Christ Revealed in His Own Word #18

Some Will Depart From THE Faith

Sunday Morning, May 26, 1996

Brian Kocourek, Pastor Grace Fellowship

 

3  CHRIST REVEALED IN HIS OWN WORD  65-0822M   And we ask that You'll speak to us today through Thy written Word, and may the Spirit reveal to us the things that we have need of, as we have gathered nationwide now, feeling that we are a small people, but have a place among the redeemed, because we have believed on Jesus Christ. 4  Grant these things to us, Lord, and when we close the service and we go to our different homes across the nation, may we say like those from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He spoke to us along the road?" 5  Now, Father, I know that whatever I would say would be certainly insufficient. With the fine Christians throughout the nation now that's tuned in, it wouldn't be adequate. It would not be something that I could say that could do any good, because we're all in the same category. We're human, mortals, but let the great Holy Spirit speak; may He take ahold the Word and just reveal Himself. We're waiting on Him now, in Jesus' Name. Amen. (May be seated.)

 

For the past few weeks we have been looking at the importance of having a vindicated Word and what it means to us in contradistinction to a non-vindicated Word. 

 

[ 1 Peter 1: 23]LIVE BIRTH VS STILL BIRTH

 

We have examined the times and the conditions of the last day in which we are told in [2 Tim 4] that men will come to the place where they will not endure sound Doctrine anymore. And since the word doctrine means teaching, and the word sound means free of admixture, we find that men will not endure sound teaching, teaching which is pure to the Word, and if they will not endure sound teaching which is free of the admixture, then they most certainly will not endure the teachers who are teaching sound doctrine. So we find they will no longer put up with or endure, or even tolerate the sound teachers.  So then what sort of teachers  will they have? Men who are reprobate concerning the Faith.

 

Then what will they do is they will not endure sound teachers? We are also  told that they will heap to themselves teachers that will say what their itching ears want to hear. Let's read it for ourselves.

 

[ 2 Tim 4: 3-4] AMPLIFIED "For the time is coming when people will no longer tolerate sound and wholesome instruction, but having ears itching for something that is pleasing and gratifying, they will gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors they hold, And will turn aside from hearing the Truth and they shall wander off into myths and man-made fictions.  Fables = make - belief

 

And so we find then what these self proclaimed teachers are, in fact is a bunch of politicians who will not teach the Truth, but they will teach what the people want to hear. And so we find then that through these men, many will be led astray from the Truth and they will be turned unto man-made fictions. These men will turn the people away from what is real to that which is make-believe. Thus we actually see the prophetic utterance of God that tells us that their will arise ministries that are especially made ( ordained in life) for the purpose of alluring away from the Truth those who are only make believers themselves. Now this is important to understand, because we know that the Elect will not be deceived. But here we find certain men who are ordained to teach the make believers make belief. In other words, they will teach them how to play church. [ 2 Thes 2: 10 - 13 Wuest The people are gullible

 

In [ 1 Tim 4: 1-2 ] we read AMPLIFIED But  the Holy Spirit distinctly and expressly declares that in the latter times some will turn away from THE FAITH, by giving heed to deluding and seducing spirits and doctrines that demons teach.    And so we see that there must be a falling away, and this falling away we are told is from THE Faith.

 

And their is only One Faith...One Lord...according to [ Eph 4: 5 ] And since we were instructed by God's Vindicated Prophet that Faith is A Revelation, and since there is only one revelation spoken of in the Scripture and that Revelation is the Revelation of Jesus Christ according to [Galatians 1: 12, 1 Peter 1:13, 1 Rev1: 1] therefore we see that any other revelation besides the Revelation of Jesus Christ, (Who He is and what He's doing), is pure and simply a false precept of man. And so we see that the falling away will be from this Message.

 

In [ Luke 18: 8 ] Jesus asks the question, "When the Son of Man cometh, Shall He find Faith on the earth?" And that is what we are looking at this morning. Shall He find Faith? Shall He find Revelation? But what we see in the end time is a picture of men rising up who proclaim to be ministers of  The Faith but as we see them manifesting themselves, we find they are actually impostors.

 

And now this brings us to the next point. These men who are called impostors are actually ordained to their roles of condemnation. In [Jude] we read that these men crept in unaware. The NIV says for certain men who were of old ordained to this condemnation secretly slipped in among you.  In [ 2 Tim 3: 13 ] we read, But wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and leading astray others and being deceived and led astray themselves.

 

And finally we find that this group of make believers who have heaped to themselves teachers to tell them what their itching ears want to hear. We find this also in [ Hosea 4: 6 - 9] Like people like priests.

 

Now with this in mind, I want to show you the difference this morning between the make-believer and the foolish virgin.

 

27-4  THREE KINDS OF BELIEVERS  63-1124E   Now, the make-believer hangs around and acts just as pious as he can, but down in his heart he's trying to find what, ... see how you do it. Oh, if the country isn't full of that part of the hypocrite. That's a Judas. That's exactly. Hangs around, becomes part of the group, he was the treasurer. See? He stands around; he's always got his hand out for money. You can tell that one thing; he's always fishing for money, and got his hand out for this, and he is a make-believer. He acts like a believer, but down in his heart... You remember, he wasn't fooling Jesus.

 

  28-2  THREE KINDS OF BELIEVERS  63-1124E   There's that make-believer that's just waiting. He'll sing like that, "Oh, I believe this, and I believe this, and I believe this, but oh, you know I heard somebody say so-and-so times..." See? Just long with ears... A real believer don't hear nothing but the Word. That's all. He watches the Word. He ain't looking for no loopholes; he ain't looking for no gimmicks. He believes God, and that settles it, and he just keeps going on. See? There's the believer.  The unbeliever fills up in a minute, and he can't stay to listen to ten minutes to the message; he's got to get up and walk out. It's against his creed, and he just won't have no more to do with it, so he goes out. Then the make-believer hangs right on, that Judas. See? That's the deceiver. That's the--that's a rascal (if I have to say such a word). Judas, he hangs around.

 

  28-4  THREE KINDS OF BELIEVERS  63-1124E   This is the time... Sometime these make-believers are very popular with the people (That's right.), these make-believers. See? Some of them are mighty men, educated, doctor's degree, big pay, everything; some of them are great men, shrewd, just like sons of Satan would be. Look how Satan come right up there and agree with every bit of that Word. He's just waiting to find that weak spot in Eve to where he could show his power to deceive her, to betray her. That was--that was Satan, and here Satan is in a form of Judas in that age. That was Satan in the first age. What was he?  Agreeing with the Word till just one little thing... He was just trying to find a place where he could get a weakness, and that's exactly what the Judas finds right now. He'll come right along with the meeting, and watch right around until he can find that little spot that he... "Oh, there it is; that's it. (See?) Oh, that's the way it's done." See? That's just exactly.

 

[156  Ten Virgins 60-1211M]  Now, watch, they, both of them were virgins. Now, let me get this. Here, let's take these two right here. This is a virgin and this is a virgin. This was a foolish virgin and this was a wise virgin, but both of them are virgins.  Now, if you'll take that name "virgin" and run it down, it means--it means "holy, clean, sanctified." The word "sanctify" comes from the word "sainted," which means "clean." Like the Hebrew word... Now, that's a Greek word; "sanctify" means "clean."

 

 [ E-35  Sudden Secret Going Away of the Church  58-1012] How many of you, all perhaps, have read of the virgins? Some were wise and some were foolish. "Virgin" means "purity." They were all good people, everyone of them virgin, sanctified vessels of God. But those who had oil in their lamps went in. And the others was left out. They were all virgins, everyone people that you couldn't put your finger on for anything wrong. They everyone believed in the coming of the Lord. They were ready to go meet Him, but some of them let their oil go out. Don't let that be your case. Keep oil in your lamp.

 

Oil is the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. Never let it drain from you. When you feel your love dying away, your sincerity to Christ, and to the cause, quickly go to Him Who has the Fountain of Oil and buy for yourself a filling of the Holy Spirit.

 

Now how then do we go to Him and refill these lamps?  [ Psalm 119: 105] Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.  In fact we find brother Branham tell us the same thing in connection with his explaining this lamp the Wise Virgin had that was lit.  

 

[73  Conflict Between God and Satan 62-0531]  Fire is the confirmation of the Light coming from the Word. The smart virgin, the wise virgin, had oil in her lamp, and she trimmed her lamp and lit it. Now, what is it? Now, God is the Word; the Oil is the Spirit; and the Fire is the Gospel Light on that Oil. Amen. God said so. See? That's the vessel. All right. The Oil is in the vessel, and the Fire burning it, shows that it's reflecting the Light of what the Word said. See? That's the reflection. Now, that wise virgin could do that; but that other, foolish virgin, was on the outside, had no Oil. And they couldn't reflect nothing but just their church and their denomination. See? Now, "You say the Word... You said the Word was Spirit?" Yes, sir. God said, "My word is Spirit." That's right.  The true Bride must be unified by the Word. Now, remember, if she is a part of Christ, she has to be the Word of Christ. In order to be the Word of Christ, you have to be baptized into Christ. And when you're in Christ, you believe Christ and Christ is the Word.