Planting The Vine And Where To Plant It Thats the way many people are in churches today: good people, just planted in the wrong place. Now, if a real believer is brought to Christ, and hes planted in some great denomination that doesnt believe in miracles, and signs, and wonders of the Lord. That person may be a genuine Christian, and a Catholic, Baptist, Presbyterian, Jehovah Witness, something else. In that church, a genuine Vine of God, but the denominational creeds cuts off the Life of that Vine. It cant bear its fruit. And usually, what fruits you get off of a vine thats stunted or not in good ground, is bad fruits. Itll come forth like apples and be knotty and worm-eaten. It becomes a subject for all insects. A good healthy vine doesnt even have to be sprayed. Its healthy enough to throw off all of its enemies. So is it with a borned again Christian. You dont have to be spraying them all the time and patting them on the back. Theyre spiritually healthy enough to throw off all of the scandal of the world. They are living off of the true nourishment. 21 A tree sometimes thats… A plant thats been into the desert places and doesnt have enough sustaining moisture, itll bear little knotty fruits; and it doesnt look like the fruit that should come from the vine. My brother, sister, thats what it is with the churches today. The sinner comes in after, maybe at home, coming under conviction goes and reads his Bible and goes to the church, and instead of finding great delicious apples, or grapes, the Life of the Lord Jesus being reproduced in the church, it finds little knotty, worm-eaten, denominational petty thoughts. We Baptist, we got it. They havent got nothing to do with it. We Methodists, we got it. The arms of God reach from sea to sea, and from shore to shore, can save to the utmost. But thats what we find in these places where we go. 22 It is like David also said again in the Psalms 1. He said, Blessed is the man that will wnot join up with these scoffers and ungodly people; not connect with them, not set in the seat with them. You know scoffers that say, The days of miracles is past; and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is just a make belief. Blessed is the man thatll not do that. Blessed is the man thatll stand forth from such a thing. They dont want to mix those together, and you cannot mix those things together. Blessed is the man who wont assemble himself un—unto one of those things that denies the power of the Lord. The Bible said, Come out from among such, for the day will come when they will be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from such turn away. 23 Blessed is the man that will not assemble himself with these scoffers, making fun, calling the true Church a bunch of fanatics. He shall be like a tree thats planted by the rivers of water. God has put him in a choice spot. His fruit shall not wither. He will bring forth his leaves and fruits in the season. Watch how David worded that. This man is blessed. He will be planted, not just set out. You know, I like see anything planted. Now, Israel in Egypt was not planted, they were just set out. It wasnt their original home ground. And a man thats a Christian, that rests his eternal destination upon some denominational creed, hes not in his right place. He was born to be free and a child of God, to worship God. But hes under a creed; he cant bring forth his fruits. Yet something in him is longing to do it. He shall be like a tree that is planted by the rivers of water: rivers, plural; water, singular, many rivers coming into the one channel. 24 In other words, he will be like a man in the Scriptures that believes all of Gods Word, where the power and the nine spiritual gifts can flow through one God into his innermost being. People dont believe in shouting. The thing of it is, they havent got spiritual joy, and the joys of the waters of Life can flow through. Thats the whole lots the matter with the Branham Tabernacle. Because that unbelief, the cares of the world has bound the people until it cannot produce spiritual growth. Thats whats the matter with our nation. Thats the matter with our churches. They have no joy, and the joy of the Lord has departed, as was written one time in the Scripture, the Hebrew word of Ichabod, which means, The Presence of the Lord has departed. Thats over our churches, because that we left off of the original foundation, and placed ourselves into creeds and denominations, and permitted the things of the world to dry up our experience with God.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 03:37:59 +0000
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