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.