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And it's the nature of the church to surrender to Christ, surrender to His will. Just surrender! She has no thinking of her own; she takes His Word, not somebody else's. If Eve would have done that, we'd have never had to die; but she listened to reasonings. But the real Bride of Christ takes the Headship of Christ, the Word, and only believes God's Word. That's the real, the restored Bride. Hallelujah! It's nearly time, friends, it's later than you think. We're at the evening time. The Holy Spirit is here tonight. I know it's a little, bitty group. ~ 62-0706  JEHOVAH JIREH 2

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“She has no thinking of her own.” The Headship of Christ is NOT listening to the Word and being obedient in spite of your own thinking. The Headship of Christ is when the human element goes out and Christ fills that vacancy with His life. It is the nature of the feminine to be subject to the masculine, and it is the blending of the two that produces the full Tree of Life, prepared to distribute fruit of Life. It is not the Life of the Tree separate from the Branches. The Two are One.

They will love Him, love His, and will have His potentials, for He is their Head. And they are His subjects, subject to His Head. Headship of Christ was His. Notice what harmony! Jesus never did anything until seen of the Father, or, the Father showed Him first. Harmony between God and Christ, see, John 5:19. So will the Bride, and He shows Her His Word of Life. He shows Her, and She receives It. She never doubts It. Nothing can harm Her, not even death. ~ 62-0318  THE SPOKEN WORD IS THE ORIGINAL SEED

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The objective of God is to take preeminence in His Bride and to be the Head of all things in and through Her. Headship is the reality of Christ in you the hope of glory. It is the Life of God flowing through the Branches, producing the fruit of Life and restoration to all creation. Headship is Adoption, Capstone, Sonship, third pull, seventh seal; all that we are looking for. It is the fulfillment of David’s desire in Psalm 27:4, the scripture used as a text in the Rapture message, “One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life”.

1   I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,   2   That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.   3   For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:  ~ ROMANS 9:1-3

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What is this “continual sorrow” that Paul is experiencing? In the previous chapter he states, “We are NOT in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you”. This sorrow is not fleshly sorrow because his brethren are not receiving the Word. It is a Godly sorrow, a Spirit groaning within, that grieves because the Gospel is not embraced. What about us? Does the Spirit groan in us? Do we see creation as OUR children? I believe we need to have a Gethsemane experience, that brings a passion for the restoration of all things. Without that we are just hirelings, doing what we are supposed to do, rather than being the actual ambassadors of the passion of Christ.

6   Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.    7   He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.     8   His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies.     9   He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour. ~ PSALM 112:6-9

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A righteous man is not just a man that does good things. He is a man who lives in a different world. When Christ rose from the dead He lives in a world that this world knows nothing about. He is not bound by laws of sin and death and fears nothing. He doesn’t fear bad news: His heart is fixed, steady. THAT CHRIST LIVES IN YOU! The Headship of Christ is not Him whispering in your ear that you are commanded to do certain things. It is Christ IN YOU the hope of Glory. It is His nature living in you, operating your actions, your thinking, your motives. All is Christ.

30   Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.     31   A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD. ~ JEREMIAH 25:30-31

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“The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter His Voice from His holy habitation.” Where is His holy habitation? It is Zion, New Jerusalem, His Bride. As we sit and wonder how long this world will continue to go on, we fail to realize the position we hold as Bride. There is NO roaring from Zion without His Bride in Her position. Romans 8:23 tells me the Bride is groaning for the redemption of the Body. Of course we assume that groaning is about a new body, but could it be the redemption of the Body of Christ, the restoration of His Voice for the speaking of the restoration of all creation? Eternal Life is living for others and our groaning will NEVER be about our own self-preservation.

29   And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,      30   By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.     31   And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. ~ ACTS 4:29-31

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In the face of great persecution their prayer was not to be delivered but to speak the Word with boldness. We must realize that our goal is NOT to get out of here, but to fulfill our position of being the Voice of God. As the second Eve we fulfill the position of declaring the Glory of God and bringing forth life in a spiritual way, just as the first Eve was supposed to do in a physical way.

45   Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.    46   This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. ~ I SAMUEL 17:45-46  /  9   Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. ~ JEREMIAH 20:9

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David defeated Goliath that day, not for himself, but for all Israel. Outmatched in the flesh, but with a fire in his heart and a boldness in who he was and what he was called for, he won an impossible battle. This Message was given to show us we are David’s; we are Sons and not servants. We need the boldness of our position to declare the Word of the Lord, not only over sickness or our own personal battle, but over death that has gripped this dimension since the fall in the garden. It is what we were made for.

38   Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.    39   And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. ~ MATTHEW 26:38-39

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This is one of the most powerful moments in the whole scripture. We view it as Jesus begging God to not make Him die, but He finally gives in, “Okay Father, You win.” I think it is much more than that. His soul, His whole being was sorrowful unto death and He was talking about wanting a ”cup” to pass. I was reading that this word “cup” in Aramaic can be linked to the nurturing, caring quality of a mother. The feminine side of God (yes there is, since Adam was created male AND female in the Image of God), the tender, loving, passionate quality that designed a plan that included His Own death. There is no way for us to understand intellectually what Jesus is going through, but as Bride we possess this same quality and it should be just as real. It is what God’s whole plan is about. He is revealing Himself as the embodiment of Love to His creation, doing everything required to restore man back to fellowship. The Bride is the Branches of THIS Tree of LOVE.

2   And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD:      3   And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. ~ EXODUS 6:2-3

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The Name of JEHOVAH is very interesting. Most Jewish scholars recognize that the Name is feminine, but it is not female in gender because God is neither male or female. Bro  Branham says, “She is flesh of His flesh, bone of His bone; Life of His Life, Power of His Power! She is Him! As man and woman are one, and woman taken from his side; She had taken a Spirit, the feminish Spirit, from Him”. Christ was both masculine and feminine in purpose. The male has the seed, the life, and the female manifests the seed. The name “Eve” means “life giver” (She is the second Eve), or the one who “declares”. God had never appeared to the children of Israel as JEHOVAH, the One Who nurtures and takes care of them, and manifests that quality through a man (Moses). We must recognize that the Bride was ALWAYS part of Him and His way of “declaring” Himself. That is why Jesus said, “I am the Vine (the Life, the One with the Seed), and YOU are the Branches (Fruit bearer).

1   Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?      2   For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.     3   So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.      4   Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. ~ ROMANS 7:1-4

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Imagine that there are two worlds: one of time and the fall, and one of God and Eternity. Both exist right now. The Law came to identify that you live in a world, a condition, that cannot please God. The other world we will call “righteousness”. Christ came to open the door into the other world, but you cannot go in without leaving the first world and the ONLY way is to identify in the death of Christ. It is impossible to live in both worlds at the same time. You may think you are living in the new world because you act right, but it is only by revelation that you can see clearly where you are.