Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us (Matthew 1:23). Jesus is divinity with us. He is the divine Son of God; and when He was here, the voice of God said from Heaven, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (Matthew 3:17). Do you really know what the divine blood, divinity from On High, has brought for you?

When Adam and Eve were created, they had divine blood flowing inside them. They had the personality of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost; and all of those personalities and heartbeats matched until Adam and Eve sold out to the devil. Today, it takes divinity, the divine blood, for our heartbeat to match with the great hearts of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. When Adam sinned, man lost everything because Adam was the head of the human race; and for thousands of years, very few people came into the greatness of God…but then Jesus came! And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).

Man had to get back into divinity, so Jesus brought His divine blood to make us partakers of Heaven’s divinity. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature (II Peter 1:4).

Jesus came to serve divinity; and to do that, He took on the form of a man, a servant. Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men (Philippians 2:6,7). Jesus did not make Himself to be of any great reputation here on Earth. Instead, He humbled Himself unto the death of the Cross. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross (Philippians 2:8).

Jesus was very God, yet He became very human to show us that we as human beings can be a part of divinity just like Adam and Eve were; but first, we have to be born new because we were all conceived in sin. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me (Psalm 51:5).

Leave Sin Behind

When Jesus was here, He said, Ye must be born again (John 3:7). You must have a spiritual birth, and that is more important than your physical birth. You cannot get your passport to Heaven or walk down the Avenue of Glory without being born new through the blood of Jesus.

The Bible says, For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Some people say that verse means we all sin, but that is not right. It says “all have sinned,” and notice the word “have.” If everybody sins, how many sins can you commit and still get into Heaven—fifteen, twenty or even more? The answer is that no sin can enter Heaven. You have to be free, free, free!

The Bible says, The soul that sinneth, it shall die (Ezekiel 18:4); so you have to come out of sin. When Jesus was here, He told people to go, and sin no more (John 8:11). Divinity does not sin, and neither does the divine Spirit. You have the privilege of living free from sin or living in sin—if you can call that a privilege. If you willfully sin against God, you will be shut out of Heaven because sin will not mix with divinity.

Use Divinity

Children of God have the privilege of living in divinity just like Jesus did, but they must realize what it means to be a part of divinity and to have divine blood in their souls. Are you using what divinity has brought for you? Jesus proved what divinity was like through the joy and peace He brought, through the miracles, healings and power He brought. He was divinity in the form of a human being with eyes, ears and a mouth like ours, with feet and legs like ours; and He walked and talked just like we do. But Jesus opened the eyes of the blind and unstopped deaf ears, and that was divinity working because man cannot do those things. Only God can do such miraculous works.

Divine joy is ours, but so many Christians depend on human joy; and that is why there are so many unhappy Christians. That should not be because the Bible says, The joy of the LORD is your strength (Nehemiah 8:10). Divine joy brings divine strength.

The divine blood brought divine love, and you can have that same love that Jesus brought and served. That divine love went beyond human love; and it brings divine healing to your body, the same divine healing Jesus brought to people when He was here. People were healed wherever He went because He was divinity. And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them (Matthew 15:30). That divinity still heals today, and it is wonderful to have that healing from Heaven.

Know What Divinity Brought

You must know that you have divine blood in your soul and in your heart and that divinity will bring you divine peace. Jesus told the disciples, Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid (John 14:27).

Divinity brings you the greatness of Heaven; so you don’t have to live in fear and walk in the dark because you can have the light of Heaven. This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth (I John 1:5,6).

The divine blood brings you into the fellowship of God. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin (I John 1:7). Through that fellowship, you can have the divine ear of God; and you can pray through divine blood just as Jesus did. Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always (John 11:41,42). All children of God should be able to pray saying, “Father, you always hear me.” I pray that way through the divine blood, and it works. That is the divinity that Jesus brought.

Jesus brought the connection man had lost in Eden. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name (John 1:12). God sent His Only Begotten Son to make us His sons and daughters, but we must have the divinity Jesus brought on the inside of us to be in the family of God.

Be Just Like Jesus

Divine blood brought all the divinity of Heaven. It brought us a life that is pure and clean just like the life of Jesus was when He came down from above, and the Bible teaches that we are to walk like Him. He that saith he abideth in him [Jesus] ought himself also so to walk, even as he [Jesus] walked (I John 2:6).

Divinity brought the mind of Christ. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5). That mind can be yours if you really want it, but you can receive it only through the divine blood.

With that mind, we are to love like Jesus loved; but without that love, we are nothing. Though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity [love], I am nothing (I Corinthians 13:2). God tells us exactly what His divine love is in I Corinthians 13, and everybody should memorize that great, love chapter. If you are not living up to that divine love, you do not have the pure love of God; and you are in trouble with Him.

Know What You Believe

Many people will not face themselves with the Word of God, but I face myself with the Word daily. The Bible is our roadmap to Heaven, so you must take everything to the Word. Jesus said, Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free (John 8:32). The truth will set you free if you accept it, but there is no freedom outside the truth.

You cannot just think you have something from God; you have to know you do. You have to know whether or not you really have divinity and whether or not you are walking, talking and acting like Jesus. Do you have the spirit of Jesus, or do you have a haughty, arrogant spirit? Jesus’ spirit was humble and meek. Jesus brought divinity mighty low so we as humans would be able to reach it, and only through the hand of divinity that was nailed to the Cross for you and me will we be able to do that.

Thank God for what the divine blood brought! It has given me great happiness and full assurance; what has it given you? Divinity has given me great vision to evangelize the whole world and great reality of the soon coming of the Lord; what has it given you?

Divinity will make the Rapture so real to you, but do you believe all the end–time signs found in the Bible? It takes divinity to really believe the whole, divine Word of God. People may say they believe it, but they do not believe it enough to act it out or to live according to it. If they really believed all of it, they would act like it and humble themselves before God; but some people refuse to do that. Instead, they set themselves above others in such arrogance, but divinity does not act like that. Jesus showed us how low a human being must bow, and divinity will help us to do that. Then we can suffer any kind of persecution for His name’s sake.

Divine Humility

Divinity brought great humility and determination to the Early Church; and for the first thirty–three years, the disciples worked together in one mind and one accord. Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind (Philippians 2:2). The disciples did not sow any seeds of discord, and they had no haughty spirits about them. They stayed together and held on to God’s unchanging hand. When you have divinity, you will stay in one mind and one accord with the congregation of God’s people just like the disciples did; but once you stop living in divinity, you no longer are in one mind and one accord.

Divinity operated on the inside of the Early Church disciples, and they walked and talked just like Jesus. They had the same fellowship with God that Jesus had when He walked among men, and Jesus showed them how they would have to walk and talk. After Jesus was crucified, resurrected and had ascended to Heaven, He returned to Earth and stayed with the disciples for forty days to teach them about the Holy Ghost and to show them the greatness of divinity.

Don’t deceive yourself. Either you have divine humility or you don’t; either you have the spirit of one mind and one accord or you don’t. In this final hour, it is so sad not to have that spirit and to hinder lost souls in any way! The Lord said, Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea (Mark 9:42).

Live on Divine Fruit

God watches over those who have the divine blood inside and are living in fellowship with Him. He looks at them through the blood, and He sees sons and daughters who are just like His Son. That brings the spirit of unity into your spirit, unity with God and with God’s devout people. It brings a spirit of greatness that will cause you to pull on God for more and more of His grace and love; and when you have those things, you will bubble over with them! You will be living completely in divine love, peace and joy because divinity has brought all of that to you. Don’t depend on the human peace and love you find around you; first and foremost, you must depend on divine love because that is divinity.

Jesus brought divine goodness to us, and no man or woman is good without God. There is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments (Matthew 19:17). When you get old–time religion, it makes you ready to take your stand for good; so let go of the bad. The Bible declares, Hold fast that which is good (I Thessalonians 5:21). Then you can cry, “The old me does not live here anymore; it is a brand–new me!”

Jesus brought gentleness to us—a gentle touch, kindness and tenderheartedness. And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you (Ephesians 4:32). The great love of divinity overflows and goes forth.

Divinity brought the fruits of the Spirit, and we must hold fast to those fruits. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance [which means self–control] (Galatians 5:22,23). In Eden, the physical fruit had no bugs or bad spots; it was perfect. Eden was Heaven on Earth; but today, the Lord said that we have greater fruit than was in Eden because the fruit of the Spirit is Heaven’s finest fruit.

The faith, love, peace and joy of the Lord never fail. His gentleness, goodness, longsuffering and self–control never fail. All nine fruits of the Spirit belong to us; they are there to be picked, but you must have holy, righteous hands to be able to pick them and use them. You must have a holy soul and mind, holy eyes and ears and always listen to what the Spirit is saying.

Healing love and miracles come through divinity; so if you believe in divinity, you will have no trouble believing in miracles. If you don’t believe in divinity, you will not believe in miracles because divinity will not be a reality to you.

Through the divine blood and divine grace, divinity is available to each one of us; and when you have the divine blood in your soul, you have divinity on the inside of you just like Jesus did. He had to stoop mighty low to prove it could be done, but He did prove it for everybody who will accept His life and accept what God has said about His Son.

Divinity Brought Life

The Bible is a divine book, and you will have no trouble believing it when you have divinity on the inside. I was raised in divinity, so I had no trouble believing God’s Word. I knew it was all true, holy, great and special and that it came down from Heaven. God said it; I believed it, and that settled it, and I still feel that way today. God uses me like He does because I do not doubt Him. I have divinity on the inside that enables me to believe for divine healings and miracles to take place and for divine paths to be laid out for people’s feet.

It takes divinity to make happy marriages, happy homes and to bring wayward children back home. Divinity brings satisfaction and contentment in life, but many people are discontented because they do not use the divine blood—the greatest weapon we have to use against the enemy. Divinity has been the gladness of my life and the making of me; and it has enabled me to bless multitudes because the blood’s divine power is with me day and night, an everlasting power that gives eternal life.

Jesus came saying, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6). Jesus is the water of life. He told the woman at the well, Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life (John 4:14). Jesus said He is the bread of life. I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst (John 6:35).

The divine blood makes us so close to Heaven that through faith, we can reach up and touch it. Now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ (Ephesians 2:13). I have divinity in me, so I can reach up and pull Heaven down upon people—the greatness and the sweetness of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost.

Do you really use the divine blood? Does divinity have power over your mind, your ears and your tongue? You may say it does; but if it is not manifested in you, you do not have that power. You cannot just say you have divinity; you must really have it in your ears to be able to hear right and on your tongue to be able to speak right. How terrible it will be to come to the end of the journey and realize you have been deceived.

Just because people say they are all right does not mean they really are. What divinity says about them is what counts. Divinity has the loudest voice on Earth, and it is the final voice. Divinity has the voice of grace, and the power of that grace is sufficient for you and me. My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness (II Corinthians 12:9).

Miracles Come through Divinity

Divinity brought life to me when I was so close to death at just twenty–three years of age. I went to the edge of the grave, and I was definitely convinced that I had only a few more days to live. I was getting worse all the time as more of my organs were being afflicted with different diseases, and it looked like the Lord was going to let me die. Then one great night, Jesus came and made me completely whole! Divine miracles took place throughout my body, and they gave me life. Without that divinity, I would not be here today; but through that divinity, I live! The Lord’s hands of divinity work miracles for His children, but you cannot be one of His and be in the family of God unless you have divine blood.

If you are dying and in need of a miracle, divinity can make the difference. You may have a deadly disease like cancer or AIDS, but so many have been healed of those afflictions through this Jesus ministry because divinity is in my heart and life. Divine healing power flows through my hands into people, and they are set free. I have no powers of my own; it all comes through divinity, and Heaven gets all the praise, the honor and the glory.

I know it is God’s power working in me and through me that delivers people and sets captives free. I never give people an Ernest Angley touch; I give them a divine Jesus touch, and that is the same touch that healed people when Jesus was on Earth and lived in a body of clay like yours and mine. I love the Lord, and I seek to be just like Jesus every day so I can help people just like He did.

Jesus gave sight to the blind, and divinity gives sight to the blind today through this Jesus ministry. Jesus made cripples to walk, and divinity made a little, crippled boy to walk when we were in Lesotho. His daddy held him throughout the service, waiting for me to pray for him. After I prayed, the boy struggled to get away from his dad; and at first, his dad would not let him go. But when he finally did, the boy walked, jumped and leaped just like the man at the gate Beautiful had done after Peter and John had prayed for him. And he [Peter] took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God (Acts 3:7,8). That man was so happy, and so was the little boy in Lesotho. Divine power had taken his crippled leg and made it whole, and he was set free.

The Blood Brings Heaven Down

Through the divine blood, we can have divinity; but the Lord let me know that you have to hold fast to that blood. Then He said you can receive any miracle you need and be made whole. The divine blood is what moves angels into my services in my overseas crusades. When I use the blood, thousands of people are delivered from devil possession. I have looked out over huge crowds of people, and I have seen the heavens covered with the fire of God as thousands of miracles and healings were taking place. I tell people to say, “The blood, the blood, the blood” because it clears their minds and drops into their souls. I have seen devils come out of people in wads like defeated armies; and I have watched as the Holy Ghost, and even sometimes Jesus, would lead them away.

I have seen the Holy Ghost outside of the body of a person, and He is strange but thrilling to watch. In those same services, He will go down into the crowds of people as they are covered up with the rivers of water from Heaven; and then He will come up with devils. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water (John 7:38). We can have those same rivers of living water.

Hold to What You Have

Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown (Revelation 3:11). Never just read the scriptures without studying them; you must weigh each word in the Bible because God told me that every word is spoken with power. In this verse, “behold” means to stop what you are doing and wipe your mind of everything. Then think about the coming of the Lord and what you have to do or finish for Him before you meet Him in the air. Don’t think about what I or anyone else has to do but what you have to do.

“I come quickly” tells us that He will come in such an hour as we think not. “Hold that fast which thou hast” means you have what you need, but you have to hold onto it. Although Jesus was writing to the church in Philadelphia in this verse, the Lord wanted me to remind you that the church represents us.

You have to hold fast to what you have, not what you are going to get. Thus saith the Lord, you can only hold fast through the blood or the devil will defeat you. Satan works on your mind; and every time he can get your mind for even a split second, he has robbed you of a blessing, saith the Lord. Jesus said, He [the devil] was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it (John 8:44).

When the devil can rob you of blessings, he is also robbing the Lord. How?—because he can make you feel sick, tired and like you have no energy. In that state, some of you may have gone to the doctor to find out what was wrong; but the doctor could not find anything. What you did not realize was that it would take God to tell you the problem, and He will do that if you allow Him to.

God lets me know about people, and He even lets me know when some of my church members are not praying and seeking His face like they once did or that they are not ready to meet Him. He lets me know when they have become careless with the first love God gave them, and that is easy to do if you are not careful. Today, the Lord is stretching out His hand of blood that was nailed to the Cross for you and me. Reach out and put both hands into that nail–riven hand; and the blood will take over, saith the Lord.

Be Holy in All Things

What you need in this hour is Jesus. You need His truth to be preached to you, and then you need to reach out and accept it just like my family did. I was very young when we started going to a little Pentecostal church, and it changed our lives. My family had found the highway of holiness that Isaiah told about. And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it (Isaiah 35:8).

The glorious morn had come to the Angley family; and we had more wisdom, more knowledge and more happiness than ever before. We had more joy and excitement in church and during the altar services because my people gave themselves 100 percent.

Revelation 3:11 ends with, “that no man take your crown.” When Jesus comes, He will bring a crown of glory for each member of the bridal company; and with that crown and a glorified body, it will be wonderful! We should never grumble again.

The Bible says we must have sound speech, that cannot be condemned (Titus 2:8). Do you use sound speech, and do you hold fast to it? The Lord said our conversation should be the same as if we were in Heaven. For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ (Philippians 3:20). You should never say anything that you would not say in Heaven. You are to be just as holy now as you will be when you walk down the Avenue of Glory for the first time.

The Lord said you would have to give an account for every idle word. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment (Matthew 12:36). Jesus did not believe in idle talk, and He did not take part in it when He was here. He tried to keep His followers away from it, too; and He is still trying to keep us away from it today. You must not gossip or listen to anybody who does because people who gossip are dangerous. Thus saith the Lord, the devil is using them and their gossip to rob you.

The devil is very cunning. We don’t know how long Adam was in the Garden of Eden before the Lord gave him Eve to be his helpmate; but since the devil could never get to Adam, he worked through Eve. When you hear someone talking wrong, you must not listen no matter how close that person is to you. The Lord told us seven times, He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith (Revelation 2:7,11,17,29; 3:6,13,22). A person who gossips is an enemy, and you don’t need anyone around you who does that. Heaven does not believe in gossip, so you will never get into Heaven if you gossip. If you die in that condition, you will miss Heaven, saith the Lord.

Keep the Word

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth (Revelation 3:10). When you are careless with the Word, you are not keeping it; but when you are doers of the Word, you are keeping the Word with patience. But they that wait [patiently] upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint (Isaiah 40:31).

If you treat the Word with patience, you can be happy because it will destroy any discouraging or doubting spirit. The Word will let you know that the Lord loves you just as much as He loves anybody else and that He died for you just like He died for all others. Accept His love in patience.

I am glad I was taught the Word! I treasure it more than my life because it is the only real life there is. In this last hour, the Lord wants us to understand His Word; He is not keeping anything covered up. At one time, God told Daniel not to tell certain things; but now, the Lord is giving us revelations of the hour we are in and what we can expect, both good and bad.

The Lord teaches many things to me so I can bring them to the members of the bridal company. I am just God’s little, delivery boy; and as I dine with the Lord, He puts everything together for me. Not everybody will receive this, and even many preachers won’t receive it; but the Lord said, Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition (II Thessalonians 2:3).

The End Is Near

In Paul’s last letter to Timothy, he wrote, For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears (II Timothy 4:3). People want preachers who will tickle their ears but will not get into their hearts and souls. How many preachers on television tell people that they have to live free from sin or they will go to hell because no sin can get into Heaven? People who mean business and really get saved find the truth, and they find that truth to be more than what they had. It is such a shame to live in a spiritual cemetery, but that is where those who go to a dead church are living.

The end of Revelation 3:10 says that the hour of temptation will come upon all the world. Notice the word “all”, yet some people believe that America is not included in that because it does not specifically say so in the scriptures; but it is. The verse says “all the world” which means everybody will be affected. It also says “them that dwell upon the earth,” and America is part of the Earth.

The Bible tells us that the Earth as we know it will be utterly destroyed, and Jesus will help to destroy it. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again (Isaiah 24:20). The Earth has not yet received its deliverance, but it will after the Tribulation Period is over.

We who are children of God have received our deliverance through salvation and the Holy Ghost, but there is so much more for us. The Perfect Age is yet to come; but most people don’t know that during that time, Jesus will be here on Earth for a thousand years honeymooning with His Bride. They don’t know that the Bride will be in Heaven enjoying the Wedding Supper of the Lamb during the seven years of the Tribulation Period. Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb (Revelation 19:9). That will be the longest wedding supper in the history of mankind.

All members of the Bride are definitely invited to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; and we will be so special to Him because we are living free from sin, ready for Heaven and made holy and righteous through and through. We are servants of the most high God, and we have the favor of Heaven. That means every angel will back us up, and there are billions of them. The Lord’s face is turned toward us, and His eyes are upon us all the time.

Let Jesus Be Real

Make prayer exciting! If some of you could see Jesus like you can see people, you would stay in the prayer closet more; but He can be that real to you. I have actually seen Jesus many times. When I am praying for or ministering to others, Jesus will sometimes appear. In a miracle service at my cathedral, I was standing in the aisle where a person had been slain in the Spirit; and when I looked down, I saw Jesus bending over the person in all humility. That is a picture I will never forget, one of all the compassion and love of Heaven and of all the grace of God. That person had yielded completely to God and had probably received every miracle needed for the body; and he had already received salvation, which is the miracle of the soul.

Every day and night that you have left, you must seek to learn something new about Jesus. The Bible is the Book of all books, and yet Jesus is so big that it cannot hold all of Him. You have to learn to take Him out of those pages, so He can become the living Christ. You must realize that you are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, and there is nothing greater than that. For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones (Ephesians 5:30).

The Lord told me to tell you to hold fast to your salvation. It must be an eternal possession; and the Bible says, In your patience possess ye your souls (Luke 21:19). You must have patience with the Word to be able to possess your soul with salvation.

Don’t be careless and neglect time with the Lord. We need to keep growing; and to do that, we need the pure meat of the Word. We can no longer be babes living only on the milk of the Word. Paul said, When I became a man, I put away childish things (I Corinthians 13:11). We act like children when we are easily offended and hurt. I don’t let my feelings take over; I let faith take over. Cover people with faith and love and let God take care of them because when you do that, you are putting them under the blood. The Lord said, Vengeance is mine; I will repay (Romans 12:19). You are only losing time when you try to take care of things yourself.

The Lord gave you His armor in Ephesians 6, and it is all yours. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God (Ephesians 6:13–17). I seek to use God’s armor, but how much do you dwell on each piece of that equipment? The divine armor should be more precious to you than all of your possessions put together and far beyond.

The Spirit Must Dwell in You

Jesus is coming for those who are looking for Him. Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching (Luke 12:37). You have to be alert because there is just one flight out. Those who are left behind will have thought they had plenty of time. Some of them will have at one time run well, but they became negligent. Jesus said, I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth (Revelation 3:15,16).

Only Christians are in the mouth of God; but when they become lukewarm, He will spew them right into the Tribulation Period where most of them will take the Mark of the Beast. If they are too weak to stand today when all of God’s power is available to them, what will they do when the Holy Ghost takes His flight?

The Holy Ghost will not be here to dwell in people after the Rapture takes place because He will have finished His mission. This is the Holy Ghost dispensation, and it will end when the Bride is caught up to be with Jesus. That is one reason why you must have the Holy Ghost to make the Rapture.

Jesus would not have dared to come for His Bride before the Holy Ghost had been given. The Spirit came as the Comforter, and He gives us all the comfort that Heaven affords. Before Jesus went away, He promised His followers, I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you (John 14:16–18).

The Bible says that God walks inside of us. For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people (II Corinthians 6:16). Paul knew that Christ lived in him. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me (Galatians 2:20). Christ must become so real to you that you know He is with you.

Live According to the Word

Holding fast the faithful word (Titus 1:9). This makes it clear that the Word never fails, and you must be drawn to the Word. Never pick up the Word with a careless spirit or grab it just to try to ease your conscience because that will not work. Some people brag about reading the whole Bible every year or even two or three times a year, but that doesn’t mean anything. There are people who have read the Bible all the way through many times, yet they are in hell today. You cannot just read the Bible; you have to yield to it. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4).

Study the letters to the seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3. Then take all the good things and all the bad things Jesus said in them and put them together, and you will have a true picture of this last hour as God sees it; and that is thus saith the Lord. You will see where those churches succeeded and failed, and then you can see where you fit into those things.

The Lord said we are to examine ourselves to see if we are in the faith. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves (II Corinthians 13:5). How do you examine yourself?—with the Word of God. The Psalmist said, Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee (Psalm 119:11). Another writer inspired by Heaven wrote that the Word would bring health to your flesh. My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh (Proverbs 4:20–22).

We are healed through the Word. He sent his word, and healed them (Psalm 107:20). Jesus was the Word made flesh, and He walked and talked just like we do; yet He saved and healed people, soul, mind and body. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (John 1:14).

You can never give up on the specialist, Dr. Jesus. In my life, I have seen Him do all kinds of wonderful things for people who did not give up. My family never gave up on God, and we had great miracles because Heaven really treasures believers.

God knows that we are just flesh because He made us, and that is why He came. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness (Genesis 1:26). Some of you are definitely like Jesus today. It took some work, but you are living, walking epistles for Christ. Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart (II Corinthians 3:3).

You must be aware that there is always somebody behind you watching every step you take. When you are walking in Jesus’ steps, it gives the Spirit a chance to get into the heart of that observer and bring conviction. Your steps must not show people the way to hell but the way to Heaven. That is why the Lord leads you beside still waters and into the peace of His green pastures.

No Sin in Heaven

In the book of Revelation, the Lord plainly tells you what classifies people as being ready for Heaven and the sins that will keep them outside the gates. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie (Revelation 22:14,15).

Not one speck of sin can get into Heaven. The Bible says God will not look upon it, and that means He will not embrace it. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity (Habakkuk 1:13). You will find no forgiveness for sin after death, so you have to seek that forgiveness now while you are on Earth.

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish (Ephesians 5:27). That is a promise, and you must hold fast to all of the promises of God. Are you going to be a part of the Bride without spot, wrinkle, blemish or any such thing? Some of you may have the Holy Ghost, but He does not really have you like He used to; and you are doing your own thing. If you don’t feel like praying, studying God’s Word or fasting, you don’t; but if you continue that way, you will miss the Rapture.

You must hold fast to the promise of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. After receiving salvation, nothing greater will ever happen to you than to receive the Holy Ghost baptism! All you have to do is yield to the Lord because your soul is ready for the Holy Ghost. However, you do have to get your mind adjusted to the fact that salvation has cleaned you up and made you a fit person to become a temple of the Holy Ghost. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own (I Corinthians 6:19)?

When you receive the real Holy Ghost baptism, that is Heaven’s holiness; but today, some Pentecostal denominations have ruined the true baptism by teaching people to speak in tongues at will and to prophesy at will. You cannot endorse those dangers; God has killed people for blaspheming against His Word.

Never Turn Back

It grieves God’s heart when people no longer have the victory they once had and when they are not as close to God as they were when they were baptized in the Holy Ghost. Many people should be miles further up the road and growing in the grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; but they are not. God’s rod of truth brought the Israelites out of Egypt; but because they were disobedient, they spent hundreds of years in bondage. God’s chosen people became slaves, and that grieved the heart of God so much.

Never let the devil make you think that nobody has ever gone through what you are going through or that nobody has ever been neglected like you have been. The Bible says, Blessed are ye (Luke 6:21). We are not lucky because luck is of the flesh and the devil; so when you use that word, you are really saying, “The devil helped me.” If luck was the answer, Jesus would have said, “Lucky are ye”; but He said, “Blessed are ye.” There is a big difference there.

God kept the Early Church clean and holy for the first thirty–three years, and what a time it was in the Lord! The true Church today may be smaller in number, comparatively speaking; but the Lord said when He was here, Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it (Matthew 7:13,14).

Your heart will be where your love is. That is why the Bible says, Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him (I John 2:15). Love is not something you can just talk about. Talking love is false love, and God hates hypocrites; but He loves sinners and backsliders. The Bible says, Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you (Jeremiah 3:14).

If you socialize with people who are unsaved, you will not stay saved; and you will miss the Rapture. My older brother and I had always run around together, and we had some good times; but after I got saved, that was the end. We still slept in the same bed; so before I would go to sleep, I would kneel down beside the bed and call out his name in prayer. He was right there; so he would hear me pouring out my heart to God saying, “Lord, don’t let Judd go to hell.” Thank God, he later got saved and went to Heaven.

You can send God after lost friends and loved ones, but you will never win them by compromising with them. When you meet them, you must wait on the Lord to let you know what to say. We are not to fellowship with the world, but some of you watch movies that you should not watch or look at pornography; and those things will send you to hell. You may think nobody knows about it, but Heaven knows about it; and don’t ever forget that. If you were really saved, you would not want to go the way of the world; you would want to go God’s way. You would not want to say dirty things; you would want to talk God–talk.

Work for Jesus

You must hold fast to the blood with a forgiving spirit, but do you hold grudges or always want to get even with people? That is not the Jesus way. Some things are hard to take, but Jesus showed us how to take them. He was very God manifested in the flesh; so He could have spoken a word, and people would have died instantly. He could have cut off people’s air when they opened their mouths to say things against Him, or He could have burned them with fire from On High when they lifted their hands against Him; but instead, He forgave people. Even when He was on the Cross, He said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34). Jesus forgave all of us from the Cross.

Some people belong to a dead church that teaches them they are fit subjects for Heaven if they join the church and get baptized in water, but the Bible does not say that. You can only have real life when Heaven comes down and lifts you up. When all seems to be lost in your life, love will lift you up.

You must hold fast to working for Jesus with all of your heart and stop trying to get by with doing as little as you can. When I got saved, I wanted to do anything for Jesus. I never refused an opportunity, and people learned they could always call on me; and I am still that way today. Each day that we journey in Heaven’s grace, righteousness, holiness and love, we are building great monuments of love for Him.

You must hold fast to be just like Jesus. I have stopped many times and asked myself, “What would Jesus do?” Then He lets me know because He knows I will do it, and He will do the same thing for you.

Have a Giving Heart

When you keep your eyes on Jesus, you will keep up with tithing and giving to God. If you only tithe and give sometimes, you are robbing yourself; and I fear for you because that is dangerous. God said to the Israelites, Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings (Malachi 3:8). In this world, people go to prison for robbing others; but if everybody who is robbing God were put in prison, there would not be enough room to hold them all.

The tithing plan was given by God thousands of years ago, and the Bible tells us that Abraham paid tithes to Melchisedec. For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all (Hebrews 7:1,2). You either believe God or you don’t; and when you fail to tithe, you are doubting God. Some of you will tithe until something is said from the pulpit that you don’t like; then you rob God and still expect Him to bless you.

I was saved on a Sunday night; and the following Sunday morning, I paid my tithe to the Lord. I have never shortchanged God since that time, so I know He always hears me when I pray. Mom and Dad taught us to tithe everything; and even during the Great Depression when times were really hard, they paid their tithes. Some people say they are too poor to tithe, but the Angley family was too poor not to tithe; and because of that, we had bread on the table when others did not.

That was great training for me, and where would I be today if Mama and Daddy had been poor examples? God saw to it that they gave me a good foundation. We were taught the fullness of the scriptures and the whole truth; and when truth is acted out, it makes all the difference in the world.

Become a New Creature

Are you keeping up with Jesus, or are you keeping up with self, family, the world and neighbors? When you come out of the world, you leave the old and you become a new creation. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17). When I fell at the altar the night I got saved, I surrendered everything to Jesus. The Lord lived with me night and day, and He still does.

God’s power is going to get greater and greater; and when you hold fast to the blood, you can have divinity flow into your body through the grace of God. You can receive a divine healing or miracle from God On High; but first, you must be born again. If you are a sinner, a backslider or in a lukewarm condition, you need to find God today. Raise your hand right now and say this prayer: Oh, God, I am so sorry that I sinned against you; but I have come home. I have heard the message of your divine love, and I know you died for me. I have heard the message of your divinity, and I know your divine blood will wash away all of my sins. Come into my heart, Jesus! Come on in, Jesus!

If you meant that prayer, He is now yours. Start praying and reading your Bible, and some Bible fasting will help you. You have to live according to the Word of God to make it to Heaven.

Believe for a Miracle

Now that the Lord is with you, you can have His divine touch. I lift a hand for you in faith, and the Lord said He would get you well. God is the one who brings miracles. Lord, I bring the sick and afflicted to you, those with deadly diseases like AIDS and cancer and those with diabetes, heart trouble, TB, leprosy, paralysis, blindness and deafness. I curse their sicknesses and diseases, and I curse the diseases and deformities in their children’s bodies. I call their bodies to normal in the blood name of Jesus! Heal! in the divine, blood name of Jesus. Heal!

Now, get well and write and tell me about it. Always hold fast to the blood, and victory will be yours.