Christ Revealed in His Own Word #51
The
Complete Revelation of Jesus Christ
Sunday, October
13, 1996
Brian Kocourek,
Pastor Grace Fellowship
This morning I
would like to again review a couple of
things that brother Branham said in paragraphs 52 through 54. since
there are so many thoughts that were expressed in these 4 paragraphs, I would
like to just focus on one of them for now.
In paragraph [52] he said, The Bible is the complete revelation of
Jesus Christ. (period)
Now what does the
word revelation mean? Webster says the
word revelation is: A revealing or disclosing of something. In
pertaining the God, it is god’s disclosure or manifestation of to man of Himself and His will. And the word disclosure means: to
make known. So if we read Brother Branham’s statement with our
understanding of the word revelation, we read it as this, “The Bible is the complete making
know of Jesus Christ.” Now I
think we all know what is meant by the word complete. In other words, it is the all of it. There is no
more to be added, and there is nothing that can be taken away from. If you do
add to it or take from it, you will be
changing the understanding of the disclosure, or the making known. The
Revelation will be changed.
That is why we
are warned in the book of genesis and again in Galatians and finally in the
Book of Revelations to leave it the way it was written.
[Rev 22: 18-19] you’ll notice the
emphasis that Jesus places on the Words... To ad just one word will bring the
plagues and cause you to go through the tribulation, and to take away or deny
just one Word of this Book will cause you to have your name stricken from the
Book of Life. I hope you see how important it is to believe every Word of this
Book.
Now, Brother
Branham said, “The Bible is the complete revelation of Jesus Christ.” period!
He did not say “and whatsoever else you think the Lord is trying to show you.
If you have that attitude, then you are none of His. You are the seed of
discrepancy, which is serpents seed. “The Bible is the complete revelation
of Jesus Christ.” And you can
not add to that revelation, nor can you take away from that Revelation.
Now what does
this mean to us? It tells us then that every detail of the revelation of Jesus
Christ must be found in this Bible. There is no other source, there is no other
foundation, this Bible alone is the Word of God and the Revelation of Who He
is.
Now we have
already established that when he is saying that this Bible is the Revelation of
Jesus Christ, he is not talking about Jesus Christ the Son of God, but Jesus
Christ, the Father who is God. Because, Jesus Himself said that He had no word
of His own, that He depended completely upon the Fathers word.
[John 14:24] “The Word which ye hear is not
mine, but the Father’s which sent Me.”
[John 5:30 - 32] Notice Jesus even said
that He could not testify on behalf of
His own self, in order to prove or vindicate Himself, but He depended
upon the Father to vindicate Him.
[John 7:16-18] Here we find Jesus even telling
us that His doctrine is not His own but the Fathers doctrine, and that anyone
who is truly called of God will not seek his own glory, but only the glory of
the Father.
[John 8:26-29] Again we hear Jesus tell
us that His Words, the Words that He speaks, He heard them first from the
Father, and it was the Father Who taught them to Jesus. [John 8:47] And if you are God’s Seed, you will also hear what God
has to say.
So by now I hope
we understand that this Jesus Christ that Brother Branham is speaking about is
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In [John
5:43] Jesus said, “I come in my Fathers name, and you receive
me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive. “
So you see, if Jesus came in His Father’s name, then the name of His Father is
also Jesus, Because Jesus means Jehovah
is Salvation. The Greek spelling
: Iesous meaning Joshua or Jehovah is salvation and the Hebrew : Yhowshuwa.
Joshua
Christ Revealed
in His Own Word #51
Sunday, October 13, 1996
Brother Branham
then reads from Hebrews 1:1: "God,
Who in sundry times spake to the fathers by the prophets, in this last day
speaks to us through His Son, Jesus Christ," then he says, “It's
the revelation of Jesus Christ: God Himself..... revealed from Word to flesh.” (I hope you caught how He said that. God
Himself revealed,... How? From Word to flesh.) Then he said, “That's what It is. God is the Word, and Jesus
being the flesh, It's a revelation how God, the Word, was manifested in human
flesh and revealed to us. And that's why He becomes a Son of God. He is a part of God. You
understand? Now, He is not... The body
is part of God, so much that it's a Son. A Son... As a Catholic puts it,
eternal Son (and all the rest of the churches), the word don't even make sense.
See? There cannot be eternal and then be a son, 'cause a son is something
that's begotten from. And the word "eternal"... He cannot be an... He
can be a Son, but He cannot be an eternal Son. No, sir. He cannot be an eternal
Son. Now, but He is the Son, so much
that all the Word that was in Jeremiah, in Moses... And all those Words, like He
said, "They speak of Me."
All that true Divine revelation of Word
was wound up into one human body, and God put flesh around It. That's the
reason He was called "Son," reason He refers, "Father."
Why, it's just as simple, if you just let God pour it down into your mind. See?
God revealed in a body of flesh (Notice.)--revealed from Word unto flesh.
That's St. John 1:14 "And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us."
[John 1:1-4, 14] Now what is brother Branham pointing to when
he quotes from [Heb 1:1-2] Notice
Scofield says, it is not by His Son, but rather, “In Son hath He spoken to us.” Now Who hath
spoken to us IN Son? That is the real question. Who has spoken to us IN Son?
Who? God has spoken to us In Son.
Now you may ask,
what is the difference between by Son and in Son. There is a lot of difference.
The literal translation of [Hebrews 1:1]reads,
“God
Who in many times and in many ways spoke to our fathers in many distinct
messages and by various methods in the person of the Prophets, has in these
last days spoken unto us in the person of His Son.” To say that God has spoken to us simply by
His Son leaves us with the impression that the Son perhaps was given a message
from God to deliver to us. That the Son
was not in any way connected to the Message that He gave except that He
was the deliverer of that message. Just as we think when we hear that God spoke
to us by the Prophets. But the real translation is not by the prophets but in
the Prophet God has spoken and now In Christ He does Speak. Christ is all that the prophets were, combined
together. Each of the prophets brought forth a portion of what He was and together
as a whole they brought out the complete revelation of Jesus Christ.
Now
remember, Jesus said “the
Words that I speak they are not mine, but the Father’s which sent me”.
And remember also
that in these words are Life as Jesus said in [John 6:63] And where does this Life come from? We find the answer
in [John 5: 26] It comes from the Father. Then we see that
even Jesus, God’s Son depended on the Father to quicken Him and give Him life.
[1 Peter 3:18] Jesus the Son of God was quickened by God to
Life.
[Romans 4: 16 - 5:16] Here I want you to
notice that not only was it God who raised Jesus from the dead and gave Life to
Him, but we have our access to God through this Faith that Jesus had. His Faith
made it possible for us to receive this same resurrection power in our mortal
bodies. And so here we see that the manifesting of the Word of God in a body of
flesh is the complete Revelation of Godhood. God life first coming forth from
the Father and then down into His first born Son and then from there into
sons.(plural)
[John 5:19-25] And so we see that not
only is the Bible the Revelation of the Father, but when God brought forth an
only begotten Son, that Word which was manifested in a veil of human flesh was
no different that this Bible when it comes to revealing the Father. And so we
see that the Word of God is God and The Word manifested is God. It is not two
God’s. But The Word is God no mater what form or manifestation it takes on. God
is God and He veils himself to man many times through man. Yet when He takes
upon Him this veil of flesh He is no less God than He is otherwise. God is God
period!
Christ Revealed
in His Own Word #51
Sunday, October 13, 1996
And so we hear
Brother Branham tell us: [52] It's
the revelation of Jesus Christ: God Himself revealed from Word to flesh. That's what It is. God is the Word, rather, and Jesus
being the flesh, It's a revelation how God, the Word, was manifested in human
flesh and revealed to us. And that's why He becomes a Son of God. He is a part of God. You
understand? And all those Words,
like He said, "They speak of Me." All that true Divine revelation of Word was
wound up into one human body, and God put flesh around It. ...God revealed
in a body of flesh (Notice.)--revealed from Word unto flesh. That's St. John 1:14: "And the Word was made
flesh and dwelled among us."
Now this brings
us to the fact that Jesus and the Father are two different persons, with two
different personalities. The Son is not God, He is the Son of God. The Father is not the Son,
but in the Son the Father dwelt. Now was it the Father in Him that Dwelt in the
Son? Or was it the Godhead that dwelt in the Son? And remember, Webster tells
us the Word Godhead is actually a Word which means Godhood. And we know that the word hood means the state
or condition of being. So Godhood is the state or condition of being God just
as boyhood is the state or condition of being a boy.
[2 Peter 1:15-21] Here Peter tells us
the Word is made more sure because not only did God say it in this Book, but He
also brought to pass what He said, making the Interpretation of that Word so
clear as to make any mis interpretation of it a willful act of disobedience.
Jesus told us
Himself in [Matt 13: 10-17] That the
Revealing of the Word is not for every body. And if the Word revealed is not
for every bidy, neither is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, for He is the Word.
[Jn 1:1]
[Numbers 12: 1-14] dark = riddles, double talk, enigma, which is things to be
guessed at.
apparently = through
sight, an Appearance. Visibly
Similitude = the
representation or likeness of the Lord
behold = shall he see and look upon
[Deut
4:36] Then whose voice is it that
we hear in this day if He said, in this last days He will speak in Son. It is
still the Voice of God Himself.
[Hebrews 12:25-26] [1
Thes 4: 15-16] [Rev 10: 1-7] = [Amos 3: 6-8]
the voice of God.
[2 Peter 1: 15] A word made more sure.
How? [Acts 3: 19-26] The restoration
of the utterance of God.
[Rev 3: 14-22] = [John 14:12]
170 Super Sign 63-1129
Many people wanted
to accept Jesus. They thought they'd do it, "in some other convenient
time," one said. They want to accept Christ, but they put it off too long.
Some of them tried to get Him off their hands, and tried to wash it off with
water, pass the buck on to somebody else, but it backfired. It's on your hands tonight, throwed right
back in your lap. Hebrews 13:8, regardless of how many Council of Churches we
have, still remains as Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
"The works that I do..." If--if His Life is in you, it'll manifest
Jesus Christ. Amen. Now, you all can't be that one, but you can be a part of
that with your faith. All of them couldn't be a Jesus, when they was on earth,
but they could believe Him and accept the message. There was one Moses, one
Elijah, one Noah, on down, always been that, but the rest of them could accept
it. And they would've had no ministry unless there'd been somebody believe it.
Jesus would've had no ministry 'less somebody believed it. Paul would've had no
ministry 'less somebody believed it. The
Holy Ghost has got no ministry by the Word today unless somebody's willing to
get away from their creed and come back to the Word again, no matter how well
it's here and how real it's here. It's here now. I know it's here. I feel it. I
know it's here. The Word says it's here. "Wherever two or three are
gathered in My Name, I'm in the midst of them." And I truly believe that
He's here, the same yesterday, today, and forever.