The Wakened Nature
Bro Don Johnson
6/2/204sm

EPHESIANS 1:3
     3     ¶  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 

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     4    According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 

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     5    Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 

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     7    Be not ye therefore partakers with them. 

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     8    For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 

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     9    (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) 

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     10    Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 

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     11    And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. 

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     12    For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. 

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     13    But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. 

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     14    Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. 

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     15    See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, 

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     16    Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 

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     17    Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. 

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Now let me say this here. I don't believe that God is calling only to the false church to repent. In this verse He is talking to His elect. They have some repenting to do, too. Many of His children are still in those false churches. They are those of whom it speaks in Ephesians 5:14, "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." To be asleep is not to be dead. These are sleeping amongst the dead. They are out there in the dead denominations. They are floating along with them. God cries out, "WAKE UP! Repent of your folly." Here they are lending their influence, giving their time and their money, actually their very lives to these antichrist organizations, and all the while thinking it is all right. They need to repent. They must repent. They need to have a change of mind and turn toward truth.

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  36      I want you to notice here of the prophet, apostle, rather, Paul, who--who, how he made mention of this, how, "You has He quickened, who were once dead. You hath He quickened, who were once dead, dead in sin and trespasses; walking after the things of the world, the desire of the flesh, and fulfilling the desire of the mind. Has..."
37    What caused this change, you see? And what caused it, "from one time being dead," to quicken? Quicken means "made alive." There was a change, from death unto Life. There is no other, there is no other thing that could happen to any person, so great, as to change him from death to Life. A man, if he was dying, physically, and could be healed physically, that would be a great thing, but nothing so great as when he is spiritually dead and God has quickened him to Life.

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  47      Many of you can--can fellowship with me on this thought. When you was a little boy, or a little girl, you would walk around and there would be certain things that would just, where it wouldn't bother the other kids, it seemed like there was something in you that cried out. There was God somewhere, yet you were a sinner. You remember that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Certainly. Now what was that? That was that little form of Life in you then.
48    And then after a while, you heard the Gospel. Maybe you went to church, you picked out this and that, and went from denomination to denomination. But one day, you being part of God, you had to be part of the Word. And when you heard the Word, you know where you come from, you knowed what was the Truth. You were always, the seed was in you always. The Word seen the Word that was in you, that was before the foundation of the world, saw the Word and you come to It.

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  70    God manages a way to get man in the Presence, then they make their decision. Some of them run from Him; some run to Him. If they're predestinated to Life, they believe It; they hang onto It. If they're not, they try to get away and say, "There's nothing to It." See? And that's the guy that's lost. The guy that confesses his sin, shall have pardon. If you hide your sin, you'll not prosper. No.

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  286    Now, if a virgin shall conceive, that Word was spoke, which was a germ, the bed has to be there to receive it in someday. He searched through the lands; there wasn't any. He went through the lands; there wasn't any. And pretty near eight hundred years later, that predestinated seed found a bed, and she come to growing.
Just like God did at the beginning, "Let there be light," and maybe eight hundred years later come forth the light. "Let there be a tree," it come forth like that again, everything that He said.
Here's a predestinated Seed bringing forth Emmanuel, "God with us. And to Him shall the Gentiles seek." And That Who we seek to today? Jesus. You see, that predestinated seed...

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  289    Satan tried to spray it, like he did Eve. He tried to spray it, but he failed. With His repellent on here, He was a predestinated Seed. They couldn't take Him in to make Him a Pharisee or a Sadducee. They couldn't make Him belong to any organizations. He was God's predestinated spoken Word. Satan couldn't throw his unbelief on Him. He had a repellent on Him. God, spray us with a repellent is my prayer. That's right.

290    Then the Spirit moved on Him and sent Him to Calvary, to the cross, to bring Light in this day, and Light to all the predestinated seeds to the Church of this day, transforming sons and daughters of God, into His Presence.

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  291      Don't stumble at the word "predestination." I've went through that, you see. I want to show you, Ephesians 1:5.
292    See, just as you were, look, just as you were in your father; as I said the other night, just as you was in your father at the beginning. If you wasn't, you wouldn't be here. But, you see, it had to go to a bedding ground, in order to bring you forth. And now you're his son, you're his daughter. See, it's a seed. 
293    If you are a Christian now, a genuine predestinated seed, you was in God before there was a... You always was in God. The germ of your life, which is an attribute of God, which was His thought.

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  294      Say, for instance, this pretty little lady sitting here, see. God said, "In the day there will be a girl, her name will be So-and-so. She will be this, thus, and this," and even know to this very hour, "she would sit and listen at the Message, dressed in a red dress." See, that was His thought. Whoever your husband is, and whoever he is; and He would bring this together, and you would sit here in--in this--this city at this day. There could be no way for you to fail it, see, because you're growing. And as long as you're seed inside, growing, you have to produce just exactly what the seed said you would do. That's exactly. It's His Word. He keeps His Word. He watches over It.

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  295      You was in your father, as a germ, and you come forth as a daughter; you, you, every one of you, brothers and sisters, you come forth. If you wasn't in your father, then you wouldn't have been here.
296    And if you wasn't in God... If you believe the message of the Bible, and the present Message of the day, a vindication of It; the reason you are sitting here, because you were predestinated to set here. You wouldn't have been here, otherwise; you would have been on the street, maybe drunk, some of you; and some of you out here and running around with some other man's wife; and you women out, married, and running around with some other women's husband, or something like that. See, but you were predestinated to be here. See, you can't help it. You have a Father, He is God, and you were a seed.

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  297      And when He come to a place, He's got you now to where... You was in Him then, as a thought, now you are a person that can fellowship with Him. See? Like you was in, you was in your fathers, at the beginning, but now you are sons and daughters, so you can fellowship with your parent. Now we're sons and daughters of God, who can fellowship with our Father, God. See, it's just as beautiful! Don't you like that? [Congregation says, "Yes!"--Ed.] Then you become like Him. And if we were sons, then you're attributes, and was in His form at the beginning.

298    And, remember, if you was in Him at the beginning; and when Jesus, which is God, the Word made flesh and dwelt among us; then you were in Him and stood the insults that He took. You went to Calvary with Him, in Him. You died, in Him. You arose, in Him. And now you are seated together in Heavenly places, in Him. See?

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64    Did you know, you, your beginning, I can prove by God's Word that you, any person in here, was alive in your great-grandfather. And your great-grandfather, you were produced down to your grandfather, then to your father, and then to you. You know that?
The Bible said, I believe it's Hebrews 7, that, Melchisedec, when Abraham returned from the slaughter of the kings, "Abraham paid Melchisedec tithing of all the spoils." And here is Paul saying now, that, "Levi, who received tithes, was yet... He paid tithes, for he was yet in the loins of Abraham when he met Melchisedec." So whatever that Abraham did, then we find that Levi was then in Abraham, which was his great-grandfather. Abraham begot Isaac; Isaac begot Jacob; Jacob begot the patriarchs, Levi.
Now, then, you see, here comes into perfect view, predestination.

72    Look at the priests. When they see Him express Hisself exactly with the Word, what He was, they said, “It’s Beelzebub.” That showed where their nature was. It was in the modern thought of the day.
73    But when the little prostitute, that He met at the gate, and told her, expressed His Messianic sign, by telling her what she had done. “Why,” she said, “Sir, I perceive that You are a Prophet. We know, the Messiah, when He comes, He will tell us all these things.” She was recognizing Him as the Messiah, the anointed One, because He met the Scripture qualifications. Don’t you see? The two pieces of paper were coming together. She, “We know that, when the Messiah cometh.”
74    Now, God might have had to interbreed this and that, to get this certain ting of the bell, like the molder. But when Jesus turned, said, “I am He that speaks with you,” there was no such an expression as “Beelzebub.” She left her waterpot, ran into the city, and said, “Come, see a Man Who told me the things that I have done. Isn’t This the very Messiah?” See?
75    Now, what did this? Putting the old Scripture with the experience that—that Jesus was giving to her, what did it do? It made the Messiah. And did you notice?Quickly, her sins were forgiven, because, at the beginning, she was redeemable, because she was in God’s thinking at the beginning. So, it redeemed her, or brought her back, when she seen the expressed Scripture manifested, of Jehovah, what He was, what He is.

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  87    Notice, through the ages, the same way, by His prophets He has revealed Himself. Them wasn't exactly prophets; they were gods. He said so. For what they spoke was God's Word. They were the flesh that God was veiled in. They were gods. Jesus said, Himself, said if, "How can you condemn Me when I say I'm the Son of God, and your own law says that them who the Word of the Lord came to was gods?" See?
So it was God formed in a man called a prophet. See? And the Word of the Lord came to this man, so it wasn't the prophet; the prophet was the veil, but the Word was God. The man's word won't act like that. See what I mean? It cannot act in that manner. But potentially it was God. See, He was the Word of God in the form of a man, called "a man."
Notice, He never changed His nature, only His form. Hebrews 13:8, said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. So He did not change His nature when He come. He is always that Prophet, all down through the age, same thing, the Word, the Word, the Word, the Word. See? He cannot change His nature, but He changed His form. Hebrews 13:8, said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He just changed His mask.

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  89    Like I change from husband when my child is born, then I'm father. When my grandchild is born, I'm grandfather. See? But I don't change. I still--it's still me. See? And that's God. It's just I change my... See, it's just change your form. See? Notice, and nature changes it down from a young man to a middle-aged, to an old man. And there you are (You see?), you just change your form.
Now, you couldn't say a little fellow stand up here, sixteen years old, say he was grandfather. He couldn't be; his form has to be changed. A few years changes it, then he becomes grandpa. See what I mean?
But it's the same Person all the time, the same Person, God all the time. In this way He reveals Himself to His people in doing this. Notice, through the age of the Pillar of Fire He revealed Himself to His people. In the age of--of Jesus He revealed Himself to His people. In the age of the Holy Spirit, as Son of God, Son of David... He always reveals Himself in that manner to His people, making the people to know Him. He's veiled behind something, notice, in the same way or same nature, every time.

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«  69       †          They had been gone for two thousand years. Moses for about twenty-five hundred years, and Elijah for ever since... Almost twenty-five hundred years has Elijah been gone, and Moses had been gone, and here they return with the same nature and do the same things.
Death doesn't do nothing to a man but change his dwelling place. Doesn't change your nature. Doesn't change your faith. Doesn't change nothing in you but your dwelling place.
70    So, which a way your nature is this morning! If you're a doubter of God's Word, you would be a doubter over there. I don't care how holy you are, how you live, and how good you live, it wouldn't change you one bit to die, just your dwelling place. And if you can't accept the whole Word of God the way It's written, you wouldn't do it There; so, don't worry, you won't be There.
You've got to accept It in Its fullness, in the power of Its vindication and the revelation of what It is, then you become a part of It. It's only His Word that He'll raise up, as He did His Word on the first Easter morning. Only His Word came forth, and those who had died in His Word, believing His Word and vindicated His Word.

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«  71       †          Notice, now, that's been twenty-seven hundred years ago. Notice, they were scattered, they were blinded, and now they've been gathered. Now, the next thing is that they are to receive Life.
72    And the Gentiles are called out. The Bride is ready. The Rapture is at hand. Can we realize that? Can we actually believe that? Is it a story that's been told? Is it a myth, to us? Is it a something that sounds real? Is it something that we, outside, can believe? Or, is it something that's in us, that's part of us, that it's more than life to us? What attitude do we set in, this morning, in this tabernacle? Remember, it'll be a small flock that receives It.
73    Now in the homeland, waiting for the Trumpets. Now waiting for the going of the little Bride, so that Revelations 11 can be fulfilled. The church age has ceased; the Seals has been opened, that prove what they left out in the church age, and the Message has been given. Israel is on the scene, hallelujah, ready for the Feast of Trumpets.

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«  74       †          Oh, you men in other lands where you'll hear this tape, can't you wake up, my brother? Or, does It blind you? Would you throw It out and call It false prophecy? When, It's vindicated right before you, by the world, by the time, by the peoples, and by the Holy Spirit Who wrote It. It's vindicated, both naturally, spiritually, materially. Everything that He said is fulfilled and proven.
75   And the Church is called; she's just only waiting for the Rapture, of the Bride taken out.
76    The Seals are open. It's revealed to us. We see what they left off. You that want to debate and fuss about the serpent's seed, and water baptism, and so forth, you're blinded and don't know it. The god of this world has blinded you, to It, and you don't know it. Wonder I had such a time this morning, fighting through them pressures!

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«  78       †          He said, through Hosea, "I have hewed." Now watch, Israel He's talking to. "I have hewed," or other words, "I have chopped, chopped them out, through the prophets." That's how God does His people. He chopped them out from the rest of the nations. What by? His two-edged Sword, His Word. He chopped them, His nation, from the nations. He chopped His nation from the nations, by the prophets, His vindicated Word.
So has He chopped His Bride from the denominations, by His Word; promised by Malachi 4, in the last day. Chopped out His Bride, hewed Her from the rest of the churches! Hewed out His Bride!

81    What time is it, brother? What time is it, minister? Do you see the time of the day, and the sign you're living under? Can you understand it? Do you see it?

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«  82       †          Everywhere now, there's no revival. Everybody is complaining, ministers crying. I was reading one of the--the outstanding papers that comes here to the church, a very fine paper. And I know the editor, and I know the people. And they are godly people, very fine, Brother and Sister Moore, of the Herald of His Coming. One of the finest papers on the field, Herald of His Coming. But they hardly will print anything unless it's about, "Fast, pray! Fast, pray! Sound a trumpet! Get..." How many reads it? You know. You see it all the time, "Fast, pray! Fast, pray!" It's all you hear. "Fast, pray! We're going to have a great breaking of the day! There is a great thing going to happen! All of you, pray, pray, pray! We're not too late yet!"
83    Why do they do that? Why do they do that? They want a great awakening. They're crying, believing that there will be awakening. They're good people. Why is it? What have they done? They have not recognized the awakening of the Bride. See? By being a Christian, they feel the pull of the hour, but they haven't recognized what's been done. That's what's making them feel that way. They know something is supposed to happen, but, see, they're looking for it way off in the future, to come, when it's already happened right by you.
84    That's the same thing they did in the old days. They was believing in a coming Messiah. They believed that there would be a forerunner come. But it was right on them, and they didn't know it. They didn't recognize it. They believed there would come a forerunner that would forerun the Messiah, and they cut his head off. And killed their Messiah, because it was prophesied that they would be blinded. Hosea said so.

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«  85       †          And the same Spirit, that spoke through Hosea, spoke through John and said the church in this last days would be "naked, and blind, and would put Him outside of the church." They failed to see those prophecies fulfill. But, being in there, they realize that something has got to happen. They just don't get it. They don't realize it. Much like the Jews of old times; blinded Laodicea; riches, theology, hostile with the Church, hostile towards the Message. Look how hostile those Jews was with John. Look how hostile they was with Jesus, when He was the very One that they claimed that they were looking for.

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«  192       †          Like Israel, back in her promised land, she don't know how she got back there. She was just automatically put back there. Why? National force put her in her place.
Now I'm going to say something. National force put Israel in her homeland; national force will put the church in the World Council of Churches; but the power of God will put the people in the Bride. The world forces this way, and the world forces that way, but God forces upward. The Spirit of God, which is the Word of God, "My Word is Spirit and Life," will put the Bride in Her place. Cause, She'll recognize Her position in the Word, then She's in Christ, will put Her in Her place. No national force will do it. But the national force did drive Israel to the homeland; the national forces of the Council of Churches will drive every organization into it; but the Power of God will raise the Bride into Glory, out of it.
193    Oh, people, recognize your day, as Jesus warned you; the sign of Sodom, and the church's conditions of this day.

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«  86       †          They were hostile towards the Message.
87    Notice, hostile! But, now, like the Jews of old, blinded! They are at Laodicea. They're "naked, miserable, wretched, and don't know it." Day of riches, great theological teachings, great education, and now they have become hostile towards the Message. They want nothing to do with It, just like it was back at the days when Jesus of Nazareth was on earth.

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«  88       †          The reason people, in Noah's day, did not go into the ark, because they never recognized the message nor the messenger. That's the only reason they perished, is because they didn't recognize the hour that they were living. They didn't recognize that God would deal with sin as He promised He would. "He would destroy man, from the face of the earth." He had prophesied it. He meant it. And He means it today the same as He did then.
89    But the people, instead of being favorable towards Noah, he was considered a wild man. They didn't believe him to be a prophet. You know, Jesus, His Own Self, told us how they scoffed in the days of Noah, made fun of him, called him a fanatic and whatmore. But they didn't recognize their hour. They didn't recognize the day. They didn't recognize the sign. They didn't recognize the message. They didn't recognize the messenger, but put him from their midst and laughed at him. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah!"

So is it today! God always makes it simple, to get the people who will believe and trust Him. It's a different, just a different Message, but the same God. Now I want you to believe It and understand that God has spoke It.
That's the reason that Pharaoh drowned in the sea. He never recognized his day. He never recognized what was going on. He was too took up in the achievements of his scientific age, to build cities with slave labor. He was too--he was too busy, to recognize the opportunity that he had, and he turned God's prophet-messenger out into the wilderness. He didn't recognize it. That's the reason that things went the way they did. He never recognized it. If he would have only recognized the promised Word of God, to that people!

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«  96       †          Moses, he recognized his day and his calling, when he saw the promise of God's Word for that day vindicated. He knew then, and realized what he was and what he was to do, by the promised Word. So he didn't fear what anybody said. He wasn't ashamed of his message, though every priest and every pharaoh, everything, every authority, disagreed with him. But he recognized when he saw that Light, that Pillar of Fire hanging in that bush, and spoke to him the Word that was promised for that day, and said, "I've called you to go do it." He feared not the--the great threats of the king. He went down to bring those people to an exodus, like the Word of God had promised.

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«  97       †          Seeing the promise vindicated, he made the people ready for their exodus. When? When he saw the promise of God vindicated. Remember, he run with his theology; he run with his training. But when he saw the Word of God made manifest, he saw It vindicated, "I AM THAT I AM," then he didn't care what anybody said. He didn't fear what Pharaoh would do with him. He didn't fear what the rest of them would do. He only feared God, that he might misunderstand God, or some way that he might misunderstand God. He didn't fear the people and what they would say or what they would do. He only feared God, after he recognized that it was the Word of God.

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«  98       †          He couldn't understand how a man like him would be sent down there. But when he recognized, by the vindicated Word, what it was, then he didn't fear the king's commandments. If you'd only recognize, if we today could only recognize! Moses recognized it when he seen the Word vindicated, seen the vindication made prove, He was ready for the exodus for the people.