The Inside of the Inside
Spiritual Building-Stone No. 171
St. John 17:6, “I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.”
Listen to what God’s Prophet for this age said about it:
In talking about
my natural birth there's many things in my natural birth that I can't brag
on. I'll tell you; I ain't got nothing to brag on. My mother was a sinner
to begin with (Psalm 51:5); my father was a sinner. And they come out of a
bunch of cutthroats and gunfighters, and most of them died with their boots
on: drunks and bootleggers, and everything else, out of Kentucky. My mother,
a half Indian, and I have got nothing to brag on. I can't brag on my family
tree (Rom. 3:10-12).
But glory to God, there's one thing I can brag on, my second birth, which
comes from Jesus Christ. I can brag on that Parent that we have, for He is
My Father. He's my Saviour. He's my Redeemer. I can brag on everything that
He has done for me, because now I become His son. I'm no more a son of Charles
Branham; I'm a son of Jesus Christ. That's right. I can brag on my birth now.
I can't brag on my first birth; there's nothing... I'm ashamed of that. But
I'm not ashamed of my second birth. No, no. I'm not ashamed of my second birth
(John 3:1-8; Titus 3:4-7). How did He do it? "By the washing of the water
by the Word" (Eph. 5:25-27). That's right.
Truly predestinated believers stay with the Word, and they won't pervert It.
It can't be perverted. Oh, sons and daughters of God, why can't we have this
great fellowship that we ought to have with all the sons and daughters of
God? We should have it. But they just won't do it; that's all. 'Cause they're
not truly sons and daughters from the...
That little inside of the inside, that's where you start, which is your soul;
then come from that, you're a spirit; and then you become a living being.
Now, the living being has five senses to contact; the second has five senses.
That's the outside body; see, taste, feel, smell, and hear. The inside body
has love (affections) and conscience, and imagination, memory, reasons: five
senses. But the inside of the inside, the control tower, it's either God or
Satan.
And you can mimic any of these things you can contact, like the Christian;
or you could cast out devils, like a Christian. But the inside control tower,
the beginning, the origin isn't of God, it'll never return to God. You understand
it? Did not Judas cast out devils? (Matt. 10:1-4). Did not Caiaphas, the one
who condemned Him and put Him to death, even prophesy? But he couldn't stay
with the Word. See? That's right. [1]
Now, let me
draw you a little circle. But I want you to watch here. I'm going to make
one ring like this. I'm going to make another ring on the inside of that ring;
that's two. Then I'm going to make a ring on the inside of that ring; that's
three rings, three circles. Now, that's you. That's God. God in a trinity
is One, and without a trinity He's not God. He can't be manifested any other
way. And neither can you be manifested without being the trinity person that
you are. That's body, spirit, soul. Without either one of them, you're not
complete. See? If you didn't have a soul, you'd be nothing. If you didn't
have a spirit, you wouldn't be nothing. If you didn't have a body, you'd be
a spirit, and not a body. So God is complete in the tri-unity of a Being;
not tri-unity of beings, but one Being in a tri-unity. Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost is one true manifested God.
Now, this outside man is the flesh. That's what we look at, what we see. And
it has five inlets to that body. And any grammar school child as myself, would
know that there's five senses control the body: see, taste, feel, smell and
hear. Without that, you can't touch the body. That's the only way you have
to the body: see, taste, feel, smell and hear. See it, taste it, feel it.
Now, that is the evil one on the outside (Rom. 7:18-21; Gal. 5:16-17).
Now, inside of that is a spirit, which you become when you're borned in here
and the breath of life is breathed into you, that spirit is of a worldly nature,
because it was not given from God, but it was given, permitted by God. Now,
you got that?
For every child that's born in the world is born in sin, shaped in iniquity
(Isaiah 64:6), come to the world speaking lies (Rom. 3:4). Is that right?
So, that person inside there is a sinner to begin with. But now, it's got
five inlets, and them five inlets... I don't know whether I can call them
right off now. First, I know is thought, conscience, love, reason, there's
five inlets to the spirit. You can't think with your body; you have to think
with your spirit. You can't have conscience in your body. It has no mental
faculties at all, your body doesn't. So you have to think with your spirit.
You have to reason. You can't reason with your physical being, 'cause reason
doesn't see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. Reason is what you can make in your
mind.
If you're asleep or you're out; your body's lying there dead, but your spirit
can still reason; there's five senses that controls that inside man. Now,
to the last man, which is the soul. There's only one sense that controls that,
and that is, free moral agency, free will, to choose or to reject.
And now, the reason that people today... Now, don't forget this, now, and
you'll see what the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost is. See? Now, people
can live in this spirit, and they dance in the spirit. They shout in the spirit.
They go to church in the spirit, and they can absolutely have the real Spirit
of God anointed on that spirit, but still be lost and just as devil possessed
as they can be with that spirit. "Whosoever shall add one word to this
or take one word from it..." (Rev. 22:18-19). You've got to have an ultimate
somewhere.
God's Word is the ultimate. Whatever that Word says, then that's right.
Now, the only way up here in these spheres that you could ever be in this
little inside man, you have to be foreordained, because you was with God;
you're part of God (Rom. 8:29-30).
I was in my father. I also was in my grandfather, my grandfather's grandfather.
By seed, I was in that. And I was in Christ. You were in Christ before the
foundation of the world (Eph. 1:3-4). He came to redeem His own, His own that
was in Him (Hallelujah.), His children, that was in Him (John 17:6-8).
He never came to save the devil's children (John 17:9). They never will know
it. And they are so shrewd in the ways of their intellectual learning, that
you can't compare with them at all. You can't out-talk them. But by faith
you see it. [2]
Therefore, if
your intellectuals does tell you... Ohhh, here's the stinger now. If your
intellectuals does tell you that this is the Truth, God is the Healer of sickness,
your mind can witness that that is the Truth; but if there is not the bedding
ground in your heart, faith, to fall in to express it, it will not happen.
No matter how much this outside man can reason it with the Scriptures, and
say it's right, that still doesn't make it right.
Antichrists would almost deceive the very elected, if possible." (Matt.
24:24). It can't, because it's impossible; they're elected. See? All right.
But He said, "The anointed ones..." See, "Christ" means
"anointed," but these were anti. They were anointed, but anti, against
Christ in their teaching. Now, they could do anything that the rest of them
could do.
Now, remember, you're in a cycle of three, but you're one person. Like Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, cycle of three, but one Person, three attributes of the
same God: Three offices like: fatherhood, sonship, and Holy Ghost. And you
are body, spirit, and soul.
Now, the outside body has five inlets to it to contact your earthly home:
see, taste, feel, smell, and hear. The inside, which is a spirit, it has five
senses: conscience, and love, and so forth. But the inside of that, the soul,
has one thing. That's where you live.
The Spirit can come out here and anoint you to do certain things, and you
do it, but that don't mean you're saved. But think of it. Caiaphas prophesied
(John 18:14). Judas cast out devils. See, the Spirit anointed him. There's
rain falls on the just and the unjust; the weeds can rejoice with the wheat
(Matt. 5:43-45). But it's what it is at the core. There's where you can, intellectuals
can accept and say, "Oh, sure, that looks good. I believe that."
That still don't do it. No, sir. And the spirit can actually make witness
of it, and still it isn't so. Because if that soul hasn't come from God, it
can make all the impersonations out here, but it cannot be real. You can act
healing; you can act like you have. You can act like you receive it. Christians
can act like they're Christians, and act and be ever so good at it, but that
don't mean they're saved. That's exactly right. See? The Spirit can be there,
the real genuine Spirit. The Holy Spirit can anoint you; that still don't
mean you're saved. It's that inside soul that never dies; it's got Eternal
Life. It always was Eternal Life. See? It come from God; it goes to God; it's
the soul.
Now, notice that, it's got to be. Five, f-a-i-t-h, outside; spirit, J-e-s-u-s;
on the inside, y-o-u. See? That's how standing here looking at you, I don't
know a one of you. The spirit can anoint me, still I don't know none of you.
But when that inside of the inside breaks in, that's God.
That's where the outside can reason. You take a man, say, "Well, you
know, I know I'm not supposed to commit adultery. But, you know, then the
spirit tells me I shouldn't commit adultery. But, you see, way down in there
is still that thing in there." See, it'll kinda govern around, and better
watch it. [3]
But down on the inside of that man, if that little tie-post had been there,
that Seed of God that was predestinated before the foundation of the world,
I don't care what takes place; it holds him; it's there to stay (Luke 8:11).
[2]
But when it's directed from the inside, it throws all the rest of it together.
That's the guidepost. That's the control tower, the inside of the inside.
The soul controls the spirit, the spirit controls the body.
So an outside whitewash don't make any difference. Them religious people back
there (Matt. 23:25-28), that Paul called "whited walls," and so
forth, they were outward just every way a believer, and they had prophesies
among them, and everything else but the inside of the inside... "The
soul that disbelieveth..." (Ezek. 18:20).
That's the reason I say people can jump up and down, and speak in tongues;
people can shout, lay hands on the sick, and heal the sick and so forth by
faith; all these great things there by the Spirit, still be lost. Anointed
ones... [3]
If you believe
me to be God's prophet, you listen to my Words. See? That's a deception in
this day. Didn't the Bible say it'd be so close it would deceive the Elected
if possible? The Elected, down to the soul...
But if you danced in the Spirit, still with the things of the world, there's
something wrong. You speak with tongues; Paul said, "I can speak with
tongues of men and angels, and still not even be saved." Uh-huh, both
kinds. See? "I can do all the emotions; I can have faith; I can preach
the Gospel; I can give all my goods to feed the poor; I can carry the Word
in the mission fields across the world, and still I'm nothing." (I Cor.
13:1-10). See? It's that Inside of the inside, brother. Your spirit breaks
up when you die; it takes its flight, but your soul lives. [4]
And a real genuine
Christian will cope with that inside man; that Spirit that was back yonder
at the beginning, which is the Word. As He was the Fullness of all of you
(Col. 2:9-15), you were in Him back yonder at Calvary (Rom. 6:6).
He foreknew you would be here. He only broadcast what would take place. And
you were in Him. You died with Him. You died to your pride; you died to your
passion; you died to the world. You died with Him at Calvary and you rose
with Him, when He rose again on the third day; and because that you accepted
Him, now you're setting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Eph. 2:4-7). Hallelujah.
There you are. It's that inside man, that inside that will punctuate the Word,
hang with the Word regardless... You can't help it. I learned that many years
ago.
The Word of God shall never fail. It'll triumph no matter what that is. Then
I knowed there was something inside of all reasonings, something inside of
all emotions, everything else like that; there was an inside man that held
in that hour; nothing else could have done it. Every reason, everything could
be showed, everything could prove that it was wrong, and I was in the wrong,
but the Word of God that was predestinated before the foundation of the world
held on the inside.
Brother, sister, let me tell you: That's the only thing. Don't try to reason
it out. Don't try to have long hair because I said so. Don't try to do these
things just because in your flesh... Don't try to do it just to kind of cope
up, but just wait before the Lord till something way down on the inside...
Many of you think 'cause you've long hair, that means you're going to go to
heaven. That doesn't mean that. Many of them thinks, 'cause you're a good
moral woman, your going to... It don't mean that. Many of them think because
their churches and belong to this and this great groups and great doctors
of divinity. That don't mean that. See? Many think because they speak with
tongues, they've got the Holy Ghost. That don't mean that, though the Holy
Ghost does speak with tongues. But until that real, genuine Holy Spirit in
there will cope with every word...
If that Holy Spirit in you makes you speak with tongues, looks back there
and doesn't agree with the rest of the Word, then it's a wrong spirit. It's
got to come from the inside, which is the Word from the beginning. In the
beginning of the creation of God when God begin to create and bring you into
existence... (Gen. 1:26-27). You see, you started back there as a seed and
worked down to where you are now. And then you were all in Christ (Eph. 1:3-4).
Then when Christ died, He died to redeem all of you. And you are part of this
Word. And how can the Bible--all of it.... How in the world can you, being
part of that Word, disagree with the rest of it, or any part of it?
Oh, my brother,
sister; now, everyone of you conscious I know what that means. See? Just watch.
Stay close to Christ. Let me warn you now, as a minister of the Gospel. Don't
take any foolishness. Don't imagine anything. Stay right there until this
inside of the inside is anchored to the Word, that you're right in Christ;
'cause that's the only thing that's going to... 'Cause we're in the most deceiving
age that we ever lived in. It would deceive the very elected if it was possible,
because they have anointing. They can do anything like the rest of them.
Clean your lives up; pay your debts; owe no man. Jesus said, "Now...
Now, I don't mean things like your house rent and stuff. You got to do it.
Get all your things off your hands. Get everything right. Make ready. Get
ready. Remember in the Name of the Lord, something's fixing to happen. [2]
References:
[1] POWER.OF.TRANSFORMATION (65-1031M), par. 307-312
[2] KNOWETH.IT.NOT (65-0815), pg. 14/17-18/19/23/24/28/36
[3] WORKS.IS.FAITH.EXPRESSED (65-1126), par. 201-211
[4] LEADERSHIP (65-1207), par. 316-319