THE AXE HAS BEEN LAID TO THE ROOT OF THE TREE  V

[HE MUST INCREASE…]

8 JULY 2007

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I MUST DECREASE               HE MUST INCREASE

 

INCREASE:

1. Expand, extend, To increase means to make greater, grow, develop, swell.

 

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SHALOM.title  PHOENIX.AZ  V-22 N-1  64-0119

They failed to see it.

Jesus come on.

Two lights can't shine at the same time.

There can't be a church light and God's Light shine at the same time.

It's got to be God's Light putting out the church light.

That's exactly what's taking place today.

God's separating churchism from His Light of the promised Word of

this hour that we're living in.

That's the truth, friend.

You might not want to believe that,

but you just wait and find out if it's so or not.

 

[“JESUS COME ON”----THEY FAILED TO SEE IT...!!!!!]

 

 



MATTHEW 16:13-17

13       When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

14    And they said, Some [say that thou art] John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

15    He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

16    And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

17    And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed [it] unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

 

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SHALOM.title  PHOENIX.AZ  V-22 N-1  64-0119

They failed to see it.

Jesus come on.

Two lights can't shine at the same time.

There can't be a church light and God's Light shine at the same time.

It's got to be God's Light putting out the church light.

That's exactly

what's taking place today.

[READ JOHN 1:6-11. “THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT’S TAKING PLACE TODAY.”]

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END.TIME.EVANGELISM.title  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-5  62-0603

But when He came,

 they was so set in the traditions of the fathers...

They had their creeds; they had their fashions; they had their churches.

 They were settled down, so it was so hard for Jesus to try to shake that kingdom (that church) from a creed to believe Him. And yet the Scriptures especially spoke of this One all the way from the first dispensation of Eden, "His Seed shall bruise the serpent's head." Promised Jesus through each one of the dispensations,

 And

 when He come, they didn't recognize Him,

because they were so bound in their creed.

But yet it was the Scriptural truth.

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INFLUENCE.titlePHOENIX.AZ  63-0112

We're told in Revelations 10

 that there'll be a messenger in the last day that'll gather up these little ends and will bring them together.

And then the mystery of God would be finished at the sounding of this angel,

which was a messenger of the earth.

And then

One came down from heaven with His hands up,

 rainbow over His head,

and swore that there'd be time no more,

 an Angel taking an oath.

And when we see this things

materializing,

oh, how sincere we should be.

 

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MANIAC.OF.GADARA.title  CHICAGO.IL  54-0720A

See,

it's just given for some to see

and

some cannot see.

That's exactly right.

 

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TRYING.TO.DO.GOD.A.SERVICE.title  JEFF.IN  V-4 N-8  65-0718M

You're just like a animal;

 you die and go to the dirt and that's all.

But there's a mortal

-immortal soul living in you, brother.

We done heard from heaven.

We done seen it proven.

We know that He is, and a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him.

 

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FELLOWSHIP.title  MINNEAPOLIS.MN  56-0212

This Bible said that the--there'd be false prophets and false christs and so forth that would raise in the last days, show great signs and wonders insomuch that it would deceive the very elect if possible."

Dangerous time,

our Church is setting at the brink of it.

 

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MINISTRY.EXPLAINED.title  CHICAGO.IL  56-1001

And knowing that we're laying on the

brink of a total annihilation

 in this nation tonight of ours, and You showed signs of back and forth and across the world, and still they won't repent.

We don't expect them to, Father.

We're just combing out those who will.

 

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DEMONOLOGY.2.RELIGIOUS.title  CON.IN  DE 41-78  53-0609

When Jesus was here on earth,

 there was them professors, and scholars, and teachers, some of the best there was out of the better seminaries than we could produce today, and holy, renowned men; they had to be.

 If a Levite was found... He had to be found blameless, righteous in every way.

And yet that man knowed no more about God

than a rabbit knowed about snowshoes.

When Jesus come, he failed to recognize Him,

 and he called Jesus a devil. He said,

"He's Beelzebub, the prince of the devils."

Is that right?

 

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FAITH.ONCE.DELIVERED.TO.SAINTS.title  W.P.BEACH.FL  53-1129A

And remember those priests wasn't scallawags.

 They were gentlemen.

They were holy and without blemish. Scholars?

As good as we got today (Right.), and

they failed to recognize Jesus Christ to be the Son of God.

They failed to recognize Him,

because what did He do? He tore up their churches.

He tore down their creeds.

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ANGEL.OF.THE.COVENANT.title  PHOENIX.AZ  54-0301

Look at those Pharisees in the days of Jesus, the Sadducees, and teachers, holy men without blemish, scholars, had to be born in a certain lineage, Levite. Had to be trained from youth up in the Scriptures and know every meaning,

 and yet

 failed to see Jesus and recognize Him,

when the whole Scripture is laying full of it,

of

His coming.

Get what I mean?

 

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DIVINE.HEALING.title  JEFF.IN  V-26 N-10  54-1219M

All them, and yet, having their heads set strong on one solid thing that they'd been taught, and not willing to be flexible to the Gospel, the whole power of God, they failed to recognize the Lord Jesus Christ.

There He was, and the whole Scripture spoke of Him coming,

but they failed to recognize it,

 because they had their own theology.

"We are the church. And if anything comes, it comes through us. And we rule the countries and the religion. And we are this, and we are that."

[A VERY GOOD PICTURE OF THE MAIN STREAM MESSAGE PEOPLE OF TODAY.]

 

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WORST.SINNER.IN.THE.CITY.title  MINNEAPOLIS.MN  56-0218E

And many times today people look at people by the way they're dressed and judge them the same way. Brother, let me tell you something now. Some of the truest old hearts I've ever knowed that beat was under an old blue shirt. That's right. It don't have to be a tuxedo suit with a collar turned in the back. No, sir. God can beat in an old heart under a blue shirt sometimes.

I've held a many revival and a great big old boy, hair hanging down in his eyes, didn't know his abc's, and a blue shirt on, patches on one another, reach up and get me by the hand and say, "Preacher, I mean it." Brother, you can believe that. That's right. I'd rather have him with me anytime, than some slicker with a collar turned around or something walking along, his pigeon-tailed coat on, and called Doctor, Reverend, Father, or something. And you couldn't trust him as far as you could reach your hand. That's pretty rough, but that's true.

They failed to recognize Him.

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JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME.title  CHARLOTTE.NC  56-0426

Now, let's try to be just as reverent, and listen, and pray as we approach these things. Now, in the--the Word of God many times we set our--our rules and regulations of just certain things that could take place. And if it happens contrary to the way that we think it should be, then we say it's not right.

Now, brethren and friends in Christ,

did you know that's the reason the Jews in the first coming of the Lord Jesus failed to recognize Him, because He came contrary to what they had figured out Him coming.

They expected a Messiah to be different,

 but He come exactly according to the Scripture,

 but it wasn't according to their theology, their teaching.

 

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STRAIT.IS.THE.GATE.title  JEFF.IN  CH 35-66  59-0301M

And I'm wondering this morning if I could not liken that generation to this generation. See, it was at the closing of the Jewish dispensation, and He was referring back to different ones and different endings of different dispensations, and was telling them that the very thing that had been done in former dispensations was being done before them.

 And they failed to recognize it.

 

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FAITH.IS.THE.SIXTH.SENSE.title  CHATAUQUA.OH  60-0611E

And when He come they failed to recognize Him.

 That's a pitiful thing, isn't it?

I think that's one of the most saddest stories in the world.

 The world was made by Him and the world knew Him not.

Come to His own, His own received Him not.

 That's certainly a sad thought.

 

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JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME.title  DAWSON.CREEK.BC  61-0519

But the strange thing, when He arrived, they were so stooped in other things, till they failed to recognize Him to be the Messiah.

They was so organized, so tight amongst that... disassociating themselves from one another, Pharisees and Sadducees and so forth,

just as it is today.

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LOOK.AWAY.TO.JESUS.title  JEFF.IN  V-2 N-17  63-1229E

And another time-

-another thing, they form their own opinions of what He ought to be

(See?),

 their own idea, instead of taking what the Word said.

 That's the way,

when they look and even see Jesus Himself, they fail to recognize Him.

They did it on the day of Pentecost.

They did it when He was in flesh.

 They did it when He was in the manger.

They did it when He was on the streets of Jerusalem.

 They did it when He was on the cross,

and He was the fulfillment of that Word, and yet they had the Messiah coming down on a corridor out of heaven, and everything else,

 and

was wrong,

because it was the intellectual conception;

 and they failed to see Him: and looking right at Him.

 

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FEAST.OF.THE.TRUMPETS.title  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-16  64-0719M

That's the reason they failed to recognize Jesus being the Son of God.

Their-

-their traditions had blinded their eyes,

but He was exactly with the Scripture.

 

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WHO.DO.YOU.SAY.THIS.IS?.title  PHOENIX.AZ  V-6 N-9  64-1227

Then it was their creeds had gotten them so off of the written Word.

 They were so far off,

 they failed to recognize Him

Who they had prayed for to come.

Their churches had got them so far away,

 till

the very thing that they had prayed for was right with them,

and it wasn't in their taste, and so they--they-

-they couldn't believe it.

 They had to get away from it.

They ousted it.

 

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JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME.title  CHARLOTTE.NC  56-0426

Now,

 let's trace His life just a little bit and see what if you say,

"Sir's, we would see Jesus,

let's go see what He...

Let's go back and see what He was.

 

 

“Whom do men say that I the Son of man am”?

 

In Genesis He is the seed of the Woman

In Exodus He is the Passover Lamb.

In Leviticus He is our High Priest

In Numbers He is the Pillar of Cloud by day and a Pillar of Fire by Night

In Deuteronomy He is the Prophet like unto Moses

In Joshua He is the Captain of our Salvation

In Judges He is our Judge and Lawgiver.

In Ruth He is our Kinsman Redeemer.

In 1 and 2 Samuel He is our Trust Prophet

In Kings and Chronicles He is our Reigning King

In Ezra He is the Rebuilder of Broken Down Walls of Human Life.

In Esther He is our Mordecai.

And in Job He is our Ever-Living Redeemer,

“For I know my redeemer liveth.”

 

“Whom do men say that I the Son of man am”?

In Psalms He is our Shepherd.

In Proverbs and Ecclesiastes He is our Wisdom.

In The Song of Solomon He is our Lover and Bridegroom.

In Isaiah He is the Prince of Peace

In Jeremiah He is the Righteous Branch.

In Lamentations He is our Weeping Prophet.

In Ezekiel He is the wonderful Four-Faced Man

and in Daniel the Forth Man in “Life’s Fiery Furnaces.”

In Hosea He is the Faithful Husband.

“Forever married to the backslider,”

In Joel He is the Baptiser with the Holy Ghost and Fire.

 

“Whom do men say that I the Son of man am”?

In Amos He is our Burden-Bearer.

In Obadiah He is the Mighty to Save.

In Jonah He is our great Foreign Missionary.

In Micah He is the Messenger of Beautiful Feet

In Nahum He is the Avenger of God’s Elect.

In Habakkuk He is God’s Evangelist, crying,

“Revive thy work in the midst of the years”

In Zephaniah He is our Saviour.

In Haggai He is the Restorer of God’s Lost Heritage.

In Zechariah He is the Fountain opened up in the House

of David for Sin and Uncleanness.

In Malachi He is the Son of Righteousness, rising with

Healing in His Wings.

 

“Whom do men say that I the Son of man am”?

In Matthew He is the Messiah.

In Mark He is the Wonder-Worker.

In Luke He is the Son of Man

In John He is the Son of God

In Acts He is the Holy Ghost.

In Romans He is our Justifier.

In 1 and 2 Corinthians He is our Sanctifier.

In Galatians He is our Redeemer from the Curse of the Law.

In Ephesians He is the Christ of Unsearchable Riches.

In Philippians He is the God Who Supplies all our Needs.

In Colossians He is the Fullness of the God Head Bodily

In 1 and 2 Thessalonians He is our Soon Coming King.

In Titus He is our Faithful Pastor.

In Philemon He is a Friend that Sticketh Closer than a Brother.

 

“Whom do men say that I the Son of man am”?

He Hebrews He is the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant.

In James He is the Great Physician, for

“The prayer of faith shall save the sick.”

In 1 and 2 Peter He is the Chief Shepherd

Who soon shall appear with a Crown of Unfading Glory.

In 1,2 and 3 John He is Love.

In Jude He is the Lord coming with Ten Thousands of His Saints.

And in Revelations He is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

“Whom do men say that I the Son of man am”?

He is Abel’s Sacrifice, Noah’s Rainbow, Abraham’s Ram, Isaac’s Well, Jacob’s Ladder, Issachar’s Burden, Jacob’s Sceptre, Balaam’s Shiloh, Moses’ Rod, Joshua’s Sun and Moon that stood still, Elijah’s Mantle, Elisha’s Staff, Gideon’s Fleece, Samuel’s Horn of Oil, David’s Slingshot, Isaiah’s Mighty God, Hezekiah’s Sundial, Daniel’s Vision, Amos’ Burden and Malachi’s Sun of Righteousness.

He is Peter’s Shadow, Stephen’s Signs and Wonders,

 Paul’s Handkerchiefs and Aprons

 

“Whom do men say that I the Son of man am”?

He is a Father to the Orphan,

Husband to the Widow,

 to the traveller in the night He is a Bright and Morning Star,

 to those who walk in the Lonesome Valley He is the Lilly of the Valley,

 the Rose of Sharon and Honey in the Rock.

He is the Brightness of God’s Glory,

 the Express Image of His Person,

 the King of Glory,

 the Pearl of Great Price,

 the Rock in a Weary Land,

 the Cup that runneth over,

 the Rod and Staff that comfort and the Government of our life is upon His Shoulders.

 

“Whom do men say that I the Son of man am”?

He is Jesus of Nazareth,

 the Son of the Living God!

 My Saviour, My Companion.

My Lord and King!

He is the One that was

       He is the One that is 

       - He is the One that is to come

THE ALMIGHTY.

 

AMEN!!

YOU SAY TO THE ABOVE -

 – WHAT SAY YE TO THE FOLLOWING?

HE WAS THAT LIGHT THAT CAME WHIRLING INTO THE LOG CABIN IN KENTUCKY IN 1909.

TRIAL.THE.title  TAMPA.FL  V-12 N-2  64-0419

  But one morning in a little log cabin down in Kentucky, so said my mother and the midwife, on April the 6th, five o'clock in the morning, 1909, when the Lord God brought me into the earth, there was a Light standing at the little window. And when they opened the window back, mother laying on a little shuck bed,

to find out what kind of baby she had,

a Light come whirling in.

 

HE WAS THE ONE THAT SPOKE OUT FROM THE TREE.

TWENTIETH.CENTURY.PROPHET.MOVIE.title  JEFF.IN  53-0800
  Passing by there, there was a whirl of wind in the tree, what we call here a whirlwind. Why, it was nothing odd for that time of year in this part of the country. But it remained in the tree. It didn't leave. I stopped to see what it was. And a Voice spoke from It, saying, "Do not never smoke, or drink, or defile your body in any way, for there'll be a work for you to do when you get older."
 
HE WAS THAT LIGHT THAT APPEARED ON THE RIVER IN 1933.

ANOINTED.ONES.AT.END.TIME.title  JEFF.IN  V-5 N-3  65-0725M

I wasn't the One that appeared down on the river;

 I was only standing there when He appeared.

 

HE WAS THAT MIGHTY ANGEL THAT COME DOWN IN 1963.

BREACH.THE.title  JEFF.IN  63-0317E

Now, here's the angel on earth, and another Angel, mighty Messenger come down. See, this angel was a earthly angel, messenger. But here comes One down from heaven: a rainbow, covenant. See?

Only Christ, it could be;

 

But whom say ye that I am?

 

WORKS.IS.FAITH.EXPRESSED.title  SHREVEPORT.LA  V-7 N-1  65-1126

He is the Alpha and Omega. He is the supreme Judge, and none other but Him.

He is to look upon as Alpha and Omega.

 

WHAT.IS.THE.ATTRACTION?.title  JEFF.IN  V-8 N-8  65-0725E

I never know it till the other day.

See, the Supreme Deity, Supreme Authority!

No other voice, no other god,

 no other nothing.

 

I MUST DECREASE ---HE MUST INCREASE

THE PILLAR OF FIRE PHOTOGRAPHED

 

 

 

TESTIMONY.RAISING.DEAD.BOY.title  W.PALM.BEACH.FL  53-1203

That's the Pillar of Fire.

It seems strange that how the world will reject it.

 

PERSEVERANT.title  SOUTH.GATE.CA  62-0623

How many ever seen the picture of that

Angel of the Lord?

They've got it back there. You can get it. It was taken over here; it's in Washington, D.C. in the Religious Hall of Arts:

 only supernatural Being ever photographed, a Pillar of Fire.

 

WHEN.THEIR.EYES.WERE.OPENED.title  TAMPA.FL  64-0416

The Angel of the Lord that brought Israel out of Egypt and took them to the promised land was made flesh, and dwelled among us, ascended up on high. He said, "I come from God, and I go to God."

A few months later here He was on the road to Damascus with Saul, and struck him down. And Saul, seeing that same Pillar of Fire, said, "Lord, Who are You?"

And He said.

"I'm Jesus.”

 

TRIAL.A.title  TUCSON.AZ  64-0427

The world knows it.

The scientific world knows it.

That same Pillar of Fire,

the same Angel of the Lord

IT IS WRITTEN:

What is left?

Nothing except Hebrews 12:26.

 "Whose voice then shook the earth: but now He hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven." Once more God will shake the earth and with it shake everything loose that can be shaken.

 Then He will renovate it.

 Just last March, 1964, that Good Friday earthquake of Alaska shook the whole world though it did not unbalance it.

 But God was warning by a world tremor what He will soon do on a greater scale.

 He is going to blast and rock this sin-cursed world,

 my brother, my sister,

 and there is only one place that can stand that shock,

 and that is in the fold of the Lord Jesus.

 

IT IS WRITTEN:

My God will judge this nation someday with fire.

 He'll sink it beneath the ocean.

The hour of His judgment is at hand.

 The whole world will go.

Religious perversion, human perversion,

 men don't even know what sex they belong to, neither does women. Stand up with a pair of man's overalls on, or a pair of little old shorts, clothes that's or, ever move and form of her body, and call herself a Christian.

 She's not even a lady, let alone a Christian. She's a street prostitute used by Satan, inspired by Satan to send the sons of God to hell to fulfill the Word that Jesus Christ said would take place.

 I didn't mean to say that,

 but He said it anyhow

 

 

HE MUST INCREASE

IT IS WRITTEN:

It is the mystery of

"ONE GOD."

He (Jesus),

came out from God, became manifested in flesh, died and rose again, and returned to the "Bosom of the Father." As John said, "The only begotten Son Which is IN the bosom of the Father,

He hath declared Him."

 John 1:18.

 It was now time for God (Messiah) to come back to claim His bride and then present Himself (make Himself known) to Israel.

 Thus we see God again stepping forth to assume a physical relationship to man as the

 "Son of David, King of Kings and Lord of Lords,

 and

 Bridegroom of the Gentile Bride."

 

But whom say ye that I am?

 

 THE TRUE GOD.

 

And there He was a young Man, no more... thirty years old,

 wearing a wig of white, showing that He was supreme, God,

 "The Father hath committed all judgment

 unto the hands of the Son." Hallelujah.

 The revelation is never wrong. Speak it anyhow,

 no matter what it sounds like: goes right with the Word.

 

THE AXE HAS BEEN LAID TO THE ROOT OF THE TREE.

LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY WILL.

 

AMEN.

 

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