Short Review from the Message:
“The Leadership of Eternal Life”
Leadership:
- a position as a leader of a group, organization, etc.
- the time when a person holds the position of leader
- the power or ability to lead other people
Power = Gospel (Paul said: I am not ashamed of the
gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation
to every one that believeth;
- The ministry (God’s Leadership) has the power of God
(the Gospel) to lead those who believe (the congregation)
and to reveal the righteousness of God from faith to faith.
~Solomon~ “whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be
safe.” You’re safe when you put your trust in the
Leadership of the Holy Spirit that’s standing before you.
It’s unsafe not to put your trust in God’s leadership.
- The Leadership of God is in the Body to cause the Body
to learn how to function and move by revelation with each
part moving in the capacity that God has designed it to be
and do. The ministry (Leadership) speaks, moves, and
functions by the Revelation given to the Age for the Body.
- Every day of our life, we are given the opportunity to
meet God in flesh, and that’s to meet Him in one-another.
To meet God in flesh and have fellowship with Him is to be
with one-another. To go outside of that is to be
disconnected from Leadership.
- If it seems evil for someone to serve the LORD under the
Leadership of the Third Testament, then let them choose
this day whom they will serve.
“The Leadership of Eternal Life – Part 2”
Having the Needed Faith/Confidence
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239 The leadership is the Holy Spirit, friend. It leads
you and guides you into all Truth, when He the Holy
Ghost is come.
“Is come” is always present tense. When you recognize
that the Person of the Holy Ghost is present tense, that’s
when the Leadership of God to the Age can lead and guide
you into all the truth for the Age.
God’s spokesperson is His guide… The guide is to lead and
guide you unto all the truth for the Age. If he doesn’t lead
and guide you unto all the truth, but tries to influence you
differently, then he’s not a real guide.
Guide – 1) to lead, give rest, lead with care, guide to a
watering place/station, cause to rest, bring to a
station/place of rest, guide, refresh
1a) (Piel) 1a1) to lead to a watering-place/station and
cause to rest there 1a2) to lead/bring to a station/goal
1a3) to lead, guide 1a4) to give rest to
1a5) to refresh (with food) 1b) (Hithp) 1b1) to lead on
1b2) to journey by stations/stages
When He the Holy Spirit “is come” in the flesh it will lead
and guide you into all truth. The truth is our place of rest.
“Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you
free.”
When God sends a spokesperson on the scene with
something new, it will be God’s Leadership coming on the
scene with a message that’s beyond the message of the
age before. When that happens, the spokesperson to
the Age is the Holy Ghost coming on the scene to lead
and guide you into all the Truth for the Age.
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Now we can see that Jesus Christ is revealing Himself
through the ages by His Spirit in the messengers.
They are as Moses was to the children of Israel. As he
had the revelation for his day, so each messenger had
God's revelation and ministry for that day.
Thus when we see that the messengers are in His
hand, we see the Lord identifying Himself with these
men and granting them His power.
Thus, when we see that Don Parnell, John Ellis Armah, Mita
Edwardson, Winston Pesito, Glen Dyal, Geof Elijah, Louie
Villamor, Robbie Robinson, Jerry Allen, Jamie Wesley, Rick
Hall, Stephen Hall, Wesley Dolphin, Bill Bladyes, John Vela…
the list goes on and on. When we see God’s ministers inside
of real-time, are in His hand, we see the Lord identifying
Himself with these men and granting them His power.
God’s ministers are identified by the Gospel that’s granted to
them. When something has been granted, that means that it
has been established. God always grants or He establishes
His Word with the ministry for the Age. Outside of that, there
is no true identity with God.
When the Word of the Age has been established with God
ministry to step out on, it is then granted to establish the
believer to step out on. A real ministry, that’s been
identified by the Gospel, will take and give out the same
Gospel given to them in order to grant the believer the
same power given to them. God establishes His kingdom
by the power of the Gospel. Thus, the believer is identified
by the same Gospel given to the ministry through the
preaching.
When the Gospel is properly introduced and then
accepted, it establishes the believer. We are established
by the Gospel as it is granted to us through the preaching.
HEBREWS 4:1 ¶ Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being
left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to
come short of it.
To have fear is to have reverence, and to have reverence is
to have respect
Promise = message (or an announcement)
“Being left us” – to leave something or someone by ceasing
to care for it.
To come up short of it is to lose the needed respect and
confidence in God’s Leadership and the message.
The warning or advice that Paul is giving here is this:
Don’t let anything influence you away or cause you to
come up short of the needed respect for God’s leadership
(or His ministry) to guide you into a place of rest by the
promise or message to the Age. When a person falls
short of the needed respect for God’s ministry, they’ll also
fall short of caring for God’s promise to the age for the
needed rest from works.
“Let us therefore respect God’s leadership, lest, we
also should cease to care for the message of the hour
to allow it to bring us into his rest, any of you should
seem to come short of it.”
“Having faith is having confidence.”
To anyone who once had confidence in the ministry and
walked away from God’s Leadership to abandon it,
somehow you allowed something or someone to influence
you to cease caring for His leadership, therefore causing you
to forsake the promise to the Age to lead and guide you into
his rest. If what you once confined in has left you, it’s
because you lost confidence in it by ceasing to care for it…
And now, on the more serious side; because the confidence
in God’s Leadership has left you, it places you outside of His
rest, into a state of unrest.
Don’t let anything influence you away from the needed faith
or confidence in God’s Leadership to bring you into his rest.
HEBREWS 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached,
as well as unto them: but the word preached did not
profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that
heard it.
AV -- faith (239) – assurance, believe, belief, them that
believe, fidelity
1) conviction of the truth of anything, belief; in the
NT of a conviction or belief respecting man's
relationship to God and divine things, generally with
the included idea of trust and holy fervour born of faith
and joined with it
“Respecting Man’s Relationship to God”
Having faith (or confidence) in the preaching, as the
Word is being spoken through God’s minister, is to have
a conviction of respecting the minister’s relationship to
God along with the divine things that God shows His
minister.
When you don’t have the needed faith (or confidence) in
the relationship, that’s between God and His ministry,
then the Gospel that’s being preached won’t do you any
good.
Paul said: “have no confidence in the flesh.” It’s not
the flesh that we’re to have confidence in, but it’s the
relationship that God has established with His minister
that we’re to have faith or confidence in.
“The apostles one day said this unto the Lord, “Increase
our faith.” There has to be enough faith to mix with the
Gospel as its being preached, simply, by having
confidence in the relationship that God has established
between Him and His ministry, or the Gospel will do you
no good as it’s being heard.
HEBREWS 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest,
“Resting is knowing the truth.” We have enough confidence in the
relationship between God and His ministry to mix faith with the
Gospel as its being preached and it causes us to enter into His
rest of knowing the truth.
as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter
into my rest:
Unless we respect the relationship that each one of us has with
God, then we have no rest. Rest doesn’t come with being satisfied
with the outside. Rest comes when you can be satisfied with the
relationship (or the connection) between God and man.
although the works were finished from the
foundation of the world.
The works of God, to believe on him who the Father
would send to the age; those works were finished or
established from the foundation of the world. All we have
to do is believe in the one who the Father has sent in
real-time to bring it to fruition in our life.
HEBREWS 4:4 For he spake in a certain place of the
seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh
day from all his works.
God first expressed Himself in the 6th Dimension in Word
form. He then became lower than the angels and
expressed Himself in a lesser dimension of the fleshman.
When God spake in a certain place it was us counseling
together in the Sixth Dimension… The 7th Dimension
didn’t counsel with Himself, but dropped into the 6th
Dimension and there we counseled together and we
decided how we were going to drop down and express the
intelligence in a lower dimension.
GENESIS 1:31 (revised) And we (God) saw every thing
that we had made down through the ages coming through
the First and Second Dispensations of Time, and, behold,
it was very good. (We were caught up to see the entire
creation of what we spoke, and, behold, it was very good!)
We spake from the Sixth Dimension of the seventh day
(or the Third Coming) on this wise, that we would rest from
all of our works when we would enter into the Third
Coming. And we (God) did rest the seventh day (in the
Third Coming) from all our works.
- A thousand years is as a Day with the Lord…
- We’ve already had six-thousand years (or six-days) of
works as we passed through the First and Second
Dispensations of Time, carrying out the works of the law
and the works of grace.
- We have now gone beyond the six-days and are now in
the seventh day, resting from all the works.
- We’ve gone beyond all deficiencies and inferiority
complexes, and have entered into the Third Coming, a
Day of Rest.
HEBREWS 4:5 And in this place again, If they shall enter
into my rest.
To enter into His rest, is to enter into the Seventh Day (or the
Third Coming). When you enter into the Third Coming by the
Door, then you enter into His Divine Love for one-another.
HEBREWS 4:6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must
enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered
not in because of unbelief:
There are some that must leave the old behind them and
enter into the New Message of Divine Love.
HEBREWS 4:7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying
in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day
if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
HEBREWS 4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then
would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
HEBREWS 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the
people of God.
HEBREWS 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he
also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from
his.
When we entered into the Third Coming we ceased from
the works of law and grace and we beheld all the work
and saw that it was good. Nothing was left undone. Jesus
said: it is finished… Brother Branham said it is finished!
HEBREWS 4:11 ¶ Let us labour therefore to enter into
that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of
unbelief.
II CORINTHIANS 12:1 ¶ It is not expedient for me
doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations
of the Lord.
II CORINTHIANS 12:2 I knew a man in Christ above
fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or
whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
such an one caught up to the third heaven.
II CORINTHIANS 12:3 And I knew such a man, (whether
in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God
knoweth;)
II CORINTHIANS 12:4 How that he was caught up into
paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not
lawful for a man to utter.
It’s unlawful for a man to go outside of the message to His
age and speak the Word of another day.
II CORINTHIANS 12:5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of
myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
II CORINTHIANS 12:6 For though I would desire to glory, I
shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear,
lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth
me to be, or that he heareth of me.
HEBREWS 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and
powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,
and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart.
HEBREWS 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not
manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened
unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
HEBREWS 4:4 For he spake in a certain place of the
seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh
day from all his works.
The 7th Dimension didn’t counsel with Himself, but dropped
into a certain place, into the 6th Dimension and there we
counseled together and decided how we were going to drop
down and express the intelligence in a lower dimension.
When the intelligence of the Seventh Dimension dropped
into the Sixth Dimension, we spake on this wise; “that we
would rest from all of our works when we would enter into the
Third Coming.” “And we did rest the seventh day inside the
Third Coming from all our works.”
it’s good hunting ground in the Third Coming
“nothing unlawful here”