When you gave your life to Him
Did you give your mind and heart,
In more than absolute surrender
Did you die, and self depart.
“The Lord has shown Me”
Or “My opinion differs slightly”
The Word is unconditional
Not to be taken lightly.
Every cell and every thought
By death was totally infected.
And while in sin you thought you lived
With Jesus Christ rejected.
It’s not logical to think your thoughts
When there’s a Higher Way.
Time has shown your thoughts will fail
With too high a price to pay.
Gods the boss, He wrote the rules,
With His mind, we’ll want to follow.
So when you think your thoughts
You’d do well your pride to swallow.
You know, sometimes when God does things, He does it in such a funny way, an odd way, peculiar way to the people of this world, it seems foolish to the carnal mind. How that God does things so simple, it just confuses the carnal mind.
For instance, the virgin birth, and many things that's yet got the carnal mind all broke up. They don't know what to think about it. But God does it.
Just like when John the Baptist came. Why, the Scripture said, when the inauguration of Jesus down there, at the river that day, that "All the high places would be made low and the low places brought high. And the leaves all clapped their hands, and the mountains skipped like little lambs." Just think of it. And what was it? An old woodsman type of a preacher, with the beard out over his face, like a fuzzy worm, and a big piece of sheepskin wrapped around him, standing on the muddy banks of Jordan, preaching repentance. Amen. (No fine, dressed lace, silks, and satins and whatever it was.)
For instance, the virgin birth, and many things that's yet got the carnal mind all broke up. They don't know what to think about it. But God does it.
Just like when John the Baptist came. Why, the Scripture said, when the inauguration of Jesus down there, at the river that day, that "All the high places would be made low and the low places brought high. And the leaves all clapped their hands, and the mountains skipped like little lambs." Just think of it. And what was it? An old woodsman type of a preacher, with the beard out over his face, like a fuzzy worm, and a big piece of sheepskin wrapped around him, standing on the muddy banks of Jordan, preaching repentance. Amen. (No fine, dressed lace, silks, and satins and whatever it was.)
And there's where God spoke from the heaven, and he saw the Spirit of God coming like a dove, falling upon a Man Who'd been born in a manger. See, what the world call great, God calls foolish. And what the world calls foolish, God calls great. That's right. So don't mind to be called foolish.
'Cause remember. You can't have the mind of Christ and the mind of the world at the same time. You can't be in your way and God's way at the same time. You have to get out of your own way to let God have His way. That's the only way you're ever going to do anything. You got to get away from your own thoughts, your own reasons. Don't try to reason; just believe.
William Branham, Witnesses 54-03-03
'Cause remember. You can't have the mind of Christ and the mind of the world at the same time. You can't be in your way and God's way at the same time. You have to get out of your own way to let God have His way. That's the only way you're ever going to do anything. You got to get away from your own thoughts, your own reasons. Don't try to reason; just believe.
William Branham, Witnesses 54-03-03
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