Christ Revealed in His Own Word #146
Conclusion
Sunday, October 26,
1997
Brian Kocourek,
Pastor Grace Fellowship
For the past two years we
have been literally feasting on this Message of Brother Branham’s, the
scriptures call it a love feast, and
this morning I would like to close out this feast by reading from a few
scriptures and commenting on what I believe to have taken place during this
series. Therefore let’s open our Bibles this morning before we go to prayer.
[1 Cor 5:8] Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, (and remember, Jesus told us that leaven
represented that doctrine which was added that made the real doctrine bloated
and bigger than reality) Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of
malice and wickedness; but with the
unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth. ( and remember, Jesus is the
Bread of Life, the bread of truth, and we should be feasting upon it with
sincerity.)
[2 Cor 1:12] For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our
conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly
wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and
more abundantly to you-ward. And I
would like to add that this is the manner in which we set out and completed
this series that has lasted nearly 20 months. Not with a show of how long we
could stretch out our study to make some great thing out of it, but as you knw,
when we simply and humbly approached this Great Message with sincerity it just
kept opening up more and more, until we could not only see Christ Revealed in
His Own Word, but we could also see ourselves revealed in His Word as well. And
that is eactly what the Scriptures tell us is to happen in this hour. [Col 3:4] tells us, “when Christ who is our life appears, makes manifest in His true
character, we shall appear with him, make manifest in our true character with
Him in Glory which is the same opinion, assessment, and judgment.
And therefore I believe as
Paul said in [2 Cor 2:17] For
we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of
God, in the sight of God speak
we in Christ.
Therefore, [Ephesians 6:24] Grace [be] with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.
Amen.
Let’s just bow our hearts
and our heads in a word of prayer to the great Author and Finisher of our
Faith.
Dear Father, we know that
you who gave us this Word, you Who are the author of this great Book, we know
that you are also the Finisher as well. And as you Prophet taught us that You
Who gave this Wored have come down to bring it to pass, and we are so greatful
for this, because it shows us your great love for your children, and we believe
that we are am,ong those whom you call your own. Therefore, Father, we pray
humbly and in sincrity that you would help us as we bring to a close our study
of this wonderful Sermon that You gave to us through the lips of your Prophet
whom you have vindicated for our benefit. We would ask you to help us to be
sincere and completely dependant upon you for the thoughts and words which will
clowse outhis study just as we have been completely dependant upon your leading
during the entire study. Guide and and guard us as we appraoch thy thrown of
Grace this morning as we open thy most Holy Word, for we ask it in Jesus name,
thy beloved Son and our Brother, AMEN.
You may be seated....
This morning I was going to
begin our final review of this
tremendous Message that we have spent so much time looking at, how “Christ
is Revealed in His Own Word”. And I would like to do so with one verse
of scripture, and that is [Ecclesiastes 12:13] Let us
hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man. Prayer.....
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We began our study of this
message back on March 17 of 1996 which is 19 months, or 84 weeks , or 589 days
ago. That’s a long time. And frankly in looking back over the 700 plus pages of
notes, I found myself quite overwhelmed to the point that there is just so much
that we covered to review the subject as we have after other studies, would be
an almost impossible task. But remember, with God all thingas are possible. I
have attempted to review this message, and jot down the various highlights as
we did with other series that we have preaches, but to be truthful, I was just
overwhelmed by what has come forth during the past two years.
However, there is one theme
that I can see that has come forth repeatedly throughout this series, and that
theme is this: “We are in the end-time
where the people are loosing their abilities to think rationally, and at a time
when men are rapidly going insane and loosing their minds, God has set aside a
Bride for Chrit and He has come down Himself to ensure that she does not go
insane, but that she instead recieves the very mind that He placed in His Son
Jesus of which mind has come forth from the very mind of God Himself.
This Message is entitled “Christ
is Revealed in His Own Word” for a purpose and this title alone should
tell us all we need to know on the subject. Yet as we studied this wonderful
message many things began to open up to us that have helped us to understand
better just how Christ is revealed, and even on a more personal basis, who we
are as Sons and daughters of God and how we can cope while we are in these
bodies of this death.
For it seems to me that many
of the mini series that sprang forth from our study of this sermon have dealt
with the make-up of the triune human body and especially with the mind which
dwells in the realm of our spirit. We
have come to understand the five outer senses and the five inner senses better,
and especially how the sixth sense operates by faith alone. In fact we came to
understand that only the elect can possess the sixth sense according to what
Brother Branham taught us.
53 SUPER.SENSE JEFF.IN
V-20 N-7 59-1227E
God gave those senses, but
they're given to you as a gift. And it
depends on how you, what you yield these senses to, will be the way that your
life is controlled: the way you
yield those five senses, you're... What you see, what you hear, what you
taste, smell, or feel, whatever those
senses are yielded to, they will dominate you. And we are grateful to God that we have the five senses, but by no means was these five senses given
to you to guide you. They were given
to you for earthly contact. But there was
given you the sixth sense, and that sixth sense belongs only to the Christian. And
you cannot have this sixth sense until you become a Christian, is the only
way that you can ever have any more than the five natural senses for the
natural person. The sixth sense is
better known, to the Christian, as faith. It's the one that governs and guides you, and it is superior to all the other senses. It's a superior to all of the
senses, the other five senses.
Now, just to show you the
continuity of our entire study I would
like to read the opening words from our first sermon on this subject which
brings us back to March 17 of 1996. And I’ll read....
“This morning I would like
to begin a New Message in which we shall study from Brother Branham's Message.
As you know, we listened to the first tape of Brother Branham's Message Christ Revealed in His Own Word
on Wednesday night and it is easy to understand why I have chosen this Message.
It fit's in so well with the last few weeks of our study from God's Only Provided Place of Worship
where we dealt with the condition of
the mind in the people and the change of the Mind that has come upon God's
People. What a contrast to think in this hour as man has become literally
insane, and are losing their minds and yet at the same time God has come down in this hour of insanity
to restore the minds of His Own Children.
“We are promised in [ Malachi 4:5] that at the end-time God
will send Elijah the Prophet to restore the understanding of the Children to
the understanding of their Fathers.
It literally reads, "See, I will send you the Prophet
Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the
hearts of the Fathers to their children, ( Which we know happened in
John the Baptist's ministry as He also came in the Spirit and Power of Elijah
the Prophet),
“[Luke 1: 17] (read) Notice, the scripture tells us that the angel of
God that was sent in verse 11 told Zechariah that John was to come in the
Spirit and power of Elijah to turn the Hearts of the fathers to the children
but never said anything about him turning the hearts of the children back to
the fathers. And so in getting back to
Malachi 4 and verse 5 we notice that [Malachi 4] also tells us, And
he will turn the hearts of the children to their Fathers; or else I will come
and strike the earth with a curse. Now the question is, "what
is this heart of the children that will be turned to the fathers?"
And, "who are these children?" Our first answer has already been
revealed in our studies of the past few weeks. We found that
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In
his message [PP 37 Inter veil 56-0121]
Brother Branham taught us that "There is an intellectual faith. And there's a faith that
comes from the heart. And we read in Ezekiel that God gives us a new
heart which is a new understanding first, then He gives us a new spirit which
is a new desire and finally when we are ready He gives us His Spirit. Now let's
just read this for ourselves...
Þ
[Ezekiel 36:26-28] A new heart also will I give
you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony
heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do [them]. And ye shall dwell in
the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be
your God.
“And so you will notice that
this new heart and new spirit and finally His Spirit entering into us is to
bring about one thing, and that is that we will walk in His statutes, which is
His Word, and we shall do the things that His Word speaks to us to do, actually
becoming the Word of God manifested in flesh.
Þ
From
the Message, IMPERSONATION.OF.CHRISTIANITY
JEFF.IN 57-Brother
Branham said, " God had to give you a new heart, not a patched up one, a new heart. That's your intellects that you think with,
a new way of thinking. Then He give you a new way of thinking, "Yes,
that's right Then He said after that, "Then I'll give you a new spirit." What's that? A new desire, ...
After you get a new heart and a new spirit, He said, "Then I'll put My
Spirit..." His Spirit, part of
the Logos in you controlling your emotions"
“And so what we shall find
in this new study from Brother Branham's Message Christ Revealed in His Own Word, that brother Branham actually begins this Message by dealing with
the condition of the minds of the people and how the insanity has overcome the
people to the place where they shall see giant ants and scorpions with hair
like women's. But before we get to that let's just read from His opening Prayer
and begin our study by entering into the conduit of the Word of God.
During this study we entered
into mini series that had to do with our senses and with the conditions of the
mind. By God’s grace we were able to identify the condition of insanity,which
is the neurosis that brother Branham pointed out to us and this understanding
alone has helped us to better appreciate our walking in the light on a daly
basis rather than looking down the road for things which might happen. We have
learned to have more of a Word based perspective and I believe more faith in
the One Who is Faithful.
This mini series on Neurosis
lead to a mini series on the five inner and outer senses and here is where we
began to understand better what faith is all about, that sixth sense which is
given only to the believer. From this mini series opened forth another one
which dealt with the garden of our mind and here we saw how important it is for
us to plant the right seeds in our minds knowing that whatsoever we sew shall
we also reap and that everything that happens to us is either a direct or
indirect result of the seeds that are in our mind.
With our minds becoming more
in tune to the plan of God we also found as we see in 2 Thess 2 that when
Christ is revealed He will also expose the workings of satan and therefore we
saw the workings of Satan though the political system under the influence of
the Catholic church and her plan to destroy the minds of the public school
children through a dumbind down.
Many times during this
series [Deut 6: 4-9]came forth in
which the emphasis has been laid out for our working with the minds of our
children. 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.
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]
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.
Therefore having now
concluded this study of what I believ to be one of the greatest Messages that
our Prophet brought to the world, I would like to again