“BETTER THAN A MILLSTONE”

“BETTER THAT A MILLSTONE”

was hanged at your neck and drowned in the depths

of the sea, than to offend these that believe in me.

(Millstones in Red River Museum…Clay City Kentucky USA)

ATTITUDE AND WHO IS GOD? CLEVELAND OH 50-0815

E-52 052 Oh, my. I love Him with all my heart. And I want everybody to know that, that I love the Lord Jesus with all my soul, heart, and mind.

Someone said not long ago, give me a threat in a certain city, said, "If you don't quit preaching Divine healing, we'll throw a bomb on the platform."

I said, "The smoke won't dry till I'll be in glory." I said, "That's all right." Why do we fear? My, if God be for you, who can against you? You know, it's written in the Bible that better that a millstone was hanged at your neck and drowned in the depths of the sea, than to offend these that believe in Me? "These signs shall follow them that believe in Me. Touch not My anointed. Do My prophets no harm."

If you fight, God can't fight. Stand still; let God fight, He will bring it to pass. Amen. He will put every critic, everything to shame. Do you believe Him, brethren? Let's settle down to faith.

BOOK OF EXODUS 2 CHICAGO IL 55-1006E

E-44 044 The same Holy Ghost in power that resurrected Jesus Christ that stand--that's in this building tonight, blinds the eyes of the modern day preacher and his church. And that's the thing that's blinded them has give Light (Hallelujah.) since the resurrection of Jesus and the day of Pentecost. God will do it. Can you explain it? But if you don't accept Light, it'll become darkness to you. You'll criticize It, and call It holy-roller, and you might as well have a millstone hanged at your neck, and drowned in the depths of the sea. You blaspheme the Holy Ghost. There's not forgiveness.

Said, "Who speaks a word against the Son of man would be forgiven. But if you speak against the Holy Ghost, it'll never be forgiven you."

But, oh, you knowed so much. So you made fun of the people that was in the Spirit of God, believing in Divine healing, and the resurrection of Christ, and the powers of God. You made fun of it, turned up your nose and walked out of church.

I want you to see what happens when you stand before the King Who sent this Message. Uh-huh. Oh, you think you got it big, but just wait till the day comes. This is man's day, the Lord's day's coming. That's right.

CHURCH AND ITS CONDITION JEFF IN 56-0805

168 096 After all, Your vengeance belongs to You, "I will repay, saith the Lord." How we've found that to be so, Lord. Just stand still; be gentle, see God take--come right down to His lamb. Sure, certainly. This good Shepherd give His Life for us; He come right down to His sheep. And He'll guide them. Woe unto that one that crosses them up. Woe unto that one that says one word against them. Said, "It'd be better that a millstone was hanged at your neck, and drowned in the depths of the sea. Their Angels always beholds My Father's face which is in heaven."...?... O God, we want... "And as You do to them, You do to Me."

HEAR YE HIM SOUTH BEND IN 58-0209A

E-42 042 Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe, and it'd be better for you that a millstone would hanged at your neck and drowned in the deeps of the sea, than to even to offend one of such." God, when He brings His children in a place, and ordains them and overshadows them, and positionally puts them into the place that they are suppose to be, and then fools say such remarks as that...

Now, what did He do? Will you want justice? Do you want the law? You can't be saved by the law. No, sir. I don't want justice. I'm a sinner by justice. But bless God, I'm a Christian by grace. He turned their head. That's a horrible picture there.

But while they were yet speaking, Jesus said, "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him." What can He do for you? He can wipe away your sins. He can take your guilt away. He can take God's law and make it righteous. He can take the justice of God upon His own self and bear the sins that you have committed. "This is My beloved Son; hear you Him." What did He represent? The love of God.

DISCERNING BODY OF LORD CHATAUQUA OH 59-0812

6-4 019 Here a few months ago (you read it in the newspaper), up in New York they had a--a trial, and two little preachers that felt led of the Lord sometime ago, little fellows about like myself that hardly knowed their abc's, and the Lord led them to the Bowery, and they bought a certain building, and there they was preaching the Gospel to their fallen brethren. Some great firm come to buy that, and all of them sold out but these little preachers. They had a revelation that the Lord wanted them to stay there, so they held their property, and the authorities brought them into court.

DISCERNING BODY OF LORD CHATAUQUA OH 59-0812

6-5 020 And they sent out and got one of the great intellectual giants--Attorney Greenwall. And he made those little fellows feel ashamed of theirselves. He placed his words so correctly, and so educational like, and in such a way that those little fellows didn't know how to answer him, for he was an intellectual giant, one of the best attorneys there is the--in New York. And they had the little fellows so confused, they didn't know what to say. Finally he rapped and said, "What do you say for yourselves?"

And one of the little preachers got up, and he held the other one's hands, and he said, "Sir, the only thing that we know: that the Lord told us to take the building."

And Attorney Greenwall said, "Here, stop that. We don't want no Lord in on this case." About two weeks later an airplane tried to go under the bridge, and it dove into the icy waters, and there Attorney Greenwall laying in the waters, struggling and dying; I wonder if he wanted God on that scene

DISCERNING BODY OF LORD CHATAUQUA OH 59-0812

7-3 021 What was the matter? He hadn't discerned the Body of the Lord, for those little preachers was anointed by the Holy Ghost and had the will of God. We don't need to be intellectual giants; we need to be humble servants of the Lord and discern His Body. In all of his smartness, and his shrewdness, and his education... You know, the Bible said, "It is better for you that a millstone was hanged at your neck, and you be drowned in the depths of the sea than to offend My anointed." I suppose he had a lot of time to think of calling the Lord on the scene, but he didn't discern the Body of the Lord.

POSSESSING THE ENEMY'S GATES JEFF IN 59-1108

28 016 Was it not Jesus Who made the promise, "If you even bring offense to one of these little ones, it was better for you that a millstone was hanged at your neck and you were drowned in the depths of the sea. Don't even bring an offense to these little ones that believe in Me. And these signs shall follow them that believe in Me."

He made a difference. He made a showing of what did believe and what did not believe. There are always the three crowds of people: that is, the unbeliever, the make-believer, and the believer. But God has a way of proving who is a believer. That believer stands firm on what God says to be the truth. Yes.

WHAT IS THE HOLY GHOST JEFF IN 59-1216

50 029 That's what's the matter. We don't get sealed so much; we're too loose about things. When the Inspector goes through to inspect your life to see if you're not just a little loose about things, little loose about your prayer life, little loose about that temper, little loose about that tongue to talk about others; He'll never seal the car. Some dirty habits, some vile things, some vulgarity mind, He can't seal the car. But when He's found everything in its place (the Inspector), then He seals it. Dare be anybody open that seal until that car's reached its destination to where it's sealed for. There it is. "Touch not My anointed; do My prophets no harm. For I say unto you, it'd be better for you that a millstone was hanged at your neck, and you were drowned in the depths of the sea than to even try to offend or shake a little on the least of these that's been sealed." You see what it means?

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS JEFF IN 59-1223

480-52 032 God has give us the perfect assurance that we are His children. And as His children, He corrects us just like I correct my children, you correct your children. When in the wrong, we correct them. If--if my children does wrong, then it's my duty as a father to correct them. And then if God's children does wrong, it's His duty as a Father, and He will correct you. Just remember that; you'll be corrected. But as long as you're His child, the world better keep their hands off of you (That's right.), for He said, "It's far better for you that a millstone was hanged at your neck and you were drowned in the depths of the sea than even to bring an offense upon one of these little ones that believe in Me." That's right. What is that judgment going to be.

HAVING CONFERENCES CHATAUQUA OH 60-0608

E-58 058 I think about like like David did: He was so filled with the God's glory. When he seen that ark coming, he run out there and kicked his legs way up in the air, and begin to dance all around.

And his little self-style wife (denominational like) looked out of the window, and she said, "Oh, how he embarrasses me." So that night when David come home, she said, "David, what was you doing out there (Acting like an idiot, in other words.), dancing around, carrying on, sticking your legs way up in the air?"

He said, "I was dancing and rejoicing before the Lord."

God looked down out of heaven, said, "David, you're a man after My own heart." Sure.

And his wife got all puffed up about it, and what happened? She was barren the rest of her life; God put a curse on her. "Cursed is any man that'll touch God's anointed. Don't touch My anointed." That's right. "For it'd be better for you that a millstone was hanged at your neck and drowned in the depths of the sea, then even to offend one (That's right.) of these little ones that believe in Me. And these signs shall follow them little ones that believe in Me."

That makes the distinction; that tells you whether you been at the conference or not. That's right. "These signs shall follow them." Oh, He's so good. There's no stopping place, is there? Let's finish this conference out.

UNCHANGEABLE WORD OF GOD LAKEPORT CA 60-0724

E-50 050 God said, "It's far better for you that a millstone hanged at your neck and you'd drown in the depths in the sea than even offend one of these little ones that believe in Me."

"What is that?" you say, "well, I'm a little one that believes."

The Bible says, "These signs shall follow them that believe." God makes a distinction, He gives a mark on the people. If he believes, these signs shall follow them that believe (That's right.), the believer, not that say they believe, or not the supposed believer, but the real believer. I want to belong to a church that's got them signs and wonders following it. That's where I want to have my fellowship, right under the Blood of Jesus Christ. Where Angels, and powers, and Holy Ghost, and God works back and forth through His Church, through His people, showing signs and wonders.

REV CHAP 4 PT 2 24 ELDERS JEFF IN 61-0101

257 107 And when you walk through that, then He goes into the heart and there's where He's throned. That's the Holy Spirit in you. Jesus said, "It'd be far better that a millstone was hanged at your neck and you was drowned in the depths of the sea, than to even offend one of these little ones that believe in Me." Not do them any harm; just even to bring offense to them, just upset them about something. It'd be better that you had your own-self drowned, or had never been borned on the earth, than even to bring an offense to one. Did He mean it? Could He lie? Did the apostles say it? No. Jesus said it. Jesus said, "If you even bring an offense to one of them, these little ones that believe in Me."

ABRAHAM RESTORED LONG BEACH CA 61-0211

E-68 068 That man setting out in the meeting trying to throw one of them spells on me, make me bark like a dog to show off in there, he didn't know. Setting there, and I kept feeling that odd spirit. I thought, "I hate to call that because he's somebody's friend. Jesus said, 'Let them grow up together; you pull up the wheat when you pull up weeds.'" I kept going on, and he kept on. After awhile the Holy Spirit kept speaking to me, I turned around and said, "You deceiver, why will you come into the meeting, the service of God to try to deceive somebody?" And he kept looking around like I was talking to, I said, "It's you I'm talking to." I called his name. I said, "Because that you did this to the Spirit of God, somebody will pack you out of here." And he's still paralyzed. Wrote a letter and said, "What must I do?"

I said, "Repent."

Said, "Come, take this off of me."

I said, "I have noth--I never had nothing to do with it coming on you. You brought it on yourself. The Bible said, 'It's far better that a millstone be hanged at your neck and you drown in the depths of the sea, than to offend the anointed of God.'" That's right. We've lost our fear for God, the respects for Christians. Oh, how we ought to get back to God.

SEED SHALL POSSESS THE GATE LONG BEACH CA 61-0212E

E-27 027 Now, his seed... Now, Jesus said about the seed, He said this, that, "It would be far better that a millstone to be hanged at your neck, and drowned in the depths of the sea than even to offend this seed of Abraham. The least of these that believe in Me, it would be a..." And God told Abraham, "Whoever blesses you I will bless them, and whoever curses you I will curse them."

Now, a little later on in the week now, I'm going to get the seal of God, and the mark of the beast, and di--divide two nights on that. I want you to be sure to get it if you can. You hear so many charts and things. But watch how simple it is when the Bible brings it out, just how easy it is to see it...?... The pro and con of it.

RESPECTS JEFF IN 61-1015E

54 030 Did not Jesus say, "Insomuch as you have done unto the least of these, My little ones, you have done it unto Me. And it would be better for you that a millstone was hanged at your neck and you were drowned in the depths of the sea, than to offend one of them. For I say unto you, behold their face--their angels always beholds My Father's face which is in heaven." Now, we know that they are--that we, being children of God, that we are a part of God. And God demands this respect. And then God shows who His children are. See? He shows it by wonders and signs, and that it's being done.

RESPECTS JEFF IN 61-1015E

91 047 Sometime ago in New Albany, while I was standing there talking to a sinner, leading him to Christ, a big old rough-handed man in the garage. A man was a friend of mine, his son-in-law run the garage next door. I was standing there preaching at a dinner hour, eating a sandwich and talking to him about God. Through the daytime I'd find somewhere where I could go at dinner time and try to win a soul to Christ. He said, "Mr. Branham," he said. I was just a boy preacher myself. He said, "Mr. Branham," said, "my mother had that kind of religion, that heartfelt religion." And the tears was running down his cheeks.

I said, "How long she been gone?"

Said, "Years. She always prayed for me."

I said, "The God that heard her prayers is trying to answer them right now for her."

And this man walked in there, he said, "Hello." He was drunk. Said, "Hey, Billy, listen." Said, "Anytime you want to come over to my garage," said, "you come," but said, "don't bring that old holy-roller religion of yours over there."

I turned and looked at him, I said, "Anywhere Christ is not welcome, I'll not be."

And so he turned around and said, "Aw, get next to yourself, boy."

And I just heard in my heart a Voice say, "You reap what you sow. It'd be better for you that a millstone was hanged at your neck and drowned in the depths of the sea." And his own son-in-law, that very same afternoon, run over him with a two-ton Chevrolet truck loaded down and mashed him down in the ground.

See, you've got to respect God. You've got to do, you... God demands respects, and He demands it.

And so Miriam ought to knowed better. So ought--ought Aaron to knowed better, than knowing this, that Moses was led by the Spirit of God to do what he was going to do.

RESTORATION OF BRIDE TREE JEFF IN 62-0422

31-3 097 But that wasn't what Jesus said. Jesus said, these signs... That's church natural; we're talking about church spiritual. We're talking about a spiritual Tree, not a natural tree. (We're getting to those two trees in a--after a bit.) See? A spiritual Tree. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that hangs on this Tree. These signs shall follow them that's getting their Life out of this Tree. In My Name they shall cast out devils (whew.); they shall speak with new tongues; if they should take up a serpent or drink deadly things, it would not harm them; if they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover."

There's the kind of signs He said would follow the believer. Where is it today? He give the world an example of what would be the--the believer's sign. And He said it would be far better that a millstone was hanged at your neck and drowned in the depths of the sea than even to bring offense to one of them, for "their angels always beholds My Father's face, which is in heaven"--the angels.