Benefits of the Son of God
no. 22
Keeps us from blaspheming God
Rev. Brian Kocourek
The twenty Second promise
of God to us concerning His Son is that the Revelation of One God and His Son
make it impossible for you to blaspheme God.
John 10: 36 Say ye of him, whom the
Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest;
because I said, I am the Son of God?
Notice that the religious in His day thought that
Jesus was guilty of blasphemy because he said he was the son of God. What is
blasphemy any way, and why did they charge Jesus with it? That is what we will
be studying tonight.
The word blaspheme means to 1. To speak of (God or a
sacred entity) in an irreverent, impious manner. and comes from two Greek words
the first being blapto meaning to injure or to do
harm, and the second word pheme meaning fame, or the
words by which you describe someone or something. Thus placed together it is to
do injury or harm to one by words.
Now, Jesus never said that all
blaspheming is unpardonable, but only blaspheming of the Holy Ghost. Matthew 12: 31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner
of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the
Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
In fact Paul told us that many of us were
guilty of blasphemy at one time or other. Colossians
3: 8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice,
blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. And we know that Jesus said “out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaketh, and the Scriptures also teach, “as a man thinketh in
his heart so is he.” Therefore, before we continue with this study, I want you
to be assured of one thing, “If you are seed of God you could never blaspheme
the spirit of God, or the things of God. It is impossible for you to blaspheme
the Holy Spirit if you are seed of God.
Brother Branham
said in the sermon, Why cry speak 63-0714M P:54 A man picked up
that picture of The Angel of The Lord the other day, a Baptist minister, and
laughed at it. See? That's blasphemy.
See? There's no forgiveness for that. That’s what Jesus said. It's blasphemy
when you see it doing the very works that Christ did, and He said when they
seen that works in Christ. He was the Sacrifice, and they called Him Beelzebub,
a devil, 'cause he was doing it. And now He said, "I forgive you for that,
but when the Holy Ghost comes to do the same thing, you speak a word against It, it'll never be forgiven you in this world or the world
to come." See? Just one word's all you have to say against It. See? Because if that Life... If you've been
ordained to Eternal Life, then that Life would burst forth when you seen It.
You'd recognize, just like the little woman at the well and the different ones;
but if it's not there, it can't come to Life, for there's nothing there to come
to Life with.
So you see, although you
may have blasphemed someone or something, if you are elect seed of God there is
no way you could ever find it in your heart to speak against the Holy
Ghost. In fact It
is impossible for elect Seed to blaspheme God. Other wise the Apostle Paul
would have been guilty of blaspheming the Holy Ghost because that is who he was
found fighting against. But as soon as the Holy Ghost Appeared to him in the Pillar
of Fire, he reverently asked, “who art thou Lord?”
Now to blaspheme is to
cause injury or harm by means of your words. And brother Branham ties this into
the crucifixion of the word afresh with Hebrews 6.
Questions and answers COD
64-0830M P:162 There's nobody can say a word against them fine
religious people; they're just as nice as they can be. Church of God, Nazarene,
Free Methodist, those people are real, but when it comes down to the works of
the Spirit, they say, "Oh, oh, that's the devil." And what'd they do
there? Blaspheme the Holy Ghost. When they do that...Now, what is blasphemy? There's no forgiveness. Is that right? He that once enlightened, made partakers, and tasted of the heavenly
gifts (-tasted of God's sanctification: cleaned up from cigarettes, and
filthy women, and all kinds of life like that)--and
tasted of the heavenly things (to see that they'll walk up to that borderline
like those spies did that eat part of the grapes... See? But what do they have
to do? They had to break up their denomination to come over into this.
See? Tasted
of the heavenly gifts; seeing that they crucify to themselves the Son of God
afresh, and count the Blood of the covenant wherewith they were sanctified an
unholy thing.
Indictment the 63-0707M P:140 And again I say: "Here," the churches,
"They," the teachers, "Crucify," by blaspheming,
"Him," the Word. God be merciful. Let me say that again; it might been
mixed up on the tape. "Here," the churches, "They," the
clergy, "Crucify," by blasphemy, "Him," the Word. No wonder
it's again, Mid rendering rocks and darkening skies My Saviour
bowed His head and died, But the opening veil revealed the way To heaven's joys
and endless day. I say it on this tape and for this audience; I say this under
the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, "Who's on the Lord's side? Let him come
under this Word." God will surely bring this wicked, Christ-denying,
Christ-rejecting generation into judgment for blasphemy, the crucifixion of His identified Word. You're coming to
the judgment. I indict it. "Who's on the Lord's side?" said Moses,
"Let him come unto me," when
the Pillar of Fire hanging there as an evidence. Who's on the Lord's side?
Let him take up the Word, deny his creed, and follow Jesus Christ daily. And
I'll meet you in the morning.
Indictment the 63-0707M P:62 They call for a revival everywhere. How you going
to have a revival when the Word Itself can't work through the people? I'd like
for somebody to answer that for me. How can it do, when you deny the very revival itself? Well did the prophet speak
of them, "forms of godliness." Their own forms back there denied the
Word of Life. Their own forms today deny the thing that can bring them a
revival. Their creeds and forms... Yes, sir. They take the denomination and their creeds instead of the--the Word,
and that crucifies His Word and makes His Word of no effect to the people.
When they see the Word of God so vividly in--It just place Itself, that God
made the promise He would do this, and here He is doing it, and they make fun
of It and get away from It, it's blasphemy. And they try to crucify the Word
Itself. Why do they crucify It? They
can't crucify the Word no more than they could crucify God. They could crucify
the body that held God, the Son of God; they could crucify that, but they can't
crucify God. He had to be that time, on account of being the Sacrifice to
bring in many sons that's predestinated to Eternal Life. They had to do it
then, but they can't do it now. They can't do it, for the Word Itself will live
on. But they...
I CORINTHIANS 2:7 But we speak the
wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden [wisdom], which God ordained before
the world unto our glory: 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for
had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
So we see then the
result is not only rejection, but as a result crucifixion.
JEREMIAH 17:7 Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the
waters, and [that] spreadeth out her roots by the
river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and
shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding
fruit. 9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked:
who can know it? 10 I the LORD
search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to give every man according to his
ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings.
Therefore we see that man is above all things a
fallen creation, and unless He was ordained from the beginning to be filled
with God-Life, he will go the other way into wickedness and hatred for God.
God knew that man would
despise and reject His Only Begotten Son. And therefore we must ask ourselves
why? Long before He came to earth to manifest the Father to us, it was
prophesied that God’s Only Begotten Son would be despised and rejected. You
would think that mankind would love and esteem their creator so much that they
would long to see and talk to the Lord of Glory, and yet the opposite is true.
The churches are full of people today
who talk about how they want to meet Him and how they will one day openly and
lovingly greet Him, and yet their words are shallow and filled with deception
in their own hearts.
He came with Grace
abounding from His lips, and mercy for the needy, and poor, and his actions
were ones, which helped the lame and halt, and withered. You would think one
who comes with healing in His wings would be openly accepted and respected, but
the opposite is true. They despised Him and Rejected Him. The fact is, that it
was not the Son of God they despised but the Holy One Himself. The King of Glory. We do not hear of rejection in the lad Jesus.
As a young man, we do not read of resentment and despite, nor do we hear of the
lad Jesus being rejected. Nowhere in Scripture is any evide3nce given that the
lad Jesus was despised and rejected of men. Then when did the rejection begin?
That is the answer we will begin to look into today.
I believe the despising
and rejection came when God began to manifest Himself in His Son after He
entered Him at the river
JOHN 1:1 ¶ In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was
made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 ¶ And the light shineth
in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not…. 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt
among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father,) full of grace and truth.
JOHN 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the
world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned:
but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in
the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that
light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because
their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his
deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth
cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought
in God.
Notice that the
condemnation is that they reject the light when it comes. Not so much the man,
but the Light that the man carries in His bosom. And then they turn their anger
toward the man, and run his persona into the ground. Therefore, we can see by
the example of Jesus that when the Word enters into the ordained vessel, other men
will begin to despise that vessel.
PSALMS 14:1 ¶ The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no
God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that
doeth good. 2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see
if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God. 3 They are all gone
aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there is] none that doeth good,
no, not one. 4 ¶ Have all the workers of iniquity no
knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the
LORD.
ROMANS 8:7 Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not
subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
He was not despised for
His actions. He was despised for what he said. The doctrine that His Father
Gave Him to speak.
JOHN 10:24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long
dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. (Look,
they really did not want to know, for had they really wanted to know, Jesus
would not have answered them the way he did.) 25 Jesus
answered them, I told you, and ye
believed not (He said, Look, I’ve already told you but you are
not believers, so how can you believe me when I tell you the Truth. Then
notice, he says, I don’t expect you to believe me based on my doctrine, but God
has stood behind my doctrine and has vindicated me.)
the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. 26 But ye believe not, because ye are not
of my sheep, as I said unto you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them,
and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never
perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand. 29My Father, which
gave [them] me, is greater than all; and no [man] is able to pluck [them] out
of my Father's hand. 30 I and [my]
Father are one. 31Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I
shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33 The
Jews answered him, saying, For a good
work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. (Now,
look, it all boils down to their preconceived theology. These people were
Oneness, and did not understand what Jesus was telling them. When He said, I
and my Father are One they, like the Oneness today, misunderstood what he was
saying. And they wanted to kill him for it. Oh, today they might not physically
kill, but in words and deeds they will try to destroy your influence. And they
would kill today if the laws did not prevent them from doing so. Now, notice
how they did not understand what Jesus meant when he said “I and my Father are
One”.
Jesus goes on to explain
that to them in verse 34.) 34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in
your law, I said, Ye are gods? 35 If
he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot
be broken; 36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the
world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son
of God? (Notice, He never claimed to be God , but the Son of God.
But because they were so indoctrinated into this Oneness teaching they could
not understand what He was telling them.) 37 If I do
not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38 But if I do, though ye believe
not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father [is] in me, and I in him. (Notice he
tells them, Look, I and My Father are One because the Father is in Me. That is
how I can do these works. Because My Father is dwelling in me. That is what
makes us One. As the Father worketh, so the
Son worketh Hitherto.)39
¶ Therefore they sought again to take
him: but he escaped out of their hand, 40 And went away again beyond
ANOINTED ONES PP. 195 Notice!
Come up to the borderline and quit.
ANOINTED ONES PP. 198 Going to their home, and when they come up to the
place to cross over, they doubted the Word!........What happened? They perished in the wilderness. They stayed right there
and organized themselves, and died,
every one of them,..
ANOINTED ONES PP. 214 "Where
the carcass is there will the eagles be gathered...... Where the fresh meat is,
the Word of the Season, there the eagles will gather." But after it's rottened then the vultures will swarm to it. See? See what
I mean? When a kill 's made here comes the eagles, but after it lays there and
rotten, then here come the vultures. The
eagles won't have nothing to do with it. Jesus said, "Where the
carcass is, where the manna fell, the
night the manna falls fresh, there the eagles will gather for it."
That's the manna for the day. See?
ANOINTED ONES PP. 215 Notice!
But after it gets rotten, maggots get in it, then here comes the vultures. They can't smell it till it gets rotten.
ANOINTED ONES PP. 219 Said,” I AM sent me." I AM, not I was, or will
be, I AM, present tense, the Word now.
Not the Word that was or Word that will come, the Word that's now.
ANOINTED ONES PP. 233 "For it is impossible for those which were
once enlightened and didn't move on with
the Word as it come to pass... They're dead, gone. Now, what scripture is he quoting? ___.
C.O.D.
PG 658 "If you have been enlightened and then turn away from your
enlightenment, it is impossible for that person to ever regain his place again. See? "
C.O.D.
PG. 510 There remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, because he took the
very blood that sanctified him and brought him this far, to the knowledge of
the truth, and counted it under his feet, after God has led him step by step up
here to the Holy Ghost.
HEBREWS CHPTR 5/6, PG. 193 Friends, let us go on to perfection. We're without
excuse today. We have no excuse at all.
The very God of Heaven has Appeared in these last day and is doing the very
same things that He did then, when He was here before, when he was on
earth. He's proved...The things that He done when He was here on earth,
manifest in the flesh, and the very same
things are taking place today, right here among us. Here's the Word to
vindicate it. Here's the thing to say it's right, to make it right. Here's the Spirit of God to do the same
thing, so we're without excuse.
HEBREWS CHPTR 7, PG. 342 If
you deliberately see the Holy Spirit do the things that it did right here this
morning, and see that
Christ is risen from the dead (and he's living in His church and Among His
people, and you willfully turn it down,
it's impossible for you to ever come to
God, 'cause you've blasphemed the Holy ghost.
Q & A ON THE HOLY GHOST PG. 46 The
Tabernacle, right now, stands at Kadesh-Barnea.....
ANOINTED ONES PG. 54 "For it is impossible for those which
were once enlightened and didn't move on with the Word as it come to
pass...They're dead, gone."
DOING GOD A SERVICE PP. 145 They're
trying to eat old manna that fell back fifty years ago, the Pentecostal church.
The holiness church is trying to-over two hundred years ago, the Lutherans
about three hundred or more years ago, many hundreds of years ago. They're
trying to eat old manna. Oh, brother, that stuff is stagnated. It's
contaminated. It's got wiggle tails in it, maggots. It'll kill you to eat it.
COUNTDOWN PP. 37-38 But
God in the spiritual achievement is
going forward, not going backward. He's going forward, looking into the Word
and believing the promises for the things that never has come yet, for the
spiritual revelations to manifest the spiritual things that God has promised.
He says them come to pass. Just as the scientist in his laboratory are working
on different things to help man take in creation; the spiritual man is looking
forward to something that God promised that has never yet been created. The natural man looks backward. The
spiritual man looks forward. That's the way that they got that in the
church. The natural church member looks back to what Finney, Sankey, know, Calvin...That was all right. But that was
their day. We're looking forward for something else. A promise that's greater
and higher and what God has promised. Science goes back to pick it up. We go
forward in the Word of the Lord to find what God has achieved.
ANOINTED ONES PP. 234 Teaching a historical God, (See)? Just like
they're trying to live in the past.
Like, "well, Wesley said so-and-so; so-and-so said so-and-so." You're
refusing the promised Word of the day, the manna that's clearly identified of
the day. They try to put their old Lutheran, Baptist, Pentecostal wines in our
new bottles. It won't work. And our new
wine in their old bottles won't work. If they try to put this new wine in
the denomination, their folly is made manifest. They can't do it; it blows her
up.
IDENTIFIED CHRIST OF ALL AGES 64-0401 Man is always praising God for what He done, always looking
forward for what He will do, and ignoring what He is doing.
THE WORLD FALLING APART 63-0412 And that's the way we do--Martin Luther, John
Wesley, other men. We're always looking back, see. See those things? And you
make a tradition of their life--garnish the tombs of them. And their message is
for another day. By the time you wake up, why that day's done lived by, and
we're in another day. The whole system's worked that way since the beginning.
Man made systems, certainly.