The Observer and The Observed
MATTHEW 13:15-17
15 For this people's heart is waxed gross (gross is calloused – tough skinned, like what we would say a resistant attitude), and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed (people of who’s spirits are resistant to the things of God); lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. (Notice here how that healing comes by conversion, and conversion is to be turned around – it is experiencing a change in your understanding.
*In Eden, the serpent turned Eve’s understanding around from believing truth into believing a lie, and that was what brought death and sickness into the world of the entire human race. But healing comes by having our understanding being restored back to truth again (and we all need healing in some area of our lives), and so our healing comes by our conversion back to truth – when by the grace of God we can come into an understand of truth from within our hearts, because it is truth that sets us free.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. (Notice here – he is not talking about ordinary people who can see or hear with their natural sight and hearing, but He is speaking about people who are able to observed and recieve truth at a deeper level, of being able to see and understand the things of what God has revealed in their generation)
17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
MATTHEW 13:23
23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it (Again - anyone can hear words with their natural ears, but the good ground (of what He is speaking of here) are those who can understand it – and this isn’t just like an intellectual knowledge, but it is being able to recognise the truth that God is making known for your day and season); which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. (We will all bear fruit to different levels of the revelation of this hour)
PSALM 78:1
1 ¶ Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
MATTHEW 13:34-35
34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
I CORINTHIANS 13:12
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
REVELATION 10:7
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God (this word “mystery” means “the hidden things”) should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
*This word “finished” in Greek is the word “teleo” {tel-eh'-o} – and it’s the same word that Jesus used on the cross when he said “it is finished”, because He knew that the penalty and judgement of all the sins of the entire human race had been completely paid for in full after He had fully satisfied God's justice by His death on the cross.
**And so Jesus declares that it is “finished”, it is “teleo”, because He knew that God could never judge the world for its sin again because the total judgment of all sins had been fully paid for in that one great sacrifice of Christ.
This is why with the woman that was caught in adultery that was brought before Jesus – He did not condemn her, because He knew that her condemnation would be placed upon him at the cross. And so He took her judgement upon Himself so that she could go free.
**And so this is why that if God would ever try to make someone else pay for their sins, then He would be violating His own justice, because Christ has already satisfied that full payment and justice of God in full, and so God cannot exact that payment again.
Brother Branham said that “God made me pay for my sins in Christ”
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And when the entire Word of God, in complete, was headed up in a human body called Jesus Christ, in there God made me pay for my sins, in Him there.
**And so this is why that it is impossible for God to judge you and I for our sins again, because our sins have already been fully judged by God in the sacrifice of Christ.
**If sin was able to come into the world by one man Adam, then sin could also be taken out of the world by one man – Jesus Christ.
The Observer and The Observed
Note - We will only have time this morning to introduce this subject because (the Lord willing) we will be having a visiting ministry next Sunday – and so we won’t be trying to finish this subject today.
This word “Observe” can have different meanings depending on its context.
*It can have the meaning of keeping some tradition like a national holiday or something on that order - but its primary meaning means to watch and notice – to look closely at something - to look at something with focus and to ponder upon it - to notice and perceive.
*Like an animal watcher would watch the animal and observed the animal’s behaviour. We often use the saying “observe and learn”. As humans we learn by observing because this is a very powerful way that God has designed us to learn by.
**And so we want to make it clear from the outset about the title of this subject, in that we are the observer, and God is the one that has unveiled himself in such a way in this day, so that He is the one that we as the observer are wanting to observe.
*We know that this mighty God of all time and space has unveiled Himself to us in this hour by the message that He has sent to us through the ministry of Revelation 10:7, and so because we have responded to that message, then this in itself is the evidence that we have been called and ordained in this hour to behold and to observe, and to learn and to perceive and to comprehend this great unveiling of God – of the mystery of God that has fully revealed Himself to us in this day.
And we will all do that to different levels as each of us clime to our individual measures of faith in the revelation of this hour – like the scripture tells us in Mathew 13, some 30, 60, and 100 fold, because fruit is your revelation of God.
REVELATION 10:7
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God (the hidden things) should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
*The hidden things cannot be finished until there is a people on earth that can first observed and comprehended those mysteries.
And so it takes both the observer and the observed together to fulfil and complete this prophecy in this hour.
And so this is what we have been raised up for in this day – to be the observers of these things. And so we must understand our part and our commission.
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154 … And when I was standing there, baptizing the seventeenth person, a Light come down from Heaven, shining down above there, like a Star falling from the Heaven. A Voice said, "As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, your Message shall forerun His second Coming, into all the world." This day this Scripture is fulfilled.
*There are many messages that Brother Branham preached after the opening of the seven seals that has been preached for the purpose to introduced to us a person that He had been sent by God to introduce to us, and of whom this great one would require a people on earth that would be able to observe and comprehend that revealing.
Messages such as:
The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us.
Who Do You Say This Is?
The Identified Christ of all Ages
The Presence of God Unrecognised
Sir’s We would see Jesus.
When their Eyes were Opened, They knew Him
There is a Man here that can Turn on the Light
Who is This Melchizedek?
A Greater than Solomon is Here Now
Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed
*All these sermons are showing us that there is someone that had arrived on the scene and has been unveiled to us, and this is why that God had sent this ministry of Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7 to us – for the purpose of introducing that person to us, and so this is now the person that we are to focus our observation on in order for the mystery of God to be finished for this hour.
This is what Luke 17:30 was all about – the revealing of the son of man again at the end time – but that revealing is not available for everyone to observe, but only for the ones who were foreordained and given access to that revealing.
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31 And Jesus said that to weed down His crowd, see, till He could get the group together. And out of all those people, they, only eleven of them then understood actually Who He was. They knowed that He was God, and God alone. Now, the...
32 My subject this morning is to reveal, or, unveil that God.
33 God has always, in every age, has hid behind a veil, all ages, but He's been God all the time. See? But He's kept Hisself hid from the world, and reveals Hisself to His Elected, like the apostles at that day.
**If we could think of this like a great artist that is about to unveil a great masterpiece of some great painting or sculpture – he is unveiling it for the purpose so that it can be observed and admired and comprehend by those of whom it is being unveiled to.
***Over the last few services, we have been speaking about how that our association with the messenger of this hour (The Elijah ministry of Malachi 4) is the evidence of how that we can know for certain that our lives are being supernatural guided by God in the continuation of the fulfilment of all the stories of the bible that have been prophesied of regarding the events that have follow on from this seventh angel’s ministry.
*Each one of us as individuals make up a small but necessary portion of the worldwide gentile bride body of believers of the message of this hour.
Because we have come to understand over the years (by the opening up of the seven seals) that the Rebekah of the book of Genesis in the bible, that her life was only telling of and foreshadowing the real Rebekah of this end time gentle bride body of believers that has met with the real Eleazer (the seventh angel’s ministry) at the real evening time of which is at this end time age that we are living in right now.
**Because everything in the bible was written for these last days, because everything that is in a seed to be manifested in its reality form at harvest time.
**In Genesis there was a story of Sarah who met God in the form of a human body – but that story was only foreshadowing the real Sarah that would come on the scene in this last age.
**And so all of those stories were placed as seeds in the bible of which would have to be fully manifested at harvest time in the last age.
**And so this is why that we can know for sure that we are the repeat of Sarah again, because we have also seen that same God revealing Himself through a human body by the revealing of the secrets of the heart in this day like He did back in that day just before the destruction of the world by fire.
**And so because we have observed this – then by this observation we can know for sure that we have met the same God in this day that Sarah met back in her day.
**And not only that, but we also know that we are the real Esther in this day, because we have also been raised under Mordechai’s (William Branham’s) ministry, and so we know that we will also see the resurrection of our people just like Queen Esther saw the resurrection of her people. And we will also be changed back young again like Sarah was because we are the real Sarah.
**Because all of these scriptures were placed in the bible in seed form in order to come to a full manifestation and harvest that would be lived out in these last days by a specific group of chosen people that would have an ear to hear and to perceive these things.
**And so the message of this hour has woken us up from our amnesia, because we are now coming to realize after all these years that as a bride body of believers that we have been living out all these scriptures in our lives by the guidance of the supernatural power and providence of God.
**And so this is how we can know for sure that we are the other half of the Chinese laundry ticket of all these prophecies concerning the manifestation of the end time gentile bride of Jesus Christ.
***We are the little boy waving in the mirror that has finally come to realise that we are looking at ourselves.
Opening scripture…
I CORINTHIANS 13:12
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
**And so this is why that our identification in this hour is not about our natural conduct of how sinless we can live our lives, because that would be us trying to judge our inward self by our outside fallen body when they are not even compatible because Paul tell us about that in Roman’s 7.
**But the true conduct that we are to see about ourselves is by matching our lives with the pattern of the scriptures that have been and are being interpreted in our lives.
**We know that we cannot simply judge people by their human behaviour and conduct, because the bible tells us that “Jacob have I loved (said God), but Esau have I hated”, yet Esau had the better conduct as an upright human citizen, while Jacob was actually a deceiver in his conduct.
**And so this is why you must not judge yourself as you go along the journey of your life by looking at the conduct of your life from a human angle as your evidence, but your evidence of being a part of the bride category for this age is your scriptural journey and conduct of you being able to recognise the truth for your day.
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Putting these verses together we see that there is only one group of people, and that a very special group of people who are able to hear what the Spirit says in each age. It is one special group that receives the revelation for each age. That group is of God, because the group that cannot hear is not of God. (John 8:42-44.) The group that can and does hear what the Spirit is saying and receives the revelation thereof is that group described in I Corinthians 2:6-16. They are the ones who have the Spirit of God. They are the ones that are born of God. They are baptized into the body of the Lord Jesus Christ by His Spirit. They are baptized with the Holy Ghost.
**This is why we have been saying all along, is that the evidence of the Holy Ghost is not proven to yourself by how sinless you can live your life, but the evidence is those who can receive the word for their day – it is when you can continue to walk in union with the unfolding of the word for this hour.
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6 …Now, preaching usually catches the sinner, brings him under condemnation by the Word. But teaching places a man positionally what he is. And we can never rightly be able to have faith until positionally we know what we are.
**Because of the thoughts of the eternal thoughts of what God had thought about His seventh angel messenger, during Brother Branham’s lifetime, it would have been impossible for him to have not fulfilled all the scriptures that were prophesied of him, because his life was continually being fully controlled supernaturally by the prophecy of the word concerning his life.
And so this is no different for us as a bride body of believers, and this is why that it is also impossible for us to not fulfil all the word that is prophesied of us also.
**But just as it took Brother Branham many years to see his position in the word by how his life matched certain scriptures, so it has taken us time to see the same thing about ourselves.
**And so as we are maturing in the revelation of this hour, we are becoming more and more conscious of the scriptures that have been written of us in the bible of what God had written in mystery form of what He had always thought of us to be in His eternal thinking.
Because this is the secret and the understanding that God is trying to covey and to get us all to see in this hour - of our true identity of who we really are, and of how that we were always a part of God’s eternal thoughts.
*And so this has been our subject for the last few services, of our lost Identity being revealed to us, and the healing of our lost memory.
**Because after Nebuchadnezzar’s understanding returned back to him and he remembered his true identity of who he really was, it was then that he was able to go back to the position of which he had fallen from.
DANIEL 4:34
34 ¶ And at the end of the days (we are also living at the end of the days) I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
*Notice the secret of this verse here – of who king Nebuchadnezzar is observing here at the end of the days of the time of when his understanding is returning to him - he is observing the mighty God unveiled before him. The mystery of who God was was finally finished to him on a personal level.
…and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
**In one of our previous services, we talked a little about the concept of how that God required that there would be observers of His creation in order to satisfaction the purpose of expression – in other words, God wanted to reveal Himself, but without anyone to reveal Himself to (of whom would be capable of observing him), then there would be no deep that could respond to the deep that was in God. And so it requires both the observed and the observer to complete and satisfy the equation.
**Just in the same way that an artist needs to have observers that can understand and appreciate his art or there would be no real purpose for that work of art to exist – because if art could not be expressed and comprehended by intelligent and observing people, then it could never truly be expressed at all.
***It would be possible for the art to still be created (just like God could have gone on and created a great and beautiful creation), but that art could never be expressed in a way of being appreciated and admired and comprehended if there was no one who was able to receive that expression.
***And this is why that the message of the hour teaches us that it was God’s ultimate purpose to express Himself – and so in order to express Himself, He needed observers that would be able to give fulfilment to that expression.
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175 God became, from God, to become me, to take my sin upon Him, that He might make me Him, amen, back to His great purpose of sons and daughters of God, for He is the Eternal Father. That attribute was in Him, see, so that had to be displayed.
176 Now see the whole threefold purpose? See, to express Himself, He wants to become... Now, the--the world is lost, now He has to express Himself in a Man, to become a Saviour, through the reconciliation of the Blood from His cross. Now, He had to become that, to die, in order to save and to bring Hisself back into the Church, to have the preeminences in His Church.
We see that three-fold secret all through the bible.
And that threefold secret, is Adam and Eve in Eden.
Abraham and Sarah in Canaan.
Isaac and Rebekah in Canaan.
Boaz and Ruth in Elimelech’s restored inheritance.
Ahasuerus and Esther in the kingdom.
Christ and His gentile Bride in the Millenium
***And so it is by this intelligent comprehension of the observer that gives the observed the channel of being able to express Himself to the observer.
**It is the condition of a sinner that can realise that he needs a saviour that gives the outlet and purpose for God to be able to express Himself and reveal His true character of being a Saviour.
**It is the condition of the person that is sick that allows God to be observed and comprehended by the observer of God’s true character of being a Healer.
*And this is why that all these negative things that we experience in this life and that are in existence for a season in our lives are for the purpose so that we will have the ability to truly observe and be able to comprehend the true character and nature of God. We can only observe stars upon a backdrop of darkness – and the darkness in our lives has only been allowed by God for the purpose so that we can be true observers of His great saving and healing grace.
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117 Being Eternal with Him, at the beginning... The Eternal Life that you had, His thought of what you was, only, He wanted you to... He wanted me to stand in the pulpit, say. He wanted you to set in the seat tonight. Then we are serving His Eternal purpose. And the one that left home, only come to the earth to serve His purpose. Is that right? All right. Then, after it's finished, it's brought back in a glorified state; it's matured and brought back again.
EPHESIANS 3:11
11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
*** After this life of when we have finished observing God as a healer and a saviour and a redeemer and all of those great mysterious attributes of Himself. Then God’s eternal and ongoing purpose will still continue to unfold and express itself throughout eternity to us as His people of which He has designed with the ability and for the purpose of being eternal observers of His great nature and of full expression of the art of His eternal and unending creative attributes and abilities.
***And so this is what the fellowship between God and man looks like and how it works – fellowship with God is the unfolding and the revealing of Himself greater and greater to you, because this is what an eternal marriage relationship between God and man looks like.
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Now then, there is also the thought of the future partaking of the hidden manna. I think it will be the eternal partaking of the revelation of Jesus Christ in the eternal ages to come. How else could we begin to know the unsearchable riches of His own Being? All that we have longed to know, all our unanswered questions, all that will be revealed. It will be from Christ Who is our life that we receive it. Oh, sometimes we think we get to know a little of Him and His Word down here, and it is so good, it makes us rejoice; but one day when our flesh changes, that Word and He will become what we had never dreamed possible.