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SELFISHNESS OUR.HOPE.IS.IN.GOD_ NEW.YORK.NY SATURDAY_ 51-0929 E-17 Satan took Jesus up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the
world, said, "These are mine, I can do with them whatever I want
to." Jesus knew that, but He knew He'd fall heir to them. Said,
"If You'll bow down and worship me, I'll give them to You." Jesus said, "It's written, 'Thou shall worship the Lord Thy
God, and Him only shalt thou serve.'" Over in Revelations it's written, "Rejoice you heavens, and ye
holy prophets, for the kingdoms of this world has become the kingdoms of
our Lord, and His Christ; and He will rule and reign forever."
There'll be no more war then. Leaders, selfishness everywhere. But
in the midst of all of this, the Church of God is being pulled out by
the Holy Spirit. LIFE.STORY_ HAMMOND.IN. SUNDAY_ 52-0720A E-4 Just late, Doctor Dewitt, when he was dying, he was standing
before his congregation; he was trying to represent Jesus Christ,
"Isn't He the greatest of all, He was God, He was Emmanuel,"
and how His power should be in the Church and would make them quit
their selfishness. He was a pastor of a great church. And his
congregation even was against him. They were waiting here for conference
so they could vote him out, and so forth, and send him away. But his heart was a bleeding. And so then while he was preaching
his heart out one day, he had a heart attack, fell forward. There
happened to a physician in the church, come to him and said,
"Doctor Dewitt, you just have a few minutes longer to live. You
can't make it." He called for two faithful deacons who held up his hands. And he
got his hands up and stood him to his feet, and said, "Let me stand
on my feet, as long as there is breath in my body." LIFE.STORY_ HAMMOND.IN. SUNDAY_ 52-0720A E-5 Behind him was the cross that represented the cross--the cross
of Christ, back there, by his baptistery. And he stood up like that; he
said, "If I have one word I want to say, is this: All hail the
power of Jesus' Name, let angels prostrate fall. Bring forth the royal
diadem, and crown Him Lord of all." He started staggering backwards
like that, when he went backwards, he throwed one arm around one side of
the cross, and one, the other, and throwed his head down, and went to
meet the Lord. Hallelujah. That's the way to go. INNER.MAN_ CHICAGO.IL SATURDAY_ 53-1212 E-58 He's provided a way like the brass serpent. He provided Jesus
to meet all that we have need for while we're in this journey between
heaven and earth. That's... He provided Jesus Christ and He's God's
all-sufficient sacrifice. Everything you have need of tonight is not in
your church; it's in Christ. There it is. It's not in your education;
it's not in your theology, what your creed is, what your... It's in
Jesus Christ. Look to Him with simple, humble loving faith, and say, "God,
cleanse me from all selfishness and take all impurities from me, and let
me from this day be wholly Thine." See what God will do for
you. May He bless you is my prayer while we bow our heads. EXPECTATIONS.AND.WHAT.LOVE.IS_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 54-0228A E-34 May the Lord bless the reading of His Word. Shall we bow our
heads while we talk to the Author of this Word. Now, kind heavenly Father, we come to Thee with all the humility
of--of human life, to present ourselves to Thee as believing children of
God. And we ask that You forgive us of every sin, cleanse us from
all unrighteousness and selfishness. And may the Holy Spirit
come this afternoon and rest His blessings upon each and every one of
us. Grant it, Lord. REDEMPTION.BY.POWER_ LVL.KY V-25 N-7 MONDAY_ 54-0329 67 But it's fool's gold, hasn't got no value to it. And now, they
cook that, and they skim it all off, and just keep cooking it and cooking it,
until it's pure gold, boiled down to nothing but one hundred percent gold. And that's the way God does in His Church: pours the Holy Spirit on
It, and cooks down in there till He throws out all the
worldliness, and the differences, and the selfishness, and all this,
till He just boils it out of every individual that will come to Him.
Amen. UNPARDONABLE.SIN_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-8 SUNDAY_ 54-1024 226 You just come with a pure heart, believing that Jesus Christ is
the Saviour, and you've accepted Him, and you believe God will keep His
Word, and you're looking to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and
He will give It to you. Say, "Lord, I'll... Just any way You pour
It into me, just so I get the Holy Ghost. That's all I want is the
baptism of the Holy Ghost. Give me Something that will take this
selfishness away. Give me Something will take all this fear and doubting
away. EVERLASTING.LIFE_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-12 FRIDAY_ 54-1231, 172 All these other little old things that keeps you... And you
have a little box of selfishness; you have to hang that on too. You have
to hang on a little tattling, a little backbiting, a little of
this, that, hang it on the camel. And the first thing you know, he jumps
up, astraddle the old camel, say, "Come on now. Let's go." The
old camel can't hardly move. He's mashed down so hard till he is
bowlegged almost. EVERLASTING.LIFE_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-12 FRIDAY_ 54-1231, 183 If they'd ever forget their selfishness and their difference,
and join their hands together, their hearts together as one, the
Millennium would set in. That's what we need tonight, friend,
get together. That's what Branham Tabernacle needs to do. That's what
all the churches need to do, is get together as one fellowship, as one
individual in Christ Jesus, a newborn babe, and walk this straight
narrow path looking to the Author and Finisher of our faith, Jesus
Christ. POSITION.IN.CHRIST_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 55-0116A E-18 When I first seen the Full Gospel people, and I seen a girl,
one night get up on the floor when the music was playing, begin dancing
up and down the floor. I never danced in my life, wasn't on a dance
floor, and didn't believe nothing in dancing. Well, selfishness here, not out loud, but in my heart I
criticized the girl. I said, "There's nothing about God about that."
Just a young Baptist preacher setting there, and I said, "There
can't be nothing to that, that woman out there on the floor. She's only
just making a--a show. She just wants somebody to see her." I
wouldn't say it out loud for nothing, but in my heart I was thinking it. EARNESTLY.CONTENDING.FOR.THE.FAITH_ CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 55-0123E E-11 "We know that Thou art a Teacher come from God, for no
man can do the things that You do, the miracles that You do, except God
be with Him." They knew that that was Him, but for prejudice,
selfishness, not ready to have self-denial to renounce your old
surrounding and accept Him. Yet they recognized that it was of
God. ENTICING.SPIRITS_ JEFF.IN DE 79-112 SUNDAY_ 55-0724 132 And little old things--little old tempers and
everything else that keeps you down. Say, "God, I don't want
that thing no more. I'm sick and tired of it. I'm ready today
to discard it. I'm coming now, Lord, and I want to get away from
all my selfishness. If my brother doesn't treat me right,
I'll pray for him anyhow. If my daddy doesn't treat me right, I'll love
him anyhow. If my wife doesn't treat me right, or my husband, I'll go
about humble before God. Lord, I look only to Your Kingdom. I
want my mind straight. I want my heart full of joys. I want to
go about... When trouble is really buzzing around me, I still want to
stay with my hands up and my heart pure before You, Lord, knowing
this: that someday I'll meet You. I want that kind of experience. Lord,
make me that from this day." ENTICING.SPIRITS_ JEFF.IN DE 79-112 SUNDAY_ 55-0724 144 Jesus in His prayers said, "Father, I sanctify
Myself." Jesus become sanctified to the church. He could've got
married but He didn't do it. He become sanctified. He said,
"Sanctify them, Father, to the truth; Thy Word is the Truth." Now, let's lay aside every weight. If you got a temper, you got
something about you that you talk when you ought not to talk, oh, God,
lay it there now. Lay it there. Watch the fire of the altar come
down and take it away. Watch the love of God lick it up. Watch all
that old selfishness, the way you've been talking to your wife, the way
you been talking to your husband, the way you been talking to your
neighbor, the way you've talked about the people in the church; lay
it on the altar this morning and the fire of God will come down and take
it right away and Divine love will burn in its place. If you got sickness, lay it on the altar. Say, "Lord, here it
is. Create in me a clean spirit. Create in me a healing power."
See what God will do. God will do it this morning. UNCERTAIN.SOUND_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-19 SUNDAY_ 55-0731 96 And then, in the hour of her death, when she gets ready to die,
she is laying on the bed. And all at once, she wakes up and hollers,
"Oh, my God. I'm lost." The pastor will say, "Give her a hypo. She is delirious."
And he will shoot a hypo in it. And she will try to speak. She can't
speak. She will murmur. What is it? Her soul has caught up with her,
before death. Not only women, men, also, who spurned the love of Jesus
Christ, who's turned Him down, made fun of It. It'll catch up with
you someday, as certain as I'm standing here this morning. You grieved
it so far, till you can't feel it no more. But it'll catch you sometime
again. It'll all come back to you, the dirty things, the bad things, the
tattling, the babbling, the back-biting, the selfishness, and things
that you've done. That'll all come back to you someday, laying
on the deathbed. UNCERTAIN.SOUND_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-19 SUNDAY_ 55-0731 222 What do you think Jesus Christ did? And why can't--can't you be
loyal to Him, and to forsake your selfishness, and your
indifference? Can't you 'sake your church, petty things, and
come to Him, and be loyal? WHERE.I.THINK.PENTECOST.FAILED_ SAN.FERNANDO.CA FRIDAY_ 55-1111 E-44 When you cross Jordan, it's death; you go into
that veil I was talking about last night, inside the holiest of holies,
where your Light is no more of the world. You'll walk in
fellowship side by side with Christ in you, the hope of glory, the Holy
Ghost moving and living in the mortal being. And if maybe I told you tonight, that the spirit of some great
artist was in me, you would expect me to paint a picture like the
artist. If I told you the spirit of John Dillinger was in me, you'd look
for me to have big guns, and be a desperado. And If I've told you the
Spirit of Christ was in me, I have to do the works of Christ. And
if you profess to be a Christian, depart from sin and selfishness and
tempers, and live like Christ did, a peaceful, humble, God-blessed life.
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