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See, if you had Perfect Faith, you'd look right straight to God and believe it, and walk away. You would--you would have no need of coming into a prayer line. You'd have no need of these things, because your faith has done made it so. See? What would be the use for me saying, "I got to put a shirt on"? I got a shirt on! "How do you know you got a shirt on?" "Well, I see it, feel it, and I know it's there." Well, that's just how real that when Perfect Faith takes a hold. You don't--you don't need no more. It's already done; you know it. "How do you know it?" "Faith tells me so!" That's it. See? Do you get it now, what I mean? That Perfect Faith. ~ 63-0825E  PERFECT FAITH

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Faith is just as real as the reality. It is not a promise of something coming. It is the substance of things hoped for. Perfect faith is God’s Own thought revealed. Let’s put any request into the above statement. “What would be the use for me saying ‘I got to have a healing? I GOT A HEALING!’” “What would be the use for me saying ‘I need a rapture? I GOT A RAPTURE!’” Perfect faith for a perfect rapture!

Let somebody try to put you off the land, say he belongs, and you with the abstract in your hand. Let him try to do it. There ain't a law in the land can do it, because you hold the abstract. And there's no devil, no church, or any theology, that can overstep the boundaries of God's proof and abstract, that the baptism of the Holy Ghost has recognized us in Jesus Christ. We're just as sure to raise as He raised, because potentially we have already raised in Him. Amen. The old things. What does it do to our mortal bodies? It turns our opinion, changes our notions. It sets our affections on things which are Above. And the smoking, drinking, gambling, the things that you used to do, is dead. It's beneath you. And you are quickened. And this quickening power brings your body into a raptured condition, already. ~ 65-0410  THE EASTER SEAL

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When you have the abstract, your origin is sure. You know where you came from. If you know where you came from you know where you are going. What is in-between is time. Faith is a revelation of eternity. When that grabs you what difference does time mean? It is not an excuse to sin. It is a freedom from sin. It is the result of redemption.

10   For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.  11   For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.  12   Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.  13   And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. ~ JEREMIAH 29:10-13

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We can see a valuable type of our day when Israel comes back from Babylonian captivity to their original land. The fullness of redemption has been waved before us, our original condition. The turning of our heart should bring a desperation to fulfill His Word in us. The promise is that “ye shall seek me, and FIND ME, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” “All your heart” is the key. No distractions, no needs other than Him. He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him (Heb 11:6).

1   Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,    2   Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.   3    And this will we do, if God permit. ~ HEBREWS 6:1-3

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This is a favorite scripture of mine considering that God didn’t permit in Paul’s day, but it is for this age. The question is, have we yielded to this or is it just something we examine and talk about? When we talk about a rapture condition, we must think about having gone on unto perfection. Perfection is our position in Christ. It is the result of redemption, having been restored to our original condition. Have we attained to this? I think most of us are believing the rapture could happen at any time, but what about fulfilling this verse and many others that have to do with perfection. Are we in the Capstone? Is Christ in full control of our actions? These are things worth thinking about.

But look, friend, the time is coming, that when there is rising up a church. If we can't have faith for Divine healing, how are we going to have for the rapture? We've got to move out, friend. We've got to get out of this old, slow, church condition that we're in. Step out. Launch out. Cut the shorelines, and get out into somewhere, where you lose all senses of fear and doubt, out there where all things are possible, brother, just as free as it can be. You've got your sail set towards heaven, and nothing can stir you no way. You're gone that way; that's all. Nothing can harm you. Now, that's the kind of a church it's going to be, one of these days, according to the Bible. ~ 54-0719A  GOD'S PROVIDED WAY OF HEALING

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I believe a rapturing condition is so far beyond what we might think. When you think of the preeminence of Christ in a person and what that is like, particularly the potential of that life to do things that you could never have thought possible in your own humanity. Think of what an “all things are possible” condition will be like. There is no doubt, no fear, no limitations. That is what we have with the life of Christ in us. It will take the Mind of Christ to unveil it to us individually. We are living in the hour of this NOW!

3   And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.    4   But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. ~ MATTHEW 4:3-4

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Looking only at the first temptation, although all three apply, there are two things that come to the forefront. First, Satan challenged Jesus on Who He was; “If Thou be the Son of God…”, but secondly, He challenged Him to use His gift for Himself. This is just as big a challenge as the first. Causing Him to focus on Himself rather than others would prove that He was not Who He claimed to be. Using His authority and power contrary to the nature of God would break the Word of God. In the same way, the Bride is challenged at the end time, living in an age of egotism and self-worth, yet will live for others in spite of the pressure to live otherwise.

5   By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.    6   But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. ~ HEBREWS 11:5-6

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Enoch was a type given to us to see what a Rapturing condition is. For years we have looked at Enoch and pondered about the type of walk he must have had to warrant a translation. The simplicity is that he pleased God. While Genesis 5 mentions nothing about his faith, Paul knows from his own experience that it takes faith to please the Lord, so faith must be the key. Since faith is a revelation, then we can begin to put scriptures together to understand what this faith must have done. Romans 12:1-2 tells us we must be changed by the renewing of our mind so that we can “prove” what is acceptable, or pleasing, to God. The changing of our mind is what revelation is all about. It is accepting the Mind of Christ as our guide in place of our own humanity. To please God would be to manifest His thought of you.

And I am looking for a time of a break forth, of the Spirit of God, in these last days that we're now living in; for another surge of the Holy Spirit, into the Church; for a rapturing faith, just before it comes. And everything is sitting straight in order for that. And I believe that we're now at the time that the Word should have preeminence. I believe that the time to lay aside our creeds and our thoughts, and come back to the Word. ~ 63-1128E  THE TOKEN

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“And I believe that we're now at the time that the Word should have preeminence.” If that was true sixty years ago, it is even more true today. Preeminence is not Christ being “first” in your life. It is Him BEING your life. When there is no human element to hinder His Will in you, then will be when you will be in an Enoch condition where you “pleased God”, because you will be the complete revelation of His thought of you.

But, to the Church, the Bride, the Rapture is a revelation to Her. It's revealed to Her. That, the revelation, the true Bride of Christ will be waiting for that revelation of the Rapture. Now, it is a revelation, for the revelation is faith. You cannot have a revelation without it being faith. Faith is a revelation, because it's something that's revealed to you. Faith is a revelation. Faith is something that has been revealed to you, like it was to Abraham, that could call anything contrary to what had been revealed to him, as though it wasn't so. Now, faith, that's what faith is, is the revelation of God. The Church is built upon a revelation, the whole entire Body. ~ 65-1204  THE RAPTURE

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Have you ever really thought about the “revelation of the Rapture”? A revelation is the Mind of Christ revealed. It is the thought that inspires a word. What would it mean for us to have a revelation of the Rapture? Is it simply that we are going IN a Rapture, or would it be a revelation of a Rapture condition? Isn’t Divine healing revelation a revealing of your healed condition? The Rapturing condition is not something that is taught, but it is something that is revealed to you individually. The true Bride of Christ is waiting for this.

6   They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;   7   None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: ~ PSALM 49:6-7

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There is absolutely nothing that man can do to save himself. This reminds me of Gal 4:9, “But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?” This is a totally a “faith” walk. It is recognizing the unseen element of the eternal redemption and rejecting the things that are seen. The reality follows but the faith declares it right now. The normal Christian perspective is that we are going to New Jerusalem, but Paul says “Ye ARE come” right now (Heb 12:22-24). The rapture, being a revelation, is on this same principle. You have to experience it by faith before the reality comes to pass.