A Greater Consecration

Your greatest spiritual problem might not be a “big sin” at all, it might be slow drift. We talk candidly about what it means to seek a greater consecration in an age trained to be casual, entertained, and constantly distracted, and why God’s answer is not a new set of rules but a fresh revelation of Himself.

We open the Bible in Exodus and Genesis and follow Abraham through a clear pattern: God calls, God justifies by faith, then God calls the believer into a deeper walk of sanctification. Along the way, we face the tension Scripture refuses to avoid: sanctification is God’s work in us, yet it demands real surrender, real choices, and real effort through the Holy Spirit. Romans 8, 2 Corinthians 7, and 1 John 3 bring it home with language that is both comforting and challenging, calling us to cleanse, mortify, and purify because we carry an earnest expectation of being made like Christ.

Abraham’s darkest chapter becomes one of the most hopeful moments in the message. After failure, God does not discard him, God reveals Himself as El Shaddai, the all-sufficient One, then says, “Walk before me.” We connect that to modern life where phones, social media algorithms, and endless content can train the flesh, numb conviction, and steal prayer. Consecration becomes practical: forgive, remove bitterness, cut off what defiles, rebuild a serious prayer life, and draw near to God with humility so He can lift you up.

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Transcript

Welcome And Purpose

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Greetings, Bible believers and followers of the end-time message. Welcome to another episode of the Jason Demars Podcast, the place where we explore the incredible mysteries hidden within the pages of the Bible. I'm your host, Jason Demars. It's time to get started on another journey into the heart of God's Word. If it's your desire to grow in Revelation and see the message in the light of the Bible, you're in the right place. Today, brothers and sisters, we delve into the scripture guided by the extraordinary revelations that God chose to unveil through Brother William Marion Brannell, a messenger with a unique calling to fulfill Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7, and unlock the secrets of the end time message. Our purpose isn't to have another basic Bible study. We're going to dig deep and peel back the layers of prophecy, decoding the signs and perhaps discovering how the Bible resonates within the very fabric of our present day and time. In this podcast, my purpose is to help you grow in your faith through solid Bible teaching through the lens of the message of Malachi 4. So grab your Bible, a cup of coffee, and let's get started. And remember that your feedback, testimonies, questions, and prayer requests are always welcome. Please send them on social media or at jasendemars.com. With that said, let's get into today's podcast. Amen. God bless you all. So good to be back here. So thankful for the presence of the Lord and the atmosphere the Lord has set with us. And even the song service going directly along, like we like we planned it all the time. Like they do in the denominational churches. They plan it, and oh, the songs and everything works together, and we just come and don't plan anything, and the Lord plans it out and lays it out and prepares the hearts and prepares the field. And so we're so thankful for that. I believe the Lord has a great purpose for us here this morning. I believe that the Lord is hearing the cry of our hearts and our desire for Him and more of Him and a closer walk with Him. And you know, uh we're living in such an hour that doesn't lead us to a greater consecration. Doesn't lead us uh to more reverence. Everything is a joke, everything is uh uh something silly, and uh we're just the world around us is living in such a flippant way, and there's so little respect, so little honor left, honor for elders, uh honor between husband and wife, respect between children and parents, but I believe there's a people that in the land that the Lord is moving and working and creating his own character in. And as the wor as the love of many waxes cold, the love that's in the bride is waxing stronger

Reverence In A Flippant Age

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and stronger. Amen. And yet we know that the world can try to try to beat us down and get its grip upon us, and so we need to battle, we need to fight, we need to be aware, and we need to walk with him. Amen. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we just sense that your presence has come, Lord, that you're pleased with our worship, Lord, expressing the desire that we want more of you, Lord. And that Lord, this is the greatest thing, Lord, to be in your presence and to walk with you, Lord. And to live for your glory, that we could just be with you, Lord. Be near you, Lord, and to be changed. And so, Lord, we ask that you'd come, Father. Come in a way, Lord, help me to step out of the way, that you'd operate the gift, Father. Even as Brother Branham taught us that the real gift is getting yourself out of the way. Lord, so let me get out of the way, let each believer get out of the way and pull upon the word, Lord, and then it's you ministering to our hearts. So we ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen. God

Consecrate Yourselves To The Lord

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bless you all. Uh, we're gonna start with Exodus 32, 29. If you go ahead and bring up the PowerPoint. We want to speak about a greater consecration. Amen. And we have that. We have that as example. God coming and meeting Abraham. We're gonna speak a little bit about that. But we'll start with Exodus 32, verse 29. For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, even every man upon his son and upon his brother, that he may stow upon you a blessing this day. Consecrate yourselves to the Lord. May the Lord add the blessing to the reading of his word. You can be seated. So we'll start out by looking at the life of Abraham and this process that God took him through, and we'll go to Genesis 12. This is this is the this is our introduction to Abram. Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing, and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curseth thee, and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. So this is God coming and revealing himself to Abram. So this is now this is now the revelation, but this is also the promise and the plan put right there, and we as we understand that this is an unconditional covenant that God made with Abram. I will bless you. Right? You say, how can it be unconditional? Because he tells him to get out of his country, and if he didn't get out of his country, then he wouldn't receive the blessing. Well, that you got it backwards. He says he will bless him. It's God, it's God out, it's God working in Abram's life. That's that is the unconditional covenant. The unconditional covenant isn't I've made a promise to you, and you can just do anything you want to do forever. No, it's I've made an unconditional covenant with you, and therefore there's a great purpose that your life carries, and I myself will ensure that that purpose is carried out. That's the unconditional covenant. Amen. And in other words, it's not a it's not a license to sin. It's not, it's not, it's grace, not disgrace. So Abraham had faith. Abraham took God at his word. Genesis 15, 16 and 7. And he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness, and he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of the Ur of the Chaldees to give thee this land to inherit it. Oh, he tells him, get out of the land, and now he says, I'm the one that brought you out. Why? Because it was God's working, it was God accomplishing that. So that was jud he Abraham was justified by faith. He simply believed God. That's all he had to do. God was going to ensure that the rest happened. Then we skip we skip a chapter and we go to 17, and you'll see what I'm doing after a minute. Verse 17, or chapter 17, verse 1. And when Abram was 90 years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram and said unto him, I am the Almighty God. I am El Shaddai. I'm the I'm the breasted God, the one that you can nurse see your strength for him. I'm the all-sufficient one. Walk before me and be thou perfect. And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. So now Abraham is justified. He's already been called. Genesis 12 is the calling of Abraham, God calling Abraham. He calls him out, he justifies him, right? And then what does he do? He comes and he meets him, and he's calling him to consecrate himself before the Lord. Walk before me and be thou perfect. Be upright. So first comes the calling, then comes the justification, and then justification comes and God comes and speaks, consecrate yourself. Or we could say that's sanctification. So of course we understand it's only out of the new birth being regenerated that we can walk before the Lord and be perfect. Abraham didn't have access to that. We do have access to that. But sanctification comes out of justification, and justification comes out of the call of God upon our lives. Romans 8 30 says, Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called, whom he called,

Abraham’s Call And God’s Covenant

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them he also justified, and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

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Amen.

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So this is this the calling is the work of God. God does that work. God says, Come out of Ur of the Chaldees, to the land that I show you. And then he appears and says, I'm the one that brought you out of the land of the Ur of the Chaldees and gave you this promise. 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. So this sanctification is not our work, it's the work of the Lord. It's Him moving in us, Him working in us, Him changing us little by little by little, from glory to glory to glory to glory. As we go along in life, we grow more and more, and we get more like the very image of the one we are beholding. So how can I get changed from glory to glory, behold Him? That's where the change comes. It's seeing Jesus Christ. It's seeking His face and being changed by what we behold. And so sanctification is the work of the Lord in our lives. But at the same time, we can we'll see as we read the Apostle Paul and also John that that that work of the Lord in our lives requires effort, surrender, and determination. Second Corinthians 7 1. Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, praise the Lord, we have the promises. Now what, Paul? Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. My so we have we're given promises, and we know the new covenant, just like Abraham's covenant, was unconditional. It's not conditional based on how good we are, our performance. It's God's promise. But because of God's promise, therefore we understand we're called to put our whole lives in surrender to the Lord. To consecrate ourselves to Him, to cleanse ourselves from filthiness of the flesh and spirit. The two outside realms in the spirit speaks of the mind. So cleanse your mind of evil, of wickedness, of unbelief. Cleanse your flesh of wickedness and unbelief. And then perfecting holiness in the fear of God. So how do we perfect holiness in the fear of God? We have to realize there's promises over us. There's promises that as we behold Him, we'll be changed from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. So therefore, cleanse yourself. Cleanse yourself, and when you're cleansing yourself, this is going to perfect holiness in the fear of God. A reminder that holiness and sanctification are from the same exact root word. Holiness is speaking of the state, sanctification is speaking of the work. Romans 8, 12. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if you live after the flesh, you shall die. But if you through the Spirit do mortify or put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live. So God is calling us, us, to put to death the works of the flesh. We have to put forward an effort, we have to put our strength, we have to put some blood, sweat, and tears into putting to death the flesh. But we don't do it on our own, it's through the spirit. So the spirit of the Lord, so in other words, if the spirit of the Lord is dwelling in you, it's going to be causing you to put to death the works of the flesh. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. So being led by the Spirit, so the outward, the outward manifestation is being led by the Spirit. That proves and demonstrates that you're a son of God. So what is being led by the Spirit? Again, we quote this verse just by itself as we're preaching. I do it, we all do it. But what is the context is

Sanctification Is God’s Work And Ours

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in our lives in putting to death the works of the flesh. That's the Spirit is leading us to put those things to death. Working in our lives. If we're led by the Spirit, then we won't fulfill the desires of the flesh. But if we're led by the flesh, of course, we're going to be under that under that dominion. And so this is much deeper than just, I feel led to do this. I feel do you feel led to die to yourself? Because that would be the good a good evidence that God is working in your life. Do you felt feel led to kill the works of the flesh? That's the leading of the Holy Spirit. Yes, of course, it goes further and deeper than that. I completely agree. And yet the context of scripture is more closely connected with what kind of life is manifested through you. First John chapter 3, verse 2. Beloved, now are we the sons of God. And it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. So we're already sons of God. And then verse 3 every man that hath this hope in himself, so this hope that you're gonna have a new body just and you're gonna have a body just like Jesus' body. You're looking for the rapture, the body change. Hope is not, I wish it would happen. Hope is earnest expectation. So you have an earnest expectation of the body change for you as an individual. You have that hope in yourself. What are you gonna do? I'm gonna dance in the spirit, maybe. I'm gonna shout. Maybe what is it? What does the scripture say, though? Every man that has this earnest expectation in him purifies himself. We put it out to the outward motions of Pentecost and Pentecostalism and say, this will be the identification of the sons of God. But does that scripture do that? I don't believe so. Believe scripture shows that this person is going to be purifying his own his life. He realizes that he has a part in it. And he can't just sit back and say, Well, as fate would have it, I'm being changed. No, that's not the right way to look at it. God is sovereignly working within our choices. You making choices isn't contrary to God being sovereign. God sees them, God plans them, God purposes them, but He purposes that you would make choices, that you would make decisions, that you would see there's things in my life I've got to get rid of. There's things in our life that are not leading me closer to Christ. They're leading me away from Christ, and they're hurting me, and they're hurting my family, and I have to purify myself. And then at the end we look at it and we'll realize that was God working in me.

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Praise God. Thank you, Jesus.

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Paul, the apostle, speaking about his apostleship ministry, he said, I labored more abundantly than all of them. And we're like, wow, Paul, that's you're a little bit proud of yourself. But he didn't stop there. That wasn't the end of what he said. I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was in me. Amen. And we can recognize that the grace of God within us causes us to labor more abundantly, to be more like Jesus Christ. Amen. And it's we we you you can understand a true son of God and daughter of God realizes it's not self-righteousness, it's not you saying everybody else has a problem, this one has a problem. What's wrong with my church? No, what's wrong with me? Where can I grow? Where how can I be an example? How can the revival start with me and not say there's the pastor's wrong and the associate pastor's wrong and the song leader doesn't do it right? What about you? Do you do it right? We need to have that place and that position, realizing we will answer to God. We're not gonna, I'm not gonna answer to God for any of what you do, but I'm gonna answer how I responded to the word. But you don't understand the church is like this and this one's like that, and this guy's over here. Hey, I I'm preaching to myself. You see things and you hear things and you think, what's wrong? Okay? What is that to thee? Follow thou me. What if he tarries till I come? What is that to you? You need to follow the Lord, you need to get closer to him. Amen. Abraham didn't have a church to go to to say, look at all the problems with everybody around me. He just walked with God. He had a family, he had people around him, but Abraham walked with God. What about you? You have to walk with God. When you walk with God, when when when you realize it's this is not about us finding

Hope That Purifies And Kills Flesh

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our own self-righteousness, purifying yourself. Oh, I'm gonna get so self-righteous. Well, you when you do that, you become nasty. You become a person that people don't want to be around. That's not what we're talking about. This is talking about you realize if you don't understand your own sinfulness, maybe start there and start praying about that. If you uh don't understand your own weakness and you think that you're so great, my goodness, pray about ask God to show you yourself. And you'll understand your own need for Him. And there's no reason to be proud over that or think we'll be great. God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Alright, so now let's let's go back to Abraham and zoom zoom out kind of to the bigger picture. You have Abraham being called and all the different things that he went through. Genesis 15, it comes, Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. God says this, the various things happen Genesis 15, the promise comes, and Nothing happens. There's no pregnancy. There's no baby on the way. And what do they say? You know what? Sarai says, Abram, you know what? You can take my con my maid and make her your concubine. And if you have a child through her, I'll take credit for it. And then that will produce the heir. And Abraham goes, why not? Sure. Instead of rebuking her, like Job rebuked his wife, Abraham Abram said, Okay. Sure, let's go ahead. Let's bring the word to pass by our own means. So gets her pregnant. Sarai gets angry, gets jealous, mistreats her, abuses her, and says, Send her away from me. And this is a pregnant woman. I mean, I just think about this, it's so horrific. Abram, the man of God, the prophet of God, sees a pregnant woman. That's his kid. And he's like, Yeah, sure. Send her out into the wilderness. The desert. I mean, this isn't the Pacific Northwest. This is the desert. This is life is a thin line. Go in the desert. I mean, he's as far as they can see, he's committing her to death. She's alone. This she needs to be treated with tenderness and kindness. And once again, Abram should have said, Sarai, what? But what does Abram do? Let's not cause a problem for my wife. Let's I mean, this is this it's like a monstrous thing to do. Let's put it that way. This is awful. Genesis 16 is not a great story about Abram and Sarai. It is a plain paints a very bleak picture. So what God looks at this situation and understands this situation, and and what does he say? I guess. Let me just, these guys are horrifically bad. I'm going to kill them all, bury them in the ground, and start over. That's not what he did. Genesis 17, and he comes and what does he say? He reveals himself. So this backslidden prophet, he's a backslidden prophet. That's what he is. He's in a not a good condition. So what's God's solution? And I'm speaking to me and I'm speaking to you. What is God's solution for his backslidden child?

Abraham’s Failure And Grace Afterward

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He appears to him and reveals a further name to him and says, I am El Shaddai. And then he says, It's fine, you can do whatever you want to, Abram. No, what does he say? Walk before me and be thou perfect. Abram, you haven't been walking before me, and you haven't been perfect. You've been awful, you've been wicked. But God's solution was based on his grace. And God, God's saying, you know what? I'm going to restore Abram to walk with me. And what am I going to do? I'm going to reveal myself to him because in my presence, in my presence being revealed to Abraham, that is going to bring a change in him. That's going to draw him closer. That's going to cause him to walk before me. So the remedy for a backslip backslider is don't get not getting more holy. The remedy for the backslider is the personal presence of Jesus Christ coming to you as an individual to touch your heart. And that's grace. And it's also grace to say, walk before me. So what does it mean when he says, walk before me? I think this it speaks of being aware of the continual presence of God in your life. Live in such a way that you realize that you're in his presence. That you have that that will that should create such a reverence that you're not going to want to send the pregnant lady out of your house. That you're not going to want to turn to the things of the world and pornography to try to satisfy you. To try to create your own righteousness, your own self-righteousness to fulfill the purpose of God. And then he says, Be thou perfect. Be thou imperfect. So a perfect God wants us to aim for perfection. How could he demand anything less? Be be perfect, even as your father in heaven is perfect. Now, Brother Branham tells us if God puts forth a demand, he will make a way for that demand to be fulfilled. And so God makes a way for that. At the same time, if we're talking about sinlessness, God knows that we'll never achieve that. And so if you look closely at this word, perfect, especially in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, it means something different, but in the Old Testament, it means sincere or upright. So God is calling to the backslider to be sincere and to walk uprightly. We aren't to have double dealings like Abraham did with Hagar. We aren't to play fast and loose with the Lord and with the people around us. You know, sincerity speaks of a transparency. So as transparent as glass. That's the kind of life that we should live. Be free from deceit in every form. God hates deceit. Be real, be genuine, be what God has made you to be. And you don't need to apologize for it. Paul says, by the grace of God, I am what I am. Amen. I'll never be Andrew Glover. I'll never preach like Andrew Glover. But God made me to be this kind of preacher. And God has a purpose for that. And so we we should be thankful for that. For how God has made us and designed us because we know it's for a purpose. But then I want to get back again to he says, walk before me, be thou perfect. But then he starts with I'm El Shaddai. And if if we really truly understand this, I think it would help us a lot. He's the all-sufficient one. Do you feel a need in your heart? He's the answer.

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Amen.

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Do you do you feel like, man, I need to I need to get ahead in my business, I need to work harder in my business? Well, if you realize he's the all-sufficient one, you're gonna you're gonna live and walk in such a way that it's pleasing to him, even even if it's contrary to the way the business world does things. You're gonna follow his principles, follow his purpose, and it's in that that God is gonna prosper you. He, if we realize he's the all-sufficient one, he's the one that can meet every need that we have in our heart. And we all get to a place in our lives where there's times where we feel we feel down, we feel weak, we feel like, what's the point? Why should I keep going forward? God is the all-sufficient one. Usually it's in those moments is when we our heart has turned a bit away from him, and we've just started the process of backsliding. Just stop it right now. Turn to him. He's the all-sufficient one. He can meet your need, he can give you joy, he is your happiness, he is your joy, he is your strength. Turn to him. Amen. If we can understand when we say a greater consecration, we can see that God's remedy for that is himself. Turn to him. You can just pray. It's a simple prayer. Lord, come near to me and reveal yourself to me so that I can walk before you. Rescue me out of my indifference and coldness. Revive my heart again for you.

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Amen.

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This is life eternal that we might know Him, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom He has sent. That's eternal life. Eternal life isn't following tenets of the message. It's not looking the part so that message believers don't condemn you. That results in hopelessness and shipwreck

El Shaddai And Walking Upright

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of faith. That's gonna destroy you if you're work if you're so focused on the people around you and following rules. Did that work for the Jews?

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No.

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It didn't work for the Jews, and it still doesn't work for the Jews. They've gotten nowhere with God by following sets of rules. It's not about following sets of rules, it's by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that we're saved. And that's why that's why when he meets us, when El Shaddai reveals himself to us, he says, Walk before me and be thou perfect. You say I can't be perfect. Well, that's what he is working inside of you. He's working to make you upright. But look to him, he's the one that's doing it.

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Praise God.

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I believe that the Lord in this hour, you know, we we we get we get so caught up in what's going on around us. This church is doing this, and our church is this, and I don't feel this way, and we're looking at human beings, we're looking at flesh, and it will always lead to disappointment. God has never purposed us to find our satisfaction in a church, in a group of believers, in in the five-fold ministry. Amen. It's in Him that we find that joy and that peace. And we need to have a greater consecration, not to be greater Pharisees, not to be greater Bible thumpers. When I say Bible thumpers, thumping people in the head with the word of God, but a greater love, a greater passion for the Lord and a greater love and a greater purpose to serve him and walk with him. And you never want to displease him, not because you care what other people think, but because you love him. We need that kind of revelation inside of ourselves that he would bring us close to him. It's also the most deceiving hour because it's the most self-satisfied hour. And everyone that seeks this satisfaction from self and from I'm gonna improve my life. I'm gonna watch lots of TikToks and Instagram reels, and it's gonna teach me how to make my life better. And we're doing this and we're watching this and we're feeding on. I don't mind learning from these things. I do that too, not TikTok. I have to draw the line somewhere, but you know, we all are on some level, we're looking at these things, and you say, I don't have any social media, but you have YouTube. So let's just relax a little bit and not get on our self-righteous tour. These are things that drag us all down. We get sucked in. They're literally designed to mess with the pleasure centers in your brain. And guess what? They leave you at the end empty? Wondering what have I done with my time? Amen. I am not preaching to you as one who has solved the problem. I'm preaching to you as one, I'm sitting with you. Lord help us to seek satisfaction and joy in Him. Let's lay our devices aside and let's open our Bibles and open books that take us closer to the Lord. Amen. We're called to possess and operate supernatural power in our lives. Every believer, not just the preachers, every believer. We're called to know God more deeply in this hour than any other hour. The most deceiving hour. The hour, the hour that is play they have delved into scientific realms to hold your attention, to pull you in. You you you are the and you are the end product that they want. Well, who is that? Who is that that's behind that? Satan. Because he's literally just mimicking what God wants, because what is what is the end product that God wants? You. And so Satan is tapping into these pleasure centers of the flesh in order to draw us away from God. And so God is wants us to know him in this hour, this deceiving, evil hour, full of pleasures. He wants us to know him more. God is working to ripen us and to bring us to rapture and faith. And we have to have our hearts ready for him,

Joy Found In God Not In Groups

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our minds open to how he is going to speak to us, how he is going to lead us, and however, the Spirit of the Lord would operate in our midst. And so it's going to take a greater consecration. The word consecrate means to make or declare to be sacred by certain ceremonies or rites, to appropriate to sacred uses, to set apart, dedicate, or devote to the service and worship of God. It speaks of the consecration of Aaron and his sons. It speaks of in Joshua the silver and the gold and brass and iron were consecrated to the Lord and his service. It means it means devoted, it means dedicated. At the end of the Web Webster's dictionary, it says the word is now seldom used unless in poetry. How sad is that? We live in an unconsecrated hour, a worldly wicked hour. But God is calling us to a greater consecration. In the sermon Speak to this Mountain, Brother Branham says, put your hands in the air, praise him, sing glorious praises, consecrate yourself to him. The man's out of the wheelchair, praising God with his hands up in the air. The man was in the wheelchair is out giving God praise. Hallelujah. Give him glory, all you people. Let the Holy Ghost take over the meeting and carry it into consecration. Each one of you dig down in your hearts and take out all the root of bitterness. How do you do that? By forgiveness. Take out all the sin, all the unbelief, all the skepticism that you've had in your heart. Throw it out. Get ready. The Holy Ghost is going to do great things in the midst of you. So as we talked at the beginning about sanctification and the cleansing process of the Lord, that's directly connected to it. It's God's work and it's our work. It's a communion with Him, a participation with Him. We're participating in His work that He's doing in our lives. So consecration is both a request to God and a commitment of the heart to consecration. It's a rededicating of ourselves to God, and it's a request to God cleanse us, give us strength to overcome sin and stop us from straying away from you. And again, we can't earn our consecration and we can't make ourselves good. How can something filthy in the sight of God clean itself? Just makes itself dirtier by doing that. Acts 15, 9. And put no this is recounting how God worked in the Gentiles. It put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. So it's by faith that we're purified. It's by faith that we're consecrated. Now therefore, why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? Amen. It's following the law after the flesh. You can't bear that yoke. We're not asking you to follow the message after the flesh. We're asking you to follow the message by faith. Following after the flesh, you know what you're gonna do? You're gonna say that that message isn't true. Nobody could live that. Those people are a bunch of hypocrites. No, we're a bunch of sinners saved by grace that make plenty of mistakes and need the grace of God. And let's let's deal with each other on the level of grace. But God at the same time call one another higher into Christ. But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved even as they us holy Jews are saved by grace, and those unholy Gentiles are also saved by grace. Amen. Apply that in our churches and to our attitudes. And let's maybe even the playing field in our attitudes towards one another. Leviticus 11 44. For I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy, for I am holy. Sanctify yourself. You be holy, because I am holy. We can't do that on our own. The Old Testament has proven that to us. It's his work. That's what he's doing. James 4, 8. Draw

Devices That Feed The Flesh

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nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Amen. This is a call to a born-again person. Because when you're walking in sin, there's no man that seeks after good God. There's no one that does good. So it's not us seeking God, it's God seeking us. But when you're born again, then it's appropriate for the pastor to say, draw near to God. Why? Because he set you free. Now you can draw near to him. Draw near to God. It seems like there's a pursuit, it seems like there's movement. Seems like there's there's something that you're doing, something that you're you're setting your mind towards to fellowship with him. If you come near to God, he's going to come near to you. Cleanse your hands. You do it. Purify your hearts. Amen. Verse 9. Be afflicted and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness. Oh my, so we should all just be the saddest people in the world. No. But if if we're living in such a way to where we're not pleasing the Lord, we need to have a season of mourning over our sin. We need to have a season where we have a heaviness. Why? Because we see our own weakness, our see our own failure. See, see the direction that we're going with our life of maybe backsliding is not going to accomplish the work of God in our lives. And we need to be afflicted and mourn. Fast and pray, repent and weep before the Lord. Amen. Then humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He'll lift you up. So be afflicted and mourn over your sin and over the state of your condition of your heart. Then God will lift you up. See, humble yourself. The way you want to know what the way to get up? It's down. Humble yourselves. Amen. Brother Branham in Ablashing Prophet. I'm gonna read a big portion of that because it's some some really amazing things he's talking about here. He says many of you here who have professed Christianity for a long time and know that you have failed to tow the line with God, know that you're doing things right now that you ought not to do. See, he he said they've they've you professed, uh had a profession of belief for a long time, but you're falling away. You're you're you're you're not walking with him like you know that you should. That's what he's saying. And you're doing it's causing because of that your heart is getting cold and it's causing you to do things that you know are wrong. Just loosely floating along with the tide, looking at the kind of programs you should not look at, look at the kind of magazines, social media, and reading the literature that you should not read. It's not becoming to Christians, listening to the jokes of the of vile and dirt and smut that you know you shouldn't do, both men and women. You know places where you could have spoke and did not do it, and you're guilty, maybe the sin of omission. So we pause there. What is Brother Branham saying? He's saying, You're living a loose life. And if you're in that condition, as I have been in the past, you know exactly. I don't even need to explain that to you. You're just living a loose life, and you say, I believe, so it's fine. I kind of have this sense that this isn't good, but I'm a son of God. It's okay. That's not the evidence of a son of God. Next he says, You're looking at programs you shouldn't. So, you know, we understand that in the realm of television. Bless God, I'm a message believer. I have no television in my house. Yeah, but you have a television in your pocket. Way worse than a television in your house. So, what does that mean? You're going through Rios and dirty jokes, and Indio

What Consecration Means In Practice

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innuendo starts to come up, and you pause for just a second, and then they serve you that on a platter over and over and over again, and you've been sucked in. And what is it? That's lit that's what just what I said. It has tapped in, it's seen that you look it can your phone can see that you literally are looking at that and pause to look at it, and it went through twice. Now you go off your phone and come back, and what do you see? It's telling smuddy jokes, it's it's showing scantily clad women, and it's talking about perverted things. And it does this, even just one mistake. You talk about demon power being in these algorithms. One mistake, and suddenly you're sucked deep into a pit of evil. And you know, if if we come to that place where these algorithms are doing to that, we gotta run from the algorithm. We gotta, we gotta, we gotta take off these apps from our phone. We gotta cut it off because it's it's it's dangerous. It's you you're you're not meant to stand in the face of that. You're meant to cut it off and say, no, I'm done. Because it it's it's so deceiving to the point where the demon power is coming directly through your phone to suck you into certain algorithms. And the women have their own type of perverted algorithms, and men have their own type of perverted algorithms that are taking place. It's all to suck you in because you are the product that the devil wants. Going through news sites and YouTube and ac spending excessive time. Excessive time. Maybe you're watching true things, but you're spending excessive time and it's turning your focus from the Lord onto conspiracies. And then you find out these conspiracies are true, it still drags you down. It doesn't help, it doesn't draw you closer to the Lord. And you're looking at it, and that's true, that's true, that's true, and this you're learning things, but what is it? Is it helping you? Is it improving your walk with the Lord? We we were not designed to have so much information coming our way. And we have to learn, the Lord has to help each individual. Each individual has this walk. It's not a program that I can put forward and say, you can't do this, and you shouldn't do that, and you shouldn't do this, and here's the steps. This is a holy spoke of spirit leadership, yeah. And we need we need the Lord to work within us to help us understand what to do. The whole the the the world history has never seen something like this before, to where it's tapping right into the the dru the addiction places in our brain, leading us to this place down a road little by little by little. Now, the devil used to do that in the world around us, but now it's just right here with us wherever we go. And it's just perfected in Satan's Eden. And so, you know, each one of us, you might have to become Amish. I don't know. We say that you can't become Amish. Well, maybe you can get a homestead and get rid of all everything. There's nothing wrong with that. The Lord leads you to do that, praise the Lord. I don't say you can't do that, because it's not up to us to say exactly how you're going to live, where you're gonna live. The Lord leads you that way, praise the Lord. But the reality is we need to make some better choices and better decisions in our own lives, me included, every preacher included, all of us need to find where the Lord wants us to be with those things. And we need to take it seriously. It's not something we we take lightly and play with because it can it's to your spiritual detriment. Brother Branham also mentions not speaking up and defending the truth. You hear somebody speak evil things and blaspheme against the Lord, and you just say, just pass over it. And they think you agree with them. He says it's the sin of omission. And so we don't have to be nasty or rude, we can just say, Well, I I differ with you on that one. I think the Lord is good and gracious or whatever it is that's going on, you know. And also not being a witness of the gospel and inviting people to church. Brother Branham talks about that. All right, let's continue in that blushing prophet. He says, I wonder if you'd raise your hand to Christ to have mercy on you and forgive you. Raise your hand. God bless you, young lady. As the woman walked out to come to the altar to confess hers, raise your hand to God. God bless you. That's right, mister. That's right. God bless you. Raise your hand. You know you've done wrong. I wonder if you have the courage tonight to meet me here at the altar. Let's kneel around and say, God be merciful to all us, all of us. We're in need of you. God bless you, lady. To see these young women coming weeping, life before them. They're at the crossroads, they are victims of circumstances. What? Do you realize, old men? When we were boys, our boys has got ten times the temptation that we had. A thousand times now. Sister, do you realize that your daughter has ten times the temptations you had when you were a girl? What will her daughter have? Look at these things, look at the things the picture the devil is painting. Oh, how we need to pray. Now we'll go back to you again, brother. Do you

Draw Near Repent And Be Lifted

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realize we don't pray as half as much as our fathers did? Pastor, do you know we don't put as much time on our knees as the pastors before us did? Women, do you realize you don't instruct your daughter and pray with her at night like your mother did you? Then what about you? Then what about it? Who is guilty? We're guilty. There's no way around it. We are guilty. I'm guilty. I'm guilty. This is the prophet speaking, of not doing the job of God like I should do. I'm confessing it that I'm wrong. I'm asking God to be merciful to me. I look out here and I and see the opportunities I have missed because of petty things. Little old insignificant things that didn't mean nothing. I'm ashamed of myself as a gospel minister before you. I repent before God and ask God to forgive me and the church to forgive me for being so dilatory about the work of God. By the grace of God and by the help of God, I'll listen, not listen to what everyone trying to tell you something to do. They got a program, they got something for you to do. Nonsense. I know God's program. It's written out here in the Bible. And I'm ashamed of myself as a minister of the gospel. One million souls won. I ought to have ten million souls won. I'm way behind. What about you? How many souls you won since you've been in Christ? Christianity just goes from one to another. How many souls you won since you've been a Christian? If you're not winning souls, you're guilty. You're barren. You've brought shame on the church and the gospel. How many people you get out for Wednesday night prayer meeting? If you're not doing it, you have to be ashamed of yourself before Christ. You're guilty. And your place is at the altar. I invite you to come here with me for repentance. Then will you bow your heads and keep it bowed a minute while I feel my guilt and would like to repent? Just bow your heads. We think about this and we look at this and see what conviction that Brother Branham was under. And amen, I believe, I believe as I read that. Every time I read that, I see that. I say, Oh Lord, I'm guilty too. I haven't done what I should. And we see that place where we read in James, you know, let your let your joy be turned into mourning. Seems opposite of the scripture. But when we can see our need for Him and the places that we've failed, we want to mourn over that. We want to take that seriously, not just say, Oh, I'm the bride of Christ. I'm ordained to overcome. But that's true. Yeah, but overcoming is actually overcoming something. It's not just saying that you do. It's actually doing it. And so Lord help us. I want to skip ahead to the screen that it has the quote from Ian Bounds towards the end. Maybe second to last. He says Ian Bounds wrote on extensively on prayer. Excellent, excellent works and book. He says, more time and early hours for prayer would act like magic to revive and invigorate many a decayed spiritual life. More time and early hours for prayer would be manifest in holy living. A holy life would not be so rare or so difficult a thing if our devotions were not so short and hurried. A Christly temper in its sweet and passionless or calm fragrance would not be so alien and hopeless a heritage if our closet stay were lengthened and intensified. We live shabbily because we pray poorly. So a great greater burden for prayer. This is what we need before God in a greater consecration. A greater burden for prayer, resulting in more time spent in prayer. How do I get a greater burden for prayer? Ask the Lord. This is this isn't you working yourself up. This is seeking, knocking, asking. Lord, I want a better prayer life. That's the prayer that you pray. Ask Him to create that burden within you because that's part, even what Brother Branham talks about, is one of the evidences of the Holy Ghost is sighing and crying for the abominations done in the city. Having such a bur that doesn't mean that you hate sin so much and you hate sinners so much. It means that you love people so much that you're broken over the direction that they're going. That's what that speaks of. A greater thirst for God, resulting in more time reading and searching the Bible and listening to the messages of Brother Branham. And a more dedicated life, fleeing the things that defile us.

Confession Missed Chances And Prayer

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Lust, pride, hatred, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, things that are taking our hearts away from God and bringing us into foolishness. Flee from evil. Turn away from evil, flee from it. That's repentance. Say, Lord, I've done wrong. I've gone the wrong way. I've used my phone for things I shouldn't use it for. God forgive me. Let me turn from it and cut those things away from my life. I don't want to put, I don't want to set any evil thing before me, before my eyes. Let's bow our heads. Let's stand up and bow our heads. I believe that this is a place of healing. This is a place of deliverance. And this is a place of consecration. So just as we bow our heads, it's between your heart as an individual and the Lord. If you want a closer walk with him, you just raise your hand to him. If you want to consecrate yourself to the Lord, raise your hand to him. Remember, he's coming to you now. El Shaddai, the all-sufficient one, wants to reveal himself to your heart. He wants to speak to you as an individual and say, walk before me. Walk in sincerity. Be sincere. Be upright before me. Amen. Maybe you didn't walk the right way. You haven't been walking the way you know you God wants you to walk. You lift your hand to him. He sees your hand, he sees your heart, he knows what you're going through. I lift my hand to him as well as we pray, Father, Lord, cleanse our hearts. Lord, sanctify our hearts. Lord, may we wait, may we be consecrated to you. Lord, may we may we consecrate ourselves. May we cleanse our hands. May we purify our hearts before you say, Lord, cleanse my heart, Lord, purify my heart. This is your work. This is your purpose. Make me more like you, Lord Jesus. May you be my El Shaddai, my all-sufficient one, my almighty one, the meter of every need that I have, the healer of the broken heart. The one that gives a new heart. Lord, there's any here that haven't been saved, they haven't been born of the Spirit of God. May they put their faith in Christ now. And may they be born anew, even in this moment. Their whole desires changed and turn to you and walk with you. Lord, we commit each one to you. Lord, as we consecrate our hearts to you. May your Holy Spirit do the work that only you can do in every heart. As we surrender our all, Father, we ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Let's worship Him now.

A Bigger Burden For Prayer

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Let's be from My Heart Let me from my heart.

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Amen. Do you want to know him more? Amen. You want him to come and meet you in his presence. That's what's going to change. It's not me telling you and speaking to you. We speak the word, but it's the Lord Jesus that needs to come. Just as he came to Abram. When did he come to Abram? When he was unworthy. When he was backslidden. When he had done something terrible. Ask him to come. Ask him to reveal himself to you. Ask him to set your heart on fire for him. And if you haven't been born again, ask him to change you. Ask him to cleanse you so that you'd be set aside for his purpose, so that you would know him as the all-sufficient one. The one that can satisfy every need of your heart. The one that can change you, the one that can change your life, the one that can take broken pieces and make it all new again. The one that can fix maybe you've made chaos and a disaster of your life, but he can fix it. He can repair it. And he'll start with you. What he's going to start to fix, he's going to fix your heart. He's going to change your heart. He's going to change your life. And he's going to be an ever-present

Consecration Prayer And Closing Worship

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help to you, just as he was to Abraham. He's calling you now. Will you listen to his call? Will you follow him? Will you take heed to what he wants for you? He loves you. He sees your heart. He sees the pain. And he's saying, I'm here. I'm Almighty God. Walk before me and be upright. And then he's going to come into you. He's going to change you and he's going to make you what he wants you to be. Amen. Father, once again, as we dismiss Father, Lord, move every obstacle out of the way. Lord, we just want you, Lord, we want each of us as individuals to be, Lord, seeking you with our heart, putting you first in our lives, knowing that as we put you first, Lord. You will work supernaturally within us. We commit each one to you, Lord, as we go. Father, may you be glorified in us. Lord, may we be each be vessels, Lord, to speak life to one another. Lord, we thank you so much for your presence. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you all. You're dismissed if you want to, but we can linger and worship if you'd like to as well. Amen. Let us say something, brother.

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And oh I want to know you more. Amen. Deep within my soul. I want to know you. Oh, I want to know you. Told me to feel your heart and all your mind. Looking in your eyes, look within me. Christ that say I want to know you. Oh, I want to know you more. And oh I want to know you more. Deep within my soul I want to know you. Oh, I want to know you to feel your heart and know your mind. Look in your masters up within me. Christ let's say I want to know you. Oh, I want to know you.