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` Stirring message that Brother Pearry gave us just then from the
Word of God. How true it is that “We limit God and time God;
and He’s Eternal, we can’t do that.” So tonight we’re facing
something else now, is communion.
2 Three years I waited for a church to come in Tucson, but it’s
here. Yeah, we’re_we’re here. So we thank the Lord, He just let us
wait till we can appreciate it now.
3 Now, there’s one thing that I’d want to say just before we start
the communion, is this, that I believe that we have seen enough in
our day that we live in, that we ought to really give (every) all of
our being to God. We_we should really serve God. I believe that
He has blessed us with the direct answer to Scripture. As Brother
Pearry gave it a few moments ago, that we_we are_we’re at that
time. We’re not blind, we_we_we see that we’re here, we_we’ve
arrived.
4 And we also can look around and see that the way that the
human mind is leaving the people. That, we_we can’t stay too much
longer, we’d be in a complete insane institution, the whole world
would be. See? So we_we’re at the end time.
5 Now, as Brother Pearry ended up there, seeing these things are
true, see that they are true, they’re not myth. They’re not just
something that we imagine. They’re something that’s been directly
given to us by the Word of God and manifested publicly before us,
that we know we are here. We_we don’t know how long now,
because again we come back to a watch, you see, what time it is. But
we are^we know we_we’re here, we’re at the time. Whether
God’s time, I’d imagine^
6 Someone give a little analysis one time that said that if God put
up with him according^if He was to allot time, one_one thousand
years is just one day. So if a man lived seventy years old, it’d just be
a few minutes of God’s time. See? Well, and said it’d be forty years,
that wouldn’t even mean time, hardly, He could bat His eye. See?
See, just that’s how quick it is, the whole thing, if it be lotted time;
which, He doesn’t have any time. So He just is Eternal.
7 I believe it was Sarah back there^or, no, Joseph, the other
night, said to me and Brother Pearry. He said, “Daddy, where, when
did God come on the scene? Where did He come from?” See? “He
had to have a beginning, didn’t He? Didn’t He have to start?”
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8 I said, “No. Anything that has a beginning has an end, but it’s
that which had not a beginning has no end.” But, course, he’s ten
years old, that was kind of a_a real mouthful for him. See? And how
could he receive that, knowing that something never did begin? Not
only to him, it is to me. Now, see, it’s just a great big dose for me,
how it did ever begin.
9 Now we’re fixing to observe something here that’s really sacred.
10 I was called on a few days ago, to some very fine Christian
gentlemen that_that’s never had this, and he understood that we
taken communion literally. They take it what they call “spiritual
communion.” And which, as far as communion, I’d say all right,
’cause communicate is “to talk to,” see. And the brother give me this
Scripture, said, “Brother Branham, don’t you think now^”
11 Now, reason I’m saying this^It’s all right, Brother Pearry?
[Brother Pearry Green answers, “Sure.”_Ed.] See, that reason I’m
saying this, so that you would understand what you’re doing. You
don’t^if you walk into anything blindly, you don’t know where,
what you’re doing. You can’t have even confidence if you don’t
know what you’re doing. But you must understand what you are
doing and why you’re doing it.
12 He said, “Now if we take the Word of God, isn’t that God that
we’re taking?”
13 I said, “Exactly right, sir, it’s true. But we read here that they
actually^Paul taught taking the literal Lord’s supper. ‘This do in
remembrance of Me,’ said Jesus. ‘As oft as you take it in
remembrance of Me, you show forth the Lord’s death till He
comes.’” See? Now, we are to take it.
14 We understand that Saint Paul, who ordained it in the Church,
being the prophet of the New Testament. Peter, James, John, all of
them, they wrote (why, Matthew, Mark, Luke) what Jesus did, as
scribes. But Paul set the thing in order, he was the_he was the
prophet of the New Testament. Just as Moses went into the
wilderness to receive the inspiration to write the_the five Books of_
of^the first five Books of the Bible, well, Paul also went into the
desert and received inspiration from God, to set the New Testament
Church in order and type It with the Old.
15 Under there they had the sacrificial lamb, that Israel kept that
for a memorial. It was actually used one time, coming out of Egypt.
But then they kept that as a memorial all down through the age.
Well, “if the law being a shadow of things to come,” you see.
16 Now, I do believe that communion (what we call “communion,”
now) is to^is “the Lord’s supper.”
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17 Now, we only have three physical Divine orders left to us: one of
them is_is communion; feet-washing; water baptism. That’s the only
three things. That’s the perfection, of the three, see. And that’s the
only three orders we have. We realize that that was the issue given
by Saint Paul in the New Testament.
18 Now, if we would say “the communion should just be taking the
Word,” I don’t believe anyone has a right to take the Lord’s supper
until he has taken the_the Word of the Lord into his heart. See?
Because I’m going^I’ll read something for you in a few moments
and you’ll see. Now, notice. Then, why then would we_we
would^
19 On the same basis we could absolutely justify the Salvation
Army. They do not believe in any form of water baptism, said, “We
don’t need it.” Now, if we don’t need water baptism, why are we
baptized? Said, “The water can’t save you, the Blood saves you.”
20 I’ll agree with that. That_that’s right, the Blood saves you, not
the water. But we must take the water as an outward emotion that
an inwardly work of grace has been done. See? So must we on
communion!
21 When we have taken the Lord, our Sacrifice, into us, as a matter
of spiritual Birth into us, and His Body, we live by Him by the Word,
we also should symbolize it because it’s a commandment. “Repent,
every one of you and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the
remission of your sins.”
22 Paul said, “I have received of the Lord that which I also
delivered unto you, ‘That the Lord Jesus the same night in which He
was betrayed took bread, and brake it and give it to the disciples,
and_and said, “Take and eat, this do in remembrance of Me.” For
as often as you take this bread, you show forth His death till He
comes.’” Now we find out that, in that, they had people who come
and^
23 This precious brother, a very dear brother, he came and he said,
“I never_I never did take it, Brother Branham, I don’t understand
what it is.” Said, “I been taught the other side.”
24 I said, “But remember, we will admit that Saint Paul set it in
order in the early Christian Church. They went from church^from
house to house, broke the bread with singleness of heart, and so
forth. Now,” I said, “he did put it in the Church. Galatians 1:8, he
said, ‘If an angel from heaven comes and says anything else, let it be
accursed,’ you see, see, the same one that had them to be rebaptized
again from the baptism of John, to be baptized in the Name of Jesus
Christ.”
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25 You see, there are three things that we must_three things that
we must do as symbols: the Lord’s supper, feet-washing, water
baptism. See? There’s^
26 You say, “Well, the^” Now, the Salvation Army takes it from
the point, “The dying thief, when he died, he wasn’t baptized, yet
Jesus said he would be in Heaven.” That’s exactly the truth. That’s
exact. But, you see, he_he_he only recognized Jesus right there in
the hour he was dying. See? That’s the only_that’s the only
opportunity he had. He_he was a thief, he was away, he was out.
And he, as soon as he seen that Light, he recognized It, “Lord,
remember me!” And Jesus^That was true.
27 But to you and I who know that we should be baptized, and
refuse to do it, then that’ll be between you and God. Same thing in
communion!
28 Now, when we take this communion, it isn’t just the thing say,
“I’m coming up here and going to eat some bread, and I’ll believe
I’m a Christian.” But, if you noticed, the Bible said, “He that eateth
and drinketh unworthily shall be guilty of the Blood and the Body of
the Lord.” See? You’ve got to live a life that_that^before the
people, that^and before God and the people, that shows that you
are_that you are sincere.
29 Now, just a moment longer. Now, in the Old Testament when
the sacrifice was made a_a statute or an ordinance. And so is water
baptism an ordinance; so is feet-washing an ordinance; so is the
Lord’s supper an ordinance. “Blessed is he that does all of His
ordinance, keeps all of His statutes, all of His commandments, that
he might have a right to enter into the Tree of Life.”
30 Now, notice in this now, that in that first, when it was first an
ordinance of God to bring a sacrifice to the church, and to the
temple and the altar, and offer your gift, and_and for your sins, the
sacrifice of a lamb. Well, I can just imagine seeing some Jewish
brother coming down the road, knowing that he was guilty, and he
goes to the altar; or brings his fat ox or a bullock, or whatever he
had, or a ram, lamb, something. He had brought it down the road
just as sincere as he could come, he walked up there, keeping God’s
ordinance just as sincerely as he could.
31 Then he laid his hands upon it, confessing his sins, and the priest
placing this (his sins) upon the lamb, and the lamb’s throat was cut,
and_and then died for him. As he laid there, the little lamb kicking
and bleeding, his hands being full of blood, and it flying all over
him, (the little lamb blatting, dying), he would realize that he had
sinned and something had to die in his place. Therefore, he was
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offering this lamb’s death for his death. See, the lamb died in his
place. Then the man done it with sincerity, with deepness of his
heart.
32 Finally, over and over it went again, over and over it kept going
until finally it become a tradition. The commandment of God
became a tradition to the people. And then here he come down,
“Well, let’s see, this is so-and-so today, maybe I better go down.
Yeah, I better offer a_a bullock.” He went down, “Well, Lord,
here’s my bullock.” See, there’s no sincerity in it, there’s no
understanding to it.
33 Now, we don’t want to take communion like that. That’s the
same thing as we come to the Lord’s table.
34 Isaiah 35^no, I beg your pardon, Isaiah 60^Let me take that
back. I_I_I believe it’s Isaiah 28, is where we find this. I’m pretty
sure that’s the right chapter. He said, “Precept must be upon precept;
and line upon line upon line; here a little, there a little. Hold fast to
that what’s good. With stammering lips and other tongues will I
speak to this people. And this is the Rest.”
35 He said, “All the tables of the Lord has become full of vomit.
Who can I teach Doctrine? Who can I make to understand?” See? I
think that was the right Scripture, Isaiah 28. “Who can I make
understand Doctrine?” See, “the tables.”
36 Now, we find out today that this great thing that we’re fixing to
do tonight, in commemoration of His death and His Body that we
believe that we eat daily, or, just got through eating as our brother
preached to us. Taking the Word of God, we believe It with all of
our heart. We see It manifested; we see It given to us; we see It
vindicated; we feel It in our lives. And we must come to this with a
deep conscience of what we’re doing, not just because it’s an order.
37 You go into church, and many times they give out an old soda
cracker or some kind of a_a something, break it up, and light bread
or_or something, and_and break it up; and people who smoke,
drink, everything else, because they’re a member of the church they
come and take the Lord’s supper. Well, that’s filthiness before God!
38 Even the sacrifice, said, “Your holy days and your sacrifice
become a stench in My nose.” Yet He ordained them to make that
sacrifice. But the way they treated it, it become a stench, stink in His
nose (His nostrils), the very sacrifice that He ordained.
39 That’s the way we take the Word of God, too many Christians
today (so-called) does that. We stand up here and teach this Word,
and say, “Jesus Christ isn’t the same yesterday, today, and forever,”
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and teach the things that He promised us that He would honor, and
say, “Oh, well, that was for something else,” our solemn worships
just become a stink in His nose. He will not receive it, by no means.
That’s the reason, by our traditional habits!
40 You don’t take the Lord’s supper by a tradition. You take it
because it’s the love of God in your heart, in keeping the
commandments of God. See, that’s what you take it for.
41 So if you don’t take it in sincerity, just it’s a tradition, “Well, our
church observes communion once every Sunday, or once every
month, or twice a year,” and you go up, say, “Well, it’s my time,”
and_and then take the communion, why, it’s a stink to God! See,
that’s just a tradition.
42 Even like anything else, you_you’ve got to be sincere. God
wants the depths of your heart. You remember, the very God that
brought you here on earth is the One you’re serving. See?
43 You’re doing this because He said so, because it’s His order.
Then we want to come up with deepness of sincerity, knowing that
by God’s grace that we have been saved. And we_we love Him and
we feeled His Presence, and we_we see It change our lives. Our_
our whole being is changed. We_we_we’re different people. We
don’t live like we used to, we don’t think like we used to.
44 Like in the Book here, and the spot there we was talking about
the_the two Books being One, the Book of Life. The first Book of
life coming up, was when you were born, that was your natural
birth. See? But then one time, way back down in there, there was a
little grain of Life as I was explaining to some of the young sisters at
the house this afternoon. See, there’s a little grain of Life laying
there, that you wonder, “Where did It come from? What_what
these strange things?”
45 I was saying this, taking for myself, like you was going to say,
“William Branham, well, forty years ago, the William Branham, it
isn’t the same one tonight.” If somebody back there would say,
“William Branham, he was a rank rascal,” see, because I was born of
Charles and Ella Branham. In their nature I was a sinner, I came to
the world, a liar, and all the habits of the world laid right in me. But
down in there, too, was another Nature present, see, predestinated,
was in there by God. In this same body, see, two natures in there.
46 Well, I only catered to one. As it growed, I gooed as a baby,
“Dad-da.” First thing you know, I become a liar, become everything
else that’s a sinner, because I raised up that way. But down in there
was a little speck of Life all the time.
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47 I used to remember, as a little boy^(I hope I’m not holding
you too long. But knowing^) Sitting out in the^on_on the
creek bank, and I’d sit there and look around at nighttime. Pop and
mom, they’re gone on now to their rest. And them days they were
sinners, there was no Christianity in our homes at all. And, oh, my,
drinking, and parties, and carrying on; it made me sick, I’d take
my_my lantern and my dog and go to the woods, to stay all night.
In the wintertime I’d hunt till the party was over, maybe daylight in
the morning. Come home, wouldn’t be over, I’ve laid on top of a
shed and sleep, waiting for daylight to break.
48 Then I’d think of how that times, then being out there in the
summertime, get my sticks and put them down for a little windbreak,
where if it rained; lay there and have the poles sticking in the water,
fishing; my old coon dog laying there. I’d say, “Looky here. You
know, last winter I camped right here one night, I built a fire right here
when I was waiting for my old dog here to tree, and I had a fire here. It
was froze five inches deep in the ground. But, little flower, where did
you come from?” See? “Well, and where’d you come from? Who
come out here and planted you? And what hothouse did they bring
you out of? Or_or what about it, where’d you come from?” See? That
little flower, I’d say, “Why, it was froze, and everything, and I built a
fire on top here. Besides the freezing element, there was a heat
element laying here on a big old log where I burned you. And yet here
you are, and you’re alive. Where’d you come from?”
49 What was it? There was another William Branham. See? A little
spot of Eternal Life down there, from the_the_the genes of God,
the Word of God that was placed in there. Each one of you can
think of similar things. See, It was working.
50 Then look up to the trees, and I think, “Leaf, I seen you fall off
last year, and why are you back there again? Where’d you come
from? What brought you here?” See, It was that Eternal Life
working in the body.
51 Now, then one day as I walked on, that Voice talking, “Don’t
never smoke, drink, so forth.” And the young fellows and all got
older. See, there was Something moving.
52 But yet all at once I looked up, and I said, “I’m not the son of
Charles and Ella Branham. There’s Something calling.” Like my
little eagle, “I’m not a chicken. There’s Something up yonder,
somewhere. O Great Jehovah, Whoever You are, open up! I want to
come home. There’s Something in me, calling.”
53 Then I was born again. That little Life was laying there, the life
of water was poured upon It, then It begin to grow. Now, that old
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life was forgiven, put in the sea of God’s forgetfulness, to never be
remembered against me no more. See? Now we stand justified (as
though we never had sinned) in the Presence of God.
54 Then when we come to the Lord’s table, we must come in
reverence, love and respect, of “Look where we would have been if it
hadn’t been for Him.” See? Look where it would’ve^
55 Therefore, Paul, I think, in saying this, “Wherefore, when ye
come together to eat, tarry one for the other.” That is, other words,
just wait a few minutes, pray, check yourself out. And if you know a
brother is in there, just about to do something that’s wrong, or
something, and you pray for him, too. See? See, “tarry one the
other,” wait just a minute, pray. If there’s any feelings between you
or something, don’t_don’t do it_don’t do it, go make that right
first. See? Go straighten that up first, because they want to come
here just as pure as we can be, and our thoughts of one another and
to God, and to each other, and then we come in fellowship around
the table of the Lord. See?
56 And we do this because that we are giving thanks to Him, and
among one another. Eating the bread between each other, drinking
the wine between each other, as His Blood and His Flesh.
57 “Except you eat the Flesh of the Son of man and drink His
Blood, you have no Life in you.” See? You see, that’s what the Bible
said. Except you do it, there’s no Life. You see? You are then, more
or less, showing you are ashamed to identify yourself as a Christian,
because of the life that you live. And then this is really the
showdown. Then if you don’t do it, you have no Life. If you do do it
unworthily, you are guilty of the Body of the Lord.
58 Same thing in water baptism. If we say, “We believe on Jesus
Christ, He saved us from sin, and we are baptized in the Name of
Jesus Christ,” why, we bring_we bring disgrace to Him, we do the
things that’s wrong and we_we’ll have to pay for that. And another
thing, when we do that, we are trying to profess one thing and do
another.
59 That’s the trouble of us today. What I think^I’m saying “us,”
me, and the church that the Lord God has let me speak to in these
last hours, that we believe we’re in the closing time. We believe that
God has give us a Message. It’s been ordained of God, It’s been
proven of God, It’s been showed of God. Now we must come to
Him with reverence and with love, and with_with purity of heart
and mind and soul.
60 You know, the hour will soon arise when_when right among us
will be^the Holy Spirit will speak out like It did in Ananias and
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Sapphira. Remember, see, that hour is arriving. See? And we are^
Now, you just remember that, see, that God is going to dwell among
His people. That’s what He wants to do now.
61 We can receive the Message, as saying^If I was a young man
and_and hunting for a wife, and I could find a wife, I said, “She’s
just perfect. She’s a Christian. She’s a lady. She’s all this, I got
confidence.” No matter how much confidence, how much I think
she’s nice, I’ve got to receive her, she’s got to receive me; see, upon
these vows.
62 Well, it’s the same thing we find is the Message. We see It’s
right. We see God vindicates It’s right. It’s perfectly right. Year after
year, year after year, It continues right, continues right. Everything
It says, happens just exactly the way He said. Now, we know It’s
right, but, see, don’t do it from an intellectual standpoint. If you do,
you got a second-handed religion. See? We don’t want a
second-handed religion, something that somebody else has
experienced it and we are living off of_of their testimony.
63 As I believe it was Jesus said to Pilate, something, a word I was
thinking, and He said there just a few moments ago, “Who told you
that?” Or, “Was it revealed to you? How did you know these
things?” in other words. I don’t know just what the word is now, it’s
been a long time since I read it, but, “How did you_how did you
know this? What? How? Who revealed this to you?” About Him
being the Son of God. “Who revealed it to you? Did some man tell
you that? Or,” as Jesus said, “is it My Father in Heaven which has
revealed it to you?” See? See? “How did you learn it, a secondhand
or is it a perfect revelation from God?”
64 Is this communion just something I go up for it, an order, say
“Well, the rest of them take this, I will too”? It’s a revelation that I
am part of Him and I’m part of you, and I love you and I love Him,
and we’re taking this together as a symbol of our love to God, and
our love and fellowship to one another.
65 Now I want to read some from the Scripture. And then I
guess^Where do you^Whichever way Brother Pearry desires
today. I wish you’d read it with me, if you got your Bible. I Corinthians,
the_the 11th chapter, and begin with the 23rd verse.
66 And then also, at our tabernacle, we’ve always observed this and
feet-washing, always, because they go hand in hand together. I
believe the brother announced that “Wednesday night” because
of the crowds and you don’t have enough to^room to get the
people in for feet-washing, they’re going to observe_observe this
Wednesday night.
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67 Now, 23rd verse of the 11th chapter of I Corinthians, listen at
Paul now. Now remember, and keep this in mind, Galatians 1:8, “If
we or an angel from heaven preaches any other gospel unto you,”
(than this Gospel that he had preached) “let him be accursed.” See?
For I have received of the Lord that which I also delivered
unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was
betrayed took bread:
And when he had gave thanks, he brake it,^said, Take
and eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in
remembrance of me.
68 Now, let me stop right here, to say: but taking the body of the
Lord Jesus Christ in this communion, does not mean that that
communion is the literal body of Christ. That’s Catholic. I do not
believe that that’s right. I believe it’s only an ordinance that God
made with us, see, it isn’t the actual body. It’s^Now, it’s really a
little piece of kosher bread. It’s just an ordinance.
69 Neither do I believe that the baptism of Jesus Christ (in the
Name of Jesus Christ) in water does forgive your sins. I do not
believe that you^I believe you could be baptized all day long^
Now, I know that there’s perhaps people sitting here who come from
the Apostolic church, I mean, or the United Pentecostal church,
which they teach that. But, you see, I_I do not believe that the
water forgives sins. Or, if it was, then Jesus died in vain. See? I
believe that it’s only an ordinance of God, see, to show that you
have been forgiven. But to be baptized for regeneration, no, I_I_I
don’t believe that. I don’t believe that water forgives sins.
70 Neither do I believe that this bread and wine has anything to do
with you, only keeping an ordinance that God has ordained for us to
do. See? That’s right. I believe water baptism is the same thing. I
believe it’s compelling to us to do it, that He had done it all for our
example. And He done this for our example. And He washed feet for
our example.
71 Now, “After the same manner also,” 25th verse:
After the same manner also he took the cup, and when he had
supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this
do ye, as oft as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
For as oft^(Remember now!)^For as oft as you eat
this bread, and drink this cup, you do shew forth the Lord’s
death till he comes. (How long? “Until He comes!” See?
See?)
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Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup
of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and the
blood of the Lord.
72 Let me stop just a minute. The reason he said this, you noticed in
another verse here, another chapter, that he said, “I understand
when you_when you come together you’re eating, even getting
drunk at the Lord’s table.” They misunderstood it, you see. They just
glutton-ed in, see. Just like people are doing today, just live any kind
of life and take it. See? He said, “You got homes to eat in, see. But,
this is an ordinance that we should keep, see.” Now:
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the
bread, and drink of the cup.
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and
drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
(See?)
73 What are you? You’re a Christian, you live before everybody as
a Christian. And if you take that and don’t live as a Christian, you’re
not discerning the Lord’s Body. You’re putting a stumbling block in
somebody else’s way, see, as they see you trying to do that and then
not living what you’re supposed to live. See, you’re not discerning
the Lord’s Body. Now watch what it^what the curse of it is:
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and
many are sleep. (The right translation of that word, Brother
Pearry, is “dead.” See? See, “many are dead.”)
For if we_for if we would judge ourself, we should not be
judged. (See, if we judge ourself we won’t be judged. See?)
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that
we should not be condemned with the world. (See, not any
attach to the world.)
Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, tarry
one for the other. (See?)
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that you come
not together unto condemnation. And the rest I will set in order
when I come. (See?)
74 Now, in other words, don’t just come to take it as a^As I said
a while ago, about what the Jews, their sacrifice, they^It was
wonderful, it was given by God, but it got to a place where they
didn’t do it in sincerity and reverence and in order, then it become
just a^it become a_a stench in His nose.
75 Now, the same thing is by our coming to take the Lord’s supper,
that, we must come knowing what we are doing. Just like when you
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go into the water to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, you
know what you’re doing, you’re putting on to the church what God
has put in you, Christ.
76 When we take this, it shows to the church, that, “I believe every
Word of God. I believe that He is the Bread of Life that come from
God out of Heaven. I believe every Word that He says is the Truth.
And I live by It, to the best of my knowledge, God being my Judge.
Therefore, before my brothers, before my sisters^I_I do not
swear, I do not curse, I do not do these things, because I love the
Lord, and the Lord knows it and bears me record. Therefore, before
you, I take the parcel of His body, to know that I am not condemned
with the world.” See, there you are, then it’s a blessing.
77 And, remember, I could give many testimonies on this, where
I’ve took that and explained it in a sickroom, and seen them healed.
78 Remember, when Israel taken the type of this, they had
journeyed forty years in the wilderness and their clothes never even
wore out, and they come out without one feeble one_one among
them, with two million people as a type of this. Well, what will the
Anti-type do? If the body of a sacrificial animal did that for them,
what would the Body of Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, do for us? Let’s
just be reverent when we come. Let us be just as reverent as we
know how, to come. `
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65-1212 Vol. 8-4R
This Message by Brother William Marrion Branham was delivered on Sunday evening,
December 12, 1965, at the Tucson Tabernacle in Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A. The tape, number
65-1212, is thirty-four minutes. Having obtained a clearer and more complete original tape,
this book has been re-edited with an R added to the volume number. Every effort has been
made to accurately transfer the verbal Message from the magnetic tape recording to the printed
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` Stirring message that Brother Pearry gave us just then from the
Word of God. How true it is that “We limit God and time God;
and He’s Eternal, we can’t do that.” So tonight we’re facing
something else now, is communion.
2 Three years I waited for a church to come in Tucson, but it’s
here. Yeah, we’re_we’re here. So we thank the Lord, He just let us
wait till we can appreciate it now.
3 Now, there’s one thing that I’d want to say just before we start
the communion, is this, that I believe that we have seen enough in
our day that we live in, that we ought to really give (every) all of
our being to God. We_we should really serve God. I believe that
He has blessed us with the direct answer to Scripture. As Brother
Pearry gave it a few moments ago, that we_we are_we’re at that
time. We’re not blind, we_we_we see that we’re here, we_we’ve
arrived.
4 And we also can look around and see that the way that the
human mind is leaving the people. That, we_we can’t stay too much
longer, we’d be in a complete insane institution, the whole world
would be. See? So we_we’re at the end time.
5 Now, as Brother Pearry ended up there, seeing these things are
true, see that they are true, they’re not myth. They’re not just
something that we imagine. They’re something that’s been directly
given to us by the Word of God and manifested publicly before us,
that we know we are here. We_we don’t know how long now,
because again we come back to a watch, you see, what time it is. But
we are^we know we_we’re here, we’re at the time. Whether
God’s time, I’d imagine^
6 Someone give a little analysis one time that said that if God put
up with him according^if He was to allot time, one_one thousand
years is just one day. So if a man lived seventy years old, it’d just be
a few minutes of God’s time. See? Well, and said it’d be forty years,
that wouldn’t even mean time, hardly, He could bat His eye. See?
See, just that’s how quick it is, the whole thing, if it be lotted time;
which, He doesn’t have any time. So He just is Eternal.
7 I believe it was Sarah back there^or, no, Joseph, the other
night, said to me and Brother Pearry. He said, “Daddy, where, when
did God come on the scene? Where did He come from?” See? “He
had to have a beginning, didn’t He? Didn’t He have to start?”
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8 I said, “No. Anything that has a beginning has an end, but it’s
that which had not a beginning has no end.” But, course, he’s ten
years old, that was kind of a_a real mouthful for him. See? And how
could he receive that, knowing that something never did begin? Not
only to him, it is to me. Now, see, it’s just a great big dose for me,
how it did ever begin.
9 Now we’re fixing to observe something here that’s really sacred.
10 I was called on a few days ago, to some very fine Christian
gentlemen that_that’s never had this, and he understood that we
taken communion literally. They take it what they call “spiritual
communion.” And which, as far as communion, I’d say all right,
’cause communicate is “to talk to,” see. And the brother give me this
Scripture, said, “Brother Branham, don’t you think now^”
11 Now, reason I’m saying this^It’s all right, Brother Pearry?
[Brother Pearry Green answers, “Sure.”_Ed.] See, that reason I’m
saying this, so that you would understand what you’re doing. You
don’t^if you walk into anything blindly, you don’t know where,
what you’re doing. You can’t have even confidence if you don’t
know what you’re doing. But you must understand what you are
doing and why you’re doing it.
12 He said, “Now if we take the Word of God, isn’t that God that
we’re taking?”
13 I said, “Exactly right, sir, it’s true. But we read here that they
actually^Paul taught taking the literal Lord’s supper. ‘This do in
remembrance of Me,’ said Jesus. ‘As oft as you take it in
remembrance of Me, you show forth the Lord’s death till He
comes.’” See? Now, we are to take it.
14 We understand that Saint Paul, who ordained it in the Church,
being the prophet of the New Testament. Peter, James, John, all of
them, they wrote (why, Matthew, Mark, Luke) what Jesus did, as
scribes. But Paul set the thing in order, he was the_he was the
prophet of the New Testament. Just as Moses went into the
wilderness to receive the inspiration to write the_the five Books of_
of^the first five Books of the Bible, well, Paul also went into the
desert and received inspiration from God, to set the New Testament
Church in order and type It with the Old.
15 Under there they had the sacrificial lamb, that Israel kept that
for a memorial. It was actually used one time, coming out of Egypt.
But then they kept that as a memorial all down through the age.
Well, “if the law being a shadow of things to come,” you see.
16 Now, I do believe that communion (what we call “communion,”
now) is to^is “the Lord’s supper.”
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17 Now, we only have three physical Divine orders left to us: one of
them is_is communion; feet-washing; water baptism. That’s the only
three things. That’s the perfection, of the three, see. And that’s the
only three orders we have. We realize that that was the issue given
by Saint Paul in the New Testament.
18 Now, if we would say “the communion should just be taking the
Word,” I don’t believe anyone has a right to take the Lord’s supper
until he has taken the_the Word of the Lord into his heart. See?
Because I’m going^I’ll read something for you in a few moments
and you’ll see. Now, notice. Then, why then would we_we
would^
19 On the same basis we could absolutely justify the Salvation
Army. They do not believe in any form of water baptism, said, “We
don’t need it.” Now, if we don’t need water baptism, why are we
baptized? Said, “The water can’t save you, the Blood saves you.”
20 I’ll agree with that. That_that’s right, the Blood saves you, not
the water. But we must take the water as an outward emotion that
an inwardly work of grace has been done. See? So must we on
communion!
21 When we have taken the Lord, our Sacrifice, into us, as a matter
of spiritual Birth into us, and His Body, we live by Him by the Word,
we also should symbolize it because it’s a commandment. “Repent,
every one of you and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the
remission of your sins.”
22 Paul said, “I have received of the Lord that which I also
delivered unto you, ‘That the Lord Jesus the same night in which He
was betrayed took bread, and brake it and give it to the disciples,
and_and said, “Take and eat, this do in remembrance of Me.” For
as often as you take this bread, you show forth His death till He
comes.’” Now we find out that, in that, they had people who come
and^
23 This precious brother, a very dear brother, he came and he said,
“I never_I never did take it, Brother Branham, I don’t understand
what it is.” Said, “I been taught the other side.”
24 I said, “But remember, we will admit that Saint Paul set it in
order in the early Christian Church. They went from church^from
house to house, broke the bread with singleness of heart, and so
forth. Now,” I said, “he did put it in the Church. Galatians 1:8, he
said, ‘If an angel from heaven comes and says anything else, let it be
accursed,’ you see, see, the same one that had them to be rebaptized
again from the baptism of John, to be baptized in the Name of Jesus
Christ.”
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25 You see, there are three things that we must_three things that
we must do as symbols: the Lord’s supper, feet-washing, water
baptism. See? There’s^
26 You say, “Well, the^” Now, the Salvation Army takes it from
the point, “The dying thief, when he died, he wasn’t baptized, yet
Jesus said he would be in Heaven.” That’s exactly the truth. That’s
exact. But, you see, he_he_he only recognized Jesus right there in
the hour he was dying. See? That’s the only_that’s the only
opportunity he had. He_he was a thief, he was away, he was out.
And he, as soon as he seen that Light, he recognized It, “Lord,
remember me!” And Jesus^That was true.
27 But to you and I who know that we should be baptized, and
refuse to do it, then that’ll be between you and God. Same thing in
communion!
28 Now, when we take this communion, it isn’t just the thing say,
“I’m coming up here and going to eat some bread, and I’ll believe
I’m a Christian.” But, if you noticed, the Bible said, “He that eateth
and drinketh unworthily shall be guilty of the Blood and the Body of
the Lord.” See? You’ve got to live a life that_that^before the
people, that^and before God and the people, that shows that you
are_that you are sincere.
29 Now, just a moment longer. Now, in the Old Testament when
the sacrifice was made a_a statute or an ordinance. And so is water
baptism an ordinance; so is feet-washing an ordinance; so is the
Lord’s supper an ordinance. “Blessed is he that does all of His
ordinance, keeps all of His statutes, all of His commandments, that
he might have a right to enter into the Tree of Life.”
30 Now, notice in this now, that in that first, when it was first an
ordinance of God to bring a sacrifice to the church, and to the
temple and the altar, and offer your gift, and_and for your sins, the
sacrifice of a lamb. Well, I can just imagine seeing some Jewish
brother coming down the road, knowing that he was guilty, and he
goes to the altar; or brings his fat ox or a bullock, or whatever he
had, or a ram, lamb, something. He had brought it down the road
just as sincere as he could come, he walked up there, keeping God’s
ordinance just as sincerely as he could.
31 Then he laid his hands upon it, confessing his sins, and the priest
placing this (his sins) upon the lamb, and the lamb’s throat was cut,
and_and then died for him. As he laid there, the little lamb kicking
and bleeding, his hands being full of blood, and it flying all over
him, (the little lamb blatting, dying), he would realize that he had
sinned and something had to die in his place. Therefore, he was
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offering this lamb’s death for his death. See, the lamb died in his
place. Then the man done it with sincerity, with deepness of his
heart.
32 Finally, over and over it went again, over and over it kept going
until finally it become a tradition. The commandment of God
became a tradition to the people. And then here he come down,
“Well, let’s see, this is so-and-so today, maybe I better go down.
Yeah, I better offer a_a bullock.” He went down, “Well, Lord,
here’s my bullock.” See, there’s no sincerity in it, there’s no
understanding to it.
33 Now, we don’t want to take communion like that. That’s the
same thing as we come to the Lord’s table.
34 Isaiah 35^no, I beg your pardon, Isaiah 60^Let me take that
back. I_I_I believe it’s Isaiah 28, is where we find this. I’m pretty
sure that’s the right chapter. He said, “Precept must be upon precept;
and line upon line upon line; here a little, there a little. Hold fast to
that what’s good. With stammering lips and other tongues will I
speak to this people. And this is the Rest.”
35 He said, “All the tables of the Lord has become full of vomit.
Who can I teach Doctrine? Who can I make to understand?” See? I
think that was the right Scripture, Isaiah 28. “Who can I make
understand Doctrine?” See, “the tables.”
36 Now, we find out today that this great thing that we’re fixing to
do tonight, in commemoration of His death and His Body that we
believe that we eat daily, or, just got through eating as our brother
preached to us. Taking the Word of God, we believe It with all of
our heart. We see It manifested; we see It given to us; we see It
vindicated; we feel It in our lives. And we must come to this with a
deep conscience of what we’re doing, not just because it’s an order.
37 You go into church, and many times they give out an old soda
cracker or some kind of a_a something, break it up, and light bread
or_or something, and_and break it up; and people who smoke,
drink, everything else, because they’re a member of the church they
come and take the Lord’s supper. Well, that’s filthiness before God!
38 Even the sacrifice, said, “Your holy days and your sacrifice
become a stench in My nose.” Yet He ordained them to make that
sacrifice. But the way they treated it, it become a stench, stink in His
nose (His nostrils), the very sacrifice that He ordained.
39 That’s the way we take the Word of God, too many Christians
today (so-called) does that. We stand up here and teach this Word,
and say, “Jesus Christ isn’t the same yesterday, today, and forever,”
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and teach the things that He promised us that He would honor, and
say, “Oh, well, that was for something else,” our solemn worships
just become a stink in His nose. He will not receive it, by no means.
That’s the reason, by our traditional habits!
40 You don’t take the Lord’s supper by a tradition. You take it
because it’s the love of God in your heart, in keeping the
commandments of God. See, that’s what you take it for.
41 So if you don’t take it in sincerity, just it’s a tradition, “Well, our
church observes communion once every Sunday, or once every
month, or twice a year,” and you go up, say, “Well, it’s my time,”
and_and then take the communion, why, it’s a stink to God! See,
that’s just a tradition.
42 Even like anything else, you_you’ve got to be sincere. God
wants the depths of your heart. You remember, the very God that
brought you here on earth is the One you’re serving. See?
43 You’re doing this because He said so, because it’s His order.
Then we want to come up with deepness of sincerity, knowing that
by God’s grace that we have been saved. And we_we love Him and
we feeled His Presence, and we_we see It change our lives. Our_
our whole being is changed. We_we_we’re different people. We
don’t live like we used to, we don’t think like we used to.
44 Like in the Book here, and the spot there we was talking about
the_the two Books being One, the Book of Life. The first Book of
life coming up, was when you were born, that was your natural
birth. See? But then one time, way back down in there, there was a
little grain of Life as I was explaining to some of the young sisters at
the house this afternoon. See, there’s a little grain of Life laying
there, that you wonder, “Where did It come from? What_what
these strange things?”
45 I was saying this, taking for myself, like you was going to say,
“William Branham, well, forty years ago, the William Branham, it
isn’t the same one tonight.” If somebody back there would say,
“William Branham, he was a rank rascal,” see, because I was born of
Charles and Ella Branham. In their nature I was a sinner, I came to
the world, a liar, and all the habits of the world laid right in me. But
down in there, too, was another Nature present, see, predestinated,
was in there by God. In this same body, see, two natures in there.
46 Well, I only catered to one. As it growed, I gooed as a baby,
“Dad-da.” First thing you know, I become a liar, become everything
else that’s a sinner, because I raised up that way. But down in there
was a little speck of Life all the time.
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47 I used to remember, as a little boy^(I hope I’m not holding
you too long. But knowing^) Sitting out in the^on_on the
creek bank, and I’d sit there and look around at nighttime. Pop and
mom, they’re gone on now to their rest. And them days they were
sinners, there was no Christianity in our homes at all. And, oh, my,
drinking, and parties, and carrying on; it made me sick, I’d take
my_my lantern and my dog and go to the woods, to stay all night.
In the wintertime I’d hunt till the party was over, maybe daylight in
the morning. Come home, wouldn’t be over, I’ve laid on top of a
shed and sleep, waiting for daylight to break.
48 Then I’d think of how that times, then being out there in the
summertime, get my sticks and put them down for a little windbreak,
where if it rained; lay there and have the poles sticking in the water,
fishing; my old coon dog laying there. I’d say, “Looky here. You
know, last winter I camped right here one night, I built a fire right here
when I was waiting for my old dog here to tree, and I had a fire here. It
was froze five inches deep in the ground. But, little flower, where did
you come from?” See? “Well, and where’d you come from? Who
come out here and planted you? And what hothouse did they bring
you out of? Or_or what about it, where’d you come from?” See? That
little flower, I’d say, “Why, it was froze, and everything, and I built a
fire on top here. Besides the freezing element, there was a heat
element laying here on a big old log where I burned you. And yet here
you are, and you’re alive. Where’d you come from?”
49 What was it? There was another William Branham. See? A little
spot of Eternal Life down there, from the_the_the genes of God,
the Word of God that was placed in there. Each one of you can
think of similar things. See, It was working.
50 Then look up to the trees, and I think, “Leaf, I seen you fall off
last year, and why are you back there again? Where’d you come
from? What brought you here?” See, It was that Eternal Life
working in the body.
51 Now, then one day as I walked on, that Voice talking, “Don’t
never smoke, drink, so forth.” And the young fellows and all got
older. See, there was Something moving.
52 But yet all at once I looked up, and I said, “I’m not the son of
Charles and Ella Branham. There’s Something calling.” Like my
little eagle, “I’m not a chicken. There’s Something up yonder,
somewhere. O Great Jehovah, Whoever You are, open up! I want to
come home. There’s Something in me, calling.”
53 Then I was born again. That little Life was laying there, the life
of water was poured upon It, then It begin to grow. Now, that old
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life was forgiven, put in the sea of God’s forgetfulness, to never be
remembered against me no more. See? Now we stand justified (as
though we never had sinned) in the Presence of God.
54 Then when we come to the Lord’s table, we must come in
reverence, love and respect, of “Look where we would have been if it
hadn’t been for Him.” See? Look where it would’ve^
55 Therefore, Paul, I think, in saying this, “Wherefore, when ye
come together to eat, tarry one for the other.” That is, other words,
just wait a few minutes, pray, check yourself out. And if you know a
brother is in there, just about to do something that’s wrong, or
something, and you pray for him, too. See? See, “tarry one the
other,” wait just a minute, pray. If there’s any feelings between you
or something, don’t_don’t do it_don’t do it, go make that right
first. See? Go straighten that up first, because they want to come
here just as pure as we can be, and our thoughts of one another and
to God, and to each other, and then we come in fellowship around
the table of the Lord. See?
56 And we do this because that we are giving thanks to Him, and
among one another. Eating the bread between each other, drinking
the wine between each other, as His Blood and His Flesh.
57 “Except you eat the Flesh of the Son of man and drink His
Blood, you have no Life in you.” See? You see, that’s what the Bible
said. Except you do it, there’s no Life. You see? You are then, more
or less, showing you are ashamed to identify yourself as a Christian,
because of the life that you live. And then this is really the
showdown. Then if you don’t do it, you have no Life. If you do do it
unworthily, you are guilty of the Body of the Lord.
58 Same thing in water baptism. If we say, “We believe on Jesus
Christ, He saved us from sin, and we are baptized in the Name of
Jesus Christ,” why, we bring_we bring disgrace to Him, we do the
things that’s wrong and we_we’ll have to pay for that. And another
thing, when we do that, we are trying to profess one thing and do
another.
59 That’s the trouble of us today. What I think^I’m saying “us,”
me, and the church that the Lord God has let me speak to in these
last hours, that we believe we’re in the closing time. We believe that
God has give us a Message. It’s been ordained of God, It’s been
proven of God, It’s been showed of God. Now we must come to
Him with reverence and with love, and with_with purity of heart
and mind and soul.
60 You know, the hour will soon arise when_when right among us
will be^the Holy Spirit will speak out like It did in Ananias and
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Sapphira. Remember, see, that hour is arriving. See? And we are^
Now, you just remember that, see, that God is going to dwell among
His people. That’s what He wants to do now.
61 We can receive the Message, as saying^If I was a young man
and_and hunting for a wife, and I could find a wife, I said, “She’s
just perfect. She’s a Christian. She’s a lady. She’s all this, I got
confidence.” No matter how much confidence, how much I think
she’s nice, I’ve got to receive her, she’s got to receive me; see, upon
these vows.
62 Well, it’s the same thing we find is the Message. We see It’s
right. We see God vindicates It’s right. It’s perfectly right. Year after
year, year after year, It continues right, continues right. Everything
It says, happens just exactly the way He said. Now, we know It’s
right, but, see, don’t do it from an intellectual standpoint. If you do,
you got a second-handed religion. See? We don’t want a
second-handed religion, something that somebody else has
experienced it and we are living off of_of their testimony.
63 As I believe it was Jesus said to Pilate, something, a word I was
thinking, and He said there just a few moments ago, “Who told you
that?” Or, “Was it revealed to you? How did you know these
things?” in other words. I don’t know just what the word is now, it’s
been a long time since I read it, but, “How did you_how did you
know this? What? How? Who revealed this to you?” About Him
being the Son of God. “Who revealed it to you? Did some man tell
you that? Or,” as Jesus said, “is it My Father in Heaven which has
revealed it to you?” See? See? “How did you learn it, a secondhand
or is it a perfect revelation from God?”
64 Is this communion just something I go up for it, an order, say
“Well, the rest of them take this, I will too”? It’s a revelation that I
am part of Him and I’m part of you, and I love you and I love Him,
and we’re taking this together as a symbol of our love to God, and
our love and fellowship to one another.
65 Now I want to read some from the Scripture. And then I
guess^Where do you^Whichever way Brother Pearry desires
today. I wish you’d read it with me, if you got your Bible. I Corinthians,
the_the 11th chapter, and begin with the 23rd verse.
66 And then also, at our tabernacle, we’ve always observed this and
feet-washing, always, because they go hand in hand together. I
believe the brother announced that “Wednesday night” because
of the crowds and you don’t have enough to^room to get the
people in for feet-washing, they’re going to observe_observe this
Wednesday night.
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67 Now, 23rd verse of the 11th chapter of I Corinthians, listen at
Paul now. Now remember, and keep this in mind, Galatians 1:8, “If
we or an angel from heaven preaches any other gospel unto you,”
(than this Gospel that he had preached) “let him be accursed.” See?
For I have received of the Lord that which I also delivered
unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was
betrayed took bread:
And when he had gave thanks, he brake it,^said, Take
and eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in
remembrance of me.
68 Now, let me stop right here, to say: but taking the body of the
Lord Jesus Christ in this communion, does not mean that that
communion is the literal body of Christ. That’s Catholic. I do not
believe that that’s right. I believe it’s only an ordinance that God
made with us, see, it isn’t the actual body. It’s^Now, it’s really a
little piece of kosher bread. It’s just an ordinance.
69 Neither do I believe that the baptism of Jesus Christ (in the
Name of Jesus Christ) in water does forgive your sins. I do not
believe that you^I believe you could be baptized all day long^
Now, I know that there’s perhaps people sitting here who come from
the Apostolic church, I mean, or the United Pentecostal church,
which they teach that. But, you see, I_I do not believe that the
water forgives sins. Or, if it was, then Jesus died in vain. See? I
believe that it’s only an ordinance of God, see, to show that you
have been forgiven. But to be baptized for regeneration, no, I_I_I
don’t believe that. I don’t believe that water forgives sins.
70 Neither do I believe that this bread and wine has anything to do
with you, only keeping an ordinance that God has ordained for us to
do. See? That’s right. I believe water baptism is the same thing. I
believe it’s compelling to us to do it, that He had done it all for our
example. And He done this for our example. And He washed feet for
our example.
71 Now, “After the same manner also,” 25th verse:
After the same manner also he took the cup, and when he had
supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this
do ye, as oft as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
For as oft^(Remember now!)^For as oft as you eat
this bread, and drink this cup, you do shew forth the Lord’s
death till he comes. (How long? “Until He comes!” See?
See?)
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Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup
of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and the
blood of the Lord.
72 Let me stop just a minute. The reason he said this, you noticed in
another verse here, another chapter, that he said, “I understand
when you_when you come together you’re eating, even getting
drunk at the Lord’s table.” They misunderstood it, you see. They just
glutton-ed in, see. Just like people are doing today, just live any kind
of life and take it. See? He said, “You got homes to eat in, see. But,
this is an ordinance that we should keep, see.” Now:
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the
bread, and drink of the cup.
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and
drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
(See?)
73 What are you? You’re a Christian, you live before everybody as
a Christian. And if you take that and don’t live as a Christian, you’re
not discerning the Lord’s Body. You’re putting a stumbling block in
somebody else’s way, see, as they see you trying to do that and then
not living what you’re supposed to live. See, you’re not discerning
the Lord’s Body. Now watch what it^what the curse of it is:
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and
many are sleep. (The right translation of that word, Brother
Pearry, is “dead.” See? See, “many are dead.”)
For if we_for if we would judge ourself, we should not be
judged. (See, if we judge ourself we won’t be judged. See?)
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that
we should not be condemned with the world. (See, not any
attach to the world.)
Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, tarry
one for the other. (See?)
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that you come
not together unto condemnation. And the rest I will set in order
when I come. (See?)
74 Now, in other words, don’t just come to take it as a^As I said
a while ago, about what the Jews, their sacrifice, they^It was
wonderful, it was given by God, but it got to a place where they
didn’t do it in sincerity and reverence and in order, then it become
just a^it become a_a stench in His nose.
75 Now, the same thing is by our coming to take the Lord’s supper,
that, we must come knowing what we are doing. Just like when you
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go into the water to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, you
know what you’re doing, you’re putting on to the church what God
has put in you, Christ.
76 When we take this, it shows to the church, that, “I believe every
Word of God. I believe that He is the Bread of Life that come from
God out of Heaven. I believe every Word that He says is the Truth.
And I live by It, to the best of my knowledge, God being my Judge.
Therefore, before my brothers, before my sisters^I_I do not
swear, I do not curse, I do not do these things, because I love the
Lord, and the Lord knows it and bears me record. Therefore, before
you, I take the parcel of His body, to know that I am not condemned
with the world.” See, there you are, then it’s a blessing.
77 And, remember, I could give many testimonies on this, where
I’ve took that and explained it in a sickroom, and seen them healed.
78 Remember, when Israel taken the type of this, they had
journeyed forty years in the wilderness and their clothes never even
wore out, and they come out without one feeble one_one among
them, with two million people as a type of this. Well, what will the
Anti-type do? If the body of a sacrificial animal did that for them,
what would the Body of Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, do for us? Let’s
just be reverent when we come. Let us be just as reverent as we
know how, to come. `
COMMUNION
65-1212 Vol. 8-4R
This Message by Brother William Marrion Branham was delivered on Sunday evening,
December 12, 1965, at the Tucson Tabernacle in Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A. The tape, number
65-1212, is thirty-four minutes. Having obtained a clearer and more complete original tape,
this book has been re-edited with an R added to the volume number. Every effort has been
made to accurately transfer the verbal Message from the magnetic tape recording to the printed
page, and is printed herein unabridged and distributed by Voice Of God Recordings.
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