like my wife said today, they're worshiping him all over the world and all throughout heaven. The angels are worshiping. He's not looking He is looking for true worshipers, but not worshipers. All right, teacher. There's a huge difference. Worshipers worship their way. True worshipers worship his way. So, what can we tell the difference between? How many know in this room today there is tares and wheat? There's some of you going to be in the first harvest and some of you going to be left out. (02:29) Some of us, maybe me. I don't know. I pray not. But, there's tares and wheat in this room. And they asked Jesus, "What should we do with these tares? Should we expose them and give them out?" He said, "Leave them alone. Let them all worship together. Let them all get dressed for church and go to church together. (02:53) Let them all wear their church clothes together. Let them all come in with their families together. And there's going to come a time when I'm going to separate the tares from the wheat." So, today's objective is to find out the difference. Let's go. Amen. We're going to start off in the book of Isaiah chapter 19. (03:21) We'll read verse 13 and verses 14. The princes of Zoan are become fools. The princes of Noph are deceived. They have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof, and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. (03:55) Anybody ever seen a drunk man? A drunk man is confused, right? That's right. A drunk man does things that he wouldn't do if he sober, right? He's confused. I just read a verse this woman of God just read a verse to you that says the Lord has put a drunk spirit a spirit of confusion in Zion. Jesus. Oh, it's about to get good. Teach. Teach. (04:24) A spirit of sleep, confusion in Zion. It It Let me explain something all of THE HOLY GHOST when it begins to fall, it's like rain. It's going to fall on you whether you just crawled out of bed with somebody that you are wife or not. When the rain begins to fall on the field, THE CHURCH HOUSE, WE'RE THE FIELD. We're all in here together. (04:52) When the spirit begins to move, you're going TO WALK OUT THAT DOOR TALKING ABOUT HOW GOD MOVED ON YOU AND you're living in sin and you shacked up, jacked up and EVERYTHING ELSE. BUT GOD, surely you're okay CUZ YOU FELT GOD. Jesus preach. I'm going to teach you today how they shun folk in the church. (05:12) It ain't about feeling God, it's about pleasing God. Listen carefully. When the rain begins to fall, the Bible says it falls on the lawless and the law keepers. It falls on the just and on the unjust. When the rain falls down in the field, it going to fall on everything in the field. All right. You teach it. That's why people tell me all the time, I was at church and man, we had a move of God. (05:44) I'm dying and they've been You better learn the difference between a move of God and God moving. Yes, that's good, preacher. So, he in the field, everybody's going to get wet with the Holy Ghost. Yes, that's right. I don't KNOW WHAT SOMEBODY STARTS to sing, "I GIVE MYSELF AWAY." YOU COULD BE BACK THERE LIVING in the most perverted state you've ever LIVED IN. YOU'RE GOING to feel the presence. (06:10) Don't let it deceive. Come on, preacher. Don't let the presence deceive you because you'll wind up being cowards. See? So, God said, "In Mount Zion, I caused a I don't think they read. Give me a Bible. I'm preaching and you got no Bible. Got it in here. And I go ahead and thank you. I What What version is that? Give me a King James version. Thank you. (06:35) Thank you. Thank you. God is good. Is that King James version? I don't like all these other newfangled versions. All right. Isaiah What's this one? Ain't that great either. You go back to the original. Isaiah 19:13-14. Notice what he said, "The princes or the preachers OF ZION COME ON, PREACHER. HAVE become fools. (07:01) " Jesus. Nobody said "The princes are deceived. They have seduced Egypt." Now, it's so bad that not only have they seduced the church, Jesus. they've seduced the world into thinking they're okay. Come on. THEY'RE DRUNK. COME ON, PREACHER. They're fools. The preachers of Zion. They have seduced Egypt. They have seduced the princes of the church. (07:35) They're deceived. Verse 14. The Lord has sent a perverse spirit in the midst of the church. And they caused them to err in every work. I come to preach today and teach you how to begin to identify the tares from the wheat. Now, let's go to Isaiah 29. Read there verse 8 through 13. It shall even be as when a hungry man dreameth, and behold, he eateth, but he waketh, and his soul is empty. (08:18) Or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and behold, he drinketh, but he awaketh, and behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite. So shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against my Zion. Okay, verse 13. Wherefore the Lord said, For as much as this people draw near me with their mouth and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men. Now, notice what he said. (08:55) He said, In my church, they are worshipping me. God has never had a problem getting people to worship. They have conferences all over the country, worship conferences. He has no problem getting worship. But he said, They are They're worshipping me with their music, their song, their mouth, their lyrics, BUT THEIR HEART is far from me. (09:21) And he said, I'm going to prove it to you. He said, They worship me in verse 13, the last verse, by the traditions of men. Now, I'm getting ready to preach. they they worship me, BUT THE WAY THEY WORSHIP ME IS THE WAY THAT MAMA TAUGHT THEM TO worship me instead OF THE WAY MY WORD HAS TAUGHT THEM. They were taught to worship in the Church OF GOD IN CHRIST WAY. (10:00) They were taught TO WORSHIP IN THE UPC WAY. They were taught to worship in the Baptist way. HE SAID, "THEY WORSHIP ME, BUT THEY DO IT ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN WHILE REJECTING MY COMMANDMENTS." Brother Branham, there's no way that could be the truth. Really? Who started Sunday worship? Did God Did God start it? Did God ever command you to worship him on the first day? Did he ever command YOU TO HAVE STOP working on the first day? WHAT DAY DID he tell you to do it on? The seventh day. Now, God said, "These people will (10:46) come worship ME EVERY OTHER DAY except They'll go to holy convocation and consecration. THEY'LL GO TO EVERY SERVICE UNDER THE SUN, BUT ON THE HOLY DAYS YOU CAN'T FIND THEM." HE SAID, "OH, THEY'RE WORSHIPPING ME, but they DO IT THEIR HEART IS FAR FROM ME. THEIR HEART IS BAPTIST." THEIR HEART IS PENTECOSTAL. GET OUT of every one of them. (11:19) I'll tell THE WORLD, "COME OUT OF EVERY one of them. IF IT'S AGAINST THE WORD OF GOD, RUN OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE." See what he said? He said, "They worship me but their heart is far from me. But nothing. They They dancing. They shouting. Yes, they are. They got the lips. They got the words. They write the best songs, but they doing it at the wrong time. Uh-oh. (11:46) Oh, that's something right there. See, their heart's not with me. Their heart wants to please mama and pastor so-and-so that BOUGHT THEM A HOUSE WHEN THEY WERE BROKE. AND NOW THEY OWE IT, SO THEY STAY IN THIS CHURCH. Somebody asked me one time, "Reverend, why do you preach so mean?" Let me tell you something. (12:07) You're putting a handle on John's preaching. You're putting a handle on Jesus' preaching when he said, "You bunch of snakes. You religious vipers. You mislead my people." He's took a whip and beat them to death. You need A PREACHER JUST LIKE JESUS. Isn't that right, Pastor Nation? Oh, Jesus called them out. (12:33) NOT NOT THE SINNER. HE CALLED THE CHURCH FOLK OUT AND SAID, "YOU ARE LIKE YOUR FATHER, THAT DEVIL." YOU'RE AT CHURCH, BUT YOU LIVE THE wrong You're doing it your mama's way. You obey me by the commandments of men. All right? Let's go to Revelations 3:2. Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain that are ready to die, for I have not found thy works perfect before God. (13:10) See, HERE'S THE MESSAGE. WAKE UP, GOD SAID. Because wake up and strengthen that little bit OF SOMETHING THAT'S STILL INSIDE OF YOU. WAKE UP BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE because your works are not perfect before me. Someone inboxed me the other day. He probably watched this video and he said, "One word I heard from him in months. (13:38) " He said, "So, let me get this right. We'll go to hell if we don't keep the Sabbath." I wrote back and I said, "Brother, far be it from me to know who's going to hell." I said, "But you'll finally grow up one day and you can care less about hell." You'll care about it God said do it I'll do it if there is no hell. (14:02) When hell gets out of your equation, then God becomes your only passion. GOD AND HELL IS THE LAST OF MY CONCERN, BUT RATHER FINDING THE MARK, making the mark, OBEYING THE FATHER IS MY CONCERN. I HOPE YOU DON'T SEND NOBODY TO HELL. I DON'T CARE IF ANYBODY GOES TONIGHT. I DON'T WANT NOBODY TO GO, BUT I DON'T DO THIS TO STAY OUT OF HELL. (14:31) I DO THIS TO STAY IN OBEDIENCE TO THE FATHER. BUT RUN FROM HELL AND RUN TO ZION. RUN OUT OF ZION AND SAY, "GOD, I DON'T CARE IF I DON'T GO TO HELL. YOU SAID IT I'LL DO IT." God said, "Wake up your works are not perfect before me." See See what you did. See you you've been told by the church that it's got nothing to do with your works. (15:03) They they they go and MISQUOTE PAUL ABOUT YOUR WORKS. They don't know what Paul's talking about. But I just read a verse after Paul wrote his verse says, THAT JUST SAID, "YOUR WORKS ARE NOT PERFECT BEFORE ME." WAKE UP WHILE THERE'S A LITTLE BIT LESS than you. WAKE UP THE SLEEPING TRIBES OF ISRAEL. Wake up you 10 virgins. (15:34) You ever wondered why it's 10 virgins? Cuz there's 10 tribes of Israel. They all fell asleep. Every one of them fell asleep. BUT WHEN JESUS DIED, ALL OF Israel went into darkness. How long have we been asleep? I'm going to show you something. How long has God's church been asleep ever since he built it? He built her with fire then she went to sleep and fell into Rome's lullabies. (16:07) Went to sleep and it took Daddy Pope as her god and obeyed him and obeyed Bishop Mason and obeyed Bishop Hey, DON'T GET ME STARTED. OBEYED ALL OF THEM ALL OF THEM while rejecting the commandments of God. And you say you ain't got no other god before you. Let's go read how long we've been asleep. Hosea 6:2. Yeah. (16:35) Is it four? Go ahead and just put them in the background and wait for them to come on. After two days will he revive us? In the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight. Okay. In the second day, this is Israel. This is a prophecy about Israel. Always remember this prophecy. Israel said, "In two days he's going to begin waking us up. (17:07) " Y'all got to watch this. Israel, don't pay no attention to the screen right now. Pay attention. Israel has been asleep. The house of Israel, ME AND YOU, THE TRIBES of Ephraim. WE'VE BEEN ASLEEP FOR THESE two days. Notice this prophecy says, "In the second day, two days, in two days, he will BEGIN REVIVING, OR WAKING US UP. (17:36) " And then in the third day, he's going to resurrect us. I tell you today by mandate from God Almighty, we are coming into the end of the second day after Jesus died, 2,000 years, and the awakening is happening at the end of the second day. Notice what they said, "In two days, Jesus died on the fourth day, the 4,000 year, the fifth day. (18:09) " We're now living in the sixth day. The seventh day is upon us. Jesus was right here. We've been sleeping in in these two days, but at the the transition between six and seven, there's going TO BE A WAKING UP OF ISRAEL. SHE'S GOING TO START WAKING UP BEFORE the resurrection. With God from heaven. What's happening right now to God's church? We're waking up. (18:37) We're coming out of the church. It's almost the third day. The seventh day is the third day. You got it? Seven days from creation, but three days from Christ. WE'RE BEGINNING TO THE BRIDE IS HEARING something was wrong those two days. Is anybody with me? For those two days, something ain't been right. We've been sleeping. (19:01) But the prophet said, "Read the prophet one more time, Hosea." After two days, Ah, somebody say after two days, what's going to begin to happen at the twilight between two and three? Will he revive us? He will begin to revive Israel. And then on the third day, what? He will raise us up. He's going to resurrect us, which is the seventh day. (19:27) Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the time right now of the reviving. Thank you, Jesus. The awakening Amen. of mysteries that the church has robbed us from. We are waking up from Africa to Alabama. We are waking up from Jamaica to Georgia. We are waking up that we've been deceived long enough. We've been worshipping man's way long enough. (19:55) There is AN AWAKENING IN THE SECOND DAY. Hosea said in the second day he'll start waking us up. Shout out the host God. Rome ruled. Rome ruled that Somebody said the fifth is the first. The fifth is the first. The sixth is the second. The sixth is the The seventh is the third. Rome ruled this day and Rome ruled that day, but she's starting to lose her control between the transition from two to three. (20:27) There's going to be an awakening. Hallelujah. Give God a praise offering. Hallelujah. How many of you say the Lord is waking us up? Yes, oh yeah. Somebody said, "Brother Branham, and and and and my my in-laws and different people ask me, 'Well, you mean to tell me all this time we've all been wrong?'" No, all this time YOU WERE ASLEEP. AND NOW THERE'S AN AWAKENING. (20:51) We're being RESTORED BACK TO THE ORIGINAL TRUTH. WHY? It's time. It's the end of the second day. We're going into the third. The king is coming. The millennium is coming. The Messiah, or the Mashiach is on his way and before that you must have an awakening people. Next thing, hallelujah. (21:18) Y'all need to go rejoicing tonight. But these folks, man, I'll be preaching for them in a couple of weeks over in Indiana. Amen. Now, what are we being awakened to everybody? What are we waking up to? We are waking up to the original to the seed where the church began. We're being awakened to his ways. We're being awakened to his commandments. (21:47) BECAUSE BEFORE NOW, ALL THE churches preached is grace. Before now, THE MESSAGE OF THE CHURCH WAS say the sinner's prayer and YOU'RE SAVED. LIES, lies and more lies. You won't find the sinner's prayer anywhere in your Bible. I challenge you. Find me the sinner's prayer. The Bible said these words. The young man ASKED JESUS, "WHAT MUST I DO TO HAVE ETERNAL LIFE?" WHAT ANSWER DID YESHUA GIVE HIM? REPEAT AFTER ME. (22:40) Is that what he said? DID HE SAY GO DOWN THERE AND CRY a lot at the altar? No. He said, "Obey the commandments." Y'all think I made that up? Go read Luke. Obey the commandments. We're waking up to his law. Before now, before this ministry came on the scene around here, you tell the word law to a Christian, they'll rebuke you in Jesus' name. (23:17) Why? WE'RE NOT GOING BACK TO THE LAW. They didn't understand that God's law is eternal, but now we're understanding. We're waking up to his identity and to our identity. What do you mean by that, Brother Branham? How many in this room has come to understand that you're not a Gentile? Since you came here, since you been studying it, you're not a Gentile. (23:44) See, you had an OLD IDENTITY. YOU ARE ISRAEL. That's your identity. We're waking up to his plan for the ages, called the millennium reign. We're waking up to his coming kingdom, not streets of gold or gates of pearl, but his coming kingdom. Keep your mind up here, children. Y'all get distracted. There's nothing more important than truth. (24:16) We're waking up to us not flying away, but to him flying TO US. WE'RE WAKING UP TO TRUTH. WHY? There was a spirit of drunkenness upon us for 2 days. We walked around like a bunch of drunks. But not anymore. What happens when a drunk man becomes sober? He gets mad at how stupid he was. See, the Lord just showed what was wrong with you. (24:44) I couldn't understand why I stayed so mad. I couldn't understand why I preached so mad until just then. What happens when a drunk man gets sober? Don't he get mad at how stupid he was? Don't he get mad at what he did. I'm mad because all those years I didn't have a message to preach. I was preaching without a message to preach. (25:07) But we're waking up in this day. We're waking up to his Sabbath day. Somebody tell me what day is the Sabbath. Come on, y'all wake up. What day is the Sabbath? Now we didn't know that before. We were getting dressed on the first day of the week, running to the church, worshipping somebody's God, but it wasn't Israel's God. (25:37) Brother Branham, I'll worship the Lord any way I want. Lie in you, Jezebel. You can't worship him any way you want. HE GIVES YOU A PRESCRIBED WAY. You'll do it that way or it's not worthy of his acceptance. Somebody said, "Brother Branham, I come to your church and you make me dance and you make everybody dance. (26:01) " I tell you why I do it. Because I ain't never one time and nobody got a problem going to church crying their eyes out. Ain't one command to cry in church. BUT EVERYBODY AIN'T ONE COMMAND TO do all that. Not one. BUT WE GOT A COMMAND TO DANCE BEFORE THE LORD. And you wonder why I'm so hard on it. That's his PRESCRIBED WAY. (26:36) HE NEVER SAID FOR YOU TO COME INTO HIS PRESENCE BEGGING. Don't come IN THE DOOR GOING "OH GOD, OH MY LORD, I'm so afflicted. I'm going to knock the I mean I ain't talking about it. Oh God, OH GOD, I NEED MY MIRACLE." That ain't how he wants you coming. He said, "When you come into my court, come in with thanksgiving that I ain't got no lights but I got life. (26:59) I don't have no food BUT I GOT A WAY TO GET IT. GOD IS GOOD, THAT'S HOW YOU COME IN THIS HOUSE. I DON'T COME TO CHURCH EARLY, I WAS scared to come early. Everybody start telling me all their troubles. I come in the back door and I would run and hide cuz if I meet everybody at that door, I'm going to hear how they just got beat up by their husband. (27:22) I'm going to hear how I hear it. Why? Cuz you come in that door the wrong way. YOU COME IN THAT DOOR BROTHER AND I GOT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING. ALL SIX DAYS I FOUGHT THE DEVIL EVERY DAY AND I WON EVERY TIME. I HAVE to celebrate that I'm a conqueror. THAT'S HOW YOU WORSHIP HIM. BY THE WORD. SEE? Get out of your way and get into his way. (27:48) Would somebody show me anywhere in the scripture where he ever told you to come into his presence and sit down? I heard him say stand up. I heard him say lift your hands. I heard him say dance before me. So make fun of me all you want. You do what you want to do but I'm determined to wake up and quit doing it the way I always did it and DO IT BECAUSE GOD said to do it that way. (28:18) And I'll tell you what else. If somebody ever tells you something like this, how many have you ever How many have you ever heard somebody say this and you said it yourself? If you see me dancing, you going to know it's God. That's the most stupid thing I ever heard in my life. Oh, if you see me shouting, you going to know it's real. (28:42) If you see me fall out, you going to know it's God, son. You take you something, if you see me shout, it's going to be because he called me to do it. I got to feel nothing. I don't have to wait for the music to get right. I don't have to wait to feel a thing. He said do it, I'll do it. YEAH, YOU COME TO CHURCH WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO HIT YOU. (29:07) WHY DON'T YOU HIT SOMETHING? WHY DON'T YOU MOVE? I'm preaching to somebody. Why don't you move? WHY DON'T YOU OBEY GOD? SEE, THIS preacher will make you mad before they get you right. Why does it get you mad? Because you loved your mama and if mama said it, ain't no way mama could be wrong. Let me tell you something, Jesus said if you don't love me more than mama, if you don't love me more than daddy, if you don't love my word MORE THAN PASTOR SO-AND-SO, YOU'RE NOT WORTHY, you're not worthy of this gospel. (29:41) My Lord, I preach you to the graveyard today. Why? Because I'm preaching so I'm digging in. I want somebody to change. I want somebody to learn God's way and move into God's way. And when you get out of your way, start doing it his way, he'll accept your worship. Yeah, quit doing it your way and do it God's way. (30:06) Do it his way. Do it the way he wants it done and he'll accept it. What What Cain worshiping? What Cain worshiping? When he brought a big old offering, what he worshiping? And did God not tell him, "I don't want it." Why? Because that ain't the way I told you to do it. Hallelujah. It's a test. Listen to me, children. (30:33) Every week Every week God gives you a test to see where your mind's at, to see where your spirit's at. What kind of test, Brother Branham? Let me tell you, every seventh day he gives you a test to see if you'll obey him or if you'll do it your way. And every week he lets you pass that test when you show up, when you give HIM A HIGH PRAISE, YOU PASS THAT week's test. (31:06) IT TELLS HIM WHERE YOUR HEART IS. Every week in school the teacher at the end of the week at the end at the end of the week gives you a test to see if you learned anything, to see if you got it. And every week, brother, every week at the end of the week he gives us a heart TEST TO FIND OUT IF WE'RE OBEDIENT OR IF WE'RE GOING TO do it OUR WAY. (31:41) THANK GOD that we're waking up. Praise the name of the Lord. We've been sleeping in our tradition. Next week. What did he find incomplete? He found our works, our fruit, our actions incomplete at the judgment. How many in this room know at the judgment he's not going to judge you by your faith? What's he going to judge you by? Your works. (32:14) Why? Your works didn't save you. But the works is the proof of your salvation. He's going to try your works. He's going to test your faith, your fruit, your actions and see what seed you're of. Let's go read Galatians 3:16 and 29. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not and to the seeds and of many, but as of one and to thy seed, which is Christ. (32:48) Notice the word seed. Notice carefully. It's all about the seed. He said through Abraham's seed, when you give your life to Christ, you become Abraham's seed or child. Now you might understand why the rich man was in hell, but Lazarus went into Abraham's bosom. He was Abraham's seed. It got nothing to do with hell, nothing to do with no lake of fire. (33:13) It had to do with what family he was now part of. The seed, he was the bosom child, the seed of Abraham. When you come to Christ, you get placed into Abraham's bosom. Seed, man, or seed, child, whatever you want me to call it. What is the bosom area? When me and my wife make relations, we're having a bosom connection. (33:45) You got it? You understand what the bosom of Abraham is? It's what the relationship is. WHEN YOU COME TO CHRIST, YOU'RE TRANSFERRED INTO Abraham's seed line. See? We're now Abraham's children. Now, if we're Abraham's children, WE'RE GOING TO ACT like Abraham. What did God tell Abraham to do? Here's how I want you to worship me. (34:14) TAKE YOUR BOY and go up to the mountain with your only child and kill him. Why, God? We've never done it this way before. Why? Nobody else has ever WHY DO I HAVE TO look like the weird freak Sabbath keeper on Saturday? Why do I have TO DO IT THIS WAY? MY NEIGHBORS, THEY DON'T BRING THEIR child up the mountain to worship you. (34:46) Anybody with me? But Abraham staggered not at the promise of God. God said, "Take that boy." God told him how to do it. That You know what Abraham did? Isaac, you mad, son? See, I've got to prove to you who your daddy is. You're going to hang out with you a minute. We're going to find out if YOUR DADDY IS STILL a serpent or you serpent seed. (35:11) We're fixing to find out. Or are you the right seed? Are you Abraham's seed? SERPENT SEED OBEYS NOTHING. Abraham's seed obeys EVERYTHING GOD SAYS. LISTEN, Abraham take your boy there. All right. Now, here come these bunch of church leaders to Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach, and they said to him, "We are Abraham's children. (35:49) HOW DARE YOU TELL US we Y'all going to miss this if you DON'T LISTEN. HOW DARE YOU TELL US WE'VE BEEN DOING CHURCH WRONG. WE ARE Abraham's children." Christ said, "If you were Abraham's children, it would be proven by your obedience in the exact same way that Abraham obeyed me." But your works tell on you. When I look around today and I see some people in Wayland, Mississippi, Biloxi, Gulfport, Slidell, Covington that's driven here on this seventh day of God's holy week. (36:33) You left even your plans with your family, AND YOU SAID, "GOD, WE AIN'T NEVER DONE IT THIS WAY BEFORE, BUT I SEE IT IN YOUR WORD, AND I WILL BE THERE." We'll find out who your daddy is. ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN ARE THE CHILDREN OF OBEDIENCE. Good God from heaven. Remember this, did you read verse 29? Read it for me. And if you be Christ, then are you Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise? See, if you're Christ, it'll be showing up in your obedience. (37:11) Now, remember, a flower will always tell you what seed it came from. You can't get no rose out of sunflower seed. Right? If you plant A SUNFLOWER SEED, I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S UNDER GROUND. I can't see what you planted, but in about 3 months I'll be able to see because the flower is going to tell on the seed. Hey? Come on with me, SOMEBODY. (37:40) I DON'T know if you're a tare or wheat. OH, BUT YOUR ACTIONS ARE ABOUT TO TELL on your seed line. Did you come from that snake? Or did you come from Abraham's? Listen. Good God from heaven. Yeshua. Now, this prefigures, what does that mean? In the Old Testament, types and shadows. Joseph is the type and shadow of Yeshua. (38:10) If you want to see Jesus in the Old Testament, look at Joseph. Same ministry, same everything. His brothers hated him, and was killed by his own brother. He shed his blood, and he then up from the resurrection from the president, rose to sit at the right hand. And that's Jesus all the way through it. (38:31) Now, I want you to notice something about Joseph. Let's read Genesis 41 and 49. And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much until he left numbering, for it was without number. Now, listen. If Joseph represents Jesus, here is Joseph gathering corn. Or he's gathering somebody say a harvest. Now, notice this. He gathers a huge harvest. (39:03) So big, he quits numbering. It can't number. It's like the sand of the sea. Oh. Now, you might understand why all of Jesus's churches are so big. He gathered a lot of Don't mean they're going to be weeds. Come on. There's got to be a bunch of tares to get a little bit of weeds. Yes, God. You know, wait a minute. (39:32) Did you get me? Why are the churches Oh, the one you got over there, you know, they got 20,000 in there. And I wonder if the Holy Ghost sent a winnowing wind through there and convicted them of sin. I wonder out of that big harvest, how much wheat would be left. The Bible said the Holy Ghost is going to come and shuffle them. (39:56) Now, notice Joseph gathered a big church. He gathered See, Jesus is doing the same thing. See, they they come They're everywhere. The Roman Catholic Somebody said, "Well, that church got That's a big church in town. God must be blessing them." Well, if that's the case, he blessed the Roman Catholic Church more than all of them. (40:11) They got 1.5 billion. See, when you look at my numbers, you just got out of God's kingdom. I'm going to preach that again. When somebody comes to me and says, "Brother Rance, we want to win everybody." I don't. I don't because I don't want a church full of sand or tares. I'm looking for wheat. I'M TRYING TO FIND SOMEBODY THAT'S GOING TO BE IN THE GOVERNMENT of Yeshua. (40:36) Let's go out and get a whole bunch of people in here. Why? Then I got to feed them. Then I got to pay all the light bills for them. Then you got to sit there and hear how everything's going wrong for them. YOU GOT TO WHY WHY DO YOU GOT TO BEG THEM EVERY WEEK TO COME TO CHURCH? And And you got to beg them to love God. (40:52) You got to You don't have to beg wheat. Wheat shows up rain, wind, or sunshine, storm. They're in love with the Lord. But Joseph GOT HIM A BIG IT WAS SO many he couldn't So he quit counting them. See, that represents Jesus. Jesus is gathering in the harvest. So many can't even count all the Christians in the world. Now we're getting somewhere. (41:15) Read Isaiah 2:22. Everybody stay with me. For now Thy people Israel, he has the sand of the sea. Now did you hear me? Didn't Joseph just gather in such a large harvest he couldn't count them? It was like the sand of the sea. Israel is like the sand of the church. IT'S LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA. But read. Yet a remnant Yet shall return. (41:46) A handful is going to get it right. But he's got to gather in a bunch to get a handful. Glory to God in heaven. Does anybody hear what I'm preaching to you today? Why I say churches full everywhere? Because maybe out of THAT 100, HE MIGHT GET SOMEBODY THAT WILL OBEY HIM. HE'S GOT TO GET A BUNCH OF TARES TO GET A LITTLE OF WEED. (42:15) ONLY A HOW MANY IS GOING to return? Did anybody only somebody What is a remnant? It's what's left over. Listen to me. I'm about to preach on the remnant. Listen to me carefully. He said a remnant is coming back. What does that mean coming back? Shall I say it? Wake it up. Everybody Oh, please listen to me today. (42:40) EVERYBODY IN GOD'S CHURCH AIN'T SUPPOSED TO WAKE UP. Only a remnant. Quit worrying about them that ain't waking up and just wake yourself up. Quit worrying about those that ain't in God's church that won't wake up and you wake up. He said He said I'm going to gather them together like the sand of Israel. They're going to be so many churches full of worshipers, people shouting and dancing. (43:09) I'm going to fill the churches up from the north of the They're going to be everywhere, but I'm telling you, when I'm done gathering them, only a little portion is going to ONLY A REMNANT will return. Return to what? His commandment. Return to where they left from. His Sabbath. Return to faithfulness. RETURN TO OBEDIENCE CUZ FOR TWO DAYS THEY'VE BEEN TAUGHT THEY DON'T HAVE TO OBEY BECAUSE CHRIST OBEYED. (43:42) JUST BELIEVE ON HIM AND FORGET OBEDIENCE. They'll tell you if a preacher preaches TO YOU LIKE I'M PREACHING, THAT MAN'S UNDER THE LAW. THEY'LL TELL YOU TO RUN FROM ME. They'll tell you get OUT OF MY CHURCH. I'M PREACHING LEGALISM. I DON'T KNOW when they changed the word obedience to legalism. I I lost the memory. When did obedience become legalism? I don't understand when that change happened. (44:13) I'm preaching obedience, not legalism. I'm preaching yes, Lord. I'm preaching yes, Lord. Hallelujah. Next verse. The past two days or 2,000 years there has been a worldwide gathering, Billy Graham crusade. Dwight Moody's crusade. Do you see any of those kind of crusades anymore? What about when David Terrell could fill up tents? You can't fill a tent up no more. (44:42) Is anybody hearing me? How many of you remember when old Robert could fill up a stadium? THERE THERE WAS A DAY OF A LARGE IN-GATHERING. WHY? Cuz he had to get all of them in to try to get a remnant to return. I wish somebody heard what I was speaking. He's got to get THE BIG ASSEMBLY OF GOD THAT has strength to get AT LEAST A THOUSAND IN IT, SO HE'D FIND A HUNDRED. (45:14) SEE? When you start looking for numbers, you'll need the mind of God. Somebody said, "Brother Branham, reach the world." I know that's not my call. I'm going to reach a small But by the time each little remnant group connects together like we just did with them, it's going to be a lot of us. Amen? Now, why? How many of you remember when God told Gideon, he said, "Boy, you got too many in your church. (45:47) " HE HAD A 3,000-MEMBER CHURCH. GOD SAID, "That's too many people." See, y'all think like the world. The world thinks numbers, God thinks quality, not quantity. GOD SAID TO GIDEON, "YOUR CHURCH IS TOO BIG." He said, "Well, Lord, how do I know who stays and who goes?" We're going to give them the obedience test. Tell them to meet me at the water. (46:16) Tell them to meet me down by the river and we're going to GIVE THEM A WATER TEST. WE'RE GOING TO GIVE THEM AN obedience test. And here the whole church came to worship. God said, "Tell them to do it a certain way." And here COME THEM BUNCH OF PEOPLE READY FOR MY FAVOR. Here come them people READY FOR MY MIRACLE. (46:45) IT'S ALL ABOUT ME and my. I'M SICK OF HEARING IT. MY SEASON OF FAVOR. HONEY, WHEN THAT SEASON'S OVER, YOUR HELL'S STARTING ALL BACK OVER AGAIN. Y'all looking for the easy way out. Get in the battle. Put your war clothes on. Fight until you die. I'd rather die fighting for truth than to live in error. Get him Get him down to the water and I'm going to watch him. (47:15) I'm going to see how they worship. I'm going to see how they do what they say they're doing for a good cause. Brother Branham, all them people love the Lord. The Bible said if a man says he loves me and doesn't keep my commandments, that man is a Y'all know? Liar. You can't love God and disobey him at the same time. (47:41) OH, SO THEY GOT DOWN there and they started lapping water. They was doing it selfishly. They got their face down there like a dog, like an animal, ready for their miracle. They was at that meeting to get their blessing. They was there to get their water, but they was a certain group of people they did it the way God said to do it. 300 out of 3,000. (48:04) And that day God sent home 2,700 pieces of tares and kept 300 sticks of wheat. Yeah. Yeah. Amen. Amen. Bless you, God. Amen. I want to tell you something. When you go fishing with a net, you throw the net in the water which is the world. You going to get a bunch of stuff in the net. You might get some frogs, some octopus, some spiders, some whatever. (48:38) Maybe a fish or two in there. The church is the net that's full of all kind of junk. But it's got to have all that other junk to get them to fish. God help us today to quit trying to build a church. Preach. I'M NOT ADVERTISING WHEN I BUILD more to build a church. I'm advertising to convict the world. Go to the next screen. (49:07) Go back. Go back. We're in the time of separating rather than the large in-gathering. A remnant is returning to the God of the Bible, the Hebrew Bible, the original Bible. Next screen. What is the difference for the bond between the wheat and the tares? You ready? Here's the difference. Tares do not produce. They have no grain, no fruit, no works because their seed is bad. (49:43) Their foundation, their origins are based in emotions and traditions. Please listen now. Tares Oh God, I can't say that word. Can I tell you something? Please listen. Catholics produce Catholic. Baptist produce Baptist. Pentecostals produce Pentecostal. They all preach alike, sing alike, shout alike. They're carbon copies. (50:20) Because their seed is Baptist. Their seed is Pentecostal. Their seed is whatever Catholic, whatever. Their seed is wrong. I'll prove it to you. Cuz when you show them that they're wrong in the word, they won't tell you take the word and use it for whatever you want to use it for. They've always done it that way. (50:49) The word that you hear in this house. If this is not the seed, they're going to be tares. Please hear me. WHAT MAKES TARES HAVE THEIR SEED? IT'S WRONG. Their foundation is wrong. What they came out of is wrong. So now, they must be corrected. All right? So what makes a seed good or bad? Y'all ready? Read Deuteronomy 30:15. (51:21) What determines if you've got a bad seed or a good seed? See, I have set before thee this day life and good Hold on a second. Tares have no life in the seed. It's dead seed. You're fixing to find out. God has two things in his church, dead seed and living seed. Read. good and death, and evil. In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply, and the Lord Lord. (52:06) See, you heard it. You got multiply. What does seed do? It multiplies. What does weed do? It creates more. It multiplies. But, if you hear what the seed has to be for you to multiply, the seed of life he said this day I'm going to give you two choices, life or death. My commandments. If your seed is based in grace rather than obedience, you're going to be tares or the weeds. (52:40) Why? Because the seed contains all the instruction. When your father planted a seed in your mother, the DNA was a set of instructions. It said what color your eyes would be. It said what color your skin would be. It was a set of The seed is the instruction. THE SEED HAS instructions for a rose how to grow those petals out. (53:11) Huh. I'm about to tell you if you're going to be tares or weed. Whatever instruction is in the foundation. Listen, if the seed will determine if you're tares or weed. What are instructions, laws, statutes, judgments? The law of sin or the law of God. If you're living your life coming from the law of sin, you can shout, you can sing, you can preach, you can do anything you want to do. (53:44) Yeah. You can deceive yourself. You can preach while you're in boxing other men's wives. You can preach with and I'm what I'm about to say going to blow your mind. You can preach under the anointing of the Holy Ghost. And have a false anointing. You listen to me well. If the seed is coming from a wrong foundation, the tare and the wheat are determined by the seed. (54:19) What seed? The Torah, the word of God. That's the only seed that produces wheat or life, that's wheat. You want to see the seed of life? Look at it. Read Proverbs 4:2. For I give you good doctrine. Forsake not my law. That word doctrine is instruction. I give you God's instruction. So, how do we know the seed? The seed is the instruction. (54:54) He said, "These are my instructions. This is my seed. If you want life, it's going to ONLY COME FROM MY INSTRUCTION." And then he follows it up with my law. Let's read Mark 4:13. And he said unto them, "Know ye not this parable, and how then will you know all parables?" See, he's about to give you a parable. You ready? He's fixing to tell you what the seed is. (55:28) Remember, the wheat and the tares are determined by the foundation. Luke 8:11. Now, the parable is this. Here's the parable. The seed is the word of God. Didn't I just tell you? There's the seed. Come on. Wheat. You better hear this from preacher. Wheat is coming from that seed. Good instruction. If you are not obeying those instructions, your seed is bad. (56:14) I give you good instructions. The law of God. That was the instruction, the Torah, the law of God. The word of God is the only seed that will produce the right fruit. Read the next verse, Proverbs. Proverbs 3:1 and then verse 18. My son, forget not my law. My son, forget not my law, my instruction. But let thine heart keep my commandments. (56:49) But let your heart keep my commandments. Verse 18. She is a tree of life. And because if you do that, you'll be a tree, not a tare, but a living tree, a tree of life, a tree that produces wheat. But just because you're speaking in tongues, but rejecting my law, you may look like church. Listen to me. You can dress up your hair like church. (57:21) You put your church clothes on. But honey, if you're not living by the law of God, next verse. This is what a tree of life is. A tree of life comes from the seed of life. If you want life, you must come from life. Listen, please listen. Tares can produce the look of life. I need you to hear me. JUST BECAUSE THE CHOIR SINGS good and THE HOLY GHOST FALLS. (58:01) DON'T MEAN THERE'S ONE PERSON UP THERE GOING IN THE KINGDOM of God. Just because they can heal the sick. Don't mean they know the doctrine. If they tell you that the law of God is done away with, they're tares. Tares, they produce the look of life. But they can't produce the results of life. I got them in the middle. (58:33) THEY DRESS IT UP. THEY GOT MUSICIANS ON THE PLATFORM. THEY'LL MAKE YOU THINK THE HOLY GHOST IS MOVING. Cuz they perfected that performance. They know if it don't work, just start singing I give myself away. They know how to GET YOU TO HAVE CHURCH. They know how to GET YOU IN THE SHOW. THEY KNOW HOW TO DO IT. AMEN, PASTOR. THANK God for truth. (59:13) THEY KNOW HOW TO DO IT. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. WHEN you got the real seed, it don't take an organ to get that out of you. It don't take a beautiful lady, honey. It takes more strength. You hear me? IT JUST TAKES THE WORD. AMEN. That's why I worry about some of you when I preach to you and you look like zombies. (1:00:08) You're waiting on somebody to crank YOU UP A SHOW. GET OUT OF BABYLON. SAY, "PREACH TO ME. Teach me the word of God. Teach me the LAW OF GOD." THERE'S AN AWAKENING. I tell you there's an awakening. I tell you there's an awakening. There's some folks coming out of THAT CHURCH COMING. OH GOD. OH GOD. David David came back from battle and begin to dance before the Lord. (1:00:50) His wife was upstairs looking at him. What's her name? Michal, something like that. She was up there laughing at that little dancing church. Remember, you listen to me carefully. It's your family that always laughs first. It was his wife. You hear me? I thank you. David came in obeying God dancing and there came his old church looking down ON HIM FROM THE UPPER ROOM, FROM THAT ROOM. (1:01:25) LOOK AT HIM laughing at his determination to please God AND SAID TO HIM, "WE DON'T DO IT THAT WAY." YES, GOD. That's right. Come on. Y'all Y'all don't know what's happening here. Yes, God. I tell you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Somebody say hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Lord, touch this young man right here. Let the spirit of God would heal you and touch you. (1:02:12) I come in the name of Yeshua, the Lord Jesus Christ, and I take authority over your body. I take authority over your mind, and I speak the healing touch of God upon your mind and upon your body. I release the word of faith unto you even now. Saints of God, Yes. when you get into the seed line, when you get out of serpent's seed and you come into Abraham's seed, Yes. (1:02:44) Glory Shaddai. Lord, I feel the great Shekinah of the Lord God Almighty. Hallelujah. Dress it up, preach it up, shout it up, but at the end of the day, you're still disobedient to God. Brother Elijah, wheat and tares look just alike until Jesus comes. Amen. How many know the kingdom is coming? Amen. Oh, yeah. (1:03:33) And at that day he will have to have had millions to have enough to qualify for the government. Do y'all understand me? He's got to get a big church to get the real church. Amen. Huh. That Hallelujah. God made the whole world so high. And if he can't get a lot, he'll never get a little. See? Once all the tares have grown up and once they all sing and I need thee, oh, I need thee, and the whole time they don't need him, while they're doing that, when they get a whole church full of them, then he can start searching through that church. (1:04:17) I could just slap the devil right now. Very true. Once he gets a church full, then he starts looking for a church. He's got to GET A CHURCH FULL TO LOOK FOR A CHURCH. Somebody say the wheel in the middle of the wheel. The wheel in the middle, HE'S GOT TO GET THAT MIDDLE WHEEL. BUT FIRST HE'S GOT TO GET THE BIG WHEEL. (1:04:40) AMEN. He's got to fill the church up to find the church. God from heaven. Yay. Yay. So what is Wait. Wait. When is he going to separate it? After Listen to me. After he resurrects them all, See? But listen to me. He says, "Come out." I'm going to judge every word to the church. And when you open up your mind, then up your mind and I'm going to look inside your memories. (1:05:17) Your mind is recording your memories. Your whole life showing is like you. I'm going to look back and see. Where was you at in yourself? Where was you at at my command again? Let's look and see. Let's look and see. Let's look in your mind and let your mind tell you. And in that day he will separate the sheep. See, there's something about sheep and goat, they look just alike. (1:05:49) They're white. They have the same build. Sheep and goat just alike, but goats know how to butt, sheep don't know how to butt. Goats will always say, "But." every time God says something. God says, "Keep the seventh day." but we've never done it that way. God says, "Keep the holy days." but that don't make God say God says, "Your people called by my name. (1:06:24) " and he tries to REVEAL WHAT HIS NAME is and they say, "But we're English." There'll come a time when you get all the butt out of you. Amen. So, let's see when he's going to separate them, the nanny goat. I'm coming home, Lord. Let's read Matthew 13:39. I want to show you the difference in tares and wheat. Do you see these two bunches of wheat? Do you see how they're weighted over? What are they weighted over for? The full of fruit. (1:07:07) They're full They're full of stuff to make bread with. But the tares, they never die. Cuz there's nothing in their seed. There's no life there. They stay sterile. Read Matthew 13:39. The enemy that sowed them is the devil. Yeah, the enemy that sows these tares is the devil. The harvest is the end of the world. (1:07:39) The harvest will come at the end of the age. And the reapers are the angels. The angels will gather us all together from our graves. And read now verse 39. Was that 39? Read 38 for me. Listen carefully, everybody. I'm going to show you the seed. The field is the world. The field is the world. The good seed are the children of the kingdom. (1:08:10) The good seed are the children of Yeshua, of the kingdom. Read. But the tares are the children of the wicked one. And you get mad when I identify who these false church people are. Did you not just hear Jesus? He said, "Let me tell you who these two groups of people are in my church." Some of them's my children. And some of them's show bread. (1:08:45) And I'm calling men of God, he said, "to identify them." Go back to verse 37. It's getting deeper and deeper. You don't have to haven't I want you to hear this. I'm the husband. I'm not the only child. He answered and said unto them, Listen. He that soweth the good seed is the son of man. (1:09:24) He that soweth good seed in this church is Yeshua. The word of God. He is the word, right? The good seed COMES FROM THE LAW OF GOD. When Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth." Do you know what truth goes back to? Torah. He said, "I am the law of God." He said, "The good children comes from me, the law." But what is the Hey. Hey, do y'all not understand that Jesus just told you in his one church the true children? He just told you that. (1:10:05) He said, "I'm planting a few of them and Lucifer's planting the rest of them and they all look alike. You can't tell no difference. They speak in tongues alike. They cast out devils alike. They all go They worship, shout, dance alike. They pay tithes alike, but some of them ain't mine." Y'all know why I didn't like this book? I'm reading it. (1:10:32) Read on, woman of God. Ye shall know them by their fruits. You shall know them by their speaking in tongues. Brother You can't tell me, "Sister Sister Masalulu's wrong. She's been in this way 50 years. Speaks in TONGUES EVERY SATURDAY." JESUS SAID, "That's not how you'll know the weed." You'll know them by what comes out of them. (1:11:08) Their works. Their actions. Their weight. Did you hear me? Their weight. Their weight. Now, go read Matthew 7:16. I'm not Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? See, everything is about Now, take that word fruit out of your mind. What is fruit? It's the result of the seed. (1:11:44) Now, if I just read to you that the seed is the law of God. Did I not Did I just read to y'all that the seed was the law of God? Yes. Yes, sir. Yes. Then it ought to be producing law keepers. Did anybody get it? Yes, sir. If the seed is the law. Huh. Come on. Yes, God. If the seed is the commandments. Yes. The right seed. (1:12:21) The right I just read to you where that was the seed. Yes. The instruction. If that's the seed, then the natural fruit is law. If the seed is right, the result is right. I want to tell you how to identify, and I hope the whole world listen. I'm going to tell you now how to identify the seed of the sower. The tare. They will talk like their daddy talked. (1:12:57) The first thing he ever told Eve was God didn't mean it the way he said it. I know God told you not to eat that unclean food, Eve. First Commandment was about what to eat, what not to eat. What did Satan say? God didn't mean it quite that way. You want to find out terrors? The first thing they'll tell you, I know the Bible says that, but we don't believe it that way. (1:13:35) How many's ever had somebody TELL YOU, I KNOW SATURDAY IS THE SABBATH. The only thing The only choice they've got now is to give you an excuse of why they don't. I'm giving that up, preach. What is the seed coming out of your mouth? You're fixing to tell on yourself. When you say you're going to keep Christmas, but not Passover. (1:14:09) What did God's word say? Forever you shall keep these holy days. He never one time said celebrate Christmas. So, when he said keep the holy days, BUT YOU COME BACK AND SAY, WHY? YEAH, IT SAYS THAT, BUT THAT AIN'T HOW WE DO IT. YOU JUST IDENTIFIED YOUR HELLISH SEED LINE. You got to FALL IN LOVE WITH THE WORD OF GOD. WHATEVER IT SAYS, YOU DO IT. (1:14:43) YEAH, I'M MAD. YEAH, I'M A MAD PREACHER, BECAUSE I WAS DRUNK. I AIN'T DRUNK NO MORE. I'M SOBER AND I'M MAD ABOUT IT. YOU KNOW, I USED TO TEACH MY kids that weed laid eggs. I used to teach them the first day was THE SEVENTH DAY. I USED TO TEACH THEM ALL THAT. I WAS DRUNK. BY THE BLOOD OF BABYLON. But then I woke up at the end of the second day. (1:15:16) Started waking up and I'm mad. He wasn't staying with me. I'm mad. Why? Because God's PEOPLE TODAY, WHERE ARE THEY? OH, THEY HAD A birthday party today. I'm sorry. How dare you think you have to Sister Ruth Y'all just forgive me. You can never have to come back. I'll be here anyway. I'm telling you the truth. (1:15:42) If you don't like me, I'm sorry. But I got a mandate from the man. I've got a passion from the place called the mind of God and I'm ready to do this job. Listen. God is calling some people out of the field into the wheat harvest. I want to be in that wheat. Amen. Last point, let's go. When wheat produces fruit it always bows down. (1:16:26) Tares stand up and say why they won't give in. Please listen. Oh, I'm Please listen now. What happens when the real wheat is full of fruit? It gets too heavy and it starts Tares and wheat just like the wheat. I didn't bow. It won't say yes to you. It don't weigh down. It won't bow. It don't yield. (1:16:57) Let me tell you, tares you want to know what they Listen, I I'm a preacher tomorrow. I ain't done. Listen to me. I'm going to do it just to make you mad. Listen to me and listen well. Please listen. I can if if somebody can point you something in this world and you don't bow down to it, you just sold out yourself. You just identified yourself. (1:17:21) When a man of God is preaching and you say, "Well, that's not how I'm going to DO IT." BOW DOWN. BROTHER AND Sister Rush, this is their first year not to keep Christmas. And I saw in her eyes as she talked about all her grandchildren that looked so forward to Grandma during Christmas. I saw as she separated herself from her own family and bowed down. (1:17:56) I hope and I'm able to give to you how to tell the wheat from the up right tares. Tares will bend. Tares will bow. While they're praising God, they'll do it. Up right. Wheat just start to yield and bow. The weight of the message start to bow. The weight of what it's costing them start to bow. Will not separate you. (1:18:29) Read Matthew 20:20. Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees. Woe unto you, preachers. Not scribes and that That was the preachers from the Episcopal Council. They were members of the grand COUNCIL OF THE CHURCH. Jesus had a message for them then, and he's got a MESSAGE FOR THEM NOW. Bow down. Read what he said. Hypocrites, for you pay tithe and have omitted You hypocrites. (1:19:07) You hypocrites. You go to church. You pay tithes. And y'all People tell me, "Preach more like Jesus." All right. Uh-oh. Are you ready for it? Cuz you got a You got a perverted version of Jesus. Honey, he was the hardest preacher ever come on the face of the earth. Listen what he told the preacher. He said, "Y'all pay your tithes and you go to church." Listen what he said. (1:19:41) And are nice and human and have omitted the weight matters of the law. You've done all that, but you've omitted the law. You've omitted what really matters, the weight of it. See, brother Flush, when you get into this message, it'll start weighing you down. You'll go in there You'll go in there What's that? You'll start feeling the weight of this message, son. (1:20:17) When you see them glaze pork chops. Fried catfish. You'll start feeling this message. Or how about when family calls and says, "Saturday, why don't we all get together and let's have a birthday party and you got to tell them I got church on Saturday and they're like Saturday? Say it again. It's happening right now. (1:20:43) I'm in church. Right now. Right now. It'll weigh you down. It'll bow you down. It'll bow you down. The tares will hear nothing of the law of God because their seed is wrong. Matthew 13:38. Who both is real tall timber? I like them. Yeah, brother, that's good. See, they both been taught they they were real tall. Yeah, but I can preach all the way till tomorrow. (1:21:17) Next week y'all might want to buy a little dinner. Go ahead. The field is the world. Yes. The good seed are the children of the kingdom. But the tares are the children of the wicked. Next screen. These sons of Satan, these religious tares wanted to Oh, and you got to read it. I'm sorry. You got to read this. Listen to this. (1:21:43) Y'all ready? Matthew 3:7-8. Listen. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees. When he saw many of those Christian Holy Ghost filled people coming down there, what did he do? come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you of to flee from the wrath to come? Yeah. Bring forth therefore, fruits meet for repentance. (1:22:11) Now, listen what John said. Here they come. Y'all I'm done. Here they Listen. Here they come down to the water. They want to be baptized. They come to get saved. John told them He He "How dare you think you can run down here to the water without getting your water struck?" He shall not bring forth fruit weight with the weight of the When you come to God, you will not come on your own standing up straight. (1:22:50) You will come down heads bowed and crawling. Friends, I've given you all I've got. Can we give the Lord a wonderful clap? Thank you, friends.