Spiritual Truth and Transformation in Scripture
Explore the depth of spiritual truth and transformation through selected Bible verses and insightful reflections on worship, truth, the Holy Ghost, and the power of God's Word to bring about inner renewal and conformity to His will. Discover the essence of being true worshippers and the importance of aligning with God's truth for personal growth and spiritual enlightenment.
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Spirit & Truth 7 Eph. 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath 1 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
JOHN 4:23-24 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 3 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
64-0308 THE.TOKEN 152 That's a cutting Message, but it's the Truth. That's what we need, is Truth. God help us to know Truth. "You shall know the Truth." I claim that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I believe that God gives the Holy Ghost as a Token, right now, just before the exodus, of the Bride going out of the church. 4 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
153 I believe there is so much tommyrot, and people saying they shouted, they spoke in tongues. I believe in those things; but you can't rely on that. How can you rely on that, then deny the Word? The Token is the Word identified in you, living Itself out. That's God being His Own interpreter. He interprets your life by the Word. 5 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
CHURCH.AGE.BOOK 155-1 Now we have been constantly saying that the true evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost is for the believer to receive the Word for the age in which he lives. Let me show you most clearly. 6 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
ROMANS 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 65-0911 GOD'S.POWER.TO.TRANSFORM 166 And our text says, "Be not conformed, but be ye transformed." Not say, "I was confirmed, Sunday." No. Go in and be transformed right now, transformed from what you are, to what God wants you to be. Now, it depends on what 05-28-2023 kind of seed that's in you. 7 Spirit & Truth 7
65-0911 God's Power To Transform 98 Now, what is the transformation? Quickly - how do we get it? What does the transformation? God does it by the spirit of his Word. He transforms. He plants his seed, throws his Spirit on it, and it brings forth the product. His Holy Spirit transforms the seed Word... to be vindicated of its kind. What kind of a seed you are, that shows just what's in you. You can't hide it. Whatever you are inside, it shows outside. You just can't keep from it. 8 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
You can't make that tree anything but what it is, see. It's going to be that way. The Holy Spirit transforms the seed that's on the inside of it. No matter what kind of a seed it is, it'll transform it. If it's evil, it'll bring forth evil. If it's a hypocrite, it'll bring forth a hypocrite. If it's a genuine Word of God, it'll bring forth a genuine son or daughter of God, through a thinking man's filter. When the seed comes up, it comes through that. It produces a son and daughter of God. 9 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
63-1113 | The Sign Of This Time dynamics." Now, my body is the mechanics, but my body will not operate without the dynamics, the spirit. The spirit operates my body, brings it in control. Like an automobile with no gasoline, no firing power. No matter how fine the mechanics is fixed up, cylinders, points, plugs, it's got to have the current also. It's got to take those together. 12 Said last night, "We have so much mechanics, not the God, make the contact, then something is going to happen. That's the way God is. It's got to get a believer with 10 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
54-0515 QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS 113 The apostolic way, God had no set rule: When the heart's hungry He'll give you what you're hungering for. You want the Holy Ghost, It can fall on you right now. Peter had the keys to the Kingdom. He opened it up to this house of Cornelius. He opened it up to the Samaritans; (Acts 8). Remember Philip went down there, and preached, and baptized them in the Name of Jesus Christ; and Peter came down and laid hands on them. 11 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
In My House A place where the Holy Spirit s always welcome; A Place separate from Sodom; A place where Preparations are made to leave this world. as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. JOSHUA 24:15 12 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
COD 59-1223 487 (only 12, high tempered, little string) But let me tell you, that night down yonder on Ohio Ave. when the Holy Spirit came into me, settled the temper. I said, I could never be a Christian, 'cause I'd never get over that, something that's borned in me. My daddy was hotheaded; my mother, half Indian, enough temper to fight a buzz saw.... anybody that jumps on me is going to get it, If I have to climb up on a step ladder to hit them 13 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
488-82 Something happened. That old power, that old William Branham died, and Someone else come in. And It makes me feel sorry for my enemy. When anyone does anything wrong to me, I never pray against them; I pray for them. The Holy Spirit give that test other night in New England... When He gave power, said, Speak what you will to them. I looked down, said, "I forgive you." That's exactly what He wanted. Forgive your enemies. These are the spirits that make you evil. Watch them spirits. 14 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
53-1206E DO.YOU.NOW.BELIEVE (Sam Adair) 28 He said, "I want to buy the old high school grounds down there to put up a clinic. My patients are poor, they haven't got no money I operate on them anyhow if they got money to pay it, okay. If they haven't, okay. That's the way I serve the Lord. I said, "Well, Sam, that won't save you, but that's good. You've got to be borned again, boy." He said, "Well, God would never give me a birth, a little wicked fellow like me." 29 "Yes, He will, if you just turn from your wickedness, He will sure do it. You're not wicked; just got too much out front. Down in you, got a real man. But in front you make a lot of pretense. And got a lot of temper." He throw his hat off and stomp the floor a few times and 05-28-2023 holler, but he gets over that; he's all right. Just have to know how to take him. 15 Spirit & Truth 7
TESTIMONY 70 How do you do, lady? You believe? Had quite a time getting here, didn't you? A lot of traffic on the road, isn't there? When you got behind that bus, was terrible, wasn't it? You're awfully nervous, aren't you? Got a lot of temper that causes that nervousness. You're trying to get rid of it. You got a lot of domestic trouble too that's bothering you. Your boy, step- daughter left with him. She's got a foul spirit. 16 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
She went somewhere with him to a country, where they'll see these great big pine trees. (Tacoma) You believe that you'll be healed? Will you accept Jesus Christ promised that all things work together for good? And you're ready to quieten yourself down and submit yourself to His will? Come here. Let's pray together. 53-0902 17 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
THE.FAITH.OF.ABRAHAM 36 God give Abraham some testing. Do you believe that children of God have testings and trials? "Every son that cometh to God must first be chastened. Did you ever have any child-training, bringing you up, giving you a little stimulation once in a while by the Gospel, correction... My daddy was awful good at that. He believed in the golden rule. It laid up over the door, had all ten commandments on it, stick about that long, brush on the end of it. 18 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
I tell you, that made discipline in the Branham home. But we love him. What would we have been if he hadn't have did it? That's the way God is; He brings discipline to His children, trying them, whipping them when they're wrong. I'm happy that my heavenly Father gives whippings to those who are wrong, and corrects me when I'm wrong makes me straighten up, walk like you should walk. 55-1118 19 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
ECCLESIASTES 10:10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct. Direct: (Gr.) kasher To succeed, please, be suitable, be proper, be right and proper; to give success. 20 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
A.MAN.RUNNING.FROM.THE.PRESENCE 53 As a father, a mother, you've got to face the responsibility of raising that child, because "Spare the rod and you'll spoil your son." And that still stands good in the sight of every psychologist there is in the world, still remains God's Truth. If there had been more of that practiced, we wouldn't have had so much juvenile delinquency and stuff, and the rot we got in the world today. But the old golden rule of the home has been broken, long time ago, and they let the kids do whatever they want to. 65-0217 21 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
But what is naturally in the heart of every child? PROVERBS 22:15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction (discipline) shall drive it far from him. 22 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
MICAIAH.THE.PROPHET 5 But I tell you: it was certainly a God-sent gift to me when God gave me my wife [Meda]. And He's given me three lovely children. And she taken Billy Paul over... She left it [discipline] all up to me. Some people say they don't believe in spanking them, but you know the Scriptures says if you spare the rod you spoil the son, so I believe in correcting children, making them mind. If we had more of that, we wouldn't have too much juvenile delinquency. 61-0426 23 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
PROVERBS 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. JAMES 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 24 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
The Case Against Spanking Physical discipline is slowly declining as some studies reveal lasting harms for children. Brendan L. Smith But spanking doesn t work, says Alan Kazdin, PhD, a Yale University psychology professor and director of the Yale Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic. You cannot punish out these behaviors that you do not want, says Kazdin, who served as APA president in 2008. There is no need for corporal punishment based on the research. We are not giving up an effective technique. We are saying this is a horrible thing that does not work. http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/04/spanking.aspx 25 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
If parents arent supposed to hit their kids, what non- violent techniques can help with discipline? The PMT program headed by Kazdin at Yale is grounded in research on applied behavioral analysis. The program teaches parents to use positive reinforcement and effusive praise to reward children for good behavior. Kazdin also uses a technique that may sound like insanity to most parents: Telling toddlers to practice throwing a tantrum. Parents ask their children to have a pretend tantrum without hitting or kicking. Gradually, as children practice controlling tantrums when they aren t 05-28-2023 angry, their real tantrums lessen, Kazdin says. 26 Spirit & Truth 7
Remaining calm during a childs tantrums is the best approach, coupled with time outs when needed and a consistent discipline plan that rewards good behavior, Graham-Bermann says. APA offers the Adults & Children Together Against Violence program, which provides parenting skills classes through a nationwide research-based program called Parents Raising Safe Kids. The course teaches parents how to avoid violence through anger management, positive child discipline and conflict resolution. 27 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
APPROACH.TO.GOD 37 And if we had more of that in the natural today, we'd have better children. God wants His household straightened out. So He gives a little whipping, so you can get straightened up. Makes you love Him more. My father used to give me whippings, I thought, "Oh, my." I wished I could call [that] father of mine, back from the other lands today. I would respect every whipping he ever give me. I never got even as much as I needed. I thought so then, but I don't now, because it corrected me. Though he didn't do right himself, yet he wanted me to do right. 28 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
Ephesians 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: [Indignation, exasperation.] TITUS 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; Angry: (Gr.) orgilos prone to anger, irascible 29 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
BLIND.BARTIMAEUS 57-0301 23 Jesus, walking, priest making fun, others crying, "Hosanna." But notice, the whole burden of all the world rested upon Him? Calvary, Gethsemane laid before Him. And, as He went, He never noticed their scoffing. When someone says something evil about you, and you want to take it up and get angry, that shows you haven't went quite deep enough yet with God. That's what made Him God to me He had a work to do, to fulfill what God had sent Him to do He didn't care what anyone said. 30 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
MANIAC.OF.GADARA 54-0720A 102 Here's the story. I can see him look around. "Well, the landlord had done put his wife out. Poor little thing, prayed all the time, for him to be healed, his little children, when they'd see him coming they'd run and hide. Poor little wife would have to get out of the way, 'cause he's bad. Come in, tore up the place. That's the way a drunkard, or demon possessed [does]: one of these temper fits and kick everything around the house. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, that even belong to church and maybe on the deacon board. 31 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
Prov. 22:24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: 25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. 32 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS59-1223 475-36 You see a person like that, don't never think that it's the man; it's the devil in the man. That maniac was going to kill me up in Oregon... when he come to me, spitting in my face and calling me a snake in the grass before nearly ten thousand people; well, it wasn't the man it was that devil in him that was doing that. And you never cast a devil out by the wrong attitude. It takes love to do that. And love is the most powerful force that there is in the world. Hate is of the devil. When people hate someone, remember it is a terrible devil to despise. You mustn't do that. 33 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
I SAMUEL 25:2And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. 3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb. 4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep. Churlish: (Heb.) hard, cruel, difficult, fierce, stubborn, stiff-necked. 34 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
5 Stages: Wounded Spirit, Bitterness, Conflict, Stubbornness, Rebellion. 1. A Wounded Spirit PROVERBS 18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear? Caused by offense, or hurt (real or perceived). Parents, friends, etc. can do something (even unknowingly) which can be the seed that causes a root of bitterness. 35 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
52-0727 LED.BY.THE.HOLY.SPIRIT 4 I'm a temperamental, melancholy sort of a person. I can't let myself get away. Satan takes advantage of that on me. I'm one of those types that could break down. Of course, say good bye to you in a few minutes. I'd better do it. But it just so express myself, I probably go to crying. 36 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
2. Bitterness HEBREWS 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Everyone has to respond to hurt: either to forgive or to overlook, or realize that the offense was not wrong! 37 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
Proverbs 19:11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. DISCRETION(Gr.) sekel Prudence, good sense, insight. But when someone rehearses this offense over and over, it cultivates the seed of a hurt that matures into a root of bitterness. 38 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
I Corinthians 13:5-7 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 39 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
3. Strife Prov. 29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression. Not talking about a momentary reaction to something, but a pattern, a characterization of that person. It is a habit that is learned. Sometimes we have angry children because they had angry fathers! Family should never be afraid to come to one another - even when in trouble. Example of our hotel being sold out in Phoenix! 40 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
EPHESIANS 6:4And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN 33-4 Holy Spirit temperance. That means how to control your tongue, not be a tattler; how to control your temper, not fly off every time anybody speaks cross to you. Boy, a lot of us are going to fall off 'fore we get started, aren't we? Then we wonder why God's not in His church doing miracles and things that He used to do. 41 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
How to Provoke Your Child to Anger: 1. Lack of Marital Harmony 2. Maintaining a Child Centered Home (Prov. 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. 3. Disciplining while angry. 4. Double Standards & Inconsistent Discipline. 5. Being Legalistic. 6. Not Admitting you re wrong, seeking forgiveness 42 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
1. Perfectionism and being too controlling. 2. Comparing Your Children to Others. 9. Failing to Keep Promises. 10. Not taking time for Talk & Encouraging Kids. 11. Chastening in front of others. 12. Not enough Freedom/Too much Freedom. 13. Abuse 14. Name calling, Scolding 15. Favoritism 43 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
53-0328 ISRAEL.AND.THE.CHURCH.4 48 Did you ever study that right close? Moses had a temper, you know; that finally kept him out of the promised land. God had set him back out there and give him a little high-tempered wife too. I bet they had some trouble on the backside of that desert, don't you? God knows how to tame you down. So He fixed him back out there with a little woman, shows My, He knowed how to fix him up, take that temper 05-28-2023 out of him. 44 Spirit & Truth 7
4. Stubbornness Means insubordination, precedes rebellion. A stubborn person feels he does not need to be taught or corrected because he believes he has become the master of his own destiny. I SAMUEL 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king. Stubborn: (Heb.) patsar To push, press, to be insolent, display pushing, arrogance, presumption. 45 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
EXAMPLE: II KINGS 1:2And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that [was] in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease. BALM.IN.GILEAD 10 It wasn't because there wasn't a God in Israel... But it was the king's stubbornness and hatred for the true prophet. It wasn't because that God hadn't supplied the remedy. It was because he was too stubborn, didn't like Elijah, because Elijah had predicted all the evil that happened to his father. Therefore, he had created by the habits of his home to hate the man of God, to despise him and 05-28-2023 reject him. 59-0614 46 Spirit & Truth 7
QA.GOD.BEING.MISUNDERSTOOD 605-47 Stubbornness is not of God So when you feel you got a stubborn spirit, lay the thing on the altar, and believe God that the thing is dead and you'll never have it no more, and go on and don't even pay any attention to it no more, and the thing'll leave you. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you that's "get away quickly." So that would be my advice how to overcome it. We overcome the Devil by faith. 61-0723 47 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
5. Rebellion Gone beyond anger and has become the proverbial fool. A fool, a rebel in the Bible are basically the same. Always right in their own eyes: Prov. 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise. Prov. 10:18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. 48 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
Heart almost always refers to the hidden man, the real you. It is the inner life that one lives before God and himself; a life unknown by others because it is hidden from them. If a pitcher is filled with good things, good things come. If a pitcher is filled with water If a child s heart is filled with foolishness Pr.12:23 If your heart is filled with pride, pride would be expressed. Ps.10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, 05-28-2023 will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. 49 Spirit & Truth 7
DANIEL 5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: PROVERBS 26:24 He that hateth dissembleth (disguises) with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; 25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart. 26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation. Unlike the contents of the pitcher, the contents of the heart cannot be seen by man, only God can know the heart. We can only get an idea of what s in your heart by what comes out! 50 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
FAITH 38 And if Jonah under those circumstances could believe God and refuse to look at anything that was contrary to God's program, you're not in that bad a shape. How much more ought you to look tonight, not to a earthly temple, but to a heavenly temple How much more ought we to say, "I won't look at nothing but God's eternal promise." I tell you; the God of heaven that kept Jonah alive three days and nights can carry you through the deepest of trials. 56-0815 51 05-28-2023 Spirit & Truth 7
