
Thought Of The Day
5-23-13
UNIFIED BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, (SUN AM 12/30/2012), Sermon 3180
Rev. B. R. Hicks
You always want to know why God puts us under Jesus’ Feet. It is because all the Unified Blood is under His Feet. It all flowed down His Body.
5-22-13
UNIFIED BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, (SUN AM 12/30/2012), Sermon 3180
Rev. B. R. Hicks
It does not matter how far you go in your spiritual journey, there is a point to which you go that you either deal with your flesh, allow God to have another portion, and climb higher, or you lose what you have already gained. It is very easy to lose what you have already gained with a complaining, moaning attitude.
5-21-13
UNIFIED BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, (SUN AM 12/30/2012), Sermon 3180
Rev. B. R. Hicks
because we feel good and sincere, we think that we are all right. Our feeling good and sincere is not necessarily indicative of anything.
5-20-13
UNIFIED BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, (SUN AM 12/30/2012), Sermon 3180
Rev. B. R. Hicks
At Calvary, we learn how to bend. A little poem that I learned when I went to a one-room schoolhouse was, “Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean in a pleasant land.” Someone gave that poem to me. It is a great poem that was written by a Christian person. All God is asking us to do is to bend. He does not ask us to make big bends at first, but to bend only in little things—little Drops. Why is there disharmony, disunity, and all the other unspeakable traits of Leviathan? It is because we refuse to bend in little Drops of Blood and Little Drops of Water. We want to run the whole show and to have a bad attitude. Good luck to you. You will be left here for the Tribulation Period.
5-17-13
UNIFIED BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, (SUN AM 12/30/2012), Sermon 3180
Rev. B. R. Hicks
Jesus went to the Garden to buy you and me the privilege or our knowing Him in that way! Why? It was because He knew that there was a higher level that He needed to reach in prayer, not for Himself. He already had a perfect relationship with His Father, and He did not come to Earth to give Himself a perfect
relationship with His Father. He already had that. He came to set you and me free and to give us the relationship that He has!
5-16-13
UNIFIED BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, (SUN AM 12/30/2012), Sermon 3180
Rev. B. R. Hicks
Some people say, “The Spirit witnessed for me to do this, so I will do it, or I will be angry.” You may as well be angry because God’s Purposive Will can be withdrawn to prove to you whether or not you have a relationship with the LORD. If you have a relationship, then your relationship will be above works, even in God’s Purposive Will.
5-15-13
UNIFIED BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, (SUN AM 12/30/2012), Sermon 3180
Rev. B. R. Hicks
Jesus was dying from point one in the Garden. When the Angel went to Him, that was not after three trips of His crying. No, the Angel went and strengthened Him after He had prayed His first prayer. Look what Humility Jesus displayed. He was the Creator, Ruler, Director of all creatures, the Head over all Creation with the Father’s being His Head, and He knew the Power that He had, yet He never wiggled a finger of Divinity or Power in the Garden of Gethsemane to help Himself. He said, in so many words, “Father, I am here to display my Union with You above even your Purposive Will.”
5-14-13
*UNIFIED BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, (SUN AM 12/30/2012), Sermon 3180
Rev. B. R. Hicks
I will acknowledge, “LORD, I am weak; I am human, and I am dependent on Your Love, Light, Life, and Loyal Reverence to the Father’s Name to keep me. I am depending on Your White Horse to carry me. I have no white horse of my own.”
5-10-13
UNIFIED BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, (SUN AM 12/30/2012), Sermon 3180
Rev. B. R. Hicks
Do you understand that you will not go to the New City with your infernal authority called your complaining and moaning? Do you know why you complain and moan? You do that because you are out of control. Let someone stick you with a knife, just a little bit, and, then, until you learn better, you squeal like stuck pigs, as though everything concerns and revolves around you. God’s Purposive Will and Master Plan never did, nor will it ever, revolve around you.
5-09-13
UNIFIED BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, (SUN AM 12/30/2012), Sermon 3180
Rev. B. R. Hicks
The biggest challenge, battle, struggle, or warfare—however one wants to express it—concerns our seeing and knowing experientially that intimate relationship—as a husband and wife—between our soul and spirit and the LORD that God has planned the whole thing.
5-08-13
UNIFIED BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, (SUN AM 12/30/2012), Sermon 3180
Rev. B. R. Hicks
The greatest challenge in life is to recognize or know and see with empirical experiential Knowledge the reality of God in everything.
5-07-13
A BROTHERHOOD SACRIFICE OF SWEET-SMELLING SAVOUR
(SUN AM 12/16/2012), Sermon 3174, Rev. B.R. Hicks
How does a Pillar of Cloud and Fire work? There was no Pillar of Cloud and Fire in either the Mosaic Tabernacle or the Temple until after the Priest had washed his hands and feet in the Waters of the Father’s Name of Love and had washed away wrath, doubting, and scornful rejection. When we murmur, complain, and criticize, that is demonic scornful rejection. You may say, “They are in the flesh.” I guess that you are in the Spirit when you are doing all that? You reject people’s flesh because you are expecting them to do something that you yourself cannot do. We must be patient and wait until the Smoke of the Cloud and Fire has been put on them
04-17-13
STONES OF FIRE, TAPE 3, BY REV. B. R. HICKS
When JESUS was first born he didn’t remember this part back here, but he REMEMBERED IT LATER ON. That is what made the Pharisees so mad when he begins to call to remembrance what he had BACK IN THE LOINS OF GOD. How many have wondered what made Jesus remember what he was before he was begotten. Out of God came his breath and out of that breath he begot the spirit and soul of JESUS. He never HAD A BODY UNTIL IT WAS PREPARED IN THE WOMB OF THE VIRGIN MARY. Then ALL CREATION came out of that union of God and the Son. If you want to know where you got your power of choice, you got it the same place Jesus came from, where his spirit and soul came from, THE LOINS OF GOD and you get to be made one with him and get to go and look where you came out from, as a spirit and soul. He is one because everything else came out from the SON. He is the ONLY ONE that came out from God; everything else came from that union.
04-16-13
REVELATION BOOD 1, BY REV. B. R. HICKS
Considering this matter of the "depths of Satan," let us turn to the book of Jude. Sin is sin in the sight of God,
"For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all" (James 2:10).
Nevertheless, sin does fall into two categories. There are natural sins, such as immortal sins of lying, stealing, and killing. These are the sins which can readily be forgiven. Because of our frail human nature with its propensity toward sin, we can easily be overtaken by sin. But the sins of the Spirit are of far greater significance, for spiritual sins lead to the depths of Satan. Let us examine Jude's account with this thought in mind.
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ (Jude 1:4).
Jude is dealing with a special class of sin, spiritual sin—the sins of the ungodly. Ungodly men are sinners who have once known God and have turned their backs on Him in rejection.
04-15-13
THE RAINBOW IN THE SWADDLINGBAND, (THU PM 12/6/2012), Sermon Study # 3172
Rev. B. R. Hicks
You may say, “We do not agree on everything.” What does that have to do with anything? Do not go there in your thoughts! Brotherhood is love for that on which we agree. If we go to Calvary’s Cross and bend our knees, the ground is equal. We are all sinners saved by Grace, and we all have something else about which we need to repent. Who are we? Apart from Jesus Christ, we are nothing; we have nothing; we can do nothing, and we know nothing. However, with Him, we are looking at Omnipresence.
03-14-13
TSAKH WHITE LINEN— 1ST MESSAGE, (SUN AM 10/14/2012), Sermon 3149 - Rev. B.R. Hicks
In the beginning of my spiritual journey, my favorite place to flee was “Timbuktu.” Wherever that is, it sounded far away. I thought that if I could go to Timbuktu, everything would be all right. I remember that in those days of wanting to flee to Timbuktu, Jesus spoke to me, audibly, and taught me. He has appeared to me along the way of my spiritual journey. I guess that He got tired of my saying that, so He came to me and said, “Your problem is you. If you would go to Timbuktu, you still would have the problem because you would have taken you with you.” This made sense to me, so I determined that I did not want to go to Timbuktu, after all, and that I wanted to deal with me then and there. So the problem is always us. If we allow God to deal with us, then we can rise above any problem because the problem will not matter to us when we have a new union with Jesus.
03-15-13
TSAKH WHITE LINEN— 1ST MESSAGE, (SUN AM 10/14/2012), Sermon 3149 - Rev. B.R. Hicks
After we have had our tsakhWhite Linen, then the LORD comes along with His tsakhWhite
Threads and embroiders tsakhWhite upon tsakhWhite. He embroiders the Beautiful Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley as a witness of every time that we have praised His Name for pain and suffering. So every time that we lift up His Holy Name, we receive more tsakhWhite Roses and more tsakhWhite Lilies upon our Wedding Dress of tsakhWhite Linen! As the Apostle Paul said in Romans 8:18, “[T]he sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
03-18-13
24 DEGREES OF GRATITUDE FOR THE HEAVENLY ELDERS, BY Rev. B.R. Hicks
Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness (Psalms 29:2).
God's holy, pure, perfect Name or nature is clothed with a beautiful glory that gives the highest degree of pleasure to the senses of the heart and mind. The beauty of the LORD's holy Name is an object of delight and approximates one's conception of the perfect ideal, inspiring the heart with grateful affection and worship.
03-19-13
THE HEADSHIP OF CHRIST, BY REV. B. R. HICKS
The Lord Jesus Christ will rule with the Crown of the Sovereignty of His Kabode Glory that will imprint and impress God's Eternal Truth upon the hearts of His people. He will rule with the Crown of His Shekinah Glory that will influence the hearts of His people to sweetly and humbly submit themselves to His Headship. The LORD Jesus Christ also will rule with His Diadem of Beauty or in the Beauty of His Holy, Kingly Power and Authority. Jesus Christ will wear His Diadem of Beauty of Holiness that pleases and satisfies His Heavenly Father. The LORD's Diadem of Beauty will be spiritually perfect and pure, untainted by evil or sin, sinless. All the Wisdom and Knowledge of Christ's Counsels and Judgments will be His Diadem of the Beauty of Holiness.
03-20-13
Ownership, Lesson 18, 1982 Summer Convention, Rev. B. R. Hicks
As long as you have your individual sweat, your individual kingdom, it makes God very unhappy. You see it in Churches, in organizations, in the world, in work. This is the number one problem. This is the veil of deceit that hangs over the whole world that Isaiah talks about. It is the veil of deceitful ownership! As long as you are like that, you are separated. You can be believers, you can be sincere, you can be working in your little niche and corner and blah, blah, blah, but you know what? You will never know the best, the ALL GOOD! God created the good separately in six days, and on the seventh, the Sabbath, He laced it all together to be the ALL GOOD.
03-21-13
God And The Blood Of Jesus Christ: God’s Provision Of Blood For A Sin Offering For the Whole Congregation, By Rev. B.R. Hicks
We can also practice deplorable dereliction in our duty toward others by abandoning them when they are counting on us. When we are derelict in our duty as our brothers' keeper, we
feel free to abandon, forsake, or desert them. Then, like Cain, we ask God, "Am I my brother's keeper?" May Jesus help us learn, through this lesson, to keep our conscience clean and free from the Works of Death and the Defilement of Death which turn us into a derelict of discouragement.
03-22-13
TEN DEGREES OF SIN OFFERING BLOOD UNDER THE BAZEN ALTAR, BY REV. B.R. HICKS
The biggest sin in our spiritual family is this class of ignorance that does not allow us to know how to treat each other as a spiritual brother or sister. If we personally do something amiss or
remiss, we pray, "Oh, LORD God, have mercy on me." We want all the LORD's Divine Mercy that He will give us. But if someone else does something wrong, in a side-step or a miss-step, and he or she is in great need of God's Mercy, we act as though that person is a devil and unworthy of God's Mercy and should be damned to Hell. Beloved, if we demand that people pay us the mercy we esteem they owe to us; our attitude will be merciless and judgmental toward them if they do not comply with our expectations. If we are going to be a Choice One with Christ and His tenfold foundational Blood inside the Altar, this sin of mercilessness against the Brotherhood must be put away so that we can stand clothed with Christ's Mercy Blood that will clothe us with total unity with Christ Jesus and with His choice Brotherhood.
02-15-13
AWAKEN TO THE LITTLE CHILD WITHIN, (SUNAM6/17/2012), Sermon 3106 - Rev. B. R. Hicks
Now, this little child is our old man inside. He is an old child, but this is paradoxical. Actually, he has no Stature, so he is poor. He does not possess the riches of the Father’s Glory or His Love or Life. He is a stranger to the LORD’s Authority because he never accepted it. He lost the Father, and was too young to understand. He reaped the feeling that he knows nothing and that he is a widow.
02-12-13
AWAKEN TO THE LITTLE CHILD WITHIN, (SUNAM6/17/2012), Sermon 3106 - Rev. B. R. Hicks
You pled the Blood on that little character in you, but he still screamed and had a fit and was not affected by the Blood. So you were ashamed of yourself, and you said, “I know the Blood works.” This is where Leviathan, Father Wicked, Mother Wickedness, and Lucifer have a hey-day. They say, in so many words, “You are such an awful character, you probably have sinned against the Holy Ghost, and God has left you.” There are all kinds of fleeting, winged thoughts that fly really fast through your mind. You are in the process of being awakened right now. You just got awakened to the truth that you are a little child. How long have I told you that you had to grow up in Stature to become little? Well, that means having an awakening to see this little child. God did not want you to be awakened until you could learn how to take care of the little child.
01-31-13
Secrets to Real Power - Rev. B. R. Hicks
1. A Little Child is Innocent
A little child views others as being without hostility because he has no malicious thoughts toward them. When we find ourselves suspecting everyone of talking about us or plotting against us, it is time to start humbling our mind before the Lord. It is time to get down low and realize that no enemy can come against us without our Father's permission. Repeatedly our mind must be turned from thoughts of fleshly retaliation and converted to look to our heavenly Father who assumes all responsibility for protecting His little children.
01-30-13
Secrets to Real Power, a book by Rev. B. R. Hicks
And Jesus called a little child unto him, and sat him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I say
unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 18:2-4).
Jesus set a little child in their midst in order to demonstrate the right way to achieve spiritual success. Since it is impossible for grown men to become small in body, Jesus had to be referring to the nature and disposition of a child's mind.
01-29-13
AWAKEN TO THE LITTLE CHILD WITHIN, (SUNAM6/17/2012), Sermon 3106
Rev. B. R. Hicks
Great revelations do not necessarily come while you are shouting praises to God. They can, but that is the exception rather than the rule. Most of the great things I know have come to me while I have been in my prayer closet or quietly studying, and I say, “Wow! LORD. There it is. I see that.
01-28-13
Dragon-Spirits And Their Warfare Against Believers In Christ (Kindle Locations 123-128). Christ Gospel Press., by Rev. B. R. Hicks
When God has chosen a person to be in Christ’s Bride, he must become a special prayer warrior against dragon-spirits of untruth. He especially needs to run quickly and faithfully with God. If we are running in the race for the Prize, the New City, the New Jerusalem, or the Bride of Jesus Christ, we can expect to encounter warfare with dragon-spirits of untruth, for they fight against the full Stature of Truth of Jesus Christ. But if we learn about our enemy, we can take victory over him through Christ Jesus. Any time we experience defeat in our spiritual warfare, it is because we have not sanctified ourselves and surrendered ourselves thoroughly, in the depths of our beings, to the Will of God. Dragon-spirits of untruth do not have a way of entrance into us when we are completely surrendered to the Will of God. This explains why we sometimes cannot war in prayer. Unless we are walking up in a place of cleanliness and holiness in Christ Jesus, we are not able to fight dragon-spirits’ head-realm warfare against the Truth.
01-25-13
Man’s Three Fold Nature – His Will, Chapter 7 - Rev. B. R. Hicks
God's Will gives us two important classes of divine Knowledge; first, to know ourselves; and second, to know God, which is the end of all learning.
01-24-13
Man’s Three Fold Nature – His Will, Chapter 7 - Rev. B. R. Hicks
Discernment Easily Recognizes Knowledge.
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth (Proverbs 14:6).
The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness (Proverbs 15:14).
If we allow Jesus Christ to enlighten our eyes of understanding, we can easily recognize, separate, and distinguish the LORD's Knowledge from worldly knowledge.
01-23-13
Man’s Three Fold Nature – His Will, Chapter 7 - Rev. B. R. Hicks
Therefore, let us strive for perfection, not because it is a sublime condition or an elevated position, but because it unites us with our Creator. Let us seek to do God's Will so that we can know the Fullness of Christ Jesus. Let us be satisfied to do God's Will by putting off the flesh (the old man, the old heart, and the old will) and by putting on Jesus Christ's mature Spiritual Stature. All happiness lies in seeking the Holiness of the LORD's Name and in exclusive dependence on God's Will to govern and guide us. God's Will is a way of majestic delight, satisfying gratitude, and pleasurable peace. It is a way in which no other desire in our heart and will is important but to please God. Let us labour for perfect Knowledge of Christ Jesus and for perfect Submission to His Will.
01-22-13
THE PRINCIPLE OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS, (SUN PM 10/9/2011), Sermon 3018 - Rev. B.R. Hicks
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
(Eph 6:12).
Now, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against rulers of the darkness of this world. In Hebrew the word for world is o-lawm. Leviathan stole God’s Principle of o-lawm. O-lawm is God’s Master Plan, but when Leviathan stole it and ruled over it, it became the world then. The Apostle John said: Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world [olawm, that Leviathan stole is going to pass away] passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever (I John 2:15-17).
01-21-13
Man’s Three Fold Nature – His Will, Chapter 7 - Rev. B. R. Hicks
Only as we die out to being governed by the old union can we take on the new Union with God's Will so that it governs our human life. We lay down our will in the pool of Jesus Christ's Death so that we can come up resurrected in newness of Life, with a new Union with God's Will. Beloved, this is a thrilling process, on both the instant and the progressive sides. What an unspeakable shame that so few understand this precious Truth about the death of the old husband, the human will, and the Union with the new Husband, God's Will through the Heavenly Bridegroom Jesus Christ.
01-18-13
FROM THE BOOK: The Unfolding of His Glorious Powerful Name, 1986 - Rev. B.R. Hicks,
Our temporal life in this world is a dying life. We are slowly and continually gliding down the river of temperal time to the great ocean of eternity.
Man's life is full of frailties and vanities apart from God. Many souls (including Christians) are asleep; therefore, they are completely unaware of their frailties and vanities, while they are being swept along on the flood of time in their dreamy state, until they are awakened from their dreamy diseased perception of reality by the awesome reality of eternity. Death occupies a paradoxical ministry for mankind. It puts to sleep,and it awakens.
01-17-13
CONVERTING THE EVIL EYE — 5TH MESSAGE, (INTERNATIONAL SUMMER CONVENTION, THU PM 7/8/2004) Sermon 2342 - Rev. B. R. Hicks
“[W]e have fellowship one with another….” Do you know what the word fellowship is in Hebrew? Khawbar. Do you know what fellowship means? It means joined together. Two fellows in one ship, or maybe many more fellows in one ship. I was talking to you about the word khawbar. It means to join together so tightly. Now let me tell you something. Leviathan has departed from God and become the number one enemy in all four of the pain creations on this pain side of the scales. And the Bible says of Leviathan: “His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. One is so near to another, that no air can come between them” (Job 41:15,16). No wonder nobody can take him down. They cannot break this seal of his pride. Then do you think the scales that God is clothing us with, the armour of gratitude, that they are going to be more unified under the Father and the Son? Yea, I say unto you, they are unbreakable!
01-16-13
CONVERTING THE EVIL EYE — 5TH MESSAGE, (INTERNATIONAL SUMMER CONVENTION, THU PM 7/8/2004) Sermon 2342 - Rev. B. R. Hicks
He said, “[I]f we walk in the light….” This is the Ore light, the Lamp of the Soul of the Father and the Son that I told you about in this convention. This is talking about keeping your own eye. We are not talking about the Christ in us. He never had a blind eye. He was a perfect Man. I am talking about us in our Nephesh Soul. Their Souls are one. Do you see what I am trying to tell you? “[I]f we walk in the light, as he [Jesus] is in the light….” He is our Mediator. He is our Saviour. He is the Way we connect to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. He is our Tree of Life!
01-15-13
THE YELLOW GLORY— 2ND MESSAGE THE UNITY OF THE STAIRWAY OF THE BROTHERHOOD, (WED AM 7/2/2008), Sermon Study # 2698 - Rev. B.R Hicks
Would the LORD die for you and then show you through His Word how that you are conceived in sin, and born in sin, and a sinner by deed—that is a whole scale full of “sinnerhood”—would He hold it up and taunt you with it so that when you come as a poor sinner you would not know whether He will forgive you or not? Do you think that He is going to be up there just taunting you? Do you think that He is not going to forgive you after He has suffered and bled in such indescribable, inexplicable pain that you cannot stand to look at the scene? I have been there in the Spirit. You hide your face. You cannot take it. You scream your head off when you get just a little glimpse at Calvary. Jesus has been nailed to the Cross, and He has gone through all that suffering. When you come and say, “I am sorry. I am a sinner,” after the Father has brought you the convicting and drawing Power of His Spirit, then Jesus is not going to say, “I do not know whether I want to save you or not.” When you come and say, “I am sorry. I repent,” then the Blood appears. So there is Blood on the ground that you stand on. The minute I say, “I am a sinner. I am guilty. I am sorry,” then the Blood is released to flow down on the ground.
01-14-13
THE YELLOW GLORY— 2ND MESSAGE THE UNITY OF THE STAIRWAY OF THE BROTHERHOOD, (WED AM 7/2/2008), Sermon Study # 2698 - Rev. B.R Hicks
The Bible says, “[I]f we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”(1 John 1:7-10) It does not say, “If I walk in the light.” I cannot walk here alone. We have to walk here. We have to have the Brotherhood in order to make this work. The pillars in the Mosaic Tabernacle are a shadow and type of our walking in the Light together. The message explains the two Hebrew words for walking. Haw-lak has to do with walking mechanically; taw-lak means to walk with a focus. If we walk in the Light with our eyes focused on the unity of the Brotherhood in the New City, then the LORD will take care of our known, confessed sin, and the Blood from Calvary and the Spit from Jesus’ mouth will flow down. If we walk in the Light, we get the Son’s Seed-Blood, Begotten Blood, that takes care of the ten percent of our mind that is conscious; then we are also clothed with the Father’s Unbegotten Glory- Blood. So the ninety percent of our mind that is unconscious is covered although we do not know how to confess it.
01-08-13
DARKNESS - REV. B.R. HICKS
The LORD also uses the Cloak of Darkness and obscurity to cover His Begotten Truth and His Unbegotten Truth so that His Truth will not be seen, revealed, and known out of His appointed
season. In addition, the LORD uses the darkness of the natural night and spiritual night to give His Creation and His redeemed people rest, growth, and expansion in the night season. However, the great, crooked Serpent, Leviathan, the LORD'S great enemy, has stolen some of God's Darkness and Light so that he can try to imitate the LORD'S Darkness and Light.
01-07-13
DARKNESS - REV. B.R. HICKS
A state or condition of darkness, mentally, means to be ignorant; unenlightened by knowledge; untaught. A condition of mental and spiritual darkness means to be obscure, ambiguous, mysterious. hard to explain or understand, hidden, concealed, not open, morally black, wicked, atrocious, gloomy, cheerless, melancholy or unenthusiastic, unfavorable, disheartening, discouraging, dismal, reticent, secret, not open, darkness, nighttime.
God created Darkness so that it could serve Him in many places, ways, states, and conditions. For example, the LORD created Darkness to serve Him as a Cloak over His infinite, divine Glory. Otherwise, the LORD'S infinite Fire of His Glory would burn up all Creation.
01-04-13
Man’s Three Fold Nature – His Will, Chapter 7 - Rev. B. R. Hicks
The Brazen Laver in the Old Testament Tabernacle demonstrates both the initial and daily process of Salvation. Israel's water supply in the wilderness came from Christ, the Rock
(I Corinthians 10:4). Hence, the Water in the Laver was Christ's Water. The Old Testament Priests had to be washed, completely, once (instantly) at the Laver, before putting on their White Linen Garments. Then, the Priests returned daily (progressively) to wash their hands and feet. We, too, must go to the Laver of the Death of Jesus Christ through Water Baptism and. by faith, (instantly) lay down our human will in His watery grave of Death. Then, we, too, must return daily to the Laver, by faith through the Word, to wash our hands and feet in His Death (progressively). In this manner, we become divorced from the old husband (the Serpent) in our human will so that we can take on a Marriage Relationship with the New Husband (God's Will through Jesus Christ). This involves the crucifixion and mortification of the self-life and is a progressive process. The Apostle Paul affirmed this Truth in his First Epistle to the Corinthians.
I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. I die daily
(I Corinthians 15:31).
01-03-13
Man’s Three Fold Nature – His Will, Chapter 7 - Rev. B. R. Hicks
Death in the natural realm brings instant separation from the husband, but in the spiritual realm, not only is Death ministered instantly but also daily. After our initial Salvation experience, which is instantaneous, we gradually take on Christ's Death so that our growth in our experience of spiritual Union with God's Will is a daily process. This process of becoming one with God is the greatest love relationship a human being can experience.
12-28-12
Sermon 3140 9/16/2012 Message on 4 Square Prayer Groups-Needed to Share,-Rev. B.R. Hicks
Beloved, I do not care how long you have been on your spiritual journey (I have been on mine for seventy-five years, and I am still going on), the only way to get more Blood, more Fire, and more of the Lion-Blood is through repentance. You cannot repent if you do not see that you have something for which you need to repent.You are not going to know that you have something for which you need to repent unless you ask God to show it to you. So if you ask the LORD to take your lover Heart and put it under His divine scrutiny, He will show you the things for which you need to repent.
What you think you know about somebody else is not what matters. And I want to tell you, up front, that you are not going to know about anyone else unless you see yourself. Then, when you see your sin in them, you will not criticize and backbite them. Instead, you will pray for God to open their spiritual eyes, as He has opened yours so that you both can go on for God.
12--27-12
Man’s Three Fold Nature – His Will, Chapter 7-Authored by Rev. B. R. Hicks
The human heart is totally depraved because mankind accepted Lucifer's will and not God's Will in the Garden of Eden. Had even one tiny portion of the human heart remained untouched by sin. God could have cultivated it so that, in due season, man's heart could have brought forth righteous Fruit again, but this was impossible because the heart was totally depraved. Since the old carnal heart was completely contaminated by sin, in order to redeem it, God had no other recourse but to send His only Begotten Son to die on the Cross.
12-25-12
THE FATHER'S GLORY ON 4 MINDS OF WILL - 2nd Message
(Repeat Christmas Program, SUN AM 12/12/93), Sermon 1309
Talk about the wise men having one mind and one accord, there was no argument between them. One didn't say, "We should go out another way," and the other say, "Oh, come on, Herod is a good old boy. He wants to come and worship too. He said so." No! You see their unifier minds glued together like cement and out they went another way. I don't care where you go in the Christmas story, you see these principles of Truth I am talking to you about. So, beloved, one of my Christmas presents to you is this one: Let the Glory of the Father imprint and impress eternally upon your recognizer mind, your decider mind, your observer mind and your unifier mind, so that from this Christmas until the LORD comes, we will go forth with one mind and one accord.
(By the Glory of God, let the Brotherhood be united.)
12-20-12
RENEWED YOUTH, (SUN PM 8/19/2012), Sermon Study # 3132
Rev. B.R. Hicks
God has an appointed time for us. So can you see why we must take the route we take?
12-19-12
RENEWED YOUTH, (SUN PM 8/19/2012), Sermon Study # 3132-Rev. B.R. Hicks
God locked off our ninety percent because there would be no battle if we could access everything in the ninety percent and remember everything from keh-dem Eternity. I have never talked about predestination, but I do know about predestination. It refers to God’s Foreknowledge—His Predestination. There are different expressions for predestination, but foreknowledge and predestination are the same Hebrew word. Let us turn to Proverbs 8:22.
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way [deh-rek], before [That is keh-dem.] his works of old (Proverbs 8:22).
12-18-12
RENEWED YOUTH, (SUN PM 8/19/2012), Sermon Study # 3132-Rev. B.R. Hicks
This “yes” involves just ten percent of our conscious mind because ninety percent of our mind
is in the subconscious or unconscious level. Just think what ten percent is doing; it is overcoming ninety percent of our ignorance. God shut it off because He wants this ten percent rule refined one thousand percent. Then, when you get a new body, and you go to minister to others, you get the ninety percent unveiled so that you remember everything that went on from the beginning of your existence, back in keh-dem Eternity.
Here is how you prophesy. They will say, “I am going to take you down.” And you will answer, “You are not going to take me down because I am in the Blood of Jesus Christ. You are not going to take me down because I am in the Blood of the Father. You are not going to take me down because I am in the Holy Ghost Power. I am going to take you down, not right now; but “out yonder,” I will take you down. I am taking you down.” So what they are trying to do is to challenge you out of season. I do not have to fight them now; the Blood of Jesus, the Fire of the Holy Ghost, and the Water of His Name, Death, and Life are fighting them. And I am going to say, “Yes.” When I have grown a Full Stature of Jesus Christ, then I am going to be ready. I am going to go out of the New City inside a little Rock called the zoor Rock. I am going to be clothed with a new body of Infinity and Divinity; then, I can go out to minister to the people who made wrong choices when they were alive on this Earth.
12-17-12
RENEWED YOUTH, (SUN PM 8/19/2012), Sermon Study # 3132-Rev. B.R. Hicks
If you understand that your choice to run on for God will be tested, then the Devil cannot lie to
you. Sometimes you think, “What in the world have I done to get all this hell coming against me? What in the world did I do wrong?” You did not do anything wrong. You have been chosen as a soldier in the army of the LORD to go out of the New City and to go to those who have had a chance on Earth to choose for Jesus, but who have chosen against His Name. You will teach them all you have learned and experienced in the LORD.
12-12-12
RENEWED YOUTH, (SUN PM 8/19/2012), Sermon Study # 3132Rev. B.R. Hicks
God sends things, beloved, to try us and to test us and to prove us because God is not going to have anyone in the Bride or the 144,000 who is not totally, perfectly sold out to Him. God does not want anything out of us but a “yes.”