The Good Confession
Spiritual Building-Stone No. 138

I Timothy 6:12, "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses."

Always remember, what we're here for is to try to increase your faith in His Presence, that you might receive that what you ask for. Then by faith you believe.

Now, remember, every redemptive blessing has already been purchased. The price is paid. There's only one way that you'll ever be able to receive it, that's to believe it and to accept it. He's the High Priest of our confession (Heb. 4:14-16; 3:1-6).

The Hebrew says there, the Hebrew letter says, "He's a High Priest of our profession." To profess and confess is the same thing, of course. So, we... He's the High Priest of our confession. Therefore, He cannot do anything for us until first we confess that He has done it. And then when we confess it, then He is the High Priest, a Mediator to go to work on that and make it right. So we pray, trusting in God tonight, in His kindness and mercy, that He will give to us His abundance of grace tonight. And now remember; you must accept it.

A sinner might come here at the altar as a young man or woman at the age of fourteen years old, and they'd bring you your meals here, and you'd cry to the Lord until you were ninety years old, you'd never be saved. But the... You've got to first accept what He done for you. See? You've got to accept it yourself. Then when you accept it, then He is a High Priest, Mediator, to make intercessions upon your confession of what you believe.

Then He can't do nothing until first we confess that He's done it. See, you get down here at the altar and pray all night, wouldn't do you a bit of good until you believe that He forgives you, then you stand up. Then as much faith as you have, that's where you... You lived once way down here in the muck of sin. Now, you young converts, now you believe you're saved, don't you? Then you raised up here, you raised a little higher. What does that? Your faith, because you believe you're a Christian now; you'll live above that thing now. See? Now, if you want to raise a little higher, just have more faith, 'cause it's unlimited; just keep on...

Well, oh, an impossible can be made real. All things are possible to them that believe (Mark 11:22-24). That's right. "If you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe what you say comes to pass, you can have what you say."

Now, watch, these seventy, they walked out because it didn't agree with what they believed to be right. We haven't got no thought coming; it's what He said. You deny your own thinking. You just say what He says. That's really confession. "Confession' means "to say the same thing."
If I confess that a certain thing taken place, I say the same thing that taken place. That's what real confession is; and He's the High Priest of our confession - saying the same thing God said. See, that makes it right, 'cause you're just repeating God's Word.

You're not using your own thoughts; you're using His thoughts. "Let the mind that was in Christ be in you" (Phil. 2:1-11). See? Think His way of thinking; say what He says. "Confession" means "to say the same thing." Say... Confess is to confess the same thing, say the same thing. Then don't confess your own mental conception. Be borned again and confess His Word, confess what He said. That's confession. Say, "By His stripes, I was healed" (Isaiah 53:4-5). By His stripes, I have a right--by His wounds, right now, I have a right for salvation. I have a right for the Holy Spirit. He promised it to me. Said, 'It's in you and your children, and them that is far off, and as many as the Lord our God shall call.'" (Acts 2:37-41). I believe it. It's for any generation.

I just wonder about those people. I found them in healing services. I've seen people come to the platform, totally blind. And come and take--after being prayed for and be healed and read the Bible, walk down there and praising God. And meet them in six months and be just as blind as they was in the first place.

Now, no, Divine healing is just as strong as your faith is, and just as lasting as your faith is. Rev. Nickels from Christian Businessmen was down the other day taking testimonies there in the city and taking pictures of people who had been healed by Divine healing anywhere, I mean cancers and dying cases, that had been healed for years and years and years and years, and were still holding out, fourteen, fifteen years ago, when they were prayed for, still healthy. And some of them on the dead list in the in Louisville on the cancer clinic over there, that they died fourteen, fifteen years ago, and here they are living, just as healthy as they can be. Go over and examine the case--a books over there and find out they died fifteen years ago with cancer. And here they are now just well as they can be, fifteen years afterwards.

It depends on where your faith stands. Your salvation is good as long as your confession is good. But when your confession drops, then your salvation's gone. For He is a High Priest setting at the right hand of God to make intercessions on your confession, that's what happens.

Now, here's what it is, friends. See, if you get It, you're a Christian because you believe that you're a Christian. And it's all settled because He's a High Priest.

Now, notice. He's the High Priest of your confession. Get what I mean? What you confess you are, that's what you are. Any man will never live any farther, or any higher, than what he believes he's a living.
You take a man that's talking about drinking all the time. He talks about drinking; he thinks about drinking; he drops right down into that category, becomes a drunkard. A man that's always thinking about vulgar things; he looks at vulgar things; he thinks of vulgar things; he reads vulgarity...

You'd never live any higher than you confess that you are. It's your confession that saves you. He that confess Me before men, him will I confess before My Father and the holy Angels (Matt. 10:32-33). When you say you're sick, you're sick. Now, I'm not preaching Christian Science now. I'm preaching the power of God, and the Holy Spirit bears record of it. See?
But here's what it is. You accept Him because that you feel that He saved you. And you go telling people, testifying of it, and believing your testimony, and it works righteousness. It'll do the same thing for healing.

He's not only the Word, but He's the High Priest of His own Word. How could we doubt it? How could we walk to Him and not believe that we receive what we ask for? For He is the Word and the Intercessor of the Word. The Logos became Word (John 1:1-3,14), and the Word made flesh; and the same flesh that was the Word, received up into glory, and now's the High Priest making intercession by Himself to His Word.

Now, remember, it isn't how much you cry; it isn't how much you repent; it isn't how loud you can cry to God; it isn't how sincere you can be; it's how much faith that you have when you come to Him. He doesn't save you on the merits of your prayer. He doesn't save you upon the merits of your righteousness. He saves you upon the merits of your faith. It's by faith are you saved, and that through grace (Eph. 2:8-9).

Now, you come to the altar realizing that you're a sinner and you are sorry for your sins. You repent of what you've done. And you can stay there and cry for week in and out. And it would never save you until you believe in your heart that you are saved. Is that right? Then you confess it.
Now, He can't do nothing for you until you confess it. Is that right? For He is the High Priest of your confession. He can do nothing... "You confess Me before men, I'll confess you before the Father." Is that right? "What you say I done down here for you, that's what I say the Father that you... that I have done for you." He's the High Priest. You get that young man? The High Priest of your confessions.

Now, here He is setting here to make intercessions on my confession, and I have a right to confess that He's done anything for me that's in the redemptive blessings. There you are.

What was the redemptive blessings? "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, with His stripes we're healed." Is that right? That's every believer's possession. That's mine.

Then confess. What? "By His stripes I'm healed; by His grace I'm saved; by His promise, I'll obey, and I shall be filled with the Holy Ghost." There you are. If you're convinced that He keeps His Word, but first you've got to be convinced.

"What does it profit, my brethren, though a man say that he has faith, and have not works? can faith save him?" (James 2:14). It can't. If you believe God will save you, you've got to believe it and then confess it that He has done it, before it will come... And then it works righteousness.

Reference:
"Calling Jesus On The Scene" (64-0319), par. 5-6, 168
"Message Of Grace", par. 177
"Three Kinds Of Believers", pg. 22
"Christ" (55-0221), par. 49
"Hidden Life With Christ" (56-0213), par. 20-23
"Ministry Explained" (50-0711), par. 55
"Believest Thou This?" (50-0716), par. 11
"Great And Mighty Conqueror" (57-0421M), par. 27
"Manifestation Of The Spirit" (51-0717), par. 19
"Concerned And Convinced" (62.0610E), pg. 27
"My Commission" (51-0505), par. 35

Spiritual Building-Stone No. 138 from the Revealed Word of this hour, compiled by: Gerd Rodewald, Friedenstr. 69, D-75328 Schömberg, Germany
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There's coming one with a Message that's straight on the Bible, and quick work will circle the earth. The seeds will go in newspapers, reading material, until every predestinated Seed of God has heard It.
[Bro. Branham in "Conduct-Order-Doctrine", pg. 724]