A Teachable Spirit Pt.3
PSALM 119:62-68
62 ¶ At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments. (Notice, a resurrection at midnight – like the shout at the midnight hour in Mathew 25 that caused the 10 virgins to rise up out of their denominational churches by the shout of the end time message)
63 ¶ I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
64 ¶ The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes. (In verse 62 it speaks of the judgements of the Lord, then in verse 64 it speaks of the earth being filled with mercy – mercy and judgement are together at the midnight hour, there was mercy for Abraham at the same time that there was judgment for Sodom)
65 ¶ TETH. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.
66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
67 ¶ Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
68 ¶ Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes. (Statute = prescribed task - prescribed portion – “teach me thy prescribed portion” because there is a portion of teaching for each age)
I CORINTHIANS 2:11-13
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
A Teachable Spirit Pt.3
JOHN 10:26-28
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:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
From last week we found out that the evidence that you are a sheep of God by predestination is that you have the ability to receive and understand the word for your day (you have something in side of you that is able to recognise the truth when it is presented to you).
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One day when Jesus was upon earth, a certain important man came to visit Him. This man said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher sent from God." But you will notice that Jesus cut him short. He turned to Nicodemus and the words He spoke may well be paraphrased thusly, "I am NOT a teacher. I am the Sacrificial Lamb for sin. I am making possible the New Birth by My Spirit. But there is a coming One Who is the Teacher. He is the Holy Spirit." When Jesus was upon the earth He came as the Lamb, and as the Prophet. But when He came back upon the church by His Spirit He became the Teacher.
And to every age we hear the same truth. "He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches." But only a Spirit-filled man can hear the revelation for that age. None other can. No sir. They cannot because that is exactly what Paul said in I Corinthians 2:6-16.
… He told us the evidence, or what would happen after being baptized with the Holy Ghost was that we would have the Teacher come and teach all truth. But that Teacher was an INSIDE teacher, not an outside teacher. If the Spirit wasn't inside, you wouldn't hear the truth and receive it by revelation if you heard it every moment of the day. That was the sign of the indwelling Spirit in the days of Paul. Those who were filled with the Holy Ghost heard the Word, received it and lived by it. Those who did not have the Spirit heard it only as carnal men, put a wrong interpretation on it and went into sin.
In every age, (and every age is the age of the Holy Ghost for the true believer)--I say, in every age the evidence was the same. Those who had the Spirit, the Teacher, heard the Word, and that Spirit in them took the Word and taught it (revealed it) to them; and they were of the group that heard the messenger and his message and took it and lived it.
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So you can see now, that we cannot afford to say what the Bible has not said. When Scripture teaches us that the work of the Holy Spirit, and the manifestation of that Blessed Person is to bring the truth of each age to the true seed of that age, then we know that the Spirit has to be abiding in the person or he cannot receive the truth for that time. Amen. That is exactly correct. And if these ages bring out anything, they surely bring and bear out this truth.
So the only way that you can understand the word for this day is by having the inner teacher – the indwelling Holy Ghost, because if you are a seed of God, then the Holy Ghost will lead you to the word for your age, and he will also bring you into a clear understanding of that word.
Quote from last week…
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195 Now, that's what we was talking the other day, the evidence of the Holy Ghost. See? The evidence of the Holy Ghost is when you can receive the Word; not some system, but have a clear understand. How do you know the Word is clear, understand It? Watch It vindicate Itself.
**So to have a clear understanding of the word for your day, it goes beyond the human intelligence of reasoning, it goes beyond the school room of learning from a text book – and that is why you can never understand the word just by your own intelligence of reasoning and figuring it all out – it requires the inside teacher – the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Pick up where we left off last week…
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87 Listen, brothers. Listen to this. "All tables are full of vomit; there's no clean place. Who shall He teach knowledge? Whom shall He make known--understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breast." Not little babies, Presbyterian babies, Methodist babies, Pentecostal babies, Lutheran babies, Nazarene babies, He wants somebody that's willing to get away from the breast and eat some strong meat.
According to this quote, Denominational church systems feed their people on milk out of baby bottles – but the bride in order to come to maturity in this hour is required to feed on the meat of the fullness of the revealed word for this hour, so in order for you to do that, you will have to come out of that system of denominational baby food – and the problem that I have observed with many, is that they come out of the denomination, but the spirit of the level of the teaching of denomination has not come out of them yet, because they still tend to resisted the fullness of the word of this hour, and that is what blocks the channel of their understanding to go on to a greater faith, and that is why we have to often die out to our thinking of our past understanding of what we were taught by man because in most cases it was wrong.
ISAIAH 28:9-10
9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
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61 And how many of you remember that I told you that the Angel of the Lord, in that Pillar of Fire, that--that met me up there, and told me, if I'd "be sincere," it would come to pass that I "would know the very secret of the heart." How many remembers that, said it would be that way?
62 Now, how many remembers that He promised that it would continue on? And, not long ago, for a vision, He promised about that pull of that line, said, "You can't teach Pentecostal babies supernatural things." And when I made the third pull, He said, "Now don't tell nobody about this. You been trying to explain that other. Don't tell nobody about this. This is the great and final pull." How many remembers that being predicted?
63 See, He never fails. Those things happened, one, two, three, just like they were.
Look at this statement - “This is the great and final pull." – He is talking about the opening of the seven seals, the revelation of the full word and understanding of redemption.
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233 But now that the Seals are opened, the Spirit of Truth directs us to the Word. That explains why all the mistakes has been down through the ages, because the Seals was not opened, This was not revealed. It's true.
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…The spirit of this world hates the Spirit of God, and because it can't overcome the Spirit of the Lord it tries to destroy the vessel in whom the Spirit of Truth dwells.
Persecution and trials are a natural, normal part of the Christian life. There is only one thing you can do about them. Commit them all to God, judge not, and leave their outworking and final judgment to Him.
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We know that Cain had an unteachable spirit when it came to truth – but yet he was very intelligent in the ways of the world order.
GENESIS 4:6-8
6 ¶ And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. (God was giving him the opportunity of a lifetime by trying to teach him the truth of the acceptable way to approach God – but Cain did not have a teachable spirit when it came to the truth of the word because he had no representation in his soul – and that is why we mustn’t waste our time with people who simply can’t receive the word, we don’t know as to what category of life they are called to)
8 ¶ And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. (Notice - Cain did not raise up against his enemy, he rose up against his brother.)
GENESIS 4:16-17
16 ¶ And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he (Cain) builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
Notice - Cain had no problem with his reasoning and being intelligent and going to school and getting a degree in engineering and learning how to build cities.
It requires a person to have a very high level of intelligence and education to build a city, so this is how we know that Cain was a very intellectual man, so he must have had a teachable spirit when it came to the things of this world, he must have been a very good student in university, but when it came to the things of God, he had a very unteachable spirit.
HABAKKUK 2:14
14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
This scripture is certainly talking about this age.
Because of the opening of the seven seals, the knowledge of the word of the hour has gone to every nation, and that is because there are people everywhere that have a spirit within them that is able to be taught by the revelation of the word of this hour.
So the earth is filled with this great end time revelation of the Lord – anyone can go on the internet and read the truth of the message and listen to the 5 fold ministry teaching the revelation of this hour, but in reality, there is only a certain group of elected people who have a teachable spirit in them that is tuned in to be able to hear that truth.
MATTHEW 24:26-28
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Eagle age is when the full light and glory of the Lord shines from east to west, it’s a global shining, this message has gone globally throughout the entire world – all over the world the spirit of truth is moving into the hearts of a people who have the ability to hear truth, the ones who have a teachable spirit when it comes to the word of this hour.
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563-1 {291} I was standing with a--a little baby's shoe when He told me, there, "Make your first pull; and when you do, the fish will run after the lure." Said, "Then watch your second pull" said, "because there'll only be small fish." He said, "Then the third pull will get it."
And all them ministers got around me, said, "Brother Branham, we know you can do it. Hallelujah, Brother Branham." (That's where I always get tied up--with a bunch of preachers. See? I love people; they want you to explain everything, this, that.)
563-3 {293} And I said, "Well, oh, all...?..." I said, "I--I don't know." I said, "I've understand fishing." I--I said, "Now, the first thing you do... Here's the way it's done. You see all the fish around; you got to jerk the lure." (Well, that's exactly the tactics of fishing.) So I said, "Jerk the lure." Now, you see when I jerked the lure the first time, now the fish takes out after it, but they were little ones. That's just like they were catching (that is what the denominations attract and catch). So then I--I said, "Then you'll--you'll set..." and I jerked it out on the bank and I had a fish, but it looked like a skin over the lure; it just--he was so little. And then I was standing there and something said, "I told you not to do that." And I started crying.
All the line was tangled around me like this, and I had--was standing there crying with my head down like that. I said, "God, oh, I... Forgive me. I'm a stupid person. Lord, don't... Forgive me." And I had this line and that, what I had in my hand, was a little baby's shoe, about that long. And I had... That string was about as big around as my finger, about a half inch, like. And the eyelet in this shoe was just about the size of a--littler than one-sixteenth, probably, of an inch of the eyelet. And I was trying to lace this little shoe up with this great big inch cord. And a voice come, said, "You can't teach Pentecostal babies supernatural things." Said, "Now, let them alone."
A Teachable Spirit
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So you can see now, that we cannot afford to say what the Bible has not said. When Scripture teaches us that the work of the Holy Spirit, and the manifestation of that Blessed Person is to bring the truth of each age to the true seed of that age, then we know that the Spirit has to be abiding in the person or he cannot receive the truth for that time. Amen. That is exactly correct. And if these ages bring out anything, they surely bring and bear out this truth.