(Singing:)  “So sweet is the Spirit when He moves among His people . . .”

Hallelujah . . .  One more time, lift your voice to Him.  Hallelujah . . . Mighty, mighty, mighty God.  Mighty God.  Mighty, mighty, mighty God.  (Tongues)  

I love You, Lord.  I love You, Lord . . .

If you’re seated, could you still praise Him just a moment.  If I let you take your seat, would you still praise Him just a moment.  Go ahead.  (Tongues)  

Hallelujah.  I didn’t even know you’d sat down.  I could . . . my eyes were closed.  I could still feel you praising Him, worshiping Him.  

Hallelujah.

(Singing:)  “We have come this far by faith,
leaning on the Lord,
Trusting in His holy Word
He’s never failed us yet.  (And He never will.)
Oh, oh, oh, we’ve come too far, we’ve come this far by faith.
(I don’t have the tune so good, but Brother Steve’s following me.)

“We have come this far by faith . . .”
Repeat . . .
“We’ll not turn back, we’ve come this far by faith.”

“We’ve come this far by faith,
leaning on the Lord.  Hallelujah.  
Trusting in His holy Word.
He’s never failed us yet.  (And He never will.)”

I said, “Oh, we’ll not turn back.  We’ve come this far by faith.”

Would you help me sing.  “We have come this far by faith . . .  (That’s a testimony.) . . . leaning on the Lord,
(Where else could we lean?) trusting in His holy Word.
He’s never failed us yet.  (And He never will.)

“Oh, we’ll not turn back . . . .

I want to watch you sing.  Help me sing.
“We have come this far by faith . . .
(How did we get here?) . . . leaning on the Lord . . . “

One more time.  “We’ve come this far by faith . . .”

Give the Lord a wonderful handclap of praise.  

Somebody just praise the Lord with your mouth.  

We love You, Lord.  We praise You, oh God.  


Vision:

I saw in the Spirit tonight that line that is being drawn by the Holy Ghost, a line being drawn.
And if I hadn’t spent so much time lately studying the Torah
I wouldn’t have known what it meant.
But some of you will understand that that line is . . .

“Did you, when you were preaching on the covenants, brother, did you talk about the line that’s often drawn in the Middle Eastern covenant.  You talked about blood, but I don’t remember if you talked about the line or not.  But I assume you must have.”

But I saw that line being drawn.
And it was a part of a sealing of a Middle Eastern covenant,
a covenant in the time of the Bible, that often a line was drawn
representing one side of the covenant on one side of the line,
the other party in the covenant on the other side of the line.
And they would cross over the line,
just step over the line.

And when they were doing that, it was a symbol of that that was between them.
And it was a symbol of accepting the terms of the contract.

You’ll remember there was a time that death was breaking out.
Do you remember that?
Death was breaking out as a plague on the people,
and God said that a torch should pass between the people.
And everybody on one side of the line of where that torch passed,
the plague dried up.
And those on the other side were perishing.

I saw it like . . .  I saw the line, and then I saw . . . (It sounds strange)
but I saw what looked like roasts, pieces of meat . . .
I wrote it down.
. . . sitting . . .
You know, I want to say . . . I want to say, “Butt to butt.”
I want to say, “Butted up against one another.”  
But I know it wasn’t pork I was seeing, so we won’t say it that way.
But it was like roast.  Pieces, big pieces of meat, lined up across that line.
First a line, and then I saw those big plump pieces of meat lined up along that line.
And I’ll talk to you a little bit later about it with some Scripture.
But it represented the sacrifices.  

And we know that we’re not giving those kinds of sacrifices to God.  He wouldn’t have them from us if we tried to give them to Him.  He wouldn’t take our meat offering.  If we killed a lamb and brought him a lamb, He wouldn’t receive it from us.

How many of you know that?  If we brought Him the roast, the best of the cow, and laid it down before Him, He wouldn’t take it.  Because it would be a shame for Him to take it because He has become that sacrifice.

And what did He say to us?  Our service to the Lord is not sacrifice.  Our service to God is not about sacrifice, it’s about what?  It’s about obedience.  Our service to the Lord is not about sacrifice, but our service to the Lord in this hour is about what?  It’s about obedience.

God even said one time, “I’ve despised these offerings because they were brought to me out of obligation with a lack of sincerity of the heart.”  And He said, “It’s just putrefying, it’s just stinking in my nostrils.  It’s not what I’m looking for.  I’m looking for those who will obey Me.”  To obey the Lord is better than sacrifice.  

Saul grabbed a hold of his collar and he said, “I have obeyed the Lord.”

“Where have you been?”
“Oh, I’ve been down obeying the Lord.”  Remember?
“Where have you come from?”
“Oh, I’ve just come from obeying the Lord.”

He was either lying or he had fooled himself into believing a lie.  He either premeditated a lie, or he had fooled himself and he was telling his concept of the Truth.  I really believe that Saul, though it was a lie what he said, he was telling his concept of the truth.  He thought he had obeyed the Lord.

But he had obeyed the Lord in his terms.  He killed what he wanted to kill, and he kept the best.  And he made the excuse, “I’m going to give it to the Lord.  I kept the best, Agag the king.”

How many of you know what a terrible decision that was?  If you’ve read . . . if you’ve read the stories of Esther, Hadassah . . . you’ve read some of those concepts of it.  And you know it was a terrible mistake to save Agag alive.

We don’t know if all those speculations of how it all came down are exact or not, but we do see clearly in the Bible that these sons, these descendants caused a lot of trouble to the people of God.

But he said, “I’ve kept the best.”  Because the prophet said, “If you’ve been down there obeying the Lord, what meaneth the bleating of the sheep in my ear?  What is this I’m hearing now?”

“Oh yes, yes.  Yes, that’s the sheep.  But we have kept the best to give as a sacrifice to the Lord.”

And the Lord said through the prophet, “Obedience.  To obey is better than sacrifice.”

When God by . . .  (I won’t take long.  I purposed I wouldn’t.  I broke too many visions in this service already tonight to keep from going so long.  And I’ll explain that in a moment.)  

But when God comes by the Spirit and draws a line in the sand, He’s presenting to us a Covenant.  He’s presenting to us a way of life.  He’s presenting to us a choice.  And He is saying, “You can stay on your side of the line, or you can come to My side.  You can cross over that line and enter into Covenant agreement with me tonight.”

Somebody said, “Well, I’m saved.  I’m sanctified.  I’m filled with the Holy Ghost.  Am I not already a part of the Covenant?”

I’m more or less talking about that that God is going to do.  You see, as I was sitting there tonight, I saw that line.  I heard the Voice of the Lord.  And He said these words, “I’m pleased.”

Now when I look around in the flesh, I don’t . . .  You know, we’re looking with eyes of the flesh.  We don’t see so much for God to be pleased with in us . . . (Be honest.) . . . any of us.  But God said, “I’m pleased.”

And I sat there searching the Spirit.  “Lord, what are You pleased about?  What has brought You pleasure?  What are You pleased about?”

And He spoke so sweetly to my spirit that we have pleased Him because we have stretched ourselves beyond tradition, and we’ve made a good decision.

And God said, “I’m going to use the decision of rearranging your services.”  Because it requires more than a change of times.  It requires a change of our lives.

I never had anything to do on Saturday night so much until I decided I was going to start coming to church on Saturday night.  And now all kinds of things are presenting themselves.

You know, that’s it.  That’s how the devil will do you.  I’ve already said two or three times, “Well, we could do that if we didn’t have church on Saturday night.”  We hadn’t even had a service yet.  

But two or three times this week things have come up.  And I said, “Oh, I’d like to do that.  I’d like to take the kids.  I’d like to go and do that.  Oh, we can’t do that.  We have service on Saturday night.”

Two or three times.  We hadn’t even had a meeting.  

And what God is saying is it’s not only a change of turning on the lights, but it requires a change of our lifestyle.”  God’s pleased with that.  I said, “He’s pleased with that.”

I came out of the restaurant at lunch.  It was almost four o’clock.  And I said, “Just think, this time next week, God willing, I’ll be going home to rest.”

And you know what?  There was a time that I would have felt like a low-down, rotten, good-for-nothing sinner to say that.  But I don’t because I’m free.  Oh, I am free from man’s religion.  I’m free from my own religion.  I’m free from what people think religion ought to be and what church ought to . . .  I’m free from all of that.  And I know that I can serve God coming to a Saturday night service, and a Sunday morning service . . .  And I’m not going to go to the bar on Sunday night.  They’re closed.  I don’t go to the bars anyway.

I’m not going to go out and do anything that I wouldn’t normally do to serve the devil, because I don’t want to serve him.  

And God just . . . He so confirmed to me by the Holy Ghost, sitting there, that this was a prophetic act.  By rearranging our life a little bit, by rearranging our services . . .

I have been in church on Sunday night thirty years.  And some of you more than thirty years.  How many of you have been in church on Sunday night more than thirty years?  And we may be in church again on Sunday night.  I don’t have any idea what the future holds.

But I know for this time, in this season, it’s settled for me.  Because I know that God is using this as an act of obedience.  We are rearranging our lives.  We ought to.  Once we have any kind of idea that it’s God’s will, we ought to be willing to rush to do what would please God.  I want to please Him.

What a hypocrite I’d be to preach all these years, “I want to please God, I want to please God” and Him reveals . . .  But I didn’t know it was so much God.  I was hoping and believing and feeling it.  But tonight it really has settled into my spirit.

And it’s a prophetic act of obedience, of saying, “I’m going to obey You, even if I have to explain it to somebody.  Even if I have to . . .  It’s just the way things are.  I’m going to do it.”

But even more than that.  God said it’s a prophetic act to establish in the spiritual realm that the order of the priesthood is changing - the promise that God has been giving us over and over through the years that the last ministry of the End-time would be a change, and the Spirit would not operate among us in the order of the Levites, but it would operate among us in the order of Zadok.

And I’ve spoken many times on the changing of the priesthood.  Ezekiel prophesied in Ezekiel that in the new Temple . . . that it would not operate after the order of the Levites, but it would operate in the order of the Zadok priesthood.  And that Zadok priesthood is a special thing.  Because you and I are called to be a part of this royal priesthood.

And you know what’s so special about those Zadok priests?  Immediately, by the Spirit of God, they are able to discern between that which is good for them and that which is not.

What did you want?  Did you want . . .?  What kind of promise in that did you want?  What could be greater than the supernatural leadership of the Lord in your life?  When you reach out to take something into your life, the Spirit of God will say, “Whoa, that’s not good for you.”

How many of you would like a little more of that?  I mean, we’ve got it by the Holy Spirit.  We’ve got that conviction.  We’ve got a little of that discerning of spirits.  But I mean, I want the . . . I want the train in my eyes.  I want the flashing red lights.  I want something that says, “Whoa, you don’t need to be saying that.  Whoa.  You don’t need to be doing that because you’ve got a position in the Body of Christ.  You’ve got a place in the Kingdom of God.  You’ve been called as prophets, priests and kings.”

The foundation has been laid for this, brother, sister.  If you hadn’t got the foundation, you better bother Marybeth all week long.  And you better get the foundation.  Because I saw in the Spirit tonight that God was so pleased with making this change and that it’s going . . .  It really is.  You wait and see.  It won’t be all easy.  It’s not all going to come with a shout.  But it really is going to loose something.

I feel like I’m burying something tonight.  And I’m not going to miss him.  I don’t know who he is, but I feel like I’m putting something in the ground tonight, spiritually.  

“Oh, my.  Boy, when you get carried away you can really spiritualize everything.”

If you wanted a timely, somethin’ that God’s saying right now . . .  That’s what I’ve been wantin’.  I always want it.

Listen, I can always think of somethin’ to say.  I have no problem with that.  (Don’t you say, “Amen.”)  I have no problem thinkin’ of somethin’ to say, but I long to know what He wants said.

Now I try to get into that channel as often as I possibly can.  But I’m just a man.  And I don’t always walk in that.  But I do my best, God knows, to get in that channel.

But oh, I see something tonight going into the ground.  I see somebodies, some bodies . . . I see some people that are getting ready to cross that line and say, “I’m in.  I’m in this Covenant.  Oh, nothing’s shaking me off.  You’re not going to get rid of me.  Nothing’s going to get me.  I’m gonna to make up . . . I’m making up my mind to step across that line.”

Oh, I can . . .  I just kind of thought about it.  You know, Brother Branham talked about Kruschev.  Is that who is was that beat his shoe?  Remember Brother Branham talking about Kruschev?  

Do you remember, in the story of Boaz and Ruth, the shoe was a part of the covenant.  It was a . . . it was a symbol again of accepting the terms of the covenant.

I want to tell you something else the Lord . . .  (I’m not going very far in this.  And you can just as well quit pulling because I’m not going very far in this.)  But I’ll tell you something else that blessed me so much as I sat there.

He said, “Tonight I’m calling heaven to witness the line that’s being drawn.”

And you know, that wouldn’t have meant anything to me a few years ago.  I wouldn’t have known what it meant.  But if you read the portion, if you read the Parshah for last week, you read where Moses, by the inspiration of God, said almost that very same thing - “Heaven is a witness.”

And what was heaven witnessing?  Heaven was witnessing the decision that that second generation of Israelites were making.  They were deciding whether or not to join in the Covenant God had made with their parents who had died in the wilderness.

And Moses said, “Heaven is the witness.”  That’s good.  I wouldn’t have known what that meant.  But I heard the Spirit say, “Heaven is witnessing.  I’m calling heaven to witness tonight that a decision is being made.”

I’ve made my decision.  I’ve made my decision.  There is nothing sacred to me that God cannot take from me.  I want to be free to do His will.  Nothing.

I don’t plan to go and spend my Sundays entertaining myself.  I don’t have any intentions of going to the mall.  I might.  I don’t have any intention of it.  But I won’t be condemned if I do.  I don’t plan on it.  I plan on going home, or fellowshipping with the believers - but most likely going home, and resting, preparing myself.  I even thought today, “Maybe I’ll spend some time on Sunday afternoon, or evening sometime, in my office preparing for what’s ahead, the week ahead.”

I’ve got a lot of preaching to do in 2006.  God willing, I’m going to Israel at least three times.  I plan right now, if they still want me to come, to be in Iceland at least twice next year.  And when I’m not there I’m going to be here preaching.  And I’ve got a lot of preparation to make because I believe God, oh, hallelujah, is going to do some things.

I didn’t know God was so . . .  I didn’t really have the fullness of how much God was waiting on us.  But it hit me so heavy tonight as I was sitting there.  Because I say, “I’m waiting on You, Lord.  I’m waiting on You, Lord.  I’m waiting on You, Lord.”

And it never hit me so hard as it hit me sitting there.  We’re at that divine standstill again because God has been waiting on me and waiting on you.

So I’m laying something in the ground.  I’m laying tradition in the ground.  I’m laying anything that is unlike Him - religion -I’m leaving all of that behind me.  I want to move into that relationship, that oneness.

Listen.  You’ve got to lose a lot of you.  You’ve got to lose a lot of churchanity.  You’ve got to lose a lot of things that are dear and precious to you if you truly come into that Oneness, into that invisible union of the Bride and the Bridegroom.  It’s a narrow . . .

Well, I’ll tell you something else He reminded me of.  He reminded me where the Bride came from.  I preached it one Easter Sunday.  You just can’t deny it.  That’s where it happened - at a Sunrise Service, right out here in the parking lot.

I never preached it before, never thought of it before.  But it’s just something Brother Branham said, and something the Spirit of God was moving on me, just gave me an inspiration.

Brother Branham said, “When they put that spear in the Lord’s side, blood and water flowed out.”  He said, “That water represented the Bride.”

He said, “It was like God . . . like Adam in the Garden when God reached down and separated Eve from Adam.”

Is that what your Bible said?  “He reached in and He took out the counterpart.  He took out Adam’s bride.”  Because when God made Adam, He had originally created Adam, male and female created He them.  Oh, yes.

And He reached in and took that feminine part out.  And from that feminine part that was in Adam, He created a counterpart, a bride.  It was through a divine surgery.  God reached in and took it out.

Somebody said, “Well, does that mean man has one less rib than women?”  No.  It wasn’t the rib.  That’s just the starting place.  But it was God’s handiwork.  It was what God was doing.  And if that’s a symbol, that little pierced hole in His side . . . and the Bride . . .

I just got under the inspiration of that one morning and I said, “My, my.  What a narrow place.”  We were all in Christ.  How many of you understand the Word?  “We were in Christ.”  The Apostle said that’s where we’ve come from - in the Messiah.  And that’s where we’re going back to.  The same Apostle that said, “We’ve come from Him,” said, “We’re going into Him.”

We’re on a journey here.  We’ve been separated from Christ.  We’re on a journey now.  And we’re making our way back into Christ - spiritually.

Do you understand what I’m saying?  Not in the natural.  And if we come out by a narrow way, how do you think you’re going to go back in?  A narrow way.  Oh, yes.  

I felt the Spirit of God just quicken that - that that’s what He’s doing.  He is doing it, getting us ready for that narrow way to take us back into the Messiah.  That’s where I want to go.  I’m living for it.  I’m longing for it.

If this sounds religious to you, your discernment is broken.  You’re misreading me.  This is more serious than religion.  It’s my life now.  I’ve got to have a reason for living.  And this is my reason for living.  I’ve got to get back into Christ.  Because I’ve got something that I must manifest in the earth, and you do, too, before He comes to get us.

There’s a life.  Somebody say, “There’s a life.”  There’s a life that we have to manifest before we can go to be where He is.

He spoke to me about the Seven Thunders, sitting there - clearly.  Four, five times I felt myself moving into vision again.  I broke the vision and I’ll tell you why.  Because I sensed that if I yielded, it would have taken us into a long meeting, longer than what we’ve been in.  And I sensed in my spirit that God was just preparing me for something.

I want to say this again.  You’re tired of hearing it.  I want to say again, “I believe that it’s very near.  I believe it’s very near that God is going to show us something that we’ve been praying about.  I believe it’s very near.”

I believe I could say that it could have been tonight.   But I do not believe that it’s a part of what we have known on this side of that line.  I believe that it is a part of what we’re going to know on the other side of that line.  Hallelujah.

Now you better make up your mind to get over there where He is.  If there is resistance in your spirit, you’d better lay it down.  If there’s slackness in your spiritual life, you better lay it down.  If you’re still full of argument and criticism, you better lay it down.  


Let’s stand tonight.

Glory.  Glory.  Glory.  He said, “It’s time to cross over the line now and accept His Covenant Will for us.  He is calling heaven to witness this promise that He is making to us and that that He is requiring of us for this new season.”  He said He would soon remove us from the oven and let us set up on the counter.

That word “set up” doesn’t mean “sit” up on the counter.  The word is “set” up.  And the bakers will know what I mean.  Anybody who bakes will know what I mean.

Did you know, when you’re baking something, you take it out of the oven, many recipes call for a rest.  Many recipes tell you to . . . even after you’ve baked it . . . to let it rest, to let it set up on the counter.

And did you know that for a season after you take it out of the oven, the temperature continues to rise.  Now that’s kind of amazing.  When you remove something from the temperature that you’ve baked it in and it continues to rise when there’s no oven on it, that’s kind of an amazing process.

Did you understand what I’m saying?  Did you know that even a steak continues to cook after you take it off the grill?  And that if you take its temperature, the temperature actually continues to rise as it sets on the plate for a few seconds.  Because it’s a setting up process.  In a cake it’s called, sometimes, a resting process.

I think it’s just good to know God’s going to let me spend some time out of the oven.  

I saw that counter like a platform.  It had legs on it.  And it reminded me of something that Brother Branham said when he talked about that little Bride being put on that pedestal and on display.  How wonderful it would be if God would bring us to the place where He had something in us that He could display, that He could show forth.

How many of you would like to show forth something for the Kingdom of God?  

(Singing:)  “Shut in with God in a secret place . . .”

Oh, bless the Lord.

Father, how we thank You for this day and for Your many blessings.  How we thank You for the Presence of God that has been in this House, for the way that You have used Your people.  Thank You, Lord, for the promises that You have renewed in us tonight, things You’ve reminded us of.

Thank You for the peace that has filled us.  Oh, we thank You.

God, go with us as we leave this place.

Watch us, oh God.  Watch our hearts, watch our lips.  Lock us up, Lord, that we wouldn’t speak against what we don’t understand but that we would just say, “God, open my eyes.  Anoint my eyes with eyesalve.  Let me see, let me taste, let me drink up so that I can give out.”  BaShem Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach.  Amen.

An example, as you prepare to leave . . .  Religiously, I would have once looked at this service and said, as some of you will say or at least think . . .  I would have thought, “Oh, my.  God wasn’t able to do all He wanted to do.  Something was missing.  Something was not accomplished.”

That’s how I would have looked at things.  But you know, I’m changed.  I want God to change me more.  I don’t even feel that way tonight - not at all.  I know some of you may.  It’s all right.

I feel like God has accomplished what He wanted to accomplish.  And I can say, “It has been good to be in the House of the Lord.”  And I come the next time with anticipation of the next chapter that God has.  I’m looking forward to it.

May the Lord bless you as you leave tonight in peace, the wonderful blessings of the Lord.  

Yes.  Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.  Praise God.  I’m looking for my meetings with Him.  Aren’t you?  Hallelujah.  

(Tongues)  You better get out of here while you can.  God bless you.  Hallelujah.

(Singing:)  “Won’t we have a time when we get over yonder . . .”