The Pen of God Pt.2
EXODUS 34:1
1 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
God is able to write – and if we break the word of what God has written onto our lives because of some human distress or failing, then God is able to write that word again into our lives. Moses broke the word because of his anger, but God wrote that word again.
HEBREWS 8:10
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
- God and man in fellowship again.
*Adam broke the word that God had written on the tablet of his heart – that is why his nature changed, but God is able to write His word back again into the hearts of men.
If he can write on stone, then he can certainly write his word into our hearts.
The Pen of God Pt.2
**From last week we saw how that God is very powerful with His pen in that He is able to convey His thoughts every clearly and very personally to us through many different languages - the language of the stars, and the language of nature, and the language of the stories of people’s lives.
*That is why the bible is made up of so many stories of people’s lives, because so much of what we learn about God is through the stories of others.
*The message of the hour is not just the doctrine of the written word, but it is also the experiences of a 20th century prophet.
It was by these many experiences in the prophet’s life that God has also taught us by.
REVELATION 20:12
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
*Notice how the stories of these people’s lives were written in a book. So your life is a story that is being written in the language of the everyday events of your life and then transferred to a book.
*So God uses the language of your life’s experiences to write a story and to express Himself to you through that story and also through the story of others.
**Like we saw with Job, God first wrote the story of Job into Job’s life, and then he wrote that same story into the bible for hundreds of millions of future readers to read and to learn of what God expressed and revealed to Job through Job’s sufferings.
JOB 19:23-25
23 ¶ Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
So your life is a written book – it’s a story that is being unfolded from day to day with a new chapter beginning at the climax of every cliff hanging trial that the drama of your life prescribes to you, just like in a good novel.
From last week we saw how that a human being wants to natural run away from storms – But God’s way in the beginning was to speak to the storm.
***When Adam saw a storm coming, he never ran from it, he spoke to the storm and it calmed.
*Jesus spoke to the storm and it calmed.
*Brother Branham spoke to the storm and it calmed.
*And so in this hour (because the title deed has come back into our possession), we have been given authority to speak to the storm and see it calm – but we are not trained to respond in this way, because we have become so accustomed to not having dominion over the storms.
*So God has to retrain his children in the ways of the supernatural of what Adam had of the supernatural at the beginning.
Amy Carmichael was an Irish Christian missionary to India who opened an orphanage and founded a mission.
Thou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow,
Thou art the Lord who soothed the furious sea,
What matter beating wind and tossing billow
If only we are in the boat with thee.
Hold us in quiet through the age-long minute,
While Thou art silent, and the wind is shrill:
Can the boat sink while Thou, dear Lord, art in it?
Can the heart faint that waiteth on Thy will?
Amy Carmichael
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We have been speaking about the Pen of God, of how that God is able to write and express Himself in so many different ways.
JEREMIAH 17:1
1 ¶ The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
Sin is something that has been written on the table of a man’s heart because of the fall in Eden – man’s heart being his nature.
And this is why the fallen nature of man is so difficult to change – it requires the Pen of God to rewrite that nature back into man’s heart, because your old nature has been written on your heart with an iron pen of sin.
**So you need a nature that has no unbelief of the word written into it.
**From last week we saw how that God can write on many different surfaces and in many different languages.
*He can write in the sand. He can write on plaster. He can write on stone. He can write in the stars. He can write in the pyramid. He can write in nature. He can write into your life by the experiences that he has designed for your life.
**That is why when storms of life come along – we need to see that it is God that is in the boat with us, and that He is about to write a new chapter into our lives of what He is wanting to speak to us in the language of that trial.
He wants to advance your character by writing his word into the tablet of your heart, and like Job, He will reveal Himself to you in a greater way through the writing of His pen.
*So a trial is simply the pen of God writing onto your life in the language of that trail, and so we need to learn how to read that language.
*When God writes something of His word into your life through a trial, then people can receive healing for their own lives by the trials of what God has written into your life.
*So your trial of what God writes with His pen into your life is also for the healing of someone else.
PSALM 107:20
20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
*He can send that word to people through nature, through the stars, through the written word, and through someone’s lived life also.
**We saw how that there was healing written by the pen of God in nature of what we read last week.
**When hurt and damaged people are exposed to nature of what God has written of His word in the form of the language of nature, then that brings healing to people.
Nature is just God’s word in a different language.
They tell us that one of the golden rules of good novel writing is to “show and not tell”. This is a skill that good writers develop.
Examples of Telling verses Showing
Telling: I walked through the forest. It was already fall and I was getting cold.
Showing: The orange leaves crunched under my feet as I pulled up the collar of my coat.
Telling: When Mary failed her test, she was embarrassed.
Showing: When Mary saw the big red F on her work, her cheeks flushed. She crumpled up the test and hid it in her desk, hoping no one noticed.
Telling: The forest is scary.
Showing: The forest seemed full of staring eyes. The branches look like gnarled hands reaching out to grab me. The air smelt like mildew and decay.
Notice - two kinds of languages written from within the same language – languages within a language.
**This “Show, don’t tell” rule is common advice that most writers know about – and God is the best writer of all writers, and so very often, instead of telling us, He shows us by the stories and the experiences of what we go through – so we are always being shown something by God.
**So this is why when you see a trial coming on the horizon of your life, you must learn to have the attitude of “Lord, what are you trying to show me with this Trial – what is the lesson that you want me to learn?”
**Your life is really just a series of pictures and sounds that your body is transmitting to your spirit – but through those senses of your body of pictures and sounds and smells and touch and taste, it is God wanting to make Himself known to you, to have fellowship with you.
II SAMUEL 22:1-3
1 ¶ And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
2 ¶ And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation (A horn is what an animal uses to fight with – it’s a symbol of power), my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
Notice how David is speaking in pictures.
**The bible is the written word of God that he penned through men that caught the inspiration of the word that was already established in heaven, and then wrote it down by the inspiration of God.
PSALM 119:89
89 ¶ LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
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Now I know in answering one question another one is apt to come up, and people ask me, "If Eve fell that way, what did Adam do, for God lays the blame on Adam?" That is simple. The Word of God is forever settled in heaven. Before one speck of stardust was made, that Word (God's law) was there EXACTLY AS IT IS WRITTEN IN OUR BIBLE. Now the Word teaches us that if a woman leaves her husband and goes with another man she is an adultress and is no longer married and the husband is not to take her back. That Word was true in Eden as it was true when Moses wrote it in the law. The Word can't change. Adam took her back. He knew exactly what he was doing, but he did it any way. She was a part of him, and he was willing to take her responsibility upon himself. He would not let her go. So Eve conceived by him. He knew she would. He knew exactly what would happen to the human race, and he sold the human race into sin that he might have Eve, for he loved her.
We want to see how Adam’s nature changed immediately after he chose the way of sin. Satan had writing a corrupted code of sin into his nature through unbelief of the word.
GENESIS 3:8-12
8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
9 ¶ And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
11 ¶ And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
*Look at this social breakdown of a relationship. Adam had just previously forfeited the entire human race in order to save his wife, but now he is willing to pass the entire blame for his sin onto her – so something had changed in the spirit of his nature, and this is what has been passed down to the rest of the human race from that point on.
*We are living at the harvest time of where social failure is paramount throughout the world.
We have traded material success for social failure.
*Instead of living our lives for a greater purpose outside of ourselves, we have been taught to focus inwards upon ourselves as individuals in the world, and this trait is what has been at the foundation of the problem that has always proven to be at the root of the failure of societies.
*We see the same example with Abraham and Isaac who were both willing to effectively sell their wives to other men in order to save their own skin. Where did that idea come from? It came from what we saw of what Adam did directly after the fall of him being willing to sell out his wife to save himself from judgement.
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89 So, when you watch nature, now we see where every age, and directly designed it out that we're in the last age. The shuck has pulled away. And we've had fifteen years, nearly twenty now, years, of the Message sweeping across from nation to nation, and this morning hooked-up across this nation, see, and no organization. It can't organize. There has nothing ever been like it, or will be hereafter. See?
The--the thing that's the matter with the Message today, is, those who obtain It in their hearts must lay in the Presence of the Son, to get ripened. (notice how he is speaking in a language of natural types the spiritual – those who obtain this revelation of the end time message in their hearts must lay in the presence of the revealed word to ripen our character and relationship with Christ, and so that means for us to be in the word like being in nature, and to expose yourself to the message of what God has sent in this day, because there is healing power in the revelation of the word of this hour. The word of this hour is so rich and so powerful that it will literally change your body from mortal to immortal) See? You can pick up the Message, and then let the Son bake all the greenness out of you, see, making matured Christians. See what I mean? God is coming soon, to receive His Church, and we must have that type of Christians for Him to receive. The--the wheat has got to get ripe.
We are to be resurrected back from what we fell from in Eden by the SON light of the word of this age – resurrected to a place that with every storm that we walk into in life, we can have dominion over that storm as sons and daughters of God just like Adam had, and Jesus had, and what God showed us in the message with Brother Branham’s third pull experiance.
***If by simply being in nature can bring healing to a person (because nature is actually the word of God materialised), and there is healing when a person is exposed to the presence of the word of God, then how much more if a person exposes themselves to the fullness of the revelation of the word for this hour that has come in its full capacity and strength.
***It is impossible for you not to be fully and completely healed.
**The title deed that left Adam in Eden, God is writing with the pen of the revelation of himself that title deed back into the hearts of every believer that truly believes the word of what He has sent in this hour.
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86-2 {116} Now, oh, my. Now, the forfeited title deed is now in the hands of the original Owner, Almighty God. The title deed to the earth and to Eternal Life, when Adam forfeited it, then Satan's dirty hands could not take it; so it went back to its original Owner, God Himself. We're going to find it in just a minute; there He sets on the throne with it in His hand: the title deed. Oh, that makes me feel religious, friends. The title deed to Eternal Life, abstract title deed to Eternal Life, when Adam forfeited it for wisdom and instead of faith, it went back to the hands of the Owner: Almighty God. What a great thing.
86-5 {119} Its redemption means all legal possession to all that was lost by Adam and Eve... Oh, my, what ought that to do to a borned again Christian. Its legal possession to the abstract deed, title deed of Eternal Life means that you possess everything that Adam and Eve lost. Whew. What of it, brethren? The possession of that deed...
…Notice. Oh, my, I believe I had that wrote down somewhere. Oh... To break the Seals and to loose the title, title deed, and the--the message to the last angel,
…Now, He has the Title Deed to redemption. He has it in His hand; mediation is done now. He has it in His hand. Remember, it's been in the hand of God all the time, but now it's in the hand of the Lamb.
Now, watch, the Title Deed of Redemption of all creation is in His hand, and He's come to claim it back to--for the human race, not claim it back to Angels; claim it back to the human which it was given for to make sons and daughters of God again, bring them back to a garden of Eden, everything they lost: the whole creation, the trees, the animal life, everything else. Oh, my. Don't that make you feel good? Whew.
…the Lamb that had been slain from the foundation of the world. And He took the Book (Glory.) opened the Book, and tore off the Seals, and sent it down to the earth to His seventh angel to reveal it to His people. There you are. Oh, my, what happened? The screams, the shouts, the hallelujahs, the anointed, the power, the glory, the manifestation...
**God is writing that deed with the pen of the message of the hour back into the tablets of the hearts of the living decedents of the first Adam of who lost it.
**You talk about healing power – the third pull healing power of the revelation of the word is so powerful that it will change you in your very atoms from mortal to immortality.
I CORINTHIANS 15:51-54
51 ¶ Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
***The title deed restored to the living decedents is what brings victory in this hour.
“Their great victory in the love divine”…