Christ Revealed in His Own Word #60
Oneness By
Revelation
Wednesday,
December 11, 1996
Brian Kocourek,
Pastor Grace Fellowship
Sunday morning,
we examined this thought of our becoming one with the revelation when we see
the manifestation and we can take it back to the Word and know that this
manifestation is the Interpretation of That Word. Now just because people might
be able to see the vindicated manifestations does not necessarily mean that
they actually see it for we know that Jesus said in [Matthew 13] It is given for you to know, but for the others who are
without, it is not meant for them to know, therefore I speak in parables, that
seeing they might not perceive, and hearing they might not understand.
Now, it is
apparent that many will come in that day and say Lord, Lord, But they shall be
rebuked and told that He never Knew them. And so we are looking at this
“Knowing” or intimate understanding that is based upon a personal relationship
or intercourse with our Lord. This Word as w know it is the Word Ginosko, and
means to know or understand, and refers to relationship.
Now, the reason
we are looking at this is because we must understand the difference between
just seeing something and recognizing what we see. Many people can look at the
Pillar of Fire over Brother Branham’s head and say that that is Christ. They
may even recognize the Cloud and say that-that is the outline of the Face of
Christ. But even satan, in all of His wisdom, did not know for sure if Jesus
was the Christ. For he said, “If thou be the Son of God”. Now he
would not have said, “If thou be” if he was 100% sure, and just like so many
who claim to follow this message, they
just are not 100% sure of what they believe.
That’ why brother Branham told us so often that when the Rapture comes
and the Bride is taken out of here, then the tribulation will set in and many
people will say, “I thought this was to happen and that was to happen,” and
they will not have recognized that the very things they were looking for to
happen have already happened and they never KNEW it.
So we see the
importance of this KNOWING that is spoken of in the Scripture, This Ginosko.
Because it suggests to us more than mere recognition. Rather, it suggests a
union with or a becoming one with through intimacy. Mary said, “How
can I be with child having known no man.” And that word is Ginosko.
Then we become
one with the interpretation by becoming one with the manifestation. Then
entering into this manifested Word brings us into oneness with it, and since the
interpretation is the manifestation of the name of God, then when we have moved
from Faith in the Word, to the reality of the Word, by becoming part of that
manifested Word, this is when we receive the name and thus become Bride and
Mrs. Jesus. We thus have become a part
of the interpretation of that Word, for without a Bride there would be no
Groom.
As Brother
Branham said in the Message [171 Super
Sign PP 171] "The works that I do!" 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 a had no ministry unless there had been somebody believe it.
Jesus would a had no ministry unless somebody believed it. Paul would a had no
ministry unless somebody believed it.
Notice then, our
receiving the manifestation as the interpretation brings us into oneness with
the Revelation, and just as God had to send One with the Message, there had to
be ones it was sent to. And the ones that the Message was sent to, are just as
much a part of the Manifestation of the Word as the One in Whom the Word is
being Revealed through.
Now let me break this down into 3 points
here. One Who reveals Himself, One in Whom that One uses to reveal
Himself, and the ones to whom He is revealed. Again, I want you to catch this because
this is the revelation of how God made Himself known to us through Christ Jesus
His Son. One Who reveals, One In Whom He is revealed through, and Ones to Whom He is revealed. [One
Who], [One In Who] and [Ones To
Whom].
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His Own Word #60
Wednesday, December 11, 1996
#1) First of all,
there must be One who reveals Himself. And we know that God Himself came down
with
a Shout. [ 1 Thess 4: 16-18, Eph 1: 17, Acts 3: 19-21, Luke 17:30, Rev 10: 1-2,]
#2) Secondly,
there must be one that God reveals Himself through, seeing that He promised
that He would
do nothing lest He reveals it through
His Servants the Prophets. [Amos 3:7,
Acts 3: 22-23, Acts 13:41
Rev 10:3-7, Mal
4: 5-6, John 14:7-9]
#3) And Thirdly,
there has to be a people in which His Revelation of Himself is made known to and upon
receiving this revealing or Revelation,
they become one with it by receiving the manifestation of It.
[Heb
12:25-29, Col 3:4, 1 John 3: 2-3, 2 Thess 1: 7&10-12, 2 Cor 3:18, 1 Cor
13:12, Rom 12: 1-2,]
[Identification
PP 108] A lady asked me, coming down the road the other day from up here,
she said... It's Florence Shakarian, Brother Demos's sister-Sister Williams and
them, sittin' in the car. She said, "Brother Branham, I fast, and fast,
and fast, and still I can't cast out devils." I said, "You wasn't born to do such. Your duty is to fast.
The Holy Spirit's working on somebody else out there for that." You don't
know the place.
Now, in [Hebrews 6] we see at the time of the
once and for all enlightenment in verse [4-5].
that to reject this manifested Word, the person will never be able to renew
their mind again. In other words, they will never be able to empty out their
own thinking, for they have taken the mark of the beast. They have had the awl
placed to the ear and they have become deaf to the Word of God. [6]
And we know that
His Word contains His Spirit and Life as we see in [Mark 4:14] that it is called a Seed. “The seed that the sower sowed is the Word of God” And we find in [1 Peter 1: 23] That
our new birth comes by the Word of God which is an incorruptible Seed.
Therefore the Word of God is a carrier of God Life as we see in [John
6:63 & 5:26] The Life comes from the Father and is passed down to the
Son. Now Life as we know it is a very complex thing. And it contains what we
call attributes and characteristics. These attributes and characteristics are
what we call the nature of the Life. Those identifiable characteristics which give
the Life it’s special uniqueness.
[2
Peter 1:2-4] You’ll notice that everything we have need of that pertains to
Eternal Life, even the very nature of that Life itself, comes forth from the
Word of God. And it is this nature that I want to speak on this evening. Now,
we need to be able to know this nature, and identify this nature, because being
a nature, it has identifiable
characteristics, and if we know what those characteristics are, and can
identify them when they are manifest,
then we are able to identify that Life when we see it or come in contact
with it.
[1 John 4: 4-6] Notice that the world
will hear them but not those who are of God. And the world will not hear God’s
seed either. But I want you to pay close attention to verse [6]. John is telling us that those who
are of God will hear those who are from God. And in discerning who is from God
and who is not from God you will know also the difference between truth and
error. [Mal 3:16-18] Notice that we
are told that at the time of the great gathering of Sons, God will anoint us
with the Sprit of discernment, which we know according to [Heb 4] that the Word is the Discerner.
[John 3: 18-21] Those who possess the
nature of God will come to the Light, others will not.
[1 John 2: 18-20] Others will have to
leave because there nature is not the same and they can not feed on the same
things. But notice that we have received a special anointing from God that we
might KNOW all things. The others might be eating from the same table, and they
may be feeding off the same food, but they don’t really know what they are
eating, and they don’t really know care what they eat. The buzzard eats the
same food as the Eagle, only he can’t smell it until it has become rotten. In [Matt
24:8] we read, “for wheresoever the carcass is, {Ptoma }the dead body or
corpse there the buzzards will gather, and yet we see in [Luke 17:37] that “wheresoever the body is, that is soma, the fresh
kill, there the eagles will gather. And this is exactly how brother Branham clarified
this in [Anointed ones at the End-Time].
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214 [Anointed
Ones at the End-Time] "Where the Carcass is there the eagles
will be gathered. Where the Carcass, where the killing is, there the eagles
will be gathered. Where the fresh Meat is, the Word of the season, there the
eagles will gather." But after it's rottened, then the vultures will swarm
to it. See? See what I mean? When a kill's made, here comes the eagles, but after
it lays there and rotten, then here comes the vultures. The eagle won't have
nothing to do with it. See? Jesus said, "Where the Carcass is, where the
Manna fell, the night the Manna falls fresh, there the eagles will gather for
It." That's the Manna for the day. See? Notice. But after it gets rotten,
maggots get in it, then here comes the vultures. They can't smell it till it
gets rotten. No wonder Jesus stood up there and said, "Jerusalem, you that
stoned every prophet... Notice that personal pronoun. See? "Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, how oft would I (Who was He?)--how oft would I have gathered you as
a hen would her brood, you that stoned every prophet I ever sent to
you..."
233 [Anointed Ones at
the End-Time] "For it is
impossible for those which were once enlightened and didn't move on with the
Word as it come to pass..." They're dead, gone.”
[Audio Letter to Lee Vayle] “God
then, in order to proclaim this, has to send a prophet in order to inject this,
make this real again, show the people the hour we're living
in? Because if they only see it in the
hour past, then there's no hope for the church. The church must see it in the present tense. So God sends His
prophet to manifest, present tense of it.
You see? And then, after it's over, then history is.
[22
Without money without Price 59-0802] After the taking away of the
Holy Spirit out of the earth, that formal church religion will go right on, not
knowing the difference. ... They don't
know the Holy Spirit, so they won't know when It's gone, and they'll just be
going right on just the same. When the last one is sealed into the Body of
Christ; they'll still be going on,
trying to bring converts to it, because they don't know what It is. ...
they'll be so far away, just in religious rituals, until they will not miss the
Holy Spirit, because they don't know what It is to begin with.
You see, they
don’t know the Holy Ghost but because they see you eating, they circle around
like vultures do, and they wait until there appears to be an opening for them
to come in and eat the left over’s. They come and join in the feast after the
fresh food has been sitting for some time.
[2 Peter 2: 12-21] [Jude 10-13]
Now it comes down
to this. If they do not know Him, then how will they know even as He is known.
A Groom does not make love to Himself and say that He knew His Wife. It takes
two to know, for Mary herself said, “How can I be with child having known no man?”
And so I believe that this knowing, which is the Greek word Ginosko, not only
speaks of a mental and rational sort
of behavior, but speaks also of a
relationship which becomes established through and intimate knowledge or
sharing in something. And this intimate knowledge which He has shared with His
Bride is Himself.
[2 Tim 3:7] Never able to come to this
knowledge
[Matt 24:38-39] Because they do not know
only destruction remains for them.
[Matt 24: 50] Aware is Ginosko, they
miss it because they not aware. Just like brother Branham said, “Because they don’t know Him they won’t know
when He leaves the earth.”
[John 8:43] Understand = Ginosko, even because you can not perceive what I am
saying.
[Rom 1:27-28] And therefore they are
turned over to a reprobate mind
[1 Cor 2: 8] Notice how to really Know changes
your actions. Look at Paul, when he was zealous without knowledge he set out to
kill the Christians, yet when He came face to face and He knew as He was known,
it changed his actions.
[1 Cor 2:14-15] Notice the natural man,
and his characteristics Vs the Spirit filled man. The difference lays in what
they are able to discern.
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Wednesday, December 11, 1996
[Heb 10:25-26] If we disbelieve
willfully, after we have received this knowledge there is no more repentance
left.
[2 Peter 2: 20] If they are again entangled in the things of
evil after they have come to this knowledge, there remains no more hope for
them.
[Eph 4:13] God desires that we enter
into this knowledge of Himself in order to come to completion
[Mark 4:11] We are ordained and fashioned to know.
[John 10:38] The knowledge comes by the
vindication which is the manifestation of the revelation.
[Luke 21: 25-35] By knowing we will
overcome the trials ordained for the whole earth and be able to stand in His
Presence.
[John 14: 16-21] The Spirit of Truth is
to make us to know and be known and to recognize the manifestation of Himself.
[Col 1:9, 2:2, 3:10] It was Paul’s
desire to see the people filled with this knowledge
[John 8: 32] Ye shall know the Truth and
it is this knowing of the Truth that shall make you free.
[2 Tim 2: 19] The Lord knoweth those who
are His, He has an intimate relationship with His own.