PROOF OF HIS ELECTION

JOHN 4 19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

[2c) to ascertain, find out by seeing [2c) to ascertain, find out by seeing. This word is not used of an indifferent spectator, but of one who looks at a thing with interest and for a purpose;]

HEBREWS.CHAPTER.6_ JEFF.IN HEB SUNDAY_ 57-0908E 213-292 Paul said, "Let's go on to perfection now." We're talking about perfected, and if we'll run this down, you'll find out the perfected is the elected.

2 Peter 1: 10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

JOHN 10 14 I am the good shepherd, and know my [sheep], and am known of mine. 15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, [and] one shepherd.

JOHN 10 25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. 26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

JOHN 8 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word. 44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

JOHN 8 45 And because I tell [you] the truth, ye believe me not JOHN 8 45 And because I tell [you] the truth, ye believe me not. 46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? 47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear [them] not, because ye are not of God.

CONCERNED. AND. CONVINCED_ S. PINES CONCERNED.AND.CONVINCED_ S.PINES.NC V-3 N-3 SUNDAY_ 62-0610E 27-6 Now, the Bible said in the last days the antichrist would be so religious and so much like the real thing till it would deceive the very elected, if it was possible. But it's not. That's right. And all... He would deceive all upon the earth whose names were not written in the Lamb's Book of Life since the last revival? That don't sound like the Bible, does it? From the foundation of the world.

CONCERNED. AND. CONVINCED_ S. PINES CONCERNED.AND.CONVINCED_ S.PINES.NC V-3 N-3 SUNDAY_ 62-0610E You ain't going to deceive them 'cause they're laying right in that Word. When they see those things appearing [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.], it's Life, they catch it right now. Others will walk around and say, "Aw, there's nothing to that." See, they're not convinced. There's nothing there to convince them, nothing in them to believe with. Mother used to say, "How can you get blood from a turnip when there's no blood in it." That's right.

DOES. GOD. CHANGE. HIS. MIND_ JEFF DOES.GOD.CHANGE.HIS.MIND_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0418E Out in the meetings where I go, you never hear me preach these messages. No, I promised you to come to this Tabernacle. Right here is where I preach my messages from. I've got three or four more here that the Lord has given me; I've got the Scriptures on it, that I would be daresn't to preach it anywhere else but right here. Here's where the Word of God started going from, and till God changes it, I'm staying right here and bringing it out right here.

DOES. GOD. CHANGE. HIS. MIND_ JEFF DOES.GOD.CHANGE.HIS.MIND_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0418E That's right. Out yonder in meetings, I pray for the sick and everything like that and on the side say things in a round about way that the sheep hear it. They know what it's talking about. Otherwise, it's just the bait on the hook. You see? I show the signs of--of trying to show that God knows in discernment, and knows the hearts of the people, and does these things.

DOES. GOD. CHANGE. HIS. MIND_ JEFF DOES.GOD.CHANGE.HIS.MIND_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0418E That's an evangelistic gift just to stir the people. The first thing you know, a tape drops into their house; that's got it then. If he's a sheep, he comes right with it; if he's a goat, he kicks the tape out.

AS. THE. EAGLE. STIRRETH. UP. HER. NEST_ CHATAUQUA AS.THE.EAGLE.STIRRETH.UP.HER.NEST_ CHATAUQUA.OH SATURDAY_ 59-0815 Will we come to the Lord Jesus? We're getting ready to take a flight to never return again till the tribulation periods are over and we return back for the Millennium. It's a long flight; it's all the way into glory. Jehovah Eagle's a coming. We feel the power. We see the shadow. We hear His language as it's spoke among His people. "My sheep know My voice, a stranger they'll not follow."

HEARING. RECEIVING. AND. ACTING_ CHATAUQUA HEARING.RECEIVING.AND.ACTING_ CHATAUQUA.OH TUESDAY_ 60-0607 Now, we find out that these revelations come, and a man hears it. He recognizes it to be God. Then he acts on it. The carnal mind hears it, and said, "Foolishness," and walk away from it.

A real believer has heard the Word of God A real believer has heard the Word of God. He's recognized It to be the Word of God. He will act on it.

DISCERNING. BODY. OF. LORD_ CHATAUQUA DISCERNING.BODY.OF.LORD_ CHATAUQUA.OH V-2 N-25 WEDNESDAY_ 59-0812 4-2 Now, our eternal destination is not altogether determined by what we see and what we hear, but it's determined on what discernment we have of what we see and what we hear.

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

WHY. AGAINST. ORGANIZED. RELIGION_ JEFF WHY.AGAINST.ORGANIZED.RELIGION_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-1 SUNDAY_ 62-1111E 91 And that's the way it is of a man that's predestinated to Eternal Life. When he sees the Light of God, there ain't enough organizations in the world to cluck him back into it. No. Why? It's his nature. He might've been dieting with them a long time, and eating their trash and socials, but he comes to a place he's found something different, so he knows it. "My sheep know My Voice," said Jesus, "a stranger they'll not follow."

WHY. AGAINST. ORGANIZED. RELIGION_ JEFF WHY.AGAINST.ORGANIZED.RELIGION_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-1 SUNDAY_ 62-1111E They might be following something strange, but down in them there's something different. Let them hear the Truth one time and watch them. "All the Father has given Me will come."

pre-existence of souls? It is not the person that comes predestinated eternally from God, IT IS THE WORD, OR SEED.

154-3 SMYRNAEAN. CHURCH. AGE - CHURCH. AGE. BOOK CPT 154-3 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4 Way back there, too far back for the human mind to grasp, the Eternal God with eternal thoughts, thought and decreed, "JACOB HAVE I LOVED, BUT ESAU HAVE I HATED, (Romans 9:13) AND NEITHER WAS BORN, AND NEITHER HAD DONE GOOD OR EVIL."

154-3 SMYRNAEAN. CHURCH. AGE - CHURCH. AGE. BOOK CPT 154-3 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4 See, it was the THOUGHT, and then that thought became expressed, and God bought back Jacob, because Jacob alone was SEED. Jacob, alone had the seed; that is why he had respect to the birthright and covenant of God. If you are true seed, you will hear that Word; the Spirit will baptize you into the body of Christ, filling you and empowering you, and you will receive the Word for your day and age.

154-3 SMYRNAEAN. CHURCH. AGE - CHURCH. AGE. BOOK CPT 154-3 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4 Jesus WAS the Son. The Holy Ghost positioned Him as that Son before them all. Then having been filled thus (and the same pattern holds at Pentecost and ever after), He went in demonstrated power, receiving the full revelation of God and from God, for that day.

154-3 SMYRNAEAN. CHURCH. AGE - CHURCH. AGE. BOOK CPT 154-3 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4 Now we have been constantly saying that the true evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost is for the believer to receive the Word for the age in which he lives.

154-3 SMYRNAEAN. CHURCH. AGE - CHURCH. AGE. BOOK CPT. 4 154-3 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4 ...that message is received individually by only a certain qualified group in a certain way. Each individual of that group is one who has the ability to hear what the Spirit is saying by way of the messenger. Those who hear are not getting their own private revelation, nor is a group getting their collective revelation, BUT EACH PERSON IS HEARING AND RECEIVING WHAT THE MESSENGER HAS ALREADY RECEIVED FROM GOD.

154-3 SMYRNAEAN. CHURCH. AGE - CHURCH. AGE. BOOK CPT 154-3 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4 How careful we must be to hear ONE voice, for the Spirit has but one voice which is the voice of God. Paul warned them to say what he said, even as Peter did likewise. He warned them that EVEN HE (PAUL) could not change one word of what he had given by revelation. Oh, how important it is to hear the voice of God by way of His messengers, and then say what has been given them to say to the churches.

166-1 PERGAMEAN. CHURCH. AGE - CHURCH. AGE. BOOK CPT 166-1 PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.5 Did you get that last thought? I repeat, every church age ends with the same admonition. "He that hath an ear, let him (an individual) hear what the Spirit saith to the churches." The Spirit gives the Word. He has the truth for each age. Each age has had its own elect, and that elect group always 'heard the word,' and received it, proving they had the Seed in them. John 8:47, "And he that is of God heareth God's Words. Ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God."

166-1 PERGAMEAN. CHURCH. AGE - CHURCH. AGE. BOOK CPT 166-1 PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.5 They refused the Word (Jesus) and His Words for their days, but the true seed received the Word because they were of God. "And ALL Thy children shall be taught of God." (Holy Spirit) Isaiah 54:13. Jesus said the same thing in John 6:45. Being ONE WITH THE WORD proves whether you are of God and Spirit-filled. No other criterion.