Understanding our Hereditary Pt.3
ROMANS 7:21-23
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind (Two laws that are in conflict within each one of us – this is why you often struggle to understand yourself, it is because of these two opposing laws that are constantly waring within your being), and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
This is every believers struggle to some level of degree as long as we are in these corrupted bodies. Our soul is born again by the revelation of the word of God, but the members of our body will be constantly putting pressure on our thoughts to opposed and reason against the faith of God in the inner man.
Understanding our Hereditary Pt.3
We know that brother Branham suffered from being melancholic all his life – sad and depressed, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost didn’t take that problem away from him because we know that God leaves a thorn in our flesh as a tool that he can use to mould our character with.
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E-11 ..And I always remember those things and going sometimes when I get real tired, I go down in my den room, a place down in the basement, 'cause we usually have the house full of people, all the time just coming and going, you know. So I get down there for a little while, and I get real melancholy sometime.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.3_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830M
1062-8 …God made me what I am. And I can't be nothing but what He made me, melancholy, and those kind of things. They tell me I just have to be that way in order to be the help that He sent me here to be. And I want to be that kind of a person. If that's the way I was supposed to be, that's what I want to be. Whatever's the Kingdom of God's will, or God's will, that's what I want to be.
**Paul talks about having a thorn in the flesh that troubled him all his life.
II CORINTHIANS 12:7-9
7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
**So we understand by this that there are some things that God will allow you to struggle with your whole life, but then he will use that weakness for the purpose to develop you of what he wants you to achieve in your life.
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Before we continue on with this subject of Understanding our Hereditary, we would like to briefly comment on what has been unfolding in the Russia verse Ukraine conflict over the past few days to see what a Prophet of God spoke about these events so that we can have some sure understanding of what is going on and not be caught up with all the uncertainty and confusion of what the world is groping in.
As message believers we are able to have an insight that the rest of the world are not privy to.
THE.MARK.OF.THE.BEAST_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-3 THURSDAY_ 54-0513
134 …Now, if you'll give me one more night, if God does, I'll prove to you that communism is working straight in the hands of Almighty God to destroy the Roman... And remember, I say this as God's prophet: The Russian empire will drop an atomic bomb of some sort on the Vatican City and destroy it in one hour. THUS SAITH THE LORD.
And the Bible said that God took them cruel-hearted men and put them in His hands, and they were instruments in His hands to fulfill His will, and to bring back to her exactly what she had coming to her. That's exactly. That's the Word.
(Putin might look like he is cruel hearted for starting this conflict, but he is a tool in God’s hand that God will use to bring judgement to a world that has rejected truth)
THE.GREATEST.BATTLE.EVER.FOUGHT_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-0311
55-3 In Russia... I want to say this for the benefit of the veterans, and so forth here, and you Bible students. What you fussing and hollering about Russia? You don't hear me telling you to build a bomb shelter, do you? What you fussing about Russia? Russia ain't nothing; she ain't going to win no wars; she ain't going to conquer no world. Communism isn't going to conquer no world. What's the matter with people? Can God's Word fail?
Listen, it's on tape now. To the world I speak or wherever these tapes may go. And to you people here, no matter whatever happens to me, you believe this. Russia, communism isn't conquering nothing. God's Word can't fail. Romanism is going to conquer the world.
He is saying that communism is not the thing that will be forced on the world like if Russia won a world war and forced us to all be communistic – it is Romanism that will be forced on the world and control the world, that is what has been going on for years under everyone’s noses.
THE.FIRST.SEAL_ JEFF.IN MONDAY_ 63-0318
168-2 {346} So I didn't do it, but I got to go all through the Vatican. Why, you couldn't buy it with a hundred billion billion dollars. Why, you... And just think, "The wealth of the world," the Bible said, "was found in her." All... Just think of the great places, the billions times... Why did Communism raise up over here in Russia? It just makes me sick at my stomach to hear so many preachers hollering about Communism, and they don't even know what they're crowing about. That's right. Communism ain't nothing. It's a tool in the hand of God to bring revenge upon the earth for the blood of the saints that... That's right.
**Let’s look briefly at these last four visions of prophecy for this end time age.
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The third vision was in the realm of world politics for it showed me that there would be three great ISMS, Facism, Nazism, Communism, but that the first two would be swallowed up into the third. The voice admonished, "WATCH RUSSIA, WATCH RUSSIA. Keep your eye on the King of the North."
(We can tick this prophecy as coming to pass)
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The fourth vision showed the great advances in science that would come after the second world war. It was headed up in the vision of a plastic bubble-topped car that was running down beautiful highways under remote control so that people appeared seated in this car without a steering wheel and they were playing some sort of a game to amuse themselves.
(We already have the prototypes for these cars now – they’re driving around now)
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The fifth vision had to do with the moral problem of our age, centering mostly around women. God showed me that women began to be out of their place with the granting of the vote. Then they cut off their hair, which signified that they were no longer under the authority of a man but insisted on either equal rights, or in most cases, more than equal rights. She adopted men's clothing and went into a state of undress, until the last picture I saw was a woman naked except for a little fig leaf type apron. With this vision I saw the terrible perversion and moral plight of the whole world.
(This vision has certainly come to pass especially with all the gay rights explosion of the L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ etc. – there is no bottom to this pit.)
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Then in the sixth vision there arose up in America a most beautiful, but cruel woman. She held the people in her complete power. I believed that this was the rise of the Roman Catholic Church, though I knew it could possibly be a vision of some woman rising in great power in America due to a popular vote by women.
(There still seems to be a bit of a grey area as to the details of how this will express itself, but we know that however this works out that this vision will be fulfilled exactly according to the plan of God of what has been spoken here)
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The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America.
This vison could be before WW3 or at the time of WW3, I am not sure.
To my understanding WW3 takes place after the rapture and after the two prophets appear to Israel because the 144,000 Jews have to be sealed in their foreheads by the revelation of God for this hour before the third woe can take place - that’s in Revelation chapter 7 and chapter 11. So this Russian conflict may be connected to the start of WW3 in some way, but there are these other events that have to happen first according to prophecy before WW3 and Armageddon can be fully realised to clean off the earth for the millennium.
So continuing on with our subject… Understanding our Hereditary Pt.3
**Last week we spent some time dealing with trying to show the difference between our sin and our human struggles, because these are two very different and separate things, and this is very important for us to understand.
We must understand clearly that our “sin” and our “mistakes” are two completely separate things or we will get these lines blurred and struggle with cross contamination in our thinking and think that we are somehow paying for our sins when we go through the trials of life when that cannot be so because Christ has already paid the full price for our sin at Calvary.
So you can misunderstand your own life of your own trials and suffering, and you may even think that because you fail God at times that that proves you don’t have the Holy Ghost.
**Remember, that living a good life is not the evidence of the Holy Ghost, nor is having some struggling times in your life an evidence of not having the Holy Ghost – the evidence is those who can receive the word for the day you live in, it has nothing to do with whether you fail in your conduct or you don’t fail in your conduct.
***Our sin question was dealt with completely by the second Adam (Christ) and there is now no condemnation. In other words there is no sin that you have done or that you could do in the future that hasn’t already been paid for in full by the blood of Jesus Christ – this is very important to understand because when we are dealing with our hereditary it has nothing to do with our forgiveness.
*You were born in sin by representation of the first man Adam, but you are also freed from your sin by the representation of Christ the second Adam.
CONDEMNATION.BY.REPRESENTATION_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-13 SUNDAY_ 60-1113
20-2 Then you say, "Brother, Branham, why should I... Why should God hold me responsible? Because one man represented me, and then I die because that that man sinned, then I'm a sinner by representation." That's right. You're a sinner by representation. You never... God don't hold you responsible for being a sinner. He don't hold you responsible 'cause you lie and steal and--and--and the things you do. He doesn't hold you responsible for being a sinner. He holds you responsible because you don't help yourself. There's a way made for you. You reject the way that God laid down; that's what God condemns you for. There's a way of escape.
23-2 So we're all condemned by human beings under representation. Adam represented us before God as sinners, unbelievers in His Word. We're carried on that base, unbelievers of His Word.
29-1 Now, to you that says it's wrong for you to be represented by Adam as a sinner, what about through representation we have salvation also? You can no more save yourself, than you could take your bootstraps and jump over the moon with it. You can no more... You're born in sin; you're a renegade to start with: every one of us. And we could not help ourselves. And how we ever going to be saved? One come to represent us: Jesus. He came to represent us before God as sons and daughters of God.
**Just as our condemnation came by representation by the first Adam, our justification from all sin came to us by the representation of the second Adam – Christ.
***So if we are believers in the finished work of Christ, then our earthly struggles have nothing to do with the sin question of our earthly lives because our sins have already been completely done away with by the blood of Christ and are in the sea of God’s forgetfulness never to be remembered any more.
MICAH 7:18-19
18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
PSALM 103:10-17
10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
POSSESSING.ALL.THINGS_ JEFF.IN V-10 N-4 SUNDAY_ 62-0506
128 Oh, isn't He wonderful? Now, now, with our confessions, our belief, our confession of our sins, believing that all of our sins is in the sea of forgetfulness... He that will confess his sins, God is just to omit them. See? They're in the--the sea of the Blood of Jesus Christ, never to be remembered no more.
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61 God puts our sins in the sea of forgetfulness, blots them out, and they're as if they never did happen.
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42 And today He is the only mediator between God and man, and we're freely pardoned and forgiven. God don't even know we ever sinned. Our sins were put in the Sea of Forgetfulness, never to be remembered no more. We cannot do that ourself; we are finite. He is infinite. And our finite, we can still remember, because we're not big enough. But He is so great that He even forgets we ever did sin. We are sons and daughters, in His Presence. And all things that He was, we are. He become my sin, that I might become His righteousness. He become your sin, that your... He... you might become His righteousness. So God cannot see no sin in you as long as your confession is in Christ Jesus.
***So our hereditary struggles in this short time that we are alive for on earth in these bodies has nothing to do with our sin if we are believers in Christ, but it has everything to do with our child training in our relationship of God dealing with us as his sons and daughters.
**We know that David’s sin with Bathsheba was forgiven by God, but he continued paid for his transgression with troubles in his life because the way of a transgressor is hard and what a man sows he must reap – but then if we think deeper about this, many of the Psalms that we have would not have been given to us unless David had had this weakness – so the Lord is able to take what is wrong and turn it out for the right.
****So in this life we will not have to suffer for or even pay for even one of our smallest of sins because Christ has already suffered and paid the price for every single sin of passed present and all future sins on our behalf – our judgement as sinners has completely passed and we stand legally and fully justified in God’s presence, but what we will suffer and pay for in this life is our mistakes that we make when we disobey the word as being the children of God, so then God will deal with us for the purpose of the advancement of our character as in a father and son relationship – and this is what we are going through every day, God is dealing with us as in correction as His children in Child training.
HEBREWS 12:5-11
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.