Christ Revealed in His Own Word #46
The
Dumbing Down of America #2
Sunday Morning, September 22, 1996
Brian Kocourek, Pastor Grace Fellowship
Wednesday night we read from
paragraphs [40-44] where brother
Branham spoke on the need for an absolute, and we in turn examined this from
the perspective of what it means to not have an absolute. we saw that the lack
of an absolute leads to only one thing and that is chaos. We began to see how
the lack of having an absolute has affected this country in which we live. This
morning I would like to continue on this subject and take our thoughts once
again from paragraphs [41-40]and we
will begin by reading from..
[41]
Notice. Now, we come back; we've got to have something another that we have to
hold on to. Something has to be a tie post; in other words, it's an ultimate. And everyone must have an ultimate or an
absolute. I preached on it one time years ago, on a absolute, a place that's the last word. Like the
umpire at a ball game, if he says it's a strike, that's just exactly what it
is. No matter how you seen it, the umpire said it's a strike. You said, "I, It wasn't a strike. It
went... I seen the..." It don't matter what it is, when he said,
"Strike," that's it, and that's settled, just what... He's the
ultimate. And the traffic light is an
ultimate. If it says, "Go," I... You say, "Well, I--I'm in a
hurry, I got..." No, no, it says, "You stand still while the other
fellow goes." See? It's the ultimate.
[ 44] Now, there's
got to be an ultimate to everything you do. There had to be an ultimate when
you chose your wife. There had to be a woman you had to select. Now, there has to be a time where when
you're go to buy a car, what kind of an ultimate you're going to make. Will it
be Ford, Chevy, Plymouth, foreign car, whatever
it is, you got to have an ultimate. And
so is it with Christian living; there's got to be an ultimate.
Now we find that brother Branham is telling us here that it is vital that we have an absolute. As I said, Wednesday night, I believe that the lack of an absolute is why there is so much chaos in this country today, because that’s exactly what happens when you don’t have an absolute, chaos results. The Legislative branch of our government was formed to make the laws and the judicial branch was created to police those laws, and administrate those laws. But what has happened is that everybody wants to play lawmaker and in the Judicial branch we have seen the courts and other judicial branches of government have decided that they can make up their own rules and break the existing rules as they please. The BATF and the FBI and the CIA and other law enforcement agencies including the IRS have run amuck with making up their own laws or changing existing laws without proper legislative accord which must come from those who were elected to represent the people. And we have seen the Judicial courts, the Supreme court come to the place where they have decided that they are the interpreters of those laws and by doing so they have changed the meaning of those laws. Instead of the Rights to Life they have assented to the rights to murder innocent unborn children.
Since we looked at this subject of having an absolute in terms of what has happened to this country as a result of not having an absolute, I would now like to continue with this thought. And since we took our thoughts to the point of what the education in this country has become without having an absolute to guide it, I think it would be a good idea to expand on this thought today. Therefore this morning I want to examine the thought of this absolute that brother Branham is talking about and why it is so necessary to teach our children and train our children about the need for this absolute in their lives as well.
[Deut 6: 4-9] KJV {7}NIV
Impress them on your children. Talk of them when you sit in your home and when
you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. {7} Amplified
And these words which I am commanding
you this day shall be first in your mind heart; then you shall whet and sharpen
them, so to make them penetrate, and teach and impress them diligently upon the
minds and hearts of your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your
house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up.” And so we see that to do so they were to place pictures and
Scriptures and all sorts of things that the children will actually see with
their eyes and when they see with their eyes it will have an influence in their
minds and in their hearts.
You’ll notice here that God
wants us to train up our children in the way that they should go. Why? Because
when they get older, they will not depart from what they have been taught. [Proverbs 22:6]
We must give our children
the same tools to work with that have been given to us by God. You know, we
American are about the laziest people on earth. We want others to do everything
for us when we can do for ourselves a much better job if we only put our minds
to it. We are so careful to dress our children’s bodies for school but we fail
to dress their minds and souls as well. How many of you would let a complete
stranger have access to your child’s body?
You don’t send your children to school without dressing their bodies first
do you? How many in here would send their child off to school without being
dressed first? I don’t believe any of you would do such as that. How many of
you would allow a complete stranger to dress your children? You wouldn’t feel
comfortable doing that would you? Then why do we allow complete strangers to
dress our children’s minds and souls?
But that is what is
happening in this nation. The people are sending their children to complete
strangers who are dressing their little minds with what ever sort of mental
clothing they wish and we sit so ideally bye without even a second thought
about what is taking place. The Mind and Soul is a very precious thing and yet
we are so lax when it comes to knowing what is being pumped into the little
minds of our young ones. we are so careful about their bodies, but what have we
done for their minds and souls. Jesus
said, “Don’t fear him that can destroy
the body, but that which can destroy the soul!”
If some teacher were to
touch your child in a wrong manner, we would cry rape, and yet what about the
raping of the American Soul. God has
given us a clothing that we must wear on the inside, or in our Spirit and Soul,
which will equip us and keep our children from becoming spiritually and
mentally raped. He gave them
[Ephesians 6: 10 - 17] First He has girded the loins of our mind
with Truth and He has given us a breast plate of Right-Wise-ness to protect
their little hearts (understanding) from the lies of Satan. Next He has given
us The Shield of Faith to keep them from being stung by the devils lies, and
The Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God to help them defend their
little minds. And the helmet of
Salvation to encircle and protect their minds,
and their feet should be shod with the Preparation of the Gospel. We
would never think to send our children to school without shoes for their feet,
but what about sending them without being shod with the preparation of the
Gospel. we would never send them out without their loins being covered and
protected, yet we send them out without the loins of their mind protected?
I was totally shocked a few
years ago when a young woman who had been supposedly raised in this Message and
her father was a Deacon confessed that she had never learned anything
pertaining to this Message from her parents. She said everything she knew she
heard in church. Shame on those parents.
No wonder this nation is in such moral decay. Brother Branham said it
isn’t juvenile delinquency, but parent delinquency.
Now let me tell you a true
story about a little girl who was on her way home from school one day when she
was approached by a man. I want you to notice how she was able to come out
victorious in this situation. And I hope you will see by this story just how
you should, and why you need to, give your children the proper training at
home. A little girl, being asked by a priest to attend his religious
instruction, refused, saying it was against her father’s wishes. The Priest
said she should obey him, not her father. ‘Oh, sir, we are
taught in the Bible, “Honor thy father
and thy mother.’” “You have no business to read the Bible,” said the priest. “But
sir, our savior said, ‘search the
scriptures’” [John 5:39] “That was only to the Jews, and not to
children, and you don’t understand it.” said the priest in reply. “But sir, Paul said to Timothy, ‘From
a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures,’” [2 Timothy 3:15]. “Oh,”
said the priest, “Timothy was being
trained to be a bishop, and taught by the authorities of the Church.” “Oh, no, sir,” said the child, “he was taught by his mother and grandmother.”
On this the priest turned away, saying she “knew
enough of the Bible to poison a parish.”
[Ezekiel 44:23-24]
[Exodus
20:3] and [John 1:1] read &
Prayer
What does it mean
“I
am the Lord thy God and thou shalt have no other gods.” What does it
mean to have no other? What is God trying to get across to the people
by saying no other. He is letting us know that He is it. He stands alone
and there is none that compare. There is none worthy of our worship, for the
word God means an object of worship. And He is telling us there can be no other. In
other words, He is the Ultimate, He is our Absolute and there can be no other
absolute. And yet we find according to [John
1:1] that God is the Word. As a man thinketh in His heart so is he and
out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh and the Word of
God then is God to us. The Word of God declares Who He is and therefore is Who
He is. And so we find then that God’s Word is our God and no other God or no
other Word shall be received as True worship. Jesus Himself said, “God
is Spirit, and they that Worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and In Truth.”
And so without Truth, you can not worship God. And what Is Truth? In [John 17:17] Jesus was praying to God,
His Father, and said, “Sanctify them through Thy Truth, for Thy
Word is Truth.” His Word then
is our absolute and our ultimate, and this is what we shall be hearing brother
Branham bring to us as we read the next few paragraphs.
Our educational system in
this country has run aground because we are so Laodicean in our approach as a
nation. You say, what do you mean by that? What I mean is because we are rich
and increased with goods we think that money is the answer to al our problems.
If we have a social problem, what do we do? We throw money at the problem. Why?
because we are so lazy as a nation. The average child receives over $400
dollars in back to school clothes and -0- time dressing their minds with Truth,
and Right-wise-ness to protect it from the liberal lies. [Deuteronomy 4: 8 - 10] [Matt 5:19][Psalm 86:11, 90:12, 143:10]
[Isaiah 28:9]
That’s why our
educational system has run amuck, it’s because the teachers unions control what
is being taught and they have no True absolute, and so the teachers push the agenda’s
of the Liberal Unions and this has created chaos in American society. Children
today are graduating from the public schools who can not even read. This nation
spends more per student than any other nation in the world yet we are the last
in value of education per dollar spend, even behind the lowest third world
countries. And if you get a good
teacher who tries to teach the children to learn, they will be ostracized by
the other faculty members and the union will not support them because they are not
following the unions manifest.
In fact I heard
the other day a recital of the National Federation of Teachers manifesto for
1995 and 1996 in which the gay agenda is being pushed forward as an acceptable
lifestyle in the schools. The California teachers union put out a calendar of
events for this year and it listed among the events, “Coming out week” and “National
aids awareness week,” and some Hindu
holiday, but it skipped Thanks Giving and Christmas.
This shows who is in charge of the schools. Satan himself has become incarnate
in the people and has taken over the minds of the people just as God’s Presence
has become incarnate in His Prophet in this hour and is taking over the minds
of His People, His Elect.[Psalm 111:10,
Prov 1:7, 9:10]
Now we all know
this is the effects of a Godless society. But did you know that the Catholic
church through the Society of Jesus (the Order of the Jesuits) has been
planning the take over of the minds of this nation for well over a 100 years or
more? I have 7 books in my possession
that deal specifically with this subject and only one of them has been written
in the past few years and that by a devout Catholic Malachi Martin. The other
books are very old and in fact 3 of them were written around the turn of the
century.
Pope Pius IX said in his Encyclical 45 “The
Roman church has a right to interfere in the discipline of the public schools,
and in the arrangements of the studies of the public schools, and in the choice
of teachers for these schools.” Pope Pius IX Encyclical - 47: “Education outside control of the Roman
Catholic Church is a dangerous heresy... Public schools open to all children
for the education of the young should be under the control of the Roman
Catholic Church and should not be subject to the civil power, nor made to
conform with the opinions of the age.”
Quote from Catholic Priest in The Boston Advertiser: “Catholics would not be satisfied with the
public schools even if the Protestant Bible and every vestige of religious
teaching were banished from them -”
But the Catholic
church has been trying to get government funding for their own schools since
the mid 1800’s and they will stop at nothing to get our tax dollars into their
coffers. here is a sample of how they used the media back then to push for what
tax funding of Catholic schools.
The New World (The official paper of the Archdiocese of
Chicago, February 6, 1904: Every
school that does the work of education in a way to satisfy the requirements of
the state in all the secular branches of instruction is entitled to state
support, no matter what religious denomination the school managers may belong.
...In all justice, then, to religious schools, if they give the same amount of
secular instruction as the others, then they are entitled to the same support
for the secular instruction they give. Why not? Can any man except the
unreasoning bigot see why they should not be treated alike? If, in addition to
the secular instruction required by the state, the religious schools also teach
religion because the parents want it, the state can have no objection. Because
it will not be paying for the religious instruction, only the secular
instruction. ... Let us take our stand on this platform, “The same pay for the
same work.” That seems to offer tot he people of the United States the fairest
solution of the school question.
Back around 1900’ Cardinal McClosky said: “We
must take part in elections. Move in solid mass in every state against the
party pledged to sustain the integrity of the public schools.”
President Garfield in His Acceptance letter, July 12, 1880: “Next
in importance to freedom and justice, is popular education, without which
neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. It would be unjust
to our people and dangerous to our institutions, to apply any portion of the
revenue of the nation, or of the State,
to the support of sectarian schools. The separation of the Church and the
State, in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.”
General Grant Des Moisnes, 1876: “Encourage free schools and resolve that not
one dollar appropriated to them shall be applied tot he support of any
sectarian school. ‘
Now, what I am
trying to get across to us this morning is this, The Catholic church has been
trying to destroy the Public schools in America for well over 100 years and
they have finally prevailed. The Reverend Jeremiah Crowley Ex-Priest from
Cincinnati, said in his book, Romanism
A menace to the Nation written in 1912, the following:
I assert that it is the set purpose of the great majority of
Roman Catholic Hierarchy in America to destroy, root and branch, the present
system of America public schools. I believe the Catholic scheme to destroy the
American Public schools has these among other phases:
1.) The bringing of the public school into contempt by
characterizing it as godless, vicious, and a sink of corruption.
2.) The securing of the Catholic Parochial school the largest
possible share of the public school tax funds.
3.) The encouraging of other sets to start sectarian schools
and to demand public moneys in payment for the secular education of the
children.
4.) The securing of a Catholic majority on public school boards
and on the teaching staff of the public schools in the hope of being able
thereby to lower the tone of instruction and discipline in the public schools
and thus bring public schools into disfavor.
5.) securing the employment of nuns and monks as public school
teachers.
6.) The prevention of normal school training of public school
teachers.
By these and other means Catholic ecclesiastics hope to
destroy the public school system, and to make the parochial school supreme. I
have had many conversations with members of the American Catholic Hierarchy
during the past eighteen years about the public and parochial schools in
America. The ecclesiastical champions of the latter have stated that the
insistent demand of the Catholic Hierarchy for a division of the public school
money would eventually be granted; and that the American people would grow weary
of the school contention and to escape it would adopt the Catholic view; that
then every effort would be made to secure the largest grants of public money;
that the other sects would, out of envy, demand similar grants for their
various schools, and they would be encouraged by the Catholic dignitaries to
press their claim; that the consequence would be the disruption of the public
school system by the competition and antagonism of such sectarian bodies; and
that the ultimate result would be the supremacy of the Catholic Church in
secular teaching by virtue of her strong organization and great resources
through her various teaching orders.
Abraham Lincoln 1864:
“The common people see and hear
the big noisy wheels of Southern Confederacy’s cars, they call the Jeff Davis,
Lee, Toombs, Beauregard, Semmes, etc., and they honestly think that they are
the motive power, the first cause of our troubles. But it is a mistake. The
True motive power is secreted behind thick walls of the Vatican, the colleges
and schools of the Jesuits, the convents of the nuns and confessional boxes of
Rome. There is a fact which is too much ignored by the American people, and
with which I am acquainted only since I became President; it is that the best,
the leading families of the South, have received their education in great part,
if not in the whole, from Jesuits, and the nuns. Hence those degrading
principles of slavery, pride, cruelty, which are as a second nature among so
many of those people. Hence that strange want of fair play, humanity; that
implacable hatred against ideas of equality and liberty, as we find them in the
Gospel of Christ. You do not ignore that the first settlers of Louisiana,
Florida, New Mexico, Texas, South Carolina and Missouri were Roman Catholics,
and that their first teachers were Jesuits. It is true that those states have
been conquered or bought by us since. But Rome has put the deadly virus of her
anti-society and anti-Christian maxims into
the veins of the people before they became American citizens.
Unfortunately the Jesuits and the nuns have in great part remained the teachers
of those people since. They have continued, in a silent, but most efficacious
way, to spread their hatred against our institutions, our laws, our schools,
our rights and our liberties, in such a way, that this terrible conflict became
unavoidable, between the North and the South. As I told you before, it is
Popery that we owe this terrible civil war. I would have laughed at the man who
would have told me that before I became President. But Professor Morse has
opened my eyes on that subject. And, now, I have seen that mystery; I
understand that engineering of hell which, though not seen, nor even suspected
by the country, is putting in motion the large, heavy and noisy wheels of the
state cars of the Southern Confederacy. Our people are not yet ready to learn
and believe those things, and perhaps it is not the proper time to initiate
them to those dark mysteries of hell; it would throw oil on a fire which is
already sufficiently destructive. You are almost the only one with whom I speak
freely on that subject. But Sooner or later, the nation will know the real
origin of those rivers of blood and tears, which are spreading desolation and
death everywhere. And then, those who have caused those desolation’s and
disasters will be called to give an account of them. I do not pretend to be a
prophet. But I see a very dark cloud on our horizon. And that dark cloud is
coming from Rome. It is filled with tears of blood. It will rise and increase,
till its flanks will be torn by a flash of lightning, followed by a fearful
peal of thunder. Then a cyclone such as the world has never seen, will pass
over this country, spreading ruin and desolation from north to South. After it
is over, there will be long days of peace and prosperity: for Popery, with its
Jesuits and merciless Inquisitions, will have been for ever swept away from our
country. neither I nor you, but our children will see those things.”
Cardinal Martinelli Papal delegate to America 1902: “we
know that there are many immortal priests and bishops, but still the laity have
no right to interfere with the clergy; if the laity understand they have any
rights, they will do in America as they once did in France during the
Revolution, they will murder the clergy. In this independent country it would
not be wise to let the laity understand they have any right to interfere in
church matters: and one of the principal things we have against you, Father
Crowley, is that you are enlightening the Catholic laity of this country as to
their rights; the laity have no rights to expose their clergy, no matter how
immoral they may be; the laity must be ignored; they must be crushed!”
Remember, the title of this Message is “Christ Revealed in HIS Own Word.” Now that is an absolute. If Christ is Revealed in HIS OWN Word, then the Word of Christ is the only way in which He is or will be Revealed. So then if we are to get to know Christ, if He is to become revealed to us, it must come only one way and that is through His Own Word. So then His Word is the Absolute or ultimate if we are to get to know Him.