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Now, when Adam and Eve listened to the lie of the Devil, the holy image of God left them, their fellowship was broken with God. Their fellowship of oneness with God was broken. The very minute they listened to the lie of the Devil, that broke their fellowship. And the very minute that you listen to the lie of the Devil, it'll break your fellowship. That's the very minute that you go out from the Presence of God, like she did, is when you failed to take God's Word just as It is. ~ 62-0211 ONENESS

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Sin broke the original fellowship in the garden. Fellowship was the Tree of Life to Adam. It was what kept his life going. The Bride Tree restored is the place of fellowship, but because of sin the only way back is through the identification with the death of Christ, which is the reconciliation of sin. Therefore, the imparting of life, in this life, can only come through baptism in Jesus’ Name and receiving the Holy Ghost. Fellowship is restored and life can flow.

3   Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:      4   According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:     5   Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, ~ EPHESIANS 1:3-5

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Heavenly places is not geography, it is position. We must realize that ALL spiritual blessings are not things that are given to us but are the benefits of the position God has called us to. What if we realize that we are seated in the Throne of God, not only being our position, but our authority? It would change everything about us. It would change our perspective of our life challenges, bringing out qualities that are in us because we ARE Sons of God.

16   And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.     17   And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.    18   And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.    19   And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. ~ MATTHEW 16:16-19

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The keys to the Kingdom unlock life to the individual, but it is only done by revelation. There is no indiscriminate imparting of life. You cannot “bind on earth” by your own human desire. Revelation is the Mind of Christ revealed, and when you operate by revelation it is the Head operating the Body. Binding and loosing is done in fellowship with the Body, just as in the garden. Even Paul, who was struck down by the Pillar of Fire on the road to Damascus, had to go to Ananias to receive life.

Now, notice, the greater works was to have the power in the church, not only to heal the sick by prayer, cast out devils by prayer, but to impart Eternal Life to believers. The Holy Ghost was coming and given into the hands of the church to impart life. Oh, that's what Calvary meant. ~ 60-0925  THAT DAY ON CALVARY

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The greater works of John 14:12 have inspired many discussions I am sure, but this perspective is something that really caught my attention. The Tree of Life was the source of life to Adam in the garden. However we view that, the prophet said when they sinned, they broke fellowship with God. The Tree of Life was God walking in fellowship with Adam, and that fellowship imparted life to him. The Impartation of life, by being Branches of that Tree, becomes the defining condition of this Message, and the cause of that is “Because I go unto My Father”. When the Lamb took the Book of Redemption, You, He sat back down on the Throne and revealed the contents of the Book, You, and said “This is My beloved Son in Whom I am pleased to dwell”. The resulting speaking, the fellowship, can and will impart life.

1   If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.     2   Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.     3   For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.     4   When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.     5   Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: ~ COLOSSIANS 3:1-5

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Where does Christ appear where you appear with him? It’s not in the sky. It is in you. You are already seated in heavenly places. That is why Paul tells us to seek those things above. The old man died and the real you is hid in Christ. Mortify, or put to death, all of the fleshly members that bring a perspective that is against the person that you really are.

And John looked to see a lamb... or see a lion, and what did he find? A Lamb, and it was a Bloody Lamb, a Lamb that had been slain. How long? Since the foundation of the world. The Lamb came forth, walked up to Him that had the Book in His right hand, and received the Book; climbed up on the Throne and sat down. That's it. It was over (when?) when the Seals was revealed. When the last one, that was everything that He had redeemed, there was nothing. ~ 63-1110M  SOULS THAT ARE IN PRISON NOW

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I never get tired of the thought of the Lamb taking the Book. YOU are that Book. The Lamb has claimed YOU. But it is not the you that was born of your earthly parents. The YOU is the One Who is born in YOU. THAT is the One that is predestinated to be conformed to His Image (Rom 8:29). The Lamb took the Book out of the Hand of Him that sat on the Throne, then sat back down. Where were you before the Lamb took the Book? In the Throne. Where were you after the Lamb took the Book? In the Throne. We are not waiting on anything else but a revelation of where we are now and have always been. What needs could you possibly have if you are already in the Throne?

"And as it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Oh, of the tens of thousands, there was three saved. You'd say to me then, "Preacher, what about all the thousands that's going to come with Him?" Now, brother, that was made up through many generations. I'll be surprised if a dozen comes out of this generation. "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and but few there'll be that find it. ~ 59-0301M  STRAIT IS THE GATE

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I have never heard any preachers use this quote. Most of the time we want to try and make people feel like they are okay, but I think this identifies that Bro Branham had an expectation of what and how the Bride would be at the rapture, or IN the rapture condition. We walk in this dimension, shining the light of the Word, declaring there is deliverance from the darkness, and people continue on in their lifestyles, heaping riches on themselves, not only materially but spiritually. It is a curse of Laodicea when people think they are spiritually rich, even in this Message, but are not led by the Spirit at all.

3   Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:      4   According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:      5   Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, ~ EPHESIANS 1:3-5

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Here we are called “predestinated unto adoption”. Peter calls us “a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people” (I Peter 2:9). Being predestinated means that it is preordained of God. We are not just “chosen” from Adam’s race, we are the Bride, part of Him. We are People Who are the Word of God made flesh. This is His thoughts of Himself coming to flesh. That is why we must die to our old man. We came the wrong way, and this old life must be dealt with by Calvary so that His Life can manifest in us.

And when a man has been borned again by the Word of God, predestinated to Eternal Life, called "The Elected," it'll be Word of God on top of Word, Word on Word! Not a denominational creed and then a Word, and a creed; and it won't work. You can't have that leaven in It! Only one Eternal Life, Jesus Christ the Word: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,..”. ~ 65-1207  LEADERSHIP

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Eternal Life is the Word. If you are predestinated to Eternal Life it means that you are the Word made flesh, not only in this day, but for eternity. The Life that is the real you never had a beginning and will never have an end. That same Logos that was made flesh in the Person of Jesus Christ has also been made flesh in you. Your first birth has passed away and you are now walking in a new creation Life.

27   And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.    28   And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.   29   For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. ~ ROMANS 8:27-29

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We don’t know what to pray for because we are time-minded. We think in hours and minutes, limiting our goals to this life, but God’s thoughts are higher than ours. He thinks about eternity and His desires for His creation. This is why ALL things work together for good. We often don’t see the good that is being accomplished because we don’t see what God is achieving with us. The predestination is not just about this life, even though we are to be an ambassador for Christ while here. The predestination is about eternity and what our function is beyond this realm of time. We are, right now, eternal beings, because eternity is born in us. We are predestinated to be conformed to His Image so that He will be the firstborn of a people that do the same works as Him.