🙏🏽 Loving heavenly Father, once again after some time I am here before your children. We know we have been together in the spirit by your anointing and Lord your hand has been upon us and kept us. We cannot be thankful enough but especially to come here and find your children still serving you rejoicing at your word waiting for that grand hour , Lord when our bodies shall be changed. I pray that God you know my weaknesses, my limitations, my tiredness over all this period of time, laboring in the field. I just pray that God you come and touch this body and Lord that you just help me to get out of the way and that you'll be the One to come and become a blessing to your children like you've always done. And bless them, Lord God and bless us together, Lord as you Lord unveil yourself through the 23:42 breaking of the word anoint me and lord speak through these lips of clay that which you ordained to edify, to strengthen and encourage your children. We thank you because we know you have always been there for us. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
I just wanted us to turn to our bibles and I wanted us to start with the book of Matthew chapter 21. Matthew chapter 21 from verse 23. I think I'll read up to verse 27. And when he came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came out to him, as he was teaching and he said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority? by what authority do we these things and who gave thee this authority and jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing which if you tell me , I in likewise will tell you by what authority i do these things. So in other words the question the answer to the question was in the question that it was going to give them. The baptism of John, whence was it from, heaven or of man. And they reasoned with themselves saying, if we shall say from heaven, he will say unto us, why did he did he not believe him but if we shall say of men, we fear the people for all hold him as a prophet. Now I want you to mark that statement. They hold him as a prophet and they answered Jesus and said, "We cannot tell." And he said unto them, "Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things." So there was a statement. And if you'll see in this chapter in verse 12 he speaks again about John the Baptist. He says for John, came unto you in the way of righteousness and you believed him not, but the publicans and the harlots believed him and he when you had seen it repented the note afterwards that you might be that you might believe him why he brings it again and then at the end of this chapter there is something again strange in verse 45 and when the chief priests and pharisees had had he had this parable they perceived that he speak of them but when they sought to lay hands on him they feared a multitude. Why? Because they took him for a prophet. So the majority took Jesus for a prophet and they also held John the Baptist for a prophet. May God bless his word and bless you. May be seated.
I wanted us as we see it to go back to Matthew chapter 11 and see why Jesus points this book back to John the Baptist because in Matthew 11 from verse 2 now when John had in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples and said unto them i mean say it unto him and thou he that should come or do we look for another. Now this is the man who introduced him but we are trying to follow a thought that I want us to follow like a trail through these meetings why did such things happen they were not a mistake they were right in God's purpose and plan.
John who introduced Jesus is sending the disciples to inquire whether he's the messiah or they should look for another and Jesus doesn't go on a condemning spree castigating and belittling John no but he points to the resultant effect or product of what John introduced. And Jesus, that's verse 4 answer and said unto them go and show John again the things which you do hear and see , the blind receive their sight, the lamb walk the lepers are cleansed, the death here the dead are raised up the poor have the gospel preached to them and blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me and as they departed Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: what he went out into the wilderness to see? a reed shaken with the wind but what went he out for to see, a man clothed in soft raiment behold either way a softer clothing and the king's houses but wait what went he out for to see? a prophet, yeah, and i say unto you and more than a prophet for this is of whom it is written, behold I send my messenger before thy face which shall prepare thy way before thee, verily say unti you among them that are born of women there has not risen a greater than John the Baptist of all born of women. In other words with only the exception of himself the speaker Jesus Christ and adam the rest John the Baptist was greater than them but I want us to look at how could you compare the ministry of John the Baptist with the minister of Moses if it was in comparison terms of the supernatural, the anointing, the prophecies, the miracles, the signs, and wonders, the demonstration of power. How could John stand a chance to be compared with Moses? How could he even be compared with the righti mean isaiah we've even done here all those prophets if you've got to look at the supernatural, the miraculous, the signs, they were all above John. But why is Jesus saying of all that is born that are born of women no one is greater than John the Baptist. And John the Baptist was so scared down in the spiritual and prophecies. Tell me 10 prophecies, five of them which John the Baptist prophesied he was a prophet yes but what did he prophesy. What did he tell us about the future. And today we believe him to be a prophet and the Bible says he's a prophet. And jesus says he's more than a prophet. And of all that were born of women, no one can come near to John the Baptist. So there is a mystery there that if God gives me the grace, we could look at. So when you begin to look at this, what is Jesus trying to draw the people's attention to. He says he's more than a prophet. And of alI other born of women. There's not reason a greater than John the Baptist. Not with his turning that is however the least. He that is the least, or least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John. So the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John because those who are born in the kingdom of heaven are not born of women. They are born of the incorruptible seed. And John never became a Christian. He pointed the people to Christ but he never became a christian. And that's why a Christian, the least in the kingdom of Christianity, the kingdom of Christ becomes greater than John because he remained within the confines of the or the dispensation of servant prophets. But we are now in the dispensation of sons and daughters of God. So John when he had a chance to be baptized he never went on to be baptized. He only told Jesus , I have need of you to baptize me, how do you come to me. And Jesus says, fine I understand you, you understand me, let me baptize you, I mean, you baptize me. Servant prophet. That's why the least in the kingdom of heaven, in the kingdom of Christ, in the new dispensation of the new covenant which is the new testament, he becomes the least but in the old testament, all the dispensation those born of women, those upon whom the Holy Spirit came upon not into, no one was greater than John. Now I'm talking about receiving the mysterious reality of them, more than a prophet ministry. More than a prophet. What was that more than a prophet. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Jesus is saying, you went to see whom do, we do, you go, did you go to look for. What did you go to see. What did you go to receive. And of course John the Baptist parallels today, as John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Jesus, so shall your message forerun the second coming.
So the question is, what did you got to see. What did he go in the wilderness to receive the word of the king. So what did you go to receive from him. And until you know what you came to the message for, you have missed it. And that's why there is where people are hitting a snag. They are no longer able to see where they are going. They are in a spiritual fog, they can't understand, they have lost identity because they came to believe something, they came to believe the message, they came to hear a prophet, they came to believe Malachi 4 but what they receive? What did you go out for to receive? What is that that you have said you are a believer. You believe what? What have you received? What have you believed? And that's why when they are questioning the authority of Jesus, the question about the source of the authority of Jesus, Jesus puts them back to the one who introduced to him. If you know what his message was, if you knew, if you had received that message, if you knew why you went to the wilderness, if you had received the reality of why you went to the wilderness, what you were supposed to go and receive, you will not be asking me with that question. So the answer to your question is in the reason why you went into the wilderness but you went to a wilderness, you when you put the effort you went there but you missed it. So go back to your drawing boards and begin to find out why you went to the wilderness. Then you know why I have this authority. So the authority that I have today begins from there. When you receive the reality of your day's prophet, what his real message is, you get to know this. But if you missed that, you will not understand this. Blessed be the name of the Lord. And you see, the reason many are hitting the snag and I wouldn't want you to reach that spot because it is very dangerous. It is very important for you to know what you have received. I mean, it's good to come here, to be a good believer, to pay tithes and offerings, to be a deacon, to be a trustee, to be a good preacher but you have seen that men have been good preachers and they have failed. You can be a very good preacher. You can be very anointed. You can be very spiritual even, even in the spirit and you have missed it. Because even Judas missed it. Yet he was with the reality but he never got the revelation of what this man was. Who he was. Because brother Branham says what makes John the Baptist stands out is because he was the messenger of the new covenant. God was starting something, and that was the alpha, now we are in the omega, the completion of that new covenant. When all the loose ends are tied and the fullness of the word is brought. And then you are introduced to him. So the Him, Christ is the step beyond the prophet. So the message that you are supposed to receive is more than, is beyond the prophet. So you are not supposed just to hold him as a prophet. The Sanhedrin knew that the multitudes held John as a prophet. They even held Jesus, took Jesus for a prophet. They accepted him as a prophet until the the Pharisees and Sadducees afraid attitude feared to arrest Jesus because they knew the multitude could stone them because the multitude believed that Jesus was a prophet. And they were even scared to say that the ministry of John the Baptist was of men because they knew men could easily stone them. Men held John as a prophet but they ended with John as a prophet. But John had a ministry, a mysterious reality beyond the office of a prophet, he was more than a prophet. He brought a message and the message was greater than him and he was supposed to become a thing, immediately he introduces the reality. And that's why he could even begin to doubt what he spoke the other day. And Jesus didn't even think about it. It didn't even matter to him. He couldn't even talk about it. And you look at this man, he has backslidden. John had already finished his work. He had already done his part and whether he was doubting or not, it was not having his business. As far as God was concerned, his work was already done. So you begin to look about his mistakes, his failures, his unbelief, what he's saying at this time about the ministry. That was no problem. In other words, there was an allowance for John to begin to express doubt over what he introduced. An allowance and heaven never recognized that heaven recognized one thing John had already identified, introduced their reality and showed them to the world. Here is the man and that's why you find those who hold the messenger of the day as a prophet they hold him as a prophet they put him in a prophetic office and they begin to examine him, look he said this, he said that, he said this, he said that why they hold him as a prophet they end on the prophetic office they are looking at the prophet but brother branham is more than a prophet. his ministry went beyond the prophetic office and every prophet there is another one for so many errors to blinding those who want to scientifically and critically look at the ministry lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and that they should repent and i see the heart heal them why why did God you know i talked with brother Chad one time we
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have not told that question up to now Moses was married to Zipporah the median artist when did he marry the Ethiopian human wasn't Miriam right to complain wasn't Miriam legally right, morally right when did the Moses married this Ethiopian human who told him to does the Bible say anything about it but Miriam when he saw the mistake when she saw the mistake together with her brother Aaron and they spoke about it, God was silent. So we don't know. God is dealing between Moses, between him and Moses about the issue of marrying the Ethiopian woman. We don't know, we don't know whether Zipporah had died or not, the Bible doesn't mention but he married an Ethiopian woman, this was the medianity human and Miriam is complaining and Aaron is complaining. So biblically, scripturally according to the law, they are right. This is an error and this is a prophet. And this is an office and if he makes an error, we have a right to point it out. No right to point out. God came down and said, can't you fear God. Why was God protecting the error of Moses? Can't we go back and look at that carefully. Why would God defend Abraham for telling a lie? And he makes Abimelech to pay a fine for taking the away the prophet's wife. Why would God do that? There was a confidence between the two. He had a message and the Abraham's message was to Sarah, the church. And make no mistake about that. He has a lot of errors and he kept telling lies but God never looked at them. And he's like he had immunity. Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD does not impute. So how does that scripture work unless that man is given the opportunity to do something wrong. And who are you today, to question God why. The other one is giving him, you know, that privilege which I'm not children, I don't know. I don't know God's deal. My work was to receive the message, not to examine the messenger. Remember my robins you remember the ravens. You are not supposed to ask who whether they have sterilized they are big so not they are just commanded to bring you food, just receive the food and eat. No question. Where are you getting them sandwiches from? Did you sterilize your beaks? I have commanded the raven to feed you. So they'll be bringing you food. Why didn't you send a dove, God, why did you decide to send an uncleaning bird. Don't ask me questions . You needed a food. Are we going to tell God he was wrong to send this one, he was supposed to send who, what did he go to the wilderness look for. Mr Perfect? He, no, he was not Mr Perfect, he was to introduce Mr Perfect, Christ Jesus, but he was not Mr Perfect. So don't begin to look at the introducer to be Mr Perfect. He introduced Mr Perfect to you, look at the One he introduced to you. So we are in a dangerous age, where people are pointing you to the messenger. They hold him, are holding on him, they are making him accountable to that office, we shall begin to say maybe tomorrow who, who is the culprit and who is the victim. Are you the believer who is the victim of the preacher or the preacher is also the victim, You can say, oh okay pastor chad, you preached the word, I mean I believed okay but I also didn't call myself to preach, I was also saying what to preach the gospel so who is wrong who has a case i was warned to me if i don't preach the word the gospel and want you if you don't believe there gospel so if i preach it hard and it hurts you and say well that pastor has a problem okay i wouldn't have had a problem with you if I was not sent. So are we going to turn and blame God? No. How can we, how dare we. So here we are, do we blame the vessel he said oh he blamed the sender and why did the center continue using the scent and he knows the scent has got a lot of problems well according to God's big plan he's not interested so much in the weaknesses of the scent but he's interested in the purpose of the scent the message that he gave the messenger so there is a more than a prophet reality in other words when John questions Jesus doesn't condemn Jesus, doesn't even speak anything negative, he only magnifies what that office has done says I am the reality, if you are doubting, go and tell John what you see and what you hear. John introduced this many have ended all John that's why even Herod and his wife killed John because they held John responsible for what he preached. Now I'm not going to hold brother Branham I'm responsible for what he preached although he said I am responsible as long as he was God his voice he's not responsible for the message he was a pipe, he was a vessel, he was a channel that God used neither am I going to question the message based on the weakness of the messenger, that's not my business, that's God's business. My business is to receive the reality, going beyond the office of a prophet. Why? let's look at this critically. Those who held, who took Jesus for a prophet, later on denied him and condemned him and said "crucify him", do you know that even Herod who killed John the Baptist, the Bible says he had him gradually and didn't want even to harm him, but just to please his wife, had put John in prison until a convenient they came but Herod was not intending to kill John, he took him for a prophet, he believed John was a prophet but the one who believed John to be a prophet, kill the Jew when circumstances came, when a convenient day came, amen. A day of convenience when another voice rises up to be vindictive to pin him, he must die that voice must be dealt with he killed him so whoever ended with holding John only as a prophet that didn't benefit him, the multitudes took him for a prophet, the multitudes took Jesus for a prophet but it's a multitude to say crucify him. So we have to know what we went for in this message. What did you go to see, to receive and if you have believed, what did you believe, what is the message, so when Jesus went into the temple there was authority felt and today Jesus comes into the temple, which is temple, the temple of his body, the body of the bride and the authority this must be displayed and then the question begins to come where did you get this authority because the reality of what John introduced is now manifested in flesh, he's walking on two feet. And that's the answer i remember one brother was asking me, brother Abraham, I had so and so tell me you prayed for him and God healed him the instant you just prayed for him on the phone. I said what's wrong. So okay I wanted to ask you, brother Abraham, what are you becoming in this time are you another prophet. Are you another special brother to arise in the message. I said come on, what why are you asking me that. I have never one day claimed that I'm a prophet, I've never come here that I'm coming from Uganda to come here and to prophesy about people, discern people. No, I'm a preacher. When you are questioning about the authority this ministry was it of William Branham or was it from heaven where do we derive our authority is it from a man okay the minister of that man was it a man of God was it that he was trained was it because he was a good trader or rather a good speaker fine polished fine character the man were accepted around the world supported by the denominational structures no who gave him authority the commission of an angel who sent the angel who was the angel if you shall get the people to believe you if you shall be sincere and get the people to believe you nothing shall stand before you not even cancer. Where did the message come from, where did the commission come from, what was the source of the authority and he that receives a prophet in the name of the prophet received as a prophet said what and you know this is my time that's why I stand here. and I have the privilege to step into the shoes of the supreme command as I was with Moses so will I be with you, as I was with Elijah, so will I be with you, you are in the time of Elisha who gave you this authority. Blessed be the name of the Lord . Then I mean there is that question that there is that let me call it a vacuum that someone is not supposed to step there you are not supposed to say I mean one brother was telling me I was preaching somewhere and then he was telling me for us we don't believe in supernatural, I said well that means you don't even believe in God because God is financial because I mean I believe in the spiritual God so he's not just spanish or by title he's exponential by action that is what he is and I'm not about here to talk about dead religion I said brother you see these things you know We have the Word you are you know it's not about this and that i said what about the Word , the Word made flesh what does it do, you mean Jesus was not the Word. I think Jesus was the Word made flesh he was the anointed one and what did he do he was not a backup unless we shall watch a man moving around looking down in the face of demons he was anointed wherever he went demons was screaming he was not running away from demons and
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