Christ Revealed in His Own Word #52
Doctrine
brings order
Saturday,
October 19, 1996
Brian Kocourek,
Pastor Grace Fellowship
[55] Now,
notice this Bible. Some of them said, "Oh, well, It's done this; It's done
that." But let me tell you something; let's just go into the history of
the Bible just a minute and see where It come from. It was written by forty
different writers. Forty men wrote
the Bible over a space of sixteen hundred years apart and at different times,
predicting the most important events that ever happened in world's history, and many times hundreds of years before it
happened. And there is not one error in the entire sixty-six Books. Oh, my.
No author but God Himself could be so accurate. Not one word contradicts the
other. Remember, sixteen hundred years apart, the Bible was wrote, from Moses
to--to the death of--of John at Isle--or the Isle of Patmos: sixteen hundred
years. And was wrote by forty different authors. One didn't even know the other one, and they never had It as the Word.
Some of them never even seen the Word. But when they wrote It, and was
understood to be prophets, then when they put their prophecies together, each
one of them dovetailed one to the other.
[1 Peter 1: 10-12] Notice what Brother
Branham said, the prophets who wrote this Word didn’t even know each other, and
some of them did not even know each other and some of them had never even seen
the Word. That is true with Job. This Book was written in the time around or
even before Moses wrote the first five books called the Pentateuch. Yet every
thing that Job wrote fit perfectly with the rest of the Word. Now why was this?
We can’t hardly even get 5 five-fold ministers to agree together on what this
Word says much less get ten people to
agree. And yet we have forty writers who wrote 66 books over a period of one
thousand six hundred years and there isn’t one flaw in the entire 66 books. There
isn’t one contradiction, there isn’t one error in the doctrine of God.
Why? Well, let’s see what else brother Branham has to say about this.
[56] Look at Peter, who announced on the day of
Pentecost, "Repent every one of you and be baptized in the Name of Jesus
Christ for the remission of your sins." Paul had never heard nothing about
it. He went down to Arabia for three years to study the Old Testament to see
Who this Pillar of Fire was that spoke to him on the road, saying, "Saul,
why persecutest thou Me?" How could he be wrong? He never even consulted
the church at all. And fourteen years later when he met Peter, they was
preaching the same thing, word by word. That's our Bible. Let other men's words
fail. This... No man can add to It. You don't add no more to the Bible. No,
sir. This is a complete revelation. That's all.
Now, not setting
myself up to be any body, but I have found time and time again I will teach you
a certain thing using certain scriptures to do so and then I come to find out
that Brother Vayle taught the same thing using the exact same scriptures, and
some-times on the exact same day, and yet we had not gotten together and talked
to each other and told each other what we were going to preach. Now what would
cause that? I believe it is the same Holy Spirit that spoke to the Prophet, is
here revealing it. He has already revealed it to us through the end-time
prophet William Branham, but The Great Holy Spirit is still here making it more
real to us and quickening us to the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
Now what could it
be? Paul told us the answer in [1 Cor 2:
10-16] And so if we have the mind of the Lord we will have to not only say
the same things, but we will have to see the same as well. [1 Cor 1:10] And when is this to happen?
Notice verse 7 which tells us this will be at the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
At the time of the Apokolupsis or unveiling or revealing of Christ. We also
find this in [2 Thess 1: 10] when He
comes to be Glorified in His Saints.
Now Brother
Branham goes on to say, [57] Like the Seven Seals. Someone kept saying to
me. "The Lord will speak to you, Brother Branham, when these seals are
revealed and will tell us how to get closer to God, and how to do..." I
said, "No, sir. It can't be, because the Bible, the Seven Seals on It had
the Seven Mysteries hid. It was already wrote, but they didn't understand what
it was." Watch how they plowed along with that being baptized in Jesus'
Name. See? That wasn't it: the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. See? All those
things, how it was... 'Cause there's many Jesus’s... I got several friends here
on earth named Jesus, minister friends. It isn't that; It's our Lord Jesus
Christ. No author but God could be so correct.
[59] Now, let's just see how this Bible was
written. Now, say for instance, from... What if we went now and took sixty-six
medical books that deals with the body, wrote by forty different medical
schools, a hundred and sixteen--or sixteen hundred years apart? Wonder what
kind of continuity we'd come up with? When George Washington, our president...
About two hundred years ago for pneumonia they pulled his toenail out and bled
him a pint. What if we took... Let's go a little further on some things that we
so attracted to today; that's science.
What if we took forty different science from--sixteen hundred years
apart and see what we'd come up with? A French scientist three hundred years
ago proved by science, by rolling a ball, that if any terrific speed was
obtained over thirty miles an hour, the object would leave the earth and fall
off. You think science would ever refer back to that? Is any continuity with
that now, when they drive down the street on the road here, hundred and fifty
miles an hour? See? But he scientifically proved that by the pressure of the
ball rolling across the ground, that at thirty miles an hour, that any object
would lift up off the earth and go away, fall off in space.
[61] No, there's no continuity to that, but not
one word in the Bible contradicts the other. Not one prophet ever contradicted
the other one. They was every one perfect, and when one come in and did
prophesy, that real prophet raised up and called him down. Then it was made
manifest. See, see, see? So the Bible is the Word of God to all true believers.
Then why is it
that out of the hundreds and hundreds of churches that claim to believe Brother
Branham’s Message, why is it that you can hardly get 5 men together who will
say the same thing? I believe it is because we have not as a group of people
learned to let go of our own thinking. Men are still holding onto their own
ideas and not forsaking everything as the Apostle Paul told us to do. And why
would we want to hold onto our own thinking anyway? What good will my thoughts
produce? But I will tell you why these men will not let go of their own
thoughts. It is because they are not looking to Glorify only our Father as
Jesus and Brother Branham did. Jesus said in, [John 7:16-18] that those who seek not their own glory but the
Fathers Glory will know the doctrine. so what this tells me is that all those
men out there who preach false doctrine whether it be a female holy ghost or a
false understanding of Godhead or a wrong understanding of the fullness of the
Godhead trying to place it in the Bride, we can see that the reason why they do
these things is because God, our Father is not the focus of their Glory, but
they themselves have somehow have gotten their focus all skewed, and they focus
on themselves.
From the Message,
Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed, Brother Branham said, “If
you are borned of the Word of God, God’s Word will have the preeminence.”
And that is exactly [Col 1: 18-19].
Brother Branham read this scripture and said, “He is the head of the Church
which is His body, and He wants the Preeminence.” And so until you are borned of the Word of
God you will never give the Word the proper preeminence and therefore you will
have to give yourself or some other the preeminence. And as Jesus said, those
who give God the Glory, will also know the doctrine.
Now, let’s go
back to [John 7:18-19] again and
read it. Does the preeminence come before knowing the doctrine or does knowing
the doctrine come before giving God the proper glory and preeminence. The
correct answer is that when you know the Doctrine correctly, you will also know
how to place it in it’s proper place and you will not get puffed up, nor will
you loose your focus. But you will do correctly because you know correctly. And
who taught Jesus the Doctrine? God, His Father did. [John7:16 & 8:28]
And I also want you
to understand that Jesus Promised us that God Himself would teach us the
doctrine as well. [John 6:45] Notice
here that all that have heard and have learned. So there is much more to this
message than just hearing it. You must also learn it. And then you can come to
Him. And who is able to understand the doctrine which is the Message? Those who
are no longer children. [Isaiah 28:9]
You’ve got to grow up before you can leave the milk for the meat. [1 Cor 13: 11] And when you do grow up
you will begin to see Him like you have never seen Him before. [1 Cor 13: 12] “Now as children we see through a glass darkly, but when we grow up we
shall know even as we are know by God.”
[62] Now, you couldn't get no accuracy in what
doctors would agree upon. You can't even get accuracy of them now. You can't
get accuracy in science now.” (Now before we read on, I would like to ask
the question, why? Why can’t we get accuracy in science? I’ll tell you, because
they’re only guessing at it. They really don’t know and they will not go to the
source that does know, God’s Word. And so, just as children they act as
children and therefore they see through a glass darkly. If they had an absolute
that is proven to be 100% correct every time then they would all have to agree.
But since it is every man to his own self, then how can they possibly ever come
to the place of agreement.) “Now, you
know, sometime ago they told us that when the Bible said that he saw four
Angels standing on the four corners of the earth, that that couldn't be; the
earth was round. But the Bible said "four corners." Well now, you
seen two weeks ago (Three weeks ago it's been now.), the papers packing this
article; they found out that the world is square. How many's seen that? Sure.
See? I got it all copied off and just waiting for somebody to say something.
[Daniel 12:4] “But thou, oh, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the
time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”[2 Tim 3:7] “Ever learning but never able to
come to the knowledge of the Truth.”
So we know that although knowledge shall increase, and man will be ever
learning, yet they will never able to come to the Knowledge of the Truth. So
what knowledge they shall have, although it will be plentiful, will be based
upon deceit. And that is our science,
so called today. Based upon theories that are based upon deception. This is
exactly what Paul said
[1 Tim 6:20] Now the word used here for
science is the word gnosis which is the same word for knowledge and
understanding. But as Paul said, it is science falsely, so called. Because if
it is wrong, then is it really knowledge. We are living in a time when the
educational system in the entire world is based upon false knowledge. True
science is as elusive as Real Truth in this day. Because real science is real
knowledge, but what we have today is based upon falsehoods, therefore ever
learning but never able to know the Truth. And what good is false knowledge.
What good is a degree in evolution when it’s false, and based on myth or some
stupid theory of a man who was a blasphemer against God and His Word.
Now for you kids
that are in school, one day you may be told in your class that the earth is
round. But It is not round. And what brother Branham means by the earth being
square is that if it has four corners, then it can not be considered round, now
can it. Yet it is not flat either as you would imagine when you think of a
square shape. But in [Isaiah 40:22]
it is called a circle and yet in the same Book of Isaiah it is said to have four
corners. [Isaiah 11:12] And
so the earth is a polygon in it’s shape.
[63] And
they're going to find out someday that they're not seeing a hundred and fifty million
years of light space either; they're going right around in a circle. ( By the way, that came out in the
national magazines a few years ago. I remember reading the article to you when
we were in the other building, back there on Clough Pike, and then Morris
Ungren read it to us again during a watch night service some time later. We
also find that Einstein proved that gravity can influence or diffract the light
and actually bend light rays around objects. Light is transmitted through the
illumination of millions and billions of tiny particles. Each particle has a
mass and therefore each particle is subject to gravity. The center of Gravity
of an object depends upon the center of the mass of the object. Therefore if
the moon were to suddenly explode, the some of the mass of all it’s particles
would still have the same center of gravity because the center of mass would
still remain the same although the space of the object would be changed because
it is more scattered. Any way, Science has now proven that what Einstein only
theorized in his theory of relativity.)Now Brother Branham continues, :...”That's exactly. You're going to find out one of these days that when you go to heaven,
you don't fly off somewhere else; you're
still right here too, just in another
dimension faster then this. (with all that is happening to our loved
ones at this time I can only say that I am thankful that we have a vindicated
word on that. We don’t have to wait for science to prove it, we already have
“Thus Saith the Lord” that it’s True). Right through this room's coming color. Every
color shirt, dress, whatever you got on is eternal, laying right on records,
going around and around the world. Every time you bat your eyes, it's right on
record. Watch, television will prove that.
[1Cor 15: 3-8, 12-20, 33-54]
[1 Thes 4:13-18]
[Rev 20:4-6]
[Hebrews 11: 36-12:2]
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His great, glorious Presence shall strike
the earth. "He cometh in clouds." Oh, I love that.
"Clouds," there will be wave after wave of His glory will come across
the earth, and the resurrection of the saints shall come. When that blessed
Holy Spirit that's lived in their hearts, and they died with their corpses
laying there, and the tear stains over their cheeks, and things like that,
they're placed out here in a graveyard. A great wave of that same Spirit, and a
"whoosh," wave after wave.
"He that was last will be
first, and he that was first will be last." How can it be that way? That's
the order of the resurrection. I won't know nobody in the generation before me
or the generation after me. I'll know those in the generation of this. And
every generation will come successfully, right as it went down. "They
which were last will be first." Sure, it has to be. See? I'll know my
people. The next fellow, my dad will know his people; his grandfather, his
people, on down like that. Wave after
wave, after wave, after wave, and the saints arising from everywhere, won't
that be wonderful. Amen. That makes the old people feel young again. Yes. Now,
notice closely. All right. ... comes in
the--in the clouds; and every eye shall see him... (No matter how far back they
died; they'll still see him.)... and they also which pierced Him: and all the
kindred’s of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
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Now, this is the order of the resurrection. "We which
are alive and remain shall not prevent them which are dead; for the trumpet of
God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first; we which are alive
and remain shall be called up together with them..." Meet one another before we meet Him, meet one another before
we meet Him... "Be caught up together with him--with them to meet the
Lord in the air." All together.
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Then them which are
asleep shall not prevent those which are awake at the coming of the Lord.
"For the trumpet of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise
first. And we'll be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the
air." You notice the order of the
resurrection? "We which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord
(II Thessalonians, I believe about the 5th chapter) shall not prevent (or
hinder) those that are asleep. The trumpet shall sound, and the dead in Christ
shall rise first." And notice the next, "Then we which are alive and
remain, shall be caught up together
with them." See, we meet them first. Now, I wonder, how
God in His great mercy, when He'd be worshipped perfectly there, and when... He
knew that. He knew that if we got there
first to worship Him, and then we'll go to look around, wonder where baby is,
and where mother is, and where this one or that one; but (You see?) He lets us
meet one another first. So when you go up to worship before the Lord on
that day, she'll be with you. See?
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Blessed Savior,
Thou will guide us till we reach that healthful shore, where the Angels waits
to join us, in Thy praise forevermore.
We think of that great day. How You have arranged it. "I would not
have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those that are asleep, that you sorrow
not, even as others that have no hope. For if we believe that Christ died and
rose again the third day. Even so, those that sleep in Christ will God bring
with Him. For we say this to you in the commandment of the Lord." That we
will not be as hindered. It won't hinder us when we are sleeping. And we watch
the order of the resurrection. The
first thing, we get together, not until
we get together will we go together to meet Him. Mothers and fathers will meet
one another. Children and loved ones will meet one another, and then be caught
up in the air to meet the Lord. And when we stand there, singing
redemption’s songs, and Angels, with a circle around the earth will stand with
bowed heads, not knowing what they're talking about. They never was lost. They
don't know what it means to be lost and to be found. But, Lord, we know what it
means. I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind but now I see.
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Peter, James, and John, and them standing present, when
Jesus spoke to them and said, "There's some standing here will not taste
of death until they see the Son of man coming." He didn't say
"all" that was standing there, but "some." And they went a few days after that, and
saw the order of the resurrection rehearsed, and the coming of the Lord. Moses represented the dead saints being
resurrected. Elijah represented the translated. But remember, Moses was first,
and then Elijah. Elijah was to be the messenger of the last day, that with him
and his group would come the rapture. Moses brought in the resurrection, and
Elijah brought in the raptured group. And there, both of them was represented
right there.
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And then, remember,
if we go before He comes, we will be up and in His Presence, or raised before
the others are changed. "The trumpet of the Lord shall sound, the dead in
Christ shall rise first. Then we which alive and remain shall be changed in a
moment, in a twinkling of an eye, and be caught up together with them to meet
the Lord in the air." Look at the
order of the resurrection. See, God knows that we long to see our loved ones.
And if we got there to meet Him first, we'd be looking around to see if mother
or dad and the rest of them was there. But see how, the Holy Spirit in His
wisdom? We meet one another first, and then when we get there and sing
"Amazing Grace," that's--that's when there's going to be a time of
worship. You think I act funny now, watch me up there. It's going to be a
wonderful time for me and all of us that--when we get there. ....When we get our big tent up out here
somewhere, we'll take plenty of time and go through them in-between the lines.
Watch the resurrection thing how it moves in there, just beautifully. Just
get in love with Him and He will reveal it to you
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Now, when we come
along, we remember that we live here in three dimensions. And I don't know
whether I can name them or not. One of them is light, and the other is matter.
Tommy, you remember what the third is? Huh? Atom--time. Right. Now, light,
matter, and time. And our five senses contact them dimensions. Our sight
contacts light, our feeling contacts matters, and so forth. Now, but we have
contact through science, the fourth dimension, as it was. Because coming right
through this building now comes pictures, voices of radio, pictures on
television, that our senses does not contact that, but yet they have a--a tube
or crystal that picks up those ether waves and manifests them. So, you see, right
in this building now is live actions of people in the air, live voices. They're
here. We know it. They're absolutely the truth. And the only thing you do,
they--they catch it on... I don't understand the mechanics of--of those things
that science has invented, but we know that it proves to us there is a fourth
dimension. Now, the fifth dimension is
where the sinner, the unbeliever dies
and goes to. The fifth dimension is the horrible dimension. Now, this
man... And when a Christian dies, he goes into the sixth dimension. And
God is in the seventh dimension. Now then, you see, the Christian when he dies,
he goes under the altar of God, right into the Presence of God, under the
altar. And he's at rest. To break it
down. When a man has a nightmare, he's not altogether asleep, neither is he
awake. He's between sleep and awake, and that's what makes him have a horrible
shaking and screaming, because he's not asleep, he's not awake. And to take
that, shows where a man goes when he dies unconverted. He's lived his time up;
he's dead on earth; and he cannot go in the Presence of God, because he's not
fit to go there without the Blood. And he's caught. He cannot come back to
earth, because his time's finished here on earth, and he's caught between, and
he's in a nightmare. See? He can't go in the Presence of God to rest. He can't
back, come to earth, because his time's up. He's in a nightmare, and there he
stays until the day of the judgment: a horrible thing to be in. See? And now in this vision, I believe I was caught
to that sixth dimension, looking back down here and could see back. See, the
sight isn't exactly with the eyes; that's earthly. But it--sight is a greater
thing than... The sight that they have there, their contact is far beyond any
contact that our natural senses would contact. Here sometime ago I was
explaining it. I was looking at a television picture where they let a man down,
I think two mile or a mile deep in the ocean, and they had ray lights that went
out. They was showing marine life. And there come fish by, that
horrible-looking creatures. That it's midnight, ink black down there. And they
had phosphorous on their nose and they had no eyes. Now, they have to be fed,
so it looked like, to find their food, they were guided with another sense, not
sight, 'cause they didn't have eyes, couldn't use them down there. But they
were guided with another sense that they
could contact their food. And I thought, "If I could
have control of that little fish with my sight, how much greater could I supply
his food and lead him places, how much greater my sight is than his radar he
contact." See? And I thought, "If I could just lead him..." Then it come to me, "If I could only
surrender myself to God, how much greater is the sight and senses of God, Who
could guide us much more than the things that we see, because the faith that He
supplies us is the evidence of things not seen with our eyes. Then if that
little fish could never come up to the top of the water like other fish,
because he's pressurized. You bring him up, he'd explode. No more than we can
go up higher and keep from exploding... We are pressurized for the--the place
that we live. But now if that little fish could ever come up here and be me,
would he ever want to be that little fish again down in that midnight
blackness? He'd never want to be a fish no more, because he's something greater
than a fish; he's a man; his senses are greater; his understanding is greater;
his intelligent is supreme. Then multiply that by ten million; then you get what
it is when you pass from this into the Presence of God yonder, where the human
being is so much farther than what we are here. You'd never want to be a human
being like this no more, down in this pest-house of sickness and corruption.
It's been that in my heart, that I've tried these thirty years to preach the
Gospel around the world to tell people that there is a heaven to--to gain and
there's a hell to shun, and there's a God that loves you, and a--a redeeming
power that's laying ready to pick you up at any time that you're ready to
receive it. Like a man drowning, a rope
hanging there, he thinks, "Well, the rope, I could pull myself out, but
I'm not worthy to get the rope." The rope was put there for that very
purpose for you to pull yourself out there. That's the reason Jesus Christ
died, for the very purpose of saving sinners. And He dangled the rope of
Eternal Life, which this very night will pass over every sinner's head in here,
and a welcome sign hanging on it, "Come up out of it." If--if you--if
you wish to do it, the preparation is made.
Now, when I seen that place and that condition that those people were
in, and how beyond anything that this world could ever think of, it was
glorious. There could not be sin there, no death nor nothing could enter that
spot. And there was no different between men and women, only the--the sex
glands was gone from them, and there could never be no more adultery and no
more nothing. But she was still a woman in the way of figure, and man was still
figure, and they'll forever be that way. Because when God...
Now, this might be good, some of you high school kids that's getting this stuff taught into you here about evolution. Now, I believe in evolution, but not in the way that man evoluted from--from some lower specie. Their own theory backfires upon them: when they try to hybreed anything, it won't breed itself back. So, you see, it--it's backfired on them. Now, I believe that when God begin to bathe the earth, maybe the first thing He did come forth with was a jellyfish, and from that to a frog, and on up. But, you see, it continually come closer and closer to the image of man, and man was a reflection of God. And that's the reason that grass become evoluted, maybe grass, and then from grass come flowers, from flowers come shrubs, from shrubs come trees. Why? It's a picture of the Tree of Life standing on the other side. And everything on this side that's natural is a shadow of the supernatural or the eternal on the other side. Therefore, as long as there's a born again Christian on the earth, and we got a body here like this, it's the very reflection of one that's waiting on the other side where there is no death and sorrow. And that's what makes our hearts hunger for such as that. See, there's something in us that calls out. We just... There's something that tells us it's there. I believe through these years... I apologize before God and the people of being stupid and being--making many mistakes. But through these many years I have been privileged to see many millions of people come into the Kingdom of God, and have been thankful to the Lord to let me lead them there. And I believe they'll be there on that day.