Humiliated

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E-2 I think after my poor grammar last night, I feel very sorry for what I said last night. I will have to apologize for that poor grammar. I didn't--I meant to say "that whale vomited him up" and not--I didn't... I felt very humiliated today about that. I caught myself, and I didn't mean to say that. I--I was probably just all kind of worked up and didn't notice what I was saying. So I'm sorry about that; I didn't mean to do that.

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E-87 And I think of that today, brother, when Jesus is willing, the Son of God, to come from the ivory palaces of glory down here and take a disgraceful name and humiliate Himself in human flesh, and be called a holy-roller, or religious fanatic, and walk up yonder and bleed and die as a curse on a tree, and you're ashamed, God have mercy on the people. Have mercy. And you're ashamed to commit yourself with His people.

If you're not borned again, why not come and accept Him now? I wish that lady would go to the piano, while bow our head. Think it over. Think of His humiliation: God made flesh. How can you reject such love? God came down, made Hisself a Man; called a fanatic, a devil, beaten, bruised for your sin.

And here you set tonight watching Him in His universe, watching Him preached in His Word, see His power moving among the people, seeing Him in every way He can be, and then you're ashamed to take your stand for Him. When up Calvary, Golgotha's hill, He went, walking with an old rugged cross on His shoulders till it rubbed the blood and the bones sticking through. And a big fine church where He could've come and took over and been the King of the earth, but was humiliated for you. And then you're afraid of humiliation to claim Him as your Saviour. Think of it while we speak with Him.

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E-88 O Christ, the lovely One, the Darling of God's bosom, coming down from the ivory palaces of heaven, clothed in the form of sinful flesh, humiliated Himself, born in a barn, in a stable, why, Lord? Why? Because lambs are not born in houses. Lambs is born in barns. And then led Him away to Calvary, like a sheep to the slaughter: led Him, like Abel led his lamb. And they led Him away, humiliated.

Looking back, seeing the people and them gambling and spitting on Him, His face full of mockery spit, but He was willing to bear it all that we could be saved. And then we poor, alienated Gentiles, carried away with dumb idols and lust of the world, living here in this day just before His coming, and then ashamed to take our way with the Lord's despised few.

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E-47 Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for Thy magnificent grace that's been bestowed upon us--to us unworthy shavings of the earth, cut out of the human family. But, O God, I'm so thankful that the time of the first whistle has done blowed; we're gathering together now for the rapture. Some of these glorious days we'll see Him Who has give us this blessing and magnetized our souls to Him. We thank Thee for being a witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, Who Thou has raised up from the dead, and was seen for forty days and nights and ascended up into the heavens. And with Him went many of the saints, to be with Him in glory, and some glorious day will return again, bringing with Him the redeemed of all ages. Oh, for that day, Lord. Help us to be ready.

And while the night is getting darker, gross darkness over the earth, may we let our light shine. And I pray, Father, that You'll light every soul anew here tonight. And may the glorious power of the resurrection now shine forth in this audience tonight. How that You humbled Yourself, come down, humiliated Yourself, taking upon Yourself the form of a sinful man, and was made flesh and dwelt among us, and they beheld You, the only begotten of the Father. To think how He loved us in that He gave His life for us, and humiliated Himself, that in His humiliation we were brought nigh to God. Through His poverty we've been made rich.

And we are thankful that He said, "The things that I do shall you also; even greater, for I go to My Father." And, O Lord, I pray tonight that You'll manifest Your power, not that You have to, but that Your Word might be fulfilled. For it is written, that You've come that did these things, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the prophets.

Now, Lord, may the signs of the Messiah appear here tonight, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of Jesus the Lord, "The things that I do, shall you also." For we ask it in His Name. Amen.

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E-13 Notice Him. Stripped Hisself, humiliated Himself, come down the great Divine One from above... You... In humiliation come down and brought Hisself down, humbled Himself in a body of flesh to walk among men, hear the cursing and swearing of men, feel the pains of sickness and of death upon Himself that through all that, not because He had to, but because love drove Him to it... That He had done all that and was sick and had troubles...

You say, "Was He sick?" Certainly. Didn't He make the own thing Himself, His own--His own statement, and He said, "Won't they say to Me, 'Physician, heal Yourself?'" Sure, He bore our sicknesses, our grief, our sins, our sorrows. See what He was?

Now, that's Who the apostles talked about; that's Who Nicodemus talked about. Let's see what He was. What kind of representative did He meant of the Christian faith?

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E-59 Now, here's a great picture. The first: a redeemer, someone who can redeem a lost estate in Israel (you preachers know this), the man must first be a kinsman. He must be close kinfolks, not a way off kinsman, a near kinsman. And how could God ever become a close Kinsman? When God Himself was made flesh and dwelt among us, He become Kinfolks to the human race. That's right. The only way it could be. When God was made flesh here among us, He become Kinfolks, not to Angels, but to human beings. He never come in the form of Angel, but He humiliated Himself, and stripped Himself from all of His heavenly glories, and come down, and was made Kinfolks with man, in order to fulfill the law of kinsman redeemership. Oh, what precious love the Father had for Adam's fallen race. Gave His only Son to suffer and redeem us by His grace. There He is, a near Kinsman, God made flesh and dwelled among us, becoming Kinfolks to the human being, a Kinsman.

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E-61 What was it? When God became a sinner, taking our sins. Jesus became me, that I might become Him. The innocent Lamb of God, He knowed no sin, became a sinner, that I might be made adopted son of God. Amen. There's the picture of true redemption: How He came down, worthy, robbed Hisself, no home, no place to go, humiliated Himself, brought Hisself down in sinful flesh, and took upon Him, not the nature of Angels, not the nature of God, took upon Himself the nature of man, that He might walk with man, eat with man, sleep with man, and die for man. There you are. The whole plan from the beginning, the spotless Lamb of God, there He is, the Bread of Life, here on earth.

Now, the next thing had to be done, a kinsman redeemer had to be kinfolks real close to the person, to redeem it. And the next thing had to be, that he had to be worthy to redeem it, righteous, a good person. Just an outlaw couldn't do it. And who'd be any more worthier that Jehovah Himself becoming flesh?

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E-75 That's the same thing I think tonight. You can preach all your creeds and dogmas that you want to, but my Lord Jesus came down from heaven in the form of sinful flesh, and humiliated Himself, and come to the world with skin on, and made fun of, and mistreated, and wounded, and bruised, and hung yonder on Calvary, as a malefactor. Robbing Himself, and coming down to become my Saviour, because He died, I live.

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E-7 Our heavenly Father, we're grateful today unto Thee, the Author and Finisher of our faith, Who came to the earth and was clothed upon, humiliated in a body made like unto a sinful man's body. There You bore our sickness, our diseases, our sins, in Thy own flesh, and there paid the full price of redemption, that man through believing on Thy great death, the supreme Sacrifice, might be reconciled back into fellowship with God again.

And some glorious day in the near future, that these vile bodies of ours will be changed and made like unto His own glorious body. For we shall see Him as He is. And it has not yet appeared just what we shall be at the final end, but we know that we will have a body like His. For we shall see Him as He is.

Oh, how we long today, seeing sickness gripping on every hand, sin, heartache, trouble... This old pest house, we get homesick once in a while, to get out of it all. But while we're journeying, our loved ones are here, many of them alienated from Thee without hope, without God, without mercy. And we love to speak to them about a loving-kindness.

Won't You come today Father, and join in with us and circumcise the lips that speak and the ear to hear. And may we have fellowship around the Word. For we ask it in His Name. Amen.

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E-67 I think that's a whole lot like Christ today. Christ has invited us to set in heavenly places with Him, and we're ashamed of it. Many people are ashamed to say that they got the baptism of the Holy Ghost: Pentecostal people. That's right. They're ashamed to say it. We're ashamed of Him.

And so, the queen wouldn't come. She refused to come. It humiliated him. His face turned red. Everybody noticed.

I wonder if Jesus' face don't turn a little red too, when He calls on us for a work, calls on the Pentecostal movement for fellowship and brotherhood. And we're so tightly organized in little groups till we won't bend for the other. We're so--getting so worldly, and things like that. We're getting ashamed of the name of Pentecost. Some people is afraid to say... Said, "Well, I belong. I'm a Christian, but..." I'm glad I got a Pentecostal experience. Amen. I'm glad to bear the Name of Jesus Christ. The greatest privilege I ever had is to say I'm part of Him.

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E-72 Washing His feet, wiping them with her hair, directly she reached in nervously. She got the alabaster box, and she hit it, and she was so nervous. And she broke the end of it, poured it all upon His feet, and she was real nervous. And--and then she reached back, and begin to wipe His feet. [Brother Branham makes a kissing sound--Ed.] "I want to..." And she looked up.

She noticed His eyes was off of her then. What's going on all the time in the room? There's not a move made. What's the matter? Everything stopped. Oh, I can see that self--self-styled Pharisee, the meanest rascal in the country. Oh, he's red in the face. He's so humiliated. Somebody said, "Amen." Why, somebody say "Amen" in his church, "Hmmm." You disturb him. Little power of God... He happens to say a word... He made mistake somewhere, and said, "Jesus Christ come to save sinners." And somebody say, "Glory to God."

"Oh. Hummm. Ushers, put them out. Yeah, they disturb me." They disturb me when they don't say it.

So--so there... He was so humiliated, oh, plumb down to... Oh, he was just a... (I have to quit.) He was so humiliated. He was looking at Him, and he said within himself, nodding to them cardinals, "You see, I told you. If that man was a prophet, He would know what kind of a woman that was."

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E-33 They had to say that he didn't. He said, "Then listen to me." And he had the Word of the Lord. But the people had to admit that everything that he had said had been the Word of the Lord, and it had come to pass just as he said it would come to pass. But yet the people wanted to look like the rest of the people.

That's the way it is today, that the churches are trying to pattern after the other churches. Christ is our Pattern. So exactly then.

Now, they didn't want it. They didn't want the message. What if that king would've humbled himself? What if he'd have come down to the--been humiliated, and had went back to God and repented? I believe the man would've lived. I believe Elijah would've come to him with the Word of the Lord, and the man would've lived. But he hardened his heart and would not listen to the Lord.

And Elijah said, "Go ask him. Is it because there's no--no God in Israel? He has no prophet?" No, he had a prophet. He had... There was a God--but the king didn't want it. That's what it is today.

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23 And think of it. They had him out there making sport out of him, entertaining that drunken bunch. What a reproach that was. What a disgrace that was. What an example that is. To... It's puts me in the mind of a defeated nation that's morally decayed, as Samson stood by the side of this column, making sport for the enemy. Humiliated and broken, what a condition he was in: a s--very gracious symbol of a fallen nation, a morally corrupted nation, a fallen church that's sold its birthrights, fallen into moral decay, and surrendered itself to the enemy. A public example, though you was raised up to serve God, but a fall away into moral decay gets you in that condition. What an example that was.

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57 We may have all of our framework. We may have our denominational rituals. We may have our names in the papers and on the ledgers. But I wonder today, if the Pentecostal church isn't standing about the same place, with its eyes poked out from the Word of God, and for the purpose that Jesus died, that we together could fellowship around the Word and the things of God.

Humiliated, he was, in the midst of the time that he lived... As I see Samson stand there, it's a symbol, a symbol of a fallen, morally corrupted nation, and a morally fallen, corrupted church. 'Cause he both symbolized Israel as a nation, and the power of God, which belongs in the church. It was certainly a pathetic sight, as we see him stand there. After all, his bringing out there, and this lad leading him, and no eyes...

If the enemy can only blind your eyes from the real thing of God, you'll walk right over the top of it and not know it. No matter what God does, and vindicates it by His Scripture, and proves it by His power, if your eyes are not open to the things of God, you'll walk right over it as blind as you can be.

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185 No. Watch this now. He knowed that His Word would finally conquer the world. He knew where His Word came from. He knew It could never fail; that's the reason He said, "Both heavens and earth will pass away but My Word will never fail." See? He could say that. That was a Man Who Him and God's Word become the same. He said to them...

"You ought to do this and that."

He said, "Who can condemn Me of sin? Who can accuse Me? (Sin is unbelief.) And if I by the finger of God cast out devils, who does your sons cast them out by?" See, it wasn't that, so it had to be something else. See? "If I..."

They said, "Well, we've cast out devils."

He said, "If I do it by the finger of God (a vindicated Word of God) then who does your sons cast them out by? Let you be the judge."

The people of His days or the people of--of--made fun of Him, talked about Him, but He... They humiliated Him every way they could. Told Him of--all kinds of evil against Him, but He went on.

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20 And here comes Jehovah's servant, blind, stumbling, led by a little boy, out to this great post to make sport. The main event of entertainment was to make sport out of Jehovah's ordained purpose to destroy the nation. And, yet, the nation has taken the thing that God had placed in to destroy them, and now they had conquered him and was making sport out of him, their main event at their celebration.

Doesn't that just kill you nearly to have to look at that? To think what could... This story never really should've never had to be told. But it was probably told for--for our admonition, is wrote that way. Humiliated, broken, standing now defeated, right between the two posts that held the building...

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22 What a symbol that is of the church of this day. What a symbol it is of a fallen race of people, that has sold out to the world and the very thing that we're here to conquer. The church that has sold its--its morals, that sold the Bible, sold it's strength, so surrendered its sword, and standing humiliated in the hour when the approaching signs of the coming of Jesus Christ is at hand, when she ought to be washed, not a spot or a wrinkle, standing to receive her Bridegroom.

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25 So see him standing there, and we'd say, "So this is Samson?" Let's catch a picture of it, this great, mighty warrior. Let's picture him this afternoon that he had wide shoulders, great framework. And here this big bulk of a man stands there, blinded, tied with little strings, and led to the middle of the floor, humiliated, broken, defeated, with the great God of heaven looking down upon it. Down here, his critics, drunken soldiers looking down...

I'd imagine, as they stood there, many Philistines had even shook in their shoes to hear his name. Samson was a mighty name, one time; so was Christianity, the church was. I'm going to parallel it with the church, this scene. Samson name, people just fainted, for he was some sort of a man that they'd never seen a man like him. His strength was beyond anything that the world had ever had. There's nothing they had could match it. Many remembered him as they looked on him standing there in that condition.

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35 This Word is God that was given to His church to defeat the world, and the devils, and the sickness, and to cast out devils, and no denomination was give to the church. The Word was give to the church; That's her strength. But they've cut This away; they cut That away, and they shaved off This lock, and shaved off That lock, until she stands shorn today like a Catholic sister, shorn off, until she's accepted a bunch of manmade creeds for her doctrine, just exactly what the prophet said she would do. And here she stands today, humiliated. When the God of heaven has chose the ignorant fishermen, and so forth, and has come down in that and proving it, that He still remains God, and they can't give an answer to their congregation for it because it's not connected with any denomination. And she stands humiliated, where she ought to have been standing in her strength.

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53 How we ought to let the thoughts go through our mind, of the great victories. I don't have time to get it, and keep my word to you.

And of God had raised him up for this purpose, and there he stands between those two posts, blinded, defeated, humiliated. He was still the same big bulk that he ever was, but his strength was gone.

The church is anything, it's stronger in membership than it ever was. But where is the Word, the strength being manifested? It's been cut off from you by your power-shaving organizations.

He had failed God. Not only had he failed God, but he failed his own people. He was a total failure. Now, he was a prisoner to the very nation that God raised him up to destroy.

And here stands the last organization of the church, Pentecost, this afternoon, just as defeated as Samson was. You might not believe that. But if you'll just open your mind to the Word, you'll see it's the truth.

Had him doing tricks for entertainment.

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99 One time he or she was young, and fair, beautiful. They had a lot of temptations to go through, but they overcome that. See? They overcome; now they're expressing the real beauty of Christ in their life.

Notice, expressing through the mud. Jesus gave us the example how to do it. Now, we want to know how to overcome. Jesus told us how to do it. See, humility, girded Himself took a towel, and washed the disciples' feet, and wiped them. The very God of heaven humiliated Himself.

We don't want to be humiliated. That's the reason women don't want their hair to grow out (See?), the reason they don't want to dress like ladies should dress, like men don't want to... See, it's the same thing. They don't... They--they get humiliated. But Jesus constantly... Look Who He was. Greatness (I'm going to say something.)--greatness humiliates itself. Grace humbles itself: greatness.

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87 So the whole world then was falling apart like it is today; every nation was looking for someone to--to hold them out of this tragedy that was about to strike the world, and trying to hold them together. The nations were looking for something, and--and each nation was looking for it; but they looked like they didn't want to accept what God sent them. They were asking for a man, a messiah, that would stomp out the rest the nations, and God give them a Baby. Asking for a general, and got a Baby. God knowed what they had need of. He humiliated them.

That's the way God does, He humiliates us when we think we know something. Like He said to Job, "You're so--got so much wisdom, where was you when I laid the foundation of the world, when the morning stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for joy? Where was you, Job?" Why, his wisdom was done. See? And God humiliates us when we get to thinking we're something great. When we think our organization is the only one, God will come back with something that's nowhere, rise up something and humiliate us by it. That's right. He always does it that way. Yes.

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58 The church members of those past days, and priests, and well-trained society in that day would've been so out of place in a stable. Now, I'm not quite sure that many of you could understand (maybe, you city people) what a Judaean stable smelled like, what it looked like, as the animals in that stable, and what it would've been. Why, some of these classics of today would be so out of place there, they--they wouldn't even enter the door. But it pleased God by His infinite wisdom to reveal it to such as would receive it. The scholars, and wise men of that day would certainly would not have received It. They'd have been so humiliated to be caught in such a place.

Why, the first place, if they would've went back to their church, and would've witnessed that they attended such a meeting, and believed a bunch of uneducated shepherds bringing such a phenomena, they'd have been excommunicated from their church. They'd have been throwed out of the society of Bethlehem, if they'd have been caught listening to such an unlearned bunch of people as these shepherds was. Humiliated, they certainly would've been. If they'd have been associated with such common people, and being--accepting such heresies as to believe that God would bring His message to an uneducated bunch of shepherds, when they had everything all prepared for it. They would've lost their affiliation; they'd have had to give in their papers, and would not have been able to have been recognized among the society of their groups of that day; because they had associated with such a thing and not with a better mind.