15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
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32-2 Now, we find Joseph then, that when... No man could touch or come to Pharaoh without first seeing Joseph. No man can come to the Father only by the Son. And when Joseph left the throne, they sound the trumpets; every knee bowed. "Joseph is coming forth." Glory. Someday every knee will bow and every tongue will confess, when He leaves the throne of His Father (See?) to come forth. Everybody will bear witness that He's the Son of God. You either... It was too late then; do it now.
41-5 Just like all them other spies did that went over and looked at Canaan. They come over there and said, "Oh, we look like grasshoppers the side of them. We can't take them. The Amalekites, and all these--what they're going to do." And they went back.
And Caleb and Joshua, being thoroughbreds (Amen!) by the Word of God, knowed God said, "I give you that land."
They said, "We're more than able to take it."
It depends on where you're born from. If you're borned of the Word of God, God's Word has the preeminence in His Church. That's what He died for. That's His purpose, that He might be able to achieve to have His preeminence working in His Church. Let the Word of God shine forth first, no matter what anything else looks like. I don't care if the intellectuals says this, that. That has nothing to do with it. God's Word said so, and we're more than able to take it.
"If I preached that in my church," a minister told me, said, "I'd be preaching to four posts in the church."
I said, "I'd preach to that." That's right. God's Word said so. We can do it. God said do it. Amen.
52-4 Same when He reveals Himself to Paul, another predestinated seed... There was Paul going around... He might said, "If I get a hold of that bunch, I'll tear them to pieces, because I'm Dr. Saul. I come up under Gamaliel. ('I come from the Moody Bible, or some other one.' See?) I--I'm a scholar. I know what I'm talking about. I'll tear that bunch of holy-rollers to pieces. And I tell you, great holy father, you just give me the permission to go down there, and I'll arrest every one of them noise makers down there. All this divine healing stuff, we'll stop it." Put it in his pocket and said, "I'm on my road down." And that day, my, about 11 o'clock in the day, a Light showed in his face, and he fell to the earth.
53-1 Why? He was a predestinated Seed. God said, "I have chose him. And I'm going to show him what great things he'll suffer for My Name's sake. I'll send him to the Gentiles and disgrace him in every way that they can be disgraced, but yet he'll bear My Name."
Paul went down there till he got all of his ecclesiastical stuff cut off of him, down at the backside of the desert for three years and a half, down there in Arabia, until he learned the Word and the Word become he, and he become a prisoner. Here he come back in chains of love, "All my seminary experience is gone. I'm a prisoner to Jesus Christ. (Amen!) Philemon, my brother, I'm a prisoner of Jesus Christ. I only can speak and say what He tells me."
53-3 God needs prisoners today that'll prison yourself to His will, to His Word. That's what Paul was. No matter how much intellectual he'd learned, he'd knowed God by revelation. Yes, sir. The intellectual went all the way out of the business then when the revelation come, which upon the rock the Church is built. Yes, sir.
Notice, he was a predestinated Seed. The Holy Ghost alone shows you Who He is. There's no man... They'll make you Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and everything else out of it. See? But the Holy Ghost will reveal Him as the Lord God of heaven made manifest, that that is (oh,) Him.
56-4 A man said the other day to me, standing and talking, he said, "Well, what denomination do you belong to?"
I said, "None."
"What?"
"None," I said, "I belong to a Kingdom."
"Well, how do you join that?"
"You don't join it; you are borned in it."
"What kingdom is that?"
I said, "The mystical Body of Jesus Christ. By one Spirit we're baptized into this Body, borned of His Spirit, then we belong to a Kingdom. And our lives are not Americans; we're not Germans; we're not nothing; we're Christians. We are settled and walk in the Spirit, a love slave from the things of the world. And our rights to the world we sold out and bought this Pearl of great Price, and walk and let the Holy Spirit manifest Itself. That's what His real Church is. That's what you are, or what I am, if we'll let ourselves go and serve God by His Word and not by what some creed says.
58-5 The prophet Paul said, "In the last days the people would be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good. (Heady, high-minded. See?), having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from such turn away; for this is the kind that goes from house to house and leads silly women laden away with divers lust (with shorts and bobbed hair, and everything else)--led away with divers lust," and say, "It's all right. Ah, they're crazy out there. Don't pay no..." See? Never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth.
And these men resisted it as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses: Able to produce a church and produce a group of people just as... But their folly will be made manifest when Jesus takes His Bride and sets Her up here and says, "This is Her," and away He goes with Her. That's right. Their folly will be made known.
64-4 Why, I went to that tribe of Shangai there. If a young girl isn't married by a certain age, she has to leave the--leave the tribe, take off her tribal paint. She goes into the city; she's just a roustabout. And if she... Before she's married, she has to be tested for her virgincy. If she be found guilty of committing adultery with some man, he--she has to tell who it is, and they're both killed together.
Oh, they can--they can outshine what these so-called... What if you did that in so-called Christians? Ninety-nine percent of them would die before daylight (That's right. Right.), both man and women. You know that's right.
65-3 Now, notice, God making Hisself known. Not... We're not suppose to make converts to Christianity by a government, but by the revelation of Christ in you as God was in Christ. As God was in Christ, Christ in you. When... What God did in Christ, Christ does in you. What signs did God in Christ, Christ does in you. Oh, isn't that beautiful? Oh, my. I like that.
Jesus said at that day (that's this day)--at that day (when this revelation's made known) you will know that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me, I in you, and you in Me. (When the revelation's made manifest,) at that day, you shall know that I and the Father are One. I'm in the Father, and the Father's in Me. Then when the revelation comes forth, then it's I in you and you in Me."
There you are. See the manifold threefold... What for? To bring it back. We've got to be...
82-4 Now, it is promised in the last days that the original faith in the same to be restored to the children of God at the time of the Bride Tree (Malachi 4). God said, "Before the world burns up with fire, behold I send to you Elijah the prophet, and he will restore the faith of the children." Now, that wasn't the first Elijah that come. No, no. Now, we don't teach here Elijah's mantel, and Elijah's blankets, and all those things like that. We just teach the Word of God. See? That's what He said. See, we got all kind of Elijah this and Elijah that, which is nonsense. That's--that's--we know that, That's--I'm not talking about that. And you that's spiritual minded understand. See, the late--hour's getting late and can't put it all on this tape, of course.
AMEN!
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