Questions and Answers #16

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Shall we pray.

Heavenly Father, we worship You tonight. We’re grateful for Your grace and mercy, Your loving Presence, Lord, being here in a way You haven’t been here for roughly two thousand years.

And in a way that we don’t know that history will record You it would ever be here again. We don’t know what lies ahead, what Your plans are in those ages.

We know You’re here to get a Bride out of here, Lord, and by grace we believe we’re part of that Bride. Help us all, therefore, to commend ourselves to You on that grounds; and so commit ourselves to You, Lord, that we’ll be bond slaves in the love of Christ to the Word of God.

And we might be those epistles read and known of men that You might be happy with, content with, Lord, on the grounds that we …?… show forth some of Your praise.

So as we study tonight, Lord, may Your name be honored and may Your Word be glorified.

In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.

You may be seated.

Now I want to take a study tonight on the Word for the sisters. And what we will discuss tonight, and also another time or two, has to do with the most excellent question that was given to me on this very subject.

Now I’ll read the question which is very suitable and couched in enlightening comments to give the proper spirit to the question which we have in mind.

And the question is: Brother Vayle, will you please explain the seemingly different attitude toward women in the gospels and in the rest of the New Testament? And that will be explained.

My perception may not be accurate, but it appears that God showed great favor to women by choosing Mary through which He would enter the world.

He revealed Himself in the beginning to Elizabeth and Anna, and made His appearance to Mary Magdalene after His resurrection.

Jesus interacted with women so often with great love and tenderness, and although He never called them to positions of authority, He never indicated that their salvation was on a different level, or lay in anything but faith in who He was.

When I read the letters of Paul and Peter and listen to tapes of Brother Branham, it seems that more emphasis is put on a woman’s appearance and conduct, or works, even childbearing, than on her faith.

And then the Scripture is given: the 1 Corinthians 11:1-16, 1 Timothy 3:11, 1 Timothy 5:11, 16; also Proverbs 31:10-31. Which we’ll go into as time goes on.

I ran across a quote from Table Talks from Martin Luther, one of God’s messengers who commented. And He’s a very astute person, and he’s quite a rough preacher compared to some of the others.

Men had broad shoulders and narrow hips, he said, and accordingly they possess intelligence. Men have… women have narrow shoulders and broad hips. Women ought to stay home.

The way they were created indicates this, for they have broad hips and a wide foundation to sit upon. I know that God spoke to His prophets, but I find what seems to be a different attitude regarding women between Jesus and these other messengers to be confusing.

Are women spiritually inferior to men, and therefore more sinful? Is the fact that this subject produces negative feelings, evidence that I do not have the baptism of the Holy Ghost? And so on. That pretty well covers it.

Now, having read the entire question, I want to begin by reviewing the first paragraph in particular.

And it says:

My perception may not be accurate, but it appears that God showed great favor to women by choosing Mary through which He would enter the world.

He revealed Himself in the beginning to Elizabeth and Anna, and made His first appearance to Mary Magdalene after His resurrection.

Jesus interacted with women so often with great love and tenderness, and although He never called them to positions of authority, He never indicated that their salvation was on a different level, or lay in anything but faith in who He was.

Now, here is what I see in this first paragraph, though we… I won’t perhaps cover it all, particularly based on the first part of the last sentence: Jesus interacted with women so often with great love and tenderness, although He never called them to positions of authority…

Now, I think that that sentence there is really a very perfect picture of the true call that women have placed in them and their destiny.

And we’ll just start going into Scripture, in Genesis the 2nd chapter, so we can cover our subject as well as we can from beginning in Genesis, because that’s the book of beginnings.

And in the 2nd chapter, 20 to 24:

That’s exactly what the Scripture says. The word help meet, you know, just as many people said God gave man a help meet, not a help eat.

But, that’s all right for a joke, but it’s not the Scripture. The word means ‘one like him’. So, the human race at that particular time was not complete.

As Brother Branham said, “Eve came afterward, and was outside the original creation.” Which she was in the Scripture here, we find after God had put forms on those other entities. So, for Adam there was not found a help meet, or one like unto him.

Now first of all, you’ll notice here that after Eve was brought into the physical existence, that she became fifty percent of the original human specie, or one-half of mankind or humankind. She was fifty percent. That’s right, because there were two of them and she was one of them.

Number two, she has physically and perfectly the same substance, “bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh”; she’s absolutely identical.

Three, everything she is was for the purpose of being a wife to Adam.

Now let that sink in because it’s the truth. Now that doesn’t limit it; it doesn’t close the subject, but that was her purpose.

She was what was necessary as a balance to him because he was out of balance with nature. She became the great balancing factor.

God made Eve like Adam, as pertaining to their mankind-ness, or humanity, for He had already made them one and the same when in spirit form as was seen in Genesis 1:26-28.

So we take a look at that.

Like the Lord’s trying to get the church back in order. They were to keep it in proper order. And they sure didn’t do that.

So there’s a dominion that God gave men which is an order. It would keep everything in balance.

And he would be responsible for keeping everything in harmony: The fish of the sea, right? And the things upon the earth, the fowl that fly in the air. Has man done it? Nope, completely ruined it.

All right, He’d already made them one man and the same… one and the same when He put them in a spirit form.

Now number five. But notice, when they were put in separate flesh bodies they opened the door to separateness, or separateness which was amplified in the fall, and the two of them placed under separated covenants, as Brother Branham said, in,

Number 6, then notice, in 3:20.

It said:

So the first point I want to bring out there about Adam calling his wife’s name Eve, you’ll notice that Eve did not cease to be Adam’s wife. She was continuously his wife before and after the fall.

Secondly, you might consider, she did not cease to be what she was back in the ideal state. She was the same person now in a fallen state.

Adam was still a man, which was her husband; and Eve was still the woman, and she was the wife.

So, we can see this as we go to 1 Corinthians 11, and in verse 7.

Now, that’s what we’re looking at tonight. What Paul says about the woman and the man, and the husband and the wife relationship, the man and the woman relationship.

And we want to look into two points, or two basic thoughts that I believe comes out of this particular verse of Scripture.

Number 1, that is, our first thought has to do with the fact that woman is just as much a part of human mankind as a man is, and gets no inferior or preferential treatment or position different from the man as regarding the spiritual relationship to God in the spirit.

And she is spiritually responsible. That is, she is a spiritually responsible person and she is responsible spiritually.

Now I hope you kind of caught that. I’ll go over it again.

Our first thought here, what we’re looking at, because of the position that man finds himself in be… with God, and woman finds herself in with God, and also with the husband, our first thought has to do with the fact that woman is just as much a part of humankind as is man. Which she is.

She is no different at all and gets no inferior or preferential treatment, or position different from the man as regarding a relationship to God in the spirit.

And she is spiritually responsible as a person. That is to say, she is actually a spiritually responsible person, and she is responsible spiritually.

So let’s look at that. We go back to Genesis, again the 1st chapter, 26-27. And it said:

Now I don’t believe what you’re looking at there is that God was interested in making simply a male, and every male then would be in that particular image as being a ruler and having dominion over the things that God enumerated.

But I believe that refers to the woman and the man, or the man and the woman.

So you see there was actually the status that was given to her was not inferior to the status given to the man.

They both were given a joint… as Brother Branham said, “A joint ruler ship.” They were co-rulers.

Now let’s go down and begin to see some of things that begin to happen here, a little later on… But we’ll go to the 2nd chapter first of all. Start with verse 8.

And it said:

Now you notice in there that God gave them equal judgment. They had things in equal. They had the same food, they had the same obligations, they had the same privileges.

And in there was absolutely a judgment. And you can see this carried out in the 3rd chapter in the 8th verse.

Now, you’ll notice in here that God is bringing to bear upon both of them equally the Word. There was not any inferior treatment, or there wasn’t any preferential treatment given.

The Word went equally to them in the same direction. The same God gave it to the same two people, equally responsible.

And when they failed they went into this condition, the Word of God came and absolutely judged them both.

Now, when you begin to see this, you begin to see the question is, was asked, what about a woman after her salvation responsibility, is she a greater sinner? And the answer positively is, does not make her a greater sinner.

Now let’s go and see where God places this, in the book of Galatians. Beginning, we’ll take a lot of, quite a lot of Scripture here. Beginning at verse 13 in the 3rd chapter.

Now you notice that Eve after the fall was no different from Eve than before the fall, as far as her person per se was concerned. She was the same person in a fallen state. That’s why we are sons of God in a fallen state.

But as Brother Branham said, you never–“You’ll find out that the time that you think you were born again, you’ll realize, there’s coming a time, you always were born again, you just realized it. You always were a saved child of God.”

So what you’re looking at here is, there’s neither Jew nor Greek, there’s neither bond nor free, there’s neither male nor female. What she was in the fall, she was before the fall.

What she was before she’s born again is what she is after she was born again. See? There isn’t a preferential treatment, and there isn’t a preferred status. All have been included under sin that we all might be born again.

Now, let’s go a little further. We’ll look at the book of Romans, the 3rd chapter. Now we just want to pick a bunch of verses out here.

And we can read from 13-29, I suppose. Let me see, no, 4 and 5 to begin with.

And we go to verse 28. And it says:

Now, let’s go to Colossians. Now we have so many verses we could take, but we’re not going to take, of course, everything. 1st chapter, 27-28.

Is that Paul talking then with preferential treatment to the male wherein he is superior to the woman in this perfection?

The answer is absolutely not. It’s once more talking about mankind; it does, it’s neither male nor female.

You should realize that when Jesus died, he died for mankind. It was mankind that threw the whole world and the universe into insubordination and into corruption. And therefore, if man ever gets restored, all the rest gets restored.

So God’s not fooling with anything. And I use the word fooling because that would be true. God would be fooling around with nature to attempt to give preferential treatment. The only preferential treatment is mankind, period.

Once mankind is dealt with, everything else comes into–into divine order. Two people started the whole thing. And Satan interjected himself and got the serpent seed in there. See? So that’s what you’re looking at.

He’s telling you here:

Of course, there’s only two genders. You don’t consider the third sex as they call them. That’s a… that’s a lie from the pit of hell. They, none of them, unless they repent and get truly born again, they’re never going to make it.

And they can have all the ordained preachers they want and everything else and the church accept them. God would never accept any of them. There’s no way you believe that hogwash.

All right. Let’s go to 2 Corinthians now and see something else in here. And it’s the 5th chapter, and it’s the 10th verse we’re going to look at.

And it says:

And so on. You’ll notice in here that he’s not talking about the males in particular. It’s not that at all.

He’s talking about everybody, that actually if this refers to the born again that are waiting on the Lord, that they are going to stand before the judgment seat and hand… be handed out rewards.

Or they’re going to then be presented and placed according to a direct… some status that is not to males alone. It is to male and female because the difference there is not concerning… it’s not for the men particularly.

Let’s go also to the book of Revelation the 13th chapter. And in there you’ll notice something else now. This, of course, is a chapter on the great beast and the harlot system in American form.

And 8th verse and 6th verse… 16.

That’s absolutely anybody. It’s a man or a woman. That, and there is no difference at all, it’s not a sexual thing at all. It hasn’t got a thing to do with gender, except that they’re both male and female.

And notice in the 16th verse.

It doesn’t matter what. It’s across the board. You notice that they are going to be caught into the trap in that particular day.

Oh, let’s go to Revelation chapter 20. And you can notice in verse 15.

And then also, for I think it’s the 22nd chapter that I’ve written down here now, and the 17th verse.

There again you got the same principle. It means everybody, the whole of it. In other words, the propitiation was available to every single person.

But, of course, all will not take it. And so is this all available, but all will not be taking it.

Okay, let’s go back now to 2 Corinthians the 6th chapter. And we get… beginning at verse 11. We can read right down to about verse 18, closing the chapter.

Now we know that an unbeliever should not marry a believer and vice versa. And notice what he says here. He’s talking to both men and women.

Now, if you took one… as a just a Scripture comes to my mind right here in the 2nd chapter, I think it is, of the book of Acts.

Start at verse 15, or 16.

So you can see that God absolutely gives… when it comes to salvation, putting the human race under sin, giving the human race an entrance into the body of the Lord Jesus Christ by repentance and the baptism with the Holy Ghost.

Granting faith and those things which are necessary, God does not put a difference between the male and the female as far as I can see any Scripture any way, shape or form.

Now with that, we might go to 1 John, the 3rd chapter and verse 10. Notice.

Now notice again a blanket coverage right across the board. Doesn’t matter if it’s a boy or girl, man or woman…

And then because there were two boys there you have to use the illustration of two boys. Had there been two girls, would have the illustration of two girls. It doesn’t have a thing to do with the gender whatsoever.

Okay? Let’s go back to 1 Peter, and in the 7th verse. Notice.

Now we were not going to really tackle this verse of Scripture, I just want to get one thing out of it.

Now there’s a preferential treatment in this, there is respect here, but it hasn’t got a thing to do with salvation, sinning and rebirth.

Now this is specially written to husbands concerning marriage relationships.

But when you bring it into the church you will notice here that the woman, though a weaker vessel, and called so by God for a specific inference and for a specific teaching which taken lightly will… has no problem in the woman’s life at all…

It says here that she is heirs together with the husband, women would be heirs together with males, and their prayers would be just as powerful and just as valuable as the male prayers would be.

So there’s a picture here of sons and daughters of God, who in my understanding, they are just as much children of God as men are by the foreknowledge and the election and the predestination, in that which is to come.

So, we see the first precept we came into, looking at what we have read to this point is, that the woman is just as much a part of mankind as is the man. There isn’t any difference there whatsoever. She’s part of the human race.

She’s fifty percent of it the same as man’s other fifty percent. When it comes to salvation, she doesn’t get a preferential treatment and she doesn’t get an inferior position. She doesn’t get an inferior salvation.

She doesn’t get a relationship from the Holy Spirit that is below the husband’s, now we’re talking strictly of the rebirth and the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, we’re not talking of ministries, it’s just the same as the man’s.

Now, the second thing we want to notice here because we did read over here in 1 Corinthians… and we were looking at that… 11th chapter,

And you’re talking of the man/woman relationship and even unto marriage, which we’re looking at, at this point here.

The second principle that we look at is that of a type. And the type is in Ephesians the 5th chapter.

Now you start looking at type you could begin to place the sister with the Word a little more clearly than just giving her a blanket coverage with the man, that she’s a sinner, same as the man is; she’s born in sin, shapen in iniquity, the same as the man is, she doesn’t come any other way.

She’s got to repent the same as a man’s got to repent; she’s got to be justified, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Ghost, same as a man does. No different whatsoever.

She’s obligated the same as a man is which we’ll see pretty soon. But what we’re looking at now here is since she is very definitely a type of the Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ. And she represents the church.

Now in Ephesians the 5th chapter, in verse 21,

Now this is a submission, of course, it’s across the board that’s required of every single person to be strong in the Word of God and the fulfillment of it.

Then it says:

Now what you’re seeing here brought to our attention is, Christ is the head of the church and we… and there’s a marriage relationship because… between Christ and the church, and we have a marriage relationship on earth between men and women.

And as the church is subject to Christ in the Word, and of course, that subjection is always in a divine order of the Word, and never apart from it, so the woman would be in subjection to the man in order to type the Bride of Christ.

And she would have naturally granted to her, by God, those virtues and those qualities and characteristics which would make her dutiful and in obedience to Him in the light of the Word that he is walking in, providing he is walking in the light of the Word.

See, I’m pretty careful here, I don’t stretch any man and give him anything that the Scripture doesn’t give him. A woman does not take anything from a man that would degrade her or destroy her.

Now she can take tremendous abuse, I know, if the husband’s a sinner and she lives the life. And there be a lot of things could happen that would be most unpleasant, but there’s things she does not have to do nor would she be allowed to do in Scripture.

She’s not allowed to do them in Scripture, she’d not be allowed to do them in her home. So we see here specifically a relationship of Christ through the church, and that is typed by the good marriages that are here upon the earth.

Now, let’s go back to Genesis the 2nd chapter and we just run through these. 2:21-24. See, I want the 2nd, I’m in the 3rd chapter now. We get to the 2nd chapter.

Now, what I’m looking at here is the fact that Eve was taken out of the side of Adam, bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh, and he… she was presented to him on that very ground.

And you’ll see in here, the Scripture that speaks to us concerning the book of… in Ephesians, the 1st chapter, beginning at verse 3.

Now you can see here that that Eve was in Adam, but she wasn’t taken out of him until it was time for the flesh to encase her and make her what she was to be to him which was that wife.

So it is, you have the life that was given to Adam which would be predestinated unto us who would come from Adam according to the flesh and Eve also according to the flesh, that life was there.

And in our due season each one of us was brought into the predestination that God wanted us as members of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ and constituting us as Bride.

So, here you’re seeing that the woman who was taken from the side of Adam, and which in turn was to be influential and useful to God in bringing the rest into existence, so we find the church.

Rather we… yeah we find the church type… typed by the woman who is able to do this year after year and century after century, and age after age, is utilized by God in order to bring forth the Christians of each age.

In other words, it’s like a form of multiplication. As the race multiplies, so does the Bride of Christ multiply.

There is the… like the thought of marriage, insemination, as Brother Branham said, the church today could never bring forth Christ. They couldn’t do it.

But now with this new Word that we have, and it’s brought back to a virgin condition, the church will be able to bring forth Christ.

So, as we see what is developed in a human relationship, that is a picture of what God desired to have developed in the spiritual.

And so my point here is that when you’re talking of a woman, and you’re talking of her in… as a part of the Bride of Christ, and her particular attitudes and characteristics.

You can see there’d be a true type of the Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Bride would be in submission to Him because of the Word.

You can see that the woman would have to be in submission somewhere to her head which is the husband, but it would be a spiritually motivated submission. It couldn’t be simply a physically motivated.

Now the physical is there. Nobody’s going to doubt it. But the physical cannot go beyond the Word, because you have to start with the spiritual because that’s where God started Adam and Eve.

When they got in the physical the fall came, but they were no less the same the people. That’s what you’re looking at.

Now, let’s go to Revelation chapter 20:9-11. But before we get there, let me see, we can find something here in 1st… in Corinthians. What chapter do I want here?

It’s got to be the 11th chapter I guess. All right. The back… we can read 7 again.

Okay. Now with that we go to Revelation chapter 20.

Now the woman is the glory of man because, remember, she came from man. And a woman should be the glory of the man.

Now I know that in this modern age which we live in, if you’re going to bring that to what the world wants you to bring it to, you merely try to find the most glorious and gorgeous sex queen you could have… you can possibly find, and as she either shacks up with you or marries you, then that’s your glory.

But that’s not the Bible. See? But the woman is the glory of man; and so she should be.

A true woman would be the glory of man because she is, as she came out of Adam, she would then reflect what she was in Adam, and which would be a fantastic credit to him.

Like I’ve said many times, a woman that has a proper marriage, she reflects her husband, and not only that, but a real husband would have the ability to bring out of her what really is in him, the same as Christ does in a Bride.

Chapter 20:9-11. Now watch this, remember the woman’s the glory of the man. And we’re looking at here… no I don’t want that… 21, chapter 21.

Now this is the Bride, the New Jerusalem. And you notice that she is reflecting the glory of God because she has the glory of God.

Now, really, when you look at humanity… Well, let’s read a little more here.

And you know the stones, of course, will reflect the light. That’s why gems are so popular because they have like an inner flame which is kindled by a light that shines on them.

And you know if a husband really shines his light upon the woman which is a part of him, a good woman that responds to a good man, and this is what your life should be. I’m sorry it’s not.

The woman will literally bedazzle herself and shine for a man. It’s like psychiatrist will tell you, psychologists, if a woman can’t cook, but you start praising her cooking and start praising her what she can do, she’ll about kill herself for a man.

But most men are not interested in anything outside of sex. I’m going to be honest with you. And I’m sorry, I’ve told you many times, you going to have to go home and talk to your kids.

But you better learn now, because your kids are going to be destroyed if you don’t teach your kids at home, and I mean teach them at home.

I escaped only because my generation’s different from yours. But your kids don’t have a prayer unless you parents begin teaching your children and warning and advising and being real parents.

I’m sorry, but I’m going to put you on the spot. Not because I’m not in the spot. We’re all on the spot. Brother Branham knew he was on the spot.

Now he made a very peculiar statement to me one day, “You know what I’d like to do, Lee?”

I said, “No, tell me.”

He said, “I wish I could sit with those young girls there and just tell them the things they ought to know. Of course, that if I’d try they’d pick me up.”

Or I can tell you people, you have children and they’re not half as dumb as you think they are. And our kids weren’t tenth as dumb as we were hoping they were.

And though I never dodged questions, I should have opened the door to questions.

Now if you want character, you’re going to have to build it in the house. You’re going to have to show them where the fall was.

Brother Branham did all of these things you got to, because a man is able to bring… Remember, you’re… the woman that you married, she’s got enough qualitative genes and characteristics in there, and chromosomes, and God knows what.

We read the specifics how when they are able to unite in just trillions of ways.

Brother Branham said, “Your son was in you, in your loins.”

And he said, “The husband and the wife are one.” And they are. God knows how to do it. And absolutely there’s a union there; there’s a capability.

If people begin to understand what true life is about which Adam and Eve were spiritual before they got in the physical. And God wants to get us back again.

And a man has the ability to bring out in a woman what that woman doesn’t even begin to know lies in her. Now, I’m telling you the truth.

That’s what Jesus Christ does, and that’s what a man’s supposed to do. In other words, our lives should be spent in the diligence of living.

And that doesn’t mean you got to build a big fortune for your wife. Brother Branham said his hands could bleed, if he had a good woman to take care of him and his shirts and his children… It was the processes of living and we have failed to do it.

Now look it, I’m up here confessing, but look, you’ve got a burden on you, kids, like I have never had. And I’m leveling with you and being honest.

Are Brother Branham’s… Now I’m not just talk about personal things, but you know I spill my guts to you because I’m interested in you and I love you.

And I’m trying to tell you things which I think maybe you need.

He saw our daughter. He couldn’t believe that was our… my daughter.

He said, “Lee, that isn’t your daughter.”

I said, “Yes, it is.”

Even told his own wife, he said, that would be the girl, he said, I was young I would marry and bring out in her all that lies in her.

You say, “That’s William Branham.” Hogwash! My foot and my fancy, don’t give me that stuff. That’s everything.

You young bucks that are growing up, and you young girls, you better pay attention, I’m telling you parents. Because we’re missing the boat, and God isn’t coming for a bunch of scalawags. See?

And I’m not… I’m just laying it on the line. The kids won’t go, sorry, but you did your job. Is there time left for character? Yes, there’s time left for character.

See? What can be done if a man would take the headship in Christ? It says right here, this Bride is the glory of God.

The man, Jesus Christ, worked out in her by the process of divine grace in the spiritual realm.

And said, there’s that beautiful city, that’s my Bride. You don’t… she obviously did… she didn’t need any light.

She didn’t need the perfume and the powder and the goop and the crap on the face, and the special kind of haircuts and the primping and the pruning and all that junk.

Ever seen a woman, you men, who wasn’t necessarily dressed up, she was just she, and she knocked the eyes plumb out of you? Made your ears stand like an elephant’s? I don’t mean sex now.

Wasn’t a thought of sex at all. They’re there. But women don’t want to be that way. They think they got to do something.

See, there’s where women aren’t inferior to men, but that’s why they get messed up in the church. They don’t believe they’re women to begin with, and the men got to somehow prove it.

Now if I’m teaching this thing right, I’m teaching a true equality in Christ. Women are fifty percent of the human race, and men are fifty percent of the human race to begin with.

But they were spiritual before that. But they were the same people in the fall. And all they’re going to take when you die here, and I’m going to take, is the character that God wrought in us.

That’s all we’re going to take. You won’t have to worry about our… your hair’s done up or anything else.

But I’m not fussing at you; I’m just telling you these are just… And I’m not fussing at anybody here. I’m just laying the thing out. We’re looking at the thing, see?

Now, that’s that Bride. Now if you want to see a husband and wife relationship, and that is qualifiedly illustrated through the physical relationship of marriage, you read the Songs of Solomon and you begin to see how one addressed the other and how one made love to the other.

Then you’ll begin to find out that He loved us before we loved Him, and the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. And the love of the man can be shared in the woman’s heart, and vice versa. Yeah, it can be, it’s just a pity it’s not done.

Now we’ve got some good marriages here. Got some, what I think at least, I’m viewing, I think I’m at least… I’m viewing some fantastic marriages. If I’m not, you’ve got me well fooled.

And I’m happy for your deceit, because at least I’m not lying awake at night worrying about you. And if the kids are any example, I’m …?… you’re the finest little kids that I’ve ever seen in my life.

And I don’t expect to see any better, except the more they come the better they’re going to get.

And I’m very, very pleased, but I’m just saying that some of these things here are not taken as they should be because there is a wrong teaching in the church.

And much as this sister said on Brother Branham’s tapes and… people are taking wrong.

Brother Branham said she’s your queen, and you can’t live without her. Well, that’s pretty deep statement.

I think if a man treats a woman as a queen, she would soon treat him like a king. And of course, it works vice versa.

All right. So you can read the Songs of Solomon yourself.

So thus we see in all these Scriptures what we were looking at over here in, in a… in a good marriage and a good relationship.

And also just women as women and men as men, the potentiality and the requirements that lie there.

And, so let’s go a little further. The church is made up then of both men and women. And there is no difference between them as concerning sin and salvation, and their Christian walk and judgment.

They’re equally condemned, equally justified, equally glorified, because they’re neither male nor female in Christ in the resurrection. Right? No? Neither male nor female in the resurrection. See?

In the regeneration, no, equally responsible to live godly, to produce fruit. Yeah.

Let’s go in Galatians the 5th chapter. Notice what he said. He’s talking about the flesh and the and the spirit, and both men and women have it.

So let’s go over here and you’ll find that Brother Branham never taught the women different from the men. And, where have we got to here?

Okay, the 2nd Peter and the 1st chapter.

Now why did they address this usually in the masculine? Well, because every individual person is usually called a son of God.

And secondly, because the man is responsible to see that these virtues flourish in the woman, is told them first. Adam was always told first, then Eve.

A woman, of course, types the church. The church would always listen to the Word of God and not some diddle-headed guy. Some fathead.

All right. They must be endowed with all Christian graces, no difference. They must cease from sin; they must forsake the world, the flesh, and the devil.

They must resist the devil and take a stand in their faith; and the same faith that Abraham had, Sarah had.

Let’s read it. 11th chapter of Hebrews. Okay, start with verse 30… well, I better start previous to that because here it is, verse 8.

Okay, verse 31.

Now, let’s face it, I realize there’s such a thing as a stupid homosexuality, but actually a prostitute couldn’t be one without a male.

She was just potential. But to be a real prostitute she’d have to have a male visitor. She’s a tough old cookie.

Her faith came in. Justified her, sanctified her, made her a child bearer through her–through the lineage, brought her–brought the lineage of Christ.

So you can see here that when you talk abut women, there is no place where a woman does not have the ability to partake of all the graces and virtues of Almighty God, and live a life which is absolutely abundantly beautiful in the grace of God.

The only trouble is this, that men have all pushed women to do it and not lived themselves. That shows what a bunch of skunks the men are.

And on this message they try to turn around and make the women some kind of a fatheaded dote or something. They got to push them around. Kind of stupid, isn’t it?

She must partake of the communion, absolutely, and she must wash the saint’s… the saint’s feet. She’s got to do it.

And she should be a role model of Christianity, identical to that which is required of the men because they, too, must wash feet and take communion.

And they, too, must have virtue and grace and humility and tolerance and bearing and forbearing, and all the things that God puts down.

Now, we’re just going to close it on this note. Since all this is so, and Christ loved the Bride enough to die for her and wash her, then the woman is as loved as the man.

And he puts no burden on her different from the man, but sees them as heirs together of the same salvation and the glory that is to be revealed.

Back in Eden, God placed Adam and Eve as coequal. In Rev 3:20, they are again together in the throne and coequal through the beneficence of Almighty God.

Today many people, critical, because they’re critical, and argue, the woman should have her way because they think men have had their way.

They say women’s lib now. This is not true. No man in Christ has his way.

Paul said, “I have been crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” And the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.”

And that is the way of the woman, too. She does not have her way if she’s born again. Christ will have His way.

It is time to realize that true Christianity produces a man and a woman, a husband and a wife, and children, that are all bond slaves to the Word of God and in the love of God. Because the Word will bring that life and that love.

This is the true criterion and this is our goal. We have no time for the battle of the sexes. Not in this church. Nu, nu, nu, nu. Nope.

We need all our time and energy to give ourselves onto the Word of God in prayer as did the disciples in the beginning.

To… and demand of ourselves that Christ who is the true head become the true head of the entire house, the church and the home.

We should be and can be so busy looking to Him, that the divine nature of His own Word will control all of us. Man and woman both. Then will man be to God as God wants him to be.

And woman will be to God as God wants her to be. And both will be together what God wants them both to be.

And that will be once more an equal and sharing in the spirit and the love and the work of Christ as it was in the garden. And we’re right at that age right now, brother/sister.

Now you might not be very happy, some of you in your walk, but I’m very happy for you. And I hear once in a while some of you have little problem, you’re sort of back and forth to each other, but I still love you.

And I’ve got faith for you that you are a beautiful, lovely, spiritual children of God, striving against the world, the flesh and the devil, and conquering in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to have a loving and wonderful marriage. That’s right.

And you that are looking forward to love and marriage, you listen to what I said tonight. Play the tape back over again and realize these things, and you set your heart with the Word of Almighty God, and that Word is going to come.

Listen, if a stupid jerk like me, knowing my own limitations which God knows I’ve got a lot of ‘em, to say, “Lord God, You better get me the right wife, because I’m the marrying kind or I’ll mess up as sure I’m knee high to a grasshopper.” He did it.

I said, “Lord, don’t even let me see it when it’s there.” I didn’t see it when it was there.

If you’re going to be just stupid enough to want to be right with God, He’ll get you there.

He’ll lay aside all your stupidity and somehow you’ll find what you thought was stupidity, could well be the wisdom of Almighty God working in your members and helping you.

So I’m very happy for my church here. I call it mine in the sense that I’m pastor here at this particular point. Not doing too much about it, but trying to teach and help you.

As I say here, we should be and can be so busy looking to Him that the divine nature of His own Word will control us all. That’s the life within the Word can do it.

See, that’s what I base this church on. Then will man be to God as God wants him to be. You want to be to God? It’s going to be what God wants you to be, the very desire of your heart.

The woman’s going to be the same thing. And together, together we’ll be what we see in here.

It is not a matter of this business of equality and people striving and shoving at each other, but shoving at themselves individually, get out of the way, so Christ can come forward. Bearing and forbearing, then you’ll see the marriages that you’re looking for.

And I say some of you’ve got fantastic marriages. At least I believe you do. Maybe my faith will carry you through. I don’t know. But I believe we got some great marriages here.

And I believe that those of you who don’t have what you want, you keep working at it. Begin to see these precepts in here.

And when we are one with the Word, man and woman, church and so on, we in the Word and the Word in us, we won’t be trying to sort out things like positions and relationships.

And those things that just touch raw nerves and are so silly, but will be actually, as I say, striving within ourselves and yet yielded to the Spirit of God that is in this Word here.

And knowing it can come forth in us because who else is it going to come forth in? Then begin to see the growths and the love and the nourishing which is in Christ.

So that’s going close the first little part of it. You can see we got a long way to go. But we’re going to keep covering all these little goodies in here because…

Look, I’m a romantic person. You may not think so. With a nose like mine and everything else, you would think, bless God, it’s a physical impossibility. I’ve got news for you.

In my heart there is romance day and night. There is love day and night. And in that old heart of mine there still beats the understanding God is God and somewhere there’s a Bride, and by the grace of God why shouldn’t we be it?

Why should not the Word of God be set on fire in our hearts to manifest?

You say, “Brother Vayle, I think not.” You better believe things are happening.

Don’t tell me they’re not. I’ve told you for years we’re all crystallizing. What was deep down here as a child is coming forth because only a child can inherit the kingdom of God.

Once more I love to pass out the flowers and go the way to visit the old ladies and give them a little old pat in the arm and take their little cookies from them if they want to.

Oh yeah, they gave me cookies when I was a kid. Once more, to not want to receive thanks or worry about thanks, but once more to love and to manifest love and to do something for somebody. That’s the name of the game.

Let me tell you, brother/sister, you can say what you want, but I’m telling you what the truth is. The Spirit of God’s moving in this hour here.

I can see it manifested in people. And I believe, looking in the mirror today of the Word, of the Word of Almighty God, we can each see a little more of Christ formed than ever before until one day there is going to be a release.

Not to be ashamed because you’re a man or ashamed because you’re a woman or some stupid thing like that. Thank God that you are. Thank God that God chose you.

If some of you could hear a word, and you could experience that word down here, and you can be a wonderful type of the real thing.

Yeah, nobody’s here to browbeat you or take away anything you got. I’m here to pour everything I can into you. A

nd by the grace of God if it takes a blow torch to seal the seams, like riveting machine in there, I will use that. If it takes the thread and needle, use that.

If it takes maybe just little rain and sunshine, I want to use that too. But I tell you what, be glad that you’re a sister. Brother Branham said you got long hair, that’s your glory, wear it proudly. See?

Follow me? Okay. We could go on.

Let’s rise and be dismissed.

Heavenly Father, again we want to thank You and praise You for Your love, mercy and grace You give us. We thank You, Lord God, You made us such as we are, such as You made us, Lord.

Little children might want a change here, little children might want some foolish change there, but men and women look at life as it is, Lord, in You, revealed by Your Word and granted that we can live it by the grace and the life of Almighty God.

And then realize, Lord, what you set forth in humanity here to type the glorious glories of God that lie here unveiled to us through a prophet and are just waiting to step into the positive.

New Jerusalem just as good as here because the White Throne is here according to the prophet. All these things, Lord, we stand not in awe of any more, although there is an awe.

We stand, Lord, in the thrilling reality that we’re a part of it by the grace of Almighty God. Lord, I know we’d like to speak with such conviction as to sort of put us off into orbit, but we don’t need that.

All we need to do is the apostle Paul told us always, “Believe in thine heart, our hearts, confessing made with our mouth.” That puts us in the right atmosphere and the right thing as the prophet taught us.

O Lord, let not one person leave this building tonight without faith in You Lord, knowing that absolutely within each one of us, male and female, lies the absolute ability to be that type, enumerated there in the book of Hebrews the 11th chapter, to show us.

And we saw it in our very day in a prophet, Lord God. That I must admit was the closest thing to Millennium man I’ve ever looked at to see a man with those grace graces, never mind the miracle power, Lord. We understand that was good, too.

But Father, looking at that man in whom Christ was released, Lord God, help us to release the life within us as never before.

To fulfill what You’d have us to fulfill, and get away with all these strivings and all this foolishness which lies so much in the church, even in those that call themselves sister churches, O God.

And I just can’t see, Lord, but I can see what You said in Your Word tonight, and by grace, Father, it’ll be seen unto manifestation.

Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and power and glory.

May the healing virtue of Jesus Christ touch people right now as they stand before You, Lord, with a greater depth of healing than ever before.

In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen.

‘Take the name of Jesus with you.’