Guide our Feet into the Way of Peace Pt.2
JOHN 3:19-21
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
(After the light had come, they had rejected the truth of the word and continued in their unbelief)
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. (Remember that light is the revealed truth that God sends for your day)
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. (Doing truth is to manifest the light for your day – the prophecy becoming history in your life)
JOHN 16:33
33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace (not peace from a passed event of a promise given to another age, but peace that comes from the promise of the word revealed to you for the time that you are living in now). In the world ye shall have tribulation (Other ages had to endure the tribulation against the word revealed for their day, but for us it is not the tribulation from a passed age that we are to endure, but it is the tribulation of the world that is against the revealed word of God for the time that we are ling in now that we have to endure against): but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Guide our Feet into the Way of Peace Pt.2
***From last week we found that In the Old Testament Ruth received instruction at the feet of Boaz, and that secret instructing that she received at that midnight hour was what guided her feet into the way of peace.
- Then in the middle of the bible we see how Mary sat at Jesus feet – that is also showing the bride’s relationship to Christ in this hour because this word feet is a word used to describe someone who is being taught at the “feet” of a great teacher.
- Then in the book of Revelation at the end of the Bible we see how that John fell at Jesus feet – and John in the book of Revelation is also a type of the bride of Christ of this hour that is receiving instruction, so when we look into the mirror of the word, then all these places in the bible we see that as the bride of Christ we have reflected in this day – we are the matching piece to these scriptures.
RUTH 3:4
4 And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.
The way of redemption can only be revealed to you when (in the darkness of this Laodicean hour) you are willing to lay down at the feet of Boaz – and Boaz is Christ, and Christ is the revelation of the word that has come to us by the message of this hour, and we who have been believers of this great light of this day have already been laying at the feet of the teaching of Christ for many years, and it is the purpose of this teaching to reveal to us concerning our redemption that is to be fully restored to us in this hour of what Christ paid for at Calvary – and that is what will bring us into a rest and a confidence in this hour because that is how Ruth came into rest after she had served in the field of Boaz. We have served in this message field for many years, but it is now time to come into a total rest of the promise of this hour.
***Our intension is to get to this story of the Ranchers son and the orphan girl because this story is not just a story but is also a prophecy for the bride of this hour.
JOHN 3:14-21
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: (The brass serpent that Moses lifted up in the wilderness was so that the people that had sinned and had been bitten by the snakes could look and live – so this speaking of Christ when he was lifted up on the cross of Calvary so that we who have been bitten by the curse of sin and a fallen nature need only to look to Christ and live eternally)
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. (Not “on” him, but “in” him, not just believing on an event of a passed history, but in the current expression of the light and truth of the word which is the Christ for your day – if you walk “in” the light, and light is the truth for your day)
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him (on the light for your day) is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world (We are living in an age of when the greatest light of the truth of the word has come – “in the evening time it shall be light” – life requires light, there is no life outside of light, and light is when the word of God is made manifested), and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. (They love the darkness of Laodicea and their denominational man made ideas of false religion more than the light of the truth of what God has sent to us in this day through the voice of a vindicated prophet)
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. (Sin is unbelief of the word for your day, so their deeds are evil because of their unbelief – it’s not the deeds that is the problem so much as it is their rejection of the light of truth)
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light (you will do truth if you truly believe – and if you truly believe then you will show that by coming to and accepting the light of the word for this hour), that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
***So your deeds is what you do with the word that you are shown to be the truth of the hour that you live in. We all claim to believe the message of the hour, so then we need to be living according to the pattern of the scriptures that are showing us of how we are to act according to the prophecy of this day.
JAMES 1:22-24
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: (The glass is a mirror, and the mirror is the word promised for this day that we are to match that reflection in the events of what is prophesied that the bride would be and the purpose of what she is put on earth for at this time – we need to be fully committed to these things)
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
**Don’t let us see these things of what we are meant to be in this hour and then just walk away and live our natural lives and forget the real purpose that we have been raised up for at this time.
*Noah lived out the portion of the word for his day – his deeds was what made him who he was – he was fully committed to the purpose that he had been raised up for in his day – build the ark, that was what he had to do to bring him into peace in the time of Judgement.
*Moses lived out the word for his day – he was that portion of scripture that was prophesied that a delivery would come after 400 years, he lived out that prophecy.
*The Virgin Mary knew that she was Isaiah 7:14 – Behold a virgin shall conceive… when she looked into the mirror, that was the part that reflected back to her – she was a doer of that portion of the word.
*John the Baptist knew that he was Isaiah 40:3 – “The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness” – he was a doer of that portion of the word.
*Jesus knew that he was Isaiah 61 as well as many other portions of scripture. We know that he when he read Isaiah 61 verse 1 and 2 that he stopped in the middle of the verse.
ISAIAH 61:1-2
1 ¶ The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; (there is a 2000 year gap in the middle of this verse because the day of vengeance would pertain to his second coming which is the time we are living in now – the wigged one has come to judge the entire world at this time as there can be no judgement unless there is first a court trial).
Brother Banham knew he was Revelation 10:7 (“in the days of the voice of the seventh angel), that is why you will never find him reading beyond that verse – he reads up to verse seven and always stops because Revelation 10:8-11 pertains to the bride’s part and wasn’t his part, so the bride of Christ for this day will know that Revelation 10:8-11 is her part to live out as well as many other portions of scripture throughout the entire bible.
*The two Jewish prophets of Revelation 11 will know their part also.
*Not everyone that fulfils scripture understands the part of the word that they expressed for their age, and yet they lived that portion out exactly by their deeds.
- John Wesley probable didn’t know that he was the angel of Revelation 3:1, but he was that portion of the word and he lived that portion out for his day.
- Martin Luther almost certainly wouldn’t have known that he was the angel of Revelation 3:7, but he was, and he lived that portion of the word out fulling the prophecy of the word exactly for his time. So that is why the bible is full of names – it is the names of the lives of the people that lived out each portion of the word as the plan of God was being unfolded down through history.
America is Revelation 13, and as a nation she is living that portion of the word out.
Russia as a nation has a portion of the word to live out because she is a tool in the hand of God that God will used to fulfil certain parts of the word, as she will be the one to drop a nuclear bomb on the Vatican City fulfilling Revelation 18.
***So this story of the rancher’s son that married the orphan girl was relayed to us by a prophet of God in this hour to show us something of the part that we are to manifest for this day.
There are 4 stages of Ruth’s journey:
CH:1 Ruth Deciding
Ch:2 Ruth Serving
CH:3 Ruth Resting
CH:4 Ruth Rewarded
***After deciding - we have been serving and gleaning in the field of Boaz (the message of the hour) for many years, but God is wanting us to come into a rest in this hour and into a full confidence of who we are and a complete trust of the work of what Christ is determined to do for us by the end of this bride age day according to the prophecy of what has been written of us for this hour.
JOHN 16:33 Opening scripture..
33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
***Peace comes from knowing what part of the word you are and the promise of God that pertains to you for the day that you are living in, because that promise is the most sure thing in the universe that you can trust in as it can never fail – it is impossible for the prophecy to fail.
THE.KINSMAN.REDEEMER_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-8 SUNDAY_ 60-1002
38 Now, many people look at this Book of Ruth, as they say, "It's a love story of the Bible." The Bible is a love story. The whole Bible is a love story. Not only is It a love story, but It's a prophet. Not only is It a prophet, but It's also a history. Not only is It a--a love story, a history, a prophet, It's God Himself. Because, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." So the Word is God on print. That ought to settle it, brethren: God on print, Jehovah printed on a Book. And there's none of it just some kind of a fiction tale, but it's all absolutely the Truth; every phase of It, hang your soul. It's there. It's the Truth. And God will back His Word up.
40 And this story was written, and all the old manuscripts, when they were segregating the Bible, the holy men when they were trying to put it together in the Old Testament... This Book of Ruth was one of the outstanding books that they accepted. Why? If it's just a love story, why would the writers and ancient sages accept this Book as inspired? Because there's a hidden revelation in It. And in this hidden revelation, you catch the real meaning, and It'll bring you real close to God. (It will bring you close to God because it reveals to you your relationship and the promise of God that pertains to you concerning this hour – and that is what will bring you into a true rest of “His” rest – you have rest because of what he has promised and of which he cannot fail to perform for you)
And I pray my whole soul this morning, that God will catch every heart so spellbound, till He'll reveal Hisself just what He is in this story, what He is to you, how to accept Him. And when you once see it, it's so simple you wonder how you ever went over the top of it. But it can only be revealed by the Holy Spirit.
THE.KINSMAN.REDEEMER_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-8 SUNDAY_ 60-1002
61 Now, I want to liken this morning, Naomi, the elder lady, to the orthodox church, the Jewish orthodox church, Ruth, the Moabite, a Gentile, being the Christian church, the new church.
And I want to approach it from four different phases: Ruth... I got it wrote here. Ruth Deciding (making her decision), Ruth Serving, Ruth Resting, Ruth Rewarded. As we come back: Ruth, making the decision; Ruth, after she made her decision, then Ruth is serving; then Ruth is resting; then Ruth as rewarded.
***As the bride of Christ we are all to come collectively into a rest of His promise of what he has revealed to us in this hour.
The story of Ruth was an Eastern story, but the story of the Rancher owner’s son and the orphan girl and the buckboard is a western story – both of these stories have been given to us by God to give us a foresight in this hour to meet the challenge of this age.
GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_ LA.CA WEDNESDAY_ 59-0415A
E-49 Reminds me of a little story. Once I... You--all of you know, I used to herd a few cattle. And I thought I was a genuine cowboy. And so, I remember at a ranch that we was working on, there was a... The Armour Company owned it, really, and the cattle out there they was branded, and we grazed them. And so they was... The story goes... Was before I come on the place.
But they had a bunch of young girls, the rancher did. And they were all these little flippy type girls in them days. I think we called them "flappers." And now days they're called "chorus girls," or something. But however, they was a... Flapper mothers is what brought forth chorus girls. Now, what's the chorus girl going to bring forth, what I wonder?
I'll preach one of these nights on sowing to the wind and weeping--reaping the whirlwind. That's what we've done.
E-50 Now, notice this. Then before that the... they... The ranch got all fixed up nice and everything, because the Armour's boy was coming out to visit the ranch out in the west. And they were going to have a big time.
Of course, all these girls were going to vamp the boss's, the head boss's boy. You know, they'd marry him. Well then, they understood he was looking for a sweetheart. So they were all fixed up that night, and they was going to really give him an old Western reception. And the shooting their guns and having a big time.
And they happened to have a--a girl there, which was a cousin. Her mama was dead, and her daddy was dead. And she had nowhere to go, so she came to live with her uncle. And of all that had to do the work, was her. The other girls just stayed all prettied up all the time, and she had to do all the work.
E-51 You, many of you maybe have had that expan--experience, an orphan. It reminds me of the Church of the living God (That's right.): laughed at, made fun of all the time.
So she had no clothes seemingly to clean up in when the rancher's son come, the owner's son came. So that night, they had a great big blow-out. And--and she had to stay back in back of the--the bunk house. And so, when they all got out of the dining room from eating, why, she went in and got all of the dishes and washed them.
So it happened to be the--the owner, Mr. Armour's boy, walked out at the back and was looking. And it was true, he was looking for a sweetheart. He noticed that little girl, standing in there washing the dishes. There was something about her that seemed real to him.
E-52 After a few days' visit, one night she was pouring out the dish water at the back of the place, after a hard day's work, and she heard somebody say, "Good evening." And she looked, and it was young Mr. Armour just standing there. And she pulled the straw over her feet; she was bare-footed. And she bowed her head; she felt ashamed. He said, "I've been watching you. And I have found, to what I believe, that you are a virtuous young woman." Said, "I'm out here," said, "I'm so sick and tired of that fancy going-on of the city in Chicago and so forth." Said, "I--I come out here to hunt me a wife." And said, "You just meet that specification."
Oh, her heart like to of went... A man of that caliber? ask her, a poor little orphan to marry him? That's about the way I felt one night when I got a invitation to come to the wedding supper. "Want me? a man like me would--would have an invitation to come to the Lord Jesus?" But He asked me. I--I was... I imagine just about as--felt about like she did. "Who am I?" But He told me to come, and I come.
E-53 Then he said to her; he said, "Now, you make yourself ready. One year from this night, I'll be back to get you." Said, "Will you marry me?"
She said, "Well, it... Of course I would. But" she said, "I'm not worthy."
Isn't that about the way you felt? "I'm not worthy, Lord."
He said, "Don't think of that. I'm not looking for clothes and things; I'm looking for virtue. And I--I--I want you for my wife. Will you be?" And he kissed her.
And you remember when the Lord put that kiss on your heart, how you felt? Oh, my. Oh, kissed away all my sins, and all my sorrows, and... He--He just made something different. He--He--He said I could... I--I... He's going to bring me to the wedding supper one night.
E-54 So he said, "Make yourself ready."
You remember, the Bible said, "And the Bride has made herself ready," in the robes of the righteousness of the saints. You see?
So that little girl only got seventy five cents a week. But, oh, how happy she was that year. Just washing and singing, saving every penny she could. Rest of them went to town and bought new packs of cigarettes, and whatmore, you know, and their whiskey, and carrying on new decks of cards, and had their big time. But she's just labored away. Why? She was getting ready, making herself ready.
And then finally, first thing you know, she got to town, and she got the wedding garment, and got the money that he sent her, and got the wedding garment, and come back. And did them little cousins make fun of her. Ummmm. That's just about the way some of these cousin denominational religion, social gospel, said, "You bunch of little holy-rollers."
E-55 I talked to a girl here not long ago in Oregon. She said... She's belonged to another denomination. And she said, "Well, what's 'tending your party? If they ever... If they'd be the ones that would be in heaven, I wouldn't want to be there."
I said, "You won't have to worry very much unless you change your attitude." See? I said, "You won't have to worry very much."
She said, "All that there screaming and carrying on."
I said, "Now, wait. You worship Mary. And the Virgin Mary, before God would ever put the wedding garment on her, she had to go up the day of Pentecost and get so full of the Spirit, till she staggered like she was drunk. You ain't coming in anything less." Just remember that. Yes, sir. "And that was, as you call, the mother of God." See? I said, "If Virgin Mary had to go to Pentecost and get the Holy Ghost before she could ever go to heaven, you'll never get in; anything less. Just remember that. That was the Virgin Mary."
"Oh, that isn't so."
I said, "Do you believe the Bible? Here it is. And Mary was right with them in the upper room. And she got so full of the Spirit until she danced under the Spirit, acting like somebody drunk. And you think you'll get to heaven anything less than that? You'll never do it. Yes, sir. Virgin Mary and all the rest of them had to come the way of the Lord's despised few." So... Yes, sir.
E-56 The people make fun, and they call them a bunch of idiots. Paul said, "In the way that's called heresy..." That's crazy. See, "heresy" is some "heresy, crazy, idiotic." Well, we are called that, because the supernatural is so much different from the carnal things of this world, till it makes people think they're crazy.
They said... Why, Paul said to Agrippa, said, "I'm not mad. It's..." "Mad" means "crazy." "I'm not crazy, you think I am. But in the way that's called heresy, I worship the God of our fathers." That's the way I do too. I like that. "In the way..."
I'd like to join hands with Paul. I'd like to be there that day when I see him robed in the righteousness of Christ, when I see him crowned. Hallelujah. I want to have the same kind of robe on he had. That's the same kind my Lord wore.
That's the reason I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, for it's the power of God unto salvation. And tho--Gospel came not in Word only, but through power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost. That's the way the Gospel is. It's the Word made manifest in our hearts.
E-57 Now, this little girl, she got ready. She didn't care what... They laughed. Let them laugh if they want to. But she knowed that that kiss that night meant a seal. And so did I, so do you, and every one that had that kiss of the Lord Jesus, that give you the promise, you know what it means. You don't care what the world says. If your cousins wants to make fun of you and say, "You've lost your mind, and you're old fashioned," just go ahead; that's all right. Make her no different, she just kept getting ready.
So then, finally come the hour, the sun was going down. So she robed her little self, you know, and got all prettied up. Oh, my. That's the hour the Church ought to be in right now: all robed in His righteousness, filled with His Spirit, powered with His Being, walking in the Light, waiting for the coming of the Lord.
E-58 There she was, got herself all ready, all cleaned and washed, and the wedding garment on. And you know what? As it got closer, the more critical got her little cousins. They said, "You poor little simple-minded thing, do you mean to tell you that if--if the Armour's son would marry somebody, he would marry somebody like us, somebody who would fit in his society, someone who had education, who had some glamour about them." See, that's what the Church thinks today. But how far off they are. That's right. Way off they are. They...
E-59 And so, then after while, she... they... She thought he'd delayed. It got later, later. And finally, they said, "Oh, where's he at?" That's what they're saying today. "Where is that One. I heard that stuff forty years ago, He was coming. Where's it at?"
Didn't the Bible say they'd say, "Where is that coming of the Lord. All things are just like it was from the beginning?" We're living in that day, friends. Let's take courage now while we're together this afternoon. Go out with a new courage. Go out to win souls. Get ready. The coming's at hand.
And the first thing you know, they all got around her, begin to dance, little songs around her, said, "Oh, we'll make fun of her," you know. And made the bride like they was pretending, a bride. That didn't bother her. She watched the little old clock tick around. First thing you know, it was just about one minute. Somebody said, "You... I thought he was going to be here at such-and-such a time."
"Don't worry, he will be here," she says. That's all I want to know. He promised He'd be here. That's all I want to know. He's coming; that's all. When, I don't know. But He will be here.
E-60 Right while they were making the most fun, and saying the--all these different things about her, and--and teasing her, and making fun of her and everything, they heard the wheels a coming, horses hoofs a beating, the old grinding of the sand under the buckboard. My, my, she broke through those lines. Out into the yard she went. Who was it? There he was, dressed. The carriage was ready. She run through the little trellis at the end of the yard like that. He jumped out of the carriage and grabbed her into his arms, and he said, "Sweetheart, all year long I've had people watching you." Oh, I'm so glad. The Holy Ghost: The eyes is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. "All year long, I've been watching you. I seen your virtues. I seen the flirts of other men. I seen all of this, but I seen you were true. Oh, it swelled my heart to know that the woman I was going to marry was true."
God, let that be our testimony, let that be our desire today. Live true to Christ. Be true to the calling. Be true to the Spirit.
E-61 And he grabbed her in his arms, set her up in the buckboard, and turned the carriage away, and on to Chicago. Said, "You've worked and you've toiled, and your little blistered hands will never be blistered again. The things that you've done without, you'll never have to do without again. For one of the swellest homes that can be bought on--on Lakeside Drive in Chicago is waiting for you. We're going to get married now and go live there in peace for the rest of your days."
I'm so glad that we might work and toil, and have the spit of the outside, and the frowns, and the scorns, and everything, but someday He will come. Oh, we'll be taken up with Him to meet Him in the air. And those little old cousins just stood there and looked. Oh, some of these days, we'll be caught away. God will catch away His Bride, them who are wearing the wedding garment. Let us bow our heads.