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==For God was so filled with wrath against the world== | ==For God was so filled with wrath against the world== | ||
William Branham taught that God saw us as a wretched sinners, worthy of death. The reason Jesus had to die was so that God would see him... and not me. God can’t look on us because of our sin. He can only look at us through the blood of his son. | |||
If you believe William Branham, John 3:16 should read as follows: | |||
“For God was so filled with wrath against the world, that he sent his only begotten son to take the beating that we all deserved. That if anyone would want to escape eternal suffering, and would raise their hand and repeat this prayer after me, they would escape this horrible wrath. For the son was not sent into the world to change our minds about God, but to change God’s mind about us. So now that Jesus has taken the punishment for us, God can now finally love us, and forgive us.” (Keith Giles) | :''“For God was so filled with wrath against the world, that he sent his only begotten son to take the beating that we all deserved. That if anyone would want to escape eternal suffering, and would raise their hand and repeat this prayer after me, they would escape this horrible wrath. For the son was not sent into the world to change our minds about God, but to change God’s mind about us. So now that Jesus has taken the punishment for us, God can now finally love us, and forgive us.” (Keith Giles) | ||
But of course, that is not what John tells us… “For God so loved the world.” The object of God’s love is people, the world, us. | But of course, that is not what John tells us… “For God so loved the world.” The object of God’s love is people, the world, us. | ||
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Moody stated, “I know of no truth in the whole Bible that ought to come home to us with such power and tenderness as that of the love of God.” (D. L. Moody) | Moody stated, “I know of no truth in the whole Bible that ought to come home to us with such power and tenderness as that of the love of God.” (D. L. Moody) | ||
Love and fear are opposites. John tells us that perfect love drives out fear. Why? Because love is sacrificing your interest for the good of others. Love is focused on the other person, while fear is self-focused. | Love and fear are opposites. John tells us that perfect love drives out fear. Why? Because love is sacrificing your interest for the good of others. Love is focused on the other person, while fear is self-focused. | ||
As we read in 1 John, “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters… In this world, we are like Jesus.” (1 John 3:17, 4:17 - NIV) | |||
=Quotes of William Branham= | =Quotes of William Branham= | ||
'''''God cannot look upon sin'''; He’s holy. But the Blood of Jesus holds it off as a bumper on a car. Every time you sin, the Bumper, Jesus Christ, catches you at your sin before it reaches God. Aren’t you ashamed the way you’ve treated Him?<ref>William Branham, 53-0219 - Accept God's Gift, para. 6</ref> | |||
''Seem like I could see the world. And around the world was a rainbow. And that rainbow represented the Blood of Jesus Christ. And if that Blood would ever leave there, God couldn’t look at the world a second. He’d destroy it. That Blood of Christ is the only thing that keeps the—the wrath of God off us tonight. Did you know that? If it wasn’t for that, there’d be no more world in five minutes from now. '''God cannot look in the face of sin.''' And the reason He can’t see the world is because the Blood of Jesus Christ is a holding it off of sin. 6<ref>William Branham, 53-0902 - Testimony, para. 6</ref> | |||
''Crying '''Eli, Eli, Father, Why hast Thou forsaken me?''' Being forsaken in life, being forsaken in death, and '''all the wrath of God poured upon Him and He stood our judgments'''. And God, He took our judgments and bore them away into an isolated place, into the regions beyond; and the law—laws of God condemned and put the damned, and He took our sins there. And resurrected again on Easter morning for our justification, now stands in the Person of the Holy Spirit to save every lost sinner in the world.<ref>William Branham, 54-1114 - Redemption By Judgment, para. 53</ref> | ''Crying '''Eli, Eli, Father, Why hast Thou forsaken me?''' Being forsaken in life, being forsaken in death, and '''all the wrath of God poured upon Him and He stood our judgments'''. And God, He took our judgments and bore them away into an isolated place, into the regions beyond; and the law—laws of God condemned and put the damned, and He took our sins there. And resurrected again on Easter morning for our justification, now stands in the Person of the Holy Spirit to save every lost sinner in the world.<ref>William Branham, 54-1114 - Redemption By Judgment, para. 53</ref> | ||
''Notice it now. Then when they realized that they had sinned and gone away from God. God had had to kill some animals, perhaps a sheep. Because Christ was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. And when he killed the lambs, and or sheep, and throwed back the skin to Adam and Eve, they covered themselves in the skins and stood in the Presence of God to receive their judgment and their eternal destination. Couldn’t stand no other way; '''God couldn’t look upon them without a covering. And God can’t look upon you without a covering. And a covering in that day was blood. And that’s the same covering today.'''<ref>William Branham, 55-0605 - Fellowship Through The Reconciliation Of The Blood, para. 23</ref> | |||
''When He was in Heaven, He was the “Logos” that went out of God, in the beginning. And He came down on earth, and was not to be made an Angel. He came down on earth and took the form of a bondsman, not an Angel; not come down in the great Jehovah Glory. But He came down as a Man, to redeem man, to die for man, to die for…as a man. '''He never died as God. He died as a man.''' The sin of man was upon the Son of man. And He had to become a Man, in order to pay the penalty.<ref>William Branham, 56-0401M - The Mighty Conqueror, para. 95</ref> | ''When He was in Heaven, He was the “Logos” that went out of God, in the beginning. And He came down on earth, and was not to be made an Angel. He came down on earth and took the form of a bondsman, not an Angel; not come down in the great Jehovah Glory. But He came down as a Man, to redeem man, to die for man, to die for…as a man. '''He never died as God. He died as a man.''' The sin of man was upon the Son of man. And He had to become a Man, in order to pay the penalty.<ref>William Branham, 56-0401M - The Mighty Conqueror, para. 95</ref> | ||
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''Is there a sinner in here that don’t know nothing about this what I’m talking about, but yet you believe it to be the truth, that '''Jesus Christ is God’s Son, that the wrath of God was poured out upon Him and He died at Calvary the death of a sinner to take your place?''' He died your death at Calvary, and only in Him can you be saved, and you’ve never done it yet, I’ll invite you to this altar. Come here now and be reconciled to God through Christ.<ref>William Branham, 61-0316 - The Church Choosing Law For Grace, para. 67</ref> | ''Is there a sinner in here that don’t know nothing about this what I’m talking about, but yet you believe it to be the truth, that '''Jesus Christ is God’s Son, that the wrath of God was poured out upon Him and He died at Calvary the death of a sinner to take your place?''' He died your death at Calvary, and only in Him can you be saved, and you’ve never done it yet, I’ll invite you to this altar. Come here now and be reconciled to God through Christ.<ref>William Branham, 61-0316 - The Church Choosing Law For Grace, para. 67</ref> | ||
''A beautiful type of us today, unworthy, '''worthy of death when we sin''', but God cannot kill us, because He would…we are a part of Christ.<ref>William Branham, 62-0506 - Possessing All Things, para. 42</ref> | |||
''And then one day He came to Kadesh-barnea, where He stood the judgment for us all: the judgment seat of God, where '''God poured out upon Him the iniquity, and the penalty for our iniquity, the wrath of God upon Him.''' And He bore in His body our sins, and He crossed the river that we call Jordan, death.<ref>William Branham, 62-0611 - It Is I, Be Not Afraid, para. 12</ref> | ''And then one day He came to Kadesh-barnea, where He stood the judgment for us all: the judgment seat of God, where '''God poured out upon Him the iniquity, and the penalty for our iniquity, the wrath of God upon Him.''' And He bore in His body our sins, and He crossed the river that we call Jordan, death.<ref>William Branham, 62-0611 - It Is I, Be Not Afraid, para. 12</ref> | ||