BROTHERLY KINDNESS
STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN
V-2 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1014M,
15-3 Now, there's some people we notice here; He
said, "First we have faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance,
patience, goodness, or godliness, and brotherly love." All
right; brotherly kindness and then add love. Let me read this all
over again so you'll be sure to get it now. Now, we're going to
start at the 5th verse.
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. (Which is love). If these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, Peter's outlining something here for us, that how to get there.
STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN
V-2 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1014M, 9-5
Now, that's--now that's the type of person that He's talking to,
the person that has escaped these things (See?), the corruption of
the world.
And beside this, giving all diligence, add unto your faith virtue; and to the virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance... to temperance patience... to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN
V-2 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1014M,
45-3 All right. Coming in to perfection now...
All right. Then sixthly, let's add, the Bible said here, adding
brotherly love--brotherly kindness. Now, that's a good one. Right
here, the sixth one--seventh. All right, adding brotherly
kindness. All right. When we get to that, brotherly kindness, put
yourself in his place on the matter. Now, you say, "My
brother sinned against me," said Peter, "Shall I forgive
him?" He said, "Seven times a day?"
He said, "Seventy times seven." See, brotherly kindness. Now, you see, if a brother's all out of tune, don't be impatient with him. See? No. See? Be kind to him. Go anyhow.
STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN
V-2 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1014M,
45-5 Somebody said not long ago, said, "How
can you believe these things the way you do and still go to the
Assemblies of God, and the Oneness, all the rest of them? Well,
see, brotherly kindness (See?), hoping someday. See? Patience with
him (See?), temperance, enduring with him, knowledge to understand
what he believes. And remember, it's in his heart. That's what it
is; virtue in yourself to let it go out with kindness, meekness to
him; having faith that someday God will bring him in. See?
Brotherly kindness, the seventh thing. One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven. See? Seven things.
Then... Now, you're coming. Next thing then add charity, which is love. That's the capping stone. One of these days in the church...
STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN
V-2 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1014M,
47-1 Now, in building the virtue, building this
monument, building this statue (See?), it starts off and the
foundation that's on faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance,
patience, godliness, brotherly kindness. Now, what's it do? Then
they're waiting for the Headstone which is love; for God is love,
and He controls, and He is the Strength of every one of these
things. Yes, sir. Right in here. Right in here. See, I got in
between all these works in here, and here there's little waves
coming. What is that? The Holy Ghost coming down through Christ
(See?), Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is above all this, welding
this together, building a what? A perfect church for the capstone
to cap it off. What's it been done again? It's manifested through
seven church ages and seven church messengers.
STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN
V-2 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1014M,
47-2 It started back here. Where was the church
first founded? Where was the Pentecostal church first founded? By
St. Paul at Ephesus, the star of the Ephesian church age, Ephesus.
The second church age was Smyrna, virtue: Irenaeus, the great man
who held up the Gospel of Paul. Next church age was Pergamos, who
was the... Martin was the great man who stayed. Paul, Irenaeus,
Martin, then in Thyatira come Columba. Remember, here it is drawed
out right there. Columba, after Columba, the dark ages come in
there, then come Sardis, which means death: Luther. Hallelujah.
What then? What come next? After Sardis, Luther. Then comes
Philadelphia: godliness: Wesley, holiness. "Just shall live
by faith," said Luther, sanctification through Wesley, then
come in brotherly kindness through the Laodicea. And we believe
the great message of the second appearing of Elijah in the last
days shall sweep the land.
STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN
V-2 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1014M,
48-1 See, these fellows wasn't required, what
these fellows was. This wasn't required what this was. See, but He
brought His church up the same way. He brought His--His church up
the same way he's bringing His people up. Then Peter here says
first (seven things) faith, virtue (See, coming up), knowledge,
temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly love, and brotherly
kindness and then the love of God, the Holy Ghost. Christ in the
Person of the Holy Ghost comes upon you in the true baptism of the
Holy Ghost, and you got all these virtues sealed in you, then God
lives in a tabernacle called the building, the living Tabernacle
of the living God's dwelling place.
STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN
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50-2 If you die, you take the blood out of a
man. You embalm him. Trouble of it is, a lot of them never got
embalmed. See? You take the blood out of a man, he's gone. Then
the only thing you can do is put another blood back in him if he's
going to live again; you took his blood out. And now we put the
Blood of Jesus Christ in. See? And that brings the faith of Jesus
Christ, the virtue of Jesus Christ, the knowledge of Jesus Christ,
the temperance of Jesus Christ, the patience of Jesus Christ, the
godliness of Jesus Christ, the brotherly kindness of Jesus Christ,
and the love of God which is Jesus Christ. He's the Head that
controls you. And your feet is the foundation, faith. Amen.
Controlled by the Head, takes the people...?... There you are.
There is the perfect man of God when he possesses these virtues.
STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN
V-2 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1014M,
51-3 Did you ever hear this? Now, let me tell
you this, and keep real--put this on your listening ear. See? A
chain is the strongest at its weakest link. That's right? It's no
stronger than its weakest link. No matter how strong these are
built up, this is built up, if its got a weak link, there's where
she breaks. And it's no stronger than that weakest link.
Now, if you possess... You say you got this, this, this; you don't have this, there's where she breaks. If you've got this, and haven't got that, she'll break right there. You got this and haven't got that, it'll break. This and haven't got this, it'll break. This and haven't got this, it'll break. See? And you ain't--can't have this without having this. So when you're surrendering your complete being, then the Holy Spirit just pours through you in these virtues. Then you're a living tabernacle. Then people look out and say, "That's a man full of virtue, knowledge, believes the Word, temperance, patient, godliness, got brotherly kindness, full of the love of the Holy Ghost, walking around." What is it? A statue that unbelievers can look at and say, "There is a Christian. There is a man or woman who knows what they're taking about. You've never seen a kinder, sweeter, godlier person."
STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN
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59-1 Lust for money, lust for big things, lust
for popularity, these things are dead to the believer. We don't
care; a tent or a cottage, why should I care? Live or die, sink or
drown, this is the thing that I'm interested in: the Kingdom of
God. Whether I maintain my home, whether I maintain my family,
whether I maintain whatever it is, let me maintain Christ, the
hope of glory.
Build me up, oh, Lord into this. Let Christ be my Head. Let working through me on my foundation of my faith that's in Him, let virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, and brotherly kindness work in me, oh, Lord, is my prayer. I don't care, live or die, sink or drown, denomination, no denomination; friend or no friend, let that work in me. Let Christ's virtue, His knowledge, His... flow out that I might be able to teach those; for God has set in the church apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, and evangelists, all for the perfecting and bringing all these virtues into it, to that perfection of the coming of the Son of God.
BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_ JEFF.IN
V-3 N-21 SUNDAY_ 62-1104M
11-1 First: foundationally, is faith. Second: add to your faith, virtue; to your virtue, knowledge; from knowledge, temperance; from temperance, patience; to patience, godliness; and from godliness, brotherly love, brotherly kindness; and then love being the capstone: seven of those things. Seven church ages (See?), and seven stars of the church ages, and all of it is tempered together by the Holy Spirit. Now, that's what it takes to become a servant of Christ. Christ builds His Church in seven church ages, His Bride, a Person, Woman, Church. Seven church ages constitute and make the Bride: some out of this age, and some out of that age, and some out of that age, and all together, and shaping it like a pyramid.
BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_ JEFF.IN
V-3 N-21 SUNDAY_ 62-1104M
15-4 Now, Peter said first, faith. Now, watch it real close now. We're going to teach this for a few minutes. Faith, now, is your first. And add to your faith, virtue; to your virtue, knowledge; to your knowledge, temperance; to your temperance, patience; to your patience, godliness; to your godliness, brotherly love, brotherly kindness, and then love. And anyone knows that love is God. God is love. See? Now, that's--then from this, and then bringing this into the seven church ages, God is building in seven church ages a Bride for Christ. Through the Philadelphian, Thyatirean, and Pergamos, and Smyrnaean, Ephesus, a church age that Jesus said, "If the--if the Bridegroom come in the first watch or the seventh watch, all these virgins awakened." They were--they awoke, the virgins of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. And did you notice that? It was the seventh age that when He came and woke up those sleeping virgins. That brings them all the way back down to here (See?), for in this, through the years, ages, He has built a Bride, borned a Bride, begotten a Bride on earth for Christ. And the same way that He begets this Bride, He has begot individuals.
BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_ JEFF.IN
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19-3 Now, but in this church age the Message is being poured into the church. But the church body itself, in altogether... Like the--this tabernacle, we'll say; that's where she comes to church. This tabernacle is not a Holy Ghost tabernacle. There's no such a thing. Individuals that come into this church is Holy Ghost tabernacles. They are tabernacles that contain the Holy Ghost, but not the church in the body of group. Therefore, It runs out. But what, this man who was pouring the water, the messenger to the church, pouring the Message into the church... But what was the water doing? It was boiling out all the trash that was in it. That's what the Holy Spirit does: boils it up. Now, now, the honey represented brotherly love, brotherly kindness, which is this age. I just got through telling you (See?) of brotherly kindness, the age that we live in now.
BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_ JEFF.IN
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19-6 Now, you might say, "Look, I--I--I sure don't like Brother Neville," or, "I sure don't like Brother Jones; I don't like Brother So-and-so," and something like that. But just let something happen to him; brother, your heart's broke. It just nearly kills you. See? We can obtain brotherly kindness and feeling for one another. See? But to maintain in a group of people... Why do you care for that brother? Because you broke bread with him here at the altar, as you will tonight; you fellowship with him; you shook his hands; you worship with him. He's your brother. And he might do something in the flesh that you would disagree with, cause you just kind of stay (which you oughtn't to do but)--shun him a little. But in the bottom of your heart, if something happened to that brother, it would just nearly kill you, or that sister. I'm--I'm an old man. I was once young and now I'm old. I've seen it down through the age do that. Hear people say, "Well, I just won't have no more to do with him." And something happen to that man, it nearly kills him; he thinks, "Oh, God, I let my precious brother go without making friends with him (You see?) again." See? See, it's brotherly love. It looks like it won't stick, but it does stick. The honey, it sticks.
BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_ JEFF.IN
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25-4 Moses represented the law. The prophets represented His justice. We could not live by His law. We could not live by His justice. I don't ask justice; I want mercy, not justice. I can't keep His law, and I can't meet His justice; but I need His mercy. And God said the law and justice has been met in Him. "He's My beloved Son. Hear ye Him. That's Him; that's the One." Now, in the Old Testament when that son was adopted or placed into the family, his name was just as good on the check as his daddy's was. Yes, sir. They didn't have a... They had a ring in them days, a--a sign, signet; and they'd spit on it [Brother Branham makes a spitting sound and hits the pulpit with his fist--Ed.], place it. That was a signet. That was just a... He wore his daddy's ring, his--his signet; and that was just as good as his daddy's. Now, when Jesus had been obedient, Jesus to God, God placed Him positionally: "This is Him." Now, when the member is born by the Holy Ghost into the family of God and has proven to have these virtues in him, that God can see virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, brotherly kindness, and godliness in him, then God seals him or places him. And there, that's when you see the sons and daughters of God.
WHY.AGAINST.ORGANIZED.RELIGION_
JEFF.IN V-12 N-1 SUNDAY_ 62-1111E,
254 And that's the way God does the Church. He
beats every creed, every denomination, every manmade dogma, until
He sees His Own Life reflecting in you. "If I do not the
works of My Father, believe Me not." See? If what is purposed
to the Church, the Life that was in Christ isn't reflecting in
you, don't you stand still if you haven't got patience, virtue,
all these things, and temperance, and--and things, and godliness,
and brotherly kindness, and all these things that's required of
you. No matter what you've done, no matter how much you've
shouted, how many churches you've joined, how many feathers you've
pinned into yourself, don't do it. Wait till genuinely from your
heart you can forgive, till in your heart you have brotherly
kindness. No matter if they pull a handful of beard from one side,
you could turn the other cheek with sweetness (See?), until those
virtues, no matter what they say to you...
ALL.THINGS_ SHREVEPORT.LA
SATURDAY_ 62-1124E,
E-37 If you'd come seeking the Holy Spirit, and
let Him, the faith that you've got in Him add to that virtue, and
to that brotherly kindness (II Peter 1:7), until you're built in
the full stature of Christ, then the last thing is love, which
God, the Holy Spirit, seals you to your destination.
You can't impersonate. You can impersonate it, but as I said last night, it's just like a--a blackbird putting peacock feathers in his wings and saying, "See, I'm a peacock." He just added them, pushed them in. If there's something on the inside of him, made him push them out, he'd actually be a peacock. Certainly. But some people are trying to do something to look like somebody else, or impersonate somebody else, because they thought they did it. And you see what it does? It brings us back into a ritual and form again. It's the Blood, the Life that electrifies and sanctifies your life. That's right.
II PETER 1:7
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. |