And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:9
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 2
2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
22 But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Galatians 3
2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 3
Now on the 2nd chapter and the 8th verse, we begin tonight. Now, what did we leave Him on last night? He was certainly… hated that Nicolaitane. Is that right? Now what does God do? What we have to have found out first? The revelation of Jesus Christ, who He is and what He is. Now the next great thing, we find out that He hates anything that’ll put anything to rule over His Church besides Himself. He is a jealous God.
How I’d like to stop, ’cause we just got four verses here, just to quote a little something. How many can remember when the good prophet, Samuel, when all of Israel wanted to act like the rest of the world? Do you remember that? And the prophet told them, said, “You’re wrong!” But they wanted to act like the Philistines, and like the—the rest of them. Well, that’s exactly what happened in this very first church age. It’s strange that people don’t want God to lead them. They want to follow… they want some man. Israel, made the greatest mistake it ever made, when… Grace had already provided them a prophet, a leader, provided them a lamb as an atonement, and provided them food from the heavens, and all the good things that grace had provided them, and still, in Exodus 19, they wanted a law. They wanted to make doctors of divinity, and have some men, they wanted to have something to do into It, too.
Man’s always trying to outsmart the very Creator that made him, and he doesn’t do a thing but kill hisself. As a few Sundays ago I preached on the—the Hybrid Religion. And that’s exactly. When you hybreed anything, it can never… it’s done! It’s finished, it can’t come back no more. A mule can never breed back and have another mule, because he—he’s a mule, he’s a hybrid. Fine corn, you can’t raise fine corn off of fine hybrid corn. It won’t even… It might come up, but it’s—it’s, oh, it’s no good at all. You can’t do it. Anything that’s hybrid is no good.
And a hybrid religion is no good! As long as you’re trying to add something to what God said, or do something that God don’t want you to do, it’s a hybrid religion. It might look pretty. Oh, hybrid corn will outshine the natural corn. An ol’ mule will outwork two horses. Well, that’s… It ain’t working, brother, it’s grace that we’re saved by. “Not by works are we saved, but by grace.” So that might… I hope you don’t think these remarks… You’re—you’re setting under a strain, and I—I feel it up here. You see? Because there’s Presbyterian, Methodist, and all kinds in here. We know that. And so I—I feel it. And you have to relax yourself a little once in a while, get that shake off, like.
“The Smyrnaean Church Age”, 60-1206, William M. Branham
CHORUS
One love, one love, one love, one love.
There was a time in the history of man
When he commanded the creation
And he and his Maker had one love;
And then one day the deceiver came,
And man lost the power of the Name,
For he had broken the bond of one love;
It then took the blood of a spotless lamb
To be an atonement for fallen man
It was God’s substitute for his sin and shame;
It was a part of God’s great mystery
To redeem you and me again,
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Then one day the real Lamb came,
He came in the Father’s Name
To be a ransom for one love.
When on the cross my Saviour died,
The power of death He had defied,
To give us the token of one love.
He then changed our destiny,
He could now come and live in you and me,
Making us creatures now bound for eternity;
Brothers and sisters can’t you see,
He died to set you and I free again!
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The Holy Ghost the Lord did send,
He fell upon some redeemed men,
They had the token and one love.
They baptized in Jesus Name;
And of His doctrine they weren’t ashamed,
For they were believers in one love.
But then as the ages rolled away
From this doctrine evil men did stray;
And the serpent began to ride this trail again.
Beware of the creeds of wicked men,
Designed to bring us back to bondage again;
But we want…
In the end time the Son of man came,
He came in His Father’s Name
To give us the token of one love.
Seven Thunders sounded in our souls,
Our Lord had gathered us from this wicked world
To be united in one love;
Then we will speak and command creation again,
Sons and daughters in the Father’s Name,
Having power and wrapped up in His love;
The trumpet shall sound
And we’ll take our flight to the skies
To be in glory where we’ll be with our Father again,
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“One Love”, Ulric Andrews
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